Leaving on another Road Trip next week~~~~

Hello Everyone,

Well next week my hubby and I are going to hit the road again, to see more family members and those that we only had a brief time to spend with.

We are not putting a time line on how long I’ll be gone,  I’m leaving the Halloween decorating to my nieces and nephews, they will be house sitting for me. 

Again I’m not sure how soon I’ll be back to respond to any comments or questions, but  I hope to have a few more articles to post here. 

Some of you have given me ideas based upon your questions about what to write about, because I know if one of you asks that question I’m sure there are a hundred of you who may have thought about it.

I love traveling in the Autumn, although the rivers and waterfalls do not run as full as in the late Spring (another time of year I love)  but there is always something spiritually exciting in the air during those two times of the year.    And I never know what I’ll come across.

For me even at my old age every day is a learning lesson, and if we stop learning well then we die, figuratively speaking.   I learn from observation, reading, asking questions, doing something I’ve never tried but trust me at my age I will not do rock climbing, sometimes watching historical documentaries on the PBS station or watching a favorite T.V. program to see (through the scriptwriter’s thinking) the types of thoughts or situations that might be faced even if the story line might be too over blown.

But nature is the best teacher, every morning I wake up, I have a cup of coffee in hand and sit on my back  porch and look at my garden, but I’m doing more than looking, I’m listening and observing too, to the sounds around me, the songs of the birds, the furtive movements of the squirrels, the sounds of the city trucks picking up recyclables, or street sweeping, the beeping of the work trucks that are just 7 blocks over working on a building project,  the barking of a dog, the smell of bacon in the cool air, a child calling out to its parent, the leaves on the trees, what might be blooming in the yard, even the scent of the air like a perfume that can’t be bottled, the feel of the breeze on my skin, to enjoy the not quite silence of life around me, that is a wonderful teacher using all 5 of my natural senses and not have them drowned out by loud music, crowds, cars-buses-trucks all hurrying to nowhere, to just be still and take it all in,  that is why I love to travel in an RV (use to camp in a tent), and stay near a river or lake and take in all that nature has to offer, it’s healing and it’s teaching and we should all learn from it.

So we’ll be leaving again sometime next week.   And for me getting there is 75 percent of the fun.

My niece will be gone as well visiting some friends, as I said other family members will be house sitting, but I have told them to not tinker with my blog.

So if anyone posts a question or comment, it won’t be answered until I return and please don’t fret or post twice if you don’t see it come up, because it will be in a “holding file” for moderation, and I check all my files.   

For now with this weekend coming up my suggestion to you dear readers is to go out, take a picnic lunch and experience nature, in a park, the beach, a picnic in the country, do Not take your MP3 players, don’t cut yourself off with wearing those ear bud thingees, let nature be your music, listen, feel, observe all its sutilties, and rejuvenate your energies.

Bright Blessings,

Ms. Q     

Of Eclipses, Nature, Thoughts and Uncovered information~~~

Hello Dear Readers,

This has been a busy week for me, with family visiting and the Eclipse happening,  some of my family members packed a picnic lunch and we drove inland to an area where it was not overcast to see the Eclipse even if the area where I live it would have been only a partial eclipse.

Taking precautions to not damage our eyes we saw the moon block out ¾ of the sun, the air turned very cool, the birds that were chirping became silent as if going to sleep, the atmosphere around us became a dusty brown color because there was still ¼ of the sun showing we only saw a few of the most powerful stars.   But the magnificence of the interaction between the sun, the moon and the earth was beyond words. 

Some believe that during an eclipse it’s important to take time out during it to pray for enlightenment and to understand the harmony that the Divine Presence can show during this astronomical dance, I know once seen never forgotten, it was moving and beautiful.  For those who got to see the total eclipse they must have been awe-struck. 

I strongly feel that this is a reminder that we should stop at least once a day or once a week, set aside our electronic toys and gadgets and get out among nature, to listen to the birds, observe even the actions of squirrels in urban settings, walk in the forest or go to the ocean and listen to the rhythm of the waves and see how perfectly they curl, to just observe and enjoy that which is free.   That is why in big Cities they have parks for those who cannot go to the mountains or forest or oceans, because some wise planner knew that we have to see more than just concrete, brick and stone and grey sky.  

When I was a little girl I use to wonder why some elderly people would toss stale bread or bird seed to the pigeons in the park, but now at my age I understand the need to connect to nature, and that is why I make it a ritual to have my coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon and sit on my porch to observe nature, to plant plants that attract hummingbirds and butterflies, put up a seed dispenser to attract birds and sometimes an adventuresome squirrel, and I’ve found it to be far more fun than watching T.V.

So if you can dear readers take one day a week to connect to nature in some way, you’ll find that its uplifting to your soul, and connecting to the spiritual energies around us.

On a different subject, my niece and one of my other relatives have been helping me sort through and---believe it or not---catalog my books and papers.   I never realized I had so much “stuff”, including news clippings of strange phenomena and oddities.   But among my “stuff” we came across a missing page in regards to the ritual of candle dressing.   Now I knew that my Granny before she would dress a candle would wash her hands first and in-between preparing it she would from time to time wash her hands, but over the years I had forgotten the exact reason behind it.

Now when applying oils you do not want to mix the different oils on your hands and confuse the energies, but this paper gave the exact formula as to what to do prior to handling the candles,  I will put this in another post, and I may have to go back to the “Art of Candle Spells”  the section on preparing the candles and re-edit it.   So something more to come in the works.

Bright Blessings,

Ms. Q