Free Hugs (and Bliss!) Fairy
Moments of Bliss
This last Saturday I gathered up my courage, raised my vibration, regaled with a smile, and armed with a white poster board sign written in simple black marker that read “FREE HUGS”; I displayed myself among the public ready to spread some joy.
Driving up to my destination I could feel the butterflies frantically flittering about looking for an exit from my nerve knotted abdomen. Half crazed with excitement and fear I kept thinking “it’s not too late to turn around”, justifying any reason to change my plans. But my resistance fueled my persistence; I wanted so much to live in the moment of love that my thoughts on their own started running through all kinds of positive scenarios. Before I knew it my beloved had me pulled up right along side the place where I would pass out merriment and quickly I jumped out of the car before the drunk monkey in my head could convince me otherwise. Straightaway I offered up hugs to the three young gentlemen standing in front of me. With much skepticism they agreed to a hug and smiled as I flew by them to a more central part of the area better suited for passing out free hugs to everyone walking by.
Better placed among the crowd my throat tightend and the nerves once again set in but I just kept a smile on my face and voiced graciously ”I’m offering free hugs tonight, would you like a free hug?” and little by little with each hug given the energy of the place resonated in joy. The happiness was contagious! Onlookers stared in amazement some people even curious enough to ask me if they could get a hug. At one point a big circle hug was formed and lines were made from people waiting their turn to get a hug.
This was such an inspiring and thrilling experience; knowing that I was able to generate a macrocosm of happiness from a microcosm of gifting a simple little hug. Even better, knowing that I could influence great joy with out the involvement of money. I guess the “Bliss” things in life really are FREE!!!
My Everyday Magic!
Yesterday’s Fun and Freeing Confessions Magic
Watching my 2yr old paint
My magical crock pot *thank you for freeing up some of my time
Exploiting more of my Baby’s first smiles
Getting some extra sleep
Thundering rainstorms
Sparkly nail polish
Looking forward to and eventful weekend
Celebrating my grandmother in-law’s 92 b-day tomorrow the original woo woo queen in this family
My fairy sisters with all their magical marvelousness
ME!!!!!! I just love her.
Magic is every where even in the simple things… Especially in the simple things!!! Find yours today and share them with us in the comments below. Love and perpetual Bliss to you all <3 <3 <3
Oh, Bliss Fairy!!! Your Free Hugs story made me teary with JOY!!! Thank for you for sharing yourself in SUCH a beautiful manner!!! You’re an inspiration!!!! I’ll be back more with more MAGIC!!!
What a great story! How brave of you, and how wonderful!
And a big happy birthday to Grandma Woo-woo!
My Everyday Magic!
* The Bliss Fairy and her free hugs!!!
* Still flying from the funny-and-FREEING “True Confession” Magic yesterday!
http://myeverydaymagic.com/2010/08/18/love-trust-and-true-confession-magic-8182010/
* Feeling like I know my dear friends and my MEM family more ~ and LOVING you more than EVER because of the humaness we all share!
* Committing to doing “True Confessions” once a month and already giggling at myself!
* AUTHENTICITY!!!
* A Very-Fairy-Friday all coming together for next week ~ and I’m so excited!
* My beloved making reservations at The Saybrook Point Inn for dinner tonight!
* REST!
* Being in my garden!!
* THIS PLACE!!! I Love you alll!!!!!!!!
Oh Kate, I love you too! And have a wonderful time at dinner tonight!
I feel so inspired by The Bliss Fairy’s “Free Hugs” story! I would love to do something like that in my little town, but the right idea hasn’t called to me yet! I’m keeping myself open, though, so when it does call I will hear it loud and clear!
My Everyday Magic:
Being back here to this magical place after being gone so long!
Reading everybody’s true confessions from yesterday! How refreshing it is to see that I’m not as “different” as I thought I was! I have many of the same secrets (and will be willing to share when Kate feels compelled to ask for confessions again)
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Completely emptying my closet, dusting and vacuuming it, and going
through everything that was in it. I piled everything on and around our bed, and Hubby and I donated a lot, threw away some, and then organized and put back what we were keeping. I bought new, wooden hangers (instead of the cheap, plastic ones I’d had for years), some canvas suit and dress bags to protect the things we don’t wear everyday, and a couple of nice smelling closet deodorizers, and it is now a joy to walk in my closet! So liberating!!
Making a new recipe that everyone loved; my husband said it tasted gourmet, and continued to comment about it throughout the evening! I wrote that recipe down!
