Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

I'm wondering now if my Happy Valentine's shower is even more effective if sprinkled from 30,000 feet altitude...
so I'm wishing all of you Villagers including our guest readers a life filled with love, happiness and fulfillment.
Today is the first day of the rest of our lives...
Love you all...

[Lisab]

Thankyou Ulli and right back at ya. Have a good flight.

[Samsara]

Good news from the Village makes me happy

Happy Valentine's day !

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SUMcA--ejOc

[benevolentcrow]

May the sun warm your shoulders as hearts are handed out freely in the Village today... Sierra many blessing on your new home.

[Belle]

In the spirit of giving love this Valentine's Day, there is a "click to give" site called Greater Good Network...http://www.greatergood.com/

Each person's daily click on the Click To Give sites displays sponsor advertising.One hundred percent (100%) of sponsor advertising is paid as a royalty to GreaterGood.org, an independent 501(c)(3) charity that makes grants to charity partners delivering services in its mission areas.

I usually start clicking here http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/c...ankyou_sitenav then work my way through hunger, veterans, rainforest, etc.

All it takes is a few minutes time to click and give to help others.

[NeverMind]

Posted by Belle (here)
In the spirit of giving love this Valentine's Day, there is a "click to give" site called Greater Good Network...http://www.greatergood.com/

Each person's daily click on the Click To Give sites displays sponsor advertising.One hundred percent (100%) of sponsor advertising is paid as a royalty to GreaterGood.org, an independent 501(c)(3) charity that makes grants to charity partners delivering services in its mission areas.

I usually start clicking here http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/c...ankyou_sitenav then work my way through hunger, veterans, rainforest, etc.

All it takes is a few minutes time to click and give to help others.

I don't care about "St. Valentine's", but what a wonderful idea, Belle!

The Animal Rescue Site has been my homepage since 2002, and naturally I also click the other associated pages. (And later in the day I proceed to Care2's click-to-donate. :-))
I have also bought many, many lovely gifts and items for myself from their online store.

I am sure many others start their day with it - but until now I've never met anyone.

[NeverMind]

I wonder, could this thread be renamed "The Village" and another thread (also a sticky) be opened called "Here and Now"?
Both concepts deserve a thread of their own, in my opinion.
(Yes, I am an incorrigible editor by heart. :-))


Right now...

On my left I can see the golden sheets of late winter afternoon sunshine on buildings, their roofs covered with snow.
The deep freeze is finally giving way.

I have just listened to the Prelude of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Now I am getting ready to listen to the rest of it.
It just feels right, right now.
And I am getting ready to write.

I just have to make myself another tall glass of tomato with cayenne pepper and lemon, and I'll be set.
I have the feeling it is going to be an interesting evening.
I only hope it will also be happy.

[Alekahn]

Dreaming in the here and now. Hands in warm, crumbling black loam.
In a garden, 'wet with rain'.

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

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

I had a buddy, very bitter at the time, who would always get really drunk on Valentine's and berate so-called lovers, or anyone that crossed his path for that matter. He called St. Valentine's, Singles Awareness Day. A buddy of mine and I wrote a song about it. I was going to post it, but the original recording malfunctioned somehow, and a third of the song is cut off. I'll get around to it one day, and re-record it, and post it, but then Singles Awareness Day will have come and gone. Here are the lyrics anyhow. Please remember, this is satire, but true to the event as I witnessed it:

-Singles Awareness Day
There are so many stupid holidays in the calendar year
The consumer marketing and corporate shark-ering can sure bring a tear
Halloween and Thanksgiving, buy a turkey leg
Then comes Christmas and the New Year's dregs
Pretty soon New Year's is left behind
But the one I really hate is St. Valentine's

Chorus:
Singles Awareness Day running through your head
Don't have to slit your wrists to see red
Cause there's Hallmark......Hallmark

Ten A.M. and Timmy's drinking, shouting at the passerbys
Reminding him of all his heartbreak, trying not to cry
Go to Hell all you lovers, you gentle kind
What the hell are you thinking, your love is a lie, your love is a lie

Chorus:

So go out and buy your roses, and your chocolates too
Try so hard to get laid before the night is through
But of all the women that you'll ever have
And all the ones that can't be true to you
Just know that your only Valentine is your Momma....

Chorus & End:

Ol' Timmy is married now to a beautiful women and his teenage angst is behind him. That one was for you Tim, many blessings and thanks for the inspiration.

Have a good day, y'all

[Belle]

Just got this message in my email and wanted to share it with the Village.

I was going to get you a box of chocolates for Valentines Day..........


Rumor has it you, uh............you like the stuff!


Just like life, there's light and dark; there's sweet, bitter sweet and just a little sweet, and there are soooooooo many kinds, filled with god knows what........ What is a man to do?


Dazed and confused as I stumbled from the candy section, drunk with the smell of sweetness, I found myself in a section of Close Out Items reduced in price for lack of interest. I reached out my hand to steady myself and clear the dizziness which engulfed me like a thick fog when my hand landed on the perfect gift.................


