Happy Mother’s Day - May 12 2024

 

To Every Mom

I watch you all, Mothers, and I wonder how you manage.

I wonder where you find the time to cook and to clean.

After all, even after your kids are grown, you are still running kids and doing errands, often for the second generation or the third.

I wonder if you get tired.

I wonder if that is why some of you move away.

It doesn’t matter – you are still being a Mother and going beyond the limits.

That is what I see Mothers doing – going beyond their limits all the time.

I watch in amazement.

I honour all of you!

-Author Unknown

Many blessings,

Judy

Trout Splashes Around

Picture from Wikipedia

I am fortunate because I live close to a provincial park and close to the Bow River.  The Bow is world wide known as a great place to catch trout.   The other day, I was out walking with a friend and we watched for trout in the shallows.  We did not see any.  Later, when I was doing my meditation, the following came up.

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Rainbow trout swims into your life if you are feeling over run by emotions.  Right now, with all of the Earth energy moving around and realigning, we are feeling emotional and often slightly depressed.  

Trout tells us that life is good, and it is about swimming against the current to stay alive and keep the species going.  Trout goes on to say:

• Do something that allows you to come up into the sunlight every day.  Trout catches flies.
• Jumping loosens all of the tension in your body.  This is why you often see Trout jump at the end of the day.  When tension leaves your body, sleep happens more easily.
• When you are looking for food, find a place that you can find your food (prey), easily!  Trout will sink to the mud in water that is calmer, and wait for the current to carry food to Trout.  You do not need to hunt and make food gathering hard work that burns your energy.  Look at what you can do to make this process easier.
• Highs and lows are normal in life.  Everyone is looking for balance – the balance is to allow both, and not stay in one place or the other.  Two highs balance out two lows.  The warmth balances the coolness.  We all need both.

Many blessings,

Judy

Awareness, Alignment, and Intention

               Picture of Pelicans on the sand ridge on Bow River at Bankside - Picture by J Hirst

I practice awareness, alignment, and intention. I am in complete balance. I say yes to better experiences. The universe has my back. —Daily Motivation (dailymotivation.site)

I find it more difficult at times to maintain my cool - my awareness and alignment and intention - with all of the strife in the world and around me when I leave the house.  Our house and yard have become a sanctuary over time.  Going out to a grocery store brings complexities that did not exist several years ago.

My intention is to be a good, kind person that gets along with all...much like the pelicans in the picture.  I practice meditations for loving kindness, for gratitude, for tolerance.  Sometimes, though, a person crosses your path that makes it so difficult to find the good qualities in them, it is sometimes simpler to walk away from them.

How are you doing in maintaining awareness, Alignment, and Intention?

Blessings,

Judy