tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86938777299500236872024-03-13T23:44:54.306-05:00Flamingo Gypsy's Spiritual WanderingsI have a gypsy wagon that can be pulled behind our vehicle. I intend to blog about our gypsy wanderings. I am interested in Edgar Cayce, spiritual principles, knitting, quilting, collages, tarot cards, essential Oils,
artists, labyrinths, medicine wheels, drums, flutes and reading.Susan The Flamingo Lady OF LALALandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10928918695180104075noreply@blogger.comBlogger818125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693877729950023687.post-8266436871735613872016-11-01T00:25:00.000-05:002016-11-01T00:25:01.341-05:00Testing<script>document.write(unescape("%3Cstyle%20type%3D%22text/css%22%3E%0Abody%20%7B background-image %3A%20url%28%22http%3A//2.bp.blogspot.com/_q3ii9dlq0Tw/SpcXkLlsl0I/AAAAAAAADSM/i8B4-szXnME/S1600-R/bohemian+baby%22%29%3B%20background-position%3A%20center%3B%20background-repeat%3A%20no-repeat%3B%20 background-attachment %3A%20fixed%3B%20%7D%0A%3C/style%3E%0A%3Cdiv%20id%3D%22tag%22%20 style%3D%22position%3Aabsolute %3B%20left%3A0px%3B%20top%3A30px%3B%20z-index%3A50%3B%20 width%3A150px%3B%20height%3A45px%3B%22%3E%0A%3Ca%20href%3D%22 http%3A//www.smittenblogdesigns.blogspot.com%22%20target%3D%22_blank%22%3E%0A%3Cimg%20src %3D%22http%3A//4.bp.blogspot.com/__WwFRQzXaqk/Snnq1dcHdCI/AAAAAAAABb8/o7H_60ZGxxQ/S1600-R/eiffeltowersmittenbuttongreen2%22%20border%3D%220%22/ %3E%0A%3C/a%3E%3C/div%3E%20"));</script>TestingSusan The Flamingo Lady OF LALALandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10928918695180104075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693877729950023687.post-91191671936156511172016-10-31T23:40:00.001-05:002016-10-31T23:40:21.218-05:00My October 31, 2016 haikus<br />
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Freedom to<br />
seeing sacredness<br />
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~The core of peace lives<br />
not in my thoughts or deeds but<br />
inside of my heart<br />
<br />
~When I go within<br />
do I feel relationship<br />
and know We are One?<br />
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~My relatives are<br />
in each person animal<br />
rock tree and flower<br />
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~I take refuge in<br />
the Divine's presence and feel<br />
safe and protected<br />
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~Everywhere in<br />
the world surrounding me the<br />
Divine is present<br />
<br />
~The power of the<br />
Divine protects and watches<br />
over all of us<br />
<br />
~When my good day to<br />
die comes my spirit will go<br />
into other realms<br />
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~Now, here while I am<br />
on Earth let me deliver<br />
love truth and beauty<br />
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~When endings come let<br />
me find new ways to love and<br />
create the Divine<br />
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Susan The Flamingo Lady OF LALALandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10928918695180104075noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693877729950023687.post-38467644198917380462016-08-24T22:21:00.002-05:002016-08-24T22:21:54.602-05:00My August 8, 2016 haikus<script>document.write(unescape("%3Cstyle%20type%3D%22text/css%22%3E%0Abody%20%7B background-image %3A%20url%28%22http%3A//2.bp.blogspot.com/_q3ii9dlq0Tw/SpcXkLlsl0I/AAAAAAAADSM/i8B4-szXnME/S1600-R/bohemian+baby%22%29%3B%20background-position%3A%20center%3B%20background-repeat%3A%20no-repeat%3B%20 background-attachment %3A%20fixed%3B%20%7D%0A%3C/style%3E%0A%3Cdiv%20id%3D%22tag%22%20 style%3D%22position%3Aabsolute %3B%20left%3A0px%3B%20top%3A30px%3B%20z-index%3A50%3B%20 width%3A150px%3B%20height%3A45px%3B%22%3E%0A%3Ca%20href%3D%22 http%3A//www.smittenblogdesigns.blogspot.com%22%20target%3D%22_blank%22%3E%0A%3Cimg%20src %3D%22http%3A//4.bp.blogspot.com/__WwFRQzXaqk/Snnq1dcHdCI/AAAAAAAABb8/o7H_60ZGxxQ/S1600-R/eiffeltowersmittenbuttongreen2%22%20border%3D%220%22/ %3E%0A%3C/a%3E%3C/div%3E%20"));</script><br />
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[some of this inspired by #33 Our Lady of Radiant Grace card in Alana
Fairchild's Mother Mary Oracle with Shiloh Sophia's artwork]<br />
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Fullness to<br />
selections make<br />
<br />
~The essence of All<br />
catches my breath in awe and<br />
I reflect the Divine<br />
<br />
~Perfect stillness brings<br />
perfect reflections What is<br />
my life teaching me?<br />
<br />
~What seeds do I hold<br />
to plant into this day? Love?<br />
Kindness? Joy? Delight?<br />
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~What radiant grace<br />
allows me to live wildly and<br />
expansively here?<br />
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~I am in love with<br />
the earth and fly free I choose<br />
to live in Spirit<br />
<br />
~I trust enough to<br />
leap into this day heart first<br />
full of the Divine<br />
<br />
~O Big Mama fill<br />
me with your radiant grace<br />
Let it flow from me<br />
<br />
~Gift to me the chutzpah<br />
to kick the door open and<br />
dare to step outside<br />
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~Divine Mother waits<br />
for me to sashay into<br />
this Wild World with her<br />
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Perfection<br />
to my life's ideals<br />
<br />
~Today I found a<br />
broken butterfly fallen<br />
and I brought it home<br />
<br />
~Molten Mystery's<br />
Fire is at my center<br />
I let my light shine<br />
<br />
~Through me flows the Love<br />
of living life to those I<br />
meet on their paths<br />
<br />
~I see you guided<br />
and directed by inward<br />
spirit that leads you<br />
<br />
~You arrive where you<br />
need to be and walk the path<br />
that is right for you<br />
<br />
~Just as butterfly<br />
lives it's numbered days you grow<br />
toward your freedom<br />
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~Spread your wings and fly<br />
Let your feet dance on flowers<br />
Live in beauty ways<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Abundance<br />
to my gift giving<br />
