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Myth of the Cave

Published October 1, 2020 by tindertender

Oh We’re tying the stars to the mountains
The mountains to the stars. We are so high
That we can see beyond the wall of our own horizons
Waywayah. Waywayah

Cords that Knot & threads that bind
Tell the tale of Humankind
From long ago into future returning
All wisdoms from lifetimes learnt
Out of the cave the Shining Ones rise
A hope awoke in their eyes
We weave a new myth into the Timelines

Oh We’re tying the stars to the mountains
The mountains to the stars. We are so high
That we can see beyond the wall of our own horizons

Old Basket Maker tends to her net
Gathering up all the ones who have leapt
Smooth our way into The Emergence
Oh I Am who I Am Oh I Am
Reflecting all that you see I am
Generosity flows from our hands
Enough talk now it is time for deeds

Oh We’re tying the stars to the mountains
The mountains to the stars. We are so high
That we can see beyond the wall of our own horizons
Waywayah. Waywayah

Strip out of any illusionary attire
Into the smoke of the eucalyptus fire
Pounding our feet in the rising dust
In freedom & wonder, Creator we trust
We restore balance through our reverence of life
Quivers full of courage & our blood lightening

Alhamdulillah (Praise be to God)

Oh we’re tying the stars to the mountains
The mountains to the stars. We are so high
That we can see beyond the wall of our own horizons
Waywayah. Waywayah. Tying the stars to the loom.

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Deya Dova

Gratitude and Making Change

Published October 1, 2020 by tindertender

If you’re like me, you were trained to be apologetic, to feel small, and to say and do things to keep you feeling that way.

It took a few decades before I put my foot down to this behavior. I will no longer apologize for who I am … yet I will always look for ways to be grateful for, and to, the people in my life who help me on the way.

It is difficult to change (never break) habitual patterns that were taught to us as children and young adults. These are our most formative years, and one reason why the memories of youth stay with us so long … even for those who suffer dementia.

Yet changing habitual patterns is necessary if we wish to change our reality.

As Dr Joe Dispenza states, “Your personal reality is formed by your personality.”

It is important to do things differently if we wish to experience a shift in our personal reality.

Skip the coffee in the morning, have juice instead. Drive a different route to work. Pack a lunch rather than going out. Sit under a tree and eat it, or go to the car and listen to soft music while you eat. After work, go to a hot-springs for a soak rather than going home to sit in front of the television … read a book, or color, or zentangle … get your creative skills going. Change the time you eat, the foods you choose, fast for awhile. If you take sleeping pills, skip them a few days, as much as you can stand … let the mind wander and ‘put up with’ a few sleepless nights … much can be accomplished should we allow our hidden consciousness loose for a time. Much will be revealed … scary things we can then ponder on and work out, lovely things we can grow in mind …

These are only a few ideas, of which I put into practice on a regular basis, not all at once of course, but I choose at least one thing in the day to do differently.

Being predictable can lead to many problems when it comes to our relationships with others, and even more detrimental, with our selves.

If you are having a bad day, consciously make it a point to start creating a list of things you are grateful for … any and all things that come to mind. It will shift your perspective fairly quickly, seriously. It will make it easier to process through whatever got you in a funk in the first place and rather than dwell there, you will be able to move on, into the next idea, thought form, or practice. And don’t just visit the list next time you’re in a funk, create a new list … because this list changes over time.

Mostly, stop apologizing for being you, stop making yourself small, giving away your power to stand tall and strong …

I’m not saying to become agressive, or overpowering … becoming that which has held you down for so long …. I’m suggesting a rising …. to heights originally intended for you … for we.

It is not a chosen few who get to occupy these spaces of strength and personal authority. It is you, it is me, it is we.

Beautiful Walk

Published September 29, 2020 by tindertender

Samoan Fire Crew

Published September 29, 2020 by tindertender

We were able to go up and see a Samoan fire crew, they were just ending their 10 hour day.

You could hear them coming through the forest because they were singing the whole time!

Then they performed 2 songs for us!

It was just amazing!

The crew boss said they work like that all day!

And those yellow shirts were literally soaking wet from sweat working up on that mountain! Did not keep them from entertaining and sharing their culture with us! 

#samoanfirecrew 
#helenafirenorcal

Bless the Fire Fighters

One Envelope

Published September 29, 2020 by tindertender

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I’ll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is – we’re here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it’s like we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.”

Let’s all get up and move around a bit right now… or at least dance.

SEPARATION OF THE COLLECTIVE

Published September 29, 2020 by tindertender

If you go to the southwest desert and catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen.

However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other.

The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar.

This is exactly what’s happening in society today
Liberal vs Conservative
Black vs White
Pro Mask vs Anti Mask

The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who’s shaking the jar and why?

From “These are the times”

SHE On The Tip Of Her Tongue

Published September 28, 2020 by tindertender

“It’s just that you’re not that feminine.”

I beg to differ.

I’m feminine like a thunderstorm.

Feminine like the glint of a falcon talon.

Feminine like an ancient redwood.

Feminine like the orange glow of a grizzly bear in the sunset.

Feminine like a wolf on the hunt.

Feminine like decaying bones.

Feminine like the eye of an old whale.

Feminine like a roaring river.

Feminine like a sheer cliff overlooking a forest.

Feminine like a wildfire.

Feminine like a desert wind.

Feminine like a battle cry.

And yes.

Within my stones and bark and fur and fierce slit irises … I am as soft and enveloping as any woman who’s blood ever beat red.

This is the Sovereigness.

I am her.

We are her.

We are an age of woman who has come in, representing the medicine of the Wilds.

We are not built to actualize your sense of masculinity through your traditional idea of femininity.

We are built to bring in the voice of our Mother.

Which is why Earth herself screams in our veins.

So, if what you really mean is, “Your femininity is overwhelming”,

Then I understand.

It is to me, too.

~ Adrianne Tamar Arachne
The Art & Illustration Of Adrianne Tamar Arachnewww.adriannetamararachne.com

Art by Julia Jeffery
Stonemaiden Artwww.stonemaiden-art.com

Birthdays

Published September 27, 2020 by tindertender

Birthdays are celebrated on week days … or, weak days.

Think about it.

Every year on the birth date, people feel older, more mature, aged.

At first they are eager to count the years going by. Then a ‘time’ arrives when they dread counting them … they may even stop, and insist others stop counting for them, also.

The mind slows, eventually. The body weakens. The muscles deteriorate.

Could it be a mass hypnosis, these birthdays, celebrated on week (weak) days?

Growing older a hypnotic illusion, which we participate in making truth?

Eating and drinking toxins throughout life, calling it diet.

Subconscious, or unconscious as it may seem, it also appears to be a reality.

Photo: https://unsplash.com/@jannerboy62

Self

Published September 23, 2020 by tindertender

Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.

And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but nothing is infinite, not even loss.

You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day you are going to find yourself again.

~ Finn Butler

[Art: Ana Novaes; L.T.G – Artes]