It makes me laugh to see someone with a big honking keychain locked to a belt loop when they only have one real key. The extra keys they carry around for the look. The older I get, the less excess weight I want to carry around to maintain some image of who I think I should portray other than who I really Am right now. The more pretense I let fall away, the more I float to the surface in sweet relief.

A galpal who’s had low income and no car for years reached age 62 and I told her last month to sign up online for social security. When I saw her today, she hadn’t done it yet, saying she wanted to wait until she had her own computer, she didn’t want to enter all that info into a public computer.  With no transportation, she didn’t know when she could get around to shopping for one. I called my computer guru and asked if he had a basic computer she could go online with and he has a decent desktop computer for her for $60. I’ll pay him and pick it up next week and she can pay me back.  I love it when it costs so little to upgrade someone’s life experience. Especially someone who is always doing for others.

The kitty and the bunny are the same creature, you know.

Take a kitty, tug his ears and his tail goes in — poof, he’s a bunny.

Take a bunny, pull his tail and his ears go in, poof, he’s a kitty.  Same animal.

Isn’t this always how it is?  I was just going along my merry way, having fun painting, and friends who saw me share my art on Facebook began requesting prints. This is how fun becomes work and work becomes fun. I didn’t set out to create art to sell, I do it for personal enjoyment and evolution.  While it does take my time away from income producing projects, it is fun and makes me feel purposeful and content.  I know I’ll make up the dollars somewhere else.  And I am. When the Universe saw me having fun, it sent friends asking to buy prints from me.  I’m going to order some 5 x 7 cards as well, and on the back I’ll explain the symbolism for each image. I’ve done this recent series of paintings for the purpose of  soul retrieval, showing the spirit version of the various fragmented parts of myself.  Each image depicts a part of me, a facet of my personality or character.  I meditate upon the image to discover what gifts each part of my soul is handing back to me. It’s such evidence to me when the Universe responds as it does, supporting what I am doing without me even having to ask.  Continue reading →

I think Benny the Cat was weaned too soon. His new trick is to climb around under the lap blanket in the recliner with me, then dig around nosing and patty pawing up and down my leg, making smurfy sounds. He ends up suckling the blanket.

I’ve connected with a galpal twice this week and each time the name of a new friend came to my mind. I asked them each do they know the other. They do not. I took that as a sign I was supposed to connect them.  It turns out they live on the same street a block apart!

When doors close in your face, it’s because you are not supposed to enter. Your soul only leads you to safety – Jurne Azubiah

A friend is upset, citing “once again life has slammed a door in my face.” I told her it’s important to remember that it’s no biggie when that happens, that something else will replace it soon enough. Where one door closes another will open, but you won’t see the door if you’re stuck in the grieving process of what you feel you lost.  But what if  you feel you lost your purpose in life? Your purpose in life is just morphing into new forms of expression is all, and you’re in the stage of “oh, the caterpillar is dying”. That’s all. After the caterpillar dies, the butterfly emerges. All it is doing is morphing. What a caterpillar calls death, we call a butterfly.  You feel negative emotion when you’re looking in the wrong place.  If you’re looking in the right place but carry unresolved baggage from the past, you won’t see it.  How clearly you see what is right in front of you is up to you. When you begin fulfilling your soul’s purpose, you will see doors fly open all around you and it will become easy to attract the people who want what you have to offer.

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When you begin fulfilling your soul’s purpose, it will become easy to attract the people who want what you have to offer.

The person next to you is part of your spiritual family, like it or not — or they wouldn’t be there.

I’m always coming across friends who are scoping out locations to open a new healing center, a place for like minded folks to gather and come to circle.  I’ve seen it often: a new group begins and soon enough personality conflicts split it apart and each party goes off to start their own group.  Twenty years later, there are a dozen groups, each with just a handful of attendees.  Everyone wants to start their own group rather than attend where someone rubs them the wrong way.  What they fail to see is that each person in the group — especially if they rub you the wrong way — are there reflecting back to you facets of your personality that you are unaware of.  When you are triggered by something or someone, that shows you where you have emotional work to do.   Continue reading →

Armand Della Volpe made me contemplate why my guy and I have no conflict. The short version: We don’t have to deal with lots of stuff others deal with. We have no kids or grandkids, we each have our own residence, income and transportation. We’re both workaholics with similar backgrounds, lifestyles, likes and dislikes. Most importantly, we both meditate daily and we’re each more committed to staying conscious and connected to God/Source than we are to maintaining a status quo with any particular person, place, circumstance or event. That’s an invaluable shared goal to have.   Continue reading →