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I am very honored to have been selected to be one of 6 speakers for this wonderful event!!! Please join us, everyone will have a wonderfully synchronistic and magical time . . . more to come next week!
The information below is from the Walk The Talk website.
Coming June 27th, 2018, we present the topic of Signs & Synchronicity. What are signs and synchronicities? We all have had signs telling us what to do or not to do. These signs can come in simple ways, or through complex messages. Synchronicities happen the same way. For instance, just as we think of someone or something we see them or that happens! Goosebumps and synchronicities happen all the time. Signs & Synchronicity always work together! Our six speakers will share their messages and guidance on how to follow your signs and experience your synchronicities!
Doors are at 7:00 pm and the show starts at 7:45 pm. We also have local vendors on site with products that follow our mission of well-being. Buy now and get a great seat. Tickets are $15.00, and $5 for children under 11. Seats are reserved.
With this talk, we move outside The Vogue and it will be presented at the Basile Theatre in the historic Athenaeum, downtown Indianapolis. Our events always include live music, 6 fabulous storytellers, confetti, interactiveness, a Motivational Balloon drop (inside each balloon is a motivational phrase on topic), a cool light show, and lots of takeaways on topic!
Thanks for helping us create an epic shift, one person at a time.
And that person is you!
You can purchase tickets to Walk The Talk – Signs & Synchronicity by clicking here
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3325583
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Trees
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree
by: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
The forests are back in full foliage in our area of the world again. This truly inspired poem about trees is one of the world’s favorites – mine too. The Gift of Trees; their beauty, grace, strength, warmth, flowers, fruits, the air we breathe . . . It may be impossible to fully comprehend the importance they have in our lives.
Trees can and will help you with writing poetry and prose. Did you know that? Do you believe that? Go sit down underneath a tree and ask it for help. Ask the tree to give you a poem, an idea, a descriptive paragraph or phrase and listen to what happens . . . make sure you take paper and something to write with . . . You may be amazed. And don’t you just LOVE when God amazes you with the Divine in life . . . believe.
The trees have been here much longer than we have. Like the whales of water, the trees of the air and wind know, remember and speak of this planet’s history in a way that is impossible for humans to fully comprehend. We haven’t been here long enough.
The trees create the air we breathe, mother nature’s lungs. Couldn’t even begin to do justice to that Gift from our Creator; or to the Godsign involved, so I won’t even try here, but do remember and think about the fact that et spiritus is Latin meaning to breathe. et spiritus et spirit us
It is the trees that have supplied us with the paper needed, up until just the last decade, for most our written history and record; pages and pages from billions of books printed over thousands of years throughout the world…
How much paper. . .?
How many trees . . . ?
The trees use the wind through their leaves to speak out loud to you whenever you are listening. They use the Life Force they process and understand to speak to your body even when you are not listening.
Ideas they do give! Stuck for an idea; need a page written for school or work, go sit, stand or rest under a tree. Better yet, go find the nearest woods and make yourself at home for a bit.
The idea of Tree Spirits has been around for thousands of years. There have been descriptions of Dyads – tree fairies – usually represented by wisps of light in Classical folklore. Long before R.R Tolkien wrote of Treebeard and the land of the ancient trees there was a Swedish wood nymph called Skogsra who was considered the guardian of the woods and wild animals. Out of Scotland comes Ghillie Dhu, a solitary wood nymph that lives in Birch trees.
In Japanese traditions, Uku-No-Chi is a deity that lives in tree trunks and the god Hamori is the protector of the leaves.
The term holy comes from the constant use in the ancient world of the Holly tree branches in all sacred ceremonies in many places all over the world. One ‘l’ was dropped from holly and you get holy. Imagine that . . .
And you can’t discuss the trees without the Druids. The original meaning of the term Druid is still argued by scholars but the most widespread view is that “druid” derives from the Celtic word for an oak tree (doire in Irish Gaelic), a word whose root also meant “wisdom.” The wise and mighty Oak tree – druid.
Druid influence was as much social as religious. The Druids linked the Celtic peoples with their numerous gods, the lunar calendar and the sacred natural order and were often the philosophers, scientists, lore-masters, teachers, judges and councilors to the kings. They were known to have a reverence for various aspects of the natural world, especially the trees such as the ritual of oak, holly and mistletoe.
Have you hugged a tree lately? I realize you may laugh, but you also may be losing out on one of God’s greatest Gifts just hanging out in your own back yard with lots and lots to show and tell!
The trees, forests, foliage all speak to us daily. The shapes and colors of the leaves, the branches, the fruits have different messages. They surround us.
Forests of Knowledge
Trees speak of forever
With a knowledge to impart
If you listen very quietly
Forests whisper to your heart
Their numbers are innumerable
And each is so unique
One chiseled, cut and drawn
Another obtuse and oblique
Knothole eyes smile and wink
While others bore down deep
They search within your soul
For the secrets that you keep
Ancient wisdom is found nestled
In a tree of many faces
From the circling of lifetimes
And passing of eternal phases
Spirited images gaze down
With long impassioned glances
Loving energy seeps up and out
And through the many branches
Healing breath surrounds you
For the trees create your air
From an atmosphere of serenity
In Mother Nature’s loving care
It’s why lovers feel at peace
While strolling in the woods
A forest’s intimate knowledge
Of sacred romance understood
Shadows cast bring detail
And honest knowledge shared
Truth is found along this path
If belief in them but dared
Remember looking up at clouds
And all the pictures seen
A man dancing with a bear
Or a girl bowing to a queen
Every forest does the same
Regardless of time or season
Any tree presents the answers
Making sense with rhyme and reason
An oak will speak of courage
While the pines present security
Weeping willows give compassion
The old sequoia relates maturity
When all the leaves join in
A real soiree can be thrown
Inspiring fresh perspectives
As seeds of thought are sown
Wind increases the chatter
And there is no where to hide
When face upon face is presented
And depth is captured alive
Life answers can be heard
By those who know to listen
With open heart and mind
In forests of knowledge given.
Annie
© October 2007
THANKS to the Hawk muse and the tree fairies that joined us for the poetry, the fun and inSpiration!
Trees was originally published in Trees and Other Poems, Joyce Kilmer, New York:
George H. Doran Company, 1914
It was my Grandmother Higgins’ favorite poem – Thanks Grandma for the love of poetry and the trees oxooxooxo
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Please keep all those effected by devastating ‘out-of-nowhere’ tragedies in your prayers, sending them healing Waves of God’s Light, Strength and Love. There are still so many in pain, just trying to get through. Thank you for your help and prayers!