and still overwhelmed... The good news is that recently I have been asked to facilitate some 8 group sessions on prosperity and abundance. This is something after my own heart and I am having a blast putting the sessions together. I find the books fascinating and there is really a general theme or two that runs through all of them. I am putting it out there and here in black and white my hopes that this is a truely awesome touch of grace for all of us.
I went back and read some of the DaVinci message from the Finding Water exercise.
"Life itself is an experiment. We try this, we try that. Some things work out well and some ...not so well. Some exhaust us. We are endowed with insatiable curiosity and as artists we constantly invent and reinvent- taking things that seem like nothing and making them acceptable, or pleasing or aweinspiring. But most of all a blessing to ourselves and others."
Sounded like a whole lot of mumbo jumbo leaking out of my brain but when I went back and reread it it just made me feel good.
A really interesting side bar is that this past weekend I went to Barnes and Noble and found a book. "How to think like DaVinci". needless to say, I bought it.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
BRRRR
As I warm up my butt,
and defrost my nose
I knit more wool socks
to thaw out my toes
Temperatures plummet
snows off the chart
BUT I love Michigan
with all my COOOLD heart.
and temps are cold and more snow is falling. I am not sure when the last winter came that was so cold and so miserable. well, aspects of it are miserable. I found this morning I got to practice a bit of mindfulness and being in the NOW while shoveling the driveway.
The partly cloudy skies would play peek -a- boo with the sun. What was awesome standing there watching the sun's rays glisten on the top layer of snow. The old Diamond cliche was so appropriate. It just filled me to the point of immobility until the clouds would say "enough" and hide it again for a few minutes while I got some work done.
E. Tolle talks about being in the NOW and how much it can do for us. I usually don't think about it much nor strive for it. But at times like that , in the middle of work that I hate , and a back that agrees with me, I find myself totally here, totally aware and it feels great.
and defrost my nose
I knit more wool socks
to thaw out my toes
Temperatures plummet
snows off the chart
BUT I love Michigan
with all my COOOLD heart.
and temps are cold and more snow is falling. I am not sure when the last winter came that was so cold and so miserable. well, aspects of it are miserable. I found this morning I got to practice a bit of mindfulness and being in the NOW while shoveling the driveway.
The partly cloudy skies would play peek -a- boo with the sun. What was awesome standing there watching the sun's rays glisten on the top layer of snow. The old Diamond cliche was so appropriate. It just filled me to the point of immobility until the clouds would say "enough" and hide it again for a few minutes while I got some work done.
E. Tolle talks about being in the NOW and how much it can do for us. I usually don't think about it much nor strive for it. But at times like that , in the middle of work that I hate , and a back that agrees with me, I find myself totally here, totally aware and it feels great.
Friday, February 15, 2008
what would DaVinci do?
I am so overwhelmed I feel like shreaking
So many ideas, my brain must be leaking
Bead, paint or write to name just a few
Plus housework, laundry and errands to do.
People say I'm so lucky; my talents so mixed
On days like today, I feel like I'm hexed.
Thoughts race around til my head's filled with Smog
To hell with it all, I think I'll just blog.
okay, I know. bad Poetry. but the feeling is true. Some days I just feel so overwhelmed with all the stuff I want to do added to the stuff on my SHOULD list that my head just spins. In a obvious attempt to escape I take a nap or lose myself in the latest and greatest murder mystery.
Some of this surfaced recently when doing a Divining Rod exercise in the J Cameron book, "Finding Water." The exercise had us find an artist/writer and try to imagine what they would say to you. DaVinci came to mind immediately. ( I think I have always envied his talents and the many many things he accomplished and dreamed about in his lifetime.)
the words that came out went like this:
"There is never enough time to do it all. Keep writing down the ideas. Perhas these are not meant for YOU to complete, but to share and spark another, to add on or embellish THEIR ideas. Or for some inventor or budding artist to see their own life's work. the might be's, the could have been's, the why not's, the starting place to tomorrow and the day after ...these are not to be lost. If not the projects...list the ideas"
this was all well and good when I heard the soft male voice in my head. speaking with a slight Italian accent. and at the time I felt like I just heard something so profound, even though it IS stuff that I knew. but today, with my artist list and list of things to do, and with a deadline (my husband comes home from 5 days in Ohio) it doesn't seem enough. It seems Leonardo, I want to do it all and I want to do it now. My mind can't focus and my body doesn't know which way to run. Crossing things off only brings to mind ten more things to add.
