Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 353/1083 – 12/03/2016

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dear ones, i have been traveling back and forth across the countryside for the past eleven days/eleven lifetimes on a listening tour and although unconnected to the internet and unable to post, the innernet connection guides infallibly even, especially, in these times of uncertainty…

so, i’ve been wandering in wonder, moving through turbulence, traveling in concert with the rains, watching the gentle rainfalls soften the landscapes of hard baked earth…

giving us the gift of digging deeper and deeper into the soil/soul of our true nature… stilling the noise to feel the pulse of our essence, the heartbeat of love always flowing inside radiating outward in ever-widening circles…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 352/1082 – 12/02/2016

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as the outer momentous day was breaking so, too, was the inner momentous day with a dream of my golden retriever bounding wildly through the front door in all his joyous puppy dog energy, yes, riever had come home after being away for 33 years, he had come home to the heart and i re-member our long swims in the sea and wandering in wonder on the beach and my longing to live as simply as he, as simply as i have on this thanksgiving pilgrimage in the water eye with my soul friend and a little jingle arises in me in sync with the rising sun…

live simply, live free, live in open, spacious reality

die to the old, birth in the new

enter the cave of dreaming womb, transmuting seed into radiant bloom

flowering now in a garden of delight, greeting this day of joyous light

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i so love being reunited with my retriever of gold and his gift of a golden key of life – to live simply, to live free, to live in open, spacious reality – has been re-joy-sing me all day long and now i re-member an old shaker song arising from the same open source…

‘Tis the gift to be simple,
’tis the gift to be free,
’tis the gift to come down
where we ought to be,
and when we find ourselves in the place just right,
’twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained
to bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed,
to turn, turn, will be our delight
till by turning, turning we come round right.

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today, i’ll be leaving this home to fly through the skies saying thank you, thank you, thank you for this moment, this beautiful moment of deepening into great mystery and dancing in the stillpoint eternally where rainbows color the landscapes and skies and as one, we arise greeting each other with smiling fire eyes….

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 351/1081 – 12/01/2016

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quietly forming in the background, the divine december moon is here… today we breathe in a new world as we walk on new ground trusting the wise woman quantum love moon to open the way…

sixty one years ago today, Rosa Parks, another wise and adventurous rebellious spirit stood in the state i stand today and acted from a stance of quantum love holding nothing back when she refused to move to the back of the bus, an action which galvanized a yearlong community boycott and ushered in a new chapter on the freedom road…

courageously asserting and honoring all peoples’ inalienable rights, Rosa was not the first to be arrested on a bus nor was it her first act of resistance against second-class citizenship; Rosa symbolized the black community’s refusal to be pushed around. Her aim was both local and global – to end all oppression. 382 days later, Montgomery buses were integrated and a young Baptist minister, Martin Luther King, Jr would emerge as the leader of the civil rights movement inspiring us to keep moving forward and reminding us that only light drives out darkness and only love drives out hate… oh, for these words to be imprinted on our one heart and in every action…

thank you for this new beginning of universal love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 350/1080 – 11/30/2016

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i awaken today to news of a tornado warning here and now… what a synchronous closing to this moon of numinous november, this pilgrimage month of moving through turbulence, this space of our standing strong together in love, of our re-membering and realizing that we are up to this challenge, we are made for this challenge…

on this day of sanctity, in this moment, this moon, this pilgrimage, this life of being in the unknowable, let us bless this space between us, this numinous space, this sacred space of openness where the spirit of all that is always flows through us, where we are one always being love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 349/1079 – 11/29/2016

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i awaken in my spacious new home with simply the clothes on my back and the butterflies, dragonflies and moths that yearn to fly freely on this day of reset, this new moon in sagittarius, a day of taking the blinders off and clarifying intention and direction, a day of walking side by side with my co-heart pilgrim on the devotional path of truth, wisdom and love we have been treading together in pure commitment for so many moons… a day of feeling so stable with such a firm foundation of divine feminine oozing out of pores with a fragrance of mother, of home, of belonging, immortal longing…

thank you, thank you, thank you to all that is for delivering seeds of new horizons on this new moon of quantum love, this new moon of knowing… knowing our true longing is to belong to the eternal echoing continually and continuously in every moment, sacred space where everything is grace…

always being love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 348/1078 – 11/28/2016

