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Dissonance is a fair and mysterious waltz that finds its true illustrious beauty in harmonious resolution.

It’s an interesting thought, is it not? Think for a moment upon a summer forest rich with life and complexity. There are mighty trees adorned from head to foot with decorative leaves, lush from the warmth of the sun and the nourishment of rain. And, in that same forest, there lying gracefully, or perhaps not so gracefully are those trees which have served and seen their illustrious days of life in days before yet now create a complexity of rubbish and leafless timber entwined in the life that surrounds them, seemingly lifeless and sad.

But, alas, the very rubbish, lifeless and seemingly dormant, lies peacefully within its own process, only to find one day that its natural decay becomes the very nourishment feeding the beauty of those tress that stand as an emblem of a tree yet to mature or a tree which stands boldly, fully bloomed and adorned as it was meant to be.

It is but one of the many ways nature teaches us about our own dissonances and harmonious resolutions.

What if our own relationships with ourselves and others are in fact both the dramatic dissonance and resolute harmony which create the symphony of our lives?  What if?

I’ve been reading Ester and Jerry Hicks’ “The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent” for several months now. I’ve been so resistant to it, I can’t even begin to tell you. But, I’ve been plodding along, through it. Additionally, I’ve been taking SARK’s Dream Boogie class (for the second time), and an amazing thing has happened. Celebrate with me?

How complementary these two amazing tools for for helping us to create more of what we want in our lives.

While reading the book, I find myself saying things to myself like:
- Yeah, that makes all the sense in the world.
- Of course, how true.
- I could do that.

While participating in Dream Boogie, I find myself saying things like:
- This is so useful.
- Nice idea to allow my dream to be like a friend and talk with it.
- I can do micromovements to help me advance my dream.

This morning, well, while reading a dab more about deliberate intent while allowing the trickle of water to fill up the tub, a stream of aha’s came flooding through. Things like:
- I love how my body supports me
- I have delicious ideas to share with the world
- I think I’m finally getting the message — I do get it
- I have put a draft copy of my non-fiction into the hands of others, and the energy is expansive
- I create magic with even 3 lines of words strung together to convey an idea

I could go on — and on — and on.

It dawns on me that our learning comes to us in such unusual packages sometimes. Who would have thought that the Hicks/SARK duo would work together to help create enlightenment in this big soul of mine? Who would have thought?

Anyway, it’s very exciting to feel this energy. Just by allowing myself to be more consciously aware of all that I AM doing to support my dreams, and being aware of some of my ‘ritual’ activities, and how they partner with each other to create what I’m really wanting out of life. Such a gift, that awareness. Such a precious gift.

My question to you is, how are your day-to-day activities really supporting who you really want to be in your life? I bet there are large dribbles of things that may be hiding unnoticed which are working with you to orchestrate what you really want from life.

And the miracle of this — comes from 3 little lines of text I offered to a friend, from my heart to hers — because I took the time to make the words real and put them out into the world, my offering has actually opened up my own goodness. As SARK encourages each of us to be aware — our dreams need us, and we need them. Well, that’s one interpretation, anyway.

Wooo hoooo!

It is in the most unlikely moments that sometimes I find my heart leaping with joy. I recently received a letter from my youngest step-Son. He’s turning into such a fine young man, I have trouble calling him my youngest — but youngest he is.

I want to celebrate a moment where growing and realization has taken place.

It is the child of adventure, the person who has a vision for himself and has made some life decisions to travel a path that perhaps seems scary to me. But as time has allowed things to unfoldfor him, perhaps there is a wisdom within him that is waiting patiently for me to learn — from him.

How powerful it is, indeed, when a person finds that there’s sometimes a natural rhythm that takes place that requires a little patience and a little less force to allow things to unfold. Sure, one has to put forth the energy to go after a thing, but there is a natural pause that takes place, in moments of patience that allow life and one’s dreams to come to fruition.

As a parent, I want the world for my children, or step-children. I want their lives to be full and rich with goodness and wonder. It is a moment of joy when your child takes a moment to reflect and to observe that life has a way of fulfilling our focus in sometimes unexpected ways. The trick is to give yourself the space to allow that to happen. He has done that, and I find myself filled with joy, and beamining light of love to learn that he’s learning this.

While I’m participating in a ‘course’ to learn about my dreams and how to help them evolve into realities, I see that this person who happens to be my step-Son has profoundly lived to realize these very things. That the ‘bull in the china cabinet’ is not always the best approach, but rather to set a thing in motion and then to have a little patience to let things unfold as they will can be just the right thing, sometimes, to help a dream become real.

A profound lesson to observe, to note, and to participate in. Thank you, dear one, for helping to me to learn, for sharing your experience so that I can learn. I’m proud of you!

Me thinks it’s time to write and wander.

Happy Father’s Day! Are you celebrating your fathers, your people who support you like fathers? Fathers and Father-figures bring wonder and balance to the world — I send love and gracious honor to mine. … read more…

I remember the excitement I felt, out of high school and out of college, getting a ‘job’ and making ‘real’ money. remember that feeling?

I felt accomplished, capable and proud. I was earning a living and doing my ‘part’. I felt somehow like a piece of a whole. I was ‘helping’ to achieve company goals and objectives; I was contributing. … read more…

And so it is that the stress of all my goings on, specifically at work, got the better of me. Not a horrible thing in and of itself, but an occurrence nonetheless.

What is it about what feels like mass chaos that makes our insides turn inside out? … read more…

And so, there appeared a moment to write about a thing, to make a writing real.

It is delicious that as alive human beings there are more opportunities than there are hours in a lifetime to accomplish them. How amazingly motivational that is. … read more…

I want to invite my delicious creativity, my writing, to manifest clarity in my resting, my night sleep, and my day sleep. When I have ‘puzzles’ in my life, I want to use that time to come up with motivating solutions.

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…I went to a cafe to send hours to write? It feels vulnerable. What would people think? I’ve been there for hours and I haven’t ordered very much. Look at her just into her writing. She’s lost in the world of words that are spilling from her head onto paper.

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I am always inspired by the dawn of a new day and the coming to rest of a day that has been spent.

Sunrises and sunsets are deeply fulfilling for me.

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