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Longed for community

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Yesterday the energies were shifting and changing. I could feel the electricity around me. A new male friend called me and said, “Good morning, Sunshine!” That started the day off beautifully! I have had little contact with male energy other than my sons for a long time. It made me realize that I need it in my life. It is time to open myself to this. So… first shift.


My older son called as he was walking to work. He said he did not understand this working life any longer. He wanted out but not sure how or what to move to. Just knew that it felt too hard. This was the first time that he expressed this sense of limitation about his work. Second shift.

A friend called and told me that she had gone on line to become an ordained minister who could perform weddings. I guess that there is very little that one has to do to accomplish this in California. She sees a new business potential and I see how great she would be at this. She is so intuitive and clear about seeing things. As she said, the 0nly drawback is that she might have to say, “This will not work out! What were you thinking!!”
She believes that we could make this a business together. The night before as I watched a movie with my daughter that showed a wedding scene, I had said that I would make a good wedding planner. I had said that I could see my friend and I starting a business together.
Third shift.

My younger son came home to tell me that he felt that he could not continue in his present job, it was too sterile, his creativity was not engaged enough. He just did not want to do it any longer. Fourth shift.

My daughter is finishing her month long yoga teacher training and at the end of the week, is ready to begin the process of marketing herself and beginning to build a fitness/yoga business. At the first of the year. she had allowed herself to take the leap from the known working world and move towards her heart’s desire. She is primed to shift into the new.

For as long as I can recall of this journey of mine, certainly the past couple of years, I have had the vision of beginning a community where love and creativity and connection blossomed. Not the old hippie community of old, rather a small endeavor where we would have enough land to grow our food and enough buildings to house art making and workshops of different sorts. I see a core group of people who live there year round and many others who come and go. It is part of a small town that we are connected to. It is the way of living that we know in our hearts is what we are meant to have. A place where we support one another and spark one another in creative endeavors. There is music and communal cooking and eating. There is a sweat lodge, there is a place for ceremony on the land. There is dancing and yoga. There are trees and a babbling brook. Yes, why not? I have always wanted the babbling brook! Of course there will be fairies and elementals of all kinds sharing the space with us.
Many people around the world have this. In our modern world of nuclear families, most of us do not have this. Rather we live in our tiny groups of two or three or four and often end up just two or one as kids leave and spouses pass on. I want to live with all ages surrounding me like my forefathers did with extended families living and working together. We are a tribal people. Of course, I want to choose my tribe! I am blessed as my three adult children are ones that are part of my soul family of choice. So we have a nucleus to begin. Others whose vibrations match, will be drawn to us. I can sense these vibrations coalescing and moving together as the time for community is now approaching on a planetary level. We will be drawn to our soul groups and what rejoicing there will be as we come together again!

Yesterday the energies felt alive! I felt the community wires humming. It felt as though it were being felt into being. Our hearts are what will create this. The kids and I have been speaking of it since the new year but now we are all being energetically pulled towards it. It feels like a living thing that we are being magnetized towards and it towards us.

We are alert to the signs around us and beginning to think of the steps ahead. How do I get a mortgage when I do not have a job? Perhaps the kids take out a mortgage on the basis of their jobs? They do not make that much…we have some capital to work with…snippets of ideas. I am new at this and it is unfamiliar territory but I know that the doors will open and I am ready to step through them. I know that my place already exists in some reality and that I can feel my way there. So, I will keep you posted. In the meantime, we stay in our heart space and feel ourselves there.

Old energetic patterns releasing

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Today I was surprised to find old energetic patterns of victimhood flooding through me. I was watching myself, knowing that it was not my truth any longer yet it felt so real. I had to remind myself to not attach but rather to let it all move on through.


Now I can laugh and feel the pleasure of knowing that it was old patterns having their last hurrah and then disappearing for good. But when the energies are swirling within it feels intense. There is the panic, “Oh no, I thought that I was done with this long ago and here I am again!” I felt sorry for myself, the voice in my head said that I still did not know what I was doing in my life. I had no friends, no one cared about me. I wanted to point the finger at everyone around me, my kids are not caring enough, my friends have forgotten me. Yikes, it was truly awful! I had not felt such emotions in a long time. Thank goodness!

My sister had the same thing happen as she recently quit smoking. All those emotions that had been held at bay by the habit, suddenly came forth. She felt very emotional and teary. She wanted to point the finger at her new love, he was not caring enough, he was being unkind. Surely it was time to end the relationship. She knew that it was not true, just as I did when I was hit with the old stuff, but it sure feels true when you are in it!

These are the times when we need one another to remind us of our truth. We all know this intellectually, that as we release patterns and move into new ways of relating to the world, our old patterns will return on their way out of our lives. This is a critical time as it is easy to be ensnared again. It is a vulnerable time as you can sabotage yourself. You have to be able to step out of yourself and simply become the observer, watching everything move through.

