Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Saucepan Saga
The Tale of the Saucepan
So, I have some lovely new friends, who recently took me to a party at Outback Steakhouse in Hermitage, Tennessee. One of them had a birthday that evening and we had a most enjoyable time. I may have gotten a bit rowdy, not having been out much since moving here from Florida. And yet, I’m done with blushing about my behavior. We were not asked to leave so how bad could it have been? I think I just spent a bit too much time ‘soap-boxing.’
So, where the steakhouse is located, I noticed a Panera Bread café. A few days later, jonesing for bagels, I wended my way back over the dam and found the location (with some guidance over the phone from one of the guys) and bought a several-weeks supply of sesame bagels. Yum. Bagels are few and far between here in Tennessee. Apparently the locals prefer cornbread and grits. To each his own.
So, I got my bagels and, learned that a Publix was nearby. Realizing it would save me a few miles in the other direction,, I chose to stop in there.
So, I got to Publix, and noticed a Ross at the other end of the large plaza. Justifying a side trip by claiming to myself that Munchie could use another food dish, I went in and found nothing suitable for him, but was enchanted by a small blue enamel saucepan that I really did not need. But hey! It was only four bucks! (See side bar picture. It sells on the internet for 6.95 plus shipping.)
So as I checked out, there came an announcement…”will the owner of a dark blue Tahoe with the license plates … come to the customer courtesy counter?” I was already there! Paying for my illicit saucepan. (It really is cute.) So, info was exchanged and I left to survey the damage.
Bottom line, the witnesses got the tag number, the cops caught the perp (pushing 90 years old and performs this none-too clever hit and run) She confesses, and now I’m driving a roller skate while Midnight is having the driver's side replaced courtesy of her insurance company.
The two lessons I learned from this little incident: 1. Do not park anywhere near a handicapped spot because you have no way of knowing what type of handicap a driver might have who pulls in or out next to you. 2. Do not shop where you do not need to in order to buy something you clearly do not need. Although I have used said saucepan a couple of times (mainly to justify its existence here) I do already possess an ample supply of saucepans. I had ENOUGH and now I have TOO MANY, which is how this article is in keeping with the overall point of this blog. Note to self: Learn to leave well ENOUGH alone!
Be well
V.
Disclaimer: I do not mean to imply that all handicapped drivers are irresponsible, only that like anyone else, some may not be on top of their game and therefore we each need to be alert and cognizant of our surroundings when we drive and when we park. I feel sort of sorry for the old lady. She committed a crime and may lose her driving privileges. Does anyone care to comment?
Monday, March 5, 2012
WHAT IS ENOUGH TO TRANSFORM?
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Enough to Transform
What Is Enough to Transform?
Demanding that you believe as I do is silly. It’s like demanding that you wear my skin. Sorry. It just does not work. One may as well try to demand that one snowflake be identical to every other. Unique is a beautiful quality of infinitude.
Proselytizing and brainwashing, threatening and warring with others over differences of belief in God and culture are the very things that have held mankind and our planet back from whatever nirvana awaits.
When people learn to listen to others without obsession they will be that much closer to being able to really listen to the Creator, who is constantly pouring forth upon all of us messages of love, truth, health, abundance, soul and life itself.
Years of spiritual and metaphysical study, ordination, certification as this or that; an interesting accumulation of tools and books, potions, rituals and formulae, and it all boils down to this: Transformation comes from within. That was the meaning of the quest in Coelho’s masterpiece novel, The Alchemist. And that will always be the ultimate answer. It is in relationship both to Great Spirit and to other beings that we determine who and what we are. The things we learn give us fuel for growth but at the end of the day, it is time to look deeply within, to our Higher Selves to find our answers.
Crises of faith and loss of trust are big stumbling blocks for the seeker, and yet, they are the rudiments of a healing crisis that leads to breakthroughs into that higher plain of consciousness that is the desired place: the Summum Bonum.
We are here to find ourselves, our place in the cosmos and to re-discover our relationship to the Creator. There are many paths to this goal. As many paths as there are seekers.
