Here and Now...What's Happening?

[1inMany]

Mornin, Village.

I sit and listen to the nature sounds, here and now. Watched the sun come up. Am reminded that the cycle continues, when I do this. Everything is cycles. Trick is to enjoy the moment while knowing that what passes through it is never ending. Not forgetting that this moment is a gift, it is a special reminder that life is in this moment.

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Em's 16th birthday has come and gone now. And K's 24th. Big birthday month around here. And Little One will soon be 7. When I think about his age, the funny thing is that I always think back to how young he was when I found the village. Man, I sure was a different person back then.

Who/what I am is ever unfolding. More connections are made all the time. Sometimes I can even go with that, haha.

Much Love,

[Carmody]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
That other place has gone to Hell in a handbasket in recent months. About 50 people have quit in the last few weeks, all old members, with no small amount of hurt and betrayed feelings. The founder of that place has flipped a 180 behavior wise, which has a lot of people speculating as to the purpose of it all. It went from a sleepy, peaceful place to a place of aggressive, jack-booted moderation in a very short time period. Quite the hullabaloo.

Thanks for clarifying this for me, PL. Could M be a victim of mind Kontrol, too?
I feel bad about everyone who was treated unjustly, though.
Love cannot flourish where there is injustice.
So what causes someone to act unfairly?
I know the team here never rush into those kinds of decisions,
and only then when absolutely necessary to protect this forum.
And in some cases even I would have acted sooner.

In the vast number of cases, far more 'butthurt' than desired or even being functional...needs to be allowed to exist, before action it taken. If not, there will always be some party or individual who will blow up the situation all out of proportion, and accuse moderation of being heavy handed and be screeching about conspiracies and whatnot. It's the 'can't win for losing' scenario, in the form of moderator and forum operation headaches.

On the bright side, if this sort of individualism did not exist, this would be a dead closed system, and would not exist at all. It would be dumber than a stump, or a rock. It would contain no awareness and no potential for awareness. It seemingly sucks to have sand in our collective vaginas, but the alternative is to not exist at all. So chose existence and forevermore be stretched between cow and pain (well, at least at this particular part of the given reader's existential path).

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Posted by ulli (here)
My paternal grandfather died when I was 17. He was then 89. He lived with us; three generations plus servants all under one roof. My mum took care of him, even though we all had been scared of him.
Yet now that I am gardening I can feel his presence, sometimes even more than my parents'.
Shoveling sh!t comes with farming territory.
I love cats particularly because they deal with their own, and bury it immediately.

I'm really proud of our little black Jaguarica (that's what the kids call her). She is an outside cat and has spurned her kitty litter. She does her business in the wild.

[araucaria]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)
One can’t help but take notice when folks like Seikou-Kishi unsubscribe.

Since Seikou-Kishi is still a member here (inactive since Jan 2, 2014), we look forward to seeing his posts here.

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
That other place has gone to Hell in a handbasket in recent months. About 50 people have quit in the last few weeks, all old members, with no small amount of hurt and betrayed feelings. The founder of that place has flipped a 180 behavior wise, which has a lot of people speculating as to the purpose of it all. It went from a sleepy, peaceful place to a place of aggressive, jack-booted moderation in a very short time period. Quite the hullabaloo.

Thanks for clarifying this for me, PL. Could M be a victim of mind Kontrol, too?

Not necessarily MK’d, maybe ‘love-bombed’
A spot of historical background may be in order for those who have forgotten (myself included to some extent) or never knew.

M(alc) the TOT forum founder was banned from Avalon not once but twice, first as The One, then as The Other (well not quite, actually it was Blue something ) Not everything Malc does is his own work:

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Eram (here)
I was merely referring to the fact that Malc on ToT has copy pasted a part of my post #38 and posted it there as if he had written it himself which I find kind funny and a bit.. weird.

This, as I recall, is the sort of thing that Malc does and is one of the reasons why he is no longer a member here.

