THE HOLIDAYS

 

We received some real Winter snow on Saturday. It is beautiful, but I wasn't one of those complaining of a Christmas with sparse snow. I don't like it when it gets really cold without snow. It is hard on some perennials and shrubs. We lost some shrubs, several years ago, when it got below zero with no snow cover. As long as the temperature stays above 10F, I can live without snow, for awhile at least. We certainly need the moisture.

I hope everyone had a great Holiday! Celebration raises the vibration of the planet and several religions have Holidays at this time. Let us keep up the good cheer, long after New Years.

The Great Awakening is in progress. It won't be stopped. More and more, we are getting a glimpse of who we really are, and we are no longer willing, to be pawns of those who lust for power.

For eons we have had the choice of love or fear laid before us. In our separated state, fear was very seductive. Those who would bend our minds to their will, had little trouble manipulating us. We are waking up to the realization that we are all equal parts of Source and equal parts of all Creation. We live on the Earth, which itself is a living being, only capable of love. All of Nature is Love.

We realize, all we need, is to choose love at every turn to see Paradise. It is here under our feet already.

It is sometimes difficult to resist the seduction of fear. We haven't had enough experience choosing love to make it a firm habit. The dark has been defeated, but they have not given up completely. Soon, I think, the danger of false flag operations, and other attempts to create war and chaos, will be over.

I don't like to bring this up, because knowing that we are creators and, also, still susceptible to fear, I don't want to say anything that could raise the fear level. As long as the dark has control of the media, and certain rogue members of government, they may cause trouble.

However, they can do nothing without our cooperation. They cannot do anything as long as we refuse to fear. It is very important now, to make all our choices, loving ones. We will get through this time of uncertainty, and before the next year is over, we will walk out into the Light.

Let us look for the Love around us. Basque in the love and light from people we know. It is there. Sometimes dim, but look for it, it will grow.

I am not sure I will get back to my usual Monday, Wednesday, Friday blogging until after the New Years. I may write something on Thursday or Friday.

Love and Peace,  Gregg

MERRY CHRISTMAS

When I was growing up, my family didn't put up the Christmas tree until Christmas Eve, then we kept it up for the twelve days of Christmas. Over the years, with pressure from people with different traditions, I have relented to putting up the tree earlier. This year we broke the record for early and put it up at Thanksgiving time. It has been a gloomy month, weather-wise, and the tree and other trimmings have lightened up our days. However, time has flown by so fast, that it seems like we could have put it up yesterday.

As I mentioned earlier, we had a Yorkie/Poodle cross for about 15 years. She went on, to the happy hunting grounds, August last year. We were more than a year without a dog. We adopted a four year old Yorkie/Poodle cross, around the beginning of November, this year. She was the pet of an elderly couple, he died, and she went to a nursing home. It has been a very successful adoption. Her name was Tina. We wanted to rename her. Tina was okay but...................... not quite right. We thought it would be wise to pick a name with a similar ring that she would respond to. Xena [the warrior princess] gets the most votes. Jamie thinks we could name her Rosina, then we can call her Xena or Zena, they sound the same.

I forgot what it is like, living with a dog. We have had big dogs and little dogs. Once big dogs are potty trained, they pretty much take care of themselves. They ask to go out when they need to, and at night before bed, one might ask their spouse, “Has the dog been out lately?” If they have been out in the last couple hours, one can go off to bed. We certainly don't want them to wake us up in the wee hours because they need to go out. Little dogs are different. Perhaps it is just the training. But little dogs want you go out with them to do their business. Both Rosie and Xena could be out by themselves for several moments and wouldn't pee until I went out. Little dogs are closer and involve you more in their routine.

Rosie didn't, and Xena doesn't, pester me at meals. However, neither think it is okay for me to have a snack between meals without sharing. I think it is a little undignified when I find myself palming the odd bit of cheese or sausage when I go in to the living room and then eat it behind the newspaper. It is embarrassing to be intimidated by the appetite of a little dog. We once had a little poodle that slept with Naomi when she was very young. I swear this dog [Daisy] could hear a salt shaker, administering to a piece of left over chicken. She would come roaring down stairs before I could get a biteful of anything.

