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3/7/01
- Wednesday
My friend
Nancylee wrote a poignant story
that has just been published in Palimpset
magazine. It's about the treasures that mothers pass down to daughters,
both the objects themselves and the family stories that go with them.
It can't be coincidence, can it, that I read the story today and last night
I dreamed of my mother and grandmother both of whom had red hair just like
the women Nancylee's tale?
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My article Spring Cleaning was published in the March issue of the Monthly Aspectarian.
I found
a wonderful website to comfort and soothe the woman's soul.
Comfort
Queen is a good place to take an instant web vacation.
"That
karma which has not yet been manifested can be softened and neutralized.
That karma which has not yet been manifested should be softened
and neutralized." ~~~ Goswami
Kriyananda
Modern times: Yesterday, Rich was at Eurofresh Market and I was at Valli Produce. We were on our cell phones to each other comparing the price of cabbage and brussel sprouts. LOL!
Kepler College, offering Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Astrology, is having their second online fundraising auction through March 24. They're taking bids on books, tapes, reports, software, and jewelry.
I just found out I can be categorized in a whole new way. I thought I was a yogi astrologer teacher writer who participates in networks of meditators and metaphysical practitioners along with being a vegetarian suburban mom who shops at Whole Foods Market. That's a mouthful, especially if you meet someone new and they say, "So, what do you do?" Now, I can just say, "Hi, I'm Marcia and I'm a Cultural Creative!"
I came across the Cultural Creatives webring the other day as I followed the links from The Monthly Aspectarian to the Alex's Restaurant site and found out Peter Sinclair was a member. That was good enough for me, so I joined. According to the ring, Cultural Creatives have certain core values: a strong concern for the family and relationships, the environment, health, civil rights, sustainable living, spirituality, social conscience, optimism, education, rebuilding communities, and opposing apathy.
Synchronously,
our midwest health and environment magazine Conscious
Choice which I just picked up yesterday had an article on cultural
creatives. So I guess it's the next new thing. It's all based
on a book called (what else?) The
Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are
Changing
the World by Paul H. Ray, Ph.D. and Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.
Their website is at http://culturalcreatives.org/
I may take a peek at the book if I can get it from the library. Personally, I've been into "all this stuff" for over thirty years so I'm not wowed by buzzwords or granfalloons. They've said I was a hippie, part of the Aquarian Conspiracy, a new-ager, and, of course, a baby-boomer. I've seen so many phases, phrases and crazes based on books, methods, and teachers. As a yogi, I come from a tradition thousands of years old and the momentum of spiritual quest from many, many past lives. I figure I'm in it for the long haul. I'm grateful for the bubble of peace and abundance I've found in 20th/21st century America and I'm enjoying the heck out of it.
If Paul and Sherry want to call me a cultural creative, so be it. I believe the authors hope all cultural creatives will somehow join together for the common good. Sometimes this kind of naming and grouping, though, just makes for ego and elitism. So I say in Sanskrit "Aham Brahmasmi." It translates, "I am God." It means (I, you, we) embody the creative principle, the Divine creative energy that makes life on earth exactly what we choose. And it's not just fifty million people. It's all people. And I press my palms together at the level of my heart, bow, and say "namaste" which means "I honor that which is Divine within you."
Namaste