INTENT

Will Summer arrive suddenly? Our local forecast predicts it to reach 80 degrees F. today. That seems unlikely. My thermometer reads 54.6 and it is already late Morning. We will see.

Spring has finally and definitely arrived. I was able to water the sheep with the hose yesterday, even though the hose runs under a pile of snow left from the plow. I was surprised because I didn't think the hose would have been that well drained. Perhaps the pile of snow melts from the ground up as well as the top down. I am pleased to be finished with hauling water for another Winter.

It has been raining off and on. I actually heard thunder last Night. The rain has been light but it has reduced the snow piles. If the temp really reaches 80, the snow should be history by tomorrow. There are only a few piles of snow left, where it fell off the roof and the from the plow.

I am often reminded we are all works in progress; especially me. We can talk about unconditional love, being in the moment, giving up our egos, giving up the past, giving up judgement, refusing to entertain fear and more. Worthy goals to be sure but I know it ain't easy. Isn't that a phrase from a song? “I know it ain't easy” I can hear it in my head.

No it it is not easy but it doesn't have to be hard either. I don't think it is possible to reach our ideal while being in these bodies. It is a struggle to keep our minds free of judgement, fear and the other stuff, but we can love ourselves anyhow. That unconditional love bit needs to start with ourselves. We need to love ourselves warts and all, the rest will come.

Sure, we may look at ourselves and think, “gosh I have a long way to go”, but the length of the journey is not important. The intent to begin the journey is very important.

Intent is very powerful. When we make the intent to give up judgement we put our foot on a path that will take us there. The beginning of the path may be fraught with problems. We are learning what judgement has meant to us. It can be a thorny beginning. We learn how tricky our egos are. Hey that part of us likes to judge. Through the process we need to renew our intent. Eventually we will see what a burden judgement is; we will breathe the fresh air of not needing to judge. At an intellectual level it was helpful for me to realize that I can't judge because I will never know enough. I see that clearly. I will never know enough about another's experience to make any judgement I have valid. I am not at the end of my journey, but I often [not always] catch myself when I am judging.

Whatever we are working on at this moment, we need to celebrate that we could 'see' the need. There is joy in the work. When we make the intent to evolve it effects everybody around us. Our minds are not as separate as we think, when we have the intent to love unconditionally, be in the moment etc. it effects all other minds.

Let us use two of these concepts on ourselves; let us not judge ourselves and let us love ourselves. Let us celebrate that we are works in progress. We are great works in progress! Underneath our veneer we are great beings of light!

Sometimes on our paths we find ourselves walking through the muck, we take another step and then another, our intent will bring us to higher ground. Hey! Pause and appreciate the muck, love it, it is all learning.

Love and Peace, Gregg

LOVE JOY AND PEACE

Another beautiful Morning on Planet Earth. I think I have Spring fever. I don't want to do anything but enjoy the world outside my window. What a marvelous thing to see the land uncovered of snow. Except for the huge piles [getting smaller and smaller] left by the snowplow, we only have a little patch here and there; some on the North side of the house and a good size pile that fell off the porch roof.

The chickens are spending all their time outside. They are getting the majority of their feed pecking off the ground; seeds, dead bugs, etc. The sheep love it. Of course that big square bail I bought a couple weeks ago will be uneaten. A square bail exposed to the weather won't keep. It will make good mulch.

The cabal is losing its grip and more and more people are demanding peaceful solutions to the world problems. It is becoming an open secret that forces supporting the U.S. interest were responsible for the poison attacks in Syria. People are beginning to ask, “Why are we hostile to Syria anyway?” “What has Assad done to offend us?” In the last twenty years we have done everything we could to provoke Assad to war. We have demonized him without providing any proof that he is guilty of hurting his own people. Then since when have we cared if a government hurts their own people? We certainly don't pay attention to what the Saudis do and anybody else that supports our empire.

We follow the same pattern. We demonize and ridicule the leader. Plant some false evidence and accuse them of killing their own people. Hire some discontents to start a rebellion, then look for anyway we can make an excuse to invade. We have destabilized the whole Middle East with these shenanigans. Could it have something to do with oil? It is not much of a blessing for a third world country to discover oil, they kowtow to the empire or regret it.

