July, 2009

Again there was rain overnight, but by the time Morning Offering was over, Gary and Mick had a clear, if overcast, sky and the mowing day was a “go”. They had a fine day for working, fairly cool and pleasant outside. And they came home triumphant, every lawn mown and detailed, every chore accomplished. It was touch and go all week because of the copious rains, but Mick gotterdun!

My morning was spent dispensing advice. Romi wrote asking for aid with processing his relationship catalyst and Lorena wrote concerning a delicate problem in her prison ministry. I also took some time to write my journal entries and have chapel time, a very strengthening part of my day.

Ian wrote to ask me for a notation for the cover photo on the archives volumes, and I began my afternoon by composing that little bit of prose. We will take the actual photograph next Tuesday, so I was writing about a photo that exists, at this point, only in our imaginations and intentions, but shortly, Tuesday will come and the photo will manifest itself.

Then I received a rough draft of the first archives volume from Ian, so that I could check it over. I spent most of the rest of the afternoon looking it over. I fiddled a bit with the language in the dedication and asked Ian to put in italics the book titles mentioned in the Introduction, but other than these two small details, plus some header and footer details and a blank page which he already said that he will fix, it all looks perfect. It has been a push, getting this far! It is amazing how many details go into producing a volume like this one. But it is certainly worth the effort, to look at the finished, handsome volume.

I got a call from Images Salon, letting me know that the lady who gives Dianne and me our facials, Lee Ann, would be on vacation on August 14th, when our next appointment is, and asking if we wanted to change the appointment until two weeks later, when she would be back and could take us again. I sent an e-mail off to Dianne asking her what she wants to do. I can go either way. I keep my hair so short, I can wait the two weeks! But Dianne colors her hair, so she might not want to wait. Roots never sleep!

Melissa and I had a planning meeting before she left, getting organized on our present effort towards corralling and inventorying Camelot’s bed, bath and kitchen linens. I am not one who notices or tends to fuss about these sorts of details. We don’t have sets of towels that go with this or that bathroom. Things tend not to match. Through the decades, we’ve lost a pillowcase or sheet from almost every set, and our kitchen linens are raggedy as well. We decided that Melissa will amass our linens in the upstairs guest bedroom. She and I will identify and she will mark with a laundry pen in what bedroom each sheet, pillowcase and blanket goes. In the process, we will remove the linens that have truly had it for use as rags, and get a want list going for replacement linens.

We’ll do the same for the bath towels and washcloths and the kitchen towels and dishcloths.

Then we’ll organize the odd linens that aren’t assigned to any beds or baths and store them in the overhead cabinets in the bathroom off of Mick’s bedroom.

When we are finished, we should have a much more organized house! It will be great to have that done. Right now, everything is everywhere, and we have a lot of threadbare and badly spotted linens. If you live long enough, and don’t pay attention to things domestic, this happens! I am a Bad Housewife! But Melissa is going to smarten Camelot up. She will come back into town next week for her car to be repaired and to finish this process. By Homecoming, we’ll be all right and tight.

Gary prepared barbecued chicken, spinach-and-cream mashed potatoes and sweet corn pudding after he finished mowing, while Mick did the weekly maintenance on his equipment and then went to a customer’s to blow off their roof, as they have had repeated drainspout clogs with all this rain lately. Living in a forest, as we in Anchorage do, we often experience this problem.

Mick and I shared a restorative bath and then had a splendid date together before coming downstairs for a quiet evening, a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.

2009-07-30

July 31, 2009 10:17am

It had rained again overnight but although overcast, the sky was dry of tears for most of today, and Mick was able to go out after an early and shortened Morning Offering and get all caught up with his mowing. He even mowed one lawn that is on tomorrow’s list, since once again there is every chance of rain showers popping up from now right through the weekend. Go Mick! I was tickled to hear that he was able to stay current with his jobs, as that bodes well for his having a good weekend with at least a bit of leisure.

I slept so late, Mick had to wake me up! So I spent the first part of my day writing my journal entries and having prayer time. Then Melissa and I got together and ventured forth to find valences to match the roman shades we chose for the upstairs guest room. They had exactly one kind of valence at Wal-Mart and it just so happened to be the exact color we needed. What a blessing!

Melissa then spent her afternoon putting up the new shades and valences for the two windows. The room looks so much better with a lighter, brighter window treatment! The old and ill-fitting shades had their cords chewed off by our kitties, and they could not be pulled up or adjusted. The only alternative to their being completely down and the room being quite dark was to roll the shades up over their hardware, which let in some light but looked rotten!

I slept for most of the afternoon. However I was able to stay awake long enough to write up outlines of the presentations I will give at L/L Research’s Homecoming 2009. That’s only a month away now!

We enjoyed a quiet evening. I offered the closing prayer tonight for the Gaia Meditation.

2009-07-29

July 30, 2009 8:55am

There was no use trying to beat the raindrops today, because it was pouring down by daybreak. So Mick and I had a leisurely Morning Offering and then I was off to have a sacral-cranial massage with Liz J while Mick sharpened blades and ran errands.

By the time I returned from Indiana at lunchtime, the rain was abating and Mick and I enjoyed a very quick lunch together before he set out to mow. He had a good afternoon of it and is essentially all caught up with his schedule. However rain is also predicted for tomorrow, and it is supposed to be heavy, so he is anxious about getting the work done this week.

We talked about the emotional dichotomy concerning rain that a lawn man feels. He wants the rain, because the longer the rains come, the longer he can mow weekly. When draught comes, as it usually does at some point in the summer here in Kentucky, the grass stops growing and the lawn man’s income is cut as he skips mowing, sometimes for weeks on end, because there is no need. On the other hand, when rain is plentiful, working around the rain is a huge challenge, especially when the storms come at awkward times.

Global warming does not mean everyone experiences more heat. It seems to mean, rather, that everyone experiences extremes of weather. Out west this summer there is greatly excessive heat, and the fire storms that pop up in such conditions. But here in Kentucky, we are about to close out July without one single day above 90 F! That has never happened here since they began keeping records over a century ago. And although we are always in draught by now—last year we were in draught before June ended—this year, we are way ahead of the average rainfall, pretending to be the Pacific northwest, with no end in sight.

Since I promptly fell asleep when I got back home from my 2:00 manicure, I did nothing useful today! All my good intentions snoozed themselves away. I did get my journal entries written and had a lovely time in my inner chapel before asking Holly for my Word for the day.

Gary went hiking in Indiana for his day off and came home just in time to join us for a late supper and the Gaia Meditation. Mick offered the closing prayer tonight.

2009-07-28

July 29, 2009 6:09am

We rose early and shortened the Morning Offering so that Mick could get out there and mow, mow, mow. Supposedly rain will be fairly pervasive tomorrow, so Mick needed to work ahead. He did so with good success, coming home at bath time with two of tomorrow’s jobs done as well as all of today’s.

I sent on to Mick some requests from Ian regarding the back-cover texts which he will choose for each of the twenty or so archive volumes. Then in the evening, I worked on preparing text files on his computer for use in recording his choices. He now has files for all the years from 1975 through 1990. When he gets those choices made, I will create the rest of the files needed, up through 2007.

Eli and I discussed The Alphabet Mosaics, which he plans to advertise in his upcoming issue of Both Sides Now.

Mish D wrote with a different sort of question—she recently received a beautiful, heavily embroidered Indian outfit and when she first opened her gift, she reacted by feeling ill. What’s going on, she asked. I wrote to suggest that perhaps the person who did the handwork on the garments had an aura that does not match her own. I suggested smudging the garments with sacred sage and, if possible, washing them before she tries to wear them.

Dianne S wrote to ask me if I was on Facebook, the fifth person to do so in the last few days. I asked Gary to hook me up there. I don’t want to use Facebook for daily blogging, as I already have this journal. But my profile there can direct people to www.bring4th for my blog and for the forums and spiritual community there, and this way I can become people’s friends on the software, which seems to be all the rage right now. Gary told me that he does not use his page a whole lot, but does check for news of his friends there quite often. He has 84 friends! He tells me there are over 200 million Facebook members. It’s huge, larger than some countries!

I took some time to write Romi some hopefully sound advice. He wrote in with relationship woes.

Gary sent me the news that we still have two Channeling Circle sessions out, being transcribed, and assured me that he would write the transcribers to ask where their work is. They have had it since early June. I wrote him back to inquire concerning the several interviews I have had with Wynn Free. I had hoped to get those edited before September comes and I am suddenly back in full swing with interviews, counseling and personal channeling sessions as well as weekly Live Chats and public meetings.

Working through the e-mail and getting my journal entries written and the back entries posted took the morning and early afternoon. I finished my working day by editing the May 9, 2009 public channeling session that had just come in from Ryan B, a fairly new transcribing volunteer. He does a very nice job! I got that off to Ian just at bath time.

Gary joined Mick and me for the Gaia Meditation tonight and offered the closing prayer.

2009-07-27

July 28, 2009 8:40am

The weather forecast for tomorrow is rainy, so Mick and I arose early, made a short Morning Offering and Mick was off like a shot. He came home at the end of the working day with all of today’s mowing done and two jobs ahead on tomorrow as well. He also took the time to clear a neighbor’s gutters of leaves. Mick seldom gets through a day without doing some such good deed!

Gary came in and got the e-mail going in a couple of seconds! Later he showed me his trick: he unplugs the modem and the router, and then after a few seconds re-plugs them into the power. It is the equivalent of rebooting the computer. I think I will remember this, since both power cords are black, and they are the only black cords into either device.

Because the internet had been off-line since Saturday evening, the e-mail was backed up, and it took the morning to clear it. A lot of the discussion was concerning this cover shot for the archives volumes. We’ve got the two angles from which to shoot nailed down now, as well as the use of a tripod and the position of the blinds in the room in which the shot takes place, our living and meeting room.

Ian also wrote to ask Mick to start selecting quotations for the back covers of each volume, and Mick wrote back in the evening to say that he’d be glad to do that.

Gary let me know that he has Xeroxed the manuscript of Voices of the Gods and has sent the copy on to Ian, who will scan and OCR it for eventual addition to our on-line archives. I let Ian know that the copy has been sent.

Ian asked me to check his addition of The Alphabet Mosaics to the publications section of our archive site. It looks just fine and I wrote to thank him for the addition.

Ba B let me know that a student of hers and Aaron’s would be sending for A Wanderer’s Handbook soon and I forwarded the message to Gary so he can watch out for the order. Aaron had recommended the book to this woman in the course of a counseling session, so I gather. Hopefully it will be a good resource for her.

Daphne wrote asking for a telephone consultation, but I was reluctant to break my summer hiatus. Instead I wrote her concerning her difficulties as a channel. My feeling is that they stem from not doing adequate tuning and not challenging each and every spirit. This is the single most common problem for channels. Once their channel has been opened, if sufficient care is not taken, all manner of opportunistic spirits can try to enter and get the attention of the channel by means of horrific predictions and dire warnings. This fear-based information de-tunes the previously positive channel, and renders it unusable by positive sources. I have seen this happen numerous times. It is a shame every time. Hopefully Daphne, an excellent channel and one who is naturally very positive, will succeed in chasing the fear-based spirits away.

Terry H wrote asking if there was a connection between Amira, an early channeling source of mine back in the seventies who is an aspect of Jesus the Christ, and Ra. I wrote back saying that I doubted it!

Helen D sent me her travel plans for Homecoming and I forwarded them to Gary for his information as well.

In the afternoon, I wrote the first of several articles I will do on Penny Kelly’s book, From the Soil to the Stomach. This first article is on stress. I posted it just as Mick called bath time. Gary will undoubtedly send it out tomorrow.

