you have no cause for anything  but gratitude and joy…

~ Buddha ~

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today, as i celebrate my maternal grandmother’s 131st birthday, i re-member year before last 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… this year, we need to put a one in front of the nine to get the proper date but who’s counting…

will you join me this moment in the caravan of re-joy-sing of my grandmother who was a scattergood and joy-ner by performing acts of compassion joyously and scattering all of the acts of kindness and goodness you bestow and all the acts that have been bestowed upon you…

today is a day to throw kindness around like confetti because we always need it, especially the unkind who need it the most…

so, 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…