Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 247 – 8/20/2015

Named Amazing August 20 Connection See

that something that is always there…

even when we have yet to connect the dots…

the process of being divinely human…

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today’s journey, like everyday’s journey, is amazing and what is so beautiful today is staying fully present in trusting each moment, in trusting in surrendering all striving, all efforting and simply, greatfully being present this divine moment…

the blood of my being cooperated perfectly so that surgery flowed with ease… the opening of the solar plexus area inspired revelation after revelation during the long time in recovery as i see deeper and deeper grandmother spider’s web of interconnection with all that is…

thousandfold thanks to all relations for sharing this journey and boundless love always…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 246 – 8/19/2015

Named Amazing August 19 Poetic PEACE Pilgrim 1 Heart Soaringdear ones, tomorrow i enter the healing temple, today i re-member a name given me some three decades ago… heart that soars… and that is precisely how i feel in this moment… on the brink of an exciting new adventure, a new world beckons… a world where we come home to our one heart… a world where we surrender all to love… our one heart smiles as we dance this spirit path…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 245 – 8/18/2015

Named Amazing August 18 Wedding Trip Pilgrimage 047 Oceanside Cape Meares

for the past fifty days, i have gathered with another in a sacred communion to voice lovingkindness blessings for all that is… each evening we join at the threshold to offer ourselves, everything we are, to the all that is… we envision the whole cosmos joining us and experiencing our true reality of oneness and seeing each other as numinous love… i love seeing us this moment reciting this blessing prayed every morning by His Holiness the Dalai Lama…

May I be a guard for those who need protection

A guide for those on the path

A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood

May I be a lamp in the darkness

A resting place for the weary

A healing medicine for all who are sick

A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles

And for the boundless multitudes of living beings

May I bring sustenance and awakening

Enduring like the earth and sky

Until all beings are freed from sorrow

And all are awakened.

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 244 – 8/17/2015

Named Amazing August 17 Kaua'i 11-28-14 019 Rainbowyesterday i felt abandon, not the wild freeing abandon, but the scorned lover variety, until the sun, in the form of holy grandmother spider creatrix, peeked through the clouds offering warm embraces and whispered words of wisdom to be still in this moment of abandon, to trust this moment of surrender, to re-member the sun always shines and when it shines on rain, being is transformed into iridescent rainbow encircling the cosmos within and without converging in perfect harmony, in this moment, this beautiful moment of grace…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 243 – 8/16/2015

Named Amazing August 16 Dreamer Harriet Tubmannow is the moment…. under the waxing new moon is the perfect moment for seeding dreams, for using her dark, germinating energy to imagine dreams large enough to fill the infinite sky… as a conductor of slaves into freedom on the underground railroad, tubman would sing out “to wade in the water” to keep the freedom seekers safe from those who attempted to capture them… i love this image and have been wading in the waters so that no thing can capture and enslave the dreams of the soul…

may we all dive deeply into the wellspring of our being and create in the rhythm of our dreams…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 242 – 8/15/2015

Named Amazing August 15 Rumi Close Your Eyesin the midst of a world unraveling, where we dance in the dark in the rhythm of unknowing, still, dwell in the river beow the river, the underground wellspring of love… re-member all you truly love… re-member… re-member… close your eyes as the waves of love rise and breathe it deeply into every wild cell… in this moment, this beautiful moment luxuriate in being love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 241 – 8/14/2015

Named Amazing August 14 Moon New Invocation

i love invoking the energy of the new moon, i love drawing down the darkness and planting myself in her field to germinate… i love  placing my attention and intention in sister moon and receiving the new life, the new story, the new song as the seed breaks open through the ground under the feet of moon goddess…

i love flowing in the rhythm of new moon tides and feeling the surge of reaching a new shore, i love sensing the long wait is over, the time of being on hold, suspended, is done and quickening is now here…

i love dancing in the dark, empty and free, to welcome the new rising harmony…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 240 – 8/13/2015

Named Amazing August 13 Poetic PEACE Pilgrim 1 Unknowingtoday is one of those days to pause in unknowing and rest gently under the darkening moon… a day to breathe in beloved’s love and feel her support, a day of deepening into the rhythm of our expanding cosmos, a day of feeling one’s chest pulled apart to open the heart space wider, a day of simply trusting that all is well, a day of surrendering to love whatever is, a day of emptying, a day of unknowing except for the reality that we are all walking each  other home to our one open heart… thousandfold thanks for sharing this road less traveled, this path with heart…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 239 – 8/12/2015

Named Amazing August 12  turtle_hatchingeverywhere i am today feels like a hatchery; every circle, a nest of hatchlings breaking free from constriction and expanding into a more spacious home, an open heart… as with any birth, growth, transition, transformation, there is pain which underlines the importance of our nestling together and emracing each other’s journey through the birth canal into the river of awakening that flows into the ocean of love…

yes, these moments are the perfect ones to embrace what is, to befriend whatever comes our way… Rumi says it so beautifully…

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond. 

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 238 – 8/11/2015

Named Amazing August 11 Japanese Garden O-Bon 2014 008+i love celebrating the obon festival every summer when we honor our ancestors’ journeys… i love moments of darkness as a powerful space for seeing the great beyond inside of ourselves and reflecting this sight outward… this year, it’s especially poignant for me since i’ve been spending so many days in darkness… i love seeing this time of healing blindness as an extended obon festival, a beautiful time of communion with ancestors…. thousandfold thanks for deepening the spirit path into great mystery…