Amanda

4 pm

Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:33:44 GMT

today at 4. come over. Bring joy and happiness and loving energies. I need it. =o) I love you guys. and musical instruments and stuff. and food or something. it'll be cool. yey!

Valentine's day extravaganza!

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:03:31 GMT

I just posted but i don't know if it posted or not, if it didn't then here it is, and if i did then here it is again!

I would like to propose a Day of Love and Creationary Wonderment gathering at my house on the famous day of Love, Valentine's day! That would be next saturday the 14th, yes, that is the day! Please bring musical instruments *i.e. guitars, maracas, flutes, bongos, harmonicas, any other silly noise making device that you might think is neat or anything that makes music* Paints, markers, colored pencils, crayons, cameras, and culinary delights! *more fun if you make them yourself! =o)* Leave all your troubles behind and come hither to gather and enjoy the spirit of Love and light. Spread the word to friends and family alike!

Please post if you are planning to attend. I would also like to discourage alcoholic beverages from this party (unless perhaps you find a bottle of fine wine you may wish to bring or something...) not encouraging it though =o) Let's try to enjoy life in our present reality. Hooray!

Peace and blessings!

Saturday the 14th festivities and gathering. Happy Valentine's!

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:44:37 GMT

I would like to propose a gathering at my house on Saturday the 14th that would be next friday of the month of february, or, better known as Valentine's day. Leave all troubles behind and bring love and creationary goodness like things to make music with (i.e. Guitars, rattley things, bongos, harmonicas, flutes, anything that makes musical goodness) Paints, markers, cameras, poetry you like, your favorite culinary creations! =o) Anything and everything that would make this a joyous celebration of love and life. However, I would discourage bringing alcoholic beverages to this gathering. Let's make it fun in our present reality =o) Love to you all. Please reply and spread the word to friends and family alike!

Love and peace!

Saturday the 14th festivities and gathering. Happy Valentine

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:40:36 GMT

I would like to propose a gathering at my house on Saturday the 14th that would be next friday of the month of february. Leave all troubles behind and bring love and creationary goodness like things to make music with (i.e. Guitars, rattley things, bongos, harmonicas, flutes, anything that makes musical goodness) Paints, markers, cameras, poetry you like, your favorite things to cook! =o) Anything and everything that would make this a joyous celebration of love and life. However, I would discourage bringing alcoholic beverages to this gathering. Let's make it fun in our present reality =o) Love to you all. Please reply and spread the word to friends and family alike!

Love and peace!

please help feed people

Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:20:29 GMT

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by the way, back in town. maybe have gathering here some time. update later. call if like.

Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:50:00 GMT

so much has happened. and much is not happening in the same. Time has been in a permanent state of not being in this place here. It's beautiful. I have seen many beauties. The pacific north west is most fantastic. I have been on a road trip down to northern california to visit friends of my beloved. They are very kind people. I have been plagued, however, by a darkness on my heart that will not leave me at peace and I simply am in need of meditation and deep prayer but I have neglected my soul and the soul of my love. I think i may be heading back to the land of maine for a short time in order to give myself a healing center so that I may, in all hopes of returning, to Alaska to once again be reunited with my love of loves. We were to leave yesterday but I chickened out. There's something that does not want me to go. It was really sad and I'm creating a great disturbance for this family who has been so incredibally kind to me. I am in need of finances and work. We were to work at a ski resort town. How could I find that anything but the most glorious of glories? Sadness. But joy. What a world... It is strange. I look into my past entries and my last entry is post dated april something 2032. Am I posting from the future? Is it but a future me floating through time and space that I only imagined to be of the past? What is this time thing, anyways? Holliest of hollies!
I wrote a poem. I have been nominated by these people as Poet of the Year for 2004. There's a conference in Disney in March. I know not how I would go to this. It would be goodnes if I had the chance.. But I hate the idea of leaving mountain for even a week... i would be gone for months... and in florida... alone. He is my love. sigh. Such dreams we have to live and to fly! But I keep thinking I need to be somewhere else. When will I learn... I've done this before.
Who am I? Then that I would do such things to my lvoes. I know not. I could write a thousand poems on the ideas and aspects but there is a hurt and wounded child inside me that keeps kicking me and won't leave me alone and is leading me down a rather solemn and dusty path that I wish not, for my own health, to follow. This ego battle is very difficult. I would understand my true self. Mountain has offered me such a pure and beautiful mirror to reflect the goodness of the Universe to me. We had planned for such time to go to alaska... why now would be fear and turn away?
I think I need some good feminine friends to give me some strength and positive outlook on the world. I've been so isolated here it's not been good for my health. And i've been afraid to go do anything i don't know why this is really a sad state that I have been in though I have no reason to be. I saw it all slipping away last night as I slept... the plane left and here i lay. I miss out because I sleep... I crash our boat because I sleep. I can't help it. I need to be awake. That is life. I am awake now. I understand this and know this is the way. I know not what overcomes me. Perhaps simply that I am lazy and figure that everyone else will do all the work for me. And, verily it would be so if I Could just meet them half way, atleast...
It is sad also that I have not turned to you all, my dear and trusted friends for advice in my times here, you would all think me mad for shying away from this grand adventure... but there are things that I cling to. Things that I am attatched to. And they are dragging me down. In turn do I drag my partner down and he shall rise to the top of the top and create the most wonderous wonders this world has ever seen, I know it. I ordain it truth. Because he believes. Because he dreams and knows. Because he is true and straight and so pure... sigh... What a role model! Who else has one so enlightened in their life to raise them up to the highest of highs?
I will see him again I know. If it is meant to be I will work to get all things in order and it shall be so. I love him with all of my heart and I Know that we are meant to be together. I guess there are things taht I must confront of my own making before I may arise with him. We shall see. Healing is needed for our hearts... I wonder if this is right of me to leave now... It may not be so big an issue as I worry to be. Nothing is going to happen like i think it will. I shouldn't worry at all. No matter. Never mind. No mind, never matter.

