CELESTIAL DANCING

2010-05-03T21:33:00.000-04:00

2010-04-25T11:27:00.000-04:00

A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,

Head high in the forehead, wide between the ears,

Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,

Eyes full of sparkiling wickedness, ears finely cut, flexibly moving.

His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him,

His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around

and return.

2009-06-12T20:15:00.001-04:00

2009-04-04T00:55:00.000-04:00

DO0,DOO,DOO,DOO......?

2009-03-15T20:51:00.000-04:00

Whoever transmitted this translated message to you is irrelevant, and should remain anonymous in your mind. It is what you will do with this message which matters !

Each one of you wishes to exercise her/his free will and experience happiness.

These are attributes that were shown to us and to which we now have access. Your free will depends upon the knowledge you have of your own power. Your happiness depends upon the love that you give and receive.

Like all conscious races at this stage of progress, you may feel isolated on your planet. This impression makes you sure of your destiny. Yet, you are at the brink of big upheavals that only a minority is aware of.

It is not our responsibility to modify your future without you choosing it. Consider this message as a worldwide referendum! And your answer as a ballot!

Who are we ?

Neither your scientists nor your religious representatives speak unanimously about the unexplained celestial events that mankind has witnessed for thousands of years. To know the truth, one must face it without the filter of one´s beliefs, however respectable they may be.

A growing number of anonymous researchers of yours are exploring new knowledge paths and are getting very close to reality. Today, your civilisation is flooded with an ocean of information of which only a tiny part, the less upsetting one, is notably diffused.

What in your history seemed ridiculous or improbable has often become possible, then realised, in particular in the last fifty years. Be aware that the future will be even more surprising. You will discover the worst as well as the best.

Like billions others in this galaxy, we are conscious creatures that some name "extra-terrestrials", even though reality is subtler.

There is no fundamental difference between you and us, save for the experience of certain stages of evolution. Like in any other organised structure, hierarchy exists in our internal relationships. Ours is based upon the wisdom of several races. It is with the approval of this hierarchy that we turn to you.

Like most of you, we are in the quest of the Supreme Being. Therefore we are not gods or lesser gods but virtually your equals in the Cosmic Brotherhood.

Physically, we are somewhat different from you but for most of us humanoid-shaped.

Our existence is a reality but the majority of you does not perceive it yet. We are not mere observations, we are consciences just like you. You fail to apprehend us because we remain invisible to your senses and measure instruments most of the time.

We wish to fill this void at this moment in your history. We made this collective decision but this is not enough. We need yours. Through this message, you become the decision-makers ! You personally.

We have no human representative on Earth who could guide your decision.

Why aren´t we visible ?

At certain stages of evolution, cosmic "humanities” discover new forms of science beyond the apparent control of matter. Structured dematerialisation and materialisation are part of them. This is what your humanity has reached in a few laboratories, in close collaboration with other "extra-terrestrial" creatures at the cost of hazardous compromises that remain purposedly hidden from you by some of your representatives.

Apart from the aerial or spatial objects or phenomena known about by your scientific community, that you call ´UFOs, there are essentially multidimensional manufactured spaceships that apply these capacities.

Many human beings have been in visual, auditory, tactile or psychic contact with such ships, some of which are under occult powers that "govern" you. The scarcity of your observations is due to the outstanding advantages provided by the dematerialised state of these ships.

By not witnessing them by yourself, you cannot believe in their existence. We fully understand this.

The majority of these observations are made on an individual basis so as to touch the soul and not to modify any organised system. This is deliberate from the races that surround you but for very different reasons and results.

For negative multidimensional beings that play a part in the exercise of power in the shadow of human oligarchy, discretion is motivated by their will to keep their existence and seizure unknown.

For us, discretion is motivated by the respect of the human free will that people can exercise to manage their own affairs so that they can reach technical and spiritual maturity on their own. Humankind´s entrance into the family of galactic civilisations is greatly expected.

We can appear in broad daylight and help you attain this union. We haven´t done it so far, as too few of you have genuinely desired it, because of ignorance, indifference or fear, and because the emergency of the situation did not justify it. Many of those who study our appearances count the lights in the night without lighting the way. Often they think in terms of objects when it is all about conscious beings.

