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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 242 – 8/15/2017

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after a week of intensely dancing the opposites, today the pilgrimage turns to a dance of grace welcoming the waning moon and the ending of cycles to prepare for the birthing of the new… moon, world, cosmos, all that is…

yes, beloved, make me an instrument of thy peace,

a hollow reed resonating the dream of the earth where you breathe us in the rhythm of the deep waves

each cell vibrating as humming iridescent light wave

a rebel of love, a reveler of love, a revealer of love, a revolutionary of love taking courage in the dream of second coming, of all awakening in the promised land…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 241 – 8/14/2017

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i’m walking the bhakti path today,

floating through life in a buoyant way…

with nothing to do and nowhere to go,

resting still in the ocean, the ocean of flow..

chanting love’s names polishes our one heart,

resonating at the frequency of love you impart

raises the vibration of cosmic harmony

attuning us all to the peace of great mystery…

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after a week of flying with the angels across the vast turbulent sea sky of uncertainty, it’s good to land and stand with you in love today, while each of us invokes the beloved in our own way… perhaps, you’ll join me in placing your hand on your heart and calling up the image of a relation you love… or, maybe, spend time in the company of a tree or play in water and squeal with glee… whatever it is, float in devocean, in the ocean of devotion with your whole wide open wild heart singing, re-joy-sing the psalm of the earth…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 240 – 8/13/2017

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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

~ Nelson Mandela ~

today as i fly home from Charlottesville across the vast expanse of  mountains and plains, rivers and lakes, deserts and rainforests, so much calls out for reflection and contemplation…

fifty-two weeks ago, i began a weekly feature honoring one of us, a pilgrim on our shared journey of light with an amazing luminous being recognized all over the cosmos as an emissary of light, of love, of joy overflowing…

yes, the divine hummingbird reminds us all of our birthright as children of the light.. let us take this moment to invoke her presence of soul consciousness through the hum of her wings, our soul in free flight, resonating with the cosmic hum, the heartbeat of earth mother, flowing in the rhythm of star nation’s light waves…

one year later, another divine hummingbird, another pilgrim on our shared spirit path flies into our consciousness as we re-member Heather who shall always live in our hearts as one who stands in love for love…

as her proud mother proclaims,

“I want her death to be a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion…”

may we all come together across the cosmos to move the arc of justice towards its outer manifestation of  love and compassion and peace and harmony re-membering our way onward is together as one…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 236 – 8/9/2017

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today as we fly across the country from west to east on angels’ wings, i re-member that seventy-two years ago, at the end of World War II, an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki in Japan with the hypocenter right on the grounds of what is now the Peace Memorial Park…

listen to Words of the Sculptor about the Peace Statue he created to commemorate all who lost their lives to atomic radiation:

“After experiencing that nightmarish war, that blood-curdling carnage, that unendurable horror, Who could walk away without praying for peace? This statue was created as a signpost in the struggle for global harmony. Standing ten meters tall, it conveys the profundity of knowledge and the beauty of health and virility. The right hand points to the atomic bomb, the left hand points to peace, and the face prays deeply for the victims of war. Transcending the barriers of race and evoking the qualities of Buddha and God, it is a symbol of the greatest determination ever known in the history of Nagasaki and the highest hope of all mankind.”

-Seibo Kitamura (Spring 1995)

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may we all sing out for love, peace and harmony for all our relations in our ever expanding universe and thank Great Spirit for blessing us with every breath…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 235 – 8/8/2017

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are you feeling the energy of your inner lioness, the divine feminine, roaring gently into all your wild cells and quickening the rhythmic flow of love and compassion?

yes, today the doors of love and compassion are flung wide open for all to breeze through with our courageous lionhearts into this brave new world of lovingkindness and compassion….

let’s all take this moment, this beautiful moment. to bask in the radiant light streaming through us to see all that is as it truly is… a beautyway of love and light…

i see you… i am you… i honor you… i love you… i love you… i love you…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 234 – 8/7/2017

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On this transformational day of lunar lammas, may we draw down the energy of this powerful full moon lunar eclipse in aquarius to manifest our deepest dream of peace in the world…

Seventy-two years ago, Sadako was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her city… Nine years later she developed the atomic bomb disease, leukemia. Hearing the ancient Japanese story that says when you fold 1000 paper cranes your wish will be granted, Sadako folded 644 cranes with her wish for healing before she died at twelve years old.

