Just yesterday, I was reading a channeled message in a special prediction issue of "Sedona Journal," and the entity being channeled said something about remaining positive despite seeming setbacks is what will help ease the transition from one way of living to another. Now, I'm paraphrasing here, mind you, but that's the gist of the thoughtform.
While racking my brain for something to blog about, I came across a headline via BBC News Online, that mentioned something fairly similar...that remaining positive about things coming back to normal will actually be just as self-fulfilling, maybe more so, as being pessimistic.
Which confirms my own personal feelings that things will bounce back after a time. We *are* having to recover from an 8-year barrage of ultimate negativity. Our economy would have recovered just fine after 9/11 if the former prez had just left things alone and not gone and assumed that Saddam was behind things. That was just countering negativity with negativity.
But then, perhaps we can use the results of the previous president's misdeeds to spring forward and think of something new. If we allow ourselves to change, that is.
Then again, whether or not we allow ourselves to change, change we must, no matter what our egos try to tell us.
BB,
Kat ^.^
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
A New Header
For the last two days, Jon Anderson's song "Change We Must" has been floating through my head, stirring the pot of creative inspiration.
On top of that, the New Moon was yesterday. I had a germ of an idea for a computer wallpaper/background, and I kind of knew the colors I wanted in it, but that was about it.
I wanted to do something splashy, but sadly, my drawing skills do not match my very inspired feelings a lot of the time.
But as my wallpaper developed within my sketchpad (thank heavens for watercolor pencils and talking to myself!), I realized how simple my idea could be and still be nice-looking and even somewhat spiritually effective.
Okay, so it's not the Roger Dean work I had up there originally. I will probably put that one back up once I am done showing off my own work. :-P
At least until my own skills improve, anyway.
Anyhow, I rather hope you enjoy what I created. I'm honestly rather proud of it, actually, but my goal *is* to improve.
BB,
Kat ^.^
On top of that, the New Moon was yesterday. I had a germ of an idea for a computer wallpaper/background, and I kind of knew the colors I wanted in it, but that was about it.
I wanted to do something splashy, but sadly, my drawing skills do not match my very inspired feelings a lot of the time.
But as my wallpaper developed within my sketchpad (thank heavens for watercolor pencils and talking to myself!), I realized how simple my idea could be and still be nice-looking and even somewhat spiritually effective.
Okay, so it's not the Roger Dean work I had up there originally. I will probably put that one back up once I am done showing off my own work. :-P
At least until my own skills improve, anyway.
Anyhow, I rather hope you enjoy what I created. I'm honestly rather proud of it, actually, but my goal *is* to improve.
BB,
Kat ^.^
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
New Blog/Website Discovery and a Bit of a Ramble.
It took me a long time to StumbleUpon a spirituality-related web page tonight.
First the wireless signal was acting up. In wireless' current stage of mere toddlerhood as Windows/Linux compatibility issues are concerned, a wonky signal is a constant reminder to me to cultivate patience. Something that we Aries people are not best known for.
Then once the signal steadied out after many reboots (my 32-bit processor probably wants to attack me "verbally" in machine language. It's a good thing I don't understand "binary." :-P), it took me two and a quarter hours just to find something related to this blog.
What I did discover was a beautiful blog called "Open Spirit," which you will see over in the blogroll. It's written by a lady named Elsa Joy, and she's got a larger website, with her name as the domain.
I only just discovered the blog and the main website today, but I am keeping it in my list of favorite bookmarks.
In her most recent post, Elsa asks what we've fallen in love with today. What an exercise to remind us to be more in the present!
Well, as for what I fell in love with today...
1) My new hairstyle. I needed a cut, and found an adorable style that is not only good-looking on me, but is also practical and business-like. Best of both worlds.
2) I fell in love all over again with Devonshire clotted cream. Not only am I a long-abiding Anglophile, I do feel like I have a British soul even while having been born here in the US (why else would I be more into Yes and the Beatles than any bands from the US?).
