Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 41 – 1/26/2020

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come 
let’s fall 
in love 
again

let’s turn 
all the dirt 
in this world 
to shiny gold 

come 
let’s be 
a new spring 
a love reborn 

find our aroma 
from the essence 
of all who 
emit heavenly fragrance 

like a fresh tree 
bloom and spread 
all the blessings 
right from inside

~Rumi ~

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here we are in the last days of the first moon of this turn around the sun and the new decade, in the moon of dreaming, the moon of stardust, of all there is and it’s the moment to in joy the astonishing light of being… i’m re-minded and re-heartened daily by cascading down like water deeper and deeper into the dream cave to how important awakening to the dream within, the soul song here in the deepest recess of our one heart, to how important this act of creation, of co-creation is for as Thay and Greta and the atomic scientists remind us – our very survival depends on it…

like brother martin, like you, i have a dream of my own personally and for all of us collectively of our being more aware of our unity realizing there is only one of us here and each of our thoughts, words and deeds affects all our thoughts words and deeds and creates, co-creates reality…

i will be silently present with you now being peace while echoing the words of Rumi as we dwell for this moment, the only moment, in dreamtime, the stillpoint of creation, the formless void from whence the light of pure love emanates…

may your dreams come alive today, may our dream come alive today as we fall in love with the earth of our being again…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 40 – 1/25/2020

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here we are… children of the earth, citizens of the cosmos, all  gathered in the quantum field of unity where we speak truth to power and stand for peace and justice and  love and compassion…

“Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness. As with compassion, when cultivating loving-kindness it is important to start by taking a specific individual as a focus of our meditation, and we then extend the scope of our concern further and further, to eventually encompass and embrace all sentient beings. Again, we begin by taking a neutral person, a person who inspires no strong feelings in us, as our object of meditation. We then extend this meditation to individual friends and family members and, ultimately, our particular enemies.
We must use a real individual as the focus of our meditation, and then enhance our compassion and loving-kindness toward that person so that we can really experience compassion and loving-kindness toward others. We work on one person at a time.”
~ The Dalai Lama ~

yes, may we all work on one person at a time re- membering Love Trumps Hate, many hands make Light work and it’s light and only light that drives out darkness…

standing in solidarity for love as we open and walk through the Imbolc portal welcoming the new light and life germinating from our resting in the deep earth of being…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 39 – 1/24/2020

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deepest bows to grandmother spider… always weaving a web of such amazing, intricate interconnectedness demonstrating beyond the shadow of a doubt that we live in a cosmos of implicate order, great mystery unfolding, yes, below the deep river of suffering is another river always bubbling and whispering all is well…

today is the 2230th day of posting about walking this spirit path along the rainbow trail, a day celebrating a long held dream’s flowering, a day of celebrating dreamers’ solidarity and courage, a day of re-membering a lucid dream of four years ago on this very day, a potent dream of grace, so perfect for this first new moon of the decade of destiny when we are called to listen, listen, listen to the heartsong of the council of ancestors – rainbow sky, the stone people, brother sun, sister moon, floating clouds, mother waters…

 i’m in a car and we’re winding around a mountain road when i real-eyes no one is driving the car… i look around and feel the presence of pure love auto piloting the vehicle and in that moment i know i can relax and trust this journey… looking out to the left, i see beloved ocean below flowing in and out and i am filled with peace, love and joy as we continue our spiraling trek around the mountain into the land of rainbow sky where i breathe this moment of awe and rest on the trail of wandering in wonder knowing everything is grace, especially important on a day like today to be reminded and to hear the lost falls’ echoes rising from the river below the river whispering… be here now standing in the center one with cosmic flow…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 38 – 1/23/2020

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Dear Siddhizens of the Cosmos,

the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today the moving the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before, thanks to the mortal perils of climate crisis and nuclear weapons… created in the wake of World War II to measure the most dire threats to humanity, the clock is now at 100 seconds to midnight…

 “Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that undercuts society’s ability to respond. The international security situation is dire, not just because these threats exist, but because world leaders have allowed international political infrastructure for managing them to erode.”

shaking us to our core, may this announcement jolt us into being aware and taking action… the world-renowned scientists plead for nuclear disarmament, multilateral diplomacy, and a full-on confrontation of the climate emergency…

we are the ones we are waiting for… it will take grassroots efforts, the work of existing campaigners and the re-enlistment of traditional allies, like religious institutions, as well as the engagement of the next generation of activists… as Bernard Lown noted in 1995, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the only hope for change is an informed and insistent public compelling leadership to change the course we are on…

2020 marks 75 years since we entered the nuclear age with the Bomb…. as the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty comes up for review at the United Nations in April-May and the anniversaries of the Bomb are marked in July and August, the eyes and ears of the world will be drawn to the issue of nuclear weapons once again… what a window of opportunity for us to join with those who witnessed the Bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the hibakusha, survivors, whose voices are becoming fewer but not weaker as they demand the world pursue the only possible course guaranteeing “Never Again,” – the abolition of nuclear weapons…

yes, it is time on the clock of the world for us to re-member we belong to each other, we are one and we must be there for each other…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 37 – 1/22/2020

