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4/29/25 In the Circle We BE!

Namaste Blossoming Beauty of Love Expressed!
In these fleeting moments of April, I greet you with ongoing awareness and blessedness of celebrations again passed for another year ~ Happy Earth Day and Arbor Day! Happy Easter and Passover resurrected renewal! Happy Spring bounty of beauty! As all of our calendar days, this has also been the month of many other celebrations including a few others near and dear to me and Leaping Literacy Library; young children and libraries! All of our April awarenesses ever remind us of the circle of life; birth, growth, blossom, death, rebirth, and all the nurturing essence of sustenance therein.

I started this post yesterday in an honoring of all things April as well as a personal life celebration anniversary. An incredible 43 years ago on April 28th, I broke 4 out of the 7 vertebrae in my neck. From a medical perspective, I was 'suppossed' to be a quad, unable to move from the neck down and as I found out later, destined to live a much shorter life due to the mechanics of a body temple in that paralyzed condition. Yet the Great Creator and my soul had a different destiny planned that included the co-creation of so many beautiful moments of living, birthing, and yes, dying over and over again in the circle. I was blessed to recover from my broken neck to walk, dance, become the mama of Jeremiah and many storybook characters as well as the plethora of books, songs, shows, etc. I lived on to sing and share with wonderful children and families, have Feathers Family Camps and PlayShops, clean up ancestor messes and more! Though I have lived with chronic body pain these many years, I feel SO blessed to have chosen to BE full circle life of Love expressed as Spirit embodied Laurie Story Me!

Each and every one of us has so many stories, experiences, moments of connection and meaning in the circle. Let us pause to give some (April) awareness of reverence to what it is to be alive in these body temples, in our family and community webs, living on this incredibly beautiful planet home. I celebrate YOU friend, for all you are, all you embody, all you BE! I honor all you've done and continue to do as the divine Spirit in human form known as YOU! I honor and celebrate how you radiate light, Love, peace, joy, in any and all moments you can! YOU, as a conscious being of connection brighten this world with your blooming wherever you are planted. Each of us, moment by moment, are helping to midwife in the expanded heart of humanity that embodies more compassion, kindness, and unconditional Love for all of life. May we breathe in this beautiful truth together in this right now moment of divine order perfection connection.

This is sweet Sutter Creek where I have been living for more than 20 years. This creek (above) was filled with rubber duckies last Saturday after the return of the great Sutter Creek Duck Race! It has perhaps been decades since the last one, so a fun tradition was reinstated by playful souls! While there is SO much to love here, especially my beautiful playhouse with stained glass windows, I have long been called to re-plant and grow elsewhere. All the old list of ToDos like the comeback of the Spirit ABC pages here @ New Thought Families and the new projects I have been called to like Soul Playhouse have been mired in stop and start energy that seems to have an undercurrent of ongoing human need to heal, and Spirit insistence to change. That said, I am well aware of Turtle medicine that knows I am home wherever I roam. And as Glory Be in our Conscious Comedy says, "Wherever you are, there you are." Have you seen our travelers in ETV?!

YES, the work-play I am called to keep co-creating is basically the same yet definitely expanding and growing in my mind and heart. As I have long blogged and vlogged about, I have some serious acculmulation of stuff, aka belongings, from a lifetime of thrift shopping and cleaning out 4 houses of my elders and ancestors. I have continuously been re-doing altars and setting stages in my playhouse in an effort to be in Love there, as well as chipping away at releasing some of the goodies for others to enjoy, yet the energy is just OFF and the longing for belonging lingers like a ghost needing to be fed some soul food. I realize I have slowly been emerging from a long, dark night of the soul and have indeed, been hearing a call to move for a long time. SO! At home wherever I roam, I am in the process of moving to the energetic vortex that is Mnt Shasta!

