October, 2009

The weather was summery today, the high over 80 F and the skies clear until evening, when we had a sudden, intense windstorm and then rain galore. Again!

After Morning Offering, Mick and Gary polished off the rest of the week’s lawns, finishing just barely ahead of the storm. Mick says that the leaves are falling so rapidly now that when he looked back at lawns he had just mown, he could not tell that he had been there. That is disgruntling! Soon, he says, all the leaves will be down and he can switch from mowing to some big chores—clearing land, repairing brickwork and like jobs—which have been hanging fire all summer.

I spent my morning working on a counseling letter to Jon P. It felt good to have that written and sent off to him. Like so many of my counseling clients, he is a wonderful guy and it was a pleasure to converse with him. I just hope some of my words will be useful resources for him.

Dianne S met Sonia and me for lunch and we had a great time, going to Selena’s for soup and sandwiches (Sonia and I) and shrimp manale (Dianne). We came back here and hung out together for a couple of hours, which felt great. There is nothing like time spent with true friends. The energy is very restorative and healing. These two women are both so good at supporting and loving!

I spent most of the rest of the work day sorting out paperwork in the downstairs office after Dianne left. There are some few things which an admin or a bookkeeper cannot handle for me, and I had amassed a pile of such items over the last week. By bath time, I had sorted through it all.

Along the way I answered e-mails—

- I let Connie know when my next 21st Century Medicine appointment is, so she can plan on having lunch with me that day.

- I wrote out some advice for a prisoner with whom Lorena, L/L Research’s prisoner outreach person is corresponding. He is receiving concept communication in an unusual way. I made suggestions as to how he might be able to better control these channelings.

- I responded to Stella V’s enthusiastic acceptance of creating a daily Q’uote send. I very much hope this takes off. People love short and positive messages and our channeling sessions are chock full of such excerpts.

- There was a good bit of correspondence with Romi and Ian concerning acquiring an updated Word program for Mish. She translates our work into French. Having completed the translation of TLOO and 101, she has begun working on Q’uo sessions. She desperately needs a better Word program in order for her work to be placed in our archives.

- I wrote Anne H to assure her that the misspelled name on the YouTube video has been changed. Her friend, Miles, was glad to do that, bless him! It was not a big deal. I Googled on the misspelled name and everything came up, as Google had recognized the misspelling and said, “Do you mean Rueckert?” But still, it’s good to have that little detail fixed.

- I let Ian know that Gary had re-listened to a session where Ian had a question about the text and had been unable to verify the right word, since the tape was damaged and the part in which the text was in question was simply not there. Hmm! It is a good thing that it was transcribed before the tape went south!

- I wrote Gary with the suggestion for Miguel, who asked for a channeling session but whose questions were not those Q’uo could answer, offering to do a counseling session by e-mail with him instead. I don’t like to turn people down, but I do not want to detune my channel either, and that has priority.

- I answered a question for a Czech gentleman who is offering to translate TLOO into Czech.

- I asked Gary to make some improvements to our Christmas Card database. It is getting to be time to deal with that happy chore.

I printed out my 2009 Christmas List. Melissa and I will start working on gifts next week and figuring out what I have already bought is the first step. Melissa is very artistic with wrapping and pours her heart into making decorations out of natural objects—teasels, grasses, berries, bits of bark and all sorts of things. I am so lucky that she loves to do this, since I cannot handle it myself any more. We have so much fun with it all!

Mick and I rested after our bath until 8:00 and then went downstairs to join Sonia, who had been busy cleaning all afternoon, for supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.

2009-10-29

October 30, 2009 6:04am

We might as well have been in Paradise today as far as the weather went. The little village of Anchorage was aglow, the leaf rain coloring the ground as well as the trees in blazing colors. Mick felt way better this morning! What wonderful news that is! After Morning Offering he and Gary polished off the JLS quota for today, coming back in mid-afternoon. Gary put in some time at the L/L Research helm after that while Mick did his daily maintenance.

Sonia was busy in the kitchen, baking a delicious batch of scalloped potatoes for me to take to the choir party, plus a batch for here at home. Melissa was here briefly for breakfast and then she was off to Jim’s customer, who is moving, to continue to help clear the outbuildings. What a great heart she has!

I spent some few minutes with her trying to get her to promise to present a bill for all these hours. She is resistant, concerned for Mrs. D’s pocketbook. I did extract a promise from her to keep an account of her time. I know Mrs. D will pay her in installments if she will only present the bill!

As for me, I might as well have been bitten by a tse tse fly! The morning was again consumed in angel naps, and at lunchtime I fell asleep over my book and lost two more hours! Ack! I did get my journals written and had a powerful prayer time, but other than starting on my e-mail counseling session with Jon P and collecting a recipe for Mediterranean Orange Chicken with Wild Rice, I was outwardly unproductive. I think this is the longest I have ever taken to recover from a single Gathering. Still, it was worth every ounce of effort. This Channeling Intensive was full of gifted people and I am honored and thankful to work with them, as well as loving them dearly.

I gladly left my office chair, in which I was dozing AGAIN, when Mick was ready for a bath and a snuggle. When a mated relationship works, it can be the sweetest thing in this world. Mick curled up around me—my shoulder was awash in nerve pain today, and I could only lie on my back—and we created heaven on earth as we shared each other’s energy and body heat. I treasure every moment I am privileged to spend with my beloved prince.

We went to church at 6:30 for the choir party and then Mick went home to enjoy Colbert and Stewart while I worked with the choir on Christmas music, as well as next Sunday’s offerings. The choir members are great cooks and we dined sumptuously.

I am thrilled to say that Kathy R, Brench and Jerry B and Lyn K all agreed to sing at Saint Luke’s Quiet Day next spring! With those gifted singers, we really do not need any more people to sing Evensong—the service with which we will close the Quiet Day. But I imagine others will join in - it is the kind of choir it is. Full of love and a passion for service and singing.

When Mick picked me up, we came home to offer the Gaia Meditation, with Gary offering the closing prayer. We enjoyed a late supper and conversation with Sonia before packing it in.

2009-10-28

October 29, 2009 9:52am

The day was simply stunning, Mother Nature offering us an intense, harvest-blue sky, golden sunlight and pleasant warmth. Unfortunately, Mick was below par when he awakened, and a stop at Baptist East Immediate Care after we had Morning Offering revealed that he had a urinary tract infection. He went off to work anyway. It was a very punishing day for him, but he made it through. He began a course of antibiotics and by bedtime felt much better.

I continued feeling almost drugged with weariness today and slept most of the morning away. The constant angel naps are most comforting, but I am surprised it is taking so long for the weariness to fade after this Gathering. It was really a lost day for me, although I did make it to the salon in the afternoon for a manicure-pedicure. I chose orange, yellow and white for nail colors and had my fingernails painted like candy corn in honor of Hallowe’en. The fall color along the road is at its peak right now, and I drove home amidst incandescent maples and oaks glowing orange and red, and poplars shining with yellow leaves.

Sonia made banana bread today, which has a wonderful aroma! The whole house smelled deliciously.

I did write some e-mail, but my computer is again not sending. I had fourteen e-mails backed up in my Outbox as I quit for the day. I am not so sure this move to AT&T was a smart one. It seems to jam up a lot. One thing I was thrilled to receive was Anne Hess’s e-mail letting me know that her four-part interview with me is up on YouTube. The links are http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWhA2baJrZk, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHsJqZgxgHk, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHsJqZgxgHk and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAnGeiZKOpw. She did a wonderful job with the questions she asked and with the editing. Anne is a mover and a shaker indeed. She traveled from Norway to London to get some help with the edit, and I really do think it ended up being an excellent piece of work. One small detail was in error—she spelled my name incorrectly. Oh well! I think it is close enough that people can find our work.

Mick and I rested until 8:00, snoozing through the early evening hours after a shorter bath than usual due to his feeling poorly. We came down for a delightful supper and conversation with Sonia, Melissa and Gary. I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-10-27

October 28, 2009 6:05am

Mick and I got an early start again, since the forecast is rainy. Indeed, we saw last night that our area is a full foot above the average rainfall for this year, all totaled. It is not hard to believe that. Mick has danced with the raindrops almost every single week of his mowing year, managing by sheer diligence and a willingness to get wet to finish his work each week. And so after Morning Offering he set out to mow more than today’s scheduled lawns. He succeeded brilliantly! He even found some time to do some extra trimming for one customer, and to clean another client’s gutters.