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today, i learn that this week in january is known as the saddest week in the year – are you feeling this wave? simultaneously, there is another wave arising; instead of succumbing to the wave of despair, we can choose to ride the wave of creativity, of coming together, showing the strength of our numbers, standing together speaking truth to power from a place of love, alchemizing the call for justice with weaving a world that works for all… let us invoke the goddess maya for our movement poem…

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Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou

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may we rise, may we rise, may we rise, everyday may we rise gracefully to the occasion and weave a world of peace built on justice and guided by love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 36 – 1/21/2020

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sacred pilgrimage

to gaia’s heart chakra

soaring on love’s wings

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today is moment after moment of dancing in rhythm with the breeze around the well singing ‘listen listen listen to my heartsong’ and with every chant spiraling deeper and deeper, water falling home to source, our one heart…

may every moment be a sacred gift woven around our cosmic heart of wonder…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 35 – 1/20/2020

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“I am convinced that if we are to get on to the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.” ~ Martin Luther King ~

as we celebrate MLK today, i intend on rising to Bernie Sanders’ call to do more than honor and re-member him by being faithful to his revolutionary spirit and his call for a radical revolution of values… Dr King lives on as a peaceful revolutionary committed to overturning the triple evils of racism, economic injustice and militarism…

on April 4, 1967—exactly one year before King ‘s assassination, he delivered an infamous speech at Riverside Church in New York City condemning the Vietnam War and calling for an end to the “nightmarish conflict” as well as for the nation to “undergo a radical revolution of values,”:

“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love.”

may we continue living out Dr King’s prophetic call through peaceful protests and protections, participating in movements for economic justice, expanding access to healthcare, expanding workers’rights through the most progressive elements of labor unions, ending endless war which contributes mightily to climate disruption and participating in the revival of King’s Poor People’s Campaign…

yes, may we all be satisfied when justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream as we act from the better angels of our souls…

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ~ Martin Luther King ~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 34 – 1/19/2020

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today as i witness the world as it is and re- member it is astonishing light of being day, also i re-member the words of the Dalai Lama about our island home desperately needing more peacemakers, healers, restorers, lovers and storytellers which reminds me of an old legend of the first peoples of this land…

a legend about a savior named deganawida, the peacemaker, originating over a thousand years ago during the final decades of pre-columbian america at a time like now, a time of pervasive fear and instability in the iroquois world when a young virgin gave birth to a son… she was told in a dream that “your child will be a messenger of the creator and will bring peace and harmony to the people on earth.”

when deganawida came of age he told his mother, “I shall now build my canoe from white stone, for the time has come for me to start my mission in this world. I know I must travel afar on lakes and rivers to seek out the council smoke of nations beyond this lake. It is now time for me to go stop the shedding of blood among human beings.”

as deganawida began his mission he first encountered a group of hunters who were fleeing from the bloodshed in the their own village and he instructed them: “Go back to your people and tell them that the Good News of Peace and Righteousness has come to your nation.”

the peacemaker’s mission, as the many accounts of the legend make clear, was to reestablish the natural equilibrium on which the well being of individuals, societies, and the whole of creation depends… deganawida achieved this mission by healing them—by “making their minds straight.” deganawida’s role was not that of a warrior, but a redemptive shaman—a healer… he was quite explicit about the mission: “health means peace, for that is what comes when minds are sane and bodies are cared for.”

may we all be peacemakers every moment…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 33 – 1/18/2020

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walking between worlds,

floating through mists, quieting

into the stillness…

entering dreamtime

through the lifted veil of fog,

being the unseen…

flowing into source

down to the river below

 water falling home…

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in the wake of suffering, we are given the opportunity to make a quantum leap into that often mentioned field that’s out beyond default positions, the field of grace, sacred space of flowing harmony, living quintessentially where we really see, we real-eyes…

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we have no dominion over wild darkness/light

ours is simply to be still, hollow reeds for flow’s swirling currents

witnessing as bittersweet freedom opens into true liberation of emptiness

ever expanding spaciousness sans rules and dogma, fixed ideas and beliefs

there is only the sea of love breathing in the rhythm of waves, cosmic mirror for all

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down here in the depths of true emptiness, true reality,  the the central questions to us all live me calling me into contemplative conversation concerning what really matters… i always come home to love and the one heart we share… love always finds the way, love is the way…

may we all dwell, be well, in the stillness of the vast sea always being love dancing rainbow mystery…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 7 – Day 32 – 1/17/2020

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What Dream(s) Are You Watering Today?

everyday, i dream of peace and act on the dream… today, i share a dream with Martin of the creation of Beloved Community…  a field of our relations gathered together with the shared intention and attention of transforming enemies into friends, being our daily practice of an understanding goodwill with the power to transmute our gloom into gladness as we stand together in love for love…

we are all called in this universal year of manifestation and this decade of destiny to be dreamers in this time of unraveling, of great turning to pick up our thread and weave a new story, a new tapestry re-membering it takes a little chaos to give birth to a dancing star… lovely dream, i’m possible dream…

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“The Impossible Dream”

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear the unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the un-rightable wrong
To be better far than you are
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest, to follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I’ll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will be peaceful and calm
When I’m laid to my rest

And the world would be better for this
That one man scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

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