Thank you to whoever set 5 strawberry starts on the curb at the junction of the Rivers Trail along the North Thompson beside Schubert Drive, at Kent Street where the path continues and the road ends. I would like you to know that they are well loved, and growing strong on my back deck—in a pot left bare for too long; the sad remains of last year’s beauty having been uprooted and discarded, unceremoniously, weeks ago.
I went to a couple of garden places, checked their supply. Too much for too little, or too sad. I left empty handed.
Walking is my holiday from the everyday. I get to give my whole attention to the One I love: Mother Earth (ME!)
We have wonderful conversations; sometimes I sing to Her. I go to Her River for Her kiss, in return for mine. I walk along the River, sometimes as far north as the school; past the elderberry bushes to the parking lot.
Not that day. I stopped and looked at the white plastic seedling tray with 5 healthy strawberry plants in it. I looked around; nobody was there. Oh my! My heart was warmed that someone would be so generous and thoughtful… and then I remembered the sad soil in the pot on my back deck.
Could they be mine? I asked myself. Oh, what a lovely thought! I hadn’t thought of strawberries!! They would be so much more perfect than anything I could have /hadn’t even imagined…
I’m a storyteller. My stories are about MOM, the Magic in Ordinary Moments that happen to Everyone, no matter what they believe. I believe that MOM is the active Hand of the Divine; also that the Being/Consciousness that empowers that Hand, loves and laughs, and lives in and through us. MOM plays with us. She listens and She responds. We just haven’t been listening… most of us, anyway. Thank you to you, who keep up the conversation!
In my paradigm, those plants being left there was inspired by MOM. I imagine She wanted to inspire me to weave another story for You…
I made a promise when I was young. In crisis, I said: “I will speak for You, when the time is right.” The You I speak for is the collective I that resides inside each of us, super-entangled with all others’. I believe by acting to honour MOM we allow the Divine to weave us into the best possible patterns, supporting our needs, and some of our desires; our elders, parents, and our children; our lessons, as designed outside of Time, powered by our choices.
I was Given a pattern to offer to You. The pattern weaves ourselves and our communities together in a new kind of social facility, quantumly entangled cells of the heart of The One We Are… the You I speak to.
While we inhabit our bodies (Gifts of Our Mother!) we are separate… That’s what our bodies are for: highly sensory forms that hold the “parts” of Us separate while we live our lives and learn enough, individually and collectively, to get ourselves together and rise from our Great Mother in a form we cannot yet even imagine. I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon; we’ve got a lot of learning to do, and our home/planet to put to rights! The separation we enjoy, or endure, allows us to make choices; and to make agreements between us, like single cells did eons ago to become plants—agreements within groups. I bet that was tough—until they recognized it could be exciting and fun!
ME promised me (with 2 stones connected by inspired words) that “Going forward there shall be Peace”. I hold onto that promise with all my heart. I have come to believe that, rather than just comforting words, it is our Great Mother’s encouragement to lean into this time—to go forward following our hearts toward the Peace we desire. Peace manifests as we seek it, expectantly…
The pattern that holds us all, Given to me for You, is Our Heart Gardens (OhGs! = “Oh! Jeez!”), centred around our common biological, social and emotional needs and desires—and Mother Earth! Learning together ways that work, we will thrive—while we heal and learn how to enjoy each other!
To that end, let us gather together to build OhGs! The Hearts of our Communities: repurpose buildings to shelter our crops and our kids; connect with other Hearts by bus, rail, internet, whatever! This network traces the circulatory system of the Greater Being that You are (a part of). Our connections are sparkles (of energy /light /love?) within that system—just like in a brain. We don’t yet know the physiology of What we are becoming…
OhGs! We can imagine that together in Gaia’s Zoom Room
Tuesdays, 6-8pm Pacific Time around the Campfire at TheConversation.cc
where Jamen and Marco offer free unlimited-time Zoom breakout rooms!
(When you arrange to use one, tell them I sent you!)
AND, tomorrow we continue Peter Block’s 6 Conversations,
described in his book Community, and adapted by
Now What?! (May 31: Gifts & Commitment)
Systems within a caterpillar dissolve; reforming as needed by the butterfly… What systems are dissolving in our reality? A new system is needed—life responds! We are the raw edge of life—responsible and response-able. OhGs, choice is before us.
In every moment we have a choice—
Give voice, and rejoice!
OhGs! This is what I came here for!
What about you… ???
Yes, you… the one(s) who left the strawberries (thank you!!) and the rest of You… all of You! I look forward to hearing from you; welcoming you to Gaia’s Zoom Room on Tuesday(s!) as above, or join me on weekday mornings at Humanity Rising (HR), a Global Solutions Summit begun upon lockdown by Jim Garrison of Ubiquity University. Panel discussions, TEDtalk-like presentations and heart-felt conversations focus on ways to address the challenges before us. When the HR session is done, the AfterChat gathers in Stan Pokras’ Zoom Room to talk about what we’ve heard, and enjoy being with each other in our close on-line community. To join us, the link is posted in the chat of HR throughout each session or you can contact Stan@communitymagic.org. Inspired by the Whole Earth Catalogue, he’s listed all HR speakers in OtherNetworks.org along with links to all episodes of HR, the AfterChats and the chats from both Zooms. Stan’s deepest desire is to connect people within the Network of Networks with each other—and the World!
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