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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 227 – 7/31/2022

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“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

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welcome, well come to this joyous day of blessing the space between us on this closing day of joyvolution july, a day that opens the portal of lammas in the northern hemisphere and is also the day of celebrating the astonishing light of our interbeing in this moon of being rebellious and feeling the joy even as we stand on the precipice watching so many things collapsing… for the last nine days i’ve been on re-treat in the sweat lodge celebrating re-creation and profoundly plunging into the waters of life to listen, listen, listen to mama gaia and papa cosm and all our relatives’ heartsongs of blessing and lament, the soul songs that are our connective tissue reminding us, re-membering us that we are one, one family belonging to each other… on this ninth day of retreat, on this last da of july, re-membering it’s the day an ancestor, a joy revolutionary, my father died and still being joy in the morning, joy in the kindness of friends, joy in seeing the beauty of the moment, the beauty of every moment… thank you for the gift of flowing energy to meet this moment with courage and compassion real-eye-sing we are beloved community knitted together in an ever expanding tapestry delicately woven with a thousand thousand fold threads of luminous light dancing in the quantum field out beyond and deep within…

in this field of love may we walk
all day long may we walk
through the turnings may
we walk
on the trail of pollen
may we walk
with love in our one heart may we walk
with  love before us may we walk
with love behind us may we walk
with love above us may we walk
with love all around us may we
walk
wandering on a trail of
love, may we walk
beginning in love
deepening in love

always being and becoming love…

in this moment of pregnant pause, i see us standing still and simultaneously moving at the speed of light on a high dune dedicated to free flight and deep dives into blessing this belonging space we share… on the brink of a new world, this spaciousness is where we real-eyes once again the ancient knowing of there is no separation… this stillpoint at the center of our circle, the hub of the wheel where all that is, is still, where everything is oh so real, where the peace that passeth all understanding is palpable calling us into deep silence…. listen, listen to the cosmic hum… listen, listen to our heartbeat’s drum… listen, listen for the sound of the bell syncing our breathing to the mantra of all is well… deep peace of the running wave to you, deep peace, deep peace, deep peace…

may we all awaken to the beauty we are… one cosmos, one web, one tribe, one family, one interbeing, one ocean, one love, one…

thousand fold thanks for sharing this journey along the buen camino, the rainbow trail, for coming home to our one heart flowing in rhythm with great mystery, dancing and re-joy-sing in harmony and shining the light of divine love so brightly…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 226 – 7/30/2022

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“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us…”

~ Black Elk ~

i spent today with people from all over the planet waging peace in this fierce urgency of now moment of eternity with the clock of the world at 100 seconds to midnight… another world is possible but this world is hurtling toward annihilation without the moral capacity to understand what we are doing and to change course… so we came together in solidarity to imagine the world we must have – one without nuclear weapons and fossil fuels, a world of peace and sustainability and true security where everyone is welcomed and housed and fed and educated with access to healthcare… let us conspire, breathe together in this moment tuning into the center of the wheel of interbeing, into great mystery and the peace that passeth all understanding re-membering true nature and then let us be peace and advocate for the solutions that are within our reach…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 225 – 7/29/2022

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honoring John Lewis on the belated second year anniversary (7/17/20) of his death with his timeless words encouraging us that we can redeem the soul of our nation….

“While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference in our society. Millions of people motivated simply by human compassion laid down the burdens of division. Around the country and the world you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity.

That is why I had to visit Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, though I was admitted to the hospital the following day. I just had to see and feel it for myself that, after many years of silent witness, the truth is still marching on.

Emmett Till was my George Floyd. He was my Rayshard Brooks, Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor. He was 14 when he was killed, and I was only 15 years old at the time. I will never ever forget the moment when it became so clear that he could easily have been me. In those days, fear constrained us like an imaginary prison, and troubling thoughts of potential brutality committed for no understandable reason were the bars.

…Like so many young people today, I was searching for a way out, or some might say a way in, and then I heard the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on an old radio. He was talking about the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence. He said we are all complicit when we tolerate injustice. He said it is not enough to say it will get better by and by. He said each of us has a moral obligation to stand up, speak up and speak out. When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.

Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. Voting and participating in the democratic process are key. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.

You must also study and learn the lessons of history because humanity has been involved in this soul-wrenching, existential struggle for a very long time. People on every continent have stood in your shoes, through decades and centuries before you. The truth does not change, and that is why the answers worked out long ago can help you find solutions to the challenges of our time. Continue to build union between movements stretching across the globe because we must put away our willingness to profit from the exploitation of others.

Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way. Now it is your turn to let freedom ring.

