“Life is a journey”

You are on a journey called the river of life – always moving somewhere. Know where you are going, where you came from, and most importantly, where you are in the present.

Like a flowing river, get into your flow. Your intuition will take you there. Flowing does not mean it’s always physically and emotionally effortless, though in the spiritual dimension it does mean to move easily in consciousness through life. To go with the flow is to accept and surrender to the present with equanimity and grace.

Life is about navigating the river you are on and some rivers are rough, winding, rocky, shifting, narrowing. You are responsible for the river you have chosen. Captain, be aware, alert, awake to the changing course of your flow.

Yet, you’re on the big river called life regardless of your personal choices. So, at the same time of being in control, let go, float along and be.

What kind of river are you? Some are broad and lazy and great for commerce. Are you in this mainstream? Or are you a tributary, a creek in the forest, a steep, daring mountain rapids, a lowland delta, a giant rolling Colorado? Once you’ve found your flow, you can be the flower – all that you are meant to be.

How to be your river and find you flow? Do that which transports you. Move with what moves you. Don’t fight with your mind that you should do this or that. Do what your soul sings and your heart impulses.

When you are your river, you are the welcoming water source for others. All civilizations and all people need water on this water planet of ours. The water you bring is your service to the world. Insure that your river of gifts is transported with safe landing for others to access and benefit.

Gently down the stream
Easy does it -
that which gives you energy.

Sometimes slip in the stream of others
but always seek your own channel.

Soon you will empty out in the great ocean
of collective emotion
Express your life’s desires
on your way.

From the mountain top you began
What was your highest point
that points the way
to return again?

No pollution of the river that you are
No contaminants of negative thinking
No trashing of yourself.

Conserve your underground river
the immense acquifer for reserving
the waters of your source and soul

Let it rain.

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Are you in your flow?
What kind of river are you?
What navigations and adaptation are you on the alert for?
Where’s your river going?
Are you able to accept your course of life?
Do you guard and protect your life waters?
Can others benefit by the river that you are?

“Nature always shows a way”

Earth reveals itself, where it’s been, what it is, where’s it’s going, and how it does it, as evidenced in the footprints on the sands of time. All about you are the signs of what’s going on and how you can be a part of that ongoing journey.

In the record, whether fossil, bones and stones, and footsteps, you re-cord. You will find continuity and integrity amidst the shifting and elusive.

Keep walking with the time-tested way and you will find your destination. Don’t get mired down and lost in the changing sands here today and gone tomorrow.

Your time on this earth will end. You will die. And for what did you live? Know that you leave a legacy. Through your progeny, your path, your products, your personality, you leave your mark. You are a pathfinder and trailmaker by the way you live.

Watch your steps for they will lead. You are responsible for the succeeding generations. Make tracks, take steps that last and guide. Pay attention to your footprint, for it may leave to the wrong way. Remember, life is an imprint that stays forever.

Do you know where you are going?
What signs are you following?
What legacy and path have you left?
What are you exploring about life and yourself?

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Looking back
You see ahead.

In review
You preview.

Know your history and herstory
And make the future sustainable.

In the rock of ages
- a telltale -
of substratum and substance
Clue to the archaic
and arcane
of the why, how, what, when and why
of us.

Explore, quest, seek
and uncover, discover,
and recover.

Death is desiccated
So, don’t dry up.
Stay fluid
Live wet.

“Only the adapt-able survive”

To sustain yourself in a speeding, changing, diversifying, complex, competitive world, you must know how to be adapt-able and flex-able – the essential survival skills. Like a chameleon, change and keep changing. Alert, awake, aware, be prepared to make adjustments again and again and not fall into predictable, mechanical patterns.

The art of communication is paramount in this world of connectivity. To get along, hear and be heard, and live harmoniously with the world, know how to “read the room.” Use your natural gift of empathy and feel out others and situations from moment to moment. Blend in, morph yourself and become like them. You will be aligned, credible, understood and accepted. Others feel comfortable around you and open up. You will have influence.

Watch out that you don’t lose your own inner core of integrity and sense of who you are. Keep to your vision and dream as you go with the flow. Be secure and comfortable with yourself or risk the danger of co-dependency, always needy of outside approval for inside validation. You don’t have to be alike to be liked.
How are you changing?
How are you adapting?
Do you play out all the parts of the multi-you?
Are you empathic?
Do you get along with others?
Who are you?
Are you dependent upon approval of others?
Do you sneak around, blend in, and don’t want to be noticed?