If he’d been in industry, he would have signed a non-compete clause to prevent him from basically stealing Bill’s concept and cloning his site. He was on the attack from even before Day 1, touting members myself included to visit his new site. OK, he uses the same vBulletin forum software, so TOT is going to look like a mirror site regardless of content. You have Greybeard opening a similar thread to his Avalon thread: again OK; but a Here & Now thread, Ulli’s concept without Ulli, or a “Futuretalk” subforum, lifted straight from Bill and Kerry, not OK.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post727048
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post727605

These are my personal recollections, which lead back to this must-read official administrators’ report, which takes this whole thing way beyond such relatively insignificant details:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post726871

With this background, I can state a preference for the ‘wandering villager’ over the ‘prodigal son’ terminology. Given that you have a large, successful original site and a much smaller satellite receiving both banned and other Avalonians, and at this latter site, with its greatly reduced readership, you have an internal split between the banned, who – especially if they are attention seekers – will be both very disgruntled at getting shunted to this tiny clone site, and unlikely to mix well with members who are free to come and go and are just doing their thing injecting positive energy regardless of where they are. So basically, I see the wanderers as having been away on Village business and deserving a warm welcome back after doing a great job. If the other forum is not doing so well for it, that will be because the founder belongs to the former group, not the latter. Now he would be a real prodigal son if ever he truly repented and came home.

[ulli]

This morning's meditation:
I identified three states of being. A, B, and C.

A) coming from a unity (or herd) consciousness into self identity development (first decade of life)
B) coming from self identify into unity (herd) consciousness (second decade of life)
C) coming from self awareness to unity awareness. (After spiritual awakening)

And each of these three states attracts a specific universe response.
If A is continued in adult life it has the most potential pit falls as it means that one's soul might be lost. Extinguished forever, trapped by entities that feed on unhealthy ego energies.

B) is less so, as the individual is at least giving/offering something to the greater whole,
but can easily become a victim if the herd is one of lemmings
The PTB allow this type of consciousness...it keeps the consumer society running, and is easily controlled via the MSM.
Which leaves C.

C is the best and only option if one wants to exist forever, with one's identity intact.
It is also the loneliest path as well as the most excrutiating, short term, because the A and B crowd can't fathom what is going on, and delight in probing one with needles.
Especially hard for one like me who wants to avoid martyrdom at all cost.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Mikelodium (here)
And... soon I will be facing two hip surgery (first one on May 8) and I will need to stop doing mountain sports for about a year... My plans to climb Mont Blanc in 2015 have been delayed to... well maybe 2016.

Hip arthrosis being 36 years old, I can't even realize it yet. I hope all goes ok, mountain sports are my second oxygen now.


Peace

Mikelodium, my thoughts are with you this week and beyond Friday. Sending the good stuff your way.

Here’s a recyle of the cycle.

<3

[Flash]

Posted by ulli (here)
This morning's meditation:
I identified three states of being. A, B, and C.

A) coming from a unity (or herd) consciousness into self identity development (first decade of life)
B) coming from self identify into unity (herd) consciousness (second decade of life)
C) coming from self awareness to unity awareness. (After spiritual awakening)

And each of these three states attracts a specific universe response.
If A is continued in adult life it has the most potential pit falls as it means that one's soul might be lost. Extinguished forever, trapped by entities that feed on unhealthy ego energies.

B) is less so, as the individual is at least giving/offering something to the greater whole,
but can easily become a victim if the herd is one of lemmings
The PTB allow this type of consciousness...it keeps the consumer society running, and is easily controlled via the MSM.
Which leaves C.

C is the best and only option if one wants to exist forever, with one's identity intact.
It is also the loneliest path as well as the most excrutiating, short term, because the A and B crowd can't fathom what is going on, and delight in probing one with needles.
Especially hard for one like me who wants to avoid martyrdom at all cost.

So simple but so true.

[dan33]

"Do you see those two watches? One is Here, and the other one is Now.
I don't know the meaning. May be in OUR future. We Must Remember"

[Sierra]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)

Posted by Mikelodium (here)
And... soon I will be facing two hip surgery (first one on May 8) and I will need to stop doing mountain sports for about a year... My plans to climb Mont Blanc in 2015 have been delayed to... well maybe 2016.

Hip arthrosis being 36 years old, I can't even realize it yet. I hope all goes ok, mountain sports are my second oxygen now.