After a restorative bath, Mick and I danced in the fields of the Lord, enjoying a date together. We had a quiet evening thereafter. I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation.

2009-07-26

July 28, 2009 8:33am

It was a lovely, pleasantly warm and sunny Sabbath, still very moist from the heavy rains of yesterday. I enjoyed the catalpa trees in blossom on the way to church. We sang Elgar’s version of ‘Ave Verum Corpus” at the offertory and heard a very good sermon on the virtues of asking to be of service to the Lord instead of simply asking to be fed by Him.

Meanwhile, Mick cleaned the house. We rendezvoused for lunch and a nap, then our film for the afternoon, Nothing but the Truth. I do not have the luxury of the internet at present—for some reason we are completely off-line. So I cannot give credit where credit is most certainly due. The players, apart from Matt Dillon, are unknown to me. But I can say that it was a remarkably good film. It brought forward a crucial issue of our times: the value of the Constitution of the United States’ first-amendment rights as opposed to the value of “national security”.

In the film, the chief protagonist, a woman reporter, learns from a child that the child’s mother is a CIA agent. She corroborates this fact with reliable, top-notch sources, writes the story and gets a Pulitzer Prize for her work. Dillon’s character, a Special Prosecutor, manages to have her jailed for a year for protecting her source. She is beaten badly while in jail. She loses her husband, who sulks and slinks away with another woman while she is incarcerated. The CIA agent is shot and killed, ostensibly by terrorists. Finally the judge deems it inappropriate for the reporter to be held longer, since she obviously will not give up her source.

When she is released, she does not even make it home before Dillon’s character has her arrested for “criminal contempt of court”. The frenzy of fear that the government’s national security has been breeched is such that this seems reasonable to him. Meanwhile the culprit is a little child who overheard a parental argument. If the reporter tells who her source is, this child will be emotionally destroyed, since it was her information that resulted in her mother’s death.

Alan Alda gives a searing, underplayed, nuanced and lambent performance as the reporter’s lawyer. The central scene of the film is his reasoned argument before the Supreme Court asking that the reporters of our country be protected by the first amendment since without this protection, what source will willingly give good information to them? And without good information, what true news can ever be offered to the public? The Court, under this spell of fear, votes for national security reigning supreme rather than the rights supposedly guaranteed under our Constitution.

It is notable that this film, with its excellent production values, powerful screenplay and very good performances by all the players, was one we never saw advertised. Mick chose it simply because we like Dillon and Alda, whose performances never disappoint.

How can our citizenry rise up and reclaim our constitutional rights when a film of this calibre goes virtually unnoticed in the mainstream media? I deplore the enchantment of fear that has overtaken this country. And I praise this film! Get it, see it and think about it!

Without the internet, I could do no e-mail, so I enjoyed myself during the break by reading further in Penny Kelly’s excellent book, From the Soil to the Stomach while Mick sharpened mower blades and took a couple of pieces of equipment in to repair shops. We enjoyed a quiet evening thereafter. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight. And so ended our eighth summer weekend! They are fleeing away all too fast, as is the summer!

2009-07-25

July 28, 2009 8:28am

We awoke to a steady rain which continued until lunchtime. Three more times during the day and evening, the heavens opened and torrents of rain poured down upon the earth. Most of this rainfall was unpredicted. However the timing was excellent, since Mick was not working for Jim’s Lawn Service today! And the rain will help everything grow.

After Morning Offering, Mick set out upon an extended round of errands. His new little Toro refused to start Friday, so Mick took her to Beard’s for repair and then went on the usual run of Saturday chores, gassing up the truck, car and gas cans, stopping by this and that shop and keeping the household running.

I had intended to work on my article today but every time I started to ponder just how it would go, I fell asleep. Finally I accepted the fact that my focus was not sharp today, and worked to clear the inbox and desk.

The discussion between Gary, Ian and me concerning the cover for the archives volumes has gotten more focus. The gentlemen have found two angles of shot they really like, and now are talking about how to take the shot rather than what shot to take. I like both shots, so am happy, regardless of which shot is chosen. Gary will acquire a tripod so that the shot will be a steady one, and is studying just how to work the camera to get the low-light, natural exposure Ian hopes to have.

Gary had the idea of creating a different cover for each volume in the set, but I was not fond of the idea, since the overall look of the set of volumes would not be unified. However I really liked the idea of including shots of the period, from our photo archives, for each volume, much as we did with The Law of One, Book I. So I proposed to Ian and Gary that we include a photo gallery in each volume of shots from the period of that volume’s channelings.

Joyous Chee of the e-zine Cosmic Lighthouse (www.cosmiclighthouse.com) asked if he could publish my UPI series of articles on The Law of One in the next four issues of the zine, and I OK’d that and thanked him for the honor.

I was delighted to hear from Sonia C, my matron of honor in 1987 when Mick and I married. She has had a very hard time lately, unable to work, crippled with arthritis of the spine and fibromyalgia and penniless. She is hoping that her son, Kenneth, will soon be working on an oil rig in North Dakota and she will live with him then. I have my fingers crossed for her. She wrote to tell me that her daughter, Kasey, will be visiting here in August. I gave her my contact information. It will be good to see Kasey and catch up a bit.

Stella wrote to discuss how to proceed on her creative work. She had come up with an idea which seems unique and fun to me, but which does not meet the definition of “workbook” for 101. This made her feel that perhaps she should shelve the idea and turn to the far more linear creation of a classic workbook for the volume. However I wrote to let her know that I would prefer her working as she found resonance to her working on an assignment.

Rick sent a new and beautiful photo of their tame red fox, now a well-grown young adult and very handsome, as well as photos of his new truck, which he calls “Mule”. The fox was prettier, but Mule will work harder for him I am sure!

Helen D, my school chum, has decided to visit me during Homecoming! I am so jazzed! She and I have enormous fun together and it will spark Homecoming to have her wonderful energy be a part of it.

Gary asked in an e-mail how our pledge drive went with the Board for collecting funds to buy back the rights from Schiffer Pubs, and I had to tell him that it went dismally, with only two Board members responding. With only $3,000.00 in the kitty, we just don’t have the money needed to make a viable offer to them.

Pilar R wrote in to offer to translate TLOO into Spanish, and Gary and I encouraged her and offered aid if she gets stuck on translation problems, as is almost inevitable with that material.

Ian, Gary and I discussed what to do with the mini-blinds in our shot this upcoming Tuesday evening. All the way up and out of the shot, all the way down or partway up? Such issues become central when you know that the shot will be reproduced on twenty book covers or more!

Lorena asked us to pray for Frank C, a prisoner, and I wrote to say that we would gladly include him and hope to replace his demons with angels.

To close out the day, I wrote a thank-you note to snail-mail to Jude R, who sent an especially generous donation and the sweetest of notes. I collected recipes from the newspaper for wax bean salad, zucchini-pea stir-fry and basmati rice with tomatoes and herbs. And I recorded three more candidates for Difference Makers articles, thanks to watching Amy Goodman’s remarkable news show, Democracy Now, this week. I sent the contact information on our new dentist and optometrist to Mick, who will change with me to the new doctors, and closed down the computer for the day.

Mick distinguished himself this afternoon by finding time between rainstorms to cut our grass and trim a very extensive and tall hedge around our yard. He is getting the place ready for Homecoming a bit at a time, as he can. We enjoyed a bath together and then took a nap before supper. I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-24

July 25, 2009 10:25am

We rose early today so that Mick and Gary could catch up with the mowing schedule after having a full day off because of rain on Wednesday. They were successful even though Mick had to take a break at mid-morning so we could attend the funeral of his very first Jim’s Lawn Service customer, Marjorie Yvonne Miller, for whom he began working in 1991. She passed away after a long and debilitating illness, having lived well into her nineties.

I met Marjorie first at Anchorage Homemakers—an organization which was affiliated with Kentucky’s Department of Agriculture’s outreach program—which I was part of for about a decade when I first moved here in the eighties.

The service was at Duncan Memorial Chapel, a lovely little gothic church near her home in Crestwood, Kentucky. The grounds were gloriously colorful, planted chock-a-block with every colorful bloom. The place is so old that the stone fences around it are all slave-made, but its upkeep is impeccable and I know Marjorie will enjoy resting in this idyllic place while she gathers her soul energies for her next adventure in the “Universal Mind” as Kris Kristofferson calls it.

I completed my research for the article on Penny Kelly’s book and stress, the first of a two-part series I’ll do on her very powerful work. I also continued working with Gary and Ian on getting set up for the perfect shot for the cover art for next Tuesday’s channeling session. And I took some time to write a follow-up e-mail to Romi, with whom I had a counseling session yesterday.

In late afternoon I kept an appointment in St. Matthews with Dr. Bassett of the Gaddie Eye Center. She tells me that my eyes are far dryer than they were, and that I need to work to moisten them. I explained that all eye drops seem to hurt me more than they help me, and she said that was because my eyes were so dry and irritated that I could not tolerate the medication in the drops which is meant to heal. So she gave me two types of drops designed for people like me, innocent of chemicals, just offering moisture, one for day and one for night, and asked me to come back in three weeks to see what progress I’ve made.

The good news is that my cataracts, which are very mild, have not progressed since my last visit.

After a bath together, Mick and I had a delightful date and then came downstairs for a late supper, dining on the remainder of Melissa’s delicious bio-dynamic beef stew and corn bread. Mick offered the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-23

July 24, 2009 5:37am

It was a lovely, dry day and Mick made the most of it. We rose early and had a shorter Morning Offering than usual and he was out and mowing by 8:00 a.m., impossible to do in June when the grass grows so thickly, as the dew wets it down and it clumps when mown so early. But even with all the rain yesterday—over two inches—the grass cut easily and without clumps, so Mick got almost caught up by the end of his working day.

I wrote a fax to Dr. Aboud letting her know that my ear ache had been cleared. It was wonderful of her to prescribe for it without having to see me, and I wanted her to know the treatment worked.

I had more correspondence with Ian on the cover image we want for the cover of the archive volumes. It was one of those times-out-of-time where we ended up conversing on all sorts of things, a rewarding experience, always, as Ian is perceptive and thoughtful. We share a love of the Confederation channeling that has fed us equally during our many years of collaboration as Ian has gradually developed the archive site into its present form.

Melissa and I met for an early lunch after she wheeled me for a walk along part of our beautiful new Anchorage Nature Walk, which “Papa John” Schnatter has made for his adopted city. He has created three miles of trails through his large property for all the residents of this little village. It is all unspoiled, fields and forest, and he had wildflowers planted along the paths’ verges which are lovely now in the summer sun. There are two beautiful bridges and excellent brickwork on the wide, curving paths.

Then she and I went internet shopping for shades for the upstairs guest bedroom and found handsome roman shades on half-price sale. Next week when she comes to town she will install those and we will finish the window treatment by shopping for and putting up new valences. The shades and valences replace nearly useless shades—they cover the windows but do not retract so that if you want light, you have to loop them up over the valences - and dark and uninviting valences that have hung there since 2005 or so, chosen by previous volunteers. I look forward to having a light, bright and inviting guest room soon!

I worked further on reading Penny Kelly’s book and taking notes for a couple of articles for UPI, one on stress and one on her thoughts on the connection between healthy soil and healthy food. She has many good things to say which I look forward to sharing.

In late afternoon I went to the new dentist’s office to have my teeth cleaned. Everything was clean and bright. I like the place and the people and am very glad we decided to make the move. It is no fun going to a professional whom you do not trust to do the work right, and who you feel has disrespected you. Mick and I will be happier by far here.

