Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Jean-Marie]

Hello Everyone!

Leaving tomorrow for a month of volunteering up at Boy Scout camp! I will be helping instruct on the shooting range. wifi is limited, but I will try once a day to get on and see the wonderful things going on, on this thread!

Here is a short 2.55 minute video of where I will be!

https://www.youtube.com/user/campnapowan

At the 2:38 mark on this video is some of the scouts from my troop.



And here was a video made of the camp from a scouts perspective five years ago when I went up to help with camp for the whole summer. It is longer. 10 minutes, but you can see the ranges I will be helping instruct on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tndquzv_yQI

I love working with and inspiring youth! They are so full of hope and optimism!

-jean-marie

[Violet]

Wonderful Jean-Marie, I wish you all a lovely summer camp.

And what you say is so true. Kids have that, let's cherish that.

Posted by Jhonie (here)
Wow I had to call the cops twice tonight. First was a drunk guy who was mad at my downstairs neighbor and now the couple across from me cut each other up in a fight. The cops and ambulance are here now.

I first wrote: well, it's not the full moon, maybe we should look at the sol.

And I listened to the new Kaypacha report. It seems sun and moon aren't getting along very well. I too have seen couples fight like unsuitably these days.

I've noticed people to be somewhat edgy these days. And one of them, as it happens, was a doctor,...again, btw (I wrote about another doctor. Someone should really ring the alarm for doctors. They are tired, I think.)

We went to the hospital for a minor checkup. The doctor was very nervous and tense. The other ones too, they just ran around like nuts, from one door to the other, taking in new patients, letting them out again. Quick inhale, next one, sigh, next one...

Her body was very stiff, she spoke so quickly, it seemed she couldn't have us out of that door quick enough. I felt sorry for her. She needed someone to tell her that it's ok, somehow, and she doesn't have to be like that*. I almost did tell her but, well,...

And a lot of services are like that nowadays, or am I seeing things. It's like people stopped enjoying what they do*. They're not ardent about their trade, and if you look into their eyes there's an emptiness. What am I doing here?

I brought the book to the library. You know, the one with the holes. The librarian - whilst still browsing for the affected page - already decided it was probably nothing. When he reached the page, he said the holes do not look to him like they are typical bookworm holes. And besides, he said, it's a fairly old book. (Yes? I kind of missed the point there. It's ok for old books to have holes?)
He called an even less interested colleague for a second opinion. Said that here's a book which has holes but they aren't bookworm holes. And she nodded slowly in agreement. And then he decided it's okay, just throw them in with the rest.

And all the time I wonder: wouldn't he like to know which other bug may have bitten through those pages?

No, apparently not, and that's my point. Who cares. Right?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qTnAR_5qzw8

Lovely weekend, to to-dos!


*= I'm not getting into how politics makes the self-employed's and farmers' lives quite unenjoyable, it's a long story, but it has part in this, no doubt.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Jean-Marie (here)
Hello Everyone!

Leaving tomorrow for a month of volunteering up at Boy Scout camp! I will be helping instruct on the shooting range. wifi is limited, but I will try once a day to get on and see the wonderful things going on, on this thread!

Here is a short 2.55 minute video of where I will be!

https://www.youtube.com/user/campnapowan

At the 2:38 mark on this video is some of the scouts from my troop.

And here was a video made of the camp from a scouts perspective five years ago when I went up to help with camp for the whole summer. It is longer. 10 minutes, but you can see the ranges I will be helping instruct on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tndquzv_yQI

I love working with and inspiring youth! They are so full of hope and optimism!

-jean-marie

Jean-Marie, enjoy the 30 days change-up at 'Napowan Adventure Base'. No doubt it’s a great place for new challenges and treasured memories for everyone. It never ceases to amaze me how many diverse skills you participate in on an on-going basis, including an instructor at the rifle and shotgun range.

Two highlights: shooting sports @ 2:20 & COPE - Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience @ 5:33

Napowan Adventure Base

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NlOZy4WuwcU

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

RunningDeer

[meeradas]

Re-tired [= again].

[RunningDeer]

FYI: Mandala’s husband passed away. [click here]

[ulli]

Posted by meeradas (here)
Re-tired [= again].

Good timing, Meeradas.
This time I will get deeper into it than the first 20 pages,
as I will be sitting in airports soon, with (hopefully) no more interruptions.
Ahhh....

[dan33]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by meeradas (here)
Re-tired [= again].

Good timing, Meeradas.
This time I will get deeper into it than the first 20 pages,
as I will be sitting in airports soon, with (hopefully) no more interruptions.
Ahhh....

Meeradas is JUMPING AGAIN!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9YWoCPd5boE

[Flash]

Here and now with Mini Flash in a singing competition. As well she presented one of her composition yesterday sang one of evanescense song and today one of Carla Bruni song and one of hers.

Stress and fun.

[1inMany]

Tomorrow is my 50th birthday.

Today I celebrate.

I celebrate the last hours of my 50th year. I mourn the passing of an era, I honor the path that has brought me to the Here and Now. I honor it, and I release it, no longer clinging to what is past. I place it, this me who I have been, gently in an exquisite basket woven of experiences, each one chosen carefully and with love, many of these reeds of experience painful but each one a teacher, and I place it on a river. The river will carry it away, and I will say goodbye. Tears gone by have filled the river that will carry me down with the current into the arms of forgiveness and understanding. Tears of heartbreak, tears of immense joy. Tears of regret, and tears that have washed me clean so many times. Tears that have carried not only my pain, but of so many souls whose pain I accepted and cleared.