I started my day with the first round of prolotherapy on the lumbar spine with Dr. Johnson at 21st Century Medicine. Then I had a cranial-sacral massage with Liz. The combination pretty much knocked me out, but the hope here is that the combined treatment will give my back a boost and enable me to stay on my feet for more than a minute or two at a time without so many disastrously uncomfortable symptoms. Since the standard medical care I have with very good MDs has not availed, it is time to try alternate healing modalities!

I enjoyed having lunch with Connie, which we always try to do when I need to visit 21st Century Medicine. Connie works with prisoners, trying to help them adjust to civilian life after being incarcerated. She reports that the deep forest which backs up to her very secluded home is her lifesaver, restoring her to peace and contentment after her usual day of locked doors, no windows and the games people play with their therapists. Her heart is so loving and strong! She is an inspiration to me. And I love her dearly.

I came home to discover a request from Gary to write a response to questions from one of our B4 forums, concerning David’s channeling as well as mine. This was bound to come up, since David states that he channels Ra, without qualifying what that means most of the time. I took my time to craft a response which was truly just and accurate without being judgmental. I think it is important for me to emphasize the fact that David has brought more people to the Law of One material than anyone on the planet, and I am always grateful for that. Gary said later that he felt the response was a good one.

Terry H of Taipei wrote to ask about the channeling of L/Leema. He read that L/Leema was the go-to person, back in the mid-eighties, for new questions about the archetypes. He wondered what happened to that effort. The answer is simple: the person intending to become the questioner stopped working with us and moved on in his spiritual process to other sources of inspiration.

I wrote Terry concerning the vagaries of the road. It does no good to try to plan ahead when the planning involves others whose free will may operate at any time to move them to seek elsewhere. Nor do I feel the least concerned because that plan did not develop as hoped. We are not in control! And we do not have to be. We have only to do that which is ours to do this day, and do it with love, brio, some laughter and a passion for excellence.

My excellence today had a whole lot to do with napping. I am still so tired my eyes are crossed! It takes me a while to recover from a Gathering. Chloe and I rested together in late afternoon, drowsing until Mick called bath time. She drapes her little, furry cat-self across the long pillow which is on top of my chest and snoozes with her nose close to my chin. It is so sweet!

Meanwhile Gary restored the living room to its usual configuration and Sonia washed all the attendees’ bedding and remade the beds, doing a beautiful job of creating new order and peace in the house after the crowded days which have just passed.

My beautifully amorous husband again asked for a play-date and we had a lovely romp together, relishing the sacred energy as we exchanged it and thanking the Lord. Then we went downstairs for a most enjoyable supper and conversation with Romi, Gary and Sonia.

And we even got to see Melissa for a brief moment as she dashed through on her way to Avalon. She has gone far beyond the call of duty in working with one of Mick’s JLS customers who is moving. Now that the house itself is packed up and finished, she is clearing the mansion’s outbuildings for the customer. Melissa promised to stay with us longer when she returns tomorrow!

Gary read me some mail concerning recent work done in counseling and channeling. It was a wonderful harvest of kind words which truly lifted my heart. I am so grateful to be where I am, able to serve at this time! I hope I may live to be absolutely ancient and get everything which spirit has for me done at last. It will take a few decades! And I am eager for every day of it.

Gary offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-10-26

October 27, 2009 5:22am

Monday came early for Mick, as there is yet another rainy week forecast, and he wanted to get an early start. After Morning Offering he set out and managed to get an extra, fairly large job done for tomorrow as well as finishing all the yards he had to do for today. And this was despite his discovering that something along the verge of the yard of one of his customers is deadly to mower tires! He took it in and the Big O Tire people reported that there were no less than four holes in it!

I napped a good deal today, barely surfacing enough to do my journals and have my chapel time. However at lunch I met with the deacon and music minister of St. Luke’s and we cobbled together a good Quiet Day for Lent 2010. It is scheduled for February 20th. I think it will be outstanding, with such a good crew.

Gary came upstairs in late afternoon, on the phone with AT&T tech support and they collaborated to get me on line with sending e-mail. All my old e-mail went out at last! I wrote Dianne to let her know we were on for Friday, as she was worrying since I had not e-mailed her to confirm previously.

I filled out and e-mailed the agreement for the Kona Conference on January 7-10th. It is good to see that proceeding.

Mick and I bathed together and then enjoyed a lovely date before joining Sonia and Gary for a late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Gary offered the closing prayer. Then we all sat and read together for an hour or so before saying good-night.

2009-10-25

October 26, 2009 9:06am

Going against the forecasted weather, the last day of our Channeling Intensive was simply beautiful, fair and approaching 70 F by afternoon. After Morning Offering the group had a Channeling Circle session with Mick, Lorena and I co-channeling on the question of what the group could do to continue the fellowship begun here. It felt like a good session.

We practiced the tuning procedure together once more before lunch and then came together again at 2:30 to tune and then to have the first practice session of Cycle Two. I was amazed that almost everyone picked up the contact the very first time. Those that did not had an awareness of the contact but no words, or no gatekeeper, or some problem lots easier to discover and solve than not being aware of a contact. It was a great ending to the Gathering’s work! We celebrated by caravanning over to Captain’s Quarters Restaurant for a last meal together. Their menu is brand new and I had the lobster tortellini, which was superb. I brought Mick home some chocolate Crème Brulee.

We settled in after the Gaia Meditation, at which I offered the closing prayer, and shared wine and bruschetta, thanks to Sonia’s kind preparation, along with our conversation. Mick and I went up to bed at 10:30, leaving the group full of good vibes and looking to talk together for a good while longer. The last of our attendees will leave tomorrow afternoon.

2009-10-24

October 25, 2009 6:19am

Although the predicted weather was rainy, we enjoyed a mostly sunny and warm day, which was fortunate indeed for those at our Gathering. After Morning Offering the group tackled the subject of psychic greeting. Then, during the course of the late morning and afternoon, each attendee worked his way through creating his workroom and meeting his guidance and gatekeeper.

I went through the whole tuning and challenging protocol with them after explaining each part of it, and then we opened to Q&A. It was a hard-working group and they accomplished quite a lot today.

Mick was on hand all day except for an errand run. It was lovely to be with him! We took a shower together and then a nap during the afternoon break, and the attendees and I enjoyed a delicious dinner at Selena’s and some good conversation before we shared the Gaia Meditation, with Mick offering the closing prayer.

At 10:30 or so Mick and I came upstairs for a “play date”, and greatly enjoyed sharing energy for a long, satisfying while before we made our last prayers and said good-night.

2009-10-23

October 24, 2009 5:00am

It rained overnight and continued misting this morning, so Mick waited until mid-afternoon to mow his last two yards for the week with Gary’s help. After Morning Offering, we gathered for four lectures from me, with ample Q&A during and after each talk. The circle worked hard and listened well, asked intelligent and sometimes very offbeat questions. It was a joy to do this work together. We covered channeling itself, the requirements for being a channel, tuning and challenging.

Gary and Sonia had created some delicious tomato-artichoke heart soup and we had all sorts of sandwich makings and salad for lunch. Lorena kindly fixed my plate for me. I love hearing the bustle and conversation as the energy ramps up at our Gatherings. This is a very good and loving group.

I took my after-lunch break and went to sleep, attempting to help my energy level as this Gathering continues. Mick woke me to share his late lunch in my company but then he went to mow while I napped again.

We went to supper at Ruby Tuesday’s and had a lovely dinner. When we returned we offered the Gaia Meditation, with Romi saying the closing prayer. Mick and I enjoyed the conversation until 10:00 or so and then came upstairs for playtime in the fields of the Lord. We said our last prayer at midnight.

