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Carla’s Niche
Camelot Journal
Copyright © 2010 Carla L. Rueckert
2009-09-30
October 1, 2009 8:49am
Sunny and chilly, the day was great for cutting grass, which Mick did all day. Again, he got a bit extra done against tomorrow and Friday, because rains are once more predicted.
After Morning Offering I wrote my journal entries, enjoyed chapel time and then turned again to the editing of Voices of the Confederation. By the end of the day I had come within four pages of finishing the editing on the manuscript as it is now—I’ll not be completely finished until those missing pages come in and are also edited.
Around the edges I did some e-mail—
- I arranged for a telephone consult with Dr. Lang, the nutritionist.
- I thanked Eli for sending me an article by Carolyn Baker which impressed me greatly.
- I thanked Celinda for sending me a copy of the next Anglican Fellowship of Prayer Newsletter.
- I thanked Steve E for footnoting a couple of items from my Live Chat last Saturday afternoon on B-4.
- I asked Gary to work on the Alex P project for me. Alex wants us to send him some inspiring quotes from TLOO.
- I commiserated with Rick on the failure of his late garden. Maine apparently got too cold too fast for the lettuce and peas to make it.
- I wrote Romi to welcome him home from Czeska. I also asked him to pick up Sonia from the airport when she comes in on the 10th of October.
- I notified Gary that I was double-booked next Monday and asked him to re-schedule a counseling session for the next day, in order to resolve the conflict.
- I wrote to Daphne with some requested counsel concerning her channeling.
The bulk of my afternoon was spent at the salon having a manicure-pedicure. This week, I chose silvery mauve plus some silver glitter for my nail paint.
Mick and I had a delightfully quiet evening! We both napped during our post-bath snuggle, waking to enjoy a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer tonight.
2009-09-29
September 30, 2009 8:50am
The second day of our subjective autumn was chilly, sunny and breezy, lovely weather for the mowing Mick set out to do after Morning Offering. He got all his lawns mown for today, plus one of tomorrow’s, since he will be on the road to go to Steve F’s place in Shelbyville tomorrow and that takes extra “windshield time”.
I wrote my journal entries and had prayer time before working for the rest of the morning on Voices of the Confederation, editing to within 12 pages of the end of what I presently have. In the early afternoon I continued collecting information and quotes for this week’s UPI Difference Maker article on Bishop Matthiessen of Texas. I will be ready to write the article tomorrow!
In late afternoon I went outside to work on 102’s Chapter One quote searches. I printed out the search on Catalyst I finished yesterday, then finished the search on Emotions and started the one on Life on Earth. When those three collections are completed, I will be ready to write Chapter One.
Splitting the day’s work up like this is necessary if I am to move forward on all three fronts. However it is frustrating to me. I like to work until I finish, on whatever project I am working. This works well unless I have too many projects going at once to be able to do that! Time management is crucial if I am to move through this year well, for it is crowded with many projects—writing projects, channeling, counseling, being interviewed, teaching here at Camelot and elsewhere in Kona and Australia. Then there is the constant editing I do when the transcripts of channeling, interviews and teaching come in from our transcribers.
So I must learn this discipline. I also need to learn to enjoy it. If you’re not having fun, I always feel, something is definitely wrong! Perhaps as I see that it is working, and that I am getting somewhere on 102’s writing especially, I will relax into it. Right now I can feel the tendrils of my focus wanting to cling to the project I am doing right now, when I ask myself to move on to the next.
I finished up the day’s work by editing a letter which Pupie sent me. She is writing to the International Center at U of L, working on trying to reverse the US government’s decision of over a decade ago to ban her from this country. Her error was simply in going to England for Christmas when she was a student here at U of Louisville. She was supposed to stay in-country until a glitch in her visa was corrected. It does seem like cruel and unusual punishment for such a small error, and she was not even aware of that rule, so she did not break the rule on purpose. I hope her efforts bear fruit.
After a healing bath, Mick and I had a lovely, long cuddle upstairs before eating a late supper with Gary, who had been working at the L/L Research Inbox all day. We enjoyed seeing a new series, CSI-Los Angeles, begin on TV. We’ve been a long-time fan of the CSI franchise shows, always liking mystery-solving shows. This new series seems as good as the rest, most enjoyable, with good plots and very good ensemble work by the players, who have good chemistry together.
Gary offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.
2009-09-28
September 29, 2009 8:29am
It’s a marker day—I donned my first pair of socks and my first long-sleeved shirt of autumn. Mick also marked the occasion by wearing his first long-sleeved denim shirt when he went to work after Morning Offering. He reported having a great day out there, enjoying the marvelous, cool, sunny weather as he mowed. He ended his work day by hauling boxes of belongings from one house to another for a customer with a big family.
I started my work day by writing my journal entries and having prayer time. Then, until a bit after lunch, I edited on Voices of the Confederation, coming within 18 pages of finishing the part of the manuscript I have. Ian will be sending me two or three dozen pages of the text that somehow did not get copied the first time through soon, so I cannot call the job done until I get those pages edited as well.
Until 4:30 I worked on my Difference Maker article for this week, Bishop Matthiesen of Texas, collecting information and quotes. Then Gary moved me to my outdoor “office” on the front porch, where I finished my database on Catalyst quotes and began one on Emotions.
I am still very uncomfortable out there. Melissa’s ministrations with foam and boards now have me too high in the chaise, rather than too low. And the angle of the laptop is all wrong, causing discomfort in my neck and shoulders. Tomorrow I will try using two lap pillows instead of one under the laptop.
I got the idea, while writing a thank you letter to Morris for his recent and very generous donation, and telling him about the situation, of keeping a writing journal. So I ended my time outside by starting that journal. At the least, it is a good place to vent! But at the most, it might actually be a part of the book itself. We shall see!
Mick and I shared a lovely, healing bath before going upstairs for a very sensuous and delightfully long energy exchange, frolicking like two youngsters in the fields of the Lord. We finished the day with a quiet evening and a late supper while we watched a movie on TV. I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.
2009-09-27
September 28, 2009 6:00am
It was a lovely Sabbath, cool and feeling for the first time as though autumn had gusted in. The Angel Choir—young children—sang at the Offertory today, and Josh sang a solo at the Communion, “If with All your Heart Ye Truly Love Me”. It’s pledge drive time, so we had a sermon on apples—nine for us and one for Him. Father Joe used real apples and kept tossing them out into the congregation as he said, “And then there is the cost of housing,” and like quips. Fortunately no one got beaned. And we all got the point of the story!
Antonio Banderas and a supporting cast of growling Norsemen treated us to our film today, The Thirteenth Warrior. In the grand, dark tradition of Braveheart, the film was a fun excursion into mythical times, with Banderas playing a Muslim who fought with said Norsemen against the German hordes in ancient times, improbably winning the day, er, night. The music by Jerry Goldsmith was epic, with lots of vox humana and horn-led howling. The scenery was a treat, when the filming was done in daylight, which was seldom. The craggy British Columbia coast north of Vancouver was the locale for much of the filming.
Banderas did his usual good job with a manly action role, but whoever thought to line his eyes with kohl was off-base. I believe it was hoped that the dark-rimmed eyes would make him look more Middle Eastern. Instead the make-up reminded me forcibly of Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik. Not so good!
During our late afternoon break, Mick chose all five of his remaining quote selections for the printed archive series, finishing his eighteen volumes-worth of back-cover quotations. I shall need to edit those tomorrow and send them on to Ian.
I came upstairs to respond to an invitation to speak in Australia next May, issued by promoter Adam Davis, who is preparing a series of three events called “Towards 2012”. I accepted and then asked for more details, as well as offering him some specifics of what I would need in order to survive that long trip.
