6/11/25 The Revolution of Evolution!
Namaste Courageous Hearts of Evolving Divinity!
I greet you in the glow of June's Strawberry full moon from my new Soul Playhouse in Mount Shasta! I am full of alchemical reflections from my move that I offer here now sprinkled with transformation invitations for you as we all continue to flow and grow in this current evolutionary alchemy of humanity.
The picture above is my new view; this mountain called me home here and she is definitely front and center out my windows and in my heart. The picture below is from my old house in recent weeks, sweeping clouds going up juxtaposed with the dragonfly who came and lingered whispering and affirming the transformative change at hand. When I removed the house background from the dragonfly pic in Photoshop, it made for some holy, tattered wings that
are also reflective of my journey as we will discuss further herein.
What or who is whispering in your heart? Do you feel or sense a need for personal change in the midst of our societal shakeups? Do you fear the change that calls? Do you fear the bruises ~ aka tattered wings ~ that may accompany the physical out picturing of your yes?
Big changes like moving into a new house in a new community do take a great deal of physical effort yet when Spirit is flowing through, our wings are truly gifted and lifted in taking to the sky and flying high.
Whatever change may be stirring in you, you can trust that if you are Spirit led, you will, indeed, be Spirit fed. In the alchemical process of transformation, we listen and keep saying yes, step by step by step.
Here are views old and new; a wonderful backroad walk from my old home, a wonder filled backyard view from my new home and a wondrous view from 'my' new Lake Siskiyou just a few miles from here:
A big part of the physical stress of this move was the vast accumulation in my possession I had to reckon with. After cleaning out 4 ancestor houses in the last decade and a lifetime of thrift store and estate sale bargain shopping, I had a house and a barn full of so many things I loved! I went through wave after wave of disbelief as the 'stuff' seemed to never end! There were moments of shame in having SO much yet I just as quickly revisited the extreme relishment and joy I had experienced in finding the goodies, envisioning their playful uses, actually using so much of it, honoring the ancestors and on and on! It was quite a process of measuring and deciding what to bring forward and what to release. In the end, there are ancestor treasures from each of the 4 houses cleaned, most of my plant and stuffie friends yet a good amount of them released. The act of translating my big, overstuffed walk-in pantry to the cupboards here was truly a small miracle.
There were many different giveaways, a few (eek) throwaways, the big 'Trash To Treasures' sale where I filled up my long driveway with bargains, as I have done the past few years. I had repeat peeps remark how glad the 'bargain lady' was at it again this year :) Remembering ALL I had released in the past few years from the non-profit and more, I experienced those ongoing waves of disbelief. How could 1 person ~ even one as extremely creative as I ~ manage to stockpile SO much stuff?! The answer is moment by moment, year after year, 1 experience at a time. Like all my stuffies mostly purchased at the local Hospice Thrift store for .50 apiece and used with ChildSing Song Circles and in ETV shows and just placed all over the Victorian Playhouse and barn. The last 2 Halloweens, I filled a table for trick or treaters to take home; at least a hundred of them each year. And yet, still so many ...
Stuffie Friends! I did my straight up best to release as many as I could yet there are still a few too many here in the new playhouse awaiting placement.
There were a few magical moments of new home at the Sale like the beautiful young woman below who I talked into taking Tiger too along with her matching Lion. And the little girl who chose the seal mom and baby and with my gentle insistence and her mom's extreme generosity, took the seal dad too to keep the family together :) There was the dad at the gas station who said his daughter wanted to know why I had so many stuffies and I told him to tell her because I am a fun adult. My new ETV
studio and upcoming shows and segments will have these friends for sure and who knows about the upcoming Halloween? Frog friends pictured below were my bed roll here before the bed came in. I did donate lots back to the thrift stores including all the big friends pictured below. My Sutter Creek neighbor who has a warehouse where he sells, took SO much stuff, especially at the end, and he bagged up 2 large bags of stuffies I hope and pray will see the light of day and find their way into loving arms and homes!
What belongings are you attached to that perhaps would be better served in another home now? Do you really know what and how much you have? Do you have a full garage or storage shed full of treasures you haven't seen or touched in a while? Even if you are a minimalist, there could be a closet or a drawer you could revisit to see if anything calls to be released. If you are anything like me, you love what you have acquired and thereby there is some amount of attachment or feeling of belonging to the possessions. Can you step back to realize that release can bring you more ease and peace as well as bless another who may put to use what you have long forgotten? And ultimately, the biggest transformation conversation to have with ourselves is why we hang on to things that we have otherwise forgotten and thereby truly don't need! What aspect of ourselves do these belongings feed?!
For my part, this process yielded a release of probably 2/3 of my vast belongings. After I have actually been working on releasing for years! Nothing like a deadline and destination goal to speed up the process! Even with all of that, I brought 4 pickup loads, 4 carloads and a 20-foot U-Haul up here full of all the Laurie Story Me I couldn't part with! Every trip, I vowed to not bring back much more yet I did. Could I really just pair with Bear and Mountain Juju to keep things simple in this new den?! Perhaps. It is an ongoing adventure and I am definitely giving away more of what landed here.
My healing alchemy continues as I co-create this new space and physically recover from the process of working around the clock to handle it all. There were many nights of just napping a few hours on the floor and then continuing the motion. Spirit was with me in every bit of it and when my old neighbors asked me what drugs I was on, I told them SPIRIT! It was taxing on certain levels, yet I was fortified and supplied as I stayed in the NOW flow of each next step, pile after pile after pile!