This is the most unusual empire. Most people in the U.S. don't even know it exist. How would they? It is completely denied. Is it even run by the United States government? The United States are the military force, the enforcer for the cabal. It is said that the Cabal is a consortium of banks and the money interest of the world and they're seated in no one country. Perhaps we won't know until it all collapses.

The leaders of the Korean peninsula coming together to sign an agreement ending the Korean War is a significant milestone and is at odds with everything the cabal has been trying to do. The South Koreans have long wanted to make peace with the North and have been blocked by the U.S. [Cabal?] The North has many times offered to end their nuclear program and has asked only that the U.S. end their joint South Korean/U.S. military maneuvers. The U.S. has refused. Why? There has been a powerful movement, in the South, for reunification. It has been squelched. Although the Cabal, via the U.S. has pretended to promote peace in the world, they have done nothing but promote division and violence, that is how they have stayed in control.

I believe world control by The Cabal is over. The unacknowledged United States empire will soon be history. Everyday more truth emerges about how we have been lied to. People are opening their eyes and giving up their gullibility.

We are in communication chaos right now as all political sides are lying through their teeth. We can believe nothing from either political side. Things will settle down and the truth will emerge with time. The main stream media needs to collapse and the alternative media needs to give up their hysterical one-sidedness. There is some solid reporting in the alternative media and some good reporting occurs occasionally in the MSM but we need to be very discerning.

The change is due to the energy that has come from the minds of the world's people. We have decided that love, not fear, should be the building block of our world. It has become exceedingly clear that war and conflict aid only a very few and they're the very folks who have been behind the fomentation of the discord.

The people of the Earth just want to live in peace, raise their families and be happy. We know our happiness depends on the happiness of our neighbor. We are pleased to be of service, to raise the happiness of our neighbor and the world.

We are taking back our world and enfolding it in Love, Joy and Peace.

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

WE CAN FLY!

Spring is here! We have had about five days now of unmistakable Spring weather. The buds are swelling on the trees, it won't be long before the first flowers emerge. It hasn't dried our here and we still have patches of snow on the lawn and pasture and yes, large piles left by the snow plow, yet it is Spring indeed.

I can see a huge wild tom turkey from my window. He is pacing back and forth along the fence. He apparently got in but can't figure out how to get out. An hour or so ago, his ladies were on the other side of the fence and he was making a display of his magnificence. His ladies must have vacated the area and he now seems desperate. Did he forget he could fly?

Maybe that is how we are. We are trapped inside an enclosure and can't remember how to get out. We create these enclosures with our beliefs. We get locked into them and we label them: liberal, conservative, religious, agnostic, atheist, optimistic, pessimistic etc. etc. We got lots of labels and we build our fences high. We get so enmeshed in our beliefs that we can't understand what the people in the other enclosures are thinking. We forget we can fly. In this case flying would be 'seeing'. We can't see when our minds are clouded with beliefs. It reminds me of a quote Jamie ran across, “The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.” I don't know who to attribute it to.

I have been hoping that one big disclosure would shatter the thinking of folks enough to open there eyes to how much they have been lied to. Something like proof that 9-11 was an inside job or evidence that UFOs are real and the government knew it all along. Would it? I don't know? There have been reputable scientist who have concluded that the buildings in the 9-11 episode could only come down from a controlled demolition. I just saw something about it today on Facebook. I think it ends up to being 'preaching to the choir' though. I think most people will stay locked into their belief systems as long as the main stream media keeps supporting the fictions.

Perhaps we won't get out of our cages until we accept the fact that we are living in an illusion created by our thoughts and feelings. Nothing is real except the energy used in the creation. We create an illusion according to our beliefs. We are the writers, producers, directors and actors in our own drama. If we don't like the movie we can alter it by changing our beliefs.

According to how I read the masters that is what they have been saying to us down through the ages. We have the world we are forging and we can have the world we want by changing our beliefs. If we choose love in every decision we make, we will see love. We will see what we believe in. We do now.

I don't see that turkey, he must have remembered he could fly.

Let's fly out of our enclosures. Let's decide that love is the only thing worthy of belief. We don't want to grovel around in darkness anymore.

There is a world of love, joy and peace beckoning to us. Let us join it.