Mick and I then enjoyed a very quiet evening, watching a block of CSI episodes which we had not seen before and enjoying a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.
2009=09=26
September 27, 2009 6:47am
It was a most pleasant Saturday, warm and sometimes rainy, but not while Mick mowed the lawn, which he did this afternoon after enjoying some football and a nap after lunch! He also cleaned the kitchen after Morning Offering and ran his usual round of errands.
I wrote my journal entries and had some chapel time before lunch, as well as almost two hours of angel naps. After lunch I worked further on the Voices of the Confederation editing. I am working in the very last chapter now, the chapter containing complete sessions. For some reason I did not date these sessions in the original manuscript, while every other piece of channeling in the book is dated. So I am doing quote searches on the texts to find each session’s date of transmission.
At 3:00 I joined the chat room for two hours of Live Chat. It was quite a lively group today with lots of excellent questions and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.
Mick and I bathed and relaxed for a while, then had our supper and welcomed Baykal early, as he wanted to finish downloading (uploading?) his fifty gigabytes of music for us to use here. It was a channeling night, and after the round-robin, we had our meditation, while Q’uo worked on Gary’s question concerning temptation and then, at the end, took several other questions from seekers who had written in with questions from all over the world.
I offered the Gaia Meditation prayer at the close of the meeting. Mick and I shared a glass of wine and conversation with Baykal and Gary before heading up for a cuddle and our last prayers before bedtime.
2009-09-25
September 26, 2009 10:23am
It had continued to rain overnight, and there was some spotty rain throughout the day, but after Morning Offering Mick and Gary sallied forth and somehow managed to get all their lawns cut, and then Mick did errands and trimmed hedges for customers while Gary did some good cooking.
I got journal entries made and a bit of editing done on Voices of the Gods before going to the hairdresser with Dianne S. She got her hair colored back to its natural shade before she turned gray, a pretty blonde, while I got a haircut and a facial. We enjoyed lunching together at Cheddar’s afterwards.
When I came back to Camelot, Melissa had found a piece of foam which she thought might do the trick of making my “outside office” chaise lounge work for me. She asked me to sit in the chaise and relax for an hour, an assignment I gladly undertook, feeling quite below par. From that experiment she was able to determine that I needed a board to go under the cushioning at my seat in order to have the foam work. She got that slatted in before she left for Avalon.
She also took me up to the immediate care center at Walgreen’s and the doctor there said that I might have mononucleosis—which I doubt—and gave me a Z-pack of antibiotics for the swollen gland and fever. If that does not do the trick, I will have to call Dr. Aboud for a full-scale appointment. I bet, however, that it will work just fine.
Even as sour as I am feeling, after Mick and I bathed we had a marvelous date together and I felt the best I had all day! We had dallied until Gaia Meditation time, so we offered it before supper. I said the closing prayer tonight. Then we both dined on the leftovers I brought back from Cheddar’s and had a great night of Star Gate reruns on TV.
2009-09-24
September 25, 2009 5:35am
Rain and more rain blessed us today, from dawn to dusk and on into the night hours. Somehow Mick managed, after Morning Offering, to get his mowing done and his hedges trimmed, but he said he was wet all day. Fortunately it was a very warm rain, not the scathing rains of autumn but a sauna.
I chose to take a day off today, hoping to stave off a cold or the flu. We shall see if I succeed! The sore gland and weariness, however, gained ground. I have a natural day off tomorrow, since I go with Dianne for a hair cut and we always enjoy lunching together afterwards. So perhaps that continued rest from my labors will clear up whatever is trying to ail me.
In my leisure, I looked at a couple of videos I enjoyed—one two minutes long and the other about four minutes in length. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlXTAT8rLk, the four-minute one, is by Joanna Macy, while http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKE_mpEUu0 is by David Korten. Both videos concern the Great Turning, and they were most inspiring. I thank Pupie H-B for sharing them as she prepares for offering a shamanic weekend in Britain.
And Cosmic Lighthouse, an e-magazine who usually runs my articles, has put out a very pretty, short piece on the occasion of its 25th issue called “The 25 best quotes from CL”. I offer that to you as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJwiTf78_no.
Melissa arrived in late afternoon, a most welcome sight as always. She had hopes of seeing a football game with Mick, and was not disappointed! While I was at choir practice, they watched the Gamecocks top Ole Miss. At the Gaia Meditation tonight, which I missed, Mick offered the closing prayer.
2009-09-23
September 24, 2009 10:48am
This is the second day in a row in which I have awakened feeling exhausted, and I also awoke with a painful, swollen gland on the right side of my neck. If this does not get better today, I will take tomorrow for a rest day. Such symptoms are generally precursors to a cold or the flu. I think an ounce of prevention is in order!
I came upstairs to continue editing on Voices of the Confederation after Morning Offering, while Mick tried to head out for his daily allotment of lawns to mow and beautify. He got stopped immediately by a non-functioning truck. We conversed and it was decided that he would take Stanley Outback while I called AAA and got his car towed in to Wildt Brothers in Lyndon for diagnosis and repair.
Later, the repair shop called with the good news that they had found something to fix—the fuel pump. I OK’d the repair and they had the truck all ready to go by the time Mick was finished with his day’s work.
I discovered in the course of my editing work that most of one chapter of VOC has been left out of the manuscript I have. When Mick dropped by to take me to my nail appointment at 2:00, I had him pull down the original manuscript, the one with the actual cutting and pasting.
When I returned I discovered, to my great relief, that this copy, which is too fragile to handle—which is why the other, incomplete, copy has been used for copying and sending to Ian—does indeed have the missing material. That’s the good news! And it is very good news! There were thirteen chapter sections missing—thirteen topics upon which I would have had to do the work of writing comments, finding introductory quotations from non-L/L-channeling sources and running key word searches to find collections of quotes from our archives. It would have taken me hours and hours of work. And 102 is calling to me!
The bad news, of course, is that these pages shall need to be reglued by Gary, then copied and sent to Ian for scanning and OCR-ing before I can complete the editing of the manuscript. But that’s not so bad. I still have about 50 pages to edit in the manuscript copy of VOC which I have. I imagine that by the time I get that bit finished, Ian will have had the time to process the missing chapter-full of pages and send them to me by e-mail. I won’t lose much time, hopefully, in finishing the manuscript and returning it to Ian for final processing into PDF form, ready to print.
After I returned from the nail tech’s tender ministrations with a lovely manicure of “Frenched” greens topped with golden sparkles, I could not get focused again, and ultimately lay down for a nap before Mick returned from his chores. By this time it was raining, a sweet, soaking, warm rain. We went to get his truck and then bathed together before enjoying a very quiet evening. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.
2009-09-22
September 23, 2009 9:10am
There was some rain overnight, but by the time we finished our Morning Offering, Mick was treated to clear skies. He got his mowing done in good order. Meanwhile, I barely had time to write my journal entries and have chapel time before it was time for my sacral-cranial massage appointment at 21st-Centure Medicine.
It was a lovely drive over the bridge to Indiana. Along the Interstate, the trees were beginning to show color until I got in towards downtown, where the amount of pavement, which soaks up and holds the day’s heat, kept the trees looking green, still. My appointment went well. But I had awakened very weary, and after the massage I felt almost desperately sleepy. However I met Connie for lunch at Ruby Tuesday and rallied somewhat.
When I got home, I worked again on the Difference Maker article on Will Allen, finishing it just short of bath time. In the brief time remaining, I got the evening’s channeling appointment squarely in mind, talking with Gary, who assured me that he had Joel’s questions in hand.