Who are you ?

You are the offspring of many traditions that throughout time have been mutually enriched by each others´ contributions. The same applies to the races at the surface of the Earth. Your goal is to unite in the respect of these roots to accomplish a common project. The appearance of your cultures seems to keep you separated because you substitute it to your deeper being. Shape is now more important than the essence of your subtle nature. For the powers in place, this prevalence of the shape constitutes the ramparts against any form of jeopardy.

You are being called on to overcome shape while still respecting it for its richness and beauty. Understanding the conscience of shape makes us love men in their diversity. Peace does not mean not making war, it consists in becoming what you are in reality: a same Fraternity.

To understand this, the number of solutions within your reach are decreasing. One of them consists in contact with another race that would reflect the image of what you are in reality.

What is your situation ?

Except for rare occasions, our interventions always had very little incidence on your capacity to make collective and individual decisions about your own future. This is motivated by our knowledge of your deep psychological mechanisms.

We reached the conclusion that freedom is built every day as a being becomes aware of himself and of his environment, getting progressively rid of constraints and inertias, whatever they may be. Despite the numerous, brave and willing human consciences, those inertias are artificially maintained for the profit of a growing centralising power.

Until recently, mankind lived a satisfying control of its decisions. But it is losing more and more the control of its own fate because of the growing use of advanced technologies, which lethal consequences on the earthly and human ecosystems become irreversible. You are slowly but surely losing your extraordinary capacity to make life desirable. Your resilience will artificially decrease, independently of your own will. Such technologies exist that affect your body as well as your mind. Such plans are on their way.

This can change as long as you keep this creative power in you, even if it cohabits with the dark intentions of your potential lords. This is the reason why we remain invisible. This individual power is doomed to vanish should a collective reaction of great magnitude not happen. The period to come is that of rupture, whichever it may be.

But should you wait for the last moment to find solutions ? Should you anticipate or undergo pain ?

Your history has never ceased to be marked by encounters between peoples who had to discover one another in conditions that were often conflictual. Conquests almost always happened to the detriment of others. Earth has now become a village where everyone knows everyone else but still conflicts persist and threats of all kinds get worse in duration and intensity.

Although a Human being as an individual, yet having many potential capacities, cannot exercise them with dignity. This is the case for the biggest majority of you for reasons that are essentially geopolitical.

There are several billion of you. The education of your children and your living conditions, as well as the conditions of numerous animals and much plant life are nevertheless under the thumb of a small number of your political, financial, military and religious representatives.

Your thoughts and beliefs are modelled after partisan interests to turn you into slaves while at the same time giving you the feeling that you are in total control of your destiny, which in essence is the reality.

But there is a long way between a wish and a fact when the true rules of the game at hand are unknown. This time, you are not the conqueror. Biasing information is a millenary strategy for human beings. Inducting thoughts, emotions or organisms that do not belong to you via ad hoc technologies is an even older a strategy.

Wonderful opportunities of progress stand close to big subdual and destruction threats. These dangers and opportunities exist now. However, you can only perceive what is being shown to you. The end of natural resources is programmed whereas no long-term collective project has been launched.

Ecosystem exhaustion mechanisms have exceeded irreversible limits. The scarcity of resources and their unfair distribution - resources which entry price will rise day after day - will bring about fratricide fights at a large scale, but also at the very heart of your cities and countrysides.

Hatred grows bigger but so does love. That is what keeps you confident in your ability to find solutions. But the critical mass is insufficient and a sabotage work is cleverly being carried out.

Human behaviours, formed from past habits and trainings, have such an inertia that this perspective leads you to a dead end. You entrust these problems to representatives, whose conscience of common well-being slowly fades away in front of corporatist interests, with those difficulties. They are always debating on the form but rarely on the content.

Just at the moment of action, delays will accumulate to the point when you have to submit rather than choose. This is the reason why, more than ever in your history, your decisions of today will directly and significantly impact your survival of tomorrow.

