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It was pearly and misty when I got the paper, with a very light moisture falling that did not wet my skin, much less prohibit mowing, so Mick and I arose as usual. However by the time we had made our Morning Offering, the skies were darkened and streaming and the ditches were teeming. Jim mentally switched gears completely and did his Saturday work at home, buying groceries and cooking the food for next week.

Meanwhile I decided that in the absence of my returned outlines and also in the absence of a lack of the Aaron/Q’uo manuscript from Judy, this was an excellent day to clean up my desk. Throughout the morning I picked up papers I had carefully placed by my Mama chair and worked whatever puzzles they gave. Notes were written about Print on Demand sources, office equipment and appointments with accountants among many other details. What a treat to see wood again! Those little reminders have been accumulating for months.

It was a rare treat to have lunch with Mick and we both thoroughly enjoyed that. We stretched together before he headed outdoors to catch up on work around the yard and came back in with the most perfect yellow rose! Our garden is producing prodigiously.

Back upstairs for the afternoon, I ran across the harvest of some recent (2004) channelings from the Holy Spirit, which I transcribed into the computer records for archiving. Part of it was an interesting conversation with Holly at a time when I was hard-bit by illness and it was good to read Her wonderful advice: “Just LOVE and TRUTH. Resting. Trusting. Be without power until power is restored.” That is good advice indeed. We do not always need to be at work to be worthy.

By afternoon Bruce had turned around my questions on Book 101 concerning Larsonian physics and the unity of science and religion. I will not be able to use the Reciprocal System in my discussion of that unity. Quantum physics’ uncertainty principle opens the door to unity in that it posits a participatory force to a Something which turns out to be consciousness. However, I can’t use Larson as he did not take that into account. I shall need to go a different way in writing about this unity, then.

I finally got through the many recipes I wished to correct and other paperwork, sorted the mail which has come in since Gary left and settled down to work with a wonderful little periodical called Both Sides Now. It contained a good bit of information relevant to the concerns of the Choice books and I was still mining it for information and adding material to my quotes database for the Choice books when Jim called bath time.

We greatly enjoyed our Friday evening relaxation, playing with the kitties and having a late supper after the Gaia Meditation, with Jim offering the closing prayer. We turned out the lights around 11 PM, expecting an early awakening hour tomorrow, as Jim will be mowing his Friday jobs all day. Today was the wettest June second on record here in the Louisville area!

Saturday, June 3, 2006

The day dawned clean and clear with the lovely feeling of the world washed clean. Jim and I offered up our Morning Worship and Jim headed out for a Saturday-turned-work-day. He powered through an amazing amount of work including two hours of extra work for another pleading neighbor having a party and came home weary but triumphant!

I continued taking material from Both Sides Now, which periodical I find most informative and well collected. Their address is 10547 State Highway 110N, Tyler, TX 75704-3731 and their web site is www.bothsidesnow.info. Finishing that, I took time to write the editor, Elihu, also known as E Square. He responded by the end of the day with the answer to my question, which was why he knew to send me a copy of the magazine, since I never subscribed and had not heard of it prior to receiving a complimentary copy. It is the connection with Dana R. He saw her writing, talking about my work, checked it out and decided I needed to see what he was doing. I am very glad he did!

Now he will feel free, he says, to use our channeling in his magazine also. I hope he will!

I finished a long conversation I had been having with a trusted friend on all sorts of things concerning L/L Research. It is wonderful to have old friends to whom one may turn during times of reflection. He asked me to refrain from using his name and it makes me realize how much privacy matters. I need to be sensitive to people’s need for privacy! In my own life I have valued transparency and living an open life. It does, however, make one vulnerable to criticism to be so open. Fortunately people are very kind to me.

I wrote Steve T, who will speak at our 2006 Homecoming at Executive Inn over Labor Day weekend, about his topics. We worked out titles for his two talks. They sound quite fascinating and I can’t wait to hear what he has to say. We’ll be working with the lower three chakras on Saturday and he’ll bat clean-up at the afternoon’s end with a discussion of what kind of indirect energy exchanges are possible in those chakras. Then on Sunday we will have worked with the next three chakras—heart, throat and brow—and he will talk in late afternoon about the role of intention in working with those.

When Terry H writes me concerning his study group in Taipei we will have all the material I need to put together the next Gatherings Newsletter. I am so pleased that people are working with the Law of One in these study groups, far flung in Britain and Taiwan. Such groups are really where my heart is. Just a few people, studying together, can create a beautiful light and help each other through much learning and catalyst.

I corresponded with our bookkeeper about an upcoming appointment with our tax accountants. They took over L/L Research’s tax reporting for 2005 and in creating that report they have decided they need to refile for 2004. This of course fills me with joy. Melissa has gotten all the records together and I offered to go with her next Tuesday when she and the QuickBooks specialist meet. However, blessedly, she does not need me. A trip downtown to listen to tax advice is not at the top of my favorite things to do.

Romi had sent me some recommendations for a new printer to replace our grand old lady, Jessica, our used-to-be main printer, who has turned up her toes at last. She was a dandy and could print in color or in black and white. However she kept getting more finicky and finally started eating imaging drums. We had to retire her. After conversation, Romi and I decided to go together to purchase the same kind of printer a generous donor gave me when I created my upstairs office. It has performed well up here for me and Romi and I decided to get the same kind for the downstairs office. It is small and slow but it does excellent color work and can also scan and copy. We already have a big printer-copier, Brother Sam, downstairs for black and white printing. That’s the bulk of our needs down there. So a small printer will do just fine for color work.

After lunch I wrote Larry, my UPI editor, with an idea I had for my columns. I had been thinking ahead to the 2006 Homecoming and realized I would like to create a study guide of some kind on the chakras. Then I thought, what about writing columns on the chakras and using the material in those articles for the study guide? I explained my idea to Larry and he approved it, so I’ll write an introductory article on the chakra system as a whole and then one on each chakra, looking at the energy of that chakra and how to work with it. It will be a good tune-up for me. Studying what the Ra and the Q’uo groups have said about these chakras will be excellent preparation for sharing with the participants there.

The remainder of the afternoon I spent working with the outlines for the Choice books. I am eager to get started writing, so I want to finalize these outlines and get the database for quotes updated, clearing the way for actual writing. It has been a good process of careful creation of these outlines. They need to be in good organization so the books will read well. But I think we have fine tuned them enough. I wrote Bruce to thank him for his help in doing these outlines. I am not fully done, but closer now!

Jim called bath time as I was finishing the note to Bruce and I enjoyed having a whirlpool with Mick and our constant bath companion, Chloe Saraswati the Fearless, before relaxing for the evening by walking over to Wagner Park, which is right behind our house, for a pleasant evening of music and dancing offered by the Anchorage Civic Club. It was a heavenly evening, cool and breezy and full of stars, with a cock-eyed moon hanging low in the sky, glowing mysteriously. It was a perfect follow-up to our anniversary dinner, supplying the music and dancing which that occasion had missed. Ah, romance! Jim and I still gaze at each other with rose-colored glasses, as in love as any teenagers.

We offered the Gaia Meditation at our table at the dance and came home for a very late supper and bedtime.

Sunday, June 4, 2006

It was a beautiful Sabbath and I rose to sing at St. Luke’s while Jim created a clean house once again. After lunch we enjoyed the first of our summer Sundays, watching Jackie Chan’s new movie and then Lord of War with Nicholas Cage, which is a dramatic documentary about arms traffic.

The only L/L Research work we accomplished today was choosing two more months of readings for the Book of Days. We have March and April all selected now.

It was wonderful to have a day off, almost completely. I knew we’ll feel fresher next week because of giving ourselves a good, relaxing movie day!

Monday, June 5, 2006

I awoke early enough to get the Camelot Journal entry for yesterday written and to record yesterday’s choices of Days for the printed Book of Days before going down to greet Mick and begin our day. After Morning Offering and breakfast Jim headed out to mow and garden and I came upstairs to clear my Inbox.

I sent a Kentucky report to Maine, where Rick has just made his garden for the year. I wrote Vara concerning a possible collaboration with her on a teaching curriculum based on the Choice books. It is an interesting idea which would afford me some teaching time. Teaching is something I always enjoy doing.

I wrote to Ian B. and Pupi, whose information for the Gatherings Newsletter did not include the date of their next meeting. As I am attempting to put another issue together I need that detail.

I responded to E Square, the editor of Both Sides Now, who had asked permission to use our channeling and my articles in his newsletter, giving him full permission as long as he includes our copyright and web site information.

I wrote concerning blogging for the Camelot Journal as it seems to have possibilities, like being able to post photographs, which appeal to me. I shall have to ask more about this.

Bruce reported that Avalon’s telephone is out again. We live in a forest up on Avalon and a branch is always fouling the wire. I forwarded a request from a seeker to be added to our send list for receiving Light/Lines issues. I thanked several people who had helped L/L Research by transcribing or otherwise volunteering for us and confirmed a date with Romi for tomorrow to acquire a new downstairs color printer and scanner. I talked with Melissa about information she is gathering on Immigration into the USA. We are hoping that Peter B will be able to be funded for working on Avalon next summer. He is a British bio-dynamic farmer who is very ready to work for us but he needs funds to immigrate here—he is a US citizen—and to live on after he arrives.

By this time I was quite late for lunch, but it felt great to be caught up again with our various concerns. I had a good break with sandwich and novel before re-engaging.

During the morning Bruce had sent the last of his comments on the outlines for the Choice books and the afternoon was dedicated to working with them to finalize them. By bath time I had done that and sent the results off to Bruce, for his inspection, and to Vara, so that she can see if she feels the outlines for those volumes constitute a good core organization of a possible Law of One curriculum. It will be interesting to see what she thinks!

Jim and I enjoyed a lovely rest, Democracy Now and World Music before having supper and the Gaia Meditation, with Jim praying at the end. Afterwards we selected Days for May, falling short because for some reason I did not do as many channelings in May as in other months over the three-year period we were collecting these readings. We shall have to fill in with extra readings later in the year which are good.

We closed up shop and came upstairs to snuggle before bed and said good night around 11 PM.