Love and Peace, Gregg

ANOTHER RAMBLE

What a gorgeous Morning! Over half the snow is gone. The pasture is showing green. It is already over fifty degrees and it is not yet ten o'clock. Saturday and Sunday were glorious. We sat out on the deck and enjoyed the Sunshine. Yesterday, I took off my shirt, it may have only been in the sixties but it felt like the eighties in the direct Sunlight. When I looked in the mirror this Morning, I resembled one of those folks that come back from a Winter vacation in the Southern climes. Good color.

I am convinced that Spring is here to stay, I don't think there will be much snow left tomorrow. We have a bird called the slate colored junco, a woman, wise in the way of Natural lore, told me that when we see them in the Fall it will snow within two weeks. They nest up near the tundra and winter in this area. I have observed this is largely true and expect snow soon when I first see them in the Fall. Likewise, I am not sure Spring has really arrived until I see the last of them.

Yesterday when I was sunning on the deck, a few of these birds landed in a lilac bush just feet away. They danced around flitted their tails, a pessimist view would be they were taunting, “There is more Winter to come.” An optimistic interpretation is that they were saying, “Goodbye we wish you a happy Summer.” I choose the latter. Those slate colored juncos are magical creatures.

I just came back in from outside. I sat out on the deck for a few minutes. The sun is very hot. One could Sun themselves even though the temperature is in the fifties.

There is nothing like the arrival of Spring after a long and persistent Winter. This is a little resting period. We can enjoy the weather but it is too early to gather up the dead branches that are strewn around. The ground is still to soft to permit much activity. The soil cannot yet be worked for the garden and lawn mowing is our there in the future. It is time to Sun ourselves and gaze at the beautiful world. 

How is it that we forget how marvelous Nature is? 

I was blessed with parents that had a deep respect for Nature. Especially my Mother, who would take her little charges out to the prairie after the snow melt to look for pasque flowers. We lived in Columbia Heights. It was the northernmost suburb of the Twin Cities. Fridley may have been a name on a map but there were no settlements there. There was a pig farm and some other farming activity. However, it was mostly sand dunes and oak Savannah. The prairie started about 47^th and we lived in the 40^th block so it was a relatively short walk to open country. We spent much time in the area. We picked wild flowers in Spring and sought low bush black berries in the Fall. The boys hunted rabbits there in Fall and Winter. I don't remember shooting any.

Part of any healing/learning center has to be aiding folks to heal their separation with Nature. I don't think we fully realize how far we have distanced ourselves. Perhaps gardening should be a required course in school. Organic gardening that is. We have to wait for enough consciousness change to protect ourselves from the chemical companies that would salivate at the chance to indoctrinate a new generation.

I think our consciousness has raised enough now. Everybody I know, when they think of gardening, they are thinking organic gardening. I look forward to the day when we take back agriculture from the capitalist and raise food that is nourishing and free of poisons.

I don't think it will be long, folks are waking up. We know we have been crazy for a long time. We yearn for a closer connection with nature. Our separation has caused a loneliness we have a hard time identifying. We want to cozy up to our Mother Earth. We miss her. The emptiness has caused a craving for materiality that can never fulfill our need. Our Mother loves us. Let us get reconnected with Nature.

Celebrate Spring!

Love and Peace, Gregg

OPTIMISM

I just want to watch the snow melt today. Finally we are seeing evidence that Spring is real. There are now large swathes of snowless pasture along the fencerows. I can see from my window the sheep laying in the Sun with chickens pecking around them. They love the bare ground. And it is almost bare, the grass is very short, there is not much for the sheep to nibble on in these stretches. As the snow melts it will expose areas of the pasture that have been snow covered all winter, then they will find plenty to nibble on.

The sheep shearer wants to come tomorrow. I have to see if I can get around the barn where I can close the door on the sheep. I have to lock them up at Night as they will be in the other pasture in the Morning and too far away to lure easily with corn. Well, if I we didn't have deep snow it wouldn't be a problem. However, that is the problem and why I may have difficulty getting around to the side of the barn, where the door is, that needs to be closed. The gates I could use were frozen in place the last time I checked. The snow kept piling up, it would melt in the day and freeze at Night, it is like cement right now; hopefully by the end of the day it will soften enough that I can get the gate open.

I don't want to bore people with my Winter lament. I would like to share the excitement of the emergence of Spring. It may be a month late but it is sure welcome.

