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I have taken on this mission.

Leslee — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:37:12 GMT

What a lovely idea for a tribe. Thank you for the space to speak

I have taken on the mission to make people aware of the connection between SSRIs and violence. Far to many are dyeing.

http://www.ssristories.com/index.php

http://theeffexoractivist.org

http://community.webshots.com/user/effexoractivist

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ALLOW!

lmbfreespirit — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:10:25 GMT

when we allow the universe to provide~ WHAT SHE WANTS~ WE FIND THAT WE ABLE TO TAKE anything!
WHEN WE T.R.U.S.T that power it provides us w/the means: IE, time, energy, finances, help...
to do much more, then we thought possible!

ABUNDANCE TO YOU ALL!!!!!!

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Once you expand...

Awen — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:57:44 GMT

Over two years ago, I was moving to another state on my own. I was all scared, anxious, feeling unsure and lonely. Much of the encouragement I needed came from this tribe. Since then, when you start living on your own, taking care of your own stuff, watching your own back and making new friends 'out there', I have learnt what is possibly the greatest lesson in life. When you are facing the challenge for the first time, it looks bigger than you. But after you give yourself a chance, and discover you can overcome it, you realise how powerful you are, and how easily you can overcome so many things. Facing challenges is an exercise of personal Power. I'm really glad I moved to another state over two years ago. Now I am moving abroad, overseas, and I'm very confident I have what it takes. And if I don't have, I know how to look for it.

Thanks for reading me.

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A Major Life Change

water_muse — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:14:48 GMT

Well in light of the new post in the "what should we do with this tribe" thread, I'll go ahead and throw my hat in the ring here. :)

In 1998 I became a computer programmer and although I enjoyed it I was never successful in it as a career. I had the outward appearance of being successful because I put out a lot of work and was part of groups like Team Macromedia and the Adobe Community Experts which were both small invitation-only groups of people who are very involved in the developer community who are given some perks in exchange for helping others in the community by answering questions, giving presentations, etc. I even spoke at two conferences over the years... and yet, I worked for a lot of companies that went out of business, I didn't get interviews for a lot of jobs because I fouled up whatever opportunity I might have had to get a Bachelors degree when I was young and I got fired from a lot of jobs because I'm unusual and often unpopular. In 2001 I split up with my ex and because (I'm told) the boss I had at my job at the time lied in court the judge awarded an enormous child-support award that was based on about twice the amount that I actually make annually -- not because I haven't had higher paying jobs but because in the past decade I've always had higher paying jobs with companies that end up having financial problems or going out of business or that I get fired from, so that all the time I've spent out of work means I've only made an average of about $20-25k over the years, working side by side and often being the "go to guy" to answer difficult questions and help solve tough problems for people with bachelors degrees. But a state official a few years ago finally informed me that when you're fired from a job the state assumes that the reason you've been fired is because you've found some way to earn money under the table that pays you better than the job, so apparently they believe I'm off somewhere sipping champaigne and the end result is that my child-support arrearage is now $70k. So a couple months ago I decided to quit programming. Here's a pasted entry from my blog about the decision:

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In recent months I've made one very important decision in my life. This may be the most important decision I've ever made in my life.

No compromise.

Unless you're a bellhop, you can't get anywhere in life by carrying someone else's bags. That's what you're doing when you accept what other people say you need to do or even that you should or aught to do. If you genuinely want to do it, if you believe it will do you good, then it's good to do. If you're doing it because someone else demanded it then all you're doing is handing your power over to them.

This is the reason I've decided to get back to the things I trully enjoy in life among them being illustration. I've also decided because it's something I've fantasized about for years that I'm going to find an apprenticeship to become a tattoo artist as well. So a couple weeks ago I started walking my portfolio around to some of the local shops and talking to the tattoo artists about my work and how to find someone who will apprentice me. I've also started working on more illustrations with the intention of creating "flash" that can be translated into tattoos because many of the techniques which work well on paper don't translate very well on skin. Crosshatching for example for creating texture and shadow on paper doesn't translate to skin.

Thanks to a new tabloid-size scanning bed I picked up a couple weeks ago (and my 10 yr stint as a computer programmer), a few of the new illustrations have also gone into my cafe press store, along with scans of some of my previous illustrations of which I intend to have prints made to put out locally here in Austin at restaurants and the like. I'm actually happy to have the tribe.net site because it gives me an easy way to host some intermediate versions of these illustrations that I can use in the section headers of the cafe press store, because the preview images on Cafe Press are often too small to really appreciate the image.

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Since I posted this blog entry I've decided to pursue syndication as a comic-strip artist creating a surrealist comic strip for newspapers with some similarities to Gary Larson's old Far Side series. A single-panel strip -- just one big string of one-liners with very few if any repeat characters. I built up a portfolio in a week that's large enough to submit to the syndication companies, although I haven't submitted it yet -- I'm waiting a bit longer to see if I can make the submission material a bit more compelling. The comic strips can be found on my Cafe Press store and some of them are also now on Deviant Art. http://smolderingremains.deviantart.com I started doing the comic strip because I realized that I need some kind of residual income to make any of these other projects like the tattoo apprenticeship work in the long term. Anything being possible I could theoretically get an actual job working for a local tattoo artist who'd pay me to be his apprentice, I even read a bio for a guy recently who did that here in Austin, but I'm not going to put all my expectations into that basket -- if if happens for me, awesome. If not then I'll have something else.

Thus far I've found quitting programming to be about as difficult as quitting smoking. :) I've continued to work on some freelance programming projects to pay the bills Although interestingly enough last week I bumped into someone on Tribe out of "coincidence" who I think might be able to help me get one of my long-term programming projects funded so the past few days for the first time in months I've been programming on my own project again, and I'm remembering all the things that excited me about this project and why my own projects were always more compelling (for anyone, not just for me) than the jobs I'd had. I may yet program as a part of my living, but it will be on my projects and my terms.

Any suggestions, advice, critique, criticism, encouragement or other forms of feedback welcomed. :)

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What Shall We Do With This Tribe?

inkedmagiclady — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:39:32 GMT

Should we change it to something else? Should we liven it up as it is? Should we junk it, and start over? Whaddayawannado?

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Hello, all!

Patrick — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:11:22 GMT

Man, the last few months have been hectic ones! I just resubscribed to Tribe after a lengthy absence and *wham* the universe grabs me by my snaky little tail and whips me around some more.

What I've Taken On: I have been guided, yes guided, to develop a new treatment protocol. I wish I could take credit for it, but living in FishWorld as much as I do, I must be honest enough to admit that this protocol is coming from 'them' 'over there', not from me. It's a combination of Reiki, chakra realignment, tonal healing and gentle rocking. I'm seeing dramatic results in my clients and myself. The only problem is that when I'm away from it for more than a couple of days, I tend to get ill. You can't work on anyone else without working on yourself and I guess my greedy little body likes the stuff it's getting and is complaining noisily when it's not. Oh, well.

Darling Laura: how are you , sis? How is your little one?

Brightest blessings to all on this Monday after Easter/Ostara/etc. I hope the Big Bunny left yummy things in your basket.

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healing vibes

freewil4u — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:43:02 GMT

l attend weekly toning circles that are very simply om type of way to share harmony in a circle... went to a special circle tonight where we chanted a phrase to connect with the earth in harmony too... this circle is once a month and l'll support it always... 1st mondays of each month at 7pm by green lake... think it's the albient wellness center on the north west corner 71st ne and 5th just a few blocks up from the 5 way stop by starbutts...

feel there is a lot of healing that goes on without words... finding harmony and unity is selfless path to unity... to surrender ego to hear as well as much as share the tone as one is a gift toward unity... l also feel my voice coming more from my heart rather than my head so to speak... the difference is in my tone and also feeling more heart based...

what we practice we become and as much as some dogma is helpful at times like for me the center for spiritual living it's still being preached to me... grateful to practice feeling oneness on a level deeper than words may for me...

l'm leaving for mexico this sunday so may reply to any posts before then or in late feb..... feel free to run with this thread on your own too...