And! I was SO blessed with helping angels in this process; I made a list of 25 peeps who actively helped in various ways from monetary gifts to help with packing, toting and TAKING AWAY treasures :) I had a few paid helpers with some of the heavy lifting and the lovely Lawson family REALLY helped with getting the U-Haul loaded, unloaded and UP HERE! Michael drove the truck which was easy and maybe even fun for him and scary for me. Lisa carried out my plan to cook the food at the old house to feed the crew loading the truck. She could see from the loading process, we would need more help here with the unloading, so she called in her son Liam. The 3 of them spent the night and offloaded the truck with friend Jessie who met us up here. In another answered prayer moment, Lawsons took an extra bed of mine in trade for a futon for my office/guest room. I had spent time on finding a futon and then released it to the divine and oh how it came to be, yippee skippee! Pictured below are the lovely Lawsons here at a place where the water flows from the mountain (underground) into the Sacramento River. We also walked downtown to the Aces where handy Michael and Liam got a few things and helped with maintenance here the next morning before returning the U-Haul and heading back to the rest of our lives. AHmazing helping angels, thank you!
Who are the special helping angels in your life? This season? In the past?
YES, Mnt Shasta! My word for 2025 is Thrive and there is a Thrive Bar here where they have kombucha on tap and have this lovely Maya Angelou quote outside, "My mission in life is not merely to survive but to Thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
YES, YES, YES!
 
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There has been SO much to this journey of what to release, what to bring forward, how and with whom my precious possessions found new places to be!
It is an ongoing lesson of alchemy. I still can't quite fathom that every space, every drawer got swept clean. I saw with deep compassion how peeps just 'throw things away' out of sheer overwhelm and/or time and space constraints. Though it is against my religion, I did throw a few bags and rugs 'away' (gulp) and recycled huge bags of treasures I couldn't previously part with
like so many wonderful greeting cards received over the years at birthdays and big life events such as Jeremiah's birth. Many early versions of Laurie Story Books went and there are plenty of papers here awaiting the same fate. My intention remains, that along with photos, I will digitize and then release. When you see that your intentions have gone unrealized, the choice is even more clear to act ~ in 1 way or another!
Are there any unrealized intentions calling you now? If so, ask Spirit, what is the (1st) next step I can take in actualizing this intention?
Favorite furniture pictured above I have loved for 25 years went to new homes. Friend Pat will put the armoire in her garage to hold her spinning wool and our beautiful altar server went with the neighbor down the street where he will hopefully sell it into another home to be loved and of service.
Yes, in the end, it is just stuff that hopefully gifts our lives and then moves on to gift others. In the wake of this transformation conversation, can you revisit your belongings now with fresh eyes to realize the gifts you have?
All of our lives are filled with a mix of gifts and in this time of humanity's evolution and our societal upheavals, we do well to revisit the blessings of our existence with deep gratitude. In the intensity of my moving process, I listened to my (YouTube) vibe music yet had no capacity for anything else; none of the podcasts I like and certainly no news. When I tuned back in the other day hearing of what was happening in LA and of all the disruptive and disgusting ICE raids hurting so many innocents, I cried in deep despair. Then, with the powerful healing strength of the Mountain and my expanded capacity for alchemy, I am re-opening to what is mine to do at this time. We each and all must sift and sort what to release and what to carry forward; not just in our own hearts and homes but also in our communities, for our global family, and for our planet home. We belong to each other and we must, moment by moment, decide how to act on that fact. With compassion in action, we will not just survive, we will thrive! This capacity to be alive and thrive is the embodied alchemy of allowing more divinity in and through our humanity. The act of thriving and not just surviving is the revolution that is part of the compassionate solution called for in humanity's evolution!
How are you called to alchemize and realize the gifts you have to add to the flow of humanity's transformation and evolution? Can you experience your divinity in and through your humanity? Check your view daily for what's new!
Here is the view from my bed. I am sleeping and waking with the Mountain. With her magic and the magical alchemy that lives in me, I will indeed thrive here in creating new Love Life, Divinity in and through me, and in ETV!
Yes, life goes on! I travelled 90 minutes north the other night with food to see my Jeremiah and hear him in a wonderful, inspirational community choir. Song and my son ~ SO good for my soul!
My Latrobe Ladies turn 96 in June; seen here in May, I am taking them lasagna and cupcakes in a few days!  
I will be seeing more family, picking up a few last treasures from my old neighbors and seeing dear friend to me and to ETV, Rev Karene, aka Gramma K and farmer Don to celebrate their 30th anniversary and Karene's Juneteenth birthday. So even as I begin again, there are always many familiar places in the Circle of life and time!
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And so I go (more slowly than I like :) ) to set up the new, still processing more to release. I am experiencing moments of discomfort as I allow the 'mess' to be, until it's not. I am inviting myself constantly to be amused rather than confused or disturbed at finding things, opening cupboards and doors that go a 'different' way, etc. I am letting myself BE with the new and trusting the comfort level is also resettling in. With the mountain, I am at peace and feeling deep relief to be here now. I am opening to allow more of who I truly be in this new dance of abundance and divinity. Thank you for being here and sharing this chapter of my story. This part of the journey has just begun so stay fine tuned!
In this revolution of humanity's evolution, what is the same and what is new for you my friend? Spirit is always calling us to remember and embody anew!
And so it is. Namaste, Love!
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