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Gratefulness
Complaining digs us deeper into our emotional ruts. Humor, forgiveness, compassion, and gratitude are the 4-wheel drive of the joyful heart.
Take your losses in Autumn, combine weak colonies. Make splits and expand the apiary from strong survivor colonies (if any) in Spring. Gratefully accept swarms that arrive, unbidden, and move in without lifting a single human finger. I’m a beekeeper, whether I like it or not.
While the sun is ours. . .
Yoga. It means “union”
Freedom, Baby!
The human body is synonymous to the planet, Terra, in the same sense that our minds reflect the world we inhabit. When we realize this connection we will take responsibility for each and heal the whole.
Possibilities. Times of crisis are evolutionary springboards.
March 12, 2020 Thursday evening in one location of an organic grocery store chain inside the Washington, DC beltway.
I sell it all to the media-panicked and privileged (no small part of which is animal-derived, ultra-processed, and/or riddled with sugar, alcohol, and empty calories). I strongly disagree with the assertion that “every morsel of food is a gift from this planet”. Most “food” on the grocery shelves (especially those toward the center of the store) is an aberration of the mineral, plant, or animal it was originally sourced from. Help me to visualize a world so abundant with whole, livin...
I sell it all to the media-panicked and privileged (no small part of which is animal-derived, ultra-processed, and/or riddled with sugar, alcohol, and empty calories). I strongly disagree with the assertion that “every morsel of food is a gift from this planet”. Most “food” on the grocery shelves (especially those toward the center of the store) is an aberration of the mineral, plant, or animal it was originally sourced from. Help me to visualize a world so abundant with whole, living, and NUTRITIOUS foods (not the so-called “healthy” surrogates) that we couldn’t possibly give it all away; much less, sell it.
Expectations are an integral part of the process of manifestation, assumptions are an inherent aspect of the human condition challenging us to further awaken to a clearer understanding. Rather than allowing them to upset our ego-backed sense of correctness perhaps it’s a matter of learning to use our expectations and assumptions to these ends rather than being used by them, all the while staying present and open for a surprise resolution!
My honey bee colonies are dead. After a decade of, essentially, pissing up a rope I will not be replacing them again. My teacher has abandoned me at this place and I’m. . . free!
When the student is ready the teacher emerges.
The challenge before me is, through a blend of both conventional, unconventional, and emerging modalities, to heal diabetes on all levels of human being – physical, emotional, and spiritual.
HgA1c. . . . you’re going down!
Everyday begins with a blood sacrifice to diabetes. For whatever else I might not get to while the sun is mine, there’s always multiple daily injections.
Squirrel Nut Zipper’s “Meant to Be” “Tried to take it slow, tried to lose control But I’ll tell you what the trick is: What you get is what you had to give away Now I learned I found my eyes are open!”
It’s not just the fruits, the shoots, or the roots. . . It’s the soil, the very dirt that anchors in this exact window of time my home, my wife and kids, my parents, my job and the broader community. Ironically it’s the very aspects which frustrate me the most that are what I count first among blessings.
reactive: I ditched almost all forms of digital social media as I’ve noticed such surrogates, while pretending to be “social”, actually have the effect of further isolating us. Time-saving devices free up time for more time-saving devices rather than each other.
proactive: I’ve stared hosting a local group of drummers, dancers, and artists on the F1rst Friday of each month for a drum jam and bonfire at my place. Let’s test the formula people + drums = comm...
proactive: I’ve stared hosting a local group of drummers, dancers, and artists on the F1rst Friday of each month for a drum jam and bonfire at my place. Let’s test the formula people + drums = community.
A better connection. . . .
This world is like a mirror, when we look into a mirror to discover that our hair is a mess, we fix our hair and the reflection follows. This is what I mean when I say that radical self love is the way to healing ourselves and the world. Peace be with you, Debra
The “petty tyrant”, those who challenge us are also reflections of our own divinity. Yes, the shadow is a powerfully revealing aspect of the human being.
Thank you, Samuel. I’m afraid that type 1 this is
Of course there is, Cathy. There’s got to be a pony somewhere in all this horse §µ!¥
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