There is, of course, much to say about feeling the fear and doing it anyway as well as how this mountain has been calling me home there for awhile. Yet in this transformation conversation, let's return to YOU, and all of us human beings, ever called to reach for the light and GROW! There are infinite ways we expand thought by thought, moment by moment, step by step. Sometimes our leaps of faith require lots of momentum and action. More often, we are invited to take small steps with great courage, deep breaths with powerful peace, guided movements with the flow of grace and infinite trust in the power of divinity. When we align with the shine of our divine design, we do know, flow, grow, and GLOW!

This day, April 29th, marks the 100th day of the Trump presidency. It is a day that so many of us mark with ongoing grief and resignation of what is as well as the invitations and actions to do whatever we can to help curb the tide of destruction and suffering. No matter where we are personally in the circle of this wrecking ball approach to renovation, we do well to center and re-center in our divine knowing, our place of peace and belief in the goodness of humanity to prevail. As the pictures in this post reflect, let us keep anchored in the beauty of our sacred mother earth as the great healer and soul reacher with her infinity of delightful beauty. Yes, again, we can and do take actions for earth and for humanity in whatever ways we are called to in the midst of ongoing assaults. Yet we also help turn the tide towards compassion, justice, sanity, in every moment we activate our inherant divinity. Remembering that hate is a call for Love, chaos a call for peace, injustice a cry for compassion, may we each and all be aware and take care to BE the prayer; to embody all the Love, peace, compassion we pray for. And yes, we continue to pray, every day, in everyday ways with our hearts, minds, words, hands, and feet, in our homes and in the streets.
Thank you dear friend, for living the prayer and for sharing life's journey with me in any moment we BE together here or anywhere. I SO appreciate and celebrate YOU! And US! Namaste, Love!

3/17/25

Namaste Seeds of Faith, Growth and Love!
Happy Spring this Mindful Monday, St. Patrick's Day, ahead of Spring Equinox this Thoughtful Thursday! Though I meant to be back in this space sooner with February Love wrap-ups, I have been living lots of Love Expressed, as well as negotiating a fair amount of doubt, fear, and overwhelm with my personal and our collective growth pains. I feel ever and always grateful and blessed to be back here now ~ especially with you!

Love Life! As I shared in the February Love trilogy, life is so full of opportunities to be, feel, and express Love! Even and especially NOW! "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.” ~ Maya Angelou

Though we have known for some time, our evolution of humanity was going to be a rough ride, the speed, veracity, and destructive lack of compassion playing out has been jolting and disorienting for many of us. We are encouraged towards courage and the capacity to respond in whatever ways our hearts and souls are called to. The natural beauty and synergy of Spring offers hope as does the strong voices of our (Still We Rise) ancestors like the great, gracious, and grace filled Maya Angelou:
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently". "Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself – and then stand up for somebody else". 

A shout out here to friend Faith Petric I had the honor of spending some of this lifetime's moments with and who is rightfully and inspirationally being honored in the documentary about her, Singing For Justice, free streaming on PBS through May 10th here!

And so it is we are called to practice courage for ourselves and each other. In many spiritual circles and channelings of the day, we are told to turn off the news and look away. While this can be essential for our own peace, wellbeing, and higher vibration, we are in human form at this time for many reasons. We belong to each other in this family of humanity and as such, having the courage to stand up agaisnt injustice is an opportunity to live our divinity in and through our humanity. Finding what is true for ourselves is the guide to follow our heart and soul callings on our life journey. Let's take a moment to explore this through the story of today's namesake, St. Patrick.