Some would argue that point. The fundamentalist Christian formula is one that absolves many of the trouble of free thought. So does the Hindu prayer wheel, the Mecca-focused prayers of the twice-daily Islamic faithful, and on and on. Each major religion has within it many subcategories of sects or denominations that claim, of course, to have the One True Answer. For those who truly are inclined that way, so be it. They have found a path that works for them. At least sort of.
Masaru Emoto speaks of the clearing, cleansing effects of love on water.1 Yeshua turned a fish or two and a loaf of bread into enough fish sandwiches to feed the multitudes in His audience.2* In His conversations with Glenda Green, she asked him how he did that. In essence and to paraphrase, He said ‘if you love enough, there are no limits.’3
So transforming our thoughts is the key to transforming our lives which is the key to transforming our society which is the key to healing our world.
Whatever the situation, find a way to apply love to it and then keep loving. And while you are loving, express your true thanks. Your gratitude is sort of like the flip side of the coin to love. Every coin has two sides. If it didn’t it would not be a coin and would not even exist. Together, the front and the back make up an item of worth, of value that has an impact.
Love is both a noun and a verb, we need to recognize this and surround ourselves with its awareness. Be it, feel it and do it.
Gratitude is a welling up in the heart of recognition of, appreciation for and acknowledgement of blessings and opportunities that arrive at our doorstep or fall into our laps, or that come through any multitude of channels. A sunset, a letter, a shiny stone or crystal, a new friend, a call from an old one, a coin on the pavement, an expected healing, and actualized healing, a package, or anything that may brighten your day. It is your sacred responsibility to receive, acknowledge and express thanks for these many gifts and miracles both mighty and miniscule.
Watch for this: upcoming in these blogs, there will soon be a link for an alternative medicine site all about Love and Gratitude.
1.The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto ISBN 97815827011417
2.The Bible, Matthew 14: 14-21
3. Love Without End: Jesus Speaks by Glenda Green p 44.
* I have taken a slight liberty with this and made his miracle into sandwiches to contemporize it. No harm, no foul. I believe He would be amused.
Enough to Transform
What Is Enough to Transform?
Demanding that you believe as I do is silly. It’s like demanding that you wear my skin. Sorry. It just does not work. One may as well try to demand that one snowflake be identical to every other. Unique is a beautiful quality of infinitude.
Proselytizing and brainwashing, threatening and warring with others over differences of belief in God and culture are the very things that have held mankind and our planet back from whatever nirvana awaits.
When people learn to listen to others without obsession they will be that much closer to being able to really listen to the Creator, who is constantly pouring forth upon all of us messages of love, truth, health, abundance, soul and life itself.
Years of spiritual and metaphysical study, ordination, certification as this or that; an interesting accumulation of tools and books, potions, rituals and formulae, and it all boils down to this: Transformation comes from within. That was the meaning of the quest in Coelho’s masterpiece novel, The Alchemist. And that will always be the ultimate answer. It is in relationship both to Great Spirit and to other beings that we determine who and what we are. The things we learn give us fuel for growth but at the end of the day, it is time to look deeply within, to our Higher Selves to find our answers.
Crises of faith and loss of trust are big stumbling blocks for the seeker, and yet, they are the rudiments of a healing crisis that leads to breakthroughs into that higher plain of consciousness that is the desired place: the Summum Bonum.
We are here to find ourselves, our place in the cosmos and to re-discover our relationship to the Creator. There are many paths to this goal. As many paths as there are seekers.
Some would argue that point. The fundamentalist Christian formula is one that absolves many of the trouble of free thought. So does the Hindu prayer wheel, the Mecca-focused prayers of the twice-daily Islamic faithful, and on and on. Each major religion has within it many subcategories of sects or denominations that claim, of course, to have the One True Answer. For those who truly are inclined that way, so be it. They have found a path that works for them. At least sort of.
