"I AM"

I Am

In the rustling of the leaves will I whisper to you.
In the dancing of the tall grass and swirl of autumn
leaves will I caress and lift you up.

I Am Air.

In the crackling warmth of the hearth fire will
I bring comfort to you.
In the light of the sun, moon and stars will
I watch over you.

I Am Fire.

In the babbling creek will I laugh with you.
In the flow of the rivers, streams and oceans will
I walk with you.

I Am Water.

From mountain peaks to caverens deep
will I support and provide for you.

I Am Earth.

I Am never ending.
beginning to beginning I pass
from one realm to the next.

I Am Spirit.
cr. CKOrman "I AM" (written in Memory of Tammi)

A Prayer for All

Sometimes the greatest gift we can give to those we love, be they friends or family is the gift of ourselves. And sometimes that same gift of ourselves can and should be shared with others, maybe even a stranger.

I hold all in my prayers, my thoughts and my heart. For All Time.

This is based on an old St Francis Prayer but altered by me:

A Prayer for Guidance

Lady of Love and Light hear my prayers;
Help me to be an instrument of thy wisdom.
In the path of Hatred, Allow me to bring Love
Where there is suffering and injury,
May I bring healing and comfort.
Where there is Doubt,
May I stand in your strength a beacon of Faith, Hope and Courage.
Where there is Darkness,
May I be a hand of Light.
Mother of Unconditional Love,
May I be Compassionate,
even to those who would wish me harm me.
May I be Understanding,
even to those who would misunderstand me.
May I be Love, to those who would hate me.
I See You in All things.
May I always be a haven for my brothers and sisters,
for the weak and ill,
the lost and the tired.
All life is your gift and precious
may I protect and honor your gift
and may the light shine out from me
Through my deeds may I share your wisdom,
your love and your beauty.
In your Love and Light may I serve you well.
As Above So Below.

Do you hear me whispering?

DO YOU HEAR ME WHISPERING?
POEM BY CKORMAN

When the world is rushing by
and it's sort of like trying to
cross a highway on foot.

Do you hear me whispering?
Do you feel me there?

When your alone or lost in
a crowd of one.

Do you hear me whispering?
Do you feel me there?

When the night is silent and in
the stillness of the dark, if you
feel afraid, if you feel in doubt.

Do you here me whispering?
Do you feel me there?

When you hear the simple
speaking of your name.

When you feel the touch that
sooths you in the silence, or the
embrace that hold you through
out your day.

You can hear me whispering.
You can feel me there.
I am with you.

Just one of those whispering moments......A note in your pocket

To the flowers of my heart: My Friends

I have been watching in recent weeks the Maple trees across the way drift into the most beautiful shades of orange and red, behind them the tall slender beauty of the towering Aspen their leaves changing from green to gold in recents days.

And the great Oak out front also begins to drift into sweet slumbering of winter as the leaves change and drift in spirals and swirls to blanket the Earth.

The rains have come to the valley at last the soft gray skies are embracing the day. I stood in the yard this morning as I left for work and welcomed the soft kiss of rain drops on my face, breathed in the cool refreshing smell of rain in the trees and on the ground. My spirit dancing in the pure beauty and magic of it.

My spirit and heart are out dancing shoeless and lightly clothed somewhere off in the beautiful wilderness and content to be playing with raindrops, falling leaves, rolling clouds and whispering winds.

Spiral dancing with life. Isn’t life just amazing. I want to send and write a Blessing for you just something I like to do. Everything with my own little twist and flare, it’s sort of like those little notes you leave in the pockets of someone you care for during the day they stick their hand in their pocket and find this little note something simple usually like “I’m thinking of you”, “You’re my best friend”, there are a few others but those are (sh-sh) more private. But they make you smile or just laugh out loud and feel good all over.

