I'm back, playing with another picture:
Fruit is so appealing, so lovely to look at, almost as beautiful as flowers. I think these are blossoms from a Kwanza plum, a beautiful ornamental tree.
Here are some apples on the tree. Last summer, Our Neighbour, Gen, had so many good apples on Her apple tree, with hardly a flaw. She just marveled over them, as years ago Her husband always sprayed the trees. He's been gone for years, and the apples have never been that great. And on Our very old apple tree, which sporadically bears poor apples, and which Gen's husband had planted about 50 years ago, We had some lovely apples. Sarah was loving having all the free and delicious apples.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Our Garden in waiting
One day, I'll learn how to make this blog as lovely-looking as Mango's and Kveta's and some others I've seen. Meantime, after seeing the tangelos actually appear, I'm on My way back to Free Foto to get more pictures! ... Back soon. ... ... ... ...
Here are some beautiful tomatoes, getting ready for planting a lot in just about a month. We now have much more sun on Our Garden, as the beautiful mulberry tree that shaded it, suddenly lost its leaves and fruit last year, became covered with cucuzzi vines, and the heavy, heavy edible gourds surprisingly pulled the tree down one afternoon. Glad I wasn't working in the garden! The tree is missed, having been there over 20 years. Now there's more sun, and a wider view. Okay, here are the tomatoes:
Here are some beautiful tomatoes, getting ready for planting a lot in just about a month. We now have much more sun on Our Garden, as the beautiful mulberry tree that shaded it, suddenly lost its leaves and fruit last year, became covered with cucuzzi vines, and the heavy, heavy edible gourds surprisingly pulled the tree down one afternoon. Glad I wasn't working in the garden! The tree is missed, having been there over 20 years. Now there's more sun, and a wider view. Okay, here are the tomatoes:
Juice
Which reminds Me of Soup, soup of the evening, beautiful soup, from Through the Looking Glass.
Since I'm getting thinner, than I want to be, I've been listening for Guidance as to how to proceed with this fast. This is unusual, since I usually can go on juice for long periods of time. First, He said to make My hot fasting juice. More on that later. And He's suggested that I do what I did with another very long fast, and that is to eat one day a week (or two)(fruit or salad), or to have water all day, then fruit or salad in the evening. Yesterday He said to have a little durian in the late afternoon. It didn't feel great. At night He said half an avocado and tomato, which also didn't do much one way or another.
This morning I've made fresh-squeezed orange juice, with this new little Cuisinart hand juicer, which gets lots of juice out, as it rotates both ways. The case of Valencias oranges that Jerry, produce manager at Fairway, recommended is making great juice.
I think what's hard is that neither drinking the juice, nor the little bit I've eaten in the past 19 days, has been either entertaining or zonking! Which is generally why I always put stuff in My mouth. It's interesting. Whatever is going on, I feel pretty good, and full of heart, despite all the stress, and -- for lack of a better word -- negative stuff going on. Just this Peace, that My experience of Guidance and Oneness is more important than anything else.
(I wasn't expecting to write that; it just came out.)
Okay, now lets see if putting this series of characters from FreeFoto.com actually works and translates into a picture of what look like tangelos:
Since I'm getting thinner, than I want to be, I've been listening for Guidance as to how to proceed with this fast. This is unusual, since I usually can go on juice for long periods of time. First, He said to make My hot fasting juice. More on that later. And He's suggested that I do what I did with another very long fast, and that is to eat one day a week (or two)(fruit or salad), or to have water all day, then fruit or salad in the evening. Yesterday He said to have a little durian in the late afternoon. It didn't feel great. At night He said half an avocado and tomato, which also didn't do much one way or another.
This morning I've made fresh-squeezed orange juice, with this new little Cuisinart hand juicer, which gets lots of juice out, as it rotates both ways. The case of Valencias oranges that Jerry, produce manager at Fairway, recommended is making great juice.
I think what's hard is that neither drinking the juice, nor the little bit I've eaten in the past 19 days, has been either entertaining or zonking! Which is generally why I always put stuff in My mouth. It's interesting. Whatever is going on, I feel pretty good, and full of heart, despite all the stress, and -- for lack of a better word -- negative stuff going on. Just this Peace, that My experience of Guidance and Oneness is more important than anything else.
(I wasn't expecting to write that; it just came out.)
Okay, now lets see if putting this series of characters from FreeFoto.com actually works and translates into a picture of what look like tangelos:
Monday, April 7, 2008
Grace under fire
Well, I got as far as the title yesterday, which was a very looong and challenging day, not because of fasting, but Someone dear, Who has often been the inspiration to fast! Long day, and not much sleep the night before, or last night. Around mid-day yesterday -- despite the circumstance -- the fast suddenly kicked in. By that I mean that Peace and illumination and happiness -- again, despite what's going on -- this shining Peace was felt.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Appreciating the Presence of Love with Me and All
This is such an unusual fast. I'm constantly listening for direction on it. Ordinarily fasting is a snap, sometimes after a day or two, sometimes immediately. I love whatever juice I'm having and drink lots of it.