What event could radically modify this inertia that is typical of any civilisation ? Where will a collective and unifying awareness come from, that will stop this blind rushing ahead ?

Tribes, populations and human nations have always encountered and interacted with one another. Faced with the threats weighing upon the human family, it is perhaps time that a greater interaction occurred.

A great roller wave is on the verge of emerging. It mixes very positive but also very negative aspects.

Who are the "third party" ?

There are two ways to establish a cosmic contact with another civilisation: via its standing representatives or directly with individuals without distinction. The first way entails fights of interests, the second way brings awareness.

The first way was chosen by a group of races motivated by keeping mankind in slavery, thereby controlling Earth resources, the gene pool and human emotional energy.

The second way was chosen by a group of races allied with the cause of the Spirit of service. We have, at our end, subscribed to this disinterested cause and introduced ourselves a few years ago to representatives of the human power who refused our outstretched hand on the pretext of incompatible interests with their strategic vision.

That is why today individuals are to make this choice by themselves without any representative interfering. What we proposed in the past to those whom we believed were in a capacity to contribute to your happiness, we propose it now to ... you!

Most of you ignore that non-human creatures took part in the exercise of those centralising powers without them being neither suspected nor accessible to your senses. This is so true that they have almost very subtly taken control. They do not necessarily stand on your material plan, and that is precisely what could make them extremely efficient and frightening in the near future. However, be aware that a large number of your representatives are fighting this danger ! Be aware that not all abductions are made against you. It is difficult to recognize the truth !

How could you under such conditions exercise your free will when it is so much manipulated ? What are you really free of ?

Peace and reunification of your peoples would be a first step toward the harmony with civilisations other than yours.

That is precisely what those who manipulate you behind the scenes want to avoid at all cost because, by dividing, they reign! They also reign over those who govern you. Their strength comes from their capacity to distillate mistrust and fear into you. This considerably harms your very cosmic nature.

This message would be of no interest if these manipulators´ tutorate did not reach its peak and if their misleading and murderous plans did not materialise in a few years from now. Their deadlines are close and mankind will undergo unprecedented torments for the next ten cycles.

To defend yourselves against this aggression that bare's no face, you need at least to have enough information that leads to the solution.

As is also the case with humans, resistance exists amongst those dominant races. Here again, appearance will not be enough to tell the dominator from the ally. At your current state of psychism, it is extremely difficult for you to distinguish between them. In addition to your intuition, training will be necessary when the time has come.

Being aware of the priceless value of free will, we are inviting you to an alternative.

What can we offer ?

We can offer you a more holistic vision of the universe and of life, constructive interactions, the experience of fair and fraternal relationships, liberating technical knowledge, eradiction of suffering, controlled exercise of individual powers, the access to new forms of energy and, finally, a better comprehension of consciousness.

We cannot help you overcome your individual and collective fears, or bring you laws that you would not have chosen, work on your own selves, individual and collective effort to build the world you desire, the spirit of quest to new skies.

What would we receive ?

Should you decide that such a contact takes place, we would rejoice over the safeguarding of fraternal equilibrium in this region of the universe, fruitful diplomatic exchanges, and the intense Joy of knowing that you are united to accomplish what you are capable of. The feeling of Joy is strongly sought in the universe for its energy is divine.

What is the question we ask you ?

"DO YOU WISH THAT WE SHOW UP ?"

How to can you answer this question ?

The truth of soul can be read by telepathy. You only need to clearly ask yourself this question and give your answer as clearly, on your own or in a group, as you wish. Being in the heart of a city or in the middle of a desert does not impact the efficiency of your answer, YES or NO, IMMEDIATELY AFTER ASKING THE QUESTION! Just do it as if you were speaking to yourself but thinking about the message.

This is a universal question and these mere few words, put in their context, have a powerful meaning. You should not let hesitation in the way. This is why you should calmly think about it, in all conscience. In order to perfectly associate your answer with the question, it is recommended that you answer right after another reading of this message.

Do not rush to answer. Breathe and let all the power of your own free will penetrate you. Be proud of what you are ! The problems that you may have weaken you. Forget about them for a few minutes to be yourselves. Feel the force that springs up in you. You are in control of yourselves !

