Time Acceleration II - Just another photo from the back yard

This is a Ugandan key hole garden. The center (with the basket on top) is where I put all my veggie scraps, and I water from the center too. This is the first year I have tried this type of garden. I've got baby bok choy, dill, rutabegas, tarragon, chives and a little rosemary growing in there too. I bought basil and cilantro from Lowe's and of course, it's finished. I will follow my daughter's lead and grow both from seed next year.All that shit in the right upper hand corner is weeds. Maybe the next time I blog, it will be cleaned out. Either way, I'm going to take a before and after photo. Those are always so cool.

Time Acceleration

Last night I had to get my items for August' ezine in for editing. I can't begin to tell you how time is flying by. It seems as if I just gathered all the information for the July edition. I remind myself all the time about the "collapse of time" that is actually occurring. Sometimes I like it, and at other times I feel like things are going way too fast for me to actually enjoy them. What's even more alarming is that I know that I have control over my time now. Managing and manipulating energy is real new to me, and I guess I haven't gotten the hang of it yet. I just finished making my son a quilt for his 30th birthday. Everybody gets something handmade for their 30th birthday. Well, not everybody. Just my children.

We had the baby shower for my 9th grandchild last weekend too. It seems like that came and went at lightening speed. I have a list of things to do in my house and while I can see everything in completion, I just don't know if it will all happen this summer. I started in the kitchen today, reserving a week for each room, still having to attend to my gardens, the one in front and the one in the back. And of course I have all the writing that I do: the workplace blog, the ezine, and I am back to working on the Sessions in Shifting, after having a serious block that I was starting to get a little concerned about. Then I realized that they needed some adjustments to compensate for all the information that I have been receiving in the past 2 months. Revelation is just pouring through me.

The decision to live in silence has helped tremendously. I was so accustomed to getting up in the morning and turning my music on, and then turning on the spanish television channel for listening practice. Now when I awaken I start my meditation of "acceptance" and go straight to restorative yoga for 20-30 minutes. Directing the energy the first thing in the morning makes a big difference in how my day unfolds. I was going a bit nuts there for a while, at least the first week of silence because all of my thoughts seem to be coming through on a bull horn. After reading a passage out of ACOL, I realized that this is natural. So now when some unpleasant thought comes up, I can smile, even laugh knowing that it's like shit rising to top to be released.

Here are some photos of my garden, the on in the back.The green pot is gladiolas and some wild flowers that are supposed to attract bumble bees; on the bottom, about center is purple and green okra. I wasn't here last year when it was ready, but I will be this year. To let left of the okra is mellon. I planted too many, I think, and what's worse is
that I haven't seen one mellon. If I don't get any

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I am planting something else next year. My
fruit plants don't seen to fare as well as my veggies. Anyway, there are jalapenos and some
other pepper that is coming along next to the
okra. In the plot to the right of the green pot are
broccoli, turnips, and some other peppers. To the right of them are green,yellow and purple string beans and russian brown cucumbers. They are amazing. And of course to the right is my laundry.




Here are some other photos:Below are the tomato plants. They're huge, but I planted some orange grape tomatoes, and they are absolutely delicious. I just have to figure out how I can cook with them. In that green pot is the vicious mint. I had to take that stuff out of the ground, because it takes over everything. I am still pulling mint out of the front yard.

I would recommend A Course in Miracles to anyone who is interested in coming to an awareness about the belief in separation, and discovering the impact that this belief system has had on the mind and on the world. I would not, however, recommend that anyone conclude that ACIM is all there is to deprogramming or unlearning the belief in separation. All that ACIM does is free the mind from the ego, so that it is able to rejoin the heart, so that one can begin to "remember" the wholeness that we are. Heart and mind functioning in unity and creating in relationship with the Source of all That Is, All that We are.

http://www.amazon.com/Course-Miracles-Foundation-Inner-Peace/dp/1883360269/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400111021&sr=8-1&keywords=A+Course+in+Miracles

And to become aware of functioning in unity and relationship, I would recommend A Course of Love trilogy, which includes ACOL, The Treatises, and The Dialogues.

http://www.amazon.com/A-Course-Love-Mari-Perron/dp/1456580310/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400111132&sr=8-1&keywords=A+Course+of+Love

I spent approximately 15 years in ACIM. But that is because I was resistant to the teachings. There is no reason, as far as I am concerned, why anyone who is committed and willing to return to who they truly are, to stay in ACIM for such a long time.