Now this fast, from the beginning, although easy, I have not wanted much juice, not been hungry at all, having to force myself to drink. Also, having some 'detox' (for lack of a better word) -- or maybe ego resistance to it?
Here's what's been happening. Last Thursday afternoon, I was so tired, and having some aggressive syptoms of pain and some swelling near where I think I've got mercury from a long-ago addiction to nosedrops. (Why is there mercury in nose drops? Mercury is so ubiquitous that it's hard not to find it in things, unfortunately.) When we got home, I asked Guidance for a healing, first, and then, what to do, and He suggested that I have some yummy juicy organic grapes that I'd bought for My Daughter. I was feeling so horrible. I started to eat some when suddenly I realized that I was well. Pain totally gone! Swelling going fast. And I was feeling pretty good!
Wow. It's a while since I've had one of those instantaneous healings (maybe because I haven't asked?!), and it is a wonderful feeling, showing that Good is ever-present, waiting for Us to waken to It.
As My Guide says: (in Remembering the Son(g) -- a book He dictated to Me, expanding on the Miracle Principles from A Course In Miracles):
May 25, 2006 (through August 18th, the excerpts)
Your Perfection and Wholeness is Eternal, ever-available. It is untouched, unchanged by the human dream. I cannot say this strongly enough. It is imperative for you to waken from your mesmeric delusion of Life.
How may you know whether you are experiencing Real Life or not? By your measure of Peace and Joy and Energy. This is absolutely a treatment of healing for M and you must hold sacred her Wholeness. ...
...
The recognition of the Help frees mind to hear. This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle. (text in bold is from the Course)
What did I say to you those years ago that cut right through your fear? That Spirit is your loved one’s Reality; and when acknowledged – that will reign supreme. And so it was, as your fear melted, it melted hers (for minds are joined) – and the healing of her body freely commenced.
The healing of the mind takes only such a shift. Her mind is Mind – as free as Spirit – hatred, rage and fear can stick not to the Light.
... ...
38. A miracle is a correction factor – correcting the misery, the dreariness, the ‘tired joy’ of the human condition. Where experience had seemed sad, hopeless, destroyed, suddenly was seen Joy, wonder, wholeness – introduced into false thinking by me. It acts as a catalyst, shaking up erroneous perception, and reorganizing it properly. This is a wonderful explanation. You all are like stuck kaleidoscopes, seeing sin, sickness, decay and death everywhere, a frozen misperception of Infinite Goodness, Wholeness, Permanence, Life. With this shake, the errors are dismissed and Infinite variety of Goodness, Wholeness Permanence, Life, replaces the dreary dream. (c)
I'll write more later, I'd just like to sit with this for a while.
Now this fast, from the beginning, although easy, I have not wanted much juice, not been hungry at all, having to force myself to drink. Also, having some 'detox' (for lack of a better word) -- or maybe ego resistance to it?
Here's what's been happening. Last Thursday afternoon, I was so tired, and having some aggressive syptoms of pain and some swelling near where I think I've got mercury from a long-ago addiction to nosedrops. (Why is there mercury in nose drops? Mercury is so ubiquitous that it's hard not to find it in things, unfortunately.) When we got home, I asked Guidance for a healing, first, and then, what to do, and He suggested that I have some yummy juicy organic grapes that I'd bought for My Daughter. I was feeling so horrible. I started to eat some when suddenly I realized that I was well. Pain totally gone! Swelling going fast. And I was feeling pretty good!
Wow. It's a while since I've had one of those instantaneous healings (maybe because I haven't asked?!), and it is a wonderful feeling, showing that Good is ever-present, waiting for Us to waken to It.
As My Guide says: (in Remembering the Son(g) -- a book He dictated to Me, expanding on the Miracle Principles from A Course In Miracles):
May 25, 2006 (through August 18th, the excerpts)
Your Perfection and Wholeness is Eternal, ever-available. It is untouched, unchanged by the human dream. I cannot say this strongly enough. It is imperative for you to waken from your mesmeric delusion of Life.
How may you know whether you are experiencing Real Life or not? By your measure of Peace and Joy and Energy. This is absolutely a treatment of healing for M and you must hold sacred her Wholeness. ...
...
The recognition of the Help frees mind to hear. This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle. (text in bold is from the Course)
What did I say to you those years ago that cut right through your fear? That Spirit is your loved one’s Reality; and when acknowledged – that will reign supreme. And so it was, as your fear melted, it melted hers (for minds are joined) – and the healing of her body freely commenced.
The healing of the mind takes only such a shift. Her mind is Mind – as free as Spirit – hatred, rage and fear can stick not to the Light.
... ...