Romi came over for the Gaia Meditation tonight and offered the closing prayer. Then we had a counseling session, as he is moving through the process of grieving for a relationship which is changing in ways he neither anticipated nor desires. Mick was most understanding. When Romi and I finished, I found Mick asleep in my bedroom, patiently waiting for me. We had a good snuggle until our bedtime prayers closed our day.

2009-07-22

July 23, 2009 5:45am

The rains came overnight, slow, cool and soaking. It rained all day. After Morning Offering Mick decided to take a big load of storm debris up to Avalon, for use in erosion control along the access road. Melissa helped him load up. Then she did computer work for the rest of the morning, recording Avalon expenditures.

I had overslept gloriously, so most of my morning was spent on taking chapel time and writing journal entries. I also called our new dentist to ascertain just how to forward our dental records to his office. Then I wrote a letter to our old dentist asking his office to forward those records.

I also went into detail as to why we were switching dentists after being with them for some 25 years—our dentist and dental tech were both retiring, plus they had treated me very poorly when a new dentist had botched the replacement of two old fillings so badly that the work had to be entirely re-done, ignoring my request for a financial break on the re-doing.

I went with Melissa to LabCorp to give blood for my monthly lab tests for Dr. June, and then to Fox Hollow, where they have begun a new effort right up our alley—a bio-dynamic farm store. We bought some bio-dynamic stew beef, as Melissa wanted to try it. She created a delicious beef stew for our supper, along with zucchini “boats” using Avalon zucchini, plus corn bread. It was a very tasty meal!

As well, Melissa worked further in the upstairs guest room, painting the shelving in the closet she had installed last week and bringing the room closer to what she has in mind. We will have a planning meeting to investigate window treatments tomorrow morning before she leaves for Fox Hollow, where they are holding a bio-dynamic class! It is exciting to have this happening locally. Prior to this, the closest bio-dynamic farms were in Tennessee and up in Indiana, both four-hour drives from Avalon.

I found that my e-mail had exploded, with items from Ian for Gary and vice versa, so spent the next hour or so playing mailman. My computer had mysteriously lost an important document from Gary with the 25 ISBN numbers for our channeling archive volumes, and he did a re-send, which I forwarded to Ian. Gary also let Ian know that the Alphabet Mosaics cover image had finally arrived on his desktop, and that TAM was now up for sale on B4’s store. Lastly, I sent to Ian two more batches of Gary’s trial shots, where he and Ian are working together on the cover art for the channeling archive volumes.

Ian sent word that blitzprint has finally done the reprint on 101. Those waiting for their orders will be thrilled to hear that! However, Schiffer has once again let The Law of One, Book I go out of print and although they are reprinting it, they do not know when it will be back in stock. Gary called them when he got this dismal news to find out more and the clerk there said she couldn’t begin to guess how long it would take. She offered no apology or explanation other than they had “warehouse problems”.

Eli sent an inspiring article about Bishop Matthiesen, who looks like a good candidate for a Difference Makers article. Later, as Mick and I watched Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now after our bath, I added to that list of candidates Wendell Potter, health insurance activist and Stan Brock, founder of Remote Area Medical (http://www.ramusa.org/), an organization that offers free medical care to those without the means to have it here in the US.

I have decided to split my article about Penny Kelly into two and do the first article on stress and its effects on the body. I used the rest of my afternoon work time to begin collecting quotes for that article.

Gary sent out Lorena L’s latest issue of the LOOP (Law of One for Prisoners) Newsletter today. The circulation is up to about three dozen people, he says, not all of them prisoners. Some of our readers are non-prisoners who want to see what prisoners are writing about spirituality. As usual it was a very good issue, with some channeling excerpts as well as prisoners’ articles.

Gary, Melissa, Mick and I enjoyed a quiet evening, conversing and watching The Colbert Report before sharing the Gaia Meditation, at which Gary offered the closing prayer.

2009-07-21

July 22, 2009 9:09am

After Morning Offering, Mick went out into the welcoming summer day to mow and when he came home at bath time, he had done all of today’s mowing, plus two of tomorrow’s jobs, since rain is predicted for overnight and into the morrow.

I had barely enough time to finish my journals and take some chapel time before it was time to drive across the Ohio River to Clarksville, Indiana, for my second cranial-sacral massage with Liz J. it was a long and very good session, after which I caught up with Connie M for lunch at Ruby Tuesday. We enjoyed a comfortable coze and I got home around two.

I wrote Mom McCarty a nice long letter in order to thank her for her generous birthday gift, a “universal gift certificate” which I will take with me when Mick takes me consignment shopping.

In e-mail, I sent on to Ian some material from Gary for use in figuring out how to set the camera for our cover photo of me channeling—Gary had taken several test photos yesterday evening. The beauty of a digital camera is that it is very easy to send the images by e-mail.

Fortuitously, just as I was starting to craft a letter to my former dental service detailing my reasons for leaving them and asking for my records to be forwarded to my new dentist, Gary came up to my office to finish filing the 2008 tax information. He recommended his own dentist very highly and gave me his contact information. I will call them tomorrow and determine just how to word my letter, as far as asking my previous dentist to forward Jim’s and my information.

Romi called and cancelled for tonight, and so we put off the photo and channeling session until next Tuesday, since we need three people to hold the session plus one to take the photos.

The cranial-sacral treatment created the rest of my day as an opportunity for snoozing! I dozed in my Mama chair during the afternoon work time and then with Mick, both before and after dinner. Liz had suggested that this might be the case, and asked me to enjoy the sleep and drink lots of water, which I did.

Gary offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-20

July 21, 2009 5:41am

After Morning Offering Mick went out into the sweet sunlight to do his mowing and gardening while I came upstairs to find my e-mail exploding. After I wrote my journal entries and had chapel time, I addressed it.

Romi offered to bring his camera to tomorrow evening’s channeling session, so I sent him Ian’s discussion of requirements for the shot needed for the cover of the channeling archive volumes. In the evening Gary said that he also has a digital camera and he will check to see what his camera’s specifications are, in order to figure out which camera can do the job Ian wants.

Throughout the day, Ian and I discussed aspects of the archive volumes. What should go in the headers? What in the footers? What about the title page? What about the lulu.com/B4 store connection—is it confusing to the seeker? We probably sent a dozen or more e-mails back and forth ironing out these issues.

Gary was at the L/L Research helm today and he and I also shared a brisk correspondence. He sent me an interesting web site and an idea for a future UPI article. The website is www.fallenfruit.org. It matches free excess fruit with needy eaters. He sent me information to forward to Ian several times and let me know that Light/Lines: The First Twenty-Five Years will soon be up for sale on B4.

Connie let me know that she can indeed meet me for lunch tomorrow after my second sacral-cranial massage at 21st-Century Medicine. I look forward to seeing her.

Eli E sent me a trio of links to his photographic, calligraphic and art works on Facebook. His work is grand!

The Community Farm Alliance, of which Avalon Farm is a member, sent a request for volunteers to work at a booth at the Kentucky State Fair next month. I sent that on to Melissa, thinking she might enjoy volunteering and doing some networking while she is there.

Daphne sent a good many forwards of a political nature and one concerning a product made from an enzyme found in red wine that is supposed to help the heart. Read more at http://www.news13direct.com/. I used one of the links embedded in this article and will try a free sample of this product.

Vuyiswa J, who hosted my talk at London’s Theosophical Center in 2005, wrote cordially responding to my note in which I asked her if she would like to meet a Law of One fan from Europe, Stella, who is traveling in Great Britain right now. I thanked her and shared some news.

And I spent an hour or so responding to the fact that I finally received from Anthem’s Rx insurance a new ID card with my name spelled correctly. I wrote a long letter to the company and Xeroxed five of their older documents to accompany it. The company has been denying my claims, based on “non-matching IDs” even though the mistake has been theirs. They also denied a specific medicine, Elmiron, which they had just accepted, so the acceptance letter went to them. And lastly, one Rx was denied because my coverage had stopped. I can guarantee that my coverage is ongoing, because Anthem takes the monthly fee out of my Social Security check each month.

Hopefully this letter will give them what they need to do their job.

What I had intended to do today was to read Penny Kelly’s book, From the Soil to the Stomach, preparatory to writing about it for my UPI article this week. In the event I had about ten minutes of reading time before Mick called bath time! One chorus of “the best-laid plans of mice and men”. I shall try again tomorrow!

Mick and I shared a bath and then a lovely date before coming downstairs for a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which I offered the closing prayer tonight.

2009-07-19

July 20, 2009 9:45am

We are breaking records here for low temperatures both day and night! It barely made 70 F today, and what a beautiful day it was! The grape vine on the arbor going into the memorial garden at church was flush with new leaves, and our surprise lilies—called by some ‘naked ladies’ since they have no leaves on their stems—had shot up and into bloom overnight.

Our choir numbered only nine this morning, with so many members on vacation, so we sang “Jesu, Joy of man’s Desiring” by Bach rather than the anthem scheduled. The sermon urged us to take times of retreat and rest, which reminded me that I need to press further on the prayer retreat for the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer that I promised to put on in Lent of 2010. It is ironic that even with the message of rest, my mind goes to work to do!

After lunch and a good nap together, Mick and I watched Powder Blue. It is an art film, and received bad notices in the mainstream media. I liked it, although I will cheerfully admit that it had its faults. Its largest fault was an inability to remain coherent in its story-telling. The four story lines were episodic and some of the scenes were purely emblematic, yet shot realistically. It demanded of the audience an ability to see beyond the linear.

One good example was the opening shot, which was of Ray Liotta’s character walking into the sea at night, the huge tattoo of the Gothic cross on his back shining in the moonlight as he committed his naked body to the deep. In the narrative of the film, his actual death came as he sat in an alley in the snow.

Forest Whittaker produced this film and I suspect it was his baby. He was excellent, as were all the players, playing an ex-priest saved from assisted suicide by Lisa Kudrow’s character. Patrick Swayze had a bizarre cameo role as a sleazy strip-club owner, wearing a blonde, long-haired wig and Jessica Biel did an outstanding job as an exotic dancer in his club. Also notable in a tiny role was Kris Kristofferson, who remains a commanding screen presence, his face and voice timeless icons of masculine strength. Eddie Redmayne was eerie as a failed mortician who finds connection with Jessica’s character.

The film was memorable for its immediate impact, its beautiful essence. Two colors, plus the muted hues of night-time and the neon of the city in the dark, dominated the film: red and white. Consequently, the title remains a mystery to me! Red seemed to symbolize life and the life essences of love and desire, while white seemed to symbolize the powerful energy of death and sterility. Striking images swam off the screen in profusion, lush and well-realized.

I especially liked the wordless scene where Kudrow, dressed entirely in red, sits at a bus stop across the street from Redmayne, also waiting for a bus. He sees her just as a bus comes her way. The moment hangs fire as the bus slowly comes to a full stop, pauses and moves away. When it leaves, it reveals Kudrow still there, waiting to be embraced.

The opening scene seemed to me to be the guiding image of the film in that each of the desperately unhappy characters seemed to be carrying their crosses as they moved through lives which had many of the qualities of nightmare.

I recommend this film for those who enjoy art films. It may not be a good contemporary movie, but it is a work of art of some originality and aesthetic value. It offers a truth about our society and culture that is worth sharing.

During the break, Mick got ready for next week’s mowing, doing maintenance on his machines, and watched Tom Watson almost become the oldest man, by eleven years, ever to win the British Open golf tournament. I caught up with my journal entries and had some chapel time.