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The Practice

Patrick — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:07:43 GMT

The following is ascribed to the Dalai Lama. I don't know if he really said this, but it's good stuff nonetheless:

"This is from someone who recently returned from India. Her group met with the Dalai Lama for several days. The meetings focused on dialoguing what they believed were the 5 most important questions to be considered moving into the new millennium.

The group were asked to come up with five questions before meeting with the Dalai Lama. They asked:

How do we address the widening gap between rich and poor?
How do we protect the earth?
How do we educate our children?
How do we help Tibet and other oppressed countries/peoples?
How do we bring spirituality - deep caring for each other - through all disciplines?

The Dalai Lama Answers

The Dalai Lama said all the questions fall under the last one. If we have true compassion, our children will be educated, we will care for the earth, and for those who "have not".

He asked the group:

Do you think loving on the planet is increasing or staying the same?

His own response was,

"My experience leads me to believe that love IS increasing."

He shared a practice with the group that will increase loving and compassion in the world, and asked everyone attending to go home and share it with as many people as possible.

The Practice
Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same thing (to be happy and loved) and we are all connected.
Spend 5 minutes cherishing yourself and others. Let go of judgments. Breathe in cherishing yourself, and breathe out cherishing others. If the faces of people you are having difficulty with appear, cherish them as well.
During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet - we are all the same, and I cherish myself and you [do it with the grocery store clerk, the client, your family, coworkers, everyone you meet.].
Stay in the practice, no matter what happens. "

Practice makes perfect!! We now return you to your regular Tribe, already in progress.

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Judgement in the Year of the Fire Dog

Patrick — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:29:39 GMT

Okay, time to stimulate some discussion. This is the year of the Fire Dog. The last Fire Dog was early 1946- early 1947 and it was a doozy. Just look at the history from that period: the establishment of Israel, war crime tribunals in Nuremburg and Tokyo, Japanese women get to vote for the very first time, the UN meets for the first time and the world tries to put itself back together after the first truly world-wide war.

Now, I study Chinese Astrology as a hobby and can tell you that the Fire Dog year is about good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, or in short: judgement. How are we judging ourselves and others this year? Is the lesson of the Fire Dog to suspend judgement?

We also (Oct 17th) just went through a Cosmic Trigger Event. Those who profess to know say that a big blast of ultraviolet energy hit our planet on that date. It was supposed to open up our heart chakras. I dunno, I think it opened up my throat chakra more-I'm finding new ways to speak my truth and forgiveness (a throat chakra issue) is becoming the current favorite amongst my family, friends and clientele.

Here's the upshot of the most common strain of thought coming through all this to me: acceptance is non-judgement. I just have to accept that I am who I am right now. I don't have to like it, I don't have to change it and I don't have to judge it. Once I've accepted it, I can let it go if it no longer serves me, foster it if it does and still be in a space of non-judgement.

And forgiveness of myself and others does not mean that the slate is wiped clean. Forgiveness does not devolve me or anyone else of the moral/societal repercussions of actions. It merely means that I will not allow myself to be the victim of myself or anyone else any longer.

This is all kinda stream of consciousness, but I'm great at blurting and maybe it'll stimulate a little conversation here.

Oh...before I forget: the other day Blue Jay came to say hello. This HUGE blue jay sat in a tree outside my store and every time I came outside it would caw and cackle until I gave it my full attention. Then it would pick up a piece of food and hop from branch to branch. Blue Jay, again according to those who claim to know, is about the 'correct' use of power. Judgement.

Otherwise, how y'all are? It's been a while since I've been around. Nice to see ya!

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Here's a fun one

inkedmagiclady — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:05:21 GMT

My car broke down today. I don't have enough money to cover the rent. My daughter's birthday party is Saturday, and I am throwing it. I have a doctor's appointment on Thursday that needs to be paid up front. Hmmm...this should be interesting. I am positive that the Universe is not going to let me down on this one.

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13moon.com

mattmann162000 — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:26:10 GMT

Known as Time's Special Witness, 7th century Mayan prophet Pacal Votan left a universal message for future generations of an evolving Earth.

Proclaiming,"If Humanity Wishes To Save Itself From Biospheric Destruction It Must Return To Living in Natural Time," he foretold of our accelerated technological society, and the resulting damage of our collective divergence from Natural Law in exchange for materialist values.

Pacal Votan's prophetic call is alerting present-day humanity that our biological process is transforming, approaching the culmination of a 26,000 year evolutionary program. Bringing the return of universal telepathy, heightened sense capacity, and self-reflective consciousness, this is a return to the sacred domain of our inner technology.

This grand cycle of evolution will culminate
winter solstice, December 21, 2012 AD.
This time we are now in has been called "The Time of Trial on Earth," "Judgement Day," "The Time of Great Purification," "The End of this Creation," "The Quickening," "The End of Time as We Know It," "The Shift of the Ages." It is foretold that the completion of the Precession brings regeneration of Earth, offering awakening to all open, willing hearts. Many peoples spoke of these last days of the Great Cycle, including the: Maya, Hopi, Egyptians, Kabbalists, Essenes, Qero elders of Peru, Navajo, Cherokee, Apache, Iroquois confederacy, Dogon Tribe, and Aborigines.

As avid stargazers, the ancient Maya were keen to an astrological cycle we call the Precession of the Equinoxes. This is close to a 26,000 year cycle in which Earth transits through each of the 12 signs of the zodiac for about 2152 years each. Each of these astrological ages represents one month of the grand, Cosmic Year. Sumerians, Tibetans, Egyptians, Cherokees, Hopi, and Mayans refer to this same 26,000 year cycle in their mystical belief systems and each have developed calendars based on this great cycle.

The Maya messengers, reknowned for their architectural, artistic, mathematical and scientific achievements, left a calling card as a series of super-human sized stone monuments and pyramids with precise calendrical computations. Planted with great intention, these dates were left to ensure that future generations would be alerted to the coming end point of this great 26,000 year cycle. A cycle which corresponds also to a 26,000 year relationship of our Sun orbiting Alcyone, the central star of the 7 Sisters Pleiades constellation. According to the Maya, the "future" which lies beyond this end date is literally "a new world age" - "a new creation."

The 26,000 year cycle of the Homo Sapien's evolution and development is mirrored by the 260-day cycle of human gestation. Collective humanity is right now maturing into the being we have long been encoded to be. As with any labor, it is not the mother, or the baby, who is in charge - it is the primal process of Birth itself unfolding its own destiny.

Thus the December 21, 2012 AD is not the day where all of the sudden a light switch will flip on and everything will change, rather, we are NOW in the process of this transition from one World Age to the next. The changes are underway and will continue steadily accelerating as we head towards the culminating date!

The ancient Maya understood this 26,000 year cycle to be specifically composed of 5 lesser cycles, each 5,125 years each. Each of these 5 cycles was considered its own World Age or Creation Cycle. As depicted on the familiar, circular MesoAmerican Sun Stone, (often called the Aztec Calendar) each Creation Cycle is said to have been ruled and destroyed by one of 5 elements. Specifically, 4 Jaguar, 4 Wind, 4 Rain, 4 Water.

Our present great cycle (3113 B.C. - 2012 A.D.) is called the Age of the Fifth Sun. This time period is ruled by 4 Earth. This fifth age is the synthesis of the previous four. 4 Earth (called Caban in the Maya language and Ollin in Aztec) has several meanings, including: movement, shift, evolution, earthquake, navigation, synchronicity, clue tracking, turtle. In the Maya language, the word "ol" of ollin means consciousness.

In Mayan calendrics, the initial date that Earth entered the Fifth World was August 13, 3113 BC, written in Mayan long count notation as 13.0.0.0.0. Every day from that point was reckoned by the number of days passed since the event of this cosmic beginning point.

