you have no cause for anything  but gratitude and joy…

~ Buddha ~

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today, i celebrate my maternal grandmother’s 133rd birthday entering the dreamtime portal that we northern hemispherians are descending into while our southern hemisphere relatives arise into the light, i re-member a couple of years ago her birthday coincided in such lovely synchrony with the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the holy day of Lhabab Duchen, a festival of re-joy-sing in all acts of kindness for on this day Buddha descended from heaven to liberate his Mother and repay her many acts of kindness… it seems oh so fitting on this sacred day in this moment of eternity to ask the questions of what needs transforming and alchemizing on this day of celebrating grandmother ancestors by scattering the good in their honor…

will you join me this moment of eternity of my grandmother (who was a scattergood and a joy-ner) reverie  in the caravan of re-joy-sing circling ’round the cauldron where we brew the elixir of transformation, rebirth and inspiration, drink it in and take sacred action by performing acts of compassion joyously and scattering the good all of these acts of kindness and goodness we bestow and all the acts that have been bestowed upon us by the ancestors?

re-member, throwing kindness around like confetti and scattering the good to the four winds is something we always need, especially the unkind who need it the most…

yes, let us breathe in deeply through the stone people, our ancestors, right down through the deep heart of the earth coming home ready to choose love over power, compassion over fear and construction over destruction centered in our one true self, the self organizing intelligence of the ever expanding cosmos dwelling down deep in the core of all our relatives in the river below the river, the river of joy bubbling below the river of suffering always at the ready to break through revealing who we truly are – instruments of joy, love and peace…