It’s amazing in just a moment, everything we can come to know. Sometimes the amazing thing about that, IN JUST A MOMENT it’s not what we come to it is what comes to us and teaches us what we need to know for THE MOMENT in just a moment and here’s a perfect example:
We can go from NO to SLOW to FLOW and most ultimately to GO and then we realize we’re more unlimited than we ever have imagined and in just a moment, we become even more so. . . .
PLAYING YOUR DREAMS
87-year-old Diana moved the mentors and Newcastle station audience with her performance of ‘Dreams,’ an original composition. The Piano has a fresh new face! Jon Batiste joins Claudia Winkleman and MIKA as they return for a brand-new series of The Piano in search to unearth more of the UK’s most exciting amateur pianists.
Some people Dream DREAMS all of their lives
Some people make their Dreams come true
Some people, Miss Diana actually plays her DREAM
and something in us gets DREAMED
just like that. . .
THE BEST DREAMS HAPPEN
WHEN YOU’RE AWAKE. . .
Ahhhhhhhhhh. . .
A DREAM CHASER
A DREAM CATCHER
A DREAM MAKER
. . .WE ARE
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . .LISTEN AGAIN. . with another version. . .
More Than A LISTENING
Viktor Frankl, one of the great psychiatrists of the twentieth century, survived the death camps of Nazi Germany. His little book, Man’s Search for Meaning, is one of those life-changing books that everyone should read, SEVERAL TIMES
Frankl once told the story of a woman who called him in the middle of the night to calmly inform him she was about to commit suicide. Frankl kept her on the phone and talked her through her depression, giving her reason after reason to carry on living. Finally she promised she would not take her life, and she kept her word.
When they later met, Frankl asked which reason had persuaded her to live?
“None of them”, she told him.
What then influenced her to go on living, he pressed?
Her answer was simple, it was Frankl’s willingness to listen to her in the middle of the night. A world in which there was someone ready to listen to another’s pain seemed to her a world in which it was worthwhile to live.
Often, it is not the brilliant argument that makes the difference. Sometimes the small act of listening is the greatest gift we can give.
WHEN YOU HOLD SOMEONE’S SPACE; when you unconditionally accept, listen, hear, validate, affirm, you just don’t hold their space, you hold something even more sacred: THEIR SOUL. . .
THEY have trusted you with their whole, wounded, vulnerable Soul for the price of your offering to A LISTENING they never before had but desperately needed. . .
JUST A MOMENT: WHEN SPENT TAKES ON A NEW MEANING
In just a moment, so many things can take place; like in just a moment you can feel like you’ve really been spent or or discarded or unnoticed or actually walked over and yes, sometimes even walked on and yet you could take that same experience and you have a totally different feeling. You know what the difference is, what you take or what you receive or what you give.
The next time you feel totally spent, I mean discarded, walked on or over, flip it over make that new one just by GIVING; even if it’s giving a new perspective. . .
BE the message. Someone desperately needs to find or stumble on today. Let them find YOU where they least expect it and most need it.
YOU have that power
CARING CATALYST COST’S
No doubt there’s
N O T H I N G
Like it,
but being
A C A R I N G C A T A L Y S T
C O S T S
Here we are once again on the Fourth of July
where millions across the Country will celebrate
Independence Day. . .
It might well go largely unnoticed
that FREEDOM
isn’t F R E E
In this world
S O M E O N E ‘ S
truly pay the price
for people to be free. . .
Doubt it?
Go back to the very signers of
The Declaration of Independence
ALL 56 of them
paid with what you can’t cash in a Check
I F
they won the war with the British
there would still be years of hardship as a struggling nation. . .
If they lost
they would have faced a hangman’s noose. . .
and yet there it is where it says,
“WE HEREWITH PLEDGE OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR.”
They signed it. . .
but do you know what price was paid for those very signatures?
The late, great Paul Harvey
in his broadcast on July 4, 1974 reminded us
That Carter Braxton, a wealthy planter and trader, after signing saw his ships swept from the seas to pay his debts. . .He lost his home and all of his property. He died in rags
* * *
That Thomas McKean of Delaware was so harassed by the enemy that he was forced to move his family five times in five months. . He served in Congress without pay–his family in poverty and in hiding
* * *
That Thomas Nelson, Jr of Virginia raised $2 Million on his own signature for provision for our allies, the French Fleet. . .After the War he personally paid back the loans which wiped out his estate; he was never reimbursed by the government and he died bankrupt
* * *
That John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside while she was dying; his 13 children fled in all directions for their lives. . His fields and gristmill were laid waste and for more than a year he lived in forests and caves to only return home from the War to find his wife, dead, his children, gone, his properties, gone only himself to die a few weeks later of exhaustion and a broken heart
* * *
Of all the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence
few were long to survive. . .
Five were captured by the British
and severely tortured before dying. . .
Twelve had their homes
from Rhode Island to Charleston
sacked and looted
occupied by the enemy
or burned. . .
Two of them
lost their sons in the Army
One had two sons captured. . .