When historians pick up their pens to write the story of the 21st century, let them say that it was your generation who laid down the heavy burdens of hate at last and that peace finally triumphed over violence, aggression and war. So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide.”

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 224 – 7/28/2022

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today, in addition to celebrating the 100th anniversary of my father’s birth, we also get to draw down the energies of the new moon in leo and to dance in the dark empty and free planting seeds of peace and harmony…

and, this new moon being in leo emboldens us with the courage of the lion/lioness to roar, to awaken to this new day, this new you, this new field ripe for seeding with intentions of our deepest heartfelt desires, what was previously seen as impossible, in this epic transitional great turning is i’m possible so yes, go wild in this moment of the old world falling away as the up side is it is the moment for for renaissance and re-membering who we truly be – bowls of light shining the aloha spirit of all one, in service to all our relations in the beloved community of the one illuminated heart of boundless love…

let us conspire, breathe together into the heart space being lovingkindness feeling the warmth of the sun flowing into all our wild cells opening the heart ever wider and deeper… luxuriate in the stillpoint using this energy to breathe the world anew in service of healing and being a beacon of benevolence, a lighthouse of love…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 223 – 7/27/2022

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in this moment of eternity – the 223rd day of the 9th year of daily ppp crystals and the eve of the new moon in leo – i want to share one of Thay’s love letters to the earth, one i love engaging with daily and reading as a goodnight story to a little star being… injoy this praise song of earth…

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Our Journey of Eons

“Dear Mother Earth,

Do you remember when you and Father Sun first formed from the dust of exploded stars and interstellar gas? You didn’t yet wear the silken cloak of freshness that you do today. At that time, Mother, more than four and half billion years ago, your robe was made of molten rock. Soon it cooled to form a hard crust. Although Father’s light was far less than it is today, your thin atmosphere captured the heat and kept your oceans from freezing. In those first few hundred million years, you overcame many great difficulties to create an environment capable of sustaining life. You released great heat, fires, and gases from your volcanoes. Steam was expelled from your crust to become vapor in your atmosphere and the water in your great oceans. Your gravity helped anchor the life-sustaining sky, and your magnetic field prevented it from being stripped away by solar winds and cosmic rays.

But even before forming the atmosphere, you endured a collision with a great heavenly body, almost the size of Mars. Part of the impacting planet became you; the rest of it, along with some of your mantle and crust, became the moon. Dear Mother, the moon is a part of you, as beautiful as an angel. She is a kind sister to you, always following you, helping you slow down and keep your balance, and creating tidal rhythms on your body.

Our entire solar system is one family, revolving around Father Sun in a joyful and harmonious dance. First there is Mercury, metallic and cratered, closest to the sun. Next is Venus with her intense heat, high-pressure atmosphere, and volcanoes. Then there is you, beloved Mother Earth, the most beautiful of all. Beyond us orbits the Red Planet, cold and desolate Mars; and after the asteroid belt there comes the gas giant Jupiter, by far the largest planet of all, attended by an assembly of diverse moons. Beyond Jupiter orbits Saturn, the spectacularly ringed planet, followed by Uranus, tilted on his side after a collision, and, finally, distant blue Neptune with his turbulent storms and high winds.

Contemplating this splendor, I can see that you, Mother Earth, are the most precious flower in our solar system, a true jewel of the cosmos.

It took you a billion years to begin to manifest the first living beings. Complex molecules, perhaps brought to you from outer space, started to come together in self-replicating structures, slowly becoming more and more like living cells. Light particles from distant stars, millions of light years away, came to visit and stay a while. Small cells gradually became larger cells; unicellular organisms evolved into multicellular organisms. Life developed from deep within the oceans, multiplying and prospering, steadily improving the atmosphere. Slowly, the ozone layer could form, preventing harmful radiation from reaching your surface, and allowing life on land to prosper. It was only then, as the miracle of photosynthesis unfurled, that you began to wear the exquisite green mantle you do today.

