Light

So grateful to remember
To be able to call to my fractious mind
The re-memberance
Of You,
Of the exquisite golden brilliance;
Your love.

Grateful to patch together
the sensation of my fear of unworthiness
and it's own irrelevence

Grateful to remember your light
Your Love
Creating
Everything I am
Everything I can know
Everything I can conceive



re me
re ember

Thank You

Thank you for your Beautiful Grace
The patient loving insistence
Of the delicate call to be
Filled with
Your Heart
Your Light
Your Grace.

My love
Sings to you
Dances you
Gratefully floods
Washing away
Who I was
In my humble loving.

Self ♥ Papaji's Poem Performed by Satyashanti

Gayatri Mantra Tina Malia

Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥtát savitúr váreṇyaṃbhárgo devásya dhīmahidhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt
Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥtát savitúr váreṇyaṃbhárgo devásya dhīmahidhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt
Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥtát savitúr váreṇyaṃbhárgo devásya dhīmahidhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt
Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥtát savitúr váreṇyaṃbhárgo devásya dhīmahidhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt

Let us honor the unity of Divine Spirit
that pervades all realms of existance:
the earth, the atmosphere and the heavens.

May That most brilliant Divine Light
protect us, sustain us
and illuminate our consciousness

that we might realize
our inherent goodness,
our inborn divinity
and our unity with All That Is.

By this knowledge may our actions be inspired

Vedic Sanskrit .

When I was that age
I was longing so hard
Straining to have fun
To reach out
to touch
and be touched
Yearning to be witnessed
and explored
To be found and catapulted
Into the honey sweet piquant peak
 of some sunrise ecstasy

I see their lives
flooded with opportunity
awash with beauty
and wonder if they are
 as There
as every ingredient invites them to be?
Or are they where I was?

If I stepped in now,
off my quiet shore,
Solid in my love,
In through the froth and playfulness
Could I dive in to that sunrise
Or would I be waiting, all over again,
to be swept?

Socks

Life ticks over in mundane ways
The ever repeating arguments
That take up half the day
The piles of things, wrappers, washing
laying in the way of peace;
Of pause without thought

Is a mother
Always twice the age
Of every other?
I see two years here, four there, feel ancient.

Actually ancient sounds good
Feels clean, honest, honed and wisdom worthy.

I am crumpled laundry faded with dust

Part of my gathering 'what I've been up to's has had me returning to October's Breast Cancer Awareness body painting jam and I think it was my favourite event of the year...this is it:

 

http://www.juliaarts.co.uk/breast-cancer-awareness-body-paint-2013.php

We are halfway through January and I am taking quiet time. I am hampered by having an only half functioning right hand, but also quite intentionally taking time to try and work out a healthy balance between my little business and the rest of life (and some relaxation:P,I am here working at 22:30 but I did have a massage today:P)

December became such a blur as I attempted to run an advent giveaway calendar through my facebook page and bit off way more than I anticipated work wise...I missed one of my regular things, a quarterly giveaway, supposed to have happened 20th December.

Last year the December giveaway didn't happen as I had no names to put on the list. the names come from contibutors of pictures, reviews and the such. This year the list is taking some compiling.

Compiling my list of contributors from the last three months has led me through some amazing memories and it prompted me to take time to look back through 2013 as a whole. I worked pretty much constantly, often functioning at the very edge of what was sanely possible for me (and those around me) for days on end to see a project through, only to take a breather for a second before having to step up to the next festival/party/photo shoot/charity event on the list.
It has left me with quite a year to look back on!

Of course all the while trying to book-keep, facebook, website manage, advertise, stay insured, order stock, produce stock, keep learning, provide excellent customer service...let alone raise two boys and try to fit in some life.

Off to finish the list and maybe create a 2013 hi-lights thingy:) xx