Then I began reading Penny Kelly’s book, From the Soil to the Stomach; Understanding the Connection between the Earth and your Health. She sent me the book as a gift after reading a UPI article I wrote on valuing and eating from our gardens. I think I will write about the book for my next article.

I also worked with some e-mail, mostly conversing with Ian concerning our work together. He let me know that the 25-year compilation of Light/Lines is now for sale on lulu.com. Gary is readying it for sale in our B4 store.

We also talked more about taking shots of me as I channel Tuesday evening, specifying how the shot is to be taken. He wants a tripod, the use of available light only and a range of exposure times. He also wants me to be at the right of the frame, with darker areas off to the left. This is so he can wrap the image around the spine to the back cover. Hopefully we can do that for him.

And we talked about our sending him the manuscript of Voices of the Gods, which is a compilation by topic of the channeling recorded during the first year and a half of my learning to channel. It is the single largest source of Don Elkins’ channeling, and he was a wonderful channel, so it is quite valuable. I am so glad we will pick that up and add it to the Library. Ian will have to take a look at it to see whether he feels it is worth printing as a book. Gary has located that manuscript and will copy it off and send it to Ian next week.

I’ve had two people ask me today if I am on Facebook. Perhaps I should do that! Eli and MJA both offered to show me their art galleries there.

Our sixth summer weekend drew to a close all too soon as we entertained ourselves with a brace of James Bond films, reveling in the silliness and spectacle as we dozed, read and conversed. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-18

July 19, 2009 6:47am

This was the third and final day of my 66th birthday celebration. The weather was superb, cool and sunny, with quite unusually low humidity. Kentucky tends to be a sauna in the summertime but not today! After Morning Offering, Mick cleaned the kitchen and ran a round of errands while I settled in to edit Scott H’s twenty-something-page essay on the movie Don and I made in 1972.

The essay suffered from Too Much Information. Our one and only fan was trying to explain the film, our novel, The Crucifixion of Esmerelda Sweetwater, our personal life and the philosophy of the Law of One at the same time as he was bringing in various names of film-makers in the attempt to do a critique of the film and the era in which the film was made. I corrected many an error in fact, fixed what I could and by mid-afternoon had done my best by Scott and his essay. I sent it back to him with instructions on how to untangle the strands of the essay and rewrite it in logical order. I hope it helps him!

Rick’s latest Maine Report was all about his new pickup truck. It’s a beautiful thing to see, the adult, mechanized version of “a boy and his dog”. I congratulated him on his new arrival. I know he will put it to good, hard-working use.

Gary and I met for a discussion on the e-version of The Alphabet Mosaics. We chewed over the format together and he collected the files from my computer that he needs. At his request I asked Ian for the PDF of the book, which Gary will use in putting the e-book together. I also wrote him three short pieces designed to explain what is in the e-book in addition to the printed book. This project is stretching his knowledge and he says he’s enjoying the learning experience!

Ian and I continue to discuss the printed archive books. We have now decided together that instead of dividing the archives by year, we will divide them by equal numbers of pages. This is so that Ian does not have to create 25 or so separate book covers. If all the volumes are the same thickness, then one cover design will work for all of them. If the books’ spines were of variable widths, each volume in the set would have to have its own cover. I saw no problem with the concept since this is how encyclopedias are formatted. This means that in the future, we will publish another archive volume not when a year has passed but when we have amassed another 400 pages of channeled material. It works for me!

Working on the cover art for this volume, I sent to Ian Gary’s scans of two photos of Don, Mick and me from circa 1983—one a simple full shot of the three of us standing in our driveway on Watterson Trail and one which features Jim dressed in his baseball uniform from high school holding the American flag, Don dressed in his army jacket and me dressed in leotards and holding a heart-shaped balloon, all of us wearing Groucho nose-and-glasses. The latter photo was taken as a joke for Ronald R, who had not met us at the time and asked us for a photo so he could see what we looked like. I doubt that either of these photos will make it onto our cover art! We’ll take some photos of me channeling next Tuesday evening and see what we get there.

I thanked Mish for her birthday wishes.

Daphne and I continued our discussion on channeling. She asked me to mentor her as she tries to work with the entity calling himself Michael Jackson. I sent her to my teachings on channeling which are found in the archives of Channeling Intensive One in the Library on www.llresearch.org.

MJA and I continued to discuss using some of her images in her part of the memorial appendix to Dana’s on-line book. It is interesting to compare her ET-driven drawings to Dana’s.

I finished my working day by writing a couple of thank-you notes for birthday presents. There is something very satisfying about taking a handsome piece of stationary and writing a snail-mail thank-you. You just don’t get the same feeling when you send an e-mail!

Gary cleared away a closet full of 2008 tax files for me this afternoon. I had let them stay unfiled until I was sure that Linda D at Compton Kottke was entirely through with the tax work for 2008. It was only this week that she started on the L/L Research tax reporting. As a non-profit corporation, L/L Research does not pay taxes, but it must report its finances each year, and as Avalon Farm gets up and going under Melissa’s care, and as we publish more books and so forth, the reporting gets more complex. I am thrilled indeed to have that little chore done for this year at last!

Mick drove over to Steve F’s estate in Shelbyville and mowed his grass during the afternoon. This is the last time he mows without charging Steve for the job—he has now put in the $12,000.00 worth of work which equals the cost of the mower Steve donated to L/L Research, which Jim’s Lawn Service is renting to own. From now on, when Mick has to make that trip, at least he will be getting paid for it.

After a leisurely bath Mick and I got all dressed up and went to Limestone Restaurant, where we enjoyed my official birthday dinner, a five-course tasting menu with wines. It was scrumptious! I enjoyed Chanterelle mushrooms in puff pastry, lobster bisque, Bibb lettuce salad with goat cheese and sugared pecans, Ahi tuna in a lima-bean reduction and for dessert, crème brulee. Meanwhile Mick had snails in a delicious sauce, gazpacho, Caesar salad, steak with mashed potatoes and vegetables and bread pudding with Crème Fraiche. We traded tastes all evening and had ourselves a marvelous time!

We offered the Gaia Meditation together between the salad course and the entrée.

2009-07-17

July 18, 2009 7:22am

I awoke during the night to a gentle rain, and it continued until about 8:00 a.m., stopping most politely when Mick and Gary needed to get out and mow after Morning Offering. Mick said it was the perfect work day. The rain had laid the dust, the earth had gratefully soaked up the raindrops and the grass was easier to cut than earlier in the year, when it was so incredibly thick. It had rained just enough that they did not have to water the customers that pay for that service, and so rocked on through the day, arriving home with everything done a full hour earlier than usual!

Gary then set himself to cooking the herbed turkey cutlets, Asian spinach stir-fry and baked potatoes for our food next week and by evening the kitchen smelled wonderful!

I had toyed with the idea of taking the day off, as Mick was urging me to take a holiday for my birthday, but somehow that never happened. Firstly, I thought, “I’ll just clean up the e-mail from Ian and Gary and then lie down for a genuine nap.” That turned out to be an all-morning job, with a rich amount of good work to do.

- I wrote Ian, thanking him for a couple of photos of our newest book, the 25-year compilation of Light/Lines Newsletter. Those, I sent to Gary for possible use in publicizing the book on B4.

- I also let him know that I had looked at the inside pages on the reprints and they looked perfect.

- We continued to talk about the titling of the annual compilations of our channeling that he is now undertaking to bring to print. I think we are close to deciding that now.

- We are trying to find the right cover art for the annuals. To that end I sent an e-mail to Romi, Mick and Gary asking if we could have a special channeling session next Tuesday evening, the night Romi usually visits. I will ask Gary to take some non-flash photos of me channeling during that session and see if we can find a good shot for the cover art. I want to ask Q’uo concerning the spiritual principles involved in writing 102: The Outer Work, anyway. It is important that any photo we take be authentic and not staged.

- Aiming at the same goal—cover art for the annuals—I wrote to ask Gary to scan two photos we have of Don, Mick and me in 1983 and send those to Ian. Those also might work.

- Still working on that cover art, Ian and I got together a plan for the back cover text for each year or portion thereof. Mick can select a certain amount of text from the contents of each volume that resonates to him and draws the reader into the book. When I talked with Mick about that later, he thought he would enjoy that work, and said he would use the copy of Light/Lines: The First Twenty-Five Years to select the excerpts for each year. That’s a lovely plan!

- And lastly, I wrote a little blurb, since I am either the sole channel or the senior channel for all of the annuals’ contents, which will go on the back cover somewhere.

- Gary sent me a request for the address to which he was to send a bunch of forms for medical insurance, which I sent him.

- He asked me for a more general “thank you” note for lulu.com—they send one out from the author automatically when a book is sold—and I complied.

- Gary is working to create the e-book version of Dana Redfield’s Alphabet Mosaics. We discussed the images he is scanning and I sent him the files I had so he could take new copies from them.

- One of the contributors to the memorial section of that e-book, MJA, sent me permission to use some images which she has drawn which are quite a bit like Dana’s drawings, both of them having ET connections. So I asked Gary to scan those in as well, and asked MJA for some explanatory text to go with those images in the memorial section. It will make a good little archive, I think. By end of day MJA had written back to agree to write some copy, and to thank me for the care I am taking to be sure that Dana’s work is preserved.

Suddenly it was lunch time. Mick came home for just fifteen minutes, long enough for us to share some lunch and touch base. We delight in these stolen moments of being together during the work day when they happen, which is all too infrequently.

Then it was back to the e-mail lists for me.

- I let Connie know that I would again be in Clarksville Tuesday for a sacral-cranial appointment, if she wished to join me for lunch.

- Daniel W of the German edition of Nexus wrote with his thoughts on creating a German translation of TLOO and we discussed various ways of proceeding. I am honored that he will do this work. He promised to go slowly and do the work well.

- Daphne has been sending me her Michael Jackson channelings. I have become concerned that her contact is either MJ, but a very pushy MJ, or not MJ at all but a negatively oriented entity masquerading as MJ. I asked her please to set some boundaries and not allow this entity to deprive her of sleep for days on end so she can channel his messages. That is unacceptable in that it will burn her right out in a short time. I suggested a protocol for the sessions and also for tuning her instrument and challenging the spirit.

- I thanked Dianne S for sending me Michael Moore’s comments on Sicko, a very worthy documentary he has made about the American health care system.

- Helen C-D, my school chum from MacDuffie, wrote to say she was going to try to come to Homecoming, which sent me in alt! I so hope she makes it, and told her so. I actually have more free time during a Gathering than when I am working, as I do only Gathering stuff and we take lots of breaks. So we’ll get our best visit then.

- I thanked Otto H, who is still in India, for his birthday greetings and his beautiful photos of a Madonna-like Indian woman and a Gypsy wedding.

- I congratulated my brother Jim and his family, Kai, Fluke and Baby Wills, for arriving home safely from a holiday visiting Kai’s folks in Thailand.

- I thanked sweet Janet I, a very interesting attendee at Mackinac Island in 2007 who is a fan of sun-gazing and raw-food juicing, for her birthday greetings.

- I thanked Scott H for his birthday greetings and asked him to resend the article on the movie Don and I made in 1972 which he wants me to edit.

- I asked Eli E for a link to his art work, which he has put on Facebook and thanked him for finding another erratum in 101. I also recorded the erratum for when we reprint again. We can fix the three he has found then.

- Stella V, who is working on a workbook to accompany 101, is visiting Great Britain on holiday, and asked me for contacts of people there who love our work. I sent her four contacts—four of the folks who arranged meetings for me in 2005 when I was on a teaching tour there, Pupie H-B, Ian B, Jill S and Vuyiswa J. Then I wrote those four beloved friends to let them know Stella may get in touch with them.