But all phenomena are impermanent and ever-changing. Life over vast areas of the Earth has already been destroyed more than five times, including sixty-five million years ago, when the impact of a giant asteroid caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs and three quarters of all other species. Dear Mother, I am in awe of your capacity to be patient and creative, despite all the harsh conditions you have endured. I promise to remember our extraordinary journey of eons and to live my days with the awareness that we are all your children, and that we are all made of stars. I promise to do my part, contributing my own energy of joy and harmony to the glorious symphony of life.”

let us all do our part by generously contributing our energy of joy and harmony to the astonishing light symphony of life…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 222 – 7/26/2022

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“…And this was my true task, to be the
music of the body.  Do you understand? for truly the body needs
a song, a spirit, a soul.  And no less, to make this work,
the soul has need of a body,
and I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable
beauty of heaven
where I fly so easily, so welcome, yes,
and this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart.”
~ Mary Oliver ~

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welcome, well come to the first day of a new turn around the sun, a beautiful moment of eternity and re-treat to celebrate the astonishing light of interbeing… as such an auspicious and momentous day calls for (it’s day 222 on turn ’round the sun year 9), i luxuriate in every sacred breath as i contemplate the re-creation of the cosms… *perhaps you’ve picked up that i seem to have succumbed to the sweltering heat or got lost in the day out of time but this is the post for Tuesday nite and the one i posted was for tonite on the eve of the new moon…. 🙂

  woo hoo! yes, it is the moment to get our joyfull on and shine the inner light of divine love brilliantly for on this first day of the thirteen moon new year, there is the opening of a grand portal… this gateway peaks on the 8/8 Lions Gate portal… during these moments, the creation of a new paradigm of consciousness streams into the cosmos…

re-member, every act of shining the inner light of divine love now raises the voltage of unitive consciousness throughout the universal field of pure possibility, so, yes, let’s get to dancing with the breeze and swaying with the trees, smiling at a stranger and hugging a forest ranger, gazing at the sun and seeing rainbows everywhere as we breathe in the golden light of the beloved and breathe out any resistance to the light and as we breathe in the golden light again, witness it being a golden sea of love energy encompassing all creation in a boundless ocean of devotion/devocean…

in the dreamweave where i begin this re-creation manifestival day calling in the spirits around the ceremonial fire within all relatives, i listen for the ancestors reminding me that we are one interconnected web of life here to create beauty, live in harmony with all life, being peace with every breath and that the peacemaker’s mission, as the many accounts of an ancient legend make clear, is to reestablish the natural equilibrium on which the well being of individuals, cultures, and the whole of creation depends… being redemptive shamanic practitioners, wounded healers creates health/wholeness which means peace…

may our one cosmic heart listen deeply and hear the soul song, the cosmic hum vibrational wave rising and deepening in us all as we real-eyes our flowing soul song…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 221 – 7/25/2022

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“My work has harvested souls, a great achievement for humankind, for all of us who believe that things in the world can be better, if we attempt at every moment to do things well: to show respect, to value what has little value today, to feel proud of our identity, to defend our traditions, to defend our traditional medicine, to love and respect our elders and listen to them with great attention, to teach children to live with respect, peace, and love. The mission of all human beings who achieve consciousness is to take care of themselves and Mother Earth.”

~ Julieta Casimiro Estrada~

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according to the galactic calendar, today, july 25 is the day out of time, the day before we start a new year, a day vibrating at the frequency of universal love… it’s also the day four years ago that i heard of the death of Abuela (Grandmother) Julieta who actually passed over on july 23, the day of Ajpu, which is the energy of the guardian… at the moment of eternity of her closing her eyes for the last time, it was when the energy of the day was at its highest, midday…

i love celebrating this day of timelessness, the wisdom of the grandmothers and the astonishing light of our interbeing together, so i re-treat this day within a circle of abuelas, guardians and co creators of the dreamweave… i carry a prayer of Grandmother Julieta, Guardian of the Light, a Curandera of the world dedicating her whole life to prayer and invite you to re-wild with me as her prayer sings through you as well…

“All of us here want the same thing. We want to walk in peace, and we want no more war. We don’t need war. All the suffering and pain that is going on in the world, especially of little children and elders, really hurts me inside. Our Mother Earth is hurting. They are destroying our Mother Earth. They are destroying our Mother. They need to have respect for Her. We need to walk with respect, especially during these times we are living in now.  I pray hard all this time for this to change.”

love and light, for this we pray… please add in your intentions for our cosm… the things you love, the things that break your heart wide open, those things the still small voice whispers for us to be… in balance, service, joy, respect, harmony, peace and openhearted presence…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 220 – 7/24/2022

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well come to another day of celebrating, imagining, being a cosmos of peace and harmony in this sacred moment of eternity, another wild and precious moment to acknowledge the astonishing light of our being, a light shining so brightly in the core of our being, 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… this moment is the moment of eternity where a new and more expanded picture of reality emerges with revelations to weave and dots to connect on the the spirit path, the beautyway we all are walking each other home…

so many shoulders, roots, mycelial networks supporting us, such a boundless circle, a communion, a common union, our one body perfectly created for these times… what follows is one of the thousand thousand fold expressions of this living truth, the cosmic wisdom of the astonishing light of our interbeing that i have shared before and this moment of initiation, of separation, ordeal and return, calls out for this healing balm…