<br />
~Barriers and thoughts<br />
of limitations keep me<br />
from living fully<br />
<br />
~I have talents and<br />
gifts to share and ideas<br />
to explore and dreams...<br />
<br />
~Let me use my hands<br />
to live in beauty ways Let<br />
me dance in delight<br />
~~~<br />
1~dark nite blue<br />
AETHER<br />
Worship<br />
Prayer<br />
Meditation<br />
Lordy<br />
Big Mama<br />
2~ AIR<br />
Pollyanna Possibilities<br />
NOT Poor Pitiful Pearl thoughts<br />
The Sky is limitless<br />
3~ FIRE<br />
Create poems and paintings with passion<br />
Pose questions that kindle sparks (into flames) in self and others<br />
Compassion<br />
4~ WATER<br />
Flow loving kindness truth and beauty<br />
(and kind thoughtfulness)<br />
into all I think say and do<br />
Mend with Kintsugi gold<br />
5~ EARTH<br />
Ground poems prayers promises and things I believe into my body with Qijong Tai
Chi Yoga and Bellydancing<br />
Apply spiritual principles into my daily living<br />
Manifest Alchemical Magic<br />
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In the palm of my hand I drew a tree woman with roots who sez: I know where I
come from<br />
Above her head a heart compass w/the 4 directions<br />
North<br />
East<br />
South<br />
West<br />
and the words:<br />
My Heart Compass is my Guide<br />
Above the heart compass a spiral<br />
Inscribed in the spiral are the words:<br />
I know where I'm going...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1~ How do I create a space for Beauty in my life?<br />
2~ How do I bring my THOUGHTS into a place of Beauty?<br />
How do I move in Beauty? in a free flowing way<br />
3~ How do I create with Beauty?<br />
How do I put Beauty into my passion? creativity in a focused way<br />
3~ How do I create with Beauty?<br />
How do I put Beauty into my passion? creativity in a focused way?<br />
5~ How do I build/ manifest Beauty?<br />
It binds things together?<br />
How do I bring Beauty to my belongings?<br />
1~ AETHER/space<br />
2~ AIR~ thoughts/movement<br />
3~ FIRE/passion/creativity/focus<br />
4~ WATER/flow/emotions<br />
5~ EARTH/grounding/manifesting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Susan The Flamingo Lady OF LALALandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10928918695180104075noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693877729950023687.post-79241928221400916062016-08-24T21:55:00.001-05:002016-08-24T21:55:36.632-05:00My August 5, 2016 haikus<script>document.write(unescape("%3Cstyle%20type%3D%22text/css%22%3E%0Abody%20%7B background-image %3A%20url%28%22http%3A//2.bp.blogspot.com/_q3ii9dlq0Tw/SpcXkLlsl0I/AAAAAAAADSM/i8B4-szXnME/S1600-R/bohemian+baby%22%29%3B%20background-position%3A%20center%3B%20background-repeat%3A%20no-repeat%3B%20 background-attachment %3A%20fixed%3B%20%7D%0A%3C/style%3E%0A%3Cdiv%20id%3D%22tag%22%20 style%3D%22position%3Aabsolute %3B%20left%3A0px%3B%20top%3A30px%3B%20z-index%3A50%3B%20 width%3A150px%3B%20height%3A45px%3B%22%3E%0A%3Ca%20href%3D%22 http%3A//www.smittenblogdesigns.blogspot.com%22%20target%3D%22_blank%22%3E%0A%3Cimg%20src %3D%22http%3A//4.bp.blogspot.com/__WwFRQzXaqk/Snnq1dcHdCI/AAAAAAAABb8/o7H_60ZGxxQ/S1600-R/eiffeltowersmittenbuttongreen2%22%20border%3D%220%22/ %3E%0A%3C/a%3E%3C/div%3E%20"));</script><br />
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Change to<br />
my ways of thinking<br />
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~I think on these things<br />
true pure right and lovely in<br />
my mind's thought garden<br />
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~I weed out by the<br />
roots negative thinking that<br />
hurts harms and destroys<br />
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~With a clear field in<br />
my mind I can plant heart<br />
seeds of love's beauty<br />
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~The Divine's loving<br />
presence protects me strengthens<br />
my inner spirit<br />
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~With wisdom I know<br />
what needs to be done and have<br />
the strength to do it<br />
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~I overcome fears<br />
and turn from darkness toward<br />
Divine light within<br />
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~The heart seeds I plant<br />
empower others to plant<br />
heart seeds of their own<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
Assertiveness spirit to<br />
my yoga practice<br />
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~I love others for<br />
the sake of the spirit that<br />
lives within all things<br />
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~The Lord of Love willed<br />
Let me be many You and<br />
I are shining love<br />
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~Let my actions shape<br />
my life spiritually<br />
with my practices<br />
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~From my heart my hands<br />
do actions that are filled with<br />
love and compassion<br />
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~Love flows into me<br />
from the Divine and I flow<br />
Love out to others<br />
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~Whether giving or receiving my heart<br />
to the flow of light<br />
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Compassion<br />
Kindness<br />
Care<br />
Concern<br />
Tenderness<br />
Affection<br />
Adoration<br />
Devotion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Sharing to<br />
my yoga practice<br />
<br />
~I will seek to know<br />
why yoga goes with all types<br />
of religious faiths<br />
<br />
~What strangers have<br />
I invited in lately? Whom<br />
will I welcome in?<br />
<br />
~I am ready for<br />
my next spiritual gift I<br />
open myself up<br />
<br />
~Opportunities<br />
and possibilities are<br />
unfolding for me<br />
