Angels With Suitcases

One week ago a friend posted this message for us on Facebook:

I have a dream for a dream! It’s sunset and everyone in Helena’s Healing Circle are together. We are all visiting! It starts to rain, and we all sing to the sky “The water won’t fall.” The rain stops! Little angels with suitcases run down the hill. They wave goodbye to all of us, for Helena’s healing is realized. We all tell Helena & Leigh how happy we are and how much we love them. They send love to the clouds, to us, to God, to the Universe. We’re all happy. This is my dream for a dream. May I dream this tonight. May this dream of a dream be realized.

It’s a beautiful dream, isn’t it?

Little angels with suitcases, singing us on our way. What our friend didn’t know is that the day before her dream, Helena and I had made the decision to sell the farm.

Sigh with us, queridos…we’ve all been holding our breath for such a long time. We’ve been working so hard to keep this dream alive, and it’s been a labor of absolute and pure love, even in the days of greatest struggle. It’s been a beautiful place for us to land for a time, and we are grateful for every minute. We’re grateful to all of you for walking  alongside us with such courage and dependable humor and insight. We have felt you here, laughing and cheering us along every step of the way.

The time has come for a different reality. Our focus has changed and we have embraced it. We pray that this next transition will be like closing one door and opening another—and like all great adventures, the best parts are those that are yet to be discovered.

This is my dream for a dream. May I dream this tonight.

May this dream of a dream be realized.

Related Posts:

Where It Began

Farm Diary Day 2: Inventory

Day 1: Diagnosis

What Comes of Dreams

Reblogged from Martipants' Blog:

So what happens when we finally find the courage to make our dreams into reality, it happens, and then, it stops happening?   When universal forces flex their will and things must change course?

Honestly, I’m not writing this from a standpoint of being in that place – at least not on any grand scale.  I’m writing from a standpoint of a witness – a witness to the building of something magnificent, but seeming to end, at least in its current form, and change the form of the original dream.

Read more… 181 more words

With love and gratitude to my friend Peggy for this post, for your companionship, and true "carinho" on our path...

The Most Beautiful Thing

I just received a surprise call from one of my dearest friends from Philadelphia, and after we talked for awhile, he asked me, “What was the most beautiful thing you saw today?”

I told him this:

At the end of the work day I walked Gilvania home. As we made our way down the mountain, the fields turned brilliant shades of green, rust, and gold. The air was crisp and ringing with the sounds of dogs barking and families beginning their dinner.

When we walked up the dirt path toward Gilvania’s house, we were greeted by six baby chicks. They were picking their way over her front porch, wobbling along behind their mother. When they saw us  moving closer, the little group jumped off the porch and into the grass, and in that instant, one of the babies was left behind.

He was the tiniest thing, and he peeped so loudly for his mama that we couldn’t stand to just let him call. Gilvania picked him up and handed to me, and I held him cupped in my hands, a tiny squirming yellow ball of downy feathers. When I set him down in the yard he called for brothers and sisters, and they all ran scurrying to meet him.

For that moment, all was right in the world.

More Stories from the Other Side: “Shorty Comes Through”

This story is a repost of a blog I wrote for Trust the Voice Within, a site I run with Echo Bodine. It gives me a chuckle every time I think of it. Gracias, Amelia, for the permission to share. You can read the original story on the site:

Intuition and Gift Giving: “Shorty Comes Through”.

Announcing the Viva Bliss Awards!

Viva Bliss Award

An award that recognizes bloggers who actively seek Bliss in their lives and inspire others to do the same. Their honest, yet dependably positive writing demonstrates that Bliss is something that we can actively choose, even in the midst of life’s most challenging moments.

Announcing the Winners!