A single thought, a single answer can drastically change your near future, in one way as in another.

Your individual decision of asking in your inner self that we show up on your material plan and in broad daylight is precious and essential to us.

Even though you can choose the way that best suits you, rituals are essentially useless. A sincere request made with your heart and your own will will always be perceived by those of us whom it is sent to.

In your own private polling booth of your secret will, you will determine the future.

What is the lever effect ?

This decision should be made by the greatest number among you, even though it might seem like a minority. It is recommended to spread this message, in all envisageable fashions, in as many languages as possible, to those around you, whether or not they seem receptive to this new vision of the future.

Do it using in a humorous tone or derision if that can help you. You can even openly and publicly make fun of it if it makes you feel more comfortable but do not be indifferent for at least you will have exercised your free will.

Forget about the false prophets and the beliefs that have been transmitted to you about us. This request is one of the most intimate that can be asked to you.
Making a decision by yourself, as an individual, is your right as well as your responsibility !

Passivity only leads to the absence of freedom. Similarly, indecision is never efficient. If you really want to cling to your beliefs, which is something that we understand, then say NO. If you do not know what to choose, do not say YES because of mere curiosity. This is not a show, this is real daily life, WE ARE ALIVE ! And living !

Your history has plenty of episodes when determined men and women were able to influence the thread of events in spite of their small number.

Just like a small number is enough to take temporal power on Earth and influence the future of the majority, a small number of you can radically change your fate as an answer to the impotence in face of so much inertia and hurdles ! You can ease the mankind´s birth to Brotherhood.

One of your thinkers once said: “Give me a hand-hold and I´ll raise the Earth".

Spreading this message will then be the hand-hold to strengthen, we will be the light-years long lever, you will be the craftsmen to ... raise the Earth as a consequence of our appearance.

What would be the consequences of a positive decision ?

For us, the immediate consequence of a collective favourable decision would be the materialisation of many ships, in your sky and on Earth.

For you, the direct effect would be the rapid abandoning of many certitudes and beliefs.

A simple conclusive visual contact would have huge repercussions on your future. Much knowledge would be modified forever. The organisation of your societies would be deeply upheaved for ever, in all fields of activity. Power would become individual because you would see for yourself that we are living. Concretely, you would change the scale of your values !

The most important thing for us is that humankind would form a single family in front of this "unknown" we would represent !

Danger would slowly melt away from your homes because you would indirectly force the undesirable ones, those we name the "third party", to show up and vanish. You would all bear the same name and share the same roots: Mankind !

Later on, peaceful and respectful exchanges would be thus possible if such is your wish. For now, he who is hungry cannot smile, he who is fearful cannot welcome us. We are sad to see men, women and children suffering to such a degree in their flesh and in their hearts when they bear such an inner light.

This light can be your future. Our relationships could be progressive.

Several stages of several years or decades would occur: demonstrative appearance of our ships, physical appearance beside human beings, collaboration in your technical and spiritual evolution, discovery of parts of the galaxy.

Every time, new choices would be offered to you. You would then decide by yourself to cross new stages if you think it necessary to your external and inner well-being. No interference would be decided upon unilaterally. We would leave as soon as you would collectively wish that we do.

Depending upon the speed to spread the message across the world, several weeks, or even several months will be necessary before our "great appearance", if such is the decision made by the majority of those who will have used their capacity to choose, and if this message receives the necessary support.

The main difference between your daily prayers to entities of a strictly spiritual nature and your current decision is extremely simple :

we are technically equipped to materialise!

Why such a historical dilemma ?

We know that "foreigners" are considered as enemies as long as they embody the "unknown". In a first stage, the emotion that our appearance will generate will strengthen your relationships on a worldwide scale.

How could you know whether our arrival is the consequence of your collective choice ? For the simple reason that we would have otherwise been already there for a long time at your level of existence ! If we are not there yet, it is because you have not made such a decision explicitely.

Some among you might think that we would make you believe in a deliberate choice of yours so as to legitimate our arrival, though this would not be true. What interest would we have to openly offer you what you haven´t got any access to yet, for the benefit of the greatest number of you ?