As Dr. Jose Arguelles writes in "Time and The Technosphere" -
"August 13, 3113 BC is as precise and accurate as one can get for a beginning of history: the first Egyptian dynasty is dated to ca 3100 BC; the first 'city,' Uruk, in Mesopotamia, also ca 3100 BC; the Hindu Kali Yuga, 3102 BC; and most interestingly, the division of time into 24 hours of 60 minutes each and each minute into 60 seconds [and the division of the circle into 360 degrees], also around 3100 BC, in Sumeria. If the beginning of history was so accurately placed, then must not the end of history, December 21, 2012 also be as accurate?"

(Sidenote: Regarding the World Age cycle we are closing in 2012 and the new World Age cycle to dawn, there are varying cosmologies as to whether we are closing the Fifth World and entering the Sixth, or closing the Fourth World and entering the Fifth. For example, In the perspective of the living Maya Timekeepers of Guatemala, calendrically speaking, each element has a 5,125 year cycle. They teach that we have been through fire, earth, air and water already. The next cycle (beginning Dec 21, 2012) will be ether - the Fifth Age - the Age of Center. Likewise, the Hopi teach we are closing the Fourth World of Destruction, and preparing to begin the Fifth World of Peace. Regardless of the title given, what is clear is that we are on poised on the brink of a World Age Rebirth!)

Within the 5,125 year cycle lies 13 smaller cycles, known as the "13 Baktun Count," or the "long count." Each baktun cycle is 394 years long, or 144,000 days. Each baktun was its own historical epoch or Age within the Great Creation Cycle, carrying a specific destiny for the evolution of those who incarnated in each baktun. For example, almost all of the Mayan inscriptions were seeded precisely during Baktun 9 (435-830 AD). This era is known as the time of the Classic Maya. After this point, around 830 A.D., the great Mayan centers were abandoned and their thriving culture mysteriously disappeared. To this day, no one can verify or prove why they left or where they went.

The Classic Maya of Baktun 9 were of a specific destiny, distinct from Maya of other times. As Dr. Jose Arguelles writes, "In 830 A.D. the engineering team departed back to space, back to the other dimensions from which the Maya keep their watch on things. Slowly the terrestrial Maya melted back into the jungles. The time of darkness was setting in. Sure enough the conquerors came. By 830 A.D. Warrior tribes who took the ancient name of Toltec, which means Master Builder, entered the Yucatan. War and human sacrifice were introduced."

Earth and her inhabitants are currently travelling through the 13th baktun cycle - the final period of 1618-2012 AD. This cycle is known both as "the triumph of materialism" and "the transformation of matter." The Maya predicted this final baktun would be a time of great forgetting in which we drift very far from our sense of Oneness with Nature and experience a kind of collective amnesia. Like a memory virus in which we begin to believe the limited reality of appearances and grow dense to the spiritual essence which fuels this world, so humanity's sense of ego and domination has grown.

We entered this baktun cycle right after establishing the world wide coordination of Pope Gregory XIII's 12 month calendar system (1582) as well as the perfection of 12 hour 60-minute mechanical clock (1600), which had been evolving for centuries. These are no small matters. According to Valum Votan, these 2 instruments are what manifested humanity's "error in time" which is the following of artificial instruments of time that served to separate man apart from the rest of nature, operating by our own false timing frequency, to the detriment of the natural world.

The Gregorian calendar is not based on logic, science, or nature. It denies and covers up the true annual human biological cycle conserved in the body of woman. It is the current world standard because of the forceful issuance of this system upon conquered (indigenous) peoples who lost their land as well as their religious freedoms. The Gregorian calendar is a product of its predecessors - Julius Caesar's calendar and the earlier Roman Empire calendar.

The clock was the first existing machine - going on to become the heart of all machine technology to come.

The presence of the clock gave birth to the notion that time lies outside our bodies - that it can be tracked by a machine, and that we can sit and watch it "fly" by tick-tock as though it is something linear, containable, and separate from the organic, flowing process of life. The adherence to the clock for our sense of time and timing is noted as the greatest obstacle to allowing the full telepathic abilities of the human to flower.

Next came the Cartesian Coordinate Rectilinear Grid System (1637) which went on to establish the foundational platform of all modern math and science. Thanks to Rene Descartes (the man infamous for his quote "I think therefore I am,") the ceiling of perception validated only the reality of the 3 dimensions of physical space. The coordinates of X,Y, and Z rendered the fourth dimension obsolete from our worldview.

At that moment, time became reduced from its qualitative essence to that of a quantity. The mind who adopted the lens of the linear grid also adopted the limited perception of time as a 3rd dimensional linear progression of pure duration.

Our societal paradigms have continued to operate with these limitations in place. Thus if something can not be seen, touched, or proven with measurements, it does not, in effect, exist.

Through the Cartesian lens, Nature has become reduced to pure quantifiable resources - no longer a living qualitative aspect of ourselves, but now something outside of ourselves which we observe, analyze and ultimately come to replicate, manipulate, dominate, toxify, and even destroy or extinguish. As Rene Descartes stated plainly,"I perceived it to be possible to arrive at knowledge highly useful in life...and thus render ourselves the lords and possessors of nature."

It seems the modern world wants nothing more than to improve upon Nature, or at least extract her wisdoms and magical properties in order to make a buck by fulfilling increasing consumer demand.

And so, here we are - currently living the last 7 years of both a 5,125 year Creation Cycle, and the last 8 years of a 26,000 Grand Cycle, the Precession of the Equinoxes.

The coming end date of December 21, 2012 is also written as 13.0.0.0.0. in Mayan long count notation; just like the beginning date.

Scholar and author John Major Jenkins reports,"On 13.0.0.0.0, the December solstice sun will be found in the band of the Milky Way. We can call this an alignment between the galactic plane and the solstice meridian. This is an event that has slowly converged over a period of thousands of years, and is caused by the precession of the equinoxes. The place where the December solstice sun crosses the Milky Way is precisely the location of the "dark-rift in the Milky Way...'xibalba be' - the road to the underworld."

On the winter solstice of 2012, the noonday Sun exactly conjuncts the crossing point of the sun's ecliptic with the galactic plane, while also closely conjuncting the exact the center of the galaxy.

Jenkins further proposes that this grand cross in time is symbolized by the Mayan Tree of Life, found at the core of Mayan cosmology.

We are being invited to realize that we are Time. We are the Living Prophecy. The Synchronic Order of Natural Time governs the unfolding of our lives. Time's cycles are found within our bodies and within Nature's daily rhythms and cyclic seasons. We have forgotten this, thinking that time is money or that time is the clock, or the relentless progression of work weeks and weekends. Time is the ever-changing, unfolding Now as it synchronistically coordinates the Whole living Universe.

From his studies into ancient Mayan Time-Science, Dr. Jose Arguelles decoded the mathematical nature of the Synchronic Order,
The Law of Time:
There is only one timing frequency which unifies the whole galactic order from its largest constituent to its smallest. This timing frequency is the 13:20 ratio, found within the harmonic structure of the 13 moon calendar as well as our human bodies - our 13 main joints and 20 fingers and toes.

Knowing that we are the prophecy, what does it mean to be nearing this return, and what can we expect - personally as well as planetarily?

These times are so accelerated that no answer could encompass the vast implications of the phase we are in. A range of responses are available to us. Depending on who you talk to and what area you research, one can find all kinds of claims as to what can be expected. From cataclysm to enlightenment, world war to world peace, massive earth changes and physical destruction, to massive spiritual awakening to our inherent oneness, there are many views of the implications of the approaching year 2012, 2013, and beyond. One thing is clear - we are right in the thick of this critical, transformative period! As this date approaches, we are collectively in a transition phase of the old world dying and a new world being born.

This moment on Earth, with all of its heightened energies, has never existed before. The opportunities and challenges of today's world are the climax of all that has preceded us. Never before has the population of this planet increased by 216,000 people a day! Never before has the Earth's biosphere been in such a precarious state. That which seems like normal lifestyle decisions and behaviors are but precedents set by our modern standards - not necessarily reflecting the most balanced, healthy, or sane way to operate. It is for us to decipher how to live our lives with integrity; to determine what truths empower us to model our lives according to our greatest harmonious potential.

