welcome, well come to day 19 of a season of peace when we are in the radiation of the new moon in aquarius on this day celebrating the tibetan new year, losar…

our critical task at this juncture is to widen the circle of compassion embracing all that is in its beauty… i love this quotation from beloved humanitarian Einstein, and inside of myself i update the pronoun he to we… i could post this quote daily and it feels so appropriate now when we’re in the wintering cycle collectively, even if we dwell in the southern hemisphere, we are in that moment of eternity in the creative process when all goes fallow and we shelter in the deep dark earth to germinate lovingkindness and compassion…

let us radiate these frequencies in this moment beginning with ourselves by calming the mind/heart with deep cleansing belly breaths into our wisdom center which generates warm, gentle, loving feelings inside of our being saying:

may I be safe

may I be happy just as I am

may I be peaceful with whatever is happening

may I be healthy and strong

may I care for myself in this ever-changing world graciously, joyously…

now, move out spaciously into your immediate surroundings to include every living being within this circle saying:

may all beings in the air, on land, and in the water be safe, happy, healthy, and free from suffering…

as you feel your immediate surround fill with the power of loving kindness, move on, expanding the surround in spiraling concentric circles until you envelop the entire planet and are able to visualize Earth spinning within the vast, mysterious universe… continue expanding the sense of loving kindness filling the endless spaciousness of the universe saying:

may all living beings everywhere on all planes of existence, known and unknown, be filled with loving kindness, be peaceful, be free from suffering and be well…

thank you for being riotous roots in this cycle of dormancy germinating the widening of the circle of compassion and embracing all that is…

welcome, well come to day 18 of a season of peace, our day to travel the path with heart cruising down the rainbow trail as cosmic dreamweavers, the ones who enter the gateway into infinity, the path with heart, the path of rainbow mystery… another ordinary/extraordinary day of gathering the quintessence as ambassadors of love and light with the sun still shining on the energy of  rapture… and, now, for some words i really need today:

“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary.
This question is one that only a very old man asks. Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn’t. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you,  a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it..”  ~ Don Juan ~

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we are one heart

overflowing with love

inextricably connected

to the stars above

and the river below of rainbow flow

may we all travel the pathless path with heart – looking, looking breathlessly… seeing, being luminous rainbow energy…

welcome, welcome to day 17 of a season of peace, our day to celebrate Galentine’s (yes, i know this is celebrated the day before Valentine’s and here it is the day after, but, re-member i journey at the speed of a 300 year old turtle) as we travel the path with heart and another beautiful day of gathering the quintessence as ambassadors of love and light with the energy of rapture still present today…

i choose to be kind, gentle and patient with myself so i can be this and offer it to others…

i choose to be compassionate with myself so i deepen and expand being this way…

i choose to love beginning with myself and rippling out to all relatives…

please join me in this movement of our choosing this path with heart which sets us free to be one sea of love energy…yes, LALAs, love ambassadors, light ambassadors, it all comes down to being love, period; for in the field of the great beyond we real-eyes we belong to each other, that tthis moment, this day we choose love letting it begin with SELF (Stillness Essence Love Flow)…

the truth is: you are more wonderfilled than you can imagine and it is nothing short of a miracle that you were born at this time on this planet to do your work no matter what it is… we have lived long enough thinking ‘not enough’ is a way of being… today this thinking ends as we commit to love the sometimes fragile and broken and sometimes confused and still glorious SELF that we are where we reinvent in this moment a story about who we are that you would love to tell and live… this is an invitation to unleash your own personal legend transforming the critic into the almighty muse…

thank you for joining in the global community of imaginal cells sharing the medicine of  love…