Masaru Emoto speaks of the clearing, cleansing effects of love on water.1 Yeshua turned a fish or two and a loaf of bread into enough fish sandwiches to feed the multitudes in His audience.2* In His conversations with Glenda Green, she asked him how he did that. In essence and to paraphrase, He said ‘if you love enough, there are no limits.’3
So transforming our thoughts is the key to transforming our lives which is the key to transforming our society which is the key to healing our world.
Whatever the situation, find a way to apply love to it and then keep loving. And while you are loving, express your true thanks. Your gratitude is sort of like the flip side of the coin to love. Every coin has two sides. If it didn’t it would not be a coin and would not even exist. Together, the front and the back make up an item of worth, of value that has an impact.
Love is both a noun and a verb, we need to recognize this and surround ourselves with its awareness. Be it, feel it and do it.
Gratitude is a welling up in the heart of recognition of, appreciation for and acknowledgement of blessings and opportunities that arrive at our doorstep or fall into our laps, or that come through any multitude of channels. A sunset, a letter, a shiny stone or crystal, a new friend, a call from an old one, a coin on the pavement, an expected healing, and actualized healing, a package, or anything that may brighten your day. It is your sacred responsibility to receive, acknowledge and express thanks for these many gifts and miracles both mighty and miniscule.
Watch for this: upcoming in these blogs, there will soon be a link for an alternative medicine site all about Love and Gratitude.
1.The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto ISBN 97815827011417
2.The Bible, Matthew 14: 14-21
3. Love Without End: Jesus Speaks by Glenda Green p 44.
* I have taken a slight liberty with this and made his miracle into sandwiches to contemporize it. No harm, no foul. I believe He would be amused.
POWER IS IN ENOUGH
Monday, October 11, 2010
Power Is In Enough
The word 'enough' describes all we need of anything. We do not need more, we should not have less. The amount that is 'enough' is the amount that is perfect.
My wonderful dinner at the Outback a few nights ago was perfect. I allowed myself to know when to stop. I had enough and was not uncomfortably stuffed afterward. In fact, I felt quite grand. I brought home enough ribeye, garlic mashed potatoes and spinach artichoke dip for another full meal, plus enough meat to make a sandwich for lunch.
Once, I did not know what was enough. My years on the farm in Iowa, working with Dad, lots of fresh air and hard labor encouraged a very hearty appetite. the cafeteria at Drake had four lines. One on each side of the building. My roomie and I often hit up two or more lines for any given meal. Not that any of us were overweight, but looking back, I see a tendency toward gluttony developing. We did not know what enough was all about, and so we wanted more.
Over the years, restaurants began the insidious practice of 'supersizing' everything.
The more we are served, the more we eat. In Europe, I am told, portions are quite small, particularly in France. French restaurants here in the U.S., at least in my experience, also serve small portions. I do not believe I would starve to death if I ate portions of that diminuitive size.
There is a lot more to the concept of 'enough' than merely how it relates to food.
Knowing when to stop anything is to exert power over it.
Excess can often lead to destructive behaviors. Hoarding is an example, and can lead to serious consequences. Obsessions, overspending and debt are symptoms of the inability to discern 'enough.'
The lessons taught in school were not enough when it comes to personal finance and making a life for oneself out in the real world after graduation. Being released into society without any knowledge of personal finance is a bit like releasing a goldfish into the ocean. First of all, goldfish don't get on well in salt water. Secondly, they are not equipped to deal with the inumerable predators they will encounter, Thirdly, they do not know how to obtain food without that little shaker sprinkling into their home each day. Instead of finding Nemo, we all have to founder about, trying to find ourselves, our livelihood, and our path in life.
Enough does not imply poverty, abstinence or lack. Instead, it describes the boundaries wherein lies our comfort, our peace, our most beneficial activity and relationships. Within 'enough' lies our wholeness, our wellness, and joy. This is power.
Be well,
Victoria
Power Is In Enough
The word 'enough' describes all we need of anything. We do not need more, we should not have less. The amount that is 'enough' is the amount that is perfect.
