Some weeks back Jim called me from work.  He'd just been offered a music gig for Valentine's Day.  So he was wondering how I'd feel about that.  I felt he has not had many opportunities to play out recently and the experience is always very good for him.  So I sai...

2008 was a year of learning what "slow" really means at a day-to-day level.  Am hopeful that 2009 will allow me to integrate what I've learned in ways that are more creative than reactive.  Having never seen or felt myself to be someone who resists change, or glorifies thei...

The beauty of a lotus flower speaks in many tongues.   When words fail there is always the stunning illumination of the bloom to light the corners of our mind and its blank spaces.   This morning when I first woke up I was thinking in images of bright color and warm physical sensat...

At the moment I feel a lot like this amaryllis flower stalk - potently alive and growing visibly by the day but not yet sufficiently formed to produce new flowers.  Sustained growth process can be so misleading.  There's often a feeling of stasis and/or comprehensive inability when i...

Just words today; last week sometime I posted a comment on Jen's blog that prompted her to ask that I say more about my habit - or, okay...just for Jen - ritual - of marking the full moon of each lunar cycle with some form of self-gifting.  I've been doing this for quite awhile. ...

It's often my habit to sign e-mails with the phrase All Good Thoughts.  These days I don't do it quite as much as I used to; at a certain point in time it became clear that any number of people were projecting their own ideas about what ersatz new agey or overly idealistic notions I he...

Despite living in an official State of Emergency things are pretty much fine here in Sparkling Lotus-land.  The cable's still out.  The basement flooded and Jim has literally done the math on how many pounds of water he baled yesterday.  But we didn't lose electricity and/o...

On Saturday we got the garden mulched just in time.  And by "we" I mean Jim.  This is a picture of the ice chunks he dumped out of the wheelbarrow so it could go into the garage storage loft.  I took the pic this morning when I was out feeding the birds.  Cold and W...

I come to this blogging screen with a wish that readers are experiencing some pleasant forms of energetic un-winding in this dwindling autumn season.  It's been about a year since I inadvertently sewed-through my finger with a sewing machine needle.  That accident seemed to open a po...

It's been a pretty loud morning around here - the Thunder Beings are sticking around today.  This is fine with me because the lightning and general storm energy is very soothing to me.   It's also an important form of energetic nourishment that can't be gained quite as effect...