I just about dropped off to sleep after our bath, but again pulled my energies together and tuned for the session, which was held with Joel on the telephone at 8:00 p.m. It was a good session, I think, offering suggestions for him on getting in touch with his guidance and many other questions as well.
Our one glitch was the telephone I was using, a headset phone which has worked well for years. Tonight it decided to die! I finished the session holding a regular phone to my ear, not the best of conditions! Gary put getting new equipment on his ever-long list!
We had a late supper and offered the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer tonight. And you can be sure we went to bed early! Never have I looked forward to bedtime with more delight!
2009-09-21
September 22, 2009 5:55am
It had continued to rain during the night, off and on, and when we awakened the rain was just ending. We had gotten about 3.5 inches! The thirsty ground soaked the blessed rain in completely and Mick was able to mow as usual after Morning Offering. His day went splendidly! He was even able to add some low-branch clearing and a bush removal for a customer at the day’s end.
The internet access was still not working this morning, so I could not work on my article for UPI, as is my wont of a Monday morning. Instead I edited further on Voices of the Confederation all morning, except for the ninety minutes I spent enjoying an inadvertent angel nap. I now have 67 of 200 pages left to edit - not bad!
By the afternoon work session Gary had arrived and promptly fixed the glitch that kept the house from enjoying its internet access, and I worked on a Difference-Maker article on Will Allen, the charismatic head of Growing Power, a Milwaukee and Chicago-based non-profit company dedicated to creating urban gardeners and feeding the urban poor. I had an hour’s loss of time due to the need to shut down the power while the generator man was identifying circuits and repairing our generator, which had failed to start up during our last two power outages. So I did not get the article completed by bath time. Hopefully I will be able to do that tomorrow in good order. And hopefully, our generator is now fully operational again!
Mick and I shared a whirlpool and then a bath before coming upstairs for a long and sultry date. What an amazing experience! Mick said afterwards, “That is definitely the best ever.” I had to agree! Praise the Lord!
We then enjoyed a special episode of House together. Actually I only enjoyed the first half of a two-hour episode because of keeping a date for a telephone conversation with Wynn Free on BBS Radio’s Monday Conference Call show. Wynn and I were joined by Terri, who channels the Elohim, an angelic contact. I think it was a good conversation, largely spent on tuning and on psychic greeting. I sang the first verse of Amazing Grace to illustrate tuning.
Mick and I spent a quiet evening, having a late supper and the Gaia Meditation. I prayed at the close.
2009-09-20
September 22, 2009 5:49am
It was raining when we awakened this morning, and we enjoyed the sound of it as we read the paper before church. Then Mick dropped me off to sing the service at St. Luke’s while he cleaned house. It was a sweet service, with a homily by our choirmistress, Lisa L, on St. Cecilia, the patron saint of church musicians and an aria from Franz Schubert, “O Gracious Art” by soloist Jennifer at the offertory. Then at the communion the choir sang Mozart’s “Ave Verum.”
During the afternoon, with more thunder and rain for a background, we watched the film, The Informants, an inane piece indeed. It was a movie with no plot, just a situation, rock stars in the eighties, which afforded lots of complete nudity, casual violence and despicable language on the part of good players like Mickey Rourke. That sounds at least lewdly interesting, but no. the sexuality was as boring to me as it was to the characters who were trifling with it on screen, usually in groups larger than two. The most telling line was a young male character’s answwer to a woman’s plea, “You can help her because you are the one who loves her.” The young man replies, “That won’t fix anything!”
I used my break time to write my journals and have chapel time, since I had overslept badly this morning, barely making it up in time for church. Mick did his usual Sunday errands, sharpening blades, calling his Mom and driving around to check on tomorrow’s yards, to see if they need cutting. Then we came back together for watching an old Patrick Swayze movie, Black Dog, on television. That was a lot more fun! Swayze plays a trucker who fights and wins the forces of evil and there were more huge truck crashes than I have ever seen in one film. He is a most likeable and believable hero.
Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation.
Our internet access has been down since Baykal downloaded a bunch of music on to Mick’s computer last night, so Mick was not able to choose quotes for the printed archive project today, and I have not been able to post these journal entries for two days. Fortunately Gary will be at the L/L Research helm this afternoon, and he will undoubtedly have us up and running in no time, because we are connected to the internet just fine according to the icons—we just can’t access it.
2009-09-19
September 22, 2009 5:46am
It was a lovely, sunny, dry and pleasant day, the last in this droughty late-summer week. Wet weather comes in tomorrow, bringing us the rain our grass and plants need. After an abbreviated Morning Offering, Mick and I went our separate ways. Mick cleaned the kitchen and did errands while I wrote my journals and had chapel time and a nice, morning-long nap. I had not planned that, but it felt wonderful!
In the afternoon, Mick worked on our yard and continued doing a few errands, but focused mostly on college football. It is his favorite sport, and he had a ball! As for me, the angels stole me away to napping again, and I just awakened in time to share the Live Chat on B4 with those who surfed in to say hey and ask questions. We had a good time.
Things got a bit crazy for a while because Monica L, one of the moderators on B4, set up to moderate, with an Ask Carla Here chat window, and then started having computer trouble. I found the questions of that window OK, but then I forgot to switch to the Chat with Carla window to answer the questions, so for a couple of questions, I was in the wrong window most of the time. Patiently, the group stayed with me. We had some interesting questions today on everything from how to love those who have closed hearts to the subject of indigo and violet-ray energy exchanges.
I caught up on personal e-mail until Mick called bath time. We enjoyed a long whirlpool together and then shared supper before Baykal arrived somewhat early for the 8:00 public meeting. He spent the time downloading a bunch of music on to Mick’s computer.
We had a good chat around the circle before the silent meditation, and then continued conversing thereafter until about 10:30, when we said good-night to Baykal and went upstairs to have a cuddle and watch more football before saying our last prayers. I offered the Gaia Meditation prayer at the end of our silent meditation session.
2009-09-18
September 19, 2009 10:09am
Another beautiful day in Kentucky! Mick enjoyed it, going out after Morning Offering to mow, garden and clear for his Friday customers. He finished early, thanks to Gary’s help yesterday, and spent the remainder of his work day doing errands and maintaining his mowers.
I was a one-trick pony today, working on Voices of the Confederation. I discovered a big hole in the manuscript. Somehow, when I was putting it together way back in 1975, I left out the section on love. I remember tht each section was initially just a bundle of quotes. That bundle must have gotten misplaced.
Given the material, that is a centrally significant omission! So I re-created the whole section, choosing a quote, writing a comment and then selecting channeling quotations from the archives for January through March of 1974. That slowed me down in terms of the number of pages edited. But still, I got to page 120—that is 60% of the editing work done now, approximately.
Ian suggested, as has Gary already, that we accept the goofed-up covers on the reprinting of A Wanderer’s Handbook and reap the benefit of 12 extra copies that blitzprint offered us. I asked him, since Gary is gone to a riend’s wedding until Tuesday, to write Trish at blitzprint and agree to the deal on our behalf.
I had Mike Quinsey down for an interview tonight at 9:00 and was glad to find out that this was an error. That interview has been rescheduled for November 6th. I wrote Mike to thank him for the clarification.
I wrote Sonia with some suggestions for kicking her energy up a notch—she is foundering under the weight of waiting for her disability hearing, living in an unpleasant place, with no money to make her situation different since she cannot work, feeling too poorly from fibromyalgia and heart trouble.
And I wrote Mish concerning the possibility of printing the French version of 101: The Choice (Le Choix) with a European printer like lulu.com. Or, alternately, she could get some copies printed at a European printer and keep a small inventory of the books for sending out. It is really up to her. I would think that such books should be sold from Europe rather than from America, since most French-speaking readers would tend to be European and mailing would be so much cheaper. So she will need to be responsible for either choosing a print-on-demand printer in Europe or choosing a European printer which will deliver a number of books to her for a price.
