SHINE!

I want to introduce you to a new dear friend of mine :)

This is Shine

He has started a movement, Bless Fresh, to help spread peace and healing worldwide through love and raising consciousness.

He is amazing. His energy is INCREDIBLE. He IS Shine -- it eminates from him. He is a warrior monk (sound familiar? yes, I believe I have met my soul brother).

This is one of my favorite poems he wrote:

My transcription based on the video:

Dear God,

what religion do I fit in?

Raised around Christians,

but like a Buddhist I'm livin'

Strictly for the moment,

meditate and breathe

No thinkin', just heart

I wear it on my sleeve

Pardon the tattoos,

but I relate to thieves,

Pimps, hoes, street bums

beggin for cheese

I'm also a minister,

like Martin Luther King,

Dedicate my life to ya'll

We are the world I sing

Become more innocent,

less knowledgable like a kid

No accidents, not one

No matter what you did

Let go of the past,

the only way to live

You want to find your inner beauty?

Well, help another with his

Help another with her's

Discernment for the blur

They say that's confidence,

I say that's insecure

Light abolishes dark

I sure hope you concur

A million ways to truth

Palabra, that's my word

You can read more of his poems on his blog: Bless Fresh Love. He is at a cataclysmic time in his movement, where things are blowing up (for example, he is flying out to Chicago next week to record his poetry in a studio with fellow conscious people). Keep an eye on this guy -- he is going big wonderful places :)

And I invite you to be a part of his movement in any way you feel drawn toward. If you have a talent, he can probably use it :) If you can donate, it would be greatly appreciated (and put to the utmost positive use).

Once again, his contact info is:
www.blessfreshent.weebly.com
www.blessfreshlove.wordpress.com
blessfresh@gmail.com

Love and many blessings,

Shameless Confession-festo!

Wowsers! I wrote this over a year ago, and it sat in my drafts, probably waiting in knowing that this day would come. I am sharing this one with the world, and I'm not changing anything or "finishing" it. Here ya go!

I don't do anything perfect, and recently I have decided to shrug off trying. I just do whatever comes up and know that there will always be more inevitably. My work is truly never done (even when I previously thought it WAS perfect).

My house is not peaceful or gentle -- it mortifies most traditional folks, and it can be embaressing around my more radical folks, especially when my daughter or I lose it. But what it is wildly loving, authentically interesting, and wholey sincere.

We value the sacred, but are not reverant. I let my kids touch my alter stuff, throw my special stones in their water table and watch the splash they get with glee, smudge up my Gaia statue with fingerprints, draw in my grimoires... It's the kids-version of spirituality, and I think the goddess, being the mama she is, wouldn't be nearly as offended as some of her followers.

I am a word weaver. So, my mistypings are either intentional playing with words or not important enough to go back and fiddle with after the flow. It just is what it is, regardless of the fact that some see it as an indicator of one's professionalness or education. Well, I just have one thing to say to those... :P (that's me sticking my tongue out -- I'm so mature and professional).

I'm gonna live my life, and that will probably include giving up a beautiful home and all our hard-earned belongings and living in a hippie-mobile, one gas tank at a time, one panoramic view out our windows at a time, one new sunrise at a time. That also means the likelihood of my kids being formally educated plummets like my own reasons to conform.

I am wildly in love with myself. I am so fascinating to me -- everything I am interested in interests me (haha, go figure!). It's like living with my favorite person in the whole world. Yay me! I can't wait to see me grow and explore a self-designed lilfe.

In my family, we gender-bend. My oldest daughter looks and acts like a feminine boy -- you can only begin to imagine ;) My son's favorite shirt is a pink seahorse Eric Carle one, and he is the sweetest softest person in the family, even when he is fighting bad guys. My baby girl is built like a linebacker and tickled by painted nails, jewelry, and new shoes as she romps around in the mud and explores the world independently. I am a big tussled ball of beauty ideals and gender and sexuality (a nuther post). We just do what we feel inspired to do, regardless of it's origin (nature or nurture).

Our life looks so mainstream. My kids and I partake in as much TV, video games, play fighting, yelling in anger, refined sugars, impulsive shopping as our hearts desire. And I won't feel guilty about it or afraid.

Our life is so radical. I value my kids and myself having as much pure freedom to learn our own comfort levels and self-direction as possible in the context of judgeless equality.

Businesshood

People are drawn toward my light. I have spent the better part of my life wondering what that means and what I can do with that. My mom was a hippy - I've always wanted to change the world.

Ahhhh, my life is beauty and bliss. Self-created. Simple, joyful, zen, with plenty of room for gobs of people, insatiable learning, and big wild adventures.

I inspire people.

...I am so deeply touched by that. I am humbled and wildly excited to be given this gift and this calling, and I am ready to give it completely. I wish I could bottle it up and pass it out for free on a street corner, or mass produce and distribute it. I feel myself doing that with some people I meet, and it feels so right. I just want to give more. I want to inspire anyone who wants to be inspired. I want to share my life's message in a way that sustains my little family on our adventures, so we have more to give and then touch more people so receive, and give and receive -- isn't that the coolest self-perpetuating circle?!!!

I have big huge gigantic dreams of how to do this, and I am so excited to be taking steps to make this a reality for us all :) I am a self-guided learner and doer, and so far this adventure of putting into practice everything that I have been collecting and learning and synthesizing has been wildly delicious to my feelers and my plans :)))

So, here it is. I am offering coaching calls for a temporary rate everyone can afford: I just want some experience and some feedback from you :)) Or if you are local and want to comission me for a special project, yipeeeeee! We can discuss rates :) I am putting together ebooks and ecourses and workshops for locals. Oh, you would melt if you knew all the plans I have!! :)))

I am still exploring this humongous exotic business land. I found my shady spot under a giant fairy tree, and this is my table with a homemade sign :) I am still defining my message, because I have so much that I want to give, so much that I want to do. But I think the essence of at least a bit of it goes something like this:

Live. Just do it. Trust yourself. Everything is perfect - just let it flow into the next moment. Be free, so your life and relationships will reflect your innermost truths.

I love love LOVE how simple that is because there is so much room to explore and grow in there! Whoot whoot! :)))

Wowsers. I love that message. Who wants to share it with me? If your heart just answered with a resounding "YES! Me!!" click the Freestyle Living tab above, and let's get to co-creating :))