Your virtual note in your pocket.
There is a chant that goes:

Earth my Body
Water my Blood
Air my Breath
Fire my Spirit

Using this for the bases here is the Blessing:

With the Earth’s strength and foundation for life,may you stand always strong of heart,mind, body andsoul.

With the Water’s flow of motions and actions,may you move through life even in the rushing androckiest of times safe, happy and wisely.

With Air’s breath of life, may your soul be Eternally filledand may you always hear the song of your heart, soul and theworld and may it always dance with in you.

With the Fire of your Spirit may you always be true to who you are, free and open to the magic and beauty of life and your blessed place in it.

Love and Light Embrace You

DON’T FORGET TO DANCE……. TO LIVE!!!!!!!!!

On the day we’re born two amazingly beautiful and magical things happen.

The first being that our amazing little soul has come into this world with it comes hope, love, wisdom, patience and promise and possablity.

And the second is that we have accepted Life’s offer to have this dance for
rest of our lives. Each swirling splendor of motion from the smallest second to the grandest moment we have ever experienced. It’s an echo of our soul’s dance.

And through the years we dance fast and slow, we dance in darkness and in light. But we dance. And as we get older sometimes the tune may get a bit off beat, this is when we have to listen a little more carefully to the tune.

Life wants you to lead (Take control) so don’t be afraid, because it won’t take terms and it won’t wait on you. The expectations we set for ourselves are the hardest to achieve but the grandest to meet, if we don’t turn those expecations into limitations that bind us.

So the next time you feel life tap you on the shoulder; Stand on your head, jump in a pile of leaves, spin around in the night and then lay on the earth and watch the night sky spiral back into balance, call a friend (heck call a stranger) and say "Hi", "I Love You", "I’m thinking of you.", hug a tree, a person, a pet. Just don’t think about it. Feel it. Let it feel you and let it fill you up.

Life is color and sound in motion, listen to the music of your deepest heart and soul and dance. Bring that inner magic and dance into your daily routine and watch life respond.

You set the beat ( thoughts, play and desires, ect.), you make the steps (motions and actions), you write the music (past, present and future) and trust me life will radiate with you.

So no matter how old you are, where you are, who you are or even who you’re with. Don’t forget to Dance……To Live!!!!!!!!

The Journey is the Destination

Life is funny sometimes, often we think of the destination as the reward after a long journey.

There are many roads and paths we have already walked and many more we will walk and travel in our lifetime, some will pass over other paths we have crossed before, some will be with friends and some will be traveled alone.

Everyone is trying to reach the destination but today I read the most simple yet in depth expression that seemed to sum it all up for me "The Journey is the Destination." (found in an article in New Age Retailer )

Rainer Maria Rilke said " There is only one Journey. Going Inside yourself"

I have been in the mist of a celtic spiritual healing combining it with native american and other forms of spiritual healing trying to journey to some great destination of enlightenment and knowledge.

Along the path I have learned many things about myself, I have released many things that have hindered me.

The Journey hasn't come to an end by any means, but prehaps it has come to a new realization and that would be that the great Destination that I have been trying to reach has always been right here with me.

In the very things I have learned and that I try and share with others; Love, Happiness, Hope, Tolerance, Patience, and what ever Wisdom I have learned.

It's been in the nightly walks my twist on meditation, the appreciation of the world, the notice of the beauty around me and the dancing and singing that I feel and hear within me.

So the true destination isn't where I end up but how I get there.

May you always and forever learn from yesterday,
live for today and hope for tomorrow.

May you find all that you desire,
Achieve all that you attempt,
And Rule your own destiny.

May you be eternally challenged to grow,
to stretch beyond.

And May you find that great destination,
within you.

Cara a Brudia Chyneua Chofleidia' ch
(Love and Divine Light embrace you)

Hold on to who you are...... You're worth it

Hold on to who you are………You’re Worth it.

Life happens in cycles one ends and another begins it’s like
for every door that closes another opens and sometimes we
have to open it.