I get stuck at this point in writing my blog. I don't want to go on comparing our current world craziness and this passing Winter. I want folks to know that the craziness will end. I want them to be confident and optimistic. But, what can I say? If you look at the world through the lens of the main stream media it is crazy indeed and there doesn't appear to be much hope. One can find encouragement in the alternative media, but there is much darkness too. I don't want people to take it on blind faith that things are getting better. I think they are. In fact I know they are, what can I point to that will help people see?

There is a power in optimism, besides adding positive energy to the mix, it guides what we look for and helps us discern what we see. If we look for confirmation that love is increasing in the world, we see it. If we look for the increase in darkness we are likely to find it.

It all goes back to the basic notion that we are the creators. Everything is energy. Individually and collectively, we create the world we see with our thoughts and feelings. We have been creating a very dense world characterized by separation maintained with violence. We get a lot of help from the folks that benefit from this dark scenario.

The awakening is the individual and collective awareness that we don't have to do this anymore. We don't have to create along the dark lines that have been given us by our controllers.

I can't convince anyone that things are getting better. Everyone peers out of their body with eyes and other senses that are programmed by their mind. What we see depends upon the beliefs we hold dear and the thoughts and feelings that are engendered by them. So we shape what we see.

We see, what we think there is, to see. That is why optimism is so powerful. It affects what we think and feel and helps shape what we see. What we see grows. We are the creators, what we focus on GROWS.

So it all goes back to us, but instead of wondering how we can change the world, how about just changing what we see inside ourselves. When we look inside do we see love, do we see judgement, do we like what we see? Unless we like what we see inside we won't like what we see outside. We are creators and we out-picture what we think we are inside.

We change the world by changing how we see ourselves. When we love ourselves we will out-picture love. Love is infectious, as we love ourselves we kindle love in others.

We will get to the point where we know ourselves as great beings of light, all else is illusion.

HAPPY SPRING!

HAPPY FRIDAY!

CELEBRATE!

Love and Peace, Gregg

A RAMBLE

I woke up tired this Morning. I only require 6 ½ hours sleep and I had that. I had strange dreams. I don't remember them except that they had something to do with some dream version of the show Jeopardy. Anyway, I woke up like I had been working all night rather than resting. Since I am an octogenarian and prone to nap when I want, it won't make much difference.

Then with my first swallow of coffee, I noticed I had something in my mouth that didn't belong. It was a bug of some variety but it was flattened. How did a flattened bug get into my coffee cup? This time of year I need to be careful because the lady bugs and flies, of various persuasions, decide to appear from somewhere and make their presence known. It may be worse this year with the delayed Spring. The little creatures who found refuge in the walls of the house in the Autumn obey a clock that is not consistent with the weather. They wake up, they realize it is still Winter outside, but find an oasis of Spring inside.

None of the above helps me understand how the bug in my cup got flattened. It was a fly like creature. Maybe it wasn't flattened. There was a little cold coffee left over from yesterday in my cup, perhaps a fly soaking all night can appear flattened. I guess I will be peering into my cup for the next few days before I pour coffee in it. I know that experience would gross out a lot of people, but to me it is just life on Planet Earth.

It is cloudy today and cool, but yesterday it was brilliant, we lost quite a bit of snow and it looks again like Spring is a possibility. Tomorrow is promised to be Sunny and warmer and for once, the forecast looks good. The folks living South of the Twin Cities may get some snow today, but the forecasters are predicting it will be the last of the season. Let us hope so.

My youngest child from my first batch, Andrew, turns fifty today. It is hard to believe. My oldest child is Laura [57 until May] then Stuart [55] Matthew [53] Andrew [50] Noah [40] and Naomi [38]

My children are marvelous human beings and I am very fortunate and very grateful. I am amazed by their ages however, time is the most puzzling of illusions. I am happy to grow older and I am happy to be 83. Yet sometimes, I will be going about my business and it will occur to me, wow I am 83! I know I am old when I do something this body is not pleased with doing, but I don't feel old.

How can time fly so fast, I am startled by my children's ages, yet Winter creeps by in endless fashion? I was telling Jamie yesterday that I can't remember not having snow covering the ground. What is it like to have no snow? What would it be like to be warm enough to sit out on the porch or deck?

Yet I know that I will look out my window and see the pastures clear of snow soon; perhaps as early as next week.

