Here and Now...What's Happening?

[RunningDeer]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Paul (here)

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)
2000 will be yours Ulli, we just ask Paul to close the thread for everyone but for you !

No need to do that ... my magic powers enable me to re-order posts on threads.

Hi Paul, you can do that?

Erm, you couldn't by any chance see a way to exercising your magic powers around the 19k mark on the bottom of page 950?

No you couldn't? I see.

Oh well, I shall just have learn to live with being the perpetrator of that dastardly deed.

Good question. I wondered the same.

[ulli]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Paul (here)

Posted by Wakytweaky (here)
2000 will be yours Ulli, we just ask Paul to close the thread for everyone but for you !

No need to do that ... my magic powers enable me to re-order posts on threads.

Hi Paul, you can do that?

Erm, you couldn't by any chance see a way to exercising your magic powers around the 19k mark on the bottom of page 950?

No you couldn't? I see.

Oh well, I shall just have learn to live with being the perpetrator of that dastardly deed.

You won't find it difficult since you have been absolved.
I forgive you. ( it was never an issue, really...)
Unconditional LOVE LOVE LOVE.....

[ulli]

Posted by Nora (here)
Happy Birthday to all of the Villagers. I cannot believe it has been a year now.

And Happy Virgo Birthdays too.

Welcome to all of the people new to the Village.

Haven't posted in the Village for a while now. I have been busy with tasks (some of which are much more arduous than I originally thought) and allowing the events of the beginning of Summer to gel....
but always thinking of and say a prayer for everyone.

Soon, I will be writing about good hot fires and making good hot soups.

The last 2 days in the forest have been hot, blustery and dry. There is a mild warm Sana Ana wind blowing through SoCal. The winds have been strong enough to blow the acorns off of the Red Oaks and the pine cones off the tall Pines. Lots of accessible food for all of the little critters.

Here is a picture of the area, dense scrub oak, Manzanita, Red Oak, Pine -old growth forest. There is also a splattering of White Willow and Cottonwood trees in the lower wet valleys.

Oak hollow
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and plenty of local friends




Had a dream a couple of nights ago..... a man was killing trees. Some of them large. He would either turn them into deadwood then pull them out or cut and pull them while they were still alive. I was deeply upset and furious. I went outside shouting at him to stop. He didn't really care, he just kept killing them. I had to wake myself out of the dream.


Love

Nora

Dearest Nora, you too, need to forgive yourself.
Life is tough....but it is what it is.
When total acceptance comes that's when you can relax
And only then will that tree chopping stop.

I see dreams with disturbing messages as opportunities for relief and release.
Inner pressures, guilt feelings, resentments, ....
They all have to be purged somehow.
That's what dreams do.
Only then can you access fresh energies with which to continue your life...
Then All Is Well.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Belle (here)
After posting the "Standing Ovations" picture, I wondered if anyone would 'get it'.

I still have one of the original, first production version of the Ovation guitar.

A trip down memory lane....many years ago I worked at Kaman Aerospace in Bloomfield, CT for a brief time. Charlie Kaman's (the creator of the Ovation guitar) office was on the second floor, just above my office. As new versions of the guitar were presented to him, he would try them out...wow, he was amazing! He could play anything...spanish guitar, classical, blues, etc...he played it all extremely well. The sweet sounds could be heard all through the building.

The story goes that he was on a flight in one of the helicopters the company made...with his guitar, of course...and loved the sound the rounded top of the helicopter made of his playing. He attempted to recreate that sound in a guitar...hence the rounded back. His son was the one who eventually ran the Ovation division of the company.

During the time I worked there, there was a piano in the lobby which I would play on occasion...he was trying to branch out into other instruments at the time. Thankfully, they dropped the piano idea and focused on guitars...the cabinet was absolutely gorgeous, but the sound and action was horrible!

Charlie was a beautiful soul. He would walk through the building, stopping to chat along the way, caring about the people who worked for him and appreciating the job each and every one of us did.

Charlie passed fairly recently. Maybe that's why loving thoughts of him keep popping up.

Here and Now remembering a special soul who left quite an impression on a young girl so many years ago.

My first thought was I hope Modwiz sees your post. He's got some mighty fine Ladies of his own.

Oh, Belle, look who stopped by.

Hello, Charlie

[ulli]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by Belle (here)
After posting the "Standing Ovations" picture, I wondered if anyone would 'get it'.

I still have one of the original, first production version of the Ovation guitar.