- Steve Engratt wrote me some kind words about my latest UPI blog entry and shared a funny story about his attempts at front-yard gardening—he thought he was growing watermelons and it turned out he only had a small zucchini to show for all his hard work. I wrote to thank him and share the laugh.

I ended my work day by collecting a delicious-looking recipe for herbed zucchini pie with Portabella mushrooms and onions, simplifying it by substituting store-bought pie shells for the homemade crust called for in the recipe. It’s a blessing to find good vegetable recipes. Newspaper and other sources of recipes tend to focus on meats, appetizers and desserts, but we eat tons of vegetables here, and I love to find interesting ways to cook them.

Finally, as Mick called bath time, I went through my closet one more time and found the missing skirt to my new two-piece dress, which Melissa had repaired by re-inserting elastic. I got the dress at a consignment store and the elastic in the waist had been destroyed by the previous owner. The skirt got stuck to a pair of pants, and disappeared for a week, and neither Mick nor Gary had found it. I felt like Miss Marple! Aha! Now I am ready for my big birthday dinner tomorrow at Limestone, where Mick will treat me to a five-course tasting menu.

Mick had asked me for a date this morning, and after our bath together, we enjoyed a spectacular energy exchange, which Mick characterized as magical, majestic and eternal! Wow! We were stunned and very swung! After we finished vibrating we came downstairs for some birthday pizza—Mick feels that birthdays should last three days and this is a treat. The pizza was scrumptious!

We put a good program on TV to watch after the Gaia Meditation, at which I offered the closing prayer. I sang the beautiful old words,

I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses
And He walks with me
And He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known

After the Gaia Meditation we promptly fell asleep for the next two hours, only rousing ourselves to go to bed officially at 11:00. It was a spectacular Friday!

2009-07-16

July 17, 2009 5:24am

We had some rain overnight, but it was out of the area by the time we made our Morning Offering. In its wake were clear skies and low heat and humidity, making it a great day for Mick to mow and garden.

I had vastly overslept and so spent my birthday morning catching up with journal entries and chapel time, but not until after I had opened my gifts from Mick, which included a beautiful card and a dozen roses, a certificate to shop till I drop at a consignment store, four good books to read and delicious Ghirardelli candies as well as a bottle of Finlandia vodka. What a fine array of presents! Later in the day, Gary gave me a book by Thomas Merton and homemade cards. And birthday wishes came in from Connie M, my Aunt Louise, Janet I, Otto H, Dianne S and Scott H.

I finished the article on Fritz Haeg and posted it in late afternoon. His idea of turning one’s front lawn into a working garden was fun to discuss and gave me the chance to continue to talk about the spiritual value of becoming more intimately involved with the natural world.

Ian and I continued to discuss a good series title and subtitle for the channeling annuals. He suggested, also, that we order the copies of the 25-year collection of Light/Lines while it is still at pre-publishing status, as we get a far better price before it officially goes on-line, and Gary did that.

Ruby Tuesday sent me a coupon for a free hamburger, and Mick picked one up for me, so I had a special dinner tonight. Gary joined us for the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.

2009-07-15

July 16, 2009 9:39am

Rains were coming our way from the northwest, so Mick and I got up an hour early, had a shorter Morning Offering than usual and he was mowing by 7:30. That made it possible for him to come home at lunchtime and watch the rains move through with equanimity. We received half an inch of good soaking rain, which was badly needed. He finished up his schedule right on time!

I had a low-energy day, perhaps consolidating the sacral-cranial work, which was intense. A couple of angel naps distinguished my working day and I was correspondingly unproductive. However I did continue to work with Ian on publishing projects. I was thrilled to hear that Ian approved the generous volume, Light/Lines: The First Twenty-Five Years. He sent me a couple of additional photos for us to use in publicity for the book. It will go on sale as soon as he sends the final OK. He saw a couple of glitches he wanted to fix before announcing its publication.

He also sent me a revised version of my Introduction for the channeling session annuals, which I shall look over tomorrow. We talked more about the cover art for that series, and the series title. We have not settled on anything as yet. However there is time for that to develop, since Don Elkin’s little booklet is on his work table right now.

Gary wrote a note about scheduling an interview with Ben Lucyk, and I responded by sending him the dates in September that were already booked. Since there are a good half-dozen of those for that month, plus Homecoming, I suggested he book Ben in October.

I also sent the info to Helen, my beloved MacDuffie friend, who is attempting to clear her schedule sometime soon and come to visit. I hope she takes me up on my suggestion to attend Homecoming, since I will have far more chance to be with her during the Gathering than after it ends and I go back to work.

Making a good start on writing the article about Fritz Haeg, I surfed the net to find the conversation between God and St. Francis of Assisi about grass and lawn care which is anonymously but very wittily written, and used part of that. This article will continue in my theme of Living the Law of One in the context of the natural world. It is easy to get caught up in the abstruse metaphysics of “All is One” and forget that we are part of a physical world as well as a metaphysical one, and that it, too, is sacred and offers many ways to express love, honor, respect and devotion.

Melissa used the early morning to complete her carpentry in the upstairs guest room closet and to finalize her newly built shelves for the floor of the pantry. Both projects really add to the functional adequacy and good looks of our sweet home, Camelot. She will come back next week, she says, to paint the bare wood in the closet and then do a complete inventory of Camelot’s linens. We talked about storing them, and I suggested we store the linens which are used on each bed in the room in which they belong.

Gary called in, asking for Mick and me to send him the recipes for next week by e-mail, so he can pick up the groceries on his way over here from his girlfriend’s home tomorrow. We chose a newly collected recipe for marinated turkey breast slices and orientally flavored spinach to go with our old favorite here, baked potatoes.

We were both very weary tonight, and our evening was punctuated by naps before and after supper. Sleep can be a luxurious and even delicious thing! Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-14

July 15, 2009 9:05am

It was again pretty outside, sultry, summery and dry. After Morning Offering Mick set out on a day of mowing and gardening, having to water some of his customers for the first time this summer. He had a good day out there and came home at bath time well satisfied.

I had a morning appointment with sacral-cranial therapist Liz Johnson across the Ohio River in Clarksville. Melissa came with me and whiled away the hour—which turned out to be two hours, due to Liz’s generosity—shopping the consignment store next to 21st-Century Medicine, where Liz practices. Melissa found me some great books to read, a nifty Hawaiian shirt and a tank top in lavender, plus a pretty, comfortable summer dress. All of this bounty came in under ten dollars! She also found herself two pairs of sturdy workpants for similarly good prices.

When we returned to Camelot, I headed for the office to write a UPI article on Fritz Haeg but found a request from Ian waiting for me and so turned to that instead. He is ready for an Introduction to be penned for the many annual and semi-annual volumes of our channeling he intends to make available in printed form. Imagine having a complete set of our public channeling sessions through the decades! Ian feels that a certain number of people will want to have these volumes. He says they will number between 20 and 30 volumes for the set to date. And he plans to create further annuals each year.

I wrote an Introduction that I believe can work for all of the volumes. People will only read it the first time they buy an annual, probably, but we need to have it in each volume in case a particular volume is the only one a reader purchases. We will see if my effort hit the mark for Ian.

He asked also about back cover treatment for the annuals. I suggested that we do a channeling session soon and have Gary or Melissa take photos during the session. Digital cameras do not make a fuss, so I will not be disturbed by that process. And we want such a photo to be authentic. We can use a question which Gary has fielded from our L/L Research e-mail for the subject of the channeling, or use our own.

Ian also kindly sent us two possible images of the book cover of Light/Lines—The First Twenty-Five Years for use on B4’s store. He asked for the specifications on B4 for that cover and offered to create a third image according to those specs if the two images already sent do not work for webmaster Steve E. Once Ian gets a copy of that worthy book and approves it, we are ready to offer it for sale! What a treasure trove of good material it is!

Daphne K sent me another channeling she did of Michael Jackson and says that she feels that he wants to channel a book through her. Having already urged her to tune prior to channeling, I simply wished her well. Who knows—she may come up with a volume which contains a lot of good positive values and love. She is a highly psychic woman and certainly capable.

Hopefully, I can at least start my UPI article tomorrow!

Meanwhile Melissa used her afternoon time to re-create the upstairs guest room closet. She turned around the clothes rod so it goes front-to-back, taking up less room in the space, since guests do not come with a large wardrobe to hang. Then she installed more shelving, since we want to use that closet to store some of her good things, plus extra pillows and blankets for that room and for the mattress-on-the-floor in my office which Melissa uses during Gatherings.

Gary spent a fairly long day at the L/L Research Inbox, working on the ever-increasing mail that comes in to us these days. He says we are now completely out of 101 and A Wanderer’s Handbook, so we are waiting eagerly for blitzprint to send us the second printings of those volumes.

Mick called bath time as I sent the Introduction of the 25-year collection of Light/Lines to Ian, and I joined him for a soothing bath and then another date! Mick’s libido is soaring and I caught fire from him! What a good time we had!

Romi came to visit and Mick and I came downstairs to share supper and conversation with Romi, Gary and Melissa. Mick offered the prayer at the close of the Gaia Meditation. Then Romi, Gary and I met to discuss the creation of the e-version of The Alphabet Mosaics.

As I suspected, Romi has no time to create this e-book. He agreed to write up the technique he would use in creating it, if he had the time. Gary will try to follow his directions. If he cannot do so, we will put the project up on our volunteer chores list, and hope that a kind volunteer, who has Adobe and can create a good PDF, will offer to help us out and make this fascinating material available for free on the net world-wide.

It feels wonderful to be coming close to the end of my part in getting Dana’s beautiful book Out There! I greatly look forward to starting work on planning the outline for Living the Law of One—102: The Outer Work.

While we met, Melissa created some short portable shelving to use in our pantry which will lift items we are currently storing on the floor up off of it, so the floor can be cleaned in there. She made the shelves and then covered them with the same shelf paper used in the rest of the pantry. It looks charming.

2009-07-13

July 14, 2009 5:59am

It was gently sultry today as Mick headed out for work after Morning Offering. The dry weather made it possible for him to breeze through his seven lawns, mowing and manicuring them, before he cut down a sizeable honeysuckle “bush” the size of a tree for a customer and began replacing it with a brace of fir trees. He still has one replacement tree to put into the ground.

My goal today was to wrap up the preparations for Dana Redfield’s Alphabet Mosaics e-book. I sent the edited copy for the three memorial articles on Dana besides mine to their authors, asking for final approval. Then I took the sizeable stack of papers which Dana left L/L Research when she died and went through every single page, combing through them for images which she did not include in the printed version of TAM, sorting them by date and labeling them for Romi. I found 20 images in all, including the colored versions of three images in the printed book in black and white. It will be so good to include them in the e-book, giving interested seekers the benefit of all of her channeled art work.

With this work done, and the worksheet for Romi completed and sent to him so he can look it over before our meeting, planned for after the Gaia Meditation tomorrow night, I rejoiced and turned to the Inbox, which had gotten fairly glutted, and cleared it away. I wrote letters to:

- Ian, thanking him for responding to Rock, who wrote in from Taiwan to thank us for our work

- Lana, who is writing a book, talking with her about the value of doing more research than you can reasonably use before you write about a subject—I find that often I have a quote selection with more pages than the article which I produce after doing that research. I think I collect quotes until I find one key quote which shows me how to approach the subject, how the story will go. Everything suddenly resonates, and I know I am ready to write.

- Daphne, who has begun channeling Michael Jackson. I talked about the value of tuning before opening to channel.

