Busy day, friends suddenly passing, making travel plans, waiting on phone calls, not enough sleep, trying to catch up on work that I can do without using brainpower.  I’ve  been burning cds, labelling and getting them to the post office.   While waiting today for the calls from relatives, doctors, I needed some mindless busy work so I took the camera outside to take some shots of the pine and oak woods on either side of me, since I do a lot of sketching from photos.  I admired the cozy gardens I’d made, with privacy hedges of loquats, turk’s cap, arbicola, sage, eleagnus, coleus, night blooming jasmine, honeysuckle, spider plants, bamboo. All the trails I’ve cut, the sitting nooks I created.  I love being out in the nature, especially here where it’s so dense you can barely tell there is a neighborhood around me. When I feel stressed, as I have the last few days, being alone in the silence, out in nature is what heals me, it’s what fills me, it’s what fuels me so I have something to give to whoever needs it.  If I’m not filled with healing energy, how I can give anything to anyone else? My life is blessed.  I live in Paradise, I have no complaints whatsoever.

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I would like to ask for prayers for three loved ones that are expected to pass within the next few days, prayers for comfort and a peaceful passing .

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You are not the one who has thoughts: you are the wide open space in which all thoughts come and go. You are not the sad one or the happy one: you are the unlimited vastness in which joy, bliss, sadness and confusion are deeply allowed to arise and dissolve. You are not the one who is afraid: you are the boundless capacity for fear. You are not the one who lives or the one who dies: you are inseparable from life itself, and therefore cannot experience the loss of life. You are not this one or that one: you are the One, the silent, indefinable ocean of consciousness in which all thoughts, sensations, feelings are eternally held, embraced, and deeply met in unspeakable intimacy. You are the One you have sought for so long.  Jeff Foster (www.lifewithoutacentre.com)

I received 2 Facebook messages today from people I didn’t know warning about a friend.  The messages were worded like they didn’t think I knew him in real life. The Facebook profiles were blank when I checked, then deactivated a few minutes later.  It sounded as though they didn’t know he disclosed anything of note last year in his own blog.  To the message bearers behind the fake profiles, come out and say who you are and what you have to say.  You are the only one hiding anything. 

A friend and I were discussing the synchronicities of  feeling that events are about to unfold and then watching them come to pass.  In discussion, we play the game of amping up each others’ enthusiasm because we know that being in that fun flow of good feeling is important to releasing resistance.  We know that resistance is the biggest block to receiving all the good the Universe has to offer, and everything we’ve been wishing for.  A good exercise is to cultivate the feeling of being in love, which creates fuel to power the attraction process. You then turn your attention to the object of your desire, and keep the flow of love feeling going toward it.  If we stay mindful, it can be a powerful learning tool. It’s rare and beautiful to find someone in the work who understands the importance of that and is able to play at it with you.

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This is how I feel today.  I hit the floor running with good news on several fronts. Lucky?  Nope, good prepaving and constant karmic clean up for the best momentum…