Star Stuff

heaven resides in me
for i am
made of
star stuff

 

… the plight of a people who’ve forgotten their myths …

saw this today and it blew me away…  i have to share it here, just to keep it in a safe place.

 

Learning to Love My ‘Container’

 

so i’m working on some personal issues, overcoming body shame being one of them, this week’s concentration is seeing individual bodies with acceptance or compassion, then seeing past that to the soul.

it’s an 8 week course, and i look forward to further lessons.  for now, though, if you catch me looking at you oddly, don’t get too weirded out.  hehee.  ❤

 

be the love

click & watch

doing without expecting back even a thank you is real charity.

i need to be the love.

A Muse of Spring…

Spring is burgeoning under the grasping winter snow.  Thawing loose and tightening with another freeze.  This workout strengthening The Mother’s babies.  Soon they will be bursting through, flexing and preening for the sunny spot light.  The world’s a stage?  The earth is the stage and the show goes on and on and on…  So take a pause to enjoy the show, at any point in the day, sunlight hours or under the shine of the moon. Appreciate the simplicity, the complexities, juxtapositions of aesthetics and practicalities.  Spring is a feast for the senses.   Grey daze and balmy air, dampness seeping into the bones of earth and body. The hope of a season both playful and precocious. It’s a hope i love to exist in, to experience, to share. 

A hope i have to foster in a world gone mad while the earth goes on. 

heART of SPRING art journaling @ A Walk in the Woods

*flowers bursting from the muddy potential of spring earth.

the good, the bad, the in-between

meditation thought for the day:  loving all of me; the good & the bad & the in-between.

acceptance is much easier than loving.  but to be whole and healing, i need to let go of shame and regret, love me and all my mistakes and messes and foibles.  everything that came before has brought me here.

 

Who shall i be today?

 

meditation thought for the day: embracing all of the pieces that make up my personality;

stepping outside myself to observe the ‘movie’ of my life, can i accept that that each ‘character’ has (or has had) their role to play?

Beyond Capitalism – Albert Einstein, 1949

it’s nice to know that i have had similar thoughts. does that make me genius material? 😛

Creative by Nature

The following are excerpts from Albert Einstein’s essay “Why Socialism?” published in the May 1949 issue of the Monthly Review. In this article Einstein describes the systemic problems with capitalism. How as wealth and power is concentrated in the hands of a few the elites form an oligarchy, gaining control of the media and able to sway politicians to make laws in their favor. In this way democracy is subverted…

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“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of the smaller ones.

The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organised political society.

This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by…

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09/18 for today – away from the sun

“no passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear”

i’m afraid to write and share any more.  afraid of the shame and disappointment of falling to this disease.  dis-ease.  it is exactly how i feel lately.  like i don’t belong, like i’m not good enough for the recovery rooms.  how freaking crazy is that?  like this current fall from grace is the end of it all.  i can’t let that be true.  i won’t!  more than any fear i am feeling, i  miss feeling better than this.

for today, i reach out to my Higher Power for guidance and comfort.  for today, i am thankful that i don’t have to succumb to my fear of failure &/or shame.  for today, i can be honest in my self observation without harsh judgement.  for today, i can do the next right thing.

 

* the opinions expressed in this blog are mine and not that of OA

08/29 for today – on feelings

“the emotions may be endless. the more we express them, the more we have to express.”

i am a Pisces – a girl in the whirl. so, there are some days that i’m nothing BUT emotion. unfortunately, for much of my life, these emotions have been overwhelmingly negative; fear and anger and loneliness. to buffer myself from the flood i began to eat. this protection worked, too, keeping that little girl from feeling TOO much, keeping her from drowning in the flood. so, it worked… until it didn’t. but by then the habit was ingrained and hard to break. for what ever reason my body reacted to this onslaught of food in such a way as to become more detrimental than the harsh feelings it was intended to protect me from. and at this point, i was not feeling my emotions in the way nature intended for me to.

emotions are a way we communicate both with the world around us and, maybe more importantly, with ourselves. when i stifle that communication, i’m only handicapping myself – three fold! what this design for living gives me is a way to find my feelings again. so that i might actually feel and express them as they were meant to be felt and expressed. the more i am able to do this, the more i uncover and discover about myself. this is the beginning of authentic living. the OA program allows me to find myself, but in such a way as i’m not overwhelmed by what i find.

for today, with a reliance on the god of my understanding and a connection to others like me, i can safely feel both the positive and the negative stuff. for today, i understand that sorting my emotions out in a healthy manner creates a the space for them to live in. for today, program helps me face and handle anger, fear and loneliness, thinning them out to leave space for love and joy to grow strong and healthy.

* the opinions expressed in this blog are mine and not that of OA