April, 2009

Mick had another challenging day, mowing in the wet for part of the day again. He and Gary set out after Morning Offering to do their best! They completed all of today’s work and all but five of Friday’s lawns by dusk! There looks to be enough of a clear period tomorrow for Mick to complete those last five, so he will have beaten the odds and gotten his work done! It has been rainy every day this week!

I spent the morning working on another round of discussion letters with our web guys, trying to come to a conclusion on where to post announcements and also on other issues. It became very clear after the morning’s work that I could not go further until I had a good talk with Gary, so he and I will meet at some point tomorrow.

In the afternoon I finished my editing run-through of Lana L-B’s seventh chapter of her book, True to America. It was slow going, since there were many points upon which to comment, as well as things to change. There is no use editing something out or changing things around if the author does not know why those things were done. I use “track changes” so that she can look at each suggested change and accept it or reject it.

I looked through the 100 articles I have written for my UPI blog and found one for Eli to use in finishing out his special edition of Both Sides Now which features my series of articles on 2012. I found a good candidate, “Creating the Earth Experience”, and sent it to him. If you want to browse through my older articles, go to www.religionandspirituality.com, click on “Columnists”, click on my name, and then click on “more articles”. Everything I have ever posted there will come up.

By late afternoon I was weary and falling asleep at the computer, so I crowned my working day with an official nap, from which Mick awoke me when he had run our bath. We came downstairs to the delicious odors of Gary preparing next week’s food—a chicken stew, angel-hair pasta with Portabella mushrooms and apple and cabbage slaw. Yum!

Gary joined us for dinner and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.

2009-04-29

April 30, 2009 6:01am

The day was intermittently rainy, but there was enough dry time for Mick to get out there after Morning offering and triumphantly mow all of today’s and most of tomorrow’s lawns. He has even gotten one big Friday lawn mown, a 3-acre yard with tons of detailing needed because of ponds, vegetable gardens, shade gardens, grottos and nooks. The customer is having a Derby Party tomorrow and asked for the lawn to be ready early for that. It is supposed to storm tomorrow as well.

I was not as productive, taking all too many angel naps. I need to talk with my angels. I understand that I need the naps right now because of health problems. But when I inadvertently fall asleep in my chair, my head drops forward and my overbite sinks into the soft tissue of my inner lower lip, so I wake up sore-mouthed! Angels, tilt my head backwards, not forwards, please!

I took up most of the morning hours in napping, and in the afternoon, I worked with three issues by e-mail, trying to find a good solution. Firstly, there is the matter of creating a good place for announcements of events on our two web sites. Neither webmaster wants to take the time to post the full announcement. Both want to create only links which lead to the full announcement on the other site. While both have good reasons for doing so, we should be able to announce our Gatherings, new books and so forth somewhere! The conversation is ongoing.

Secondly, there is the matter of conventional printing of books versus Print on Demand (POD) printing, where the printing is done one book at a time. We are having POD printing done for Dana Redfield’s Alphabet Mosaics. Ian wants to create POD printing files for all our books except TLOO, to which we do not have printing rights. Gary does not want to go to POD for all our books. He would rather keep an inventory of them and mail them out from here. The conversation is ongoing.

Thirdly, I wrote Micheline D concerning her suggestions that we print the French-language version of 101: The Choice in France, and that we create a French-language site in France for her translations. I suggested a POD French-language version of 101—Ian has offered to create the PDF file for that—and that we wait until a French webmaster shows up who can commit to a long-term volunteering stint as the French site webmaster. She does not know how to create and maintain a web site and that is a complex and ongoing job. However we can create a little notice on our home page on the archive site, which links to the French-language material on site. We can also do this for the Portuguese and Chinese language material on site. We shall see if she likes those suggestions!

On a day like today I wonder just exactly how a naïve and basically creative soul like me ends up in the middle of these administrative processes. I have trouble seeing “the right way” amidst various strongly held opinions, the rightness of all of which I can easily see. Many times, there is no “right” way, only preferences. Harmonizing the preferences of people’s widely variant opinions and keeping things positive and fun for everyone, so it remains all a labor of love, is infinitely more challenging for me than writing, channeling or teaching.

Yet looking at the nature of third density, these conundrums, which ask me to find blue-ray communication as I talk to the parties involved, are undoubtedly precious gifts, offering me practice in living the Law of One—far more so than when I am doing creative work, so-called. There is creativity in finding harmonized solutions. There is creativity, too, in keeping the energy within our group of volunteers and staff members sweet and strong and loving.

Steve wrote to say that we now have 444 members on B4! The site has only been up since Christmas! I think that’s very good for being open only four months. Kudos, Steve!

Eli wrote in to protest my creating a series of the Law of One articles, since he was going to use the first one to fill in the special issue he is making of my series of articles on getting ready for 2012. I shall have to go back through the 100 or so articles I have written for my blog on UPI and find a good single article to fill that space. He wants to save the LOO articles for another special issue.

His periodical, Both Sides Now, is an excellent alternative magazine, humble in looks and venerable in age—it has been issued ever since the late sixties! He prints good articles on metaphysical and political subjects, making for a fascinating read. Go to http://bothsidesnow.info/or write Both Sides Now, 10547 State Hwy 110N, Tyler, TX 75704-3731 for subscription information.

One of our Channeling Circle members, Talitha, is having severe health problems, with abdominal symptoms added to ongoing breathing problems. If you like, join me in praying for her healing. I am also currently praying for a prisoner, William, who has been diagnosed with cancer as well as Patrick Swayze, who has the same diagnosis, and my friend Christine, who is recovering from both hip surgery and internal problems. I welcome all prayer help for these concerns.

I enjoyed greatly going to Absolutely Salon in the late afternoon and having my fingernails manicured. I chose clear polish with iridescent sparkles for my “do” this fortnight. I felt light and bright!

Mick and I had a loving and quiet evening, snuggling, snoozing, bathing and supping together and enjoying wide-ranging conversation. We eschewed TV for most of the night. I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation.

2009-04-28

April 29, 2009 5:39am

Rain was dripping from the eaves as I awoke this morning, but Mick was determined to find some lawns to mow that did well in the wet, and after Morning Offering he set out to find them. And find them he did! This is the first rain in a week or so, and so the ground was firm, the grass ready to behave for hum. He got all of today’s lawns cut plus four lawns mowed from tomorrow’s schedule by the end of his day! He was delighted! With strong storms predicted for tomorrow and Friday both, he needs all the help he can give himself!

It’s ironic that wet weather seems almost an enemy for a mower. It is also his greatest ally, since without rain the grass will stop growing and the mowing jobs dry up. I remember one summer when the rains seemed to come on the weekend almost every week! That was a wonderful year for Jim’s Lawn Service! This year, the weather is ornery, not behaving a bit like that!

I have been feeling under the weather, and again found myself inadvertently napping for most of this morning. At lunchtime I took Gary out for a thank-you lunch at Vincenzo’s, a delightful downtown restaurant situated quite close to the lawyer we were going to visit. We had a superb meal of Salmon Crostini, Red Snapper Soup, Tomato and Mozzarella Salad and for me, Crepes Agostino; for Gary, Whole Wheat Pasta.

We found at the lawyer’s that in order to write a good contract for the Chinese translation of 101 it would cost us about a thousand dollars. So we decided to tell those interested in this project that rather than money upfront paid to L/L Research, we would accept a deal where their initial buy-in for the Chinese rights would be the cost of developing that contract. We shall now find out how serious this bid is!

Ian and I continued to converse about Micheline’s suggestion that we have a French web site for our materials. He suggested instead that we have an option on the home page of www.llresearch.org for people to see the French-language content on our site—as well as the Portuguese and Chinese content—if they click on their language of choice. The link would go to the table of contents, where all the foreign language material is offered. I thought that was a fine idea and okayed implementing that.

I got a beautiful note of thanks from Lorena L concerning her ministry to those in prison who want to talk about the Law of One. She wrote, “I am sitting here reading the letters from my friends in prison. I am inspired to send you my warm thanks for offering this service for me to perform. Each letter I open is a gift to my soul. They are all my friends and I’m excited to have a relationship with each one. Each is a blessing to my life. Thanks go to you for connecting us.”

I am so thankful that she has found this work fulfilling. I have run out of time for writing anyone—I used to write the prisoners myself, but put the job up for volunteers to take over several years ago when I found incarcerated seekers having to wait up to half a year for me to get to their letters. Lorena has developed the ministry beautifully, creating an L/L Research newsletter for prisoners studying the Law of One (LOOP = Law of One Prisoners) as well as corresponding with an ever increasing number of incarcerated seekers.

Mick and I had a quiet night, bathing and then snoozing before a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Romi, who visited us tonight, offered the closing prayer.