2009-10-22

October 23, 2009 9:40am

It was a lovely, cool day and after Morning Offering Mick and Gary set out to mow all they could before the predicted rain hits tonight and tomorrow. They came back at dusk to report all but two lawns cut and detailed. Mick will be inventive tomorrow, finding spaces between the upcoming raindrops for getting those done.

I took the day to rest. The upcoming Channeling Intensive will take all the energy I can give it, so rest seemed to be the best preparation. I did do my journaling and took prayer time, as well as collecting some good-sounding recipes from this Wednesday’s paper. Endive Slaw, Burgers with Mushrooms and Chili Sauce and Potatoes with Red Peppers are now in our repertoire.

Mick came in with just enough time for us to bathe before starting the Channeling Intensive. We greeted nine attendees, plus Lorena and Romi, who will attend to support the cycle-two people, plus Mick, Sonia and I. It makes for one full Camelot living room.

This is an exceptionally fine group. Even before the first night of round-robin discussion and the reading of our “Who Am I” essays ended I could feel the group energy building powerfully. I look forward to the work we shall do together over this rainy autumn weekend.

I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight. Then Mick and I went upstairs for a romp in the fields of the Lord, sharing some beautiful energy! We left the downstairs group abuzz in conversation, and I would imagine some of our attendees talked late into the night!

2009-10-21

October 22, 2009 5:19am

The day started out pretty, though chilly, and as it warmed up, it began to cloud over. After Morning Offering Mick set out to mow, and came back at the end of the day happy with what he had gotten done, which included making our own yard look pretty for the Channeling Intensive which starts tomorrow.

Sonia and Gary were working all day on the cooking and other preparations for the Gathering. The living room was all adjusted to Gathering Mode. And in the kitchen, great piles of vegetables were chopped and dishes began appearing for tomorrow night’s opening meal.

I was very low-energy today, with a couple of angel naps in the mix, but I read through Chapter One and found that I am finished with it! It is always good news when the changes I make in my writing are just punctuation and fiddling with a phrase here and there. I read the section on Emotions over to Mick and he felt it was good to go! So the chapter goes off to Steve M tomorrow for his second pair of eyes. He is wonderful at showing me ways to simplify my language.

I went to the salon for a manicure at 2:00 and chose lavender with gold sparkles for this week’s color. I was surprised, when I returned through the leaf-rain, to find that the AT&T workmen were still here. They had arrived at 10:00 a.m. to install our new all-in-one high-speed TV/internet/phone service. Apparently there is a whole lot to that! They finally left after 6:00! But now we have full TV service in Sonia’s room and supposedly our internet speed will be supersonic. We’ll see. I still can’t get on the internet to find out! Gary will need to sort me out.

Mick and I retired to my room when the workmen had left at last for a delicious date. We have such fun together! It is a true blessing. Then we joined Gary and Sonia for a late supper. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-10-20

October 21, 2009 5:49am

It warmed up today, and the welcome sunshine streamed through our day, along with a slow rain of falling leaves. After Morning Offering, Mick and Sonia set out for the dealership which sold Mick his truck back in 1990 in order to repair an electrical defect. It turned out to be a fuse which needed replacement, and the truck was back in service before the day was over.

Mick worked hard with his full day’s complement of lawns and gardens, coming home satisfied at dusk. Gary was at the L/L Research helm, Sonia was busy in the kitchen and Melissa came and went on various errands, bringing me a double stack of books from a JLS customer who is moving.

I had a counseling appointment with Tracy this morning, a most enjoyable energy exchange. I worked on Chapter One of 102 off and on all day, finishing the first draft out on the porch in late afternoon.

Around the edges, I answered e-mail, viewing a record number of “cute pet photo” forwards and passing them on to those friends of mine who like to go, “Awwww!” In addition—

• I sent Wynn Free a request for the audio records of our last two conversations, in order that we can get them transcribed.

• I sent Lee B the details on the Earth Transformation conference on Kona at which I will speak next January.

• I chatted with Ian further on upcoming work, congratulating him on his very careful way of entering translations of TLOO and Q’uo channelings into our archive site.

• I talked with Connie and with Dianne about upcoming “girls’ lunch out” dates.

• Barbara B and I worked to find a time to make a relay call—she read my most recent UPI article, on “Socialism, Obama and The Law of One” and realized we had not connected in a while.

• Mish just translated the session with which we ended the Homecoming last month into French and commented again on the true love she had experienced here at Camelot. I thanked her for the kind words.

Just as I finished the first draft of Chapter One, Mick rolled in. We enjoyed a bath and a rest together before sharing supper with Sonia, Gary and Melissa. Then Romi came, and also Tracy and her husband, Mike, who were there for a private channeling session. Mike is a soldier and security consultant who has discovered how to send unconditional love in battle situations to save lives. His is a wonderful story, and he has written a book about it, The Intuitive Warrior. You can find out more, and buy the book, at http://michaeljaco.com/. He asked Q’uo about how to share this paradigm-changing revelation, and there was also a shorter question on how to aid soldiers with post-traumatic stress syndrome. It was a very interesting session.

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

2009-10-19

October 20, 2009 5:41am

Monday, Monday! It seemed cruel to arise in the thick black of night after enjoying two days of daylight rising this weekend. Mick and I commiserated as we snuggled before getting up and at ‘em. After Morning Offering, Mick headed out into the chilly morning for a full day’s work of mowing and gardening. I divided my morning time between writing my journal entries and having angel naps. In the afternoon, I worked on the Emotions section of Chapter One of 102, making headway but not finishing the section. Gary helped me go outside to work for the latter part of the afternoon.

Around the edges I fielded e-mail from Delinda B, St. Luke’s deacon, who wrote asking where she, Lisa L and I were to meet next Monday, and I was happy to tell her that we will meet at Selena’s. Their food is so very delicious! Lisa and I picked the restaurant out together at church on Sunday. I let Father Joe know that we will meet—he likes to be in the loop on such matters even if he does not attend.

Thinking ahead towards that appointment, I asked Gary to find all of our library’s Evelyn Underhill books. I would like to suggest some of her readings for use during the Quiet Day we are planning at that meeting.

Mick and I bathed and then came upstairs for a most lively and sacred time of energy sharing. The Creator was very kind to make us thusly! We had such a fine time! We came down a bit early for supper, since I had an interview at 9:00. Sonia, Melissa and Gary joined us for dinner, conversation and football. It was most convivial. We held our Gaia Meditation early and Gary offered the closing prayer.

My interview with Wynn Free went well, I thought. A woman named Maya phoned in with a question about who she was, how to discover “who was Maya”. I thought it was an excellent question and had a good time answering it! Wynn asked about how to react in these days when things seem so dire in the outer world, and that was a rich question also. The hour passed too quickly! After the conversation, I sent Wynn a request for the links to the audio from our last two conversations, so that we can transcribe the talks, and asked him to confirm that we were on for November 16th.

2009-10-18

October 19, 2009 10:17am

It was a cool, crisp Sunday with frost on the open fields, the leaves falling very quickly now and the full, golden sun shining without the thick warmth of summer.

I love all the little details of my ride from the car up St. Luke’s Church’s ramp. We usually park by a broken gate into the next yard which is very picturesque, an off-center fan-gate whose slats are mostly broken. The exposed roots of wild honeysuckle bushes climb the small, steep rise to the gate. Right now the honeysuckle bushes are stuffed with red berries, fat and glistening.

I ride up the ramp past a ragged grapevine arbor and the hedge of the Memorial Garden on the right, bumpity-bump, with nandina bushes to my left against the big stones of the church wall. For some reason this short ride, with Mick pushing me up the ramp to the red doors of the church’s rear hallway, has come to be very poignant for me.

Today we sang Mendelssohn’s lovely chorus from Elijah, “For He Shall Give His Angels Charge over Thee” for the Offertory and “Heavenly Light”, by the Russian composer Kopylow, at the Communion. It was an interesting service, as we reprised the first service in this church building one hundred years ago by using the 1892 edition of the Book of Common Prayer and all the service music and hymns were those which could have been used then. I especially enjoyed singing the “Gloria in Excelsis” to the “Old Scottish Chant” tune. It is a sentimental setting for me since I sang it for many years as a child at St. Mark’s, when we had Communion only once a month.

