The ABCs of Life

Essays and thoughts on life as I know it.

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For twenty years I worked in Opera... first as a technician, scenic artist, costume maker, then in stage management and production, finally settling into directing as my career. I started at the Santa Fe Opera in the summer of 1971 and worked in Europe, Canada, the United States and stayed on staff at the Metropolitan Opera for 12 years. I then went back into art and design and started my own independent design and communication business. My dog and cat, birds and garden all keep me happy while I write and design.

Thursday, September 01, 2005

So much can change in one month

I have taken on a big assignment. The Santa Fe Reporter. I am working in the production design department and it takes up the bulk of my days during the week. I am still working for my 2 East coast clients and have added a cat to my family. Matisse. She joins Madison and the fish.

We are sheltered from the disasters that many of our fellow beings are facing right now and have a bright future before us.

I want to share something that I put down in the middle of the night just before last Thanksgiving when I couldn't sleep. It might put things into perspective when we are in the midst of many personalities in the day.

Okay, here is the truth.

We all pretty much know each other. Some of us are many millions of years old. We were the humans that first stood up and walked, the first ones who made fire, and now we are the first ones who are lifting the mental body of our being to merge with the divine spirit, the greatest light and are bringing that light into our beings. We are bringing God onto the earth.

God is the light and the energy that creates all living matter. The planets, the sun, the moon are all manifestations of God. Our planet earth is a manifestation of God.

These manifestations are beings, just as we are beings, but of greater magnitude, power and age. Each has a soul, a planetary soul. Each of these planetary souls are evolving, just as we are evolving.

Every living thing is moving to a higher vibration and the subtle and apparent changes that occur are manifestations of each new level of this energetic vibration.

As we in turn lift our vibration to a faster and lighter and thinner expression we will eventually live on grasses and herbs. The energy we absorb from the sun, the air we breathe, and hopefully the pure water we drink will be enough to sustain us. One can guess that all the allergies our bodies manifest for us are moving us to that state. We don’t need all the food we are eating and that is why so many of us are fat now.

Instead of sitting around a big dinner table, we will sit in a circle and breathe and give thanks.

Why can’t we recognize each other openly. Why do we pretend we don’t know each other from these past millions of years. Why do we pretend that we don’t know what to do?

We have about 100 years each lifetime to work on our physical bodies and to release past hurts, deaths, patterns, and difficulties from our cells, our psyches.

Once we acknowledge we are beings of light everything in the day is a blessing. Birdsong, sunshine, rain, air, people, movement, creating homes, writing to each other, relationships, and the immense love that flows freely from our hearts create this heaven of our lives and of our days.

We have about 100 years apiece to make up our days, to experiment with our environment, to bring light to each other and give thanks. We will seemingly continue this in some form or other for eternity...which according to Joseph Campbell is just this moment we are in right now either writing this or reading this. This that we create is eternal. It would seem though that our spirit is everlasting and will continue to create a being in order to live in the material world. Perhaps to enjoy the myriad manifestations of spirit, as pets, animals, grasses, plants, sky, wind, and so on.

Once this is understood. Once we accept this is the truth then what is the problem? There is nothing else that matters. Life can be lived in so many different ways once we let go of trying to cram it into one particular size or another. But there is anxiety in this realization. There is no one side or other when viewed from this perspective . Only everlasting life and a convenient concept of time and space in which to manifest material comforts and situations.

We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that we are all evolving, not revolving and we are all pretty much in this together...forever.