 Living life as yourself no matter what it brings, that is all there is…without it, without being yourself everything else has no value…the rest all appears the correct people, circumstances, environment…forget the mind…be yourself nothing else matters…
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 6th line Up On The Roof:
The roof just got higher…I have climbed way up higher…more aloof…more removed…more solitary…more internal…more myself…the kangaroo is more alive in me then ever…it feels refreshing…a big sigh leaves my body…finally…I now take in what is really me…in the correct place…I am now where I am suppose to be right here right now…now there are only tears of joy…relief…huge relief…and up here I shall remain…where I belong…I made it…surely not unscratched…nor unwounded…but still here…I made it…no more trauma…I feel once again safe….optimistic…trust…in myself…in the world…I sit up here…just breathing…one deep breath after the other…healing…transforming…being….there are still wounds…put it doesn’t matter..I am now here where I belong and shall remain…I am..I am strong…  For all of you who are having a hard time…a distressed time…confusing or unpleasant moments…
Life’s a trip isn’t it? Up..down…decisions…here…there…putting you on course…or throwing you off…courage…to stick with it when you make an oopps decision…the ripple affect…what a journey…I sit and observe the ripples among the ocean water…I am reminded…it is full filled with ripples wherever you can look…maybe I should have brought my camera says the mind…its beautiful…calming…grounding….awakening….an interesting bird fly’s by and stops in the air hovering…I get up off the log I have been sitting on and move closer to the water right up against it…I look down at the sand and there is a small spray that comes out…I instinctively remove the green algae with my hand and underneath is a tiny crab…of course it makes me smile.. My attention goes back to the water…there is a spot where the sun is reflecting a lovely color on the water’s surface…I came feeling angry…disturbed…but now? It all went away…there are still ripples but not in front of me…there is a set on the right and a set on the left…yet straight ahead of me the water is still…I feel it within my body…as the sun’s reflection in the water shines on my face…I take a few steps…there are many crabs in the water walking sideways…so cute…I hear a bird chirping I turn around and there is a raccoon among the algae and rocks…lifting the rocks grabbing something and putting it in its mouth…rock to rock it goes…my heart smiles even more…another cute spurt of water comes out of the ground…the color upon the water is even more glorious now… I listen to the birds…as I watch the water…sometimes turning around and looking at the raccoon…I realize that just a few minutes before when I was sitting on the log it moved as if someone moved it..I turned around and saw no human…it was the raccoon further up the tree! It is now further away among the water scavenging the rocks…the water…yeah the water so much to teach us…the tide in further and further…quite fast I must add…I guess I had come in perfect timing…I could watch it forever…the iddy bitty waves…I am engulfed in its essence….grateful…there now is a young teenager boy behind me as close to the shore as you can be at the bottom of the trail…sitting on the ground serious reading…my heart smiles even more…the water is even more beautiful now with the mountains in the background and a more vibrant orange…this is calmness…this is joy…happiness…my happiness…  If you think you know how it works for the other, what their truth is you are in delusion. Remember you will always be viewing someone else’s situation through your eyes, your truth. Jaded. You only know your truth no one else’s. Their body knows what is correct for them not you. You cannot know…instead always remain in question, listen, do not pressure, advice, keep your opinion to yourself…listen.. do not be a fool…you are the greatest advisor yes…but only for yourself.Their body knows what is correct for them not you. Remain in question….
 Life is a trip…so f….d up…messed up…beautiful…difficult…captivating…wondrous…treacherous…hilarious…magical…bizarre….adventurous…pondering…a big question mark…all rolled into one…I wonder…what a crazy place…I observe..the mystery…the tragedy…the mastery…hhhmmm….that’s earth….