Mick picked me up and we shared lunch and a good, long nap before watching The Merry Gentleman, a film which represents Michael Keaton’s directorial debut. It is a gentle, ironic love story involving a woman, played with delicate affection and freshness by Kelly MacDonald, who is trying to leave an abusive husband, and a suicidal hit man, played by Keaton. A heavy-handed detective, played by Tom Bastounes, is trying to catch Keaton. Both men fall for MacDonald’s character. The tangled web reveals three very human, flawed and touching people seeking and sometimes finding love’s haven.

The film is very funny at times. My favorite scene involves MacDonald’s character valiantly striving to haul a large Christmas tree up the steep steps of her stoop and finally having it topple on her, pinning her down. Keaton rescues the damsel in distress and falls in love.

The title of the film is never explained, but the action takes place at Christmas, and the old Christmas carol, “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen”, seems to be an implied theme. Certainly the amount of dismay seen at the beginning of the piece fades gradually and turns into love’s haven. The last scene has Keaton’s character first dropping his omnipresent cap off the bridge from which he has contemplated throwing himself, and then rescuing the cap.

It is filmed beautifully by Chris Seager, and Jon Sadoff and Ed Shearmur are responsible for a lovely soundtrack. Kudos to Keaton on his debut film. It is a modest little gem of a movie.

I had intended to write to Papa during our late-afternoon break, but instead found myself with e-mail to answer. Ian and I conversed concerning several issues having to do with adding translations of TLOO and Q’uo sessions to the archive site.

I heard from Angelika that it was possible to get a non-stop flight from the West Coast to Kona, making it unnecessary to break the trip in Honolulu.

And Ian sent me a long status report on the various projects he has in progress now for our site. It is an exciting and long list! In addition to the manuscript of Voices of the Confederation, which is now fully edited and ready to produce as a printed book, he has the booklet written by Don and the eighteen archive volumes ready to produce as well! All of this forward motion got stopped, first by travel and then by renovation in his home. He reports that soon the season for outside renovation will be at an end, and he will be back to these projects.

It is great news! The volumes he already has produced for print-on-demand, The Alphabet Mosaics and the 25-year collection of Light/Lines, are producing some revenue for us now, and as we have more titles from which to choose, that income stream should expand. It is exciting to see our little non-profit company able to pay its bills.

If we become more prosperous, I will favor plowing the extra income into raising Melissa’s Avalon Caretaker fee and giving Pam more hours, as many as we can afford. I know that Melissa will plow any extra funds into Avalon Farm, which is very needy. And Pam could make lots of headway into working on our L/L Research Special Library, which has been gasping for attention for years, if she just had the hours to do so. Both of these workers are wonderfully self-motivating and efficient, doing each task with love. The more effort that we can support, the more aid we will be able to offer to the seekers that come our way.

Mick, Sonia and I enjoyed a quiet evening together and Mick offered the Gaia Meditation’s closing prayer.

2009-10-17

October 18, 2009 5:57pm

It is lovely to sleep a bit later on Saturdays! Sonia began a round of cooking and cleaning after Morning Offering, and Mick went off to mow his last four yards for this week, making up lost time from all our rainy days lately. Mick and I rendezvoused for a brief but enjoyable lunch and then I returned to working on the first two sections of Chapter One of 102, reading through and finalizing the sections on Life on Earth and Catalyst and working on the last section, on Emotions.

At 3:00 I logged on to B4 for the Live Chat and had a great two hours there. It was a lively, loving group with tons of good questions! I about typed my pinkies off!

Around the edges I did some e-mail.

- There was a dust up at BBS. They had changed their passwords and did not notify Romi, so he could not send them their session for this week’s broadcast. Don N promptly returned my distress e-mail with the new password and when Romi came over he sent the session for this week on to BBS in time for the broadcast. Whew!

- I wrote Terry concerning a couple of phrases in TLOO about which he was wondering.

- I wrote to thank Ian for the great work he is doing with the new Spanish translator, Angelo, as well as with Pilar, who is translating TLOO. It is wonderful to see more and more of our material available in a variety of languages. We have some L/L material available in Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese now.

- I assured Gary that I had Wynn’s Monday Night talk for next week on my schedule.

- I wrote Lisa to let her know I would not be at church Sunday week as it is a teaching weekend for me.

Mick and I bathed and then dressed to welcome Eric, his mom, Phellis and his sister, Andrea, who joined us for pizza and salad before the meeting, and then stayed for the meeting. It was a larger group than usual tonight, with them plus Romi, Baykal, Gary, Sonia and Lynn, a new member. The question was about how to “Know the self, accept the self and become the Creator”. There was also an interesting question at the end on demonic possession. I offered the Gaia Meditation prayer at the end of the session.

The group stayed and chatted most enjoyably until midnight and might have gone on longer—Mick and I went to bed at that point!

2009-10-16

October 17, 2009 5:51am

After Morning Offering, Mick went out into the chill with newly arrived Gary to take his truck in to be fixed. He was amazed to discover that the dealership had moved to another location without notifying him, even when he made the service appointment. And he did not have time to suss out their new location. It was a lame start to the day! But he and Gary recovered and managed to mow six big lawns today. So tomorrow, Mick will only have four of them to do.

Sonia drove to the grocery for the first time to lay in a few supplies for entertaining Eric, his Mom and his sister tomorrow night. She made some brownies and a big salad to go with the pizzas we will order.

I worked on Chapter One of 102, creating the first draft of the section on catalyst. After reading it to Mick, I decided to take another swing at the text, as I think I see a couple of ways to tweak it.

I also cleared a lot of personal e-mail, notably including a request to the Kona Gathering people to create breaks in Mick’s and my travel to Hawaii next January, so we lay over, overnight, in Los Angeles and Honolulu. It should not cost any more to do it that way and it will undoubtedly help me arrive in Kona ready to teach. I also sent a shout out to Don N of BBS Radio, because Romi said that he could not load our material for Saturday’s broadcast.

After Mick and I bathed, we came upstairs for a most joyous and electric date. It was lovely. We snuggled in the afterglow until 8:00, and then joined Sonia for dinner. Gary joined us at 9:00 for the Gaia Meditation and he offered the closing prayer tonight.

2009-10-15

October 16, 2009 9:13am

Heavy rain had just moved through the area when we finished Morning Offering, so Mick had to wait out the drying time before mowing. As the days get cooler, drying times get longer, naturally. So Mick and I went into St. Matthews together to pick up my new computer glasses. But when I got there, the representative fiddled with the new pair and then said that there was still a problem. She ordered a whole new set of lenses, as she says these are too small to fit the frames, which is why they keep popping out. So no joy there. At least it is free!

Then Mick dropped me off at the Baptist East Immediate Care Center in Middletown to get the X-rays of my lumbar spine which Dr. Johnson needs to see before starting me on a course of prolotherapy, which is a course of injections which are supposed to help heal painful tendons and joint areas. He will do this to the vertebrae in my lumbar spine. Meanwhile Mick did all manner of other errands.

This process took the morning. We enjoyed a quick lunch together before Mick set out to mow what he could in the continual drizzle, which lasted until the night.

I spent my afternoon inadvertently sleeping, writing my journal entries and then working on 102’s Chapter One. I did make headway, but did not finish the section by any means.

Around the edges, I wrote some e-letters—

- To Terry H, concerning the possibility of his asking Schiffer for official rights to publish TLOO in Chinese. I warned him that they had a long history of refusing such requests, and when they did say yes, it was costly. I wished him good luck!

- To Lana L-B, congratulating her on working her way through her entire manuscript again, now that she has a better handle on the whole of the book.

- To Monica L, thanking her for the big sample of Kangen water which she is sending home with Gary from Virginia.

- To Linnie W, suggesting that we drop the whole idea of presents and just enjoy each other—we used to exchange gifts each Christmas, and it has been since last December that we have tried to get together, so we have old gifts. We agreed in a subsequent exchange of letters to recycle our presents and forget the gift exchange permanently. Our gifts to each other are each other!