Some people in my family are so ungenerous, as to say, it is all my fault, because I spoil the little creatures. Perhaps, it is not a mistake I made with the Labradors, Golden Retrievers, or Setters that graced our household. But these little dogs, they sit on your lap and gaze into your eyes. Who can resist sharing an ort or two with these wistful animals. {An ort is a bit of leftover food. I'll save you the trouble of looking it up. Only the crossword puzzle addicts are likely to have run across the word}.

This blog was going to be about Christmas Time. It is indeed a time for celebration! Long before the Christian Era, the ancients celebrated this time of the year as the return of the light; especially in temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere. It is very appropriate, as celebration, lights up the darkest part of the year, as it heralds in, the returning Sun.

This year, it is especially appropriate to celebrate. We are coming out of a long period of darkness. For eons we couldn't remember our origins. We forgot we were an integral part of Source. We tried an experiment, living separately without Unconditional Love, the experiment is over. We don't want to do it anymore. It is time to celebrate our Oneness and our Oneness with all creation. All is Love. We know that.

Let us celebrate our awakening at this glorious time.

Merry Christmas every one!

Love and Peace, Gregg

GETTING THROUGH TROUBLED TIMES

 

Another Friday. Wow! Time is flying. It has been gloomy, weather-wise, we have only had about five minutes of Sun in the last five days. I have been a little gloomy, too. More on that later.

I apologize, to those, who looked for my blog Wednesday, and found none. We had a change in schedule. We have a marvelous person, come and clean our house, every other Thursday. She needed to change to Wednesday this week. I knew about it, of course, but I had forgotten about it until Tuesday. I meant to write a short note...........but........one thing and another.........I didn't.

I have little episodes of gloominess ever since the Paris attacks, and the events in California, make it worse. I was fully aware of what the main stream media was going to do with the events. The war propaganda and the demonizing of Muslims was predictable. Despite my awareness, and my avoidance of the MSM, I experience a gloom hanging over the world. I have no doubt, that both events were false flags, orchestrated by those, who benefit from perpetual war.

I don't know how many of my fellow citizens get sucked in, it is disheartening that anybody does. The good news is, it appears that most people are resisting the propaganda. I come to that conclusion from the people I know, and a scan of the internet; but with the MSM blaring the horror it is hard to know.

I don't like to think about myself. Lately, I have been more aware of myself, and have had a propensity to run my shortcomings through my mind. I know this is crazy, and it helps no one; especially myself. I read recently, that folks were in a hurry, to get rid of their old programs. The idea is that there is pull to raise our consciousness, and we are eager to rid ourselves, of what is not functional in the world to come. The old idea of karma. Karma can be seen as an opportunity to grow; not a debt or obligation.

The MSM is going to torture us for a while longer. We need to do our best to ignore it and live our lives, in the loving way, we know how. We put our Christmas decorations up early this year and that helps dispel the gloom from both the weather and the news.

We have to remind ourselves, of how powerful we are, in bringing light into the world. Every moment, we either lighten things up, or not. We shine light, in the hearts of everyone, when we laugh. We have no idea, how life giving, our smile can be to a stranger [or friend or family member]. We are all little [or huge] light generators wherever we go. Shining our light is as easy as throwing a switch. Most of us do it automatically whenever we go out. We shine our light in the grocery and everywhere else we go. Let us remember to keep shining our light when we go home. Many times, we retreat into ourselves, when we go home, and those closest to us, miss out on how magnificent our light can be.

I don't know how long these troubled times will last. I know it doesn't help to indulge ourselves in how we feel about them. I know it doesn't help to think of ourselves. We can focus on those around us and lighten their life. We are capable of bringing paradise into our own lives.

The Sun just came out! Ah! It is great!

Monday I have a teeth cleaning appointment at 10AM, right in the middle of my blog time. It is probable there will be no blog. I will probably write Wednesday, but it will be a busy time; then Friday is Christmas. It will be hit or miss but I hope to get at least one blog in, at least, to wish a Merry Christmas.