Living at this latitude one learns to stop and appreciate Summer. I remember Fall days when I would wonder why Summer flew by. I remember as a child Summer seemed endless, and as an adult, I have had that experience occasionally, but it is momentary.

This blog is really an 'old man rambling' isn't it. I don't have much to say while waiting for the craziness to be over. I know it will be over, just as I know the snow will melt. There will be a time when Love, Peace and Joy reign on this Earth. In the meantime I will be Happy! I have learned to be happy one needs to love everything we can and forgive everything we have difficulty loving; people, places and circumstances.

Love and Peace, Gregg

AFTER THE STORM

It is only 8:01 AM and I am beginning to write my blog. During my usual blog time I will be digging paths out to the chicken coop and the sheep watering spot.

Yes, I was wrong about the snowstorm missing us and the forecasters were wrong. Friday they predicted a 60% chance of snow and only a few inches of accumulation; they changed the forecast to 100% and several inches on Saturday. I don't know how much we got. Yesterday, I was going to dig out to the chicken coop and I was stopped by a drift that just seemed too much at the time [I knew the chickens were okay in terms of survival. They had plenty of food]. After coming in and contemplating waiting for today, I decided just to bull my way through the drift so I could get the eggs and check on them. The drift wasn't too bad, about knee deep. They were low on water but otherwise okay. I tossed in some snow so they would be okay until today. They like pecking at snow.

I can see the sheep from the house, they are lounging around their watering place hoping I will come out. I won't be able to get to them for a few hours, I will do the chickens first. The chickens need water. The sheep can get by eating snow for awhile. I have had sheep that preferred eating snow and never drank water but these sheep are spoiled by my routine of bringing them water about this time every Morning.

I have a Weather Guide calendar that has the normal highs and lows for each day plus some little saying or remark. Yesterday it said, “the beginning of the lawn mowing season” was that adding insult to injury? By the way, the normal high for today is 58 degrees F. We will miss that by close to 30 degrees. The record high is 88. Hard to believe looking out on this sea of snow.

I have been rather cheery through this storm, an occasional moment of depression perhaps, but only a moment. It has been a spectacular event for April. In my 84 Aprils on planet Earth we have had many April snowstorms, this is the first one I remember that followed a Winter without a break. We usually have a couple weeks of Spring like weather in late March or early April. This year we have had continuous snow cover. We may have had a day or two where the temps went close to fifty but not in a string.

Well I love Mother Nature and I am enthralled by weather and other aspects of our natural surroundings. I hope all the birds are okay. I am sure they have ways of survival. It isn't that cold. It is 29.8 F right now. I wonder what the herons eat? They usually persist on frogs and other water creatures. The robins and bluebirds will be okay, they often arrive before Spring gets a firm grip.

I will keep my mood up through the shoveling. I have to shovel because my snowblower isn't available; that is a long story, I won't go into it now.

I am going to muscle my way out to the sheep before I shovel a path. I can't take their moping around their water bucket. Anyway, I am going to love this adventure. [What else can we do but love it] It is good exercise for this old body and it will make a good story come July.

Love and Peace, Gregg

P.S. I just got back from traipsing out to the sheep. It was much worse than I anticipated and I was lucky I didn't take a header into a snowdrift. I can't judge how much snow we got but the drifts are over two feet deep. 

DON'T BE DISCOURAGED

Another snowstorm is brewing. We could get several inches by Sunday. Yet it is somewhat iffy as the chances of precipitation is around 60%. A forty percent chance of getting nothing is great! We got to look at the bright side!

Quite a bit of melt took place in the last three days. We have so much snow it is hard to see the progress, but there are patches of bare ground opened up along the fence rows and my paths to the chicken coop and to the sheep watering place are now free from ice.

I got a big square bale of hay yesterday and had it placed where I fed the sheep the big round bales. They haven't found it yet. I hope they do before the snow hits if it is going to.

Most of us find the delayed Spring quite discouraging. I was depressed about it too. However, today I feel encouraged. The little melting we have had is great and I saw Red Wing Blackbirds in a cattail swamp yesterday. They looked a little out of place clinging unto dead stalks of cattails over a sea of white, but they are a promise.

[I just noticed that the sheep found the big square bail – I am very pleased at that.]

