Reflection

"Thank You"

"Oaks are the true conservatives;
They hold old leaves till summer gives
A green exchange."
~Roy Helton

Projection

Be careful about projecting your own motives onto the behavior of others. Try to see others as they actually are, not as another version of yourself, or another version of someone from your past. Treat each person with the respect that you would show the person you most admire on Earth, and you will be less likely to act with your unconscious prejudice. Try hard, it's important, not just for them, but for your own heart.

Soul Mates

What if you meet your soul mate, and you are each very respectful of one another, and of life itself, and you love deeply, laugh often, and live well every day of your life?

Quick Cup Of Coffee

Quick Cup

I Am

Each is "I"
and all are "me".

To every single heart that beats,
all other hearts are "you".

There is no one who stands closer to another;
there is no one who did not have a mother;
no one.

When words are spoken,
they are spoken by an "I",
and they are heard by a "me".

There is no one who does not belong;
there is no one who was born wrong
or uninvited;
no one.

Wit and wisdom;
misery, elation;
laughter and song!

Emanations from the depths my soul.
I do not exist as someone else's "you", or "her", or "they".

There is no one who does not originate their own laughter;
there is no one who was born before or after
the beginning of life, of humankind.


Each is "I"
and all are "me".


~M. Black

Queen of Stars

Not at Home,
Unaccounted for-
Where art Thou, my playful one?
The darkness of the mind assails me!

Friends

Your friends are the ones who show trustworthiness when they stick around after you answer the question, "How are you?"

"Meeting"

And

It is finished.

Thank you for helping me to remember.
Thank you for helping me to unravel the knot, to find the source of the pain, to help me face my deepest sin, my betrayal.



Goodbye, see you on the next go-round, perhaps~

peace, love, light, as always and as Always,
mon amour

Shine

The shine that catches the eye and is gone;
an elusive glint that cannot be followed
or seen from straight on,
only from the corner of the eye;
like a moonglow firefly;
an ember falling from my hair
that spits and flares and disappears
before it can be captured;
it is only the dust on my coat
from the road Home.


~M.Black

Pleiades

Pleiades

"when i look up at the stars at night
what could i find beyond the light
a hundred million worlds that we ignore
who can restrain pleiades
or know the laws of heavenly's
how many times have we been wrong before
far off in the field i see a castle
today the people gather at the pole
he tried to tell us all the world was spherical
they burned his body but not his soul"

~King's X, "Pleiades"
from Gretchen Goes To Nebraska

Roses Can Prick

Try Treating Others With The Friendship, The Love, The Respect, The Attention, The Empathy That You Want For Yourself, Try Taking Accountability For The Way You Have Acted, Now And Whenever. Try Trusting That Other People Are Worthy And Are Capable Of Forgiveness. Try Letting Go Of The Resentment You Have Toward People Who Have Done You No Wrong. Try Being A Genuine Friend To Someone Other Than Your Pre-Approved Types Of Humans. Try remembering that you are not the Owner Of Pain; you could try being a comfort to others.

"Care"

Transformation

Transformation

Butterflies just are, whether or not anyone is watching.

Illusions

I might not care as much as you think I do.

You might care more than you think you do.

Or you wouldn't be reading this.
Projecting, assuming, judging, from such an "enlightened" spirit?

Try respect, it doesn't piss people off.

Try humility, you won't be surprised so often.

Try to stop controlling everyone for once.

There are other people that have to live on this rock, too, the same as you.

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Love Is...

Morning Mast

...not dependent on the other person's feelings. Each of us is a vessel unto ourselves, no one's course is influenced by another ship, only by the water under us and the wind above us.
Sail your own ship, watch your own stars, pay equal respect to all the other vessels you encounter, obey Maritime rules. You are not the wind that blows my sails, nor are you the waves that rock my hull. Do not think you can read my charts from your deck, and let go of the belief that I chart my course according to yours.
There is enough transcendent beauty to fill the skies of every captain; no one can claim to own the stars.

Ní bheidh tú ag siúl ina n-aonar

"Journey"

Keep walking straight, you're on the right path, this is just a muddy part with those little pricker things. They stick to your clothes and scratch your legs, you just have to unhook them from you and get across the mud. There's grass and sun past this dark part. Remember your own fortitude, remember the warmth of the sun.

The Chains Are Too Thick

Don't even think ~ (ahem)... don't even think about trying to escape~

~The Albino

The Dream Academy Life in A Northern Town rare 1st version

Hobbit House!

Thank you Rick Mariotti for pointing to this article, click here:


Hobbit House



How can we get the Zoning Boards and Building Inspectors to approve this around here? I'll be working on it~ in a free country it shouldn't be an issue.

Social Change, Save The Wails

Allies

One of the things that annoys me the most in this world (I said annoys, not enrages~) is when people will create or join a group to help a cause, and then use the group as a platform to conduct social pettiness, games and hierarchies.
"Come Join The Walk For Cancer" (but we'll only welcome you for real if we already like you...) "Please Volunteer At The Shelter" (so we can treat you like the new kid at school and feel superior)
"Please Come And Support The Arts" (so we can act like rockstars and treat you like a groupie)
"Please Come Join Our Club" (we need fresh meat to gossip about)
"All Are Welcome To The Lightworker Circle" (please join us so we can feed our egos by condescending.. I mean 'teaching' you... )
And no this is not a vent about something that happened to me, it is something that I have observed  a thousand times in various things I've been involved with. Humanitarian groups, Environmental groups, Arts groups, asking for volunteers and support, appealing to people's hearts, and then acting like Junior High School kids toward them, using the group as a pre-established "In Crowd". Which is what the motivation for creating or joining the group might have been to begin with. It is such a resource-waster, there is so much these groups could accomplish if the people involved were actually looking in the same direction, toward the cause they claim to support, instead of playing games in order to pump themselves up. The actual cause drowns in the sea of ego and insecurity. Groups for causes do NOT need to have "pecking orders", or soap opera dramas, or gossiping, or backstabbing, or anything else that grown-ups should have stopped doing before they graduated High School. When this is going on, people have diverted their attention away from the cause, and they are just using the group as a social club, even if they are actively working, performing their tasks. They are detracting from the cause, wrecking the environment, discouraging people from helping or joining, and being a burden to the cause instead of a help. Why would someone want to Walk For Cancer if, when they arrive, they are given weird looks like "Who are YOU" or "What is SHE doing here?" Why would someone join a Spiritual group if the ones running it are speaking from a place of Superiority? (That's not Enlightenment... sorry... the second you feel superior to another you have stepped off the path.) Why would someone want to support an Animal Rescue Shelter if those already there act like they are the only ones endowed with such deep compassion and understanding of animals... and no one else could possibly know anything about animals or care as much... (eyes rolling)...  Arts Groups? Invite the whole world in a very sweet, welcoming, open way to attend and support, and when they show up, assess their character and whether "we" think they are "sophisticated" or "experienced" enough for "us" to speak to them like a real person, and if "we" deem them unimportant, treat them accordingly~ with condescension. (The funny thing about that is those who I have seen usually get treated like they don't "belong" are often the only actual artists in the room.) If a person is actually genuine about their cause, they do not make their group a big Junior High School; they don't have the time, energy or money to waste playing gossip games, competing, dominating, or giving people attitudes. They treat everyone with sincere respect, they put a stop to other group members doing it, they check their own egos, and they are grateful to whoever shows up.

It's truly annoying, very frustrating, when you are sincerely and wholeheartedly trying to support or further a cause or be part of a group that could be a wonderful thing, and it is stalled over and over again by soap opera behavior.

Fleetwood Mac ~ Beautiful Child