Traveling across the sound on the ferry at 5:31, feeling excited, blessed, and bloated. Don’t you love how all these things can co-exist?
Studying the heart lately and found a great picture of the torus shaped (sort of egg like) energy field the heart radiates. This energy field extends 10-15 feet away from you – measurable by instruments like EEG. I’m going to ask the women to bring their intentions into their heart torus and the interlinked heart torus space of our circle to consecrate them. I want to make this part of the book – with daily intentions. You could try it and tell me how it works?
I am taking two small suitcases to the retreat- one with clothes and one with art supplies and collage images. In the past, I can’t begin to tell you how much dragging another suitcase would have pissed me off. I try to pack light! But today, pulling those two suitcases down the long ferry loading ramp (beautifully hung with poetry banners composes by local poets), I was so proud to be a creative woman who is bringing supplies to facilitate women to open to their creative gifts – woo hoo!
The sun is pinking the sky. I can see the first cruise ship of the season in port and we are passing a HANJIN container ship, coming in from China, perhaps. The seemingly tiny tug boat is heading out to bring it in. I had a nightmare last night that I was living in big city and I couldn’t come home and although we had this amazing apartment, I was so sad.
4 responses so far ↓
1 cindy May 19, 2006
have a blessed time!
2 Maureen May 20, 2006
Dear Jen.
Can’t wait to see you at the retreat.
I loved your description of the ferry ride
and the detail about seeing container ships.
Last year during my all too brief time
living in Alameda, CA on the San Fran. bay,
I took the ferry to work many times and
I LOVED those container ships.
Actually loved everything about the ferry,
the water, the port equipment, the cranes.
Some folks read the paper on the
ferry. This baffled me.
I luxuriated in looking at the water (and
all the other stuff,) as well as the approaching
skyline. To live near water again (really,
to live within EYESIGHT OF WATER)
would be heaven on earth to me.
If I could create anything this week
it would be to create some solution to
the problem of not having the kind of MONEY
needed for an “on the water” life in the
U.S. Alas, I am not someone who is going
to move to Mexico for an ocean view.
I’m too old for that.
Maureen
3 Leonie May 20, 2006
so interesting to read this just now ~
i have arrived back from doing the groceries,
and in the supermarket i walked past a woman ~ and instinctively, i knew she had a sad heart, as my heart heard it and told me.
blessings to you, your gifts, and your sharing of the torus.
leonie
4 deb May 25, 2006
The heart center is a powerful place. Just to foucs on this area in a mindful way, is a great practice. Simple can be very powerful. And to just focus on the heart center for several minutes, imagaine breath flowing in and out of this area, just “being” with your own heart…it’s good medicine! And quite literally — recent research finds that not only does the brain produce the “love” hormone oxytocin — the heart also is capable of producing it at well.
Rumi said and I’m paraphrasing, “The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam in it.”