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The Beat Goes On….top comments

by Chiara on February 8, 2012 - 0 comments

Tweet The Beat Goes On The sun comes up and goes down. We lose our way or we find it…but The Beat Goes On We strive and achieve. We hope and dream. We fail and we lose…but The Beat Goes On What we think or say or do reflects who we are. We change our minds. We change our ways or we don’t…but The Beat Goes On We live and laugh. We love or hate. We wish …

Giving Is Good !!!top comments

by Chiara on December 31, 2011 - 0 comments

Tweet GIVING IS GOOD ! It improves health, spreads wealth, strengthens bonds and best of all…It’s Contagious! (from the cover of ODE Magazine December 2011) And it’s easy! Today is the last day to feel Good about Doing a Good Thing and get a 2011 Tax Deduction. Circumstances for so many of us in this Hella Year 2011 may prevent us from donating to all the Doers Of Good Deeds across the globe. Don’t you wish you could? I DO! …

O X Y T O C I N !!!top comments

by Chiara on December 30, 2011 - 0 comments

TweetP M S The Ultimate Antidote? Oxytocin! * Pre Menstrual Syndrome…the best antidote? Oxytocin! Particularly Meaningful Sadness….the kindest antidote? Oxytocin! Protecting Momentous Secrets….the naughty antidote? Oxytocin! Patiently Managing Sobriety….the fun antidote? Oxytocin! Practiced Mental Stoicism….the lighten-up antidote? Oxytocin! Perennial Male Silliness….the perfect antidote? Oxytocin! Perpetually Misperceived Stories ….the fools antidote? Oxytocin! Post Menopausal Sanity….the only antidote? Oxytocin! * Oxytocin…the hormone, is natural, free, healthy, pleasurable and can be made in the comfort of your own home. It has been shown …

Solo…On The Ledge.top comments

by Chiara on November 23, 2011 - 0 comments

TweetSolo…On The Ledge Mt. Adams ~ August 2011 I am alone, and I am not. Not really. That sweet bird perched atop this chartreuse moss covered tree, the one broken clean off by the elements, quite possibly so that I may have an unobstructed view of the distant jagged peaks above the forests below. That suspicious creature, with her nervous searching glances, peers at me sitting silently on this craggy precipice, where before there was only a warm breeze embracing …

Are You Prone To Ponder?

by Chiara on July 13, 2011 - 0 comments

Tweet Me Too! Especially Social, Political and Spiritual issues Evolving in these Times of Rapid Change and Transformation. Sometimes wistful, sometimes a rant, To express…is my Higher Calling. Tweet

the rapture,TEN Important Things To Ponder While Waiting For The Rapture

by Chiara on May 20, 2011 - 1 comment

Tweet Number 10 Life is sexually transmitted. Number 9 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. Number 8 If you are wondering how to please a man just remember this simple rule: men have two emotions Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, either give him a good reason to have one or make him a sandwich. Number 7 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. …

AND…how I got here.

by Chiara on April 19, 2011 - 0 comments

Tweet AND…How I Got Here. I once, subscribed to a spiritual training that provided me with many important concepts and leanings, but it was also quite polarizing. I had already been practicing Polarity Therapy as a healing art for years before it dawned on me what, about that training, didn’t work for me. From the first introduction to the last disappointment there were resonate and useful learnings, which fueled my curiosity and propelled me to further inquiry, but more often I …

Doing Despair

by Chiara on April 14, 2011 - 0 comments

TweetDoing Despair Life is pretty good. Things are better than just Ok. At least compared to the wretched scenes of natural mass destruction, chaos, war, poverty, political confusion and complicated issues heard nightly in the newscasts. At least for me and for most the people I know. At least at the moment. There are, of course, the good news networks, rags and writings that, in spite of it all, radiate hope and solutions, so necessary to the counterpoint. And …

My Writes

by Chiara on March 31, 2011 - 3 comments

TweetMy Writes “…whatchu know ‘bout my writes? Whatchu know ‘bout what’s weak, what’s tight…?” My Writes from Art Official Intelligence….de la Soul This is about writing. I found some old journals. One from 2001, the other from 2003. I read them last night and had no qualms whatsoever about tossing them in the trash. They were written in really lovely books that I probably purchased from T.J. Maxx, but that didn’t’ make them any more palatable. And I learned something: …

