welcome, well come to day 49 of a season of peace, the eve of the equinox and our 16th annual whalewatching adventure, an annual re-treat my daughter and i have been injoying since 2007 when i convinced my doctors to let me have a break from radiation and travel across country to the west coast, my daughter and the whales…

everyday is truly blessing water day, water is the innernet connecting us all, the more blessings of peace, love and harmony we pour into water, the more peaceful, loving and harmonious life is… thousand fold thanks for our joining hands across the cosmos in sacred honoring… thousand fold thanks, water for giving us life and blessing our earth walks… standing before you, we re-member we are water, we are the ocean in a drop… may our one heart be purified more than ever before for the benefit of all as we drink you into our being and as water reciprocates in the next breath by blessing us and generously bestowing pure water spirits throughout the web of life… water is a mirror for us as well as perfectly mirroring us… water responds in perfect harmony to the messages we send; the more beautiful our transmission, the more beautifully water creates all that is,..

In Praise of Water

“Let us bless the grace of water:

The imagination of the primeval ocean
Where the first forms of life stirred
And emerged to dress the vacant earth
With warm quilts of color.

The well whose liquid root worked
Through the long night of clay,
Trusting ahead of itself openings
That would yet yield to its yearning
Until at last it arises in the desire of light
To discover the pure quiver of itself
Flowing crystal clear and free
Through delighted emptiness.

The courage of a river to continue belief
In the slow fall of ground,
Always falling farther
Toward the unseen ocean.

The river does what words would love,
Keeping its appearance
By insisting on disappearance;
Its only life surrendered
To the event of pilgrimage,
Carrying the origin to the end.

Seldom pushing or straining,
Keeping itself to itself
Everywhere all along its flow…

Let us bless the humility of water,
Always willing to take the shape
Of whatever otherness holds it…

Water: vehicle and idiom
Of all the inner voyaging
That keeps us alive.

Blessed be water,
Our first mother.“

~ John O’ Donohue ~

welcome, welcome to day 49 of a season of peace and to a foreshadowing of/illuminating tomorrow (march 19) when we celebrate equinox as a   festival of the sun, a day to honor the balancing of the sun within oneself… let us share the experience of the inner sun of spirit so beautifully illuminated by this lovely sunlit eye and this poem of Lawrence Ferlinghetti…

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Instructions to Painters & Poets

I asked a hundred painters and a hundred poets
how to paint sunlight
on the face of life
Their answers were ambiguous and ingenuous
as if they were all guarding trade secrets
Whereas it seems to me
all you have to do
is conceive of the whole world
and all humanity
as a kind of art work
a site-specific art work
an art project of the god of light
the whole earth and all that’s in it
to be painted with light

And the first thing you have to do
is paint out postmodern painting
And the next thing is to paint yourself
in your true colors
in primary colors
as you see them
(without whitewash)
paint yourself as you see yourself
without make-up
without masks
Then paint your favorite people and animals
with your brush loaded with light
And be sure you get the perspective right
and don’t fake it
because one false line leads to another

And don’t forget to paint
all those who lived their lives
as bearers of light
Paint their eyes
and the eyes of every animal
and the eyes of beautiful women
known best for the perfection of their breasts
and the eyes of men and women
known only for the light of their minds
Paint the light of their eyes
the light of sunlit laughter
the song of eyes
the song of birds in flight

And remember that the light is within
if it is anywhere
and you must paint from the inside

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may we be sunlit laughter…

Let there be Peace
Let there be Peace of Mind
Let there be Peace with Mankind
Let there be Peace of the States
Let the World dwell within the Force of Peace

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welcome, welcome to day 49 of a season of peace, the eve of the equinox and super full moon in libra, a day when i find myself chanting let there be peace and ho’opono pono while breathing in I Am Grace of Beloved and generating loving presence …

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listening to motherwaters’ song seeding fields of love the whole day long,

Oya weaves spiraling webs of light

while whirling, swirling winds cut through rainbow mists

spirits dance wildly in the underground

swimming braided waters of uncharted earthscape

rhythmically returning to original source,

 in cosmic womb where we re-member…

birthing, surrendering to transforming whirlwind

breathing, re-birthing harmony again

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may every breath be a blessingway, a blessingway of deepening balance, a flowing with the waters of life in harmony revealing every moment as sacred…

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namaste’