Mick called me down for an early bath, so I was again unable to work on 102. However I cannot resist the chance to spend extra time with him. It is so rare an event! After our bath we had a long and pleasure-filled date that was simply wonderful. Worlds are opening to us these days as we share energy that I would never have dreamed could exist. We are both awed and profoundly thankful!
We had a very quiet evening after that. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation, and we watched a movie-length episode of Lonesome Dove, a fine old TV western series, before our last prayers.
2009-09-17
September 18, 2009 5:56am
It stayed dry, sunny and warm, lovely weather for Mick’s work. Since Gary will be attending a friend’s wedding starting tomorrow, he worked for Mick today and they had a wonderful work day. Gary then did grocery shopping for next week before taking off with Valerie and Mick did weekly maintenance on his machines.
I started my day with writing journal entries and having chapel time. Then I continued to edit on Voices of the Confederation, coming to page 105, just about the exact mid-point of the document. Yay! It’s always good for the morale to get halfway through a long project!
Just past lunchtime our power went out - and the generator did not come on! I called the power company immediately, but could not find a number for the generator service people. So I called Mick and Gary and they came by to start up the generator for me. I had walked outside to get the service number off the generator itself, but there was none there. Now Gary has that number on our refrigerator list.
I collected two pasta and chicken recipes from the newspaper, which had gleaned the recipes from local restaurants upon requests from their readers. They both sound delicious! One features penne pasta, roasted chicken and spinach in a garlicky sauce while the other features blackened chicken, linguine, mushrooms and tomatoes in a mixture of Alfredo and tomato sauces.
Daphne sent me a little piece from the Hopi Elders which I have seen before, but it is good enough to share with you again. It goes like this:
“Here is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift, that there are those who will be afraid, who will try to hold on to the shore. They are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.
“Know that the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, and keep our heads above water.
And I say see who is there with you and celebrate. At this time in history we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves, for the moment we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.
“The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves. Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. For we are the ones we have been waiting for.”
The reprinting snafus with blitzprint continue. They printed A Wanderer’s Handbook using a matte finish instead of a glossy one on the cover. How could they make such a clear error? It’s a mystery. Now we have to decide whether to accept these books. I sent a note to Ian apprising him of the situation and asking for his opinion.
I was just switching over to work on 102 at 4:30 when Mick came up to say that he was all done for the day and to ask if I would like to quit early and goof off with him. Absolutely! What a rare treat! So I shut down Jennie Traveller, with thanks for a good day’s work, and Mick and I bathed and cuddled together until it was time for choir practice.
The choir is concentrating on preparing for St. Luke’s Centennial Celebration of the laying of the cornerstone for its present building on October 10th, and we are singing lots and lots of music, so the practice was long and painstaking. I am, however, becoming far more comfortable with the music now.
I am fortunate that St. Luke’s has a chair lift so that even with this broken foot I can comfortably attend the practice. My wheel chair has a leg extender, so I can sit in the chair with the sore foot raised up. It’s a real blessing! Thank you, Medicare!
Mick picked me up near 9:00, so we had the Gaia Meditation, at which I offered the closing prayer tonight, and then a late supper and a cuddle and conversation before our last prayers.
2009-09-16
September 18, 2009 5:34am
The day was simply beautiful, its dry, warm air reminding me of Hawaii when Mick and I were there on our honeymoon over 22 years ago. Of course the downside of a sustained spell of dry weather is that the plants are thirsty and Mick is watering his customers and our yard a bit every day. After Morning Offering Mick sailed off for his hard work of the day, coming home at bath time very satisfied.
I began my work day by having chapel time and writing my journal entries. I seldom seem to awaken early any more. This contradicts the natural habits of my lifetime! I seem to be changing to the later awakening that most people naturally enjoy. Then I spent my time until a late luncheon working on a counseling letter to Jon P. His is a tough situation, and I prayed and tuned before working with his letter. I sent that off to Gary to mail to him at lunchtime.
Then it was time for my weekly torture session with my gentle and very skilled nail tech as she rooted out the ingrown fingernails that start creeping under the skin of my fingers each week. The reward for that discomfort is a coat of pretty nail enamel. This week I chose a dark aqua overlaid with aqua sparkles.
When I came back, I worked on editing Voices of the Confederation for an hour, gaining another five pages done and sneaking up on the halfway mark of this project.
Then I went to the front porch to work on 102. For the first fifteen minutes of my precious time, I got all fouled up looking for my work! I had duplicated 102’s folder and half my work was in one folder, half in the other. I called on Gary, who was working at the L/L Inbox today and he guided me out of my self-created maze. Whew!
However I kept feeling more and more uncomfortable out there. The chair’s arms are too high and Gary’s fix of more padding under the seat was inadequate by about five inches. Fortuitously Melissa called in at that point and I talked with her about the situation. She will meet with me a week from tomorrow here at Camelot and we will solve the problem. Until then, I will work in my office.
Gary moved me back upstairs and I was glad of the decision. I think I quit just in time to avoid real injury to my glass shoulders. I continued collecting quotes on catalyst for Chapter One until bath time.
Before I quit, I made an appointment for next week with Liz J at 21st-Century Medicine for a sacral-cranial massage and let Connie M know about it, in case she wants to meet me for lunch after the appointment.
Mick and I shared a lovely whirlpool, then a bath, and then a quiet and most pleasant evening. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.
2009-09-15
September 16, 2009 9:03am
Goodness! September is half over already! We are no longer dainty eaters when it comes to chewing up time! When I was younger, time definitely moved through me more slowly. Now it races through me and away!
After Morning Offering, Mick set out with his trusty mowers and detailing tools to mow and trim and weed and blow clean eight big Anchorage yards. He had a good day.
I spent the first part of my work day writing my journal entries and taking some prayer time. Then I edited on Voices of the Confederation until 4:00. I got to page 90 today, good progress,
Gary moved my laptop and accoutrements to the chaise lounge in the back yard, where I had a wonderful view of the cross-shaped patio, the herb garden and across to the astilbe garden and the secret garden. However this location did not work, since it was a westerly aspect and the sun was full and low in the sky. I could not see my computer screen at all. Gary checked the brightness and it was maximized already. So I had to move my outside office.
Gary and I decided on the front porch. He moved the chaise lounge, side tables and all my accessories there and I settled in to work on 102. It was short work to get the Preface written, since its content is mostly a reproduction of the eleven principles of The Law of One which I discussed in 101, as summarized in its final pages. Then I began working on a quote search on catalyst, using the site search feature on www.llresearch.org.
It was lovely on the porch. Fall is advancing in our front yard. The oak-leaf hydrangea’s blooms have turned deep chestnut, although the leaves are still bright green. The dogwood leaves are turning. It is a heady environment indeed. I love it!
My one challenge is the seat itself. Its arms are too high for ease of use, cranking my shoulders up higher than they want to go in order to use the mouse. Gary will look into finding a way to have the seat be higher, and he will also get a couple of citronella candles to drive away the mosquitoes.
In the cracks of the day, I worked with e-mail.
- I forwarded to Gary the e-mail Carol C sent me with questions from her Ra Study Group. I asked Gary to place the question we did not ask on Saturday into his ongoing list of reader questions. We keep that and ask as many reader questions as we can whenever we have a public meeting.
- I encouraged Rick to attend his fiftieth high school reunion. What a ball that will be! He should go if he can!