St Pat, was not Irish, he was a Brit who was kidnapped at age 16, and sold into slavery to work as a shepherd in Ireland. After 6 years, he escaped and made his way back to Britian. After becoming a priest for some years, he decided to go back to Ireland as a missionary to bring Christianity to the country which he did until his death on 3/17 at age 75. He lived with great fortitude and perseverance yet many aspects of his life are not as they seem. He was a bishop priest though never formally canonized as a saint because he lived at a time before Catholics named saints. His fake feat of driving all the snakes out of Ireland is still being perpetuated; I saw a recording made this very day by a priest talking about the evils of snakes and how to rid our current society of them. In keeping with Ireland's truths; snakes were never native there and the Pagans, then and now, value all of nature's creations, including snakes! At the root of St. Patrick's mission was to 'conquer Paganism' and replace it with Christianity. One way this was done was through blending of symbols. The Celtic cross was reportedly fashioned by St. Pat by using images of the powerful sun with the Christian cross.
So! There are many more deets and layers to the story of course, like how St. Pat used the Irish Shamrock known for the triple goddess ~ maiden, mother, grandmother to be co-opted as the symbol of the holy trinity; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This all serves as a potent reminder of how history, society, and cultures are shaped in the midst of the renovation and revolutions we are facing now. Each and all of us are faced with multi-faceted decisions of how we respond; whether we look away or we rise up to help co-create the change we embody as humanity. We are indeed offered the opportunity, always, to embody more of the divinity we truly be!

Sowing Seeds of Divinity!

As each of us must continue to follow our own callings with the courage it takes to grow up and show up, my undertakings remain in the realm of creating creative and spiritual content for any that I can connect with and serve. This comes with multiple challenges yet I again look to the magnificent Maya Angelou:
"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time." "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

I take heart in these powerful words that seed my soul and what can feel like a lifetime of failing forward. I have been a birthing process of tending to new offerings for Om HomETV and Soul Playhouse.

Saying yes to what still feels like mine to do isn't always easy yet the alternative no feels too much like defeat and death. So still I rise!
Just as I sift and sort with how to show up for social justice, I have had multiple mile markers for the work here that left me conflicted in showing up.
Our New Thought Families .com anniversary passed last month; started 2/7/2007, our 18th year woulda coulda shoulda been honored on 2/25/25 in keeping with past tradition, yet I realized how empty and futile it felt to celebrate alone. Though I know I am never alone, I continue to re-calibrate how I co-create and for whom! Some of what I face is just straight up hard work in process for completion like the spiritual ABC pages coming back here as a place for the years of Library resources; those that are free flowing, those on the Free Shelf and wee fee Marvelous Memberships specifically offered here for spiritual family literacy. Still incomplete, here's the Love page!

ETV! Our 5 year anniversary was last week, March 8th, International Women's Day which was a date I had hoped to launch some new formats/programming. I did new footage (better late than never) that weekend while also attending online folk camp and hosting 2 workshops + a concert performance ~ I dressed up :)

At the pace of grace, I now have those new offerings to celebrate!
For kids and families, 2 new Om HomETVs with Seeds of Faith. In Seeds 2, you'll find a debut with longtime ETV friends Rev Karene and Farmer Don ~ in their new Conscious Comedy roles as Olive and Dilbert Pickled, the adventurous travelers aided by moi, as Glory Be, their Travel Angel!

And I have posted the 1st Soul Playhouse (for adults) as an outpicturing of a longtime vision for gathering together new friends who are older in support of soul play community to open up playfully to more and more of who we truly be.

While the vision is to grow a YouTube channel with spiritual playmates,
I also have the offering here from our Leaping Literacy ETV Library.
In this moment, I am choosing to stay celebratory, grateful and hopeful that
what I am called to do can indeed be useful to peeps ~ like you?! And that I will keep opening up how to best serve divinity in my humanity. So it is!

No matter what we say yes to, may we all know that we be blessed as Love Expressed and in our willingness to grow, we do indeed embody courage and divinity which represent the best of who we be as humanity. Thank you for being here friend, and for all the Love expressed you embody! If you live near me, I'd love to celebrate Spring with you this Thursday with song, food, fire, connection!

Wherever you are and whatever seeds you are planting, may you be blessed with knowing your blessings, and the freedom to keep saying yes to sowing and growing. Namaste, Love!

2/27/25
Heart Talk 3: Living Love ~ Love Life!
Namaste Life of Love!
Blog still on the way yet join me for this Love Life Heart Talk where I share recent love life lived and some everyday Love around the house and hood!

2/18/2025
Heart Talk 2: Vibrationship Relationship:
I Am Love, You Are Love, We Are Love!

