“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”    Arundhati Roy

Another win

Yay, I just checked my tickets and see I won $555 in the Christmas Eve Fantasy Five drawing.  I don’t spend a lot on tickets.  I buy a quick pick twice a week.  Any winnings I get from that I allow myself to buy other tickets with.  My rule is I can only play the lottery with lottery winnings.  This fills my lottery bank for 2013: a good sign!
A story of synchronicity: One afternoon I’d stopped at Circle K to buy my lotto quick pick.  The woman ahead of me bought a string of the $1 Monopoly scratch off tickets, and as soon as they were being handed to her, I said “You need to buy three more.“ I didn’t mean to say it, I didn’t think about saying it, I just heard it when I said it.  She turned around and just looked at me like I was a loony and walked away.  I asked the clerk for 3 of the same tickets she just bought.  One paid $20, the second paid $5 and on the third I won $25.  I’d never bought those before and didn’t go in there thinking about anything other than getting my Lotto quick pick and deciding whether I wanted candy corn or not.

Years ago I began experiencing that dollars could come to me from all corners of the Universe without me having a clue where it would come from.  And I began to expect to be surprised.  I began to expect to be delighted with the ways the Universe provided me with bounty.  And I continue to be.  You can, too.  It just takes practice.  Expect a miracle.

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We are awakening, To the calling of the mystic.
We are awakening, In the flowering of the heart.
Everybody here melting into Presence,
overflowing Effervescence Rising in love

Om shanti Satchidananda om Shanti om
We are awakening, To a long forgotten memory
Dawn is breaking, Waves are coming in.
Everybody here,  Standing in wonder
Beneath the rain and the thunder
Rising in love.

We are awakening, To this perfect imperfection
Celebrating in the oneness of it all.
Everybody here Part of each other Sister and brother, Rising in love.
Om shanti Satchidananda om Shanti om

No more alarm clock!

This week I’ve been cleaning and rearranging and getting the house back to Andrea order.  I’ve had a house guest the past year and worked around his schedule, which threw my own off. It was awesome to be forced to make changes I would not have otherwise made.  I love that. That keeps the neurons in my brain firing, keeping my mind flexible.  To make room, my free weights had gone into the hallway to free up the back bedroom, formerly my yoga and workout room.  I switched my yoga and meditation times to when I’d have privacy, since my guest was not into my daily practices.  I moved a meditation altar and the healing bench into my main office, so the living room looked more like a home and less like a temple.  This week I’ve been moving everything back into place, the living room looking once again like a temple.  I put away the coffeepot and sugar bowl and lined all my herbal teas up front and center in the beverage bar.  I unplugged the alarm clock!

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Well meaning friends who feel the need to tell me he’s already moved on to publicly seeking a new partner: He’s entitled to do that. We’re not together nor want to be, we have different dreams and goals. He’s entitled to seek happiness. We all are.  It’s no biggie. Change happens. I don’t rewind.  I don’t need anyone to replace him. I wasn’t looking for anyone when he came along. I have the coolest life on the planet, regardless of who is or isn’t in it.  Thank you for your concern 🙂 

“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting laundry.”  – E.B. White

Don’t go through life afraid to speak what is on your mind for fear of hurting someone or having favors withdrawn; both parties are dishonored by leaving truths unspoken. If you  want out of a relationship, trust me, they probably do too. Stop wasting everyone’s time and find the courage to say it.  Whatever it is. Silence when there is something to say is as much a deception as a spoken lie. Let your uncoupling be as conscious as your coupling. It never has to be Armageddon.

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It makes it hard for the traveler to move on if well meaning friends keep pointing him back toward where he’s come from. Wounds heal best if left alone. To everyone meaning to help, we’re good, really.