Breathe.
Let go of whatever
life stresses you are
experiencing.
What you resist, persists.
Release any illusion that you
have control.
Surrender to whatever
opportunity presents itself,
instead of what you think
should happen.
Be at ease with change.
Say yes more often.
Disengage from the current
and float.
From Wisdom of the Crones
There are just not enough hours in the day
to maintain a reasonable balance in my life.
This I am acutely aware of.
*pout*
Generations
Sometimes we wonder
what legacy we will leave.
What song,
joke, advice or story will
be passed along.
We can now be of great
influence.
Older women have passion,
time, guts and experience.
Some say when
the grandmothers
speak the earth will be healed.
Look seven generations ahead.
From Wisdom of the Crones
Okay … I am overwhelmed. And not just with all the work I have to do but with the fact that Sky and I just don’t have enough time to do near what we would like to do in so many ways. We do try to do our part at home in helping the environment but we don’t always succeed doing everything we need to do. The need for “convenience” slinks into our lives from time to time (I’m more guilty than Sky) and then guilt comes in. Why did we buy that fish sandwich at Jack in the Box? We could have had a wonderful salmon dinner at Fradelizio’s and taken some home even! Or, better yet? Waited until we got home and fixed our own dinner. I look at some of the wonderful myspace pages of groups and people working hard to make the world a better place and I wonder how on earth do those people have so much time to do everything they do????? And, then, I feel guilty. My workaholic tendencies come in to play at that moment and I try to work 18 hours a day to do everything I need to do to make a living AND save the world! …. jeez …
October 31st is coming up very soon and although that is Halloween for some and All Hallow’s Eve for others, for me … it is my mother’s birthday and my sister’s birthday. Another year that I couldn’t afford to buy them a gift! I just pray I do not forget to call them both on their birthday. I’m TERRIBLE with birthdays and holidays and all that stuff. Again, I’m amazed at people who can keep up with all of that.
Talked with a friend of ours today. She and her husband are moving to Washington State to try to live an off the grid lifestyle. I am so jealous … okay so envious — not really jealous. If they would let us move on to their property? I think Sky and I would go there. I really am ready to live a more simple life. I’ve studied it and researched it for years and years and years. I did live in an off the grid place for a few months back in East Tennessee. I learned a LOT. I think the hardest part and the part I never want to live through again? Is I don’t like having no heat at all. We will HAVE to have a decent heat source wherever we live and that is not always easy in an off the grid situation. I can do without lights. I can do without a real bathroom. I can use an outhouse with the best of them even in the winter. But I cannot type with gloves on!!! And I cannot type with frozen fingers. But, I can rough it with the best of them otherwise.
Journeys
The soul’s journey moves
towards change and healing.
When we reach cronehood
we walk a new path of
union with self.
We accept aging peacefully
and honor our time here.
As you travel, be truly who
you are in every moment.
Let your journey be full
of excitement and adventure.
When you return, may you
be at home within yourself.
From Wisdom of the Crones
So, I do like to post cool stuff that other people have written that I resonate with … but … this blog is supposed to contain some of my own personal musings from this sojourn of earth. Today, I pulled the card ACCEPTANCE from my Wisdom of the Crones cards. Very good advice and something I have been working on. Several of my friends lately have lamented that they do not want to see me lose myself – and I do hear them. In fact, I had already heard my own inner voice that lamented as well. It is all about balance and as we all know, that is really a hard thing to attain and then to maintain …. some kind of balance in life.
To maintain a balance in my life, I have had to let go of petty things that tend to irritate me. Was this easy? Is it easy? No. I have to maintain constant vigilance.
My tongue has been an enemy of mine for a long time. Once it lets loose, it is sometimes hard to reign it back in. So, I am trying to stop for a few seconds before I respond to things that have irritated me. Most of the time I realize that what I was about to say was unnecessary and would only cause conflict so I don’t say it. I may think it … but I keep it to myself and ?miraculously? over the next few minutes what caused me irritation dissipates and it isn’t even important in my mind anymore. Whew. Thank God I didn’t say anything. Saying something at that moment of irritation would have just caused conflict that would have lasted longer than my initial irritation and would have put another cut into any relationship.
Wow … sometimes silence really is golden. This new practice, in turn, has helped me to be calmer, happier, and more content with my life rather than worried and untrusting and paranoid. Jeez — calmer, happier, content vs. worried, untrusting and paranoid — who wouldn’t choose the first set. And, it has proven to be pretty easy to do. Just a simple biting of my tongue and wait a few seconds before responding or not responding … reacting or not reacting … and voila’ … peace!
Acceptance
Sometimes acceptance means
accepting the unacceptable
with grace.
You are more than your body
or mind.
Love yourself
completely
and unconditionally.
In finding your true self
you could just live
happily ever after.
From Wisdom of the Crones
Today, I drew the card LOSS from my Wisdom of the Crones cards.
I’m not sure why this card was drawn. I have lost a few loved ones through my years but no one lately.
As November draws near, I do remember two of my loved ones who passed over to the other side in November. My PaPa (my dear stepfather) passed over 4 years ago and my ex-boyfriend who I was still very close to passed over November 20th, 2005.
November is also the month of births. My son was born 30 years ago on November 30. So, I cannot dread November too much.
Here are the words from the Wisdom of the Crones cards I drew out today.
LOSS
As you walk the path of loss,
know that grief deepens you.
Losing someone you love
is your loss, your pain.
Although you will miss them,
know that they are
on to the next
great adventure.
Tincture of time
soothes sorrow.
Dwell on living.
Wisdom of the Crones
When we are afraid of something we can actually attract it to ourselves.
We can even become what we fear.
How many times have we been frightened of something
only to find that our worries were for naught?
Consider this definition:
FEAR = FALSE EXPECTATIONS APPEARING REAL.
Nothing furthers our souls’ growth more than overcoming our fears.
Meet fear with love and trust and it will disappear.
From Wisdom of The Crones
. . . is amazing. Despite many negatives (doesn’t everyone have those?), I am a truly blessed being here on this earth. Sometimes I feel guilty that I am so blessed. I am 49 years old. I feel I have lived several distinctly different lifetimes just in this one that I exist in now.
If anyone is reading this, you are coming in to my life in the midst of one of those lifetimes. Some things are constant through each lifetime but each lifetime has usually brought major change. I’m not afraid of change. That is a good thing but it also means that I end up not being a very consistent person in this sojourn here on earth.
I am a firm believer that we are spiritual beings practicing being human – rather than human beings practicing spirituality.
I’ll leave you now with that thought.
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