Love Thursday - August 6

I'm Moving!

Friends,

I am moving my blog to WordPress. Please join me and redirect your bookmarks to Gratitude Practices.

Let me know what you think of the new look.

All is well. Life is good.

Love the World into Change

Please visit my spiritual brother and friend, Maithri, at The Soaring Impulse. Prepare to be touched in a profound way.

Looking for What is Right and Good and True, part 2

When I originally wrote my last post, I was worried it might sound a bit preachy and I didn't want it to be that way. I don't ever want to offend anyone with my posts, although I don't mind being intellectually provocative. I do want to stretch our understanding of our consciousness, our spiritual side.

In that vein, I want to share the comment Sister Kathryn made on my last post:

"Because we are so blessed with these insights, let us embrace those who suffer from loss and lack and the fear of more. We are all going to be more than okay through these difficulties and it helps to just hold one another in love and comfort. This is a very powerful time of creation of change. We can prevail when we're One!"

Amen, Sister! 

I believe fundamentalism comes from a smugness in our own beliefs, from the surety that our beliefs or thoughts are the only "true" ones.  My experience of fundamentalism is that it is largely without compassion, largely about judgement.  When we remember that we are all one, that there is no two, we can embrace the "other" with love and compassion, remembering, "I am that."

All is well. Life is good.

Looking for What is Right and Good and True

Visualize an ocean of abundance, and the tide is coming in

Bad news abounds, by all appearances.

Look in any newspaper, listen to any news program, look around and you can't help but see the manifestation of fear.  Economic crises, job loss, loss of what we thought would never end.

LOOK FOR GOOD NEWS. LISTEN TO POSITIVE EVENTS.  THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO BRING ABOUT.

During the great "prosperity" we largely enjoyed, there were still people out of work, people homeless, people loosing everything.

During this "economic crisis" there are still people buying homes, getting great jobs, progressing, achieving, attaining.

If you don't want to experience lack, don't dwell on lack. If you want to experience abundance, dwell on abundance.

The physical world, including the economy, does not have spiritual authority over you.  As my friend Mike Dooley says, "Don't judge your progress on appearances."  It is important for us to keep visualizing what we want to create and not be distracted by what we see around us. It is all illusion anyway. We may want to create a world where we have a blast "playing in the jungles of time and space" (as Mike calls it). It's just as easy and way more fun than creating a world of deprivation and loss.

All is well. Life is good.

Twenty-five Things About Me

I've been tagged by a couple of friends to post 25 things about myself, so here goes:

1. I am 53 and feel younger now than I ever did in my 20s and 30s.
   
2. I learned to laugh at myself about 10 years ago and it improved my life enormously.
3. It took me 50 years to decide I wanted to be alive.
4. I have known Tracy for almost 10 years and have loved him nearly from the first moment - I didn't allow myself to know that for a while, however.
5. It seems I don't really need 20 pairs of black shoes.
6. When I laugh really hard at movies or when enjoying friends, I have to use an inhaler to open up my airways.  It is so worth it.
7. My beloved son is 24 as of Feb. 1
8. I am blessed to have a relationship with all of my family members again.
9. My favorite color changes periodically.  Right now, I'm in love with lime green.
10. I used to have a complete wardrobe of mostly black clothes. I deliberately began adding color into my wardrobe a number of years ago and, oddly enough, my depression began to lift.
11. I love to nap.
12. I have studied a lot of energy healing modalities and use them regularly (mostly on myself).
13. As a teenager, I read Gone With the Wind and Of Human Bondage once every year.
14. I was a vegetarian for about 8 years until I ran into a barbequed chicken leg.
15. I recently made the leap to Mac. So far, I like it.
16. I got sober in July of 1990; my sobriety is everything to me and I am grateful each day for release from the bondage of addiction. Everything good in my life is the direct result of being a sober woman.
17. I used to live on a golf course. I now live in a very cool urban neighborhood.
18. I don't think America's Funniest Home Videos are very funny because they are mostly about people getting hurt.
19. Dogs rock.
20. I have many wonderful women friends who sustain me throughout all the times of my life.
21. There are a few men in my life that I like and enjoy their company.
22. I love to sing, but no one should have to hear it.
23. I regularly massacre the lyrics to songs (inadvertently), but I often like my version better.
24. I have a couple of books in the works.
25. The inauguration of Barack Obama was the happiest day of my life since the birth of my son.

Whew!

I've been without my internet access since the move - over a week without access to the internet, except through my iPhone, has been hellish!

My first two weeks at my new job has been wonderful. Everyone is very dedicated to the mission of the organization - not a lot of egos so far.  

Here are a couple of pictures from the new location.

View from the condo

View from my office