~~~<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">~There are so many</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">do I choose today?</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p>Susan The Flamingo Lady OF LALALandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10928918695180104075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693877729950023687.post-27934462693577784182016-08-24T20:10:00.002-05:002016-08-24T21:18:27.635-05:00My August 2, 2016 haikus<script>document.write(unescape("%3Cstyle%20type%3D%22text/css%22%3E%0Abody%20%7B background-image %3A%20url%28%22http%3A//2.bp.blogspot.com/_q3ii9dlq0Tw/SpcXkLlsl0I/AAAAAAAADSM/i8B4-szXnME/S1600-R/bohemian+baby%22%29%3B%20background-position%3A%20center%3B%20background-repeat%3A%20no-repeat%3B%20 background-attachment %3A%20fixed%3B%20%7D%0A%3C/style%3E%0A%3Cdiv%20id%3D%22tag%22%20 style%3D%22position%3Aabsolute %3B%20left%3A0px%3B%20top%3A30px%3B%20z-index%3A50%3B%20 width%3A150px%3B%20height%3A45px%3B%22%3E%0A%3Ca%20href%3D%22 http%3A//www.smittenblogdesigns.blogspot.com%22%20target%3D%22_blank%22%3E%0A%3Cimg%20src %3D%22http%3A//4.bp.blogspot.com/__WwFRQzXaqk/Snnq1dcHdCI/AAAAAAAABb8/o7H_60ZGxxQ/S1600-R/eiffeltowersmittenbuttongreen2%22%20border%3D%220%22/ %3E%0A%3C/a%3E%3C/div%3E%20"));</script><br />
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Newness to<br />
my Joyful Power<br />
<br />
~When I am in pain<br />
how do I recognize the<br />
presence of Divine?<br />
<br />
~In all my trials<br />
the Divine is with me I<br />
share this with others<br />
<br />
~No matter what we<br />
are facing we can let the<br />
Divine flow thru us<br />
<br />
~Together we share<br />
our sorrows and joys and rise<br />
up to dance our days<br />
<br />
~In quiet times with<br />
the Divine I am refreshed<br />
and renewed in love<br />
<br />
~I take time to rest<br />
when I feel stressed or tired<br />
I look for laughter<br />
<br />
~Having fun helps me<br />
in my physical and my<br />
spiritual self~care<br />
<br />
~I feel embraced by<br />
Divine's serenity when<br />
I'm in sacred space<br />
<br />
~I take gentle breaths<br />
and let go and surrender<br />
into Divine peace<br />
<br />
~I rise up and dance<br />
in gratitude for beauty<br />
and all that's good<br />
~~~<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">~Sacred spaces are</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ev'rywhere I sit and sing</span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Fullness to<br />
my loving kindness<br />
<br />
~Grace flows into me<br />
from angels of Life and Peace<br />
I live life fully<br />
<br />
~Keep red rot from my<br />
trombone and let me play my<br />
music til I die<br />
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~Tho my body may<br />
waste away Daily in me<br />
spirit is renewed<br />
<br />
~I center in the<br />
Divine and look for cues and<br />
signs to guide my way<br />
<br />
~In me there is a<br />
flame that longs to shine bright<br />
and help others burn<br />
<br />
~These fires of light<br />
warmth comfort and passion grow<br />
fruits we can share<br />
<br />
~I laugh in delight<br />
as your fruits' juices drip down<br />
my chin and bless me<br />
<br />
~In community<br />
we share the All That Is and<br />
dance with the Divine<br />
~~~<br />
What renews nourishes and refreshes me?<br />
In what ways do I pray and meditate?<br />
What surprises and fascinates me?<br />
What is mine to discover?<br />
What actions do my beliefs call me to do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of my Shining<br />
Light to all Beings<br />
<br />
~It is Teltane time<br />
for Lugh the Sun to marry<br />
Eire the Earth now<br />
<br />
~What cosmic mating<br />
of male and female do I<br />
need to be doing?<br />
<br />
~How can I balance<br />
yin and yang to restore the<br />
harmony in me?<br />
<br />
~What sacred task must<br />
I shoulder for our planet<br />
to survive and thrive?<br />
<br />
~When one door closes<br />
I look for new doors to open<br />
Opening my heart<br />
<br />
~Opportunities<br />
come with change What treasures will<br />
I find in this day?<br />
<br />
~Changing scenery<br />
brings Playing Visiting and<br />
Exploration time<br />
<br />
~Let me greet changes<br />
with joyful expectations<br />
and learn to dance joy<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Light</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and Laughter</span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Love For All<br />
Brings here on earth<br />
<br />
~How can I seek the<br />
Divine in new ways today<br />
Where is it flowing?<br />
<br />
~There comes a moment<br />
when I wake up to be the<br />
energy flowing<br />
<br />
~It dances in me<br />
I dance in it We dance in<br />
the Everything<br />
<br />
~Like the small corca<br />
deer I seek to find sources<br />
of Living Water<br />
<br />
~Exploring I find<br />
spiritual territories<br />
I have yet to know<br />
<br />
~I pray This or gift<br />
me something better and then<br />
I can let this go<br />
<br />
~All is working out<br />
for the best and highest good<br />
for all beings here<br />
<br />
~At the perfect and<br />
ripe time Ideas Feelings<br />
and Dreams come to me<br />
<br />
~I listen and do<br />
my part to bring fruition<br />
of fruits in my tree<br />
<br />
~I move forward with<br />
clarity and assurance<br />
using discernment<br />
<br />
~Spirit of Truth comes<br />
and guides me into all of<br />
the truth our world needs<br />
<br />
~Here I grow again<br />
I flourish creating the<br />
Life of my dreams now<br />
<br />
~I move through FEAR or<br />
False Evidence Appearing<br />
Real into Freedom<br />
~~~<br />
She who seeks Love For All Beings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
Simplicity's spirit to<br />
where it is needed<br />
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~Sweet is the breath of<br />
Nature in my life Simple<br />
joys come I slow down<br />
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~Standing Stones point to<br />
the sky I am a channel<br />
from Father to MA<br />
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~A connector of<br />
the oceans of cosmic and<br />
earthly love I am<br />
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~Whom am I called to<br />
encourage today? Give me<br />
strength to comfort them<br />
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~Raise me up one more<br />
time from calamities and<br />
troubles O Divine<br />
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~When the heavy rains<br />
persist Let my delicate<br />