- I answered two questions of Terry H’s. He and a friend are working on a translation of 101 into Chinese. It is interesting to see what problems arise because of the differences in language. I capitalize a few words in that book to indicate the enhanced, spiritually oriented Gameboard and Players making the Choice as opposed to the flat earthly gameboard and its players and choices. But the Chinese language has no capitals. So in Chinese the gameboard becomes the small self’s gameboard and the Gameboard becomes the greater self’s gameboard. He also needed a definition of the phrase “potting along”. The idiom was not in his dictionary!
- I responded to Steve M’s request concerning the formation of a political action committee from among the members of this year’s Homecoming with encouragement, but also with a “no” when it comes to my participating. I sent him the Molly Ivins article I just wrote for my UPI blog which explains how I discovered I have no political gifts.
- I forwarded to Mick and Gary notice of a dance in the park this Sunday night. It sounds like fun! Our local dance studio will have a teacher there explaining how to dance salsa!
- I responded to Alex P, who asked me to supply him with pearls from TLOO for his book, with a link to the site search engine on our archive site and a suggestion that he do key word searches and find his own quotes. I also said that if he could not do that, I would help him, but it seemed to me that we would each pick quite different quotes, and the ones he picked would be better for his book.
- I responded to Gary’s request for an October 13th channeling date for Darryl B by noting that he, Gary, would be gone on that day, and one never knows if Romi will appear on a Tuesday evening, so I needed to know if Darryl would be attending by telephone. If so, we would reliably have a three-person circle - Darryl, Mick and me - and we could schedule the session then. If not, we would need to wait until the 28th—the 21st already being filled—to schedule his session of working so that Gary could make the third person of the circle.
Mick and I enjoyed a quiet evening with Gary, who offered the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.
2009-09-14
September 15, 2009 10:00am
It was a beautiful Monday, with little leaf-falls everywhere as zephyrs of humid air played with the trees and bushes and sunlight glanced through the green and yellowing canopy outside my bower office windows. After Morning Offering Mick took off for a day of hard work, making his lawns look beautiful as he danced with the devas and nature spirits of Anchorage.
I sent off the next two edited back-page texts which Mick had chosen to Ian. Mick has only five more volumes of quotes to do and that small but significant honor-duty will be done! Then for the rest of my working day I gathered quotes for a Difference-Maker article on Molly Ivins and then wrote the article, posting it just at bath time.
In the cracks of the day I wrote my journal entries, had a lovely chapel time and collected a recipe for Shrimp and Lobster Fra Diavolo. Rick had sent me the part of the recipe that was simply Shrimp Fra Diavolo, and then told me in general what he had added to it—capers and lobster—to create Dianne’s birthday dinner. I added an herb or two and some butter for the linguine bed and it sounds wonderful! Perhaps we can make it for Thanksgiving this year, as something entirely novel for our turkey-and-dressing-sated palates.
I also caught up on personal e-mail, thanking Mish for her lovely note and responding to Gary’s request for information on the question we answered for Carol C’s group in Tennessee and also on the question we did NOT answer. Gary will add that question to his list of questions to ask Q’uo at upcoming meetings.
Mick and I had a bath together before coming upstairs for a date that was just amazing! It is clearer and clearer to me that sacred sexuality is almost entirely a thing of the energy body, with the physical body and its red ray only the jumping-off point.
Sexuality is not something one can discuss in a fully informational manner without appearing to be pornographic. So I do not know if I will ever write openly of the details of the dance which we have found getting better and better even as my physical body, at least, tends to become more limited. “Amazing” will have to do for now!
We joined Gary for a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which I offered the closing prayer. Actually I offered it in two parts, as something occurred to me later which I added!
2009-09-13
September 14, 2009 9:25am
It was a lovely, warm, sunny Sabbath day. In the morning, after Mick and I had our modest breakfast and I worked the Sunday puzzles while Mick read the paper, I went to St. Luke’s to sing the service. I also read the first lesson today, from the Preacher’s Proverbs. “Wisdom cries out in the streets!” seemed to me particularly apt at a time when my Inbox is crowded with frantic forwarded articles about how everything is terribly, terribly wrong.
I also learned another rousing old hymn which, being a cradle Episcopalian, I had never sung before—”I Am Resolved”. I love the chorus—
“I will hasten to Him,
Hasten so glad and free!
Jesus, greatest, highest,
I will come to Thee.”
I do indeed hasten to Him, flee to Him, crave Him and fasten myself upon the hem of His robe!
We sang a loud, rhythmic anthem by Papa Hayden, “The Heavens Declare the Glory of God.” At the Communion I was treated to three of our gentlemen—Brench, Doug and Josh—singing Byrd’s “Let the Words of My Mouth.” And Father Joe told a fine story at the sermon that had the whole congregation roaring. It is a shaggy dog story, but the punchline is when the deacon of this church which has been given a hell-fire and brimstone sermon comes down the aisle in a devil costume, he pauses to look at a certain women, who throws up her hands and says, “Don’t hurt me, Mr. Devil, you know I have been on your side all along!”
This is Father Joe’s gentle way of urging us to give a generous pledge this next year! I expect it will work, too. It is far more attractive to give from love and laughter than from fear and trembling.
After Mick and I had lunched and napped gloriously, we watched a very good film, State of Play. Because Russell Crowe, the lead character, is a reporter, the film reminded me, in a good way, of All the King’s Men, a 1997 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford as reporters who were finally able to unravel the Watergate cover-up. Unlike All the King’s Men, which was a true account, State of Play was a fictional story. But the plot mimicked truth very closely, as Crowe’s character tried to unravel a massive cover-up concerning the out-sourcing of the military’s work. No one mentioned Blackwater, but that company was forcibly brought to my mind.
I very much liked this film, despite some flaws in direction and continuity. Robin Penn Wright and Ben Affleck shone as a Washington couple in the hot-spot. The supporting cast was great. And it was good to see some of Washington D.C.’s more handsome public buildings.
While Mick nursed a very achy hand—he smashed his knuckles in a mishap Friday and has been soaking his hand in Epsom Salts all weekend—I indulged in a luxurious round of solitaire and then caught up on my personal e-mail—Rick sent me an outstanding recipe for Shrimp and Lobster Fra Diavolo—and then found get-well cards for a neighbor recovering from surgery and also for Gerri G, who was unable to come to Homecoming at the last minute because of being slammed around in a collision with a careless driver’s vehicle. She reports being fine, but very sore all over! Ouch!
I must remember to replenish my supply of get-well cards! I am down to only one now. I like to keep a nice selection of cards of all kinds on hand, so when I need a card for some special occasion or other reason, I do not immediately have to run out and get one.
When I came downstairs, Mick was watching football, and tremendous vibrations of peace and joy radiated from him. How I love football season! Mick is always at his happiest then, and I delight in that. We shared a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.
2009-09-12
September 13, 2009 6:47am
After a brief Morning Offering—we shortened it because of our having a public meditation meeting tonight—I took the forepart of the day off and rested. While Mick cleaned the kitchen and ran errands, I dozed and read a delightful romance novel, a cracking good story where everything came out well.
At 3:00 I got on the internet for the first Live Chat of this season and for two hours talked about L/L doings in between responding to questions. Then for an hour or so I cleaned up some personal e-mail before joining Mick, who had enjoyed two football games during the afternoon, plus taking a good, long nap. I love football season! I generally do not watch much of the action, but I salute the sport for its ability to give Mick recreation which he genuinely and deeply enjoys. At 5’ 8” Mick was a short quarterback, but that was the position he played in high school. As well, he was team captain. He knows the game very well.
We had our first meditation meeting of the season at 8:00, welcoming Romi and Bikal. Our channeling question tonight was about being of help and how to avoid infringing on free will while doing it.
