Event Schedule for Sacred Wisdom Centre - Guelph, Ontario, affordable experiences in the arts.

It is such a pleasure when we have interesting visitors in Guelph. We are a small city that enjoys a different pace than our neighboring larger communities. As I can rarely travel to attend such talks & conferences I am happy to learn of this interesting event. Hope to see some of my area friends there and I’ll provide a synopsis of the talk afterwards for those who can’t attend.

Here is a link to the Sacred Wisdom Centre and a quote from their registration page.

Event Schedule for Sacred Wisdom Centre - Guelph, Ontario, affordable experiences in the arts.

Event Information/Registration LOVE IN ACTION with Marianne Williamson and Andrew Harvey View Flyer for this event Talk: Friday Sept. 17, 2010, 7:30pm-9:30 Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Ave., Guelph $25.00 incl. HST Workshop: Saturday Sept. 18, 2010, 9:30am-4:30pm The Cutten Club, 190 College Ave. E., Guelph $195 incl. HST and a light lunch Two of the most internationally acclaimed spiritual teachers of our time will share their most recent work with an appreciative audience in Guelph this fall. Marianne’s book Return to Love, a #1 New York Times Best Seller set the stage for contemporary seekers with her famous insight "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure" Andrew’s life work profoundly contributes to a new world founded in universal compassion and sacred passion for all life. He is the founder of The Institute for Sacred Activism in Chicago and a prolific author and accomplished wisdom teacher. marianne.com andrewharvey.net

With love, ...from the garden

Check out our (experimental) survey

Using Google docs and some of their lovely templates I've created a short experimental survey which I hope you will be interested in completing and sharing with friends and family. I've never used Google's survey templates before so this test will provide a means to measure how their process works. I expect this will be a fun tool to help engage our readers and provide insight into your interests.


Results will be posted on our Facebook Page and here on our Walk In The Garden Blog. 


Your responses will help us determine our focus over this fall and winter to help others imagine and plan their own Enchanted Space!
Don't be shy, no personal info is required or shared. If you do provide your e-mail address we will use it only to send you word when updates are ready to release!

To visit the survey Click Here




I look forward to reviewing your responses! And, a huge thank you in advance for your participation!


With love,
...from the garden

There's Magic and Mischief in the Garden these days!

I'm writing from the garden, the dogs have finally settled since they were let out to the garden to play. They have been enjoying this summer very much and Our foster boy Billy, who has been neutered, has been enjoying extra attention from our Lab Daisy who's currently in heat! (Daisy will be spayed when she's a bit more mature in hopes to prevent any possible cancer later in her life.) needless to say it's been an entertaining week since the two love birds have been playing and wrestling. Daisy knows there's something really urgent she should know but she's still not quite sure what that is and she's quite energetic at the same time, comical! She's only 21 months old, not quite full grown and large breed so I think the more time I give her to fully develop the better. It's a bit of a nusance but we do manage!

John and I are lucky that we tend to have an inner connection with animals that allows us to appreciate their own worlds differently than most other people we know.  We are learning more as our puppies are growing and maturing and an almost wordless understanding is building between us. Such bonds aren't anything new or special really, anyone reading this would likely share a similar tale of the uncanny ability of *name of animal* to "read my mind" or understand weird commands. Animals have such fun personalities and when you really pay attention your can catch their uniqueness very well! I find their company that much more enjoyable. I find them fresh and energetic and playful, like children. And, like children they have tonnes of unconditional love to give.

That's also why we enjoy fostering so very much. Each of the 9 male dogs we fostered were different in such interesting ways and yet we were able to work with each of them and integrate them into our temporary pack. Daisy and our rescued Jack Russell Terrier named Mia have been amazing at their roles as foster sisters and they are growing into the roles so naturally and gracefully, really, with very few hiccups. Well, except for the barking thing...

My neighbors finally came over to visit in the spring about it. I was mortified for the dogs but also apologetic and I resolved to solve the issue. We do live in a dog neighborhood and now most of the other 6 or so dogs in the immediate vicinity bark more than our brood of mutts! We have used a range of techniques in order to help us, from muzzles and kennels, to halters and water squirt guns, we even tried that Bark-Off ultrasonic device. Lately though I can trace our success to a wonderful form of meditation and a radiating of peaceful love energy through the garden and beyond that I have been praticing and reminding myself to practice regularly. I sometimes chant a favorite Buddhist chant and enjoy the soothing energies it brings forward for me. I stretch, I breathe and I relax when I hear the dogs barking, ours or the others nearby,  I find it seems to calm things nicely and the dogs seem to enjoy it.

