Monthly Archives: June 2020

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 187 – 6/20/2020

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When there is no more separation between “this” and “that”, it is called the still-point of Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle, one sees the infinite in all things.

~ Chuang Tzu ~

what a day with the sun beginning to shine on cancer and the moon new in cancer and a soular eclipse and it’s soulstice when we stand in stillness with brother sun, welcoming you smiling with folded hands,  honoring your radiance breathing through our one heart, greeting you as beloved and opening our heart to you…

on soustice, the veil between the worlds is so thinand it’s amplified today being in cancer and with the new moon also in this watery sign and soular eclipses magnify all blessings a thousand fold, such a magical day to see through the mists, to return to the isle of Avalon on a metaphorical journey of transformation on this day of the divine union between heaven and earth, masculine and feminine, electricity and magnetism… a sacred moment when divine feminine spirit, the great mother pours the luminous light of love all over the cosmos… may we all feel this fluid energy of light flowing, a loving compassion that frees us to enter the vast unknown, to dig deeply into the soil of our being finding hidden treasure…

how i love this day of re-membering life is a pilgrimage to the inner sun, sol, soul, the city of gold in the heart within the heart, sacred space of radiance holding the treasured wisdom of our true value and how we save the worlds…

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A Prayer of Healing

We come together this Solstice under old oak trees, nurtured by the ground, the living green grass under our feet, to honor the longest/shortest day of the year. We see the pain of the Earth, the devastation of Her body. But today we celebrate Her. We say Prayers of Healing, for pachamama and for all Her children.

We join with the earth and with each other.
To celebrate the seas.
To rejoice the sunlight.
To sing the song of the stars.

We join with the earth and with each other.
To recall our destiny.
To renew our spirits.
To reinvigorate our bodies.

We join with the earth and with each other.
To create the human community.
To promote justice and peace.
To remember our children.

We join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery: for the healing of the earth and the renewal of all life.We join with the earth and with each other.
To bring new life to the land.
To restore the waters.
To refresh the air.

We join with the earth and with each other.
To renew the forests.
To care for the plants.
To protect the creatures.

From the United Nations Environmental Sabbath

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may we all stand still in great mystery in the silence of the heart…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 186 – 6/19/2020

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Juneteenth 2020 We Mourn We Rise Up We Act

On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate. Ninety-nine years earlier, on June 19, 1865, we celebrated the first African-American Emancipation Day, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States… Let us celebrate on this bittersweet day with the words of President Obama on June 19. 2016…

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“Just outside the Oval Office hangs a painting depicting the night of December 31, 1862. In it, African-American men, women, and children crowd around a single pocket watch, waiting for the clock to strike midnight and the Emancipation Proclamation to take effect. As the slaves huddle anxiously in the dimly lit room, we can sense how even two more minutes seems like an eternity to wait for one’s freedom. But the slaves of Galveston, Texas, had to wait more than two years after Lincoln’s decree and two months after Appomattox to receive word that they were free at last.

Today we commemorate the anniversary of that delayed but welcome news. Decades of collective action would follow as equality and justice for African-Americans advanced slowly, frustratingly, gradually, on our nation’s journey toward a more perfect union. On this Juneteenth, we remember that struggle as we reflect on how far we’ve come as a country. The slaves of Galveston knew their freedom was only a first step, just as the bloodied foot soldiers who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge 100 years later knew they had to keep marching.

Juneteenth is a time to recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light. Today, no matter our race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation, we recommit ourselves to working to free modern-day slaves around the world and to honoring in our own time the efforts of those who fought so hard to steer our country truer to our highest ideals.”

