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May you and your loved ones know Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
Monday, December 31, 2007
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Monday, December 24, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
More About Great Pine and Winter Solstice and Greetings from Grandmother Pa'Ris'Ha
This Saturday, I and my ceremonial family will gather with friends and family to celebrate the Great Pine Ceremony at our Ceremonial Homegrounds in southeastern Ohio.
On this longest night in the year, there is one moment when all the Universe pauses, at the precise time of the Winter Solstice. (This year it will be Dec. 22, 1:08 am).
At this moment, there is a tone, a frequency, as a signal, released by the Evergreen Trees. This signal travels deep into the Mother (Earth Mother) to awaken the new growth that will come in the spring. It also awakens the sap running through the trees.
In this longest night, the miracle of new life takes place as it has for eons. The Awakening. In the "dead" of winter, Life sends forth a call through the Evergreens - those Tree People who always remain green, who never shed their leaves.
Is it no wonder that humankind's many religions have chosen this particular time to celebrate Holy Days? How appropriate!
We celebrate Life and New Beginnings in many ways. But the message remains the same. For we are One. One Voice. One People. One Seed. One with all forms of Creation on this planet and throughout the Universe. One.
In the words of one of my sisters, "The Trees give us the air we need to live, we in turn give it the air it needs to breathe. It is the Tree Of Life. Its leaves have the same DNA as humans. We are close relations, dependent on each other."
If you are in the area and can join us for this celebration, you are most welcome! Come to Friendship Village, 49862 Batesville Rd., Summerfield, Ohio 43788. For information call 740-838-4033.
-Deb
-Deb
from Grandmother Pa'Ris'Ha (visit http://www.parishaonline.com/)
Great Pine Moon and Winter Solstice
May this season be all that you ask for, and allow love to be in all you do. Hold all here holding the center and home fires in your light and connect to this ceremony, before you are dazed by the commercials and consumers craze that over shadows most at this time. Stuff will not fill the empty place that this holy time speaks for. Your gift of time and prayers, being present and holding all in love will cure anything and fill all with lights!
May this season be all that you ask for, and allow love to be in all you do. Hold all here holding the center and home fires in your light and connect to this ceremony, before you are dazed by the commercials and consumers craze that over shadows most at this time. Stuff will not fill the empty place that this holy time speaks for. Your gift of time and prayers, being present and holding all in love will cure anything and fill all with lights!
Give celebration for the caring people at our ceremonial home base and grounds who come to this time in traditional celebration and holds the moment for us all. Earth is talking along with all of nature and there is more than Grandfather Pine moving this season.....be clear in mind and heart.
Happy Holidays from all of us here at home!
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Winter Solstice and Celebrating "Great Pine Ceremony"
As the Winter Solstice approaches, December 22nd at 1:08 am, I am again in a time of preparation to celebrate traditionally in the way of my Grandmother's People, the T'saligi, the Ceremony of Great Pine.
Let me share this sacred time with you, through the words of my Elder, Grandmother Pa'Ris'Ha:
"Great Pine is the Trusted and the Guardian of the Creations of the Forest and her Children. They are like our Chiefs, who are the same for Human Relations. As the moment of the Winter Solstice arrives, Mother Earth pauses a second and sighs a sound of release and Grandfather Pine picks up the service she requires in this time. While all outer impressions say the Forest is silent and barren, only the ones with ears to see and eyes to hear [Editor’s note: yes, she did mean ears to see and eyes to hear (as this is truly how we perceive…] can hear the birthing of the coming Spring in these first movements of Winter!
"The sap or life source of the Pine Trees begins at the moment of the shift, the pause of motion, Mother's sigh of rest and the shortest day when we are the farthest away from Nunda - The Sun - when the longest night of the Cycle begins. Such a powerful time!
"Out of the day of greater darkness, we are given the new life of Spring and birth. The Great Pines awaken the Forest to the upcoming days when all will come forth with their new garments of bright colors and flora. The Silence of Winter is loud and clear.
"It is a time for us to show our love and consideration. We make our determinations of what we want to accomplish with this new Cycle. Our time of introspection is a time of trustworthiness. A time of forgiveness. A time of healing. A time to make right relationships. We spend time making the Pahos, prayer ornaments - an ornament that has the vision we are seeking to fulfill. Each color and shape has purpose and direction. It is the object of our intentions - the object of our celebration for all that has been and is yet to come."
©2001 Pa’Ris’Ha. All rights reserved
(for more about Grandmother, visit www.parishaonline.com)
May all my friends and family know the joy and peace of this season.
Love
Deb
Let me share this sacred time with you, through the words of my Elder, Grandmother Pa'Ris'Ha:
"Great Pine is the Trusted and the Guardian of the Creations of the Forest and her Children. They are like our Chiefs, who are the same for Human Relations. As the moment of the Winter Solstice arrives, Mother Earth pauses a second and sighs a sound of release and Grandfather Pine picks up the service she requires in this time. While all outer impressions say the Forest is silent and barren, only the ones with ears to see and eyes to hear [Editor’s note: yes, she did mean ears to see and eyes to hear (as this is truly how we perceive…] can hear the birthing of the coming Spring in these first movements of Winter!