This is the same for all phases of our lives, work, relationships
and just taking that first step is not always the easiest to do.
But the thing to remember is you have to make that first step
no one can make it for you.

There are going to be those who don’t agree with your thoughts,
your feeling or even about who you are. They may not believe
as you do. They may not even believe in you.

There will be those who want to change you, this is the essential thing
HOLD ON TO WHO YOU ARE….YOU’RE WORTH IT.

You’re not your mother or your father, you may share things in common
with others but you’re not them either. You are unique with good and
bad, weak and strong traits. You’re going to spend a long time with
yourself, and each day you’ll learn things about yourself that even
you may not know. You’ll build on the positive asspects of who you are
hopefully. Just remember to be patient with yourself the rest will come and no matter how old you are know you are always growing emotionally, mentally and spiritually strive for this growth.

Your journey through life isn’t any less important then another's, it’s not
a race, take your time explore every opportunity, every experience savor every glorious second and beauty of it and follow your heart, what does it say to you?

Don’t be afraid to grab hold of life and say lets ride. Some may be more
focused then others and remember what is normal to you and normal to
another may differ that’s the glory of being who you are. It’s also important that you remember to respect not only yourself but others for the same glory of being who they are.

I BELIEVE IN YOU. I believe you are were you’re suppose to be and that you are much more then you may even know, it’s not easy in todays world to see clearly all the time we are influenced by the events of the world around us, by those close to us some will even try in their own ignorance and envy to break us down, some will cause us to doubt ourselves without malice and some with malice in their words and actions, sometimes we absorb enough of the negative energy of others that we may wonder at our own self worth, ability and emotions.

I believe you have a great gift and a great purpose in this world and even if you don’t know what it is right now you will. And one day there will be this brilliant new light washing over the world it will be you, you may not win the Nobel Prize for Humanity but the prize you win will be just as great it will be the satifaction of knowing who you are and that you have been true to yourself even in the hardest of times.

It will be the gift of knowing you touched another’s life and made a difference just by being you, It will be the gift of a heart and soul that gives without expectation of return.

So I encourage you wheither you’re a friend, family or a complete stranger to
Hold on to who you are……..You’re worth it.

Vision of Crossing Home by CKOrman

Vision of Crossing Home:

From the shores of this earthly world
I embark into the next, the barge bares me
forth through veils of mist over waters dark
and deep.

From beneath the gray skies I pass into
the clear light of myself and as I journey
forth passing visions of that which was into
what is, light upon the water does the barge
become as it drifts onward to the silvery
moonlit Shores of Avalon into the waiting arms
of the Great Mother. I am home.

Sweet echos the songs of my sisters beyond the
mist upon the the shores of my old self. Clear and
warm sing out the voices of my sisters who gather
upon the Shore of Avalon to welcome me home.

Light is my spirit, healed are my illnesses as I touch
upon the land of heart's desire.

Through darkness and fear,love and light. Have I journey and crossed from
one world to the next and here will I linger in sun light and
moon light, healing and remembering the lessons of my days.

Here will I awaiting the song that will lead me into the
next journey.

c.2006

Magic of Touch

There is a very special gift we as humans have its in a little place really, that's right it's in your finger tips, it's in the palm of you hand and the folds of your arms. It's your true touch.

We are also living in a time of great sadness, a time when many are afraid to touch, we with drawl from others. Because some have misused their gift of touch this makes us guarded even distant.

When was the last time you just reached out and touched someone's hand, brushed their arm or just wrapped your arms around them and hugged them from your soul?

The Magic of Touch can give healing to the troubled and ill, hope to the lost, joy to the sad. make the frightened feel save and the lonely feel apart of something more.

True touch is from the heart it's simple, it's pure and it's honest.

Fading Into the night

There are times when I feel that I will fade away into the night.

I will fade into the night and be like the whispering of the wind I love to hear in the trees, to feel upon my skin and through my hair. I will be like the cool water I love to swim in when the light of the moon is full.