My wonderful dinner at the Outback a few nights ago was perfect. I allowed myself to know when to stop. I had enough and was not uncomfortably stuffed afterward. In fact, I felt quite grand. I brought home enough ribeye, garlic mashed potatoes and spinach artichoke dip for another full meal, plus enough meat to make a sandwich for lunch.
Once, I did not know what was enough. My years on the farm in Iowa, working with Dad, lots of fresh air and hard labor encouraged a very hearty appetite. the cafeteria at Drake had four lines. One on each side of the building. My roomie and I often hit up two or more lines for any given meal. Not that any of us were overweight, but looking back, I see a tendency toward gluttony developing. We did not know what enough was all about, and so we wanted more.
Over the years, restaurants began the insidious practice of 'supersizing' everything.
The more we are served, the more we eat. In Europe, I am told, portions are quite small, particularly in France. French restaurants here in the U.S., at least in my experience, also serve small portions. I do not believe I would starve to death if I ate portions of that diminuitive size.
There is a lot more to the concept of 'enough' than merely how it relates to food.
Knowing when to stop anything is to exert power over it.
Excess can often lead to destructive behaviors. Hoarding is an example, and can lead to serious consequences. Obsessions, overspending and debt are symptoms of the inability to discern 'enough.'
The lessons taught in school were not enough when it comes to personal finance and making a life for oneself out in the real world after graduation. Being released into society without any knowledge of personal finance is a bit like releasing a goldfish into the ocean. First of all, goldfish don't get on well in salt water. Secondly, they are not equipped to deal with the inumerable predators they will encounter, Thirdly, they do not know how to obtain food without that little shaker sprinkling into their home each day. Instead of finding Nemo, we all have to founder about, trying to find ourselves, our livelihood, and our path in life.
Enough does not imply poverty, abstinence or lack. Instead, it describes the boundaries wherein lies our comfort, our peace, our most beneficial activity and relationships. Within 'enough' lies our wholeness, our wellness, and joy. This is power.
Be well,
Victoria
Friday, April 29, 2011
Too Much Broadcasting
Too Much Broadcasting and not enough news!
That statement may be too simplistic and misleading.
Let me clarify:
1. Too much attention is paid by the media to bad news. And where it isn't bad enough to suit them, they exaggerate, and they beat the listener over the head with their hot stories until numbness sets in, along with hopelessness, despair and complacency.
2. Not enough good news. It's out there. You know it, and I know it. I want to hear it on the news. However, the media wants no more than an occasional 'human interest piece' to punctuate their ongoing series of tragedies.
3. There is very little real news broadcast. Why is that? They prefer stories they can spin to suit their advertisers or the power brokers who own them.
Where I work, a network I do not like is broadcast 24/7 with no ability to change the station. It is loud. It is intrusive. It makes it difficult to help clients, and it is demoralizing. Bottom line: it is Orwellian.
Corporations make decisions based only upon money. Where is the heart?
If a corporation is granted the status of a legal entity under the law, then it has an obligation to have heart, like a real entity.
What can we do about that? At home I use the off switch. Yet more than that is needed.
Control your own thoughts and don't let them think for you!
Be Well
V.
That statement may be too simplistic and misleading.
Let me clarify:
1. Too much attention is paid by the media to bad news. And where it isn't bad enough to suit them, they exaggerate, and they beat the listener over the head with their hot stories until numbness sets in, along with hopelessness, despair and complacency.
2. Not enough good news. It's out there. You know it, and I know it. I want to hear it on the news. However, the media wants no more than an occasional 'human interest piece' to punctuate their ongoing series of tragedies.
3. There is very little real news broadcast. Why is that? They prefer stories they can spin to suit their advertisers or the power brokers who own them.
Where I work, a network I do not like is broadcast 24/7 with no ability to change the station. It is loud. It is intrusive. It makes it difficult to help clients, and it is demoralizing. Bottom line: it is Orwellian.
Corporations make decisions based only upon money. Where is the heart?
If a corporation is granted the status of a legal entity under the law, then it has an obligation to have heart, like a real entity.
What can we do about that? At home I use the off switch. Yet more than that is needed.
