April Awareness Celebrations
Alchemizing, Strategizing, Prioritizing
4/28/24
Welcome April Blossoms of Beauty and Bravery!
As we near the end of April, May Transformations are beckoning! There are so many April celebrations that are near and dear to my heart, I had to speak to them before month's end! Even though the bigger, better spotlights I woulda, coulda, shoulda given the following didn't happen, we can still take a mindful moment of honoring and recognition. Let me first recognize you with gratitude for being here and honoring us with your time, heart, and mind. Thank you for being here!
April! The month that is often a menopausal one for our Mother with her warm flashes and surprise storms. April is the time of recognition of our mother with Earth Day/Month. Of course Earth day every day of the year yet April 22 is a longstanding calendarization for our attention. We love you mama earth!
April is also the official month to celebrate Young Children and Libraries; 2 cornerstones of our work/play here at Leaping Literacy Online Library!
Much as I thought I would leverage these celebrations this month with progress in the Library and new production work, my main focus was inward yet again. I came face to face with an ongoing health challenge that actually has its roots in another April occassion ~ today is the 42nd year anniversary of breaking my neck. The vlog below speaks to the journey. Some of the metaphysical nuggets are letting go of 'old fixes' and employing new opportunities, releasing resistence, allowing alchemy, transcendence, and evolution, trusting transformation. I still struggle with the volume of me expressing concisely! I did this April vlog twice and while the 2nd time conceivably is more organized and concise, it is just as long and in fact, a bit longer than the 1st! The 1st one was full of tears and led me to some places I needed to go to gain the clarity for the 2nd one :)
I spent time producing the 1st one and had vowed to put it out so in a game time decision, I am posting both here in this quiet space. If you are going to invest the time, I highly reccomend the 2nd one over the 1st. Yet, in the spirit of birth and death, here they both are. So goes the journey of messy me trusting the divinity of alchemy!
There are MANY celebrations, every month and every DAY! In the April Vlog 2, I celebrate some of them noted TODAY from the fun website https://www.holidaycalendar.io whereby they give all the history and significance of each day's celebration/honoring. Apparently, anyone can start a Day with a little momentum! April 28th is noted for many things including Biological Clock Day, Clean Comendy Day, National Super Hero Day, Pet Parent Day, Stop Food Waste Day, Great Poetry Reading Day and more! I read from the great Unity poet James Dillet Freeman in Vlog 2 as a nod to another of today's celebrations, 'Pay It Forward Day'. Poets indeed pay it forward sometimes for generations with the power of their words!
There is an infinity of ways we can focus and show up
any moment, day, month. There are so many celebrations, honorings, ponderings we can give our time, heart, and mind to. By following our heart and natural curiosity, we are aligniung with our soul purpose in being here, in this incarnation and lifetime. With our own unique gifts and skills, we are here to serve each other and our own soul's purpose in choosing to be here now.
There is much to say about where Leaping Literacy Library is now and is going yet I will be ok, this anniversary day with just being messy me, showing up as me ~ the light of divinity mirroring the same in YOU! Free from needing to be anything more. My latest song is below, Be Free. As I root in the call of prayer (James Dillet Freeman) and the sense of what free is for me, I allow this moment's April alchemy to be enough. Just right. As is. Divine perfection expertly evolving through transfortion. That is a celebration! Thanks for being with me and your own divine alchemy. Namaste, Love!
Be Free ©2024 Laurie Story Vela
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Honoring Life & Death
4/1/24
2 years ago today we layed dad to rest in the local cemetery with a military gun salute per his wishes. 3 years ago today I found uncle Bill unconscious, had to call the fire department, break into the house, and get him to the hospital. I stayed with him there through the night and he transitioned the next morning. This April Fool's Day I honor them with lotsa tearful emotion at the cemetary:
I just needed to honor this anniversary with all of it's raw emotions. In the circle of time, it is an ongoing dance with birth and death, yes and no, slow and go. Here is a glimpse of the handwritten newspaper of my father's childhood I refer to:
I honor my dad, all my ancestors, all my relations. I also honor the death cycle for so many other aspects of my journey. It is time to lay so many things to rest so that I may birth anew. This includes a few long standing features here on the website. I am facing facts of zero engagement. It is time for me to live and give anew. I will return here to this quiet blog spot, in this birthing process. And I am trusting the gifts I have given matter on some level in the co-creation of life's evolution. I offer you deep gratitude if you find your way to these words and piece of my heart; thank you, thank you. Namaste, Love!
