Connection

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Turtle Woman

Published November 6, 2022 by tindertender

Turtle woman is making an offering of wampum to the plants of the river.

“Please”, she asks, “can you help us?”

She explains how we need the rivers to be clean and she acknowledges the plants as the cleaners of the river.

She speaks to the wampum and thanks them also for the light they bring the world.

She talks to the plants for a long time. Telling them what is happening. She explains that the two legged have lost their ways. But there are still some who remember. She tells them about the babies that are coming who need clean water. She cries for her grandchildren.

The plants, being loving and generous, wait for her to finish speaking and then they tell her they have heard her prayers. They agree to help. They are gentle. They never have an unkind word to say about anyone.

From the shore a young person sings a turtle song. Unbeknownst to them, turtle woman is pleading for the world only a short distance below at the bottom of the river.

Never fear, the Kitty’s here!!!!

Published November 4, 2022 by tindertender

Surviving Grief

Published November 2, 2022 by tindertender

Living with a Broken Heart

Remember what the Tin Man said in the “Wizard of Oz” after he finally got a heart….

“Now I know I’ve got a heart because it’s breaking.”

If someone you love died, your heart is probably broken. So how do you live with a broken heart?

The answer isn’t how you fix it or move beyond it. The skill is learning to live with your grief as an ongoing way of being in the world. It’s the way you honor that which you love.

What I’m proposing is that, with enough healing, living with heartbreak can become natural, and very normal.

From my personal and professional experience, I can tell you that as you embark on your healing journey, you’ll start crying a whole lot more. Not just to clear pain, but for the simplest of everyday reasons, and out of nowhere. You’ll cry when you see a bird, a can of paint, an apple, or even the shape of a cloud.

Random things will make you cry.

The heart is designed to grieve, it wants to grieve…..it has to grieve!

Especially when it’s broken.

This is the price you pay for love. The loss of the life you thought you had, the life you once knew and held so dear. Loss of a dream you believed was true.

But you can also find and feel grief in opening your heart.

Opening it to love and to new possibilities. Opening it to what the future holds.

Isn’t that what life is all about? Endings and beginnings, closings and openings? The heart was designed to navigate you through this forever winding adventure called life. But you have to be willing to feel…..and to live with a broken heart.

Here’s the thing…..you can learn to live with your broken heart by befriending your grief.

You can discover the love that still exists around you…..and share that love with others who are also living with a broken heart.

  • Gary Sturgis – “Surviving Grief”

Dark Night of the Soul?

Published October 30, 2022 by tindertender

Must accept 100% responsibility.

Life constantly reflects back to us what we put into the world.

Meditate. Stop complaining. Take action. Double your goal. Think bigger.

Waiting until there’s no fear? It doesn’t work like that. Feel the fear, take action anyway.

That’s called courage.

Courage to:

Acknowledge mistakes

Lower pride, don’t make yourself more important than others, make them equally important.

Fear cannot be suppressed or denied. It must be embraced. Our society has become “feeling avoidant”. Go to the center of the energy and really feel into it, breathe the breath of life into it.

Gain emotional competence.

Go to the center of the most intense portion of the energy.

“Not useful” emotions create a cloud around us. It’s only a projection of “what might happen” into the future.

Having fear of the future potential calamity holds back the possibility of “more”.

Empathy

A compassionate feeling and caring for another human being.

Whatever you want … give it first.

Scavengers of Peace

Published October 30, 2022 by tindertender

An unfortunate waste of intelligence.

What you give you shall receive … nothing more … ever.

Which means you must be really happy with what you’ve got.

Have you learned to close your hell?

You could be a healer of life rather than a creator and collector of … tears, fears, anger and argument.

Scavengers of peace.

Consistently covering over truth, perplexing minds.

Collective Scars

Published October 30, 2022 by tindertender

Most of us have no way of seeing the emotional and energetic scars of others. The closest we can come is inwardly touching our own, remembering them, and then entertaining the possibility that those same scars may reside inside others, to a greater or lesser degree.

