Halloween, Wisdom and Gifts From The Sea

It’s the magical month of Halloween and Samhain which (or is it "witch"?)
almost rhymes with Halloween, flowing into Dia de Los Muertos. It is a time of fun and perhaps pretending to be someone or something else. My dreamy blue princess dress of my previous 2 posts Magic Always Comes With A Price and Wisdom Does NOT necessarily come With Age – brought back memories of Halloween nobility I assumed as a young child. I am claiming that royalty again and invite you to do so as well. It may not be “royalty” you resonate with but, perhaps, another race, alien roots, or a superhero you are ready to BE! Whatever it is, now is a great time to “try it on”. Perhaps you may carry powerful feelings from playing a character to BEing elements of that essence in your daily life.

Also, in reference to September’s blog post, Wisdom Does NOT Necessarily Come With Age, I’d like to introduce a wise friend Dayna Martin. This amazing mother of four embodies honoring children as the Little Masters they are. Dayna has been inspiring others for over a decade by sharing her experience through natural birth, attachment parenting and Unschooling. She is an activist, educator and author of, Radical Unschooling: A Revolution Has Begun, and her newest book, Sexy Birth. Dayna is also a speaker, peaceful parenting coach, doula, midwife, anarchist, raw vegan chef and owner of the raw vegan business, Rawk Starz. For more visit her website.

Someday.....when I find the tropical beach of my visions, I see myself conjuring meaningful, intricate shell crafts to gift dear ones and possibly sell. When I was in California, my daughter got the idea to play with shell creations together. We made a variety utilizing mostly Mother Nature’s bounty and repurposed items. For a sampling of a few, please visit our online store   www.etsy.com/shop/GiftsFromTheSeaShop It would honor us too, if you are on facebook https://www.facebook.com/giftsfromtheseashop/, to “like” our page there. We are also on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/giftsfromtheseashop/  but I’m not tech savvy enough to be very active there. Perhaps you will find that perfect little something for those special people in your life during the holidays or just because. Maybe the magic of a unique handcrafted with love item will speak to you personally! If you see anything on facebook or Instagram you are interested in, but don’t see it on etsy, please contact us. We’ll let you know if the item is still available.

Your support is appreciated whether you like, share or buy!

Maybe the energy of these Gifts from the Sea will help me get a little closer to “my place”. What I do know is the energy of our connection makes this world a brighter place. Thanks for BEing YOU!

Wisdom Does NOT Automatically Come With Age

Babies emerge into the world these days remembering more than previous generations about where they incarnated from. They are more resistant when the aged ones try to imbue in them information contrary to their innate knowing. These “older ones” range from well-meaning to mis-guided to downright insidious intentioned; bent on brainwashing the masses for their own ends.

This is not to fault the older ones at all. Beliefs and concepts were programmed - imbedded into their psyche at a tender age only to be constantly reinforced as they continued through life. No, there is no fault, especially when we realize much was done out of what they thought was love or for whom they thought was God.

It is not Wisdom that comes with age but experience. While some of us may have got through similar happenings in life, we each have our unique experience of it. Those experiences, combined with the workings of our mind and the power of our spirit, result in what we see as true. A wise person realizes that there is infinitely more to know than our human minds can currently fathom. The more a wise person knows, the more that individual senses the infinity of the unknown.

It will indeed be a glorious age when children being born are acknowledged as wise – not empty vessels that it is the duty of parents, teachers and others to fill with their beliefs. Adults are the guardians of these precious tiny Beings of Knowing. It would greatly enhance the entire human race if these little ones where treated with respect as the LittleMasters that they are. It is the responsibility of the adults to care for and help these new arrivals to navigate this planet in the particular body they chose this time around. The adults have the power to honor and evoke the expansion of the child’s innate wisdom. They also have the power to squelch that light and replace it with what is commonly accepted as truth by most. The more people believe as they always have, the more history repeats itself over and over – except perhaps, with new names. When the children and their “radical” ideas are respected, things shift. People begin to get in touch with their own truth. Every once in a while, an adult has an epiphany. They may think they are being given a vision from Heaven (hmmm, you could say they are). They are actually tapping into the original wisdom they were born with – that knowing that has been buried under layers of others’ teachings for decades.

I hadn’t planned this blog post to be a continuation of a story from my previous Magic Always Comes With A Price. In it, I spoke of a little princess wearing a satin dress of cerulean blue. Against all odds according to conventional wisdom, within a couple weeks of that post, that very princess dress magically appeared in my life again! I am not ready to share the price I had to pay with the world right now. Suffice it to say, my faith was renewed and faltering trust restored.

As my time on this planet increases in years, my knowledge increases too. However, the more I know, the more I realize how infinitely little this human named Michelle actually knows. I may just be scratching the surface of wisdom.

With each generation coming in wiser, and more resistant to detrimental information, Louie Armstrong may have been onto something in What A Wonderful World. 

Wishing you a wonderful day and more wisdom filled moments no matter what your chronological age. And, as always, thank you for being on this journey with me!

LITTLE MASTERS

So many clamor about making sure everyone gets an education and has the opportunity to go to school. What they don’t realize is that most of the traditional education systems are propaganda machines that crank out perfect little pawns for the system of control they live in.

Now I am not against learning, growing and acquiring information one is interested in. In fact the numbers are increasing for homeschoolers and alternate education providers who do just that. They notice what the children have a resonance with and provide them opportunities to learn more about those topics and get involved in them. This is pure education as opposed to manipulation.

So many parents, teachers and adults in general think children come into the world are ignorant. They feel it is their job to teach these kids in the sense of forcing information into them about the “real world” and how it operates. After centuries of this misguided thinking, it is now the adults in dire need of “an education”!

When parents understand their sacred duty is more of a guardianship than a dictatorship, the children will be treated more like the Little Masters they truly are. True, babies enter this plane of existence not knowing the human language of the family they are born into or about the people around them (this time around) or life in the culture into which they are born. Yet, on a deep wise knowing basis, they are aware of way more than most adults on this planet. They keep that awareness until they are taught out of it -  out by new information pumped into them or they forget it as they are taught such things aren’t real. What is the solution? While it’s not always easy for those who are just becoming acquainted with this knowing, it is relatively simple. It is a dance of nurturing the Little Ones’ own knowing so they retain their innate wisdom along with presenting them joyous opportunities to learn about and delightfully experience their present world. They will definitely guide You, dear adult, in how to provide them education!

As far as the kids already in various systems, please be honestly sure they are loving it for the most part. If not, seek new solutions. This is about the greater good of the child, not the convenience and dictates of a dysfunctional society. Be sure some aspect of their learning involves regularly reminding them of the Little Masters they truly are…reassuring them about what they know and asking their opinion regularly. Gaining this information is helpful two-fold. 1) The open minded adult will actually learn and grow as they are open to this wisdom of the child 2) It will help the child remember his or her awareness before coming here and build on it – thus having the best experience possible in this existence.

Another thing you can do to assist your kids to live to their full potential is to provide them the best nutrients possible. The best option here is to grow your own food. While this can be difficult with time, space and other constraints, it is not impossible. With the aeroponic vertical TowerGarden you can grow almost anything that doesn’t grow on a tree (like an apples) or under the ground (like potatoes). Another plus is that you get to harvest in a fraction of the time as regular soil grown plants. Not quite ready to harvest but want to boost your kid’s health? You may have heard of Juice Plus which is an excellent health support system formulated with real food! With the Children’s Health Study, each child can get Juice Plus FREE with a participating adult. It could be Mom, Dad, Grandparent or any adult that cares enough for their health and that of the child.