Hi Everyone - from Lorel

[lemuria...@gmail.com]

I haven't heard how anyone is doing in a while - it seems like quite a
while for some of you. So it would be wonderful if each of you just
dropped a line to say how you are. I know I am not the only one who
would like to hear from you.

It seems like life has gotten busier for everyone (including me), but
still it's nice to check in, keep in touch and see how our lives are
progressing. Do you feel like you are progressing?

My answer is some days yes and some days no. I have tried to remain
in touch, but since I do not have internet at the ranch at the moment
it has been a little tougher.

With Love to All,
Lorel

[Peter Reck]

Hi Lorel,

Thank you for reaching out and staying in touch!

I enjoy your question about whether we are progressing in our lives,
and appreciated your honest answer "some days yes, and some days no".

My short answer is "same here".

I have days when I feel "out of step" with the world around me. On those
days, it appears as if that most people are on their own trip, and very much
concerned exclusively with their own needs and goals. On those days I
realize the numerous agreements and verbal contracts I have entered, where
the other side didn't come through with their promise. This brings up some
feelings of disappointment, sometimes bitterness and sometimes anger.

These more challenging experiences are balanced by a deep gratitude of the
level of personal freedom I have created in my life. What I especially love
about that freedom is a sense of being able to draw a line when a
relationship increasingly feels like a "drain". That line allows me to
engage and nurture those relationship that allow for an exchange and a sense
of mutuality.

A few days it really felt like fall, with cool nights, and today the
temperatures head up once again. Maybe that is the nature of life: An
ongoing evolution of ups and downs, giving me an opportunity to adapt
(putting clothes on and taking them off, staying inside and turning on
heaters or air conditioning). Maybe my yearning for balance and equanimity
is more in how I adapt to the volatility of the world around me. Maybe there
is a way to adapt to it that feels harmonious and peaceful. My guess is that
it would lay in exercising qualities such as flexibility, forgiveness and
acceptance. Quite a challenge sometimes when I engage in assertion,
integrity and expecting others to keep their word in their agreements with
me.

At midday, on a hot day like today, I take a nap on the patio in my home
office. It is one of my favorite times of the day.

Warm regards to you Lorel, and those that read along.

Peter

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[dawna masters]

hi lorel, and all of you south of the border.

this is dawna masters, i am here in northern British columbia, Canada. It has already snowed and is cold!!!

I am getting out of here!

i shall return to Mexico dec 1st and relax into some yoga classes, i am planning to teach in sayulita on the coast, and begin writing on my new computer!!!

 

I have been noticing the vast difference in consciousness here in canada both compared to mexico, and between the west coast Vancouver, and the north country. Wow!

On one hand it feels as a collective race we have so far to go, and at other times it shifts to , "we are so close"...

 

My mom passed away sept 25th and i was with her through her beautiful exit...she never stopped teaching her chil.dren right up to her death date...showing us how to die....no resistance, unafraid and glowing with peace.

I really miss my mom already, and have been praciticing being in  touch in my meditations...i feel her very near..

 

so all, wishing you a showering of the blessings in life,

with peace,

dawna

[lemuria...@gmail.com]

Hi Dawna,

I am so sorry to hear about your mother, even though in her passing
she left you with a gift - I'm sure that you are feeling the sadness
of not having her on the human plane anymore. My heart holds you.

with Hugs and Love,
Lorel