I will fade back into the darkness and yet be forever lit with a light.

Have you ever stood in the night with nothing betwen you and it. Completely natural (no cloths, shoes) in the night felt it embrace you and lift you. Listened to the night whisper to your soul. Felt it kiss you?

Sometimes when sitting upon the earth and listening to the sweet lullaby of Gaia drifting on the wings of night. I feel often embraced in the stillness and the beauty of the velvet starry sky, I am forever there shining among them and yet never seen.

It's like dancing, spirally with the song of your soul. Dancing in the night to the sound of the music only you hear or to the soft rhythm of a light rain. Allowing the spirit to soar and from its height you can see beyond this time to times that are only echos of what was and far into what is yet to come.

I walk through the night and I am not afraid. But sometimes when I am lying in bed I long to be outside. Out there I do not feel the loneliness that I feel when in the confines of my room. Out there I am apart of something far larger.

Be Good, Be Safe and Be Happy
"I pray for you to know that as long as I am in this world you'll never walk alone". ~ Way Home by Tina Malia. ( I love this line so much)

Which One Will You Feed?

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two"wolves" inside us all.One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, falsepride, superiority, and ego.The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:"Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

This was sent to me by a friend I don't know who wrote it but it's very wise.

None of us plan to feed the evil wolf, but if we examine our lives how many times have we fed the evil wolf and starved the good wolf.

It's all about choice. So which wolf will you feed next time someone yells curses in your face? or the next time a coworker gets a promotion based not on experience or preformance but on the kissing up factor?

If life and all that we want for ourselves where easy, would it really be worth having?
The struggle is in us first then I think we manifest it into our lives.

So there again we have choice. Times have been bad in the world and I have a feeling that this is only the first spiral down. But there is always hope for light.

May you be safe I pray this each day for all mankind not just those I know personally.
May you be strong within your heart and soul to face each day with hope, love, wisdom and peace.

If we hold on to these things and we change ourselves and we change the world.

Keeping all in my thoughts, my heart and my prayers.

A Little Bit of Magic

Ever wonder why it seems so hard for some to be optimistic? Just seems to be the curse of half the world. No one seems to be able to appreciate the beauty and magic of just getting up in the morning. I mean with all the bad stuff going on in the world, now is when we have to look at the little things and find a reason to see the good, to make a positive out of the negitive.

I have recently become fascinated with the simpliest two little words, do you every do that I love words anyway but sometimes a word or words just intrique me (it takes so little to fascinate me or so a friend tells me all the time) The words are "Until Then" now why they fascinate me is still a mystery to me, but I find them very very pleasant.

Until .................Up to a time. Then............. Next in time

Okay so now I give this my little twist (ha-ha I like to give my own twist to things) "Then" is both a past and future word like when they say "that was then this is now" or for the future part Until Then "Up to our next time." two simple words that give you something worth looking forward to.

Did you ever see the old movie "Harvey" with Jimmy Stewart in the show he's sitting out back of the pub in the night and talking to the doctor and nurse and the character he plays Elwod P Dowell ( I love that name) finds the phrase "As the night wore on" to be very pleasant and asked to say it again. I love that part and the phrase is beautiful you can almost sense the night drifting from the silence and peace into the waiting light of dawn, softly drifting on.

Their is this amazing song titled Wings of Rest by Gary Stadler and it's mostly instrumental but there is a woman humming and then she says a little poem not sure of the poet but it's very pretty but the parts I like (they touch me most) are "From a spark in the night. Transforming love. Into beings so frail. These the truths. In songs we sing. Visions of light. Beyond space and time. Within Divine. Belong to you. The one who see all" Of course this is my order of them not the poem's order. and I do not know the poet sadly enough or I would love to read more of his/ her work.

Poem: From a spark in the night

unto the fairy veil

Transforming love

Into beings so frail.

