"I didn't want to say 'Muse'. I didn't want to say I have one. As though it would be a pretension; as if I was saying "my lawyer", when I never had one.

"High falutin'" my grandmother would have called it... or..; "Giving yourself airs".: elevating my status without authority to do so, is what that means...  But Listen; the Authority is Here; right here, right now.., nowhere else in fact: I, She, This One; This One is the Author of this now moment. This Authority Stands here. Speak then, O Muse, and I will say; Here Am I."

{freshly come from my 10th/11th/12th??? consecutive Spring Writer's Retreat with the International Women's Writing Guild... exhale......aaaaaah}; awesome resource.

What is the Guild? The IWWG, founded in 1976, is a network for the personal and professional empowerment of women through writing and open to all regardless of portfolio.

As such, it has established a remarkable record of achievement in the publishing world, as well as in circles where lifelong learning and personal transformation are valued for their own sake.

The Guild nurtures and supports holistic thinking by recognizing the logic of the heart--the ability to perceive the subtle interconnections between people, events and emotions- alongside conventional logic.
http://www.iwwg.com/

Listening Vessels
Still Waters..
Thought erupts..
Splash!

I love that I came to love my blood
I love the triumphant deposits I made
on the Glastonbury egg stone
And at Wounded Knee
and at the four corners
of the newly-built straw bale home;
the builder deeply knowing
it was a blessing

I love how my final blood came
in a great wash
like a birth
as we made love
and how we both
were in awe
at its arriving.

CCR McF

Formed in the same womb space
you and I
O blessed womb
blessed World
precious Sister

O My Blood Sister
Maggi Moon
You were born to sing...

I can tell..
She sings for hummingbirds...
http://www.1000hummingbirds.concarino.org

Waking in the morning
I espy a little white carry bag on the chair
brought in by courier husband
from one of my sweet girlfriends

"What are you grateful for?"
it says
Cafe Gratitude
it says..

And inside
a gift;
soft, fleece, organic, creamy zipper jacket
with little gold & silver drops
perfect for feeling delicious
on these chilly blossom-filled Spring mornings
out along the river
to where the Ocean meets

This jacket was not purchased for me
but passed to me by dear Susannie
like Lakota pass clothes
with exquisite attention to what they are passing;
something of themselves
with love and kindness and deliberation

And I am spilljoyed all over again
as it triggers like moments
when I suddenly realize
I am standing
entirely clothed
by friends, sisters, daughters...

Yes, it's happened now
more than once;
entirely clothed by gifted garments
Aaaaahhh
feels so warm

So these are the garments of gladness
we were urged
to put on....

 
DO YOU SEE IT...CORRINA?????????
HE IS NOT HANGING HIMSELF!!!!!!!!
 
At this major, full flag event, OBAMA, My Man...
IS NOT WEARING HIS TIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
{Johanna to Corrina!}

For me, my granddaughter (affectionately nicknamed 'Kumquat' in utero) Holly's birth  marked the launch of the "Vibrational Escrow Chronicles", formal records of which will now go down in history as beginning 7th October, 2008.

In the manner of her arrival she happens to represent a perfect embodiment of 'vibrational escrow' (definition below) in action: in the absence of her arrival, day after day; for-a-whole-month{!}, and we all sharing the profound and activated desire to see her arrive swiftly and safely, we turned our attention every single day, somehow or another, and brought ourselves into the best state of mind/heart (vibration/frequency) that we could muster in relation to her delivery. We asked, deeper and deeper; what else; what more must we do to prepare, what have we not thought of... what have we not yet felt, acknowledged, spoken.. Was it a stillness that was called for.. or a song.. or a long walk in the country.... (we did everything!).

Thus when Holly May did finally emerge, all was prepared, perfectly positioned, purposefully poised... and she was fast; very fast, and a fully ripe Kumquat!

VIBRATIONAL ESCROW description:
"For every single thing you want, there are 20 or 30 or 40 available avenues to open right now. Right now to lead you closer to what you want. Right now they're there ready to pop(!) with you just turning downstream. But the problem with being turned upstream is you've got the upstream habit and you've gotta develop the downstream habit.

 

And when you start developing the downstream habit, AH people are going to say "What have you done? It's like all that stuff was lined up outside your door. How'd you get the door open? Avalanches of things you've been wanting just begin coming into your experience.

 

...It's wonderful thing when your desire to feel good motivates the direction of your thought. That's the guidance you were born with, you see.

 

… And (suddenly) things that looked far and distant and even impossible will be realities in your experience. That's how ready to POP your vibrational escrow is. That's how ready it is."

 

(from Abraham-Hicks recording, CD 10/14/06 - Washington DC)

Earthlings…

concerning "April Fool's"

 

Space is a state of consciousness

Time is a construct of man

money's the medium and message

Love indeed comes in a "Can"

 

(Yes we CAN!)

 

Say "I can't" and you predict it

Say "I can't" and you concede

Say "I can't" and you surely have tricked it

into playing the game of "great need"

 

Fear is a state of contraction

Despair is a leaky drain

energy prices are raised by the vices

of "exhaust" and "deplete" and "no gain"

 

Royal jesters come forth in the knowledge

that your energy comes from the source

Not 4 Star, Not 5 Star but boundless

Green, clean deep eco of course

 

We are the ones

we've been waiting for

we said it already

we've said it before...

 

 

Armistice proper escaped us

Mother's Day wisdom Hallmarked

Profound Fool Day diminished to play

an April Fool's prank for a lark

 

But heed this true merry-minder

the mark of this day is the mirth

deep bubbling forth

from the south to the north

from your gut to your grin to your girth

 

The mirth is the Knowing remembered

the girth is the World Around

the tumbling Fool is the true wisdom tool

of all stardusty offspring earthbound

 

Do these words have you breathing

and grinning?

Hey presto! You opened the door

You're destined unless you block it

for more and exceedingly MORE

 

 

Love is e*v*o*l*v*e

swirled round and around

and evolve is inspired

wherever its found

 

In like a lion

comes March for its run

and out like a lamb

it goes when its done

 

Now cometh the month

of the Motliest Fool

Breathe deep and prepare

for this destined crown jewel

 

Ample is our birthright

Plenty is our Lot

A~bun~dance is a jolly thing

You have already got

 

"dance like nobody's watching

Love like you've never been hurt"

And please embrace the naked man

Who offers you his shirt

 

All Fools All Jewels All Kindred

All Precious All Received

The World we birth; our own Green Earth

By vision-heart conceived.

 CCR McF
April 1^st ~ Profound Fool Day

 Dear Fools of the Highest Order,

April 1st is Profound Fools Day when everything gets tipped on its head. When high becomes low and low becomes high.

 With social order and etiquette all happily awry, there is high happenstance of magic and miracles.
Peep around the corner, step out of the box (jack-in-the-box is not bound at the base after all) and focus your glorious intent.

See you in the forest,

love elf