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audio poetry: i’m not telling you anything you don’t already know

March 6, 2013 by rachel

I’m Not Telling You Anything You Don’t Already Know Still learning the audio thing. Not sure where those little noise blips come from.

Categories: audio, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness

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"liberated soul" ~ fractal art by eresaw, whose photography and fractal "deviant" art are truly mind-bending and beyond the bounds of what we have heretofore called "beauty"resaw-d59f4eb

i will: vow for the unbound (classic)

December 19, 2012 by rachel

I first wrote and posted this in February 2010. i will live a life without limitation ~ or i will not live at all i will love without restraint and eschew anyone else’s small cobbled version of love ~ or i will not love at all i will choose to be awake in every moment aware of every possibility conspicuously driven by an impeccable conviction of the heart ~ or I will lay myself down in a meadow of columbine […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, empowerment, higher consciousness

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Prairie Child aka Star Child, 1926, woodcut, Helen West Heller (1872-1955)

personal declaration of radical responsibility

November 2, 2012 by rachel

for everything now fallen away i bear responsibility for every delicious return to the table of earthly delights every soul-numbing morsel of dispossession inhaled, imbibed, every dark and slithery corner into which i stumbled and every moonlit mesa i traveled in the company of the all-knowing sky, i tell you now that i held the key, i turned the lock, and this I lay at the feet of no one save myself if I was led astray by so-called inner […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation, writing & creativity • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness

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Le Celle in Cortona, Italy

are we too attached to the idea of non-attachment?

October 31, 2012 by rachel

I freely admit it. For all of our talk about non-attachment, I would love to receive notes from “Finders” who have been touched by our poetic offerings. One of our poetry emissaries sent me a most evocative rumination on this topic. I share it with permission and with great respect for the honesty and consciousness portrayed therein. You will understand why this person has no wish in being identified in any way. “I had the idea to leave the poem […]

Categories: inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation, Words Divinely Wrought • Tags: higher consciousness

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At the Heart of Orion, NASA/Hubble Image

oh, the places we’re going!

October 8, 2012 by rachel

Yes, I’m talking about the Words Divinely Wrought Global Poetry-Share… …and Yes, I’m talking about each of us who has chosen the oft-arduous, frequently frustrating path of awakening/ascension during this pivotal time in the evolution of humanity. First, poetry. I offered up the invitation for Words Divinely Wrought participants in this post on August 5. Since then, 20 people have joined our adventure and poems have been placed in Colorado, Pennsylvania, New York, California, Oregon, and Virginia in the US; […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation, Words Divinely Wrought, writing & creativity • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, unity consciousness

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september energy forecast from lee harris (video 15:56)

September 6, 2012 by rachel

While I finish up the latest update on the Words Divinely Wrought Global Poetry-Share, here’s a comforting dose of balance, calm, and wisdom from Lee Harris. I love his no-nonsense, quiet, intelligent way of speaking about the larger energies that are now affecting everyone, albeit in different ways. Definitely worth investing 15+ minutes of your day or night; then we’ll return to the poetry plantings now transpiring around the globe. (Archived posts may be found toward the bottom of the […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: higher consciousness

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This fragile web: video inspiration for an upheaved world (3:31, redux)

July 1, 2012 by rachel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqlePOo3v2w

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, video • Tags: higher consciousness, life

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buddha

a starseed confession

April 13, 2012 by rachel

i confess that i do not feel native to this blue-green orb and i confess that nonetheless i have come to appreciate my earthly existence the gentle dance of rain upon my skin trembling fingers entwined in my own the splendor of ripened fruit fresh from the tree i confess that much of my life has been marked by alienation that i have been judged and misunderstood and seemingly set aside as i sought to bring my very essence to […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, consciousness, higher consciousness

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the most astounding thing (astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, video 3:33)

April 3, 2012 by rachel

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.  Thank you to MaxSchlick for uploading this video, and thank you to http://www.the2012scenario.com  for pointing me to this gem. Note: The “scenario” site presents what to some will be mind-boggling truths regarding the upheavals now taking place on our planet as humanity accelerates its evolution. If this is not […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: ascension, awakening, consciousness, higher consciousness

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Thunderbird with Inner Spirit, Norval Morrisseau, c. 1978, McMichael Canadian Art Collection

and this, sisterbrother, is for you

March 9, 2012 by rachel

Today, March 9, this blog becomes four years old. This post first appeared here in August 2010, titled, “this is for those of us who weep.” This is for those of us who weep, Whose tears hasten the blush of new blooms For the young ones, the elders, for all our relations For the pain that punctuates this planet we call Home For the slings and arrows that have pierced us time and again and again Yet will never breach […]

Categories: inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness

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doorway #1, doorway #2, doorway #3: what’s your flavor?