All that is manifesting on the inner and outer planes reflects the sacred intensity of these prophetic times. More than ever, the polarities and imbalances within us and around us are becoming clearer. Love, beauty, exuberance, and compassion permeate this world - multi-faceted victories of art, co-creation, community support, healing and evolution shine all around us, illumating the spirited grace of our true nature. Meanwhile, this world is steeped in fear, brutality, pain, and disease - endless anguish of anxiety, separation, disconnection, confusion, isolation - alongside the toxic realities of egoic, callous greed and corruption, materialism, addiction, and dangerous ignorance. This is now the time to embrace all that has been dishonored or denied, for it is emerging to be purified and sanctified. Accountability is required on all levels of our existence. The cosmic climate is changing at rapid rates, allowing us to now transduce and shed egoic programs of fear and limitation easier than in the past.

Science reveals that Earth's base resonant frequency is increasing (Earth's heart-beat), and that the magnetic fields of the planet are dropping - reflected in the shifting migration patterns of animals. These shiftings of the Earth's body allow us to release unwanted baggage - mental, physical and emotional patterns, conditioning, beliefs, attitudes, and programming. Simultaneously, that which we think or desire is becoming actualized more and more swiftly.

A peak point in this time on Earth is what's called the "transition of the biosphere into the no-osphere." According to Russian scientist V.I.Vernadsky,"This is the result of a climax of human self-reflective thought and industry upon the environment, resulting in an exponential change in consciousness in which all becomes revealed and known."

As many of us are well aware, much of the genetic potential we are born with is lying dormant within us, waiting to be turned on. This is definitely an important aspect of this time of Quickening. We can only imagine what the full activation of our DNA will allow us to accomplish and manifest for Planetary healing and restoration. It has been foretold that we will be able to transmute the problems of our 3rd dimensional physical reality by utilizing our own stored, internal technology. More and more this is happening.

Now in action is the worldwide grassroots movement which utilizes sound vibrations to clear pollution and (geopathic) earth stresses, producing amazing results. www.earthtransitions.com. Using the ancient sciences of focused prayer and intention, channeled through post-Tesla energy technology, toxic matter is being transformed.

The time has never been so ripe to realize eachother as "one planetary organism in contact with itself anywhere on the planet." The Emergence of our Empowered Potential, Our Divinity is presenting itself to be claimed. How to experience this reality consciously? Where-ever one looks, the universal answer points to one's own body, one's own mental attitude, the energy of one's own heart, one's own living breath as the beginning place of orientation to feel one's unique connection to and expression of the functioning of Totality.

As the frequencies continue to raise, our connection to the fourth dimension continues to rapidly increase. This allows for maximum transformation and mutation of who we are and how we live life, or how life lives us! Doors of opportunity ever-presenting themselves, any limit we might place upon what's possible in these next 7 years is not recommended. Let us instead Dream the Exaltation of Humanity and all of Life on Earth.

Returning to Natural Time

Valum Votan, "Closer of The Cycle" - final messenger of Pacal Votan's prophecy, prescribes the fulfillment of human destiny as a collective return to natural time via the synchronization of the 13-moon 28-day calendar. Using this harmonic, ancient, and accurate standard of measure, we make a whole-systems transition into conscious resonance with our living universe.

In these intense times of uncertainty, we need all the navigational assistance possible for our everyday consciousness to be in harmony with Earth. The 13 Moon calendar helps us re-harmonize our bodies and minds to the natural patterns and cycles of the Earth and Stars.

Learning a new calendar may seem hard or even intimidating, but this is the time to try something new. As Valum Votan states, "It's the untried solution; the harmonic solution." What we're being asked to do is let go of what has been common for so long - the irregularity of the 12-month calendar - and embrace the accuracy of the 13-moon calendar.

Overlayed upon the perfect framework of the 13 moon year, is another layer of natural time - the "sacred count of days," a cycle of 260-days which flows through the year, giving each day a unique "Galactic Gateway." This sacred cycle composed of 260 distinct energies is called the Galactic Spin cycle. As a modern version of the ancient Mayan Tzolkin, it puts us directly in touch with the creational energies which compose our inner and outer world.

The benefit of utilizing this harmonic module (Tzolkin) is that it serves as a clear map of the 260 energetic portals of self inquiry which assist our quickening. As we use these lenses to see deeper into ourselves, we come to know the purpose which every moment holds. We come to hear the guidance which calls to us in every interaction of our lives. We perceive the clues which are waiting to bestow information. The more we surrender into the natural flow of life's timing, the more directly we are informed by time as the universal frequency of synchronization.

The source of these calendar codes is the "Dreamspell" - the modern application of ancient Mayan time-science, brought to us by Dr. José and Lloydine Argüelles. As a tool of synchronization, unification, and telepathic development, by speaking a language of light, this template unites us in a harmony which transcends our language barriers. By following the 13-Moon Natural Time Calendar, every day we meet eachother in the consciousness of the energy and sacred symbol of the day.

Rather than labeling today's date as:
"Thursday, December 22, AD two-thousand-and-five,"
to a growing global population who tracks the Dreamspell count, today is:
"Red Rhythmic Skywalker, Gamma Rhythmic 10, Year of the Yellow Cosmic Seed."

It is beneficial to come together and dicuss what it means to live by these cycles, and how to enhance our connections and share resources!

The "Dreamspell" is subtitled "Timeship Earth 2013." If we understand that Time refers to the fourth dimension of Mind which governs third dimensional space, (Intention preceding manifestation), then what if we translate this as "Mindship Earth 2013?" As humans all over the planet unite through this synchronization tool, we are in fact linking minds over the next 7 years, and beyond. Perhaps the design and the quality of the Ship of 2013 will reflect the consciousnesses of those minds who have linked up! All aboard!

"The purpose of the 13-moon calendar is to assist in converting third-dimensional materialism into the fourth-dimensional rainbow nation."
-The Dreamspell
"Like the Maya who preceded us, we shall understand that the path to the stars is through the senses and that the proper utilization of our mind as the auto-regulatory control factor will help facilitate the passage to different levels or dimensions of being." -José Argüelles

This prophecy is unfolding, right now!
As Valum Votan said: "We are the Peacemakers we've been waiting for!"

All that has been unconscious is becoming conscious.

May Our Paths Be Illumined By The Highest Light Of The Creator That We May Live In Harmony With All Our Relations, In Service to the Whole.

Personal and Planetary awakening is here, now.
As Werner Erhardt says:
"Now is when it is. Here is where it is. You are what it is. Celebrate!"

IN LAK'ECH
YUCATEC MAYAN CODE OF HONOR
"I AM ANOTHER YOURSELF"

- Xa Ta Zac Xa Ta Amac -
"Only May There Be Peace In Your Presence"

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SelfAwareness*~--ThinkingRevolution--;;Listening;;

stevencoolcat — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:10:29 GMT

http://sitepalace.com/StevenMannettetje/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/selfawarenessthinkingrevolutionlistening-
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/realize2actualize/

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Is this the Holy Grail?

Caliwebman — Tue, 23 May 2006 09:55:55 GMT

A new book out suggests that the Holy Grail is indeed NOT the chalice that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper, or that same cup that caught Jesus' blood as he hung from the cross. Neither is the Holy Grail, as the Da Vinci Code suggested, Jesus' actual bloodline, or those children and descendants that were born by Mary Magdalene through her making love with Jesus. And lastly, the once heavily sought after "Spear of Longinus" by which a Roman soldier pierced the side of Jesus with, the same Spear of which Hitler so believed in its super natural and magical powers that he diverted a whole SS division to find the authentic spear instead of sending the battle strong division to counter the Invasion of Normandy.

The Holy Grail is the belief that the Grail is a, "Latent Miracle Power" and that this Latent Miracle Power resides within all of us. To check out pretty good work of fiction that also, like the Da Vinci Coce, blends real truths into the story check out Michael McGaulley's, "The Grail Conspiracies."

This seems to be the best theory out there so far, what do you think?