flowers become strong<br />
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~Let me rise up in<br />
Beauty when the sun stops the<br />
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~The Divine helps me<br />
when I feel weak under the<br />
weight of life's lessons<br />
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~Help me to show the<br />
same kindness to others and<br />
support them in storms<br />
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~Centering myself<br />
in a positive spirit<br />
is truly praying<br />
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~I lift my heart in<br />
Joy and move toward better<br />
outcomes in my life<br />
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~How can I raise my<br />
spirits and engage in a<br />
optimistic stance?<br />
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~I trust all things are<br />
working together for good<br />
in all of our lives<br />
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~Let our joyful hearts<br />
give us the energy to<br />
empower us here<br />
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ALEPH brings Divine to Earth<br />
How will I receive the generous Breath of Creation this Sabbath?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of World Peace to<br />
my day's singing songs<br />
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~I am looking for<br />
the Divine in every<br />
thing and one I meet<br />
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~I open to let<br />
the Divine shape my future<br />
I offer my hands<br />
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~Most High gifts us grace<br />
Our Divine inheritance<br />
brings me to Wisdom<br />
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~I let my feet take<br />
me where my heart longs to go<br />
I rise up and dance<br />
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~Here I can stomp dance<br />
the Divine's prayers for me<br />
into this earth's dirt<br />
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~With my hands and my<br />
feet I give limitlessly<br />
with generous grace<br />
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<p><span>"We Are All Earthlings"</span><br/><br/></p>
<div>We are all earthlings<br/>And we share the air we breathe<br/>We're all made from Heaven's seeds<br/>And we are all earthlings<br/><br/>And I love this life we live<br/>And I love to give this feeling away<br/>I love this life we live<br/>And I'm gonna give it all away<br/>So shine your light until the break o' dawn<br/>And shine your light if you're all alone<br/>And shine your light until the early morn'<br/>Let it shine on and on and on and on and on<br/><br/>We are all earthlings<br/>From the cities to the mountains and the deserts and the deep blue see<br/>To the palaces and prisons and the paradises that I see<br/>That we are all earthlings<br/><br/>And I love this life we live<br/>And I love to give this feeling away<br/>I love this life we live<br/>And I'm gonna give it all away<br/>So shine your light until the break o' dawn<br/>And shine your light if you're all alone<br/>And shine your light until the early morn'<br/>Let it shine on and on and on and on and on<br/><br/>And we all sing<br/>(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br/>(It's alright, it's alright) (it's alright, it's alright)<br/>(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br/>(It's alright, it's alright) (it's alright yeah)<br/>(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br/>(It's alright, it's alright) So shine your light until the break o' dawn<br/>(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br/>(It's alright, it's alright) And shine your light if you're all alone<br/>(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br/>(It's alright, it's alright) And shine your light until the early morn'<br/>(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br/>(It's alright, it's alright) Let it shine on and on and on and on and on<br/><br/>We are all earthlings<br/>We are all earthlings</div>
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<div><span>"Good To Be Alive Today"</span><br/><br/><div>It's a long road, oh<br/>Everyday I wake up and turn my phone on<br/>I read the news of the day, just as it's coming down<br/>I do my best not to let it get me down<br/>I try to keep my head up, but is Babylon<br/>This world's in crisis, we try to fight it, this changing climate<br/>The scientists and politicians divided by it<br/>So many ways we could solve it but they would never sign it<br/>This mountains tumbling down, but still we try to climb it<br/>It's in the Torah, Quran and in the Bible<br/>Love is the message for some how we turn to rivals<br/>It's come to people always picking up their rifles<br/>Another school getting shot up; homicidal<br/><br/>Some people tryna look fly, some people tryna get high<br/>Some people losing their mind, some people tryna get by<br/>And when you look in my eyes, you see the sign of the times<br/>We all looking for the same thing<br/><br/>But what if this song's number one<br/>Would it mean that love had won?<br/>Would it mean that the world was saved?<br/>And no guns are being drawn today?<br/>What if everybody had a job?<br/>And nobody had to break a law?<br/>What if everyone could say<br/>That it's good to be alive today?<br/>Oh, oh, oh, oh<br/>Is it good to be alive today?<br/>Oh, oh, oh<br/>Is it good to be alive today?<br/>Oh, oh, oh, oh<br/>Is it good to be alive today?<br/>Oh, oh, oh<br/>No matter what nobody say<br/><br/>People used to feel safer when they would hear a siren<br/>Like help is on its way but now they only think of violence<br/>Another youth in the streets and police is in a conflict<br/>And now they hear the guns click, yo<br/>Ebola crisis and ISIS is taking heads off<br/>A drone is bombing a village and now the kids all<br/>Signing up to be soldiers, but they all willing now<br/>To do the killing now, now are you willing now?