I don't know if you guys remember or not but I love Calligraphy.

Recently the schools in this area basically abolished teaching the children handwriting skills,

I personally find that abhorrent!

I used to love learning to write.  I have a memory of being in Kindergarten sitting in a classroom with noisy kids and I sat staring at the wall behind the teacher, where the large and small letters of the alphabet

stood advertized.  Somehow I knew even at that age, that the keys to many secrets

were lying within my ability not only to learn those letters perfectly,

but in understanding how to combine them, carefully, eloquently, and masterfully.

So my love of calligraphy at times takes me to the words of poets long gone.

What better way to practice a craft than to beautify

already meaningful and voluptuous phrases and romantic ideals;

than with the careful curves and striking strength of each letter penned

carefully across the page.

The only thing more meaningful than that is the heart that burns within a chest

that yearns to make a difference, or touch a soul

by the very work of your own hands?

As if the words take on a living breathng life of their own because of the care and

tenderness with which each letter is written...

I have had moments in my life where what I feel for a person

seems cheapened, and sadly with lack of true majesty, the 

words uttered didn't even come close to expressing the deepest most intimate

meanings of my heart and soul.

It's a travesty!

There was a time when distance indeed made the heart grow fonder, where written letters were sent to the beloveds of our heart.

A time when we made ready to receive that special someone after weeks

and sometimes months of waiting, 

before the internet what we had was paper and pen.

we had quiet time that was used to muse and to remember

the lingering looks and the sweet words uttered.

Just imagine for a moment these words uttered to you:

There is a place where words are born of silence,

a place where whispers of the heart arise.

There is a place where voices sing your beauty,

a place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

This is part of a poem by Rumi

I just love Rumi.

Imagine it though if when you came home from work or a long walk on the beach

you move toward your mail box excited

because it seems as though your lover

should be sending you a message soon.

Imagine a parchment envelope with your name and address

lovingly written in magnificent and antiquated script...

Already you would know this is special.

You would delicately open this envelope because you would take care with

something that your sweetheart had worked that hard on.

And now imagine you pulling out a piece of

really beautiful parchment, perhaps written on pink to express 

love and softness to you... it would be obvious that every aspect of

this letter would be planned specifically and very special.

Now imagine these words written on the paper:

 

-OR-

Every question I ask is about you,

every step I take is toward you.

I slept well last night,

but I woke up drunk.

I must have dreamt about you.

and imagine that your lover took the time not only to write in 

old world script, 

but that time was taken to embellish a few of the letters with

color and gilt gold.

How would that be for you?

How much deeper do you think you would find your connection to your sweetheart?

Wouldn't it be better than turning on your computer

checking e-mail

with nothing really said?

Here is my point, 

the next time you want to do something for the people you love, invite them to dinner and give them hand written menus or create place cards.

The next time you want to make a difference to your lover,

take the time to find some beautiful words,

beautiful paper,

and let your beautiful heart guide you as you create

a work of art that is powered by your incredible heart.

Your life is art my darlings,

never forget!

Spaces between

You know it is the moments in between yoga poses

The moments between the notes of a song

The moments when one song ends and another begins...

It is the spaces between the actions in the world

where growth takes place.

It isn't the being in love that is so much of a lesson as it is

the falling in love, 

the learning a partners love language,

the learning your own desires,

the silent time spent between understandings

and misunderstandings.

These are the things that cause the growth and the beauty within

us to expand...

and possibly it can not cause more growth than the loss of

something or someone you

loved.

In Reiki we can learn to apply it to everything.

In fact there isn't one single thing that you can not send Reiki to...

The idea is that anything is made of energy...

and Reiki is applied for the highest and best good of each and everything.

Some people believe that they know what their

highest and best good is.

There are people that go to psychics to learn about their future.

People who ask those who practice witchcraft to cast

spells of love and lust upon their hearts desire.

Those that pray to God to bring them the perfect love.

And some want Reiki to clear the way for

the perfect mate.

What most people don't understand is that it isn't the taking of the Reiki class

it isn't the sharing of the Reiki

it isn't the doing of the Reiki

the practice,

the contemplation,

the understanding,

it is not the action of Reiki that is for our highest good even though it 

might seem to be.

It is the space between this world and the energy of Reiki or any other modality

for that matter, that makes room for the magic of the expression

of growth and change.

You see we need the magic of belief

the magic of hope

the magic of love

the possibility of a far better experience of life to be open to 

letting go of what we know

 and being open to what might be,

and even more important... to being open to what we can not even imagine.

I've been teaching for the past 10 years or so that Reiki is like a muscle,

the more often you use it the stronger it is, and I do believe this to be true.

The belief in a thing is made far stronger by 3rd

dimensional action.

Due to this belief and the act of using Reiki in my daily life

it has enhanced all areas of my life to the point that I recognize

deeply within me the flow of life through everything I experience

We can not bring our hearts desire to us any sooner than we are ready for,

universal law supports this ,

and Reiki does too.

No matter what experience we would like to have,

we must always remember to create space within ourselves for the experience.

Recently I remembered that with the help of my guides.

I woke up last Sunday morning.

I was composing a letter and having a conversation in my mind even before I woke up.