Scott

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betrayal

alexandriawolfeyes — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:25:32 GMT

how would one deal with being betrayed by your boyfriend? this is a vague question but details will follow. curious to chat via personal message with anyone who would like to be a friend - give advise - share experiences.
I would be so happy to just bounce some thoughts off of some completely objective people...men and women.
thanks and hope to hear from some kind souls soon.

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Relationships Gone Wild

Jim — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:26:19 GMT

It seems so many relationships are falling apart right now. In my counseling business, i am working with seven different couples that are a breath away from saying goodbye to each other.

I also have friends and aquaintances who are in crisis in their relationships. My Astrologer friend claims it is because Mercury is in retrograde. Lots of opinions. For what it is worth, I would like to throw my opinions in the pot for your feedback and thoughts.

1. We seem to be a society of instant gratification. High speed internet, 150 channels immediately available on our remote and microwaves are faster than ever. We want it all NOW. It is hard for us to delay our gratification. We tend to leave five minutes before the miracle. In fact we are a society of leaving....leaving spiritual paths to try a new one, leaving jobs, leaving lovers, leaving families, leaving where we live for what we think will be something better. And after we do our geographical, we find the same problems and challenges follow us.

2. This one just might really stir the pot. In so many cases, the couples I counsel finally after much denial admit that alcohol and drugs are a serious issue in the relationship.

I have numerous phone clients. Recently, a couple I am working with back east both entered an inpatient treatment center. We are not talking about penniless slackers.
He is an attorney and she teaches English in a private high school.

Now, to keep it fair and honest, I am a recovered alcoholic. I will have been clean and sober 33 years this April 30. So I have experienced both sides of the coin. Am I prejudiced against alcohol and drugs? Maybe. But I can tell you this. In 26 years of the work I do, I have yet to see alcohol or drugs add value to a relationship.

We use chemicals to alter our state of consciousness so we don't have to face the reality of the here and now.

3. Most couples in crisis lack a strong spiritual program. I am NOT talking about religion, doctrine or dogma. I am talking about universal spiritual practices such as meditation,
non-sectarian prayer etc. that keep us in contact with Source. Personally, I am very Metaphysical in my spiritual path.

4. Couples in crisis seem to have their PH:D in the other person's behavior and they are at kindergarten level regarding their own behavior.

What I find sad, is the fact many of these relationships can be saved and healed, but people leave and give up way too soon. And then two years later they are back in my office with a new partner dragging the same old problems around in their lives. They re-invent the wheel time and time again.

PLEASE, if you are thinking of leaving, take a 30 day time out. Get some help, get some counseling. Make a list of the values and beauty that brought you together in the first place.
Spend 100% of your time for a week looking at YOUR behavior and zero percent of your time looking at your partners behavior. You may be surp[rised at what you discovered.

If this helps one couple, it has been worth me posting my opinions, be they right or wrong.
Would love to hear your feedback.
Love peace and blessings,
Jim Wilhite

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contrasting art

freewil4u — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:25:29 GMT

"shadows are dark"

been blinded by light or lost being dark,,,

grief's surrender welcomed is part,,,

flowing passion students become smart,,,

light into dark is contrasting art,,,

feeling loving from tearing the heart,,,

grateful to shadows balancing a start,,,

nurturing grey after only light or dark...

torn with love;;;freewil
ps;;; wish to share some contrast...

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Forgiveness

Ro-from-NYC — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 06:36:01 GMT

Forgiveness....What is your view on the topic and can you do it? And if you can't why not?

What does forgiving someone represent to you...and why would it be so difficult....

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Judgement

inkedmagiclady — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:29:19 GMT

How can we transform our own judgemental tendencies? How can we transform what we perceive to be judgement from others? Tough tough one! Your ideas?

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Mind/Body/Spirit Connection

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:58:51 GMT

For the past couple of years, yoga has helped me tremendously. In particular, I have a teacher who teaches Anusara Yoga. This type of yoga was developed in 1997 as a form physical rehabilitation/healing through yoga poses. My teacher, Shari, swears that she cured a very bad case of whiplash with her Anusara practice. I like it because Shari knows how to verbally explain body alignment so that I understand what my body is supposed to be doing in the poses. She has helped me make great leaps in my practice.

Also, my standard escape/constant soothing companion is music. Music was always played at family parties and all the kids would dance and sing. I would listen to my oldest sister's albums all the time and began buying albums when I was 7. When a piece of music that I like is on, my spirit lifts. My body moves. I am lighter. I never drive alone without the radio on.

What do you feed your spirit with? What healthy diversions make your life brighter?

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I LOVE the new pic!!!

Awen — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:32:13 GMT

A great eye refresher in this new awful looks here on Tribe.net...

Thanks Laura!! I love the Osho Zen Tarot.

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Precipice...Jump Tribe! Invite to the "Step up!" people

silverstream — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:21:06 GMT

Dear "Take-it- On-er!" I invite you All to join anew tribe!
Precipice....Jump!.was inpried by a Rigpa (buddhist) quote...that speks of standinf @ the edge of a precipice...and masters/teacher...being there to help one take the next step! And "reg'lar" people like us, regular Magnificent people , can be Helpers to Eachother in taking that step..."a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step !"
Come, take a look and feel free to "take that step!"...and Fly!
A "Sister/Brother Tribe to I'm Taking It On!
Peace!
Silverstream~~

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Prayer

NaughtyKitty — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 02:15:07 GMT

This is a tough question for me to ask.

I know that while there is much use of the *G* word, we all seem to have a thought as to what this higher power is to us as individuals.

Now, I know some of you personally and you know my stance (some may say *hostile*) surrounding religion, so I ask;

If you don't consider yourselves christian, and you pray to god, how do you do it?

Where do you send your energy when you pray? Do you send it out to the person you are praying about? Do you send it arbitrarily out to the universe?

I am truly interested in the answers. I am not trying to trap anyone and in no way will attack anyone for their beliefs. It's just a curiosity.

I am feeling that I am in a place where I may need to paractice paryer and I need to re-learn!

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Worst Christmas Ever

justme — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:25:57 GMT

I know you create your own happiness, but some things that were out of my control happened this Friday. My holidays were spent recovering and crying. I hate feeling like this! I know I'll feel better, but right now, it's so painful.

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recs for quiet mind?

nik — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:51:18 GMT

anyone have any recs for learning to quiet my mind? books or cd meditations? i've attempted for years at meditating, mostly watching breath med, but little results. perhaps a cd would help. thanks alot, and thanks for having this great place to share! -nik

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Open invite to Bless and be blessed!

silverstream — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:46:36 GMT

Stnad-up People! (I love to call you/us by that name!)
I invite you all to come and join "Blessed Be!", a new tribe, that i was inpired to/asked by people to create!
A place where we can share Blessings, for eachother, ourselves and the World!
Love to have the positive Presence of the folks who "Take it On!"
Sun~streaming Blessings of Love, Health, Peace and Prosperity to you All!

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So Inspiring!

silverstream — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:27:16 GMT

Stand~up People! You are All so Inspiring to me, sharing your True stories/experiences...inner and outer! This is Truly a healing Tribe from the inside~out!
Muchos Gracias, Amigo~Amigas!
So much Love to you All!
Invite to All to check out the medicine Buddha Tribe, that i was inspired to create, more Healing! Join if it calls to you!
Thanks, Laura Lov,e for hosting this sparkling space...and I do Love your many facets/names...beautiful chameleon!

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A Plea To You

inkedmagiclady — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:15:13 GMT

My most wonderful and magical friend Jacqueline Pace wrote this today. If you choose to share it, please credit her. She is on my friends list.