Dedicated to St Valentine, Patron Saint of Pilgrims…

every moment is valentine’s, a celebration of love… every pilgrimage is journeying along the path with heart… every pilgrim is a poet on a journey deeper into the heart, a saunterer – a holy lander, spiraling ever more profoundly into the ground of being where…

every breath is a naming prayer

every step a walking meditation

bringing us home to our one cosmic heart, an ocean of devotion

welcome, well come to day 16 of a season of peace, our day to simply be love as we travel the path with heart… another beautiful day of gathering the quintessence as ambassadors of love and light with the sun shining through the clouds in the energy vibration of  rapture and  riotous revolution germinating deep in the earth…

yes, ambassadors of love, it all comes down to being love, period; for in the field beyond words is simply the frequency we vibrate in the vast wave rolling through the cosmos… it’s also the pearl of the practice of the poetic peace pilgrimage which we are sauntering together, walking to the wholly land, making the archetypal shero journey to self...

here’s an old sherpa’s map, a guide for being love and coming home to the heart…

Smile (Start My Internal Love Engine) with every breath, with every step, in every moment, recommit to love…

Honor the flame within the center of your being by breathing in through our one heart fanning the flame with loops of thank you, thank you, thank you…

Embrace Joy and all that comes as hospitable host, befriend and embrace everything, all our relations…

Reverence and stand for truth wholeheartedly welcoming wounds and the wounded – the treasure chest of wisdom…

Open in ever widening spirals to all that is with a courage, a heart broken wide open for light to stream in…

Journey To

Spread for giveness from the stillpoint, love, peace and joy are here in this moment

Emanate grace, the harmony of the cosmic wave re-membering everything is grace

Love liberally, love liberates us all

Flow as cosmic wave rippling through the cosmos

Happy Trails! on the path of lovingkindness… always wandering in wonder, always being love…

may we be filled with lovingkindness and widen the circle of compassion including all our relatives…

welcome, welcome to day 15 of a season of peace which auspiciously coincides with this being a moment of celebrating the astonishing light of your being on this day celebrated for the last sixteen years as Self Love Day when we re-member to put on our oxygen masks first by breathing through our central channel deeply into the belly and the earth below and the vast skysea above and finally, we injoy another beautiful day of gathering the quintessence, the essence of love as ambassadors of love and light…

another day on the pilgrimage of love where we are given the opportunity to live this day as a day with a simple way to be… as easy as breathing one two three… breathing in love, breathing out love, breathing in love, breathing out love, breathing in love, breathing out love… seeding/re-seeding, cycling/re-cycling the unitive field, the ocean of consciousness, the sea of love energy, cosmic oneness with the only energy there is – particles of radiant love forming one vast wave of light, the first emanation to pour forth from the great silence and travel, as do we, as a rolling wave of loving light energy… sometimes as a whirling dervish transforming everything in the path, other times as a stationary lighthouse commanding stillness, always a wave of light flowing love through the cosmos, always a wave of love flowing light through the cosmos, seeding/re-seeding, cycling/re-cycling particles of love into the one radiant wave of light…

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“…help me to live this day quietly, peacefully. To lean upon Thy great strength trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will patiently, serenely. To meet others peacefully, joyously…”

~St Francis~

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love love love love love

“A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished.”

~ Desmond Tutu ~

as we deepen into decolonizing this moon of bringing to light black history in this moment of celebrating the astonishing light of our interbeeing on this 14th day of a season of peace, i share some beautiful words from Archbishop Tutu’s granddaughter, Mungi Ngomane :

“Ubuntu is a way of life from which we can all learn. . . . Originating from a Southern African philosophy, it encompasses all our aspirations about how to live life well, together. We feel it when we connect with other people and share a sense of humanity; when we listen deeply and experience an emotional bond; when we treat ourselves and other people with the dignity they deserve. . . .

I was raised in a community that taught me ubuntu as one of my earliest lessons. My grandfather, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, explained the essence of ubuntu as, ‘My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours.’

In my family, we were brought up to understand that a person who has ubuntu is one whose life is worth emulating. The bedrock of the philosophy is respect, for yourself and for others. So if you’re able to see other people, even strangers, as fully human you will never be able to treat them as disposable or without worth. . . .Ubuntu teaches us to also look outside ourselves to find answers. It’s about seeing the bigger picture; the other side of the story. 