It looked like a Sampler box of candies but on the lid it said Divine Sampler. The gift was packaged in the most beautiful way in a gold and silver container inlaid with priceless jewels. Immediately I read the label to find to my delight that it was 100% organic, non-toxic.............but, it had been tested on animals. DARN IT !! I nearly put it back on the shelf when a persistent tiny voice told me “Get it anyway!” “Get it anyway!”


I stood wrestling with myself as I continued to read the ingredients, if only to satisfy that pesky little voice. The more I read the more I knew this was the perfect gift for you, and although it is continuously tested on animals I was assured that no animal was ever harmed in any way. Further research found that the manufacture packaged the exact same product for two different markets …...... man & beast.


I turned the gift around in search of the price tag, but found none. From behind me, like an angel came a voice, “You look confused, can I help you with something?” I inquired about the price and much to my surprise I was told.......


“Oh that. That is a special gift and it is absolutely free for that is your Divine Inheritance and NO ONE can charge you or tax you for your Divine Inheritance! That is a gift from Creator!”


“It includes a Sample of Forgiveness, Compassion, Empathy, Sympathy, Tolerance , Acceptance and an unlimited supply of Unconditional Love and Gratitude.


Each piece is designed to …..... Prime the Well, so to speak............ to open the valves and remove the blocked energy to allow the return of the natural flow of abundance of Forgiveness, Compassion, Empathy, Sympathy, Tolerance, Acceptance and the unlimited supply of Unconditional Love and Gratitude which is our birthright.”


I inquired as to why there were so many left in the Close Out Bin if it was free and our birthright. How come we didn't receive this gift as we came into this world?


I was told that we did, in deed, receive this wonderful gift as we came into this world, but, the people have become lost in a sea of illusion and have totally forgotten that Abundance & Prosperity is our birthright. The people have been convinced that Abundance & Prosperity are a privilege and that we must pay for it...... that our Divine Inheritance can be taxed, licensed or withheld. Our Divine Inheritance has gone neglected and unused.


With a sad face and a heavy heart this little angel told me that the people of the world have rejected their Abundance & Prosperity, their Divine Inheritance. That we have chosen Doubt and Fear over our Divine Inheritance and now here it sits in the Close Out Bin. I was told that the company had a whole warehouse full of gently used packages of Divine Inheritance. The company was seeking a way to clear their shelves of the rejected gifts and return them to the people where they belong.


I was assured that there is no 'Sell By' dates and that although Divine Inheritance was organic, non toxic, and contained absolutely no preservatives, that it would never spoil or sour........ and that as long as we actually used the gift it would never run out. It was an unlimited supply of every thing we need to bring Peace and Harmony, Abundance & Prosperity into our lives. We simply need to acknowledge and accept our Divine Inheritance and use it often........... use it generously....... an unlimited supply!


This little angel seemed desperate to find a way to return the gifts to the people where they belong as she looked at me with those big, wet puppy dog eyes I simply melted........ I decided right there and then that I would make it my mission to return these rejected packages of Divine Inheritance to their rightful owners and to assist the people to awaken.......... to remember !!!!!


Abundance & Prosperity
Is Not A Privilege...........It Is Our Birthright!


I immediately thought of you, so here is your gift from me this Valentines Day........ here is your Divine Inheritance ….........gently used, but, complete with every thing you need to open the door to allow Peace and Harmony, Abundance & Prosperity to manifest in your life. Use it often and use it generously. Give it freely to yourself and others as you cannot overdose …........ Remember, organic ….... non toxic.......


Remember.....


Happy Valentines Day!!


James Thomas

[eaglespirit]

Posted by Belle (here)
I was told that we did, in deed, receive this wonderful gift as we came into this world, but, the people have become lost in a sea of illusion and have totally forgotten that Abundance & Prosperity is our birthright. The people have been convinced that Abundance & Prosperity are a privilege and that we must pay for it...... that our Divine Inheritance can be taxed, licensed or withheld. Our Divine Inheritance has gone neglected and unused.

With a sad face and a heavy heart this little angel told me that the people of the world have rejected their Abundance & Prosperity, their Divine Inheritance. That we have chosen Doubt and Fear over our Divine Inheritance and now here it sits in the Close Out Bin. I was told that the company had a whole warehouse full of gently used packages of Divine Inheritance. The company was seeking a way to clear their shelves of the rejected gifts and return them to the people where they belong.

I was assured that there is no 'Sell By' dates and that although Divine Inheritance was organic, non toxic, and contained absolutely no preservatives, that it would never spoil or sour........ and that as long as we actually used the gift it would never run out. It was an unlimited supply of every thing we need to bring Peace and Harmony, Abundance & Prosperity into our lives. We simply need to acknowledge and accept our Divine Inheritance and use it often........... use it generously....... an unlimited supply!


This little angel seemed desperate to find a way to return the gifts to the people where they belong as she looked at me with those big, wet puppy dog eyes I simply melted........ I decided right there and then that I would make it my mission to return these rejected packages of Divine Inheritance to their rightful owners and to assist the people to awaken.......... to remember !!!!!


Abundance & Prosperity
Is Not A Privilege...........It Is Our Birthright!


