A Natural Eye For Beauty

I saw your photos and thought it would be fun to put them to music.

It helped me on lonely long days.

It’s hard for me to type and continue to pretend. I can’t do it anymore.

I wonder if Merlin could help me with my problem. A potion perhaps to see the truth of you.  Something to make me forget?

I liked making this for you. Your photography is very beautiful.

“For one bright and shining day, there was Camelot.”

 

Photography

by

James Callis

 

 

Who invited Neil Young?

The sCiEnCe Of depression…May All Beings Be hApPy

May All Beings Be Happy

May All Beings Be Released From Suffering

This helpful video explains depression. Something those who live with a loved one who suffers mental illness should see.

but as it says…

if,

I have Manic Depression, and my Father had depression and my Mother Bi Polar and my Sister as well..

..why does my Son seem more balanced?

Maybe because during my worst years he lived with his Father.

I am thankful for that now.

Maybe he feels what I passed onto him, but won’t say.

Children, no matter how old, should know their parents will always be there to listen.

And what of my tiny Grandson? Maybe we can catch that DNA inheritance before it catches up with him.

He already loves teething on my mala beads.

I’ll teach him about Ommmmm.

Something no one ever taught me til I’d lived almost a half a century.

I hope the world will be different for him and those who may suffer.

The reason why medications don’t work in the long run..is because if we have two short genes, the pills just disconnect us from our spiritual self.

They disconnect the ability to feel anything at all, most importantly sadness, because without suffering, how can we feel great joy?

They might have mentioned meditation, prayer or mindfulness in this video.

I know meditation and prayer and journaling helped me through dark times.

and,

I don’t have to take a pill any longer.

May all beings know Peace

This is my prayer.

Dying To Be A Sequoia: My Living Will

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Confucius

Today I learned about a solution for our fear of death.

Green Burials

My love of trees is profound.

I lived in the pacific northwest for over a decade and during that time I’ve hugged many trees.

I’ve camped in Olympic National Park in mossy forests.

Woke up many mornings to Sun rays streaming through forests that will blow your mind.

I had to leave the pacific northwest and my heart has been missing my giant, green, mossy friends of all kinds.

An evergreen love that can’t be quenched ever, unless I’m under it’s branches all day.

I dream of living in a tree house.

I dream of dying and becoming a tree.

It’s a movement that’s moving quickly.

It’s called Green Burials and upon learning about it the fear of death has grown into a dream of becoming a tree.

To become any tree, anything that lives on after me and gives oxygen to the Earth.

I can die and still make a difference on this planet…

AND SO CAN YOU TOO!

 

If I could choose any tree I think I would like a sequoia the most.

I would have the best view.

I would be as fat and tall as I can bee.

I’ll be so big, that no one can take a photograph of me in one shot.

My trunk is so large that you can’t wrap your mind or arms around it.

I am so tall and proud because a human gave it’s body to nourish me as I grow.

Her name was Deborah.

She wanted to give herself back to the Earth as humanity has done for thousands of years.

Like the Indians knew…painting the landscape humans walk now.

Where do you think my friends food came from?

 

She could not imagine being put in a coffin.

In a steel vault with embalming fluid in her body.

Fear of death is often because of the choices we have had.

She did not want to be burned in an oven.

 

There is nothing green about steel vaults, embalming fluids and ovens.

….hey Jay, (that’s my tree friend) what the heck is embalming fluid?

“I have no idea but can you see those stars tonight?”

….so say we all.

 

She was anointed  with sacred oils by her loved ones.

She was buried with flowers and loving letters from friends.

There were tears, but there was happiness and hope on many levels.

We are so glad the Lorax inspired her and so happy she is here with us now.

Not to mention how much she loves Julia Butterfly Hill for her TWO YEAR tree sit to save old growth trees.

Remember Luna?

Who doesn’t says Jay.

http://www.juliabutterfly.com/about-luna.html

 

 

Deep down in the Earth her body nourished my tiny seedling roots.

I became stronger.

Her spirit soared.

She will always be apart of me.

Even if I may fall, my wood is her and so as I lay my life down in forest, she will continue….

…so we can all continue.

 

She learned that if you are spiritual, how can you not want to go out of life beautifully and helpfully.

It’s like a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.

And her loved ones were left in greater peace as they can now visit her in a forest.

Not in a cemetery lawn.

She was so green and now her color is in me.

 

…a tree house, is out of the question, but then again it is no longer a dream, but a reality.

Forests always welcome more friends.

The more, the better!

This is my Living Will.

Please, please…. learn more about Green Burials:

Resources:

http://www.awillforthewoods.com/

http://www.greenburialcouncil.org/

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/egg-shaped-burial-pods-fertilize-forest.html

http://www.capsulamundi.it/

http://respectgb.co.uk/

http://www.greenburials.org/

“Capsula Mundi saves the life of  a tree and proposes to plant one more. By planting different kinds of trees next to each other it creates a forest. A place where children will be able to learn all about trees. It’s also a place for a beautiful walk and a reminder of our loved ones.”

 Capsula Mundi

Thank You Clark Wang! 

xoxoxoxoxo

This message is 100% recycled and free of trees!

Thank God! 

x

Spiritual Wisdom Inside A Battlestar

One of the best lines ever delivered in a drama series, in my humble opinion……

“I am not a priest. I have never even been a particularly good man. I have in fact been a profoundly selfish man. That doesn’t matter you see. Something in the Universe loves me. Something in the Universe loves the entity that is me.

I would choose to call this something God. A singular spark that dwells in the soul of every living being. If you look inside yourself, you will find this spark too. You will. But you have to look.

Deep.

Love your faults. Embrace them. If God embraces them. How can they be faults? Love yourself. You have to love yourself. If we don’t love ourselves, how can we love others? And when we know what we are, we can find out the truth of others. See what they are. The truth about them. And do you know what the truth is? The truth about them, about you, about me? Do you?

The truth is we are all perfect, just as we are. God only loves that which is perfect and he loves you. He loves you because you are perfect.
You are perfect, just as you are.”

Gaius Baltar

Battlestar Galactica