2009-04-27

April 28, 2009 9:11am

Monday is the only sunshiny day forecast for this whole week—and what a sad thing for all the Kentucky Derby Fest-a-ville events!—so after a briefer than usual Morning Offering Mick set out to mow every lawn he possibly could! He came home at 8:00 p.m., 12 hours of hard work later, totally satisfied and happy as a schoolboy on a snowy day! He mowed and detailed ten lawns, a personal record! It will still be a trick for him to finish the week’s mowing on time, but he got a great head start today!

In my thankfully air-conditioned office—it reached almost 90 F today—I gazed out over the stunning dogwoods and wrote about The Law of One. It was very enjoyable! What a thrill to deal with the core texts of its original principle—the unity of all things, and that one thing being love.

As I wrote I found that my mind was exploding with hints from spirit that this was going to be a series of articles, not just one. I love when that happens! And I look forward to next week, when spirit can inspire me again to write on another aspect of this subject.

I took a longer lunch hour than usual because I wanted to read Ethan Hawke’s article on Kris Kristofferson in The Rolling Stone magazine. I have admired Kristofferson’s depth of writing and way with words for decades, but learned so much more about him today. It was an excellent piece. And I must get This Old Road - his new album as of 2006 - for Mick’s birthday!

In the afternoon I worked on editing Lana L-B’s Chapters 6 and 7 of True to America. I am so tickled for her! She has wanted to write this book ever since I met her through snail-mail correspondence way back in the early 1980s. Her ebullient, kick-ass personality is a delight and I have always dearly loved sharing energy with her. And now, in her Grandma years, she is gittinerdun, as she would doubtless say! I made it through Chapter 6, and will continue working on Chapter 7 tomorrow. I know the value of a second pair of eyes as Steve M gave me that kindness with 101, so it feels good to pay it forward for Lana and read her work, commenting as I go.

Around the edges I caught up a lot of personal e-mail, enjoying cute pet photos and passing them on to those who like those, signing a petition to alert legislators that a bill before Congress now, powered by big agri-business, would effectively wipe out organic and bio-dynamic farmers with regulations they cannot meet because they don’t use artificial pesticides. If you, too, are concerned for the small farmer trying to give us better local food, the address for that petition is http://www.change.org/ideas/6133/view_blog/hr_875s_425_farm_to_fork_food_fascism_comes_to_america.

Gary and I finished our collaborative effort on the announcement for L/L Research’s Homecoming 2009 and sent it off to the B4 and llr websites to be posted. I so look forward to that event! The wonderful woman who has translated into French all of TLOO and also 101, and who has now begun on the Q’uo transcripts, starting at the front edge of our latest work and going backwards in time, will attend, coming from Brussels, Belgium. As well, hopefully Anne H from Norway will choose to make the long hike over the water and share her ideas on getting ready for 2012 with us. And that is just the beginning! An excellent one!

We had such a good Homecoming last year and I know we will field an equally fascinating bunch of attendees come Labor Day weekend!

I had just written Gary an e-mail letting him know that I had not heard back from the intellectual-properties lawyer that I’d called for an appointment when he came upstairs and told me she’d called and said we could come see her tomorrow. So we will be going downtown in the middle of all the rain that’s predicted. Ah well, engines like to run in the wet and we will too!

Micheline sent a suggestion that she put up a French-language website to contain these translations she is doing for us, and I queried Gary and Ian on their opinions about that. It sounds like a positive idea to me, a way to offer service to more people. Now that she is translating the archive of Q’uo channelings, the proposed web site could contain a large amount of French-language material for the French-speaking seeker—and there are such speakers in Africa and Asia as well as Europe.

Mick and I enjoyed a long and healing bath when he returned home at dusk and then had a date and shared scintillating, very powerful energy together before coming downstairs to have a late supper and offer the Gaia Meditation. Mick offered such a great prayer at the close of the Meditation that I gave it an alleluia as well as an amen!

2009-04-26

April 27, 2009 5:28am

The day was hot, in the seventies when we awoke and up close to ninety by afternoon, thanks to an aberration in the trade wind, which is looping down to below Kentucky, currently. It was stifling hot in church and I made ample use of my fan.

We offered two very sentimental and sweet anthems today, relieving me of the need to guard against saccharine poisoning at choir rehearsal next week—Stanford’s “Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem” and Vaughan William’s “I Got Me Flowers”.

Both of our priests were on vacation today and so instead we heard from Rev. Jay Pierce, head of the massive organization “Food for the Poor” (www.foodforthepoor.org). According to their web site, “Food for the Poor is the number one international relief and development charity in the United States, feeding 2 million people every day. We help the poorest of the poor by providing food, housing, health care, education, water projects, emergency relief and micro-enterprise assistance in the Caribbean and Latin America.”

I was very impressed by his spiel. It is good to know that a donation of $21.00 can feed lunch to 420 children, while $205 provides a water pump for a whole village.

We watched a film in the afternoon after lunch and a delicious two-hour nap. A Quantum of Solace was the latest Bond film and we enjoyed its video-game-like violence and mayhem. Daniel Craig is beautifully cast as a world-weary James Bond, jaundiced of eye, gorgeously fit of body and deadly to his enemies - and sometimes, regretfully, his friends. The action was almost continuous and I think the good guys won. Judi Dench was excellent as a harassed but thoroughly professional “M”. I missed “Q”. There were few high-tech saves in this episode of the Bond saga, just guns, wheels and bloody-mindedness.

Mick took his break by finishing up the lawn work here at Camelot. The yard is in the best of fettle with so many things in bloom. The wisteria is simply wonderful, and the dogwoods are now in full bloom, joined by peonies and roses in bud.

I’ve been watching the rash I have had for a week begin to fade, but today it seemed to gain ground, spreading down my legs. And I continue to carry a low fever and feel quite under the weather. I’ll need to watch that. A reaction to a drug—in this case, Lisinopril—is not cause for concern, but otherwise, rashes can well herald more serious symptoms.

Gary was gone most of the day on a training hike, getting ready for his vacation trek in the Smoky Mountains in two weeks. He joined us for supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which he offered the closing prayer.

2009-04-25

April 26, 2009 7:05am

Saturday dawned very hot, already in the seventies when we arose from delicious slumbers an hour later than on a weekday morning. We matched a record for the high for the day—87 F! Mick uncovered my air conditioners in the bedroom and office windows and by bedtime I was using the one in my bedroom.

After a brief Morning Offering Mick created new cleanliness in the kitchen and then went on his round of errands while I took angel naps and worked on the e-mail. It is always an adventure to open the Inbox and see what is new! Gary and I are talking about preparations for Homecoming 2009 and by day’s end, he had sent me a rough draft of our announcement of it for the web sites.

Ian asked me to take a look at the final archive on the “Getting Ready for 2012” Gathering we offered last weekend in memory of Bob Reidel. I checked it out thoroughly and told him that it looks perfect. We do not yet have our photos of the weekend ready to post—a matter of figuring out how to decompress photos taken with cell phones—so I let him know that there would be that photo link coming at some point to finish off that archive. I look forward to seeing the photos! We had such a good time together! I feel sure it will show!

I sent the information on our account with lulu.com to Ian so he can talk with them about The Alphabet Mosaics, which we have chosen them to print, and had a good conversation with him about spiritual materialism. He was busy today reinforcing his deck in order to support his house’s air conditioning unit, which he chose to suspend beneath said deck. That sounds like good work to do in pretty springtime! The heat of summer is so much more enjoyable when you have an air conditioned space to retreat into when your play or work in the sun is done!

And I talked to Wynn concerning getting the links to the audio versions of our conversations on www.bbsradio.com. He thought they had already been sent, but no! He agreed to ask again that we get them.

We also are going back and forth about the shows during the summer months. I take summers off from outer communication—channeling, counseling and teaching. Wynn is making a great sales pitch for my making an exception for him and his show. I have not decided yet whether to agree or to stick to my guns and take the months of June, July and August off from his show as well as everything else. I am still sensing into what it would mean for me psychologically.

After lunch together, a treat for Mick and me these days, Mick went to Shelbyville to mow Steve’s acreage while I did a Live Chat with the B4 crew. We are seeing regulars at that event now, and I so enjoy talking with them all. We had no moderator today, but I winged it on my own. Predictably, I missed a couple of questions at first, while responding to another one. But I had asked at the beginning for people to let me know when I missed a question, and they did. So all was well and we had a good conversation.

Then it was time for a bath, an early supper and the L/L Research public meeting. It was a channeling meditation week. The question for Q’uo, coming from Gary this time, was about humility. It felt like a good session and I look forward to editing the transcript and reading it. We enjoyed having Allen F from the Cincinnati area in the circle of seeking as well as Romi, Gary and Mick.

I offered the Gaia Meditation prayer at the end of the session.

2009-04-24

April 25, 2009 10:11am

What a glorious day! Under the warm sunshine the leaves are all opening now, and honeysuckle scents the air as the wild bushes bloom. After Morning Offering, Mick and Gary set out upon a mowing marathon, creating beauty for ten customers’ lawns before finishing the week’s work.