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Some mysterious timing had both the oak leaf hydrangea in our front yard and the snow ball hydrangea across the street opening today! The weather was Edenic! Jim and I made our Morning Offering and he went off to mow and garden while I headed upstairs to work for L/L Research more directly.

My first task was the production of the next issue of the Gatherings Newsletter. Steve T, Terry H, Ian B and Pupak H had all written in to share the news of their work and I wove together the newsletter from all those sources. I hope that this will help attract a good crowd for the 2006 Homecoming.

I sent that off to Gary for editing and distribution and dealt with the Inbox. Bruce was working with me to determine needs here at Camelot and we talked of such things as temperature control, cleaning the electrostatic filters and getting the air vent system clear once again. With cats in the house, the vents take a lot of cat hair and the matted debris can overwhelm the filters and destroy a furnace. I wrote both Gary and Jim an e-mail asking them to note temperatures, too hot or too cold, in the house for a few days.

I had also asked Bruce about his work in moving forward the Larsonian Reciprocal System of physics. I would like to use it in the Choice books.

I corresponded more with Melissa on the subject of immigration laws. I also wrote Pupie about this matter. We would like to find funding for Pupak’s husband, Peter, to come work on Avalon in bio-dynamic farming. This is a wonderful opportunity as Peter will lose funding for his current bio-dynamic farming project next year.

After lunch I read in The Law of One concerning chakras for a while, formulating how I wanted to write the article on them for UPI. In the process I found several good quotes for the Choice quotes database! Nothing like multi-tasking! I finished the article and sent it off to Larry, my editor at UPI. This article sets me up to do a whole series on the chakras, one at a time. I’ll use these to form a study guide for the Homecoming.

I just had a second before bath time to correspond with Vara on the possibility of creating a curriculum for the study of the Law of One material based on the Choice books. She now has the outlines and is pondering whether she wants to work on the project. It sounds as though the timing is bad for her. However I told her that if she wanted to pursue it, it would be good for us, since to have the Choice books coming out and a curriculum already prepared that went along the same lines would be a good thing indeed.

After a wonderful, kitten-full bath and a nice rest with Jim, Romi picked me up at 7 PM and we went off to acquire a new printer for the downstairs office. We were successful in that task and also in acquiring the supplies Romi will need to repair the lighting in the garage, which has been out for some time.

We got back just in time to offer the Gaia Meditation, with Romi praying the closing prayer, and then to share a late supper while we talked. Then Jim wrapped some books while Romi installed the printer and took the old one, which has died, out of the system. We said good night at 11 PM and came upstairs for a good night snuggle before turning out the lights around midnight.

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

The day dawned in exquisite focus, clear and crisp. This is such a lovely time of year in Kentucky, and our amaryllis and Thanksgiving cactus decided to come into bloom today. They are blooming out of season, a good omen indeed.

Jim had worked ahead on his jobs because rain was predicted for this afternoon, so we got up a bit early and he took off after Morning Offering to get the most out of his dry hours.

After writing the Camelot Journal entry for yesterday I settled in with the outlines to make a chart of the topics, where they were placed in the original one-book outline and where they ended up in the three-book expansion. First I tried to key the new topics into the old arrangement but that did not work at all so I had to save everything, back up and start over. This process took me until lunch.

Jim was home for lunch! What a treat! We were able to stretch together which helps us both—as we grow older, our arthritis—his osteo and mine rheumatoid—have become more of a factor and it really helps to run all the muscles through their range of motion.

Jim powered through the rest of his gardening, getting soaked in his last job but the bushes he planted were happy with the arrangement. Meanwhile I got going again, keying the chart to the new arrangement instead of the old. This is working! It is extremely picky work to find each topic and place it in the new configuration. However it is quite necessary if I am to change the coding for topics in my database and recover all the work put in to it.

By the time Jim called for bath time I had gotten about halfway through 101’s outline. I felt as though I had been wrestling alligators all day but had little to show for it! However my heart is happy to be working on the Choice at last! It has been a while getting to this point and I am eager to begin writing.

In the middle of the afternoon, I had a good planning session with Melissa, who had been to see our accountant Tuesday. Happily, they do NOT want to refile L/L Research’s tax report for any year prior to 2005. But they want Melissa to create a fixed asset schedule for 2005. She assures me this will not be a problem. This is good news, as it sounds quite puzzling and problematic to me! She is incredibly helpful with this and said she would come back tomorrow to finish the work for the accountants. I will be very glad when they are satisfied and we can stand down. Melissa has put many hours in on meeting their requests for information. Kudos!

She also reports that we need to create a lease for Avalon for 2006. I told her that our lawyer had sent me the lease form last year but that I had not been able to get it to print out at the time and had to give up on it. She noted down where it was filed on Gary’s downstairs computer, Maggie, and promised to see if she could do better at getting it to print out and be useful. I know she will do better! Melissa is a technical wizard compared to me.

Gary also had a planning session with me. He promised to give priority to sending out the Gatherings Newsletter, which issue he had read and liked. It’s always great when a piece of work needs no changes.

He also has a heads-up now to look for the next issue of Light/Lines, our L/L Research quarterly newsletter, which should be out any day now. Ian has had it for some time. Gary sends the hard copy to those few of our readers who do not have computer access or cannot use computers. This group consists mostly of prisoners, with a few poor and elderly people joining in. We send a hard copy to about two dozen people right now. Most of our subscribers receive the issues on-line.

Gary and I talked over Camelot duties. Jim cleaned the furnace filters this week, but Gary said he felt it was really his province—his quarters are in the basement, as is the furnace—and he will take that chore on, on a regular basis now. It was great to have Gary back on the ranch. He had a great trip seeing his little sister graduate but car trouble kept him far too long in Ohio and the trip became resultantly expensive!

After Jim’s and my bath-and-kitty show we went to have a jazz night, taking in a set of Walker and Kays at Clifton’s. Driving down towards town I was struck with the palpable beauty of the clouds. Yesterday it was a mackerel sky whereas today the clouds were round and rolling, but the effect was the same: silvery-blonde and glowingly luminous sunlight filtered through the clouds, making Sunday-school-picture rays form, the lovely shafts of light winkling and radiating down upon us or spraying up to make a light bouquet for heaven. It was breathtaking. And so were the music and the food at Clifton’s! We offered the Gaia Meditation, with me praying at the end, in the car coming home.

It decided to storm and pour as we drove home and that, too, was perfectly gorgeous to see, with the sound of the rain on the car roof, the lights of the cars and the expressway blearing and running down the windscreen and everyone going very slowly in the mist. I love the way things become meditative and surrealistic when the weather is really low and visibility is bad. The world becomes a mystery, magical and profound.

We came home to find the place all put to bed already so we came upstairs and relaxed until we said good night around 11 PM/

Thursday, June 8, 2006

I woke early enough to make my Camelot Journal entry for yesterday before waking up Mick. The lovely green bower outside my office window cheered me all day as I worked with re-coding the topics in the outlines for the Choice books. I soldiered through 101 and 102 and got a bare start on 103’s outline topics today. It is slow and painstaking work and I shall need to follow through with an examination of the topics from the point of view of the original, one-book Choice outline to be sure that the topics I feel maintain integrity with the Confederation philosophy have been covered.

Then I shall need to locate additional quotes for topics created since the original outline. Sometimes it seems a long road just to get re-started on the writing. But it shall get done in time.

I conversed with Jim about our price list. It needs re-doing. We agreed to raise the price of shipping and handling per book to $3.00 to cover the paperwork that we go through to keep track of the donors for tax purposes. You’d think a non-profit corporation like L/L Research would not need to track such donations but indeed the IRS is very firm about that. We also need to raise book prices, since our suppliers have raised prices to us.

I talked with our web guy about the possibility of printing a small run of annual books of our L/L Research channeling for 2005. I had wanted to have another read of the material after he had it all collected. However it turns out that this work, done after the format has been set to PDF, would cause massive amounts of additional labor for him. He made a persuasive case for letting the volume be published at its current state of correctness. The case was that he could not do the publication if I insisted on another editing read-through and correction.

This is one of those choices where you have to weigh the excellence of a spiffed-up text against having no text at all to offer in print. So I agreed to move ahead without doing another editorial reading of the manuscript. I do know there are errata remaining. Whenever I get a newsletter ready I take the on-line version of the reading Jim has selected and read it through to tweak it. I always find things to make better. But admittedly the mistakes are not many and not bad.

It will be good to see if there are people out there who want to collect these annuals in printed form. It is something other channeling groups have done and I think it is a real service to offer such volumes. I personally prefer reading from a book to reading things on the computer or downloading a bunch of unattached pages and stapling them together.

Jim and I were able to have lunch together and do our stretching exercises as well as enjoying a bath together and relaxing for the evening. Gary and we caught up on the news over supper and Gary offered the prayer ending the Gaia Meditation. We all said good night around 10:30 and Jim and I snuggled until 11 before seeking our sleep.

Friday, June 9, 2006

After we had our morning routine of puzzle, paper, patting cats and Morning Offering, Jim and Gary went to mow around our little village and I settled in to work on the Choice outline chart. First I finished entering all the topics from the new outlines, taking up at the beginning of Book 103, where I had stopped yesterday.

When I finished that, I took the old, one-volume outline and searched for each topic point in that document, locating all of them in the new outline and plugging in the one-volume code numbers from that outline. This will enable me to figure out what topics I still need to search and find on our site for good quotes to use in the books. It also gives me the code changes I need to update the quotes database.

I used that method to find the several topics in the original outline which for one good reason or another we had removed from the flow of discussion as we expanded to three volumes for the series. I knew this had happened and was determined to place those topics back in to the work. This finding of the missing topics immediately solved my woes with Book 103, in its last chapter, concerning which I was quite unhappy. It did not have any punch to it. Plugging in the missing topic points from my original outline which had gone missing, I created a new ending for the book series and one which knocks the socks off of the previous ending.

So two concerns I had are resolved: the book series has a good ending chapter and I have maintained integrity with the material I am attempting to discuss with the regular person. For the purposes of this extended research report, which is how I look at this project, the main thing is to give the reader a clear picture of the results of our research so far into the way the metaphysical puzzle works.