The persistence of Winter is disheartening as is the continuing craziness in the world. Our spiritual mentors reassure us and tell us the light is increasing and the power of the dark is decreasing. Sometimes we have to take it on faith as it is hard to see. One of the problems is, we look in the wrong place. We won't find it on the evening news. Actually there is some breaking down of the war message and there is some light shining through occasionally. However, if you want to see the increase in light look around to your friends and acquaintances.

In my observation, and of course there is unevenness, I see folks opening their eyes. The awakening is definitely happening. Folks are refusing to swallow whole the crap that the media feeds them. People are rejecting fear based ideas and are embracing the idea we can live in peace. I know that Facebook and other social media shows us what we want to see, but even considering this, the number of love engendered messages is quite gratifying.

We have to remember that change and enlightenment comes from the bottom and migrates up. We can't wait for leaders. It isn't that we don't have leaders that are also seeing differently, it is that the pressure on them to keep the status quo is enormous. They feel the full pressure of the darkness created by power and money. The cabal finds ways of immobilizing those who promote positive change. If they don't fall in line something worse happens.

We are our own leaders we know that love is the only meaningful energy there is. We know that humankind can live in peace. We demonstrate it everyday in our lives. We know that a smile brings a smile. That kindness produces kindness. That caring induces compassion. Likewise we experience how our negative energy can come back to us. We have all experienced spoiling a moment because we were behaving like jerks.

We know we can have the world we want. We will get through this temporary craziness, yes it is temporary, and it is passing like this stubborn Winter is passing. We need to have patience and stick to the basics. We need to love ourselves and extend that love all around us. We can, we will.

Celebrate! It is Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

HEALING/LEARNING CENTERS I

It looks like we might get some melting today! It is just a little after ten and it is already 39.7 F. It is supposed to rain this afternoon and that should further reduce the snow. Today might be the last day I have to walk on that slippery path.

I was gazing out the window a moment ago and I saw a flock of wild turkeys on the far side of the pasture fence. The Toms were courting. They were fully fanned out and their waddles were bright red. It must be close to fifty yards from me, but even at that distance they looked huge, really magnificent birds.

I wanted to talk more about healing/learning centers. I am not sure what to say. I think each one will be different depending on the healers/teachers involved and the needs of that community.

I imagine a place where we could go to find help with what ails us. We could have a physical problem. We could be depressed and confused. We just may want to make sense of the Universe.

We would find a collection of healers/teachers eager to assist. There would be physicians [traditional and alternative], herbalist, energy healers, psychics, perhaps astrologers and tarot readers. Whatever the group thinks would be helpful for the healing of the people in the community.

The individual would be met by a guide to help them choose from a smorgasbord of healers. However, the individual would not give up his autonomy to another. Each person seeking help would be fully involved in decision making according to their condition.

There would be no set fees. Folks would pay what they could afford. Those without funds could help in the gardens that would surround the place, if they wish. Whether a person could pay or not would never be an issue.

This needs to be a learning experience for everyone. We meed to avoid getting locked into thinking we know the truth. We need to accept how far our institutions have migrated away from truth. We are here to learn how to best care and love each other.

We need to ask ourselves big questions: why are we here on this planet, how did we get here, what are we supposed to be learning, have we ever been one with our natural surroundings, how can we be one with Mother Earth now, does the Earth have consciousness, how is that consciousness expressed, what does it mean to evolve, are we mind, body or spirit, are we all three, how do we discover our spiritual essence? Other big questions will occur to the reader.

We have been fooling ourselves that we know something. Actually we have yet to emerge from the darkness. Exploitation of technology is not knowledge. We have pursued separation to the point where we see our mind, body and spirit as separate entities. We have much to learn.

It can be exciting to drop the pretense that we know anything. We can start over and this time assume we are One with the Universe, the Earth and Each Other. We can follow the path of Love. We will learn.

There will be more on this subject.

Love and Peace, Gregg

A LITTLE TANTRUM

I just came in from outside. I saw two flies. Spring can't be far away. I have to admit I am preoccupied with this extended Winter. We still have snow everywhere and in some places it still measures in feet. We have more than a foot of snow on our deck. Our screen porch still functions as a refrigerator. We have leftovers out there from Easter, they're not in danger of spoiling.

I am running out of hay for the second time. I have a telephone call out to my hay man, I hope this will be my last load this year. I have never run out of hay in the Spring before. The frost is not likely to be out of the ground before May, unless we get unusually favorable weather. It could turn around on a dime.

