welcome, welcome to day 51 of a season of peace and to the eve of World water day…. although tomorrow we celebrate day of honoring and blessing water, everyday is truly a blessing water day, water is the innernet connecting us all, the more blessings of peace, love and harmony we pour into water, the more peaceful, loving and harmonious life is… thousandfold thanks for our joining hands across the cosmos in sacred honoring… thousandfold thanks, water, for giving us life and blessing our earth walks… standing before you, we re-member we are water, we are the ocean in a drop… may our one heart be purified more than ever before for the benefit of all as we drink you into our being and as water reciprocates in the next breath by blessing us and generously bestowing pure water spirits throughout the web of life… water is a mirror for us as well as perfectly mirroring us… water responds in perfect harmony to the messages we send; the more beautiful our transmission, the more beautifully water creates all that is..
In Praise of Water
Let us bless the grace of water:
The imagination of the primeval ocean
Where the first forms of life stirred
And emerged to dress the vacant earth
With warm quilts of color.The well whose liquid root worked
Through the long night of clay,
Trusting ahead of itself openings
That would yet yield to its yearning
Until at last it arises in the desire of light
To discover the pure quiver of itself
Flowing crystal clear and free
Through delighted emptiness.The courage of a river to continue belief
In the slow fall of ground,
Always falling farther
Toward the unseen ocean.The river does what words would love,
Keeping its appearance
By insisting on disappearance;
Its only life surrendered
To the event of pilgrimage,
Carrying the origin to the end.Seldom pushing or straining,
Keeping itself to itself
Everywhere all along its flow…Let us bless the humility of water,
Always willing to take the shape
Of whatever otherness holds it,The buoyancy of water
Stronger than the deadening,
Downward drag of gravity,
The innocence of water,
Flowing forth, without thought
Of what awaits it,
The refreshment of water,
Dissolving the crystals of thirst.Water: voice of grief,
Cry of love,
In the flowing tear.Water: vehicle and idiom
Of all the inner voyaging
That keeps us alive.Blessed be water,
Our first mother.we are all rainclouds…
mni wiconi
water is life
blessed be!
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 94 – 3/20/2019
welcome, welcome to day 50 of a season of peace, a day of cosmic harmony, how i love this day of sacred pause, this profound portal of equinox amplified with the super full moon of libra the moon of balance, of venusian love… are you feeling the serpentine energies rising from the earth to marry the soular rays flowing down from the skies activating the creation of the cosmic egg as the sun moves into aries and the new astrological year?
awakening today with a smile, i re-member awakening the same way a quintessence of years ago and a quaternity of years ago , i received the dream of going into the wasteland to annoint with holy water which led to a pilgrimage to gather holy water from the heart chakra of the planet and today i see that once again i’ll shortly be embarking on a pilgrimage, virtual this time to be followed a quintessence of moons later with a walking pilgrimage of peace along the camino of St Francis…
so much to breathe in this moment and breathe out with a deep sigh of ah, of awe… yes! the whole world is in balance today as we celebrate the festival of the sun, the day we all receive the same amount of sun externally and internally… on this day of the earth’s poles being in balance and light piercing through both hemispheres, we are able to see through dimensional veils… seeing the world through eyes of balance, she sings a song of harmony on this first day of the new astrological turn around the sun…
yes! i love this day of balance, such happiness flows like a bubbling brook which reminds me that in addition to being equinox, today is also the International Day of Happiness as decreed by the United Nations… and, it’s the first day of fall for southern hemisphereians and spring for those in the north…
may we be filled with the energies of balance and harmony radiating from this libra super full moon on this high holy day of equinox, of sacred pause with every breath being a blessingway, a blessingway of deepening balance, a flowing with the waters of life in harmony revealing every moment as sacred in our cosmic heart of love…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 93 – 3/19/2019
Let there be Peace
Let there be Peace of Mind
Let there be Peace with Mankind
Let there be Peace of the States
Let the World dwell within the Force of Peace~
welcome, welcome to day 49 of a season of peace, the eve of the equinox and super full moon in libra, a day when i find myself chanting let there be peace and ho’opono pono while breathing in I Am Grace of Beloved and generating loving presence …
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listening to motherwaters’ song seeding fields of love the whole day long,