<br/>Some politicians out there making up some problems<br/>And tryna tell the people that they can solve them<br/>With TV shows and soundbites and quotes<br/>But everybody knows that it's all about the cash flow<br/>They telling you and me, they're making progress<br/>But tell it to the millions of jobless<br/>It's like a players club with billions of dollars<br/>To get the votes you got to make it rain in congress<br/><br/>Some people tryna look fly, some people tryna get high<br/>Some people losing their mind, some people tryna get by<br/>And when you look in my eyes, you see the sign of the times<br/>We all looking for the same thing<br/><br/>But what if this song's number one<br/>Would it mean that love had won?<br/>Would it mean that the world was saved?<br/>And no guns are being drawn today?<br/>What if everybody had a job?<br/>And nobody had to break a law?<br/>What if everyone could say<br/>That it's good to be alive today?<br/>Oh, oh, oh, oh<br/>Is it good to be alive today?<br/>Oh, oh, oh<br/>Is it good to be alive today?<br/>Oh, oh, oh, oh<br/>Is it good to be alive today?<br/>Oh, oh, oh<br/>And we all say<br/><br/>One day, one day<br/>One day, one day<br/>One day, we all will say<br/>That it's good to be alive today<br/>One day, one day<br/>One day, one day<br/>One day, we all will say<br/>That it's good to be alive today</div>
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<div>Me? Who gave up buying t~shirts a while back bought one that says:Â it's good to be alive today</div>
<div>You really hafta be there with the band and feel the energy Michael works into the room, by the end of the nite I think he had literally touched with his hands or encircled in a hug everybody there. 800+ Soulrockers!</div>
<div>We sang lines from John Lennon and Eagles and Prince and Elton John songs and I cried through memories of musicians we've lost because they've shed their bodies and dance along the stars of the Milky Way Road into their next realms but I really cried a whole bunch when he simply talked quietly about how we should oughta be living the Golden Rule all over the world.</div>
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I got up and worked with colored pencils in my art journal<br />
Wrote my haikus but didn't have time to post them<br />
Just got outta a wondrous yoga class<br />
Lunch @ Rosie's to discuss WHEREVER THERE IS LIGHT for Pulpwood Bookclub<br />
Reading TIMBER ROSE in between for PAGE & PALETTE Bookclub Tuesday<br />
It's set in Portland and Seattle in 1907<br />
They talk about the 1907 New Woman<br />
It's written by J L Oakley<br />
Do you know her?<br />
~~~<br />
Tonite is very special. My husband Steve and I are going w/ our next door
neighbors to see Michael Franti @ the Saenger Theater in nearby Mobile.<br />
We saw Micheal Franti 2X w/ our son before he was accidentally killed when
Michael performed on the beach @ the Hangout Musical Festival in nearby Gulf
Shores. Going to see Franti is like a pilgrimage for us. He sings uplifting
music and even walked around Iraq barefoot playing his guitar and singing in
hospitals and on the streets during the day and for U. S. soldiers at nite. He
teaches yoga and is a DO Good person all around the world. He has even invited
Steve up onstage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was blessed with yellow beach ball like balloons being bounced
through the crowd in child's play while we sang <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"The Sound Of Sunshine"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I wake up in the morning and it's 6 a clock.<br />
They say there may be rain but the sun is hot.<br />
I wish I had some time just to kill today,<br />
And I wish I had a dime for every bill I had to pay.<br />
<br />
Some days you lose you win and the waters as high as the times your in.<br />
So I jump back into where I learned to swim.<br />
Try to keep my head above it as best I can.<br />
That's why;<br />
<br />
Here I am,<br />
Just waiting on this storm to pass me by.<br />
And that's the sound of sunshine coming down<br />
and that's the sound of sunshine coming down...<br />
<br />
(Aye, aye, ayeehey...)<br />
<br />
I saw my friend Bobby he said "What's up man?"<br />
You gotta little work or a twenty to lend?<br />
I opened up my hand<br />
He said I'm glad to see, they can take away my job but not my friends you see.<br />
And here I am just waiting for this storm to pass me by.<br />
<br />
And that's the sound of sunshinen coming down<br />
And that's the sound of sunsbhine coming down<br />
<br />
(Here we go)<br />
<br />
I want to go where the sun will never end<br />
With my guitar on the beach there with all my friend.<br />
The sun so hot and the waves in motion and everything smells like suntan
lotion, the ocean, and the girls so sweet<br />
So kick of your shoes and relax your feet<br />
They say that miracles are never ceasin', and every single soul needs a little
realeasin'<br />
the stereo bumpin till the sun goes down, and I only want to hear that sound<br />
<br />
And that's the sound of sunshine coming down<br />
And that's the sound of sunshine coming down<br />
<br />
And now say<br />
You're the one I want to be with, when the sun goes down.<br />
You're the one I want to be with, when t esun goes down<br />
<br />
Sing;<br />
You're the one I want to be with when the sun goes down.<br />
You're the one I want to be with when the sun goes<br />
<br />
That's the sound of sunshine coming down<br />
And that's the sound of sunshine coming down<br />
<br />
(Aye, aye aye, Ha, aye aye)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Steve and I were holding hands dancing when everyone
sang: You're the one I want to be with when the sun goes down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It's after midnite and we just for home from fantabulous Michael
Franti concert<br />
He dances around all over the place<br />
Has people come onstage with him<br />
Goes out and sings in the audience<br />
Even had a stage set up halfway back downstairs<br />
Came upstairs on the front row of the balcony where we were sitting and stood
next to Steve and they sang 2 songs together!!<br />
He ended with all the little kids from the audience up on stage with him and
the band. He had a keyboard player from California A drummer from Aftica A lady
singer from Jamaica A guitar player from Louisianna and Texas. He sang and
danced with kids and men and women from the audience. He talked about his adoptive
mother's love for him and stories about wonderful people he's met on the road.
