4/22/26 Earth Day Reflections
Namaste Earth Shine of Renewable JOY! Happy Earth Day! May this moment (any day!) bring you a breath of grateful oneness with our sacred mother. We are indeed a part of our earth home ever reflecting her beauty, reverence, and resilience.
I have heard a few philosophers recently posit that the rising earth temperatures are due to our human experience of flaring tempers. Scientist and Spiritualist Gregg Braden's position has long been that though climate change is real, it is not human driven, it is due to the earth's natural, rhythmic cycles. There are many layers of truth within our oneness. One solid that has been a core principle for me always is that you respect your nest enough, not to soil it. As a young child, I remember crying when I saw litter. While the focus of Earth Day, now 56 years old, has always been about environmentalism, it is also a day to open our eyes even wider to the sacred beauty of the planet, and to the mirror nature provides for us in the circle of living. I speak to some of this in the vlog at beautiful, serene Lake Siskiyou with mighty Mount Shasta at my back.
Vlog: Earth Day Finding Joy
As I speak to in the vlog, it is also National Library Week. This year's theme is Find Your Joy @ the Library. For me, I am finding renewed joy with my Leaping Literacy Library clean up and reorganization. This seemingly unattainable task is slowly yet surely happening as I continue to align with the ongoing Spirit invitation to keep believing in myself and our work. I am also hugely inspired ~ as always! ~ with nature's renewable beauty and spring awakenings. I found this powerful pink dogwood on a side street in town reminding me of the beauties I used to know in Sutter Creek.  I was especially reminded of the pink dogwood I lived with for 8 years; she smiled at me from my bed and turned the upstairs living room pink in the right times of daylight. Remembering this beauty reignites that special vibrationship of abundant blessing.
My bountiful blessing through my windows these days, is the holy vortex of Mount Shasta. She invokes a powerful healing journey within me and in so many. In reflecting on the health and well being of our planet, of humanity, society, community, family, and me personally ... the underlying message is one of resilient hope and the unceasing invitation to keep evolving into embodying more of the beauty, compassion, and Love we are made of. Yes to more fully embody, the True Love we be.
In living this Love, we are ever invited to take care to be aware. Our sacred mother earth offers us beauty spots everywhere! When we nurture that which nutures us, we natually live a sense of well being and bliss. That is my prayer for all. And of course, one way I always pray is with song! So here is April's Sing-Along featuring earth songs with a spotlight on rivers and oceans. There's a visit with Pete Seeger's Hudson River song and a bit of Earth Day history. Of course, Pete and Toshi were a part of the 1st Earth Day in 1970; sailing the Clearwater Sloop from Beacon, NY to Washinton DC. With continued efforts, they were part of getting the Clean Air Act passed in 1972 which ended the flushing of toilets into the Hudson! As we stay aware to take care of our mother Earth, it is also always good to honor all those who have gone before us. May their activism and song sing on in us!
Earth Day Sing-along
And may your heart song sing on in you; rooting you in Love's anchor and raising you up in life's JOY! Namaste, Love.
4/5/26 Uprooted to Rise: Happy Easter!
Namaste Rising Spirit of Hope and Promise! I greet you this Easter Sunday after a few weeks of spring celebrations and a Holy Week of disintegration! My personal journey has been a deep dive into painful roots in conjunction with the ongoing fast paced societal breakdowns going on all around us. As always, I am infinitely grateful for the divine order in every bit of it.
In our humanity evolution, I see the power of divine solutions playing out with
all the good hearts, helping hands, and watchful eyes calling out injustice and acting with compassion in action. My personal evolution has included a mix of divine solutions from the wisdom of stored pain in my body temple, courage to release and surrender into some medical treatment I most often refuse. The rootedness of my stubbornness proved to be a fortress of protection for the rejection feeding infection. If you want deets, check out the Uprooted vlog!
Vlog: Uprooted to Rise
On this day of resurrection as all throughout the spring season, we are constantly reminded of new life and our infinite potentiality to keep rising up and growing! Just think, if a toddler learning to walk gave up after falling the 1st or 3rd time, they would never walk! This is a snapshot into the indelible Spirit Rising energy infused into our human experience. As adults, we are given daily chances to begin again and align with the shine of our divine design.
After what can seem like decades of falling down, sometimes we are tempted or we actually do give up ... on dreams, on ourselves, on each other. I have had a fresh awareness of how the pains that we experience are wisely stored in our body temples and how with conscious attention, uprooting these pains is the very medicine required to get back up, rise again, and SHINE, SHINE, SHINE!
In our personal, familial and community settings, our divine shine design can show up in a myriad of ways! One love language for me is food, so here's a snapshot of the (too!) many cupcakes made for the Equinox celebration I hosted here.
Similarly, the collective pains in our roots continue to show up in BIG ways! We are called as society and humanity to uproot the rotten and forgotten to allow our true brilliance and essence to SHINE! Here are 2 of my favorite signs from the No Kings gathering on 3/28 here in Mount Shasta. All across this nation and world, folks gathered in peace, creativity and communication to rise for the best and higher nature of who we truly be! The power of the people speaking to the people in power. We were voices for democracy and peace, voices of hope for decency and a disruption to the corruption and inhumane actions coming from our current administration.
On whatever level your Spirit calls you to rise, make no mistake, it is ALWAYS calling! We are born from Love that expands with expression and dies (at least a little) with suppression. This Easter, I am reunited with my soul's call to rise and I hope you are too! Sometimes, rising is quiet contemplation and prayer, sometimes compassion or passion in action. Make no mistake, as long as we are alive in these bodies, our souls continue to inspire and invite us to rise into whatever expressions of Love we are made of.
Song: We Rise
I wish you a joyous celebration of the Spirit Rising you embody this very moment friend! I love you. I appreciate you. I rise with you, moment by moment by moment ... and so it is!
PS!
Yes, my Leaping Literacy Library work, including spiritual ABCs is still slowly yet surely happening behind the scenes! Soul Playhouse was abruptly put on hold due to the health and wellbeing challenges I have been navigating. And! Always in divine order purpose, the resets and new formats of ALL ETV offerings are rising within me and into this world in divine timing! This is the last Soul Playhouse show produced below. Blessed Be!
3/15/26 Going Within for the Gold in the SoulPlayhouse
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