The inspiration to try this technique came following some on-going teleconferences and meditations with Katherine Wright Desai at Vitability.com and a group of fellow students. We were led over a 33 day period thorugh exercises to help us become more in tune to our true spiritual selves and able to maintain a centered joyful and loving balance in the midst of these energetic times we are living in! Tools and guidance and gentle nudges to help initiate the incorporation of a habitually balanced sense of being that is attuned to a feeling of oneness with the world, in love with life and experiencing the joy and wonder that exists in our world.

Another series begins soon, the Thriving Series and I welcome my curious or lighworking friends to join in - who knows we might even participate together in something by pure coincidence and synchronicity! That might be fun!
With love,
...from the garden

Jack Russell in the Strawberries Greeting Cards from Zazzle.com

Working up some items featuring photographs of our rescues and foster dogs.

This is one of my favorite spring photos of one Jack Russell Terrier in the strawberry patch in early morning. She's making sure the squirrels don't get to the berries before we do!

Jack Russell in the Strawberries Greeting Cards from Zazzle.com Check it out, leave a comment or rate the image or pick up a copy or two for sending to your JRT loving friends!

With love, ...from the garden

Notes from my Grand Cross Meditation Experience

These are the notes I put together following my teleconferenced session with Katherine Wright Desai and her Grand Cross Meditation;

Excellent sensations. Katherine brought in an energy level that was well beyond our realms. Beyond Ascended Masters. A galactic energy that is embedded in the very fabric of our universe. Katherine described it as being part of the dark matter of space, the space between planets, stars and moons that holds it all together. The energy was very calm, peaceful, loving and all enveloping. In an attempt to give it a name Katherine chose; grandmother / grandfather energy to name it and I think it fits beautifully. Being a grandmother myself I felt a strong identification with it. Feel imbued with a sense of peace and contentment while still fully understanding the work yet to be done. Feel ready, fully engaged and capable.

That's what i was looking for I think! Engaged and capable to move forward. To continue to trust my inner guidance - wait - to trust it even more now as it's that much more aligned to where spirit is leading me! Oh JOY!
When we talked briefly after the session I told Katherine about my sensations. She felt that this energy is indeed stable in comparison to the earth's current energy level. Not that the earth is unstable but that grounding to her isn't as smooth as it has been in the past. Earth is experiencing the same changes and adjustments we are all going through and so it can be more difficult to get a calm sense of energy when grounding with her. This galactic energy seems to smooth out some of those jitters and feels helpful, likely for the earth as well!
With the summits, G8/G-20, happening in the neighboring city of Toronto, my heart energy is focusing on these leaders and their agendas, also on the protesters and on lookers, that they all may sense this peace and use it as their rudder while negotiating and communicating with each other.
Grand Expectations are my effects from this Grand Cross experience, and I lovingly send that energy, that message, to the ethers!
Grand Expectations indeed - for our world - for humanity - for life as we know it! Hoping you will enjoy the ride!

***Special thanks to Katherine for her dedication to assisting us all in these times!****

With love,

...from the garden

Lightworkers! Are you Attuned and Ready to Shine in these times?

The link on the title above will take you to Katherine Wright Desai's website; Vitability.com where you can explore additional information, audio files and text to support you in your work.

The link below is to a specific meditation which is very timely and can assist anyone in finding a good sense of center, peace or grounding, with much support from outer realms. This session allows a strengthening of your own inner sense of sanctuary. From that position you are better equipped to maintain your own steadiness while being in service to others. This is an excellent preparatory for attuning your energies prior to the upcoming lunar eclipse, this Saturday the 26th. 

please click here to download the Universe Soul Temple Sanctuary of Love Attunement....

http://www.vitability.com/aquarianenergyhealing/id119.html 

It's rare that I will send out a blog specifically to lightworkers. It seems however a very good time to share this information. I have experienced this attunement and can speak of it's effects as positive and centering.  If you have been feeling the pressures of late, no matter how the tensions may be showing in your life, it may be a good time to re-charge and reclaim your own sacred soul sanctuary.  This may help you in that regard.