Here is the vlog and song, I Am Love, as affirmation, confirmation and vibration conversation of how we can continue to align with the shine of our divine design! Beyond your relationship with Creator (by any name), the most important relationship you have is with YOU! It is worth continued and careful cultivation of your Love vibration. How is your vibrationship within your human vessel of your precious Spirit? SO many ways to be Love expressed ~ keep saying YES! You be blessed in your yes and bless countless others in the circle of Love. Join me for this vibration exploration conversation! Namaste, Love!

I also have a new song, We the People Rise on the new YouTube channel!

2/11/2025
Heart Talk 1: Always Love

Namaste Heart of Love!
I greet you this Transformational Tuesday before Valentine's Day with the full Snow Moon in Leo ~ a transformational time (thank you Snake!) full of courage and heart truth expressed ~ thank you Leo the Lion!
I have a Heart Talk Vlog for you with my our song, "Always Love" which affirms that EVERYTHING IS LOVE! Really! As the song sings, "An act of Love or a cry for Love, always Love!" I always thought this was a quote from Ernest Holmes and while I didn't find it directly, his Science of Mind teachings were certainly tethered here. I did find an attribution to Marianne Williamson for this quote: "Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help." If you want to do the deep dive with me, i invite you in! Let's begin!

In further note of my own little evolution of Spirit Love Blessed Expressed, here is the Divine Valentine Om HomETV show along with 2 little home shows i did SO many years ago with my sweet Valentine Jeremiah. With hindsight's perfection, I choose to celebrate these connections, and my own resolution to keep showing up with, if not divine solution, a resolution of inspiration's voice and vibration in and through me as Spirit conversation!

Divine Shine Valentine Om HomETV

Early efforts creating 'Om HomETV':

Made of Love:

Hugs All Around:

Thank you, thank you Heart of Love for sharing my celebrations today and for how YOU are always Love ~ in all ways! Namaste, Love!

2/2/2025
Transformation Conversation:
Darkness and Light Integration

Namaste Hearts of Love!
I greet you on this day of midpoint returning to my song MidLight. While the headline of today's calendar significance was 'Groundhog Day', it is really Imbolc here in the Northern Hemisphere, the midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. For our fam in the Southern Hemisphere, this day is Lammas, midpoint betwwen Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox. I re-wrote the verses for today in this honoring song after orignally writing and sharing MidLight last midpoint, May 1st. Here's both! Sing along!

Ah yes, we are always turning in the circle of time! This midpoint is a great invitation to alchemize our darkness and light, and realize the gifts that are always here for us. Life gestates in the dark and births into the light. Both are necessary. I speak to all of this in today's vlog which also discusses the goddess Brigid who is celebrated today along with the new Chinese Lunar calendar star for 2025, SNAKE! Feature Creature Teacher Snake is all about transformation; to shed the old way of being ~ personally and collectively ~ we MUST release our old skin we no longer fit in. I talk quite a bit about the dance of resistence, life's persistent insistence and the unconditionally loving gift of allowance. All of it tempered with discernment of what to allow, when and how to resist and the overall alchemy we employ in this sacred journey. Like the last vlog, I am in my jammies, this time in my prayer chair so we do indeed end the time together with a prayer. Do join me if you are called!

Realize we Alchemize to Thrive!

As we evolve and grow, the alchemy of change is a necessity. Evolution naturally embodies past, present, and future in the circle of life and time. As spiritually conscious beings, we are always invited to decide what to surrender, shed, leave behind, take forward, birth anew. With our free will, it really is up to me and you! My alchemical process includes birthing new content resources, some of which is geard for adults rather than children and families. Here is one such Transformation Conversation with friends and ETV regulars, Rev Karene, aka Gramma K and Farmer Don. We are at the altar with snake friends discussing surrender and transformation ~ join us!

Slide into Surrender with Snake!

As we share in this Transformation Conversation, our lives are full of stories to alchemize! We are always offered opportunities to surrender and grow.

