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"3 Conscious Angels: Water, Air & Sunlight"

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:11:54 GMT

after the prayer

Come to sit with my dying friend I say; "How are you James?"

To which he replies with clear blue eyes and beautific smile; "I am attended by three conscious angels who abide with me always; Water, Air, and Sunlight."

His words alight on me. I am alight. I am utterly astonished; fluttered, lit up.

20 years since I first picked up that little book at Findhorn; The Gospel of Peace of Jesus Christ, and I have loved those Jesus words since first ever I read them, and uttered them silently many a time in diverse situations in my Planet Earth sojourn, but never has someone delivered them back to me.

I love how this plane astonishes me back to myself.

white faerie with blue marble

Tags: angels, air, water, sunlight

"Hurray for 'Funny Monday'... "; extended by popular demand

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:37:13 GMT

Between Christmas & New Year

There was ONE Monday:

"Hooray for Funny Monday
The only Funny Monday in the Year
When the world-of-normal
can't quite rein it all in
before New year hits...."

This window in time drew on two numinous pieces of data in my memory-bank/archives:

Home schooling two daughters back in the '80s, they had surprised me one Saturday, saying how they just LOVED Saturdays. Why does it matter to you; you who are not bound by the Monday to Friday regime? I was curious to know. At which they both looked at me aghast that I didn't get; the whole world feels different on Mondays; can't you feel it??!!

It was years later that I learned the statistic; that more people drop dead of a heart attack around 9: 00 AM on Monday morning than at any other time of the week....

JOYLESS STRIVING....

So today {January 4, 2010) is the first Monday since that 'Funny Monday' declaration I made (to my family on Facebook!) and the ramifications of that were so alive in me still this morning, that I am very happy to report; another 'Funny Monday' readily manifest:

We went out together on our bikes in the morning sun (I more often go alone). The San Lorenzo River mouth, out to the sweep of the magnificent Monterey Bay was all sparkling in the winter sun. We cycled round the harbor, along the canyon and up to Staff of Life, got wheat grass & coffee and fruit and sat outside, relishing the bright warmth of this early January day.

Ryan has been reading aloud at my request, from Jung's 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections', which we are both loving renewing/reviewing, and I am crocheting a mad multi-colored hat that will find its head in the fullness of time.

Beginning the day in this way, I do believe constitutes a 'Funny Monday' {life-enhancing} Act, which may well extend out through the whole year!

Golden children come from the forest

Tags: Funny, Monday, 2010, January

How I Have Loved This Length of Days..

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:25:52 GMT

How I have Loved this Length of Days
No clock alarms.. no knot-nerves-frayed
The inward turn'd, the rain, the lights
our music and our special rites

Thru New Year's Day & weekend still
to give us time to still;
Be Still...

In this America we needs
must take such time
to tend to seeds
we scatter'd;
scattered as we ran
planting
chanting;
Yes We Can!CCR McF, January, 2010

Barack snooze

Tags: New, Year, Poem, 2010

Okay fellow Scorpios, here's your 2010 encouragement...

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:26:51 GMT

"It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"

""It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a Jazz tune composed in 1931 by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills.

In accordance with your long-term astrological omens, I propose that we make that song title your motto in 2010 - the standard you'll keep referring to as you evaluate which experiences you want to pursue and which you don't. Please proceed on the assumption that you should share your life energy primarily with people and situations that make your soul sing and tingle and swing."

(courtesy of Pronoia wizard, Rob Brezsny):

pronoia cover

Tags: stars, brezsny, pronoia, 2010

I Am Drinking This In...., this..... treasure pleasure moment

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:24:39 GMT

Let every precious moment in its passing

In-Form Me... In Form Me... In-Form Me...

IMG00188-20091228-1724

Tags: painting, nails, Minnie, New, Year, Jess

Christmas Eve & Quark Stars: To Drink A Magic Potion......

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:24:20 GMT

Be you but 3 or ninety-four
the voices echo through
and though you be light years from here
Loved Voices; part of you

You must make a Christmas potion
And drink it in one go
From all the winter berries
(except of course the Sloe… :(

You must make a magic potion
that is steaming hot and red
And drink it on sweet Christmas Eve
before you go to bed

Kendal kissing bough

The berries of this year have grown
and will not come again
and everything you have been shown
will bring forth fruit…..
or wane

What things you choose to name and praise
what things you dwell upon
will grow and what you choose to leave
like compost will be gone

Then name the things you love the most
delightful and delicious
then each to sup the Christmas cup
and name your heartfelt wishes

What kindles best the oft-forgot
it takes a certain match to start
It's the merry-making magic
that is kindled in the heart

Then place your magic potion cups
beneath the '09 tree
And once upon asleep
you'll dream A Piece that's yet to be

Not set in stone, not guaranteed, but something to re-member
Things all too easily forgot
Are sparked by one small ember

Now should you think this magic stuff is old time quackeroo
it's best you duck the ten ton truck of quarks that quack at you
For though Quark Stars* are fairly new in our old line of thinking
it's levity that's overdue and gravity that's sinking (us)