A person can appear healthy and whole and still be wearing these invisible scars.

I think if we considered our own suffering to be as another’s we might be more inclined to be gentle, rather than throwing fire.

Emotional wounds baffle the mind and blind the heart. It can inhibit the capacity to function normally, like drinking and driving.

1 trauma, ok, may bounce back. Even 2-5 traumas. But there comes a time when inner doors shut, at least temporarily, making communication and a gentle way with each other even more challenging.

Beingness

Published October 30, 2022 by tindertender

I turn off the floor lamp and walk around lighting the evening candles. I tell Alexa to play Solfeggio frequencies and stand in the middle of my living room. I begin to do stretches and bends, breathing deliberately, intently. My body warms, my tension lifts. The sage has filled the room with its Smokey aroma.

I look around. A voice inside me says, “ This is your life, what do you see?”

My eyes rest on every item around the room. Everything on the wall is attached to a memory, an event, a creation moment. Everything has meaning. I notice hearts everywhere, books galore, my totem pole right in my living room, and every treasured item.

Father Time; Love, friends, protectors, sacred items, significant intention and prayer. Candles lit in honor of the night, gentle glow, ease of mind.

I speak out my prayer, I am sincere and earnest. I ask to be led to the lesson in the situation, I desire to learn it and am eager to understand.

It seems time is of the essence. Old patterns and habitual scenarios must be eliminated.

All that hooks the attention and drags the pure energies fownward must be cast aside.

The health and progress of my own being in my own relation with Creator and All That Is must come first.

On Purpose

Published October 30, 2022 by tindertender

Remember: Their response/reaction “to you” WILL affect everyone else. How do you choose to steer this?

How far do you suppose the human essence can expand outward, remaining intact, while touching everything?

Beyond our planet to others? Maybe even beyond that?

“I Am a connector of Worlds.”

Another world, another form, another density.

I don’t need to know the mechanics of it. It will move as one.

We all get a chance to “create” our surroundings. Peoples response to you WILL affect everyone else there in some fashion or other.

What surroundings are you wishing to spend time in? How will you interact with people in order to gain responses which will affect your surroundings in peace and joy and laughter? Even Love.

Pure, simple, no agenda but family … Love, Honor and Respect.

Every action gains a reaction. If the energy is used for negative, that is the echo, the reverberation, the response which will affect everything which surrounds the Doer, therefore forming the world the Doer creates for themselves.

Same as opposite. Energy used to create a positive response echoes, affects all others present, creating the reality of the Doer.

Exchange

Published October 29, 2022 by tindertender

“They” are limited. They cannot allow the full expression of a humans life force without purposefully keeping it in a constant state of flux.

Too much happiness causes humans to grow expansive. So there’s chaos, and war, and manipulation of consciousness, to keep the state of suffering alive.

Yes, they are limiting the expression of life for others, willingly, purposefully. Yet they want all the glory at the same time. And they need humanity to give it to them, rather than humanity claiming it for themselves. And so many do. Willingly “vote” for their “leader” or the commandeer of their lives, rather than accept their own rightful positions.

I for one wish to be my own boss … as my father puts it. Choosing my work every day on my own accord, living as I see fit and am capable of producing, without interference from so called commandeers. Living in peace, within a collective that knows how to barter and trade in their communities for what they need, rather than being sustained on wages from “rulers” in exchange for my time, my life.

It was once this way, and I foresee it will be this way again … for some of us.

Projection

Published October 28, 2022 by tindertender

Maybe all we’re ever really doing is “projecting” ourselves, our thoughts, ideas and emotions into the world…

But rather than seeing it’s creation as a good thing in and of itself, many see it as deficits and/or benefits in those around them.

In a way, isn’t that what a magician does? One subconsciously, the other purposeful.