His songs are so uplifting<br />
One love<br />
One blood<br />
One heart<br />
One soul<br />
And one drum<br />
And only one rhythm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"We Are All Earthlings"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are all earthlings<br />
And we share the air we breathe<br />
We're all made from Heaven's seeds<br />
And we are all earthlings<br />
<br />
And I love this life we live<br />
And I love to give this feeling away<br />
I love this life we live<br />
And I'm gonna give it all away<br />
So shine your light until the break o' dawn<br />
And shine your light if you're all alone<br />
And shine your light until the early morn'<br />
Let it shine on and on and on and on and on<br />
<br />
We are all earthlings<br />
From the cities to the mountains and the deserts and the deep blue see<br />
To the palaces and prisons and the paradises that I see<br />
That we are all earthlings<br />
<br />
And I love this life we live<br />
And I love to give this feeling away<br />
I love this life we live<br />
And I'm gonna give it all away<br />
So shine your light until the break o' dawn<br />
And shine your light if you're all alone<br />
And shine your light until the early morn'<br />
Let it shine on and on and on and on and on<br />
<br />
And we all sing<br />
(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br />
(It's alright, it's alright) (it's alright, it's alright)<br />
(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br />
(It's alright, it's alright) (it's alright yeah)<br />
(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br />
(It's alright, it's alright) So shine your light until the break o' dawn<br />
(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br />
(It's alright, it's alright) And shine your light if you're all alone<br />
(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br />
(It's alright, it's alright) And shine your light until the early morn'<br />
(It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright)<br />
(It's alright, it's alright) Let it shine on and on and on and on and on<br />
<br />
We are all earthlings<br />
We are all earthlings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"Good To Be Alive Today"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It's a long road, oh<br />
Everyday I wake up and turn my phone on<br />
I read the news of the day, just as it's coming down<br />
I do my best not to let it get me down<br />
I try to keep my head up, but is Babylon<br />
This world's in crisis, we try to fight it, this changing climate<br />
The scientists and politicians divided by it<br />
So many ways we could solve it but they would never sign it<br />
This mountains tumbling down, but still we try to climb it<br />
It's in the Torah, Quran and in the Bible<br />
Love is the message for some how we turn to rivals<br />
It's come to people always picking up their rifles<br />
Another school getting shot up; homicidal<br />
<br />
Some people tryna look fly, some people tryna get high<br />
Some people losing their mind, some people tryna get by<br />
And when you look in my eyes, you see the sign of the times<br />
We all looking for the same thing<br />
<br />
But what if this song's number one<br />
Would it mean that love had won?<br />
Would it mean that the world was saved?<br />
And no guns are being drawn today?<br />
What if everybody had a job?<br />
And nobody had to break a law?<br />
What if everyone could say<br />
That it's good to be alive today?<br />
Oh, oh, oh, oh<br />
Is it good to be alive today?<br />
Oh, oh, oh<br />
Is it good to be alive today?<br />
Oh, oh, oh, oh<br />
Is it good to be alive today?<br />
Oh, oh, oh<br />
No matter what nobody say<br />
<br />
People used to feel safer when they would hear a siren<br />
Like help is on its way but now they only think of violence<br />
Another youth in the streets and police is in a conflict<br />
And now they hear the guns click, yo<br />
Ebola crisis and ISIS is taking heads off<br />
A drone is bombing a village and now the kids all<br />
Signing up to be soldiers, but they all willing now<br />
To do the killing now, now are you willing now?<br />
Some politicians out there making up some problems<br />
And tryna tell the people that they can solve them<br />
With TV shows and soundbites and quotes<br />
But everybody knows that it's all about the cash flow<br />
They telling you and me, they're making progress<br />
But tell it to the millions of jobless<br />
It's like a players club with billions of dollars<br />
To get the votes you got to make it rain in congress<br />
<br />
Some people tryna look fly, some people tryna get high<br />
Some people losing their mind, some people tryna get by<br />
And when you look in my eyes, you see the sign of the times<br />
We all looking for the same thing<br />
<br />
But what if this song's number one<br />
Would it mean that love had won?<br />
Would it mean that the world was saved?<br />
And no guns are being drawn today?<br />
What if everybody had a job?<br />
And nobody had to break a law?<br />
What if everyone could say<br />
That it's good to be alive today?<br />
Oh, oh, oh, oh<br />
Is it good to be alive today?<br />
Oh, oh, oh<br />
Is it good to be alive today?<br />
Oh, oh, oh, oh<br />
Is it good to be alive today?<br />
Oh, oh, oh<br />
And we all say<br />
<br />
One day, one day<br />
One day, one day<br />
One day, we all will say<br />
That it's good to be alive today<br />
One day, one day<br />
One day, one day<br />
One day, we all will say<br />
That it's good to be alive today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Me? Who gave up buying t~shirts a while back bought one that
says: it's good to be alive today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Michael works into the room, by the end of the nite I think he had literally
touched with his hands or encircled in a hug everybody there. 800+ Soulrockers!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We sang lines from John Lennon and Eagles and Prince and Elton
John songs and I cried through memories of musicians we've lost because they've
shed their bodies and dance along the stars of the Milky Way Road into their
next realms but I really cried a whole bunch when he simply talked quietly
about how we should oughta be living the Golden Rule all over the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</dd>Susan The Flamingo Lady OF LALALandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10928918695180104075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693877729950023687.post-23905746976988894802016-08-13T03:58:00.000-05:002016-08-13T04:21:42.516-05:00July 26. 2016 faces that look like maps of where all you've been<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">faces with lines and cracks and crevices....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You know~ the faces that look like maps of where all you've
been.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like in Brandi Carlile's song:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"The Story"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All of these lines across my face<br />
Tell you the story of who I am<br />
So many stories of where I've been<br />
And how I got to where I am<br />
But these stories don't mean anything<br />
When you've got no one to tell them to<br />
It's true... I was made for you<br />
<br />
I climbed across the mountain tops<br />
Swam all across the ocean blue<br />
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules<br />
But baby I broke them all for you<br />
Because even when I was flat broke<br />
You made me feel like a million bucks<br />
You do and I was made for you<br />
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You see the smile that's on my mouth<br />
It's hiding the words that don't come out<br />