I continued feeling very weary and spent a substantial part of my day napping inadvertantly at my computer. I may decide to take tomorrow off completely and see if I can rest up before the Live Chat and the channeling which is scheduled for the late afternoon and evening.

Gary sent me this link (http://www.healingexperiment.com/theevents.html) to a site which is holding group meditations to heal the planet. One is scheduled for May 5th. That inspired me to contemplate setting up a calendar on B4 for all of the meditation events like this. There are lots of groups now holding such events. It would be neat to have one central calendar where you could check for opportunities to join in with them.

At our web guy’s request I went through the home page on llresearch.org, updating some announcements and deleting others whose time has passed. I also sent on to Ian additional details of the interview I did with Wynn Free last January, which Wynn kindly furnished me. And I asked Wynn to send Ian the links to the audio versions of all our interviews—I have done several with him this year. He will also send me the same links so that we can get these conversations transcribed and up on the archive site in text form. Hopefully we cover topics of interest to seekers in our conversations.

Before I accepted the inevitable and officially went to bed for the last nap of the afternoon, I finished compiling the quotes I will use in writing a UPI article on The Law of One. I have eight pages of quotations and those articles usually run four or five pages at most, so there is no hope of using them all in my article! But I wanted to be thorough so that the article would have the right flow, so I went through all of The Law of One sessions.

Gary came home from helping Mick and plowed right into the week’s cooking, creating salmon loaf, mashed potatoes and a black-eyed-peas-and-tomato medley while Mick finished up his last two lawns. Then Gary took off to have an evening out with his girlfriend while Mick and I bathed and then came upstairs for a delicious date—and, yes, another nap, this time for both of us, in the afterglow.

I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-04-23

April 24, 2009 6:16am

It was a lovely day today, sunny and warm, although it began briskly. We may be seeing the last of the cold weather at last! After Morning Offering Mick went on his rounds of mowing and gardening, planting and tending. I came upstairs intending to work on research for my article on The Law of One, requested by Eli E, editor of Both Sides Now. However after three angel naps in as many hours, I was convinced that I was still too dim a bulb to work on creative projects and so spent what I had of the morning and early afternoon in catching up my e-mail.

• I wrote Ian concerning Micheline D’s translations of our recent channeling sessions into French, agreeing that the Channeling Circle sessions be excluded from that effort, since they are practice sessions and are somewhat uneven in quality, as is to be expected from those who are still learning how to channel well.

• I let Steve M, Barbara B and Jude R know that the NY agent who kindly offered to help me had advised me to keep the manuscript of The Aaron/Q’uo Dialogues at Hampton Roads and hope for the best for a while longer, and I was following her sage counsel.

• I congratulated my brother, Tommy Rueckert, on finishing the Boston Marathon with a time of 3:19 and change. Not bad for an “old guy” of 52! His job as a manager for the solar energy research program at the Department of Energy in Washington, D. C., is sedentary, and I’m proud of him for getting out there and exercising so well!

• Steve E, webmaster for B4, wrote sharing statistics on the steady growth of the site and I wrote to muse with him about how to write up a volunteer job for publicizing the site. I also asked for help in writing up the volunteer job of scanning and compiling the e-book additions to The Alphabet Mosaics that I would like to prepare for Dana Redfield’s niche on B4.

• I answered Micheline’s kind letter, thanked her for taking on the French translations of the Q’uo channelings and agreed with her that it will be fun to meet in person when she attends this year’s Homecoming over Labor Day weekend, later this year.

• I wrote Gary concerning the project of creating a daily “send” of “Q’uote of the Day”, a daily, short quotation from the L/L Research channeling archives sent each day for those who request it. I think it would be a good service for B4. Gary wrote back agreeing and suggested Tom C for the job. I encouraged him to go ahead and ask Tom. Tom has read every transcript in the archive, no small feat! He would be a perfect choice.

• I commiserated with Marcia M, a channel for Princess Diana, John Lennon and the cause of world peace, on some rough passages in her personal life and thanked her for her kind words about 101.

• I congratulated Michele M, creator of the cover for 101, on a brand new job. She was in D.C. training for it and exclaimed over the cherry blossoms!

• I asked Gary to send Ba a copy of A Book of Days as well as 101. She and I have agreed to do a swap—she will send me her and Aaron’s book, Presence, Kindness and Freedom as well as the new book of Aaron’s stories about Jesus which has been created from Aaron’s channelings over the last decade or so at Christmastime.

• I queried Gary on our account with lulu.com, our printer for The Alphabet Mosaics, as Ian needs some details of that.

• Gary and I wrote back and forth, setting up a date next week to see an “intellectual properties” lawyer about creating a contract for the Chinese-language publication of 101.

• I asked Gary for a powwow on refreshing the copy concerning volunteer tasks and also concerning the llresearch home page.

After a break for going to Middletown to give blood for my monthly labs for Dr. June, I came back to edit the transcript of the channeling session done at the end of the 2012 Gathering last Sunday, which Aaron T took back home with her and transcribed VERY quickly. That was one fast turn-around!

Mick and I napped prodigiously before enjoying a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which he offered the closing prayer.

2009-04-22

April 23, 2009 5:24am

The weather was lovely today, peaking in the sixties, sunshiny and breezy. The dogwood is in the amber budding of its bloom, while the redbud trees kiss the sky with their hot pink color and the lilac and oak leaf hydrangea are in full blossom as well. What an Eden spring is, here in Kentucky!

Mick worked early and late, mowing all his lawns, clearing away more debris for one customer and filling in an especially deep doggie excavation for another customer. He always keeps odd bits of “fill” that come his way, and he used such an oddity to fill in this tunnel to China—an old cement bottom to a mailbox which he had dug out for a customer some time ago. It plopped right into the hole by the customer’s fence and the ambitious dogs will never be able to dig through that!

I continued to feel very weary and took three naps today, two inadvertently while working and finally one long one in my own bed in late afternoon, with Chloe sleeping on top of me, my own little shiny black blanket. It is possible that this allergic reaction I am having to Lisinopril, a blood pressure medicine, is creating problems other than the hive-like rash, which is still quite uncomfortable. Certainly I feel under the weather.

I did get a few things done. I collected a recipe for poached halibut with herbs and took a look at a recipe site recommended to me, http://www.carterfarms.co.uk/recipes.html. It has some delicious looking asparagus recipes, and my gentlemen love asparagus!

Ian wrote to ask about a word in a recent channeling and we decided to footnote it—the choice between ‘tail’ and ‘trail’ was moot—for future re-listening. He also asked me about details of the recently posted interview with Wynn Free and the ARE group in Las Cruces last January. I sent his request on to Wynn, as I did not know those details.

I also wrote to Gary, requesting a meeting on refreshing the home page on llresearch, at Ian’s suggestion. It’s always a good idea to review text there from time to time. And I asked Gary out to lunch as a thank-you for a wonderful job producing the recent Gathering on 2012. He really did a spectacular job.

The Chicago Law of One Study Group announced that it has just concluded its study of Book I! I am so impressed! That group has hung together and worked through almost two dozen sessions now—and is still going strong! I sent my congratulations!

Tobey W asked by e-mail if he could pursue a Google ad effort on our behalf and I gave him my permission. I would love to see him succeed and perhaps create a revenue stream for himself as well as helping us.

Mick arrived home just as I was picked up by my neighbor, Calvin, for choir rehearsal. We are practicing a series of very sweet little anthems and I will be glad when our choir mistress moves into another mood! The syrup was dripping off every note tonight! I love a pretty song, and these are certainly pretty—but give me some depth here! Ah well, ‘tis spring, after all, a sweet season.

Mick was just settling in to his evening, all chores done, when I arrived home. We shared a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which I offered the closing prayer.

2009-04-21

April 22, 2009 5:56am

After Morning Offering, Mick went out for his day of mowing and debris clearing for his JLS customers while I came upstairs to my office and promptly fell asleep in my recliner, laptop at the ready but fingers snoozing! This was but the first of so many angel naps today that I eventually just went back to bed!

However I fortunately awakened just in time to catch Barbara Brodsky’s telephone call at 10:30. We enjoyed chatting by relay operator for over 90 minutes! It had been a while since we talked and it was fun to catch up with this redoubtable, lovable, wonderful woman! Her book on healing is now with an agent and is being shopped around. I hope he finds the right home for it!

Mick arrived home at dusk, radiant and upbeat, feeling positive that he can manage this enlarged schedule by himself and glad to have the chance to pay our bills with his work. When people think about service to others, I hope they start with the men and women of this world like Mick who dedicate themselves to earning the money to keep their families going, and who do it as a labor of love! I am very moved by his beautiful energy and spiritual maturity.

We bathed and then napped together until time for a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Gary offered the closing prayer.

I do not know how long it will take me to recover from the weariness which always follows our Gathering weekends. I might be napping extra for a few more days. However this particular weariness is quite pleasant, with no component of the feeling of having been psychically drained which sometimes occurs at these Gatherings. These attendees were all delinghts to the soul and none had the need to “hang” on me psychically. It’s just normal for me to be physically tired after such a Gathering.