Oya weaves spiraling webs of light
while whirling, swirling winds cut through rainbow mists
spirits dance wildly in the underground
swimming braided waters of uncharted earthscape
rhythmically returning to original source,
in cosmic womb where we re-member…
birthing, surrendering to transforming whirlwind
breathing, re-birthing harmony again
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may every breath be a blessingway, a blessingway of deepening balance, a flowing with the waters of life in harmony revealing every moment as sacred…
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namaste’
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 92 – 3/18/2019
welcome, welcome to day 48 of a season of peace and to a foreshadowing of/illuminating the day after tomorrow (march 20) when we celebrate equinox as a festival of the sun, a day to honor the balancing of the sun within oneself… let us share the experience of the inner sun of spirit so beautifully illuminated by this lovely sunlit eye and this poem of Lawrence Ferlinghetti…
Instructions to Painters & Poets
I asked a hundred painters and a hundred poets
how to paint sunlight
on the face of life
Their answers were ambiguous and ingenuous
as if they were all guarding trade secrets
Whereas it seems to me
all you have to do
is conceive of the whole world
and all humanity
as a kind of art work
a site-specific art work
an art project of the god of light
the whole earth and all that’s in it
to be painted with lightAnd the first thing you have to do
is paint out postmodern painting
And the next thing is to paint yourself
in your true colors
in primary colors
as you see them
(without whitewash)
paint yourself as you see yourself
without make-up
without masks
Then paint your favorite people and animals
with your brush loaded with light
And be sure you get the perspective right
and don’t fake it
because one false line leads to anotherAnd don’t forget to paint
all those who lived their lives
as bearers of light
Paint their eyes
and the eyes of every animal
and the eyes of beautiful women
known best for the perfection of their breasts
and the eyes of men and women
known only for the light of their minds
Paint the light of their eyes
the light of sunlit laughter
the song of eyes
the song of birds in flightAnd remember that the light is within
if it is anywhere
and you must paint from the inside~
may we be sunlit laughter…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 91 – 3/17/2019
welcome, welcome to day 47 of a season of peace and to our weekly installment of the astonishing light of being peace…
yesterday, indomitable peace activist and astonishing light of being peace, Frances Crowe turned 100 and her beloved community joins with her in celebrating her radical soul… a legend in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, she was honored in her beloved community with 100 signs for 100 years… what a legacy, the changing of so many lives in her devotion to peace…
What can one being do to further peace? Listen to what a couple of friends say about Frances…
“Frances Crowe called me in the early ‘80s to ask if I would produce “Handy Dandy,” a play by William Gibson at a theater company I was managing in Northampton. The two-character play tells of the complex exchange — about conscience and the law — between a nun who is arrested for protesting a nuclear power plant in Cambridge and the judge she comes before. Of course, Frances related to the play since she had been — even then — arrested innumerable times. When asked how many times, she said, “Not enough.” I agreed to produce the play, and that’s how our work together began.
In the almost 40 years I’ve known Frances, these are things I think are true: she does not suffer fools gladly and she can spot hypocrisy from miles away; she is unrelenting (persistent is an understatement); she sees what it will take others years (maybe even decades) to see; she thinks of everything she can do and then she does it. A very partial list includes showing thousands of films, handing out probably millions of leaflets and petitions, committing acts of civil disobedience and being willing to suffer the consequences; using social media like Democracy Now! before there was social media; organizing thousands of protests, public events like the first Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebrations and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemorations and more. Finally, she enlists everyone she can think of to help carry out the work.”
~Lois Ahrens~
“Working with Frances, I find that she lives exactly how she believes — leaving a small footprint and living simply so that others may simply live… Daily, I get a hands-on lesson in just how she does it…”
~Carolyn Oates~
“I met Frances Crowe on the street in Northampton before the Iraq war. She gave me that broad smile and probably a flyer. My husband, Bill, and I fell under her spell because what Frances was saying then and what she’s saying now makes sense. It’s pretty simple stuff: stop war and weapons sales; save the children — ours and theirs — from senseless suffering and death.
