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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 244 – 8/17/2019

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Named Awaken17 Rumi-Close-Your-Eyes

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr ~

today in portalandia, we’re having a protest of standing for love and a counter protest in contradiction and still i’m in a quintessential celebration of the luminosity of love and feeling such gratitude for these last eight days, an infinity of being unplugged, what a gift to have the space to journey within into the dream cave without distraction of outer stimulation…

in the midst of a world unraveling may we dance in the dark in the rhythm of unknowing, stilling, dwelling in the river below the river, the underground wellspring of love…

re-member all you truly love… re-member… re-member… close your eyes as the waves of love rise and breathe it in deeply into every wild cell… in this moment, this beautiful moment luxuriate in being love, our birth rite, our true nature…

always being love, always becoming love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4/4 Years – Day 364/1461 Days – 12/16/2017

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Named Descending 16 Soul Rainbow Crater Lake

today is a very special day for me as it marks four turns around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage, a breathing and being peace in every moment devocean i practice and it also marks six turns around the sun of dwelling in the superabundance of infinite love and gratitude…

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pilgrimage of peace

a daily breathing practice

in rhythm with flow

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as i sit in this cabin overlooking the salmon river, the sounds of  water moving inspires re-membering all the beautiful moments of this journey of the heart, of  simply breathing into presence, being the now, embracing what is and…

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dancing in rhythm

with river of our being

opening to flow

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along this path of heart, this path of purification, this path of polishing the heart, we keep coming back with every breath, with every step into infinite love and gratitude, coming back home to the heart where we experience over and over again a…

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moment of peace

wildpeace flowing in river ripples

dancing joyously

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how i love this practice of pilgrimage, being a poet on an interior deep sea journey where we are all walking each other home into the center of our one heart…

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standing in the center

seeing in a sacred manner

all being as one spirit

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may we all be…

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nomads in the sea

celebrating rainbow mystery

being harmony

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thanks for showing up with every breath and sharing the journey of heart, this path of purification, this path of polishing our one heart until it reflects our diamond being…

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flowing in beauty

in the field of divine grace

always being the soul of the place

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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3/3 Years – Day 366/1096 – 12/16/2016

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today is a very special day for me as it marks three turns around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage, a breathing and being peace in every moment devotion i practice and it also marks five turns around the sun of dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude…

tomorrow, 1st Flight Day, starts my New Year, and another moment and another and another to simply be, breathing into our stillpoint and breathing out  through our one heart with a SMILE (Start My Internal Love Engine) chanting thank you, thank you, thank you, everything is grace while embracing and reverencing all that is and opening the heart of compassion ever wider and deeper to divine flow…

these first sixteen rainy/snowy days of descending december are a perfect backdrop to walk this year of completion home along the powerful path of transformation, this path of purification and of polishing the heart; this pilgrimage of returning with every breath, with every step into infinite love and gratitude, coming back home to the heart where we may all experience more and more of a flowing moment after moment of a rhythm of wildpeace even as we move through turbulence and everything around us seems to be unraveling and breaking down…

always coming home to breathing in and breathing out, being harmony, dancing rainbow mystery…

thanks for showing up fully in every moment and with every breath, sharing the journey and being the transformation we choose to align with in our ever more beautiful island home…

flowing in beauty

in the field of divine grace

always being the soul of the place

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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 245 – 8/17/2016

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Named Awakening August 17 turtle_hatching

everywhere i am today feels like a hatchery; every circle, a nest of hatchlings breaking free from constriction and expanding into a more spacious home, an open heart… as with any birth, growth, transition, transformation, there is pain which underlines the importance of our nestling together and embracing each other’s journey through the birth canal into the river of awakening that flows into the ocean of love…

yes, these moments, as all moments, are the perfect ones to embrace what is, to befriend whatever comes our way… to meet each moment fully, to meet it as a friend… Rumi says it so beautifully…

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond. 

yes, what a mantra, what a practice for coming home to the heart,,, here, embrace and reverence trust..