The fact that, unlike many of our current readers, these target readers have no college education and a seventh-grade reading level does not make them poor candidates for receiving this information. It just means I need to tell a story which makes only one point at a time and moves forward well. And I need to rein in my sometimes arcane vocabulary choices. I have never done that before. I have written for a more sophisticated reader; one who has done a lot of previous reading in metaphysics and spirituality. (And probably one who has wished I would have reined in those vocabulary choices long ago!) Now I wish to write for the average person, a soul who may not seem so brilliant. However this soul is a candidate for graduation, as anyone on Earth today is here by seniority of vibration and can make the grade. If it appeals to this soul to check out our ideas, I want them to pop off the page for him and her with real clarity.

Although I am sure that, once I begin writing, I will alter the outline often as the flow of writing suggests it, the process of envisioning how to tell the whole of the story of these ideas is important to me. That’s how my head works. Once I get my outline set and my quotes database in order I should at last be back to square one in terms of the writing for this project. (I had gotten as far as the writing of the preface and introduction before realizing I needed to expand the book to multiple volumes, or end up with another monster book!)

Our web guy had asked about where we were on the new suggested donations list for our books and other items for sale like tapes and T shirts. At one point I had given my recommendations to Melissa for that, but the project stopped for some reason. So I e-mailed a heads-up to her about the project. Mailing prices have gone up, as have our printing costs, so it is time to make a new suggested donations list which reflects these changes in suggested donation amounts.

We don’t have a price list per se for our offerings, as we are a non-profit charity. If someone writes in with a book request and has no money, we still have a policy to send the person one free book at a time. Our only requirement is that the person needs to write to ask for each book. We do this to discourage prisoners asking for all of our work, and then trading the volumes for other merchandise like cigarettes.

After being in the house the whole day and never poking my nose out the front door even once, except to get the paper at the dawning of the day, I was hardly dirty but I joined Mick in a whirlpool anyway, sluicing away the tensions of the day’s number crunching. We relaxed with Amy Goodman’s news and then went downstairs to work on the Book of Days project, selecting the Days for June before enjoying our supper and the Gaia Meditation with Gary. Jim offered the closing prayer. It was not long before our eyes began to close, so we came back upstairs for a final snuggle before wishing each other good night around midnight.

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Saturdays are a treat at L/L Research as the master does not need to arise to mow and we can sleep in until after 8 AM! We enjoyed the rambunctious play of the kittens as we drowsed and took those few precious moments to luxuriate in not having to get up and meet any deadlines today.

After Morning Offering Mick did kitchen duty, preparing a turkey and acorn squash with peaches and nectarines. Gary also joined in with making fresh herbed beans and kale with turkey bacon and the house smelled wonderful all day. Meanwhile I came upstairs to tackle the numbers game again, the recoding of the quotes database.

Taking my work from yesterday, the remapping chart for the coding numbers for topics, I started to recode the database of quotes. I kept finding inconsistencies in the outline versus the remapping chart and resolving those took time. All day, until 4:30 or so, I worked on this, achieving about 200 newly coded quotes out of about 350. It is an excellent start.

I asked Gary to set aside time Tuesday, his next admin day, to go through these two documents with me and be absolutely sure all is congruent between them. When I begin to write, I’d like to have a really tight outline with which to work and the quotes ready to use in order by topic.

Gary had worked all afternoon for L/L on the photograph project. Mick and I bought a digital camera in 2003. We enthusiastically took pictures with it and as long as the docking station worked we had printed photographs to send to friends. I never did learn to work the software for using photos on-line. Over the years since, we have taken over a thousand images. However since the docking station quit working early in 2005 we have not been able to enjoy any pictures at all either in print or on line.

Gary’s challenges were to find the photos, amass the photos in one place, organize them into albums and then move them to where I can use them on Traveler, my computer upstairs. This laptop has been a grand workhorse for me.

All these tasks, Gary completed yesterday! I am substantially closer to being able to put pictures in my journal! He came upstairs after I had left my office for the day and worked on getting my laptop organized to receive images from the camera. Now he has only to figure out how to use the software for manipulating these images and then show me how to work it. That’s the critical part and I am not a good student of anything technical. I must write down each and every click in the protocol, as the moves do not often make sense to me per se.

It was tempting to go on with the work on the coding, but I had vowed that today would see me in the L/L Research gardens, Camelot division. There’s a substantial benefit to being out working in nature. If affects me profoundly, both in soothing my somewhat frazzled sensibilities after a day of intellectual exercise and in making me feel satisfied to have made a difference in how the yard looks. I weeded the stand of pendulous begonias by the front walk and took grass out of the lariope for a most pleasant hour, sitting and working from my garden scooter.

After our whirlpool, Mick and I relaxed with World Music for an hour, then came down to work more on the Book of Days, choosing the Days for July. We were able to fill in three Days in May, which now lacks four Days to complete its roster. June lacks 14 Days! We have a fat pile of rejected Days from which to choose. These were mostly rejected because they were either too long or too complex in their discussion. When the whole year’s Days have been chosen, we’ll go back and mine our early discards for the best-of-the-rest of the Days to fill in any remaining blank days in the calendar. We will put all 470 Days up in the e-book, but for the printed book Jim and I are looking for the sweetest and simplest of the devotional readings, those thoughts for the day that inspire most easily.

We offered the Gaia Meditation when we had finished choosing Days, with me praying the ending prayer, and enjoyed a late supper with Gary and catch-up conversation.

We had thought to watch a movie after this, but as both Jim and I found ourselves nodding to sleep in our chairs, we decided to wait until Movie Day tomorrow for film watching. We contented ourselves for the evening by finding a block of Star Trek Enterprise and relaxed and chilled with Vedge TV at its finest until time to say good night.

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Today was a gloriously “off” for Jim and me. After our morning routine of Cleanliness (Mick) and Godliness (me), we enjoyed a Movie Afternoon, watching The New World and also The Legend of Zorro. In the evening we found a rerun of MASH, the original Robert Altman movie, to amuse us and help us to recall with much fondness watching this same movie with the Elk.

Our only L/L Research business for the day was to select the Days for August, for the print edition of the Book of Days.

Monday, June 12, 2006

Monday was a great day, which I wrote about Tuesday morning. When I was ready to post the entry to the Camelot Journal, suddenly the computer hibernated. When I got the system going again, two versions of the entry had been saved. Both of them, however, were blank!

So here’s another try at sharing the day! Jim and I had our usual delightful morning routine, ending with our Morning Offering. Mick went to do his mowing and gardening for the day while I worked to finish the work on the recoding. After lunch, I set out to figure out exactly what quotes I had—how many on what topics. By the end of the afternoon I had that information together. My remapping code chart now carries that information and I imagine for the next few days it will give me my work! I need to acquire good quotations to use on the topics which are not yet covered.

After a bath and a rest, Jim and I worked our way through September’s Days in the Book of Days project. We also filled in the last few days in May which were still blank. We said good night after the Gaia Meditation and late night vedge TV with the kitties.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

I started the morning early by writing my Camelot Journal entry for yesterday, which the computer ate whole, losing my work completely! However, the day itself turned out much better than that dismal start! After Morning Offering, Jim was off to mow and garden. I was focused on the Choice outlines and remapping chart. I went through the three outlines, telling myself the story of each book and making the adjustments needed for good flow. By lunchtime I had the outlines ready to check for congruency with the remapping chart. I ducked out to do a few errands, getting my glasses adjusted after kittens’ depredations and special-ordering Dr. Hauschka products, which are extremely good for people with sensitive skin who wish to use organic products.

After lunch, Gary came up and we went through the documents together, comparing them. We found lots of discrepancies and noted them down for me to repair. I did most of that correction but have some to do tomorrow to finish up.

I also began working on my UPI article, which is due tomorrow, by gathering the relevant quotes on the red-ray energy center from the Law of One material. I got seven pages of good material collected, far more than I will need or use in the article, but good material for creating a workbook for the participants, for our weekend workshop on the chakras this next Homecoming, over Labor Day.

I had thought I’d gotten the next issue of our newsletter, Light/Lines, ready for our web guy, but I make many mistakes! Fortunately he caught the fact that I sent him the wrong set of comments, clicking on the wrong document so that he had notes for our Spring issue instead of fresh notes for the Summer issue. I sent him the correct Comments and the Summer issue of Light/Lines will no doubt be coming out in the next couple of days.

Melissa had prepared Jim’s and my lease agreement with L/L Research, to lease Avalon to L/L for spiritual work, so I sent it on to our lawyer for approval before we go through the signing. It simply says that we as private citizens are giving L/L Research, the non-profit corporate entity, permission to work at creating a community on Avalon. That project is in hiatus right now but one never knows! So paperwork needs to be in place, our tax accountants say.

Just before bath time I drove over to the doctor’s office through the burgeoning summer traffic, appreciating the clover and teasels in full bloom along the roadside.

After the Gaia Meditation and a late supper, Mick and I chose Days for October in the Book of Days project, also filling in the last of the blank dates in June. It was a great session, ending with every date filled in now except for the last two months of the year. We’re gaining on finishing this project! It is exciting to see.

We said good night about midnight after a long and pleasant snuggle and conversation to close the day most enjoyably.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

I arose early enough to work on the Camelot Journal entry for yesterday, fill in the Days for October and the part of June that we got filled in with the extra Days from October—I seem to have been very productive, throughout the three years I was working on tuning and challenging, in October—and wrote Melissa and Gary a memo on the development of a PayPal option for our on-line ordering before I went downstairs to awaken the sleeping gardener of the house. After Morning Offering Jim rolled out to address his lawns of the day and I came upstairs to my bower.

The first order of business was to write the red-ray chakra article. I made my UPI deadline, sending that off to Larry at UPI. Then I took a deep breath and tackled the deep piles of e-mail which had accumulated. Until about 5:30, I dealt with the burgeoning Inbox.

