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Compassion

Has there ever been a Greater Opportunity!
Now, we get to Discover Ourselves as Helpers!
It has been just about a week – at least in the life of this busy New York Show Business Professional – and already I have been contacted by at least five people asking me if I need anything or if there is anything they can do to Help.
Support Systems are offering Zoom Conferencing and new ways for us to continue to Care for one another through this.
I had a Zoom Brunch yesterday with a group of friends from across Canada.
People are reaching out by phone and text and social media…
The Digital Age which has challenged me every day since its arrival turns out to be one of our Greatest Miracles, after all
Connecting our Humanity.
I am overwhelmed by the Awakening of Compassion that I feel vibrating through the world!

These are challenging times!
I recognize that people are struggling, out-of-work, and feeling the financial and food insecurities that are now prevalent in a Country under the government of dONALD tRUMP’s Administration.
I do not mean to minimize any of that.

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ReBirth 2019

Easter
PassOver
Season of ReBirth!

I do So Love the Celebrations of Springtime —
Not just the Holidays but every bud and bloom.
I Love how things begin to Open Up!
And Open to the Ever Increasing Bright Light of Day!
And Open…
Open…
Open…

Coloring Easter Eggs with the Kids!
…for the Kids!
Well, Both!
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Flow

There is something So Beautiful about how it all Flows:
Winter: Dormant. Quiet. Not much in Bloom, except the Ever-Present EverGreens Reminding us of Life’s Presence even in the midst of the most barren season…
Reminding us of Invincible Summer…
How it dovetails into Messy March: A time of SnowStorms & Mistakes,
A Time for Creative Risk!
A Time for Falling on one’s Face and Celebrating the Effort!
And Yesterday, the Last Day of Messy March, 2018, Leads us right into Easter Sunday!
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by Arnold J. Mungioli on April 1, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in Holidays & Celebrations, New Beginnings, Seasons

Tagged Easter, Easter Dinner, Easter Sunday, Spring, Springtime Goals, Stroufeli

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on April 1, 2018

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2018/04/01/flow/

Abbondanza

ABUNDANCE
What does it mean to you?

One need look no further than The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans, NEAL GABLER’s profound expose’ of current economics in America, in this month’s THE ATLANTIC to see the sobering realities of economics for Most of Us.
As the byline reads, “Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them.”

Earnings are low. Debt is high. The shame of financial impotence is rampant.
I am as subject to these realities as any other person who has spent their life working in American Theater since America’s 200^th Birthday.
But these actualities and the harshness of their toll do not define me.
As GABLER says in his article, “We don’t make [the choices that define who we are] with our financial well-being in mind… We make them with our lives in mind. The alternative is to be another person.”

But I choose to be the person that I am.
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by Arnold J. Mungioli on May 4, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in Beauty, Gratitude, Miracles

Tagged Abbondanza, Abundance, Abundance vs Money, Americans have trouble finding $400, Gary Quinn, Give a Homeless Person a Dollar, Give Abundantly, It's a Wonderful Life, NEAL GABLER, Spring, THE ATLANTIC, The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on May 4, 2016

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2016/05/04/abbondanza/

TipToe Through the Tulips

Tulip Festival Skagit Valley, WA

Tulips
Everywhere
Fields of them
Ephemeral

Apparently there is an annual Tulip Festival in the Skagit Valley
Of Washington State
Up near Bellingham.
Who knew?

So off we went to see the Tulips
I am playing Tiny Tim singing “Tip Toe Through the Tulips”
on Repeat in the car

We park and head into a field.

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on April 11, 2015 • Permalink

Posted in Beauty, Seasons

Tagged Beauty, Bellingham, Impermanence, Mud, Parts of a Flower, Parts of the Eye, Skagit Valley, Spring, Tiny Tim, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, Tulip Festival, Tulips

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on April 11, 2015

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/04/11/tulip-festival/

Dormant

Dormant — /dôrˈ mənt/adj. 1. In a state resembling sleep. 2. Latent. 3. Temporarily inactive — a dormant volcano. 4. Biol. In a condition of suspended growth or development. [Latin dormire, to sleep] dormancy n.
(of an animal) having normal physical functions suspended or slowed down for a period of time. “dormant butterflies”
syn. asleep, sleeping, resting, inactive, passive, inert, latent, quiescent
“the tubers lie dormant in the soil until spring”
(of a plant or bud) alive but not actively growing
(of a volcano) temporarily inactive.

— The American Heritage & Oxford Dictionaries [combined]

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