As I talk a bit about in the vlog, yesterday was a road trip to see an old friend who has undergone alot of changes. I have spent time alchemizing who he is now, with his same sweet soul in the center. Just as I reckon with the effects of aging in myself and other friends, it is a rich opportunity to be in the sacred circle. Relationships, aging bodies and minds, shifting political policies and outright breeches of the law are all ways we can bring our awareness to what we insist or resist as our chosen way of being in the circle. I took the picture above last night in the fading twighlight before driving home. The beauty of Unity is indeed a beacon always beckoning us home to ourselves and each other. May this midpoint be one of alchemy and harmony for you and yours friend. Thank you for being here. Namaste, Love!

1/20/25
Allowing Your Soul's Dream Home to Thrive!
Namaste True Heart Love Expressed!
I greet you this Mindful Monday; a national holiday honoring Dr. King and his dream, with the vision of oneness, blessedness and a more perfect union within each of us as individuals and all of us as community and society.

Photo Credit Tumisu @ Pixabay

This Monday also marks the 2nd inauguration of Trump, aka more fuel for the firey evolution of humanity. I did a vlog that spoke a bit to this, though i tried to focus more on you friend, the opportunity of you ~ to always be aligning with your highest callings. We are always invited home; into our hearts and to be in step with our soul's journey.

As i speak to in the vlog, I am ever realigning with the callings of my being, continuing to say yes, no matter the mess, and still and always challenged with time. Just how much can i pack in a day and how fast can i go? Short winter days along with the wisdom of age say to go slow. Take it easy. I'm breathing that in, this dark evening moment where there's so much more list left in this quickly ending day. While the vlog speaks of Feature Creature Teacher Polar Bear, I am really working with Turtle who goes center stage on ETV tomorrow. So there's the slower pace of grace and there's also the myriad of ways we side step our soul's path due to what some call procrastination or distraction. It's also called by some, self-sabotage. Abraham Hicks says it is a misalignment of our vibration with what it is we are called to do. It can also just be called fear since all can be distilled to Love or fear. Whatever name i give it on any given day, i keep choosing to act more and more with great compassion infused into my actions. I bring Love and patience to the process, adjust the list, and keep saying yes. Whatever we are called to, we always have the choice to say yes or to say no.

So the dance of our journey goes! Spirit always flows. We are always called home and in fact are home with our Spirit in any and every moment.

We are multi-layered beings of human ego and divine soul called to be in perfect union. Here is a poem i wrote about it today:

And so on this day, whatever you are feeling, dreaming, seeing, acting or reflecting upon, I wish you lots of compassion for your actions and, perhaps most importantly, compassion for the actions of others. As i say in the vlog and the poem, we are beautiful beings created as Love expressed. May we co-create a more perfect union within that helps harmonize the same in all others. Peace be yours and peace to all beings everywhere. Namaste, Love!

1/1/25
Alive to Thrive in 2025!

Namaste Shining Light of Love's Co-Creation!
Happy New Year! I greet you with this new year's invitation celebration; to thrive in 2025! We are born to thrive, my friends. It is as inherent as the capacity to survive. In being alive, we naturally do both. Some survive all manner of challenges and hardships to stay alive. All of us must meet our basic physical needs to survive. We also survive various heartbreaks and types of death along our journeys of life. To transcend the pain is often referred to as surviving. Yet as we celebrate another calendar year of life, let us lean into what it is to thrive, not just survive! It is said that we come alive when we are joyfully engaged, a sure way we thrive in being alive. So what calls you to joy and feeling ALIVE?! To thrive is also said to grow strongly and vigorously. How do you want to keep growing and living with vim and vigor?! Thrive is a perfect word for this moment of celebration as it also means to prosper and flourish. As we embrace the gift of being alive in this new year, let us center in our natural tendency to thrive. May fresh ideas flourish and come alive in our hearts and minds as we continue to align with the shine our our divine design. We are alive! We are born to thrive! Let's do just that this 2025!

Backroad Vlog Closing the Door on 2024
12/31/24 ~ 123124! :)
A reflective moment in the last hours of 2024 with a bit of song;
calling in 2025 with the intention to thrive!