I thanked Jeremy for correcting an oddity in my posting of the Camelot Journal entry for the 12th. It had adventurously gotten itself duplicated and swaddled in itself.
Responded to Jean-Claude, who is having a spectacular run of being invited to speak at really large gatherings of light workers in California and along the West Coast.
Worked with our web guy on matters to do with the two books we have in progress. We are talking about which Print On Demand companies to choose for the work. The Canadian company, Blitzprint, not only has good prices but also does all the fulfillment on the books it prints. This means that people could order directly from them and we would not have to do the mailing out, which would be handy. We’re doing comparisons with lulu, an American company, to see if the deal is better.
Responded to a letter from our lawyer by forwarding it to Melissa. She has done legal work before and hopefully can figure out what he wants us to do with this lease which I thought we had all done. Apparently not! It’s a simple concept: lease L/L Research our farm so that, if L/L chooses to do so, it can move forward on the Avalon Project, which is at present in hiatus. However, legalese can complicate virtually anything!
Responded to Vara, who is not going to move forward with creating a study curriculum to go along with the Choice books. I am disappointed but also would have been surprised if she had chosen to do the project. It is a huge commitment of time and energy to create a curriculum like that, even with my outlines to help her. And she is “going and growing” in other directions.
Caught up with Tim, who has just moved with his family from New Queens Land in Australia to near Cambridge in Britain. He has added a couple of people to our send list for Light/Lines. I told him we’d have a new issue to send out very soon.
Thanked Judy R, who sent me the second weekend’s worth of channeling sessions for the Aaron Q’uo Dialogues, a wonderful series of co-channeling sessions Barbara Brodsky and I did from about 1990 to about 2000. there are nine weekends altogether, which will make a generous volume when I get it all edited. I hope to do it, as I did the Book of Days, working a bit every day. It greatly deserves to be “out there” as it is magical material. Editing through the first weekend’s worth of sessions last year, I found the material extremely synchronistic, offering specific advice on precisely what I was working to balance on the days I edited it. No matter how exciting a new project like the Choice books is, I cannot forget the older material that still needs to be gotten together and sent out to have a life in service.
Finalized preparations with Steve T, who will visit this weekend with his fiancée, Sara. Steve will offer two talks during our 2006 Homecoming on Labor Day weekend. I greatly look forward to meeting Sara.
Sent a KY report to my buddy Rick, friends since college, who now lives in ME and was talking about blueberries and gardens, building and fixing up in his retirement home. He sounds most peaceful and happy.
Thanked Wynn F for recommending me to his friend, whose web address is www.metaphysia.net and who is making a movie about the new paradigm, a subject close to my heart. The guy apparently wants to interview me, which will be a grand opportunity to talk about this new paradigm and unconditional love.
Responded to Joan, who is transcribing tape letters of mine from that period where I could not sit up and had to work on tapes doing correspondence with people working with me. She was correct in thinking a family-matters letter to my brother was not a good candidate for a niche devoted to the spiritual principles which I talk about over and over when counseling seekers.
Worked on questions which Andy B had submitted for his personal session later this week. I generally can find ways to re-word questions so that they will elicit more information from the channeling source, which is almost always the Q’uo group.
Wrote Aaron T about some volunteer work she is doing on a niche for the work of Nancy Gibson, an extraordinarily talented medium and channel whose work has never been published except in private printings for a few friends. I ran across her utterly inspirational work in Bath at the home of Jill S. last June when I gave a talk there which Jill had arranged. One of Nancy’s little books was handwritten and published in cursive script, which will not OCR well. The question was, do we want JPGs, which would look just like the original pages but would have to be read one, at, a, time or do we want to type out the material and offer it on line as a normal, typewritten text? I opted for getting the material in easily read form. There is real merit in having that energy of the handwriting there, however, so I suggested that she choose her favorite of Nancy’s cursive pages from the book and JPG it, including that in the niche so people could get a feel of what the original work was like.
Caught up with my desert flower, Dana R, who has had her kidney biopsy. The diagnosis for her spinal cancer is that it is related to the kidneys. This is actually very good news, as life span after the kidney cancer diagnosis is considerably longer. Now Dana faces surgery in July to remove the affected part of the kidney. Her attitude is so inspiring I want to stand up and cheer. She is focused on gratitude and thankfulness. It lifts me up.
Dianne S had sent me some information for Bruce which I forwarded to him on Avalon.
Thanked Selcan for being courageous enough to take on the translation of volume five of The Law of One, congratulated her on making it through the first fragment and reassured her that I’d be glad to help with any translation questions. The first four volumes of LOO are already translated into Turkish, BTW, which is why she is taking on Book V.

I took the last part of the afternoon to garden in the wonderfully penetrating warmth of a Kentucky summer’s day. The blacktop on the road had that special summer smell which I have loved ever since I was a knobby kneed kid on a bicycle, dust and heat and damp. The lovely blue flower that grows wild in the ditches along Hazelwood is abloom for the first time this year. I fished the last of the encroaching weeds out of the begonias by the porch, finished finding the grass which was trying to imitate lariope and pulled down the ivy and other vines which had once again started to climb up the house by the front porch.

Jim came home with all his work done for the day, exuding happiness and good cheer and showing me a used mower which he had found for Avalon. We’ve been trying to get along with a weed whacker for the dooryard to Sugar Shack but it really is not enough, and the last time Bruce did the grass there that way, there was poison ivy in the meadow and he got an awful case of it. So now we have a mower!

Jim and I enjoyed a bath together and relaxation, then got supper together and worked on choosing the Days for November. It was also a very fruitful month for me, so we ended the work session with five extra good Days. We will need them as December has many dates which have no reading at all on them. It’s inevitable that around the Christmas holidays, with so many family plans and singing engagements, I’d miss those channeling opportunities. So we’re ready to tackle the last month of the year tomorrow! It’s great to be finishing this work.

We offered the Gaia Meditation, with me praying at the end. I asked for a symbol of peace and saw a seashell. Why is that peaceful, I asked myself, and then realized that the pattern of the seashell was its very nature. It grew according to that nature. We also have a nature, but we have a wider nature. We can go with our lower nature or we can dig for our truer, deeper and higher, nature. It’s like a computer is programmed. You cannot fix a problem at the level of that problem. You have to move up the hierarchy of order and make the correction from a higher level. Fortunately we humans do have a dandy higher nature. It just takes a bit of discipline to remember to ask to access it.

Jim and I ended our day watching an old jams Bond movie and said good night around 11 PM.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

What an incredibly lovely day this was, fair and sunny. Jim headed off to mow after Morning Offering and I came upstairs to do the last of the work on the remapping chart for the quotes database for the Choice books. I checked through all Gary’s and my notes from yesterday and finally was satisfied that the work was well done. What a thrill!

I sent the three outlines and the remapping chart off to Bill and Denise for their OK, which I believe will be forthcoming, since they OK’d the previous outline, which contained the same elements.

In a surprise move, Jim found himself able to have lunch at home, so we got to enjoy most pleasant company for a while at the meridian. What a treat! We even got to stretch before he rolled out for the afternoon and I danced up the stairs to do my first searches. Before I quit for the day I’d found good quotes on religion, spirituality, worship and church. It’s a start! It gets me halfway through the Introduction to 101! I estimate perhaps a week’s worth of topic searches to round out my selection of quotations.

Melissa and I had a planning meeting before she left for the day, concerning the tax information which our tax accountants need for refilling L/L Research taxes for 2004. Actually, that’s good news, as previously they were talking about refilling for several past years. For some reason they are not satisfied with Jim’s previous Form 990s. Jim always put a little note on the Forms saying, “This is as close as I could come.” And we are very honest and straightforward. There’s no chicanery! Jim’s just not great with numbers. Gee, you’d think the fact that the Forms never really balanced would not matter so much!

But, no! The accountants decided, in taking over on L/L tax filing for 2005, that they needed to go back one year only and refile for 2004. So Mel has been knocking herself out doing the receipt-finding and record producing they requested. She’s pored through a lot of paper! But the job is done and the information is in the accountants’ hands now. Kudos to Melissa!

I wrote a snail-mail letter to my friend, Aubine, in France. She has no computer savvy whatsoever, so this is our only way to keep in contact. After the speed and ease of the internet I felt as though I were sending her letter by mule. I hope that mule can swim!

Mick got home after having somehow piled an extra job in to the day doing some odd-job chores for a customer. We had a restorative whirlpool and rested, enjoying junk TV and each other. At 8, we went down to share supper and then do the very last month of Days, filling out December in the Book of Days project. It’s done! I can send the selections chart off to our web guy, who will produce the book, tomorrow! It’s a sweet moment.

We came up for a late snuggle with the cats and said good night around 11 PM.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Some days are nothing like you expect and this was one of them for me. I had an agenda in my head that went completely out the window when Romi came by to work on repairs to our garage. He is working to restore lighting in the garage. Somehow the garage and my upstairs office are on the same circuit. To do electrical work he had to turn the current off. Suddenly I was without my computer.

The bower office had a good many things to be cleaned up or put away. All morning I worked up here, making file folders and labeling them, putting away periodicals which were awaiting my taking the time to locate their binders and sliding the new issues into the collections, and such chores.

My desk was stacked with items to do when I had the time. I tackled the stack. Peter B had sent us an out of print book on bio-dynamic farming. I wrote him back, snail mail, thanking him and discussing possibilities of his working as a volunteer on Avalon next summer. Connie M had sent healing bracelets to Jim and I wrote to thank her and also to sympathize, as she herself is under a good deal of strain recently. And I wrote Aubine K, snail mail, as like Connie, she does not have computer access nor like e-mail.

Aubine had written to say that her daughter was recovering from amoebic dysentery, which she contracted working as a biologist in Africa. Ariane has been inspired to start a campaign for making wells in this desert area so that people will not continue to drink the badly polluted pond water. What a courageous response to her experience!

Over lunch, Romi and I had a planning session. We decided that for next fall we would not continue the internet broadcasts. Bruce tends not to meditate during the sessions anyway and is perfect for running the technology during meditations. However, he plans on not being here then. And Romi really does like to meditate during the sessions. We agreed to shelve the project for the present and wait for someone to step up and say that they would really like to create that listening experience.

