OUR SACRED SELVES

Good day,
This is our new great granddaughter Astryd.  Her papa thinks she's beautiful.

And this is Gunnar, the twin brother of Astryd.  I, GG, think he is beautiful and strong.  This is their first visit to GG and Papa's house and we are so happy and proud!!

ps:I just found my camera

OUR SACRED SELVES, a cat by any other name

Our cat smudge, named that because when she was born she had a tiny black smudge on her head, but is now smudgeless, found a safe place in my reiki room this morning.

The window is opened for the first fall breeze and the weather is fine.

In Cajun country most cats are called minou, kitty, so ours answers to either of those, when she has a mind to.

She is a very private cat and likes to keep to herself, much like her owners.  I enjoy that spot as a soft, safe place too, but in her case she thinks she is hidden.  She thinks I can't see her.

I'll have to try that!

OUR SACRED SELVES

As a mother, grandmother and brand-new great-grandmother I ask all of you, my fellow keepers of the heart, to join me in protecting our warrior Prince Harry in his deployment to Afghanistan. 

Together let us use our awesome faceted light to surround and envelope him and his fellow soldiers with love and hope and protection. 

Together we can expand our peace-loving presence to our beautiful planet.

Nameste.

OUR SACRED SELVES-We Deserve

I believe giving is different from serving. 

Serve- 1."to labor as a servant" Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, copyright 1956 (!)

In  my daily reading form Hope for Today, an Al-Anon publication, I read,"I chose to ignore my natural feelings of self-love and self worth because they didn't stop my parents from drinking or from criticizing me."

For so long this was true of me. I did not feel love and I did not truly know how to love. Now my family and friends help me to see the me I want to be.  The me I now choose to be.  I am mother, wife, artist, friend.

My co-dependent self does things for other people that I think they need. I try to fix, I serve others needs and I often disliked them and me when I am not successful.  I have no energy left to think positively.

My healing self sets boundaries and takes care of me first.  When I don't, there's not enough left of ME left to give.  When I do, my energy is boundless and my love is profound and meaningful.  I give from my heart's heart.

I DE-SERVE.  We deserve.

OUR SACRED SELVES

I have almost lost my new-found sacred self, having to continue to clean flood debris from hurricane Isaac.  However I remain so grateful that it didn't flood the shop and studio portions of our abode.  It was necessary to raise many parts and pieces "just in case."

Hopefully GYPSY VISION  will be up and dancing soon.

OUR SACRED SELVES

On a recent trip to Colorado, one of my Wilson hosts, Makensie, got me started on pinterest.  I must say I was a bit leery at first, since I don't like to spend much time on computer.

However, I am amazed and enthralled at each days/weeks offerings.  Today I feel like my fellow authors and painters are right here in my studio with me.  The photo of Simone de Beauvoir at Sartre's funeral and the self portrait of Pierre Bonnard....they could be me!  Not quite as good as meeting them at the corner bistro, but close, very close!

Bethony Salvon leaves me with a lovey quote, The French don't say, "I miss you," they say, "tu me manques."  "you are missing from me"!

And you are.

OUR SACRED SELVES

This week I have spent 24 hours plus drive time with my beloved eldest.  Some of the chatter from her side of the conversation I thought were repetitive.

Yesterday I mentioned that these thoughts were probably going over and over themselves inside of her head all day long.  She said,"I know Mom."  She had been journaling quite a bit lately about the book she is re-reading, on codependency.  I asked her to perhaps write these other thoughts down as well.  In my on-going, sometimes sporadic morning pages (as per Julia Cameron), when I write my rambling thoughts down, sometimes they won't come back to bite me later in the day.  She said she thought she could try that.

On awakening this morning, I realized that  the most successful journaling I do starts with writing down my questions followed by writing with my non-dominate hand for the "answers." 

Through the years I have written this dialogue with myself so often that my Higher Power and my higher self answer me so quickly that I don't even have to change hands.

I invite you to try this.