Good Friday / The Wedding pt 2

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterwards." ~Spanish Proverb

It's been a very lazy day for me. I've rested and napped and overall did not do all that many productive things. Sometimes I think the best thing one can do is nothing. Or something that does not take much effort or is enjoyable or is unrelated to whatever you've been working on for some time. 

I did go with my aunt by her seamstress who will be sewing the slip and blouse and pleats of our saris for The Wedding. I'm fairly pleased that I won't have to think about clothes coming up to The Wedding because they would already be ready. It's interesting that now we've moved into a time where instead of wrapping our own saris and making our own blouses/slips we can pass that on to a seamstress who will do just as good a job... and who will sew the saris such that they are easy to put on and wrap. The seamstress seems to have her own specific ideas of how our saris should be and I'm fine letting her figure it out - I just want to be comfortable wearing it when I have to. 

It's been a good day... restful - which is definitely something I needed. 

Happy Good Friday world!

peace,

Ren

Happy Earth Day! Happy Good Friday!

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty." ~John Ruskin 

I'm not sure if it's that I'm moody cuz I've had the flu... or if it's just that I'm moody... or if it's after-effects of pill-taking (it takes a while for one's system to settle)... I have a lot to be happy about though... to be thankful for... and so this Earth Day/Good Friday that's what I'm doing...

Today rocks because:

• it's a holiday! maybe not in other parts of the world ... in Trinidad and Tobago we've got a long weekend... Good Friday - Easter Monday = holiday! 
• I can see in the sun again (somewhat)! - the thing with me and the flu (cold? virus?) is that my eyes get super-light-sensitive such that sunshine/glare is very evil. I'm mostly better though so yay!
• I got a kitten! - for my birthday (next week - he's an early birthday present)... our cat Simone who is gorgeous and fabulous and the best cat in the world went missing a little over a month ago - I couldn't even bring myself to blog about it... Depression... sorrow... sadness... who knew what became of her?! Am hoping that wherever she is now she's in a better space. And today, my brother brought home a kitten... who can in no way replace my Kit Kat (Simone)... but... he's so cute...
• My family makes me happy - I mean, my brother got me a kitten... I know how much drama he would have had to have gone through with dad to get him to agree to a kitten... and also... my dad agreed to us having a kitten (I'm a bit shocked by that... secretly I think he's also more of a cat-person)... and also my mom sent me this amazingly funny earth day card... I ♥ you people...
• I had callaloo today... which I made... which I love... lol... so yes, my belly is important...

It's Good Friday... I tried the egg thing this morning... without my mom... am actually not 100% sure I did it correctly but... there were patterns... what do you all see in it? 

It's Earth Day... this video is amazing... makes you think really... how much can we do - how much do we do? Got this prayer in my in-box from Natural Rhythms - I think it's definitely worth sharing.

Earth Honouring Prayer
Precious Earth, the beauty of your nature uplifts
and nourishes our bodies and souls.
The majesty of your mountains reminds us
to structure and form our lives.
You remind us to take solid, grounded steps
as we build firm foundations with gratitude.

Through your ability to contain, you give us the
ability to walk, skip, and dance.
You teach us to celebrate the gift of our bodies
and the treasures of the physical realm.
With you, we are able to touch our loved ones
and to feel the tenderness of a kiss.

We open to embody wholeness as we learn to honour
the sacred in your realm.
You train us to value the deep wisdom of the body
and to tend to its needs.
Thank you for your cycles which help us align
with the organic timing of change.

peace,

Ren

 

Maybe the day was today...

"Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all." ~Carlos Castaneda

Earlier today I was all set on manifesting a day of calm nothingness... that's so not happening this weekend.. and maybe I don't really need it to happen... maybe the universe gives us just what we need... so that instead of a day of calm nothingness (what would I do with a whole day??) I got moments today... of calm... of bubbles of joy... of silliness. 

So yeah I had a group meeting... *all day* ... ok... most of the day... I exaggerate a lot sometimes and am my father's daughter in that regard... we got stuff done... we've got more stuff to do... At one point though one of my group members stopped and said "you all ever did that thing with the egg white in water on Good Friday?" ... lol 

I talked to my mom about it after posting that last post.. she said her mom used to do it with her.. so I guess it's some obscure tradition that not many know about? and then ... my groupmate apparently used to do it with her mom... so. is it a female-only tradition? I've learnt that it is a Good Friday-only tradition so will have to stick to other means of divining for the rest of the year... 

I feel good... got a song stuck in my head since... yesterday? Makes me feel just a bit wassy.. lol...

Am off to the beach tomorrow... sun, sea and sand... shall hopefully avoid crowds and traffic... manifest... 

peace,

Rtr

Manifest...

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait...So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing." ~
T.S. Eliot 

My moment of silence and stillness comes at 4.07 in the morning. I don't get enough time to appreciate it or sit with it or lay down with it I think... Eyes snap open and there is a moment of peace before all that I must do and have to get done for the day rushes in. I manifest a day when I can just lay there and enjoy hearing the dawn break and the world wake up. Or maybe instead of thinking of work I go outside in the cool before the heat and listen to the birds... they're really noisy now. 

It's Good Friday and after all those RI classes and catholic-school attendance... I can't remember what it means... Am trying to find the vision and mission and objectives of an oil service company for a study group meeting today. I don't believe in oil companies or oil service companies ... pretty tough spot to be in when your country's economy is based on oil & gas... Why am I doing this again?

When I was a little girl Good Friday's were for waking up before the sun came up to break an egg...collect the egg white.. put it in a glass of water? I can't remember... What patterns do the sunlight make when it hits the egg white? It'll tell your future for the year... Hopes, dreams, aspirations... maybe a different way of manifesting... does it only work on Good Friday? I'll have to find out. 

Am off to do my school work.. study group meeting at 9 am... 

Manifesting a day of calm nothingness... not today but maybe this weekend? 

peace,

Rtr