I offered the Gaia Meditation prayer at the end of the channeling session.
2009-09-11
September 12, 2009 6:32am
The eighth anniversary of 9-11 was a pretty day, with blue skies and golden sunshine blessing us. After Morning Offering Mick and Gary did their Friday mowing, after which Mick worked at maintaining his mowers and tools and Gary took off for his retreat weekend at Gethsemane.
I kept falling asleep all day, and I am thinking seriously of taking tomorrow off completely until it is time for the first Live Chat on B4 for this season, and inviting a long snooze in a proper bed! Between naps, I continued editing on the Voices of the Confederation manuscript, coming to page 76 by bath time.
Mick and I had a date, greatly enjoying the shared energy, and then came downstairs for a late dinner and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.
2009-09-10
September 11, 2009 9:58am
The weather continues warm and muggy, with no rain. That’s great for mowing, and Mick enjoyed getting every lawn and garden on his schedule finished after our Morning Offering.
I said good-bye to Mish as Gary took her to the airport, bade hugs and farewell to Melissa as well as she departed for Avalon and came upstairs to work. I suddenly realized I was alone in the house! I stood there at the back upstairs bank of windows and let myself feel the solitude for just a moment.
I am a sociable person, but I love my own company and the radiantly roomy feeling I have when I am by myself. I remember a beloved L/L friend saying to me once that he could not stand to be by himself in the silence. If he was alone, he always had music going. I almost never do. I like the spacious silence.
I worked sporadically, between angel naps, all day on editing Voices of the Confederation. By the end of the workday I had come to the quarter-done mark—53 of 203 pages are now edited. I am not going near any creative work until I feel more alert and focused. Right now, I am still fairly stultified with exhaustion. But it is a wonderful feeling to know that we have had a great Homecoming! It is definitely worth the energy expenditure.
Along the way I responded to some e-mails.
- Rick had sent me a couple of photos of a moose that ambled by his and Dianne’s home in Maine. Rick said the moose stood at least seven feet at the shoulder. His horns nearly dragged the ground. I told him what a shame it was that he got a nearly complete rear aspect of the beast, as a frontal view would have made a great Christmas card. Rick immediately responded with, “I can use the one I have now, and the caption will be “Happy Moose Christm—ass”
- I sent Eli more information for his upcoming special edition of Both Sides Now, which features my Penny Kelly UPI series of articles offered in a unified fashion.
- I responded to Ian’s notice that we now have the beginnings of a Spanish translation of The Law of One up on site, thanks to the translation work of Pilar.
- I sent Mick and Gary our little village’s notice of some Anchorage happenings, in case they wish to take part.
This felt like the right day to find and order our Christmas cards. You cannot wait too long for this task, since they charge double the price after a certain date, which is coming up rapidly. I found on line a sweet calendar card with the motto, “Live Life to the Fullest” amid a field of butterflies. I ordered self-adhesive envelopes this year, a feature I know Mick will just love!
I finished the work day by asking Gary to fix my printer while I was away from the computer. Sometimes I can figure out what is wrong when a foul-up happens—but sometimes not, and not today!
And I settled down and thought out how the process should go when I want to work on 102 outside. Then I wrote Gary to share my thoughts and get him thinking on it as well, as he will be the one toting everything outside and then back to the office.
One thing is certain: I need to guard more carefully against insect bites, to which I am very allergic. My legs and arms are still recovering from the 50 or so mosquito bites I got during Homecoming. The bites all swelled alarmingly, even though I never scratched them, and maybe 1/3 of them blistered. It has been a siege! However the process of healing is well begun.
After Mick and I bathed I went to choir practice, where we are practicing music for a big St. Luke’s centennial service on October 10th. I am beginning to learn the music now, and to feel comfortable looking up and away from the music to catch direction. That is a wonderful feeling. For a while there it was all I could do to read the notes! We are learning a lot of music all at once!
Gary was at the L/L Research helm today, and he joined us for a late supper and the Gaia Meditation. Mick offered the closing prayer.
2009-09-09
September 10, 2009 9:38am
It is an auspicious day for a birthday, since it is 9-9-09! Both Mish and Melissa were born on this day—naturally, both are a Jack-Benny-39 today! It was a lovely, sunny day for Mick, who departed after Morning Offering to work on the lawns and gardens of Anchorage. He had a very good day, he said.
Mish busied herself in the morning by taking down all my perfume vials and make-up cases in the upstairs bathroom, and cleaning the whole room top to bottom! I have been unable to do that for myself in the last year or so, and my little treasures were gently dusty. So now my tiny bathroom is gleaming! Thank you, Mish!
I am still awash in exhaustion and kept falling asleep in my chair all day. However I wanted to stay at least somewhat alert since both Melissa and Mish might have need of me, so I kept myself going, at least in between angel naps. I wrote some material for the special edition of Both Sides Now which Eli is creating for my series on Penny Kelly’s gem of a book, From the Soil to the Stomach, and edited in the Voices of the Confederation manuscript, reaching the end of Chapter One.
Melissa went around the house putting things away and bringing Camelot back to its normal mode until she, too, admitted she was super-weary and took a cosy nap in the comfortable rocker in the living room.
And Gary was working hard all day, taking Stephen to the airport and trying to bring down the number of e-mails in the L/L Research Inbox. I do not know where he was when he finished the day, but he started with 85 letters after deleting all spam. So his day was very busy as well.
After Mick and I bathed, we joined them, plus Romi, whose birthday is day after tomorrow, for an Earth Day celebration for all three of our Virgos at Ruby Tuesday. We gave Romi his shirt and Mish her “You Are Special” plate and Louisville baseball cap. And Melissa opened many presents that she had requested, but which are really for extending her ability to work on Avalon—a bio-dynamic preparation sprayer, Yaktrax, rain pants, reflector vests and a weather radio.
In addition to the Avalon items, I found her some good Obama tees and a set of those connected combs that attach to both sides of the hair at once and pull it neatly back from the face in a variety of ways. And we gave her a fine-looking, well-bound volume of the original Rudolph Steiner lectures on agriculture which are the foundation of bio-dynamic farming practice.
Mish was pushing away the sadness of having to leave with all her might. When Gary asked her at table if she was looking forward to being at home in Belgium, she replied that she could not think about that! She wanted to stay in the moment and enjoy being here with us. It has been a good visit for her, I am very happy to say.
When we returned from Ruby Tuesday, we sat down together for the Gaia Meditation, at which Gary offered the final prayer. Then we women watched most of that fine film, Steel Magnolias, while Gary and Romi left for other destinations and Mick attended to many duties, folding the wash, reading his e-mail and organizing himself for tomorrow.
We all went to bed at 10:30 when the movie ended on TV, and Mick and I said our last prayers a bit later, grateful for our beds.
2009-09-08
September 9, 2009 10:16am
Mick and I made our Morning Offering while a dense mist hovered over the meadow. It was too wet to mow, so Mick gardened for two customers until the diamond dew had dried and the mist burned away in the warm, humid sunshine. Then he completed all of his mowing for the day.
I started my work day with an angel nap, inadvertently losing most of the morning’s work time. However I did have chapel time and wrote my journal entries for the day.
Melissa was here today, helping with the after-workshop clean-up. That is always substantial! All the beds need their linens washed and the beds re-made. The towels which the guests have used need washing and storing. The various hastily stored leftovers from this and that meal or snack need to be consolidated and stored in a better way—frozen or more carefully wrapped. Gary was working hard all day.
