Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Posted by transiten (here)
Wow ulli!

Such radiant beautiful colors! And Alice in Wonderland, that's me, my second name is Alice and i actually went to an artschool in my 20:ies!

The Alice in Wonderland contest was several years ago.
An Internet art contest. He won first prize, which in a way surprised him as he thought
using a sexy adult as what is considered a children's book icon would upset some people.

[Caren]

That is beautiful ulli, excited to see more of your sons work (website).
We are blessed to have many Salamanders in our garden and nearby woods. One Mother's day back a few years, my husband Bernie and son Ben made me a small pond in the garden; complete with a fountain which trickles slowly over stones aligning the pond. There are lovely reeds growing in the water as well as Iris.
We are delighted that each year now we get many visitors.. ravens, song birds, numerous dragonflies etc. but what really warms my heart is the pair of frogs which seem to magically appear in the pond each spring

[astrid]

Just woke up 2.22 am
Getting back to base again, time in nature
such a cure for many things.
Louis here snoring, still no more night terrors.
So glad I go some help for him.
Noticed that when I'm a bit ungrounded
they both lie across some part of my body.
Pretty cool how animals are in service
to us both here and in other realities. .

Ever since I was very small I had a
very special bond with animals, that often
got me into micheif . One time my parents took
us to the the agricultural show in Melbourne
l - I was 8 or even younger
The crowds at these 3 or 4 day events are always
massive. Lots of show rides side shows and of course
all the animal events and judging .
We were in the pig shed looking at all the various
types of pig breeds some of them were huge,
i don't think I had seen pigs before that, not that
size anyway. Now I don't recall why did what did,
whether I was bored or whether I felt sorry for the
pigs beiing.confined to small pens. But I reached over
and I unlatched the pen of one of the largest pigs.
Pigs are pretty smart and this one was no
exception even with the crowd noise he or she
realized it was unlatched and was quickly pushing
open the pen door. I think I had an " oh ****"
moment and tried to push back against the
gate but of course I was.no match for this
massive pig .
The next thing I can recall was this pig taking
off into the crowd and the stewards in chase .
Needless to say the show trip was cut short
and I was taken home and sent to my room

Another time when I was older in biology class
we had one day old chickens. We were doing
an exercise on animal imprinting, and worked
in a group with one chick per group.
At the end we were meant to give them back
but me being me got all worried about the
chickens fate being either battery farm laying
hell or someone's dinner. So I stole said chicken
and smuggled it home on the bus.
It lived in my bedroom until discovered then after
much convincing and the thought of our own eggs
my parents begrudgingly agreed I could keep it

Luckily it turned out to be a hen and graced us
with her laying efforts for many years
She must have been a meat breed as she was
huge and even doubled as a guard dog chasing
out visitors both wanted or not .
Unfortunately her end was met one year close
on Xmas . Lucy,as we called her disappeared
one day and it was suspected she did in fact end
up in someone's pot for Xmas lunch .

[jorr lundstrom]

Another frog from me. LOL

[ulli]

Posted by Caren (here)
That is beautiful ulli, excited to see more of your sons work (website).
We are blessed to have many Salamanders in our garden an nearby woods. One Mother's day back a few years, my husband Bernie and son Ben made me a small pond in the garden; complete with a fountain which trickles slowly over stones aligning the pond. There are lovely reeds growing in the water as well as Iris.
We are delighted that each year now we get many visitors.. ravens, song birds, numerous dragonflies etc. but what really warms my heart is the pair of frogs which seem to appear magically in the pond each spring

I remember falling into the pond on our farm when I was little. I used to spend hours lying on that little wooden bridge above it and watch the tad poles and salamanders. Then one day I remember I fell in, and the panic it caused all the adults. I have no memory of feeling the cold water, or anything, just that my clothes got all wet and someone lifted me out and everyone had come running to see if I was ok.
Then soon after a bull dozer arrived and that was the end of that pond.
Another thirty years later my mother built a petting zoo in that spot, with a tower for the resident goat. Here is a 2006 picture:

[transiten]

Ha ha, that's a comment to the restructuring of DNA! At least one of the spirals!

[Lisab]

Astrid I loved your animal rescue stories. Funny and sad. Just as I finished the hen story I realised that, oh dear, Im eating chicken piri piri. x

[ViralSpiral]

Posted by ulli (here)

Cranberry goats cheese anyone?






loved, loved, LOVED the taxi driver story.
Rumi's "Guest House"
Everyone a teacher...

[ulli]

I think the way the stories are flowing we are having a real village camp fire moment here.
So nice, feeling all that warmth.
Every Easter we used to get 100 1-day-old chicks, for which dad had built a small house full of turf. In the beginning they would be in a smaller enclosure which had a large infrared lightbulb hanging above them to keep them warm.
After a week or so they could start coming out into the turf area.
I used to lie there for hours, enjoying the feeling of having these yellow fluff balls walk all over me.
Real farm girl, I was.

[ulli]

Oh dear, we are already at over 51,000 views and just yesterday I made a mental note to mark that 50,000 moment.
This thread is moving too fast for my old eyes.