February 8, 2012 by rachel

In my multiverse, today feels like a bust-out day. (At last…) I could share with you the fact that I have been “in session” for days – supported by the energetic healings of Aleya Dao, whose daily “Cups of Consciousness” have become a staple of my evolutionary diet. Her most recent, one-hour “Tall Cups” healing/meditation for clearing Ancestral Issues and Lack has supported me in peeling away layer after layer after layer of inherited hoo-hah. (It’s fast becoming the most […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: ascension, awakening, higher consciousness

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The Saintly Throng in the Form of a Rose, by Gustave Dore

leaping into a voidier void and finding the heaven inside

January 19, 2012 by rachel

Clearly, this is no time for poetry. In fact, as I transition into 2012, I can practically see my poetry drifting out to sea, carried off by gentle waves. I’m not sure where it’s headed or when it might return to shore, and I’m okay with that. Much of it now feels prehistoric and somewhat irrelevant, in an age-appropriate sort of way. (As in, “The Ages,” not as in that chronological number braceleted to my wrist at birth.) I have […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: faith, higher consciousness, wisdom

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Patterns In Life, by Carlos Arturo Smith

the world needs you now (classic)

January 3, 2012 by rachel

I can scarce remember when I wrote this. It seems as though it has been circulating here and there forever, and there is always a new wave of people ready to hear and embrace it. This past year, the piece was translated into Russian (and perhaps other languages as well?). I envision a crowd-sourced video version in which many different voices and languages (including ASL, eurhythmy, and other nonverbal expressions) are stitched together, woven into a global tapestry of personal […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness, life, wisdom

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Nocturne, by Augustus Vincent Tack, 1930

the most important things i am learning right now (classic)

January 2, 2012 by rachel

I first wrote and posted this poem in June 2010 and have edited it a bit here. (Some learning lasts a lifetime.) i’m learning that i’m not learning anything new – only choosing to remember a vast universe that I heretofore chose to forget (whether it was some intergalactic, ancient conspiracy or the fact that my slightly agoraphobic father kept us home if there was any possible chance of a thunderstorm within a 200-mile radius, doesn’t really matter) i’m learning […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, life, sacred, wisdom

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Hubble Telescope:  A brilliant white core is encircled by thick dust lanes in this spiral galaxy, seen edge-on. The galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light years from Earth.  Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

prayer for this time: i am the miracle (classic)

December 25, 2011 by rachel

I wrote this poem in 2002, and first posted it on this site in 2008. Seems as true as it ever was. May all of us be the truth of who we are. No more, no less. Once again, the Hubble Telescope provides a tailor-made image: “Brilliant white core encircled by thick dust lanes…” Sound like anyone you know? In this time of miracles I recommit to faith To the power of All There Is To seeing beyond the physical […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, prayer, wisdom

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‘a fire for you’ to light the winter solstice period (video 7:07)

December 3, 2011 by rachel

I know we’re not quite there yet. But in my part of the world, the snow is falling, the temperature plummeting, and, for me, the pull to go within no longer cuts me any slack. I just discovered this soul-stirring video from merhlin, which features music from composer John Boswell (who it appears is the “Hearts of Space” John Boswell and not the Symphony of Science John Boswell), along with poetry from the Wingmakers site (Poetry Chamber 24). I have […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, poetry, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: ascension, awakening, consciousness, higher consciousness, wisdom

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"Ephemeral Life" by _ Krystian PHOTOSynthesis (wild-thriving) _

this fragile web: why every moment matters

November 18, 2011 by rachel

My tiny rural town of about 65 people has been beset with death, illness, and injury lately. One after another, a generation of elders is passing or rapidly declining. Several receive in-home support from a hospice/palliative care group; two family members with MS are in need of additional home support. A dear friend of mine in her 40s – who assists others with cleaning and cooking — remains comatose at a hospital 140 miles away, receiving dialysis and plasma replacements […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: death, higher consciousness, life

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"A Pink Nude Seated" by Henri Matisse, 1935

let it go: now the barren gives way to the blossom (classic)

November 2, 2011 by rachel

It was only six months ago that I first posted this poem, albeit with a different Matisse painting (“Open Window, Collioure” 1905). Today, the words carry a slightly different resonance, and so a new image invited itself onto the page. now the barren gives way to the blossom if you but untie the limp strings of your torn and tender heart and let it go the mountainous terrain of the past heaves and crumbles and in its stead soft valleys […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, letting go, mysticism, surrender