Control your own thoughts and don't let them think for you!
Be Well
V.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Earth Changes: What are We Waiting For?
Myself included! We are all spending too much time and attention to mindless distractions such as FaceBook games (for me it's Backyard Monsters and Farmville) when at this crucial point in history, we need to eliminate distractions and work individually and collectively on solution-oriented activities.
Look just briefly at what has been going on in the past few months:
winter weather in places that usually do not experience much winter, from Great Britain to southern USA, Central and Southern Europe, and we joke about global warming. Well, yeah, that is an invention so far as our human technology goes. We will get back to that. Do not get me started there just yet.
Look at the coastal flooding and major problems in Australia and New Zealand. Look at the quakes and resultant catastrophes in Japan this week.
We are constantly bombarded by the accelerating catastrophic events that are rolling in faster and faster. Yeah, Mom Nature seems pissed. It is all part of a natural cycle of global and solar activity, but it is happening now. To us. We are here now to witness it. We do not know what events took out Lemuria and Atlantis long ago, but the things noted above are simply a few examples of the happenings we witness and live or die through now in our era.
Do we expect that on some special date in 2012 all the Earth Changes will happen at once? Well, I think a lot of people do think that. And a lot of people put a great deal of stock in the Mayan Calendar, which, I think only ends at a certain time because they disappeared before they got around to finishing it. They were a violent, bloody, cannabalisitic tribe which I have no interest in following. They did interesting things, true, but they are not here to explain themselves anymore than the Lemurians are.
Jump my case about that if you want to. I don't care. Yes, I use Lemurian Seed Crystals in my crystal work and various crystals from Atlantis as well, but I do not wish to pattern myself after an extinct people who did not survive whatever changes they encountered.
Anyway, too many distractions whether self-inflicted or from outside influences are keeping those of us with the power to heal ourselves, others and the World in our own little technological closets thumbing away on personal devices that may have been constructed simply to do just that: keep us distracted while civilization crumbles.
It's tough when our comfort zone incudes major reliance on being distracted. Waking up hurts. But we must awaken and face our work. It is a task to take one day and one step at a time.
We can heal the world.
Blessed Be
Victoria Lea
Look just briefly at what has been going on in the past few months:
winter weather in places that usually do not experience much winter, from Great Britain to southern USA, Central and Southern Europe, and we joke about global warming. Well, yeah, that is an invention so far as our human technology goes. We will get back to that. Do not get me started there just yet.
Look at the coastal flooding and major problems in Australia and New Zealand. Look at the quakes and resultant catastrophes in Japan this week.
We are constantly bombarded by the accelerating catastrophic events that are rolling in faster and faster. Yeah, Mom Nature seems pissed. It is all part of a natural cycle of global and solar activity, but it is happening now. To us. We are here now to witness it. We do not know what events took out Lemuria and Atlantis long ago, but the things noted above are simply a few examples of the happenings we witness and live or die through now in our era.
Do we expect that on some special date in 2012 all the Earth Changes will happen at once? Well, I think a lot of people do think that. And a lot of people put a great deal of stock in the Mayan Calendar, which, I think only ends at a certain time because they disappeared before they got around to finishing it. They were a violent, bloody, cannabalisitic tribe which I have no interest in following. They did interesting things, true, but they are not here to explain themselves anymore than the Lemurians are.
Jump my case about that if you want to. I don't care. Yes, I use Lemurian Seed Crystals in my crystal work and various crystals from Atlantis as well, but I do not wish to pattern myself after an extinct people who did not survive whatever changes they encountered.
Anyway, too many distractions whether self-inflicted or from outside influences are keeping those of us with the power to heal ourselves, others and the World in our own little technological closets thumbing away on personal devices that may have been constructed simply to do just that: keep us distracted while civilization crumbles.
It's tough when our comfort zone incudes major reliance on being distracted. Waking up hurts. But we must awaken and face our work. It is a task to take one day and one step at a time.
We can heal the world.
Blessed Be
Victoria Lea
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