on 17th january , our son was born, Ravi Bo Pepper, at home..in a very beautiful water birth
He is an absolutely divine wee man and i am so proud to be his mama.
Welcome  Ravi
Jess and Sophie
xoxo

Power made me a coat. For along time i kept in the back of my closet. I didn't like to wear it much, but i always took good care of it.
When i first started wearing it again it smelled like mothballs. As i wore it more,it started fitting better, and stopped smelling like mothballs.

I was afraid if i wore the coat too much, someone would want to take it or else i would accidently leave it in the dojo dressing room.
But it really has my name on the label now, and it doesn't really fit anyone else.
When people ask me where i found such a becoming garment, i tell them about the tailor, Power, who knows how to make coats that you grow into.
First you must find the courage to approach him and ask him to make your coat.

Then you must find th patience inside yourself to wear the coat until it fits.

J.Ruth Gendler

758
Prabha'ta Sam'giita


O Lord,
after listening to my invocation
You finally came.
You are the heavenly, all-granting tree.

Although I am but a dry desert,
You took Your place in my heart.
In front of You
I surrender myself.

I offer You whatever is mine.
Whatever, for so long,
I had considered my own
is now offered to You.

In the far blue sky
Your beauty is expressed,
and mingles with the fragrant sandal breeze.

Whatever distance may exist
between You and me,
let there be an end to it today.

Whatever I have given You is nothing.
Whatever I have received from You
is inexhaustible and immeasurable.

By virtue of Your own quality,
You understand my internal feelings
and fill them with melody.

By Your rhythm and song,
by Your incomparable melody,
You energise the entire world.

CREATIVITY



Creativity is not efficient.

She has a different relationship to time than most of us.

A minute can last a day and a day can last an hour.

She loves all the seasons.

She is on intimate terms with the sun and the moon.

it is NEW YEARS all year long at her house, what with celebrations for the Celtic, Hebrew, Tibetan,Chinese, Japanese and other new years too numerous to mention.

.........

Some people consider Creativity selfish because she does what she wants.

I have always found her to be gracious and generous. She is certainly complex.

if you have only met her in a serene mood, her flair for drama may offend you.
She is not your aunt with the porcelain teapot who plays chamber music.

if you are one of those people who only go to see her when she is starring in a major melodrama you will not hear her rainsongs.

if you insist she is mad, you will never see how still her face is when she returns from a dream.

Sometimes Creativity disappears completely or wanders around the back alleys for weeks at a time.

She has a strong need to be occasionally anonymous.

if you run into her at the post office during one of these periods, you will probably not recognize her.

She is in a different place.

it is almost as if her blood has slowed down.

When the blank period is over, Creativity brings her free self home with her.
Her skin is anew.

She is ready to work.

More than anyone else, Creativity understands the Secret meanings of the months when nothing seems to get done.....



J. RUTH GENDLER....

To and english friend in South Africa


Be grateful for the freedom to see other dreams. Bless your lonliness as much as you drank of your former companionships, all that you are expeeriencing now will become moods of futire joys so bless it all.
Do not think your way is superior to others . Do not venture to judge but see things with fresh and open eyes. Do no condemn but praise when you can and when you cant be silent.

Time is now a gift for you a gift of freedom to think and understand the ever perplexing past and to recreate yourself anew in order to Transform time.

Live while you are alive. Learn the ways of silence and wisdom. Learn to act, learn a new speech learn to be what you are in the seed of your spirit.
Learn to free yourself from all the things that have moulded you and which limit your secret and undiscovered road.

Remember that all thigs which happen to you are raw materials, endlessly fertile endlessly yielding of thoughts that could change your life and go on changing forever.
Never forget to pray and be thankful for all the things good or bad on the rich road, for everything is changeable so long as you live while you are alive.

fear not but be full of light and love
fear not but be alert and receptive.
fear not but act decisively when you should.
Fer not but know when to stop.
Fear not for you are loved by me. Fear not for death is not the real terror but life magically is.

Be Joful in your silence, Be strong in your patience, do not try to wrestle with the universe, but be sometimes like water, sometimes like air, sometimes like fire and constant like the earth.

Live slowly, think slowly for time is a mystery.

Never forget that love requires you to be the Greatest person you are capable of being.
Self regenerating and strong and gentle, your own hero and star.

Love demands the best in us to always and in time overcome the worst and lowest in our souls.
Love the world wisely.
it is love alone that is the greatest weapon and the deepest and hardest secret.


So fear not my friend, the darkness is gentler than you think. Be grateful for the manifold dreams of creation and the many ways of the unnumbered peoples. be grateful for life as you live it and may a wonderful light always guide you on the unfolding road.
Ben Orki