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here we stand in this moment, a mere four years later but it feels light years away as we witness and participate in the rising tide demanding that America be the land of the free, demanding that justice for all be the law of the land, demanding that we start funding life re-membering we belong to each other rather than living under the delusion that we are separate leading to funding death and destruction and domination…

i woke up this morning with this old spiritual singing me… “woke up this morning with my mind on freedom”… may we all wake up with our mind on freedom for all, speaking truth to power and raising hell unti we walk the talk of life, liberty and justice for all relatives…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 185 – 6/18/2020

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“Empty yourself of everything.  Let the mind rest at peace.  The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.  They grow and flourish and then return to the Source.  Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of Nature.”  ~Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching

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today and the last eight days are such days, days of emptying everything and resting in the sacred space of the beyond, the galactic center, the cosmic womb, primordial space of birthing stars… feeling the pull of  the new moon in cancer, the moon of the great mother blessed with a soular eclipse, a ring of fire amplifying a thousand fold the blessings of this soulstice, this standing still withe sun, float with me into the dreamy frequency of coming home to the heart and listening, listening, listening for the soul song always singing us…

dreaming in the rhythm of the waves of mystery before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, always enfolding us always unfolding us…

Peace to all beings
Whether near or far
Known or unknown
Real or imaginary
Visible or invisible
Born or yet to be born.
May all beings
Be well and happy
And free from fear.
Peace to all beings
Within and beyond the imagination
In the world of ideas
In the world of memories
And in the world of dreams.
May all beings
Be well and happy
And free from fear.
Peace in all elements
Of earth, air, fire and water
Fulfilled in space
Peace.
Peace in all universes
From the smallest cells in our bodies
To the greatest galaxies in space
Peace
And light rising
Peace to all beings
Within each being here
To those beings that have been in the past
And to those beings that are yet to be in the future
May all beings
Within each being here
Be well and happy
And free from fear.

take all i say,
and toss away
all that does not
resonate…
for we do not learn
wisdom and love…
we re-member what’s within…

deepest bows…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 184 – 6/17/2020

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on this day ninety-two years ago, another first in flight took place when Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman… flying from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours, she captured and transformed our imagination forever… her legendary feats are the very emblem of courage — and of a woman who refused to let fears and adversity ground her dreams…  as we approach what some are calling the most potent day in this turn around the sun, soulstice, let’s take this moment to be inspired by her words to let our hearts soar just as this moment is calling us to deepen into mystery…

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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

No borders, just horizons – only freedom.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”

yes, let us take courage, heart, great heart in this moment when the winds of change are collectively uplifting the cosmos into a shift for the ages emboldening all relatives to embrace the peace train conducting us into the freedom afforded by meeting and living in the present moment fully and tenderly as a friend…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 183 – 6/16/2020

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This body is not me.

I am not limited by this body.

I am life without boundaries.

I have never been born,

and I have never died.

Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars, manifestations from my wondrous true mind.

Since before time, I have been free.

Birth and death are only doors through which we pass, sacred thresholds on our journey.

Birth and death are a game of hide- and seek.

So laugh with me,

hold my hand,

let us say good-bye,

say good-bye, to meet again soon.

We meet today.

We will meet again tomorrow.

We will meet at the source every moment.

We meet each other in all forms of life.

~By Thich Nhat Hanh, Chanting and Recitations from Plum Village. Page 188.

welcome to this moment when the winds are perfect for contemplating the supreme meditation on death and re-birth… i love the rhythm that on this sixteenth day, the mantra i chanted daily in 2016 is coming to the fore beginning with my awakening in the sacred space of graceland, the consciousness of original blessing with death on our left shoulder, our constant companion inspiring us to meet each moment fully, to meet it as a friend…

what a blessing to rest here with you today as we walk each other home, sitting in the dynamic stillness of silence, the powerful place beyond words where we feel the interconnection, beloved communion of the one syncing into the interbeing of beginningless time as frequencies sounding vibrations of love, joy, compassion and harmony through the instrument of peace we be…

thank you for meeting me in the source, in the moment fully and tenderly…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 182 – 6/15/2020

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along with the prayer of thank you, thank you, thank you, this prayer of saint francis, these intentions, are central to, are the organizing matrix of my life… on this day of beginning the 100 day countdown, well i didn’t quite make it as today is the 98th day, to the International Day of Peace on 9/21, this prayer picture needs sharing as does the theme…

every year on 21 September, the United Nations calls on all nations and people to put down their weapons and reaffirm their commitment to living in harmony with one another… this year’s theme of “Shaping Peace Together” reflects the clarity that we are not each other’s enemies, that we belong to each other and must work together as what happens in one part of the planet impacts all our relatives…

for the United Nations, 2020 was already meant to be a year of listening and learning. marking its 75th anniversary, the UN has invited millions of people worldwide to join UN75, the largest and furthest-reaching global conversation on building the peaceful and prosperous future that we want.