Peace and joy to you all in this most blessed happy of new years. May all the blessings and loves befall you in all your days. Perhaps we shall be seeing each other again soon. Joy and light!

Hallelujah! Glory be ourselves, reflections of Divine

Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:32:25 GMT

we've created a beautiful nature trail behind the house here, still at his parent's. probably going to be here for a few weeks still. But now we don't need to go wandering through the clear cut ugliness. We can create some real ugliness on this planet. SO we decided to create something really beautiful and in so doing we created this trail and it's cool. It's happy and good and wonderous and it was good to do some work for a little bit. planning on going to alaska soon! work at a ski place and do some skiing. Need to do something fun and skiing is way fun. wee! It'll be good. I'm psyched. Things are looking up for us. I can't believe the lack of stuff that i've done in the past time that i've been here. It's almost rediculous that i could be so slack with this most precious time of mellowness that we have been allowed. I've needed to write but I've not had motivation I suppose. Silliness. Phooie. Still some time though. I've got a deadline to write something really special by christmas so i tell myself. But what is it? I'm supposed to write our story. Yea. Adventure. Like in school, i've always waited till the last minute to get stuff done. Not so much the best way to go about things, makes life kinda stressful actually for the last minute, then it's only like, kinda well done but if i could just learn to take my time and do things more spread out over the time then it shouldn't be a problem but what is time? The sun goes up and it goes down and comes up again. Does it even really matter what day it is? not really so much. But i know today is sunday and what a blessed day to exist. So I shall go for some writing now. I send my blessings to you all, and to all a good night.

Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:40:18 GMT

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this was a cute movie.. this was mountain and i's first movie together before disembarking on our short but epic adventure heh! Crush totally rocks, dude. wee! Hope everyone had a lovely lovely thanks giving. We all went out to eat and then yesterday i made a big ol' veggie feasty and tonight we're going to cook up this big fishy that someone gave Mountain and celebrate the little fishy's life. Yes, fish are our friend but if it is a gift as such, a celebration time of thanks is due. I give thanks for life. Hooray for life! Hooray we are alive and breathing! Hooray we aren't like the turkeys and the fishy and these things that we are ingesting for our sustanance, hooray for being and living and hooray for goodness and giving and thanks and wonder. wee! Ride the waves, dude!

footsy

Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:32:53 GMT

i've had this angry wound on the inside of my left foot for about a month now. it's not going away. i think there's something angry about it. My body usually is pretty good at healing itself too. I think i should probably go see a doctor as much as i really don't like them... Hopefully it's nothing serious but maybe it's trying to tell me something... my dad's going to have to loosen his stingy wallet chain and help me with this if it's something serious... but it hasn't gotten really any worse... but it's not getting any better... it's weird... i don't like it. i want it to get better. mountain and his dad have a lot of conflict between them, a lot.. it's getting kindof old. I wish they could find some more creative way of confronting each other without all this arguing... i talked to my mom the other day and found out that after she had her accident (really bad car wreck, she almost died) that a couple months later or something she confronted my dad on the phone talking to (oh the drama, must be the new stepmom, oh of course) saying she knew who he was talking to and stuff and he gets all angry and wants a divorce. This is when I'm in like, 3rd grade and this is Christmas eve. I'm like, christmas eve? How awesome. Way to go, dad. Take some responsability in your life. I'm uncovering some deep rooted resentment towards my father. He's not really all that nice of a man... I know I've done my share of not niceties but I don't feel I owe it to him, really. Whatever. I haven't talked to him in a while. It doesn't really make me happy to talk to him very often though... i know this is for sure something that i need to heal within myself, mostly, so i can continue on in life. Confrontation. ahhh. i like being stuck in the middle of conflict. it's really fun. Drama is really great, isn't it? Weee! Now if we could all just become buddhist monks and live in the heartbeat of compassion then we would have no issues with any of this

