To my children

To my beautiful children, Bailey and Lane, in light of all that is going on in this world of ours, this is my pledge to you.

I promise I will Not buy you everything that you want. Not all the latest and greatest just because your friends have them.

No I will Not buy you something every time we walk in a store just so you will not throw a fit in public.

I promise that I will Not let you do whatever you want.

I promise that I will Not allow you to disrespect your elders or peers.

I promise that I will Not pay you to clean your room, take out the garbage or any other 'chore' around our HOME.

I promise you that you may Not sign up for an activity then drop out 2 weeks in "because it's boring".

I promise you that you may Not spend your weekends glued to the TV or video games.

I promise you that I will not accept 'I don't know" or "Nothing" as a good answer.

And as an added bonus, No I will Not let you survive on 'garbage food'.

I Won't let you do all these because I Love You.

But I will....

I promise I Will teach you the joy of nature and imagination.

I promise I Will show you the magic of life.

I Will teach you to respect and love yourself.

I Will teach you that the greatest gifts don't come from a store, and most of them you can't see, but you sure can feel.

I Will teach you the value of kindness and respect.

I Will teach you to see the wonderful uniqueness and love that resides in every living being.

I Will kiss you in front of your friends, heck I will kiss them too, so that you will all understand that love is to be shared OPENLY and without restrictions.

I Will teach you that true strength lies within.

I Will teach you that mistakes are a gift where you will obtain the most knowledge and growth.

I Will teach you that there is ALWAYS something to hope for, dream for and be thankful for.

I Will teach you that each day is a gift and full of possibilities.

I Will teach you that it is more important and effective to 'lend a hand' that it is to write a cheque.

I Will teach you to navigate with you heart and not rely so much on your mind. In fact I Will teach you how to find the balance.

And I Will do all this because I Love You.

As your Parent...

I promise that I will not grow stagnant and set in my ways.

I promise that I will not become stuck in beliefs.

I promise that I will do the best I can with what I know...In turn I also promise to always continue to learn more.

I promise that I Will make mistakes, but We will always be able to learn from them.

I promise to listen to what you are saying.... even the things you don't say.

I promise I Will learn more from you than you may ever learn from me.

I promise that I Will be your Mother first....but that role will constantly be changing.

I promise that I Will lead by example.

I promise you that even when you are unable to see your greatness I Will.

I promise that I Will probably not be conventional, or like other mom's, but you will never doubt how much I love you.

I promise you that there will be a time where I may no longer hold you, but know that I Will always be with you.

These are my promises to you, so that you may see that there is always Hope, Love will always triumph, and Peace is a journey of the soul not a destination, and no matter what I will always Love You.


Love,
Mom 
X's and O's to the moon and back :)

Ordinary magic

Source. God. The one.

What ever we choose to call it, what is it to know God? To be God like?
Frankly, I haven't a clue!
Is God the stars, Universe, Earth, animals, sun, moon, man, tree, water? Does God reside hidden in our DNA, in a cell, pineal gland??
I feel God is none of these, and yet all of these.
I believe God won't be found in books, with teachers\gurus, through a telescope, buried in science or in the meadow silence! God is not meant to, can not, be seen with our physically linear eyes.
To me God is  a feeling. God may speak to us through things and beings, but God is not those things or beings. I feel God resides within all things and beings, but God does not control those or them.
Perhaps things and beings are a medium in which to convey to us (if we are listening) of his presence.
God to me is our essence. Gods way to experience, but not to be the puppeteer.
I don't feel that abstaining from certain physical or mental things will make me closer to God, or more God like, nor do I feel the need for a definitive answer to the existence of God.
I must, however realize the Holiness in everyone and thing even the perceptively vial.
We are one, fragments dispersed across the planes, dimensions and universes. Fragment pieces of a greater whole.
I can feel the earth, I have seen through the eyes of a flower and felt the tickle of the bee. I can feel the unspoken joys,anger,sorrow, fears, love and heart of people, but I am not them.
I guess connection is infinite. God is infinite. We are finite yet we are blessed with the infinite.
We are a molecule in the universe containing a nucleus of God. One that we may acknowledge, or not. We are experience, choice, already close to God, Are God. We contain the piece that was never missing and will never be missing.
 A mystery we will not know while trapped in mortal minds. A voice we will not hear while speaking with tongues.
For me God just is . A feeling of home, love, joy, peace. A heart song singing us home.
Perhaps God is an infinite journey of discovery.
 It is said that to know God one must know himself.
This journey is more satisfying than any physical movement or thought, for me. Full of wonderful discoveries to which I may never know the answers....What a joy!!

Maybe God is the ultimate magic of an ultimately ordinary journey......

One Earth.

I am but an Hourglass Away

I am but an hourglass away

through the looking glass it came
fraught with indignation's of sight
yet blinded by falsity

I am but an hourglass away

from the stars the sky took shape
the heart took hold and rose
but mind frosted the center

I am but an hourglass away

hexagons sang a sonnet
drums melted in reverence
although a trick passed though

I am but an hourglass away

feathers wisps across
shivers cascaded along in comradery
which may have been the shallow see

I am but an hourglass away
I am but an hourglass away....

heart is bursting from whence it came
drums mesmerising songs
and yet..

and yet..

AND YET I AM BUT AN HOURGLASS AWAY

 I am but an hourglass away
sand is serenading down, down
I rest in gently upon it's side

Oh! I rest it on it's side!

I am center..

The hourglass of eight

Infinite....finite

I am but an Eight here.

One Earth.