Jim came home as I returned from lunch and we had a most pleasant break together, finishing with our stretching routine. Then he was off again with Gary to finish mowing for the day and I continued my alternatively occurring day, labeling our most recent photograph album. As always when my focus is pulled from creative work, I ended up very glad of the chance to do something completely different for a change. And gazing around at my clean office as I write this, I am thankful for the time to do the small chores that create order and cleanliness in my environment.

Romi worked all of the afternoon on the garage lighting project and did not finish. He will be back tomorrow but I and my computer are safe because the first thing he did today was to create a way to turn the power to the garage off separately from my office. Bless you, dear Romi!

I was scheduled for offering a personal session this evening but I had to cancel, something I rarely ever do. However I had gardened in late afternoon and used very unwise judgment in trying to pull out some black-eyed susans which had adventurously taken root in the Ruins Garden. Everything in that garden is supposed to be a fairly low-growing plant, so you can see the shape of the “ruins,” the stones beneath the plantings. I was tugging on the big, young, hardy plants and they would not yield. I ended up using my garden pruners and nipping them down easily. However the damage was done and I eventually had to take pain medication and use my hotpad to deal with the back spasms resulting from unwise tugging.

Because of this, Jim and I made an early night of it, coming upstairs after the Gaia Meditation and saying good night by 11 PM.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

We were expecting houseguests today in the afternoon, so I took some time to go around the house and spot-check everything. One always finds oopses in a house with cats if one looks! Finally the house was tidy, the kitty oopses cleaned, the pillows fluffed and the dip made for later. I cut some tiger lilies, hydrangea snowballs, Queen Ann’s Lace and a pretty yellow annual I don’t recognize which Melissa planted, plus some peony leaves and made them a bouquet for their room.

Our web guy had asked for an ISBN number for the Book of Days, which is exciting news as it means he is engaging with producing that small devotional book for printing. I fished out the list we were sent yea these many years ago from Bowker and assigned our next vacant number to that worthy volume. He is also working on the 2005 Annual collection of L/L Research channelings. I guess it is time for me to go get a new head shot made. My last book photo was taken in 2001. Some time has passed and I probably do not look precisely like that now.

We are also talking about choosing a printer which offers fulfillment of orders as well. We’ll find one, as we already know Blitzprint has this service. So we will not take orders for the books ourselves but direct them to the printer.

I took some time to write a couple of friends and then Jim and I had our lunch and stretched. Soon our guests arrived. We took them on a tour of the house, showing Sara everything for the first time and showing Steve the improvements Jim has made since the last time he visited. My bower office was new to him, as was the hall shelving and the shelving in this office. Then we broke out the chips and dip and settled in for a good conversation.

We had the soccer championship games on in the background and the kittens were doing didos all over the room, cavorting and being classically silly as kittens are supposed to do. It made for a homey and sweet atmosphere as we became acquainted with Steve’s fiancée who is now his wife! They decided not to wait for a formal occasion so were married by a judge.

At 5:30 I went over to St. Luke’s for the “Mass in the Grass” and Steve, Sara and Mick joined me thereafter for the barbecue, a fundraiser for clothing for children. It is a big crisis for poorer Louisvillians each fall when school starts as schools tend to have uniform codes now. Kids cannot wear jeans to school. It’s Dockers, or the equivalent in other bands of khaki pants, and shirts rather than tees. These cost money which many parents’ budgets do not have. So the barbecue bucks will buy khakis and shirts by the dozen. The food was great and a bluegrass band was playing for the evening.

We wandered back to the house at dusk and watched the first half of the movie, Firewall together. Jim cleaned the kitchen and we had a good Gaia Meditation, with Jim praying at the end. We said good night around 11:30.

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Little L/L Research business was done today! Steve and Sara were visiting and Jim and I focused on relaxing and enjoying their company. It was a joy to meet Sara and see Steve so happy. Sara seems a gem and they shine together.

Steve and I attended church and then we all had a wonderful lunch at Captain’s Quarters, watching the barges and sailboats on the river while sitting under trees eating very good food. We indulged ourselves with movies, finishing Firewall and watching another eminently forgettable flick before having our Gaia Meditation and packing it in for the night.

I have all but recovered from the back spasms that laid me low Friday. However, symptoms remain and I was very grateful for some time to take it easy. Oddly, the other location of discomfort from the black-eyed-susan-pulling episode is my big toe on my left foot, which is most unhappy. So I am limping again! Here’s hoping it clears away as quickly and easily as my other dings this year.

Monday, June 19, 2006

After Morning Offering, in which Steve joined us, Jim headed out to mow his lawns and I spent most of the morning chatting with Steve and then Sara and wishing them well on their way as they departed. By lunchtime I had gotten the Camelot Journal entry made and started on the e-mail.

I found that another old friend, Ronald R, is on his way cross country and hopes to stay here at Camelot tomorrow night en route. Throughout the day we exchanged e-mail and now he has directions to our house.

I also worked on a new admin job list for Gary, who has successfully batted his way through the projects on his old list. That was fun! Finally I shall be able to have him tackle the job of creating a send list for my UPI articles and the much larger job of working through the Contacts list which Jean-Claude shared with me, sending out articles to magazines, radio stations and so forth. Jean-Claude insists that this is the way to develop a readership—just keep soliciting ways to get your material seen, talked about and shared in some way. It makes sense but never would have occurred to me on my own!

Speaking of UPI, Larry the UPI Editor wrote to ask me about re-titling the Desks under which my columns appear. Instead of floating under the wide Religion and Spirituality Desk, Larry wants to place my work under Metaphysical and Spiritual. Or maybe Mystical and Spiritual. I wrote to tell him that all of those applied and to choose the one that made the most sense to him. He’s looking at how people look things up on Google, trying to re-name the Desks to get more traffic.

Larry was most excited because he was able to get a new domain name, www.religionandspirituality.com. He’s stoked because with the old address, with “forum” added to the title, few people Google under “religion and spirituality forum.” Apparently lots of people use the phrase “religion and spirituality.”

I am happy not to have to consider such matters! Go, Larry!

I wrote Judy C, a friend and faithful meditator in our Sunday meetings. Judy has an account on eBay, where she is a book seller. We experienced the death of our printer, Jessica, and were left proud possessors of a full set of toner cartridges for her. They are expensive and we can only return two of the four; the other two are out of date in terms of when they were sold to us. So I would like to sell the other two on eBay. We’ll see if she can do that for us.

I corresponded briefly with Terry H about a problem with his Chinese translation of the Law of One sessions. I was no help. He’ll have to send me the quote in more context.

Ian wrote to tell us that the new issue of Light/Lines is out and I notified Gary, who will send the hard copies out to those who do not have computer access and have asked to be on that list. These are mostly prisoners, with a few oldsters and throwbacks who just don’t like computers rounding out the numbers.

Bruce and I are corresponding about the Reciprocal System. He is creating a blurb for me to use in the Choice books on his developments of that system of physics started by Dewey E. Larson.

I sent the new Avalon lease to Morris, our vice-president, to sign electronically. Then I fiddled with the memo which the lawyer, Jeff, had attached for me to use to send that lease on to Trimble County to put with our deed but I could not figure out how to use it. So I sent that on to Melissa, who has done a lot of paralegal work in her time. Hopefully she can sort it out for me.

I then turned to quote-finding and spent the rest of the afternoon hunting quotes on Ra, the Pyramids and the Law of One.

We had a sweet evening, much distinguished by the extinguishing of our lights. A storm was rolling through and suddenly we were without power again. This time we tried to be very smart. Jim got lots of ice and we filled the basement freezer, a boxlike affair, with the contents of our fridges and freezers upstairs. We saved our food! I was so pleased. The work had the effect of carrying an umbrella on a rainy day, when the rain stops! Our power was back on before we went to bed! That’s the fastest turnaround ever. Then, of course, Jim had to schlep everything back upstairs. We got cleaner fridges and updated food supplies out of the deal. The compost pile got some moldy cheese!

We offered the Gaia Meditation in mixed astonishment and thankfulness, had a good snuggle with all the cats and bade each other a most fond good night around 11 PM.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The elderberry bushes are in bloom now! After Morning Offering I came upstairs to work on the quotes database. Throughout the day I found some good quotes on such topics as Metternich, Rome and Babylon. By the end of the afternoon I was working on polarity topics.

That’s largely what I did today besides getting ready for another guest tonight, Ronald R, an old friend of L/L Research who has been to several of our workshops. He is on his way out west for a stint in the sun. He is looking well and we enjoyed visiting with him and sharing our Gaia Meditation with him as well.

Gary and I worked for a while on figuring out how to imbed photos in the Camelot Journal. However we could not figure out a thing. Gary will check to find out how that is done and we will talk again! Gary was working yesterday on getting the new issue of Light/Lines out to our Prisoners List. It is good to have our summer issue out just in time for summer’s arrival.

I also took Gary to the car repair shop twice, to drop off and pick up his auto. His middle-aged car, which he bought new and which worked perfectly until the car was paid for, seems to spring a new repair need every week lately!

Jim dodged early raindrops and juggled his day to do gardening jobs first in order to deal with a wet morning. His day worked out well, all the mowing getting done in good time. We ended our day with a most pleasant bath and relaxation before saying good night at 11 PM.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

A stand of bright red day lilies was blooming at the Wuthering Heights planting in the front yard as I got the paper today on the longest day of the year and mailed out the hard copies of the new issue of Light/Lines which Gary had prepared for mailing, the blooms looking most brave and gay. Jim headed out to mow after Morning Offering and I started in on writing an article on the orange-ray energy center for UPI. By lunchtime, it was finished and sent off to my editor, Larry.

After lunch I caught up with e-mail rather than search for quotes as I was extremely antsy about taking the kittens to the vet’s. Each time I have taken them, they have been heavier. The kittens needed their nails cut badly, for my sake! They are very affectionate and their kneading has begun to seem like an assault. In the event, with Melissa’s help I got the cats in the big carrier and managed this visit OK. It may be that I will need help by the time the kittens are “fixed” in August. They’re getting to be big kitties now!