Peace

Mikelodium, my thoughts are with you this week and beyond Friday. Sending the good stuff your way.

Here’s a recyle of the cycle.

<3

Mikelodium,

Along with the Village, I'm intending the best and highest outcome for you, happily scaling Mont Blanc when you are done healing.

Speaking of healing, does the Village remember my asking for help for my next door neighbor whose house burned down? He was critically burned at age 83, and made it out of ICU in record time. I heard last week, he has been doing very well.

They've cleared the land next door, cut down the burned timber. I suspect we're in for a dusty noisy summer...

Thank you.

[Flash]

Well, some insight on many things:

1. Many many thanks to this wonderful team that Avalon is. I have a whole team helping me with finding work where I would oups, will be most useful. Many thanks to DeDukshyn who trusts me, by telling me precisely where to look, many thanks Araucaria who is putting directly his hand into my currilum vitae with his great wisdom and know how.

Many htanks to Ulli who follows me with her astrological insights, and to Running Deer who sends me good words and some intuitions and Dan33 with his good words through exchanges in Spanish.

And of course, to my friend Nat'lee who is both here on the forum with me and there in daily life. And my dearest friend Flashlight (lol, Flash, Mini Flash and now Flashlight) who is a new member here and has been a constant supporter of me throughout my life. To Mazda too, a forum member, who never writes but always read and is a very long standing friend as well, protecting my energy and making sure Mini and I are surrounded when needed.

With all of you, I have no doubts in my heart, I will get something where I will be of upmost help while loving what I will be doing.

Having 2 jobs interviews this week, and maybe one more later on.
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The other side of nature: my uncle, one of my mom's 2 brothers, died on Friday. So it will be family meetings through a difficult experience for most.

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Good luck Mikelodium, we are all with you too. Everything will be fine. And maybe you will discover new things to do yet more exhilarating, who knows, but I am with you during surgery.

[Guest]

Posted by dan33 (here)
"Do you see those two watches? One is Here, and the other one is Now. I don't know the meaning. May be in OUR future. We Must Remember."

[/QUOTE]

Hey Dan33,




Someone or something is sending me pennies on my porch. Every morning I get up and have coffee with my cat by a large red oak. I look to my left and down and there is a penny in almost the same place each morning -for about a month now. I've started asking who are you and what do you want.

Posted by dan33 (here)
May be in OUR future. We Must Remember"

It's the same feeling I have when I see the penny.





Love

Nora

[ulli]

I just received this from my dear friend Christy who lives in Barbados.
Please send energy that justice be done in this case.

Your Prayers are needed, please help!
Christy L'Angel-Preece 5/3/2015
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
For this past year, I have been campaigning for an Innocent Barbadian young man to be let out of Prison, and now his case is
coming up at the imminent meeting of the Privy Council, so I am asking you all for your prayers, so that the right thing be done.
At his time of trial, he was offered a Plea Bargain of 9 years if he agreed to say he was Guilty. Unfortunately, he could not lie in Court,
so he told the truth and pleaded Not Guilty, (trusting that Justice would be done) and has now been in prison for the past 15 years, whilst the perpetrators of the Crime were released 6 years ago. The others have now Sworn Affidavits that Jeffrey Joseph had nothing to do with the Fight, that resulted in Accidental Murder, as he had expressly gone to be the Peacemaker as he knew both sides of the Men involved, but unfortunately he was labelled as 'One of the Gang' by by-standers who sadly could not differentiate between the Attackers and the Peacemaker. So please, please can you pray for the Release of this innocent man, who has done far more years than he would have been sentenced to if he had lied and said he was Guilty. Jan Lewis of the Prison Library, who knows Jeffrey well, as he has been working with her in the Library for the past 6 years, can testify that Mr. Jeffrey Joseph has done wonderful things for the other inmates whilst in Prison and has won many NIFCA Silver and Gold Awards having written Plays and Acted in the Performances at Ilaro Court and NIFCA etc. He has also been coaching the other inmates in Mathematics and Responsible Social Behaviour and is an excellent role model for the other Prisoners.
His mother comes in every year from New York for Mother's day at the Prison, as it is the only day of the year she can Hug her son, I am truly praying that this year she can not only hug him, but she can have his company for her whole visit, and his 2 daughters are also eagerly awaiting the release of their father, so they can spend quality time with him and create a proper relationship that has been difficult for them while he is in Prison.
Please can we Release Jeffrey Joseph from Her Majesty's Prison - Thankyou for your help in this matter, many blessings to you all.
from Christy
PS Please forward this email to your friends and prayer groups so we can all pray that finally Justice be done for this innocent man, so we can all pray together for his Release.