- Mish, thanking her for the information about how she is offering her French translations of our material with a Print-on-Demand printer.

- Connie, letting her know I have another appointment at 21st-Century Medicine in Clarksville tomorrow—this one for sacral-cranial massage—and asking her if she’d like to have lunch with me.

- Helen, who wants to visit here from Vermont. My old school friend has booked herself full for this month with yoga teaching and cannot visit in July as planned. I suggested a couple of options—coming for Homecoming in late August or visiting in September.

- Eli, thanking him for OK-ing his copy for Dana’s book and also for a couple of utterly delightful photos of his late wife, one palling with a guinea hen and the other sleeping with her hand in that of a pet possum baby, also asleep on the other pillow.

- Dr. Lang, the nutritionist, letting her know that I got her supplements and will call her office for a telephone appointment.

- Gary, who wrote asking for all attendees’ topics for Homecoming, letting him know I will report on1 01 in my time-slot and on The Alphabet Mosaics in Mick’s time-slot

- Talitha, thanking her for asking people to pray for Iran in their time of deep trouble, and assuring her that we were doing so. I sent her Pupie’s note to us, which was along the same lines, letting her see that her interest was deeply shared.

- Terry, thanking him for his continuing translations of our material. Having finished with TLOO, he is now translating collections of Q’uo channelings.

- Stella, thanking her for her willingness to work on a companion workbook for 101 and wishing her happy journey in Great Britain. I also responded to her questions: would I welcome a Dutch translation of TLOO (yes); would I be willing to be interviewed for Ode Magazine (yes) and would I be interested in coming to the Lowlands to speak (oh my, yes!).

- Lee, thanking him for sending me ‘60s UFO humor and letting him—a lover of and property owner in Hawaii—know about my speaking engagement on Kona next January. He immediately rsponded that he would try to come!

- My brother, Jim, who went with wife Kai and my nephews, Fluke and Wills, to visit Kai’s family in Thailand, wishing him welcome-home as he returns to Denver.

- Mary Alice, whose images I found in Dana’s papers, asking her if she had digital versions of them which I could append to her memorial article about Dana. It is interesting how much her “style” of drawing resembles Dana’s. They both channel ET sources.

- Gary, making a date tomorrow for him to file away Dana’s many files of material in our archives. It is so good to be almost finished with this labor of love for Dana! I am SO ready to get on to planning 102!

- Ian, asking him to send me a book-cover image of the 25-year collection of Light/Lines so we can put it up for sale on B4’s store.

I had just enough time to collect a lovely recipe for appetizer sandwiches, which features a wonderful sauce for ham and cheese on dolly buns containing butter, mustard, onions, poppy seeds and Worcestershire sauce, before Mick called bath time.

We enjoyed a bath together and then a sensual, slow-paced date, sharing energy for a sumptuously long time before snoozing in the afterglow. Then we came downstairs for a late supper and shared The Colbert Report and conversation with Gary, who offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-12

July 13, 2009 5:45am

Sweet Sunday! Mick and I thoroughly enjoyed our fifth summer Sunday! After early morning puzzles and newspaper-reading, I sang at St. Luke’s for the service while Mick cleaned the house. We had a substitute organist today, a most pleasant young man, Austin, who plays beautifully. This was his first Episcopal service and he asked me to spot him on when he should play, so I spent the time nodding, “Yes, now!” at the appropriate intervals. We sang Maurice Greene’s “All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord” at the offertory and “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” at the communion.

Disturbingly, for the second Sunday in a row I was vastly uncomfortable during the service, finding no comfortable position for my back, shoulders or arms. If this level of discomfort is sustained over the next month or so, I may forego going to church, although I would dislike doing that intensely.

After lunch and a nap together, Mick and I watched The Code, a murky tale of two thieves and a big score. There were several types of law enforcement personnel trying to catch them, and one of them turned out to be one of the thieves. I never quite plumbed the extended cast of supporting characters and how they all fit together, hence the term “murky”. However, Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas, who played the thieves, were both superb in their characterizations. Radha Mitchell supported them well, as did Robert Forster, whose intense screen presence was matched by his likeability in his role as a street cop at odds with the schemes of the higher-ups.

During the break I caught up on some personal e-mail and took on the conversion of Mish’s flan recipe into American measurements. It was fascinating! I found conversion tables for centiliters to ounces and ounces to cups, grams to pounds and pounds to cups and centigrade to Fahrenheit. Without the internet, I would have been thumbing through my cookbook collection all afternoon!

Mick spent his break watering our lawn for the first time this year and sharpening blades for his mowers. He also visited a couple of customers who want him to do special chores, getting a better idea of what they want and how they want it done.

In the evening we re-watched a fine old classic film, The African Queen, starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. James Agee wrote the stylish, witty screenplay and the stars shone brightly. The sound track boasts a score which sounds dated to present-day ears, but except for that, it is a flawless film, moving and entertaining.

Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-11

July 12, 2009 6:50am

It was a hot and muggy Saturday, but our fifth summer Saturday was still a treat, relaxed and enjoyable. After Morning Offering Mick cleaned the kitchen, enjoying Melissa’s newly cleaned pantry as he worked around it. Then errands, lunch and a good nap ensued.

In the afternoon he gardened in our own yard, and by bath time Camelot was sleek and sparkling. Gary had mowed and trimmed the yard earlier, so we are looking good! Our Sweet William stand in the Secret Garden area is outstanding right now. Mick planted it a quarter-century ago now from a gift of cuttings from a friend, and it has naturalized beautifully, as have the ferns which are its companions there. The ferns were gifts from me to Mick, and they, too, have prospered through the years, filling their space totally now.

I had chapel time and wrote journal entries, then turned to the e-mail. Ian reports that he added first names to the authors on the title page of the Light/Lines: The First 25 Years collection and has sent it off to lulu.com to be added to their available titles. He will not release the book, however, until he has seen a proof of it and OK’d that. It’s exciting to see this work made available.

Ian also discovered a glitch on B4 when he was arranging the archive of our latest Channeling Intensive, CI-5. He tried linking to my journal entries for the dates of the Gathering, May 28th through 31st, but they did not seem to be available—in fact, from May 8th through the end of that month, it appeared that I’d made no entries, when in fact I had blogged every day. Gary investigated and has notified Steve E, B4’s webmaster, of the glitch.

After lunch I read through the unified version of my six articles on Dana Redfield which I am readying for the e-version of The Alphabet Mosaics. When I got the formatting unified and the language smoothed out—altering first and last paragraphs because a unified series does not need the introductions and out-tros I put in the separated articles—I sent a copy to Eli E, who wants to put out a special edition of Both Sides Now containing them. I think I did some of my best work in these articles, out of love and admiration for Dana, and am glad to see them collected for the e-book, where people who are attracted by the Mosaics can read a bit more about this wonderful and very accomplished lady.

The remainder of the afternoon was spent editing the other three pieces that will go in the e-book’s commemorative section, along with my articles. On Monday, I will send those edited pieces to their authors for their approvals and turn to figuring out what images that did not make it into the pages of the printed book need to be included in the “Other Images” section of the e-book. I’d like to preserve and make available all of Dana’s images I can find for those who find them as transformative as I do.

Mick and I spent our evening re-watching a film about Wyatt Earp starring Kurt Russell as Earp and Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. It was excellent, with a fine script and dandy production values plus great performances by the ensemble, and we enjoyed the stylish saga. I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-10

July 11, 2009 6:28am

After Morning Offering Mick went out into the heavily muggy day with Gary. They finished all the mowing in record time and Gary turned to cooking while Mick went out again to do chores for two customers. He was through by 5:00, a first since he took on more jobs earlier this spring. He is hoping for a good rain this weekend to keep the grass growing. It is getting quite dry here.

I lost some time this morning to an angel nap, and spent the rest of it having chapel time and writing journal entries. At lunchtime I treated my rebellious tummy to burgers at the White Castle with Melissa, and then we stopped by the grocery to garner supplies for her baking. She made brownies and muffins for the Trimble County Search and Rescue teams which are having a practice tomorrow and Sunday on Avalon. She also created a fresh peach cobbler for the Camelot crew, which was much appreciated tonight!

In the afternoon, I retrieved the six articles on Dana Redfield I had done for UPI last year and unified them, usually rewriting the first and last paragraphs of each column, since they will all appear together. I finished that at bath time. Tomorrow, I will read it through and make sure it is good to go for the e-version of The Alphabet Mosaics. My goal is to have all the items that go into that e-book ready for Romi next Tuesday evening.

Mick and I bathed together and then had a date, dancing and playing together in the fields of the Lord. After an afterglow snuggle, we came down for dinner. Gary had produced some good chicken and other fixings, and we dined well and laughed often as we conversed with Melissa. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

When Mick and I went up to bed, Melissa had just embarked on a late-night project—she wanted to stay up quite late tonight, as the Search and Rescue people will run night practice tomorrow night, and she wants to be ready to stay awake. She is cleaning our pantry! That’s usually a honey-do chore for Mick in the off-season, but he had NO off-season last winter, what with Hurricane Ike and then the ice storm to provide him with storm-debris clean-up every day all winter with few exceptions. In fact, he had to work hard to get his customers’ lawns ready to mow, come April. It was down to the wire!

She says she will wash down every surface, on and under every shelf, the walls and the floor! That will sit overnight. Then she will scatter crushed bay leaves everywhere, place the Bugs-B-Gone traps where they will patrol for any incursions from upstart bugs, and replace our pantry items, culling out those things whose shelf life has expired or which are otherwise no longer useful.

It is a great feeling to have this done! I found some buggy flour a few weeks ago and then saw an ant or two and to cap things off, Melissa opened some oatmeal and found a whole new strain of critter and had to recycle the whole container. So it’s time for this! Kudos to hard-working Melissa for doing it!

2009-07-09

July 10, 2009 9:20am

After Morning Offering, Mick sailed off into the heat and humidity of the Kentucky summer to mow his day’s lot of lawns and to freshen a yard for a party. He had a good day and came home happy.

After I finished my chapel time and wrote my journal entries for the day, I turned to Mimi E’s letter, a cry for help from a correspondent from the nineties, a wanderer who had not written to me for a decade. She had intuited I might be able to help her. She had the Wanderer’s Blues and was desperate. I spent several hours composing a letter to her.

Some would say I used my time badly today, since writing the letter took me away from projects that will hopefully serve as resources for many, just so I could help one person. But I thought of the parable of the ninety and nine sheep safe in their cote and the one lost sheep after which the shepherd went, and followed my heart. I just hope my letter helps her.

I also wrote to Daniel W, editor of Nexus Magazine in Germany, who has offered to translate The Law of One into German. He has tried, as have so many around the globe, to create a translation deal with Schiffer Publishing - his is for the German rights to publish. As usual, Schiffer demanded egregious terms, far too much advance money plus Daniel being liable for all taxes involved, a stipulation which Daniel has never seen in any contract before, and he’s in the publishing business. This is par for the course for Schiffer, a company which has an unblemished record of being the least amount of help possible to us for thirty years now.

I explained what other translators have done in the face of this attitude of “no”, and told him that we would be glad to help him if he runs into any questions during his translation process. Terry H and Mish D, translators of TLOO into Chinese and French, have put their translations up on our archive site, where they are freely available to all. And Mish and I are contemplating printing the French version of 101: The Choice at lulu.com, where the books are printed as they are ordered, so there is no cost to the publisher up front at all. I hope he will choose one of these options.

Then I worked for the remainder of the afternoon on bringing together a group of quotations for my next UPI article, which will continue my series on spiritually oriented farming by looking at Fritz Haeg and his front-yard-garden idea. He really has hold of something important in this simple proposal to transform the visually arid and entirely useless lawn into what he calls “Edible Estates”.

