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February 2025
Consciousness
Happiness
Vibrational Frequency
Learning To Be Astonished
I’ve now been living in Longmont CO for over three and half months, and I must admit that, much sooner than I could have imagined, I came to the point where I no longer looked back. I can’t say that Colorado now feels like home, although it does feel like the absolute right place for me to be. The idea of “home” has become more difficult to define lately. “Home” has become more of an inside feeling, undefined by geography. And yet, where I am now seems to be the perfect outward reflection of this more expansive inner space.
I call Colorado the Land of Big Sky. Sky is important to me. The unexpected shapes of clouds, surreal hues of sunset, the miracle of wings thrill and inspire me, remind me of the grandness of creation. I feel different since I’ve moved here, like I’m becoming more, stepping into a more spacious inner reality. And at the same time, even though my focus is always on the larger perspective, I too often struggle to stay above the fray of the heart-wrenching, surreal, seeming insanity playing out in the so called world.
Joy, beautiful divine spark! This kiss for the whole world. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
From the Frise Beethoven de Klimt, designed by Gustav Klimt for the fifteenth exhibition of the Pavillon de la Sécession – Vienna 1902
I have to continually remind myself that as human beings and as a planet we are heading into something completely new and uncharted, and that the old control, manipulation, and destruction might flail for a while, but will fall apart in order to make way for what’s coming. I do not believe we are in yet another repetitive cycle that will play out as it has for eons. I believe that from the larger perspective what’s happening is part of something that’s never happened before, a grand evolution of consciousness in which we will come to know how we came to be here on this tiny planet in the middle of a galaxy in the corner of a universe in the vastness of infinity. We will come to remember who we truly are. Although you will not hear this news in any traditional media coverage, there are millions of awakening souls all over the planet who are already feeling the truth of what’s unfolding.
Meanwhile as the drama plays out in the lower vibrational world of fear, duality, separation, greed, we each have our journeys to take, and choices to make. One thing I’ve come to realize is that nothing “out there” is certain. For me, the only certainty, the only truth, is what I feel in my heart. And that is the place from which I create. From that space, anything is possible.
Koho Shoda Moonlit Sea 1920
Others may be called to take action in the physical world, to peacefully protest, to speak out to those who think they are in power, to dig deep and discover their own inner strength. My grandest advice to the courageous souls who choose that path is — stay strong, go high, and focus on what you’re for, not what you’re against. We get what we focus upon, whether we want it or not. As Al Einstein has said: Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
As far as those who choose the low path of violence, there is nothing I or anyone else of like mind could say to them that they would hear. The most we can do is to aim our creative intention in a much more expansive direction.
As for me, my commitment at this time is an inner commitment to live from the best of my self, to hold the highest vibration I can offer at any given moment. It takes constant vigilance, gently checking in with myself several times a day to see where I’m vibrating. If I’m on a downward slide, I’ve learned that the most important thing to do before anything else is to feel whatever I’m feeling. To embrace and honor those feelings without self-judgement, and, without attaching to them any story. It’s just about feeling the emotions in order to move through them. The next thing I do is make another choice, one that comes from the Big Heart.
To understand what it means to be doing inner work, one must understand that vibrational frequency matters. Fear is one of the lowest if not the lowest frequencies energetically on the planet. Love, unconditional love, on the other hand, is the highest. And it expands exponentially. It is the vibration from which we can send Light, Love, Peace, Compassion into the “field,” the energy field, thereby creating new choices for those beginning to awaken. It is the realm of unlimited possibility.
Holding these higher frequencies is not focused upon wanting to change anyone. No one can change another. But putting the vibration of unconditional love into the field creates possibility that wasn’t there before. Perhaps a new idea comes to someone’s mind. Perhaps someone starts asking the big questions like Who am I and why am I here? Perhaps people become tired of fighting, criticizing, manipulating.
There are “tools” I use to help me raise my vibration. I’ve learned that the quickest way to move into heart coherence is to think of something that makes me smile or laugh or tear up in a good way, something clever or amusing, something of great beauty, something that I love. One of the most fun things I’ve done is to put together my ongoing Get Happy Files, which contain images, videos, music, art, words, photographs of things I collect that bring me easily into the heart.
All images in this post are from my Get Happy Files. And here are a few favorite videos that inspire in me laughter, joy, wonder no matter how often I watch them:
Music: 1981 – AMAZING toddler knows all the classical COMPOSERS
https://youtu.be/tGWI6E-zilI?si=TEYmEdgTAECKov22
Dance: White Nights film duet Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines
https://youtu.be/YrpkiuXg1DI?si=Fe773YVjsj04vi1x
Video: Henri Le Chat Noir library of videos. Henri died at 17 in 2020. Video 6: Cat Littérature
https://youtu.be/ELtzZ5lJnBk?si=oLo-DDJPWUvWak0q
Here are a couple of memories from 2009 of my own kitty Michou who is no longer with me.
Michou and the Red Feather 13 weeks
Michou Frenzy 16 weeks
Like Mary Oliver, I, too, am learning to be astonished.
Messenger
My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird-
Equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me
Keep my mind on what matters,
Which is my work,
Which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.
Which is mostly rejoicing, since all the ingredients are here,
Which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart
And these body-clothes,
A mouth with which to give shouts of joy
To the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
Telling them all, over and over, how it is
That we live forever.
I just added this photo in memory of my dear friend and sister-of-the-heart, Janice Fuller, who passed yesterday, 26 February 2025. It’s one of my favorite photos of dear writerfriends Debbie, Carolyn, and Janice and me sharing a wonderful crazy laugh, something we did often, especially on what we called our Magic Mountain. Missing you, chérie.
I always read, appreciate, and reply to comments. Please check back if you’d like to see what I’ve written. Thanks so much.
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I always come away from your posts so replenished I don’t know how to reply other than to express gratitude and astonishment for your perspectives, your way of seeing the world through a poet’s eye then passing the revelations on to us, your readers. I too think the world is going through some sort of wrenching rebirth and the fear we’re experiencing is the labor of that regeneration. We are clay being reshaped through the kiln of our time. The result will be a new paradigm. Many thanks dear Rachelle.
Dear Bobby, I’m delighted that you faithfully check out my mental meanderings, and that you always seem to find something meaningful in them. Thank you so much. It inspires me to continue to, as Toni Morrison says, “do language.” Love to you and Richard.
Brava! Authentic indeed. And so beautifully written. I feel such a kinship with all that you share, as well as inspired and further expansed.
And my condolences to you, Rachelle, for the loss of your dear friend. I too have a dear friend that passed this week, on the 25th. Soul friends… such treasures of the heart.
I will be reading your post again— much to glean for learning to be astonished.
Thank you for the kind words, Laura. And for your condolences. I offer the same to you. It was a sad week. I hope we can connect sometime soon.
Wow! I had no words as I read this. I’ll journal on this soon and send thoughts. Thank you!
I look forward to seeing how you unpack that “Wow!” dear Jeanne.