Hubby and I have kind of “re-committed” ourselves to each other over the past year or so. We’re making an effort to focus more on ourselves as a couple. We’ve been married for 16 years, and you know how it is, children, jobs, paying bills, and running a household can cloud the reasons why you got married in the first place. A lot of our friends are divorced, or already on their second (or third) marriages, and we’ve vowed to do whatever it takes to “stick together”. That is the best magic I could ask for. I definitely subscribe to Sparkle Mission #2 on a daily basis!
Jenny!!! You’re ALWAYS missed when you’re away! Fabulous magic ~ I think I want to move into your closet!! And I just love reading about you and T and your magical marriage!!! I love you!!!
I love your story, Bliss! How wonderful and inspiring.
I love yesterday’s magic. I missed it yesterday but may go post there today just because it is so fabulous!
MEM
~ Conversing with my beloved
~ Spending time working in my yard
~ A hot sunny day that really nurtured my soul
~ Working with a new client
~ Feeling glimpses of inspiration and enjoying how that feels
~ Time to play and relax with my kids
~ Seeing that the word “chillax” made it into the Oxford dictionary
~ Laughing first thing this morning
~ LOVE
Chillax is in the dictionary?! How fabulous!!!
I’m definitely chillaxin!
excited for next Friday!!
Actually going out with only women and no kids Monday night and can’t wait!
The endless challenges that the universe gives to me!
Love the phrase and knew my hubby could relate to a line in a movie last night. The husbnad and wife had had a not so smooth past and there is question as to weather the wife even really truly loved the husband and she, in older age asked if she ruined his life nad his sweetness and I think how my husband feels sometimes that he ‘knew marrying her was going to be a coin toss’ He just tried to be there for her and stay out of her way all at the same time. It really was true love!! Just like me and my husband.
Loved true confessions yesterday and realized I have a lot I am no where near ready to confess and as I do it will bring me closer to my authentic real self to everyone and I like that freeing feeling.
I’m LOVING that feeling too!! I feel like a changed person ~ the REAL ME!!
wow – go mama! you must have really been giving love! i’ve seen (and hugged) people offering free hugs around street fairs in town, but usually they do not rally a crowd like that!
*morning bath
*connecting with an old friend
*finishing a fun book
*getting dishes sparkly
*looking forward to a free concert tonight
*divine alignment
i gotta go look at yesterday’s comments now!
Kendra, it’s always sunnier when you’re around!!
ooooo thank you sweet fairy!!!
—MEM—
*the Children’s Circle idea being very well recieved and coming together beautifully.
*using my phone and a speaker so my sister could call to her blind cat when it wandered out of my parents house. Because of her help we were able to find him and get on with our day.
*went for a boat ride with the folks
*watching a rainbow race along next to the boat in the spray it put up
*laughing myself silly at the image of Morrigan sitting in the front of the boat wearing goggles and a life vest and using my hula hoop as a lap bar
*Morrigan fishing with her grampa
*a slow meander along a secluded creek
*seeing so many different types of birds
*seeing lots of turtles sunning themselves on logs
*late lunch from the Blue Oar
*eating on a shady beach
*helping some swimmers who had drifted away from their boat
*swimming in the crystal clear river and being able to see my feet and shadow 5′ under water
*Morrigan playing in the water with my folks
*the boat waiting to quit until we were almost within sight of the house instead of way down river
*a very nice couple and their very friendly dog towing us back to our dock
*getting back in time for work
*two French biker couples checking in at work
*excited for next week–Girls’ night out at the movies and Very Fairy Friday.
*all day noticing things and thinking to myself that they qualified as everyday magic.
WOW! What a day! Hubby and I have been saying we need to find friends with a boat!
Summer!
Still in awe of this wonderful neighborhood we moved into!
My son riding his bike with friends, running down the street in the twilight, playing, joyously greeting the dog he got to walk the other day… he is thriving here!
Running errands by.my.self. whild my neighbor kept an eye on my boy
the wonderful cashier at Staples who told me how to get the card that gives me money back without being bombarded with emails, and agreed with my refusal of a plastic bag.
Smiling into the eyes of the cashiers in the other stores I visited.
making some progress in organizing my new home
My landlord, who is moving out of the downstairs apt., leaving us the pooper scooper that’s in the garage, saying we’ll need it! I think I’m nearly as excited as my boy about getting our dog next spring!
having lots of fun plans for the next few days!
Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout (hic!)
crickets singing!
I’m so happy you’re loving your new home!!!!!!