How could you be certain that this is not yet another subtle manoeuvre of the "third party" to better enslave you ? Because one always more efficiently fights something that is identified than the contrary. Isn´t the terrorism that corrodes you a blatant example ?

Whatever, you are the sole judge in your own heart and soul ! Whatever your choice, it would be respectable and respected ! In the absence of human representatives who could potentially seduce into error you ignore everything about us as well as from about those who manipulate you without your consent.

In your situation, the precautionary principle that consists in not trying to discover us does no longer prevail. You are already in the Pandora´s box that the "third party" has created around you. Whatever your decision may be you will have to get out of it.

In the face of such a dilemma, one ignorance against another, you need to ask your intuition. Do you want to see us with your own eyes, or simply believe what your thinkers say ? That is the real question!

After thousands of years, one day, this choice was going to be inevitable: choosing between two unknowns.

Why spread such a message among yourselves ?

Translate and spread this message widely. This action will affect your future in an irreversible and historical way at the scale of milleniums, otherwise, it will postpone a new opportunity to choose to several years later, at least one generation, if it can survive.

Not choosing, stands for undergoing other people´s choice. Not informing others stands for running the risk of obtaining a result that is contrary to one´s expectations. Remaining indifferent means giving up one´s free will.

It is all about your future. It is all about your evolution.

It is possible that this invitation does not receive your collective assent and that, because of a lack of information, it will be disregarded. Nevertheless no individual desire goes unheeded in the universe.

Imagine our arrival tomorrow. Thousands of ships. A unique cultural shock in today´s mankind´s history. It will then be too late to regret about not making a choice and spreading the message because this discovery will be irreversible. We do insist that you do not rush into it, but do think about it ! And decide !

The big medias will not be necessarely interested in spreading this message. It is therefore your task, as an anonymous yet an extraordinary thinking and loving being, to transmit it.

You are still the architects of your own fate...

"DO YOU WISH THAT WE SHOW UP ?"

you are free to publish, reproduce and copy this message as you like !
on the contrary, you are invited to do it...

but don´t modify or cut the message, please.

2009-02-23T13:08:00.001-05:00

GOD BLESS AMERICA-AND GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!

2009-01-21T11:55:00.003-05:00

What can I say about a day like yesterday?
It was at the very least extraordinary - at the most, a shift in the very spirit of the world! We are indeed in a new era.
AMAZING!
It's not just that an African-American was elected President - though that is wildly amazing on it's own. But it's as if America believes in "America" again. We can hold our heads up in the world arena and say,"This is who we are".
Very heady stuff.
I was surprised at how emotional I was. I was a teary mess for awhile there. As happy and excited as I am for the accomplishments of the present and the hope for the future - I am equally overwhelmed by the victory that this is for that great crowd of witnesses that fought and died for liberty, equality and justice .
I thought of my grandparents who were so amazed that I had white friends; I know that they never thought that this day would come. So many of the older people in our world have seen and lived through things that I never really had to see.
What vindication this must be for them.
I know that in the history of the world, this is bright and shiny time. Darkness threatens at all levels,the era is winding down to the inevitable conclusion. We have this one bright victory, this one window of light. Let's hope that we make the most of it. Let's hope that we all pick up our candles, stand shoulder to shoulder and hold off the darkness for as long as we can.

THE GREATEST JOB IN THE WORLD

2009-01-18T22:18:00.003-05:00

THIS IS HEART REEF - ONE OF THE PLACES THAT I HOPE TO SEE IF I PERCHANCE GET THIS ABSOLUTELY DREAM JOB ON THE GREAT BARRIER REEF. OOOOH!
Yes, I'm going to apply. even though everybody that I talk to - including my husband - smirks and laughs and dismiss my hopes. (this from people who constantly tell me that I need to have hope and faith) I guess that faith and hope only help with the wildly possible.hmmmmm?
But truly - I really do think that this is actually is my dream job. No , I never actually dreamed this particular dream; but it's a shade of the Alaska homesteading dream, a shade of the wildlife researcher dream....... all the way back to the ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHIN dream. I know that I can do this, I know that my husband and I can do this. I must do this....

