Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 194 – 6/27/2016

Named Jubilee June 27 Sunflower Festival Aug 2014 002 Farmer of Heart.

at 21, i was given heirloom seeds of devotion… at 42, i planted the seeds saying a mantra over them daily about being a midwife of heart consciousness… at 63, i began devotedly tending, caring for, watering, chanting over these seeds in co-llaboration with Beloved and an earth angel… we are coming to the close of a year of daily practice, a year of surrendering, melting into the divine, a year of outer seeing diminishment and inner seeing enhancement… truly, a year of magic which i define as change in consciousness, a year of being in an altered state more and more and more… a year of grace, a year of deep descent, a year of stretching, a year of being still… one wild turn around the sun of planting the seeds of devotion, of being a farmer of the heart…

thousandfold thanks for joining us in this practice, yes, we are all involved for we all live in the same field and are all breathed into life by the same spirit… deep, deep bows, beloveds…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 193 – 6/26/2016

Named Jubilee June 26 Pilgrim Walking 038

today is a celebration of divine indulgence, of diving deeply in the ocean of devotion, of delighting in being breathed in and out like the oscillating waves of the deep blue sea… a day of thanksgiving, of bubbling joy, a day of reverence, of being in the moment… a day of deep peace in whatever will be, a day of embracing love and harmony… a day of walking lightly upon the earth, a day of being filled with a zany mirth… a day of tiptoeing between the veils, of feeling the tides lifting all sails… a day of trusting our one heart to carry us home… namaste, beloveds…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 192 – 6/25/2016

Named Jubilee June 25 Sunset on Easter Eve at Manzanita Still I Rise.

this moment of going with the flow echoes… i, flowing river of joy, rise, i rise, i rise and so let’s tune into our cosmic mother’s call…

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

may we all be carried by rising tides to flow in beauty and harmony with great mystery…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 191 – 6/24/2016

Named Jubilee June 24

after a week of pilgrimages to hospitals and doctors, today’s sojourn into stillness is such a welcome gift… to luxuriate in nature’s rhythms and turnings, cycling and recycling through the land of grace along wild pathways of the rainbow trail… gazing at the sun, tuning into cosmic hum, returning to the one… to a noble life, letting go of living and dying, being flow, one with source, radiant aurora… surrendered to the greater will, unfolding mystery, may we dance thee well…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 190 – 6/23/2016

Named Jubilee June 23 Rumi Persist.this moon has been and is still a bumpy ride for so many of us with frequent moments of being supported by re-membering the wise words from so many sages about taking one more step, simply one more step… and, one more breath, simply one more breath through our one heart settling down deep in the belly, in the womb of the cosmos, the stillpoint where we connect with source, the sea of love energy, the river of joy always flowing through us as a stabilizing force beneath the turbulent waves that rise and fall… and in the hard times, it’s important to reach out; so, let’s close with holding out our hands to one another and feeling the love passing from one to another to another… namaste, beloveds…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 189 – 6/22/2016

Named Jubilee June 22 Whalewatching 2014 030 Mazanita Sunset.

as i make my pilgrimage today to the temple on the hill, i feel this joy bubbling up from deep inside, welcome joy! translation: i’m going to the hospital to see the doctor and delight springs unbidden – what a beautiful gift, thanks be thanks to all relations for this moment, this beautiful moment…

as i feel the warmth of the outer sun, i’m drawn to the inner sun and as i look out of the window of the busy waiting room and see the flowing river below, i’m re-membering the river of joy below the river always present, always flowing inside of me, inside of you…

settling down beside this river of joy, feel the connection to the always present source, always flowing love through us connecting us all as one ocean of compassion… feel our one heart beating resonantly, singing in soulful harmony…

i love this pilgrimage to the hospital transmuting into a pilgrimage to a hospitality center transmuting to a pilgrimage of the heart transmuting to a pilgrimage to our one heart… i love being breathed into this moment to simply be… to open all doors of perception to the sacred space of grace, beloved community’s belonging place…

bowing to all our relations, thousandfold thanks for walking home together making this ordinary moment, extraordinary…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 188 – 6/21/2016

Named Jubilee June 21 Sunflower Festival Aug 2014 002 JOY.

If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.

~ Rumi ~

some moments these words are easier to re-member than others and they are always true, paradoxical and true… the last few weeks have been filled with challenges on so many levels and like ocean waves they rise and pass away and the ocean of joy still remains, peace at the center of the dancing stillpoint… for in this moment, this beautiful moment, we are one vast sunflower field of radiant love… yes, suns exist and moons and rains and clouds and tears and pains and joy in this moment, in every moment, in every wild precious moment…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 187 – 6/20/2016

Named Jubilee June 20 Moon Blue at Glastonbury 7-31-15

on soulstice, the veil between the worlds is so thin, a magical day to see through the mists… to return to the isle of Avalon on a journey of transformation with the wise pilgrim full moon shining on this day the sun stands still for the divine union between heaven and earth to occur… a sacred moment of the divine feminine spirit pouring the luminous light of love all over the cosmos… may we all feel this fluid energy of light flowing from our wise pilgrim moon sister, this loving compassion that in this moment frees us to enter the vast unknown, to stand still with the sun…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 185 – 6/18/2016

Named Jubilee June 18 Thich Nhat Hanh Silence.

today i hear and answer the call to come home to silence, the vast spaciousness of the stillpoint in the center of being, our true refuge, sacred space of belonging for all refugees, beloved community of grace and ease…

opening the heart in ever widening circles in each moment and with every breath to enter more profoundly into the place beyond words where we tune into the music of the spheres singing our soul song which always whispers love… an endless chain of moments of dolphin dancing in the deep blue sea…

settling down, grounding, resting in this moment, this present moment… sat chit ananda… being awareness bliss…