Shift Movement

This woman’s post is especially timely:  
http://www.whidbeyislandreiki.com/5-Minutes-of-Love.html

So glad you shared what you found serendipitously, Mark!  Connie’s voice is beautiful. 
Everyone:  I have something amazing to share.  It’s Vimeo, not YouTube, but I could not believe my ears!!  What an incredible example of community organizing and the impulse toward music:    https://vimeo.com/52711779
 
And:  https://vimeo.com/onedayonearth/121212

Dear Nancy ~ In reply to your note about  “You said that #5 in the list of how to contribute to Raine’s movement is public speaking and this is difficult for you.  I too once had this dread….statistically more people would rather die than speak in front of an audience!” I appreciate your wonderful advice about self-expression and public [...]

So good to hear from you Nancy.  Beautiful sharing!   I have been in the depths lately, and have had a similar experience in knowing I need to be able to love myself more, but tired of the same old advice to do so.  I was sent this below by my sister who received it from one [...]

Many thanks, Melody for keeping my friend in your thoughts.  Her home is undamaged, and she was only out of power 2 days it turns out.  She is aware many are not so lucky.  In reading coverage of the aftermath (NY Times, etc.), the disaster seems to amplify exactly what is wrong with a system of [...]

http://erinwaterwoman.com/2012/10/30/most-humbling-event/   Thank you for creating this space, Melody.  Even though I live on the opposite coast, I am concerned by not hearing from several coworkers (work for a nationwide company with folks from all over connected only by internet), and especially anxious about a leader of a meditation workshop I have been attending biweekly by phone for [...]

I feel it too Melody and Lori (nice to see you here again).  A breather has felt essential, but my wish is none of us take the break in contribution in this group as a personal affront.  We all must do what we must to care for ourselves.  Supportive connections with people we do not see [...]

I have been depressed lately, remiss in participation here, and beginning to receive proposition spam in spades through Shift Network from people apparently thinking I am an available man.  Ugh.  Wish I knew how to make it stop.  I came across this beautiful Whitman poem today that returns my sight to the universal thread running through us all: [...]

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Thank you for such kind words, Clover Cate!  I feel this is my “soul group” and this is a special space.  Nancy ~ I am absolutely blown away by how I needed to hear the piece you published above.  Thank you for sharing it!!  I know you are touching many lives with your story.  I also find [...]

Nancy ~ I am only now catching up on all the wonderful gems you have posted.  Thank you for the Divinity Movie.  I have been going through some dark days recently, so I know a change is on the horizon.  When you post things in the middle of my own muddle, it reminds me of the [...]

Having returned from the City of Roses and reconnecting with past memories of countless hikes and friendships, I am refreshed with a new goal to return there once I am no longer primarily responsible for my child’s well-being (who does not want the change).  Oregon is full of natural bounty for sure!   In college, I dreamed [...]

A little story about Love or the reflecting upon it.  One particularly lonely depressed day several years ago, I posted a Craigslist platonic personals ad.  I’d had enough experience with “online dating” to know that mostly married men answer the platonic ads, so I did not expect or seek anything but did this more as a [...]

“Acts of love and service are much more common in this world than conflicts and quarrels.”  - Mahatma Gandhi Just back from vacation, catching up on posts.  I have a little story about a moment that happened this week sitting in the Portland Rose Garden on an incredibly clear day, listening to Celtic harp wafting through the air [...]

Thanks so much Nancy for the Bobby McFerrin clip.  Guess what?  I had an opportunity to meet Bobby McFerrin in 1984 in person. . . before all the pop fame.  He came to my music conservatory to teach an Improv workshop.  He taught the entire session in the school’s chapel while lying on his back [...]

Nancy – I love how you can go from an incredibly refined, amazing Tree of Life (don’t know how you find these images!!) to “Truckin’” in a single day!  Here’s a good old friend of Garcia’s (Grisman) – not sure why sound doesn’t work in Doc Watson interview, so just be patient for the music:   [...]

You’re welcome, Melody ~ I’m glad Bonnie is here to tell her story of hope.  I just want to make sure by your comment “glad you are here to share this” that you did not think I had stage IV breast cancer.  Nope.  Always been healthy as a horse, except for the plague of poundage from [...]

Sharing this incredible healing work with mandalas if you have not seen them yet:   http://www.bellandtodd.com/ I e-mailed Bonnie to ask permission to post one of their amazing mandalas on my own webpage, and this was BEFORE I knew of her connection to cancer and healing from the natural world ~ exactly the theme of the work I [...]