Wordlessness * Oneness * Imagination * Forming

These are the four skills that help open us up to magic in our lives.  Instead of occasionally experiencing, occasionally seeing it our lives, these four techniques help us focus in on the miraculous that is not so rare as most of us tend to think.

Each of them makes such total sense as to leaving me with a totally, "Ah, yes - that makes sense" response.

Of course WORDLESSNESS is our truest self - we might not ponder it, but words are total artifice, created out of need to communicate with others. But put together two people who don't share the same language and the limitations of language becomes immediately apparent.  Words reflect our being's crassest self;  WORDLESSNESS embodies our highest, most fully genuine.

Of course ONENESS is our truest self - everything is one, barriers are themselves mere figments of imagination gone amuck.  Barriers between people & peoples, barriers within ourselves - they are no more real than the lines on a map that delineate countries.  Let go of the illusion of separateness, embrace & experience & be immersed in ONENESS.

Of course IMAGINATION is our truest self - everything that is but hasn't been manifested in the here & now is imagination.  Wow....  It's not cutesy or airy fairy, but downright amazing - when our true eyes are open, so MUCH we never considered because of thinking in space/time concepts keeps taking our breath way while constantly breathing new inspiration to help us see the unlimited What Is around us.  Instead of balking at questions, IMAGINATION opens the way to seeing the host of answers swirling around us.

Of course FORMING is our truest self, and the last aspect of the four - we start out with the illusion that we're formed, then liberate ourselves from language, our most obvious limiting illusion, language, see that everything is one, are awakened to the jaw-dropping endless vastness of imagination,  use all those new ah ha-nesses to come to genuine FORMING, which has no relation to the form we had starting out.

Totally cool....

CHANGE OF IDENTITY AHEAD ~ Spiritual Roadside Sign

This blog seems to be my go-to place for reinvention.  "Mise en place" strikes the perfect attitude, provides the just-right place to put together a workbook for the exercises that beckon me in Martha Beck's Finding Your Way in a Wild New World.  

Tried journaling, tried oversized Post-it Notes ~ both fell flat.  To stolid, passive.  Hit me in the wee small hours of this morning - blogging feels just right.

Everything IS in its place ~ just open our eyes & SEE it!!  

Patrick Ross - The Artist's Road

Blessings on Patrick for his wonderful, always inspirational blog!  Who else would start out my week with a delightful creativity overload of six tweets from the past week!  

Sulley Blue...

...Mike Mazowski Green, Celia Purple & Randall Multi-Colors ~ ~ the frosting shades for my decorate-your-own monster cupcakes this Saturday, a last grand moment before Bryn Athyn Bounty says farewell until Spring 2013.  What a life-changing, spirit-expanding part of what is, to date, the unabashedly BEST year of my life!!

Creativity Blogs

One of the things that Amazon nails so well is the unreasonable but oh-so-strong delight humans have in lists!  Found a dandy list of  "Ten Creativity Blogs" that made for fun online ramblings.  

Imagining what treasures I'd get if I asked each of THOSE bloggers for their own list!!!

Monstrous Good Time

Experimenting tomorrow with baking cupcakes for Saturday's monster activity - frosting a very small Bundt cake with "fur" (using the grass tip).  Should I use Sulley Blue, Mike Wazowski Green, or Celia Purple??

Taste of Heaven...

Cost of ingredients for my Bryn Athyn Bounty goodies?  About $20

Time it takes to do all the making & baking & Bounty-ing?  Minimum 10 hours

Little girl at church beaming at me, saying loud & proud, "CUPCAKE LADY!"?  PRICELESS!