A trip down memory lane....many years ago I worked at Kaman Aerospace in Bloomfield, CT for a brief time. Charlie Kaman's (the creator of the Ovation guitar) office was on the second floor, just above my office. As new versions of the guitar were presented to him, he would try them out...wow, he was amazing! He could play anything...spanish guitar, classical, blues, etc...he played it all extremely well. The sweet sounds could be heard all through the building.

The story goes that he was on a flight in one of the helicopters the company made...with his guitar, of course...and loved the sound the rounded top of the helicopter made of his playing. He attempted to recreate that sound in a guitar...hence the rounded back. His son was the one who eventually ran the Ovation division of the company.

During the time I worked there, there was a piano in the lobby which I would play on occasion...he was trying to branch out into other instruments at the time. Thankfully, they dropped the piano idea and focused on guitars...the cabinet was absolutely gorgeous, but the sound and action was horrible!

Charlie was a beautiful soul. He would walk through the building, stopping to chat along the way, caring about the people who worked for him and appreciating the job each and every one of us did.

Charlie passed fairly recently. Maybe that's why loving thoughts of him keep popping up.

Here and Now remembering a special soul who left quite an impression on a young girl so many years ago.

My first thought was I hope Modwiz sees your post. He's got some mighty fine Ladies of his own.

Oh, Belle, look who stopped by.

Hello, Charlie

Maybe Dennis Leahy could make something of this, too.

[benevolentcrow]

To all of my Village friends, a big good morning!

Well we did it! Sign a lease for a brick and mortar vintage shop!

Scary and exciting as well! It is scary going into a business when funds are tight and the economy is not so rosie! It is exciting at the prospect of actually doing something you love on a daily basis.

Any positive prosperity and abundance energy sent our way would be much appreciated!

There has been so much love shown in the Village lately, it really has touch my heart!

My heart goes out to all of you for a happy, healthy, prosperous and beautiful days ahead.

Much love!

[araucaria]

Dear WhiteCrowBlackDeer & Ulli

It's very sweet of you both, but quite unnecessary, I was just kidding. Self-forgiveness is pretty easy when you get as much practice as I do

All is well - except that I didn't get very much work done yesterday afternoon...

[Belle]

Posted by WhiteCrowBlackDeer (here)

Posted by Belle (here)
I still have one of the original, first production version of the Ovation guitar.

My first thought was I hope Modwiz sees your post. He's got some mighty fine Ladies of his own.

This lady's guitars are Male...deep soulful bass tones on both the 6 and 12 string. I'll leave the Ladies to Mod.

Haven't played the guitar in years. Piano is my instrument and the calluses formed by playing guitar detrimentally affects my 'touch' on the piano.

Looking forward to retirement...then I will play guitar, mandolin and congas again and take lessons on the harp...instruments that destroy a pianists fingers but are so much fun to play!

Congratulations, benevolentcrow! There is nothing like doing what you love...others will love it too. Blessings of joy and abundance to your new endeavor.

[Sierra]

Posted by Nora (here)
Soon, I will be writing about good hot fires and making good hot soups.

Love

Nora

Oh good. Do you know when I read your posts about soups and fires, the same drop in blood pressure happens as when McKnao would leap on the bed and plop down with a sigh on my ankle ...

[ulli]

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
To all of my Village friends, a big good morning!

Well we did it! Sign a lease for a brick and mortar vintage shop!

Scary and exciting as well! It is scary going into a business when funds are tight and the economy is not so rosie! It is exciting at the prospect of actually doing something you love on a daily basis.

Any positive prosperity and abundance energy sent our way would be much appreciated!

There has been so much love shown in the Village lately, it really has touch my heart!

My heart goes out to all of you for a happy, healthy, prosperous and beautiful days ahead.

Much love!

Wow, and congratulations. And on the Village birthday, no less!!!
I'm so happy for you.
The Village wil be here to back you up.
But I already know that it will be hardly necessary, as you will do extremely well.
I just hope you'll have time to spare to drop in here once in a while.
Will you send pictures when it is all set up? Please please???

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Posted by araucaria (here)
Dear WhiteCrowBlackDeer & Ulli

It's very sweet of you both, but quite unnecessary, I was just kidding. Self-forgiveness is pretty easy when you get as much practice as I do

All is well - except that I didn't get very much work done yesterday afternoon...

And I knew you were kidding...hehe...
Since here we are all kidders at heart.

[modwiz]

Posted by Belle (here)
After posting the "Standing Ovations" picture, I wondered if anyone would 'get it'.

I still have one of the original, first production version of the Ovation guitar.

