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In 2008 I am going to eat flowers!
Living with John has its moments.
Here is his New Year’s question for me; “What is your blog about in 2008?”
And 2008 has started with…….oh joy!…….. a learning moment about thinking.
Of course his question was right on the button.
I never gave my blog a thought.
The blog and its routine exists, so on I would go, drifting into yet another year of writing my blog.
Nothing wrong with that, but that didn’t sound very compelling or powerful.
Writing as a hobby doesn’t appeal to me.
So I think; “What is 2008 about and what is the difference between drifting and creating powerfully?”
At first I don’t know.
Most of the time I drift and I actually cannot recall how it feels to be a powerful creator of a great dream.
I even have trouble coming up with powerful dreams as I once said before in this post about dreams.
However a series of books called the ‘Ringing Cedars’ came to the rescue.
What was talked about in these books resonated with me and has awakened in me a powerful dream.
I grew up in city apartments with little nature around me.
As a child I dreamt of trees and looked longingly at people’s houses which had a garden.
In my apartment in Holland I created my own indoor forest with massive houseplants.
My move to New Zealand was because of alluring pictures of bush and deserted pristine beaches.
But now living in New Zealand, our suburban home has not much nature around it.
And that has been bugging me, but I had no idea of nature’s hidden pull that was behind my unease.
You guessed it, I never thought about it.
But now I do think and what I read in the Ringing Cedar books has accelerated my thoughts and brought once again to light my childhood attraction to nature.
Nature is the ultimate in perfect creation.
It is beautiful, functional, does clean itself up AND it is serving us.
All things in nature have a purpose and work for us.
Nature shows us how to harmoniously live a great life; nature by its very own nature nurtures us, is abundantly generous and is good for us.
If you compare the human world you see endless flaws and destruction, struggle and ugliness, dysfunction and lack.
So in comparison, which is the clever one?
So after uncovering the powerful pull of nature, I am giving in to the pull.
John and I are planning the move to a property on which we can have enough nature to allow us to co-create a showcase of how nature is serving us.
We are going to co-create our own Garden of Eden and…..
we are going to eat flowers!!!!
And in line with that dream I am in action, which is new to me too.
I feel clear and determined and feel less inclined to fluff around.
And it makes me willing to learn to think.
Now I am the one who makes things happen, I need to think for myself and that requires learning to think.
So I am learning to think and what is more, I am learning to learn, which is also a rare and difficult phenomenon, but I will talk about learning later.
My blog in 2008 is about my powerful dream, its contemplation and its manifestation and it is about the effects of having a powerful dream.
Although it is early days I can already see changes.
The ultimate proof.
Normally I am not a completion queen.
Holiday photos never ever leave the shoe box or get sorted on the computer.
And look at me now . . . I have sorted the latest photos and printed some to make a photo book for my daughter as a lovely completion of our wonderful time in Vietnam.
And this action happened without hard work and without any resistance.
That is the difference between the drift and a powerful dream; I did things effortlessly and successfully in the last few days because I chose to.
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I remember when we could only buy nasturtium flowers at the topest grade supermarket in Kensington…
Healthy sophistications do make their ways to this southern hemisphere, in due course, eh..
Bestest,
Beth.
Good to know that here are always some glimpses in society of saneness amongst the madness, and they pop up in unsuspected quarters. Thanks Beth.
Wilma, great blog, very good description of fluffing (I read yr fluffing blog too). I make an effort to say to myself if I’m doing something and I feel fluffing starting: “focus, focus on what you are doing right now and what needs to be done to get it finished”. This works and 2008 will be great for me to become more effective with my thinking and what I am doing.
Thanks Bertie and yes the whole focus thing got me by surpirse too, how much focus, time, emotions and what not is getting lost by my mind wandering.
It is great that you so connected with that post as realizing and then writing it made a big difference for me too.
wilma welcome back and i sit in the garden of eden in Whangaporaoa and note there have been times when i was disconnected from the beauty and the change of seasons and the wonder in that…..this year i am asking myself does this activity serve me to achieve my vision and this has created a huge shift in less than a week….in my letter to my mum when she died i said ” i have learned not to wait for someone to bring me flowers …i have learned to plant my own garden”…..my art is blossoming….wwwexhibitonline.co.nz ……and there is a new found joy….in fact my next presentation is called from despair to joy in 68 seconds….lol…i am yours in good cheer…..see you soon….Pat
@Pat, you are certainly planting gardens and I had a look at your beautiful art work….that is creating in style…
HI Wilma
Great pics; thanks for sharing!
I like the idea of your powerful dream – and thanks for the challenge for 2008! I’ll choose to smell the flowers to start!!
cheers
fiona
Hey Fiona, you are well placed to smell the flowers on your own piece of paradise and it is great to see you enjoying its beauty rather than just focusing on the hard work…..
Well, we do eat the flowers but we grow many more than we eat, just because I do not know every variety, so I Googled, flowers we can eat and got your Blogg. Well, I did not find a big list so I am going to look farther a field, but we have all ready planted many that I already know, like sweet peas, nasturtiums, day lillies, clover and others. Now I need to find more. Perhaps I should look into ‘flowers that we cannot eat’ Happy eating and come visit our garden if you ever come to Canada.
Haha, what a surprise to get my blog when googling for eadible flowers.
The growing season in Canada must be quite short and I am sure if I am in the neighborhood that I would love to come and visit your garden.
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