Time for Maria Magpie, does it rhyme?

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When I try too hard to write what I think I should write, it comes out wrong. When I stop and listen, then it flows. The sunlight taps along the leaves, and the rhythm is picked up. Yesterday, while sitting out on my small back porch, I found that circle of truth. Flora and fauna found me. I heard the sun sing with the birds. And then these words:

You are sentimental and cautious. And whether or not it is wise to worry about this and that, you do. Take your pen and paper, and write. Write the stories from the veins of each leaf. Become the circles inside of a tree’s core. Slow down more often and taste the change in the air. That is inside of you, too. You have a story to tell. The wisdom of life’s living and dying. Our unknown side is where we learn to trust ourselves. It is there where the ink is new. This is the soul of your truths.

Much love and respect, Carolyn Riker, author of The Colors I Hear
Featured artwork by Park Hang-ryul
For more of my words: https://www.amazon.com/Colors-Hear-Poems-Inspire-Creativity/dp/B0C6BM7F43

"HONORING OUR CHILDREN’S UNIQUE SONG

An excerpt from Dr. Jaiya John’s Reflection Pond: Nurturing Wholeness in Displaced Children. A compassionate guide for professionals and caregivers.

Each of us is born with an essence—a distinctive nature or character. An inclination peculiar to us alone pulls us toward some things and away from others. While we commonly understand this as personality, this truth has been honored in world cultures for centuries in a more textured sense.

Many African communities have long held that each spirit born into the world carries its own unique song. This song represents the rhythm, frequency, and flavor of life that strikes the chords of the child’s spirit with the greatest degree of harmony. It is her way of being. Her nature. Her song is her reason for having been brought into the world. She carries a package she must deliver, an insight to join into the collective awareness of her people.

When a woman in such a community becomes pregnant, a tradition occurs, varying according to the particular tribal culture. Here is a general depiction: The expecting woman gathers her female family members and friends. They venture out away from the compound, away from the children and men and the daily noise of society. Surrounded by listening trees and sitting close to Earth, the women form a circle.

They have a singular purpose in being here: to recognize the song of this new life on its way. They spend many moments in silence, so that they can hear what nature speaks to them. Back in the compound, commotion would drown out these voices.

Protected by shade clouds from the determined sun, they laugh together and tell stories. Laughing and storytelling create good vibrations that loosen clumps of dirt blocking the unseen rivers they wear like a skirt. Inspiration begins to flow (...)".

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

~ When I Am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver

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Plan your beach wellness mini retreat on the 3rd of September with a full range of treatments available

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Join us on Inch beach for your wellness hit!! Choose from our list of workshops, classes and treatments while the little ones join in the beach fun and finish off with a browse of Katie's vintage one offs and a delightful dinner and treats on the beach!!!

When- 3rd September
Where - Inch Beach EAST CORK
10.30 TO 8PM

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Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (English) Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution, a film by the international NGO Local Futures, shows a quiet and transformative revolution emerging worldwide.Away from the...

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Love has no gender!
Love has no race!
Love has no disability!
Love has no religion!

LOVE IS LOVE!!!

Patient, kind, universal, extraordinary, essential, compassionate and unconditional!

Lets open our hearts and let love in and love out, for every single human being, for every living being, seen and unseen, for the elementals, for our natural world, the trees, the rocks, the oceans, the water beings, the winged beings, the rooted beings, tiny, big and small and absolutely everything in between!

PURE, TRUE, DIVINE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE!!!

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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
• Albert Einstein

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'You Blew Me Away 8' by sculptor Penny Hardy, sculpture made from upcycled scrap metal

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“Love is neither a fairy tale nor a book.
Love is neither a signature on a paper
nor what a couple say of each other.
Love is a tree with branches
reaching far beyond time into eternity,
and roots set deep in the eternal life.”

― Rumi

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“If you’ve never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.”
—Robert Brault

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‘The Vegetable Path’ art by Lucy Grossmith

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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
~ Henri Nouwen

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Sit by the feet of the mother and listen Pray with me 🌲 This brand new chant dropped in this morning, share if it resonates 🌬... ...

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Today’s Doodle ♥

Image description: Ooty and Zed are dancing. There are hearts with music notes drawn on them floating up to the sky. In the background, you can see nebulas and stars in the night sky. The caption says, “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” A quote by Lao Tzu. The artwork is by Mollycules.