Ubuntu is about reaching out to our fellow men and women, through whom we might just find the comfort, contentment and sense of belonging we crave. Ubuntu tells us that individuals are nothing without other human beings. It encompasses everyone, regardless of race, creed or color. It embraces our differences and celebrates them.”

may we all live ubuntu and be walking invitations of ubuntu… I AM because WE ARE… and, may we affirm our dedication to cosmic stewardship of a world of peace built on justice for all guided by unconditional love for all our relations real-eye-sing there’s only one of us here and we depend on each other to interbee…

Holy Synchronicity!

welcome to day 13 of a season of peace, another day of celebrating the astonishing lightness of being and a beautiful day of gathering the quintessence with the sun shining on the energy of  rebirth and the revolution of love…

on this eleventh day of fleeting february, heartsong, soulsong calls this hollow reed, this instrument of peace to share one of my greatest loves… dolphin dancing… leaping in resonance with beloved community feeling the profound interbeeing all relatives share in the field out beyond, the watery womb of the vast skysea where we align with spirit to co-create a world of abunDANCE…

we gather together in mystery

diving deeply into the vast sparkling sea

real-eye-sing this communion is sacred ceremony

purifying the waters so all our relations live in harmony…

now, let us let go and transport ourselves back to the future where we sit around a communal fire re-membering we are nature and must be aligned with the laws of nature which call for living in balance and committing to doing no harm to the children we love and the ancestors we revere… in our reverence for nature, for all our relatives, we stand in love for the seven generations who are unceasingly regenerating a cosmos that never ends, that is always transforming…

seven generations behind us, before us, beside us, below us, above us, within us guiding the way…

welcome to day 12 of a season of peace when the heartsong, soulsong of pachamama, our earthmother, calls this hollow reed, this instrument of peace to rest in preparation for a deep sea journey as the sun begins to shine more and more on the energy of rebirth… how “just right” it is that while we are going through outer turbulence, we have this organizing matrix of a season re- minding and re-heartening us to come into the stillpoint, slow down and be an instrument of peace, a harmony frequency raising all in our ever widening orbital circle to the vibration of compassion as we awaken to the true reality that we all belong to each other, that no being is free until all beings are free and that when each of us awakens, it is a tremendous gift and catalyzer for the awakening of the whole…

as we dance the via transformativa, the way of rebirth, of awakening, i find myself being in dark, unknown spaces, uncertain moments which open into portals leading home as i return to the breath and the magical blessing of thanks transporting me into the  deep earth of our being, the wisdom place in the core where we float in the sea of love energy, the most powerful healing, wholeing medicine that gives birth to dancing stars… with the challenges of this moment so intense, i must match that intensity with being a living prayer of peace – thank you for standing in solidarity as a huge orchestra of instruments of peace – i love envisioning us all encircling and encircling and encircling this third rock from the sun where we dwell committed to living in peace and harmony with every breath…

as we close this circle, let’s conspire, breathe together and feel the golden light we are pouring into every one of our trillions of cells illuminating the pathless path of the deep self and hear the music of the celestial spheres ringing through our ears transforming us into seers of the beloved community that is our birthright… 

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welcome, welcome to day 11 of a season of peace with the sun still shining through the clouds in the energy of  rebirth and the riotous revolution of love stirring underneath in the river below the river, above in the vast skysea and within in the earth ocean of interbeeing…

like the wild geese i watch from my window, i am aligning and refining my inner compass to fly home to source and it is quite a challenge in this moment of eternity with so much turbulence in the outer world; the last few moons with the testing frequency having risen geometrically calling for more and more breathing through the central channel into the core of the earth body, both mine and our earthmother’s, to connect to the love everything is, even in this moment when it seems far away…

thank you, mother mary (oliver) for the balm this poem brings to weary muscles… breathing in, peace all around… breathing out, harmony at home… in, peace; out harmony… thank you for the reheartminder that we, all our relatives, are enough and it is enough to interbee however you are in each moment which is as fleeting and ephemeral as a seafoam bubble…