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...with these first 50 lessons, I decided to make a special collections edition book called ... each page is actually a verse I wrote for a card, which lends itself very easily to putting each one individually on magnets and book
"Let the Cuckoo Out." I have three Lily books, actually... The cuckoo book,
"Lily's
Lollipop Moments" (for kids) and " Happy Toes". the sequel.
marks, etc. So, now I have created a whole "Cuckoo Series" and write a monthly story that I call "The Lily Connection." I am completely raw and unrehearsed. I follow no structure or rules. But the people rejoice and we dance in the joy of it all.
…I was trying to explain what I do to someone and I said, "The words dance in my head and when it feels like a song, they come out in a verse, and that is, a Lily's Life Lesson. ~ Author, dreamer, Liz Theodore
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"If your clock is wound too tight... Let the Cuckoo out."
And then came the lessons...
Lily's Life Lesson #1
"Forget about what other people think. If you think purple socks go with that formal satin evening dress, you have a fashion sense that just hasn't happened yet." If you feel a giggle coming on, you have to let it out. If you don’t, it starts to bubble up inside and it comes out in some other way~ like out your ears~ it’s not pretty... Let yourself Dream...
It’s the only way to figure out what you really want in life... Lily's Life Lesson #4 Sunglasses are the most important part of any outfit. What’s even more fun is to have lots of different styles. It’s the sane way of having multiple personalities. The person who devised sizes of pantyhose must have worked in a broom factory. Even the Queen size looks like the perfect slip-cover for one of them. Personally, I would rather wear them as hair ribbons. Lily's Life Lesson #6 Age really is just mind over matter. It doesn’t Matter what the calendar has calculated. Never Mind what they say you should be based on a number. Go tickle your fancy and tell them all to Mind their own Matters. Sometimes other people can’t hear the orchestra that’s playing in your head. It’s okay. Follow your own music. Within every mistake is an opportunity for a brilliant discovery. You just might be the next Einstein. The beauty of Woman is the grace with which she shows her strength. It’s sort of like watching a ballerina bench press 500 pounds. If I dared to wish to go back in time and change a path I took, I would deeply miss the precious parts that happened along the way. Whatever you think you have to go back in time to find is actually right in front of you. There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I was tip-toeing on the tight rope one day and decided to join the flying pig who happened by. The view is spectacular from up here. The whole world is right at your finger-tips. Just reach out and touch that dream that dances in your mind, hold it gently in your hands for just a moment, then, set it free. I never could figure out how those equations in algebra had anything to do with real life. So, I made up this equation that seems to me to be the fundamental expression for the Human experience. Here it is: Hope + Action = Purpose My first calculation concluded that Purpose is squared but I have since learned that it expands exponentially. The saying “Today is the first day of the rest of your life” is a myth. It was actually yesterday. Did you follow your heart? Today is Tomorrow’s Yesterday.
Lily's Life Lesson #16 Being on vacation
is like dancing naked in a field of honeysuckle. The air is sweet with the scent of freedom and nobody seems to Lily's Life Lesson #17 I don’t mind getting older... Each day brings me one step closer to being that crazy lady I always dreamed of who eats ice-cream for breakfast and laughs hysterically at her own jokes. Oh, wait, I’m already her. A happy marriage is like the solar system. In cosmic terms, your beloved partner in life is like your center. And you are free to fly anywhere in its orbit... sometimes as close as kissing the sun and sometimes hugging the edge of the universe...but you are safe. This is what they call a cosmic connection.
Sometimes the door you need to open is a big iron gate. You peep through the towering rods and press your cheeks against the cold metal and you see your dreams dancing on the other side. But when you reach your hands around the iron rods and try to pull the gate open, the gate is locked. And you try with all your might to pull harder as the gate rattles louder and louder and your heart beats faster and faster. And then someone hands you the key. Thank You. Lily's Life Lesson #20 Tend to the voices in your head like you would a garden. Treat the bad ones for the weeds that they are and allow the good ones to flourish and bloom. Life is better when your brain is a bouquet. If I had a pretty pink feather for every time someone tried to judge me, I’m Pink. I’m Proud. I’m Prancing. I’m Dancing. I’m Parading My Plumes. What is the spirit of Christmas? you are holding a little box. As you open the box, you open your eyes and see a light. You blink your eyes at the sight, and in that moment the light is now inside you. You feel its warmth right down to your fingers and toes and you are washed with a feeling of peace. That is the spirit of Obsessions have about as much reality as a cartoon. The next time you think a safe is going to fall on your head, change the ending. That safe may just be a marshmallow painted gray. So, put it in your cocoa and move on with your day. Nobody ever told me about these cute little surprises that would present themselves at certain predetermined points in time. Take, for example, the gift of the whiskers. Very funny, but joke’s over.