Gary called from the road to say that he would stay the night at Valerie’s and come to work with Mick tomorrow at the usual time. We’re so glad he’s home again! He said the trip exceeded expectations. That is Gary-ese for “had a terrific time!”

Sonia, Mick and I dined together—she had made scalloped potatoes and peas to go with Gary’s turkey-dressing casserole, and we ate well. Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation. Sonia and Mick enjoyed Thursday-Night Football for the remainder of the evening, while I enjoyed reading.

2009-10-14

October 15, 2009 2:03pm

Rain, rain, as far as the radar could see this morning! Mick went out in the wet to Shelbyville, after Morning Offering, and mowed Steve F’s place in the drizzle. Fortunately, that ground has not seen the amount of rain we have here, and it mowed nicely despite the misty raindrops. It was, he noted, a beautiful drive over with the leaf colors ripening in this cool rain. He spent the rest of his day doing non-mowing chores for various customers.

I excelled in sleep today, having four angel naps at various times. This did not bode well for getting work done! I managed to write my journal entries and had a lovely chapel time, but other than that, did only e-mail.

I heard from Linnie, who has been under the weather and out of touch for the last little while. My heart just leapt for joy! Linnie is perhaps my dearest friend. We have been close since 1968, when I met her for the first time at Don’s Aunt Tot’s house, where she was then living with her husband, Larry.

Forty years later, Larry is 85 years old—he is 18 years older than Linnie—and they are living in a sweet cottage in a beautiful area of Louisville, but having to watch their pennies because Larry can no longer work. When she became ill as well recently, she really had to shut down everything except survival mode, for even ill, she had to take care of Larry, who is pretty much home-bound.

Don’s aunt has gone on to paradise, as has her husband and Don himself, and so many things have changed—but not Linnie and I! We’re BFF! We will see each other for lunch soon.

Sonia is settling in very well. I asked her to take me for a spin in my car, with the twin goals of showing her the neighborhood north and south of here, where the retail districts are, and giving her a chance to get to know my car with me there to explain whatever she needed to know. First and foremost, she learned the windshield wipers! It drizzled all day nonstop!

We three enjoyed a late supper together after Mick and I bathed and had a good rest upstairs. I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation.

2009-10-13

October 14, 2009 8:32am

As the cloud cover lowered over the Louisville area and the temperature began to drop, Mick went out after Morning Offering and cut all the grass he could. Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy—as is Thursday and Friday. Enough already! Poor Mick! He has no idea how he will complete his work this week! I have complete faith that he will find a way to dance through this. He always does.

I had a low-energy day, falling asleep at my work several times. Finally I gave up trying to work on 102 and did other things. I edited a couple of chapters for Lana L-B’s book, True to America, which had been lingering on my Inbox for way too long and sent it to her. I finished reading Papa’s journals and began a response. And I cleared my e-mail.

• I responded to another of Terry Hsu’s translation questions, this one concerning a Q’uo session.

• I edited the revised version of Pupie’s letter to U of L asking for their help in resolving her immigration status and sent it back to her.

• I had a brisk correspondence with Delinda B and Lisa L, the deacon and choirmistress at St. Luke’s, concerning holding a Quiet Day next spring. We have decided to have it pre-Lenten, and focus on preparing to make a good Lent. I love the idea and we will meet to plan it on October 26th. I am the Kentucky representative of the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer, and the day will be held under its aegis as well as St. Luke’s.

• I wrote Greta W, with whom I shared the Mind Link in 1977, to wish her bon voyage. She is in Hospice now and expected to pass into larger life momentarily.

• I thanked Dianne S for sending me a two-minute video of Bashar talking about the LOO. That link is http://www.youtube.com/user/gray303#p/a/f/2/o2QJQhcDJWM. He seems to have a good grasp of the work.

• I thanked Eli E for sending me a most inspiring YouTube video of President Obama’s speech last night to the Gay Rights group. It was very touching indeed and I am glad I voted for him, even if he is not moving towards restoration of the Constitution as quickly as I had hoped.

• I thanked Celinda Scott for sending me the new Anglican Fellowship of Prayer brochure. We can make good use of them when we have our Quiet Day next Epiphany.

• I thanked Gary for a good update by telephone on the pay-per-download project on B4’s online store, and for his beautiful photo of Tobey’s view of mountains and sky.

Finally I accepted my fate for today and went to lie down for an afternoon rest, but I was too late, as Mick called a fairly early bath time so that we would have time for a good snuggle before the channeling session tonight.

The personal channeling session for Darryl B went well. His questions had to do with the open heart and using the gateway to intelligent infinity. Romi came over to join Sonia, Mick and me in the circle. Then we shared a late supper together, and I offered the Gaia Meditation prayer at the end of the channeling session.

2009-10-12

October 13, 2009 5:55am

The weather was sprightly today and after Morning Offering Mick went out into it to dance with the nature spirits of Anchorage on his noble chargers, Thetis and Fielder, his two Skag riding mowers. He came home at bath time, well satisfied with his hardworking day.

Sonia and I powwowed on how she should shape her volunteer time today and we settled on the kitchen, whose lower cabinets have not been cleaned and re-organized for almost two years. In the course of the day she found plenty to clean, including a loaf of bread tucked behind a large kitchen scale and forgotten since last March. It is a tribute to its packaging that not one bug could be found anywhere.

She also alphabetized the herbs and spices—an approach novel to me. Perhaps it will work better for the guys than my system, which was to group the little bottles according to use—all the baking stuff like seeds and spices together, all the curry-making ingredients together, etc. Since no one else is as familiar with the herbs and spices as am I, that arrangement was always coming undone.

I spent my work day creating my UPI article for this week - a think-piece on Socialism, Obama and the Law of One. Recent attacks on Obama, calling him a socialist as if that were an awful thing, have gotten on my nerves. He has a hard job, trying to make sense of and bring us out of the snafus left by the previous administration. I wish people would leave him to it. I think the article came out well.

I caught a call from Gary, who is visiting Steve E, our B4 webmaster, in Virginia. He and Steve were working on the pay-for-download project. They wanted to be sure that I felt that people’s ID would be protected if we left in the first names which are in the sessions from time to time. I said I thought that was OK, since when I see an old transcript, even I cannot usually remember who Carol or Kate or whoever was.

Around the edges I did some e-mail:

- I answered a question from Terry H about English usage of the verbs ‘shall’ and ‘will’. Why this should come up in the course of translating 101: The Choice into Chinese I could not tell you!

- I answered my nutritionist’s question about the “super green food” I had been taking. I let her know that I have let this particular supplement lapse. Now, all my dietary supplements are those she has suggested.

- I wrote Ian concerning a new Spanish translator who has offered to help us. He suggested that she translate one Q’uo channeling and then have Pilar check her work, before letting her loose on our archive. I agreed. We also discussed the work of a Russian translator of TLOO. I had to refer Ian’s questions on that to Gary, when he gets back to work on Saturday.

- I wrote a proposal to Delinda B and Lisa L at St. Luke’s that we have a Quiet Day in Lent 2010.

Mick and I bathed and then came upstairs for a rousing and sensual date, then snoozed in the afterglow until 8:00, when we descended to join Sonia and Melissa, who came in from her long, long day of packing for Mick’s customer, for a late supper. We enjoyed the new episode of House together before taking in a football game—Jets versus Dolphins. I retired to my book! But Sonia, Melissa and Mick all enjoy football and we had a great evening, very convivial and restful.

Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-10-11

October 12, 2009 9:13am

This spell of autumn weather is simply gorgeous! The color is not yet far advanced in the trees, and with all the rain, the grass is thick and green as springtime. Our mums are rioting all over the ruins garden, out in the gathering garden and around the cross-shaped patio. And the burning bushes are just setting in to their burn. It is breathtaking!

Mick took me to church—no choir today, so he fixed me up with a music stand in the congregation—and then cleaned house while I worshiped. It was a lovely service, with a guest preacher, The Reverend David McConkey, offering us fine thoughts on living well. I was inundated with people telling me how great the music was on Saturday and also exclaiming at Mick’s skills at dancing. I agreed with them on both counts! It WAS a lovely service, and Mick is DEFINITELY a fine dancer. It’s just so much fun to watch him go!