As we open our hearts to more love and it comes streaming in, it stirs up all the shadow energy within. If you are not in the observer mode, you can attach to the shadows and be pulled back in. That is what happened with my beloved. There was so much love and light that poured in last fall when we were together that all the shadows came rushing up to be loved by that light. All parts of ourselves want to be loved and accepted. I saw it happen, told him that he could move into observer mode and it would all pass on by but he could not. He wrapped those feelings of pain and suffering around himself like a hair shirt. He told me that he was not destined for happiness but rather was to suffer alone for that was the noble path. Three months later and he is still wearing the hair shirt of pain.

Unfortunately, the ego can create a wall that appears too high to scale. It tells you that you made a mistake, so you feel guilt. Then you feel anger at the person who you feel guilty about hurting. The anger may incite another action that is unkind. Now the ego tells you that you cannot undo it as you have gone too far down the road. The other person will not forgive you. So the wall continues to build until it is so high that you believe that you cannot climb over it, you cannot get out from behind it. It convinces you that you are not worthy of love. You are to stay in the shadows.

We stay in our suffering until we tire of it. I sure spent enough years in it, believing that there was no way out. Being so far in the tunnel that I could not see the light at the end. It is hard to believe that I lived in that darkness for so long. I am so grateful to be free and standing in the light of my truth.

Thank goodness for friends at such times who can remind us of our truth and for our hearts which have helped us find freedom.


Another veil falls away…the illusion of suffering

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As we expand our consciousness, the veils of illusion continue to fall away. It is amazing how we have been programmed to think the thoughts that continue to imprison us. Ah… a crafty plot! But as we breathe deeply and enter into our heart space, we begin to breathe the air of freedom. Heady stuff as we are meant to live and breathe this air.


The latest veil of illusion that came to my attention was the way that we deal with suffering. We are taught to believe that we must suffer as we view suffering around us. On an energetic level, what does that look like? Suffering is a heavy energy, dark clouds of swirling pain. So if I see a homeless person and my heart identifies with their perceived suffering, I add to that dense energy cloud. Have I changed the person’s condition or rather amplified it? That person has chosen the experience of homelessness on some level for the growth that it will afford their soul. Does this mean that I do not feel compassion? No, I can decide to offer money or food or a smile, whatever my heart choses, but from a place of joy.

If I look the person in the eye, make contact heart to heart with a greeting of joy, I have injected a new energy into that dark energy. As Mother Teresa was oft quoted as saying. it was not for want of food that people in the West were starving, it was more often for the want of love.
We cannot help anyone by joining them in their suffering. We cannot help our Mother Earth by feeling bad about global warming. We cannot help the poor by lamenting their condition and feeling guilt for our abundance. So many beautiful souls work for the betterment of the planet, of the poor, of the disenfranchised from an attitude of guilt or a weight of pain. We have been taught that this is the way to uplift, to aid. Yet we add to the weight rather than lighten it. Again, it seems counter-intuitive yet our intuition in these instances has been programmed to keep us enslaved to the old paradigm.

If I truly believe that we create our lives for our highest good, then I can step back and be grateful for what I have chosen to create in mine and accept what experiences others have chosen to create in theirs. This does not mean that we do not feel our hearts opening in compassion. We do. Rather that we can respond in a new way. I can feel compassion for my brothers and sisters in Queensland who are experiencing flooding. I can send money and aid but more importantly, I can be in my joy and picture them dancing in their joy. I can see them living their lives with gratitude and appreciation. I can give of my heart by sitting quietly and envisioning waves of healing light flooding Queensland. I can smile as I do this, knowing that all is well. Knowing that I am adding my heart’s love to uplift my brothers and sisters and the nature kingdoms. We are all connected. They are my heart, I am theirs.

We can step out of our small way of thinking and realize the power of our thoughts and feelings to create. We all want good for one another. We want to live in a world where there is abundance for all. We have been taught that it is by “the doing” that we accomplish this. As well we are taught to “do” under the weight of guilt, sorrow, duty. What if we choose to “be” and move to the doing from a place of pure joy. Inspired action from a heart so full of the truth of joy, the truth of beauty. We can feed what we want to see, feed the world with thoughts of the truth of love.

My first teaching job was in a juvenile lock down center. I was young and my class consisted of 16-18 year old boys. They were convinced that this sweet little young woman would run screaming out of there within a week, tops. What amazed me was how the whole system was set up to perpetuate the victim consciousness and the idea of suffering. The kids had counselors and we were to be their friends. I told the boys that I certainly was not their friend, I did not hang out with teenagers and I had no desire to know their histories. I was given huge files in each student of their background but I did not read them. I stuffed them in a drawer. I told the kids that I did not care if someone had put out cigarettes on their arms or beat them or starved them. It did not matter to me. I told them that everyone has had some trauma in their lives and the only question was, what were they going to do about it. I was only interested in being their teacher and seeing what they could do with their lives from here on out.