My ear continues to improve with the antibiotic at work. Although the left side of my head, neck and even the shoulder continue to be very sore, at least the aches have separated into parts instead of a massive wall of pain, and the leakage from the ear has slowed. Harsh chemical medicines do have their place, at least in my life, and I am thankful for them!

Mishlin sent me a recipe for flan, which is intriguing not only because I adore flan—I had it for the first time when I was in Mexico in 1978, investigating Pachita, the psychic “surgeon of the rusty knife” and it is a delicious custard with an exquisite texture—but also because the measurements are European, being metric, and I shall need to find a conversion table for them. Also, the recipe calls for vanilla sticks, a delicacy we don’t see in American recipes. So I’ll enjoy the process of learning these new things. And hopefully I can twist Melissa’s arm sometime and have her help me make some flan. Yum!

Mick and I enjoyed a quiet evening, watching a good biography of Miles Davis on Ovation, a channel that so often has very interesting pieces. Gary joined us for dinner and the Gaia Meditation, at which I offered the closing prayer. For it I chose the old hymn,

“I sing a song of the saints of God, patient and brave and true,
Who toiled and fought and lived and died for the Lord they loved and knew.
And one was a doctor, and one was a queen, and one was a shepherdess on the green.
They were all of them saints of God, and I mean, God helping, to be one too.”

2009-07-08

July 9, 2009 9:36am

Summer came roaring back today, with showers overnight and heavy humidity to match the ninety-degree heat. After Morning Offering Mick armed himself with lots of liquid, tee shirts and caps and he and his mowers had a very successful day. He found time, somehow, at day’s end to accomplish several chores for his customers as well, rooting out marauding wild honeysuckle vines and taking down hanging limbs. The continuing rash of newly hanging limbs seems to be a legacy of last winter’s ice storm, which weakened many limbs enough to make them vulnerable to eventual breakage.

I had a somewhat uncomfortable day, with the earache getting slowly worse and Interstitial Cystitis symptoms spiking. I took it easy, worked slowly and tuned continuously through the day, knowing that the only way a day can be less than optimal is for me to allow my good humor to be frittered away by self-pity. I kept my good cheer but wore myself out! By evening I was more than glad to lay it all down and rest.

After I had my chapel time and wrote my journal entries, I focused on a note from Ian responding to my comments on creating annuals of our group’s channeling. I had told him that I knew that the sessions before 2001, when I had begun editing the channeling sessions as they were transcribed, were all more or less full of errata and punctuation errors. I felt that I should edit them before Ian produced the annuals.

Ian replied that this was entirely unrealistic to consider, in terms of the work for me as well as the work for him that this entailed. He flatly refused. And ah! What relief I felt! I realized that I had been “should-ing” all over myself. With well over a thousand transcripts to edit, I would have been working at that chore forever, or at least for several years. As he pointed out quite accurately, the only way to create an error-free transcript is to re-listen to the original tape, checking for accuracy, and then have me edit it. And that is certainly not going to happen.

He pointed out that it took himTobey W a long time indeed to re-listen to the 106 Ra sessions over the last few years. And even now, Tobey is not satisfied, and wants to re-re-listen to the first few tapes, of which Gary has now produced a more audible version using new equipment.

Never was I happier to agree to let my drive for excellence take a holiday! So Ian will, in due time, produce printed versions of our public channeling sessions in annuals—and sometimes semi-annuals, for the earlier years when I was channeling more frequently—so that if someone wants a low-tech, always handy reference shelf of L/L Research’s channeling, that can be done! And hopefully the availability of these annual volumes will create an income stream, which will help us to pay our bills.

I look forward to working with him to get these produced. He promises to insert caveats in each volume stating what I just said above about these sessions not being perfectly transcribed and containing errors.

He also told me the good news that except for the very final touches—Ian did not like either Mick’s or my attempt to write a credit for the cover photo and will have a go himself at creating it—the very handsome collection, Light/Lines: the First Twenty-Five Years, is ready for the printer!

By bath time, I had finished my editing of Lana L-B’s True to America, Chapter 9, and sent it back to her. Except for a couple of thoughtful e-mails to which I will need to respond—they came into the L/L Research Inbox today and need attention from me—this clears the way for weekend work on the e-version of The Alphabet Mosaics. I am eager to get that done so I can get on to working on 102: The Outer Work.

I was greatly blessed this afternoon by the kindness of Dr. Aboud, my GP. Hearing of my ear symptoms, she called in a prescription for antibiotics to the pharmacy! I was on the point of leaving for my manicure/pedicure when the call came in, and had just told Gary I was going to have to visit the Immediate Care Center and get this situation handled. What a relief not to have to make that trip! Hopefully the course of antibiotics will do the trick.

Mick and I cuddled after our bath, counting our blessings and sharing the joy of our companionship, and then we came downstairs for a pleasant supper and conversation with Gary before he took off for his girlfriend’s for the evening. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-07

July 8, 2009 5:50am

After Morning Offering Mick set out on a full day of mowing and gardening. He reports that because St. Luke’s left the “big top” up in the “horse ring” area of its campus for two full weeks, for a wedding and then the “Pignic”, the grass within its boundaries was pretty much fried and will have to regenerate. He mows that area on Wednesdays and said he’d see what he could do to give it a good drink! He enjoyed getting everything done today and especially got a kick out of starting his truck, now repaired.

As is usual for me these days, I wrote my journal entries after Morning Offering and had chapel time for prayer and the dedication of my day to the Lord, which felt great. Then I turned my hand to editing the remaining two Channeling Circle sessions in my transcription folder, CC-18 and CC-19. Those are now at the archive site to be posted.

I started on editing Lana L-B’s Chapter 9 of True to America but only got a bit of the way through those pages before Mick called bath time. I’ll finish her up tomorrow. She tells me the book will have twelve chapters, so my “second pair of eyes” job for my buddy, out west in cow country, is three-quarters done.

Ian wrote to ask for a note explaining the cover art for the 25-year collection of Light/Lines Newsletters from Mick and he obligingly wrote it out for me during supper. I sent that on to Ian when we came up to bed. All that is left on that project before it is printer-ready is the final colorization—or not—of the cover. Ian will send me some choices tomorrow, he thinks.

My left ear continues to ache and to release liquid, and I will have to seek medical advice if it keeps up overnight.

Romi visited this evening as usual and we enjoyed his company for supper, The Colbert Report, an episode of House and conversation. I told him that this next few days I will be focused on gathering the materials for the e-version of Dana Redfield’s The Alphabet Mosaics, which I am putting together in order to include material from her which she did not include in TAM, as well as material from me—I wrote a series of articles on her work after her death last year. He agreed to powwow with me on the project next Tuesday, when I should have all the materials that are to be included ready to show him.

Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation.

2009-07-06

July 7, 2009 9:32am

The day was lovely, sunny and cool, with low humidity. We are setting records for the lowest temperatures on record! It made for a great working day for Mick! Before Morning Offering, I caravanned with him to Wildt Brothers. They repaired his truck, which had starter trouble. Meanwhile, he used Stanley Outback, which is rated as a truck for all its good looks, for working today. Gary took him over to Lyndon to pick up his truck, all fixed, at the end of the working day.

I used the forepart of my morning to have chapel time and write my journal entries. Then I read my way through the initial inside pages of the 25-year collection of Light/Lines Newsletters which Ian is preparing for the printer. I found one mistake—not bad!

After lunch I turned my hand to writing the blurb for the newsletter collection which lulu.com likes to have on its site for all their printed books, and went through the early years of channeling in the book to pick up all the names of contacts for the “key word” section. I believe lulu.com feeds those key words to the search engines to help prospective readers find our book.

I spent the remainder of the working day editing Channeling Circle 17, the first session of Channeling Intensive Five, and sending that to the archive site. I started on Channeling Circle 18, but got caught about a third of the way through by bath time.

Ian came up with a dandy cover for the newsletter collection! I just love it! He used the photo from Book One of TLOO of Mick typing at his desk on Watterson Trail, with Chocolate Bar on his desk watching. She was the tiny Himalayan kitten he brought back from the Windsong School of Awareness out west, where he volunteered for Cosmic Awareness’ group for two months before joining L/L Research in December of 1980. The school children had given him the cat as a good-bye present. Ian spread the photo across the front and back covers, inserted Mick’s little blurb, which reads very well, I think, in a dark spot on the back cover and placed the titles and our logo in likely spots. It’s just swell!

With all the preparatory work done on my end for that volume, it only remains for Ian to satisfy himself with the cover. I believe he is now experimenting with colorizing the photo and also with using duotones. When that is done and I sign off, we will have a real treasure trove of good metaphysical material to offer people who would like a printed version of our channeling through the years.

And Ian will use the format of the collection when he begins on a series of printed annual collections of archive channeling. He feels that a significant number of people will be eager to have printed collections of our channeling for each year. I think that’s wonderful, but only for the years since 2000, which is about when I began editing the transcripts before sending them to Ian to archive. The earlier transcripts need my editing before we publish them in a printed version.

One blessing about my work—I never run out of good things to do! These channeling transcripts, as well as my interviews and speeches, are produced in real time with no rewrite, making the material pile up quickly. But it all needs editing to make it good to go on site, so editing is a big part of what I do at the computer. In its way it is creative, as I help the sentences and paragraphs flow smoothly. I need to start turning from editing my recipes database to editing older channeling sessions when I am resting from composing and writing.

This was a somewhat challenging day for me, as I awakened with an earache in my left ear, which is oozing fluid. Perhaps the tubes which the surgeon inserting over a year ago are finally working and my left ear is expressing the water which was being held in the mastoid bone. And to continue the theme of ear-ache, bright and early, huge machinery rumbled in noisy importance on to our small lane and all day long they did tree work, running cherry pickers, saws and chipper-shredders right outside my office windows. Oh joy!

After Mick and I bathed, we came upstairs for a sweet date, and snoozed just a bit in the afterglow before coming downstairs to join Gary for a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Gary offered a wonderful closing prayer.

2009-07-05

July 6, 2009 8:59am

It was a most restful Sabbath for Mick and me. I went to church as a congregation member rather than as a chorister, for there was no choir this morning as the service was held outside, under the “big top” canopy under which the “pignic” took place this evening.

It was a good service, Father Joe reminding us all that when we look into someone’s eyes, we are seeing the Creator. The flaw in the ointment, as Don used to say, was a back spasm that would not let go. I could never find a good position in the little chair, and felt blessed to get back home to my comfortable Mama Chair!

Mick had made use of the morning in his traditional way and I came home to a clean house. We had lunch together and Mick napped while, oddly enough, I was wakeful and occupied myself doing puzzles and reading.

We watched Crossing Over, starring Harrison Ford as a federal border guard, in the afternoon. The film was a mélange of stories about various people trying to get green cards or to become American citizens. Some of the stories were more in focus than others. Ford was excellent throughout, playing a man who tries to be compassionate and engaged with his clients as he sees them through their confinement or deportation. Ray Liotta was good as a sleazy document approver who demands sexual favors for green card and Alice Eve was equally excellent as his victim.

The real star of this film, to my mind, was the cinematographer, James Whitaker, who created a complex vista of images of two kinds—the squareness of American buildings as seen from above, from the exterior or from the interior contrasted repeatedly with the curves of our roadways, seen from above. I felt he was expressing the vast difference in cultures between the aridness of “square” American culture and the arching hopes of the people who come here looking for a better life.

