To the New and Renewing

I spoke to 14 teachers today. New and comebacking. Others just wanted to listen. 

Some recurring ideas i caught myself saying: 

Ants we don't kill. 

This is always symbolic. Spirit of young people, of children - we don't trample on. 

Openness

Before you make an oath, before you can become outstanding, before you start a belief you have to be open. 

This place is magic. There is real magic that is in this place. 

I don't expect you to be perfect 

I hope you learn from your mistakes

You need a plan 

What do you want to happen?

Yet i am convinced that I am saying them for the first time!!!

It was a 2- hour thing and yes i invited them to be gods and godesses of learning.  

... To live, love, teach fiercely. 

They were so kind. 

Saraswati

Instead of being hunted, an image of a deer was haunting me in for the last few days. The lotus flowers came first. They were rising from a lake. 

But the dream that came, before it started to take form, were flowers. 

Very often, i allow myself to be led without understanding why but deeply feeling it. 

So i gathered my basket of acrylic tubes and some old brushes and reported to my  wall.  So lotus it was. Then the deer. 

This is the wall of the faculty room and  I thought of the symbolism of the lotus flowers. The funny part of my thought process was what if we are too lazy to rise above the mud but would bathe in it instead like a carabao? (Chuckle!) 

Still i wrote on the door: "to be beautiful like the lotus, one must be brave to rise above the mud."

Then the deer rose from its bath in the pond of lotus. Why the deer? I just painted.  Outside my mind, the image kept showing in the magazines, on my Etsy feed, in the tree branches and the goats on the road. 

It must mean something. Of course I was praying for a good and blessed school year otherwise, what else would i think about while i dedicate a small fracion of a few  days on a school wall? 

As I lay awake on bed at dawn today, I began to attribute to the deer, the lotus flowers and the water.  I know it symbolized something but was too lazy to be a sage. I chose to yahoo and turned out that i was not altogether surprised to read on the symbolism of the deer. 

And so i muse that perhaps what we have known in the past but was shelved in the recesses of our consciousness becomes a basis for intuition. Or maybe my guides led me. Or putting two together, maybe i am the spirit guide of me? 

It turns out that it was not just a painting after all. It was a prayer wall, an inspiration, a reminder and an avatar. 

My 20 minutes is over.   I hope that the HEDCen teachers will rise to be gods and goddesses of learning!  It was not just about the lotus rising above the mud- it is  more than that. 

Darn! I missed the bathing bird outside my window today!

The New Standard of Beauty

Women healers of soul, body and mind are always looking for alternative ways to promote a better way to live and love. 

May they always inspire others as they seek to be inspired and may they take care of this world that needs to be healed. 

May they inspire their men to discover their own gentle nature and to lead without war. 

May they raise their daughters and sons believing in the value of goodness. 

May their beauty shine through in everything they'd choose to embark on. 

May their tribe continue to exist.