2009-04-20

April 21, 2009 9:25am

It was gently raining when I awoke quite late, barely in time to meet Mick for Morning Offering. It was very kind of him to let me snooze! After Morning Offering, Mick set out on a very long day’s work, as Daniel has left the job as his helper. All of the additional work Mick picked up this spring, planning on working with a helper full-time all season, he now intends to do all by himself.

I was absolutely exhausted and spent the morning in more napping, eventually also getting my journal entries written and having a good prayer time. I spent the early afternoon at the urgent care center in Middletown, as the rash that begun over the weekend was spreading quickly today. It was diagnosed as a drug reaction, probably to a new blood pressure medication I just started last week. I fished out the linosoprin tablets from my medicine containers for tomorrow and Wednesday and took that prescription out of my ready supply. Hopefully not taking that prescription will solve the problem.

Mick was exhilarated when he got home around 7:00 p.m., feeling grateful to have the jobs to do which he needs to pay our bills, and confident that he can do this by himself. He has always preferred working alone, so apparently this seeming disaster will turn out for the best after all. We shared a good bath and then a lovely date - oh my! - before I needed to be at the telephone in order to have an interview with Wynn Free on BBS Radio. That went well.

We ended the day with a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.

2009-04-19

April 20, 2009 11:36am

The last day of our Bob Riedel Memorial Gathering, “Getting Ready for 2012”, went somewhat unlike our schedule had planned it because the weather was miserable and I had come down with a rash, from an unknown origin, always a signal that I am teetering on the brink of illness. Going up to Avalon and spending the day outside in 50-degree weather was not an option for me.

We had attempted yesterday to contact Melissa and discover if we could come up that afternoon, since it was a perfectly beautiful day, in the high seventies and sunshiny, and I could have tolerated that well. However, we could not contact her, so we did not know if there were chairs ready for our attendees. So we were unable to take advantage of the weather.

So the hardier of our group drove up to Avalon after Morning Offering and enjoyed hiking in the rain and wind while Janet, Aaron, Julie and I stayed home and enjoyed the cozy warmth of Camelot. We spent the morning in conversation, in watching a tape of a 1978 interview with Don and me done on TBS by Bill Tush and in listening to a sample session of the Ra contact.

We all rendezvoused at lunchtime and then spent our afternoon finishing the study of 101: The Choice. I was greatly blessed by their standing ovation after they finished Chapter 12, the last chapter in the book.

After we decided upon a group question, I tuned and then we had the closing channeling session. Their question was on how we can, indeed, prepare for 2012 and help it to happen well. The energy of the group was especially powerful, and I thought of how, in Don’s old terminology, this particular circle of seeking would be called a “graded group.” I will enjoy reading what was said when I edit that session!

We then caravanned over to The Captain’s Quarters Restaurant for a final meal together. Each night someone has picked up the whole tab—on Friday, Tiffani; on Saturday, Nalin and today, Carl! Carl was in an enormously expansive mood and fed us very well indeed with five different appetizers to pass around—banana peppers, spring rolls, calamari, artichoke-spinach dip and a “Mediterranean Trio” platter of crackers and pita, Middle Eastern cream cheese, hummus and a diced herb-and-tomato salsa which was especially delicious. Then we had our entrees! Oh my, it was all so good! Meanwhile, we enjoyed sauvignon blanc wine and toasted our weekend and our host!

When we came home, we offered the Gaia Meditation, Mick closing with a prayer. We drifted, listened to music and conversed until after 10:00 before Mick and I came upstairs. The rest of the group had a pretty early night as well, since everyone must leave fairly early tomorrow morning.

2009-04-18

April 19, 2009 6:17am

We had a great day, plunging in to the reading and free discussion of the material in 101: The Choice. We covered eight of the twelve chapters today. I greatly enjoyed being part of the spirited discussion and intense camaraderie of this very special group of attendees.

Mick missed the study today, as he had a full day of Jim’s Lawn Service jobs to do for his customers, working with bushes and trees that could not wait until next week to be planted. Fortunately for me - I really missed him - he grabbed a bath and was able to join us for dinner.

We all polished off the day by going to Lynn’s Paradise Café, another of Bob’s favorite restaurants, where Nalin’s wife and daughter joined us for a delicious meal. Valerie came to join us as well for a few minutes on her way to Thunder over Louisville, the huge fireworks display that is an annual part of the Kentucky Derby Festival.

The conversation and laughter were rich and the food was richer! We topped off the meal with the Gaia Meditation, with hands held around the big table. Gary offered the closing prayer tonight.

Daniel came in from his trip to Cave City as we came back from dinner and he joined the happy company.

Mick asked me for a date, so we left the revelers to their continuing discussions, which were rolling through the group with a delightful enthusiasm, and Mick helped me shower before we came upstairs for our tryst. The energy exchange was beautiful, and I was able to fall fast asleep in the afterglow after our final prayers.

Tomorrow, we go to Avalon!

2009-04-17

April 18, 2009 5:50am

The first day of our Bob Riedel Memorial Gathering, “Getting Ready for 2012”, dawned sunshiny and warm, perfect for welcoming our attendees. After Morning Offering Mick, Dan and Gary worked to finish out the week’s JLS mowing jobs. Then Mick did one last job all on his own, since both Gary and Dan had prior commitments for the late afternoon. Gary went to the airport to retrieve three of our members who were coming in from Belgium, Washington State and Texas while Dan drove down to Cave City to celebrate his sister’s birthday.

I finished editing Susanna Angela’s personal channeling session and sent that off to be posted. She asked questions about anger and low self-worth that resonated to me as being very apt for many seekers besides her, and the Q’uo group’s answers seemed quite helpful. I enjoyed the work. I have a feeling the words will aid many.

I also collected recipes for pulled barbecued chicken chipotle over smashed potatoes with salsa and guacamole, which sounds yummy, and rhubarb ‘fool’—a ‘fool’, in this context at least, being a creamy, cold pudding made with the puree of a fruit. I love the tart-sweet taste of rhubarb.

I finished my work day by writing to Fox H, responding to her generous gift of “blue pea” seeds from her own garden stock and inviting her husband, Smut, and her to visit us later in the summer when we go to a Louisville Bats game. I hope they can come for that, stay overnight and also come up to see Avalon Farm, which they have never seen.

Nalin, from India by way of Ohio, was the first guest to arrive, and the only one to arrive on time at 6:00! He is staying with his wife and daughter at a nearby hotel, and I let him know that they were welcome to study with us any time they wanted to do so this weekend, but that if not, there was plenty to see and do in Louisville currently, as many events are occurring as part of Louisville’s annual Kentucky Derby Festival, or “Fest -a-Ville” as they call it. Fortunately, I had saved the section of our paper on the Derby Festival, so now they have a guide to the festivities.

Gary brought in Aaron, Tiffani and Carl, and Julie and Janet arrived at about the same time, making our number as complete as it will get tonight. Dan, Melissa and Mick were all absent tonight, Dan birthday-ing, Mick mowing and Melissa getting Avalon ready for visitors.

We had a delightful conversation and both before and after dinner, a good round-robin talk around the circle, which drew all these fascinating guests into one circle of seeking. It is a very compatible and intensely seeking group of people and I think our Gathering will be one of our most enjoyable ever for me.

For dinner we went to one of Bob’s favorite restaurants, Ruby Tuesday’s, where the conversation flowed, as did the wine and delicious food. I had a quesadilla tonight. Before we left the table, we held hands around and had the Gaia Meditation, with me praying at the end. Tomorrow, we begin our study, reading parts of 101: The Choice together. I look forward to it!

2009-04-16

April 17, 2009 6:03am

What a pleasure to wake up to a day that felt like spring, through and through! Mick and Dan took off after Morning Offering to mow and garden their way through the JLS work day, and I did not see them again until late afternoon.

Meanwhile Gary put in a long and fruitful day at the L/L Research helm, doing the last chores preparatory to the 2012 Gathering and working at the Inbox. Melissa arrived at our bath time and worked with Gary until the Gaia Meditation, also getting ready for the Avalon part of the Gathering.

I was fortunate in being able to stay right here today, and after Morning Offering I went back to the Las Cruces ARE Group interview with Wynn Free. Finally, in mid-afternoon, I finished editing that long transcript! Then I turned to another editing job, the transcript for the March 14th public channeling session. It was an interesting one, with questions about karma, free will and money. I finished that one also.

I barely got started on the last remaining transcript in my Inbox, the session done for Susannah Angela a year ago last January. The reason for the long delay is that the original transcript had lots of hiatuses where the words were not heard. So it was re-transcribed just recently by someone with sharper ears to fill in the blanks.

In the cracks of the day, I worked through some e-mail:

• I sent the documents concerning the Chinese offer to translate and publish 101 in Taiwan to Gary for his consideration. After we clear the Gathering this weekend, I’d like to sit down with him and Mick and talk through the issue of creating a contract between the Chinese company and us.