Love and Peace, Gregg

LIGHT UP THE WORLD

 

The wind was blowing all night and it is still blowing. It is not cold, about 33F, balmy for this time of year. However, it seems threatening, as if there is a big change coming, which could mean more snow and cold. Well, we have escaped any real Winter so far; it's time.

The weather doesn't reflect my mood, although, I had a little downer last night. I have been pretty good through most of the late craziness, but last night I suddenly saw the bleakness of the world. For a moment, I experienced the hopelessness many must feel. Then it was followed by a period of self-criticism. I didn't like that.

Fortunately I know how to get out of that negative space. I know, that when we have those experiences, we are doing them to ourselves. We are hanging on to some negative thought and emerging ourselves in some self-created negative program. The first step to getting out of a bad mood, is accepting the fact, that it is something only we are responsible for; we will always get plenty of help from those close to us, but it is our thing. Pointing fingers just delays our getting out of it.

It helps to remind ourselves that we are One and One with Source. We can't have a negative experience, at the same time, we feel our Oneness with Source. However, we can get ourselves pretty isolated from everything in the universe. We are masters, at creating the illusion of separation, and we have been doing it for a very long time. Knowing it is our responsibility, is freeing. It gives us a pathway out. We know whatever experience, we are having, it is not truth. The truth is, we are always pure immortal energy. We are always part of Source.

When we calm our minds, we can feel the loving energy of the universe, surrounding us. We can let ourselves rejoin Oneness. We can let go, the recent and older, past; whatever it is that is haunting us. We need to stop dragging the past into the now and terrifying ourselves about the future. When we are convinced that Now is Love, there will be no more discussion.

Someday, we will go through this exercise, of getting out of a bad space, for the last time. It gets easier and easier. The light is growing. Every time we lift ourselves up, we help everybody rise. Our every smile, our every laugh, lightens everyone!

Let's light up the world!

Love and Peace, Gregg

UNLEARNING

We don't know what we know. We don't know what we don't know. We live in bubbles within a large bubble. The large bubble is comprised of our culture and traditions. The smaller bubbles are our religions, political parties, our clans, our families, professions, etc. We are defined by the matrix of beliefs that make up our perception of reality.

From the minute we are born we are shaped to see reality in the way; first our parents, then our teachers [includes religious teachers], then other authority figures, see the world. Stepping out of the bubble and seeing freely is always punished, in one way or another. We are tribal beings. We want to belong. We want to be accepted. We want to be loved. Ostracism is painful.

It is fearful to be out on a limb, by ourselves, seeing outside the bubble. We want companionship. We want to share and have support for what we see. How can we awaken if we are afraid to think for ourselves? How can we awaken if we are conditioned to be slavish to authority figures?

I have been a proponent of learning centers to help people live on the Earth in a sane manner. I imagined the centers, as a collection of healers, teachers, artist, craft people etc. who would provide the impetus for a new way of living on the planet.

Perhaps they would be better labeled unlearning centers, as their main function, would need to be divesting ourselves of all the nonsense we now think of as knowledge.

How can we learn, not to do to the next generation, what was done to us? We don't want our children to accept the beliefs of authority figures like we did. No real progress can be made if we walk in lock step with each other.

Can we create schools that encourage children to think for themselves? Can we resist indoctrinating the next generation the way we were taught?

This certainly is not an original idea. For centuries philosophers and educators have been concerned about this dilemma. Schools have arisen and then died out, or became corrupted, by the larger culture. Perhaps our consciousness has improved enough to make real education main stream. We still need pilot projects. We need people, appreciative of the problem, to come together with ideas. There are folks all over the world doing that right now. I have read of some especially interesting experiments in Russia.

Somewhere deep in our hearts we recognize truth. It is time to find our way out of the matrix. Freedom beckons. Love nourishes our search.

Some readers may not realize how deeply entrenched we have become in our blindness. I may expand on that later.

I would appreciate any information folks might have on how to help parents raise children without unnecessary indoctrination and how schools could be shaped.

Love and Peace,   Gregg

CREATE PARADISE AROUND YOU

It is an absolutely gorgeous day on Planet Earth. The Sun is brilliant and not a cloud in the sky.

