October 2008 Archives

If you don't, you get everything you deserve including smashed pumpkins on your doorstep!

I'm quite happy about that!  I don't watch much TV, but even so, the attack ads have been running full throttle for the last 3 months.  The amount of money invested in the negative, dark side is amazing.  You can just hear the under-world leader gnashing his teeth.  He won't be long for this world and he knows it.  Even the money he used as an alter won't save him.  His time is up, and it's time to move on, move into a positive, growing, healing time for the earth and her inhabitants.



It amuses me that the fundamentalist, right-wing Christians believe in their right of terrorizing others with their beliefs, their false-power, their one and only way - when the religion they built, itself, has been turned around, misconstrued, interpreted badly, and made into it's own little powerless false religion.  I have a feeling, the birth of Christ this year, may be looked at much differently.  Perhaps more will join Christ's consciousness and understand what his parables, what his guidance and way-showing really meant.  Perhaps they'll have a real experience with the deep Christ, that one that pointed us in the right direction if we'd only listened.  Perhaps more will experience the Peace of Christ.


Many long for Peace after being assaulted 'till we're bloodied psychically with the negative political advertisements launched and funded by the beast.  The beast of wealth, the beast of good, gone bad, the beast of self-protection and the beast of warring.  I hope people are not so self-absorbed and frightened that they can't see the money poured into this negative race is not for their good, but for their demise.  If we cannot get up from the whore of self-centered, racist fear, then we will die in her grasp with nothing left but her empty shell of empty promises.


The "Good News" is there is still time to accept the Christ into your heart.  You can awaken from this very bad dream and realize that Christ was telling the Truth.  You can't see God if you don't walk Christ's walk.  Or Moses' walk.  Or Buddha's walk.  Or Mohamed's walk.  Or Krishna's walk. Or many other enlightened souls who understood the Truth.  Not your beliefs, not my beliefs, not belief at all, but the Truth.  Gosh, it's such a wonderful, peaceful world we are a part of if we open to that world.  As long as we're lost in the illusion of pain, fear, greed, and beliefs, we have no chance of knowing God's Peace.

Yes, the election is almost here and we're almost ready to take the leap into a new era.  I wish you peace in this world.  I wish for you to find Awakening a journey of wonder and awe and Peace.  (There will be bumps in the road, change always causes that, but there is something to hold onto now that is solid.  The illusion is gone, and Truth is here for you.)

Our next President visited Denver this week.  Thousands rallied in a Denver park to hear him.  I didn't attend, but wanted to share this video with others who are Obama supporters.  Life is changing, without negativity, but slowly, gently flowing into good!


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I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly of the market recently.  People are scared because they're losing a lot of money on Wall Street.  Many people just think that "this is the way it is", and even though they're losing everything they have saved in the past 50 years, they think, well, that's just the way it is.


Prosperity doesn't come to chaos.  That means, if your house is out of order, then chaos will reign.  Have you cleaned your house?  Have you picked up, cleaned up, ordered up your home?  If not, then how do you expect your prosperity to come?

Chaos in relationships is just as bad at sucking the life blood out of your finances.  Have you forgiven the past?  Have you forgiven and blessed everyone in your life?  Have you forgiven and blessed yourself?  If you have not, then notice the big sucking sound of your money flying away from you!  Hmmmm????


You cannot have a home that is dirty, cluttered, schedules going hither, thither and yon, and expect that prosperity can settle in your home.  If you have bad feelings for someone in your home that is not living up to "your" expectations, and you hold back on participating, cleaning, and picking up, tidying up, organizing your home, then you will not reap the prosperity that is promised to every conscious child of God.


Life is so simple, yet we make it difficult.  We expect miracles, when in fact, just organizing, cleaning and putting our home in order, and cleaning up our relationships, and putting them in order is all that is needed to "prime the pumps" of prosperity.

How many times today have you cussed at someone for not picking up their socks, taking out the trash, making their bed?  If you have found yourself cursing someone for not living up to your expectations, then you are a victim of your own "damned" religion.  "This is how life should be lived!"  Stop!  This is a false idol!  Pick it up.  Take it out!  See everyone as a child of God...Just Like You... and forgive, forget and move on!

Make your world chaos-free, resentment-free, clutter-free and clean.  You will be amazed at the money that starts pouring into your checkbook.  You will be amazed at the peace you feel.  You will be amazed at the health you gain. You will be amazed at the love that is in your life!  No joke, everyone responds to chaotic-free love!


Clean up your chaotic home; find prosperity, peace and authorship of your own life at hand.  I love you.  You need to love you.  It's yours baby, just claim it!