Speeding Toward A Surprise Ending

by Chiara on March 19, 2011 - 0 comments

TweetSpeeding Toward A Surprise Ending Thinking overly, fantasizing about one’s demise might be considered sick and wrong. We will, however, all meet our demise at some point, so I feel it’s appropriate to consider it from time to time. Unless we can overcome it. And wouldn’t that take a miracle? That could require becoming an Avatar. Maybe it might even be a possibility if we aren’t addicted to, or insistent upon, lugging our current form with us. These …

Keeping Score

by Chiara on February 6, 2011 - 1 comment

TweetKeeping Score “Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he is free.” Rumi Keeping Score. We all do it. None of us are Free. If we feel we’ve won or lost in any event, we have kept score. If we’ve paid more or less, we’ve kept score. If we’ve tried and failed or succeeded, we’ve kept score. …

2010 in review

by Chiara on January 25, 2011 - 0 comments

TweetThe stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2010. If those were steps, it would have climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa …

When You’re Lovers In A Dangerous Time

by Chiara on January 23, 2011 - 2 comments

Tweet Don’t the hours get shorter as the day goes by Sometimes we gotta stop and open our eyes One minute we’re waiting for the sky to fall The next minute we’re dazzled by the beauty of it all When you’re lovers in a dangerous time… Sometimes we’re made to feel as if our love is a crime But nothing worth having comes without a fight Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight By Bruce Cockburn …

Touch

by Chiara on January 6, 2011 - 1 comment

TweetTouch “See me…feel me…touch me…heal me” from the rock~opera Tommy by The Who Touch is an essential component to feeling connected, recognized and loved. When we shake hands as we are introduced or maybe hug when we meet again, it’s more than habit or custom. Touching conveys our presence and availability as well as affords us clues and information about the presence and essence of the other. Touch is one of the first things we do when we feel happiness …

My Mother’s Pearls

by Chiara on January 1, 2011 - 2 comments

Tweet Those pearls I gave my mom for one of her birthdays were such “an extravagant” gift, she thought they belonged in the red satin box they arrived in. She would concede to wear them only for very special occasions. I begged her to wear them every day if she felt like it. She couldn’t imagine that. I finally confessed to her that her perception of extravagance was…well…in the case of those pearls…misperceived. I had a friend, who at …

An Gorta Mor…The Great Hunger

by Chiara on December 25, 2010 - 0 comments

TweetIt’s Christmas day, the end of the year 2010. Many of us are awakening to special breakfasts filling the house with delectable aromas and gifts to open in the warm embrace of family and friends…but not all of us. What does it mean to be hungry? How does it feel to be alone? How can that be relieved on any day…but especially on Christmas? Here in the 253, although not nearly so much as most other places in the world, …

The Blessing of Winter Solstice

by Chiara on December 21, 2010 - 0 comments

TweetThe Blessing of Winter Solstice 2010 As the long night slowly yields to day, We too, yield to our higher nature and move toward Our natural state of Light. The winter teaches us to go within and contemplate, Our inner work, Our inner abundance, Our inner completeness. As we prepare for the outer learning that lies ahead, We reflect on both the natural and spiritual nature of What is meant by Eternal Life. Why do we instinctively feel the pull …

Do You Want To Make Love Last?

by Chiara on November 17, 2010 - 0 comments

Tweet“Do You Want To Make Love Last? What do you want to do first?” Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins, local author and personal hero. It’s a yummy double juicy entendre. How do we make Love last? It’s an eternal question. It’s a question with many simply complicated answers. First, what constitutes making Love…let alone making it last? If you want to make Love last, what role does fore play? Something has to come first if there is …

When I Was Montana Skye

by Chiara on November 14, 2010 - 2 comments

Tweet Back in this day…..in my Billy Kid Stetson…those Tony Llama boots you don’t see…my .357 magnum…none of which I have today, I learned to shoot straight (cans off a stump) and I called myself Montana Skye. I had felt most all my life that I was misfitted, had been born into the wrong times. I was an outlaw at heart then, a contractor by trade. I lived dangerously although viewed in retrospect, foolishly. I experienced the thrills of life …

PAY ATTENTION !!!