The troubled world is very far away from me. Paradise surrounds me.

However, I am not going to be able to wax eloquently about this beautiful world, because I need to accompany Jamie to a dentist appointment. She had an appointment to get a tooth extracted, our regular dentist studied the x-ray and decided it was too complex. We are going to a specialist this Morning. I need to go with her because we don't know if it would be wise for her to drive after the procedure.

I don't know if I will have time to blog this afternoon. I need to see how things unravel, in the world, any way.

Create paradise around you!

I should be here Friday.

Love and Peace, Gregg

A COLLAPSING WORLD?

 

It has been cloudy the last few days. I would like to see some Sunshine. It is warm for this time of year. It has been getting into the high thirties and low forties fahrenheit. There are a few patches of ground appearing, but the snow is stubborn. Without the Sun, the snow stays on, despite the above freezing temperatures. The chickens have been coming out for the last couple days, It is nice to see them roaming around the yard.

If you are looking for help about what is going on in the world, you are not likely to find it here. I am amazed at how incomprehensible things have become. I used to be able to understand the swings of the stock market; now I have no idea what is really driving it. I know it is not the economy. The economy is dreadful and getting worse. Corporations have gone on a buying spree, buying back their own stock; this temporarily drives up their stock and makes them look good to the disadvantage of investment in their future.

But that is small potatoes, when looking at the whole market. It has obviously become a gambling casino for some investors. What keeps all the small investors with retirement accounts etc, in the game? They must think it will go on like this forever, or at least, for the time being. Maybe it will. I don't know how.

I know we are coming to some fruition. The forces of darkness are losing their grip. You might think this is wishful thinking. I would not blame you, if you did. The main stream media is full of the horror of the collapsing world. There is very, little about the possibilities, of love and peace.

The dark has had but one goal and that is to control everything. There is no amount of mayhem, that is too much for them, in order to get their way. They have succeeded so far by pitting one group against another in an endless battle for dominance. They are experts at using our egos against us. Religion, nationality, race and political philosophy have been, their favorite things to play on, to create decisiveness and chaos. But you know all that.

When I first realized what sheep we have been, how easy it was to use the media to talk us into war and all manner of horror, I asked myself “What is their goal?” They have had us under their thumb for years, What did they want? It would seem that having happy slaves would be much nicer than having unhappy ones. Wouldn't they rather rule over a happy contented people?

I guess if you worship both money and power; money is not enough. One would have to have power over others, and absolute power would be the goal. I have had a hard time getting my mind around that. If you exert power over someone, can you trust that they like you? Love you? Are these people, into the darkness, folks that have abandoned all hope of being loved? It would seem so. When they quit trying to dominate us, perhaps we will see the need to offer them compassion.

I think we are about to evolve out of this craziness. Leaders and politicians who flirt with divisiveness, and other forms of darkness, are looking more and more ridiculous. Folks who are waking up can see through their silliness and know, also, not to make fun of them. We really have to end divisiveness. That means not ridiculing those who do it.

Folks all over the world, have come to the conclusion, that the only antidote, is to love each other. We need to not look at the craziness and decide we are going to love ourselves, and the person next to us, and decide to be happy. We are weary of chaos and conflict and we know love is the solution. We need to start with ourselves and go outward. We are all worthy of love.

I always end up saying the same thing. I can't see any other solution, but to see what loving beings we really are, and put the craziness behind us. As we learn to give up the past, and be in the present moment, we will see who we really are. When I say the past, I mean our individual past; all; the programming we absorbed, that had to do with our incompetence and unworthiness. When we unlearn our limitation we will see our magnificence.

Love and Peace, Gregg

LIFE EVENTS

It is a beautiful Winter Morning on Laughing Water Farm. I am sitting here with a cup of coffee at my elbow. I was outside to give the sheep water and let the chickens out. The chickens don't mind the cold but they don't like the snow. Later in the Winter they will be used to it and they will go out; for now they are cowering in the coop.

