Toward a World that Works for Everyone
June 7, 2021 We’ve all felt the crazy energies swirling around and through our worlds. It can be overwhelming to try to navigate it all on our own. And it’s not necessary to suffer (or celebrate!) alone. The Golden Age of Gaia blog has provided a space for readers to visit and see what’s on […]
June 6, 2021 Sunlight is in my eyes, Every house edged with light; Open fields are before me, Mountains across the sky. ~Alice Corbin Henderson, Song of Sunlight Even though I’m aware of the spiritual principle of relying on our inner selves and divinely ordained sovereignty to create our positively inclined reality, I’m finding […]
June 3, 2021 Dear Madam, you have seen this play; I never saw it till today… The merit of the drama lies, I understand, in some surprise… ~A. P. Herbert, At The Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me Dr. Bradley Nelson, in his book, The Emotion Code, says that we must process through the […]
May 31, 2021 She always asks you, How is so-and-so?… She takes each anecdote and makes it grow, Or keeps it like a farmer hoarding seeds. …Existence might be flat If fascinating troubles did not brew… ~Elizabeth Bohm, Gossip In his May 29 podcast, Simon Parkes notified us that numerous “bad players” had […]
May 30, 2021 Some of us stood around, waiting for the miracle. ~Elizabeth Bishop, A Miracle for Breakfast I feel fortunate to have grown up writing by hand, then learning to type on a typewriter, and so on and so forth, to get up to the present day where I often dictate what I […]
May 28, 2021 I can see, through the rifts of the apple-boughs, The delicate blue of the sky, And the changing clouds with their marvelous tints That drift so lazily by. And strange, sweet thoughts sing through my brain, And Heaven, it seemeth near; Oh, is it not a rare, sweet time, The blossoming time […]
May 27, 2021 Masquerade! Every face a different shade… Masquerade! Look around—there’s another mask behind you! ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber, Masquerade What do masks signify? I deduce that, for religious or ceremonial purposes, the meanings are complex and arcane. What do masks signify if we wear them even when those who demand this bizarre […]
May 26, 2021 How easily happiness begins by dicing onions… It’ true it can make you weep to peel them… for there’s nothing to an onion but skin, and it’s true you can go on weeping as you go on in… ~William Matthews, Onions Sometimes I worry about what would happen if I’m suddenly […]
May 24, 2021 But what is suffering? Is it true that it requires my consent? In a shaft of evening, the trillion worlds collide. The rose in the vase grows whiter in darkness. ~D. Nurkse, The White Room The fastest way to feel lonely and separated from others is to go to a grocery […]
May 19, 2021 Much Madness is divinest Sense – … Assent – and you are sane – Demur – you’re straightway dangerous – And handled with a Chain – ~Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest Sense I looked around carefully as I walked up to the door of Trader Joe’s. Everyone I could see […]
May 17, 2021 Via email ~ Dr. Peebles through Natalie Gianelli ~ Nataliegianelli.com The divinity that is you is constant. Your work is not to connect to it but to make yourself aware of it. Each and every moment is an opportunity to listen to your heart and to ask what it wants you to […]
May 13, 2021 By email ~ Dr. Peebles through Natalie Gianelli ~ nataliegianelli.com This life can be simpler than what you have been taught. Every moment holds the capacity for you to be utterly present and blissful. Life is a journey. Sometimes it offers bumps and twists and ruts. Other times it is smooth sailing. […]
May 10, 2021 You can hear huffs of hot wind kick the dust around them. You can feel the brickwork give. ~David Baker, Dust to Dust It seems many of us are having our eyes opened, one way or another. And many fervently long for those we call the “unawakened ones” to, well, wake […]
May 4, 2021 Via email ~ NatalieGianelli.com When you are noticing beauty it is impossible to be simultaneously fearful. Noticing beauty immediately transfers you out of fear. Many of you understand how powerful gratitude is. We remind you that if you are enjoying something beautiful – a sunset, the smell of freshly baked bread, or […]
April 30, 2021 Picture this woman saying no to the constant yes of slavery… Imagine her saying: I freed a thousand slaves, could have freed a thousand more if they only knew they were slaves… ~ Sonia Sanchez, Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman I did something revolutionary yesterday. I walked into an establishment without […]
