Today.  I was walking by myself, planning on a quiet meditation, concentrating on my breathing, taking great strides of  effort towards "making progress" on my path; and I kept getting interupted by the amazingly beautiful world around me. So much so, I gave up on my original plan, and gave myself over to the appreciation of all the miracles of nature around me instead.

It's as if the beauty was just hammering on the door, trying to get in. And when I let it in, there was joy.

Ouch!
Oh yeah,
NOW I remember.

Tripped up by negative patterns
I  left laying all over my life
I fall again,
broken,
and find

that I had yet to pay attention.

I      didn't     quite     finish
putting together,
re-organizing
re-placing
re-turning
re-directing
re-plenishing;

tired and distracted
I left them in my way.

So now,
able to do little else,
I give them my full attention

finally joyful
at the prospect of healing

and

getting them out of my way




never





to bother me again.



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time?

ha ha!
  sometimes we say that
 ....but forget
  infinite possibilities

love?

what  a wonderful feeling,
 never tiring of anticipating more
 infinite satisfaction

joy?

Oh, to know
it's ever
without end : )



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This is a very under-reported perspective on the China quake...one with global ramifications.

Mianyang, where devastation has been widespread in the recent earthquake, is the center for the nuclear arms research program in China. It contains facilities and laboratories comparable  to the US's  Los Alamos. Nuclear experts say that not far north from there are tunnels in the sides of mountains where nuclear arsenals are stored. “It’s very close to the epicenter,” said one specialist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because, to the best of his knowledge, the exact location of the secret complex had never been publicly disclosed.

More information is available here

How everyone can help Myanmar - release the need to punish.

This short podcast reflects a huge step forward that humanity can take as power is removed from those who have wielded it to harm others, to truly bring peace on earth.

http://media.podcastingmanager.com/90716-83959/Media/burma.mp3

Ok, so this is a week early but it's message is timeless so I share it now.


Today is not HAPPY mothers day. It's mothers day. A day to remember and honor mothers.

All mothers.

 I contend parenting is the hardest job in the world, bar none. I honor everyone that accidentally ( a great majority) or on purpose, took on the job. We are all worthy of respect for even trying to work it out in this crazy world.

There are many mothers out there that may not be so proud of there handiwork, feeling less than successful at what they attempted. Yes, the card isles are full of appreciation for the great mothers who rode out all the obstacles and won, but this mother's day blessing is for the ones who tried and  feel like they failed; Sometimes miserably. I honor and bless those mothers today.

I honor the ones who tried to get it all "right" and ended up with their offspring all "wrong" in every conceivable way they couldn't  ever even have imagined. I honor the ones who doted on and provided for ungrateful kids that never see it. I honor the ones who watched their little ones fledge and never saw them again as they crashed upon the hardest circumstances that life offers. I honor all the ones who watch over the suffering of their children and don't have the resources to help them. I honor all those mothers who never had the tools from their own past and  so never had a clue about how to raise up healthy children. I honor those that stayed the course and those who jumped ship.

I honor every  mother. I bless you all, and I thank you. You may have no idea how brave and courageous and wonderful and amazing you are but I do. And so I bless you, and hope that someday soon, you too will see your greatness.

Not only is she beautiful, so are you in your true colors.

I Invite you to join with me for a few minutes this "earth day" April 22,2008 envisioning the type of world that is described in this song.  A world of Peace, Equality and Abundance.


“Imagine”
 
By John Lennon
 
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
 
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
 
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
 
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
 
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

a poem,

of course!


Invitation






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You can have mastery over your own genetics. And you don't need to buy anything to do it.