yellow yielding flow
unfolding from some wholeness
supreme. calling me.
Vital Visual . . .
A Different Celebration . . .
She who reconciles the ill-matched threads
of her life, and weaves them gratefully
into a single cloth–
it’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall
and clears it for a different celebration
where the one guest is you.
In the softness of evening
it’s you she receives.
You are the partner of her loneliness,
the unspeaking center of her monologues.
With each disclosure you encompass more
and she stretches beyond what limits her,
to hold you.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours – Love Poems to God
Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
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Vital Visual
Splendid Sams
“What senses and perceptions have we neutered or suppressed through the false sophistication we use to hide our common human frailties?
The wise person knows that those healed senses can bring renewal, making us aware of the multitude of worlds that surround us. This simple understanding stands at the core of human potential, holding the open door that invites us to drop our masks. Without the blinders, we may remember who we really are and the powers of perception we hold. At the very least, we could be fortunate enough to rehabilitate our human compassion and sensitivity.” Jamie Sams – Earth Medicine, Ancestors’ Ways of Harmony for Many Moons
Sams, whether intentional or not, is a beautiful champion for nudity of soul, of human being human. With that loveliest of re-dresses, we find a wholeness nothing can surpass and an exquisite sensitivity birthing heart’s best songs each day. So, off I go to sun shining and day calling, excruciatingly aware of how achingly, preciously flawed I am and how the stripping away of the masks I wore has hurt. But beautifully so…
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Friday’s Feast…
warmest hues release
fluttering feltness singing
joy’s passion, healing.
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The Ultimate Initiation…
I’m so thankful today for the friends who surround me with their wisdom, with their soul searchings and learnings, who join with me, sharing their struggles, their dreams. And it strikes me that there is plenty. Plenty for all of us. We aren’t a bunch of siblings scrambling for the scraps or the best or the position of advantage unless we want to be. And oh how I don’t want to be. These words from Jamie Sams speak from the depths of what she beautifully calls the ultimate initiation…
“The ultimate initiation of a visionary or dreamer comes when that individual dreams of abundance for everyone. This selflessness is not an act of conscience, but rather an act of wisdom, forged from experience. If humans exist on our planet whose most basic needs are not being met, while others have more than they will ever need, something is drastically wrong.
Any dream that does not include everyone is a vision created from limited perception… If everyone is not considered worthy of having plenty, the Circle of Life is not being honored. If dreamers cannot see the unbroken family circle created by all life forms, they have not grown into their potentials nor ever really experienced the reality of Oneness.”
Jamie Sams – Earth Medicine, Ancestors’ Ways of Harmony for Many Moons
There are times when I feel inadequate, and even when I know I’ve just got so much more to learn. It can create that frenzied fear that someone will take a place I could’ve had, or gain a success that I won’t be able to have or. But that’s when I’ve forgotten what I should never forget. There. Is. Plenty. There is a place for each one of us right now, where we are, as we are. Here’s to our continued growth into that ultimate initiation…
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Pneumonia Walks?
Not just the gators and crocs…
I’m not an antibiotic gal but after 4 weeks of instinctively knowing I had pneumonia, I crumbled. If I post much in the upcoming week, it’ll be ’cause the antibiotics are monster powerful…
Happy crocs y’all!! :0) Out of this lil challenge I found a doc who knows CFS/Fibromyalgia better than any I’ve found thus far! Life’s makin’ me some lemonade with these lemons (stevia…no sugar!).
In the meantime, here’s another lovely offering from my beautiful friend and partner in business – Kate Holgate:
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Heart – A Lyre
Heat hold held here so
fully filling every jive alive,
reaching,
singing,
humming,
overflowing this precious,
pulsing power-yielding.
Every ounce receptive,
receptive,
receptive…
shine me down the up afire,
flow me through the heart – a lyre,
life so sweet.
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Happy New Perspective…
I changed this post due to the fact that, in the spirit of Tumblr.com, I had posted images from photography with links to the source. But. That’s too fine a line for me. Original inspiration of this post found at this link! So! The likes on this post are for that image… not the one above. 🙂
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Butterflies and…
‘gators and crocs and snakes
and flowers and aches and sun’s warmth
and
life. This photo caught my eye on Tumblr and had to be added to the stream of randomruthness since it speaks of the sometimes irony of living.
I spent most of Christmas day on my couch, watching my kids enjoy the day, feeling much like I’d perched myself on a swamp creature about to take me for a tumble. The cough/cold/flu-thing I’ve had has lasted longer than expected. Almost 2 weeks now. Christmas and so much else has been out of my hands. I could only enjoy the sense of being on a ride with precious little control over outcomes. The good news…seems that swamp creatures don’t much like to feed on butterflies…
this, too, shall pass.
originally posted with the following image: http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvx6nYv1g1r6d8amo1_500.jpg
J. Ruth Kelly 