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Hey, now!

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve posted on my blog. For many reasons…let me count the ways.

Funny how life catches up with us, all of a sudden priorities shift, time crunches and responsibilities mount. I’ve recently returned home from three months in Mexico – the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula – where I was without an in-house Internet connection – and, thanks to my sister Pam, was alerted to the fact that someone from another country was posting on my blog in a foreign language. Sure enough. Not sure, but it looked like Russian or Czech??? Anyway, I have no idea what they were saying, or why they were posting on MY blog, but…it has all been deleted.

I still have so much to learn in this cyberworld, and once again, it’s a question of time and priority. So…

For now, it’s a work in progress. Good luck and may the Force of Right Action be with you!

Once upon a time, Jeffrey Wolf Green – one of my astrological gurus – told me I needed to maintain a daily spiritual practice, that it was essential to my happiness, health and well being. You know – past life/current life karma – specific for this particular incarnation on planet Earth. I thought, “easier said than done!” I imagined myself in meditation, doing yoga and fasting. Right!

Over the years, a daily spiritual practice emerged. It was a rather organic process, and one which fit my lifestyle. And, of course,  some days were – and continue to be – better than others. Lately, I’m aware of my relative lazy approach to practice. I’ve been sleeping in past the event of dawn, skipping  morning  meditation and throwing in prayers in random doses rather than appointing a dedicated,  focused, formal time to pray.

I haven’t been writing on either of my two books in progress, either. Is this a confession, or what? C’est la vie – such is life – I know it’s important to remain kind and gentle – to myself and others – cultivate compassion and maintain an attitude of gratitude, but I feel like it’s time for some good old Saturn self-discipline. After all, isn’t it all about progress?

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve posted on my blog. Wow!

Must be Saturn on my Sun – restricting, inhibiting and slowing me down. I am immersed in good old Saturnian reality these days – 3D and otherwise – one day at a time. As they say in AA, “S.O.B.E.R: son of a bitch, everything’s real.” Sobriety and integrity, patience, perseverance and practice – that’s Saturn, and here I am – clean and sober, walking my walk and talking my talk. And Saturn reminds me, “walk the talk.”

Peace, gratitude and grace…

Sometimes I feel like I’m coming out of a fog…returning to the United States and my Colorado home. Things here are so familiar, and yet strange, in a funny kind of way. My husband Richard and I – along with two very hardworking Mexican amigos – did a major renovation and refurbishment of our house last summer. We moved “everything” out of the house – packed personal posessions in boxes and stacked them, along with our furniture, in the back of Richard’s shop -  and lived in our “Bunkhouse” for the duration. When we finally finished – shortly before our winter departure to Baja – we decided to leave “everything” out there, packed and stacked, except for the most necessary items – bed, dressers, couches, tables and chairs. Now the interior design is what one might call sparse or minimal, and it’s a trip. Radically different from the old style – Navajo rugs, majestic oil paintings, copper kettles and plates, brass candlesticks, Grandma’s silver tea set and so on – but, now somehow calming and centered. So…things are different and yet the same, evolution on planet Zehm.