It is from ACOL that I received the awareness of why I am here. I like to say that ACIM saved my life, and ACOL trilogy taught me what to do with it.

So be it. And so it is.

The Gift of Channeling

We have all been given the gift of channeling; however, we do have a choice about what we channel. We have access to two sources of information: the belief system of separation and the Unified Field of Consciousness, what some of us call God, Goddess or All that Is, the Universe, etc. Information channeled from the belief in separation is characterized by fear, judgment, lack, limitation and scarcity. The messages affirm that forces and conditions outside of ourselves are responsible for our  life's circumstances: economics, politics, genes, history, religion, etc. 95% of the information that guides our life experience comes from this source.  Then there is the Unified Field of Consciousness or All that Is. For thousands of years, we have believed that we are separate from the Universe, that "All That Is" is a being who sits in a far off place, taking notes and passing judgment. Now there is a growing awareness that human beings are God and it is the power of thought that connects us to It. The information from this Source reflects the unlimited potential of every human being on the planet. This information affirms the unlimited power that we have to create a reality on earth that supports and promotes the well-being of all life on the planet, and the knowledge to do so is available and can be transmitted from the Field.  These messages are characterized by ideas of love and well-being that do not and cannot co-exist with the messages that are channeled from the belief in separation.  The gift of channeling has been given to all as we are all aspects of All That Is;  however, because we are human beings, we have the freedom to choose which messages we want to channel: those from the All That Is or those from the belief in separation. The overwhelming decision to channel the belief in separation is reflected on the earth at this time. What we are beginning to observe more of is an unprecedented shift in our consciousness,  where more of us are making the choice to channel information from All That Is.

Garden Ascension-Summer 2013

Inside plants. I used to have tons of house plants, but with the shift in life style, I have had to release many of them. The ones that seem to do the best are the ones that can survive for weeks at a time in water.

Front porch planters: basil, dusty miller, purple palace. I dried bringing the purple plants inside for the winter. I found that by December, they start to turn green; they get spiny and by January I have to say goodbye to them.

This is actually lambs ear and sage from 2012. There was so much rain in Philadelphia this year that the lambs ears got a little moldy. I cut them down to the ground at the end of July, and they were back by the end of August. So hopefully, they will be back next spring. The 2 small 3 inch sage plants that went in, in 2012 are now in 2013, 3 bushes approximately 3 feet tall and almost 4 feet wide.

Hastas and ranunculus in the front sidewalk bed. Those front beds require a professional landscaper.

Nasturtiums flowers. They don't actually start blooming until about the first of August. Started from seed in mid-May. They have a slightly spicy flavor and go really well with any kind of tomatoes and basil-infused olive oil.

Talk about fast growers. The fig tree. One plant from Richter's, a Canadian nursery. This one came about 2 inches tall, planted in the spring of 2012. It is now about five and a half feet. No figs yet.

That broccoli rabe never showed its face. Maybe it was too much rain. But the flowers from the zucchini were amazing. They are sold in Whole Check for about .80/flower : /

The herb garden: hibiscus; thyme;oregano,rosemary,evening primrose, sage, eucalyptus, hyssop, chocolate mint (had to go in a container, too invasive), echinacea (one was a birthday gift), and the other ordered from Richter 's. Must say that the one from White Flower Farms performed better.

Naturally, the plans for the 2014 garden are unfolding. The bird and butterfly garden didn't go up as planned this year. But the good news is that the ivy is almost clear and the ground has been covered. The wood for the arbor is in the garage, the mulch bin has worms, the shed should go up in the spring. Postponing the greenhouse, for now.

It was a great summer.

Shifts