There
is nothing to change here, please dont waste the effort trying.Contrasting thoughts
and ideas are oppotunities for thoughtful interchange.If what you see doesn’t
resonate,doesnt work for your or if it offends, there are other places more your style.
Thank
you for stopping by!
PS. If your eyes are over 40 or challenged,
did
you know you could go up to the View/Text size/largest and make this print larger to read, if using Internet Explorer?
We stand on the shoulders of our Teachers!
When
we can start where they leave off, learn from their mistakes, their choices what worked and didn’t work, our own progress
is so much faster, so much easier, so much more clearer then the path they had to travel.
This
website is dedicated to those teachers of my life,
the
gifts they brought to me and to
those
whose lives I touch in return
with
the greatest honor, respect and commitment
to
share those gifts in return when opportunity offers.
Be your own Work of Art ~ Learn, Dare, Grow ~
Techers come from Everywhere!
Welcome to my blog!
Thank you Sadie
for the beautiful art in this site!
This web-log is my online personal experience journal (as opposed to my professional journal to be found
at www.safetyparadigms.com by 12/06.
Why would you want to read this? Only if some of the topics, philosophies, lifestyles, choices and personal
priorities are of interest to you to explore similar or different lines of thinking with mutual respect.
If the reading thinking about small towns, Morris Massey, Robert Heinlein, New-age, Naturist, self help,
Rosicrucian, Shamanic, and Dog Whisperer current events, intrigue you in any way ~ read further here,
see if you want to hand around, book-link this site, participate in the blog or just move on to something more up your alley.
Stop, just stop. Let
the Dust Settle. See
what is there.
What is left. Where you are.
Intact? Shambles? Breathing? Surviving
until you die?
In a world where
we are measured by the amount of stuff we produce, residue we leave behind that lets other s know we were even there, encouragement
for "Time out" to reassess/recapitualte/re-value is NOT encouraged for we might make another choice that others will not:
Its been those times,
when I have told the universe with every mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, cell in my body that if I have to be alone,
I will not settle ever again.
Thank heavens for
Christaine Northrup's Wisdom of Menopause which was released just in time to help me understand how I am not a crazy woman
as I go though my transition time.
All my life I have
done for other people, put other people's need s first. Now - its MY turn.
And yet.
I am driven to find
ways to continue to share my hero's journey with others of like mind, those who want to stop contributing to the pollution
of our heart, minds, soul and spirit...and the problems of this planet.
That which is most important in my life ~
The gift of relationship and fullfillment of dreams!
To walk the road with those who know:
~ that the most difficult task of all is to clean ones
own house, which is a lifetime effort.
~who understand there are many ways up the mountain and if one selection does
not "grow corn" for that person's choice, then a simple change in choices are enough to keep moving on with other
travelers of greater like-mind:
~who do not need the devestations of hurricane, earthquakes, deaths,
or changes to understand that every moment is precious and each experience to be a gift savored and understood,
~ each teacher dark and light has helped us to be where we are today,
right now in this room and sometimes the dark teachers had more to give then the light.
Timing is everything, So is intent. Sometimes for us humans, just being in the
flow is the most difficult thing to achieve. Today was a quiet day, of contemplation, of introspection about progress
made and steps yet to achieve. It is, after all, memorial weekend.
It is a time, to think about the seven generations to come as we honor the 7 generations
that brough us to this place from our pasts.
One of my first volunteer jobs was to spend time with Hospice of
the Valley because I wanted to understand this thing called dying that no one seemed to want to deal with. Flash forward
20 year, My mother died in 3 days from a tumor on the brain stem no one knew about until 12 hours before, I was an intrical
part of that process as well as the funeral because Dad and sis, just wasn't able to cope. Dad came down with cancer
that had metastasis because he just "handled" the pain so long, by the time we figured it out it was too late.
Sierra, (his only dog) followed him 1 month later from old age and grief (she would sleep in the closet on his shoes by
his clothes). From that point on, I started losing dogs to cancers and organ failure. Out of that I added environmental
safety to the workplace safety I was doing to the point where I have a environmentally health home, insurance that allows me
to go to holistic doctors of my choice and pay for it and I have a dog still alive from cancer over four years later when
the traditional doctors gave her two weeks by using herbal supports rather then chemo and radiation.
She is the one who has taught me most to not pre-grieve and look for the loss.
That she is not in fact dying from cancer, but living with it, as my mom did with her illnesses almost all of my life.
The gifts of the past generations, go so far beyond those basic pieces of my current
history. My matriarchal grandparents, community leaders, role models for grandchildren in the best of ways. My
patriarchal grandparents, first generation Scandanavians for whom family was so important, but whom I never really knew.
They have put things inside me I still discover or uncover to this day.
Tonight I light a candle for their gifts to me, known and unknown.
Tonight for a brief time, I stop looking to the future so I can honor my past, and the gifts they have brought
me today for tomorrow!