So tell me....What did you do to know...what to do?
So many ideas, my brain must be leaking
Bead, paint or write to name just a few
Plus housework, laundry and errands to do.
People say I'm so lucky; my talents so mixed
On days like today, I feel like I'm hexed.
Thoughts race around til my head's filled with Smog
To hell with it all, I think I'll just blog.
okay, I know. bad Poetry. but the feeling is true. Some days I just feel so overwhelmed with all the stuff I want to do added to the stuff on my SHOULD list that my head just spins. In a obvious attempt to escape I take a nap or lose myself in the latest and greatest murder mystery.
Some of this surfaced recently when doing a Divining Rod exercise in the J Cameron book, "Finding Water." The exercise had us find an artist/writer and try to imagine what they would say to you. DaVinci came to mind immediately. ( I think I have always envied his talents and the many many things he accomplished and dreamed about in his lifetime.)
the words that came out went like this:
"There is never enough time to do it all. Keep writing down the ideas. Perhas these are not meant for YOU to complete, but to share and spark another, to add on or embellish THEIR ideas. Or for some inventor or budding artist to see their own life's work. the might be's, the could have been's, the why not's, the starting place to tomorrow and the day after ...these are not to be lost. If not the projects...list the ideas"
this was all well and good when I heard the soft male voice in my head. speaking with a slight Italian accent. and at the time I felt like I just heard something so profound, even though it IS stuff that I knew. but today, with my artist list and list of things to do, and with a deadline (my husband comes home from 5 days in Ohio) it doesn't seem enough. It seems Leonardo, I want to do it all and I want to do it now. My mind can't focus and my body doesn't know which way to run. Crossing things off only brings to mind ten more things to add.
So tell me....What did you do to know...what to do?
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The first day
After agonizing for weeks whether or not I am was going to do this. I have decided to do SOMETHING even if it is wrong.
I guess the best way to start is to give some clue as to who and what I am.
As the profile states I am a 57 year old female. Married to "the bear" for 36 1/2 years, a retired law enforcement officer who now works with emergency services software. We have two adult sons. one who lives close by and another who lives 1500 miles away. Both are not married but in what I would call permanent relationships.
I am basically retired from the active workforce myself and this is mostly because I deal with a chronic condition that is a first cousin to Fibromyalgia. and I usually use that term because it is one that most people understand. I have worked with Reiki, "running energy" and other forms of non traditional belief and alternative health practices since 1989. And those have kept me going. BUT after some serious thinking have added the title of "a multimedia artist. " BY multi media I mean that I never know what I am going to be working with next. Locally, I am somewhat known for my beading, gardening, and the Holiday village consisting of 65 handpainted houses with more added each year. In the last two years I have expanded my horizons by taking a memoir writing class and have ended up facilitating memoir/journal writing group. I committed myself fully to twelve weeks of the ARTIST'S WAY with five other wonderful women. We are still together as a group and now working on a follow up book FINDING WATER. I awaken every morning eager to write my pages even though they are often labeled "the great whine".
SO the hardest part is over. I have begun with this small introduction of who I am. Where it will go from here I have no idea but am eager to find out what this new adventure holds for me.
I guess the best way to start is to give some clue as to who and what I am.
As the profile states I am a 57 year old female. Married to "the bear" for 36 1/2 years, a retired law enforcement officer who now works with emergency services software. We have two adult sons. one who lives close by and another who lives 1500 miles away. Both are not married but in what I would call permanent relationships.
I am basically retired from the active workforce myself and this is mostly because I deal with a chronic condition that is a first cousin to Fibromyalgia. and I usually use that term because it is one that most people understand. I have worked with Reiki, "running energy" and other forms of non traditional belief and alternative health practices since 1989. And those have kept me going. BUT after some serious thinking have added the title of "a multimedia artist. " BY multi media I mean that I never know what I am going to be working with next. Locally, I am somewhat known for my beading, gardening, and the Holiday village consisting of 65 handpainted houses with more added each year. In the last two years I have expanded my horizons by taking a memoir writing class and have ended up facilitating memoir/journal writing group. I committed myself fully to twelve weeks of the ARTIST'S WAY with five other wonderful women. We are still together as a group and now working on a follow up book FINDING WATER. I awaken every morning eager to write my pages even though they are often labeled "the great whine".
SO the hardest part is over. I have begun with this small introduction of who I am. Where it will go from here I have no idea but am eager to find out what this new adventure holds for me.
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