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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 descend simultaneously 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…

let’s close this sacred space of ceremony with a blessing into the sacred fire within, the inner light of great spirit residing in all our relatives…

may this day be blessed with gifts, lessons, understanding and friends… may our energy be a gift to all we meet… let us be centered, healing and open facing the day with courage, kindness, insight and compassion… may we honor this day…

Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 219 – 7/23/2022

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wherever you go, go with all your heart…

~ Confucius ~

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in honor of this rainbow rebirth moment of eternity, i’m proclaiming the coming week as Happy Turn Around the Sun Re-Creation ManiFestival Week and will spend many moments in Sit – Stay – Heel pose breathing into the core, the stillpoint to ask the body and breathe the answers locked in the cells like lost chords…

“Close your eyes and follow your breath
to the still place that leads
to the invisible path
that leads you home.”

~ St. Theresa of Avila~

ahhh… this first day of the Turn Around the Sun Re-Creation Manifestival birth celebration is one flowing moment in the field of the beloved seeing, feeling and being awash in love everywhere… in friends’ expressions, in strangers’ conversations, in flies buzzing around picnics, in long lines where patience reigns, in distressed children crying out in frustration, in jubilant children of all ages restored by the sound  and the feel of water and wind, in puppies frolicking with the waves, in a perfect wind inspiriting the river of life… every moment of presence, a birth of love… all our light wave relations coming home to the other shore breathing in the rhythm of the river of joy below the river while always being love…

dancing with grand children today

seeing the world in a different way

through their eyes of inner sense wonder

every moment awash in splendor

walking a path of devocean, going with our whole heart, asks us to be present in every moment trusting that all is divinely woven together seamlessly and calls us to surrender to or merge with the divine web of life which is both rooted in the river below the river and winging it across the sky above in free flight… showing up wholeheartedly is a smile on your face, is the sun lighting up the world, is a wave rushing home to shore, is the wind whispering through the trees and you chanting a litany of thank you, thank you, thank you…

and, i want to take this moment and every moment to thank you, thank you, thank you for walking home with me along the rainbow trailless trail, the peace pilgrimage pathless path sowing seeds of bliss and returning home with every breath dedicated to the kingdom of joy, love and peace vowing to live this moment, every moment in this sacred space, the ultimate rebellion for these times…

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Poetic Peace Pilgrimage – Year 9 – Day 218 – 7/22/2022

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“A flower unfolds to the best of its ability due to the conditions around it. And so do you – you unfold to the best of your ability” – Kuan Yin

“Close your eyes and follow your breath
to the still place that leads
to the invisible path
that leads you home.”

~ St. Theresa of Avila~

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today, we celebrate Mary of Magdala as a human relative and as archetypal energy synonymous with the Way of Love, the Way of the Rose, an embodiment of compassion which is said to manifest wherever beings need help and especially at moments of great turning of epochs when this sacred feminine energy is so sorely needed … on this her feast day, we celebrate her as the apostle of apostles, the core teacher of her beloved Yeshua, the magi who awakens the inner light body…

let us gather together in this moment of eternity to conspire, to breathe together and inspire, breathe in to see what is real as a vessel of love, to see through the eyes of heart, through innersense… let us gather to re-member and be the presence of the magdalene who calls us into spiritual maturity, maturescence, to the fullest expression of ourselves, our true selves…

let’s reach out our hands to each other feeling the love deepening as it is passed from one hand to another to another… with a SMILE to start my internal love engine, begin to inspire and as we breathe in feeling the connection with all our relatives expanding with the movement of breath, of wind, of animating spirt breathing us as one body temple…giving thanks with every breath, bring awareness to our wombspace, sacred space of creativity noticing what is present… now, imagine a fully opened rose with each petal connected to the next spiraling into one another moving down, down, down into a rose-colored space of luminous illumination and ask the magi, the magdalene to envelop us in this light, to shower us with unconditional love… she comes closer clean-sing us with frankincense and myrrh and we re-member who we truly are as all illusion is released and transformed… eyes to eyes, heat to heart, wombspace to wombspace with the magdalene, the exalted, who anoints us blessing us with the capacity for unconditional love reminding us that all is one and all there is is love… as we near a close, drink in the red wine of the sacred feminine receiving it into every wild cell feeling the oneness of the all that is as seen through divine union, the marriage of the soular and lunar, the great work of sacred feminine energy… offering immense gratitude, we are gifted with the way of the rose, the way of love, the way of the awakened heart… blessed bee…