This was a catalog that I poured over when my daughter was young, some 20+ years ago.  It inspired my imagination, and the toys and books inspired my daughter's creativity and imagination and the lust for exploring worlds unknown. Now I get to pour over it for my grandson!  Thank you Barbara!  I highly recommend Nana's looking for holiday gifts to check out HearthSong.  It's one of the best around for unique, empowering, creative gifts for your grandchildren or children.  Barbara has created the most absolutely beautifully crafted and dream-inspired businesses around.  A woman did this.  A wisewoman.  Shout out to Barbara!

Barbara Kane founded HearthSong in 1983 because of a growing conviction that, "too often, in our culture, children are pushed to grow up too fast. I started HearthSong to make a statement reinforcing what parents themselves know is true, right and healthy--that childhood is a very special time." Children need time to be children.


A catalyst for Kane was a major national news magazine's cover story on "superbabies." This article, and her own observations, made her more aware of how our society pressures parents to teach their children more and more facts, at earlier and earlier ages. In Kane's view, "Earlier is not necessarily better. It's important that children learn basic skills, but at the right developmental age. Most of all, children need time for creative, imaginative play. In fact, it is through play that children learn most readily."


Kane chose the company's name to reflect her values: the hearth, a traditional symbol for the center of the home, and song to symbolize the family spirit, the joy that parents and children can experience together. Originally printed in black and white, with pencil drawings of carefully selected toys and books, and mailed out of Kane's house by her family, the first catalog was a success.


Circulation has grown from a mailing of several thousand catalogs to the current mail quantity of 19 million. Our merchandise selection and product development goals are inspired by Kane's philosophy of child development, drawn from a broad base of child psychologists, parents, religious teachers, toymakers, and educators-especially those from the Waldorf school of thought.


Kane felt strongly that childhood is a unique period in the life of an individual, that the consciousness of a child is completely different from that of an adult, that there is a specific purpose and a specific pattern to childhood and to the development of a child's consciousness, and that adults can help or hinder the accomplishment of that purpose and pattern. With a love for children, a reverence for life, and a desire to support you in your task of parenting, we offer you our service and our products: toys you'll feel good about giving.

Hearthsong 25th Anniversary Scholarship contest

I am loving today in Colorado!  Beautiful autumn day, a slight chill early this morning but warming now and probably about 70 degrees by the afternoon.  Makes one appreciate the special moments offered by Spirit every moment.


Have you stopped and looked at where you are this minute?  Are you in an office?  Are you outdoors?  Are you in the middle of fantastic family chaos?  I hear children outside, raking up leaves and then squealing as they jump in the amber and red piles of nature's beauty.  Nature is giving back to herself, the nutrients, the rich home for future insects to live and help enrich the earth again.  Eating, giving off waste, decomposing and then becoming again one, with the earth.  What a delicate and beautiful balance nature is.  How intricate each participant is intertwined and each having a part in the dance of life.  What design this thing called "life" is!  I'm always awed! It's all an illusion but a beautiful one at that.


Who are you?  Do you know where you are in the dance, who you are in the dance of life?


In Mathew 5:14 Jesus said, "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden;"


Christianity reinterpreted this by deflecting this statement away from us.  "Oh, you mean Jesus is the light of the world."  That's not what he said.  He said, "You are the light of the world."  Ego, Satan, Mind throws us off so that we will be separated from God or Spirit. It divides us from Truth, because if we realize we are one with God, then what would we need ego, mind, fear (Satan) for?  We would not need them because we would realize our oneness and partnership with God. We would see God in everything and everyone and there would be no judgment.  Duality would drop away and only God would be.  That's who we are in the dance. Come to yourself Jesus kept saying.  Come to me.  We deserve to wake up to our divine heritage.  You have fabulous, sacred, precious gifts waiting for you when you awaken.


How sweet and beautiful life is.  You are it.

Here are some books that have inspired me, enlightened me, supported me, awed me, taught me, wowed me and also a few for the grandkids!

Can you feel it in the air? No, I don't mean autumn, or Winter...I'm talking about the change that is taking place in the world, right now, right this minute. Can you feel and see the old political, banking, business structures fall away like dust in the wind?

I just signed the Conscious Loving/Living Initiative. Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks are relationship experts who comment regularly on the body language being used by our political candidates. They have been counseling conscious relationships between couples for thirty years. They have the unique opinion that we need to become conscious, loving and honest in our relationships with everyone in order to bring about a better world.