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Quick change artist
Trickster
Master of disguise
Put on a uniform to be uniform
Reform to conform
Contrive to survive
Go along to get along.

Way of the chameleon
Smooth operator
Transit by increment
Fluid change.

Useful
Utility person
Versatile and capable
Anywhere
Anyhow.

Role player
Team player
Actor
Do what needs to be done.

Sacred actor
Multi-you
of di-versatility
One with the whole universe.

Or, are you
an invisible presence
Secretive, stealthy, sneaky, silent?

Know the trends.
Sense which way the channel is turning
Keep current
in the mainstream.

Empathic
Antenna sensitive
to the slightest shift.

Not set, not fixed
Porous and open
yet safe and secure.

Magic blend of mix and match
Mirror of the mass
to merge.

In the “art of mirroring”
Reflect
and Learn.

“Growth is based on modeling and guiding”

Parenting is growing kids and more – projects, teams, plants and businesses that are young and need a guiding hand. Regardless, it’s the human touch that works wonders. A pat on the back, a carry on the back, a backrub shows your interest and concern. Touch heals, touch bonds, touch guides.

Along with a hands on way, it’s all about communication. Practice the “Five E’s of Effective Leadership.” They are Engage – show up, be a friend, real, vulnerable. Empathize – feel into their shoes, into their situation, into what they feel – then you will know, and they know that you know and then you can genuinely communicate. Educate – teach the basic social and work skills and why you want them to learn these. Enlist – get their agreement that they understand their role and position, and are willing to play their part. Encourage – give feedback that is positive, constructive and energizing so that they feel valued, worthy and good about themselves and their relationship with you, and sometimes you have to do “tough love.”

Your job is to nurture, grow, cultivate. Sometimes this cannot be speeded up. Parenting requires patience, compassion and hanging in there for the long run. As children and other forms of your creation develop, your role will change and you must adapt and grow.

Your babies are extensions of you and are your legacy. You are the model of the behavior you’d like them to be. Remember, they are different than you and cannot be controlled and contrived as you. Strive to help them become all of themselves. Watch out for over-interference.
Are you hands on?
How do you communicate?
Do you see it through?
Are you growing yourself in the process?
Do you interfere?
Are you a model for your children?
Do you give them the skills they need?

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Your parenting and leadership work
is to make yourself obsolete.
Give them the essential tools and skills to carry on.

Social skills for knowing how to get along with others
Emotional intelligence of self-control.

Work Skills for living successfully
Discipline
Knowing the rules of the road.

“Everything is useful”

Mud is dried up earth yet wet and pregnant with possibility. Now is your time to either let your creativity lie fallow or give it your attentive energy. You have a choice.

Be aware of what you have let dry up. Like a dead fish, without your guardianship, things will die. Everything dies with inattention. Is that what you want?

Your concentration is like rain, for it can immediately turn a dry lake into a fertile bed of life. Do what you love. Tend to your creations with care. With just a little flow from your heart, the waters of love will resurrect the dead.

But sometimes you need to dry things up. Perhaps you have overdone work and been overwhelmed with expectations. Allowing things to rest will bring restoration.

Pay attention to your body. Is it becoming desiccated, stiff and stuck and all dried up. Lubricate those joints and drink plenty of water.

Life is messy
like mud
Dive in
it’s only earth.
Trust, get down,
get soiled
get soul.

Rotten fish
Smells good
when it’s fertilizer.

Everything is useful
Bad can be good.

Revive, Resurrect, Rebirth
Dead is not always dead.

Clean out, burn out, air out
Purify.
Let it die
for a while
to live again.

Get fluid,
Be flex able
Move
to Live.

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What have you let die?
What needs to take a rest?
What should you pay attention to?
What to clean, clear and purify?
What to recycle and regenerate?

“Nothing on earth can live without water”

Like the camel which transports, feeds and shelters, you carry and support life. In the roughest of barren times, you are reliable and resourceful, taking others over the hump while digging deep into your own reservoirs.

Dependent upon the life-replenishing waters of the earth, drink from the well so that you are a well spring for the common good. Nourish yourself to sustain others. Nobody can do it alone. Interdependent we sustain. Otherwise, you die, I die, we die.

Deep within you are pockets of natural wealth. Offer that which refreshes and revives you. Be of service, be the oasis, be the camel, be the spring, be the water, and be served.

Water is everything, without it, no life, nothing. Water is sustenance. Water is precious. Conserve! Take no more than you need. Reduce your consumption.

Yes, tap your own water table, but don’t abuse your own aquifer.