• I pondered with Ian the final color of the front and back covers of The Alphabet Mosaics. He is in the midst of finalizing the cover art, inserting the bar code and the final text. We agreed on a reddish tone for the front cover and a violet tone for the back cover, since the front cover image is the A Mosaic and the back cover image is the Z Mosaic. A to Z and red to violet is quite apt and pleasing to both of our sensibilities.

• I talked with Eli at Both Sides Now concerning the special issue he has created for my series of articles on getting ready for 2012. He has space left over in that issue and asked if I had ever written an article on The Law of One. I checked and actually, I have not! I promised him I would write that article next week. He will use it to fill those last two pages of the special issue. What a good idea! Thanks, Eli!

• I received, appreciated and sent along to those who would like it an amazing little story about a staircase that no one said could be built. Yet after the nuns in the church where the staircase was needed prayed a nine-day series of masses with the intention of attracting a carpenter who could do the job, one showed up and created what they are still calling a miracle staircase. Then he disappeared without collecting any pay. I would share the link, but I cannot seem to transfer it to this document. It is on napster under the banner of “amazing”.

• Ian and I talked about pricing on The Alphabet Mosaics, since he must place the price on the book cover. I suggested $25.00. It will be an expensive book to print, being oversized.

• I thanked Tobey W for re-listening to Ra Session 101 and sending me the results. He had previously asked about a woman to which one of the questions refers. I wrote a mutual friend and she says that the woman is no longer compos mentis and will not be able to give permission to use her real name. I let him know that.

• I closed out my work day by sending Gary a reminder e-mail on a couple of pre-Gathering details which need to be completed. The upstairs bathtub needs to be cleaned of Chloe Kitty’s games with the plastic rings one gets when opening a half-gallon of milk. She loves to carry them around in her mouth, then come to the upstairs bathtub and play with them there before leaving them. So plastic rings and cat hair remain, not an attractive decor for attendees. And one last box of donated books needs to be shelved, still.

After Mick and I enjoyed our bath and some quiet time, Daniel and Gary joined us for dinner and the Gaia Meditation. Gary offered the closing prayer tonight.

2009-04-15

April 16, 2009 6:13am

The weather was foggy, misty and drizzly in the early morning but dried up by noon and was pleasantly overcast the rest of the day. Mick and Dan went out after Morning Offering and mowed nine lawns today, catching JLS up entirely on its schedule! Mick was a happy man tonight.

I spent the morning taking a long angel nap, entirely inadvertently, and then worked on The Alphabet Mosaics. I sent Ian an OK on his rough draft for the PDF, noting some fuzziness in the superscripts of the footnotes as my one and only gripe.

I also sent on the barcode which Gary got from lulu.com, the printers for this volume—if Ian OKs their work when he sees the proof. I wanted to use lulu for this book because they have an arrangement where you can order one book at a time, and since I doubt that this volume will be a big seller, that sounds like the way to go. That way it will always be “in print”, and will cost us the very least up front.

Gary wrote with the good news that 101: The Choice has already sold 67 copies! And he says more orders are coming in all the time! What great news! I hope the word of mouth on it keeps the orders coming! Certainly it represents my best work and hopefully will have the wider appeal I intended by writing it at entry level.

I got word back from the New York agent, Barbara B, that it would be a good idea to hang tough with Hampton Roads for a while longer on The Aaron/Q’uo Dialogues. She feels that with the economy poor and HR in a state of change, I am lucky to have an in with the editor there, and should stick with him. So we will do that! At least for a while longer.

I sent Gary the correspondence from Terry on a possible Chinese translation of 101 and a deal to print it in Taiwan. After the weekend is done and the Gathering attendees are safely off to their homes, I would like to visit a lawyer and create a contract for the Chinese company who has made us a tentative offer through Terry. We have a reference now, as I called Mr. Cato and got one from him. Cato is a family lawyer, and said we would need an “intellectual properties” lawyer.

I got just a bit further on editing the interview with Wynn Free on BBS last January before it was time for my manicure/pedicure, which I am thrilled to say relieved my sore fingers and toes of the ingrown nails that are my bane. I chose an iridescent violet with an overlay of teal sparkles for the enamel. I love to express myself with color!

As I was feeling under the weather all day, I napped for a good deal of our evening TV time, but did enjoy the Colbert Report, where astronaut Sunita Williams reported (rapported?) that the space treadmill on the new node will be named COLBERT—but not the space node, in spite of the name winning the open contest for naming the node.

Gary was at the L/L Research helm this afternoon and evening, and as Mick and I went upstairs for our early bed time, he was still shelving books that have been donated to us in the last few months. They have stacked up all over the office and I asked him to tidy them away into their various collections on our library shelves before we entertain our visitors for the 2012 Gathering this weekend.

Dan joined Gary, Mick and me for dinner and the Gaia Meditation, at which Gary offered the closing prayer.

2009-04-14

April 15, 2009 5:52am

After Morning Offering, Mick and Dan went out under leaden skies to mow, but were chased back inside by storms before lunchtime. Mick brought in with him the tax forms which had just come by messenger, all filled out and ready for us to sign, from Compton Kottke and we had a signing party. Mick then took the forms which needed a check to Glenview Trust for their tender ministrations and we put the other forms out to be mailed.

I worked on editing the discussion with Wynn Free and the Las Cruces ARE group off and on all day, coming about halfway through the interview with my editing.

I also put in a call to our lawyer, Mr. Cato, for a reference to an intellectual properties lawyer. We need to create a contract for the Chinese translation of 101.

And I wrote an e-mail to Barbara B, a New York literary agent who offered to help me last year, asking for her advice on The Aaron/Q’uo Dialogues. We submitted the manuscript to Hampton Roads last June. It has hung fire there ever since. When is it time to stop being patient and move on? That was my question to her. I shall be interested to hear her reply!

Ian wrote with a final round of question on The Alphabet Mosaics, to which I responded quickly, and at the close of the working day, I saw in my Inbox his rough draft of the final book! Tomorrow I will scour it, as that will be my last chance to make any changes before he adds the images and sets it as a PDF. That is wonderful news!

Anne H of Norway confirmed today that she will not be coming to the 2012 Gathering this next weekend, but will instead wait for a later Gathering where she can make a presentation on issues which concern her deeply. I suggested to her that she try for this year’s Homecoming, since that will be our format there—each attendee being responsible for a presentation or a request for a topic of discussion.

At 3:00 I closed up shop for the day and went with Mick while he underwent a medical procedure. I was concerned that he might need to be driven home. But he did well and needed no help. However we enjoyed each other’s company!

Our evening passed quietly. We half-dozed through Amy Goodman’s excellent show, which featured a piece on U. S. drone bombings in Pakistan, which have killed over 600 civilians there since 2006. Father Louis Vitale, who was among demonstrators arrested at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, gave a spirited defense of their right to protest, as well as Jeff Paterson of the group, Courage to Resist. I liked Fr. Vitale very much. Hmmm … he could be a possible Difference Maker!

Romi was already in the office working on our computers to update the software when we came downstairs and we shared a pleasant supper and conversation with him and Gary, who was manning the L/L Research helm today. After the Gaia Meditation, at which Romi offered the closing prayer, Gary told us about his weekend hiking trip, which he greatly enjoyed. There were glitches, however, which make him feel more cautious about the upcoming week in May of hiking part of the Appalachian Trail which he has planned!

2009-04-13

April 14, 2009 5:59am

We were lashed by two bands of strong storms today. One had rolled through overnight and left the area about the time Mick and I finished Morning Offering. He and Dan found it possible to mow anyway. But in mid-afternoon, on their last mowing job of the day, mowing ahead against tomorrow’s schedule, another band came through, with hail and very hard rains, getting them entirely spanked and soaked. Nevertheless Mick was happy with the day’s work, as it cleared the way for his absence tomorrow afternoon, when he will have a medical procedure. So he is thrilled to have gotten a bit ahead with the mowing.

I spent my working day creating a Difference Maker article for my UPI blog on www.religionandspirituality.com, “A Small Medium at Large”. I chose Agnes Pareyio, a wonderful and dedicated Kenyan activist, to discuss. I think the article turned out well.

After a good, hot bath to soak away the chill from Mick’s hard-working body, he and I came upstairs for a date, which turned out to be another amazing adventure in sensuality for us both as we shared the sacred energies of our bodies and our hearts together.

The sensuality continued into suppertime! Our oven has gone on the electronic fritz and the repairman is scheduled for tomorrow, so tonight we had take-away from Ruby Tuesday’s, where I had harvested their twofer coupon from the newspaper to lower the cost of the meal. Our food was simply delicious! I had Lobster Ravioli and Crab Cakes. Yum!