The Petition for Conscious Living basically states:

"I commit to authenticity, responsibility and appreciation in my own relationships, and request that politicians speak honestly, take responsibility (thus eliminating blame) and express appreciation."

Wouldn't it be great if we could all sign and start living the spirit of this petition? Wouldn't the world change from anger, greed, blame into perhaps loving, open, honest and giving? I dunno, but I promise to do my part - minute-by-minute with everyone I come in contact with in my life. I do love this life, this world, the beautiful planet and all the life swarming upon it. I would love to see a shift in it's consciousness. How about you? What do you think?

These times need to become gentler, more loving, more kind. We Americans are so very tired of the negative advertising on television. We're tired and poor in Spirit with the political battles. The war of words. We need rest and comfort from war.

We wise women can help facilitate peace. We can tap into the divine Spirit that we are and draw into our hearts that deep love, that unconditional love, the Spirit who is everything and whom everything is made of and draw on that deep well of love. First apologize, ask forgiveness and love ourselves (how have we created a war on ourselves?), then apologize, ask forgiveness and love others (how have we created war on others?), then apologize, ask forgiveness and love the planet (how have we created war on the planet?), then beyond (how do we create war by unconscious actions and words?). We are this. What we see in the world is a projection of ourselves. Let's remember where we came from. When we start practicing apologizing, forgiving and loving, our world improves exponentially. Our relationships become more loving and joyful. Unexpected prosperity pours into our world. New connections, insights and health shower us with unending gifts. All you have to do is give up the struggle and enter into relationship with God. Are you willing? Enjoy this beautiful video of Ho'oponopono.

Wisewomen, if you were to stop, and I mean stop thinking, and just be still for a moment. Look inside and ask yourself, what is this thing I call myself? Who is asking the question? We go inside and there is a second of understanding, a second of "knowing", a second of awakening. The "time between" the asking and the mind stepping in and saying, "Well, I don't know", "I must have done it wrong", because I don't know what this thing is that I call myself. Mind says, I must have done it wrong.

Who is doing the looking? Who is this ... consciousness that asks the question. You can go through all kinds of spiritual maneuvers to "find consciousness". Meditation (the perfect kind), prayer (the right kind), the perfect spiritual person (try that for 1/2 hour and learn a BIG lesson in failure), and on, and on, and on.

Who we appear to be is not who we are, however, if we deny who we appear to be, we'll never get to who we really are. If we accept what we appear to be, our mind is open to look deeper. I appear to be a woman. I appear to be human. But is that what is really true?

Are you ready to awaken as you really are? As you always have been? As you never have had to strive to be? The Spirit in you is not a thing - nothing. And yet, when you let down the personality, the ego, the striving to be something, you realize that you are everything, and nothing. When you tap into conscious Spirit, you realize that you are accepted with unconditional love and acceptance. You have a sense of peace and well being. You don't have to justify your existence to yourself or anyone else. We always knew this, but we were trained to give away our authentic authority and forget who we really are.

Some people find meditation helpful to tap into the vastness of who they are. Some people are just quiet and feel their body's energy vibrating. Some people hear music, car noise, traffic, talking, animals, silence, chatter, or whatever, and slip into that deep sense of Self. That deep sense of who they really are. That deep quiet space of I Am. Alpha - Omega. Choose who you will follow. Will you follow the limited, little, self-deprecating image of who you should be, or will you go to that deep, quiet space of I Am, and realize who you really are.

Times now call for each of us to rise to I Am. Not by wrote, not by speech, not by sign, but by silence of our own inner being of who we really are. That is the awakening to your health, wealth and wisdom.

Come my love, come to the light of your own sweet self.

He referred tonight in the debate about autistic children and how Sarah Palin was in tune with that.  He doesn't know the difference between autistic and downs syndrome. Sad.

Today is blog action day for blogging about poverty. Upon looking at the US Census pages on poverty, this line struck a chord of sadness in me:

The poverty rate increased for children under 18 years old (18.0 percent in 2007, up from 17.4 percent in 2006), while it remained statistically unchanged for people 18 to 64 years old (10.9 percent) and people 65 and over (9.7 percent).

How can the greatest country in the world tolerate one child going to bed hungry? How can we look the other way when we pass homeless children on the street?

We can and we do because we're often so busy chasing the almighty dollar that we don't see poverty right in front of us. We have neighbors who are hurting, hungry, poor in Spirit, and we're too busy to see, to help, to feed their body, mind and Spirit. I'm making it my business to wake up and see where I can help. I'll start in my neighborhood. How about you? How can you help in your neighborhood?