Welcome to Joy Filled Heart!
This is a space for the exploration into what it means to live a powerful, conscious and joyful life. I am on a journey of discovery. Discovery of self, life and how to be human in these turbulent and often trying times. What does it really mean to “live well?” Maybe we can investigate together. I am a life long learner, a deep thinker, and a seeker of meaning. I want a space to share some of my musings, ponderings and tangential ramblings of all sorts. I invite you in, to read, to share, to grow with me. You are welcome here.
May all hearts be filled with joy!
Joy Filled Heart 
Love this Marianna and love you!
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I can hardly wait to watch the journey unfold. ♥
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Thanks for your beautiful poem-Confession.I needed to read this as it is helpful in my rough time right now.Peace.
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Thank you for this message. It means a lot to know my words are being read by the right people. Blessings!
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Hello Marianna, found you in We’Moon 2019. Confession hit home hard, beautifully awakening. Thank you for such depth of honesty.
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Have just read everything else in your pages, also deeply thoughtful,full of heasrt andfgrit and life. We have had fires in Ecuador this year, too. And civil strife, and weird weather. I am reading a book called LEAN LOGIC, a dictionary full of ideas and data that gives perspective, and just a little hope, which is all we have. The keywords are resilience and community. You have both. How we live is our redemption, and gives our lives meaning, which we shine back and forth among us to give us the heart to persist. As you do so beautifully. Carry on the love!
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Your Heart is so kind, and Huge! I love that you share your joy! People like you are, sadly, scarce.
I love you, Dear One! Thank you for opening up your life to us all!
I could never find a better Officiant for my wedding!
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Oh, thank you so much Becky! I am touched that you were reading my words.
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Becky I am so touched you are reading my writing. Bless you cousin. I am grateful to be asked to serve as your celebrant!
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I am trying to finish reading Braiding Sweetgrass for my wonderful Nature book group this afternoon, but keep getting distracted. This tme it is looking up Franz and the Clear Creek Project. It led me to your blog,. How wonderful to see the project lasting, and writers like you with you talents still involved and contributing. I am 79, and it is exhilarating to me to find your blog. So rewarding to read your poetry. I frequently recommend the book Braiding Sweetgrass, and find out how many have already read it, and how it is changing the world. Keep it up. I just signed up for your blog and wanted to tell you how much I like it.
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Wow. Thank you! I am so touched to have you reach out and send me this message. Braiding Sweetgrass has braided me together with many kindreds!!!
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That is exactly how I found you! I’m reading “Braiding Sweetgrass“ and went on a side journey to read more about Franz
I loved your story and your poetry. It fills my heart with Hope when I come across communities like this
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Hi Cathy, I am so glad you stumbled on my sight. Fanz has brought many of us together! It is heartwarming to know so many others have this deep longing for a way of living that honors nature and our place in the order of things. I so appreciate you being here!
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Hello, kindred spirit!
Like a few above, I found you here when I wandered online to see images of Shot Pouch while reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s description in Braiding Sweetgrass. I’m a retired professor, having taught creative writing in the latter part of my career in the English department. I came to writing poetry in my late thirties. And I, too, find Braiding Sweetgrass an inspiration (although I am 68 as I write this). I want to tell you how much I appreciate your poetry and your photography. I’ve long felt a good photographer also has a poet’s eye, and that certainly applies to you. Details are everything. When I was little, I found an old book in our home that had a bookplate with this verse from Shakespeare:
“Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing.”
All my life that’s been carved in my spirit. I want to share that with you and thank you for sharing this work.
Your words and images are a gift.
Reciprocity!
Beth
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Thank you so much for your beautiful comment, I’m so glad we are connecting in this way. I do feel such a kinship with all of us who gather around this way of re-entangling ourselves with the wild and holy world. Thank you for the Shakespeare quote, oh my goodness, such a goodie! I might just make this part of my email tagline. Blessings your way!
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