Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Calz]

Posted by ViralSpiral (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
Then we are set up for an extra +6 billion (pop stand) lemonade buyers.

If life gives you lemons....

Please save a few for my fast ...

[Ernie Nemeth]

All things are relative.

because

We are all related. (or retarded, no big diff)

[Carmody]

Posted by ViralSpiral (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
Then we are set up for an extra +6 billion (pop stand) lemonade buyers.

If life gives you lemons....

My first intro into this world was Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr Brian Weiss. Even without verifiable proof, it was pretty convincing. Easier, obliviously, if one has the propensity for such things.
Serendipity just sent me another book via pdf, from WhiteFeather. Dolores Cannons' Keepers of the Garden - about 'et's" on earth.
If I could look into your eyes Carmody.....

regarding 'pop stands'. It's a reference to leaving a place in haste and with a slight emphasis. A colorful US based English line of "let's blow this pop stand", and they spin off in a cloud of hen sh!t and small rocks, in their big american muscle car (as they left the farm)(chickens flying about as they tried to get out of the way of the noise and dust/rocks). AKA backwoods boys having some fun.

[Ernie Nemeth]

In my silly little world, the problem comes down to a question of authority. How does the chain of command, the line of cause and effect, get activated? Is it body/mind/spirit or spirit/mind/body?

Does affecting the body sweep repurcusions down the line of authority to the mind and spirit? Or is it the spirit that begins the chain that ends with the body? If it is the body, then we are in an untenable position because the body is subject to empirical laws over which it has no control. If the spirit is the creator of experience then we are left with a fall back position from which there is always hope, always a possibility of a miracle - a change of heart and beliefs.

We did not create ourselves. That is the biggest clue. So take heart, miracles are real - they are your birthright.
And the body goes where the mind leads and the spirit beckons.
All things are possible - even the impossible.
And that is good news indeed!

Love,
Ernie

[ViralSpiral]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by ViralSpiral (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
Then we are set up for an extra +6 billion (pop stand) lemonade buyers.

If life gives you lemons....

My first intro into this world was Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr Brian Weiss. Even without verifiable proof, it was pretty convincing. Easier, obliviously, if one has the propensity for such things.
Serendipity just sent me another book via pdf, from WhiteFeather. Dolores Cannons' Keepers of the Garden - about 'et's" on earth.
If I could look into your eyes Carmody.....

regarding 'pop stands'. It's a reference to leaving a place in haste and with a slight emphasis. A colorful US based English line of "let's blow this pop stand", and they spin off in a cloud of hen sh!t and small rocks, in their big american muscle car (as they left the farm)(chickens flying about as they tried to get out of the way of the noise and dust/rocks). AKA backwoods boys having some fun.

Chortle, I did know what you meant. This colourful language even reached the shores of sunny South Africa

[modwiz]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by ViralSpiral (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
Then we are set up for an extra +6 billion (pop stand) lemonade buyers.

If life gives you lemons....

My first intro into this world was Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr Brian Weiss. Even without verifiable proof, it was pretty convincing. Easier, obliviously, if one has the propensity for such things.
Serendipity just sent me another book via pdf, from WhiteFeather. Dolores Cannons' Keepers of the Garden - about 'et's" on earth.
If I could look into your eyes Carmody.....

regarding 'pop stands'. It's a reference to leaving a place in haste and with a slight emphasis. A colorful US based English line of "let's blow this pop stand", and they spin off in a cloud of hen sh!t and small rocks, in their big american muscle car (as they left the farm)(chickens flying about as they tried to get out of the way of the noise and dust/rocks). AKA backwoods boys having some fun.

Your phrase brought a humorous recollection I have, Carmody. I once was out with some of my band members on a beach off of Long Island NY. It was Fire Island. We had taken the ferry to one part of the Island but decided to walk the beach for a few miles and take a different ferry off. Fire Island has a part of it that is almost exclusively gay and that is the part we had walked to. We were thirsty after our walk and popped into a bar. All men and all gay. Of course, no biggie, we had out refreshment and were ignored, being both 'out-of-towners' and straight. When I had realized it was time to leave I said in voice loud enough to be heard by anyone in the quiet bar, "OK. Let's blow this joint". The whole bar suddenly looked up and at me. My impish smile conveyed that I was 'just turning a phrase'. Yeah right!