I joined Mish and Melissa for a delightful lunch at The Cheesecake Factory—Mish wanted to treat Melissa, especially, since it is her birthday tomorrow. Then while I sat in the car and read, Mish and Melissa finished some shopping decisions at the Mall St. Matthews. Melissa then drove us downtown so Mish could see Louisville’s pretty skyline and drive along the river for a while.
When we had beaten our way back from the west end of the city, Melissa stopped at Bunton Seed Company and picked up some locally grown, organic seed for late Avalon crops this fall. Then Melissa drove us to the Highlands area where both of us have lived in the past. Her goal there was a shop that sells incense in bulk. We go through a lot of it, as we burn it daily at Morning Offerings and Gaia Meditations.
We then wound our way around Cherokee Park, showing Mish the vast Victorian homes and amazingly peaceful wildlife sanctuary in that area on our way to I-64 and home. It felt good to offer Mish the hospitality of the drive, and she really appreciated the chance to see more of our city before she returns to Brussels.
We stopped in Middletown so that I could find Romi a nice gift at Sunny Daize, a good consignment shop. I was wildly successful. When we got back to Camelot, I got all of Melissa’s presents together in the basement and later in the evening, Mick placed them all in gift bags for me.
For the most part, Melissa’s gifts are really Avalon’s gifts, practical things she needs for work in inclement weather, like rain pants and Yaktrax. However I have also gotten her a few small things to open which will be a surprise. What a coincidence that Romi, Mish and Melissa all have the same birthday! And it will be a special one this year—9-9-09!
I have been watching the progress of my fifty-plus mosquito bites with interest. In a severe allergic reaction, many of the bites have blistered. Over the past few days the masses of bites, especially on my legs, have become quite angry and swelled together, creating a somewhat scabrous, rash-like disturbance on my arms and legs. Finally, today a few of the biggest blisters started weeping and after Mick and I bathed, I saw that two of them had popped and deflated in the warm water.
It has been a spiritual practice not to scratch these bites, one that takes more of my attention than I would like, since I am working against my own body-instinct to scratch what itches. But when I look at the potentially scarring blisters, I know it has been a discipline worth the doing, since if I had scratched that first time, I would have been lost and the scratching would definitely have created scarring.
Mick and I went upstairs for some private time after our bath, coming down again for a pleasant supper with Mish and Gary. While we rested, we watched a 1954 movie on TV which stars Elizabeth Taylor. The film was titled Rhapsody. It was a sweet romance which featured lots of wonderful classical music, most of it Russian—Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.
At the Gaia Meditation tonight, Gary offered the closing prayer.
2009-09-07
September 8, 2009 9:45am
Little rains were coming through the area as Mick and I arose for Morning Offering. In all, we got about a quarter-inch of rain, which was badly needed. Mick went out in the wet to do some tree and bush removal for one customer and trimming and gardening for another, and when the rains ended and the grass had dried sufficiently he switched to mowing, finishing all of today’s jobs.
I took a shower after Morning Offering and then spent the first part of the day saying good-bye to attendees who were leaving. Then Anne H interviewed me, with Janet M’s and Mish’s aid, about the Law of One and our work here at L/L Research. She hopes to get the interview edited and up on youtube.
While Mish and Anne went to shop, I went back to bed and read for a while until I fell asleep. Oh, what a lovely feeling it was! I awoke about four hours later only because Mick had had his bath and was keeping our date. What a grand way to awaken! We had a magical dance in the fields of the Lord, storing and then exchanging an enormous amount of sacred energy. Thank you Lord!
We all got together for a most pleasant dinner and conversation. Gary had put the living room back in order, and it was good to have things more handy! Mish offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.
2009-09-06
September 7, 2009 5:34am
Homecoming continued under the canopy after Morning Offering. We enjoyed five more presentations today, three of which centered on economics and government—bringing the Law of One into economics was especially interesting to think about, along with the two presentations on bringing peace and love into our political arena.
We had a round-robin talk on what each of us considers our greatest insight after that. And then our official Homecoming program closed with a channeled meditation from Q’uo. The question was about how to keep the high vibrations and good feelings we have enjoyed at this Gathering going in our lives as we all return home.
As dusk moved over the lawn, we gathered to go to Captain’s Quarters for our closing meal together. We feasted, thanks to Nalin, on a variety of appetizers, then dined on seafood, and thoroughly enjoyed each others’ company. We offered the Gaia Meditation at the restaurant.
I was quite exhausted by the time we returned to Camelot, and went straight to bed to cuddle with Mick and start to come down from the extreme alertness I often feel after I channel. The four-dozen-plus mosquito bites I have accumulated from sitting outside for the last three days were speaking quite loudly, and several of them which have blistered were especially demanding of my attention. I have not scratched any of them, but of course my body wants to scratch the itches, so it is a bit intense right now! However I know that if I do start scratching, I will immediately itch twice as much! So I am determined to refrain.
Mick and I watched a rerun of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a wonderfully dark and funny movie about married love, where the plot lets them act out every bit of aggression towards each other that they feel. We enjoyed it very much! And then we said our last prayers. The house was still active, with conversations going on downstairs, but we let them roll on without us and went on to bed, as Mick is back at work cutting Anchorage’s lawns tomorrow morning, bright and early.
In mid-afternoon, a few showers moved through as we sat in our circle of seeking under the canopy in the back garden, and it was an exquisitely beautiful thing to see the rain come down outside our little haven.
2009-09-05
September 6, 2009 6:37am
The Gathering continued today under sunny skies and lovely, warm temperatures. In all, we heard nine presentations today, sitting in our circle under the canopy in the back garden. I believe we will hear six presentations tomorrow.
It is a great group! The conversations were rolling everywhere during break times and meals. The energy keeps building and our sacred space together keeps feeling more loving and intense. I look forward to tomorrow!
We had lunch at Camelot, but went out for dinner to Selena’s. We enjoyed tremendous food and each other! Steve M offered us some wine and appetizers in addition to our entrees, and we thoroughly enjoyed the holiday atmosphere of this special occasion.
Coming back home, I interrupted the festivities long enough so that we could have the Gaia Meditation, and then Mick popped on a video of Don and me being interviewed in 1978 by Bill Tush on Open Up, a TBS show in Atlanta.
Mick and I came upstairs after that, leaving the attendees who had not gone to bed early happily involved in conversations, and enjoyed a very sexy date together before our last prayers.
2009-09-04
September 5, 2009 6:34am
Our idyllic weather continues, thank the good Lord, as Homecoming starts today and we will be sitting outside all weekend under the canopy in the back garden.
Gary had Helen, Mish and Anna organized for kitchen preparation work before he left with Mick for a Friday’s worth of mowing. The women peeled potatoes and trimmed asparagus for the feast - that, plus spinach mashed potatoes and baked salmon will be on the menu. Mick retrieved Fielder, with a whole new assembly where the welds had broken, and said it was a real joy to be cutting with good machines again! Gary left the mowing to pick up Tiffani at 3:00 and Mick finished the remainder of the work around 5:00.
I wrote a snail-mail letter to Aubine in Igny, France—she is not fond of computers and had sent me a letter with some lovely postcards of Lyon, where she went on holiday—before I quit the “desk” for an appointment at 11:00 to receive color for my eyebrows and a facial. Helen went with me. We dropped Mish and Anne off at the mall section of St. Matthews—there are four large malls there, one after the other, all easy to walk to—and enjoyed a long, quiet lunch together, catching up on our news and just enjoying each others’ company.
At 3:00 or so we collected Mish and Anne and went home to find Gary and Tiffani cooking dinner. I inadvertently napped through most of the rest of the late afternoon, which was a good thing, since I felt refreshed and more able to enjoy the evening. Everyone else helped put our feast together.