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 3 – Day 106 – 3/31/2016

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Named Magnificent March 31 Poetic PEACE Pilgrim Jeweled Profile

as we close the magnificent month of march, i reflect on the space we have traversed during this intense turning with two eclipses and supermoons, equinox and moving into the space of fall or spring, so much light pouring in and divine love rising exponentially in the space between us…

i re-member this month is celebrated as International Women’s Month and i’d like to close this moon of the lion and the lamb with some essential spirit signposts for pilgrims as we pioneer onward…

  • A desire to explore new places, avenues, and opportunities
  • A vision of something better
  • An ingenuity to try new ideas, inventions, innovations, or enterprises
  • A readiness to assume personal responsibility
  • A commitment to community, family, a sense of place
  • A determination and the courage to never give up
  • A sense of independence while realizing our interdependency

blessing the space between us, the journey into our one heart…

The Journey
 
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
Mary Oliver

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 365 – 12/16/2015

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Named Divine December 16 Plgrimage of PEACE Ocean 5-13-2009

today marks two turns around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage and four turns around the sun of dwelling in the abundance of infinite love and gratitude and what a wild ride this year has been… tomorrow, 1st Flight Day, starts my New Year, and another moment and another and another to simply be, breathing in and breathing out with a SMILE (Start My Internal Love Engine) chanting thank you, thank you, thank you, everything is grace while embracing and reverencing what is and opening ever wider and deeper to divine flow…

these sixteen rainy days of divine december are a perfect backdrop to walk this year home along this path of heart, this path of purification, this path of polishing the heart, where i return with every breath, with every step into infinite love and gratitude, coming back home to the heart where i experience moment after moment of wildpeace flowing in the rhythm of waves even as everything around me seems to be unraveling and breaking down…

always coming home to breathing in and breathing out, being harmony, dancing rainbow mystery…

thanks for showing up with every breath and sharing the journey…

flowing in beauty

in the field of divine grace

always being the soul of that place

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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 363 – 12/14/2015

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Named Divine December 14 SHERO Journey to SELF

today begins with a little outer journey to the eye doctor – it’s now been six moons since my eye was clawed rupturing the eyeball… the doctor declares what a landmark today is and we can now attend to restoring physical vision, what a blessing to be able to read again with two eyes working as a team…

contemplating this long sojourn where outer travel has been drastically curtailed and inner journeying even more greatly accelerated, images of our different eyes, our different ways of seeing and traveling dance through consciousness…

the last six months of seeing the outer world through one eye, the fire eye, and the inner world through the water eye  have been both illuminating and shadowy… on this day of clarity, i see another level of meaning of the dream images dreaming me of late portending a space of harmony with the two eyes working co-llabor-atively to birth a new vision…

yes, to the blessing of inner journeys of transformation… yes, to sublemonation – the alchemical process of turning lemons into gold… yes, to all having access to journeys of radiance, pilgrimages of the heart… yes, to, in this moment, luxuriating in the light…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 285 – 9/27/2015

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Named Serene September 27 Pilgrimage of Radiance

our one heart bursts wide open with joy today

drawing down the energy of supermoon and gamma ray

transporting us into an expansive field of unity

may we all dwell here in peace and harmony

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an extraordinary journey today… to a whole new state calling for a different way:

dance the path with presence taking courage come what may

deepen into trusting the grace always in play

relax and soften surrendering to love

flow with divine below and above

inside/outside, in front of/behind

every breath, one of a kind

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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 2 – Day 264 – 9/6/2015

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Named Serene September 6 Poetic PEACE Pilgrim Jeweledwhat a beautiful day of resting in and reflecting on the sacred journey into mystery we share, the pilgrimage of our one heart we walk together step by step and breath by breath… today, on the three month anniversary of a journey which totally upended the life known, i am feeling like a sunflower starting to burst through the dark earth of the lower world and peering out at the beauty of the middle world through eyes of wonder and love…

these moons of dreaming beauty while cloistered in earth mother’s cavernous belly and rocked on the lap of the great mother herself, are quintessentially restorative, holy ground for emptying, for surrendering all to love and birthing anew a world humming at the frequency of grace…

thousandfold thanks for walking home with me…