today...

i am.......

* listening....... to the Tapping World Summit - day 12. Personal Peace Procedure. thanks to the Ortner family, this year's summit has yet again been amazing. So so thought provoking and touched so many. Check out ....the tapping solution

* reading..... Anna, Grandmother of Jesus - a beautiful message of wisdom and love by Claire Heartsong, recommended by my good friend Avanti

* enjoying...... the writings of Pia Jane Bijkerk - her journal - my heart wanders is an awesome account of her daring to follow her dreams

* planting.... nurturing seeds .....of light, of love for myself, my family, my friends.......courgettes, beans, kale, broccoli raab, pak choi, komatsuna, rainbow chard, rocket, choy sum - we do love our greens.

* plotting and planning....a brand new family gee productions project that involves a whole load of cake. follow India and Ella's Small Bakehouse journey

* feeling compassion.....towards the parts of me that i have judged and criticised, disliked and rejected. instead i now choose to show myself gratitude, kindness and love, just as i do to my own children

* thankful....... for our cockerel Ruby Nine Lives' miraculous recovery.  for all i have learnt from sharing his healing journey. read his story. for the insights gleaned from watching biologist Joe Hutto's beautiful documentary My Life as a Turkey

* creating..... new hopes and dreams, thought and behaviour patterns...all that honour and support ourselves and our family

* appreciating.......ourselves and each other - just the way we are (for now!)

xxxxxx

it's a crazy, crazy life

We've been busy......with our handmade holiday pledge

Celebrating one birth day for two....

burning brightly

And making and baking....

flowers for friends

homemade shortbread

And sharing... At the Christmas Fair. Yum.

handmade christmas fair

And finishing school projects....

mailing art

more mail art

exploration of the spoken word

And decorating and wrapping....

wrapping secrets

gifted tree

And watching quietly as the sun sets on another beautiful day...

love and gratitude for this blessed life

Wishing you love, faith, hope and charity for this festive season. May all your hopes and dreams come true.


All our love from the Gee Family XXX

i love Rumi

The Seed Market

Can you find another market like this?

Where,

with your one rose

can you buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Where,

for one seed

get a whole wilderness?

For one weak breath,

a divine wind?

You've been fearful

of being absorbed in the ground,

or drawn up by the air.

Now, your waterbead lets go

and drops into the ocean,

where it came from.

It no longer has the form it had,

but it's still water

The essence is the same.

This giving up is not a repenting.

It's a deep honoring of yourself.

When the ocean comes to you as a lover,

marry at once, quickly,

for God's sake!

Don't postpone it!

Existence has no better gift.

No amount of searching

will find this.

A perfect falcon, for no reason

has landed on your shoulder,

and become yours.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī

جلالالدین محمد بلخى

“Words can heal, they can transform our lives and bring joy, meaning and purpose. Words can bring us closer to God.

Such are the words of Rumi."

 Deepak Chopra

I love Rumi.

 He was truly one of the most passionate and profound poets to walk this Earth of ours. A 13th-century  Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian and Sufi mystic, Jelaluddin Rumi dedicated his life to the teaching  of love as a channel to the divine. he possessed the profound ability to communicate the indescribable; to express true love. 


For my loves.....

The Alchemy of Love

You come to us

from another world

From beyond the stars

and void of space.

Transcendent, Pure,

Of unimaginable beauty,

Bringing with you

the essence of love.

You transform all

who are touched by you.

Mundane concerns,

troubles, and sorrows

dissolve in your presence,

Bringing joy

to ruler and ruled

To peasant and King.

You bewilder us

with your grace.

All evils

transform into

goodness.

You are the master alchemist.

You light the fire of love

in earth and sky

in heart and soul

of every being.

Through your loving

existence and nonexistence erge.

All opposites unite.

All that is profane

becomes sacred again.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī

جلالالدین محمد بلخى 

Thank you Rumi

Happy Valentines

Love XXX