Bill and I had young children. Imagining planes dropping bombs on other people’s children spurred us into action. We found ourselves on the weekly vigil line, making posters, marching and traveling to protests. Frances affirmed something in me. Seeing how she made her life’s vocation the ending of war changed me. As an artist, my sculptures tended to chronicle my family and friends, but I found myself turning to art with a mission.
I’ve made a number of sculptures and drawings of Frances. She isn’t easy to capture — so much humor and passion rolled into one. One of my pieces celebrates the weekly vigil organized by the Northampton Committee to Lift the Sanctions on Iraq. I sculpted the many individuals who stood on the line, with Frances out in front, speaking to two soldiers. To Frances, everyone is worth attention, deserves respect and is worth convincing.
Frances’ passion simply washes away other concerns. She’s not bothered or constrained by her physical size, her sex or her age. Sometimes I think our instinct is to minimize these things, along with race, social class and stridency, in order to fit in. This may very well keep us from our most forceful action. But Frances uses every part of herself to advance her cause. And this is some of what it takes to make a good piece of expressionist art. A recognition that our voice and our message is more important … well, than anything. It’s nearly an act of faith that in getting the message into the world our shortcomings will actually be transformed into assets.
How is it that Frances’ welcoming, challenging message has sunk so deeply into our psyches? Every day I think we borrow a piece of her courage and conviction, the conviction that there can be a better place and a better way. For now, it may only be a place held in the mind’s eye, yet it feels real, this place of No War.”
~Harriett Diamond~
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 90 – 3/16/2019
welcome, welcome to day 46 of a season of peace and the seventh day of embracing the creeping crud as we dance to the last songs of winter soulstice in this sacred space of sojourning in the desert of the heart, a journey that is quite the purification, the clean-sing in the last hours before equinox and the full moon…
as much as i am loving this baring of everything and living in an in between times consciousness, i want to get a jump on the celebrating to come…
tomorrow, when we celebrate the wild, poetically enchanting, magical Ireland, who better to hear an echo from her than her late great native son, John O’Donahue…
A Celebration Blessing
Now is the time
to free the heart,
Let all intentions and worries stop,
Free the joy inside the self,
Awaken to the wonder
of your life.Open your eyes and see the friends
Whose hearts recognize your face as kin,
Those whose kindness watchful and near,
Encourages you to live everything here.See the gifts the years have given,
Things your effort could never earn,
The health to enjoy who you want to be
And the mind to mirror mystery.~
ah yes, brother john, i’ll have a gracious plenty of that and will engage compassion to lead my actions, my words and my life…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 89 – 3/15/2019
welcome, welcome to day forty- five of a season of peace falling on the potent ides of march, a day when we are asked to follow the ancient admonition to beware, to be aware of this day…
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may our heart stay loving and open especially when we feel hurt and frayed…
may we open to always including others in love’s vast embrace…
may our heart remain pure and kind amid the painful details and muck of life…
may virtue and serenity be bedrock for all…
may our brokenheartedness break open our heart ever wider and deeper bringing forth ever more expansive love and compassion…
~
there are so many images i could share for this potent day when collectively our hearts are broken by the tragedy in New Zealand and renewed by the children of the earth who once again rise across the planet to say…
ENOUGH!
this picture is from a year and a day ago when students across the planet organized a day of compassion for the one month anniversary of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida and it seems so perfect for toaday’s doule honoring of the lives lost in another massacre and students rising again to say…
ENOUGH!
these words from years ago remain a wonderful call to action…
“Be a nuisance when it counts. Do your part to inform and stimulate the public to join your action. Be depressed, discouraged, & disappointed at failure & the disheartening effects of ignorance, greed, corruption & bad politics — but never give up.”