A trip down memory lane....many years ago I worked at Kaman Aerospace in Bloomfield, CT for a brief time. Charlie Kaman's (the creator of the Ovation guitar) office was on the second floor, just above my office. As new versions of the guitar were presented to him, he would try them out...wow, he was amazing! He could play anything...spanish guitar, classical, blues, etc...he played it all extremely well. The sweet sounds could be heard all through the building.

The story goes that he was on a flight in one of the helicopters the company made...with his guitar, of course...and loved the sound the rounded top of the helicopter made of his playing. He attempted to recreate that sound in a guitar...hence the rounded back. His son was the one who eventually ran the Ovation division of the company.

During the time I worked there, there was a piano in the lobby which I would play on occasion...he was trying to branch out into other instruments at the time. Thankfully, they dropped the piano idea and focused on guitars...the cabinet was absolutely gorgeous, but the sound and action was horrible!

Charlie was a beautiful soul. He would walk through the building, stopping to chat along the way, caring about the people who worked for him and appreciating the job each and every one of us did.

Charlie passed fairly recently. Maybe that's why loving thoughts of him keep popping up.

Here and Now remembering a special soul who left quite an impression on a young girl so many years ago.

I thought it was brilliant. Very clever concept for blatant guitar porn. Loved it.

[1inMany]

Good Morning, Village

Little One is busying himself making a house for the praying mantis we spotted. It was sitting right by my foot. He tried and tried to get the mantis to step up onto his hand:



But alas, it didn't want to.

So Little One has proceeded to build a "house" around the little creature, table over it, gallon of bubbles on one side, plank of wood complete with pillow and blanket for a bed.

Awww....

Bless all the creatures, big and small...Much Love,

[Free Will]

More thanks..full of gratitude. Great news Sierra! Heart is with you Samsara. Anchor... I will learn to communicate better soon..cat really has my tongue these days..Meeradas..the bird buttons were my attempt at responding to you, re Bird..i love Krishna Das..and Nina! Love you peeps..

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p5I3GfXdPQQ

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kc8dFQWyod0

[RunningDeer]

Congrats! Benevolent Crow and to your Daughters!
I send Light your way,
AND
I see you've got it covered already!
Much Love

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
To all of my Village friends, a big good morning!

Well we did it! Sign a lease for a brick and mortar vintage shop!

Scary and exciting as well! It is scary going into a business when funds are tight and the economy is not so rosie! It is exciting at the prospect of actually doing something you love on a daily basis.

Any positive prosperity and abundance energy sent our way would be much appreciated!

There has been so much love shown in the Village lately, it really has touch my heart!

My heart goes out to all of you for a happy, healthy, prosperous and beautiful days ahead.

Much love!

[Sierra]

Posted by Rahkyt (here)
How weird is that? Astrid's post reminded me that I had a dream about a party this morning also. Mine wasnt so nice, though ... it was on the edge of some sort of canal, dark water, people were dressed quite garishly, they all seemed to be the sort you'd see at a Hollywood affair. I remember not fitting in and diving in the water to retrieve something someone purposefully lost, knowing it was done for the amusement of banal people. I'd had to search the water previously for a dead body and there was a monster truck driving under water. The party and my service to the amusement of the guests was the culmination of the dream.

Wow Rahkyt. To me it is a perfect expression of your birth situation. This looks like the foundation of reality for anyone descended from those enslaved. Masters *are* garish, Hollywood fake and false, their happiness based on ego saying I'm on the top. They have purposely lost their souls, their feelings, their awareness in order to enslave and profit. And it goes on, even though no American is called a slave anymore. The monster truck under water is the work done, without credit, without acknowledgement (reminds me that slaves built the infrastructure of NYC, including the underground subway system which (or so I've heard) if destroyed by an earthquake, would be too expensive to rebuild in today's market, without monster slavery energy), deep feelings (water) on the subject ... it is the amusement of the "guests" that really gets me ... choleric. And they are laughing today. At all of us.

Dude. You are awesome. What you've built on top of that foundation ... we love you to pieces for it.

I hope I have not offended, speaking of a subject of which I have no experience ... well, in this lifetime anyway. And pardon me for interpreting your dream, I couldn't resist. It is so very rare that I think I understand a dream.

It is dawn. I am out on the deck, watching the dawn flush. The humming birds are here. Low clouds over the far ridge are blazing pink. It is still, the morning breeze has not yet started to flow down the hill.

Today is my sister's house warming party, and I've been having so much fun making a goody basket (organic olive oil, organic balsamic vinegar, hemp soaps, teas, candle, wine) ... thinking of adding an Indian wool pink and green shawl I have not yet worn, it would be so cosy for her.