Ocean View

Have you ever sat and just watched the motion of water? Have you ever just watched it flow? Whether it is dripping out of a tap, gurgling from a mountain stream, whispering in a pond, cascading from the sky,  or rolling along ocean waves it is in constant motion and wherever it is, it is. No judgement, no reservations. It just is.
When asked about how I view life, I have found I have no other better explanation than it is constant movement in a neutral, non judgemental state of Oneness....like water.
We are all part of the same ocean, but each drop of water has it's own journey. The drops of water circulating in the depths are not looked down upon by the drops rising to the clouds to be released elsewhere.
Whether a drop of water spends lifetimes being released into the forests or becomes part of the nourishment for a plant, tree, or animal it is no more than a drop of water, but still no less a part of the ocean. If it is 'contaminated' and spends a time traveling the depths of purification, it is still part of the ocean. Should it be locked up in a block of ice for eons, it is still the ocean.
Perfect in whatever state it is in, where ever it may be regardless of time. It is still part of the SAME OCEAN.
Our own soul journey is our own. We continually send that information to our 'ocean'. And no matter where we are there should be no judgement. It is not my place or yours to tell someone HOW they should live or be. We should only advise when asked and leave the rest to them because their path may require them to experience something else.
We are individual drops of the ocean of life to which we will all eventually return regardless if we spend an eternity being contaminated by the forces on the shore or merely sail into the clouds to spend a moment before returning to the rolling waves.
Either way it doesn't matter, it's the experience, OUR experience that matters, because we will all eventually be back in the awareness of ONE.

One Earth.

Coming-Unity

Community
How can we feel community?
How do you feel something when you are unsure about what it truly means?
We don't know our neighbors
We don't hang with those circles
We don't 'agree' with their views, how they live, what they do
We don't want to be like them, and we don't think like them
How can we feel community in a community where we don't KNOW each other?

Easy
You look inside
Unity does not mean Uniformity

You see the community that lives inside you
Those beautiful cells are not the same
They don't care what your name is, what you do for a living or what colour you paint your toes
They do not concern themselves with the Who, What, Whens and Wheres
They each have their own strengths and functions
They do not worry about being a skin cell when they are a liver cell
They are working towards a commonality
They have a vision of a most wondrous picture
The most amazing sight you will ever see!

YOU!

See now?

You don't have to FEEL community....YOU ARE COMMUNITY!!!

Coming-Unity

Lovely :)

It is time today to look at the person beside you and understand that they too have a story like you. That they too have perhaps done things in their past, like you, that they wish they didn't. That they too are trying to adjust to a shift that they may or may not understand in their conscious mind. It is time to see them for the beings that they are. Like you they are here for the experience, to grow and remember...Like you they are perfect. It is not your place to judge, but to instead accept that they are on their own path and that in the end you will all find your way. Love will get you there. Understanding will get you there. Patience and allowance will get you there. Your job, as with ours, is to merely allow all that is to do what it is meant to do. Just open your heart space and be. everything is as it should. Trust, allow, and love. Simple

Literally..........a way of thinking

I think Coyotes are interesting creatures. Most people view them as pests, but I see them as a creature that is adaptive and full of paradox. This one has shown up quite abit at my place and every I see him he makes me smile. I usually find him bouncing about on a snow drift, or letting my dogs chase him a bit so he can turn around and follow them back up the driveway.This fascinating creature also invokes a sense of mystery to me. I often find myself wondering where the rest of the pack is, what does he manage to eat to stay so healthy looking?, but mostly I ask what is it that he is trying to tell me.

The last little while has been nothing short of amazing. The messages, flow, and the general feel good feeling and yet there is something else. I have found I am almost obsessive about wholeness and what it means. When it comes to people, I often find myself disappointed that in this day and age we are still viewing and reacting at a primal level. By that I mean that we often don't think past the immediate when it comes to the environment or past the surface when it comes to people. I have been gaining some razzing for how I think. "Ruby don't you think you're being just a little too literal it isn't going to make THAT much of a difference"
Well perhaps not.....or perhaps these vibes will grow and spread!  I am an Aquarian so obviously it is exactly what I am hoping for! Let's push the bar! Let me take you on a wee tour of how MY thinking works....

Take the environment. Sure we say we recycle and all that jazz, but what if we took it a step further? What if instead of buying that dozen eggs stuffed in a plastic or Styrofoam carton we bought them in the cardboard carton? Why? It would eliminate the recycling depot because the shells and the carton work wonders in the ol' compost pile which then is used to grow our veggies without the aid of chemical fertilizers, which eliminates a trip to town to buy them AND saves our health AND our pocket book AND our carbon footprint AND our Earth.

What if we took a look at people and quit judging them over hear-say and all that, and took the time to toss judgement to the curb and get to know them or at the very least understand that THEIR choices are exactly that ......THIERS. And we don't have to agree, accept or otherwise, but KNOW that they have a UNIVERSAL right to engage in THEIR own life EXPERIENCE just like us. AND what makes us think we are more than the next when  WE ARE ALL PERFECT...WE ARE ALL GOD... because...and say it with me...... WE ARE ALL ONE!

Now maybe I am completely off the mark and perhaps I have rose coloured glasses, but frankly.....I love these glasses! It allows me to see past this still picture and see that yes this coyote is obviously on the move and yes he seems almost aloof and blends in to his environment, but past that he's AWARE, CONNECTED, and IS MOVING TO HIS OWN INNER SPIRIT!

 I can guarantee you, the animals that come here come because as a connected being,(because we are ALL CONNECTED) I listen and have provided for them what I would want to be provided with. A clean environment, with an endless food supply that grows with the natural rhythm of the earth, and a being that accepts me for what I AM. I may not be right, but I am not looking to BE right....I am merely asking that you consider taking a closer look and a closer listen......you may be pleasantly surprised to RE-find YOUR "forgotten" piece of the puzzle.....

With Love and Gratitude
Ruby