"The sap or life source of the Pine Trees begins at the moment of the shift, the pause of motion, Mother's sigh of rest and the shortest day when we are the farthest away from Nunda - The Sun - when the longest night of the Cycle begins. Such a powerful time!
"Out of the day of greater darkness, we are given the new life of Spring and birth. The Great Pines awaken the Forest to the upcoming days when all will come forth with their new garments of bright colors and flora. The Silence of Winter is loud and clear.
"It is a time for us to show our love and consideration. We make our determinations of what we want to accomplish with this new Cycle. Our time of introspection is a time of trustworthiness. A time of forgiveness. A time of healing. A time to make right relationships. We spend time making the Pahos, prayer ornaments - an ornament that has the vision we are seeking to fulfill. Each color and shape has purpose and direction. It is the object of our intentions - the object of our celebration for all that has been and is yet to come."
©2001 Pa’Ris’Ha. All rights reserved
(for more about Grandmother, visit www.parishaonline.com)
May all my friends and family know the joy and peace of this season.
Love
Deb
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Diversifying into "Subject Blogs"
Ok, it's official. I'm going to be organizing myself into 4 blogs covering different interests and subject matter. That way I can optimize them and make sure the most people know how to find the information I'm offering!
So I've been busy learning about search engine optimization and search engine marketing, as well as then putting that to use for the Learning Center for Human Development, and other non-profit organiztions and for-profit businesses I'm involved in.
Love the learning process - especially with a coach present to guide you through!
Speaking of coaching and business, you can take part in an interactive Business Success Coaching and Financial Literacy Call every Thursday at 4:30 Eastern Standard Time:
1-212-461-5860, pin number: 8734#
This call is conducted by Pa'Ris'Ha and members of the Learning Center for Human Development Speakers Team.
Looking for scientific discourse of spiritual principles? Try our Writer's Academy Book Review Call on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm Eastern Standard Time. This call is hosted by the Writer's Academy Team and Pa'Ris'Ha. We are currently studying and discussing Dr. Fred Alan Wolf's book "Matter Into Feeling." Venture into the realm of quantum physics and creating your own reality. This is practical every-day work anyone can - must do - to improve their lives. No pie-in-the-sky or "woo-woo" here .. so check it out!
More later. Got links to put in and 3 more blogs to develop!
Later
Deb
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So I've been busy learning about search engine optimization and search engine marketing, as well as then putting that to use for the Learning Center for Human Development, and other non-profit organiztions and for-profit businesses I'm involved in.
Love the learning process - especially with a coach present to guide you through!
Speaking of coaching and business, you can take part in an interactive Business Success Coaching and Financial Literacy Call every Thursday at 4:30 Eastern Standard Time:
1-212-461-5860, pin number: 8734#
This call is conducted by Pa'Ris'Ha and members of the Learning Center for Human Development Speakers Team.
Looking for scientific discourse of spiritual principles? Try our Writer's Academy Book Review Call on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm Eastern Standard Time. This call is hosted by the Writer's Academy Team and Pa'Ris'Ha. We are currently studying and discussing Dr. Fred Alan Wolf's book "Matter Into Feeling." Venture into the realm of quantum physics and creating your own reality. This is practical every-day work anyone can - must do - to improve their lives. No pie-in-the-sky or "woo-woo" here .. so check it out!
More later. Got links to put in and 3 more blogs to develop!
Later
Deb
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Gratitude Month and Thanksgiving
It’s “Gratitude Month” in the recovery rooms of one of the Twelve Step Programs. Nice correlation to Thanksgiving. I like it because it’s the same month as my sobriety anniversary (see Nov 16, 2007 post).
When I first got to recovery, one of my first sponsors instructed me to introduce myself as a “grateful recovering alcoholic.” That sort of pissed me off. I wasn’t grateful to be an alcoholic. I wasn’t grateful about much of anything in the beginning. I had lost my best friend (alcohol). Maybe I was going to live – but I didn’t see how I was ever going to enjoy it!
Today, I have experienced the joys of sobriety and the bountiful gifts that have come to me not only from not drinking, but as the result of working on my spiritual growth to free myself of the bonds of addictive behaviors and patterns.
Yes, today I can honestly say I am grateful to be a recovered alcoholic, because without having gone through addiction, I would not have come to a program of recovery. First of all, I would have been dead a long time ago. Today I am alive and enjoying life – not because I’m living on some sort of pink cloud, but because I have tools for coping with life as it comes. And let’s face it, life comes in many different forms. Some days it's pretty and some days it's ugly. Some days it makes sense and some days it defies reason or logic. But no matter what “face” life wears today I don’t have to anesthetize myself to get through it. I don’t have to run today because I don’t want to feel, or because I’m afraid, or angry, or just don’t care. Today I can take what comes and deal with it head on. That’s freedom!
