At the Bargain Price of a Smile You Can Provide Warmth To Those In Need and Receive A Tight Ass In Return

So I intentionally waited after the other days love fortune which was "I love how people are attracted to your warmth."  I went metaphorical at first, shocker I know.  So who isn't attracted to the warmth of a fire place or a camp fire, right.  But then there is the extreme of an inferno or a forest fire.  So we need to modify our inner fire and we can do that if we know where it comes from.  So I began debating whether it's my heart that is the source of the warmth referred to in the fortune or is it my passion/ inspirations which is probably located more in my belly/gut.   Or can it be both...maybe?  Or perhaps they work as a sacred couple...yes that is the ticket.

I saw the gut as the actual fire (like a camp fire) and then I thought the heart was more like a sterno (you know the things at buffet).  I had an image of a sterno under a bunsen burner, until I realized that sterno's have actual flames within them and then they are used to heat water that is the transmitter heat to a pan of food.  OK so our gut is the sterno and our hearts the pan of water that could work but lets go back to a camp fire.  You don't want to touch the flame. You may stand around it for comfort but your not going to put hug it or put your hand on it.  But campfires can be used for cooking.  You can put a pan on it and make some food.  The food is never as hot as the fire but it contains it and you experience it at kind of a homeopathic dose of warmth and the food is the heart which expresses yumminess and some moderated warmth too.

There is also a metaphor of the heart as a marshmallow.  Before it meets the campfire, it's a little hard and not as yummy or gooey.   However when you put it over a camp fire (of if your in Cosi's a sterno for an indoor s'more), it becomes even sweeter and more gooey and yummy.  You have to be careful not to use too much or too little passion/fire.  Otherwise it will get singed and become bitter or not gooey enough.  And then even better put your heart....oops I mean toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker (which could be the structures of life) and add a little chocolate (which could be an sweeter more optimistic approach to life or laughter) and then you have a blended life of yumminess.  I could write a novel on the metaphor of the s'more  but perhaps another time. OK I think you get where I'm going with the partnership of our passions and our hearts.  And how over active my mind was getting.

As much as I had plenty to say, I wasn't ready to blog on it...I didn't get that inner yes...it felt like a diamond in the rough.  So when I'm not sure what to do, I like to wait.  So I thought, let me see what the next days fortune will be and perhaps there is a connection that will smooth out the rough edges...and I'll get a two for one deal on my blogging efforts...who doesn't like a bargain.  Ha, right.

So yesterdays was "I love how you always make me smile."  Which of course, made me smile.  And it made me a little warmer inside too...  Eureka!!!  They were connected.  Let's face it when I'm having a hard day, I know a kind and smiling person in a brief interaction like ordering my trenta unsweetened green iced tea at Starbuck's, can thaw me a little.

And, since I like to ponder the love fortune to see how it evolves throughout my day before putting fingers to keypad, I went to the office.  I didn't think of it much more until I had a "you can't make this shit up moment"  I was walking down a hall way and walking towards me was an officer that I've know her for a many years although rarely see her and have only worked with her on only a few occasions.  We waved and smiled at each other until we met at the ladies room.  (Is that too much information?)   As we enter,  she says to me, "I always smile when I see you."  To which I giggled & yes I felt a little warmer inside.  My inner voice said, "did you cheat and read my love fortune today because you almost recited it verbatim."  Of course, I did share what a coincidence it was with a little more detail and explained the gift of love fortunes I had received.  And the story warmed her too.

So then I was thinking how smiles, whether you give them or receive them, are definitely a form of warmth. And as reminded by Danny in class last night, it also helps tighten your ass.  Hey so that's a two for one deal...another bargain...and, even better, we are also participating in sacred reciprocity you are giving warmth to another who may be chilled by the hardships of life and you are receiving a tight ass from the universe in return.  (Tee, hee...I do entertain myself sometimes)