by Chiara on October 15, 2010 - 3 comments

Tweet Pay Attention! Do you have ADD or EAA? (Attention Deficit Disorder or Enhanced Attention Abilities) “The world is so full of a number of things I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” Robert Lewis Stevenson But we aren’t, are we. The world is so full of so many things that we can’t keep up with it…can’t get a grasp on it…can’t assimilate it…can’t deal with it…can’t sort out what to pay attention to…what should be first…what’s …

Sweetness Out Of Difficulty

by Chiara on October 8, 2010 - 2 comments

TweetSweetness Out Of Difficulty “dulcius ex espiris” The Latin expression “dulcius ex espiris”, which means sweetness out of difficulty, suggests a different outcome and meaning from relief after difficulty or character building after difficulty. It lends a softer, gentler, kinder result to the depiction of a difficult and challenging experience. Rather than placing a focus on getting through a problem in tact or succeeding in spite of every obstacle, the texture and nuance of “dulcius ex expiris” feels more like …

Letting Go

by Chiara on September 26, 2010 - 4 comments

TweetLetting Go When you absolutely have to let go, can you? In your life, what or who is the most difficult to release? For me, letting go of someone I have loved is impossible. I won’t do it. If I have loved you, I always will. Letting go in this sense, then, becomes more of a concept, releasing the idea of expectations. It’s a tricky balance to hold steady when an expectation is not met. Much stickier when it involves …

Conspiracy Theories

by Chiara on August 24, 2010 - 2 comments

TweetThere is the truth that the collective consciousness, the media, many teachers, political leaders and spiritual gurus would have us believe. And there are other truths. The almost universally agreed upon current truth, generates fear and loathing, undermines the common global good, grabs, takes and uses, hijacks basic human rights, declares peace and brings soldiers home only to hire unaccountable mercenaries to continue war, applauds haters and reactionaries and allows non-human paper entities legal rights and freedom to rape, pillage …

Milestones

by Chiara on July 8, 2010 - 3 comments

TweetMilestones. When do we know that we have reached one? Mile-stone (noun) 1. A stone showing distance to a place. 2. An important event. (synonyms: landmark, highlight, high point, sign, signpost) With this definition almost anything we choose can be considered a milestone. I had always thought a milestone had to be not just ‘important’, but momentous…not just a ‘high point’, but a pinnacle. I have been known for Celebrating as a raison d’etre. It’s more than just a pastime. …

der mom…the wurld is goin krasy!

by Chiara on June 17, 2010 - 5 comments

TweetMy daughter wrote me a note 35 years ago, which I have kept to this day, reminding me of the Truth. Her 5 year old awareness already recognized a Truth. She is now an adult with a child of her own…her note still rings with this Truth. “der mom…the wurld is goin krasy” As time passes, most people look back on the good old days with nostalgia. I am as guilty of this as anyone, even though I also look forward …

What Women Do

by Chiara on June 11, 2010 - 1 comment

TweetWhat do women do? When women are healthy, this is what we do: We gather together to support one another. We know that as women we are able to love and embrace with our arms and our hearts and our thighs. We know that as women we are able to assess a need and find a way to fulfill it. We know that as women, our children and our families are more important than anything else. We know that as …

Almost Perfect!

by Chiara on June 5, 2010 - 1 comment

TweetAlmost Perfect! A friend, who lives most of the year in a small Mexican village, recently told me a story about Casi Perfecto! or Almost Perfect!. One of his best friends had hired a local seamstress to make full length curtains to go across a long bank of windows. Days and then weeks went by and still she hadn’t finished them. At last, a month or two later, she arrived with her bundle, smiling broadly. When they were all hung, …

Can You Count On It?

by Chiara on June 1, 2010 - 1 comment

TweetCan You Count On It? The Answer Is Maybe…baby! Have you figured out what you can count on yet? Is there a person in your life you know you can count on? Is there a process you can count on to achieve the results you crave? Can you count on your time honored opinions to be correct? Can you count on help when you need it? Is there a time or place or person you can count on not to …

Witnessing

by Chiara on May 19, 2010 - 1 comment

TweetEvery institution and system I can think of tonight, seems to be in collapse, and dying. Here are just a few of the broken things on my long long list: Government, Religion, Education, Health Care, Financial, Politics, Big Business, Marriage/Families, Democracy, Civil and Species rights/liberties/protections, Social Alienation, Decent Manners…. I wonder how I can Imagine Institutional Integrity, Immediately. The failings of each are so glaring, and have so many layers of complicated and far reaching problems, I see no clear …