We lunched together and had our Sunday nap, and then watched a very dim film called Lies and Illusions. It says much that the titles were by far the best part of the piece. There was very irritating theme music behind most of the film, and when that was not repeating ad infinitum, Musak from the various stores and shops that were the scenes of this dog of a film leaked from the background into my unwilling ears. The star, Christian Slater, played a writer who became involved with diamond thieves. His plaintive cry, “But I am just a writer!” sounded throughout the movie as he was pummeled, gagged and tossed about by a variety of folks. Even Cuba Gooding, Jr., a brilliant actor, who played the villainous master thief, could not save this silly movie.

While Mick worked in the yard, I had the pleasure of starting to read Papa’s latest journal entries. He lives in California and his entries are full of the depredations of “the S-boob”. Apparently Aahnold has now declared that California schoolchildren no longer need textbooks. Izzat so? One has to wonder at that!

I am forever grateful to Papa, who nagged and heckled me into becoming more professional and starting to charge for my counseling and private channeling sessions. This now constitutes one of L/L Research’s income streams and helps us pay our bills.

Papa also gave me back my childhood by sending me a Raggedy Ann doll, about ten years ago, and telling me to see her as myself as a kid. In babying and loving on Annsie Pansy, I healed my inner child. Annsie still has an honored place in my bedroom. And I will forever honor Papa for his wonderful advice.

Before supper I also collected some delicious sounding recipes from this week’s paper. I improved our sweet corn pudding recipe, got a recipe for cheddar chive biscuits made with white cheddar cheese, fresh chives and heavy cream and found a delightful recipe for scalloped potatoes. I love working on our recipes database, since it is as close as I get these days to cooking, a pastime which has always invigorated my senses and relaxed my body. As I work up a recipe I change this and add that and have that wonderful feeling of dancing with the foods and herbs that make our lives so much better.

Sonia, Melissa, Mick and I gathered for a late supper, and then Melissa had to run up to Avalon for the night. She is such a trouper! She has really gone to bat for Mick’s customer and has packed up about half of this woman’s rambling Victorian mansion. And the movers come this next Thursday. So Melissa has been driving back and forth from Avalon and helping her every day.

We offered the Gaia Meditation with Sonia, and I closed with a prayer tonight.

2009-10-10

October 11, 2009 6:55am

The great day arrived! After all of the choir’s preparation, it was time to sing our Centennial Concert and Choral Eucharist! The choir and orchestra gathered at 2:15 for a last-minute touch-up on places which were missed at dress rehearsal. Then a hush fell over St. Luke’s parish—a rare and notable silence for our usually ebullient congregation. And so the concert began.

We offered three pieces by Henry Purcell, “Te Deum Laudamus”, “Rejoice in the Lord Always” and “Jubilate Deo”. All went well except for the beginning of the second piece. The first violinist had the music for the wrong piece. After only two measures, the conductor, Jack Ashworth, simply stopped the music, consulted briefly with the musician, who quickly shuffled his music, and we went right on.

I remained in the chancel, but the rest of the choir recessed to the rear of the nave before beginning the Eucharist. The service began with a Litany for the Church, most appropriate for this rededication of St. Luke’s after 100 years of services here in Anchorage. Then two Bishops knocked at the door of the church—part of the ritual for a Bishop’s visit—and The Right Reverend Catherine Waynick of the Diocese of Indianapolis and the Right Reverend Ted Gulick of the Diocese of Kentucky entered.

It was a long service, with 21 people to confirm or to accept into our church from the Roman Catholic Church. More good music followed—Brench Boden’s lovely, folksy-jazzy “A Spiritual Journey” at the Offertory, Herbert Howells’ setting of Ursula Vaughn Williams’ poem, “A Hymn for St. Cecilia” at the Communion, and service music from Franz Schubert.

Mick, who mowed all his Friday jobs today, fetched me after the two-hour service and brought me back to Camelot to change into a dinner suit for the dinner dance that followed, at the Owl Creek Country Club. We dined sumptuously and then Mick rolled me into the dance hall where The Epics were holding forth with fifties rock and roll. Mick danced gloriously, alone and with Julie, a sweet, pretty choir member who recently lost her husband. I sipped white wine and clapped along. We had such a good time!

When we returned, Sonia had arrived after a long but uneventful flight from the west coast. Romi had picked her up and she was settled in to a good extent. We shared the Gaia Meditation. Mick offered the closing prayer. Then we conversed and watched football - Florida at LSU. Happily, Mick’s alma mater’s team, the Gators, won handily.

2009-10-09

October 10, 2009 10:41am

Since I had experienced a rather substantive round of stomach and back spasms after the choir rehearsal yesterday night, which went quite long and totally exhausted me—and since a dress rehearsal which will be even longer awaited me tonight, with the marathon concert plus service plus dinner-dance on Saturday—I opted to take today completely off and rest. I want to enjoy this event without its foundering me completely!

So after Morning Offering, I came upstairs for prayer time and journal entries, and no other work. I slept quite a lot today, about six hours all told, and I did some light reading.

Meanwhile Mick had to take a rare rain day, since heavy rain had swept through overnight and it drizzled all day. He chose to do all his Saturday cleaning and errand runs today. He sharpened every blade in the JLS inventory and in general made good use of the day. And we had an afternoon delight of a date, celebrating this very unusual “day off” on a Friday.

After a good bath together in late afternoon, Mick took me to the dress rehearsal and stayed to listen. He will miss the concert tomorrow, since he will be doing all of his Friday mowing. So he enjoyed the music a day early.

Thanks to all the good rest, I fared much better tonight! I will rest again tomorrow until time for the concert. Hopefully, that will make it possible for me to breeze through the long event—we arrive at 2:15, the concert is at 3:30 with the service immediately following at 4:00. There are 21 people to be confirmed at this service, so it will go long—probably until 5:30. Then the dinner begins at 6:30. It is a marathon for someone like me. But I think it will go well.

We came home to a late supper with Melissa—Gary left earlier to drive to Virginia to visit Steve E and Tobey W. That should be a very productive visit, as both gentlemen he is visiting are wonderfully engaged in helping L/L Research to be of service in as global and helpful a way as we can. There will be a little lighthouse in Virginia, where both men and their families live, thanks to this meeting!

Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia meditation tonight.

2009-10-08

October 10, 2009 6:34am

Since I had experienced a rather substantive round of stomach and back spasms after the choir rehearsal yesterday night, which went quite long and totally exhausted me—and since a dress rehearsal which will be even longer awaits me tomorrow night, with the concert plus service plus dinner-dance on Saturday—I opted to take today completely off and rest. I want to enjoy this event without its foundering me completely!

So after Morning Offering, I came upstairs for prayer time and journal entries, and no other work. I slept quite a lot today, about six hours all told, and I did some light reading.

Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia meditation tonight.

2009-10-07

October 8, 2009 9:15am

Another cool and beautiful day greeted Mick and me as we made our Morning Offering. Mick took off to mow and also to wrestle a 100+-pound tree out of an iron planter and into the ground for a customer—the same customer Melissa is helping to pack up for moving. Mick said he could not imagine why she wants to take the planter with her, as it is almost rusted through, but she does!

I wrote my journal entries and enjoyed prayer time before starting work by taking care of a couple of details—ordering the Dr. Hauschka products that Mick and I use from 20/20.com and getting hold of Romi to make sure he can pick Sonia up at the airport on Saturday. He can, praise the Lord!

It’s singularly odd that the day she comes to join us at L/L Research, Mick and I are at a St. Luke’s centennial shindig and Gary is visiting our webmaster for B4, Steve E, and the re-listener to the Ra tapes, Tobey W, both of whom live in Virginia. In a way, it is good, since she can settle in with Mick and me, both of whom she knows very well, and then get introduced to Melissa and Gary in a few days.

Sonia’s room is definitely not completely furnished yet. It has been a guest room for several years, and is behind the power curve on things like dressers and vanities. I will wait until she is here and then get whatever pieces of furniture she needs. Everyone is different, so it’s better to get what she wants with her and let her just use the shelves we have in there now, for now. We will get her fixed up after she arrives, for sure.

