I did not get the script!!!

above is our new studio/office.
and below is a really cool quote.
I have always felt that I was dropped here on earth and did not get the script that everyone else got.
I am reading from my script and it is so "odd" compared to the other scripts.
I guess over the years , I am learning to accept the script error ( or what I once thought was an error) and actually have learned to appreciate it...and love it.
read the quote below.
Love,
Michele

True Self

If we could completely identify with the false self, it wouldn't cause us distress--it would just be who we are. The pain it causes arises from something deeper within us that feels constricted by this identity and suffers when we are not living fully. This deeper intelligence within us feels the pain of being caught in a web of stories and beliefs, scripts and behaviors that cuts us off from our true nature and potential. If we do not realize the expansive possibilities that are our birthright, we suffer.

-- from John Welwood's Toward a Psychology of Awakening,
(Shambhala, 2002, 140).

We're all alright!!

peace, love and tie-dye

My friend Leslie made this for us last year at Christmas.
One of my favorite friends and of my favorite pieces of art in our house!!!
Happy Day!!!
Love,
Michele


"Life is very short
And there's no time for fighting and fussing my friends."
...The Beatles

human race

Do you like our poster?
My friend Lynn gave me that.
I think it is a good reminder for me.
Have a great day!
Love,
Michele

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra

I'm Off

as the picture Mark made says, grow happiness....do what makes you happy in life.
listen to your heart.....I loved the note and poem below.
it is about David Keighley trusting his heart and doing what he had to do.
God Bless you David Keighley!!!
You are such an inspiration to others David!!!
love,
Michele

I want to share with you something written by a priest in the Church of England, who is under pressure from his Bishop to conform to traditional Church teaching and practice. He is, so far as I can discern, a faithful priest who is caught in that awkward position where he must violate his own conscience and integrity in order to conform to ecclesiastical expectations. Many clergy live in that place today as the Church becomes more and more closed minded and afraid and as its leaders move to put unity ahead of truth. I was so impressed with his work that I wanted to share it with you.

John Shelby Spong


LEAVING HOME

I'm off!
I must leave the political and ethical compromises that have corrupted the faith of my Jesus.
I must leave the stifling theology, the patriarchal structures.
I must leave the enduring prejudices based on our God-given humanity, the colour of my skin, my gender or how my sexual orientation is practiced.
I must leave the mentality that encourages anyone to think that our doctrines are unchangeable.
I must leave the belief of those who insist that our sacred texts are without error.
I must leave the God of miracle and magic.
I must leave the promises of certainty, the illusion of possessing the true faith.
I must leave behind the claims of being the recipient of an unchallengeable revelation.
I must leave the neurotic religious desire to know that I am right, and to play at being God.
I must leave the claim that every other pathway to God is second-rate, that fellow Hindu
searchers in India, Buddhists in China and Tibet, Muslims in the Middle East and the Jews of Israel are inadequate.
I must leave the pathway that tells me that all other directions will get me lost.
I must leave the certain claim that my Jesus is the only way to God for everyone.
I must leave the ultimate act of human folly that says it is.
I must leave the Church, my home.
I must leave behind my familiar creeds and faith-symbols.
I can no longer stay in an unliveable place.
I must move to a place where I can once again sing the Lord's song.
I must move to where my faith-tradition can be revived and live on.
I must move to a place where children don't tell me what I believe is unbelievable but tell me they can believe what I believe.
I must move to a place where they are not playing at moving the deck chairs on the decks of an ecclesiastical Titanic.
I can never leave the God experience.
I can never walk away from the doorway into the divine that I believe I have found in the one I call the Christ and acknowledge as "my Lord."
I must move to dangerous and religiously threatening places.
I must move to where there is no theism, but still God.
I'm off! But to where, God only knows.

David Keighley, An English Anglican Priest

Proper steps

I only do this until I get dizzy
& then I lay down on my back &
watch the clouds, she said.
It sounds simple
but you won't believe
how many people forget the second part.

© Brian Andreas


www.storypeople.com

Listening

passion

above is Macy and her friend, Peyton from Washington D.C.
This was taken at Omega Institute last summer....of course....where else?
I am feeling really bad at this moment because I sent out this note to a couple of friends about this megachurch here in Medina....and the "country club" church they are building. A friend had forwarded me the link to this church. I let it eat at me and I was very judgemental about their plush building........I don't know why.
When they know better, they Will do better.
I know better..... I know that I should not make fun of their new building with water fountains and coffee bars......we are all one and all trying to learn while we are here.....so if anyone reads this that read my email.....I am sorry for being so arrogant.
love,
Michele

There is no end.
There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life.

_Frederico Fellini

ha-ha

Old Milwaukee Ice!!!

I felt bad for all of the stuff we cleared out of the house.
so much garbage!!!
so I left this for our sanitation engineers this morning.
then I watched out the window.
they were happy and did not complain about all the trash we had out.......plus they stacked our cans up in nice order when they were done.
I should have got them microbrew!!!
Happy Day!!!
love,
Michele

Shake my hand!

We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
-Wavy Gravy

Go Bucks!!!

A vintage photo taken after the OSU-Michigan game.
This was taken in 1984.
hey....wasn't that a book written by George Orwell???
Anyway......Go Bucks!!!!!!

Set them free

Let us set the children free, break the traps
of fear that history has fashioned for them,
free to grow, to seek and question, to dance and sing,
to be dreamers of tomorrow's rainbows
-from A poem of the heart
by Manitongquat

Ponderings

Good day!!
I have been off from work more than two weeks now.....spending more time in silence and realizing things that I have been putting off for way too long.....like clearing out stuff in our house that we don't need!!!
so I guess the answer to the below questions (see below) would be:
1. this morning after yoga....I meditated for like 20 minutes in silence.....before Dusty barged into the room and sat on my lap.

2. go visit a friend of mine that I keep putting off because I "don't have time." He is paralyzed from the neck down and has this beautiful attitude about life.....I am amazed at his ability to not be angry at life......also want to start working with my friend Paul on Fridays and visit the homeless.

3. Yoga......Yoga, and Yoga, playing harp, walking in nature, watching the girls dance, listening to live jam band shows, sketching, meditating, reading to Marko before he falls asleep at night, ....baths....camping,
.....okay....I have said enough.......read below.
Namaste,
Michele

When was the last time you were alone in silence (no TV, book, music) just getting in touch with how you are feeling?

What is one thing you have always wanted to do that somehow keeps getting put off?

What activity do you love so much that when you’re doing it you feel truly alive and time seems to fly?

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