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Welcome! I thought I had my site completed and then began receiving a nudge to add a page where I can offer on-going thoughts and new insights as they surface. These may come as a new concept I am pondering, a review of a book I am currently reading, thoughts on a discussion I have had with someone (names will remain anonymous) or whatever joy bubbles I feel like sharing at any time. UPDATED April 24, 1999 "How do we know that we know that we know we are communing with higher consciousness and not just our mental subconscious?" What are my tho'ts/beliefs about this? I receive warm fuzzies, joy bubbles and feelings of lightness in body when I sense this type of communion - when I go into what I consider "full" meditation. I image and receive interpretation/understanding of the symbology. I feel a sense of contentment/peace afterglow when I do take *time* to meditate. Per Shawn - "subconscious is the gateway to higher communication... which we accept by "faith." Okay, ask I, "what is the basis of 'faith'?" Shawn's first response, "I'll have to think on that awhile," then, "trust." I understand a synonum for "trust" as "belief." We can believe whatever we accept within as being true. How do we convince ourself it is true? My hubby's input: "Through repetition. Through proof. Accepting society's current standard of belief. Truth changes but facts remain the same. Or, maybe, truth remains the same but facts change?" A chat room discussion stirred memories of using dominant and less-dominant handwriting to bring deep-seated thoughts to surface. I have practiced this before and it was very effective: ask questions with dominant hand. Then put pen in less-dominant hand to write the answers. I quickly found solutions to the above discussion - through acceptance. I do not HAVE to know the source. If it is favorable awareness - and I do know the difference - then it is to be acted upon! UPDATED May 9, 1999 After sending out the last issue of Expansion Encounters via email, I began to contemplate. Am I really encountering expansion of communion with others or am I still sharing only the weather and how grand email is? I journaled, meditated and asked Love for wisdom. Is there a "common ground" of communication for all of humanity, where we can offer strength for others and find new wisdom within? "Enjoy every moment" is few words but it says everything! The question I receive back from others is often, "But how?" Myriad excuses can block the enlightenment but the only "how" answer is to fully accept "now." Experience it to the fullest. Some find this fearful but without acceptance, it tags along like the "happy 99," reminding us of that past moment and disallowing full attention on "this" moment. When we communicate with others, we are made aware of our thoughts in this moment. They will be "past tense," even by the time someone receives them via email. However, these thoughts of ours may offer enlightenment for another in the moment they 'receive' the message. That is not for us to judge. So, we continue becoming aware and sharing. UPDATED 6/1/1999 As I step into the blue sky for my ceiling, I leave the narrow walls of confinement to experience trees across the lake. They are the only confines to my seeing forever. (After all, I have to have some excuse!) More truthfully, my mind does not accept that I can "see forever." When it absorbs that as my Truth, I will indeed be able to do so. If I believe that is "possible," why am I not accepting it? I believe enlightened souls do reach an opening. I just haven't accepted that I am now exposed to that opening, too. So, how do I totally accept and experience this gift as mine? The answer comes, "Then simply reach out and take it!" I accept this opportunity to do so! UPDATED 6/15/1999 I have already shared some of the following in the Expansion Encounters newsletter I send out monthly but I am also saving it in my Journal as a keepsake. I experienced an outstanding weekend seminar/workshop in Missouri that Out Stands all others I have attended. What an experience to meet "familiar" souls, face to face, and to connect with others, similar in Purpose! Sheer delight! A new type of connection happens with a gathering of like-minded souls! Jean, who originated the seminar is a teacher, lecturer and author. You can visit her site at: TEAMUP She and Carl did a magnificent job - along with the Brotherhood - both in Carl's adeptiveness to getting it organized and keeping everything running smoothly (along with his jokes) - to Jean's delightful personality and sharing! Jean shared Sunday morning that, being married for 50 years, they make a pretty good team. And indeed they do! What a special delight to meet email "Partners," too! If you would like to join our Partners email group, you can do so by sending an email to majordomo@circuit1.teamcircuits.com the message: subscribe partners You are welcome to read more about the I AM conference at: GODMIND UPDATED 8/15/1999 As you can see, because I have not been here for awhile, it has been a "filled and running over" summer! Delightful! A childhood friend of Shawn's was our California neighbor's granddaughter and now lives in Missouri. Shawn and I traveled to St Joseph to visit her over a weekend. While Shawn and Tasha and her friend were riding horseback and sightseeing, I traveled on to Leavenworth, Kansas to visit a friend I met at the conference. She and I had a fascinating visit, discussing much about communication with our 16-year-old sons. She is enthusiastic! Even though she is a single parent, her relationship with her son shows that the "generation gap" is in the imagination. I released that gap after visiting with her. I have also joined a parenting email group, discussing delights and opportunities of parenthood. This forum has offered discussion topics within my family, as well. Recently, our family