Visions of light

within Divine

Comes from the Heavens

Beyond space and time

these the truths

In songs we sing

Belong to you

The Ones, who see all.

Wishing each person in the world A Little Bit of Magic here is to Rainbows in clear skies, Snow balls in June, May each day be filled with Neverland Magic, Laughter, Peace and Love.

Finding Your Passion of Life

It feels sometimes like my mind never stops finding new things to fascinate me it's sort of like being a baby and watching the prisms dance across the walls of your room every one is some how different and fascinating and your just completely in awe of it. Thats how I feel about life.
And the more in awe of life I am the more never ending I seem to be come.

Sometime you just have to have Priorities life can be to heavy, routine and draining if you don't live it. I'm not totally irresponsable, but sometimes you just have to throw your arms around life and enjoy.

"There is more to life then increasing it's speed." ~ Mahatma Gandhi with this in mind and this being the time of your life How are you spending it? I read this last year before I learned about the lumps in my breast, but I don't think I really appreciated the words until later.

But I twisted it with my own thoughts and feelings, I think it was about managing time originally. It also mentioned "How much do you value your life?" "Do you treasure each day?" and my favorite part of course "Or do you allow each new day to carbon copy the one before, basically unnoticed, unappreciated and under used."

My twist on this was not about managing time but finding my passion for life and to create it new and fresh with as little copying as possible (we all have routines) but I want to make the most of every second.

I think people need to think of life as a lover, it should be intoxicating, indulgent (as long as no one is hurt) seductive and lure us to the very height of our inner self, life should reflect the heart and soul that burns inside us be an unedited, undiluted and uninhibited expression of who we are. I think this but I don't do it not all the time, anyway the world I don't think is ready for this some are but it makes others very uncomfortable. This is something I think the world is starving for and won't even know it.

Finding Your Passion of Life is like touching that which burns in the very depths of us all.

The Secret of Life.....Only you know.

The journey within can be a time of refection as well as growth. It will have its moments of great sorrow and great joy. And as we move deeper within we face who we were, who we are and who we hope to be, we face many processes and fears as we reclaim ourselves and remember that in the darkness shines the greatest light of all.

In the movie city slickers( sorry but yes sometimes you can find some wisdom in a movie) the question is asked by Curly (Jack Palance) asked "Do you know what the secret to life is? And he holds up one finger and says "One thing" Mitch (Billy Crystal) asked "What's the one thing?" only to be told "That's what you have to figure out."

There are many paths in the journey of our lives, some will be smooth and in calm waters like a lake deep in the woods, others will be wide and rolling like the ocean deep and dark in spots with troubled winds. The journey of our life began long before our first thought.

You can learn to think, to feel, to see, to hear. You can be encouraged to deep thoughts. Taught to question and wonder, but in real no one can give you the secret to life this is "One thing" only you know.

In my journey through life I have learned to embrace the child I was, the woman I am and the spirit I will always be, to look where I've been and to face who I am.

My only advice to a searcher of the secret of life is to not see with your eyes but with your soul, to feel with your heart, learn from yesterday, live for today and hold on to the hope for tomorrow.

Ask yourself "What is the One thing?" and remember the old saying "If you find it not within then you'll not find it without."

May you find all you desire, achieve all you attempt and rule your own destiny.

What would your soul consider a waste of time?

They say "the eyes are the window to the soul" wonder if spontaneous answers and actions are the doorway to the same soul. I asked a friend "what would your soul consider a waste of time? He wrote a very good explanation (spontaneous) then gave more as he thought about it, but in the first one of his explanations I loved a part and well I don't know to me I was thinking yes this is good when I read about Split Mountain and the use of his imagination I loved the part about the "central place where all realities are valid and can be sampled, none have domination over the other. It was where I could Love everything without prejudice."

