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Sunday - April 11, 2010

Lots of rain falling here in Northern California.  So much has happened, and keeps happening - it is hard to keep up with it all. Many changes after 9-9-2009.  Attended a wonderful seminar in Grass Valley, CA sponsored by a company called Floracopeia. Many people came from very far away, Ecuador and Vietnam.  A gathering of people with a vision founder David Crowe calls, Replanting The Global Garden. And thats what it felt like. Wonderful inspiration, sharing of knowledge and a very well organized event.

I am very much looking forward to attending the certification event coming up in a few weeks. Plant Medicine, return to the indigenous cellular memory that I feel lives within each of us. 

Disturbing to me to look at the USGS site and see that from Baja California (but really as far as the western coast of South America) all the way up to Alaska, the number of earthquakes is staggering.  I am staying out of fear and holding the positive vision that Mother Earth is just needing to do some shifting around.

I am grateful, ever grateful for the plants, and minerals, crystals and animal life. I feel so happy when I see the deer and bucks running by, not to mention the turkey clans, and sometimes even the quail. Most fortunate.

During this long span from Fall to Winter to Spring, I have attended a wonderful program out in Tomales, California with Alyssa Aubrey at Medicine Horse Ranch. She is a woman I admire very much for her integrity and spirit. Her 27 horses are amazing beings. Not all of them are specially trained in the Equine Guided Education modality, but, they are all intuitive and so very intelligent sentient beings.

The 6-month class was very educational and allowed me to go back and finish some internal business that I thought was "done" but was not. Very liberating experience to be with a small group of women, Alyssa as facilitator and the horses. Life changing is the true phrase of choice. I am still assimilating what I have learned during the September through March class series.  www.horsesenseforteens.org  is the link to Medicine Horse Ranch tomales.

I have begun drying seeds from squash so that I can plant them when the time is right. I figure if the earth changes becomes severe at the level of Haiti, and there is no infrastructure left, it will be a good idea to have seeds to plant. Seeds represent hope to me, so that is where I am starting.

Any way - that is my thought for the day on this rainy Sunday.  I have been reading a book a chaplain lent me, called Kitchen Table Wisdom - Stories That Heal, by Rachel

Naomi Remen, MD.  So very powerful these short stories that exemplify the power of the spirit and the will to live. And the struggles that physicians often face in owning their sensitivity to suffering while having to present the medical school version of "how a doctor should behave" ..... what a book, written by a female physician who has a disorder that has put her on death's doorstep numerous times. Highly recommend this book.

Alba was finally laid to rest in her beloved home of Portland, Oregon - some 6 months later. I was not invited, so I did not go, but my spirit was there. It was a glorious sunny wonderful day, and hundreds of people came to say farewell to this wonderful, friendly, kind, strong pioneering spirited woman. Alba Serrano, may you rest in peace with your beloved Sam. And now, Georgia carries on as the Noni, and she too carries all those wonderful traits. Kindness, helpfulness, friendliness, sensitivity, strength, fierce warrior spirit, indominatable woman who will fight to the end for family and friends.

 I am ever grateful that they stepped in and offered me friendship during a most difficult period in my life kept falling apart, no matter how hard I tried to exert some control over it. It was that lesson of surrender I guess - "no you are not in control, so just relax and have faith." I remember having been sort of topsy turvy from May of 2001 until around June of 2004 - jobs didn't work out, living situations changed. I had finally gotten an apartment and was there 6 months when I was told the house was being sold so I had to move....I just sat on the small settee and very calmly said to myself "I have no clue what to do or where to go." It was that moment of surrender to the Divine. Not a lot of money, a part time job, and now, no place to call home.

Georgia stepped in and said, "Hey Urbara, Mom's got a garden apartment she would like to rent - do you want to come look at it?" I did, and it was beautiful and the price was right, and not long after that I got a full time job and things started slowly turning around. I learned later, over many a cup of tea or coffee at Alba's table, that she herself, had been displaced many times, through unforeseen situations that came up and forced her to become creative as well. Gratitude to my aquarian buddy Alba, and Georgia, and the whole family.   I plan to follow in those footsteps of being a friend.  Cheers, gratitude and warm wishes on this rainy day. May life bring you good things to make up for all your struggles and difficulty!