[starsha]

Posted by ViralSpiral (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

Cranberry goats cheese anyone?






loved, loved, LOVED the taxi driver story.
Rumi's "Guest House"
Everyone a teacher...

Did i miss the Rumi guest house poem? That is my all time favorite!

Here now i am sitting in my kitchen playing around on avalon in between gazing out the window watching the fall leaves. Amazed and enthralled by a deep internal silence and feelings of love, contentment and peace. Ohhh and now a woodpecker just flew up to the window, what a beautiful little creature! Feeling grateful for this peaceful thread.

[transiten]

When my dad was young they used to hatch eggs themselves (not the shell of course) and i remember i tried to save rats from drowning in a barrel even trying to save them from the cat <Lol> Also have vivid memories from the farmer (i was a "summerchild") killing the kittens, throwing them on the dung-hill and when my favourite calf was slaughtered i was devastated.

Surely mercury is slow bringing old memories back.....

[ulli]

Posted by transiten (here)
When my dad was young they used to hatch eggs themselves (not the shell of course) and i remember i tried to save rats from drowning in a barrel even trying to save them from the cat <Lol> Also have vivid memories from the farmer (i was a "summerchild") killing the kittens, throwing them on the dung-hill and when my favourite calf was slaughtered i was devastated.

Surely mercury is slow bringing old memories back.....

Those all could be my own memories, although I was never too keen on the mice
which made noises in the rafters above my bed at nights, as the grain storage area was up there.
But puppies, kittens, baby calves, chicks, they were my companions in an otherwise lonely childhood.
And the disasters to do with the killings...I can't even face going there now.
All reminds me of The Silence of the Lambs.

[Lisab]

Speaking of rats when I was 17 and a punk I used to hang out with a guy who had a pet rat, which in those days was still pretty unusual. Anyway one day I opened his living room door, not knowing his rat was roaming free and caught the poor little mites tail in the door. I was devastated but said friend was too stoned to be bothered. I took the little thing to the pdsa and they just looked at me like I was stupid and refused to help. I took him home, nursed him and he was fine. Wish I could remember his name. Something punky like Rattus (Novegus) no doubt!

[transiten]

On a wagon, bound for market, there's a calf with a mourning (?)eye......Old Donovan came to mind...

[Lisab]

Cows are another animal that make me well up. Cows, horses and elephants. Its the eyes.

My kids are the same with animals. The only time I ever saw Jack ever get really angry, when he was little, was when he came home from school and told me a story of a kid who'd pulled the wings of a dragon fly off. My son was only 8 and he said that he'd wanted to hit the boy and say "Im a dragon fly watcha gonna do about it". Of course I gave him the non violence speech but I was struck by his passion. He also wept openly in Sri Lanka when we saw a chained elephant in a some hotel grounds. The owner asked him if he wanted to ride the elephant he said no way.

[Caren]

Loving all the farm animal stories (animal lover).
My baby sister Carol was constantly lugging critters of all sorts home to 'mother' them. One late summer day she brought a pond frog home but my father wouldn't allow it in the house (she was young and wanted it in her bed) haha
So.. being that she thought it needed shelter for the night; she placed it complete with 'tissue blanket' in the dash of my father's car..
..a few days later my father discovered it.. poor frog
She is still a huge animal magnet.
LOVE your goat house ulli fantastic!

[Lisab]

Strange Ulli. I cant seem to get your pics. I didnt get the Barbados postcard or the goats pic. But Ive started getting vids now. Weird.

[astrid]

@Ulli . I also had a love affair with frogs and our laundry
was always filled with buckets or fish tanks of tadpoles
in various degrees of "frogness" .
I also loved lizards was often playing with skinks
in our back yard. I was always headed for vet
science as a career but because of all he bullying
at school and unstable home live studying was
an uphill battle.
I have been noticing of late though
that I am realizing some of my early childhood
dreams, kind of late , but am stating to feel
like my life is my own again and i can finally
be who I was born to be .

Avoiding things that haunt you only makes them
grow larger. As they say "'monsters grow in the dark"
Years of avoiding my family has only made me more
stuck . At least in recent years i was "taught"ways to
help both them and me non physically so the whole
exercise of being with them is so much less stressful .

Sure us mystic types have some fast work arounds
but permissions are always something to respect
and consider. But it occurred to me recently with
ancestral healing work that i do in fact have
total "clearance "' to work cleaning up any lines
that I am a part of . Something I didn't see before.
So now it's my main focus .
I had a " vision " of doing exactly this for a few
years but it seemed like such an arduous and
trauma ridden task . But now I'm realizing that
it's anything but and what's more they don't even
have to know what it is I'm doing.
I will be standing back and taking note of any changes
which will be easy to see as they have been stuck in
the same patterns for so long.
Ok time for more sleep
4.44am

[starsha]

This conversation reminds me of when my son was about 4. One day we were playing out in the rain and he was watching the worms, he was fascinated by them (typical little boy). The next day we went outside and they had dried up in the sun. His eyes welled up and he said "why did they die mommy?" and i explained to him that they dried up in the sun. He was SO upset about it. The next time it rained, he was outside in his little rubber boots for hours, 'saving' all the worms by picking them up and putting them back on the grass.