Winter Solstice, 2005

A Plea to All Magnificent Beings of Light

Please Awaken
Hear Me
Hear your Heart
The Time is NOW
AWAKEN
AWAKEN
AWAKEN
To LOVE
To Light
To Healing

Call forth your Allies
All who will come
to aid and assist
your becoming

Let The Light Shine
Reveal the darkness
Heal
the hidden shame
and fear

Become who You Are
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
why you came
To Live
To LOVE
To Heal
To AWAKEN

Cast out the misery
the lonliness
the worry
the grief
the dispair
Make it no longer yours

Connect to The Web of Light
ALL ONE FAMILY
ALL ONE
ALL ONE
In LOVE

Choose to AWAKEN
LISTEN!
WAKE UP!
Thousands more years
of darkness
and slavery
or
A New Age
Dawned of LIGHT
The choice is
YOURS
OURS

We are on a fast
moving train
about to pass
our landing
point
Here, take
my hand
leap with me
and feel
the thrill
of falling
fast
into LOVE

You are not alone
We are not alone

REMEMBER your mission
Let's go!
NOW!
JUMP!

Repeat after me:
"I CHOOSE LOVE!
I CHOOSE LOVE!
I CHOOSE LOVE!"

WAKE UP!!!

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A Wee Invitation

Awen — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:56:49 GMT

I've got a blog now, on my profile. You're invited to visit and post comments.

Thank you, sorry for the self-promotion.

Love,
Awen

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What is Shame?

Awen — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:40:21 GMT

Julia Cameron says it is a controlling device. What is shame to you?

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thanks.

museika — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:27:45 GMT

Hi all, I'm new here.

Just kinda stumbled upon this tribe after asking for some guidance to pull myself out of some thick sludgey darkness I've been struggling with lately. I just wanted to say thanks for all the amazing thoughts, openness, advice, intentions....all of it. Just reading these posts has really had a major effect on me. Each post I read loosens the muck from my being, and I feel lighter already.

And Patrick, the third paragraph in your post about being robbed is just so spot on wise that I want to print it out and frame it.

Anyway, just wanted you to know that you are appreciated.

Nice to be here.

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Learning to Forgive Myself

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:19:39 GMT

2 weeks ago today somebody (or somebodies) broke into my home and stole a bunch of stuff. Including my computer. Omigawd, was I furious. Feeling violated, I sent out the energy of vengeance to these unknown assailants who I allowed to put a blot of anger and fear on my otherwise perfect home.

But then (with the help of my family and large doses of flower essences) I began to remember my own words and teachings. At the very moment of the theft, I was the victim of the thief, but for every moment after that I was merely the victim of myself.

So, here it is. To the person or persons who liberated my stuff: thank you. The universe, through you, has reminded me of a very important lesson. First, my stuff was just stuff. Second, my family (the only true treasure in my world) is unharmed. Third, as I alone create my reality, I am only the victim of myself. I refuse to remember past pain (anger) or anticipate future pain (fear). I will no longer victimize myself over the actions of unseen strangers. I send you and yours universal love and hope that you find peace in your life (lives).

Our own words always come back to either pat us on the head or bite us on the butt, now don't they? Thank you Universe for patting me on the head this and every morning.

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Patterns

inkedmagiclady — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:08:14 GMT

Sometimes I resist change, and fall back into old patterns of behavior and feelings that don't serve me or anyone. I hang on to frustration like it is a trusted friend, but it isn't! It has nothing to do with TRUST at all!

I think the holidays have something to do with it. The way society has it set up is also a deeply ingrained pattern that doesn't serve our best interests. I am working on allowing what DOES serve everyone's best interests during this crunch time. Funds are lacking this year for gifts, so looking deeper, and asking myself what can I do to make this season the best ever with as little stress as ever? First I have to remember that Love is the most important thing. Love Love Love.

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Unconditional Love

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:21:48 GMT

Hi Laura,

This question was asked in another tribe, but I wanted to post it here as well to get a broader sense of peoples experience. There is no way one can hear too many heartwarming stories.

Who has changed your life by their love ?

My step father changed my life. My parents were divorced when I was 8. My mother took it so badly that for months she lay in the family room, in the dark, vacilating between tears and dispondence. I took over as mom to my little brother and my elder sister sort of went into a world or her own.

In hindsight it was a blessing that my father left. He was cruel at best and really wasn't meant to have children, especially me. I didn't make any sense to him because I was a "feeling" type instead of a "critical thinker".

My mom eventually picked herself up and went into the working world. This is where she met my dad. I remember he came over for his birthday and we were all sitting at the table. None of us said a word because when my father lived with us, we were not allowed to talk at dinner. Dick (my step dad) couldn't figure out why we were so quiet. He kept trying to get us to liven up.....it's a party ! I switched into my "must please or perish" mode and became animated to the nth degree. In my efforts, I spilled a glass of milk.....all talk ceased. I cleary remember trying not to throw up I was so conditioned to be terrified of moments like this......Dick started laughing. He said "now this is a party !!!!!"

It was Christmas time during those first months of their dating. My mom just didn't have it in her to celebrate the holiday. You know Christmas is hell to those who are sad. Dick came over to pick her up for a date and noted the lack of Christmas tree. He couldn't believe it. How could this be ? He would have none of it !!!!! I remember hours later they returned home with a giant Scotch Pine REAL tree. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.

Life went on like that. We formed a very close bond. He called me his poosie, and I would tell him once I came to understand it how he saved my life. At my wedding, I had them play "Wind Beneath My Wings" for our dance because that is exactly what he was, and will forever be to me.

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Grateful ln All Ways. Lead into Love Rains. Send a love wave around the world.

freewil4u — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:08:19 GMT

My sister Laurakay shared a meaningful journey with me years ago. Simply express what your grateful for today and always.
This is my best effort at expressing the love and gratitude felt for all.

Thank you all for being and shining love always,
Openness empowers this journey in new ways,
Growth and lessons found exploring all ways,
Openly expressed paths brighten the ways.
Others walking beside or leading a way,
Love flows gratefully this day and always.

Love all;Freewil

Wrote the following to Laura Love that shared tears over "Grateful in all ways".
Wrote a poem for her before Earth Angel. It's in the first poetry tread on the link below. All are welcome.
tribe.net/visionsorintentionstowardoneness

Love Rains

To touch a heart so sweet,
Gives meaning to the meek,
Kissing tears from your cheek.

Gratefully co creating a wave of love around the world
Take action to be the change we wish to co create. Please click on this free link.

www.gogratitude.com/

This powerful intention will manifest peace. Please go to the link above and flow with love.

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Greetings!

silverstream — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:08:53 GMT

Hey, people who step up!
I'm steppin' right there with you!
Sayin' hey...Thanks for having this Space/forum for support and encouragement...And...please feel free to pray for me (and /or send good energy my way!) as I am more than half-wy through a scholarship application (Yoga Teachers program) and I have to get up and over the "other side of this mountain!" (finish the other half!)
Merci Beaucoup and Om Shanti

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Your Current Challenges

inkedmagiclady — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:05:43 GMT

What are the opportunities you are experiencing right now in your life? How are you moving through them? Do you have support? I am willing to bet if everyone here posted something, we would find that we have a LOT in common!

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Go Into Your Heart

inkedmagiclady — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:35:27 GMT

And feel:

Integrity
Trust
Love
Generosity

Whole different ballgame than fear, eh?

Now try this one:

Gratitude

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We Are Not Victims!

inkedmagiclady — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:33:12 GMT

Jim's wonderful daily inspirational email contained these gems today. I am every so slowly moving away from blame and into love and awareness. Jim, I hope you don't mind that I posted this here!

Refuse to be a victim

"We focus on the negatives, losing ourselves in the ‘problem.’ We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized."

-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Nothing and no one can make us a victim. We do it to ourselves when we allow external circumstances to hold power over us.

Although we have no control over what happens to us, we ALWAYS have a choice in how we respond. We hold our power when we accept complete responsibility for our thoughts, feelings and actions.

"A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him."

-- Elmer G. Letterman

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

-- Steven Biko

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A Parable

NaughtyKitty — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:04:11 GMT

~~The Water Bearer~~

A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts, " the pot said.

The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.

But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are, and look for the good in them.

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Remember to appreciate all the different people in your life

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Hm

Awen — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:55:15 GMT

I probably won't hit 'submit'. I just feel like venting. But if I do, thanks for being here, reading this.

