reciprocal co-creation

If it is the destiny of all humans put on earth to discover unconditional love, how then have we been going about it? Not so great by the looks of our current reality, even it nothing is permanent and always changes.

There is a traditional practice of reconciliation and forgiveness called Hoʻoponopono. It is practiced and performed on islands throughout the South Pacific, including Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti and New Zealand. 

a simple home altar that we can change as we do

big picture | big questions

Scrolling through my feed I came across this information on ancestral mathematics.

In order to be born, you needed:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great-grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4.094 ancestors over the last 400 years.

Think for a moment - How many struggles? How many battles? How many difficulties? How much sadness? How much happiness? How many love stories? How many expressions of hope for the future? - did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment. 

Art by Joe Magee

quest | pilgrimage | initiation

The phrase "dark night of the soul," [noche oscura del alma] can be traced back to a 16th-century Spanish poem by the Roman Catholic mystic San Juan de la Cruz, Saint John of the Cross. 

Portrait of Saint John of the Cross by Arnold van Westerhout

In an obscure night En una noche oscura,

Fevered with love's anxiety con ansias, en amores inflamada,

O hapless, happy plight! ¡oh dichosa ventura!

I went, none seeing me salí sin ser notada

forth from my house, estando ya mi casa sosegada.

where all things quiet be

like attracts like

Pathocracy: when people with personality disorders gain power.

As if patriarchy were not bad enough we are now challenged by these idiots. 

stupid is as stupid does - image credit, 

Paul Martinovic

No hope for these two.

this image says it all & more - Dick & John

In cahoots on a disastrous collision course.

inventing America

103 years later women are still marching in the streets to protest and protect equality for all.

The Silent Parade of 1917 filled New York City streets with white clad women marching to celebrate the anniversary of the civil rights movement. 

#icantbreathe art by BhaktiCD.org

disastrous denial

Watch out world! Trump is just a bloody tick on the Earth's crust. Horrific as COVID-19 is under his inept lack of leadership, this is just the first wave.

Mackay's multi-tsunami cartoon - shared, cropped, and altered

63 years, 11 months, 4 weeks, 1 day, 9 hours, 15 minutes

Happy Glorious Birthday to me! soon. . . .

Back in the Philippines it will be my birthday in a few hours. I look forward to friends and family back there calling to extend their blessed joy filled greetings.

It's already started with virtual cake, candles, and gifts from my core group of siStars. What a joy to be surrounded by such an eager beaver squad of cheerleaders. Truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Last year I missed posting about my birthday. In my frustration over petty stuff and not spending it together with beloved Mahala I may have been sore and pouty. Who knows? It was another lifetime ago.