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mystical “prayer and word” by cellist david darling set to extraordinary visuals (video 5:58)

October 30, 2011 by rachel

 TheSilverDubber integrates this evocative composition by “maverick cellist” David Darling with some unexpected yet pitch-perfect imagery. The result leaves me feeling sublimely unruffled on numerous levels. Might this be the galactic love child of the classic films “Contact” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind?“

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, spirituality, transformation, video • Tags: higher consciousness

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1921 Original Color Print of an Art Deco Illustration "Woman Waiting"

prayer for radical patience

October 28, 2011 by rachel

For every moment I have waited, Let me wait ten thousand moments more! Let me delight in the glory of the waiting And the exquisite expectancy it tenders. For every instance I knew the now was near Yet for reasons untold it was not mine to receive, Let me know that divinity still presides over a vast and loving universe And that patience rides a chariot whose name is endless joy. May trust and courage override the niggling fears that […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness, patience, prayer

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"Midday Rest" by Frederick Morgan, 1879

i suppose we are here for each other

October 26, 2011 by rachel

I suppose I am here for you, to hold your hand in mine and in the other, an outstretched lantern penetrates a narrow causeway And so gingerly together we take each step toes probing the darkness anticipating a slipslide of all we have believed is solid all that we believe will lift us out of the muck and into the miraculous all that we believe. I suppose you are here for me, to fill the bellows of my heart to […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, love, surrender, wisdom

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A Glass Prison, by Anna Chudnovsky

knocking at locked doors holds nothing for you now

October 16, 2011 by rachel

i no longer need to knock at locked doors they hold nothing for me now and the scars on my once-bandaged and bloodied hands have healed nicely (thanks for asking) i walk with honor through arched openings into the waiting arms of gracious invitations i stride smiles greet me, borne aloft by the weightlessness of opening hearts what took you so long? (the universal echo seeks no answer) i’m done working, striving, hoping, wishing waiting to be shown the unmistakable […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness

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have you forgotten you are creation’s favorite lover?

October 1, 2011 by rachel

As some of you know, I am never sure when rhyming poetry will show up, though it often brings with it a consolidating, smoothing energy after periods of static, confusion, or upheaval. Since I consider my poetic work to be divinely inspired, I simply let the words lead the way — and today, they want to rhyme! If this speaks to you, you may also enjoy the video featuring my poem, “What If An Angel Took Hold Of Your Hand?” […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, love, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: angels, awakening, faith, higher consciousness

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Hesiod+Listening+to+the+Inspiration+of+the+Muse_Edmond+Aman-Jean

this is no time for timid hearts (redux)

September 28, 2011 by rachel

New season, new moon, (Jewish) new year, whew! I’m observing some people get smeared all over the carpet – and others gently moving toward greater clarity and understanding of their next steps, new steps, you-can-do-it-too-steps. Even though this poem first appeared in August 2010, it’s bright and shiny and new for today.  And you? This is no time for timid hearts For holding back your most precious gifts in the face of fear of retribution For wedging yourself into a […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness, new paradigm, wisdom

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Innocence in Admiration, Paulo Zerbato

your body is not a storehouse for pain and suffering

September 23, 2011 by rachel

if you are seeking to be told which way to go, you are not truly seeking if your hanging on the hook is punctuated by a grasping need for ironclad elucidation, you have not yet surrendered your ego in service of the greater cause when you insist that your path resemble that of another, that your very evolution keep pace with your plans and appointments, that each and every pebble rapidly align itself in geometric symmetry, you will find yourself […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, surrender, wisdom

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Three Girls, by Amrita Sher-Gil, 1935

the promises i make myself

September 9, 2011 by rachel

I promise to walk the path that I always knew, deep inside, was mine – even when I was blinded by interference, fogged by hypnotic illusion, and momentarily forgot my way. I will remember that the map is etched upon my heart and readily accessible if I choose it so. I promise to trust the inklings of my heart and the urgings of my spirit without hesitation. I will invite my mind to the party as well, recognizing that wholeness […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, empowerment, higher consciousness, life, wisdom

