Friendship – Anne LaMantia

This is a time to “Crack Open Our Hearts”

October 16, 2020Leave a comment

I see you, I know you and I love you! This is a time to crack open our hearts, to express our truth, and to share our vulnerability. To be honest. It is time isn’t it? We are way past due, we have been living in a world with conditions, to conform with how we are suppose to live and what we are suppose to do. It’s time don’t you think to share who we are? To share our anger, grief, pain, and also share are joy, kindness, and love.

Was it not during the Renaissance when art was created? At a time when despair was multiplying and as a result inspiration surfaced. Maybe, just maybe this is the time for that! This is the time for that! This is the time to Love. Maybe we have been selfish and haven’t learned how to reach our hands out to embrace another human being no matter what culture or ethic background they come from and as a result finding love and compassion in our hearts. Maybe this is the time to look at our own hearts and find the courage or audacity to say “hey wait a minute I matter and so do you, what can be done to work together! Now is the time to do that! This is a Grand time. Our hearts are cracking us open at the deepest level. Cracking the grief we felt from long ago that we never embraced out of fear of rejection or had the tools to embrace. The losses we have had in our every day life that we never embraced and going forth as if nothing ever happened. Enough already! We came to this earth life to feel!

As if the leaves that are covering our precious earth is covering “the mother energy”. It’s a time of grand creation. The mother is calling us to rejoice, and the mother is in each one of us, and it does not matter if your a mother or not. Isen’t time!

Yes, It is a time of uncertainty and can you be with that? It is a time to let go, can you let go? It is time to put your hands up in the air and say “screw that”, can you do that? I think you can, I know I can. Do not be afraid to own your power, to weep, to let your heart erupt in a million different directions. Do not be afraid to have your dreams shattered. Maybe they weren’t really what you wanted to begin with, but you settled. Now is the time, now is the time. Don’t wait. Allow. let it happen and I love you

From “Woes to Wow”

October 1, 2019Leave a comment

At this moment I am recognizing that I need to look at the “Wow Factor” and in translation it means recognizing the simple things that I can so easily overlook. It is easy to get caught up in our own little pity parties and not focus on “Wow” this happened to me today or “wow” isn’t this wonderful. Even though I might not like how something is going I might as well go with the flow with the way life is. No cents being bent out of shape!

I came home to 2 turkeys in my back yard today. Unheard and unseen of and “Wow” that is pretty darn cool. But at the same time it does not dismiss how you feel inside when feelings arise you just got to feel in order to get to the other side of it. So when you feel sad, angry don’t dismiss it feel it through to completion and don’t waste any more time than needed and move on to the next thing. Most of the time what we feel in the moment or in our bodies is a memory of something that happened a long time ago. Move your body or do something to shake it off. Someone once told me a story of a lawyer who quit his job and opened a cake industry. Brilliant!

Wow I get to type these words on my blog and you get to see them, how cool is that? Wow just the fact that I am breathing is a miracle! Wow I get to experience life itself just by sitting in this chair and witnessing my thoughts, sounds and texture of this key board.

Yes my friends, the birth of a baby or a beautiful sunset is “WOW” but what if today you can find the Wow in the mundane and overlooked places. See or feel what is right in front of you and I promise you will not be disappointed!

A rekindling of friends!

August 9, 20192 Comments

Several weeks ago I was in Croton, NY (upstate) for a reunion with high school friends. This trip was planned months ago and I immediately responded “yes” with folks I have not seen in 30+ years! On my way to the “gathering” I was filled with excitement and anxiousness. My mind was infiltrated with “what if’s and questions. Meeting for the first time in years it felt a little awkward and became very comfortable as memories flooded in of the past.

There is something to be said about rekindling relationships from long ago and what I refer to as the formative years. When I say reformative years I am referring to “teenage years.” As anyone knows “teenage” years can be tumultuous. For me “I felt like I never fit it.” Fast forward: Yes, the “teenager self” still resides within me and she has learned to laugh and not take things as serious. I’ve learned and continue to learn to be honest, authentic and vulnerable. I say “thank you” to this teenager’s heart and what she has learned about herself over the years.

It was a wonderful experience of “catching up with one another and getting to know each other again. It did not take long to bond and find that familiarity with one another. Someone once said to me we are more alike than different. I believe that statement to be true. It is through our humanity that we find love. We all feel hurt, sadness, and pain and yet it is through this we discover joy, happiness and fulfillment.

A song comes to mind of our time together in Croton, NY. “Thank you for being a friend. Traveled down a road and back again. Your heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidant.

I love you and thank you for loving me… your friend, Anne