A Glimpse -- of Love, Rock Fairy Style

I am a rockette.  Not the New York variety, with the lovely long legs and the dancing shoes.  The ones with the fabulous stockings that manage to kick those legs into the air in a magnificently synchronized manner (though I do admit to doing an amazing rendition in my own living room as I belt out New York, New York...but I digress...).  No, I am the "average, ordinary, every day, run of the mill" rockette.  I've given myself this nickname and rather like it.  All because of the Rock Fairy and her gift of love, pouring out into the world.

The Queen of Arts, aka The Rock Fairy, aka Big Heart Walking has been pouring her love into the world for some time now.  She has written my posts about this but here is one blog post.  You can read about it here. 

Very recently, Patti Digh, authoress of Life is a Verb collaborated with Kim de Broin Mailhot to put even more of this love out into the world.  You can read about that here.

I hurried to order my bag of rocks (I'm sure at one time or another someone in this world has said that I was as dumb as a bag of rocks, but that's really not the same thing at all!  And of course if anyone has they have not done so to my face for it is most assuredly an untruth...) so that I could spread the love.  I so very much wanted to be a "rockette" (ah, now you are getting the picture!).

My beautiful rocks arrived in Friday's mail and I was tickled to open the bag to see what wisdom would come tumbling out.  I love the shape of "expand" -- it looks as if it has!  The day the bag arrived, it WAS the rainy day, and one of my favourites in this group is "do the hokey pokey" -- I loved doing the hokey pokey!!  I'm thinking of keeping that one for myself, however, I would very much like to leave them all into the world.

I began my quest on Saturday when I met my friend Elizabeth as we scouted local gyms deciding which one and which programmes would work best for us.  Elizabeth is a nurse by profession but she is a wife, mother, daughter, daughter-in-law and friend.  Elizabeth's life is hectic and busy and she rarely has time to stop and breathe or to do things for herself.  When we had breakfast last week I remember saying to her "slow down girl..." and then I found that very rock in my bag of treasure.

As we left the recreation centre yesterday morning, I told Elizabeth to hold out her hand and I placed this rock there and folded her fingers over top.  When she opened her hand, she said "is this one of those rocks I'm supposed to rub for comfort" -- I said she could rub it, put it in her pocket and look at it when she needed it or put it somewhere she'd see it every day.  Her smile and her hug spoke volumes.

I'm going to keep a log of where I drop my rocks.  Some will be very random, in places where whoever picks them up will be surprised and hopefully blessed.

Kim is still collecting and painting rocks.  I know she has many more to share.  Won't you join me in leaving a little love into the world?