peace, unity, poetry

Soulful Sunday 103

  Soulful Sunday 103 I believe we need time in nature to soothe our minds and nourish our body and spirit. In fact, we are nature, united with the web of life, but our culture has been built on the illusion of humans as separate from nature, May we reclaim our unity with nature as…

holding circle, Awesome Stories

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This week Awesome Stories brings you SkyGlow, writing tips, circles, and inner greenspace. SKYGLOW Timelapse filmmakers Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan have created beautiful videos and a book called SKYGLOW to capture the magnificence of the night skies and the threat of artificial light pollution. Very few places are left where we can still see the stars…

love, Rumi

The Sovereignty of Love

The Sovereignty of Love As we harmonize our daily life with love, we come to know our self as the consciousness of love. This is self-love. This is sovereignty. ~ Alaya DeNoyelles The phrase, the sovereignty of love, came to me in meditation yesterday. I had the understanding that as we align with love and allow…

solar plane, Awesome Stories

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The return of Awesome Stories! It’s great to be back and reaching out to our community. I’ll have more about my trip and adventures soon, but wanted to share some Awesome Stories for now. This week’s edition brings you solar flight, miracle tree, meditation and the struggle for control. Solar Plane Success Bertrand Piccard completed…

sacred earth, Awesome Stories

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This week Awesome Stories brings you solar beauty, life stories, mindfulness, student-directed learning and the joy of giving. Solar Dance Watch this awesome time-lapse video of the sun from NASA. It’s a surreal and beautiful video compiled from 1826 days in space, 200 million photos and 2600 terabytes of data! It must be nice to…

Wind turbines, Awesome Stories

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Happy New Year! As you may have noticed, I didn’t keep completely away from my blog and the digital world. 🙂 But I found peace, fun and an urge to keep the connections alive within our blogging community. This week Awesome Stories brings you meditation, wind trees, compassion, magic bubbles, nature to the rescue and…

Hoi, Vietnam

Imagine Peace

For many of us, war is clearly not the answer. Let’s try peace. For inspiration, we can draw on John Lennon’s beautiful song and vision for a world united in peace, Imagine. As part of my commitment to peace, bloggers for peace, and the truth of who I am, I dedicate this post to peace.…

Being Awesome

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Prepare for awesome stories. I hope I can live up to the big new name! Wow! 97% of the new energy added in the last half of 2013 will be from solar in CA. Let that percolate in you a while. While some people are still talking about solar being too expensive, hard, unreliable, etc.,…

pause and refresh

Pause and Refresh

Whenever we are feeling off, the best thing we can do is take care of ourselves. Usually we feel off because we’re  pushing too hard, resisting what is, or trying to force something to happen. Our task is to relax, allow life to be as it is, and align with our inner being to feel better. Here are a few of my favorite ways…