For the well-being of the herd and community, no hoarding. Open the source and make trails and access for the fair share and fair trade of those in need. Protect the rights of all to live. Be grateful, be sparing, and be generous.

Quench your thirst
Dowse and trek
Search and sense
Take the long journey
That may be dry and barren.

Bathe away the toils of yesterday
Refill, renew, refresh for today.

Be the oasis
A destination person and spa
Place of rejuvenation
Revered and rewarded.

To the fountain of life within
And without
We drink!

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What sustains you and gives you new life?
What do you thirst for?
How do you share that?
What do you conserve?
What inner resources do you tap?

“Nature’s truth never sleeps”

The night brings a different truth about you. It reveals your primal self, your unfulfilled desires, subconscious drives, and latent potentials. Try to remember your dreams. Work and walk at night. Pay attention to the moon and its affect on you.

Get out of your ordinary thinking mind and into the unconscious darkness within your psyche. Meditate, dream, regress hypnotically to past life, howl and dance. Therein reside psychic premonitions, synchronous attractions and intuitive answers. Get out of your body and astral travel to access the information from these primordial, distant and mysterious energy fields.

What is haunting you?
What’s your dream?
What part of your past wants to surface?
What truth do you want to tell?
How do the phases of the moon affect you?
What’s calling you?
What is your dark side?
What are your fears?
What does your inner voice tell you?

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Alive at night
Wolf hunter of new life
Track through
Unconscious tundra
Laying to rest old haunts
and digging up geographies
of your psyche’s otherworld.

To the moon you return
to the pulse of the subconscious
the primal beat
of oceans of emotions
to yet express.

Be a dreamer
Birth your own moon
to howl to
to long to
to pray and praise to.

The wolf’s prey
is yourself
to devour your past
and taste the future
of living the dream
Night to day
Dark to light
a new dawning.

In the moonlight darkness
the truth is exposed
the distant hearing of an antecedent voice
of conscience.

Dogged hunter of the dream
your howling demon
kept alive
by nagging cries.
Voices of the night that stalk
and will not rest
until bared
and secret revealed.

Night worker
in the raw tundras
of your mindscape
to the call of the wild
of primal feelings
guarded by the yapping mind
of sun and security
comfort and reason
pass the gatekeeper to Luna’s
Sea of darkness
on the edge of oblivion
the nightmare of the shadow side
yet compelled
by the pull of a magnet
as if struck by the moon stone
Blinded by the moon beam
Intoxicated by moon shine
in the moon lighting
Dare you tell.

Spelled out in
Black and white
the watchdog of veracity
guides you to the cleaning of the bone
of unspoken dreams
and contentions
of unrevealed fears
Compulsions
Obsessions.

Blinded by the veils of mystery
Deluded by illusions of convention
You are freed by the clear reception
of telepathic transmission
from foreign intelligence

Appealing to the longings of your soul
Wake up to the luminous night seed
of a different way
and a different day.

“The wonder is within”

Within you lives a wondrous subconscious world. Dare dive into this rich mystery to draw out your dreams from the deep. Swim into the multi-layered gardens of esoteric past life places. Explore the subcontinents of unused resources and many fathomed treasures. Sink into altered states of consciousness and find exotic solutions and oceanic wisdom. Look to your fishy origins of ancient truths for how to live as a water person on a water planet.

Know that you have a reef inside of you – a garden of abundance that supports your life and others. It’s a delicate ecology that you must preserve. Just because it’s not so obvious, don’t ignore and undermine your inner ocean. Take care that you do not destroy and poison this resource-rich cache with careless thoughts and actions. When your core of competence and largesse breaks down, the entire fabric of the human world suffers.

From your inner beauty, be an artist at work. Design your life as a thing of splendor and moveable feast. Creating from the inside out, you can allure and elicit something wonderful to feel, spectacular to observe and functional to serve. Like water over stone and ocean over bone, bring out your colors that shine and shimmer. Mirror the magic carpet within to make a tapestry of play at work and live a life of texture and pattern that takes you away.

What are you exploring within yourself?
What inner resources and beauty are you discovering?
How are you using and taking care of your assets and reserves?
How are you designing your life?
What color and magic do you bring forth?
How do you use your imagination?
What new perspectives are you bringing to the surface?

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Fish eye magic -
Pictures into thoughts
to tell a vision
to lustrate
the inner truths
the extra-ordinary
beyond belief.

Move free floating
Weightless in suspension
with fluid flight of eyedeas
and eyemagination
to transform the customary and boring
with the liquid light of brilliance
shining through.