So when my future M-I-L and I discovered a British foods store in the town where we usually do our shopping, I was over the moon and back again. On our first visit, we bought just one tiny jar each of this Devonshire clotted cream (pasteurized to keep US officials quiet), plus scones, of course! It didn't take me long to dig into my jar of the clotted cream and fall completely, head-over-heels in love with it. Especially when I took the storeowner's suggestion of pairing it with strawberry jam, a long-time custom over in the UK, apparently. You can well imagine my Sagittarius-rising foodie heart kicking up her centaurian heels at finding a new source of Divine culinary pleasure. Oh, and I discovered the whole sardines-on-toast thing, another something they've done often over in Britain.
(If anyone is curious as to where Devonshire is, if I remember correctly, it is fairly close to Wales.)
Oh, and yes, I did go back to the British foods store and get myself a larger jar of the clotted cream. Heaven in a jar straight from Albion (an old name for England.)
Is it any wonder that William Blake wrote the poem "Jerusalem"? If you're not familiar with the poem, check them out as lyrics to Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's tune, which got used in the 1982 movie "Chariots of Fire," one of my many favorite flicks.
My favorite verse is the second, which was the inspiration for the movie's title:
"Bring me my bow of burning gold,
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear, oh clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!"
Now...pair this soul-searing poetry with that stunningly spacey score from Vangelis, and it's a match made in Avalonian heaven...not unlike Jon Anderson and Vangelis' collaborations which make me feel like I'm about to turn into some big phoenix and be reborn again and again, leaving my old life behind me.
Ahhh, the life of a mystic.
BB,
Rev. Kat ^.^
First the wireless signal was acting up. In wireless' current stage of mere toddlerhood as Windows/Linux compatibility issues are concerned, a wonky signal is a constant reminder to me to cultivate patience. Something that we Aries people are not best known for.
Then once the signal steadied out after many reboots (my 32-bit processor probably wants to attack me "verbally" in machine language. It's a good thing I don't understand "binary." :-P), it took me two and a quarter hours just to find something related to this blog.
What I did discover was a beautiful blog called "Open Spirit," which you will see over in the blogroll. It's written by a lady named Elsa Joy, and she's got a larger website, with her name as the domain.
I only just discovered the blog and the main website today, but I am keeping it in my list of favorite bookmarks.
In her most recent post, Elsa asks what we've fallen in love with today. What an exercise to remind us to be more in the present!
Well, as for what I fell in love with today...
1) My new hairstyle. I needed a cut, and found an adorable style that is not only good-looking on me, but is also practical and business-like. Best of both worlds.
2) I fell in love all over again with Devonshire clotted cream. Not only am I a long-abiding Anglophile, I do feel like I have a British soul even while having been born here in the US (why else would I be more into Yes and the Beatles than any bands from the US?).
So when my future M-I-L and I discovered a British foods store in the town where we usually do our shopping, I was over the moon and back again. On our first visit, we bought just one tiny jar each of this Devonshire clotted cream (pasteurized to keep US officials quiet), plus scones, of course! It didn't take me long to dig into my jar of the clotted cream and fall completely, head-over-heels in love with it. Especially when I took the storeowner's suggestion of pairing it with strawberry jam, a long-time custom over in the UK, apparently. You can well imagine my Sagittarius-rising foodie heart kicking up her centaurian heels at finding a new source of Divine culinary pleasure. Oh, and I discovered the whole sardines-on-toast thing, another something they've done often over in Britain.
(If anyone is curious as to where Devonshire is, if I remember correctly, it is fairly close to Wales.)
Oh, and yes, I did go back to the British foods store and get myself a larger jar of the clotted cream. Heaven in a jar straight from Albion (an old name for England.)
Is it any wonder that William Blake wrote the poem "Jerusalem"? If you're not familiar with the poem, check them out as lyrics to Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's tune, which got used in the 1982 movie "Chariots of Fire," one of my many favorite flicks.
My favorite verse is the second, which was the inspiration for the movie's title:
"Bring me my bow of burning gold,
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear, oh clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!"
Now...pair this soul-searing poetry with that stunningly spacey score from Vangelis, and it's a match made in Avalonian heaven...not unlike Jon Anderson and Vangelis' collaborations which make me feel like I'm about to turn into some big phoenix and be reborn again and again, leaving my old life behind me.
Ahhh, the life of a mystic.
BB,
Rev. Kat ^.^
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