The weather is similar to 1975 when we moved in here, although that year we did have some nice Spring like weather in March. The different thing this year, is that we have not had any Spring break to speak of, it has been unending Winter. We have had a lot of late Springs in my 83 years on planet Earth but this is the first one that has had no break. In 1975 we moved in here on May 1^st. The frost had not been out of the ground long enough to firm the soil up and we got the moving van stuck going across the yard and had to call a tow truck.

I am weary of taking my life in my hands every Morning when I do the chores. The paths melt just enough during the day that they are glazed over in the Morning. I am not afraid of breaking a bone, although at my age perhaps I should be, I don't think I am fragile, but I have a hard time getting up when I tumble. I don't like that waving the arms around to regain balance because my foot slips. I know, I know I saw a fly this Morning. Winter can't last forever.

That could be a segue into how the world can't stay crazy forever either. And it can't, the light is increasing even at the point of our greatest doubt. The cabal is trying desperately to create war. I am sure the poison gas attack in Syria was caused by our side. Assad has no motivation to create that kind of trouble, especially when he is winning. The cabal wants endless war and another failed state in the Middle East. Failed states seem to be all they're capable of. I don't think the American people are going to believe the B.S. that substitutes for news much longer, that is promoted by the war mongers. I don't want to go into this any further. I don't even know who these nutty people are. It certainly isn't everyone in government. It is like a ruling body within the government that is constantly promoting war and discord. The only thing I know for sure is that it makes vast amounts of money for those manufacturers and other suppliers of the war machine. That gives us a hint as to the make up of the cabal. Of course the banking industry has to be involved.

People are not dumb. We are weary of the propaganda and most of us are at a level of survival that we don't pay too much attention to what's going on. We have enough trouble taking care of our own lives; but enough is enough, we don't need more war for reasons we can't understand, besides making some folks richer.

Anyway, we love the people around us! We know wherever we would live, we would love the people around us. We don't have any enemies. Why should we accept a manufactured enemy that is presented to us? We love everybody. Don't we?

Let us stop paying attention to this crap the war mongers spiel out. Hey! We love everybody. That means everybody on this beautiful planet! Everybody!

I will write about healing/learning centers, when I am not having a tantrum. It is not quite a tantrum and I am actually feeling great right now. Thanks for listening.

Love and Peace, Gregg

LIVING IN THE ILLUSION

It is almost 10:30 and it is only 17.7 degrees F. The normal low for April 6 is 33. Wow, not even up to the normal low! It is not forecast to make it to the normal low; however, the Sun is very hot now and it may fool the forecasters and edge above freezing. There is supposed to be a turn around at the middle of the month. We are looking forward to it.

I was going to write about healing/learning centers, but I will postpone that discussion and tell you about my adventures in this illusion we label reality.

It was cleaning lady day yesterday. She is usually here about three hours and we go to Cambridge have brunch and shop. Yesterday we stayed home and tried to stay out of her way. [She is a wonderful woman and has become one of our great friends] We stayed home because I needed to write a letter to the county tax assessor.

Back in December we got a notice concerning taxes for 2018. It appeared that they were changing our classification and we would no longer be a farm for tax purposes. The proposed taxes for 2018 were over $500 more. When the assessor was out here, sometime in the Summer, he seemed to not think we were really a farm and didn't ask any pertinent questions.

I wrote them a letter explaining that we always raised sheep and chickens and frequently raised turkeys for sale. We were also thinking about raising a couple steers. I thought it was a pretty good letter. I emphasized the limits of our income and our dependents on what we raised. We didn't get an answer.

A couple days ago we got our tax notice and it appeared that the worse had happened. We were no longer a farm. I didn't have much time to deal with it as the first half of the taxes is due on May 15. Ever since I got the notice it had been a cloud hanging over my head.

So yesterday Morning I wrote a letter beseeching them to reconsider and enclosed a copy of my original letter. I thought both letters were master pieces and would certainly do the trick. I wanted to get the letters in the mail right away, so I drove to Mora and posted them.