traveled to northeastern Iowa, southwestern Wisconsin, and southeastern Minnesota. We visited several caves, which Shawn enjoys investigating, and sojourned state parks, some with breathtaking views of the Mississippi River valley! Just before the conference in June, I began some new writing. After the conference, it escalated to many hours of glorious writing. It is now giving me a few desired breaks between writing to accomplish other activities before Shawn's school starts. As the writing continues, it is presenting itself as a book dealing with communication - interpretation and perception. We perceive and interpret messages to others - and to ourselves - differently than how they originate. Research and allowing the spiritual essence to guide this writing, it is offering a learning experience for me and I hope to be able to share it with others in the near future. UPDATED 10/22/1999 As the date indicates, it has been awhile since I have been here! Two reasons: (1) travel, and (2) waiting to be inspired with what to write. I found my solution to the second one this eve... I have been doing my journaling with my sis-in-spirit but there is no reason I cannot include my ponderings here, just as I share them with her. Before we get into that, we will go back to reason (1) - my trip to Seattle with my mom! You can read my journal/agenda of the trip at Seattle My cousin, John, who has since had the bone marrow transplant is doing well! He has gone through some opportunities - fighting for his life - since the transplant but each day brings new healing and strength. Now, to dig deep within and see what is happening with me in my now... I find opportunity when a change of routine is required, while I am at home. My mother visited our home this last week and we had a delightful time. I am now going 120 miles a minute "catching up" with projects I put aside during the week. She continued to assure me that I could go ahead with what I usually do but it was easier to set my routine aside at the time. We went shopping, traveled here and there, played cards, watched television and enjoyed chatting. I realized in a new way what a homebody I have become! I enjoy my quiet time, playing on the net, working with my writing... doing my own thing. I read something at her home last weekend in a book about the Home Stretch, by Dale Evans Rogers, that says interruptions are our growth times, or something to that effect. I find big opportunity dealing with interruptions when I am totally into a project, such as my writing. I seek blocks of uninterrupted time to work with it. Unless I inform my family that I prefer not being disturbed and close my office door, it doesn't happen. It doesn't always even happen when I am home alone! I think of some household chore that needs taken care of and away I go! What works good for me is to have a weekend retreat - go somewhere where I am away from the household reminders, where I do not know anyone, and can have a healthy retreat - time to think, time to meditate, time to do what I desire when I desire. It works! This only happens once or twice a year! So, my quest is to find that solace more frequently and preferably at my home or somewhere nearby. With winter approaching, it will not be outdoors. It could be as a regular routine of going to a quiet cafe, with a corner booth where I can get lost in thought and with my writing. I have accomplished this in the past but it doesn't seem to happen now. So, you are hearing me amidst my endeavor. As I continue to focus and ask for Guidance, I will receive my solution. And, if you have any suggestions, I would love to hear from you! Now that I have put out the request, I will continue here in the near future with the outcome. UPDATED 12/04/1999 Oooh! Christmas time is such a delight! We put up our decor - all except the tree - today. It brightens up the house... especially with it being gray, cloudy and rainy outdoors! I have some sentiments from my childhood and we have oodles from Shawn's. Gives a tinge of a "homesickness" type feeling - sooooo many good memories! There's a special nook in the living room where I sit for my Quiet Space during the winter - just inside from my outdoor Tho'ts Inn. Today, as I was sitting there, Bill came across the room to get a closer look out across the lake. He saw the first eagle of the season. They are so majestic! Much more regal than the oodles of wild geese who don't have enough sense to go further south! Eagles, geese, seagulls... all come to the lake during the winter. This year they have a special treat because the weather has stayed warm. We usually have a blizzard by the first of November and are facing icy winds by this time. We haven't yet had any snow and temps have been bouncing around from 40's to 60's. It was still 60* at 9:00 PM a few nights ago... in December.. in IOWA! A few years ago I might have really dug into pondering the Y2K thing or the New Age that many are predicting. Today, I am just enjoying each day to the fullest. I prefer and enjoy attaining goals. I learned not just to "set" them - it is the path reaching them that is the delight! Sometimes, I reach them so quickly, I haven't yet taken time to set new ones further along the path. When this happens, it's time to go to that chair in the living room... and listen! Each day I am attaining something - is it toward my heart's desire? Some days it seems as I've accomplished hardly anything - but those little things that I do accomplish help with bigger things later. Yes, after years of journaling, declaration and believing that every thought, word and action is a prayer, I am achieving the Good God has planned for me! I sense the joy bubbles nearly every day... they nudge me along! And in the Oneness, during this Season and into the millennium, may we each experience Peace and Love every day! GREAT ROOM  
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