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3/24/24
Namaste
Circle of Life Alive & Bright!
Let's begin where I last left off;
Valentine Vlog 2/14 & the now i see started, never published, forgotten 2/29 post :)
On this 2 year anniversary date of my dear 'ol dad's departure, I am SO reminded to keep finishing what i start and to commit and re-commit to all I choose to do as me, Laurie Story V. May my life be an incarnation celebration for the Love that created me, expressing as me ~ may my humaness be Love blessed, yes expressed!
From February's Love letters found here:
https://leapingliteracy.com/LoveLetters/LoveLetters.html
And so it is that the Circle of Life and Love bring us to this moment;
the top of Holy Week, Spring/Autumn, Birth/Death, Seeds, Gold, Rainbows, Bunnies, oh my! Let's Play & Pray in this 3/24/24 reverent & playful Vlog:
This vlog is a voluminous 24 minutes on the 24th day and year. So! If you just need a blessedly brief spring salutation invitation, got you clovered, click this one!:
The egg altar in the video above joins many other spring invitations here. My home has been enJOYing some Spirit Rising UPliftment this month including a visit from Mr. and Mrs Clover who came to visit on Equinox! Their video is linking this week with more Om Home invitations on our Leaping Literacy Library Spring page.
There are SO many Spring invitations hopping about here at home and in the Leaping Literacy Library. Our daily Play & Pray video calendar, Planting Seeds has us planting Love, Hope, Joy, Surrender ... oohh, let's DO today's Reverence:
There are SO many ways to be reverent for this gift of life. Always centered in awareness and nurtured with gratitude, reverence provides us a good compass for our heart and soul. As I discuss in the vlog, our inner GPS< Grace Positioning System, is always a wise whisper away to bring us back to the center essence of our egg, ourselves embodied as that Love blessed, yes expressed.
Rabbit is center stage this week with lots of
celebrations @ famlit.tv and here with other spotlighted spring things on our New Thought Families Mindful Multimedia page including the Spring Celebration Om HomETV show.
If you shared the 24/24/24 vlog with me, yippee skippee! If you want to hear some of those songs, yippee skippee x3! Ostara, Daddy's Song, and Pot of Gold are below! From the bottom of my egg to yours, thank you for singing along in the musical rainbow of my heart & soul song!
   
And! Before we go, let us send 1 breath of peaceful love into the world ~ aho! 
Sent with the breath of this month's full moon!
(In this time zone, 3/25, 3:00 a.m.)
Picture taken 3/24, 9:00 p.m.
Wherever you are, this holy moment in the Circle, I wish you Joyful Peace & Passionate Purpose that you are able to experience with reverence & express with happiness.
Yippee Skippee! We truly be Love blessed, yes expressed!
Namaste, Love!
Pot of Gold
©2023 Laurie Story V
Chorus:
Follow the rainbow that lives in your soul!
All the life you’ve lived, every story you’ve told
lives in your heart, in your own pot of gold!
If you’re ever filled with nagging doubt
that says what’s it for, what’s my life about
Turn within, hold yourself dear
Trust the Love that brought you here!
Chorus
If you ever feel you’re all alone
Remember the good times you have known
Think of the seeds you have sown
See how the seed of you has grown
Chorus
If you ever feel poor like there’s not enough
Give great gratitude for all of your stuff
then let it all go, let your spirit take flight
Break thru the bars of black and white
See infinite colorful ways to be!
You are the gold, you are free!
Chorus ~ You are your own pot of gold! |
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Laurie Story V Living Spiritual Literacy