Inspired by her courage and strength, her friends and classmates dreamed of creating a monument to memorialize their friend and all children killed by the bomb. Young people all over the land of the rising sun realized their dream a couple of years later when in 1958 a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in Hiroshima Peace Park. The children also made a wish. It is inscribed at the bottom of the statue and reads:

“This is our cry, This is our prayer, Peace in the world”.

Today, people all over the world continue to fold paper cranes and send them to Sadako’s monument in Hiroshima.

May there be peace on earth and may it begin with me and thee…

Om, shanti, shanti, shanti….

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 233 – 8/6/2017

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“One can’t believe impossible things.” said Alice
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen.
“When I was your age, I always did it for a half an hour a day.
Why, sometime, I believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast.” 
~ Lewis Carroll ~

in addition to being For Giveness Day, it is also Astonishing Light of Being Impossible Dreams Day in this moon of Astonishing August… speaking of which, we are a few short hours away from the amazing full moon in aquarius with partial lunar eclipse on the high holy day of lunar lammas… yes! transformation is in the air with the ending of old cycles and the beginning of a brave new world… can you hear her breathing? are you ready to climb aboard  Earthship 2017?

“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.”

~ Edgar Cayce ~

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may we draw down the energy of  this full moon of transformation dreaming impossible dreams and manifesting them here on  earth today…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 232 – 8/5/2017

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I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.

~ Rumi ~

the children of the earth gathered today in front of the Atomic Dome in the Hiroshima Memorial Park at exactly the time 72 years earlier that an explosion of atoms shattered the world… today, as the millions gather in front of the dome and across the world, we gather for an explosion of a different sort… an explosion of love, a chorus of voices with every country in the world represented in one unified prayer for peace…

yes, the heart of all our relations choir is now unstoppable… yes, peace prevails on earth…

thousandfold thanks for standing together in love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 231 – 8/4/2017

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The Fire

Listen, I’ve light
in my eyes
and on my skin
the warmth of a star, so strange
is this
that I
can barely comprehend it:
I think
I’ll lift my face to it, and then
I lift my face,
and don’t even know how
this is done.  And
everything alive
(and everything’s
alive) is turning
into something else
as at the heart
of some annihilating
or is it creating
fire
that’s burning, unseeably, always
burning at such speeds
as eyes cannot
detect, just try
to observe your own face
growing old
in the mirror, or
is it beginning
to be born?

~ Franz Wright ~

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dreams of fire – is it fires of purification or annihilation or are they one and the same – have been dancing across the consciousness field, dreaming me for days, long before the blistering heat wave and raging wildfires that permeate our days here in the pacific northwest… through burning eyes and sweltering, sedating body heat, i feel the annihilation of all that’s inessential, the burning away of the chaff, the releasing of the rust, the polishing and burnishing the mirror until it reflects pure love, the only thing that’s real, that’s eternal, that’s ever expanding in widening waves of light moving us in deepening spirals into the center of being simply ourselves…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 230 – 8/3/2017

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i love beginning each moon/month with this beautiful blessing… astonishing light of being august is no exception as we all step onto new ground under a moon waxing full on this path that’s been quietly forming in the background simply awaiting our awakening to the astonishing light of being…

 i hold a vision for this moon, for every moon, of every cell of our ever expanding cosmos to meditate on peace, breathing peace, singing peace and  for this peace prayer to flow in waves across the planet and create our world anew… today, is perfect for expanding the original vision to  include everyone of us loving our one heart… please, take this moment, this wild precious moment to love boundlessly, for giving love is the most powerful medicine, the most healing elixir – such a divine way to create holy ground today…

recognizing the great benefit of loving all our relations, may we bring all beings to joy, harmony and peace through  devocean…