We enjoyed Democracy Now and then TV-Lite for the rest of the evening. I offered the closing prayer at the end of the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-04-12

April 13, 2009 5:37am

Easter Day dawned bright and warm, a very well-behaved day indeed in the midst of an unusually unsettled springtime. Mick wheeled me into a church transformed into a sweet-smelling bower by masses of Easter lilies at the chancel steps and banks of ferns along all the windows in the long nave.

The small string orchestra joined the choir in offering a triumphant choral Eucharist. We sang “Worthy Is the Lamb” from Handel’s Messiah for the offertory, chanted Psalm 118 to a pretty tune and sang Darke’s Mass in F for the Gloria, Sanctus and Kyrie. At the communion we sang “Were You There”.

Over lunch Mick and I started to watch What Just Happened, a film which is another try by Hollywood to satirize itself—another try gone bad, although somewhat entertainingly so. Robert DeNiro plays a producer who is negotiating his way through his second divorce and trying to save a movie deal threatening to be derailed by an actor’s vanity while simultaneously attempting to shepherd a film he has already made through post-production. Phone to ear, constantly caught in traffic, lying liberally to a vast number of people as he looks for an advantage, he is a beleaguered anti-hero without a cause to his name except that of saving his hide and paying his alimonies.

This makes it a busy little film, crowded with noise and tangled conversations. The highlight of the film for me was a bravura performance by Michael Wincott, who hams his way through a characterization of a British screenwriter to hilarious effect. Conversations with him took the prize for the noisiest and most tangled! Bruce Willis was also at his comic best playing a buffoon of an actor in love with his beard.

We paused the film halfway into it and settled into a good, long nap. When we awoke most of the afternoon had gone and so had the film, which got stuck soon after we resumed watching it. I had no desire to run out and get a replacement to watch the second hour! So we both took a break instead.

While Mick puttered, I fielded three e-mail inquiries from our web guy, who continues to make great strides in putting the elements of The Alphabet Mosaics together for me. I sent him the Editor’s Preface and Dana Redfield’s Biography, which I had overlooked doing previously, and OK’d a copy change. I was thrilled to see that Ian’s very finely tuned radar for typos had detected only the one! Thanks to him, this project rapidly nears its end! It promises to be a stunning book!

It was great to hear from Talitha today! She has been on my mind lately, and her name popped up in the Inbox as she wished me a Happy Easter.

Mick told me that Dan has asked for a four-day week, as he is having trouble keeping up with Mick on the job. He says he needs more rest in order to do the job at all. Mick agreed immediately. We can only hope that this ‘fix’ works, and that Dan is able to continue the job.

This hit at a bad time. As it happens, Mick is already facing a difficult week ahead, since he must find time for a medical procedure and since strong storms are predicted for tomorrow, setting his mowing plans on their ear. At the Gaia Meditation, Mick offered the closing prayer, and included a heartfelt plea for help in making it through!

2009-04-11

April 12, 2009 6:48am

After all the storms, it was lovely to have a warm, sunny day! After a brief Morning Offering, Mick set about cleaning the kitchen and running his Saturday errands while I came upstairs to my bower office, enjoying the redbud trees in bloom out my windows, and answered e-mail all morning and into the afternoon.

• Michele M sent me a lovely Easter image of a Rainbow Tree which I sent on to Dianne S, who had sent me a cute Easter e-card.

• Our web guy and I worked quite a bit—three e-mails back and forth—with details of The Alphabet Mosaics. We will not use an author photo for Dana’s biography, since I do not have a good one. And he found a fragment called “The Unification Principle” for which I had hunted, since it was in Dana’s Table of Contents, but never found! This was great news. So I edited that and sent it right back. It makes a perfect ending to the book, as at the end of it Dana signs her name using her signature and some of her “alien” runes. It is very atmospheric!

• Gary forwarded me a note from Daniel asking if he could ask the Q’uo group a question and enclosing the question, so I tweaked it as Dan had asked in the note and printed it out for tonight.

• Eli wrote to let me know that he thought the Carolingia font was satisfactory as we are using it for Dana’s book. He also asked for a copy of 101: The Choice!

• I thanked my neighbor, Calvin, for her recommendation of two dentists in our area. I am currently looking for a new one.

• Terry H in Taiwan had written concerning the possibility of his friend’s translating 101 into Chinese and printing the book there, and I let him know that we’d need to see a lawyer about creating a contract.

• Marcia M wrote concerning an upcoming interview she will do with me this summer, and also talked about more personal things, so I took some time replying.

• Lynne R, one of my very favorite people, wrote in with some memories of Bob Reidel to share at the upcoming Memorial Gathering, since she cannot be here, and I wrote to thank her and encourage her to try for attending this year’s Homecoming.

• Barbara B wrote to ask about whether Bob at Hampton Roads had responded to my request for an update on their accepting our co-channeled book, The Aaron/Q’uo Dialogues, and I wrote her that no, he hadn’t, and I was going to consult an agent on that topic on Monday. We also started the process of setting up a telephone date—Ba is deaf and the call has to be done via relay operators, so we have to make a specific appointment.

• Beth, beloved friend since college days, wrote to let me know her daughter, Raina, had safely come through a difficult birth, but Baby Elayna came through her entrance into the illusion healthy and happy and Mama is doing fine as well. What a joy to hear that! I responded with cheers!

• My sister-in-law Mary wrote with an update about her Mother’s illness and I wrote back to promise prayers for Christine.

At 3:00 I went on www.bring4th for the scheduled Live Chat and enjoyed two hours of conversation with those who tuned in. The questions today were all over the map! Webmaster Steve E. keeps the Q&A sessions archived on the site for those who want to check out previous Live Chats. Then Mick and I bathed and had a light supper, getting ready for the public meeting at 8:00.

We had two new visitors to the group tonight, Rebecca and Callahan R, who live northeast of here about forty miles. It was great fun to meet them and we had a good conversation in the round robin discussion before the channeling session.

The main question tonight was from Jim, who wished to know why women have always been feared by men. I will be interested in reading what the Q’uo group had to say when I edit the transcript of the session. We also asked Dan’s question on psychic greeting. At the end of this session, I offered the Gaia Meditation prayer.

2009-04-10

April 11, 2009 7:01am

What a stormy day! One band of strong storms rolled through overnight and it rained fairly hard until about 9:00 a.m. Jim and Dan set off after Morning Offering and mulched until it dried out enough to do other things. Then at around 4:00 p.m., another powerful band of storms came through Kentucky. There were tornadoes south of here, in Kentucky and Tennessee, which amounted to the largest number of twisters in one weather system for a long time. We were spared all but the steely skies and pouring rain. It was fitting weather for Good Friday’s story of sorrow and love.

I edited off and on all day on my interview with Wynn Free and the A.R.E. group in Las Cruces, New Mexico which I gave last January. It is a long interview, almost two hours, so it runs to 36 pages! I got about a quarter of those pages done.

My other big effort today was The Alphabet Mosaics. Ian wrote asking about the precise make-up of the book, and I took a couple of hours to tell him everything I knew about that. The confusion comes in where the pages I received from Romi were scanned somewhat out of order, with this missing here and that to be interposed there, and considerations to be resolved. All in all, five rounds of e-mails went back and forth between us before day’s end.

I realized, while listing all the contents of the book, that I had not yet sent Ian Dana’s author photo, so I went back into my “Sent” folders on Outlook to retrieve the photos from my e-mail to Vara at Planet Light Worker last January. Unfortunately, Outlook did not like that, and the program spontaneously closed three times in a row before I got the photos to Ian. I was happy to receive a note at end of day from him saying that all was well; he had everything he needed for now.

Gary was cooking today and packing for his upcoming weekend hike, but he managed to find the time to write lulu.com and request the barcode for the book, so that Michele and Ian will be able to finish up the cover art as quickly as possible. Both of them have other things pending and would like to wrap this project for L/L Research up ASAP.

I just saw the cover images the two came up with today, and they are absolutely gorgeous. My idea of using one of Dana’s practice sheets as the cover image did not pan out, since the image was too dim to use. So they came up with the idea of putting the “A” mosaic on the front cover and the “Z” mosaic on the back. They designed the mosaics as tablets, like the clay tablets with cuneiform writing the Assyrians used long ago. The result is spectacular and it will be a really stunning cover.

I heard from my sister-in-law, Mary Rueckert, that her Mom, who lives next door to her and Tommy in Falls Church, has had an awful bout of illness, with a ruptured appendix and then breaking her hip in the middle of that recovery. Poor Mary! I know her big heart has had her doing all kinds of extra chores, taking care of her. Happily, Mary said that her Mom’s recovery is now coming along very well.

Wynn Free wrote to remind me to save 9:00 p.m. EDT April 20th for an interview with him on BBS radio (www.bbsradio.com) and to assure me that he will send me the digital version of our interview on March 23rd, so I can get that transcribed, edited and published to our archive site.

