Gaia Community: victoria's Blog

DON'T VOTE ! ! !

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:49:17 -0000

DON'T VOTE ! ! !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX40RsSLwF4

How do you keep yourself busy?

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:10:38 -0000

All passes and all remains,
and ours is to pass by,
to pass by making roads,
roads over the sea.

~ Antonio Machado ~

(Border of a Dream: Selected Poems, translated by Willis Barnstone)
thanks to panhala

How do you express your emotions?

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:29:14 -0000

I dance around singing Beatles songs before chanting the Plum Village version of the Heart Sutra ( & you should see me on a GOOD day ! )

What inspires you most about the world?

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:21:19 -0000

impermanence. . .

(as well as all the tunes & lyrics to every Beatles song ever recorded & the Prajna<3 Paramita, of course ! )

What do you wish people spent more time discussing?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:46:36 -0000

the tune & lyrics to every Beatles song ever recorded & the Heart Sutra !

What do you know by heart?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:52:23 -0000

The tune & lyrics to every Beatles song ever recorded :-D not to mention the entire Heart Sutra !

What does home mean to you?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:31:08 -0000

Today, home means where I am flying back to . . . the place where I can unpack my bags, gather my thoughts, indulge in a steamy hot bubble bath and a clean change of cloths and decide where to head off to next---enjoying the best espresso on earth and unlimited highspeed internet connection ( hacking this out from a tiny mountain side cybercafe) . . ok, it's a veritable haven of creature comforts :-D

Is there anything for which you would give up your life?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:32:33 -0000

i'm constantly striving to die to (give up?) my past in each new moment--- have found that's the only way to BE present right here, right now . . .don't see how it would be possible to "give up my life" to anyone or anything-- seems to me that life always IS & always will BE :-D so who am "I" to think there is a choice ?

What was the last secret you told?

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:04:48 -0000

duh. . . what kind of a secret would that be if I told all you Gais ? ? ?

ps--how bout a non-secret, then . . . I LOVE YOU ALL cuz you're ALL GOD !

What do you love that others don't necessarily understand?

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:04:09 -0000

I (ONE-) love the we in all it's various forms (& non-forms) of me----who, then, is there to NOT understand?

What is it that makes us alive?

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:40:09 -0000

breathing in, I open deeper in ONELOVE awareness

breathing out, I radiate the aliveness that I AM !

What does your horizon look like?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:07:46 -0000

construction. . . eeeeekkkk! ! ! ! yes, complete w/ porta-potty immediately outside my frontdoor---pondering the deeper meaning & feng shui connotations of this predicament ! ok-ok, even MORE space clearing & re-building my life from scratch. after embracing, liquidating & laboring all summer long, am definately persuing that sailing vacation in Barcelona w/ the deep blue MED. as my all-healing horizon. . .

For how long have you been living in your current home?

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:29:23 -0000

for over half a century this current move---thankfully, still checking in w/ my original Planet too on a regular basis :-D

What was the last gift you gave yourself?

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:34:41 -0000

. . . three scoops w/ organic hot chocolate sauce :-D

How do you feel about strangers?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:12:38 -0000

(repost from march 2008)

The Self We Share

Thirst is angry with water. Hunger bitter
with bread.The cave wants nothing to do

with the sun. This is dumb, the self-
defeating way we've been. A gold mine is

calling us into its temple. Instead, we
bend and keep picking up rocks from the

ground. Every thing has a shine like gold,
but we should turn to the source! The

origin is what we truly are. I add a little
vinegar to the honey I give. The bite of

scolding makes ecstasy more familiar. But
look, fish, you're already in the ocean:

just swimming there makes you friends with
glory. What are these grudges about? You

are Benjamin. Joseph has put a gold cup
in your grain sack and accused you of being

a thief. Now he draws you aside and says,
"You are my brother. I am a prayer. You're

the amen." We move in eternal regions, yet
worry about property here. This is the

prayer of each: You are the source of my
life. You separate essence from mud. You

honor my soul. You bring rivers from the
mountain springs. You brighten my eyes. The

wine you offer takes me out of myself into
the self we share. Doing that is religion.

- Rumi. . .translated by Coleman Barks

What is the most constant ritual in your life?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:34:40 -0000

breathing in , i know that i am alive . . .

breathing out, i open my heart to the world

What, in this moment, is bringing you joy?

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:59:54 -0000

anticipating meditative ritual @ "The Church of the Healing Bubbles" a soothing, herbal/aromatherapy bubblebath (with the sunny windows wide open listening to Sunday morning cathedral bells) . . . ooops gotta go before the tub overflows !

I'm at the age where...

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:54:24 -0000

a little extra oestrogen would be nice :-D

What do you think about when you're feeling down?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:57:27 -0000

"well, here's something you can DO nothing about"

(which then opens up the space for me to BE without condition & in synch once again)

What values of yours have remained the same?

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:19:00 -0000

ab-"soul"-ute trust & surrender within the ONELOVE vibration. . .