"Color"

I am One Who Loves Color and Vibrancy.....

SoulCollage

I had the most amazing weekend. Have you ever had one of those experiences that you know is going to change your life while you are in the middle of it? Like you step out of the experience for a moment and witness yourself changing? At one point, we all laid down the new cards we made in a large circle and walked slowly around viewing each other's work and it hit me, this is something far bigger than I ever imagined, what a community we created and how exciting to have the opportunity to take it back to our communities and share it!

Wow. Let me back up. That's Seena Frost in the middle of the circle. She created and developed SoulCollage. SoulCollage is part art, part therapy, part good old fashioned wisdom. You create cards with images that you cut out of magazines or books or pictures you've taken and you paste them onto a sturdy 5x8 card and then you let the images speak. The process is amazing--I have done many, many forms of healing; BioSpiritual Focusing, therapy, tarot, yoga, meditation, tai chi, prayer, etc and I have NEVER had an experience as safe and enriching as I did this past weekend. And that says a lot, I have had some amazing "mountaintop" events in my work and in my life. The potential for helping people from all walks of life to REALLY get in touch with themselves and get some guidance and wisdom as they learn to trust their own intuition is enormous. Plus, the whole art side of it gives a remarkable opportunity to pass on a real legacy of your life.....who you are and where you've been. What a gift to leave behind.

SoulCollage is being used by hospice workers, art therapists, bereavement counselors, ministers, spiritual directors, the list goes on and on. Anyone who works with people who ...... well, who are people, I can't think of ANY group who wouldn't benefit from this. Kids, teens, people getting married, people having children, people getting older, people in all stages of life and death, the list goes on and on.

I was in a group of 60 women, Reiki Masters, Ministers, Hospice Workers, Therapists, Psychologists, Artists, Counselors, Teachers, Writers....It was unbelievable. Just to be a part of it was an overwhelming gift. The energy brought me to my knees. At one point, my "pod" mate, Martha, and I had our backs up against the wall, tears in our eyes, shaking with the intensity of the positive energy of all the various voices in the room. We all laid all our cards out in a large circle, the "One" Source card as the center of the circle and then the "Many", all of the other cards that everyone of these women have made as spokes in this great wheel of voices...

There are no words to describe the feeling of the many different parts of our souls combining and sharing at the same time. It is futile to try. After we laid ALL these cards, hundreds, we got to walk into the center of the circle with our "Pods", 4 of us who became real Soulmates after all we shared this weekend, we quietly, reverently, soaked up the energy of the cards while all the rest of this amazing group of healers sent energy to the center and to each of us. It is an experience I will never forget for as long as I live.

That's all I can say right now. Talk amongst yourselves.....

If you do nothing else, do this. It will change your life in a way that you could never imagine.

Halloween Contest

So, Rhia keeps asking me why I haven't posted this picture and blogged about it. So here, I have posted it. I'm not sure I have anything to say about it though, I think it speaks for itself. Or better yet, let's hear what you have to say about it. Send me Your story about this picture! You can click on the picture to view it larger for more inspiration:

Winner gets an all expense paid date with this guy!

Scrubs

My entire household is addicted to Scrubs. We recently got Verizon Fios with a DVR (digital video recorder) and have Scrubs on auto record. Whenever Scrubs comes on any channel, the dvr records it. Trouble is, it comes on 20 times a day. So we always have a major backlog of shows to watch. The recorder will only record 60 hours of programming before it starts erasing so I am constantly feeling pressure to catch up on the shows. But we can't remember who watched what or whether everyone got to see it and sometimes while we are watching one, it is already recording another.....

Seriously, do I need this pressure?

It's become a race to watch them while frantically fast forwarding through commercials. "Ha ha ha, quick, fast forward! Ha ha ha. Oh we've seen this one, Next! Ha ha ha" We remain at a constant backlog of 20 shows, can't seem to break past it. How long has this show been on? You would think eventually we would run out of episodes. Ai yi yi.

The kids love it though. On their facebook they have a quiz that tells you which character you are. I'm Turk, which is hysterical since I don't look like a young black man. Cory is Elliot, big surprise. Rhia is J.D., my niece Amanda is Dr. Kelso LOL! I don't think Barry took it yet but I'm sure he's probably the Janitor....

Of course if you don't watch the show this means nothing to you....I'll try and get the html code so you can take the quiz too. Who do you think you'll be?

Scrubs Character Quiz Which Character from the TV show `Scrubs` Are you most like?

Vague

This cold just keeps hanging on. It's getting better, I think, at least better enough that I don't think I need to go to the doctor but each day brings some new joy to deal with. The worst is just this vagueness. I feel like I'm walking around in a fog. Thoughts come up but I can't quite think them through. And it's probably a good thing because they are not pleasant ones anyway. I just have a vague sense of something wrong. Like I made a mistake somewhere....but I'm not sure where.

I began last month with a exhilarating sense of motivation and anticipation. I really felt like I had thought many things through and was making good decisions for my future. About the 3rd week, I realized that although some decisions were good, some were not. I was exhausted and starting to get cranky. I was trying to look at it as a learning experience and not think too hard about it and just keep plugging away but then I got a couple of slams to make me stop.

Life is just so confusing sometimes. Especially if you think things happen for a reason. I really believe that there are signs all around us and we just have to learn to interpret them. Trouble is, whenever I think I'm interpreting the signs well, something comes up to bite me in the you know and I realize I never knew anything to begin with. I've never been really good at subtle. I tend to go along, all happy and go lucky, and then boom! realize I missed a major clue and made a big time wrong turn.

That's how I feel right now. Only I still don't know what the major clue was or where the wrong turn was. And I know the more I think about it, the more it will elude me. My monkey mind will just keep on chattering, making me feel really bad about myself, making me imagine that everyone hates me and that I'm a failure unless I just ignore it, do my job and wait for whatever it is to reveal itself. Patience. Ugh. Me and Veruca Salt have a lot in common.

Oh well. At least the weather is nice.