Today I celebrate. I embrace all I have experienced. I embrace all the parts of myself, even those it has been painful to face. And as part of this celebration, I will go outside and ask for a stick. When one comes to me, I will go to the jar of threads and yarns I have been gathering. I never knew why I was gathering these bits and pieces, but now I know. As I tie each one around the stick, I will bring forth each experience that has been painful and difficult, each part of myself that no longer serves me, and I will forgive. I will tie each knot with love and gratitude for the opportunity it represents. And when I am exhausted, and when I have poured all the fragments of self that I can find into these knots, I will release them. I will ask the fire to devour the knots and release the energy as butterflies. Beautiful, colorful energies. Back to Source I will offer them.

Today, Here and Now, I celebrate. I release. So that tomorrow's Here and Now, I will embrace the New Dawn without reservation. Without expectation. Without dread. And with as much Clarity as I can attain. I am Creator, I am that Consciousness, and the more empty I can become, the more fully present I Am. The more fully present I Am, the more Divine Love I can allow through Me.

Much Love,

[dan33]

Happy Birhtday ONE!

[Flash]

Keep your calm, during the day only

This is a threshold that will bring you joy, fulfillment and full living, have a great day and a great year.

[Calz]

Sounded rather serious One ... don't forget to laugh ...

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

[dan33]

Saw again PROMETHEUS last week. Interesting video.

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

[RunningDeer]

Enjoy your day, 1.

[ulli]

[PurpleLama]

[araucaria]

Happy birthday 1inMany !

Violet, old books are more prone to damage because they were not printed on acid-free paper. I’m guessing that acid-free paper must also be treated with an insecticide.

Flash, as I said to my great-nephew the other day (he also had a crown on his otherwise interesting t-shirt: ‘What’s the queen got to do with it?’ His Dad snorted…


Ulli, have you landed yet?

[Flash]

Isn't she a Queen, 1inMany?

Posted by araucaria (here)
Happy birthday 1inMany !

Violet, old books are more prone to damage because they were not printed on acid-free paper. I’m guessing that acid-free paper must also be treated with an insecticide.

Flash, as I said to my great-nephew the other day (he also had a crown on his otherwise interesting t-shirt: ‘What’s the queen got to do with it?’ His Dad snorted…


Ulli, have you landed yet?

[ulli]

Posted by araucaria (here)
Happy birthday 1inMany !



Ulli, have you landed yet?

As usual, it was a crash landing.
The Barbados hotel industry might fool tourists into believing that this place is heaven on earth,
but let there be no mistake...the price paid to create this "recreational" place
is broken homes and a generation of bitter kids
who blame us baby boomers for all the ills in the outside world.

And there is no end in sight to the conflict, from where I stand right now.
But taking to heart the Prometheus video posted by Dan33 earlier,
I'm repeating in my mind "the trick is in not minding that it hurts."

Once I sink into a dark frame of mind (less frequently these days)
I get all sorts of other dark memories and regrets popping up,
making it even harder to process the here and now events.
So far the normally beneficial Venus/ Jupiter conjunction hasn't kicked in for me.
Maybe some of you reading this can help crank the engine.

[1inMany]

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. And Jihad is what PL's toddler calls me (thanks for leaving that for me to explain ). I tested him the other day, and he can actually say my name, so where he came up with "Jihad" is beyond me.

So Here (and now) I sit. Looking squarely at the day. The day before yesterday, there and then haha, I worked on my house. I cleared, filled, blessed and sealed. I saw it this time, stretch outward and work on some of this area around here. Even though the area doesn't need my help, I saw it move through the ground, through the tree roots. Pretty cool. Yesterday I did the same with myself. So that today I would awaken ready for the rest of my life. Sounds a bit dramatic. But true, though.

Today, I celebrate the new. I feel the pull, the one that wants me to be bothered by the aging process. I feel a lot of pulls actually. But there is a Strength inside that I am drawing on, that allows me to stand and stare it in the face. This only matters to the extent that it is the natural human process. I am so much bigger than this one process. It is just a day. That's all. Even this lifetime, it's just a flash in the pan. It's just a drop in the soup. If I can maintain that perspective, it takes the sting out of this. That, and the champagne I have planned

Today I celebrate being a Goddess. An online friend told me that 50 is the age at which women become Goddesses. She turned 50 a few years ago, and that realization for her made the day quite fun. I actually thought being a Goddess, channeling that energy and feeling that Divinity flow, was ageless. Yeah, well, that was before my birthday. 50 is kind of somewhere between the maiden and the crone. So Goddess works for me.

Since we are all the same consciousness, we are all celebrating today. Celebrating possibilities and new beginnings. Celebrating the unknown, welcoming it with Trust. Celebrating Love, the kind that doesn't break your heart but fills it, the kind that comes from Mystery and creates Life. Celebrating fear as a teacher, for without it we would not learn courage. Celebrating friends and spiritual family. Celebrating the Rebirth and Renewal that is possible in each Here and Now.

Happy New Year, Everybody!

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Much Love,


ps- Flash, Queen totally works for me!