I had written Sandie to ask about what the question was upon which I was to base an article for Planet Light Worker this month. However Sandie’s step-dad, whom she adores, is very, very ill and not expected to live. She is with him in Britain and has no idea about the article or any other business except family at this point. I sent an inquiry off to her admin, sister Vara, who will find the question for me, I am sure, if it can be done without Sandie. It will be fun to write the article. I know it was a question about my channeling. However I do not recall what area of that large subject is covered by the query.

I sent a flurry of mail to admin/bookkeeper Melissa, who is helping me with the work-up for the new suggested donations list and also the business with the memo of our Avalon lease for Trimble County to put in with the deed for the property. Her paralegal experience is most helpful with these issues coming up. She assured me it was being worked on, and would get done, which was a blessing to hear. She also told me all the work is now done for the tax accountants. Whoopee!!! That’s a huge amount done, and kudos to Melissa.

Morris, our vice-president and a generous donor for the printing of the Book of Days, wrote to say that he was sending matching funds for the donations we have received so far for its printing. It is grand to see the funding for that coming together!

Gary and I corresponded concerning finding a new home for our toner cartridges at “Sellabay,” a local store which accepts used goods for resale on eBay. We do not have an eBay account, so that’s probably our best bet for realizing some return on the toner cartridges we could not use on our busted printer. We do not recommend the big HP laser color printer! It does a wonderful job of producing clear copies but tends to eat imaging drums and it grooms itself endlessly and noisily. Further, it does not print gray-scale with the black toner, but with a mixture of all the colors, which makes it very expensive to use even when you think you’re printing in black only. Not so, Kemo Sabe!

Two volunteers, Paul and Aaron, wrote to offer time for transcribing sessions. I wrote them to say that when we start up again in September, we’ll be using them for sure! Blessedly for Jim’s and my relaxation during this hectic summer mowing season, we’re off on Sundays until then and are enjoying some serious Sabbath rest, watching movies and snoozing to catch up on zees.

After successfully getting Dan and Chloe home, nails neatly trimmed and my hide safe once again, I worked on quotes for chapters one through three of Book 101. The database is getting filled nicely. I am so looking forward to completing this preparation and getting the writing started! The new quotes are about one-third done now.

This was supposed to be a jazz night for Mick and me but it had been a stifling, humid day with a heat index over 100 and Jim had finished the afternoon working on a particularly hellish task for one of his customers. Honeysuckle vines have taken over a row of trees in their yard and he has been removing them. He’s still not completely done but the bulk of the work is behind him. It’s very hard labor and it was a night to stay home and relax with the kitties. We did that. Gary offered the ending prayer at the Gaia Meditation and Jim and I sought our beds early.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

The Golden Rain trees are in bloom now and the summer heat is blasting away! I love the warm weather and the passing parade of blossom and beauty! Getting the morning paper is an esthetic delight on mornings like this.

After Morning Offering I came upstairs to work on obtaining good quotes for the topics not yet covered in the expanded outline. I worked steadily on this most of the day, getting through page three of the remapping chart and most of page four—well into the second of the three volumes. It’s a slow process for one reads many selections which hold the key word before finding just the right quote. But it is most enjoyable to nab good selections and prepare for the writing.

After lunch I took some time to clear my e-mail.

Worked with our web guy on editing an older channeling that just got transcribed.
Caught up with Bruce, who is traveling out west.
Sent my three chakra articles—I intend to write an article on each ray but have only gotten an overview and the first two chakras done so far—to Jean-Claude, who has asked to see them.
Read Nehru’s article on consciousness and wrote Bruce to say that while I can quote him on some points, I cannot use his words to talk about the Reciprocal System of physics, which I wish to do. Bruce himself is going to give me text on that and I will use a quotation from his work.
Wrote a Kentucky Report for my Maine friend, Rick, who is considering helping us with our sound work. This would be a real bonus! Rick won an Emmy for his sound work out in Hollywood with Glen Glenn.
Caught up with Dana, who is heading to Salt Lake City early in July to have the affected part of her kidney removed.
Wrote Sandie, whose Dad has now been diagnosed with acute leukemia. She has decided to stay with him in England as he comes home from hospital, not expected to live at all long.
Worked on a translation glitch with Terry Hsu, who is translating Session 83 of the Law of One into Chinese this week. Terry recently sent us new volumes for his translations of Book I and Book II, as he had corrected some earlier translation problems in those volumes. I believe his bookstore owner friend creates these modest 8 ½ x 11 “ books from Terry’s manuscripts. They are most exotic to see with their pictographs! And I am so glad to have the LOO work available in Taipei.

Jim came home rather late, which was not surprising since he’d been asked to do several extra jobs during the day and that time does add up! His goofiest request was to pick up apples. One of his customer’s trees drops little apple-like fruit this time of year and the fellow asked Mick to pick up the fruit before he mowed, as the mower squashes the fruit and he does not like the way it looks. So Jim obligingly went about for a good fifteen minutes hand-nabbing the offending globes off the grass. We relaxed into a marvelous, soft summer evening and enjoyed our bath, dinner, conversation with Gary and the Gaia Meditation before coming to bed around 11 PM.

Bruce wrote that we have a new kitten on Avalon and sure enough, Gary reported seeing a little black tyke when he was up there today with his girlfriend. We shall soon be adding another kitty cat to our clan here at Camelot, it sounds like. We cannot care for the cat up on Avalon with us 50 miles away here in the Louisville area, so we shall have to bring it down here. Bruce said that the cat was apparently abandoned at the top of the hill, for it showed up about two weeks ago and follows him around all the time. He calls it Shadow. I look forward to meeting Shadow.

Friday, June 23, 2006

While the heat raged outside I remained cool and comfy inside, working away from after Morning Offering to bath time, at the end of the work-day, on searching for quotes on various topics. I got part way through Chapter Two of 102 filling in the missing quotes. Some of the searches are tricky! The key word search on our site does not turn up what you hope it will and so you embark on a hunting expedition with alternative key words. The secret to the work is to focus! It is easy to space out when you are repeatedly diving for context in a bunch of different readings.

I did very little else all day! Here’s the little: I caught up with three old friends by e-mail; I collected a nice recipe from the paper for the house’s eventual delectation and I re-did an old recipe from my Recipes Database which Jim had chosen for this weekend’s cooking so that it now exhibits better ingredient choices that do not compromise the taste and a size which reflects the portions we need for this household. We use a bigger recipe than most people do because we are cooking enough for a week’s eating. We freeze or refrigerate everything and do our cooking for the week all at once.

I also added a bunch of herbs and a new ingredient to the recipe. It is a recipe for hash brown casserole and I added a can of mild, green, drained, chopped chilies. With the cheese and sour cream, plus some nice herbs and onion and garlic notes, that will bake up tasting very good. These days, my part is usually only the recipes themselves, which I have been collecting into my own database for years. Gary and Jim do the cooking! I get the imaginative and creative part of the work. The guys do the chemistry. Sometimes when the dish is not one with which Jim’s familiar, he get me to do the seasoning. Pretty fun duty!

Jim was excited to finish early with mowing this afternoon and have time to begin the perennial planting project in the yard. Since 1984, when we moved here, we have planted annual flowers across our front rock border by the parking area along the street, as well as in several other plantings around the yard. This year Mick and I decided to switch over to perennials for all such plantings. It is an ambitious project but it should make future gardening cheaper here. Buying new flowers each year gets expensive and we are looking for ways to lower costs in money and maintenance time in our garden.

He got his recent purchases placed, deciding where to plant each new item. We’ll plant striped lariope across the front border and dianthus on the top square of the Wuthering Heights planting in the front yard. We were looking for phlox, but it is not to be found locally. Mick likes to buy local plants and he is wise to do so as then if they do not thrive we have a personal relationship with the seller and can deal with the problems while seeing all the stock involved right on the spot.

I finished one of Papa’s gargantuan teaching letters during the evening, reading on it when we were not watching TV, and took it upstairs as I wanted to capture a couple of his thoughts for the political sections of the Choice books.

We had a lovely, lazy Friday night of viewing Stargate SG-1, taking a very long whirlpool, having a late supper and offering the Gaia Meditation before coming upstairs and saying good night at 11 PM.

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Saturdays have a wonderful energy to them around here because they represent Jim’s day at home, doing things to make our little acre neat and pretty. Today was no exception! Jim cooked and did errands in the morning, then took on the yard for the afternoon. He got the lariope planted all across the front and the dianthus bedded across Wuthering Heights’ top. Then he chipped about half of his stash of limbs and other storm debris from his customers. He had to stop before he was finished due to a wedding down the street, but still the improvement was great.

Meanwhile, at the afternoon’s end I also got out and weeded in the Ruins Garden, re-finding the sidewalk and removing a host of weeds from the plantings. Wild flowers keep staking out places in that garden but they grow too high! I let them bloom and then remove them. If I do not, they fall over and look terrible. And we do have pretty huechera and other great plants in the garden already which they obscure!

Except for that foray into the world of nature, my mind was wrapped around finding quotes all day. I am still proceeding through the topics in 102. That third chapter is mighty needful! I am six topics short of being finished with that chapter. I am so eager to write! However I know that if I do not get prepared first I shall regret it down the road. I am depending on this process of locating quotes to create in me an awareness of the pattern for all three books that I can rely upon for the work ahead.

Gary was working to figure out how to imbed photographs in my journal entries when Jim and I headed out for a jazz night at Artemisia. I look forward to hearing what he discovered! Gary also worked with our CDs and DVDs yesterday, re-organizing our media nook in those categories. There comes a time when so much has been out of order in a collection that there IS no order and we had come to that point. Now hopefully we’ll be able to find our music again.

Chloe and Sedge sat together and slept on the same shelf, right at the bottom of my bed, for the first time today. And Sedge no longer hisses at her and Dan. It’s a milestone! And that peace has been settled just in time, for Jim told me he plans to go up to Avalon tomorrow to retrieve this cat Bruce informed us about, whom he named Shadow. He says it’s just a small, black kitten. There are packs of dogs in that part of God’s country and kittens don’t stand much of a chance, so Mick’s soft heart would not let him leave the kitten there at their mercy. So here we go again with a new kitten! This time, we did not plan on it—but we’ll adopt a new Avalon baby tomorrow.

