It was good to connect with an old friend today and have a long, deep talk again on things that really matter. Things that very few others are interested in to any depth. That very few other friends really grok. I like having friends who can dive deep when needed, who stimulate my mind, with whom I can share synchronistic moments of realization during separate times of contemplation. Having a brother on the Path is a sacred relationship to me. They act as teacher and student, as muse and artist, as we lift each other to higher levels of realization, along this shared journey of evolution of consciousness.
Monthly Archives: January 2013
4:08am and… rushing to meditation??
“OMG 4:08am I must rush to meditation. I cannot be late!” When I have thoughts like these, attached to ideas that somehow success depends on me meeting specific goals in specific time frames, that is when meditation serves me well. I can observe my attachment if emotion arises as I choose to decide I am late.
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Elizabeth Gilbert: A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up so much that you have to transform your life
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life. Whatever they fired up in you needed to be fired up, but then they needed to go.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Sweet man, I would tear you outa the frame
I’ve been messaging with a Facebook friend and were talking about local events. I promised I wasn’t hitting on him and he joked “Shucks, I wish you were.” I said, “Sweet man, I would tear you outa the frame. Ain’t nobody got time for that.” My FB friends are such good sports.
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Keeping a secret, I get to watch the spin in action
In an “emergency” reading last night with a long standing client, he handed the phone to a friend of his who had a very exciting story to tell. The story will hit the national news any day now. It will be interesting to observe who has what spin on the matter, who will be promoting what viewpoint, and for what gain. Sadly, I won’t write about it again until maybe years later when everything is public record. Ah, yes, the waiting game. Until then, the secret is safe with me. There is something very delicious about having a secret, knowing something that no one knows, and no one knows you know. Especially if it’s something that would give you a little edge up, some social cachet if it were known. I love secrets like that. Continue reading
I pull out the acrylic paints for the first time in years. Izzy watercolored as a tiger.
Why in the middle of final layout week I felt the urge to take the paints out into the yard in this wind for several hours, I have no idea. And not the watercolors, mind you, no, the acrylics. I’ll share that one later, maybe. Here’s a watercolor I did of Izzy in 2001, I made him a tiger. This was the year after my hands got dinged in the car accident and my drawing/painting style became… um, simpler and more child like 🙂 I see here I had to use every color I had… I haven’t had the acrylics out for over 2 years. I need to set up the back office as the studio so I can keep the easels and supplies all set up. It’s got the good light in there also. Even more so if I knocked out that wall…
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision. Helen Keller
Thank you, no matter how you showed up in my life
Jade Wah’oo Grigori gave an excellent presentation tonight
Jade Wah’oo Grigori gave an excellent presentation tonight and he’ll be in town through next Wednesday. Jade has a wealth of free information on his website, articles, audio including a shamanic drumming journey, video including earth renewing ceremony. Take a taste of Jade and then travel to Indialantic to see him while he’s here. He is engaging and full of knowledge, his shamanic drumming tonight was truly transcendent. Toy-ahn-ah-me’ is a song, ceremony and teaching. Our Spirit’s body is a large oval field, comprised of shimmering filaments that bundle together around the various Threads of Intent such as communication, sexuality, caring, abundance, creativity, trust etc. Thru emotional shock or trauma, through fear, threat and demeanment, the threads become entangled, preventing self-expression. We feel inept, unworthy, incapable in those respective areas of life. Toy-ahn-ah-me’ frees the threads, allowing and enabling them to reactivate in resonance with our Spirit’s Threads of Intent. We then find ourselves transformed, free, able to experience and express in those arenas of life’s endeavors that have been activated.