I edited the first half of the session we had on September 12th before getting my nails done at Absolutely Salon, (dark blue enamel with brilliants) and the other half when I returned. Then Gary moved me outside for my 102 session. I was tickled pink to finish the first section of Chapter One. Finally, I have begun the actual writing. Mick thought the work was good—I depend on his judgment—and that, too tickled me pink.

I ended the day by beginning work on the 47 e-mails that Gary and I found stuck on my server in the “spam” file. Why they began putting people like Gary and Ian on the spam list is beyond me! But hopefully we have put an end to it now. In addition to reading a lot of good forwards from my news experts, Rho M and Elihu E, I:

- forwarded a PM from Nathan on B4 to Gary to send to Mike T. Nathan read a session where Mike asked a question about new technology, and Nathan is also trying to create new technology, so he wants to talk to Mike. Gary will write Mike—I do not have his current e-address—and try to put them together.

- Forwarded to Ian some ideas from Gary on improving the info access on the archive site. Gary suggested making a link to Tobey’s site, http://www.lawofone.info/, where a very good on-line reference version of TLOO is kept, and also adding a link on the Light/Lines newsletter page to the big book of the first 100 issues of the newsletter we now have available. That really is a great book!

- Thanked Ian for including me in the loop on the Spanish translation by Pilar. She just finished translating Session 8!

- Sent a Ruby Tuesday coupon to Mick for his information—a twofer at Sunday brunches, courtesy of the management.

- Sent Lana L-B my address—her computer crashed and she was getting things back together. Thank heavens she did not lose her book. But if she had, I actually have her back, since I have kept all my editing work on her chapters.

- After reading the somewhat complex plans for next Saturday’s choir seating at St. Luke’s Centennial Concert and the following Choral Eucharist, I inquired of Lisa whether it would be better for me to skip communion. She wrote back saying no, she had me covered.

- Thanked Gary for sending a link to my UPI article on Will Allen’s work to the BBS Radio publicity page. He will send them all my articles from now on. That should help their being spread around and more widely read.

- Checked the second draft of Melissa’s begging letter on behalf of the Trimble County Search and Rescue group and sent it back to her with no changes. It is perfect as far as I can see.

- Thanked Gary for sending me a schedule change on Robert Schwartz’s channeling session. It will now be held on November 3rd.

- Thanked Gary for letting me see some poems of Ibraheem, a young poet in Denmark who has written a

poem about TLOO. That link is http://myspeak-poems.blogspot.com/2009/08/law-of-one.html.

- Wrote Gary with the suggestion that a second Spanish translator, who has just volunteered to translate TLOO, be given instead the chance to translate some Q’uo sessions.

Mick and I bathed and had some snuggle time before descending the stairs to share a late supper and the Gaia Meditation with Gary, who spent his day trying to catch up at the L/L Research helm before leaving on his trip to Virginia to visit with Steve and Tobey. I offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-10-06

October 7, 2009 8:57am

I vastly overslept and after Morning Offering, I spent the forepart of my workday writing my journal entries and having chapel time. I wonder what happened to the person who always awakened at 5:30! That was my lifetime habit until quite recently. It was handy to awaken early enough to have a quiet time, with no one else stirring, where I might do my balancing exercises, offer prayers and write the journal entries. Ah well! Apparently those days are gone!

I said farewell to Mick on this rather dreary, foggy morning as he set out to mow. He was again bundled up against the chill of forty-degree weather, and he did get wet today! But he got everything done, somehow dodging between showers to do his mowing, and trimming all the hedges at St. Luke’s besides.

Melissa was at the computer early and late. In between the extremes of the day, she worked for the customer for whom she is packing up house. She looked tired when she came home, but she denied physical weariness, although she’s starting to ache here and there from repeat movements. She says the woman who is moving has not organized anything, so instead of packing and stacking, she has to place all items before the lady, who then sorts them for taking with her or leaving behind—and if left, going to which person or to what charity. It goes all too slowly, she says. I feel for Melissa. She does not like to dally!

I also feel for the customer. It is not easy to move from a huge, rambling house where you’ve been storing things away for 22 years to a relatively tiny apartment in a far state! She is retiring from teaching and wants to be near her grandkids.

I had a long angel nap this morning, which did not speed up my workday! However I managed at last to conclude the editing work on Voices of the Confederation. That was exciting indeed, after all this time! I sent the 200 pages or so to Ian with a palpable sense of relief. There is always a loose end or two to tie up during the production process which precedes printing, but the bulk of my work on that project is done and worthy as that project is, I am tickled to be finished with it! My usual editing jobs are of work produced in an hour or so of channeling or of being interviewed, and are much shorter and can be finished in a day or two of editing work.

At 3:00 I worked with a counseling client, a delightful woman. It was a very heart-opening and rewarding time of shared energy and shared purpose.

Gary came up afterwards, at my request, to try to get to the bottom of why I am not receiving my e-mail properly. He discovered that my server, bellsouth.net, had decided that e-mail from him was spam! Crikey! So we spent an hour or so re-educating the server on what addresses are spam and what addresses are good! And now I have 47 e-mails from Gary to read and handle, waiting for me on the morrow! Just what I wanted!

Melissa really liked the begging letter I crafted for her. She is helping the Trimble County Search and Rescue group raise some funds for needed equipment. It is certainly a worthy cause. This group is all-volunteer, and they all have to pass stiff state-run tests before serving on the team. And they are called not only to the home county but also statewide when needed. I hope they get all the funds they need to buy the equipment needed for training and search events.

Melissa dashed home at dusk for a day of maintaining Avalon Farm, checking her birds and patting her cats. She will return day after tomorrow to continue packing up the customer. I personally hope that said customer will spend tomorrow doing the sorting she needs to do in order to speed things up.

One good thing about this job is that it gives Melissa some discretionary money. L/L Research cannot afford to pay her even 10% of what she is worth, so she is constantly on a very tight budget. Now she will have just a bit of her own money! Just watch this very STO-oriented woman spend it on everything and everyone except herself!

Mick and I enjoyed a very quiet evening, reading, watching NCIS and the new spin-off, NCIS-LA. Gary shared our late supper and the Gaia Meditation, at which Mick offered the closing prayer.

2009-10-05

October 6, 2009 5:30am

After Morning Offering, Mick started his mowing day in a jacket and gloves, as the temperature was in the forties, but by the time I came outside to work on 102 in later afternoon, it was close to 70 F, tee shirt weather. He pressed on to get a bit more done since rain is predicted for tomorrow, as well as on Friday. He was happy with his day.

Melissa came into town to do some work for a customer of Mick’s who is getting ready to move. She packed for the customer all day, and will do so again tomorrow.

Gary was at the L/L Inbox early and late, catching up on e-mail and working on other projects. He and I went over the questions a channeling client offered for editing. And late in the day, Gary attempted to install a recording device on my office phone so that I can record counseling sessions for clients. However the device was not compatible with my headset, so we’re back to the drawing board on that.

I finished the editing on the Homecoming’s closing meditation session. It was an interesting channeling session for me. It dealt with how to remain at the high tuning achieved with a group when one must go back to a relatively isolated situation as far as having any sort of spiritually compatible group around one. There was a question at the end on crop circles that caught my attention as well.

I had an appointment by telephone with Dr. Lang, a naturopathic doctor who is working with me nutritionally. It went well. I am now almost totally on her foods—which is what she calls the supplements she uses, because they are made from items like kale and spinach and not a chemical in the bunch—and off the supplements I had been using for things like Vitamin C, Calcium, Omega oils and so forth. I feel that her regimen is helping me, albeit slowly. And I appreciate her care and enthusiasm for helping me heal.

I finished my quotes search on Life on Earth before going out on the front porch to my outdoor chaise lounge “office” to begin writing Chapter One of 102. Then I worked for an hour or so, getting the first draft of the first section almost completed. It feels great to be working on the new book!

I also added the missing pages to my manuscript of Voices of the Confederation. Now I can finish that large project! Whee!