2009-01-18T21:21:00.001-05:00

The Angel of Light

by Wanda Monteforte I’ll lead you on an inner journey
A journey to a place where your truth lies….
Not my truth or their truth
But your truth that resides inside. There is no dark without the light
And there is no light without the dark.
But blending them together
Makes for a perfect heart…. For without the right
There is no wrong
And with no wrong
Nothing can be right. Shall not judge
Every thing you see or feel
For without the acceptance
Of everything that is You will never see what’s real. Accept everything that is
And everything that is not.
And there you’ll find
The place the truth belongs…. In your heart!

Artist: SunSpirit Gallery: The Visionary Art of Jon-William Brown

2009-01-18T19:54:00.001-05:00

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HAPPY NEW YEAR - HERE'S WISDOM FROM YODA

2008-12-30T17:45:00.002-05:00

I'll leave you with some words of wisdom from Yoda, from the movie
'Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back' :)

Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?
Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a
powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy
surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude
matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me,
the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the
ship.

[Using the Force, Yoda effortlessly frees the X-Wing from the bog]

Luke: I don't, I don't believe it.
Yoda: That is why you fail.

[Later...]

Yoda: ...a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the
dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are
they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you
start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny,
consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.
Luke: Vader... Is the dark side stronger?
Yoda: No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
Luke: But how am I to know the good side from the bad?
Yoda: You will know... when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi
uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

---------------------- Okay - I know I'm too old to be a Star' Wars Geek (but I am -so what of it:) But wisdom is Wisdom- even if it comes from Yoda.
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU IN THE NEW YEAR!

2008-12-27T12:22:00.002-05:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2008-12-14T14:11:00.003-05:00

---Karen, do you think I'll ever get straightened out?" she asked.

"If you're not too enamored of your difficulties," Karen said, her hand on the doorknob. "If you're not too firmly set on remodeling 'nearer to your heart's desire.' We may think this is a "sorry scheme of things' but we have to learn that our own judgment is neither completely valid nor the polestar for charting our voyage. Too often we operate on the premise that what we think just has to be the norm for all things. Really, you'd find it most comforting to admit that you aren't running the universe----that you can't be responsible for everything, that there are lots of things you can and must relinquish into other hands----" aSince I've started on this journey -since I've stopped try to remodel myself "nearer my hearts desire".(or anyone else's desire for that matter}; since I've stopped trying to be the perfect christian woman. I'm starting to uncover and recover the more perfect me. Amazing!
I started folk dancing again. More specifically English country dancing and contra dancing.
I grew up folk dancing, and for some reason I put it away in the treasure chest in my heart.
All of a sudden that chest has been thrown open and things that I used to love are spilling out for me to take a look and and to try on again. Dancing is one of those things. Oh my how much fun-I'd forgotten. I'd also forgotten the joy, the crazy "dancer community", and the lovely music.

When I danced these lovely partner dances in my youth I always had to dance the man's part, ('cause of course there were never enough boys, and the cute"little" girls got to dance with them) but now as an adult I actually get to be the girl - and i get to be twirled and spinned at the man's whim, just like those "little popular girls". So much fun!
Who knew that my 50's would become my renaissance?

LET EVERYTHING PRAISE...!

2008-12-04T20:10:00.001-05:00

Animusic 2 - 03 - Resonant Chamber
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MUSIC IS PLAYING........

2008-12-04T20:03:00.000-05:00

Music machine
Uploaded by shermix

2008-11-29T14:51:00.000-05:00

Songs just depend on who you're singing them to.......

2008-11-27T13:16:00.000-05:00

MY JOURNEY BEGINS......

2008-11-23T18:22:00.003-05:00

After 25 years as a "Christian", and just about that long trying on the different expressions of congregational life, I have decided - for now at least - to "just say no".
I'm still a believer in God the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, I'm just starting to see that there is much more to this spirit-life than "mainstream Christianity" is willing to go.
I have huge questions - questions that cannot even be whispered in polite Christian society.
So I'm questing on my own.
I know that some things that I take a look at will have no truth at all, some will have partial truth, and some will be total rabbit trails taking me nowhere... But still....I know that there is still much more happening than what we are all so content with believing. I want to see, feel and learn-
MORE.