38. A miracle is a correction factor – correcting the misery, the dreariness, the ‘tired joy’ of the human condition. Where experience had seemed sad, hopeless, destroyed, suddenly was seen Joy, wonder, wholeness – introduced into false thinking by me. It acts as a catalyst, shaking up erroneous perception, and reorganizing it properly. This is a wonderful explanation. You all are like stuck kaleidoscopes, seeing sin, sickness, decay and death everywhere, a frozen misperception of Infinite Goodness, Wholeness, Permanence, Life. With this shake, the errors are dismissed and Infinite variety of Goodness, Wholeness Permanence, Life, replaces the dreary dream. (c)
I'll write more later, I'd just like to sit with this for a while.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Congruence
A high school friend sent Me a link to Jill Bolte Taylor's story of Her stroke and experience. The last two paragraphs, which I am putting here with Her permission, are just marvelous, and so congruent with Guidance. She's just amazing.
"So who are we? We are the life force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here right now, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere where we are -- I am -- the life force power of the universe, and the life force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form. At one with all that is. Or I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere. where I become a single individual, a solid, separate from the flow, separate from you. I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, intellectual, neuroanatomist. These are the "we" inside of me.
"Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when? I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be. And I thought that was an idea worth spreading." Jill Bolte Taylor
"So who are we? We are the life force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here right now, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere where we are -- I am -- the life force power of the universe, and the life force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form. At one with all that is. Or I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere. where I become a single individual, a solid, separate from the flow, separate from you. I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, intellectual, neuroanatomist. These are the "we" inside of me.
"Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when? I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be. And I thought that was an idea worth spreading." Jill Bolte Taylor
An Interesting fast
Having a harddrive crash, I lost (for the moment) some things I wrote for the blog.
This is one of the first fasts I've been on where I'm not pouring down juice. Today is day 12, and for the first 8 days, I drank only a little more than 1/2 gallon of orange juice -- in total -- and mouth squeezed the juice from some organic oranges tangerines, and had a little honey (bought from Exotic Superfoods, from a beekeeper upstate who gives the bees their honey, rather than sugar syrup). The past few days, I've been having about a quart of tangerine juice, on Guidance. The intense colour is so wonderful, like liquid gold.
Note on the Juice: The tangerine is from Whole Foods, and the orange from Fairway. Neither type is organic. When I've finished the juice I bought, the Guidance is to handsqueeze from organic oranges since I'm not drinking that much anyway. Our friend Marco bought Me a fresh-squeezed organic o.j. at Exotic Superfoods last Saturday, the 29th, and it was so good. He had a smoothie with green power stuff and durian! I wasn't tempted at all by the durian, although I liked the smell. And later, making Sarah and Marco durian lasagna, opening this giant durian, there was no temptation at all. Just inhaling the durian fragrance was satisfying.
I feel quite good, and peaceful. Tired sometimes, full of energy other times. Yesterday, I added a little tomato juice with infused garlic and jalapeño, since I was craving hot spicy fasting juice (which I fasted on for over a year). The fasting juice has carrot juice in it, and I am feeling to become fruitarian after fasting, so I will have to listen for Guidance to see what is appropriate right now, as the direction was orange juice.
The Peace is quite remarkable in the face of day-to-day experience, which is often challenging. (understatement)
This is what I love so about fasting: the feeling of the Presence of Love constantly present.
This is one of the first fasts I've been on where I'm not pouring down juice. Today is day 12, and for the first 8 days, I drank only a little more than 1/2 gallon of orange juice -- in total -- and mouth squeezed the juice from some organic oranges tangerines, and had a little honey (bought from Exotic Superfoods, from a beekeeper upstate who gives the bees their honey, rather than sugar syrup). The past few days, I've been having about a quart of tangerine juice, on Guidance. The intense colour is so wonderful, like liquid gold.
Note on the Juice: The tangerine is from Whole Foods, and the orange from Fairway. Neither type is organic. When I've finished the juice I bought, the Guidance is to handsqueeze from organic oranges since I'm not drinking that much anyway. Our friend Marco bought Me a fresh-squeezed organic o.j. at Exotic Superfoods last Saturday, the 29th, and it was so good. He had a smoothie with green power stuff and durian! I wasn't tempted at all by the durian, although I liked the smell. And later, making Sarah and Marco durian lasagna, opening this giant durian, there was no temptation at all. Just inhaling the durian fragrance was satisfying.
I feel quite good, and peaceful. Tired sometimes, full of energy other times. Yesterday, I added a little tomato juice with infused garlic and jalapeño, since I was craving hot spicy fasting juice (which I fasted on for over a year). The fasting juice has carrot juice in it, and I am feeling to become fruitarian after fasting, so I will have to listen for Guidance to see what is appropriate right now, as the direction was orange juice.
The Peace is quite remarkable in the face of day-to-day experience, which is often challenging. (understatement)
This is what I love so about fasting: the feeling of the Presence of Love constantly present.
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