Nine of the 56 died in the War
from its hardships or merciful bullets. . .
They had learned that liberty is so much more important
than security. . .
For T H A T they pledged their lives
their fortunes
their sacred honor. . .
They fulfilled their pledge
They paid the price
AND FREEDOM WAS BORN
T R U T H :
I most likely will not give that much thought
with the second helping of potato salad
the extra piece of apple pie
the barbecue
and certainly not during
The Fireworks
b u t w h y. . .
why not think
give a second or even a third or Fourth thought
that being a Caring Catalyst
especially then
or even at the very moment
doesn’t come with a cost. . .
that needs
P A Y I N G
which leads to the ultimate question
On the Fourth or the quickly oncoming
Fifth of July
or E V E R:
Are You Willing To Pay IT?
They did. . .
D O Y O U ?
JUST A MOMENT: FLYING YOUR PRAYER FLAG
FIRST SOME INFORMATION. . .THEN A QUESTION. . .
INFORMATION:
Tibetan meditation flags, also known as Lung Ta or “Wind Horse” flags, are colorful fabric banners inscribed with prayers, mantras, and auspicious symbols. They originated in Tibet and are used to promote peace, harmony, and balance in the environment.
The flags typically feature five colors, each representing an element:
– Blue: sky or space
– White: air or wind
– Red: fire
– Green: water
– Yellow: earth
These colors are believed to balance the energies in the environment and bring harmony to the surroundings. The flags are usually printed with mantras, prayers, and symbols, such as the Wind Horse, which is said to carry prayers to the heavens on the wind.
When hung outdoors, the flags are exposed to the elements, and the wind is believed to carry the prayers and blessings to all sentient beings. Tibetans often hang these flags near monasteries, temples, and mountain passes, and they are an integral part of Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
The purpose of Tibetan meditation flags is multifaceted:
– To bring peace and harmony to the environment
– To promote positive energies and balance
– To send prayers and blessings to all sentient beings
– To connect with the natural world and the elements
Overall, Tibetan meditation flags are a beautiful and meaningful way to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and positivity in daily life.
Q U E S T I O N:
IF YOU HAD A PERSONAL PRAYER FLAG. . .
WHAT WOULD IT SAY AND
WOULD YOU FLY IT. . . ?
INDEPENDENCE DAY
DON McLEAN
AMERICAN PIE
album was released in October 1971 and of course had some classic songs
like AMERICAN PIE and VINCENT
and some lesser knowns which have become some of my forever favorites
like CROSSROADS and this one which was found on Side B of the original album
next to the last song:
THE GRAVE
Here’s the thing:
There will never be a time
when there will be no graves
but hopefully it’s not too late
any Graves
because of
W A R S. . .
AND THAT WILL FINALLY BE AN
INDEPENDENCE DAY
LOVE RETURNS IN ANOTHER WAY
Does Love ever go away
or is like waves of an ocean
DIFFERENT
BUT KEEP RETURNING IN OTHER WAYS. . . ?
I often tell the following story in my presentation: HOLDING SPACE: WALKING EACH OTHER HOME. It’s from my not so favorite author, Franz Kafka. I HAD to read him, as an English major in college and never much enjoyed or fully appreciated him. However, when three different people, who don’t know each other, asked me about this story within a week’s time, I decided to share it once again, IN A DIFFERENT WAY though I have previously shared it before in a blog post in ANOTHER WAY:
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
“It doesn’t look like my doll at all,” said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: “my travels have changed me.” the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
So here’s a question to ponder:
HAVE YOU EVER HAD LOVE RETURN
IN ANOTHER WAY
and maybe a bigger question:
HAVE YOU BEEN THE LOVE
RETURNING IN AN ANOTHER WAY, , , ?
IN JUST A MOMENT: WHO BRINGS YOU HOME
It’s amazing isn’t it, all of the things we realize literally in just a moment. . . ?
Here’s one: IN JUST A MOMENT we realize that we live in a wide, wild, world, but we also live in our own individual wide, wild worlds and no matter how vast it is or how overwhelming it seems, sometimes there’s one question that everyone universally knows the answer to and I mean without pause. . . .
They know it right away, so will you and here’s the proof of it in this world that we Live; This world that you have to give. . .
WHO BRINGS YOU HOME?
We aren’t talking about some street address who are some place that can easily be GPS’d or GOOGLE MAPPED; not some place that has a specific location or in a state; not a place that’s in a country of found on some continent. No. . .Not a place you happen t live or where you can travel to or come back from. . .
No0000000000000000000000. . . we know that Home is something much more intimate than that. . .
WHO BRINGS YOU HOME?
Because when you have the world to share, it not only bears in knowing who brings you home. . .but who it’s worth sharing With
We in our own little wide, wild, world’s know this without pause. . .
CHANGE: MORE THAN A JINGLE IN YOUR POCKET
Are you thinking about CHANGING something in your life right now. . .
A move?
Relationship?
Job?
Money related?
Change is always much more than a jingle in your pocket. . .
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