as we come together to meet the many challenges facing us, our voice is more important than ever… in these difficult times of physical distancing and shifting consciousness, this International Day of Peace is dedicated to fostering dialogue and collecting ideas on healing our planet and ourselves… we can always dream together…

let us celebrate “Shaping Peace Together” by spreading compassion, kindness and hope in the face of the pandemics of milatarism, materialism, racism, environmental disruption and health and standing together in unity for the benefit of all beginning in this moment with this breath… yes, let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me and thee…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 181 – 6/14/2020

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well come to this moment of acknowledging the astonishing light of our being, a light we have seen shining so brightly over the last three weeks, a light that has been shining since the beginning of beginningless time, a light calling us to listen, listen, listen to the soulsong singing our one body to come home to the heart, to the present moment, the only moment…

so many shoulders supporting us, such a boundless circle, a communion, a common union, our one body, yes, we are so created for these times… what follows is one of the thousand thousand fold expressions of this living truth of the astonishing light of our being…

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We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For

You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered…

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?

Know your garden.
It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for your leader.

Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time! There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ’struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

~ Hopi Elders’ Prophecy, June 8, 2000 ~

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let us rise and deepen into the call for life, liberty and justice for all in our every thought, word and deed with every breath and step… and so it is… blessed being the astonishing light we are…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 180 – 6/13/2020

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with the words, “i can’t breathe” still echoing across the planet and through my being, i find myself needing a day of being completely unplugged, a day for reveren-sing breath, for sacred pause, for relea-sing grief, for re-imagining a land of the free still to be…

i invite you to join me in eight minutes and 46 seconds of breathing, of connecting into great mystery asking the ancestors to fill out our circle and to show us the way to peace, to a world where all relatives are valued as intricate threads in the web of life…

re-membering with each breath that we all belong to each other, no one is free until we all are free… may we each pick up our thread and tune into the soul song singing us of what is ours to do and be as co-creators of a cosmos of peace built on justice and guided by love…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 179 – 6/12/2020

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Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings.

~ Rumi ~

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may we travel lightly with

more and more love

and more and more surrender

more and more love

and more and more surrender

more and more love

and more and more surrender

into the vast spaciousness of love

into the eternal chorus of the celestial realms with angelic beings re-joy-sing to earth beings below,

into the silent whispers of the stone peoples,

into the coyotes howling to the waxing moon,

into the twinkling eyes of children,

into your beloved’s hand holding yours promising never to forsake you,

into the smile of a stranger who is now a friend,

into the good, the true the beautiful, all that we can witness all over the planet in every moment through the eyes of love,

into the sweet nectar of love…

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may we celebrate the cosmic dream of peace coming alive this moment at the close of a twelve year cycle and our collective metamorphosis uprising from sea of love energy to shining sea of love energy…

blessed be!


Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 178 – 6/11/2020

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drawing down the energy of the almost waning half moon in pisces, the moon of trailblazing, of listening to the soul song, of leaping in faith as an imaginal cell, the fledgling aria reminds me that tomorrow venus’s metamorphosis comes to a close as she begins her next eight year cycle and aria also transports me to an old story from africa…

When a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come.

And when the mother is pregnant, she teaches that child’s song to the women of the village, so that when the child is born, they will welcome her with that song.

And when the child goes through the rites of puberty, they come together to sing that song.

And when the child falls, or hurts its knee, they will pick it up and remind her of the song.

And when the child crowns a noble achievement, they will celebrate with that song.

And if ever … along the way … the child gets swept up in the world and loses her way, the villagers will come together and remind her of her song.

And finally, when the child passes away, they will honor her life by singing the song.

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…It’s been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change’s gonna come, oh, yes, it will…

~ Sam Cook ~

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as we pause on the precipice of a new journey into the unknown, may  we sing courageously celebrating rebirth…