I have to say he conveyed a concept beautifully. From what I read and someone else may see or hear it differently (I love being different ha-ha) this is very essential to the soul that center place he spoke of I call the grounding or balance between worlds our choice of this plane of consciousness with that almost elusive bond we have with a plane of unconscious. The alluring and demanding presence that there is something more. The ability to sample, explore and look and experience life openly, freely and with a child like Love and pure understanding.

It doesn't matter what path a person walks their faith, their color, their language the goal has always been the same to transcend to a higher self or to return to the Divine or the One.

What would my soul consider a waste of time? (I was asked this once before and I don't seem to recall the answer it was two years ago, but I know as I grow my answers change)

I think it would be a waste never to truly experience life, I see people everyday and listen to them they drive to work each morning and never see, feel or hear beyond their reality, they never see how green the grass is or how the hills seem to roll in the wind, they never feel the energy of the earth or hear the trees. Sadly enough all this we also do to people, animals, places and things.

Many don't hear the elderly struggling, our county has literally described our time as a time of disposable children. Many don't see people they see fear, hate and anger. Never realizing these same people have the same concerns and ability to love, fear and hate. Mankind has a great flaw what it doesn't understand it fears and what it fears it wants only to destroy. We kill not for food but for the thrill of the hunt, not for survival but the trophies.

This limits our experience of life, every breath of life is a blessing, every dream a possibility. So I say find your passion of life, live each day as the greatest adventure. There are 86,400 seconds in the day miss one and it's gone forever, it takes only one second to smile at someone, in less then five seconds you can say "I Love You", "I'm Sorry" or "I Forgive You" or simply give a hug. Just imagine the wonderful things you could do with the rest of those seconds.

We all have bad things that have happened or that will happen, the struggle for life is not getting through it like a chore, its making each second mean something and creating something from even our darkest moments into something positive glimps of something beyond. Its wisdom, hope, compassion, these develop who we are and where we are and where we are going.

It's like the story of the message in the sand and the stone. Really and this is a good way to live each day writing the wrongs and harms others have done in the sand that it be blown away in the wind and the good carve it in stone this is the foundation of something worth building on and remembering.

The Dragon and the Labyrinth ..... A journey within

The Bhagavad Gita describes the mind as turbulent and obstinate. 'The Chariot of the Body': The five horses represent the five senses (tongue, eyes, nose, ears and skin). The rein symbolises the mind, the driver is the intelligence while the passenger is the spirit soul.

(I don't know the artist or where the defining came form but I loved it)

Going inside yourself is perhaps the greatest terror a person will face. How well do you know yourself? I have thought on this a great deal lately.

In December 2002 I took a look at the depths of my own self, now I find myself looking yet again into the dark reaches within me.

But I see a difference one of growth, of understanding one of a new strength.

The journey within never ends when you think you have finally gotten the answer some where inside comes a new question, humans are amazing creatures they evolve some over night, some over years and even the very things they thought were settled evolve.

Women are not taught to evolve, their not taught to look at themselves so many never realize that wonder with in themselves or pass this on to their daughters, their sisters, their nieces or to a young woman starting out on her own.

In 2002 the sense of my depth is very different then the evolved sense of my depth of 2006.

the guardian, the beast, the dragon of the labyrinth seems smaller now, or perhaps I'm larger now and those dark paths lighter, easier to venture down, to face and to embrace before they are opened up and cleared away.

" A sense of my depth: from December 2002

"A woman searching for herself, must descend to her own depths... As she decends, a woman touches her strength, a certainty that changes her." ~ Circle of Stones by Judith Duerk

I have thought on this for days it really touched something off inside me, my depths there are many paths much like a labyrinth each one has a face of the phases I have passed through some are sorrowful, some are angry, some are frightening but they are all parts of who I was and where I came from.

And to descend to that depth is to face myself, the strength I touch upon is my spirit(soul). The spirit of the child crying in the night for the pain and betrayal she had been forced to share, the young woman seeking to be more and wanting to belong so much she would conform to be what others wanted, the mother mothering and fearful of making a mistake, the wife wanting to be loved and to love in spite of the differences and the woman learning to live to breath and to embrace her own self.