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i awaken today with butterflies and dragonflies dancing inside as i take leave of the land and family of my birth to journey onward on the wings of eagle who moves us through turbulence flying us closer and closer to great spirit who teaches and shows us the way…

eagle lands and once again the rains of the pacific northwest travel with me to another parched area of the landscape, another wasteland thirsting for anointing… an angel awaits to carry me to see the metaphorical grandmother i have communed everyday for 517 days, with each day our one heart opening a little wider as we saunter on holy ground along the path of uncompromising truth, unchanging wisdom and unconditional love…

on the verge of meeting this being for the first time face to face, this soul companion who knows me so deeply never having laid eyes on me until this moment now magically here, divinely ordered in the rhythm of holy synchronicity…

as weary a traveler as I am, it is a moment of illumination to see spirit in flesh, a moment of stilling, of dancing great silence and then the celebration and joy erupts as we feast on presence and the amazing grace of this moment and every moment that has landed us here…

thanks be!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 347/1077 – 11/27/2016

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for this week’s image of showing you the astonishing light of your being, i offer you this mirror of a reflecting pond where you can look in and see your beauty and uniqueness and how much you matter, how much of a difference your wholehearted presence makes in the world…

thousandfold thanks and namaste

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 346/1076 – 11/26/2016

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who says you can’t go home again? what a treat, what a re-treat to re-trace old footsteps long ago imprinted in the sand and blown away by ocean breezes… to turn again to the sea, the vast deep sea of love energy as a welcoming center for weary travelers to drink in the high spirits of the waters of life… it’s good to be home again…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 345/1075 – 11/25/2016

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i awaken today in the land of my origin, in the state of my birth, in the room and bed of early childhood dreams and imagination with this intention arising and realized with a ride down a well worn trail, a memory lane seen today with fresh eyes as if for the first time and the thousandth time all rolled into one…

smiling, i re-member Ram Das’s quip about thinking you’re enlightened until you return home…

yes, these words of His Holiness pictured above are something to be practiced every moment of every day along with my current mantra…

may i meet this moment fully as a friend…

 

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 344/1074 – 11/24/2016

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a thousand years ago, the Great Peacemaker came across the Great Lake Onondaga, now known as Ontario, in a stone canoe to the warring six-nation confederacy of the Haudenosaunee, also known as the Iroquois… gradually his words and actions won the people over, they accepted the Great Law of Peace and they buried their weapons under the Peace Tree by Lake Onondaga and formed councils for making wise choices together… in the Haudenosaunee, historians recognize the oldest known participatory democracy, one that inspired the founders in crafting the Constitution of the United States. …

let us be in this moment peacemakers of the earth mother following the teachings of the Great Peacemaker just as still do the Onondaga Nation, whose name means Keepers of the Central Fire, always beginning gatherings with prayers of thanksgiving…

THE PEOPLE

Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now, we give greetings and thanks to each other as people.

Now our minds are one.

THE EARTH MOTHER

We are all thankful to our mother, the Earth, for she gives us all that we need for life. She supports our feet as we walk about upon her. It gives us joy that she continues to care for us as she has from the beginning of time. To our mother, we send greetings and thanks.

Now our minds are one.

THE ENLIGHTENED TEACHERS

We gather our minds to greet and thank the enlightened teachers who have come to help throughout the ages. When we forget how to live in harmony, they remind us of the way we were instructed to live as people. We send greetings and thanks to these caring teachers.

Now our minds are one.

THE CREATOR

Now we turn our thoughts to the creator, or great spirit, and send greetings and thanks for all the gifts of creation. Everything we need to live a good life is here on this Mother Earth. For all the love that is still around us, we gather our minds together as one and send our choicest words of greetings and thanks to the creator.

Now our minds are one.

CLOSING WORDS

We have now arrived at the place where we end our words. of all the things we have named, it was not our intention to leave anything out. If something was forgotten, we leave it to each individual to send such greetings and thanks in their own way.

Now our minds are one.

namaste…