Thus you must drink this potion; be you child or quite (up) grown
And make the magic strong enough, since it has now been shown
That y =equals z

and x is a spoof

and v is a sort of jam
and life is algebraic
as well as made of ham

The real truth of the matter is
that you are made of stars
whether you originate from underground or Mars

And what you're bringing through has not been brung before
And what you weave with kindred now Reveals an unseen door

There's doors we've never stepped through
nor ever dreamed we could
Yet doors of your deep dreaming
are not made out of wood

They're made out of far-reaching
beyond this time and space
from overnight deliveries
from your unique home~base

No one but you can make the trip
no one but you can bring
that particular particulate
with your familiar ring

To return now to the potion
that you drink on Christmas Eve
it's not childsplay and thus this elf
with you one thought will leave

A truly awesome spell is spun when you opt to drink a potion
Threads are set to shimmering and events are set in motion
That will carry your deep dreaming across a thousand years
to all the children yet to be

from ancestors to peers.

While Planets turn and Seasons morph and shooting stars still shine
The present is the gift

and the gift:

two thousand NINE

Unwrap the gift before it fades and help each other to
recall the highlight moments that were for In-Forming you

Thus you shape the things to come; by naming what has been
Appreciating assets means

Re~counting what (you love)

you've seen

Appreciate.. Appreciate means
increase expand extend and grow
Appreciate means integrate
So you know you know you know

The silent K in knowing
stands for hitherto unheard
So speak your piece and thus release
The awesome K-know ker-bird.

beeKoz...
that bird is awesome;
an awesome wingéd thing
into our sky that bird will fly…
but only when YOU
DO YOUR THING!

CCR McF.

*Quark Star A strange star composed of strange matter. This is an ultra-dense phase of matter that is theorized to form inside particularly massive neutron stars.

It is theorized that when the neutronium which makes up a neutron star is put under sufficient pressure due to the star's gravity, the individual neutrons break down and their constituent quarks form strange matter.

The star then becomes known as a "strange star" or "quark star". Strange matter is composed of up quarks, down quarks and strange quarks bound to each other directly, in a similar manner to how neutronium is composed of neutrons; a strange star is essentially a single gigantic nucleon.

A strange star lies between neutron stars and black holes in terms of both mass and density, and if sufficient additional matter is added to a strange star it will collapse into a black hole as well. Quark Stars feature of several cosmological theories. Quark Stars are largely theoretical at this point, but observations released by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory on April 10 2002 detected two candidates, designated RX J185635-3754 and 3C58, which had previously been thought to be neutron stars. Based on the known laws of physics, the former appeared much smaller and the latter much colder than they should, suggesting that they are composed of material denser than neutronium.

It remains to be seen how the question of strange star existence will play out.

Wishing All a Quarky Christmas Eve!

Tags: potion, quark, stars, Chrsitmas, Eve, magic

"The Beauty of Burt's Feathering Device..."

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:45:58 GMT

"Virgin Galactic will be using clean and safe technology, tech that is many 1000 of times more environmentlly friendly than any previous manned space vehicle.

Already Virgin Galactic's carrier White Knight II is the world's largest all carbon-composite aircraft. With the end of the oil era approaching and climate change progressing faster than most models have been predicting........ robust, safe, and more importantly environmentally benign space travel is more important than ever....."

Virgin Galactic Full Introduction film Nov 09 Version 2.mov

Tags: spaceship, Branson, commercial, Virgin

"I am one of the vortexes..through which your wellbeing flows.."

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:36:42 GMT

Suggest you just watch the water in the crisp ice and snow of winter and listen to the words..

But if you want to cut to the chase of a phenomenal parent to child communication, go straight to 5:55 minutes and hit play

The Fairness of Wealth

Tags: vortex, wealth, money, children, parent

The Human Equivalent of birdsong

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:02:52 GMT

I had landed in England on my birthday; 11:11. My first English-soil birthday in 20 years.

And now, at my sister's house, every bed & every bedroom was full after my birthday celebration. I was sharing a bed with one of my daughters. In our room also was 13 month Holly and 3 year old Minnie.

And there, in the pre-dawn darkness, pre-verbal Holly sang out; one melodic line that plucked me from sleep in utter astonished delight.

Then silence, as I lay, alert now, almost breathless at what I had just heard.

Minutes passed.. then she did it again, another glorious melody~string. Another silence, then some rustling of bedclothes as she transitioned into infant-like chatter of which I am familiar; also delightful but with the former glorious human-birdsong still reverberating through my awed psyche.

Note: image credit - from {Teachings of Abraham} Well-Being Cards

Tags: birdsong, babe, morning, wonder

TAKE BACK THE TAP

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:20:25 GMT

water tap NECKLACE

The Facts About Bottled Water
Did you know that….
Bottled water costs consumes 240 to 10,000 times more per gallon than tap water, and is less likely to be ensured for purity.
What you don’t know about the bottled water industry could be costing you hundreds of dollars a year. Get the facts on bottled water and find out why tap water is a better bet.