After a good, soaking bath, I attended a really beautiful Good Friday service. It was a “Lessons and Carols” service and we sang a half dozen beautiful little pieces from the Tudor Anthem Book and a book of Lenten music from that same period. I felt most upheld and inspired, almost completely out of consensus reality for a good part of the service. Angels were all around me! It is interesting that this occurred on Good Friday, rather than Easter Day.

Mick and I were all alone for the night, since Gary went hiking and Dan is visiting his parents, when he brought me back from St. Luke’s and we enjoyed a quiet evening. I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-04-09

April 10, 2009 5:59am

It was fair and sunny today until evening, when it began to weep gently as though all of nature was thinking of Jesus and his sorrow in Gethsemane’s garden. Mick and Daniel left after Morning Offering to mow all of today’s and all of tomorrow’s lawns, that is, those which need it. The cold nights have stopped a lot of Mick’s customers’ grass from growing.

I took an inadvertent nap this morning, but in the afternoon I managed to finish writing my fifth and last article in the series on getting ready for 2012 for the “A Small Medium at Large” blog on the www.religionandspirituality.com site. Then it was off to yet another specialist, Dr. Campbell, to have new x-rays made of my neck and C-spine.

I came to St. Luke’s for the Maundy Thursday service and enjoyed singing “Ubi Caritas”. It was a sweet and simple service, ending with the stripping of the altar. The church was left open until midnight for those who wished to “watch and pray”, as Jesus entreated his disciples when he prayed at Gethsemane, the night in which he was taken into custody by Herod’s men.

Gary and Dan joined Mick and me for a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.

L/L Research got an interesting offer from Taiwan today from a man interested in translating 101: The Choice into Chinese and printing it there. It sounds good! But we will need to investigate with an “intellectual properties” lawyer just what contract to create for him. It is great to have the freedom to make such deals, since we own all rights to the book—unlike the Law of One series, which is still, after all those years, out of our hands despite our best efforts.

2009-04-08

April 9, 2009 9:20am

It was still shivery outside, but Mister Sun graced the day and welcomed Mick and Dan as they went out to mow after Morning Offering. They had to make up some mowing jobs which got rained out yesterday, so they had a long day of it.

I worked in the morning with the Alphabet Mosaics project, writing eight notes back and forth to Ian, writing Eli about the Carolingia font used for the Wisdom poems and writing Michele to say that Ian will be sending her the scan of Dana’s Master Sheet ASAP.

She will play with that image, probably turning it sideways and making it a wrap-around band across the front and back covers. It can hardly be read at all, but it has an intense energy and is very atmospheric, as well as being in black and white, which we need for this cover in order to keep down the cost of the book.

After lunch I wrote a note to Russell, who wrote in by snail mail to report a longstanding psychic greeting and to ask for my advice. Fortunately, he has already turned to a good and efficacious track of praying to Jesus Christ and tuning himself to that vibration. You can get no better icon of absolute compassion and unconditional love than Jesus the Christ. I had only to encourage him in that practice and advise him to tell the disturbing “voice” that still comes to him that he is not listening to it. And I gave him the references to my writing and speaking on the subject of psychic greeting.

I spent the remainder of my work day creating a quotes database for my UPI article on entering the silence, the fifth and last of the 2012 series. Now I am all ready to write it tomorrow!

After a good, soaking bath with Mick, he and I spent a most pleasant evening with Gary and Dan, sharing a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Gary offered the closing prayer.

2009-04-07

April 8, 2009 10:27am

It was sad to see the snow on the tulips and redbuds today, and feel the tender new honeysuckle leaves shivering! The snow showers came over us in clouds off and on all the day and after Morning Offering Mick worked in his long johns for the second day in a row. He and Dan had two days’ worth of lawns to mow, so they were quite busy, but I got to see Mick for lunch, always a treat.

My big project for the day was the final read-through of all the text for which I was the editor in Dana Redfield’s The Alphabet Mosaics. I cleaned that project up by bath time and sent it off to Ian for his compilation of the document into the final manuscript to be printed. How wonderful to be progressing at last!

I also added page numbers to the curriculum notes for the upcoming 2012 Gathering, so that the attendees can turn right to the pages when we are working with each chapter. I got a hilarious e-mail from one attendee, who objected to studying during the weekend. She thought we were going to talk about Bob’s mission and remember him all weekend.

I asked Gary to let her know that while we will of course be sharing our memories of Bob all weekend, as we talk among ourselves, we’ll primarily be remembering him in the way I believe that he would prefer—by working on how to get ready for 2012!

We may not be seeing this particular attendee! So if you were hoping to come to this Gathering, you might write Gary and check to see if she vacates her seat!

After a good, soaking bath, Mick wheeled me into St. Luke’s chancel for our “dress rehearsal” this evening with the small orchestra our choirmistress has collected for the Easter Service. It went pitifully, always a good sign! We’ll peak on Easter Day!

Romi came by to share our dinner, some good conversation and the Gaia Meditation, and he offered the closing prayer tonight.

Our Lady Cards lost the national NCAA championship to a better team, but what a great year they had! I hope they feel very proud today! Go Cards!

2009-04-06

April 7, 2009 6:03am

The weather was ghastly today, barely nudging past freezing and mizzling with rain and snow all day. Jim and Dan worked through it until 3:00, after Morning Offering, and then Mick gave JD a chance to bail out! Dan took it! So Mick finished his work day alone. They will have all of today’s jobs to mow tomorrow, as well as tomorrow’s jobs! It was too wet to mow all day today.

I stayed indoors and cozy! No appointments beckoned me from the house, and I spent my day working on the Alphabet Mosaics project. I wrote Michele M, whose covers for 101 and A Book of Days are so spectacular, asking her if she would consider working with the Alphabet Mosaics project as well, and she generously accepted!

Then I wrote to Steve E concerning the placement of an e-version of Dana’s book on B4. He wrote back welcoming the idea! I asked him to craft for me a “want ad” for the scanning and production which I need to have done in order to add two Appendices to the e-book—one filled with all the images I have of Dana’s which did not make the cut into her printed work and the other filled with memoria, including my UPI series of articles on her.

I asked Gary to scrutinize a copy of 101 for Ian, who wishes to be quite sure that the right printing process was used on it. I also asked him to send Ian his own copy. He deserves one for all his good work on it.

Lee B sent me a cute spoof site for Obama, http://www.whitehouse.gov1.info/. Some soul has expended a good deal of expertise and time to create this site, which purports to be Obama’s blog site. It is good for chuckles!

I endeavored to improve our 2012 Gathering Curriculum page by adding the page numbers of the chapters for each session’s title, but was not able to copy and paste the document from the site, so I wrote and asked Ian for aid, and he sent me a copy of the document with which I can work. I am forever behind the power curve on computers! Duh!

By bath time I had gone over the text for the Appendices of The Alphabet Mosaics twice, and hopefully found every glitch and typo. I added the correct bibliographical reference which Elihu E sent me and added Ian’s and Michele’s credits to the Editor’s Preface. Tomorrow I start the final read-through of the rest of the text.

After our bath, Mick and I explored the sensual delights of each other in an energy exchange that just went on and on. Ah! What a delight to be human! We then came down to a late dinner and the Gaia Meditation, at which I offered the closing prayer.

2009-04-05

April 6, 2009 5:59am

Springtime in Kentucky is having a ragged start this year, with temperatures bobbing wildly and repeatedly. We had high winds and strong storms overnight and when Mick wheeled me in to church for pre-service choir practice, I could feel the tang of moisture on my face. It became unseasonably warm today in the afternoon after a cold start, jumping from 35 to 75 F and setting us up for more storms overnight tonight.

It is Palm Sunday today, a special Holy Day with much accompanying ritual. The name comes from the palms that the Bible records being laid before Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem on his donkey colt, humble and lowly. We sang “Ride On in Majesty” and offered the Palm Sunday intonations instead of the psalm.

It was a regal service, with a good sermon on focusing on the week ahead and our getting ready for Easter by DeLinda B, a student for the ministry whom I knew at choir camp 40 years ago, when I was her counselor.

Mick and I tried to watch Milk, a political film which documents the life and struggles of businessman/politician Harvey Milk, with lunch, but even though we have a new DVD player which Gary installed for us, neither of us could figure out how to work the machine. So we ate our lunch as we conversed and then read.

Mick had to keep an appointment with a client who wants a lot of gardening work done, and when he returned, we took a nap together in the living room love seat/recliner, snuggling under blankets against the chill.

When we awoke, we headed upstairs where my bedroom DVD player is a known, if cranky, machine, and watched Sean Penn create the character of Harvey Milk, a gay man who seemingly single-handedly organized and motivated the gay population of San Francisco and kept the city from employing the harshly prejudicial regulations against gays that were being passed at that time, the seventies. The producers used real footage to document the campaign by Anita Bryant against gays, using words like perversion and scaring the parents of schoolchildren into passing bans on gay teachers.

The film was up for a good many awards last year, but I kept feeling that some unknown core of intensity was missing—something held the screenplay within limits denying brightness and focus and kept it grayed out to an extent, regardless of the excellent performances by Penn and Josh Brolin, who strongly played a contrapuntal character who works with Penn and then turns against him. We finished watching the film, but I missed being excited by it, even as I appreciated its integrity.