Today, I’m nominating seven of my favorite bloggers:

1. Helena’s Healing Circle:  written by my partner Helena, who in the midst of her life’s greatest challenge, is inspiring others by sharing her story. She is MY Bliss.
2. Liv Lane at Choosing Beauty:  Every Friday she shares “a list of the bliss in my midst, reflecting on moments over the past week where I’ve caught myself in a sense of wonder, contentment, and true joy.” Through her work and her life, Liv spreads bliss on a daily basis.
3. Imperfect Happiness:  “One woman’s quest for happiness without perfection.” Through her honest posts and comments on this blog, CJ shows that Bliss can’t be oversimplified. It’s not about finding “15 easy steps to happiness or 10 things to stop doing if you want to be happy,” but that doesn’t stop her from looking.
4. Mammaste: a self-described “suburban mystic,” Lori Anne’s blog looks for the “humor, humility, and holy” in our everyday lives.” I visit her blog for inspiration and light when I need it.
5. Pigtail Pals: A blog dedicated to changing the way we think about girls. Her post, Waking Up Full of Awesome, is one that I regularly share with friends when I want to spread a little Bliss. After reading it, you’ll want to share, too.
6. Martipants:  In the midst of what anyone would consider to be an impossible situation, Martipants is always reaching for the brass ring. Even when she’s stepping on brass tacks. I love her raw, yet always hopeful approach to bliss-seeking.
7. PurpoSoul: Kirsten describes herself as “a spiritually confused doubter turned jaw dropped, awe-struck, soul-purpose seekin’ woman, I share this voyage into my mind, my intuition, and my growing love for the purpose I find in each day.” She receives this award for so courageously embarking on her soul’s journey, but also because today, in particular, she is waking up FULL OF AWESOME.

Congratulations, Bliss Beauties! Thank you for your dependably blissful company on this journey.

Spread the Bliss: Nominate Someone for the Viva Bliss Award

As a recipient of the Viva Bliss Award, consider doing the following:

1. Thank the blogger who nominated you by writing a post about it and link to this post.
2. Include the Viva Bliss logo in your post.
3. Pass on the award to 6-10 bloggers who “actively seek Bliss in their lives and inspire others to do the same.”
4. Answer the following questions in your post:

• What color and flavor is Bliss?
• What is the most unexpected time or place that you found Bliss?
• What’s your superhero name?

“Meet Charlie…”

Finding Messages in Dreams

For years, I’ve had a nighttime practice of writing questions about my life in a journal before going to sleep. I ask for messages or guidance from my Higher Self during dream state without the expectation that I will remember the dream. Sometimes the messages come through a dream that I immediately remember upon waking, but more often I come to a sudden awareness during the day, through a conversation with a friend or stranger, or even a book or article that suddenly comes my way. It’s a practice I love, and it’s guided me through many challenging times in my life.

Angels and Unicorns

Yesterday’s post received almost 1,000 hits, so I guess a lot of you just want the facts! How about this…once every 6-8 weeks I’ll do a “down and dirty” post, but the rest of Live Your Bliss is still going to be about angels, unicorns, and coffee enemas.

Do we have a deal?

P.S. Seriously…thank you for all of the amazing, funny, and really loving comments left here, on Facebook, or in emails yesterday. We love you, too.

“How’s It REALLY Going?” (Behind the Scenes at Blissworld)

After yesterday’s post, along with some AMAZING responses (please read them!), I received a flurry of emails with the question: “How’s it REALLY going?”

After so openly sharing about coffee enemas and anal cancer, I guess it only makes sense to continue to forge along the path of full disclosure. Today, I’ll tackle some of your most pressing questions:

How is Helena REALLY doing?

Is Suffering Optional?

Can We Choose Happiness, Even in the Worst of Times?

I posed this question yesterday in Lightworkers Forum:

While we’re on Earth, do we need to learn through suffering? This concept has been suggested and even reinforced in many religions and spiritual traditions, and it’s true that often that’s how the biggest lessons come to us. But I’m wondering…do you think it’s possible to learn just as many lessons through happiness instead?

DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Cancer and Beauty Treatments

Given our varying resources up here on the mountain, I’ve become quite the DIY-er. When our friend Katee visited last month and showed off her fancy new disposable Burt’s Bees tea tree/white tea/what-EVER facial towelettes, I thought: “I can do that!”

The night before I got on the plane to the US, I hemmed and boiled some old dish towels and soaked them in a solution of organic coconut oil, tea tree oil, geranium and lavender essential oils. I folded and sealed them in Ziploc bags and popped them in the refrigerator overnight, and voila!  Homemade, all-natural face towelettes.