Category: Whole

Season’s Greetings…….

Today I learned that I could buy a baby Groot Chia for myself or someone else as a gift to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace or to celebrate any of the other spiritually based Holy days that take place during this month of December.  Yes, you too can delight your friends or family by gifting them with a plastic piece of junk that represents all that is wrong with our culture.  Not only will you be supporting the mega-movie industry, the entertainment industry that brings us so many things of value (NOT), but you will also be supporting war for oil, shooting peaceful protestors with rubber bullets, oil slicks in pastures, rivers, lakes and oceans, plastic islands in the oceans and so much more to help honor the Spirit of the season.

So what is the Spirit of the season…. Really……  From where I’m sitting it appears to be more about gluttony than a celebration of love, peace and the gifts that God/Spirit/Universe/Allah have given us.  Whatever happened to getting together just for the sake of getting together because we appreciate one another?  Whatever happened to making a heartfelt gift from home supplies that represent how you really feel about someone?  Why are we all stressing about spending more than our bank accounts really support, sending ‘things’ miles away with no time to spare, yelling at retail clerks for not doing, having, being what it is that we ‘think’ we need? Continue reading “Season’s Greetings…….”

Cows and Tolerance

Auris  Cordis, my black mare, has always had an issue with cows.  When out riding if we approach a pasture filled with cows it can be quite a challenge to ride by peacefully.  Or even to ride by high-headed.  I’m not sure where or how all of this began, but I do attribute some of my unconscious training techniques at a ranch roping clinic as being part of what locked this attitude in. Continue reading “Cows and Tolerance”

Discernment

When I was cleaning up my garden the other day I grabbed a handful of what I thought was all plants that I did not want in a particular space.  As I looked at the lot that I had pulled up I recognized a very small onion that had been hiding in the mix.  I was so sad to have pulled this young plant out of the ground.  The premature death for this beneficial friend that I had wanted to mature into something I could consume could have been avoided had I practiced better discernment.

Continue reading “Discernment”

Digging to Find the Gold

I used to dislike growing root vegetables.  They were too hard to get to in order to harvest, I’d complain.  I can’t tell if they are ready or not, I’d whine.  I just don’t want to get my hands so dirty just to find small yields, I’d say.  How times have changed.

I love to dig into the ground now and find the small sweetness, and the large bounty.  I love to feel the earth around my hands as I mine for the gold attached to the nondescript plant above. Continue reading “Digging to Find the Gold”

Will All the Dogs Eventually Eat All The Dogs?

I recently watched The Founder.  A movie telling the story of how Ray Kroc became the megamillionaire “founder”  of McDonald’s.  I was struck as I remembered reading McDonald’s:  Behind the Arches by John F. Love many years ago.  I had read it in my quest for what I thought might be success.  This book focused on the duplicability and the entrepreneurship that was the keystone of McDonald’s and the story of Ray Kroc.  Watching The Founder offered me a different look at what the history of McDonald’s involved. Continue reading “Will All the Dogs Eventually Eat All The Dogs?”

Grief

We have experienced a lot of loss this year.  First our beloved mare, Cherry decided it was time to go – she was over 40 years old – in April.  Then our special, trusted, big, black, dog, Bentley left us in May.  We deeply miss both of these daily big presences in our lives!  Then after Jay returned from a big family celebration honoring his father on his 85th birthday, we received word that he passed just 1 week later.  This was in June. Continue reading “Grief”

Prepping: Water

FEMA tells us we should be prepared for 6 months without power.  Yes, 6 months!  Are you?!?!?  I’m not sure if I am either, but I can say that I am conscious of this fact.  So, yes, I do my own prep.  Just in case.  Not out of fear, or I have mine get away, but because it’s the right thing to do.  Why wouldn’t we?!?!   Continue reading “Prepping: Water”

Today We Honor the Mosquito

Honor the mosquito?!?!?! What?!?!?!  Am I crazy?!?!?!  These are the questions I awoke with after my guides directed me to blog in honor of the mosquito today.  So I meditated on the mosquito before rising.  I could feel their need to be heard.  So much is blamed on them.  So much hatred is directed toward them.  There is something quite profound in the fact that it is only the females who bite to draw blood.  How can we truly be in relationship with the WHOLE if we are bent upon eradicating one of the species?

Continue reading “Today We Honor the Mosquito”