The last thing my grandmother ever said to me was "And I love you!" in the special way she always did. Really, that's all there is - love. My roots are deeply embedded there, entwined with silly things, simple things and sometimes sad things, but nourished nonetheless with love. Love in its infinite manifestations, ever present, ready to remind me of where I come from. Both subtle and majestic expressions of love to connect, center and uplift. I find my most sacred moments in nature, in … [Read more...]
It’s Not for the Taking
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Walking my dog the other morning, I strolled mostly in silence, pondering the beauty of the park around me. But in the background, almost like white noise, my thoughts whirled like a ceiling fan above my head, going around and around about things that have been stressing me this past week. And then suddenly it dawned on me like the rising sun: I'm in charge of my inner peace. It's mine, and it's not for the taking. There is nothing that can have it - and no one who can have it...unless I … [Read more...]
Homesteading: The new ‘Return to the Earth’ movement?
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We now have worries about healthy store-bought foods after a few big food scares in the last couple of years stemming from melamine in milk. Mad cow disease in various countries, salmonella in just about everything. If you subscribe to FDA warnings in your email box, like I do, you get almost daily warnings about food products being pulled due to "possible contamination" from just about anything. Not just that either. Some products get pulled due to the addition of incorrect ingredients, … [Read more...]
Virgo: sensual, practical and self-sufficient
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Virgo is most often symbolized by a woman holding an armful of grains, sometimes wheat, and sometimes corn; she is associated with the Corn Goddess, a fertility symbol. The last week of August and the first three weeks of September (the time the Sun passes through Virgo) are associated with the harvest, yet Virgo is often mistakenly associated with "the virgin," or a type of barrenness or isolation. Virgo is an earth sign, grounded in the physical body - sensual, practical and very … [Read more...]
As You Change and Heal, Others do so, too
Gary won't talk to Mark. Kim submits to Gary. Doug no longer speaks to Mark. Paul just recently ended his friendship with Mark. Mark's wife left him a few months ago after 30 years of marriage. No explanation. Mark, a soft gentle Piscean type, is bereft and confused by the emptiness in his life. Reaching, yet lost. Paul no longer speaks to Don. Sherri has Don in her cellphone as "Sicko" and no longer takes his calls. Sherri's boyfriend Charlie puts up with Don's intrusive, assumptive calls. … [Read more...]
The Reluctant Guru
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Seven years ago I spent a week at a meditation center in the mountains of North Carolina. While walking around the center, I was drawn to a specific flyer announcing that enlightened teacher, Dave Oshana, would be coming to the area. The energy jumped off the flyer and I received this very strong intuitive feeling that I have to meet this guy. It proved more difficult than I thought. The flyer was old and Dave had already returned home to London. I also had a hard time getting through because … [Read more...]
The Human Gift to the Universe
Thank goodness! Finally! Human beings and human doings have spent enough time in the dark. This universe has spent enough time in the dark. Human beings have accepted that death is a part of living the human experience. When a human life is over, we slip into the spirit world, which is supposed to be more awesome than this physical human world. But how could that be, if so many have returned time and time again to experience this physical human world? It would suggest there has got to be more … [Read more...]
Might as well face it, you’re addicted to drama
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We all know the people whose lives are the stage for constant drama. They live from crisis to crisis; every conflict, or roadblock is fodder for their personal soap opera. Once one catastrophe ends, they are quickly immersed in another. We are all subject to it. You have some kind of stressful event happen, a bad break-up, a conflict with a co-worker. You get on the phone with friends, constantly rehashing and analyzing the situation, working yourself into a froth. Exhausting one audience, … [Read more...]
Nothing At All!
I have moved myself through the things that they speak of The mind and refined it to the point of uselessness The body; I have found its use as a space ship to traverse this The spirit to the attention of the inner workings of nature to hear it And the soul if I be so bold....that which to let go They ask me "How can you live without a soul?" And I say "Like so..........." If I am alive and abide by these things what then am I; a human being? As I watch it all crumbling Realizing that I … [Read more...]
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