Katherine has arranged a gathering by teleconference to work with the eclipse energy on Saturday morning,
please participate if you are feeling drawn - it is drawing you for a reason - let us join together in discovery and love!

Meditation begins at

 

                                  7:15 a.m. Washington, DC USA Time

6:15 a.m. Chicago time

                                  5:15 a.m. Denver, CO, USA

                                  4:15 a.m. Los Angeles Time

                                                   (Come even if you only have 1 eye open (the 3rd Eye)) 

 

                                12:15 p.m. London, UK Time

                                   6:15 p.m. Jakarta, Indonesia Time 

                                  9:15 p.m  Sydney, Australia Time                                 

                               

 

Check time in your area.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Call in a few minutes before the allotted time to be sure to get a spot. This call will work with Skype for those who use that feature. (I do!) Long distance charges will apply, for those who don't have an unlimited phone plan the call will likely last 45 minutes. This is an approximation only. 

Call in to;

Phone Number:  712 - 432-1690

 

And when prompted key in the entry code below, including the pound sign. 

 

Entry Code:   623 251 #

 

I look forward to participating with you in this meditation if you manage to find the time to be involved.

 

Be sure to share this invite with others - invite your friends or colleagues

 

And If you can't come, have your own gathering of like minded folks to connect & celebrate in Light in your own way. 

If my corner of the world is any indication I can say there are some very strong energies peaking and dancing through the cosmos and the earth. Here in Guelph, Canada, just 100 km west of Toronto, the energies of the gatherings of G20 and G8 world leaders are stirring things up not just in peoples' hearts and minds. Ottawa, our nation's capital, demonstrated the tensions deep within our earth by releasing a magnitude 5 earthquake just yesterday! I am amazed and grateful at our earth mother's calm action believing she has helped pave the way for less tension and more connection as these leaders pursue their agendas.
Did you feel the quake? I know many did - what an experience! What did you think?

With love,
...from the garden

Gone To Seed - an unusual arrangement

By a stroke of luck my camera works - a game that we are playing - one or two photos at a time.
Because I've often felt my most successful photographs are channeled more than created, this little game the camera and I are playing has some surprising and fun aspects. I am enjoying it and willing to keep playing while working on manifesting my next new tool!

such cute little flowers with seed pods too!

A different sort of planter arrangement!

I was thrilled to capture these shots! The mesclun lettuces mix and the spinach I'd planted early in spring had gotten very confused by the strange weather we had in May, rather than supply us with a nice early batch of fresh salad greens we received what appears to be an interesting arrangement of wildflowers!

I find them quite pretty and hoped I could snap a quick shot of them when I grabbed the camera thinking, what the heck it might decide to work today. A couple quick snaps later the camera stopped working again!
Whew, I thought - that was lucky.  Or is it, because it was just what was needed for the latest blog entry?

I have been so anxious over my computer and camera troubles of late I seemed to forget I can simply write...but a picture always adds so much more dimension to a story.

We have strawberries, this year we're growing them in hanging baskets and we're picking a half dozen berries a day - a great snack while out picking weeds or playing with the dogs. They're an odd hybrid that will bloom & produce fruit all summer and the blooms are pink or the more traditional white. I love the pink ones, cuties!

The cherries! Oh My! They are almost ready to pick and this year we got the netting up well before the little green balls starting hinting at some color. That means the birds might get the odd piece of fruit but they won't be stripping the tree clean before we've had a chance to see the cherries ripen to perfection! Yum! The robins and cardinals who live nearby have helped themselves to a few. The grackles and starlings who've gravitated to the big trees nearby knowing the cherries are there aren't so inclined to venture closer with the net in the way. This is our third year with the trees and it looks like it will be the first year we'll get to eat more than the odd sample.

Our grapes have just bloomed - the weird outer-space looking little flowers are transforming into groups of tiny green balls and we'll enjoy watching them ripen through summer and into September when their purple goodness will be savored in jam. If it's an abundant harvest I might try making some grape catsup (ketchup) it's something I always wanted to try!