[Snowflower]

Ulli, can you please let us know the outcome?

[Calz]

Posted by Nora (here)

Someone or something is sending me pennies on my porch. Every morning I get up and have coffee with my cat by a large red oak. I look to my left and down and there is a penny in almost the same place each morning -for about a month now. I've started asking who are you and what do you want.

Simple (and silly) answer is someone (or something) wants you to share your thoughts ...

... but my advice is free so who (or what) knows

[Mini Flash]

Here is something that will make you smile ...
This morning I was on the bus and there were two babies not far from each other. One was a dark skined girl around the age of two who were wearing short dreads. The other baby was a blond boy around the age of 1. The blond boy touches the girl's hair with a suprised looked. They both ended up touching each other and laughing. When the father of the boy was getting off at his stop, the babies were holding each others hands and didn't want to let go. The parents had to force them to let go.
A sweet baby love story on a monday morning. This is also proof that a person doesn't become racist at birth. I will remember this for a long time

[ulli]

Posted by Snowflower (here)
Ulli, can you please let us know the outcome?

As long as Christy lets us know, I will do my best. I'm curious myself.

[RunningDeer]

Full moon. Makes me skip 3-4 hours of sleep in the middle of the night whether I want to or not. I use that time to discover more of how to tap into those regenerative Source juices. I make up for lost time by sleeping in.

Today, there’s an 8:15 a.m. knock-knock. I thought it was my neighbor downstairs kicking around with it being Sunday and all. As it turns out it was my ex-hubby to say let’s go for breakfast while he gets his transmission fluid changed and tires rotated. I’m rushing around with the thought, geez the business must be thriving with the garage opened on Sunday.

It wasn’t until 45 minutes at the local diner over pancakes floating in syrup and butter, a side order of home fries and a second cup of coffee that I learned it was Monday. Great breakfast. I broke all those rules about a colorful, healthy balanced plate.

On Friday, I wondered where’d the four days go? Today, I asked where’d the weekend go?

It’s May. Winter’s but a far, far away memory. Only the dirt and the litter's left to eventually blow away from the 10’/3m piles of plowed snow.

Yesterday’s first lawn mower hair cut. Freshly cut grass smells lingered through those full moon night awake hours. Still waiting for the crickets. Until then I play nature sounds by my bed.

Today, it’ll be a fast pace walk with all that coffee. The last cup was two months ago. My body really, really likes that coffee, though the shaky fingers and hands don’t.

Window’s open, screen’s down, 18”/.5m away from where I’m typing. Bird smells and flutter wings tickle at my ear. They make quick in-and-out-hits on the windowsill for brunch.

Wind chimes now remind me to center and ground the body-whole. Tap into those regenerative Source juices. A shot of 10-20 seconds.

If there’s a message I’d pass along, that’d be it. 10-20 seconds of free, 100% all natural stuff that’s already inside…just waiting for a shake, a vibrate and you’re good to go. No time commitments. Anytime in the 24/7 give it a shake, a vibrate.

I’ve got bird friends that remind me, wind chimes, tree branches that sways, a song on my walk, a retuned smile, even a red traffic light helps me recall.

“Center and ground the body-whole and you’re good to go, Pauler. We’re all in this together, Pauler. Thank you, Pauler.”

“Much appreciation back,” I say.

local diner

<3

[Selkie]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)

local diner

<3

OMG, a classic diner! I love diners, where there is a bottomless cup of coffee and the waitress calls you "hon"!

[PurpleLama]

I got a lot of chills reading about your pennies, Nora.

[Calz]

Too long since I have posted a tune here (and now) ...

Nice eye candy ... if only I could find my spectacles ... dammit ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vTcn8LBE89I