Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Carmody]

This is Eileen.

This magnetic sticker...is what is on my fridge.

The painting is nearly 6 feet across.

[Guest]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
A question about Hoʻoponopono...who are you thanking, asking forgiveness of, and forgiving, etc. when you say thank you, I love you...etc.?

Much Love,

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XpCrV6bElzA

Love

Nora

We are all related

[meeradas]

Posted by giovonni (here)
and i am sure you remember this familiar theme from David Lynch's series ...

! 'f course i do, Gio!

Twin Peaks + the movie,
three times in a row,
made me throw out my tv,
back in 19-90-4!

Cool stuff.

Talking about Lynch - this here is just around the corner from where i sit right now, it is a perfect Lynch set, imo:
[note: What you see there in the afternoon sky is the result of a day's worth of "contrailing" - not a single natural cloud in the picture]

[Guest]

Posted by Carmody (here)
This is Eileen.

This magnetic sticker...is what is on my fridge.

The painting is nearly 6 feet across.

Looks like either a wood-cut oil or a lithograph....

Eileen?

Love

Nora

[ViralSpiral]

Been another short night. Did the ho'oponopono thang for gaia (and the sun sending solar storms). Used this meditative chant. Makes me want to run out and hug ALL trees! The pic below is my favourite from my previous residence. I miss it....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YMFdXQ5zS_g

My favourite of Robert Gass's chants is Pachabel's Canon with Alleluia.

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[Carmody]

Posted by Nora (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
This is Eileen.

This magnetic sticker...is what is on my fridge.

The painting is nearly 6 feet across.

Looks like either a wood-cut oil or a lithograph....

Eileen?

Love

Nora

Some of you have heard this story before.

Eileen was the person who died. My mother would always bring these people home. Second one with those eyes.


She was one with permanently dilated pupils, who was a master's student along with my mother. She was this crazy, jumping bean of a girl who would do the most childishly playful things at any turn. Being around her was a rollercoaster ride of "what's next?". I remember one time we had a party and we decided to dance to some early Kraut stuff.. Kraftwerk. Tough to dance to.

She gave in first ....and dived to the floor and made a big pregnant belly. Two seconds later there were 10 people on the floor doing the same, to see who could make the biggest preggers with our exposed bellies. Just a total childish riot to be around. And she literally did have permanently dilated pupils. No drugs, no sedation, no nothing. Just wired that way. Even fenceposts would fall in love with her. Nothing was immune to her charm. Anyway, a man who tried to be her partner, Chris, ended up following her out to the west coast.

She was jumping around in the car, like she usually did..and on a bridge, over a deep rocky gorge.. Chris was driving...and he hit a pole that was on the bridge. She flew out the windshield and hit the pole head on. Died instantly.

She had no idea she was dead. It happened too fast, no notice or preparation possible...like some of the people who drowned in the tsunami.

Meanwhile, at the same time, my mother was sleeping and dreampt she was at the bottom of a big ravine, with rocks all around, small river, and a bridge very high up, over the ravine.

My mother was kneeling on the ground, among the rocks/shoreline and Eileen's head was in her lap, Eileen stretched out in front of her. Eileen was confused and shocked, upset. She wanted to go, but did not know if she should or could or what was even going on. My Mother calmed her, and petted her head, smiled, looked her in the eyes and calmly told her she could go. And she opened her arms, raised them and Eileen floated and shifted out of there....just faded out....

My Mother awoke, and knew that Eileen was dead. She got the call a few hours later, when morning came. Eileen had died at that exact same time.

That is the painting - of part of my Mother's recall of the event. It is a textured oil painting.

Edit:
When aiding a soul in it's leavtaking, I find that to get it done, one has to have the calm of spirit, of knowing, and compassion. As deep and as wide as one's own being and life force. Otherwise, it does not work.

All the sorrow, all the joy, all the life, and all the longing and all the completeness, (finality of peace and ending, to shift to new) and peace... that one can be, but overlayed into the space they occupy.

I like this song, simplistic as it may be... as it reminds me, in some ways... of that feeling.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dy1x9QCKqNU

I can't think of a more worthwhile thing I've ever done - than that sort of thing. It's a horribly difficult task at the same time as it is the most sublime and simple. I'm not sure that anything is capable of grounding one more powerfully than that.

It brings a feeling of 'winning' of doing a deeply positive selfless thing... that is untainted of the caste and colors of being human, at the same time it encompasses all that being human is.