Ready to shift from bottled to tap? Learn how to interpret your Water Quality Report,how to choose a filter, and how to host a bottled water-free event. http://takebackthetap.org/

Tags: tap, faucet, water, bottle, bottled, bottles, plastic

"Up the Tall White Candlestick went little Mousey Brown..."

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:56:45 GMT

Up the Tall White Candlestick went little Mousey Brown

Right to the top

and he couldn't get down....

So he called to his gran'ma;

"Gran'ma! Gran'ma!!!"

But Gran'ma was in town..

So he curled himself up

in a tight little ball and

He rolled himself

all the way down.......

(to the utter delight of our nearly 3 year-old : )

P1010634

P1010641

pure pleasure

P1010640

Tags: joy, play, laugh, delight, Minnie

Joy Days

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:09:26 GMT

How

could

not

glad...

{Kin by volition..)

Freddie morning suit and Holly May

Jess veil Ninya Minnie

Groom Simon bridesmaid Minnie dance

Tags: heart, tender, wedding, Minnie

Nottingham in a Tudor Tent : )

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:16:30 GMT

Always delightful to sojourn again to my Nottingham family but this is the first time we pulled out the Tudor Tent and erected it in their very small garden (to accommodate my being here along with Freddie grandson).

Fabulous, awesome, magnificent!! We set it up as darkness was falling. I awoke this morning to the sight of (much beloved) 'Harebells' in the grass inside the tent canvas, which, to answer Meenakshi's question, are pale blue, and similar to Bluebells but more delicate (see picture). I love that I only ever saw them growing wild in Scotland. But then I found them wild in Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

Tudor Tents

Harebells Campanula rotundifolia pic

Tudor Tent in Notts back garden

Tudor Tent from inside to roof

Tudor Tent front door

Freddie still sleeping

Tutdor Tent from back

Tags: Tudor, tents, Nottingham, summer, love, Harebells

Ishtar Cerridwen Agathe Inanna Isis Artemis Sophia Athena Coatili

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:07:05 GMT

Ancient Mother I hear you calling

Ancient Mother I hear your sound

CHANT:

"Ishtar Cerridwen Agathe Inanna Isis Artemis Sophia Athena Coatilicue Aphrodite Mielikki Astarte Gaia Saraswati Kali Pele Pasowe Demeter Parvati Hera Diana Nidaba Chicomecoatl Lilith Shekinah Morgana Maya Izanami Shakti"

Ancient Mother

Tags: sing, chant, water, song, Mother

The Magic of the Singing Bowls

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:06:46 GMT

After this particular session, he asked, cocking his head with his twinkly smile;

"Any questions?"

To which someone in the audience said; "Can we take you home?!"

And he said, well, my lovely wife gets to take me home :) but you're welcome to come up and play with the bowls..

So, I'm the lucky (lovely!) wife... and we both are LOVING how beautifully Denise Gallant captured the essence of Ryan's other Love.

Magic of the Bowls

Tags: singing bowls, Tibetan, singing, ringing, Denise Gallant

Let me teach you how to dance...

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:28:49 GMT

Musical boxes I already loved....

Let me teach you how to dance

Tags: Beatrix Potter, Miss Potter, dance, magic

How did you pray, Grandmother?

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:05:52 GMT

Mayda del Valle at the White House Poetry Jam: 2 of 9

Delivered in what Michelle Obama introduced as "The Peoples White House"

Tags: White House, poetry jam, Michelle Obama

"There you go Kennedy.."

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:18:12 GMT

Obama pardons girl for missing school

Tags: Obama, school note, president, girl

Slamdunk Inspire Us All!

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:30:03 GMT

Josh wrote: "this is the finalist video for the youtube slam dunk contest promoted by nissan, it has been a fun ride and at the least i hope i can inspire younger people..."

AND I SAY...: INSPIRE US ALL!!!

youtube slamdunk finalist

"I am Josh Sherrod, this is the finalist video for the youtube slam dunk contest promoted by nissan, it has been a fun ride and at the least i hope i can inspire younger people to work hard for what they want to acheive like i did. a special thanks to the "theverticalsummit" friends to help me to re-evaluate my ambitions and get back in the game, if it wernt for yall i wouldnt be back again or in the jumping shape im in...thank you all for viewing!!!!!!! "

Tags: inspire, slamdunk, Nissan, YouTube, finalist

Horses & Humans: Bright Beings All

http://timetoshine.gaia.com — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:34:45 GMT

Thank You Thank You Thank You Lori, Ana, Ella, Teresa, Jen, Grace, Kuwumba....;

awesome time we had

with these precious four-leggeds

May All Be Healed

May All Be Loved

May All Be Fed

Horse Whisperer beginning

Note: this is beginning of the Horse Whisperer to Hymn to the Sea by James Horner

Tags: horse, horses, whisperer, love, joy