Gary and Lorena had taken off with Romi before I left for church for a hike, and Gary must have taken Lorena to the airport directly from there, for we did not see her again to say good-bye. Later, Gary called to say that he’d see us on Tuesday when he came to work.

During supper we greatly enjoyed seeing the Lady Cards proceed to the finals of the NCAA championship series! It was a rousing game and the expressions of victory after the game on the part of the players were as extreme as any I have seen, ever. Go Cards!

Daniel came back from his weekend visit with his folks as evening fell and as we went up to bed after the Gaia Meditation, we went to say good-night to him in the downstairs office, but found him dozing at his computer, so we tiptoed on upstairs. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation.

2009-04-04

April 5, 2009 6:49am

Ah, the joy of taking things down a notch and enjoying a Saturday! Mick and I arose an hour later than usual! After Morning Offering, he cleaned the kitchen and then did his round of weekly errands, filling Stanley Outback with fuel, stopping by the grocery and health food store and whatever other places he needed to go. Meanwhile I edited the latest issue of Lorena’s LOOP Newsletter (LOOP = Law of One—Prisoners) for her and gave it back to her at lunchtime.

After lunch, Mick set out to mow two customers’ lawns that had gotten rained out earlier this week. That is one catch with the lawn care business—the rains rule! You can do a lot of yard work wet, but never mowing!

I worked with a woman, Nadia, who wishes to improve her channeling, by e-mail, addressing her questions and letting her know that if she really feels strongly that she is called to channel, I do have a waiting list for new channels. When it adds up to four new channeling hopefuls, I will hold another initial channeling training weekend—I have held two so far. Gary tells me that there are currently three names on that list, so we may well have another Gathering for new channels soon.

I also answered a very kind response to my offer to be interviewed for my new book, 101, from Marcia, who channels Princess Diana and John Lennon and others who speak about peace and justice. She wants to see a review copy of 101, and will schedule me for an interview sometime this summer.

From three to five in the afternoon, I did a Live Chat on B4, greatly enjoying the conversation. Then, after a bath and early supper, Mick and I watched some basketball. Mick vanished upstairs when it came time for the meeting, having arranged to watch the game to its ending instead of attend our meeting.

Janet F came, bringing a new reader, Alen—yes, that’s how he spells his name! Allen F drove down from the Cincinnati area and Gary, Lorena and Romi rounded out our group.

After our round-robin talk, Lorena, Romi and I tuned, for I had agreed earlier that we would have an extra Channeling Circle session while Lorena was visiting. However, Romi was told “No” by his Gatekeeper when he asked if he was good to channel. So we dropped the idea of a Channeling Circle and instead enjoyed the silent meditation which was scheduled for tonight.

It was good to see everyone, especially Janet, an old L/L friend! We passed around some wine and cookies which Romi brought and had a good conversation after the meeting. I offered the Gaia Meditation prayer tonight as I closed the silent meditation.

2009-04-03

April 4, 2009 7:08am

It was raining hard when I awoke, and the rain only let up gradually as the morning wore on. This was fortunate for me, as I awakened quite late and only got my journal entries written by staying overlong at the computer before going downstairs to awaken Mick.

Lorena had been awake before me and when I came downstairs to awaken Mick, she was already working away at her editing job, compiling the LOOP newsletter for prisoners in the downstairs office. After Morning Offering, Mick and Dan toddled off to their Friday mowing and gardening for Friday—Mick noted that it was their last leisurely Friday for the 2009 mowing season, as a few of their customers did not yet need to be mown—and worked a good, full day.

I celebrate the fact that Mick has been able to use Dan for full-day employment since the very first day of his expansion, March 16th. That is unheard of! When businesses expand there is usually a time where you lose some money paying an employee before you have enough business to work him full time. However by the grace of the Spirit, Mick has received enough added business, in the form not only of mowing but also of non-mowing work like gardening and clearing of debris, to fill out his early-season schedule for JLS.

I distinguished myself by sleeping through most of my morning work time, napping in my chair. However, I did the work I had hoped to do today, spending the rest of my morning time writing to Ian about The Alphabet Mosaics, as he has received the box of materials from Romi.

Ian has most kindly volunteered to produce the book, finishing the scanning and assembling the printed book according to Dana’s Table of Contents, which held her final wishes for the book. She worked on it just before she passed through the gates to larger life and I have followed it faithfully in preparing the book for publication. I also wrote about my hopes for the e-version of the book.

By the end of the day, Ian responded, and I know that I shall need to place a “want ad” for a further volunteer who can scan the images Dana drew that did not make the cut to the printed book, and otherwise help me in assembling the full e-book version of The Alphabet Mosaics. I envision that it will include every image of hers that I can find to reproduce for the ages, plus a commemorative section where I will place my series of articles on Dana Redfield which I wrote for UPI, plus any other remembrances her friends would like to include.

In the afternoon, I responded to Gary’s catch of my non-consistent titles for my UPI series of 2012 articles, of which I have now finished four out of five installments, by asking him to see if he could re-form the titles according to the guide which I made for him. He has ways of working with that UPI blog software that are opaque to me!

I also okayed Gary’s initiative to extend the 2009 Homecoming to four days, including Labor Day, so that we could have more options in planning it. Gary suspects that we will get a larger crowd this year than ever before, and wants to give every attendee time to present his thoughts, plus he hopes to work in a trip to Avalon Farm and perhaps have more rest time in the weekend as well. It is a good idea.

Steve E wrote to announce that he has welcomed his wife home safe and sound from her perilous trip to Central America and is now working on updating the graphics for the home page on B4. We are most thankful on his behalf for Ana’s safe return and for his continued good work on the site, which is receiving lots of good response. Our B4 statistics continue to be impressive. I am most thankful that we at L/L Research can offer a spiritual community site as well as an archive site for our work, thanks to Steve. Steve helps us live the Law of One!

I opted out of joining Lorena and Romi for a dinner out tonight, having on my conscience two successive Fridays away from Mick, and knowing that there is no more March Madness to soothe him in my absence. There is a game tomorrow night, and a final hoo-ha Monday, but no more Friday games. So I stayed home with him and enjoyed a quiet evening. And he was quite grateful - see below!

Daniel took off for his parents’ home near Bowling Green just after work. Gary finished his cooking for the week and joined us for a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, which Romi and Lorena also attended, having just returned from their repast and conversation at The Grape Leaf Restaurant. Gary offered the closing prayer.

Then Mick and I came upstairs for a rousing, impromptu date. I reveled in his attentions and we had an exciting energy exchange before we offered our final prayers for the day and sank into blissful dreams in the afterglow.

2009-04-02

April 3, 2009 5:58am

It was a warm and windy day today, with plenty of sunshine in the morning, yielding to lowering clouds and by choir practice tonight, heavy rains which will continue overnight.

After Morning Offering, Mick and Daniel left the house to begin a good work day. I was still dealing with a tummy ache, but managed to complete my goals for today: to collect all the recipes in this week’s Food Section in the paper and to write all of those who have interviewed me in the past and ask if they would like to interview me about my new book.

Lorena blew in at eventide, picked up at the airport by Gary. She will work on the L/L Research Prisoner Newsletter, the LOOP, here this weekend and mail letters she has written to prisoners. It was good to see her.

At 3:00 I kept an appointment to have my fingernails groomed—Beth, my nail tech, is endlessly patient at finding and getting out the little ingrown hooks that my fingernails have been putting out lately. I came home at bath time feeling far more comfortable! And in honor of Easter, the nails are painted red with gold sparkles! That’s my way of saying, “Welcome, happy morning,”

I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight. Then Mick and I came upstairs for a late date and raised some wonderful energy between us before saying our last prayers in the afterglow.

2009-04-01

April 2, 2009 5:44am

April Fool’s Day was sunshiny and warm! The naked magnolia tree next door decided to finish its bloom and dropped all its pink petals at once, leaving a blanket of pink all around its trunk, like a lady who has lost her skirt! It’s called “naked” because the blossoms come before the tree puts out its leaves, and rest on bare branches.

Fortunately no one at Camelot was keen on playing pranks, so the day went peacefully.

Jim and Dan left after Morning Offering and put in their full day, mowing for those customers whose lawns need it and doing gardening jobs and general clean-up for other customers. Meanwhile I took the day to create the fourth article in my series on getting ready for 2012 and posted it to www.religionandspirituality.com. It was on the subject of the importance of keeping the heart open.

We enjoyed Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now tonight. She investigated mortgage loans. One could see and sympathize with the confusion on the part of homeowners who begin getting bills from corporations other than the original lender and do not know whether to pay or not. It certainly looks like a big mess to clean up, and a matter of shame for shady companies.

Mick and I were all alone tonight, for a change, and enjoyed a late supper and then the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.

April, 2009

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