This was after venturing into Berry Hill's See Spot Eat bakery to buy treats for the Westie next door whose folks just brought new human life home. Hopefully a squirrel, martini and Vandy shaped treats will help allay Poppy's concerns as to sharing new life with a baby.
That evening I went by Imogene and Willie's to get a taco and hear Carl Broemel, the 'song' portion of "Supper and Song" and instead found the line. I was hungry yet torn between wanting to hear Carl (just because his most recent album was titled "All Birds Say") and wondering if the little bat that flies through our yard would make an evening appearance. To hear songs from an album named for birds or possibly see a bird or a bat which isn't quite a bird were my choices. Bats and bugs (we've just gotten 1,000 lady bugs to put in the yard to help with pesticide free mite and aphid control) won out over waiting in line.
The image of that line though still brings a smile because the line as well as the entrepreneurs bringing people together consisted primarily of young people, young people mingling and making connections. This is the stuff of thriving community and creativity and where creativity thrives, lives tend to have more meaning, purpose and harmony and less violence and poverty of spirit. I've no study or statistics to confirm this. I just know it and suspect you do too if you're reading this.
The image of smiling faces in line makes me smile, yet the never ending line sustains my smile, the never ending line of the circle of goodwill. This circle like the slinky of my childhood days spirals out energetically from each of us touching and affecting all with whom we come in contact.
Tune into your preferred method of receiving 'the news' and you're likely to hear references to the continued economic crisis, avoiding an economic crisis or the remaining potential for economic crisis. All the while, another currency is being exchanged, a giving and receiving of goodwill when we're awake and aware to the spiral, the slinky-like never ending line we share.
We've the opportunity to exchange the currency of goodwill at all times. Mother Earth and Nature do this beautifully and continually which spirals me back to Thursday night.
While the crowd gathered to hear Carl sing from "All Birds Say" I sat on my deck where at 7:30's curtain call, the bat flew through flying South to North the warm up act for a later debuting tiny screech owl that arrived and sat under our arbor.
Wherever people meet, be it over marshmallows, tacos and tunes or through loving and caring for Nature, there lies the potential for the currency of goodwill, the currency that can alleviate poverty of spirit and purse.
Imagine the Shift in remembering that you too are part of the slinky of time. How will your energy spiral through this day in your life?
-Dawn! The Good News Muse, 9 April 2011
P.S. Check out the links above as well as Facebook for Bang Candy, See Spot Eat, Mas Tacos Por Favor, Imogene & Willie's and Carl Broemel. And watch for future updates as to how the lady bugs fare.
2 comments:
Thank you so much for the new eyes with which to see, the new ears with which to hear, and the new visions given to guide my being and doing forward on the journey. Simply a beautiful post.
Well, Sherlock, I've only posted at my own site once in these three years but your comment moved me. Thank YOU. It is my pleasure to assist your eyes, ears and vision. What a beautiful gift you gave me in your response.
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