My coyote medicine having some fun.

[Carmody]

I was never quite this crazy, I had a bit more respect for my life than this. But it was close. I mean, I had just come off a life where I was a slave and beaten all the time and died having done the same thing every day, for near 40 years. Vive la différence! Before that I was living an adrenaline drenched life, from being in the civil war, so some tension release was inevitable, but along the lines of life threatening adrenaline rides. It was...predictable. High levels of capacity for fulfillment of emotional pressure, in some ways, followed by total constriction. Then I got out....


This...... was very dangerous. See where the car lands and the speeds involved. One simple mistake of any kind.....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3zKSs2vH01Q

[Ernie Nemeth]

Reminds me of a joke about a bar stool in a gay bar and a courteous offer from one of the patrons to another.

Not really appropriate though, me thinks...

[Guest]

Posted by astrid (here)
Here and now, just dropped my two fur family members off to the kennels,


The good news is they were both SO happy,
i told them they were going to the PARK so
by the time we got there they were so excited,
I'm sure they will be fine and have a ball,
me on the other hand

Big weekend now to prepare for,
later peoples.

Thinking of you in a good way Astrid

And as we turn another page....

traveling today for about 5 hrs

Have a beautiful day

Love

Nora

[Heather2017]

Greetings, lovely Villagers. Here and now, it's a beautiful, sunny day in Phoenix.

Dad's visiting from Virginia, and we're both surviving nicely. We've never spent this much time together before, but we've become a lot closer since we lost Mom. Also, he's a mellower guy now that he's 88. He let me take him to get a haircut and get rid of the combover. Then I showed him how to keep it from sticking up all over the place with a little product. He's a good sport.

Went to see My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy! last night. Some corny jokes but still a lot of fun, especially since Dad's Jewish. It's a one-man show, and the guy must have a lot of energy for the days he does it twice (cue joke from Modwiz ;o)).

Managed to get essential housework done before Dad arrived. Becoming more aware of what my issues are. Boy, do I overthink and get anxious about minor stuff sometimes. 3D tasks come more naturally to some than others...

Thanks for being a wonderful group of diverse people from all over the world who remind us that we're all related.

Love,
Heather

[benevolentcrow]

Another chilly but beautiful sunny day in the North West. Mount Rainier in all of it's glory. Watching my Grand Daughter, what a joy. Just learning to walk. Note, never will need to use botox on these lips. Pleasingly plump as is!

[dan33]

Bad day. I've heard that several of my childhood friends have died. All about cancer. 1, 2, 3 ... There is no only one family. There is another family going back lifetimes ago. Talked to Chitina, her mother, this morning... all the beautiful past coming right now. I miss Carolina, who grew up together. Blessed be...

We have no one family, ....we are all realted.....

Thanks to all, and Nora

[Carmody]

Another chilly but beautiful sunny day in the North West. Mount Rainier in all of it's glory. Watching my Grand Daughter, what a joy. Just learning to walk. Note, never will need to use botox on these lips. Pleasingly plump as is!

She's making me think of one of the classic drawn image of Steve Tyler. (Aerosmith)

[benevolentcrow]

Posted by dan33 (here)
Bad day. I've heard that several of my childhood friends have died. All about cancer. 1, 2, 3 ... There is no only one family. There is another family going back lifetimes ago. Talked to Chitina, her mother, this morning... all the beautiful past coming right now. I miss Carolina, who grew up together. Blessed be...

We have no one family, ....we are all realted.....

Thanks to all, and Nora

Hope brighter days are ahead...

[dan33]

Posted by Carmody (here)
I was never quite this crazy, I had a bit more respect for my life than this. But it was close. I mean, I had just come off a life where I was a slave and beaten all the time and died having done the same thing every day, for near 40 years. Vive la différence! Before that I was living an adrenaline drenched life, from being in the civil war, so some tension release was inevitable, but along the lines of life threatening adrenaline rides. It was...predictable. High levels of capacity for fulfillment of emotional pressure, in some ways, followed by total constriction. Then I got out....