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Today’s Doodle: The Way ♥

Image description: Ooty and Zed are walking towards a stairwell that has just appeared. The caption says, “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” A quote by Rumi. The artwork is by Mollycules.

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Blessed Equinox! Spring and Autumn! May the change of seasons be celebrated with ceremony, ritual, gathering and honouring! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿💚🌿🍂

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When I Am Among the Trees
By Mary Oliver

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

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I sometimes forget that
I was created for joy
My mind is too busy
My heart is too heavy
Heavy for me to remember
that I have been
called to dance
the sacred dance for life
I was created to smile
to love
to be lifted up
and lift others up
O sacred one
Untangle my feet
from all that ensnares
Free my soul
That we might
Dance
and that our dancing
might be contagious.

Hafiz

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In the 1980s, during the peak of the Lebanon War, an incredible study was conducted.
It was hypothesised, based on many previous smaller experiments, that if enough people were connected in meditation, stimulating a "powerful field of peace" within - that there would be a radiated influence of peace *without*, ie. one that affected the behaviour of people in the outer world. Directed toward an area of conflict, in the words of John Hagelin, people would wake up and think "Hey, I'm not going to kill anyone today."

About a thousand people came together for this experiment in Jerusalem; meditating together with an aim of peace in neighbouring Lebanon. Scientists charted, at the same time, "progress towards peace". This translated to reduced war deaths, reduced injuries and numbers of bombs dropped, in the location where the meditation focused.

The data from this experiment was astounding. The correlation of "progress toward peace" was near lock step in alignment with the periods of meditation. Radiating this influence of inner peace, into outer peace in a conflict zone nearby.

When put through mathematical analysis, the likelihood that theses results were due to some fluke or chance were less than *one part in ten thousand*. To be able to assert something like this with such certainty, that group meditation prevented war, was an incredible finding.

When the results of this study were published in the Yale University Journal of Conflict Resolution, it ignited a firestorm in the scientific community. First of all, it took two years to publish the paper; the editors reviewed it and reviewed it, over and over, unable to believe the accuracy of these findings. Finally however, they came to the conclusion that the paper was "unassailable". The study was performed at a standard of scientific rigour far beyond that required for publication, in any journal. But, when they did publish it, they did so with a letter - the letter saying the results of this experiment were so unexpected, ie. that a thousand people could influence the behaviour of *a million*, that they urged other scientists to go out and repeat the study.

And that is exactly what happened. Over the next two and a quarter years, seven other scientific collaborations went out and repeated the study, training and assembling groups of meditators, to see its effect on war. And in every one of these experiments during this two and a quarter year period, there was a marked reduction in war and violence. ie. An *eighty percent* drop in war deaths and war related injuries in comparison to all the other days during this period where there were no mediating groups. In *every single experiment* there was a highly statistical significance toward "progress toward peace" connected to focused intent toward it.

When put together, the results were amazing. The likelihood that this result of reduction of war was simply due to chance, was less than one part in ten million, million, million (ie. 0.0000001). There was far more evidence that group meditation can turn off war like a light-switch, than there was that aspirin reduces headache pain. It is a scientific fact.

-- summarised from the words of Dr John Hagelin. (Original talk in comments)

art | Daniel B. Holeman

Let's bring together thousands for peace.

From March 3rd to March 11th there will be a united meditation/prayer for peace and a great awakening of our planet, at 8pm for 8 minutes, everyday for 8 days, at each of our local times, we can take a few minutes to meditate and set deep, clear and powerful intention into the collective. I encourage you to share far and wide, to get as many souls focused on this powerful work of uplifting, awakening and healing our planet, together. No matter what our religion or spiritual belief, we all love and want healing for this world. This is a crucial time in history, and our hearts and souls can unite together to heal.

Let's do it!

A Gathering of The Tribe

A powerful and inspiring story from Charles Eisenstein. A useful read for anyone struggling to adapt and find purpose amidst the horrors of the world...

‘Once upon a time a great tribe of people lived in a world far away from ours. Whether far away in space, or in time, or even outside of time, we do not know. They lived in a state of enchantment and joy that few of us today dare to believe could exist, except in those exceptional peak experiences when we glimpse the true potential of life and mind.

One day the shaman of the tribe called a meeting. They gathered around him, and he spoke very solemnly. "My friends," he said, "there is a world that needs our help. It is called earth, and its fate hangs in the balance. Its humans have reached a critical point in their collective birthing, and they will be stillborn without our help. Who would like to volunteer for a mission to this time and place, and render service to humanity?"