These are only a few paths in the labyrinth of my depths there have been many turns, many stages these are the easiest to face the other paths also have a guardian and they are kept safe until I can face them which I do gradually.

I recently was fascinated to hear an instructor speak of the guardian we have inside and to even mention it being a dragon he got my attention and then I was frustrated to hear him say we had to destroy this beast.

I am born in the year of the dragon as is my daughter but I feel differently about the dragon then this instructor I don't see the dragon as a beast, my dragon guardian is there protecting my spirit, my secrets and its also there giving me guidance and strength and understanding.

It walks with me in the tunnels of my inner person and I draw upon that strength. I've come to face myself many times and learned what positive I could make from the negative and I've come out stronger so I don't believe in destroying the beast but working with the guardian which is my strength and positive self.

I was not taught to be strong by any woman in my life, and my mother though I saw at times strength in her I saw more often the depression and the self pity of her own life marking and tormenting her always it was "poor me, I never had this or that, no one ever loved me"

Twisted and broken she looked most the time bitter but she past on the negativity easily, words were weapons and if she learned she could hurt you she would. But I learned a valuable lesson from a person who I'm not sure meant to teach me that a woman was an amazing person with strength and could do much more then she ever thought possible I learned this from a man.

A friend who taught me to appreciate being a woman and never let that be used to hold me down, that I had more to me then what the world saw outside.

I think it would have been nice to hear this positive support of being a woman from someone who knew what it was like to be a woman, my mother and I never shared anything with each other not our thoughts, our feels or even who we were.

I have made ever effort to support my daughter emotionally, mentally to share who we are and to encourage her in speaking out, crying out I pass on the Circle of Stones to her and leave it for her to decide but this is a book all women should read mothers should read it with their daughters.

I believe the positive things I have shared with my daughter allow her to share with me and we're stronger for that bond. I think that openness and positive support would have made the walk in the labyrinth my spirit easier because I would have learned earier to face myself and learned sooner to embrace myself to hear my own voice the one of my own truth.

Facing yourself is not as easy as one would think its not always pretty, not always touching and that can be very emotional but in the end its well worth the journey and then you can let it go and move forward or start a new beginning, a time of evolution's growth. "

Whispering Moment of Life

Hope this letter finds you in fine health and high spirit, I guess I am feeling a bit more aware of the little things right now. This gets my mind wondering. And I just felt like sharing this with you its my journal entry.

Sometimes I find myself sort of drifting back in and out of times not so much the bad as the good. The fact that it's night yet again here only gives me more time with my thoughts, but we had two days that were almost like spring and I so with that it made me think of yet another moment, another time and place.

Sometimes in the spring or summer I like to take a drive up highway 70 up through the Feather River Canyon it starts out wide and an amazing view of the world stretching out before my sight.

As I drive further the mountains begin to form the canyon walls, not too closed but enough that the walls of the canyon raise above you on both sides, the Feather River runs through this canyon first on your left then you cross a bridge and the river is on your right.

Here life takes a different view from the one you walked out your front door with, here in this canyon it doesn't demand your attention but it whispers to your soul, once while driving down this canyon I saw what to me was an amazing tribute to life, to the magick moments of life, but how many times had I passed this very spot and never saw it till that moment when life whispered to me.

In the photo "whispering moment of life" you can see a tree and flowers and greenery growing right out of the very stones of the earth and mountains side this is a tribute to the will and the hope of life the earth has and the lesson mankind must learn.

As I drive up into the mountains deeper into the canyon on this whinding two lane highway, the windows down the air moving through the car the cool touch of it against my face and my extended hand out the window, I feel the air filling me with its energy and freedom.

I drive on and it is as if I am driving into another world, such peace and ease. there are a couple different little spots up this canyon that rents cabins for those get away moments, but many times I just drive up to Belding Town there is a bridge which takes you across the river to the cabins there is a small store, a cafe and of course a bar too.