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed<br />
They don't know my head is a mess<br />
No, they don't know who I really am<br />
And they don't know what I've been through like you do<br />
And I was made for you...<br />
<br />
All of these lines across my face<br />
Tell you the story of who I am<br />
So many stories of where I've been<br />
And how I got to where I am<br />
But these stories don't mean anything<br />
When you've got no one to tell them to<br />
It's true... I was made for you<br />
<br />
Oh yeah, well it's true... that<br />
I was made for you...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "kristen itc"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">which I find so hauntingly beautiful...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Connectedness<br />
to my fingers' touch<br />
<br />
~My hands create<br />
the sparkles of beauty that<br />
reflect creation<br />
<br />
~I pull poetry<br />
into my daily life and<br />
share it with others<br />
<br />
~In times of trouble<br />
I reach out to hold hands with<br />
tender loving care<br />
<br />
~I carve out places<br />
where I can be in awe with<br />
childlike wonderings<br />
<br />
~I live each moment<br />
with enthusiasm and<br />
in fascination<br />
<br />
~Beauty awes me and<br />
I am filled with infinite<br />
possibilities<br />
~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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~Girl, I wish you could know her<br />
She lives her GENEROSITY with great glee<br />
The Grandmothers say When she hulas<br />
Her wide hips gyrate and her Wild Woman Womb opens up to give birth to galaxies<br />
The Grandfathers say When I plant my seeds in her she grows every possibility
in her garden<br />
Together we grow creation<br />
<br />
~Boy~ I wish you could crawl<br />
up into her lap<br />
and hear her stories<br />
Her words will take you sailing<br />
on Grand Adventures<br />
In ships of dreams<br />
She tells tales<br />
<br />
~Flowers and trees<br />
and Birds and Bees<br />
are all Her Relations<br />
She stomps them out onto earth<br />
Forming mountains and caves of mysteries<br />
She hollows out empty spaces<br />
to hold the vastness of the seas<br />
<br />
~Woman if you look into her eyes<br />
You will see the sparkle of what makes shining<br />
If you open your heart wide<br />
She will fill you with emotions<br />
and you can tend seeds in your garden<br />
Nurture and nourish them with the milk and honey of your breasts<br />
~Man when she sashays<br />
and her hips sway<br />
She brings forth moon and stars<br />
to dance their stories<br />
across the night skies<br />
The ones that seem to be tangled in her hair<br />
Her fingers weave sun and clouds together<br />
to create the ambience and set the scene<br />
for your nets to catch the wonders of each day<br />
<br />
~People she holds the keys<br />
for living in the KINdom<br />
as one Earth family<br />
Inside her lives the quiet<br />
in between beat of moments<br />
From her core she draws up<br />
The molten red orange yellow blue<br />
hot lava of creation<br />
<br />
~She freely gifts to you her GENEROSITY<br />
The Wherewithal and Oomph<br />
to lift your arms in praise<br />
To gyrate your hips in motion<br />
Let your heart dance to her heart's drumbeat<br />
With each breath you take With each step you make<br />
on your heart's path of<br />
Truth<br />
Love<br />
and Beauty<br />
<br />
~Rise up from your bed of sleeping<br />
Live the GENEROSITY of your dreams into our world<br />
Bathe yourself clean in her clear waters<br />
She gifts you fires to gather round for warmth and Light<br />
Light your lantern's candles<br />
Be her feet Go out into our world<br />
Let your hands deliver her GENEROSITY<br />
wherever colors need to be painted<br />
<br />
~This is your life This dirt your floor<br />
The sky and all it holds~ your ceiling<br />
There is a well inside of you<br />
Where her GENEROSITY flows freely<br />
Carve out sacred space to be with Her<br />
Learn by heart to sing her celestial music songs<br />
Create in touch/word/paint/music/song/dance<br />
Live your life with GENEROSITY<br />
<br />
~Let us create in this gigantic<br />
Cosmic Soup pot<br />
Our part of what it means to live life fully<br />
We are the sights textures smells and tastes<br />
of her glorious GENEROSITY<br />
The Spices and the Kintsugi Gold mending<br />
this place<br />
these people<br />
to make us Whole<br />
<br />
~With her elements of Earth Air Fire and Water<br />
Let us create her GENEROSITY<br />
Lordy and Big Mama are calling us<br />
to be One Earth Mama and One Earth Papa<br />
and create One Earth Family<br />
Where there is Love and Truth and Beauty<br />
How will I use discernment and grace<br />
to create GENEROSITY for All<br />
with my spices paint and song and dance?<br />
~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Susan The Flamingo Lady OF LALALandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10928918695180104075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693877729950023687.post-87408841376288794112016-08-13T03:36:00.004-05:002016-08-13T03:36:53.267-05:00July 24, 2016 CENTERING IN POTTERY POETRY AND THE PERSON<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">July 24, 2016 CENTERING IN POTTERY POETRY AND THE PERSON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is something I wanna share that goes along with the I AM
THE CLAY theme that's been playing in my life center stage recently. I can't
think of clay without thinking of M. C. Richards who wrote <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Please take a few minutes to spend time with this wondrous lady:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You can read about her life @<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/20/arts/m-c-richards-poet-potter-and-essayist-dies-at-83.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/20/arts/m-c-richards-poet-potter-and...</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Richards" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Richards</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I also have the movie about her THE FIRE WITHIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are a few of my favorite quotes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~ To have character is to be big enough to take life on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~ We have to believe that a creative being lives within
ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for
it will not give us peace until we do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~ All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is
our life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> ~ For since most of our living is unconscious, play is
like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by,
illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~ Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement.
Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can
substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am
not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas of myself, of man be changed? Am I able
to follow the spirit of love into the desert? To empty myself even of my
concept of emptiness?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you
may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to
change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.azquotes.com/author/19824-Mary_Caroline_Richards">~Poetry
often enters through the window of irrelevance.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.azquotes.com/author/19824-Mary_Caroline_Richards">~From the
seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from
the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches; at the top, the flower. .
