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Now! If You would just see everything my way!!!!
Children tend to be more creative
than adults for various reasons. Thinking like a child is a good way to rewind your mental clock and potentially invent some
creative solutions to your current problem or project. A good way to start thinking like a child is to abandon your judgment
and knowledge of what is practical and start asking playful questions.
1. What if my problem was an animal? What
would it look like? Draw it. How would the animal deal with it?
2. If your project had parents, what would they be like?
3. What does your project like to eat?
4. If you were a hundred years in the future, how would you solve your problem?
5. What if you were a caveman? Would the problem still exist? If it doesn't, what would be a related problem?
These
are just examples of playful questions. Think up your own that make sense to your project.
Now do you understand
why 'the little ones' are featured on this page?
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OPENING UP AND TAKING APART
I open to you
parts of me
anger, helplessness,
rage, fear,lonliness, need
all parts of me
giving, taking, needing,loving,caring,wanting
all parts of me
sadness, gladnes, madnes, insanity
All Parts of me, all of me
hidden, unexamined, unexplored, masked, protected,
defended
I say,
All of these,All of these
I say
all of these are parts of me
raw, naked, exposed
Please, Please, Please be careful
with all these wonderful, precious parts of me
They are all I have.
....the wordweaver
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Write your own poem or story
about
'opening up and taking apart'.
Go beyond the words. Paint a picture. Give it a Title.
Dance it's movement!
Sing it's sounds!
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ANCESTOR SONG
See the sun, feel the heartbeat
of our Mother as she breathes
Feel the wind, hear the song of our Creator as it sings
Every prayer we give away
we let go of this world a little more
On this road we travel we will honor those who've walked this road before
Octalotahay, Kachinay, Chulamatahay, Hokshedahay
I believe, each soul has a vison of its own
I believe,
Love's the only thing that makes us whole
With the Love we give away we let go of this world a little more
On this
road we travel we will honor those who've walked this road before
Octalotahay, Kachinay, Chulamatahay, Hokshedahay
Settin Sun, it tells half the world the day has gone
Watch the night teach us that the shadow's just as strong
Every day we give away we let go of this world a little more
On this road we travel we will honor those who've walked
this road before
Octalotahay, Kachinay, Chulamatahay, Hokshedahay
words and music by Wes
Hamil 'red road'
Listen HERE to this song,Four worlds and others by WES & VICTORIA
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Osage Forest of Peace. A special place of retreat and renewal in The Osage Hills that honors the spiritual search revealed
in all traditions.
Ecozoic means 'House of Life' A Ecozoic Society means a 'Society of Life.The Center for Ecozoic Studies is a continuation
of the visionary work of Fr. Thomas Berry and Dream Of the Earth. Hermann Greene, Founder and President studied with Fr. Thomas
for eighteen years and hosts conferences worldwide.
Welcome Home Warrior is the creative response of a skillful woman to the needs of returning veterans and their families dealing
with PTSD.A inspiration to all of us.
Spiritual teacher and sundancer. WES HAMIL brings blues, rock, folk and Native all together. A White man with a red heart.
Has something of a Woody Guthrie Spirit. An incredible story of moving out of the darkness into the light. A real honest truth
seeker Enjoy
How To Use Music as a Guide for Meditation
Create
your sacred time and space without distractions.
1. As the music begins, become aware of your breath and any tension in
your body. Imagine the stress and tension gently flowing from,your body.
2. Observe your breath becoming more natural,
quiet and even.
3. Be aware you are surrounded by the Presence of Divine Love. Accept this awareness and receive the Gifts
which it brings.
4. Allow the notes and rhythm of the music to slowly and gently play over your body, touching any places
of need.
5. Journal any thoughts feelings,images or words that emerged. Express with colorful drawings, magazine images,etc
6.
Complete with a Prayer or Ritual of gratitude that is comfortable for you.
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This is the true joy in life-
The being used
for a purpose
recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
The being a force of nature,
instead of a selfish little
clod of ailments and grievances,
complaining
the world will not devote itself
to making you happy.
I am of the opinion
that my life belongs to the
whole community and for as long as I live
it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be throughly
used up
when I die for the harder I work the more
I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is
no brief candle to me,
it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got
a hold of for the moment
and I want
to make it burn
as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
....George Bernard
Shaw
For some reason the tides
just continue
their rhythm
of ebb and flow.
I wonder why that is!
I do know this,
I am not the One
controlling them!
What a relief!!!
But It is So, So Good
To be Able
To Watch.
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We are transmitters
As we live, we are tranmitters of life
and when we fail to transmit
life,
Life fails to flow through us
This is part of the Mystery of Sex,
it is a flow onwards,
sexless people transmit nothing
and if, as we work, we can tranmit
life into our work,
life,
still more life, rushes into us
to compensate, to be ready
and we ripple with life through the days.
Even if it a woman making an apple dumpling,
or a man a stool
if life goes into the pudding, good is the
pudding
good is the stool,
content is the woman,
with fresh life rippling into her
Content is the
man.
Give, and it shall be given unto you
is still the truth about life
But giving life is not
so easy.
It doesn't mean handing it out
to some mean fool,
or letting the living dead eat you up.
It means kindling the life quality
where it was not
even if it's only in the whiteness
of a washed
pocket hankerchief.
....D.H lawrence
make this poem your own by writing your reflections on these
questions.
....Where have you felt or now feel the failure and the deadness?
....In contrast where do
you feel the rushing and rippling of life?
.....How have you experienced 'handing life out to some mean fool'?
.....With what images would you use to speak about what is being said by 'the whiteness of a washed pocket hankerchief"
.....With what images would you rewrite this poem? Try it!
.....What would it be like to experience everyday
reality as 'life rippling through the days'?
.....What do you need to do to make it so? Any changes to risk?
How will you begin to do it?
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