I'm pretty talented. I write very well, am self-taught in many incredible stuff, including music, Runes, the Italian language and several other interesting skills. But I never, in my entire life, was able to have a job, or to make any money. I always invest more than I get, or end up killing my self with overwork for free. What's wrong with me? What's wrong with money?

Now I live in São Paulo. It's wonderful there (I'm in Rio for the weekend, visiting my parents). I got a job there, but wasn't able to keep it, wound up sacked after four months. It was the only job I managed to get my whole life. I'm afraid of not finding another, because if I don't, I'll have to come back to my mother's, and that'll be awful. I need to pay the rent, I can't let my roommate down like that. And I don't want to come back to this horrible town as a loser, defeated. I want to win.

I think I should do some divination on this.

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Manifesting your reality

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:57:37 GMT

Last weekend my partner/student/teacher/best friend/lover/light/etc and I were vending at a wholistic pet health fair in our community. We were selling flower essence products and I was doing some animal communication for folks as well. A friend of ours asked me to mix a flower essence remedy for her dog, so I just went ahead and did it. That evening, Laurie (my p/s/tbf/l/l/etc) and I were debriefing (get your minds out of the gutter! No, on second thought, leave them there) when it came to light that she was feeling a little jealous. She introduced me to flower essences and taught me how to work with them. She felt that she wasn't getting credit where it was due.

I taught her Reiki, so we discussed how seeing your student do the work is an enormous form of getting credit on an energetic level, etc, etc. Then she came up with this big one: manifesting your own reality has 3 distinct parts: having the idea, voicing the idea (in the beginning there was the word..) and then acting to bring it into physical reality. But indeed, having an idea, voicing it through teaching, and then watching it manifest through the work of others is creating reality, too.

Laurie is full of amazing ideas, she'd share them with a friend of ours and in a few months he'd be doing them in his business successfully. She always felt a little ripped off, Art (our friend) never told folks, "This was Laurie's idea", etc. etc. But not any longer! Now we realize that in this perfect universe any idea that is voiced (steps one and two) will be manifested for the greatest good. And as we're all-one (to shamelessly rip off Dr Bronner) it's You (notice capitalization) that ideates, voices, and manifests everything, no matter which body You do it through. The completion is the credit.

So, my fellow poop-heads, Laurie had the idea, I've voiced it in this forum...happy manifesting!

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the need to be right

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:27:30 GMT

I dont who deals with this, but if you have, did your need to be right accompany and insistant feeling of being wrong?

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Perspective

princessa — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:39:28 GMT

This evening, in front of my computer, I sit here full of thoughts and memories of challenges, triumphs, and failures (which so often lead to more triumphs).

Perspective. All these thoughts have come down to that one word. Perspective.

I typically have a certain perspective on life and a way of embracing each day, each moment, which does not give in to anything negative and does not embrace that which is bad for me. I reach out for beauty, kindness, compassion, and love without letting trivial little steps along the way trip me up.

I have been getting lost in the little things, possibly even at times feeling overwhelmed by things that should be allowed little or no impact on my life.

Stirred in me are thoughts and emotions which, right this very minute, are helping me to remember what perspective I have chosen to have on the world, to have on my life.

It isn't a proud feeling to realize my head has been briefly up my, well, you know. So I'll be getting that out now.

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To Cheer Laura Up Because We Are Truly Your Friends

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:26:23 GMT

Are you tired of all those sissy "friendship" poems that always sound good, but never actually come close to reality? Well, here is a series of promises that really speak to true friendship:

1. When you are sad - I will help you get drunk and plot revenge against the sorry bastard who made you sad.

2. When you are blue - I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.

3. When you smile - I will know you finally got laid.

4. When you are scared - I will rag on you about it every chance I get.

5. When you are worried - I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be and to quit whining.

6. When you are confused - I will use little words.

7. When you are sick - Stay the hell away from me until you are well again. I don't want whatever you have.

8. When you fall - I will point and laugh at your clumsy ass.

This is my oath...I pledge it till the end. Why? You may ask.
Because you are my friend.

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PAIN!

Alecs — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:12:27 GMT

I've posted this before in another tribe a while back, so if somene already read that one, it might just sound like I'm repeating myself, and if it does, I'm sorry, but I've been dealing with chronic pain much of my life and lately I'm just feeling really kicked in the ass.

I've had serious chronic foot pain since I was 14 (I'm 24 now) and the severety of the pain has gone up and down over the years. But in the last year or so, the pain has almost literally paralyzed me. I was never really an athlete but I've always been fairly active. I used to go out and hang out with friends on the weekends all the time, I use to go dancing every so often, on a good day I'd even go hiking. Now I can't do any of that. I can barely walk ( I can slowly on crutches but with a lot of pain), most of the time I'm in a wheelchair, and I visit the doctors almost as much as I visit family.

I feel angry, tired, lonely, drained and you know what? I feel ripped off. I'm only 24 but my body feels like a 70 year old most of the time. I feel alienated from people my own age because I don't get to be like them in so many ways. I don't feel like I can talk to my family because growing up, I was always taught not to burden anybody with my problems, besides, they have their own problems.

I don't know what to do...I guess I just needed to let out some steam.

Thanks for reading.

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Intensity

inkedmagiclady — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:21:47 GMT

Most of my life I have had intense feelings, and spent a lot of time trying to make them less visible to others. I am still learning how to deal with them, and accept them for what they are. I am also learning how to EXPRESS them in ways that are good for everyone involved.

What about you?

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Serious Challenges

inkedmagiclady — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:21:38 GMT

I would like to acknowledge the difficulties and challenges many of us are enduring right now. To those of you who I know directly or from tribe, please know you are in my thoughts and prayers of healing and fulfillment. Many, many others (unknown to me) experiencing life's extremes are in my heart as well.

These ARE challenging times, and we are being asked to generate love, acceptance and trust, and yes, safety even through the toughest moments. All is truly well. All is well.

If you find it in your heart to do so, and you are in between challenges right now, please send some love and acceptance to those suffering, known and unknown. See humanity in perfection, in its highest form of pure love. See it clearly, and hold this vision to the best of your ability.

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Shut Up, Stop Whining, And Get A Life!

inkedmagiclady — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:39:34 GMT

Has anyone read this book by Larry Winget? I saw in on the shelf in a store and thought it looked pretty good actually. I didn't buy it, but I am adding it to my list of books I want.

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Grrrrrrrrrr

inkedmagiclady — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 05:18:30 GMT

Sharing here, just cause I need to.

The ex husband and his wife are pushing me. (I could write a novel, and I probably will.)

A real estate company is "inspecting" the interior of the apartments here tomorrow. I don't like unkown people in my house. It's a Cancerian thing.

The real estate company is doing this because the (best) owner (in the whole world) is wanting to sell the building. I may need to get a new or a second job and/or move.

Someone took my laundry out before it was done and put theirs in. TWICE because the damn blankets weren't dry yet because they didn't get a spin cycle! I don't like people touching my laundry. Believe me, I get there on time to get it. That's how I know it WASN'T DONE.

I realized I forgot my dad's birthday two weeks ago.

I would like to freaking ring someone's neck right now.

Now, the reason I share this is to

1. get it out because I tend to hold things in and let them fester.

2. utilize this tribe for what it means to me, and that is to share and ask for support when needed instead of shutting down. by "support" I don't necessarily mean coddling or pity.

3. put a check on the amount of rage I am generating, acknowledge it, and do something about it.

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Just a Reminder

gangsterboyscout — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:40:50 GMT

Especially for us, Love & Fear: http://members.shaw.ca/yofrizb/

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Tip: let-go!

maire — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:54:56 GMT

let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight ...

just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads.

not trying to control your future,

not trying to control consequences,

but allowing them to happen …

not even thinking about them.

let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow.

and let-go is such a delightful experience,

a total relaxation, a deep syncronicity with existence.

(…)

to me, let-go means you are not fighting for anything in life,

but giving everything to life to take care of.

beyond psychology, # 13

Sometimes we should do this....just let-go, ok?
Máire

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Beliefs

inkedmagiclady — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:45:18 GMT

Tell me about them.