IMAGINE

2008-11-19T12:44:00.001-05:00

"Imagination is the beginning of creation.You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.

~ George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)"

SIGNS OF INNER PEACE

2008-11-16T13:16:00.002-05:00

Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:
* A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.

* An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.

* A loss of interest in judging other people.

* A loss of interest in judging self.

* A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.

* A loss of interest in conflict.

* A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom.)

* Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.

* Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.

* Frequent attacks of smiling.

* An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen.

* An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.

Sep 17, 5:31am

2008-11-16T11:45:00.002-05:00

I loved you once: perhaps that love has yet
To die down thoroughly within my soul;
But let it not dismay you any longer;
I have no wish to cause you any sorrow.
I loved you wordlessly, without a hope,
By shyness tortured, or by jealousy.
I loved you with such tenderness and candor
And pray God grants you to be loved that way again.

2008-11-08T16:21:00.004-05:00

Rosa sat so that Martin could march
Martin marched so that Jesse could run
Jesse ran so that Obama could win

Obama must win so that our children can fly......

I would be remiss if I didn't say something about the the amazing events of this past week. Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, on November 4, 2008. Amazing!

I've never lived my life paying much attention to race. I was very lucky to have been born at the tail end of the Baby - Boomer generation, and even luckier to have grown up in Yellow Springs, Ohio. A hot bed of Quaker influenced, hippie intellectuals who (and this is one of my first memories of race relations)would not not even tolerate a barber in our little village who said that he would not cut "Negro Hair". I remember going to my first town" demonstration" when I was six or seven. I loved it. Of course to me , it was just a time of seeing all my friends and singing. WE SHALL OVERCOME, and other great protest songs. There was such a feeling of community;even as a child my impression was that the whole town was there, all races. and we were one. The upshot was that the barber was boycotted and picketed,and eventually left town.

All this is to say that I was raised - if not colorblind -then darned close to it. When I voted for Barack Obama I was very careful to not vote because he is a member of The people of colour, as I am. I simply thought that he was the right person for the job. So I was totally taken aback by the upwelling of emotion - of pride - that filled my heart. I always did believe that anyone could become president, but I guess I never thought that a person of colour (or a woman for that matter) would actually do it in my lifetime.
I found myself wishing that my grandparents were still alive. They would be .....blownover by this.
These were the same people who freaked out because I had White friends.
I found that I unconconciously walked a bit taller ,smiled a bit more easily. I realized that for a brief shining time , we americans lived up to all our boastful talk.
I'm proud of us!
It remains to be seen what all this will actually mean down the road. But for now we will bask in the post-election afterglow.

HALLOWEEN - A HOLIDAY?

2008-11-01T01:25:00.002-04:00

Yesterday someone said to me , " Happy Halloween!" Now I'm sure that person meant well. But I couldn't help thinking, "When did Halloween become an actual holiday -one where we wish each other well?" Yes, yes, I know - great fun, costumes, trick-or-treating, fun and mischief the order of the day. But there's also celebration of fear, blood and gore, death, and evil. Ooooo great fun. But a holiday - a Holy day? I don't think so.

Lest you think I'm being too serious and picky about this, (I must admit that this isn't a huge deal) just think, we can "Happy Halloween" 'til the cows come home, but we can't say "Merry Christmas" because that's somehow politically incorrect.
What kind of sense is that?

TRUE BEAUTY

2008-10-31T11:12:00.006-04:00

 The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,
 the figure  that she carries,
or the way she combs her hair.
 The beauty of a woman must be  seen from in her eyes,
 because that is the doorway to her heart,
the place  where  love resides.
 The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,
 but true beauty in  a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the   caring that she lovingly gives,
the  passion that she shows,
and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows!

Aww c'mon, Jesus would chuckle too.....

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Thanks for the preparation ........