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
and now, may we all be heartened and inspired into action by the words of the young woman whose weekly solitary protests grew and grew into this day of students across the globe from 112 countries and counting joined her in walking out and saying…
“I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.”
yes, a single Swedish schoolgirl with Asperger’s determined to take on the planet’s blind billionaires and leaders everywhere urged her peers to face the disaster that’s an increasingly obvious part of all our lives and that their parents have generally been remarkably unable to face… she was and is striking for the right to a future…
within months, thousands and then tens of thousands of high-school students across Europe, Australia and Japan, among other places, joined Greta Thunberg, a 15 years old with a mind of her own and a sign demanding a school strike against climate change, in her walking out for “Fridays for Future” protests…
bringing us back to today’s millions of students saying…
ENOUGH!
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 88 – 3/14/2019
welcome, welcome to day 44 of a season of peace and to peace pi day,the infinitely nonrepeating numbers containing the answers to everything and the infinite number of ways it whispers to us about how it all boils down to the shero’s journey of transformation – from the illusion of a separated small self to the reality of the one true SELF and to day 88 (infinity,infinity) in the sixth year of writing the walk of the poetic peace pilgrimage…
today is another of my favorite moments in the cycle of life when we rest in the in between times moon, the rainbow moon who sings a song of transformation, of transmuting dark, threatening clouds of pain, into rainbow colored arcs of joy…
today also marks the first anniversary of Stephan Hawking’s transmutation… born auspiciously on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death, Professor Hawking also died auspiciously on Albert Einstein’s birthday… i love this star going into the cosmos to travel into infinity in such synchronicity…
let us take this moment to listen to this freespirit…
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don’t just give up…The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything…
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 87 – 3/13/2019
welcome, welcome to day 43 of a season of peace… today is another of my favorite moments in the cycle of life when we rest in the in between times moon, the rainbow moon who sings a song of transformation, of transmuting dark, threatening clouds of pain, into rainbow colored arcs of joy…
as, i swim today in grandmother ocean of consciousness with adolpho and adelphi traveling to delphi to reunite with Pythia, the oracle/psychedelic/ psychedelphic/rainbow serpent who first came to me in dreamtime when i was only two, i re-member this meeting as if it were happening right now… the most numinous moment when Pythia telepathed the way to be a sacred vessel for the divine, to be strong enough to channel entheos…
come on over and sit by the waters with me and let’s journey together back into the cosmic womb, the dark sacred space of origin…. breathe in the flowing mother waters… feel the flowing waters, be flowing water…. now, breathe deeply in the rhythm of the waves diving deeper and deeper into the stillpoint… re-member who you/we really are – water -we are the eternal radiance andrelease any pain, any walls blocking free flow…
now, blessing the waters within and without, breathe them in, feeling the radiance you are, an illuminated being of great heart… in this wellspring, water reminds us of our purpose, we are original source, creation creating creation in the belly of the earth where all rivers converge into one rainbow stream of radiance, one cosmic circle birthing the divine…
let’s sit here silently for awhile open to life’s flow, trusting in the beauty of pachamama and the courage of great mystery, knowing all is well, thanking spirits for gracing us with everything…
Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 86 – 3/12/2019
welcome, welcome to day 42 of a season of peace… today is another of my favorite moments in the cycle of life when we rest in the in between times moon, the rainbow moon who sings a song of transformation, of transmuting dark, threatening clouds of pain, into rainbow colored arcs of joy…
for the last four days as i lie still with grandmother in the river below the river, every day an inner blizzard has been consuming me, freezing me, keeping me still, silent and aching in every cell… tonight I awaken and it’s going on the midnight witching hour and the fever seems to have broken… i re-member the impeded stream sings and so i venture to the stillpoint to listen… and i see the great mother dancing creation weaving a new web of life, carbon turned into crystals of light, a thousand dancing diamonds twinkling in the night, imbuing the all with powerful sight of the inner and outer worlds being breathed into life again, unfolding the rainbow mystery of the knowing within… listening deeply to our one heart, sharing the love we are called to impart…
having lived so much of my life with physical pain as a constant companion, this creeping crud episode gives me an opportunity to be thankful for all the moments of health/wholeness that all too often can be taken for granted plus this great rest is a wonderful way to be closing out this season of winter soulstice, of sojourning in the desert of the heart…
may we all take joy in surrendering and softening into divine flow of being where every moment is sacred, a rhythmic dance of grace…