But they have this amazing large deck that looks over the river, and there are tables down by the water. I love to sit on this deck order my tea have my little portable cd player sometimes a book to read, sometimes a notebook to write, sometimes I just sit there and listen.

The wind singing through the trees, the laughing water of the river, sometimes I like to walk barefoot near the water feeling the earth beneath my feet so strong and sure.

Here in this moment life whispers to the heart and soul.

This poem I wrote in memory of Tammi, a spiritual sister who has taken the journey home but stays with me always even though we had brief moments, it seems to fit here too speaking of whispering moments.

For whispering moments are about memories, love, beauty and appreciation of the magick and wonder of lifes gifts. About finding the gifts in each day, in ourselves, in others and in the little things coffee with friends, a chat with a friend, in laughter, in an old photo and seeing old things fresh and new.

I Am

In the rustling of the leaves will I whisper to you.
In the dancing of the tall grass and swirl of autumn
leaves will I caress and lift you up.

I Am Air.

In the crackling warmth of the hearth fire will
I bring comfort to you.
In the light of the sun, moon and stars will
I watch over you.

I Am Fire.

In the babbling creek will I laugh with you.
In the flow of the rivers, streams and oceans will
I walk with you.

I Am Water.

From mountain peaks to caverens deep
will I support and provide for you.

I Am Earth.

I Am never ending.
beginning to beginning I pass
from one realm to the next.

I Am Spirit.
cr. CKOrman "I AM" (written in Memory of Tammi)I wish you many whispered moments. Have a great week.

Always and Forever,
Wych

What do you want from Life?

Do you know what you want from Life?

Would it amaze you to know most people want the same thing?

Who of us really wants to see our children dying in wars, especial ones that seem undefined and unjustified.

Life is not an easy task and each day seems to get harder, with issues in regard to daily life, making an income, morality, the planet, the rights of those less fortunate and it may seem like the walls are tumbling down on us. But there is still hope.

It's not only through the masses that this hope will come. It may be one small voice and the voice may be yours. Follow your heart who knows better then you what your morals should be, who knows better then you which issues are going to impact your daily life, your income, your rights.

"Even the smallest stone may change the course of the river." (I don't recall where I heard it or who wrote them) but they have made an impact because even your small voice, action can bring about great changes. They may not be today, they may not be tomorrow but don't give up on them and don't give up on you. Find your passion for life.

There is always hope as long as we are ready to believe and to try what more can you do then your best. We all know right from wrong.

This is not done by one culture, one religion, or one political party, this is done by everyone respecting all life and beauty of the world. It's done in light of all the dark doubts, anger, differences and from that darkness the light of truth, love and hope can shine. Peace, Hope, Love, Forgiveness, Wisdom, Patience are a powerful combination hold on to them and you will see the changes small at first. But the changes will come there is always hope.

Beating down the Ego beast.

I suppose it would all be much easier if we could all learn and discover the world at the same pace or in the same style but that's not a how it is, some never know who they truly are.

Some are more aware of it but say less, others are so aware of who they are they forget to see others. Their still in some small way under the same spell that Tom Cowan mentions in his book "Yearning for the Wind" a spell cast upon the people to make them believe they have "no connections to each other and no connection with nature or the rest of life."

Waking, awareness, enlightenment no matter what we call it or see it as, it is an amazing adventure. Some may sore ahead, others may drift along much slower and some may never see, hear or feel the difference and they won't even realize their missing anything.

I am plagued by the same decease as many "EGO", I think even some of the most aware has this problem too or why else would some believe themselves to be superior. But I have been thinking about this a great deal as it is the part of me that I most hate. But that's the jest of it isn't it, I know it's there I can't destroy it completely so I have to be aware of it lurking there in my dark half. So I have to be more forgiving, more patient, more loving and more accepting I have to do everything it wouldn't do.