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Quiet Winter
Posted by: | CommentsWinter is a time to slow from the activity of the summer. The garden still slumbers under blankets of mulch and leaves. A few early bulb shoots peek out. When it rains, I generally fish a few worms out of Arrow’s outside water dish. I think they are attracted to the warmer metal. Over to the compost pile for them. Still, life is full. The great grandkids are here most days. The youngest, Landon, is three, and loves to pick things up. Which is generally ok. I just don’t know where I’m going to find them. He is a cyclone of energy. Skyler is a year older, already into his little computer games. Kat is very content to the babysitting… she is far more family oriented than I’ve ever been. She has taught this lone wolf a heap about relationships.
Lately when I’m not engraving rocks, I’ve been messing with beta software, Themeframe and Headway. They are both WordPress website making programs, and are attempting great leaps forward in site design. Very interesting.
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: | CommentsAnd a very good new year to you all!
Frosty
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Winter arrived with some strength…. with temps from 12-30 degrees…. for two weeks here in our southern Oregon valley. Then nearly two weeks of 40-55 degree weather, with a few dandelions to discover in our walks. Tonight is back to freezing for a while. Snow again to just above the valley floor. We’ve still got some amazing broccoli in the garden that I’m nibbling from, and the last dozen of the greenpicked tomatoes are about ripe in the house. The avacodo plant that I “saved” from the compost bin is now here in the shed with me. I’ve no idea if it will survive the winters here, much less ever bear fruit. It is getting special TLC…. several others grew in the garden; they will winter outside. Arrow is 3 today, and much more settled than a year ago. It was ice cream and homemade cookies all around.
Awakening
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by Clark Little
As we awake from our sleep of millenia, we discover items that no longer fit easily into our previous ways of thinking, of feeling. Perhaps it is our accustomed method to fight dearly for what is so familiar to us. Or, perhaps we can easily dissolve an old mindset — put it on the shelf for a while — as we try the new. Life is about the new; about expanding our experiences and creativity.
I have long felt that my soul is enormously knowledgeable; and holds a seeming infinity of love. Yet that was my soul. I have longed for the permanent conscious experience that I’ve experienced is there. As opposed to here.
Slowly it has dawned on me that ‘There’ and ‘here’ are something I have to bring together. It does no good waiting for Soul to share what it holds. I have to make the conscious effort during my days to know and act as if I am my Soul… as if there were no division… no “me” and “him”.
So, to let that old mindset slip away….