. We cannot say that the seed causes the growth, nor that the soil does. We can
say that the potentialities for growth lie within the seed, in mysterious life
forces, which, when properly fostered, take on certain forms.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.azquotes.com/author/19824-Mary_Caroline_Richards">~The big art
is our life.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was
talking law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and
find in that obedience our freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world
nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible.
He identifies with his surroundings and they live within him unconsciously; it
is perhaps for this reason that the small child has been characterized as
naturally religious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.azquotes.com/quote/750988">~It helps, I
think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep
to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep
and press on.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let
the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that
hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act of inner receptivity.
It is the total person who hears. Sometimes the skin seems to be the best
listener, as it prickles and thrills, say to a sound or a silence; or the
fantasy, the imagination: how it bursts into inner pictures as it listens and
then responds by pressing its language, its forms, into the listening clay. To
be open to what we hear, to be open in what we say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the
pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender
and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">~<a href="http://www.azquotes.com/quote/576760">Compassion is an
alternate perception</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Susan The Flamingo Lady OF LALALandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10928918695180104075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8693877729950023687.post-64679466130243033932016-08-13T03:31:00.000-05:002016-08-13T03:31:08.187-05:00My July 24, 2016 haikus<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My July 24, 2016 haikus<br />
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of my Shining<br />
Light to my Sabbath<br />
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~Divine Potter mold<br />
my life that I may reflect<br />
Creation's Beauty<br />
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~Potters can a<br />
spoiled vessel and create<br />
a new one from it<br />
<br />
~Remold me anew<br />
Throw me onto your spinning<br />
wheel and shape my form<br />
<br />
~When I crack or mar<br />
in Divine's hands I become<br />
beautiful again<br />
<br />
~Divine shape mold and<br />
recreate me again in<br />
your Divine image<br />
<br />
~I behold Divine<br />
essence in myself and in<br />
others Let us fly!<br />
<br />
~I raise my hands to<br />
You in praise! With these wings You<br />
gift me with I fly!<br />
<br />
~When it is hard for<br />
me to see I lift my thoughts<br />
up higher and Sing!<br />
<br />
~Beyond shells of hurt<br />
fear and apprehension lie<br />
our true Divine selves<br />
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~Help me get better<br />
perspectives so I can see<br />
and be more Divine<br />
~~~<br />
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of Love For All<br />
Beings to my words<br />
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~Today I answer<br />
the call and weave prayers of<br />
red threads in my heart<br />
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~I pray for people<br />
who pass by and smile at those<br />
who look in my eyes<br />
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~I relinquish my<br />
own agenda and look for<br />
ways to spread love's joy<br />
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~Opportunities<br />
arise in unexpected places to give love<br />
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~Centered in Spirit<br />
I bring a sense of home to<br />
wherever I go<br />
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~Maya Angelou<br />
wrote that the ache for home lives<br />
in all of us here<br />
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~The safe place where we<br />
can go AS WE ARE and not<br />
be questioned is here<br />
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~I cherish people<br />
I can turn to for always<br />
understanding love<br />
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~I appreciate this<br />
special place where I feel<br />
unity with life<br />
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~I am thankful for<br />
spiritual growth and my sense<br />
of belonging here<br />
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~Strangers in foreign<br />
places begin to feel like<br />
family to me<br />
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~I carry with me<br />
unconditional love and<br />
acceptance for all<br />
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~How can my hands touch<br />
those I meet on my path with<br />
Love Truth and Beauty?<br />
~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
Simplicity's spirit to<br />
my sanctuary<br />
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~Everyone needs<br />
a solace for the soul A<br />
sanctuary place<br />
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~In uncertain times<br />
what comforts me? Where do I<br />
pit my faith and trust?<br />
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~Divine life within<br />
me comes with every breath<br />
I take in Oneness<br />
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~I connect with my<br />
spiritual center and find<br />
serenity here<br />
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~In tranquil presence<br />
with the Divine my soul feels<br />
relaxing calm peace<br />
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~I savor this time<br />
grateful for the blessings this<br />
day will bring to me<br />
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~During every<br />
moment I create joy into<br />
my life and our world<br />
~~~<br />
What is this River of Stars that connects us with the Divine? What is this One
Force Source that creates the ebb and flow of tides? And spins our Earthball so
the sun and moon and stars dance their stories over us? What stardust is it
that sparkles in each one of us? What is it that created us to breathe?<br />
and sing?<br />
and drum?<br />
and flute?<br />
and dance?<br />
Who gifted us with the language of poetry?<br />
What is it that fills us with Light we can radiate out with generosity?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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~Today I will bring<br />
the spirit of World Peace to<br />
my naked body<br />
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~Bare I offer up<br />
unmasked unclothed who I am<br />
my essential me<br />
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~The core of me shines<br />
in my mirror reflection<br />
of my body's map<br />
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~These lines suntanned and<br />
not show me how I've grown<br />
to be who I am<br />
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~New life means I will<br />
make new commitments to be<br />
more freely me now<br />
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~What will I give from<br />
my soul when I go fishing<br />
with nets of love?<br />
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~How do I love in<br />
generosity giving<br />
from my abundance?<br />
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~I cast out my nets<br />
in new directions and seek<br />
soul food for us all<br />
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~I invest who I<br />
am and what I have for the<br />
good of all people<br />
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~The Divine's Presence<br />
protects like a mother loves<br />
and shelters her child<br />
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~First responders we<br />
courageously assist our<br />
communities' needs<br />
<br />
~We teach and nurture<br />
to bring security and<br />
safety for us all<br />
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~Trusting the Divine<br />
we fill with love to share and<br />
spread all around us<br />
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~From abundance that's<br />
gifted to us we grow our<br />
generosity<br />
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