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep…I Pray The Lord My Soul To keep

by Chiara on May 12, 2010 - 8 comments

TweetIf I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. If in the morning light I wake, I pray the path of Love to take. Amen Who remembers this children’s bedtime prayer? My Swedish grandma taught me only the first four lines. I was always resistant to saying it, terrified that I was praying to die by mistake! Somewhere along my life the last two lines were revealed. I don’t remember when or by whom. …

Why Wait?

by Chiara on May 10, 2010 - 2 comments

TweetWhy Wait? So many things to do! So many ways to procrastinate! So many adventures on the ‘Someday’ list! So many excuses not to do them now! So many missed opportunities! So many choices! So many options! So many changes! Wait! Wait! Don’t tell me! Is it because there isn’t enough time? Is it because there isn’t enough money? Is it because of fear? Is it because of ill health? Is it because of fatigue? Is it because of lack …

What Do Mothers Really Want On Mother’s Day?

by Chiara on May 7, 2010 - 8 comments

TweetMothers Love Children. Mothers want their own and all children to be safe, to be well, to have opportunities, to feel love, to respect life, to grow up, to be able to grow up and love children, to learn empathy, to understand their personal gifts, to want to share their gifts with all, to be the brilliant lights they came here to be. Mothers, when faced with the threat of danger to their own and all children, when faced with …

We Can Weave From Common Threads…

by Chiara on May 2, 2010 - 0 comments

Tweet…a world of strength and beauty! Oh, there is no end to the differences that separate us as cultures, societies, races, religions, communities, politics, genders, generations or opportunities. In the rare unchallenging or cheerful moment, it’s even possible to celebrate our differences. Yet on most days, those moments are so idealistic and downright rare, they are scarcely noticed, let alone appreciated for the gifts they could bring to understanding in these complex times we live in now. The polarization that …

The Lusty Month of May!

by Chiara on May 1, 2010 - 1 comment

TweetIt’s Beltane! May Day! The official day to celebrate Life, Love, Fertility and Hope! It’s a natural impulse, as spring bursts into bloom, the Earth as our guide and inspiration. Seeds planted in the rich moist soil (and bodies!) are the impetus for the ancient adage: HOPE Springs Eternal! Beltane is the name the ancient Celtic cultures gave to this lusty time of year and dancing the May Pole is the mid-point in the festivities of Old. On the eve, …

What Do You Need?….why?

by Chiara on April 25, 2010 - 0 comments

TweetDo you feel as if you have what you need? Do you feel as if you can get what you need? Do you know what you need? Are your current needs basic to your survival? Can these needs be met? Are your needs, at the moment, more existential? Do you need a purpose, a mission, a raison d’etre? Do you need a friend? Do you need more time? Do you wish you didn’t have so many needs? An amazing amount …

Are You A Healer?

by Chiara on April 20, 2010 - 4 comments

TweetYou are a healer if… You are healing. You recognize that you may have flaws and glitches and are willing to work on them. You reach out to those in need. You include others in your prayers. You are an avid listener. You pick up litter. You recycle. You conserve resources. You volunteer. You embrace and hug others profusely. You inspire, encourage and support others on their journey. You repair any enmity in your life. You forgive others. You forgive …

The Audacity of Faith…holding on in times of rapid transformation!

by Chiara on April 17, 2010 - 0 comments

Tweet“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.” Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities (written in the …

“Tingle” or “Misfire”… how to choose.

by Chiara on March 27, 2010 - 0 comments

TweetWhen presented with choices…decisions…options: How best to choose? How to discern? How to Know? Our minds will intellectualize, rationalize, confuse us, negotiate with us, trick us, double~cross us, make amends with us and in the end either congratulate or chastise us. Of course we must utilize our minds. They are a great resource for gathering information, sorting it through, mulling it over, categorizing, sifting, culling and finally presenting us with the choice, the decision, the option. But truly the only …

The Turning Point

by Chiara on March 18, 2010 - 6 comments

TweetAfter a time of decay comes the Turning Point. The powerful light that has been banished returns. There is movement but it is not brought about by force. The movement is natural, arising spontaneously. For this reason the transformation of the old is easy. The old is discarded and the new is introduced. Both measures accord with the time; therefore No Harm Results. i Ching The Chinese character FU means Turning Point. It also means Recovery as well as Return. …

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