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Fairly sleepless last night, I rose early and tried on clothes for a while, wishing to put together a bundle of good used clothing for Goodwill. I love that feeling of having a wardrobe where every garment is loved and used. That means keeping up with garments which I no longer really choose to wear and combing them out of my closet. I am not one who has different sized wardrobes! The secret to enjoying your clothes is to keep only the ones you currently like.

This was a summer Sunday and Jim did some very quick vacuuming before heading out to Avalon for the kitten. While I was singing at church, Jim had an adventure with Shadow. Shadow came to Mick on Avalon and enjoyed being patted and brushed. Jim fed him and got him as far as the open gate of the truck just fine but when Jim closed the truck door, the poor kitten went feral and bounced around the covered truck bed wanting out. While Jim was starting to head back to Louisville, traversing our access road, which must be taken slowly in four-wheel drive, Shadow somehow squeezed through a little dent under the back closure and then hid back down on Avalon. Jim came home empty-handed.

My guess is that Shadow will be the Avalon cat as long as he shall live! He’s a sweet baby, Jim says. I hope he manages to keep himself hidden from the many predators in that area! I know there are small rodents aplenty for Mr. Shadow’s dining table.

Jim and I watched Brokeback Mountain and The Constant Gardener, both of which were excellent movies. I thought Ralph Fiennes was spectacular as the scholarly hero in Gardener and both male stars were marvelous in their portrayals in Brokeback as well. I must admit the tendency of characters in romances to go through life holding their tongues and suffering silently makes me cranky wherever I run into it, either in life or in fiction!

Between movies I worked on captioning our latest photo album while Jim did e-mail. Then Mick and I sashayed around the yard for a lovely hour or so, spectators at the feast of blossom in the yard. The sheer volume is astonishing. With all the hydrangeas out and looking particularly vivid this year, the yard is already awash from the four oak leaf hydrangeas, the three blue hydrangea bushes against the house and the huge puffballs of the snowball hydrangea. Add to that the increasing numbers of day lilies which are flooding the yard with color upon color and the freely blooming rose bushes and you have a heady spate of color and texture.

We did that slow walk and talk peculiar to gardeners. Here are grape vine and Sweet William. They both tend to take over a space. Which one shall we weed out; which one encourage? There is a wonderful, healing sensation to being in one’s garden. Somehow all the disasters and catastrophes, natural and human-made, fade before the simple pleasures of walking in the garden. Thank you, Lord, for the flowers!

Gary joined us after his long day at Cracker Barrel and we enjoyed a supper and the Gaia Meditation together, with Gary praying at the end, before advancing up the stairs for a good night snuggle.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Happy Monday! For this breed of day, the first day of the work week, which can be brutal, it was a splendid day. Jim was informed by the weather man that he would be rained out this afternoon but in the event he got all his jobs done and even got his big mower back from being serviced! A good day for the Mick!

I had a good day too, forging ahead through page five of my outline for the three volumes of the Choice books and almost to the end of chapter four of 102. I begin tomorrow with chapter five and will be on page six of the outline, which is a ten-pager! However the pages ahead in some cases look very blank for quotes. Further, I am not at all sure I will field good quotes at all easily for many of these topics.

I will try to find Desmond Morris’s book, The Naked Ape. I think his chapters in that book include some good comments about the workplace which I can use. Chapters six and seven of 102 are all new topics. So the immediate future holds challenges. And I find my desire to write to be increasing so it is hard to be patient and do this work. I shall persist, however! “He that shall endure to the end; he shall be saved.” That’s a chorus text from Elijah, an oratorio I love and have sung several times. I’m enduring. To the end. Doggone it!

I managed to pull away from the quotes searches in late afternoon as I was determined to spend some time gardening. Not only does our yard need it. I do! Being out there with sweat dripping and my hands in the earth, I can feel the healing and relaxation of nature working to soothe me from all intellectual pretension and worry.

I had a delicious hour out in the heat of the day, weeding one of the mounds by the small fish pond. Jim wants to plant new perennials there, as our old plantings have perished. That is a place in the yard which receives afternoon sun and it tends to dry out. We’ll need to find drought-resistant plants for that area.

It was fun fishing the grass, clover and other small weeds away from what’s already growing there, and preparing the ground for new plantings. Unfortunately I cannot balance well, so I had to leave the top of the mound “hairy.” Jim assures me he can get that with little trouble himself, when he replants the mound. I cannot wait to see what he finds to plant there when he goes to the wholesale nurseries again this weekend.

Gary tells me he’s found out how to imbed pictures in these Camelot Journal entries! That will be a great addition to these maunderings of mine. My intention in keeping this journal is to make available to everyone, friend and stranger alike, an idea of what happens at L/L Research, day by day. I am not the only person working here but I am the only full-time worker volunteering for L/L right now.

It will be great to have the photos. However I cannot take pictures of all the things happening as people all over the globe do volunteer work for L/L Research. It is most inspiring to hear from various people in Africa, Europe and all over the world as they report on their doings or send in transcripts or work in so many ways to help us out. And of course the scope of the Gaia Meditations is global. So this journal attempts to capture some of that.

Also, the press of work has made it almost impossible for me to keep up with a wide circle of old friends who had been used to hearing from me personally until the press of work began making that increasingly unlikely several years ago. I kept a journal last June, on the speaking trip to Britain, and upon discovering the very welcoming reception for that journal I determined to keep on with the daily entries. So this is a journal which has lasted a year, so far. I shall try to keep it going for the long run, as it is a good archive of whassup at L/L, day by day and month by month.

Jim and I enjoyed some down time in the early evening after our bath and then had supper and the Gaia Meditation, with Jim praying, and tackled some book orders together before going up to bed. We had a lovely snuggle with the kitties and said good night around 11 PM.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

It’s Tuesday morning and Gary and I are consolidating the information he got on how to embed a photograph in the Camelot Journal entries. As a first experiment I am having Gary take a picture of the kittens, Dan and Chloe, this morning, as well as Sedge and Pickwick. You may have noticed how cats loom large in Jim’s and my daily routine! One of the projects I have in the back of my mind is a calendar of the Camelot Cats of L/L Research. We have many classic poses from a dazzling array of cute cats through the years.

I already uploaded a picture of Dan and Chloe (I think!) as brand new babies, only six weeks old and brand new to the house, so that you can see how fast they have grown. They are now about four months old. They are definitely in that pre-teen coltish phase, with impossibly long legs, big paws and ears and a voracious appetite for food and play.

Sedgie is our faux Siamese, complete with almost all the proper markings for a Chocolate Point but with a telltale white beard and some other non-Siamese coloring options which mark him as a mutt and Pickwick’s birth-brother nine years ago. We adore our mutts!

Picky is the marmalade tabby gentleman with one gold eye and one blue eye. He likes to bat paws with Chloe and Dan, while Sedge remains aloof.

Dan D. Lion is a gray tabby.

Chloe Saraswati the Fearless is the rapidly growing little inkspot with shiny, silky fur and a sweet little white bikini marking under her arms and across her lower belly, as well as sporting a white stripe across her sternum. Both Dan Dee and Chloe have eyes a peculiar earth-tone tint, between brown, green and gray.

Now to see what we can do to put this text and the photos together! I hope you are looking at some cat pictures!

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

It was an Edenic day, the high temperature in the low eighties and the sun cerulean and clear. Jim went off after Morning Offering to dance with the lawn and garden spirits while I headed upstairs. Gary came up to fill me in on what he had learned about uploading photos for the Camelot Journal and we spent a long and instructive morning with him helping me learn about imbedding photos.

Gary went out in the hall and by the windows in my office, as we were working, to snap photos of the four felines and we used the photos to create a special edition of the journal. I like the feature where you can click on a photo and it will enlarge so you can really see the detail. Hopefully the photos will be a nice addition to the entries.

For today’s entry I thought it would be good to include a snapshot of Gary. We’ll see if I can perform the various moves without him here to coach me! Gary came here about three years ago to help us out and has been doing a most effective job of that ever since. Jim and I are very blessed with his aid and shining spirit.

The photo work took us until almost one PM, when we broke for lunch. After lunch I targeted a request from Planet Light Worker for an article on channeling and tuning and got that off to Vara, who is doing the editing for Sandie this month while she is tending to her very ill Papa in Britain. Then I tackled the business of finding quotes for my UPI article on the yellow-ray chakra which is due tomorrow. That was still absorbing my interest and time when Jim called up that it was bath time. I shall need to finish that first thing in the morning! The article deadline at UPI is noon on Wednesdays! So I had no time today for hunting up quotes for the Choice books.

Romi came over for a visit at about seven and we spent a most enjoyable evening talking with him and Gary. Romi is facing his Mom’s illness in far-away Ceska, which used to be Czechoslovakia. He can move there easily enough as he has dual citizenship and he has no legal problems working there. However he does not wish to leave his good job and happy home here in Kentucky. He’ll talk with his brother this weekend about the situation, which has become serious since their Mom has had heart trouble and been in hospital twice lately for that.

Bruce, who is moving west, wrote to report that he is back on Avalon loading up for his second and final drive. We look forward to seeing him before he goes. He will take Jim and Romi up to Avalon for the purpose of showing them how the solar array works and how to maintain the tractor, composting toilet and other equipment L/L Research owns up there.

Romi offered the ending prayer at the Gaia Meditation and we had a good talk with Gary about his upcoming schooling. Gary will attend his first semester of college this fall. Eventually we all started yawning and mutually agreed it was time for good nights!

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

This is UPI deadline day and I had not quite gotten my preparatory work done for this article’s writing yesterday, so after Morning Offering I finished the search for material in the Law of One books on the yellow-ray chakra. With all the references in hand I chose the points about that incredibly powerful energy center which I wished to make for my column and was just sending that off to Larry when it was time for the in-house meeting Melissa had requested.

Melissa had prepared a lot of material on cost lists and PayPal options, working on how we sell our products—books, tapes and T-shirts—on line. She took Gary and me through it all, and then we had a conference call with our web guy to fill him in on her information as well.