[ViralSpiral]

Hahaha. LOVE that!! Inspired me to take a pic of what's on mine...

[Guest]

Thank you Carmody

a blessing for your mother to be there for Eileen.


Love

Nora

[ViralSpiral]

Eileen sounds like my kind of fun. How blessed you all were to have her in your lives, albeit so short.

Aaaaah, the tsunami. It keeps popping up, and pierces my heart.
Whose lives did it not touch? Who can ever erase the images? That lone man who had no idea of the wall of water heading his way...
Although I did not know them personally, the two daughters (21 & 18) of travel industry doyens, went on a "jolly" to Phi-Phi. They were holding hands when the tsunami ripped them apart. One survived.
There but for the grace of G*d go I

[ViralSpiral]

My version of Eileen incarnated. Baaaaad quality, and the narration just as...... but you'll get the idea

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ

[meeradas]

Posted by Carmody (here)
I like this song, simplistic as it may be... as it reminds me, in some ways... of that feeling.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dy1x9QCKqNU

I can't think of a more worthwhile thing I've ever done - than that sort of thing. It's a horribly difficult task at the same time it as the most sublime and simple.

Wow, man.
You brought me to tears. Got it.

Your last three posts are what i call "carmodium balsam".

Real food.

And, after composing such a piece of music, one "can die".
Awesome.

Gratitude from heart's quiet depths.

PS:

Posted by ViralSpiral (here)
Did the ho'oponopono thang for gaia (and the sun sending solar storms). Used this meditative chant. Makes me want to run out and hug ALL trees!

Yes!! Beautiful [song]!!

[modwiz]

Posted by Taurean (here)
I don't normally agree with George Galloway, but with this one George, I take my hat off to you.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=av0Dw2t9znc

The pure pig-headed, knuckle-dragging brutal stupidity of the caller speaking to George was farking scary. One specious argument after the other completely divorced from any reality beside the one issuing from azzhole of some TV talking head. One idiotic opinion lined up after another like teeth in a shark's mouth. A person as resistant to reasoned thought as water is to duck's back. Maybe it was the coffee I just drank, but the stupidity made me feel rage because of the sheer danger of large numbers of people this numb and ignorant, and allowed to breed.

Socrates ran into similar stupidity and calmly drank his hemlock. I can appreciate how he must have felt.

[OnyxKnight]

Posted by ulli (here)

Ok, so the f was just a typo.
Underground South Africa.
Hmmm...
diamonds?

If diamonds can power spacecraft .....

[meeradas]

Posted by modwiz (here)

Posted by Taurean (here)
I don't normally agree with George Galloway, but with this one George, I take my hat off to you.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=av0Dw2t9znc

The pure pig-headed, knuckle-dragging brutal stupidity of the caller speaking to George was farking scary. One specious argument after the other completely divorced from any reality beside the one issuing from azzhole of some TV talking head. One idiotic opinion lined up after another like teeth in a shark's mouth. A person as resistant to reasoned thought as water is to duck's back. Maybe it was the coffee I just drank but the stipidity made me feel rage because of the sheer danger of large numbers of people this numb and ignorant, and allowed to breed.

Socrates ran into similar stupidity and calmly drank his hemlock. I can appreciate how he must have felt.

NAILED!
I'm glued to my seat.
This place rocks!
with yet another so spot-on sparkler of a rant oozing with truth - the wiz @ his best.
Thank you, Sire.

[meeradas]

Hey Chris!!
Nice seeing you here in the village.
Hope you found a comfy spot already.

[modwiz]

Posted by meeradas (here)
Hey Chris!!
Nice seeing you here in the village.
Hope you found a comfy spot already.

Another bass player. Cue, "Big Bottom" by Spinal Tap.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GzsWuqNlLK4

[meeradas]

After nightshift, should be asleep now,
but am all fired up, as yet another bassplayer
has sent me his future solo album, and i made the
"mistake" of putting it on, now i can't stop listening.
My tiredness vanishes more with each song. Dang.

PS: Grand album. Can't share any for obvious reasons.

[astrid]

In this kind of mood tonight....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LuQrLsTUcN0

[astrid]

Right on the "edge" of something this last week or so,
it's kind of exhilarating.

[Lisab]

In my mother's,recent, birthday card I wrote the ho'ponopono prayer.

VS loved the ancient mother vid.

Again for mum....I'm sorry,please forgive me,THANK YOU, I love you