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Window of Unknowing, Red, John Pousette-Dart

let yourself be led

September 2, 2011 by rachel

let yourself be led, not as sheep to the slaughter nor guided by a feeble hand gnarled by lifetimes grabbed and grasping the blank canvas possesses a multitude of expressions, and when you unloose seduction’s illusion of control, divest yourself of the implacable quest for understanding, revelation will shower you with a gentle, knowing mist. reason’s antediluvian yoke shoulders you unfailingly along a highway marked by fevered rutting, memory’s danse macabre holds you hamstrung in its spell, your impassioned struggle […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, mysticism, surrender

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Virginia Creeper, Philip Hyde (1921-2006)

dealing with widespread uncertainty? drink here the gentle wisdom of robert wilkinson

August 23, 2011 by rachel

Robert Wilkinson is so much more than a world-class astrologist – and this post, A Letter To A Spiritual Warrior Dealing With Widespread Uncertainty In Many Lands, reflects his wise and insightful approach to life. There’s not a single word of astrology here, though he does bring in some of his Eastern/Buddhist thinking while maintaining a universal tone. After being awakened in the night by a small yet unsettling earthquake in my tiny Colorado hamlet, these words of Robert’s brought […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: change, consciousness, higher consciousness, new paradigm

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Halo, Teodoro S Gruhl, public domain

relax: evolution continues with or without you (classic)

July 12, 2011 by rachel

This post appeared last year around this time, with a different image. Perhaps it will say something new to you – or echo something familiar in a surprising new way. please take a number and commit to remaining in line until service is rendered allow yourself simply to wait maintain a measured distance from the impatience that roils beside and beneath you, and know that your moment hangs imminent with arrival please relax every reflex that whiffs desperation unclench your […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, higher consciousness, surrender

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"Woman in the Mirror, Joan (Juan) Miro,

you were born to sing a song of uncommon melody

June 2, 2011 by rachel

This is not the last time you will hear this: Life hands you choice after choice, Opting in for the wonderful does not command bliss without consequence Even relegating yourself to the march of chaos is an invitation for daylight to enter Unadorned, radiance aches to tickle skin beneath your sleeve This does not mean that the sheets will fold upon themselves, Your liberation brings the power and freedom to tend to life’s every nuance The mundane is a cradle […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, empowerment, higher consciousness

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Multidimensional Fount of Light Now Existing on Planet Earth

it is time to lay the era of “channeling” to rest — and claim the wisdom that lies within you

May 21, 2011 by rachel

This post has been taking shape for six months — and now, its time has come. No more holding back for fear that these words will somehow disrespect or appear to discredit the fine, fine work of so many gifted individuals — or the concomitant fear that my more mainstream readers will instantly label, judge, and distance themselves from me. For many years, I have followed, admired, honored, and put great stock in the wisdom, comfort, and joy brought forth […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: channelling, empowerment, higher consciousness, new paradigm, wisdom

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The Wave, by William Adolphe Bouguereau, oil on canvas, 1896

the wave is cresting: remain fluid in all things and unduly attached to none

May 13, 2011 by rachel

Thanks to souldipper for pointing me back toward this poem, which I wrote and posted in October 2010, graced by John Singer Sargent’s loose-limbed “Spanish Dancer.” Seems I invariably end up back at Bouguereau when I go trolling for images: note the woman has now shed her clothes! I live in a drought-stricken, dusty place, and, as a double Piscean, I tend to bring my own water (and fluidity) with me wherever I go. Dare I say I relate to […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: change, higher consciousness, spirituality, wisdom

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Spring!

here we go again: eight tips for navigating today’s unsettled energies

May 6, 2011 by rachel

Just for fun, I perused what I was posting last May (2010), and stumbled upon this piece. Hmmm, seems to be quite apropos for “this current Now” as well. I added one word, along with this image from a recent hike with a friend. Also, OT: My book Words of Wisdom  for Women is in stock and on sale at bn.com. Feeling a certain sense of urgency, a quickening coupled with a tremulous entry into a new dimensional framework? Or […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, higher consciousness, new paradigm, wisdom

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“…in defiance of self- consciousness…big, bold, and outright.”

"(Rachel) practices a doctrine of fearlessness. A self-taught poet, she is mesmerized by the way words seem to take on a life of their own (and) ...she strives to “be the instrument” for expression. Her willingness to acknowledge and to submit to the power of language comes across in the litany-like form of her long, intentionally inspirational poems, in the way she returns to such phrases as “Forgive me” (“Prayer for Radical Forgiveness”), “It’s that easy,” or “I will” (“Vow for the Unbound”). Written in defiance of self-consciousness, Snyder’s prayerful poems were big, bold, and outright. " Anne Lovering Rounds for Bryant Park Blog

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