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Venting

justme — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:36:35 GMT

Why, when someone does something wrong, can I not stand up for myself till it's too late?! Then, instead of being rational and level-headed, I am sobbing and immature. How can I raise kids when I can't even raise myself? Ahhhh!

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Trust

inkedmagiclady — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:43:01 GMT

Let's talk about it.

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I can't help it

inkedmagiclady — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 05:02:15 GMT

I know this is off topic for this tribe, but these words cracked me up. My friend Tom sent this email which seems to be circulating. Comic relief can be good.

The Mensa Invitational once again asked members to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are this year's {2005} winners:

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly

3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:

18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an ass.

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Self Forgiveness?

gangsterboyscout — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:44:22 GMT

Here's a topic I hear people refer to constantly and i mull the principle over in my head on a regular basis, mostly because I find myself in a rather radical minority who believe that it's new age nonsense yet it is a cornerstone of most self help movements. It always seemed to me that people who were practicing self forgiveness were always 'in process', 'working on it' and frankly, unhappy. It left sort of an unsettled 'something aint right' taste in my mouth that I couldnt quite put my finger on but it was the accepted dogmatic rule in the recovery circles I frequented so i just assumed that I wasnt enlightened enough to grasp it.

Then one night about 15 years ago a few of us were hanging out after a house AA meeting, having the meeting after the meeting and talking about Emmet Fox's interpretation of the Lord's Prayer. We got to the part where it says "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us" and nearly simultaneously the lightbulb went on over our heads! The passage is petitioning God for this, not me. I'm only conduit; blessed and cleansed by willingness - God is the source of my forgiveness, not me. I ask It to forgive others, It's forgiving Love flows through me to forgive you and in the process I'm cleansed. I am not my source! It blew my mind. It was like I could see for the first time, and man was it a relief to know that it wasnt my job. It's God's job! *whew* because how can i fix my sick mind with my sick mind? The math doesnt work there at all. Yet it's practically a mantra in the recovery world. It makes me sad to watch people struggle so hard with the expectation that they should be able to forgive themselves with what, for all intents and purposes is well meaning self centeredness. (the root of our problem) Sort of the disease in God's clothing as it were or an insidious way of nurturing our misery, of being loyal to our suffering. Blah.

I'm sure advancing this idea will offend some people and that's okay. I dont mean it as an attack in the least but as an obligation to share it to do with what ya will. Just think about it next time you're standing in a circle after a meeting...

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Hi!

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:47:22 GMT

I followed a cat in here...

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walking a way from a dream

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:07:54 GMT

chin up, a smile, and dry eyes

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Making amends...

NaughtyKitty — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:25:16 GMT

what does it mean to you?

I know what the dictionary says, but as someone who isn't in the program, and not an addict (chocolate still doesn't count, right?) I am just curious, what does it mean?

I have my own ideas and will post them, but I want to hear what others say/think first.

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Whoa

inkedmagiclady — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:28:02 GMT

This just in: I realize that I have only had a teeny glimpse of what it is to be vulnerable. I know that it feels safe, despite what its reputation is, and that it is a state of being open to many possibilities. And wow, the walls I have built up.....they are some strong, resistant suckers! I am glad they are coming down.

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We Love You!

inkedmagiclady — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:03:28 GMT

The Automatic Flatterer:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~geoffo/humour/flattery.html

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The Gem

inkedmagiclady — Tue, 24 May 2005 19:32:47 GMT

Every challenge is a diamond in the rough. What treasures have you found in yours?

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Something to Ponder

Thu, 19 May 2005 15:40:35 GMT

The most destructive habit..............................Worry
The greatest Joy.......................................Giving
The greatest loss........................Loss of self-respect

The most satisfying work.......................Helping others
The ugliest personality trait.....................Selfishness
The most endangered species.................Dedicated leaders

Our greatest natural resource.......................Our youth
The greatest "shot in the arm"..................Encouragement
The greatest problem to overcome.........................Fear

The most effective sleeping pill................Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease....................Excuses
The most powerful force in life..........................Love

The most dangerous pariah..........................A gossiper
The world's most incredible computer................The brain
The worst thing to be without.... ................... Hope

The deadliest weapon...............................The tongue
The two most power-filled words......................."I Can"
The greatest asset......................................Faith

The most worthless emotion..........................Self-pity
The most beautiful attire..............................SMILE!
The most prized possession......................... Integrity

The most powerful channel of communication.............Prayer
The most contagious spirit.........................Enthusiasm

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Feeling Crappy

Alecs — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:36:44 GMT

I've had this weird bout with depression the last few days. I'd manage to drag my ass to school, but as class time gets closer and closer I'd get thisoverwhelming sense of sadness and impending doom. And soon after I'd be just so tired that the only thing I could do was lie down 'cause I could muster the strength to really do anything else.

That and my ongoing fight with chronic pain...

Guess I just had to get it out there.

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Feels like it is time to RUN!!!

Faireguy — Tue, 10 May 2005 19:10:37 GMT

I have been getting this feeling for about the past couple weeks like I need to pack everything up (not much since the separation) and just go....Now, I really don't care where...I am just feeling like it's time to up and leave. Part of me feels like I am running from something (maybe just life in general?) and part of me feels like it's just time to go. I am sitting at work right now thinking of quiting, going home, packing my stuff and just leaving...UGH...I know that this can't be a good thing (can it?) but at the same time, I feel that if I don't just up and leave I am going to F@#$ing explode!!! Anyone else been there? How did you deal? Thanks for listening

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Facing down a couple of my giants this weekend

khrysso — Fri, 06 May 2005 18:02:35 GMT

I'm going to be spending time with my family this weekend--with my *whole* family for the first time in over a year and a half, probably a lot longer, I've lost count.

It is a long, long story, but I decided to write my big brother out of my life. It's only my take on things, but he seems to need to be punitive toward me. In any event, I don't like the way he treats me.

Mom wants me to play nice with him. I keep telling her that it's not my unilateral job. But what she wants is for me to behave myself, and I'll do that.

Meanwhile, my little brother has a lot of hostility that he makes little effort sometimes to mask, and he can be quite abusive verbally. I really hate being around him at family gatherings. I have the same fight-or-flight response to him that I used to have when we were kids, only then I used to beat him up.

Meanwhile, because of health issues and moral choices, I am a high-maintenance person to accommodate at mealtimes, at least in their perception.

I really don't want to do this visit, but I love my niece, who's graduating, and I love my dad, whose birthday is tomorrow, and I love my mom, who will be in proximity to me on Mother's Day, and my parents aren't going to be around forever, so I really need to take the opportunities I have to see them--they don't happen very often.

I will be facing down a couple of my giants this weekend. But I can do this, and so I shall.

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The Latest Challenge

inkedmagiclady — Tue, 03 May 2005 16:26:56 GMT

For the last week I have been somewhat under the weather with a head "cold" which I suspected to be a sinus infection, but was NOT going to go to a doctor under any circumstances! No, not me!

Then came the ear infection. Memories of being a little girl writhing in pain came flooding in.

I went to the doctor. Got meds. I feel a little better now.

I think I'm developing a new relationship with my bed, since I'm in it so much! Going back there now.

How are you guys doing?

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Radiate

inkedmagiclady — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:01:56 GMT

"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

I picked this from the wonderful Heart-Spirit Wisdom card deck made by the fabulous Jacqueline of Dancing Deva. http://www.dancingdeva.net/

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Sucky Day!

inkedmagiclady — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:12:08 GMT

My glasses broke (They are my only pair)
The cell phone company overcharged me (a lot)
The government wants me to pay 350 clams in taxes. (I don't have it.)
I broke out with a cold sore in my nose.
I have cramps.
No one can cover my shift at work for me today.

Sorry if that is too much personal information, but hell, this is tribe, right? We can express ourselves however we want to.

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Responsibility

inkedmagiclady — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:24:41 GMT

Where does mine end? Where does yours start? What are you responsible for? Taking responsibility for myself seems to be the theme lately....

I would love all you enlightened souls to put in your two cents (sense) on this one!

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