 !!!!!!!Omg how beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! I heard a knock at the door. I go open the door and see two children running away. I look at the door knob and there is a lovely handmade bouquet of flowers How special is that? That’s just so..I am so grateful I don’t have the words…       Today I got to see two of my “spirit” animals Nebbie the cat joyfully brought a snake into the house. Later in the day, I was going on a little adventure. I remember feeling not to leave quite yet that it was not yet time I left the house anyway and then along the way I realized I forgot something so I went back then headed back out. After I got to the reserve during my hike literally 5 minutes into it I saw a coyote walking through the woods….such a gift….timing what an interesting thing.. The video bellow is from the lake…you cannot imagine how beautiful the sound of the birds (and maybe frogs?) was oh lala! I tried to record but you don’t get the sound just a sort of idea. It was so loud vibrant and beautiful.    Right as I sat outside to read today the bald eagle that lives in neighborhood came flying above and began making circles above me in the sky looking for prey…it made lovely movements and designs in the air…I began reading and some minutes later it began to make its hhhmm…don’t know what you call it its sound. Right as it was doing so I was reading this: “Two other words meaning life ea and ha both mean “breath” as well, that dual meaning appearing common to many ancient philosophies. In addition these to words, carry meanings associated with the movement of water; and water itself (wai), I also used as a symbol for life.”
So I named the bald eagle Ea…very appropriate…  My tears fall…but yet in your presence its nurturing…soothing…loving…you calm my spirit and every sense. How can I not be happy, grateful in your presence? Your beauty…your spirit astonishes me…turning my tears into tears of gratitude…for being alive. There is forever loss…forever death…and forever renewal…all part of life. I could watch you forever…my body begins to change…transform…wash away…it becomes like you or it moves with you…no longer separate…inviting each other…moving together…no fragmented pieces…in alignment…moving in complete alignment…I almost feel I could burst from joy, peacefulness, gratitude providing me with pleasure of every single moment. Each…precious…magical…full of beauty no matter where I look. I return to being…I return to me…a result simply of your existence…
 Have you ever wondered how a whole community of trees, a forest have a healthy, self sufficient sustaining eco-system and thrive so beautifully? Each tree is grounded deeply within itself…still…being…it does not question its existence, it does not try to control its path, try and change, resist its natural existence it surrenders to life…trusts…and because of that…it gives life. It communicates its knowledge…its wisdom to other trees…through its roots…
A tree is a tree and knows it is a tree. A tree knowing what it is, does not try to be something other than that which it is, it honors who it is…trees do not try to be a bird or a tiger…to fly or swim, they are who they are in acceptance and proud of it. That makes them a precious gift. It is not a limitation to them but liberation in this knowing…a tree is who they are and its beautiful…they are a tree…fully acknowledging it…fully honoring themselves…instead of struggling their whole life’s existence trying to be a bird…or something other than themselves…resulting neither being a bird…nor a tree…always existing outside of their bark…outside of their body…outside of their fullness…they exist and live as they are designed to be… Can you imagine if they didn’t? Can you imagine the chaos that would bring to the environment and surrounding trees? To the collective forest if they tried to grow wings…its roots would disturb other roots…the land…the ground…there could be no forest. How could they emit oxygen if they refused to be a tree? Perhaps distorted oxygen. Trees are complete…whole…they are a gift just as you are born a gift. Trees teach us to exist within our own body, to be our body, to accept our limitations as not limitations but to embrace fully our gifts and share that with the world…to love ourselves completely…not thinking about being something other than our nature…if only this or that…but loving and embracing all and every part of ourselves…resulting in all other trees to be able to do the same…they are being that example for us… The answer? The answer is not in numbers but in one number….and that is you. Take the the tree’s example so that you may too have a community of healthy individual trees…a healthy collective forest/community. Trees found on their own here and there outside of forests also equally contribute oxygen to the world…no matter where they are they contribute to the beauty of the world…trees found in places where we have forgotten…there to remind us…to wake us up to our own individual calling, power and contribution. They are equally important…out of place perhaps yet vital… What glorious beauty found within a forest…your every breath and heartbeat can be taken away…breathtaking…that collective whole…the only existing collective whole… – 07/02/19 (“Dod yn ôl at fy nghoed,” a Welsh phrase which means, “to return to a balanced state of mind,” but literally means “to return to my trees”). |
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My name is Gaia (Γαία) and I was born on the beautiful lush island of Kos, along the Aegean sea of Greece, where Hippocrates, the "father of medicine" was born. I am a writer (favorite being children's stories and fairy tales), artist, dancer, modern day Greek Mythologist, nature dweller, photographer, traveler, dreamer, and creator. I love creativity...I love all nature, especially trees. 
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