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Coldplay LIVE and Thanksgiving 2008
I hope you all had a GLORIOUS Thanksgiving! I sure did! I was, however, a bit sleepy due to the night’s previous engagement of the COLDPLAY concert in Phoenix!!!
About that. AWESOME. Honestly, it was the best show I’ve ever seen. Not to mention it was the last show of their US tour, so you know they’re tired by now, but still – SO GOOD. I have always loved Coldplay, but now I love them even more. There was SO much passion and life in their performance – the crowd was really captivated and energized. Additionally, Chris Martins’ voice is just as good live, which always impresses me. Ahhh so good. If you like them even moderately, SEE THEM LIVE in this lifetime 🙂
Halloween Bash Pics Part 1
Greetings Friends,
Below are pictures from the ‘Halloween Bash’ that my dear friend Koali and I hosted. Enjoy!
Pie Contest Party – Part 1
Last night us Tree People all participated in an EPIC partaaaaaay!
The theme was a RAW PIE CONTEST! All in all we had about 11 beautiful pies – everything from Chocolate Strawberry, to Mint Green Tea Ice Cream, to Macadamia Grape, to Durian, to Pumpkin , and everything in between. It was a yummy fun night, and it ended with dancing, a bonfire and drumming, and poi spinning! Enjoy pictures below!!
The Thinnest Veil
This is my 222nd post… which fits in nicely with the significant increase lately of seeing repeating numbers in my life. I have a friend, who, unfortunately for her, is always around when I seem to see them, and must endure my frequent yelps of excitement. She always asks, “Why do you do that? What do repeating numbers even mean?”.. honestly, I don’t know. But it still excites me.
Spirit Dance Recap
Hi all,
I must say I return to writing this blog with a new perspective indeed. It’s sort of strange, trying to bring an experience like the One World Spirit Dance and put into writing, but I will do 🙂
For a quick rundown of what we actually did for Spirit Dance:
Tree of Life Elixir Party August 2008
Ohhh yeah. Last night ’twas another epic parTAY. The theme was “Elixirs.” We were also saying goodbye to one of our fantastic TOL chefs, who is now moving on. The hosts set up their main room like a bar, serving all sorts of smoothies, kombucha tea blends, herbal teas, and other fruit and chocolate drinks. Later, out came prickly pear juice, prickly pear ice cream and chocolate ice cream. To top it all off was a festive row of 12 different homemade saurkrauts.
Tree of Life in Pictures
Following are recent pictures of the Tree of Life and its ‘Tree people’, as we call.. ourselves 😀
Wonderful Wild Fruits
It is the season of wild fruit here!!!
Saguaro fruit season has come and gone, being it is a very small window of time. This year I didn’t get out to picking any, but i did have some dried fruit a friend had picked and OH is it amazing. I have to say it is one of the tastiest fruits I have had.
I often walk up on the ‘Mesa‘ – one of the higher elevations here in Patagonia, which provides absolutely beautiful views out miles and miles in many directions. I recently found a mulberry tree on one of my walks. Most of the berries aren’t ripe yet, but every time I walk/run there, which is most every day, I pick a few of the ripe ones.. mm..
Nature as Breath
It has come to interest me to see people talk about or list ‘nature’ as one of their interests.
Lately I have been spending time, often by myself, in the velveteen mountains of the currently fantastically green Patagonia, and it occurred to me how ‘nature’, while it used to be an experience far away and few between, is the very context of my life now. Most of the time I’m not working or sleeping, I’m outside, somewhere.
Passionflowers and Monsoons
Ahh we have ENTERED MONSOON SEASON!!
Monsoon season, I say? But aren’t we in Arizona?? Indeed. Up here in the mountains, we get a monsoon season every year that normally starts early July (its a bit early this year) and goes into September.
It doesn’t mean that it rains all day, but rather that it is sunny and gorgeous (like it always is), and once a day it will come in and rain for an hour or so and then leave and come back the next day. So, what that means is that we get GREENER, and GREENER – absolutely gorgeous. It also means it cools down starting in July, so now we’re looking at highs only in the 90’s – our days of 104 degrees are mostly over now – whew.
Sizzling Spirulina Summertime
I had a really wonderful realization tonight. I was at our meditation/evening program tonight, and Gabriel was talking about the importance of letting go of the illusion of the story of our pasts, the goal oriented present, and the fear filled future (mode of operating where we’re trying to control the future). What was very interesting is he said something like,
“Let go of the past, goal-oriented present and the future to be in the Presence.”
Back Again Back Again
I’m back home again in Utah. It amazes me that the last time I was here was 7 months ago, and I was juice feasting! I was nearing the end of that juice feast, and when I was here doing that it was one of the hardest weeks emotionally for me.
A lot has changed since then, externally in my life but mostly internally. It is nice to revisit a place you know, because it really gives an opportunity like no other to take stock in who you’ve become (and hopefully that change is for the better 🙂 )
The Era of the Vera
Whoa, so, um, HELLO. I totally forgot to write about my dark/dry field blood analysis I had done a week ago. I’ve been such a SPACE CADET this last week.
Enough of that. Blood, yes, my blood. They took it from me and forced it against its will under a microscope to be judged, analyzed, and interrogated. Just playing.
Boondockin’
Oohh its getting hot here… Today it’s supposed to get up to 95 degrees… I dearly hope this area remains cool enough to inhabit…
I left out a VERY important ingredient in the ‘porridge’ that Gabriel recommends – coconut oil!! Mix with flax to convert into long chains!!