"Tell us more about his mission," they asked.

"I am glad you asked, because it is no small thing. I will put you into a deep, deep trance, so complete that you will forget who you are. You will live a human life, and in the beginning you will completely forget your origins. You will forget even our language and your own true name. You will be separated from the wonder and beauty of our world, and from the love that bathes us all. You will miss it deeply, yet you will not know what it is you are missing. You will only remember the love and beauty that we know to be normal as a longing in your heart. Your memory will take the form of an intuitive knowledge, as you plunge into the painfully marred earth, that a more beautiful world is possible.

"As you grow up in that world, your knowledge will be under constant assault. You will be told in a million ways that a world of destruction, violence, drudgery, anxiety, and degradation is normal. You may go through a time when you are completely alone, with no allies to affirm your knowledge of a more beautiful world. You may plunge into a depth of despair that we, in our world of light, cannot imagine. But no matter what, a spark of knowledge will never leave you. A memory of your true origin will be encoded in your DNA. That spark will lie within you, inextinguishable, until one day it is awakened.

"You see, even though you will feel, for a time, utterly alone, you will not be alone. I will send you assistance, help that you will experience as miraculous, experiences that you will describe as transcendent. For a few moments or hours or days, you will reawaken to the beauty and the joy that is meant to be. You will see it on earth, for even though the planet and its people are deeply wounded, there is beauty there still, projected from past and future onto the present as a promise of what is possible and a reminder of what is real.

"You will also receive help from each other. As you begin to awaken to your mission you will meet others of our tribe. You will recognize them by your common purpose, values, and intuitions, and by the similarity of the paths you have walked. As the condition of the planet earth reaches crisis proportions, your paths will cross more and more. The time of loneliness, the time of thinking you might be crazy, will be over.

"You will find the people of your tribe all over the earth, and become aware of them through the long-distance communication technologies used on that planet. But the real shift, the real quickening, will happen in face-to-face gatherings in special places on earth. When many of you gather together you will launch a new stage on your journey, a journey which, I assure you, will end where it began. Then, the mission that lay unconscious within you will flower into consciousness. Your intuitive rebellion against the world presented you as normal will become an explicit quest to create a more beautiful one.

"In the time of loneliness, you will always be seeking to reassure yourself that you are not crazy. You will do that by telling people all about what is wrong with the world, and you will feel a sense of betrayal when they don't listen to you. You will be hungry for stories of wrongness, atrocity, and ecological destruction, all of which confirm the validity of your intuition that a more beautiful world exists. But after you have fully received the help I will send you, and the quickening of your gatherings, you will no longer need to do that. Because, you will Know. Your energy will thereafter turn toward actively creating that more beautiful world."

A tribeswoman asked the shaman, "How do you know this will work? Are you sure your shamanic powers are great enough to send us on such a journey?"

The shaman replied, "I know it will work because I have done it many times before. Many have already been sent to earth, to live human lives, and to lay the groundwork for the mission you will undertake now. I've been practicing! The only difference now is that many of you will venture there at once. What is new in the time you will live in, is that the Gatherings are beginning to happen."

A tribesman asked, "Is there a danger we will become lost in that world, and never wake up from the shamanic trance? Is there a danger that the despair, the cynicism, the pain of separation will be so great that it will extinguish the spark of hope, the spark of our true selves and origin, and that we will separated from our beloved ones forever?"

The shaman replied, "That is impossible. The more deeply you get lost, the more powerful the help I will send you. You might experience it at the time as a collapse of your personal world, the loss of everything important to you. Later you will recognize the gift within it. We will never abandon you."

Another man asked, "Is it possible that our mission will fail, and that this planet, earth, will perish?"

The shaman replied, "I will answer your question with a paradox. It is impossible that your mission will fail. Yet, its success hangs on your own actions. The fate of the world is in your hands. The key to this paradox lies within you, in the feeling you carry that each of your actions, even your personal, secret struggles within, has cosmic significance. You will know then, as you do now, that everything you do matters. God sees everything."

There were no more questions. The volunteers gathered in a circle, and the shaman went to each one. The last thing each was aware of was the shaman blowing smoke in his face. They entered a deep trance and dreamed themselves into the world where we find ourselves today.’

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Trio Mandili - Galoba (The Prayer) The Prayer for Peace...

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“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination… “ still one of my favourites by the beautiful Mary Oliver, a hug in a poem… hope you’re all having a good day!

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