Mick and I enjoyed a bath together before coming upstairs for a date. We had such a good time! Both of us fell asleep in the afterglow, rising to have a late supper with Melissa and Gary. Gary’s food is scrumptious this week! Turkey and dressing casserole, carrots with leeks and apples and macaroni and cheese. Yum!

Gary offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-10-04

October 5, 2009 8:32am

It was a lovely, cool, sunny Sabbath. While Mick cleaned the house, I went to choir practice and then sang the Choral Eucharist. The choir offered “Instruments of Thy Peace” at the Offertory, and a hymn with much the same words, “Lord, Make Us Instruments of Your Peace” at the Communion. Both are renderings of St. Francis’ Prayer - it was his saint day today.

After Mick and I had lunch and a good nap, we tried to watch 21 Grams. The DVD would not play after the first thirty minutes, but by then we sensed that it would not be that much of a loss to miss this one. The time line skipped around so much, and the characters were in so many configurations, that we were utterly lost. It is a shame to waste excellent players like Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn on a mishmash of a screenplay. We watched a couple of episodes of CSI: Las Vegas which we had never seen before instead, and were well satisfied.

In our break, I wrote my journal entries and had chapel time, then goofed off with solitaire, a computer game which MS Office offers which I love to play. Mick sharpened blades and called his Mom, who is still not going to church because she is not sure of her balance. This is the first period of time in which she has missed church in half a century and my heart goes out to her.

Mick and I had a quiet evening, with more naps and the delight of seeing “Farm Aid”. It was a wonderful concert and a great cause, and it was so good to hear everyone talking about sustainable agriculture and real food! An especial treat was a 45-minute acoustic set with Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds. We also loved seeing Jason Mraz and Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses. And what fun to hear a voice very like his Dad’s coming out of Lukas Nelson’s mouth. Lukas also plays a mean guitar! We watched it until bedtime.

Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight.

2009-10-03

October 4, 2009 4:41pm

The beautiful autumn colors are starting to show more now in this cool weather. After Morning Offering I gloried in the rich flame of the redbud and dogwood trees outside my bower office window as I finished editing the special session Terry H had on whales and dolphins last January 20th. It was most interesting, as it talked about Atlantis and the choice of some there to escape the madness and move into the bodies of these cetacean mammals. What a wonderful story! It is worthy of myth.

I wrote Ian today responding to his most welcome news that he did have the sections which I am missing in the Voices of the Confederation manuscript and asking him please, pretty please, to send that material to me so I can edit it.

At 3:00 I logged on to B4 for a Live Chat and it was a fast-paced session today with tons of questions and a wonderful vibe on-line with those with whom I was chatting. When I logged off at 5:00 Steve T had arrived, and he and I went over to Selena’s for a marvelous meal and a good catch-up chat.

We returned to Camelot in time to see the end of Mick’s football game and to welcome Baykal and also Lorena, who had driven down from the Chicago area. Mick went upstairs to watch another football game, which he dearly wanted to see, while Baykal acted as battery and ran the tape recorders and Lorena, Steve and I had a Channeling Circle session. With three channels, the experience is richer and more varied, I think! The question had to do with the dynamic between the attempt to be of polarized service to others and our manifestation of that intention.

Afterwards we broached Baykal’s bottle of wine and shared it amongst ourselves as we conversed. Mick came down after his game ended and we enjoyed each other’s company until Steve took off for southern Illinois and Baykal left. Lorena stayed overnight, and we all went to bed.

I offered the Gaia Meditation prayer tonight at the close of the Channeling Circle session.

2009-10-02

October 3, 2009 6:48am

Mick and I awakened to the sound of rain, coming through Kentucky as had been predicted. We got up early anyway, since Mick had a contingency plan in place for making use of the daylight hours. After Morning Offering he went on errands, which included taking my beloved Stanley Subaru to the dealer’s for a good overhaul—new battery, air filter, various fluids, an oil change and a complete realignment, to heal Stanley from the depredations of a woman who ran her little car into Stanley’s tire, jumping into traffic, the other day.

I came back from that to work on my UPI article on Bishop Matthiesen. It was fun to write that article, and finally I did get it done! It is up on the UPI site, and I imagine Gary will post it to our ‘send’ list tomorrow.

Gary cooked next week’s menu during the morning, the carrots and apples especially smelling wonderful. Then he and Mick set out to mow and completed their Friday jobs in good order, coming home triumphant!

Melissa and I powwowed after lunch. She wants me to help her write a charity donations-begging letter for the Search and Rescue team of Trimble County—Avalon Farm’s county—as the team needs equipment badly, especially for night rescue work. She left me with the details to include in the letter and I promised to have a rough draft for her by Monday, when she returns to help a customer of Mick’s prepare to move.

Melissa also took down and then re-hung our back door, which was getting increasingly cranky. Now it works very smoothly! She’s a miracle worker to someone like me, who never had a way with tools and repairs. If you’ve got it, Melissa can generally fix it! Thanks, Melissa! She also made a very good start at preparing Sonia’s room for when she arrives on October 10th.

I pulled up the first of three channeling sessions which await my editing, this one a special meditation for Terry H, on dolphins, whales and porpoises. It is proving interesting to read! I worked on it until it was time to pick up Stanley.

At the end of the work day, I went with Mick to the dealer and reclaimed Stanley, now sporting a new battery, fresh fluids and a perky attitude! It is good to have Stanley all brushed up and refurbished, especially since we’ll be taking him—or he will be taking us—on the road to Nebraska in a couple of months.

Mick and I had a refreshing, soaking bath together before coming upstairs for a date. It is always a brand new adventure to share sexual energy with my beautiful husband and tonight’s time was simply delicious. Thank you, Lord!

We finished out our Friday evening with a late supper, the inaugural, two-hour episode of Star Gate Universe and the Gaia Meditation, at which I offered the closing prayer.

2009-10-01

October 2, 2009 12:25pm

I awoke feeling below-par and unutterably weary, so after Morning Offering was over, I downshifted into a plan of working on editing for the morning. I was thrilled to finish what I now have of the manuscript of Voices of the Confederation. There is a lacuna of most of a chapter missing from the manuscript. We have copied those 25 or so missing pages off and sent them to Ian for scanning and OCR work and when I get those back in digital form, I can conclude my part in this project fairly quickly.

In the afternoon I worked on my article on Bishop Matthiesen. I got about two pages of the five-page article written in rough draft. I needed to leave that work unfinished in order to keep an appointment with the bone surgeon whom I am consulting regarding the stress fracture on my right foot.

The appointment went typically. New X-rays showed far more conclusively that, by golly, I had a stress fracture. The doctor told me to continue to wear the boot that keeps that fracture from being moved as I walk for another four weeks and to see him then. For this I gave up my afternoon? Oy!

Around the edges of the day I wrote some e-mail—

- I gave Lorena L permission to use a photograph of us both in the upcoming issue of The LOOP Newsletter, which is a newsletter by and for prisoners who like The Law of One information. Oddly, we get subscribers to it who have never been near a prison! But most of the subscribers are prisoners and all the writing is either by prisoners, or by Lorena, or comes from our channeling or other inspired sources which Lorena, as editor, chooses.

- I answered a couple of questions Terry H asked as he was translating Chapter 2 of 101.

- Steve E—webmaster of B4—and I tossed around some ideas for making our Live Chats more interesting. I suggested that he and his co-moderators, Lorena and Monica, come up with a want-list of fundamental questions about our material which they can call upon when there is a lull in the questions during the Live Chats.

- I talked with Daphne a bit more concerning her work as a channel.

- I processed a dozen or so personal e-mails and touched in with beloved friends such as Steve F, Pupie H-B, Eli E and Dianne S.

Melissa arrived around 3:00 and was a whirlwind of energy as she went on a round of errands on our behalf, returning a defective table and getting a new one, then setting that up, running by Chandler’s Upholstery to leave a check for the foam we bought there for my outside office chaise and many other things, all to our benefit!

I went off to choir practice at St. Luke’s at 7:00 and returned shortly after 9:00. We are just about ready for this centennial concert now! Mick offered the closing prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight, and then we enjoyed a late supper together with Gary and Melissa before Mick and I went upstairs for a final cuddle before our last prayers.

October, 2009

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