all right, suitcase is lightly packed, i’m ready to fly off the grid for a week and i’m taking you with me… we’re all traveling as one in our light body, in our one heart.. whee! thousandfold thanks to all our relations for opening this road, this path with heart… love being with you in the milagro field… namaste, beloveds…
isn’t it the truth that in every moment, with every breath, we enter into the unknown? this mysterious realm is known by the heart, it is home to the heart and with every step we walk deeper into the journey, into life… when we still ourselves and quiet the noise and chatter, we are able to see the heart’s roadmap and hear the directions… and, when the anxieties, worries and fears pop up, we simply return to the breath, to the cosmic hum, to source, the penultimate resource to re-source, re-source and re-source again… Mary Oliver speaks so beautifully about the journey we are all on, may her words inspire courage, inspire our taking heart…
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice –
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do –
determined to save
the only life you could save.
~
namaste
dare to soar!
i’m about to embark upon an outer pilgrimage into the unknown, on the road less traveled; so, i’m invoking and re-membering… stretching, going past your comfort zone, summoning courage to make the leap of faith… as a child, when walking through dark woods at night, i’d repeat a mantra, a bible verse about fearing no evil to encourage me and remind me of the helping spirits all around us… the last thirteen moons, i’ve logged thousands of inner miles of walking in the dark, now is the moment to go forth into the unknown in the outer world… thousandfold thanks for sharing this journey, thousandfold thanks for walking home with me …
in stillness, we draw down the energy of the full buddhic moon and luxuriate in his blessings… in reverence, we deepen into Buddha’s call…
to greatly love
to gently live
to gracefully let go
i love the simplicity of what really matters… i love our sauntering in the world at this vibration… i love our syncing into the stillpoint at this frequency of greatly, gently and gracefully loving, living and letting go… i love seeing, hearing, feeling our cosmos aglow with luminescent light of divine flow… thank you for taking this wild precious moment to harvest the bounty of what really matters and with this simple action, creating heaven on earth…
of hummingbirds, heart and harmony
draw down the radiant energy of sagittarius’s full moon… slow down in the rhythm of sacred space taking this moment to attune… to the soaring music of celestial spheres, re-joy-sing in love and light dispels disturbing fears… take note of sister hummingbird, imbiber of sweet nectar.. wholeheartedly, she embraces each and every flower… freely exchanging creative power, a delicate balance is sustained… nature’s call for harmony is seeded with every breath… thank you, feathered friend, for showing us the way… to travel lightly on the wings of love, between the worlds below and above… always coming home to nest, always coming home to rest… in the tiny space, in the belonging place, the centered ground of being… where wildpeace sings a silent song and dances without movement… where life begins and comes to an end… one eternal rhythm flowing again and again…
Happy Wesak!
In honor of this Buddhist festival celebrating the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death under the miraculous full moon in May, we will follow his directive to listen to his teachings…
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
~ Buddha ~
may we all be blessed by the thousandfold blessings Buddha rains upon us under this magical moon…
today as i listen to the cosmic hum, i see the peace pilgrimage as our unfolding collective journey moving from egocentrism to ecocentrism… listen with me to the sacred voice always calling us home…
“Then a Voice said: “Behold this day, for it is yours to make. Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see, for there they are taking you.” I was still on my bay horse, and once more I felt the riders of the west, the north, the east, the south, behind me, as before, and we were going east. I looked ahead and saw the mountains there with rocks and forests on them, and from the mountains flashed all colors upward to the heavens.
Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I saw in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
Then as I stood there, two men were coming from the east, head first like arrows flying, and between them rose the daybreak star. They came and gave a herb to me and said: “With this on earth you shall undertake anything and do it.” It was the Daybreak-Star herb, the herb of understanding, and they told me to drop it on the earth. I saw it falling far, and when it struck Mother Earth it rooted and grew and flowered, four blossoms on one stem, a black, a white, a scarlet, and a yellow. The rays from these streamed upward to the heavens so that all creatures saw it and in no place was there darkness.”
Hehaka Sapa, Black Elk
thirty-six years ago today, Mt St Helens erupted, violently sweeping away thirteen hundred feet of her height, in effect, decapitating her, disappearing Spirit Lake, desolating a once fertile landscape, delivering ash around the world and prompting a communal mourning… today, we bow to the raw power of nature and to her cycles of ebb and flow, destruction and creation, desolation and restoration, chaos and harmony and sorrow and joy which are all integral to the unfolding design of oneness…
this “after” picture, taken recently, from Harmony Point shows a restored Spirit Lake and green growth gracing the once inflamed area reminding us rebirth always follows death always follows rebirth, the eternal turning of the comic wheel, breathing in and breathing out the only constant… only love is real…
i’ll close this post with a “during” and “before” picture of the ancient wise woman, Mt St Helens towering above the life giving waters of Spirit Lake…
YES! Let’s begin this moment by tuning into the love vibe… simply put a SMILE on your face to start my internal love engine and a hand on your heart as we synch into the stillpoint of creation where we create a world of peace in this moment…
may we meet this moment and every moment as a moment of peace built on the firm foundation of justice and awash in the frequency of divine flowing love…
still longing for the sea, the buoyansea of love energy, i hear beloved singing hauntingly… return, return, return to me… align, attune to cosmic flow gracefully… dance home to the heart of great mystery where we live in peace and harmony…
yes, take this moment to simply be, savoring beloved’s breathing thee… feeling the support of universal community, a friendly universe of buoyancy… dancing you, dancing me, deeper and deeper into the sea, into the sea of great mystery… the boundless ocean of love energy…
fully present in this moment may we all be, one with cosmic flow dynamically…