The letter was meant for someone I had been spending

a little bit of time with.

Someone that I had truly enjoyed in a way I hadn't since I was much younger.

The conversation/letter was that I

was unable to spend any more time with this person.

For my sake.

I was compelled to send it off and I did before full consciousness

could stop the e-message from being sent.

You see my guides and my Spirit understood what my conscious mind

could not understand...

no matter what I wanted... this person in my life was not creating

a life supporting experience.

I believe this letter that I wrote was far more important for my life than

the simple act of letting go of one person.

I have often done what was better for others,

made choices regarding my heart and life according to what appeared to be best

for all of the people involved in my intimate life.

We do that for our family and partners.

Some of us do it to a degree that is not beneficial for our own well being.

I have often been that person.

Perhaps you have been too.

I believe that my own spirit and my guides got together while

I slept and made it clear to my heart that 

the time of self defeating relationships has come to an end.

Reiki has assisted me to do the kind of healing that has created a space now

in my life and in my heart to be ever more available to actually allow 

someone else deep inside the sweetest part of my heart.

It is a part of myself that I never believed would be touched again.

Even though that part of my heart was touched by someone that

didn't really understand what they were doing,

what I know is that there is now space in my life and heart

for my hearts desire to be attracted to me.

Reiki does a thing like that,

it takes these confused, broken, slightly damaged,

beautiful messes of

lives we have...

it invites us to believe and have hope,

and then it works on us,

heart, mind, and soul....

it works on us and things begin to shift and move while

we sleep.

Large chunks of things that aren't working,

things that should be in the past,

things that steal our peace...

they are swept away 

and luckily we get the awesome opportunity to meet ourselves...

our real selves

possibly for the first time.

Reiki has been the key working inside my life

for so long

I didn't even understand the depth

or the majesty of the 

work.

Love Stories

This is going to be FUN!

I was talking to a friend today.

In a really cool relationship, you know the kind...

the ones that scare the crap out of you in the beginning and then you feel as if you have known this person for a million years....

you know what I mean

RIGHT???

If not I hope you have the experience at some point in your life.

Said friend was in emotion about some

decisions that have to be made about care taking

elderly and somewhat

"difficult" 

family members.

Fear can invade

not so easy sometimes the extra family that comes along with a relationship.

So anyway it reminded me of practical magic...

I know it's my fave movie, I can't help it if they had good lines.

So Sally says to her sister as she is considering

what to do about said absent beau.

"What would you do?"

Her sister replys,

"Oh Sal what wouldn't I do for the right guy?"

There it is... 

it's romantical right?

That's the feeling though if we allow ourselves to feel when we are deeply touched by someone.  When we can't imagine our lives without them.

When we think of them, want to be with them, want to experience the world with them.

OH SAL WHAT WOULDN'T I DO?

Once a lover flew over 2000 miles with a ring and an idea of forever,

landed on my door step and I said of course....

one of the most romantic things EVER!

FOND memories of that day, I'd met the one!

One time I was so sprung for someone that I bought tickets to a Melissa Ethridge concert

made an entire box of cake and only baked one cupcake,

frosted it, stuck a candle in it,

picked my crush up, went to the concert,

and before we left the car lit the candle and said

Happy Birthday.

That was just for a crush!

I had a boy friend in highschool that would make me tapes of his favorite music.

I had a boyfriend that walked 3 miles one way to visit me almost daily.

I have turned a screened room into a resturant atmosphere

and shared poetry.

I have given incredible massages lasting for hours just to relieve my partners stress.

I have planned picnics,

Made love on the side of a river,

I have written my feelings on parchment and embossed them in gold

so they would be forever available.

I have run baths and added oils,

Baked cookies, made favorite meals,

taken walks along wooded trails.

I have spent time camping

being loved under the treetops in God's land.

Spent long hours swimming and kissing and swimming some more.

I have studied the sacred texts of love making

you figure that out!

I have made love on rose petals, even caught a pillow on fire accidentally!

I have stayed up into the wee hours holding someone so they could cry their pain out.

I have been strong and trusted in my love when it seemed my life was falling apart.

I have reached down deeply and stood in power and authority and passion

when my partner felt weak.

I have cried and dealt with the loss of the one.

SO WHAT!

See What wouldn't I do?

For the right one?

It may always seem like each person IS the right one,

I treat them as if this is true.

Because they deserve it, and so do I.

Logic is a great tool...

it makes little sense when applied to love and passionate subjects.

We need it at times if things take a freaky turn...

BUT

I LOVE LOVE, it's true!

My life would have been pretty bland without these experiences.

Pretty empty.

UGH.

So here is the point....

If you have love...

If you really have love,

there is always a way.

Fear only comes to challenge

how much we are willing to love.

The passionate nights under the stars, in the woods,

at home,

in the office,

anywhere 

wont happen if we waste all of our time applying logic to

every aspect of those we love.

If you think someone is not right for you

then do what you have to do.

Just try not to let fear win out

when its Love in the balance...

Love is really the thing we have that is all ours,

to feel,

to experience,

to give,

to recieve.

For those of you hiding from Love

STOP playing small and 

LOVE someone!

And to my friend that I love dearly...

YOU GO GIRL!!!