I immediately thought of you, so here is your gift from me this Valentines Day........ here is your Divine Inheritance ….........gently used, but, complete with every thing you need to open the door to allow Peace and Harmony, Abundance & Prosperity to manifest in your life. Use it often and use it generously. Give it freely to yourself and others as you cannot overdose …........ Remember, organic ….... non toxic.......

And So It Is...Happy Valentine's Day, today and every day : )

Thank You Belle !

[Alekahn]

"...every year at the same time, a community would form from among the people, who now considered themselves
homeless and refugees.
This community of ex-villagers came together to ritually and poetically feed the Heart of the Earth that fed them
and take care of what the "village" always seemed to forget. The community that came out of this understanding
would gradually congeal into a hierarchal village once again, a village that would have to be ritually and intentionally
dismantled the following year and remade again through community.

Villages then are not by nature communities; villages come from humans wanting what they want. Communities
come from losing villages.

...community has to do with loss and a willingness to fail. It is fueled by grief, which forces our insistent desires to
mature into a love for the small and forgotten. Community is a thing of Nature, not people, unless people are part
of that Nature. Community is where individuals come flooding together to spiritually feed that big thing that feeds
the village. It is about gratitude and ecstasy. Community is the ecstatic voice that lingers after the villages we insist
upon are torn apart."

(from "The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form"
by Martin Prechtel)

[RunningDeer]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=efWUG9QnfDg

[benevolentcrow]

The message is going out, love one another!

[Marianne]

Posted by Alekahn (here)
Dreaming in the here and now. Hands in warm, crumbling black loam.
In a garden, 'wet with rain'.

Alekahn, that dream inspires me to dream too. The rich, moist earth, waiting for us to plant seeds and tender sprouts.

My brother is planting our big garden plot this year. I won't plant it again without a fence to keep the deer out. White tail deer are over populated here on the mountain. He already has little cabbages and such planted; he covered them the past couple of nights because of very cold temps and wind.

Going to a movie tonight with my work friend T.

My young friend with fibromyalgia symptoms is eager to begin learning about a new way of being ... we start tomorrow at lunch time.

Belle, loved your message from the Abundance and Prosperity Angel ... I think she must be hanging out over at the cash barn too, beckoning us to come in and help ourselves.

Love to you beautimous village people.

[Guest]

LOL benevolentcrow.

Happy Valentines Day everyone..... I love you

had some snow on the mtn last night.... woke up to this in the yard -seems I may have had a visit and they left some marks. I took the pictures with 2 different cell phone cameras I need to fix them a little. I took lots of pictures here are a couple of them. For reference the triangle is pointing North the line West and East top pic. The line on bottom pic are NNW to EES



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here are a couple more



the foot prints above aren't mine i wear a 6 1/2 to 7 woman


standing WWN looking EES
Love

Nora

[Belle]

To me, the heart of James' gift is the sampler... "complete with every thing you need to open the door to allow Peace and Harmony, Abundance & Prosperity to manifest in your life."

It looked like a Sampler box of candies but on the lid it said Divine Sampler....


“...That is a special gift and it is absolutely free for that is your Divine Inheritance... That is a gift from Creator!”


“It includes a Sample of Forgiveness, Compassion, Empathy, Sympathy, Tolerance , Acceptance and an unlimited supply of Unconditional Love and Gratitude.


Each piece is designed to …..... Prime the Well, so to speak............ to open the valves and remove the blocked energy to allow the return of the natural flow of abundance of Forgiveness, Compassion, Empathy, Sympathy, Tolerance, Acceptance and the unlimited supply of Unconditional Love and Gratitude which is our birthright.”...


...I immediately thought of you, so here is your gift from me this Valentines Day........ here is your Divine Inheritance ….........gently used, but, complete with every thing you need to open the door to allow Peace and Harmony, Abundance & Prosperity to manifest in your life. Use it often and use it generously. Give it freely to yourself and others...


Remember.....

Nora, what unusual markings. Do you have any clue to their meanings or who may have left them? (You don't have to answer...I just needed to ask.) Peace and much love woven together as a cloth to wrap yourself within.

[dan33]

Find this while searching for the Fashion Show by Fellini in his movie ROMA.
So here it is.

Kisses to everyone

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

[Cottage Rose]

Question:

Does anyone else see a profile facing right in the stonework of my cottage?
Others have commented on occasion, so I do not think it is just me.



Does anyone else see a profile facing left in this crystal?
Or, am I experiencing an odd fixation?



(Thanks again PL.)

[PurpleLama]

Posted by Nora (here)
LOL benevolentcrow.

Happy Valentines Day everyone..... I love you

had some snow on the mtn last night.... woke up to this in the yard -seems I may have had a visit and they left some marks. I took the pictures with 2 different cell phone cameras I need to fix them a little. I took lots of pictures here are a couple of them. For reference the triangle is pointing North the line West and East top pic. The line on bottom pic are NNW to EES

Attachment 13766

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here are a couple more

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the foot prints above aren't mine i wear a 6 1/2 to 7 woman

Attachment 13769
standing WWN looking EES
Love

Nora

Oh, wow, the very instant that I scrolled down and saw these pictures, an ad for the movie The Borrowers came on the tv. I kid you not.