Jamie and Noah have been loudly discussing art, artist, narcissism, and the creative process, in the living room. They are just far enough away that I can't hear every word, but close enough that it is hard for me to pay attention to what I am trying to do.

I don't know what I am going to write anyway. It seems like I say, the same things, over and over. I thought of taking a vacation from blogging; but then, I like to do it even if I some times struggle to have something to say.

I had a shocking event happen yesterday. Last Tuesday, I took my car into the garage [that is when they found the problem that caused me to bring it in on Wednesday]. Anyway, they related a terrible event that happened the day before. A car stopped on the highway, to turn into their place of business, was rear ended and the occupant killed. I asked who it was and I didn't recognize the name.

Yesterday, when I was reading the obituaries in our local paper, I recognized a picture. It was the person killed in the accident, and I have known him for at least fifteen years. He managed the feed store I patronized, and so I knew him quite well. I enjoyed my visits with him. He was great fun to joke with. We liked each other very much. We were on the opposite sides of many political issues, but still, had essential agreement on the craziness of the world. I knew a great deal about him, his wife, his family, his relationships, yet his last name, was not etched enough in my consciousness, for me to recognize it when I was at the garage.

I need to go to the feed store this week to get some chicken feed. I was looking forward to it. There is always a group of men, sitting around a table, drinking coffee, and solving the world's problems. I always enjoyed a bit of repartee with them. It won't be the same.

I am eighty years old and have experienced unexpected death before. Yet, this disturbed me more than I would have expected. All of a sudden, something is taken from my life. A touch stone. An important part of my routine. That kind of change is not something we like.

It didn't disturb me because of my own inevitable death. I long since made peace with that. Perhaps, I would have, not been as disturbed, if I had made the connection right away.

Well, life comes to us one moment, one day, at a time. It unfolds and gives us what it gives us. Everything is a teaching moment. Death is not the end of being. I think everybody chooses their moment. I don't know why he chose his moment. I don't need to understand. I thank him for the moments he had with us. He enriched us and our existence on this planet.

The forecast is for temps to be well above freezings for the next few days. Most of the snow should melt. I underestimated how much snow we received. I thought we got about 8 inches. It must have been more than that. We still have more than four inches on the ground, after three days of high temps well above freezing. The chickens will enjoy patches of open ground. The snow has shrunk enough that there are patches of brown grass sticking out. I noticed the sheep were taking advantage of that. It is interesting that they would choose tufts of dry grass over hay.

Have a great Friday and don't let the main stream media beat you down. Things are not as bad as they make it seem. The dark is lashing its tail for the last time. They are no longer in control of the world. Folks of good heart are rising to ascendency. We will experience breakthroughs, of light, soon.

Love and Peace, Gregg

HANG ON TO ALL THAT IS LOVE

Winter is with us. I had to take the van to the garage and leave it for repairs. The front wheel drive van had no trouble negotiating the driveway. My little truck was another experience. Rear wheel drive and not enough of a load in the back; I was on the verge of being stuck several times.

At least, the little problems Winter brings, keeps my mind from focusing on the crazy world. I am pretty good at focusing on peaceful subjects; but, ever since the tragedy in Paris, the war hawks have been cranking up their propaganda. They are just drooling to start a war. I don't think they will succeed, but I don't like to be witness to the insanity. I think people see, that the very people who are shouting the war cry, are the folks who created the problem by pushing for the invasion of Iraq. ISS would not exist if it wasn't for our aggression.

Then there is, more and more, coming out, that was hidden. It makes for a dreadful picture of the world that is passing.

Sometimes living in this world is like being in a big ball of yarn with many colored threads, we need to find the colors that represent love and sanity and hang on to them. We can. There is much good in the world and love is growing; but, we can get twisted up in all kinds of craziness.

The best thing we can do, for ourselves and the world, is to make the decision to be happy. When life hands us some pretty ugly colored threads it is difficult to see anything else. But we can. Within our minds, is always a place of peace. We can make the decision to see the threads of sanity.

We will get through this individually and as a group. We will walk out into the Sunshine.

I don't have much to say this Morning except, keep loving yourself, and let your love shine on the world. The world needs all our love.

Love and Peace, Gregg