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May 23, 2010

Protracted Moments of Rapture

In the New York Times this morning, a quote from the British traveler Patrick Leigh Fermor who in 1933 walked the length of the Danube from its German head to the Black Sea:
"I lay deep in one of those protracted moments of rapture which scatter this journey like asterisks."

For me,this journey is LIFE, and I lay in a protracted moment of rapture.....

May 03, 2010

Poppy Petals

Today my heart sang when she saw
the envelope
containing
absinthe green
handmade paper
carefully folded
sheltering
three delicate
perfectly dried
still vibrant
deep orange
perfectly shaped
one with seed still
fragilely attached
California poppy petals

eldermuse.net April 27, 2010

Your Body's Grace

Mary will facilitate a new group, Your Body's Grace. Join us weekly to discuss taking ownership of your body as a vehicle to better know the Divine, the Divine Mystery. To help you feel your body's needs. To discuss ideas to meet those needs.

Your Body's Grace will meet Wednesdays, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM at the Ventura Unitarian Church, February 2nd through March 23, 2011.

To see the flyer for this group, please copy and paste the following link: http://www.eldermuse.net/your_bodys_grace_flier.pdf
Nutrition is the miracle of taking in food, nutrients which transform to become our corporeal selves. Our nutritional intake literally affects each and every cell in our body, each cellular process including the process of creating our emotions, feelings, thoughts, dreams, fears. What we eat literally shapes our bodies and our minds.

I've posed some things for us to consider as we seek to find practical, do-able solutions to nurturing ourselves, literally with food, as well as nurturing our souls, our hearts, our best humanity. The need is very real in our world which rapidly creates physical as well as emotional disease.

I wish to teach you, help you lock in the concept of INTENTION. Gain CLARITY about your intention. Plan to CREATE/MANIFEST your intention. How do you already do this? (CREATION/MANIFESTATION). When have you successfully created? What keeps blocking you from what you now want? What do you need to know? From me, from the world, from yourself? What is your worst fear? What is the primary UNTRUTH you tell yourself?

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: No one to blame." Erica Jong

"Vison without action is illusion." annonymous

Women's Spirituality Group

eldermuse.net will be facilitating a new Women's Spirituality Group in Ventura, CA; each Tuesday from 7 to 9 PM. Please see the Flyer for this Women's Group: (copy and paste the following link): http://www.eldermuse.net/Womens_Spirituality_Group_Flyer.pdf ...... The Weekly Group Questions will be posted here: Week 1: (a)Name 2 things which create passion for your heart and soul. (b)Describe the first time you felt the presence of The Divine in your life. Week 2: What to you is integrity and how do you evidence it in your life? Week 3: What do you do to center yourself spiritually? Week 4: (a)Name 2 things you love/appreciate about yourself. (b) Do you love/accept yourself exactly as you are? (c) Do you love the world exactly as it is? Weeks 5,6,7 No questions posed, as Mary was gone. Karen facilitated and shared a video on Forgiveness. Week 8: What do you still have to forgive yourself for? Week 9: How do you display the Divine in your home/space? Week 10: What has caused you to know humility? Week 11: Who has most influenced your Spiritual growth? Week 12:What (if anything) has a special meaning to you at this time of year? Week 13: What do you do to allow yourself to be creative? AND When we get thrown "off course", what do you do to get back to LOVE? Week 14: When in your life have you KNOWN exactly what you MUST do? AND What is your definition of ENLIGHTENMENT? AND What triggers your evolution of human consciousness? Week 15:How do you cultivate gratitude within yourself? AND Do you put aside time daily to be with the Divine? Week 16: What does negativity mean to you, mean in/for your life? Week 17: What are your Truths? Week 18: Discuss a DEFINING MOMENT in your life which touched your heart and soul.

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Mandala above, Homage to Chagall, created for Mary by Paul Heussenstamm

May 23, 2010

Protracted Moments of Rapture

May 03, 2010

Poppy Petals

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