It's baaaaack!
I’m glad to see the spidey sense is back and operational after the xanax I’d taken for anxiety in February had dumbed down the intuition to almost non existance. Last night, I intuited a particular person would make a first time visit this morning and they did. Last week, I intuited a friend would have an early morning visitor and I called to let him know just as she was knocking on his door. Life is sure easier this way.
Groan… 9am and I’m already overwhelmed with work, feel underslept and have a nonstop day ahead of me. This is when I can test the effectiveness of my meditation practice. Can I breathe myself calmly through everything that needs to be done, with a smile inner and outer? Can I maneuver through the day easily and effectively? Without driving anyone else crazy? We’ll see.
Ma Yoga Shakti
Mataji, Ma Yogashakti will arrive in Palm Bay on Friday, June 1st, 2012. Saturday June 2nd at 12 noon will be the pot – luck vegetarian luncheon. Sunday June 3rd she will give the Sunshine Lecture from 9 – 10 AM. Mataji says this will be her last visit. Come bask in the presence of this holy teacher, whom we are blessed to have among us in the flesh. Mataji is one of 5 living female hindu saints documented in Daughters of the Goddess, The Women Saints of India authored by Linda Johnsen. The Yogashakti Mission is located in Palm Bay at 3895 Hield Rd NW. Call 321-725 4024 and visit www.yogashakti.org
I saw the bunny in the east garden this morning, as the sky began to lighten. I’d walked over to the bird bath to see if yesterday’s rain had filled it. As I rounded the bamboo, I saw a quick movement and it was brown bunny, who’d done an about face when she saw me. I apologized and did my own about face, and left her to her breakfast. Last evening, I tossed some romaine ribs into the back yard at the entrance to her trail east. I saw out the kitchen window just now that my giant Maine Coon kitty Izzy had stationed himself at the head of the trail this morning, albeit still sleeping. So I figured I owed brown bunny some privacy in the front garden. I love sharing space with the critters on the land here, the squirrels, the raccoons, the bunnies, the armadillos, the opossums, the snakes and lizards, the birds, the dragonflies and butterflies. Speaking of which, I’m off now to enjoy the day.
I did it again: I’ve got a head cold slowly migrating into my chest, and until today I’d forgotten I’d blogged about the same thing before. I have no excuse. I should have recognized it immediately. I began the week with 2 days of upset stomach, which morphed into a giant headcold for 2 days and is now moving into my chest. I’m so seldom sick and when I am, it’s over quickly and never too uncomfortable. Now I’m just playing the waiting game and letting it run its course. It does kick my butt, though, and feeling weak and tired makes me gripey and whiney. Poor Roomi. I’m used to spending hours and hours in silence with my own thoughts and now each time I run into the office to type here, I feel like Grandfather sneaking behind the shed to smoke his cigs to get away from Grandmother. But now I recognize that I’m both the grandfather AND the grandmother. If I am who I say I am, what am I hiding from, and why does it make me snippy?
“Everyone with rare exception knows that you attract into your life a reflection of what you think. But you also attract into your life what you judge. If you think men are players, you attract players, if you think people are dishonest, you attract dishonest people. If you are focused on a sickness or disease, you attract more. If you focus on poverty or lack, you gain nothing more than an empty bank account. Everything you hold in your conscious thought becomes your cage and your reality. Why not fake it until you make it. See abundance, see honesty in all, embrace good healthy, emotionally healthy people, focus on the beauty and not the ugly. And for crying out loud fix what hurts you, heal what aches, mend your mind and restore it to perfection. You were born of perfection, it is your core, meditate, exercise, eat nutritionally and address what you are harboring, then you will attract lovely all day long.”
Sun Gazing
"You'll do as I say!"
A friend’s daughter posted on Facebook “I miss my daddy and I wish he’d come visit.” Of course that tugged on his heart. He is several states away from her and unable to visit due to actions of her mother. And she knows this. And he knows that she knows this. It doesn’t take spidey sense to know that she made the post under duress, with mom standing over her threatening her with who knows what if she didn’t. People, get as crazy as you want but leave the kids out of it.
To prevent big loss, copy every credit card in your wallet and keep it with the toll free numbers. You can save hours of time doing this: Read this and make a copy for your files in case you need to refer to it someday. A corporate attorney sent the following out to the employees in his company:
1. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put ‘PHOTO ID REQUIRED.’ (I use “See ID,” though maybe 10% of clerks actually notice it.) Continue reading
If you put your hands on this oar with me, they will never harm another, and they will come to find they hold everything you want.
If you put your hands on this oar with me, they would no longer lift anything to your mouth that might wound your precious land – that sacred earth that is your body.
If you put your soul against this oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives in us.
Exuberant is existence, time a husk.
When the moment cracks open, ecstasy leaps out and devours space;
love goes mad with the blessings, like my words give.
Why lay yourself on the torturer’s rack of the past and the future? The mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacities will find no rest.
Be kind to yourself, dear – to our innocent follies.
Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance.
You will come to see that all evolves us.
~ Rumi ~