We have a lawn again - only the odd patch of stubborn ground that's yet to allow the little green sprouts to break through it's tough skin! It's green and pretty and nice to walk on with bare feet. So much better than the mud pit we had in April! The dogs are allowed to romp on it again too - and they are as happy as we are about it! Though we still use the kennel area - it works so well and keeps the Jacks calmer when neighborhood kids are making noise in the school playground next door. It's also the easiest way to keep their potty "business" under control without having to hunt out the poop land-mines on the lawn! I just let them out of the kennel after they've finished what they need to do, they're usually calmer then too! I can imagine, as I'm rarely calm when I really need to go too!
.
Next job is replanting our front meadow! It became overgrown with unwanted plants that have choked out my prize sub-alpines. We're still sourcing out some perennials so haven't finalized our plans yet. If we don't finish it in early July we'll likely wait till late September and get it in place so it's ready for next spring.

And if you were wondering about the video experiments I'd alluded to in an earlier post; well gee id YouTube doesn't support easy uploading of those types of recordings! The nerve - I had a few trys at it and each recording got truncated, making it useless as a tool. Since then I've acquired another video editing tool that might help me. I'll be experimenting with it and if successful the results will show up here!

Our garden is our little haven in this wild and crazy world. A place to relax and re-charge. What's yours?

With love,
...from the garden

Designs for Father's Day, my Dad's Know; series and more!

This project helped me shake off my little funk and start moving with my inspirations. I got creative and, as things will happen when I'm in "the zone", I got very productive! We humans often operate on a pattern similar where creativity often follows a depressive episode.

Gee and wasn't there a full moon just Thursday? Ha Ha! As if on cue I put together 15 designs for Father's Day cards, plus a few fun & customizable "I Heart My Dad" items that will be released tomorrow! Check out my card designs at Zazzle. Don't be shy to rate them! Leave a comment if you're inclined. I would truly appreciate the feedback!

create & buy custom products at Zazzle

Of course the above zazzle widget also shows some of my other work in addition to the Father's Day items, 

enjoy & explore if you dare!

We lost Dad to a bizarre shingles side effect about 18 months ago and I'll admit it's been a tough haul since then. The Dad's Know; series has been very helpful for me - as I review my image stocks and recall some of Dad's quirky ways and connect an idea with an image I get to laugh and remember

With love,
...from the garden

Holes of Despair in the Sidewalk of Life?

I can see I've been away far longer than I'd imagined and summer is unfolding quickly in the garden with the warmer than usual weather we are getting this year. Back in April we were playing with computer hook-ups and rearranging our front office and since then our land line phones and both cameras have gone on the blink. A current drought of cash flow doesn't make me any happier, and has required me to look at things from fresh perspectives. Sometimes this is best, despite any frustration it sets off in my experience.  Challenges such as these are that which can be opportunities in waiting. The trick, as has been discussed in the garden before, is to watch for the magic to unfold and to allow the change of perspective, the fresh approach to a reoccurring issue be the catalyst for creativity.

This quote came to my e-mail this morning, in many ways it is a simplification, yet so is life when we let it be!

If you had one goal, and that was to feel good, you would never again need to hear another word from anyone. You would live successfully and happily and in a way of fulfilling your life's purpose ever after. 

--- Abraham

Sometimes I still have to remind myself to watch for the magic, sometimes I need to remember that the tougher things get - the greater the opportunity for life's miracles to unfold. Like anyone, sometimes I forget and I can fall into holes of despair in the sidewalk of my life. Some of those holes are very deep. Climbing back out of many holes can take time and determination. Some are simply small pitfalls that trip me up, they can slow me down when I've pushed too hard and when I need to remember to allow! 

So I am trusting that I can overcome any current pitfalls, I am trusting I can manage to keep my website and associated domains up and running, that computer connections, phones and cameras will begin to cooperate and that once I find the right mortgage broker to talk to we'll get things in place in a way that allows us to move forward once again. And - I'm hoping I can pull it all together this week! Yup, it's a rough sidewalk, it is pock marked and cracked and uneven and full of pot holes.  It's the path I've chosen for whatever reasons and I desire to continue exploring the potential it seems to beckon me with! (...the path less traveled, the beat of a different drum, the unconventional...)

Garden updates will be a bit more challenging for me as we make it through this transition and I will try some YouTube videos using my laptop web cam - that will likely be the easiest way to provide some visuals. Perhaps even the garden will have something to say when I film it. I'll do some test runs in the garden today and if all goes well tomorrow I will have something fun for you to see and possibly to hear as well! 

Stay tuned for that!

With love,
...from the garden