Dedicated to St Valentine, Patron Saint of Pilgrims…

every moment is valentine’s, a celebration of love… every pilgrimage is journeying along the path with heart… every pilgrim is a poet on a journey deeper into the heart, a saunterer – a holy lander, spiraling ever more profoundly into the ground of being where…

every breath is a naming prayer

every step a walking meditation

bringing us home to our one cosmic heart, an ocean of devotion

welcome, well come to day 16 of a season of peace, our day to simply be love as we travel the path with heart… another beautiful day of gathering the quintessence as ambassadors of love and light with the sun shining through the clouds in the energy vibration of  rapture and  riotous revolution germinating deep in the earth…

yes, ambassadors of love, it all comes down to being love, period; for in the field beyond words is simply the frequency we vibrate in the vast wave rolling through the cosmos… it’s also the pearl of the practice of the poetic peace pilgrimage which we are sauntering together, walking to the wholly land, making the archetypal shero journey to self...

here’s an old sherpa’s map, a guide for being love and coming home to the heart…

Smile (Start My Internal Love Engine) with every breath, with every step, in every moment, recommit to love…

Honor the flame within the center of your being by breathing in through our one heart fanning the flame with loops of thank you, thank you, thank you…

Embrace Joy and all that comes as hospitable host, befriend and embrace everything, all our relations…

Reverence and stand for truth wholeheartedly welcoming wounds and the wounded – the treasure chest of wisdom…

Open in ever widening spirals to all that is with a courage, a heart broken wide open for light to stream in…

Journey To

Spread for giveness from the stillpoint, love, peace and joy are here in this moment

Emanate grace, the harmony of the cosmic wave re-membering everything is grace

Love liberally, love liberates us all

Flow as cosmic wave rippling through the cosmos

Happy Trails! on the path of lovingkindness… always wandering in wonder, always being love…

may we be filled with lovingkindness and widen the circle of compassion including all our relatives…

welcome, welcome to day 15 of a season of peace which auspiciously coincides with this being a moment of celebrating the astonishing light of your being on this day celebrated for the last sixteen years as Self Love Day when we re-member to put on our oxygen masks first by breathing through our central channel deeply into the belly and the earth below and the vast skysea above and finally, we injoy another beautiful day of gathering the quintessence, the essence of love as ambassadors of love and light…

another day on the pilgrimage of love where we are given the opportunity to live this day as a day with a simple way to be… as easy as breathing one two three… breathing in love, breathing out love, breathing in love, breathing out love, breathing in love, breathing out love… seeding/re-seeding, cycling/re-cycling the unitive field, the ocean of consciousness, the sea of love energy, cosmic oneness with the only energy there is – particles of radiant love forming one vast wave of light, the first emanation to pour forth from the great silence and travel, as do we, as a rolling wave of loving light energy… sometimes as a whirling dervish transforming everything in the path, other times as a stationary lighthouse commanding stillness, always a wave of light flowing love through the cosmos, always a wave of love flowing light through the cosmos, seeding/re-seeding, cycling/re-cycling particles of love into the one radiant wave of light…

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“…help me to live this day quietly, peacefully. To lean upon Thy great strength trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will patiently, serenely. To meet others peacefully, joyously…”

~St Francis~

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love love love love love

“A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished.”

~ Desmond Tutu ~

as we deepen into decolonizing this moon of bringing to light black history in this moment of celebrating the astonishing light of our interbeeing on this 14th day of a season of peace, i share some beautiful words from Archbishop Tutu’s granddaughter, Mungi Ngomane :

“Ubuntu is a way of life from which we can all learn. . . . Originating from a Southern African philosophy, it encompasses all our aspirations about how to live life well, together. We feel it when we connect with other people and share a sense of humanity; when we listen deeply and experience an emotional bond; when we treat ourselves and other people with the dignity they deserve. . . .

I was raised in a community that taught me ubuntu as one of my earliest lessons. My grandfather, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, explained the essence of ubuntu as, ‘My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours.’

In my family, we were brought up to understand that a person who has ubuntu is one whose life is worth emulating. The bedrock of the philosophy is respect, for yourself and for others. So if you’re able to see other people, even strangers, as fully human you will never be able to treat them as disposable or without worth. . . .Ubuntu teaches us to also look outside ourselves to find answers. It’s about seeing the bigger picture; the other side of the story. 