My attitude did not endear me to the system. If a student decided to end the week by screaming an obscenity at me, I saw that he had chosen a restricted weekend. The counselors would challenge me to change my stance as the “poor kid” had been subjected to this abuse and that. I refused to buy that story, the young man has made a decision to engage in behavior that resulted in a consequence. That would be how he learned to change his behavior and create a life that was more to his liking.

The students came to appreciate my approach and began to believe in themselves in a new way. They had become conditioned to everyone reflecting back victim consciousness as well as fear of their toughness. I saw the yearning of their hearts to be whole and reflected that back to them. The other kids began to call them Linda’s brownies as they began to tuck in their shirts, comb their hair and move out of the habitual slouch to stand in their bodies in a new way. They began to know themselves. I did not believe that they suffered, I believed that in each moment, they had the opportunity to begin life anew.

Despite not understanding what I did, the administration began to send new students through my class first. My students would quickly show the new ones what was up and discourage the usual angry postures. If a new student threatened me in any way, my boys would surround me and set the student straight. They protected me on all levels. They knew in their hearts that I did not pity them, I did not feel sorry for them but rather that I loved them. Love is the most powerful force on this planet, in the universe. It is everything.

So when you watch the news or walk past a homeless guy, open your hearts to love and let that be your guide to your actions. Fill yourself with love so completely that it bubbles up through you as a continuous stream of joy. Send that out into this beautiful world of ours. You are light. You are love. Own it.

Love your life and watch the transformation

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I read a channeling that really resonated with my heart. It is from the Messages from God through Yael and Doug Powell at Circle of Light. Here is the quote:


“Only as something is loved is it free to change into something else.”

This made me think of my kids and the times that I was not seeing them with love but rather anger at their behavior. Or the times with a partner when I felt that he must change for me to feel love. When I lost this basic truth.
We have the capacity to love and accept one another as we are. That is how we gift one another with the freedom to change. All of us are such freedom loving folks, it is encoded in our beings. If someone tries to change us, we put up our defenses. Yet when we feel completely accepted for ourselves, we can let down our guard. We tend to be more amenable to change. As we are gifted with that love, we wish to gift others with love. It is a beautiful circle.
Here is more of the same message:

“And loving your own life, which allows it to change. Wanting it different keeps it in place. To the mind this seems counter-intuitive. But to the heart it makes perfect sense. Love, beloved ones, is alive.”

Only Love Allows Things to Change
Transforming Resistance
1-17-11

I can feel the truth of this..love is alive. We can use this aliveness to re energize and ignite our lives.
I was replaying a number of conversations that I had just heard. Folks were talking about how they do not like their bodies, how “bad” certain foods were that they were eating, how lonely they were, how financially strapped they were. So many reasons it seems to not love our lives.
I began to think of this quote and how true it feels to me. I am moving into a space of loving my life. Seeing in it the vibration of everything that I want. As I focus on the love, it brings forth such gratitude and appreciation for what I have been blessed with.

Taking this to heart, we can love the parts of our bodies that are not functioning at their optimum. We can hold each part in love, flood them with love. Sometimes I feel that our body is like a child. It wants our attention. There are so many levels where we want things to be different. This statement is freeing for me as I tune in to areas in my life where I have not been loving myself.

I have a bit of a leaky bladder…not fun you say and I agree! I am now loving her regularly, instead of focusing on her not performing as she used to. I am loving my bladder as she is right now. I recall years of working at such a frantic pace that I might go all day without using the restroom! How insane is that? I literally felt I did not have time to stop and pee! So this dear bladder has put up with being ignored in a major way and now she is insisting on some attention! I can give it to her in a loving way rather than criticizing her for not performing as I desire.
I am learning to be so appreciative of my body and all that she has done for me these many years. I am loving her beauty, her grace, her form.

Our spirit often uses our body to get our attention, to slow us down, to set us on an inward journey if we have resisted guidance coming in another way. I know when my life fell apart years ago, I had to stop everything. It was as if my body simply wound down and I had no ability to start her up again. I am so grateful to my body for stopping a life that was causing me such pain. It allowed me to discover the life of beauty and joy that I live today.


Today I was walking on the beach in the beautiful sunshine, singing a love song to my beloved. No, he is not here in my life. Yet he is in my heart. I was singing and I found a large perfect sand dollar. I love sand dollars and finding a whole and perfect one, makes my day! I feel like a little girl who has been given a gift. I then found another, almost identical in size and perfection! I took this as a beautiful sign from my beloved that he is close to me. Then a wave came up and caught me unawares and I laughed as my jeans were soaked up my calf. Ha, he wanted to play with me! I love my beloved 🙂


So, today take a look at your life and see what you are not loving this moment. We have been taught to believe that our happiness is to be found in the new job, the big raise, the vacation, the new partner, the perfect body. We have been taught to not love our lives but rather live with dissatisfaction as a constant companion. Let’s turn this around. Let us love everything in our lives even if you can find ten reasons why you can’t. Try it, experiment. I believe that you will be amazed at what you will discover.