When I got back home I wanted to review my letters and the material from the county. A careful perusal of the property tax statement showed that I was mistaken. They did not change our classification they added some wording [abbreviated] that was not there before. Looking through the statement indicated that the raise in our taxes had to due with increased evaluation. The room I am sitting in now was an addition about, I don't know, four or five years ago? [Time flies when we are having fun]. In any case our taxes have not increased much since building it. My error took away any indignation I might have had about the raised taxes.

I felt like an idiot! I called the assessor and told him I had just mailed him a letter and he should disregard it. He told me that someone was supposed to answer my first letter and that they have had several questions about the added language and knew it was confusing. We had a good discussion. They have no intention of changing our classification. I can't protest the increase in evaluation, I am sure it is justified.

Living in the illusion? Years ago I learned from Don Juan, a Yaqui sorcerer, via Carlos Castaneda, how to live life impeccably in the illusion, accepting it as serious business yet knowing it is unreal. We need to accept life as it comes to us. We need to deal with it, as if it was real, at the same time knowing it is an illusion of our creation. To live impeccably was to live in an unconditionally loving manner. If you haven't read Carlos Castaneda's books, you are in for a real treat.

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg

P. S.  It is Noon and only 20 degrees.

AS OUR EMPIRE CRUMBLES

It was only 3.3 degrees F when I got up, but it is gloriously Sunny and it is now 24.2 just three hours later. A beautiful day for January. I don't have to express the cynic in me, it is a beautiful day and everything is all right.

This snowstorm was not quite as disruptive as the last one. I actually am not snowed in. Yesterday I had a few errands to run during the storm, so I drove up and down the driveway while it was snowing. I don't like getting the driveway plowed in April. I have a little shoveling to do and that is okay.

What do we do as the old world crumbles away? All empires rise and fall and ours is in swift decline. Our current administration seems to facilitate the decline but it would happen anyway.

It is our opportunity to envision a new world. We need to learn how to do everything differently. We need to learn how to live on the Earth with respect for Her and respect for each other. Education, medicine, agriculture, science, perhaps everything needs to be rethought. All these disciplines have been corrupted by the profit motive and power. They have actually become more harmful than helpful in some cases.

I keep bringing up the idea of healing/learning centers. All facets of our culture need rethinking, but I think the two things that are in most need of repair are our medical and agricultural systems.

I envision a group of healers of all persuasions coming together to provide services for the people. I imagine a group of folks who know that Mother Nature provides all necessary remedies and the healing herbs can be gathered or grown. The center would have its own gardens that provide food for the group and learning about the best way to farm with respect for our Mother and proper nutrition for ourselves.

I have discussed healing/learning centers before and I may do it again on Friday. I have a boatload of things to do, some of it being removing snow with a shovel and we need to do some shopping. I need to go to a feed store or my chickens will get hungry; so I am going to make this blog short.

Love and Peace, Gregg

STORMY WEATHER

When we awoke Saturday Morning we had about a foot of snow. It turned out that the forecast was an underestimation. Now, I am not so pleased to tell you, it is supposed to snow today, tonight and tomorrow and we could get another ten inches. It is supposed to start snowing about one o'clock, so I want to get my blogging done and get on our way to town and the Amish by noon.

I also have some cleaning up to do after yesterday's celebration. We only had five for dinner so there aren't too many dishes. We had a good time. A good celebration of the Light.

Spring might seem far away, but I did see an insect flying around outside this Morning. At first I thought it must be a speck of dust on an updraft, however on closer observation it turned out to be an insect, smaller than a gnat, flying about a foot above the snow. It was only about 14 F so I was surprised. I have seen snow fleas, but they are bigger and I don't think they fly. I remember then hopping around. I haven't seen a snow flea for several years. Anyway, I took it as a hopeful sign and it somewhat ameliorated the effect of reading the weather forecast.

This delayed spring experience is certainly a lesson for learning patience and it reinforces the knowledge that happiness does not depend on what is going on outside our minds. I can alternate between depression and peace just by what I am paying attention to. I don't need to let my mind be as stormy as the weather. Sometimes I need to remind myself that ALL IS WELL. It is, you know. All is well on Planet Earth. The light is growing stronger. People are awakening. Love, joy and peace are ours. We just need to endure a little more stormy weather. Let us keep the storms out of our minds. The storms will pass.

Let us keep our minds on the Love that is all around us.

I need to get at those dishes so we can get out of here by Noon,

Love and Peace, Gregg