The seed is planted…

Yesterday, I had a lesson that planted a beautiful seed within me.

When it was happening, I felt like I was wrong.

Like I was weak.

Like I was overly-sensitive, over-emotional, a cry-baby.

(Germinate – 6X6 canvas collage/paint – July 2011)

But you know what ?

As I came, through I realized that I am not weak, over-sensitive or over-emotional.

I have realized that I am compassionate, intensely loving, highly sensitive to the suffering of others, and empathetic.

I am a Sensitive.

Sensitives feel, see and know what others do not. This is your power and your gift to the world.

As a Sensitive you represent the future.

You will teach those who have closed down their hearts and who fight for power over others that there is another way to thrive.

You will teach collaboration as an alternative to competition.

You will demonstrate transparency and authenticity over concealment and deception.

You will embody compassion as an antidote to conflict.

You are the heroes, the teachers, the way-showers.

Your journey starts with self-acceptance, loving yourself exactly as you are and seeing your sensitivity for what it really is; a gift and tool of healing and transformation.

You are a teacher.

Your time is NOW.

You are the potential creator of what this planet is in desperate need of……..LOVE IN ACTION.

(Kimberly Jones – Energy Whisperer)

I am done seeing sensitivity as a weakness, in others or in my Self !

I know the power of Love and Compassion.

I am going to let it Shine, no matter where I am.

If that makes you feel a little uncomfortable, then maybe you need to look inward and examine your Loving Core to find out why.

I am pledging to myself and my world, that I will fiercely put Love into Action

wherever I can in this One Precious Life.

This seed is firmly planted.

Now just watch it grow !

Big, big Love to you, Beautiful Ones !

Put Your Love and Your Guts into It...

(sunset over the Gulf, St. Pete's Beach, FLA,2003)

My heart is so heavy for our ocean, the wildlife, the nature, the people, all of us who are being

effected by the oil spill TRAGEDY.

I have to say that these kinds of things that are just so sad and senseless

make me feel

powerless.

My wise friend Kelly at Soul Humming has taken her feelings of sadness and powerlessness

and looked for ways in which we can do at least a little something to help go along with our

prayers for our world.

Check out her post here to see what you can do to empower yourself in spite of the grief.

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Here is a little bit about the process that went into my latest journal page.

I started off writing in a black permanent brush pen on white paper torn from a small journal.

I wrote about strength and helplessness.

Then I cut the writing into strips.

I was really keeping the "thinking" down to a minimum and just seeing where things were going to go.

No preconceptions...

In my journal I had a page that had these pink circles on it that I had painted around with bright green acrylic paint.

I added some details with Inktense pencils in lime green, blue green and fuchsia.

I glued down the strips of my writing.

The brightness didn't work with where I was. A little to garden/springy somehow..

Out came the beautiful Black Golden Gesso !

I liked this effect but didn't know where else to go with it so I left the page for about a day...

This is where I ended up this morning...

I added the purple door (using a great big paint chip from Behr paints, some more writing strips and some grommets) that could be opened.

And on the underside of the door was a message...

Then I added some "I" phrases that were actually cut out of an old Tarot Card Reading guide that I cut into now and then...

as well as some white detailed pen work.

I love how the page turned out.

I also see lots of sweet spots that could work wonderfully for making cards.

I also love that it was all about the page telling me where it wanted to go.

That intuitive kind of art making is what I love best.

David and I are hanging out together for the first weekend in quite a few.

Feels good !

Planting some garden beauties, getting my back deck up to scratch,

a trip to the beach for wave listening and rock collecting,

smooches and hand holding whenever possible...

Love is good.

I hope you have lots of time to celebrate LOVE this weekend too, Beautiful Ones.