This...... was very dangerous. See where the car lands and the speeds involved. One simple mistake of any kind.....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3zKSs2vH01Q

I'm sure this was the stunts tests for French Connection.



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Posted by benevolentcrow (here)

Posted by dan33 (here)
Bad day. I've heard that several of my childhood friends have died. All about cancer. 1, 2, 3 ... There is no only one family. There is another family going back lifetimes ago. Talked to Chitina, her mother, this morning... all the beautiful past coming right now. I miss Carolina, who grew up together. Blessed be...

We have no one family, ....we are all realted.....

Thanks to all, and Nora

Hope brighter days are ahead...

Sure Thanks.

[Belle]

So thankful for this thread and especially to Ulli for creating the space we call the Village.

This week I have been bringing what I've learned about being part of a community Here and Now to real life. Thank you all.

Funeral 1 on Monday morning, mother of a friend; funeral 2 yesterday morning, father of another friend; wake tonight and funeral 3 tomorrow morning, the daughter of another different friend.

Yesterday 11 of us piled into two vehicles to make the hour and a quarter trip to Quincy for the funeral of our friends father. One of us sang, I played the organ and piano...everyone participated in some way in the celebration of his life. The joy on Frank's face seeing us all there was priceless. He couldn't believe we would come all that way to support him in his loss and was so grateful. The trips back and forth turned out to be so fun...we all ended up feeling so much closer, with discussions about forming a community of sorts that imo is rare in real life. For a loner like me, it was a rare but wonderful experience.

Tonight is a challenge...my friends daughter committed suicide. I've never been very good at this kind of thing. Part of me wants to come up with some kind of excuse not to go to the wake... the wiser part of me knows how important it is to support one another at such a time. I keep remembering that it is not the platitudes one spouts at a time like this that matters (which I am absolutely horrible at)...it is in the being there, in the sharing of space that allows room for spirit to work that we are called to be for one another. And hugs that speak louder than anything that can be said.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Without you and what I've learned here, I would not have had the strength to willingly, lovingly walk into the lions den of grief and be with them in the Here and Now.

Love you all.

[dan33]

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
Another chilly but beautiful sunny day in the North West. Mount Rainier in all of it's glory. Watching my Grand Daughter, what a joy. Just learning to walk. Note, never will need to use botox on these lips. Pleasingly plump as is!

I send her a Kiss!!!

[christian]

[dan33]

Posted by Belle (here)
So thankful for this thread and especially to Ulli for creating the space we call the Village.

This week I have been bringing what I've learned about being part of a community Here and Now to real life. Thank you all.

Funeral 1 on Monday morning, mother of a friend; funeral 2 yesterday morning, father of another friend; wake tonight and funeral 3, the daughter of another different friend.

Yesterday 11 of us piled into two vehicles to make the hour and a quarter trip to Quincy for the funeral of our friends father. One of us sang, I played the organ and piano...everyone participated in some way in the celebration of his life. The joy on Frank's face seeing us all there was priceless. He couldn't believe we would come all that way to support him in his loss and was so grateful. The trips back and forth turned out to be so fun...we all ended up feeling so much closer, with discussions about forming a community of sorts that imo is rare in real life. For a loner like me, it was a rare but wonderful experience.

Tonight is a challenge...my friends daughter committed suicide. I've never been very good at this kind of thing. Part of me wants to come up with some kind of excuse not to go to the wake... the wiser part of me knows how important it is to support one another at such a time. I keep remembering that it is not the platitudes one spouts at a time like this that matters (which I am absolutely horrible at)...it is in the being there, in the sharing of space that allows room for spirit to work that we are called to be for one another. And hugs that speak louder than anything that can be said.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Without you and what I've learned here, I would not have had the strength to willingly, lovingly walk into the lions den of grief and be with them in the Here and Now.

Love you all.

Hugs and kisses to you Belle. An unexpected storm.

[Belle]

..........

The joke is on me. I was so hoping that at least one state would legalize cannabis that I fell for chiquetet's joke. It would mean so much to so many people in pain if it were true.