See, serenity isn’t about being “zoned out” on some chant or mantra or Pollyanna view of things that ignores what’s going on all around you. Serenity is about being the eye of the hurricane. It’s about maintaining one’s balance and being in harmony with the grander scheme of things, while all around you on the local scene chaos reigns.
“Grounded.” “Centered.” Those are good descriptors.
The key is “Tuned In” to a Truth that moves, breathes, lives and has its Being in and through us. It’s knowing that we do not live apart from the All That Is, but as a part of it. It’s knowing that we are not separate from anything nor anyone around us. They are reflections to us, of us, through which we can measure our growth and our relationship with our Self.
Yes, today I’m grateful to be a recovered alcoholic, because I could not have written that last passage without having made the passage from killing myself to “living myself.”
I am who I am because of what I have come through. All of it. There is no part of what I have experienced in my journey towards today that if one minute piece of it were left out or altered, I would be the same person I am.
Today, who I am still needs polishing – but damn I’ve cleaned up nice! I’ve come a long way. It’s absolutely essential that we credit ourselves with our progress. Alcoholic or not.
So in this “season” of Thanksgiving, yes I have much to be grateful for. So much that I hope that I practice gratitude every day of the year, not just on “holidays” or “special months.”
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When I first got to recovery, one of my first sponsors instructed me to introduce myself as a “grateful recovering alcoholic.” That sort of pissed me off. I wasn’t grateful to be an alcoholic. I wasn’t grateful about much of anything in the beginning. I had lost my best friend (alcohol). Maybe I was going to live – but I didn’t see how I was ever going to enjoy it!
Today, I have experienced the joys of sobriety and the bountiful gifts that have come to me not only from not drinking, but as the result of working on my spiritual growth to free myself of the bonds of addictive behaviors and patterns.
Yes, today I can honestly say I am grateful to be a recovered alcoholic, because without having gone through addiction, I would not have come to a program of recovery. First of all, I would have been dead a long time ago. Today I am alive and enjoying life – not because I’m living on some sort of pink cloud, but because I have tools for coping with life as it comes. And let’s face it, life comes in many different forms. Some days it's pretty and some days it's ugly. Some days it makes sense and some days it defies reason or logic. But no matter what “face” life wears today I don’t have to anesthetize myself to get through it. I don’t have to run today because I don’t want to feel, or because I’m afraid, or angry, or just don’t care. Today I can take what comes and deal with it head on. That’s freedom!
See, serenity isn’t about being “zoned out” on some chant or mantra or Pollyanna view of things that ignores what’s going on all around you. Serenity is about being the eye of the hurricane. It’s about maintaining one’s balance and being in harmony with the grander scheme of things, while all around you on the local scene chaos reigns.
“Grounded.” “Centered.” Those are good descriptors.
The key is “Tuned In” to a Truth that moves, breathes, lives and has its Being in and through us. It’s knowing that we do not live apart from the All That Is, but as a part of it. It’s knowing that we are not separate from anything nor anyone around us. They are reflections to us, of us, through which we can measure our growth and our relationship with our Self.
Yes, today I’m grateful to be a recovered alcoholic, because I could not have written that last passage without having made the passage from killing myself to “living myself.”
I am who I am because of what I have come through. All of it. There is no part of what I have experienced in my journey towards today that if one minute piece of it were left out or altered, I would be the same person I am.
Today, who I am still needs polishing – but damn I’ve cleaned up nice! I’ve come a long way. It’s absolutely essential that we credit ourselves with our progress. Alcoholic or not.
So in this “season” of Thanksgiving, yes I have much to be grateful for. So much that I hope that I practice gratitude every day of the year, not just on “holidays” or “special months.”
©2008 Deborah Adler. All rights reserved.
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One Blog or Four Blogs? That is the Question!
Writing a personal blog can be a challenge, particularly if you have a wide variety of interests. When I first began writing this Blog, I was sort of “free-falling” in terms of what I wrote about. Each entry depended on what I was thinking, something I might have observed, or whatever.
I’ve come to realize through this process that I actually have 4 major areas of interest to write about:
Quantum Nutwati
Living addictions free
Glbt issues
Personal diary
So I began to wonder whether or not I should actually set up 4 different Blogs, in order to best promote them on the internet as make them most palatable for people looking for special interests and not an eclectic approach.
I’m not sure I’ve figured out the definitive answer, but I’m going to utilize the titles feature in order help direct reader’s interest to find those stories they’re interested in and avoid those they are not.
Stay tuned.
Deb
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I’ve come to realize through this process that I actually have 4 major areas of interest to write about:
Quantum Nutwati
Living addictions free
Glbt issues
Personal diary
So I began to wonder whether or not I should actually set up 4 different Blogs, in order to best promote them on the internet as make them most palatable for people looking for special interests and not an eclectic approach.
I’m not sure I’ve figured out the definitive answer, but I’m going to utilize the titles feature in order help direct reader’s interest to find those stories they’re interested in and avoid those they are not.
Stay tuned.
Deb
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