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Friday, 29 June 2012

Keeping it Real...

Keeping it Real with the lovely

Every Friday 
Monica invites her readers to
"Share your own ups-downs, lows-highs, hits-misses, dark-light,
peaks-valleys, plus-minuses,
as we keep the blogosphere real."


The Ebb and The Flow

this past week these two entities have intertwined
such a thin delicate thread separated them
it was difficult to tell them apart
*
a week of commune as friends stayed with us
as there new home underwent renovations
they brought the pitter patter of little feet
 a little girl voice
sweet smiles and shy looks
and I was reminded, once again,
 of how 
though I love the solitude
I equally love and embrace a full house
a reminder of a life gone by
a childhood home full of noise and activity
an open door where visitors and lodgers where welcome
were ebb and flow lived out loud
*
a day with a soul sister did my heart good
speaking of deep things
life and death
communications with God
hopes & dreams
laughter & tears
personal reflections
wine down by the river
a visit to a most peculiar village
(more images found here)
and the freedom to express with no thought of judgment
as the ebb and flow danced in the grass
and sparkled in the sun
*
bear cubs in the trees
there has been a mama living in the ravine with her 3 cubs
for the most part they have kept
to themselves
but as the cubs grew
so did their perimeter
so when they all found themselves
trapped up a tree
by a busy road side
precautions had to be taken
for the wild and civilization
have their own unique version
of ebb and flow...
a delicate dance
between the two
(they were tranquilized and moved to a safer location in the mountians)
*
more work was done on my tattoo
(before)

(after)
colour and snowflakes 
will be put in  sometime in August
it was another 3 hours of being under the needle
this was a moving session
I went into a deep meditative state
this tattoo is changing me
growing me
I am unable to put to words
at this time
what it all means to me...
the ebb takes me
as the flow leads the way
*

I have found myself in a deep place of spiritual reflections
a deep contentment in the path I am on
Gods hands unfolding truths within
as I watch in wonderment
embracing this time of break
break from school
break from the norm
break from schedule
this is quiet now in this space
as I enjoy the month to come




we are parking our little travel trailer
for the month
by a creek in the forest 
right off the beaten path
we will be commuting back and forth
working
while we enjoy the presence of summer
I look forward to this time with my youngest
and letting the summer sun warm my bones
and freckle my body
*
something awaits me there
I am not sure what
perhaps the completion of my book
perhaps the birth of something new
perhaps more unveiling of my life purpose
whatever it is
the flow carries me
and I feel a deep peace
within
*
I end with this quote
posted by a dear soul
and sister-friend
Amy


"Come, come, whoever you are. 
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of living, it doesn’t matter 
Ours is not a caravan of despair. 
Come even if you have broken your vow a thousand times, 
Come, yet again, come, come."

 ~ Rumi and His Sufi Path of Love

Indeed
"Ours is not a caravan of despair"
Ours, 
my Lovelies,
is the caravan of Life






Love and Light 


linking up here

Saturday, 16 June 2012

Keeping it Real...

Keeping it Real with the lovely

Every Friday 
Monica invites her readers to
"Share your own ups-downs, lows-highs, hits-misses, dark-light,
peaks-valleys, plus-minuses,
as we keep the blogosphere real."







The Ebb:


this week the ebb was found 
in the silence of practice
in the sleep of lost years
in the conflict with self


*


(remember her?) 
(4 baby robins hatched this week)


The Flow:


flow was found in gathering with sisters
the reading of wise women's words
new life in the back yard
am early morning bear cub visit
plans for summer
writing time in a coffee house
movement
words


*


"If you do not bring forth what is within you,
that which is with in you,
will destroy you"
~Jesus
(thank G)


*


we are-
"Women wishing to walk their walks a bit taller on the earth.
without apology"
~Pixie Campbell


*


"The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell"
~Nietzsche
(thanks R)


*


"The unfolding of the human hearts is artful and mysterious.
We might wish the path to enlightenment were 
orderly and predictable, but the ways of the heart 
are a landscape discoverable
only in the journey.
We cannot capture freedom and place it in time.
For the mature spirit, freedom is the journey itself.
It is like a labyrinth, a circle, a flowers petal-by-petal opening,
or a deepening spiral,
a dance around the still point,
the centre of all things.
There are always changing cycles
up and downs,
openings and closings
awakenings to love and freedom
often followed by new and subtle entanglements.
In the course of this great spiral
we return to where we started again and again
but each time with a fuller
more open heart"


~Jack Kornfield


*


A joy filled weekend to you my lovelies...


Love and Light


linking up here with Ink and Chai

Friday, 8 June 2012

Keeping it Real...

Keeping it Real with the lovely

Every Friday 
Monica invites her readers to
"Share your own ups-downs, lows-highs, hits-misses, dark-light,
peaks-valleys, plus-minuses,
as we keep the blogosphere real."



The Ebb:


~balancing work and family
~no quite enough sleep
~the constant rain
~the 16 year old who took her own life
and the sister who has to say good bye...
carrying that sister since the news
came my way
I have stood at that door
but failure became my friend
not so for my sister
my heart aches for her


*






~my son who I stood at that door with
graduates tomorrow
it's been a long road
and we are finally here
~the joy of seeing my sons confidence bloom as he is head hunted by an Art Institute
~more ink
~little boy stories
~mamma raccoon with three babies in our ravine
~warm sunny breaks


*


Love and Light


Link up here at Ink and Chai

Friday, 1 June 2012

Keeping it Real...

Keeping it Real with the lovely

Every Friday 
Monica invites her readers to
"Share your own ups-downs, lows-highs, hits-misses, dark-light,
peaks-valleys, plus-minuses,
as we keep the blogosphere real."




The Ebb:


~embracing Mother Death with in myself
meaning:
when I let my expectations die I allow new life to grow
~stumbling over the jagged rubble of Mother Hood
~pushing myself through yet another birth canal
~surrendering to the ugliness that lies within
~dying to self


*


(mamma Robin sitting on her eggs behind our shed)


The Flow:


~Embracing Mother Death within myself
meaning:
when I let my expectations die I allow new life to grow

~stumbling over the jagged rubble of Mother Hood and
getting to the other side
~coming out of yet another birth canal

(these ducklings are less than 12 hours old, watching them in our "church")
~embracing the ugliness that lies within
so I can see the beauty that lies beyond
~living free

*



(Papa bringing food for Mama and babies in our back yard)
(all images taken this past week)

This week had been full of death
which turned onto life
revealing to me
the Power of
letting go

~This is our meditation practice as women, calling back the dead and dismembered aspects of ourselves, calling back the dead and dismembered aspects of life itself. The one who re-creates from that which has died is always a double sided archetype. the Creation Mother is always also the Death Mother and vice versa. Because of this dual nature, or double-tasking, the great work before us is to learn to understand what around and about us and what within us must live, and what must die.
Our work is to apprehend the timing of both
to allow what must die to die
and what must live to live."









*

embracing you today, my lovelies
thank you for being here

Love and Light

(linking up with Monica @ Ink and Chia here)