Can I return them now? Finally, a New Year’s resolution I can keep... This year I promise to do everything exactly the way I have been doing them for as long as I can remember. Wow. This is going to be a good year. Our story is long and rich with vivid recall of the stories we shared and the secrets we kept among the sunny walks and rain-drop days and to this day, no one knows me better, comforts my woes, or lifts my wings of dreams quite like my sister.
I know you are my best friend because I left my guard by the door next to your old galoshes and we laughed at ourselves while the storm had its rain and the sun followed me all the way home. Lily's Life Lesson #28 Every time I turn around, a new place on my body jiggles... but all I can do is laugh, since I named them “body giggles.” Lily's Life Lesson #29 It must be love because I forgot to pretend to be any thing else and you stayed to be with what was behind the else. I think I will forget to pretend forever. Fairy Tales do come true. The way it happens is all up to you. What happened to the Peanut Gallery? We wasted all that time worrying about what they think, as if they were some fine mix, but come to find out they are just plain nuts. Perfection is highly over-rated. I would rather live in the moment, than try to re-write it to my own definition. That moment was made perfect just for you before you even got there.
Life is full of planning, and primping, and pruning, and often what you end up with, oddly, is something shaped like a hedge-hog. Still the best times are shaped by just moseying along. Every one Lily's Life Lesson #35 I just found out peculiar is popular. All this time I thought I was the odd one out. Now, I am the odd one in. This is going to take some getting used to. Lily's Life Lesson #38 I lost my inhibitions and I can’t find them anywhere. I think they fell off somewhere around the pool of hope and wonder. If you find them, put them on the first train out of town. I don’t need them anymore. Living in a dream world of gumdrops and lollipops has a down side. When things heat up, it becomes a really big, gummy gooey, sticky mess. It’s okay. They taste just as good upside down. Call me crazy... No, really, please do. I take it as a compliment. Lily's Life Lesson #41 Mud Pie Therapy states that when you create something with your own two hands, it opens up a new connection in your mind to form a state of peace and tranquility. I sort of just made all of this up. Never be afraid to get your hands dirty. That’s my motto. Feeling like a kid is so much more fun now that I am all grown up, because now when I go ask permission, I almost always say, “yes.” I’m a diplomatic rebel. I don’t care what other people think. But I’m nice about it. We can never presume we will figure all of it out. So let us dance with the mystery. And sing with the uncertainty. Never before has Life’s Play performed as unpredictably nor as eloquently. My husband doesn’t seem to understand why I need so many pairs of shoes. I’m not thinking about myself ~ no, not at all. I’m doing it for the shoes. Yes, the poor little shoes would be trapped in their boxes forever if it weren’t for me to buy them and take them home. Viva La Shoes! The view is pretty but the senses are sleeping. When you realize the window is open, fly through. Happiness knocks sometimes when we are afraid to let it in. We fear to mix company with Doubt. Imagine the shenanigans when all the players mingle. The party has just begun because I just saw Hesitation walk in with Possibility. Of course there is a good reason why my house does not look like a sparkling page out of Housekeeping Beautiful. I have better things to do. I had one marble left and I used it to replace the pendulum on my antique clock. Now my cuckoo is sane and I am completely bananas. I have never been happier. Feeling Free is a gift that happens when you let go of the control you thought you had over all things in your life. The more you let go, the freer you become. Don’t just think it. *** see more "Lily's Lessons" in the next section called Lily's Lollipop Moments and more! In there, you will find 21 lesson for kids (my lollipop moments!) and then more lessons cuz I just keep writin' em :) Whatever it is, let it be Lily....
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question
your choice
of entertainment.
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Lily's Life Lesson #21
I would be one
feisty flamingo.
Lily's Life Lesson #22
Close your eyes and imagine
Christmas.
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Lily's Life Lesson #34
has a
place
where you
can go
to just be.
Life
just feels better
when you are
at the beach.
Lily's Life Lesson #36
That little voice
way back there
in your head
can be pretty
mean sometimes.
You hereby have
permission
to talk mean
right back.
You can even say
"shut up"
and you don't
have to apologize.
Lily's Life Lesson #37
Believe
in things
meant to be.
Believe
in things
yet to be.
The truest
things whisper
the softest.
Believe.
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Lily's Life Lesson #50
Live it.
"lily" feels like breathing happiness.... I am so goofy....how did I get to be so lucky to breathe in happiness every day? Oh, yeah, that's right, it's LILY! We will start a new revolution! That's right! We will all share the happiness and declare "I'm a Lily!" every day...
I say "whatever will be, will be"...