i feel as if i’ve been walking blindly for days as i move through the tunnel toward higher ground… today, i feel an energetic shift as the quicksand i’ve been slogging through turns into solid soil and the trust visualized is trust embodied… Opening our one heart to me, opens our one heart to all and drops the blinders from eyes now open to seeing the light that is always here… the light infusing every wild cell inspiring being for giving… welcome home children of the light…
today’s pilgrimage begins in chaos, the primordial space that gives birth to a dancing star when one stays present in what is, standing tall in the center, welcoming what comes with a SMILE, softening into the obstacles, being like water, coming home to the heart of a child, innocence abides here at play in the field of dancing diamonds…
feeling lost at sea, the way out i cannot see until i hear great mystery whispering to let it be… you are in flow wherever you go, surely you know there is only flow… a moment of crisis brings us to our knees, a perfect place to re-lease… all illusions of separation transmuted now into the field of unification… returning home to the watery womb, resurrected now from the dark tomb…
there are not words for the beauty of this 13th day of Open Hearted October, the 301st day of the Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage and the 1st day of re-walking in beauty on the golden rainbow trail… the earth is moving under my feet while the great magnet pulls me along an unknown path… into the tiny space of the heart where i spend moment after moment breathing in this sacred space and releasing what is now stagnant into the fire in the belly and breathing it out as black smoke transformed into golden light as it flows into the cosmos…
there are not words for the beauty of the sounding and resounding of the cosmic hum played in the melody of love and the key of oneness, so i offer an image, a gift of magic from a high dune of drifting sand nestled between the sea and the sky where the light of the sun converses freely with all that listen whispering of always being love…
Friday’s news that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Malala Yousafzai, a remarkable young woman from Pakistan who risked her life to speak up for equal education opportunities for girls reminds me of another young girl named Sadako Sasaki who died of leukemia ten years after the atomic bombing in Hiroshima during World War II.
Sadako was two years old when she was exposed to the A-bomb. With no apparent injuries, she grew into a strong and healthy girl. However, nine years later when she was in the sixth grade of elementary school she suddenly developed signs of an illness. In February the following year (1955) she was diagnosed with leukemia and admitted to the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. Believing that folding paper cranes would help her recover, she kept folding them to the end, but on October 25, 1955, after an eight-month struggle with the disease, she passed away.
Sadako’s death triggered a campaign to build a Children’s Peace Monument to pray for world peace and the peaceful repose of the many children killed by the atomic bomb. Approximately 10 million cranes are offered each year before the Children’s Peace Monument.
Anyone may place paper cranes to the Children’s Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park. Please send your cranes to the address below. Additionally, you may enter your name and message for peace into the Paper Crane Database so that your desire for peace is recorded for posterity. For this purpose, please fill out this registration form and send it in with your paper cranes.
Peace Promotion Division
The City of Hiroshima
1-5 Nakajima-cho Naka-ku,
Hiroshima 730-0811 Japan
as above, so below… as within, so without… so i’m feeling a bit fruit loopy today and sense it’s the perfect moment to travel to the fruit loop and ground in the earth and sky, sun and rain as the winds blow briskly bringing the spirits back… light flowing freely through puffy clouds with maize in the maze dancing in rhythm while drinking in the gentle rain and calming under lavender’s aromatic spell… whirling and swirling as we circle the loop, enchanted by the light around earth’s hoop… celebrating another turn around the sun, seeing a sign signifying we are one… thank you beautiful rainbow bridging the worlds… what a treasure is this like a necklace of pearls…
yesterday we built bridges, today we savor a pregnant pause on the bridge leading to goddess only knows where as we gather energy like the squirrel i watch foraging in the golden leaves of indian summer… preparing for leaping into the vast unknown to dissolve into cosmic hum…
today’s pilgrimage is one of building bridges beginning with the breath… traveling from known to unknown, opening into another portal and crossing over again bridging the gap between known and unknown… out of what the moment before had been comfortable, moving now into a strange new space with a smile… open, opening…
journeying to the garden…dancing in the rain… in communion with children, hearts open and senses come alive… living in harmony with the ground of being, with nature, inspires peace… breathing in this haiku alive moment, our one heart smiles as we walk this spirit path…
an amazing day of flowing moon energy, breathing in the rhythm of the waves, navigating through ocean depths, seeing/being rainbow bridge, going into the heart and opening the portals of the full moon and eclipse, dancing and howling wildness, coming more fully alive with every breath, one with moon flow… thank you siSTAR moon and now an ancient poem resounding your truth…
Hear the words of the Star Goddess, the dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven, whose body encircles the universe:
“I who am the beauty of the green earth and the white moon among the stars and the mysteries of the waters,
I call upon your soul to arise and come unto Me. For I am the soul of nature that gives life to the universe. From Me all things proceed and unto Me they must return.
Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold — all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
And you who seek to know Me, know that your seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.
For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire.”