the Nautilus Program is about learning / unlearning / re-learning / RE – Membering

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Earth Air Fire Water Spirit
These are the 5 Elements
How do we honor these every day.

Are you called to join with me?

Life goes on and on until it ends.
and even each ending is a transformation.
Where are you in this process today?
What parts desire to be touched, expressed, danced with, brought out into the light of day and into the dark of night?

How does your Heart feel today?  And what do the Eyes of the Heart see today?

We are all related.

Oct 2004 

while the moon shown down upon the snail and the slug
another partner in the dance
sniffed them out
without a shout
moved to communicate with his family

time to eat, the message read
come hither and get out of bed
the feast is in the moonlit meadow

why are you so slow?
come quickly, before they go.

a shroud appeared
sent by the guardian angel of the slug
fog from the heavens
and the moles went into the night, unsatified by slimely delight

one never knows why certain things happen the way they do.
the slug and snail complained all the way home
because the fog cut short their friendly singing review.

juan marcos

Nov 2005

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a name a face a shroud of leaves over my dirty toes what wind blows damning me to wet kisses from trees close,

something comes close, with scent take inside the mask and what skinless lies without?

We (us in the USA) need to wake up.

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the story we are in – in this country – has many parts which tie into all parties… all peoples, and we could greatly benefit from understanding that we are all connected to a colonial history, a country partially built on both genocide and slavery and white supremacy. AND we need to address all of this with love, with cutting through the excuses and bull and red tape, and with real actions. ❤

Tuesday night (election night) prayers

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I’m interested in action.
in defining the actions that are to be taken next
what can I do?
what can we do?
how do we take the next steps?

similar to Linda, I will be helping the Georgia senate races with some financial help.  that green is a prayer.

And…

I want to do ceremony about Georgia… that is one action I can take.

Tuesday night I prayed with an intensity…   did it make a difference?   I don’t know.
and I do know that it helped me to me clear and get clear.

Love to us all, we are all connected.  Let’s keep breathing.

conditional love

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it is challenging to be loved conditionally (especially with certain conditions)
I would love to be loved fully, for all my parts, even if those parts weren’t always very pretty.
I am figuring out how to set boundaries…
I’m figuring out what boundaries I need to set.
I did not see the place where I am today from way back in 2008, 2009, 2010…
or I would not have moved forward the way I did.
in this moment, I want to simply go away…
to leave and go to a room, a cabin, a place…
by myself, where only nature and my own thoughts can hear me and speak to me.
at this point I’m not sure that I trust anyone.
except for mostly myself (LOL, that’s funny)
this back looking, this pain focus that I’m doing…
I’m not sure it serves any good purpose for me.
Perhaps I can just stop.
hmmm…
perhaps.
and yet here I am thinking of “this situation”
and spinning around in nothing circles.
hmmm.

Shall we be decent toward a person who has not been decent to others…

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I can understand why folks are struggling, even why a voice inside myself is struggling. And decency can come with understanding…. and with context.

if you’re sick, may you get the help you need.
if you’re faking it, may you be found out. May the truth come out.
If you’re sick, may you gain compassion for others who are sick.
Sick or not, may you get on your twitter account and in front of the press, and humbly apologize for minimizing this virus, apologize for your lack of an intelligent plan and response, and vow to wear a mask and do better for our nation.
May you apologize to all the folks you put in harms way during the past week, and may you learn from your mistakes.