Sierra

[1inMany]

And the finished product...



Bubbles for a door, red chair for a tunnel, blue blanket on a white pillow (in case it gets cold)...

It's going to be a day filled with love...

[ulli]

I just did something I should have done ages ago.
I looked at the Village's chart.
No wonder it has lasted so long.

There was a Grand Trine...Pluto in Capricorn, Jupiter in Taurus and Mercury in Virgo.
(The sun in Virgo, too, but not part of the Grand Trine...)
Then there was Venus rising....
right on the Ascendant, sex tile to Mars...hence we hardly ever have gender conflicts here.
The Moon was in Aries...which is not too great, but held in check by Saturn in Libra, in opposition.
But the best part of all is the trine from Neptune to its Midheaven...
Which means the Village gets regular infusions of love and energy from the unseen worlds,
keeping it alive for some higher purpose.
Obviously part of a greater master plan which we down here can only dream about....
Although Eaglespirit due to his altitude has often alluded to.

[Sierra]

Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
To all of my Village friends, a big good morning!

Well we did it! Sign a lease for a brick and mortar vintage shop!

Scary and exciting as well! It is scary going into a business when funds are tight and the economy is not so rosie! It is exciting at the prospect of actually doing something you love on a daily basis.

Any positive prosperity and abundance energy sent our way would be much appreciated!

There has been so much love shown in the Village lately, it really has touch my heart!

My heart goes out to all of you for a happy, healthy, prosperous and beautiful days ahead.

Much love!

Woo hooo! <breaking out the champagne> <seeing Modwiz, Dennis, Belle, and Charlie drifting to the stage> Prosperity, abundance and joy be yours!

[RunningDeer]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
Good Morning, Village

Little One is busying himself making a house for the praying mantis we spotted. It was sitting right by my foot. He tried and tried to get the mantis to step up onto his hand:

But alas, it didn't want to.

So Little One has proceeded to build a "house" around the little creature, table over it, gallon of bubbles on one side, plank of wood complete with pillow and blanket for a bed.

Awww....

Bless all the creatures, big and small...Much Love,

“Animal Spirit Guides,” by: Steven D. Farmer, PhD. - (particle list)

If PRAYING MANTIS shows up, it means:

- You could benefit from studying and practicing a martial-arts disciple such as Kung Fu, Chi Gong, or Tai Chi, which has a strong meditative and spiritual component.
- Make prayer, meditation, or contemplation part of your daily regimen, even if only for a few minutes each day.
- Listen to your instincts as to when to more forward and when to retreat.
- Spend some time in the natural world, and practice being as still as you can for as long as you can, with nothing else to attend to except your breathing.
- Consider redirecting your energy by withdrawing it from whatever isn’t working in your life and focusing greater attention on what is working.

Call on PRAYING MANTIS when:

- You feel like your energy is blacked or obstructed in some way zapping your vitality.
- You’re overwhelmed with the stimulation from your environment and want to have some peace and quiet.

If PRAYING MANTIS is your POWER ANIMAL:

- You’re centered and well balanced, and your movements are fluid and graceful.
- You’re attuned to your instincts and trust them to guide you in making the right moves.
- You’ve very patient and perceptive and can maintain your focus for long periods of time.
- Prayer and meditation are significant practices in your life.
- You practice the art of stillness, and you’re so good at it that you’re able to quiet your outer mind and draw upon the internal and spiritual resources that become more available when this is done.

L.
P’er

PS Use what fits & assists and chuck the rest.

PSS This one jumped out at me because you acted on it yesterday and today was confirmation: "Consider redirecting your energy by withdrawing it from whatever isn’t working in your life and focusing greater attention on what is working."

Praying mantis is one of my power guys.

[Sierra]

Posted by Anchor (here)
I LOVE YOU.

I LOVE YOU ALL.

I listened to this. It is nearly 15m long, but it is worth it.

It started turning me into a blubbing puddle releasing tears of joy and then lifted my heart in joy.

Listen to all it all and basically I hope you melt into the joy I experienced.

I am so happy to be in the most exiting incarnation ever, in the best of the best of creations, on a freaking amazing planet, surrounded by such masses in interconnected angelic entities vibrating with the original rhythms of the source of creation.

Even the crap times can be set aside in moments of joy. We are not lost.

We cannot be beaten.

Let light pour forth.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M1E67YWZbWU

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M1E67...eature=related

Thankyou all.

Thankyou Gaia!

Thankyou Krishna Das!

I didn't want it to end. Listening again. Oh my heart.