March 16, 2024 Now, like a strange light breaking from the ground, I venture from the halls of shadowy death— A frail white gleam of resurrection. ~D.H. Lawrence, Resurrection A welcome somnolence envelops me. Just sitting and being, without feeling subliminally driven, is an experience of wonderment. I feel like I’m melting into the […]
Hopscotch in Heaven
February 27, 2024 Now we play in clouds and play hopscotch in heaven. ~ Kathleen De Rose, Once Upon A Dream Taking a moment to look about with curiosity is a simple practice my soul recently offered up. I arrived at it through an exercise I learned from Dr. Peebles. When pondering a particular problem, […]
Dr. Peebles ~ Open Your Channel to the Divine with Dance
February 13, 2024 By email ~ NatalieGianelli.com Message from Natalie Beautiful Souls: Dancing is a form of channeling, and it can help you become a master receiver. Here’s how: When you are just moving and grooving, when you are just shaking and shimmying, you’re channeling because you are not thinking about what you “should” be […]
Leaning Toward Peace
February 21, 2024 My Soul, there is a country Afar beyond the stars… There, above noise and danger Sweet Peace sits, crown’d with smiles. ~Henry Vaughan, Peace If a certain well-known spiritual assumption is true, many of us are packing unresolved wounds and hidden traumas into this lifetime, to be dealt with before the […]
The Invisible Wizard
November 5, 2024 In a hospital bed in her room… my Aunt Millie keeps reaching up for the far corner of the room, whispering That is so interesting. I will go now. ~John L. Stanizzi, Ascension Many channels, including Matthew Ward, remind us that we are individually, personally ascending, not moving in lockstep with […]
Time Unbound
January 27, 2024 Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne I’ve become acutely aware of my distaste for the constricts of time. The way our actions must sometimes match up with the hands on the clock. I’m now tied to giving Brownie food and insulin twice a day, as close […]
The Stony Heart
January 23, 2024 And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. ~ John Muir Is the current spiritual lesson writ upon the blackboard of my life something I’m just too dull to apprehend? I think I’ve internalized the lessons related to knowing I’m always supported, but I must be […]
The Small Hand of Memory
January 20, 2024 It never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions If an individual soul is inseparable from the Universal Oneness, temporarily experiencing Self as a physical being, and the Universal Oneness is unchanging…does that mean that at […]
Stepping Into Light
January 17, 2024 Seek not to oppress the weak by wrongful might;… Care to dispend according to thy store, And in like sort be mindful of the poor. ~William Byrd, Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price It occurred to me that one reason this whole surgery escapade is so disruptive is […]
Ordinary Agony
January 14, 2024 Each moment is a visible agony, And still the godly human nature remains Unharmed. ~Donald Revell, The Glens of Cithaeron I feel as if my personal cup of trouble is filled to the brim. One more drop and it will begin spilling over. First Brownie with diabetic ketoacidosis and an emergency […]
A Slice of Universe Pie
January 11, 2024 Was it Pascal who said “Almost all our misery has come from not being able to remain alone in our rooms”? Baudelaire thought it might have been, but was not sure. ~ Matthew Sweeney, Alone It’s a heartbreakingly beautiful morning. Are other parts of the world as gorgeous as Santa Barbara in […]
Stratas of Self and Soul
January 6, 2024 There was an earthquake At Where-The-Pine-Tree-Stands. The rocks fell; The people had fear. ~Katherine Kennedy, The Earthquake There are times when something enormous rearranges itself within my psyche / emotional self, and I can only observe with a detached kind of awe. That’s a new thought! There’s a different way to […]
The Tail of the Kite
January 4, 2024 The sight of a dolphin is always / a little bit magical… ~ Richie Hofmann, Dolphin I think there might be something to this notion that we’re un-becoming the old, as Kerry K put it in her recent video. Driving down State Street and over to Garden, taking surface streets to the […]
Burdens of the Heart
January 2, 2024 People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~ George Bernard Shaw It’s dawning on me that caring for dependent beings could derail my (admittedly wishy-washy) commitment to hip replacement surgery. I know I need to take elder care into account when planning anything. But […]
Walking Through Fire
December 31, 2023 Some say the world will end in fire… ~ Robert Frost Give yourself a pat on the back, advised a friend. You’ve walked through fire. I hadn’t thought of the last three weeks in those terms, but she’s right. Making medical decisions for another being is trial by fire of a high […]
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