People kept arriving all afternoon, and by dinnertime everyone except Leonard G was here. He will come tomorrow. We dined together in the circle under the canopy and then had our initial creating of the circle as each of us talked about who they were and how they came to be here today. The mosquitoes for which Melissa had sprayed twice this week still seemed to be in evidence around me, but happily the rest of the assemblage—except Eddie E—was not bothered. I expect I shall end the weekend much-bitten! This always happens. I suppose I have thinner skin than most, and they can more easily smell the blood which runs under my skin. and they think, Ah! Dinner!”
The beauty of each of the attendees new to me was quickly evident and of course our repeat attendees’ excellence is already well known! We have a wonderful group of remarkably fine people for this Gathering and I am looking forward to the weekend to come.
After the round-robin, we sat for the Gaia Meditation and I prayed the closing prayer. Then people wandered inside for some of Melissa and Mish’s delicious artichoke-spinach dip and conversation. Mick and I left the group at 11:00 for a final cuddle before bedtime.
2009-09-03
September 4, 2009 5:22am
Mick went out into the pretty, summery day after Morning Offering and got his biggest jobs of the week done, in terms of acreage mown. In the middle of it, Fielder, his biggest mower, dropped a weld or two and began cutting crookedly as a result, so Mick had to take the time to get him to Louisville Tractor for repairs and switch to Thesis, his back-up riding mower. Just what he needed on such a long day!
While activities swirled around me, I stayed in my office, which has been removed to my bedroom for the duration of the Gathering since we have a guest using my office as a bedroom thanks to a mattress on the floor, and worked on my fifth installment in the series on Penny Kelly’s book. This segment was on Nutrition. By bath time, I had the article written and posted.
Downstairs, Melissa and Mish worked together to create many delicious items—beet soup from Avalon beets, green beans which Melissa just picked before coming today, zucchini muffins from Avalon squash and two dips, artichoke-spinach and cucumber. Meanwhile Gary was all over the place, working to ready the place for our guests. Towards evening he completed the 150-page binder of materials he has prepared for attendees and began duplicating them. He made it easier on himself this year by purchasing paper with a three-hole punch for copying the pages.
Helen D and Anne H both arrived in the early evening, Helen from Vermont and Anne from Norway. It was wonderful to see them both. Helen went with me to choir practice, where we practiced some of what we will be singing at the Centennial concert in early October.
We returned home to a festive late supper, conversation, some wine and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer tonight.
Mick and I came upstairs then for a delicious late date and we said our last prayers together in the afterglow.
2009-09-02
September 3, 2009 5:32am
Mick and I hit the ground running today, both of us needing to get a good deal behind us before Homecoming. Mick went out into the beautiful day, enjoying the mild temperature and the sweet, golden sunshine, and accomplished his mowing for the day, then turned his energies to our own gardens and lawn. By bath time he had cut and detailed our “lawn”—actually more of a meadow, as we value the wildflowers over grass—and weeded and mulched our plantings. Although he remained dissatisfied, since he knows there are many more weeds out there which he ran out of time to remove, to the non-gardening observer our place looks magnificent.
My first thought of the work day was for the remaining two quote searches and despite persistent trouble with my MS Outlook software I got them finished and sent to Gary.
I also had a planning session with Mish concerning the snacks and desserts to be prepared for the Homecoming folks. We chose a cucumber dip and an artichoke-spinach dip, with baguettes and pita chips for dipping, for our snacks. We will also offer fruits, cheeses and nuts. For our dessert we chose brownies and ice cream, with chocolate syrup and whipped cream for those with a true sweet tooth.
Then it was time to take Mish to the Mall St. Matthews, where she treated me to lunch at The Cheesecake Factory. We enjoyed a variety of “small plates”. Mish’s shopping goal for the day was a very good shoe store in that mall, Knotts Shoes, which caters to people with problem feet. I dropped her off there and then went to have a manicure-pedicure with Bethany at Absolutely Salon. For this Homecoming week I chose a pretty, sparkling blue nail enamel, since the upcoming Gathering is all about blue-ray communication.
Mish was very successful at the shoe store, coming away with just what she wanted. She also had a reading from Leigh Ann Loggins, a local psychic who has a very pure and powerful contact with angelic guidance. Mish reported that the reading was simply wonderful.
Mick and I enjoyed a whirlpool and then a soothing bath together and rested until Romi came. We had previously arranged that I would take him out for a thank-you dinner at Selena’s, and we included Mish. We three had a lovely dinner, enjoying their good food and the beautiful water garden off their patio, where we sat outside under the waning sunset and gathering twilight, listening to the crickets and tree frogs and our occasional, noisy trains.
We came back to Camelot just in time for the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer tonight.
2009-09-01
September 2, 2009 6:00am
This has been the day of the quote searches for me! After Morning Offering I got busy with Anne H’s search, then Gerri G’s, then Eddie E’s, then Gary’s, then Tiffani’s, then Leonard G’s. When Mick called bath time I had started on Janet M’s. That’s a whole lot of searches, and it left me three to go in order to have a collection of quotations from our L/L Research archives for each and every attendee to Homecoming 2009. I shall resume the effort tomorrow.
At supper, Gary found out that I was planning to go up and do another search before bedtime, and generously offered to do one of the remaining quote searches for me so I could rest for the evening! What a guy! So I will have only Janet’s and Steve M’s to do tomorrow. Whew! I think I can do that!
Around the edges I wrote some e-mail—
- I thanked Gary for packing up the massage table that did not work for us. It was a finicky job, and well done!
- I commiserated with Celinda S of the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer on the loss of Betty C, who had been a long-time member.
- I thanked Steve M for responding with generosity and interest to my note about Melissa’s recent work with the Fox Hollow Bio-Dynamic program. He will speak with her further at Homecoming.
- Ian and I continued our discussion on whether or not to assign sources to the quotations in Voices of the Confederation. In the end we came down on the side of not assigning sources, since the original manuscript does not do so. I am glad of the decision as it would be quite time-consuming for me to go into the archives and find the correct source for each quotation, and even then, since there is material in the book which is not in the archives, the tapes having been lost, the sourcing would have been incomplete.
- Later in the day, I wrote Ian again asking clarification on an instruction on format which he had given me for VOC. He obliged immediately with very clear instructions, bless him. Sometimes you have to bring me along verrrrrry slowly when it comes to computer-talk!
- I wrote Gary to thank him for finding and sending to me Romi’s new address. Romi has moved to his very first house! He says he loves coming home to his own four walls.
- I responded to a note from Gary concerning the new Journey CDs—that is the title of an album of music brother Tommy Rueckert and I created and recorded many years ago now. It is now available as a CD. I asked Gary to pick up this discussion—which is on what to order and how to pay royalties to Tommy for anything we sell—after Homecoming, since it is complicated, low-priority and can definitely wait a week!
When I came downstairs for my bath, Gary had left to collect Mish, who is coming to town early for Homecoming in order to do some shopping and visit with us. Mish has translated the five volumes of TLOO, and 101, into French, and currently she is translating our Q’uo channelings. We are delighted to have her. She had been traveling nearly 24 hours straight, coming from Brussels, so after a glass of wine and some dinner, shared with us, she toddled off to bed.
Mick’s day was full but uneventful. The weather continues relatively cool and sunny as can be, so he mowed all his lawns and came home happy. He is planning on eking some time out from his work before Homecoming to mow our yard, and started today, before he put the big mower to bed for the night, by mowing the back garden where we will have the canopy tent erected on Thursday.
Gary was all over the house today as well as working at the L/L Research Inbox, getting everything ready to go for Homecoming. He joined Mick and me at 9:00 p.m. for the Gaia Meditation, and offered the closing prayer tonight.
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