and the living is easy.

IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL HERE.

And, you gotta love the chickens.

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love to you!


Summer Solstice was yesterday, I find it somehow hard to believe that the peak of the sun has come, even as the heat of summer increases (I still so viscerally remember the dark of winter). Clearly reality does not need my belief in it to continue.

And here I am, sitting, listening to the birds after spending some of the morning watering the plants and visiting our chickens. Daily I am opened by the beauty of nature. The green growing things and the blue, blue, blue of the sky. What a gift it is to be inhabiting this body, and what interesting times to be doing so. The conversation in my house has been around permaculture and sustainability, love, living together, practice, relationship and distraction.

How do we live in an awareness of the wholeness that we already are, and from that place, take action?

What do we habitually use to distract ourselves from being in the present moment: thoughts about the state of the world, work, money, relationship and what he/she needs to do to make me happy (this includes ourselves) -- forever?

It's a moment to moment choosing of wholeness, of the awareness of presence, of the returning to simplicity. "Come here to this moment now. Don't wait until your hair is perfect. Don't even wait until you have both shoes on. Come." ~Jeannie Zandi

Often there's still a thread that says the “me” is going to get it, the “me” is going to wake up. And it just isn't true. It actually wakes up out of the "me." ~Sharon Landrith

"Our practice is acceptance. It's a subtle thing. I include anything as practice that is focused on being present and conscious. In awareness practice—this is heart of what Buddha and every spiritual leader got to and tried to communicate—the little self (who you think you are) is not who you are. You have to recognize and realize who you are in order to bring compassion to the illusion of the separate self/ego you thought you were. It's a case of mistaken identity—no wonder we are struggling!" ~Cheri Huber