After the call was completed, Melissa, Gary and I talked about other issues. Melissa feels she will be leaving soon and hopes that Gary can find the additional hours so that he can take over the bookkeeping for Melissa. Gary agreed to look at the QuickBooks tutorial CDs she has and then to decide if he feels he can do the job. Melissa, for her part, agreed to troll the business school campus for a likely student bookkeeper if Gary decides against doing the financials.

We finished that meeting, and a very late lunch, with me coming upstairs at about 4 PM. I managed exactly one search—which at least put me on page six of the remapping chart, psychologically a good thing—and then it was time for gardening. I had not gotten any gardening done yesterday and so decided to quit and have some Earth time before my bath.

I was weeding along the side of the house and upon removing some encroaching vines I found that we had, at one point, placed some guttering along the walk, not used it, and forgotten it was there. The vines covered it and because of the way the rain fell and the guttering lay, earth spread out over the sidewalk and then plants grew there. That’s why we had lost the walkway there.

Jim came home right when I had gotten the vines off the guttering and I got him to move the guttering material to the area of the yard, behind the garage, where we usually keep such supplies until we use them. I went back to work and cleared quite a bit of remaining vines from the house’s side.

I got Jim to take a photo of me on my little garden scooter, weeding away, but unfortunately for the prospects of sharing that with you today, I do not yet know how to get the photos from the camera to this computer. So instead, here is a photo of that side of the house where I was working and the ruins garden, from our stock of older Camelot images.

Jim and I had a lovely bath and a quiet evening. I offered the prayer at the Gaia Meditation; we had a late supper and we stole quietly off to bed at about 11 PM, having watched an outstanding Democracy Now report on Israel and Palestine and an equally delightful World Music program, both on Link TV, which I heartily recommend as a source of good information and inspiration. Currently one must have a satellite dish to get the Link TV station. However I believe Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now is now being carried on NPR. At least I heard her in the car the other night. I am most glad that her program is receiving a wider audience. She has such excellent guests on; guests who are able to speak with authority and at a deep level on substantive issues.

Thursday, June 29, 2006

June was heating up and the redbud leaves were hanging straight down today in the humidity as I got the paper. We had had a tremendous, though brief, rainstorm at 1:30 AM which knocked out power to the house. I stumbled around, unable to find a flashlight at first, and finally located one downstairs. I notified the power company we needed help, but by then Sedge had decided he was hungry for his special food. I was wide awake by the time I lay back down and without the fan my upstairs bedroom was airless and stuffy.

Jim’s room is the chilliest in the house and I decided to join him, so we spent a very pleasant night together. Jim leaked sleep on me and I had a good night after all. We were extremely fortunate in that by the time dawn rolled in, the power was back on. Oddly enough, our camera’s docking station, which had refused to work for me for a couple of years, kicked itself on when the power came back on and obligingly printed out four photos all on its own! For today’s photo, however, I will add one of Jim, the Mick, my cowboy and best friend. He’s sitting in our living room at Camelot.

I awoke early enough to come upstairs and write the Camelot Journal entry for yesterday, then went back down and snuggled with Mick before going through the morning routine of puzzle, paper and the Morning Offering. Jim headed out for a long day, as he is tackling an extra landscaping project for one of his customers after the normal day’s mowing and trimming is completed. I worked on key word searches for the quotes database on the Choice books, getting some coverage on all of Chapter Five of 102, which had been totally blank. I am still not satisfied with that coverage, so I wrote a couple of letters to sources I thought might be good for a quote on things like organic and bio-dynamic farming.

I had a short meeting with Melissa before leaving for my lunch date. I signed checks and we planned ahead on financial details. Her energy is so clear and bright, and she has done so very much volunteer work for us in the midst of doing our books, clearing up so many mare’s nests of difficult patches and bringing our books into good shape at last.

I had the delightful routine-breaker of going to lunch with my friend Linnie. She and I were Don’s Aunt Tot’s “daughters” and have been extremely close since 1969, when the Elk introduced me to her. She was living with Tot and Marion at the time, she and her husband Larry. They had an apartment on the ground floor. Tot and Marion lived on the first floor. Much has passed since then. Both Marion and Tot have passed into larger life. Linnie’s husband, almost twenty years her senior, has had to retire. Linnie herself, a woman my age, just got a new job as manager of one of the most attractive bed and breakfast places in town, Foxhollow, a lovely estate in the countryside near here. We celebrated her employment coup plus my birthday, which is upcoming. Then I went next door and had my hair cut and a special facial for my birthday, compliments of Jim. What a luxury to have a totally non-itchy face!

I’ll be 63 on July 16. For those who like astrology, my birthplace was Lake Forest, Illinois and the time of birth was 6:42 AM.

I got home with just enough time to do some catch-up e-mail.

Thanked Calvin, our neighbor, who asked us for drinks and a nosh after the parade on July Fourth.
Responded to Andy, who shall have a session next week. I had to postpone that session previously due to back spasms.
Welcomed Bruce back to Avalon while he recuperates from the first trip, moving back out west, and expressed thanks for his working on the quotation on Dewey Larson’s Reciprocal System of Physics and his research on that system which posits consciousness as the ground of being for that work. I will use his quote in the Choice 101 book.
Cheered Dana on. She has been making arrangements to go to a distant city to have an operation. She has found someone to take her and bring her back now! Yay.
Tried and failed to open Gary’s forward of Rosi B’s new baby photos. Her light shines so brightly. I am always so tickled when she is able to be with us for a meeting or a gathering.
Wrote Gary concerning outside questions. I told him we have always taken a question from anyone who wishes us to ask them on their behalf at a public Sunday meeting. Only one question at a time is recommended, and we cannot promise to get them asked as the sitting circle’s questions come first. If someone starts asking multiple questions, however, we recommend they buy a personal session. That helps L/L Research as the donation for such sessions goes to the organization.
Responded to a letter from Laura Knight-Jadzyck. Laura is also a channel and has done a lot of work which uses the terminology of the LOO, which influenced her channeling when she began channeling years ago. David Wilcock had written a very inaccurate and rather unflattering account of doings between Laura and myself years ago which I wished to correct for the readers of her forum group. It is unfortunate when people quote you wrongly. The inaccuracy made Laura look badly and I was at pains to set the record straight.

Jim called bath time as I was finishing the letter to Laura and I was glad to join him. We had a quiet evening, offered the Gaia Meditation after supper with Gary and came to bed about 11 PM.

Friday, June 30, 2006

The last day of June dawned wet with overnight rain and richly humid, a classic Kentucky summer’s morn. Jim and Gary prayed for angels to help dry the abundant dew and headed out to do a very full Friday of mowing. I tackled page seven (out of ten) of my remapping chart. Through the day I hunted for good quotations on topics like creating a healthy world, dealing with environmental and stewardship issues and serving the world as a whole. I finished the day three topics short of finishing up that page.

I found a particularly insightful voice in Elisabet Sahtouris, a futurist who sees the Earth and all her crises as a multi-systems unit in transition with every hope of making it just fine, give or take the occasional catastrophe. I wrote and asked if I could quote her article in GSI for April, to which she readily gave permission.

The power went out, in the middle of a lovely, dry, sunny afternoon, with no reason apparent, so I shut down my laptop and adjusted my schedule, catching up my snail mail correspondence, writing a donor who had contributed most generously towards the printing of A Book of Days and getting the desk clear up here.

I worked a bit on my wrapping project as well. That project is a bit eccentric and stems from my faulty memory, which has been with me for my lifetime. I have one brother with a wife and three children and another brother with a wife and one child. They all have birthdays and I always forget most of them. So I decided many years ago to give them gifts on my birthday, which date I never forget. I’m working on that project now as my birthday draws near! I’ll need to be ready in two weeks—so I’m on it. I believe I have all my gifts chosen and obtained. It’s just a matter of doing the finishing work of tissue paper and gift paper, cards and pretty ribbons.

Then I went outside to garden. I’ve been working on the side of the house which faces our driveway. I am always totally amazed at the lushness of growth of all kinds in our garden. Along the side there, we have Virginia creeper to a certain point, then English ivy, as ground covers. I am constantly removing both of them from the sides of the house, naturally. Weeding the Creeper out of the ivy and vice versa is a yearly project. Then there is a tall, weedy blue wildflower that always likes to try to crowd out the hydrangeas and I must have removed a forest of those.

The morning rains had loosened the green things which had sprung up in the sidewalk cracks along there, so I soaked my gardening gloves and got my entire body decorated with mud, cleaning out the grass and other small green things from the sidewalk. Finally I could see both basement windows along that side of the house! Victory! I turned my scooter around and addressed the Ruins Garden again, taking the Gold Dollars out of the Wild Ginger. Both of those plants are greedy for space and love to sprawl, but the leaf on the ginger remains green all season, whereas after its bloom is finished, the Gold Dollar leaves look withered and sere. So a ton of Gold Dollar leaves bit the dust. And wild strawberry and henpet were also removed. It’s so good to see the plantings take shape again with the extraneous greenery weeded out.

Today’s photo is of Wuthering Heights, Jim’s stone garden in our front yard. He brought home some more perennials for it yesterday, picking them up when he was purchasing things for his customer’s gardening. The Wuthering Heights garden is just in front of the same side of the house I worked on today.

Jim came home very late, having had fits working with a fish pond he’d put in for a customer. The Pond Store gave him the wrong sized motor, so that was one trip back to the store. Then he found that the wiring they had sold him did not work for this application and another trip was needed. Finally he got everything going and placed some water plants. He ran the hose to fill the pond fully, came home briefly while waiting for the pond to fill, and when he returned, all the water plants had been savaged and eaten by their terrier.

We now have some very raggedy used-to-be water lilies convalescing in our own pond. We hope they can come back!

Jim and I always enjoy Friday nights, when no deadlines are ahead and we can relax and enjoy the beginning of the weekend. The power came back on before we had to cope with food, so we were able to bathe as usual and eat at home. We had a late supper and got books ready to mail out. Jim offered the prayer at the Gaia Meditation and then we came upstairs for some snuggle time, saying good night around midnight.

June, 2006

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