2008-10-08T20:03:00.001-04:00

I never thought that I would actually be thankful for these hard and poverty-laden years that my family has gone through these past fifteen years or so. So, you can imagine my considerable shock and glee as I listen and watch as our nation dissolves into financial crises. And I feel - no fear! Even a bit of thankful relief!
I have already lived through the things that I thought would certainly kill me. I've been evicted, and then homeless - for a time. I've had my car taken away, twice -for a time. I've endured the humiliation of having to be on Welfare - for a time. I've had my "friends" say and do horrible things because they didn't think I was being poor correctly - for a time. And I'm still here! And I'm not afraid of what will happen, at least not financially.
Don't get me wrong. I do not want to go through any more hard times. This is not fun. I shudder to think what will happen to people who haven't had crap happen to them for awhile. Or people who are very used to having the latest and best material possessions. This could be a very difficult winter - for all of us. Maybe it's true - misery does love company. Forgive me - I certainly don't wish for anyone to go through any of what I've been through; and I certainly don't think that I've gone through nearly what ,say any of the hurricane victims have been through....... I'm just saying that it will be nice to not be the only ones having a hard time. Sadly , there's a kind of brotherhood in pain.

I'm just going to say this, "Thank-you Lord - for preparing me"

PAUL NEWMAN

2008-09-27T16:15:00.005-04:00

Paul Newman died yesterday at age 83. It seems that almost all the stars that I grew up with are gone now, and with them, part of my youth .

Now I understand that I never really knew Paul Newman, but for as long as I can remember there's been Paul Newman on the edge of my reality. When I was a child I remember my mother and grandmother gushing over those blue eyes. As I got older I discovered Paul myself. The first time that I saw COOL HAND LUKE, I was mesmerized. He was beautiful and powerful and intense. I remember thinking,"O that's what Mom was talking about" As a young teenager I saw BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID. My friends and I argued for months over who was more beautiful, Paul Newman or Robert Redford. But it wasn't until I saw him in ROAD TO PERDITION that i finally realized the talent that lies under all that beauty. He could say so much with just a twitch of a facial muscle....

And let us not forget all of his humanitarian efforts..... I'll miss him. The World will miss him.
To Paul's family and friends I send my prayers and sympathies - and thanks for letting us borrow him for awhile.

Paul - may God richly bless your soul, you did good here. Go rest high upon the mountain...

DANCES WITH MOON

2008-09-14T01:27:00.004-04:00

You may wonder about the spacey/nightsky type of art that will pop up here and there around this blog. My family says that I'm a "space cadet". Maybe a little; maybe more that i enjoy the beauty, the romance of nighttime. The muted blues,grays,and browns; the stillness, the quiet, all combine to make me feel somehow more.....sensual. Not sensual in a loud sexual sense - but sensual - in that I seem to sense more. When I walk late at night I am somehow - more.As if everything opens and I finally breathe free.
The stars and the moon are friends that call me to dance in the fields, to spin and reel and to look up and wonder and worship.
thank the Lord for the nighttime.

... in the beginning......

2008-09-08T13:32:00.003-04:00

This is an experiment for me. I have never truly written anything for anyone to see. In fact, for quite awhile, i have poo-pooed the thought of blogging. "why in the world would i want to lay myself bare for all to see?" I would say to myself.
Until one day i looked and i could not find myself.(truly,it took me 3 days to fill in my profile. i couldn't figure out my favorites!)
somehow i've become buried under myriad false expectations(mine included),anger,guilt, fear, exhaustion....yeah,your basic case of World Weariness;too emotionally exhausted to even be bothered with the care and upkeep of a personality all my own.

But this is a new beginning! I am taking back me! I've given so many pieces of me away,I feel scattered to the four winds..... I'm taking back and trying to renew and rebuild the lost pieces of me. Then we'll take a look and see what we've come up with.

So bear with me. For awhile it may seem like there is no rhyme or reason to this process. I think about many things - on the inside. I wonder about many things - on the inside. I am many people - on the inside. The process of bringing the inner to the outer could be - chaotic -at best.
but chaotic is interesting.......right?