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lightenup
October 2008 
lightenup, my nickname
Posted on Oct 11th, 2008
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lightenup
Sometimes when I post about a "darker" theme, I receive comments about how my nickname doesn't jive with the content. Please allow me to expand the notion of my nickname to help clear up any confusion.
I use lightenup to mean adding levity of course. Sometimes it's easy for spiritual people get all serious and forget about fun and joy and laughter. After all, spiritual themes are the most serious of all; Life and death, suffering, world peace, that sort of stuff. But I also use it to mean adding the light of awareness to subjects. When shining light on dark agendas, they are exposed for what they are. Nasty, ugly, despicable, etc. Bringing that awareness to people could be construed as adding to the darkness. I disagree. The darkness is already there, and there are those that use it for their advantage and that is what I intend to expose.
Tip up a rock, let a little light in, and watch the squirmy things run for their lives.
Light exposes both the beauty and the filth. I am joyfully shining light on both. That is also why I use that icon. It is a "picture" of how I feel in the light of who I am, doing what I love,
shining as bright as I am.
When you see something you don't like, look away, but know, my only goal is to light -en up the entire world we live in.
I use lightenup to mean adding levity of course. Sometimes it's easy for spiritual people get all serious and forget about fun and joy and laughter. After all, spiritual themes are the most serious of all; Life and death, suffering, world peace, that sort of stuff. But I also use it to mean adding the light of awareness to subjects. When shining light on dark agendas, they are exposed for what they are. Nasty, ugly, despicable, etc. Bringing that awareness to people could be construed as adding to the darkness. I disagree. The darkness is already there, and there are those that use it for their advantage and that is what I intend to expose.
Tip up a rock, let a little light in, and watch the squirmy things run for their lives.
Light exposes both the beauty and the filth. I am joyfully shining light on both. That is also why I use that icon. It is a "picture" of how I feel in the light of who I am, doing what I love,
shining as bright as I am.
When you see something you don't like, look away, but know, my only goal is to light -en up the entire world we live in.
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Lightenup,
Happy to run across this post today. I find myself in exactly this position. I add the light of awareness to one of those darker aspects of humanity, hoping to encourage it to expose itself for what it is, as I can not know all there really is to know about these circumstances.
Shine on, bright light, shine on -
Deb