Ubuntu is about reaching out to our fellow men and women, through whom we might just find the comfort, contentment and sense of belonging we crave. Ubuntu tells us that individuals are nothing without other human beings. It encompasses everyone, regardless of race, creed or color. It embraces our differences and celebrates them.”

may we all live ubuntu and be walking invitations of ubuntu… I AM because WE ARE… and, may we affirm our dedication to cosmic stewardship of a world of peace built on justice for all guided by unconditional love for all our relations real-eye-sing there’s only one of us here and we depend on each other to interbee…

Holy Synchronicity!

welcome to day 13 of a season of peace, another day of celebrating the astonishing lightness of being and a beautiful day of gathering the quintessence with the sun shining on the energy of  rebirth and the revolution of love…

on this eleventh day of fleeting february, heartsong, soulsong calls this hollow reed, this instrument of peace to share one of my greatest loves… dolphin dancing… leaping in resonance with beloved community feeling the profound interbeeing all relatives share in the field out beyond, the watery womb of the vast skysea where we align with spirit to co-create a world of abunDANCE…

we gather together in mystery

diving deeply into the vast sparkling sea

real-eye-sing this communion is sacred ceremony

purifying the waters so all our relations live in harmony…

now, let us let go and transport ourselves back to the future where we sit around a communal fire re-membering we are nature and must be aligned with the laws of nature which call for living in balance and committing to doing no harm to the children we love and the ancestors we revere… in our reverence for nature, for all our relatives, we stand in love for the seven generations who are unceasingly regenerating a cosmos that never ends, that is always transforming…

seven generations behind us, before us, beside us, below us, above us, within us guiding the way…

welcome to day 12 of a season of peace when the heartsong, soulsong of pachamama, our earthmother, calls this hollow reed, this instrument of peace to rest in preparation for a deep sea journey as the sun begins to shine more and more on the energy of rebirth… how “just right” it is that while we are going through outer turbulence, we have this organizing matrix of a season re- minding and re-heartening us to come into the stillpoint, slow down and be an instrument of peace, a harmony frequency raising all in our ever widening orbital circle to the vibration of compassion as we awaken to the true reality that we all belong to each other, that no being is free until all beings are free and that when each of us awakens, it is a tremendous gift and catalyzer for the awakening of the whole…

as we dance the via transformativa, the way of rebirth, of awakening, i find myself being in dark, unknown spaces, uncertain moments which open into portals leading home as i return to the breath and the magical blessing of thanks transporting me into the  deep earth of our being, the wisdom place in the core where we float in the sea of love energy, the most powerful healing, wholeing medicine that gives birth to dancing stars… with the challenges of this moment so intense, i must match that intensity with being a living prayer of peace – thank you for standing in solidarity as a huge orchestra of instruments of peace – i love envisioning us all encircling and encircling and encircling this third rock from the sun where we dwell committed to living in peace and harmony with every breath…

as we close this circle, let’s conspire, breathe together and feel the golden light we are pouring into every one of our trillions of cells illuminating the pathless path of the deep self and hear the music of the celestial spheres ringing through our ears transforming us into seers of the beloved community that is our birthright… 

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welcome, welcome to day 11 of a season of peace with the sun still shining through the clouds in the energy of  rebirth and the riotous revolution of love stirring underneath in the river below the river, above in the vast skysea and within in the earth ocean of interbeeing…

like the wild geese i watch from my window, i am aligning and refining my inner compass to fly home to source and it is quite a challenge in this moment of eternity with so much turbulence in the outer world; the last few moons with the testing frequency having risen geometrically calling for more and more breathing through the central channel into the core of the earth body, both mine and our earthmother’s, to connect to the love everything is, even in this moment when it seems far away…

thank you, mother mary (oliver) for the balm this poem brings to weary muscles… breathing in, peace all around… breathing out, harmony at home… in, peace; out harmony… thank you for the reheartminder that we, all our relatives, are enough and it is enough to interbee however you are in each moment which is as fleeting and ephemeral as a seafoam bubble…

welcome, welcome to day 10 of a season of peace, day 8 of this moon of fleeting in this moment of blessed unrest and great turning… are you wondering about peace on earth when we see so much falling apart, so much suffering? it is said that confusion and uncertainty are the raw materials of wisdom and understanding, that every birth is messy and painful and then once the new creation emerges, our one heart melts and we sing at the frequency of ecstasy, of moving out of the stuckness of turbulence and unrest and into a peace passing all understanding… and so it is…

may the provocations of the outer and inner worlds awaken us more deeply to our seeing provocations as pro vocations impelling us into our vocations, our callings to be who we truly are – rainbow lightwaves of love and peace re-joy-sing that in this moment of presence, in every present moment, peace prevails on earth regardless of the outer dramas…

let us be ambassadors of peace in this moment of eternity, in every moment of eternity humming, re-joy-sing, dancing the anthem of the poetic peace pilgrimage…

“Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me
Let there be peace on earth
The peace that was meant to be
With earth as our mother
Family all are we
Let me walk with my relative
In perfect harmony Let peace begin with me
Let this be the moment now
With every step I take
Let this be my solemn vow
To take each moment
And live each moment
To take each moment
And live each moment
To take each moment
And live each moment
In peace eternally
Let there be peace on earth
Let there be peace on earth
Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin
With me”…

blessed bee…

“Remember the clear light, The pure clear white light From which everything in the universe comes, To which everything in the universe returns; The original nature of your own mind. The natural state of the universe unmanifest. Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. It is your own true nature, it is home.”

~ The Tibetan Book Of The Dead ~

tonight. i so need to tune into the clear light in these moments of feeling a storm rushing in uprooting and overturning the lives of our relatives… with the death and destruction toll rising astronomically in Syria and Turkey, my heart, our one cosmic heart breaks and opens us to re-membering all the disasters, injustices, losses bringing so much suffering to our world…

 in these moments, can we have too many reminders of all the lovingkindness and compassion activated and activating on the planet? in truth, every moment when we tune into the pure light and take heart, take courage, there is more and more compassion flowing throughout the cosmos…

welcome to day 9 of a season of peace, a day of hearing the cries of the world rising in frequency and intensity, a day of feeling the quickening of collective birth pangs, a day of gathering with midwives to co-llaborate on empowering space for encouraging strength to take one more step, to be peacemakers in a world torn asunder, to do what we can to hold the frequency of equanimity and lovingkindness and act from a place of love, the energy holding the universe together…

and, so, i turn now to kuan yin, goddess of compassion, protector of women, children, sailors, fishermen, anyone in trouble, and the sick, disabled, and poor… she who walks the boddhisattva path foregoing enlightenment until all sentient beings are liberated and free from suffering…

according to legend, kwan yin tried so strenuously to alleviate the suffering of all beings that her head split into eleven pieces… buddha awarded her eleven heads with which to hear the cries of the world and when she heard all the cries and reached out to address the needs of so many, her two arms shattered… now, buddha gives her a thousand arms to offer her compassion to all…

may our one heart remain always open being lovingkindness to all and may we all reside in the peace passing all understanding real-eye-sing in these moments of crisis, we have the opportunity to dive deeply into the ocean of being’s inner channel imagining the world of peace, a world within our reach where we no longer squander our energies on blowing up the world; rather, we direct all our energies into mutual aid understanding there is only one of us here, we all belong to each other and well-being for all ensures well-being for each one…

shanti, shanti, shantihi…

welcome to day 8 of a season of peace… come sit with me here in the field out beyond taking in the beauty of this sacred moment of eternity…

it is said it only takes 144,000 sentient beings to hear the call and turn toward el canto hondo, the deep soul song, the dream of the earth to establish a re-newed paradigm of reality singing in the frequency of harmony throughout the ocean of being…

how i love meeting you in this field of what we deeply value, this sacred space of interconnectedness…

here, we witness and celebrate this collective hearing of and following the call to come back home to spirit, to dissolve into spirit, to be so at one with spirit that all borders vanish… we are present as love, the animating energy of all that is, the saving grace that simply opens the door to love… trusting that in this surrendering, this softening, this turning toward pachamama, the unifying spirit breathing all our relatives alive, we are transported to the stillpoint, the place of creation where the dance of the new begins…

in this moment of eternity as we return home to spirit and dissolve into be so at one that all borders vanish between me and thee, we come in gratitude offering our pains and suffering to be used as compost to nourish the earth… we come as love, the animating energy of all that is and knock on the door asking this door to open to love, simply open… in this trusting, this surrendering, this turning we are transported to the stillpoint where the dance begins, yes, we’re coming back… and, we sit with suffering endured this day by the people of Turkey and Syria and with all others whose lives have been overturned and we send them love and stand with all relations in the subtle unitive field where we are one…

“Give light and people will find the way.”

~Ella Baker, Activist~