While the film never left the precincts of soap-opera melodrama, it was a visually rewarding film with excellent ensemble work throughout by the actors, and Ford can still carry a movie on his broad shoulders. It is eerie how much he reminds me of Don as he ages.

During our break, I went through our photo albums from the eighties, looking for a good image or two for the back of the 25-year collection of Light/Lines Newsletters, finding three possible shots. I let Ian know about them and offered to get Gary to scan any that he wants. I also asked Mick to write a blurb for the back cover of the book, which he did, and I sent that to Ian also.

And Ian and I continued to correspond about production details. We settled on a price of $33.00 for the big book—8 ½ x 11”, 502 pages—which reflects the cost of printing. It will be a wonderful treasure trove for those who enjoy our group’s channeling, since it represents the sessions which Mick has selected over the past quarter-century as our best to put in our quarterly newsletters.

Mick and I lazed away our fourth precious summer Sunday evening by re-watching The Bourne Supremacy, enjoying the fast and skillful pacing of that slick franchise film. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-04

July 5, 2009 6:44am

The weather cooperated nicely with Jim’s Lawn Service—but not with the plans of the millions of picnickers in our area - in giving us a rainy Independence Day. A small, soaking rain fell for most of the day, blessing the dry earth, and doing so on a non-mowing Saturday! Thank you Lord!

I had my chapel time after Morning Offering, and then wrote my journal entries, while Mick did his Saturday chores, cleaning the kitchen and running a round of errands. Many of the errands misfired because of the shop owners taking off for July fourth. He came back with a fast food lunch for us and then instead of his usual nap, he went right into driving over to Steve F’s and mowing. The rains were on their way and he wanted to get Steve’s place mowed, no matter what. In the event he was a wet lawn man, catching the drizzle most of the time he mowed.

In the afternoon I focused on requests from Ian to work on the project of getting the 25-year collection of Light/Lines Newsletters ready to print. I reread and edited the Introduction I already wrote for the volume, bringing it up to date. And I made many suggestions for cover art and so forth. It will take further discussion to settle issues such as price, back cover copy and cover images. It is a blessing that Ian and I have such a good level of communication and can move through these discussions with enjoyment and ease.

Eli sent me an excellent article on global warming and I passed it on to several people and herewith to you: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/opinion/29krugman.html?_r=2&adxnnlx=1246550475-Z/VGi%20saYInd7Fhz8W%20oHQ&pagewanted=print. The news is not good, but at least this columnist has a deft way of summing it up.

I spent some time baking the delicious artichoke-spinach dip which Melissa had made for us to take to our neighbor’s party this evening and cutting the French bread which goes with it. I arranged it all nicely on our big wooden platter and gave it to Brooks when he came to pick it up—Calvin wanted it earlier than we were intending to arrive. When Brooks came to the door, he said, “I’m here to pick up whatever I am supposed to pick up!” Calvin has trained him beautifully! He does the Honey-Do boogie really well!

Our little Anchorage Parade went by while Mick and I were bathing. Tootle-toot! We started trying a new home remedy for arthritis today—putting apple cider vinegar in the bath water. It is certainly worth a try! Then we went across the street, Mick wheeling me in my wheelchair with me holding an umbrella, as it continued to rain into the evening. Mick looked so handsome in his Hawaiian Nebraska Huskers shirt! I wore a deep-red peasant blouse with black trim which went perfectly with my nail enamel and sandals, and a festive black, Mexican-style tiered skirt.

Almost all our nearest neighbors were there and we passed a very pleasant two hours or so with them, eating the pot-luck food and conversing. We were missing only the Edwards, who were having their own party, so our little lane, which boasts only four houses altogether, was alive with festival energy! Fireworks punctuated the conversation as the Edwards and others, farther off, celebrated with the illegal but pervasive illuminations which are a tradition of the day, especially in the south!

Gary went with Valerie to celebrate the fourth elsewhere. So we had our Gaia Meditation without him. I offered the closing prayer tonight.

2009-07-03

July 4, 2009 10:23am

The day dawned cool and fair, a most pleasant world in which to potter about, as I did this morning, driving across the river to see Dr. Johnson, an osteopath who is trained in several alternative therapies and is psychic besides. He confirmed what Leigh Ann Loggins said about my being satisfied with the function I do have rather than trying for some drastic improvement curve. He recommended homeopathic aconite-belladonna for the nerve pain in my back and a once-every-two-months sacral-cranial treatment. And he changed my hormone replacement compound according to the results of the six-hormone test I took. It was a good visit.

After Morning Offering, I had my chapel time and wrote my journal entries before clearing away the e-mail. Ian and I are conversing about the e-version of Dana’s The Alphabet Mosaics. My neighbor asked permission to park his car in our drive during their party tonight. And I responded to Nancy’s sweet thank-you note after our visit yesterday. Then it was time to go!

I met Connie M, who lives and works close to Dr. Johnson’s office, for lunch at the Ruby Tuesday’s in Clarksville, Indiana and we had a wonderful time updating each other on our doings. We lingered over lunch until it was time for my appointment with Dr. Johnson at 2:00.

When I returned, which took a while because of congested traffic on the bridge, I spent the rest of the work day thinking about what I wanted to say in my presentations—the ninety-minute speech and the three-hour workshop—next January at the Earth Transformation Conference in Kona, Hawaii. I looked back at my correspondence with Angelika, the producer of the conference along with her husband, and found her original request, then formed my outline of the speech following her preferences.

She had not asked for any particular subject for the workshop, so I chose to have a Wanderer Workshop. I got the presentation descriptions written to my satisfaction just as Mick called bath time. I gave myself a boost on future work by outlining both presentations in some detail in the notes I made for myself. When I return to the preparation of them, I can dig right in. I will include both speech and song in both presentations. I look forward to creating them.

After Mick and I bathed, we came up for a very sweet and yet explosive date, creating so much good energy so quickly that it took me by surprise. Maybe the fireworks were in honor of Independence Day! In our older years we are developing ever more facility in tuning in to each other and connecting with the Creator’s infinite power almost effortlessly. I always wondered what lovemaking was like when you got older. Now I know! Whee!

We whiled away the evening watching a block of Burn Notice episodes and conversing. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-07-02

July 3, 2009 8:57am

The weather was stunning today, barely reaching 70 F—we scored a record for the lowest temperature ever for this date in the Louisville area—and decorated with sunny skies and the moans of the rain crows announcing bad weather off to our south. After Morning Offering, Mick sailed off to mow and to continue to trim a customer’s hedges. Although his truck was slow to start at the beginning of the day, it ran well once it was warm. Mick finished his day with all his jobs mowed, only the second mowing week this year that this has been the case because of constant rains. Ironically, because of the fair weather all week, we again are in dire need of a good, soaking rain.

I started my day by having chapel time and then writing my journal entries for yesterday. My inner clock has changed and I, who all my life have naturally awakened at around 5:30, am sleeping until 7:00 each day. It means I have a shorter work day, since I must write my journals after we start our day instead of in the early morning when the rest of the world is still asleep.

I was just starting back to work on my UPI article on finding focus in relationships when it was suddenly time to go to lunch with Nancy F. We enjoyed ourselves at the Alley Cat Café in Middletown, just a mile south of our little village. The Alley Cat specializes in fresh-made soups and panini sandwiches, and I had a delicious sandwich of chicken, sautéed mushrooms and onions, cheese and spinach along with tomato-basil soup.

Then we stopped by a consignment shop just down the street, Sunny Daize, where I found a hand-painted cigar-box evening purse with the lime-green color of my two new dinner dresses in the design. I found a flaw in the way the purse was made, and so acquired this very chic accessory for 75% off consignment price! My day was made!

When I returned, I created a basic quiche recipe for Gary that he can adapt to whatever leftovers we happen to have on hand. I found a great heirloom recipe for crustless quiche on-line and then added lots of good herbs to the basic ingredients. The quiches are being made in order to use up the eggs and cheese we have in too much abundance right now, so I figured it would be handy to fold in whatever other little orphans we have in the fridge as well. Quiches are wonderful for that. As my Dad used to say, Waste not, want not!”

Then I settled in and finished the article on relationships, posting it just as Mick called bath time. In a way, it was a shame to break the rhythm of the series I am doing on organic and bio-dynamic farming. But this topic was weighing on my mind, as so many of my close friends are suffering right now from out-of-focus relationships. So I will get back to writing about living the law of one in companionship with nature next week. Actually, it will be week after next. Gary will not post this article until next Monday, since he just sent out Light/Lines and did not want to do another send too soon.

I did a bit of e-mail around the edges of the day. A friend sent me the video of “We Are the World”, which was heartening to see and perhaps the finest moment of Michael Jackson’s long and storied career, oriented as it was towards raising money to feed the hungry. I sent that on to some friends I thought might enjoy seeing it again.

Rick’s Maine Report included photos of a tame and curious squirrel at their birdfeeder looking very cute as he sniffed the camera, and I thanked him for them. Rick is unhappy because Maine’s weather has been cold and wet all spring and his garden is way behind, most of it still unsown. Rick is an avid gardener and a glorious chef, and he’s irked! A few other e-mails, responding to friends, rounded out my day.

Mick and I shared a wonderfully refreshing soak in the tub and then enjoyed a very quiet evening, both of us napping before dinner and again after the Gaia Meditation, at which I offered the closing prayer. Gary joined us for Stewart and Colbert during the dinner hour.

2009-07-01

July 2, 2009 5:43am

The first day of July tiptoed in daintily with quite uncharacteristically low humidity and temperatures in the low seventies, golden sunshine and gentle breezes. What a wonderful day! I overslept again, and so spent my first work time after Morning Offering having chapel time and writing my journal entries. Sleep came again and angel naps consumed the rest of my morning. I awoke refreshed, the severe tummy troubles of the early morning lessened considerably. Thanks, angels!

After lunch I went to Absolutely Salon for a manicure, still trying to tame ingrown fingernails. I was in a splashy mood and used deep red enamel and sparkles for the color.

I had barely come in the door when Mick called with a woeful story of engine trouble. I came to the rescue and followed him up to Big O in Middletown, where they provided a repair to the truck’s battery connections and got him on the road again.

I spent the rest of my day collecting quotes for a UPI article on relationships I would like to write. Lately many of my friends and acquaintances have been struggling with out-of-focus relationships, and it deserves a comment from the small (well, short and round) medium at large. I am ready to write tomorrow!

Other than the truck trouble, things went well for Mick today. Even with the hiatus from mowing which his stuck truck entailed, he got all his mowing done, and did some watering at St. Luke’s, which is on tomorrow’s schedule, as well. So he ended the day ahead of the game.

Around the edges of the day, I wrote some e-mail. I heard from Eli that he will use my article on Machaelle Small Wright in his next issue of Both Sides Now! I got a lovely note from Penny Kelly, author of From the Soil to the Stomach—Understanding the Connection between the Earth and Your Health. She also liked the article on Wright and offered to donate a copy of her book to our Library. I look forward to reading that!

Gary sent me an interesting article at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/katie-couric-tavis-smiley_b_222484.html concerning citizen journalism. In the recent near-riots in Iran, even though the government tried hard to quash news coming out about their troubles, the citizens used tweets and telephone video sends to get the real news out. And several people in the mainstream of news feel this is a good and powerful tool for truth. So they have made available instructions on how to be a part of this citizen journalism movement.

I received a three-minute video of a young man, Declan Galbraith, singing a very moving song he wrote. He is truly an Indigo Child. I was not able to copy and paste this link, but if you type his name into the Google search function and then click on “Tell Me Why”, you can view it.

Mick and I enjoyed a quiet evening. He offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

July, 2009

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