did any of you see the new eppisode of south park last night with the history of the mormon religion and the super spastic happy family? yea, that was a riot.

peace out, yo

Happy Harmonic Concordance!

Mon, 10 Nov 2003 00:39:43 GMT

The planets are aligning! We are entering a new age! Lunar eclipse last night. Damn things are good! We went for this bad ass hike up this mighty mountain trail overlooking this amazing lake and we could see canada and stuff, we can see canada from the window here it's wild. This area is so amazing. The Olympic National Forest is sooo awesome. There's so much cool stuff there but it's hard to get out to a lot of it without transportation because shit's pretty far apart and stuff but there's public transportation that goes all over the place it's really super. What an amazing day today and all days. What a blessing this universe! The future is bright the spirits are happy, love is in the air and in our hearts. Hooray. I want to let you all know that i love you and remember all the cool times we had together and I send a big cosmic hug to each of you that I have known in my journey so far in life and also how thankful I am to have you as friends. We'll meet again some day in our paths, until then, merry times and celebrations be had!

Dreamer

Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:52:18 GMT

I have a dream
A dream where all sentient beings are seen as equal to one another. Where peace and laughter, joy and happiness prevails over the pains that are so transparent. I have a dream that one day, the people of this planet will rise up together in harmony, seeing for the first time the true nature of our beings and realizing the Truth of our Hearts. Hate and aggression will fall away. They will lay down their weapons of destruction and we will finally see each other as brother and sister and love one another wholly and fully for all that we are in the beauty of the radiant light of the sun. There would be no fear for we would see through the illusions that have been placed upon us and give no value to them. We will give each other, and give our lives to helping one another. The flowers will blossom and the fruits will feed all who are hungry. There will be no suffering any longer as all beings will exist for the existence of one another. We can heal. We are healing. May the light of the Infinite Universe shine upon our spirits and bring us peace in these dark times. I have a dream, that those who lead us will only be able to speak and act upon the Truth, upon Love, for such is the Law of the universe and no other way could be so. There would be no need for personal power or greed to control and keep in fear. They will understand that happy, healthy people make for a better society and better workers and better everything and the lion will lay side by side with the lamb, the veils of illusion will fall from our eyes and our minds and our hearts and we will see the All that is. May this day be soon. May we awaken to our own Truths in our own hearts and may the healing peace and energy radiate throughout all dimensions. We shall be as one. Unity and harmony shall bring us together.

I had a dream of you all last night, that I found you hanging out in some store and we laughed and were happy to be together and planned for a party tonight. Plan a party for me, my friends. Remember the good times of life and rejoice for each day is a beautiful rememberance of existence. I will see you all again one day and I will join you in the party, till then, remember me and be happy! I send my love to all of you.

infinity

Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:56:34 GMT

The world revolves around one's self, around one's mind, around one's thoughts. My world seems to be bringing itself to a blissful state of subtlety and serenity. I rejoice with each new awakening that I am granted and each new breath is a wonder to behold. Peace and joy and love are the laws to live life by and every step should be a step towards perfecting compassion and universal oneness with the All. I know not what each day shall bring. I see around me the suffering of this world and it breaks my heart that peace has yet to be obtained but it is a process which takes time. I pray that I shall live to see the day when it is returned once again to this great planet and that the garden we are meant to inhabit and thrive within is once again brought into reality, cared for and nurtured by us all as a whole for we are no different from one another. We are a living, breathing micro organism, together as one shall we recreate the heaven on earth that is our birth right. It saddens me that I have for so long been blind to my own senses, not trusting my own understanding of what is, and thrashed through the forests of doubt that run through ones own mind. I am that I am. And all becomes clear. A light is cast upon the eternal darkness of the galactic night as we pass into the center of our universe to once again come into unity with all that is. Peace, my friends, is with you all these days. In the gentle whisper of the winds through the trees to the roar of the ocean upon the surf, so beautiful and terrifying the power of nature. So simple for the Mother to thrash your home upon the jagged coral and leave you with nothing but the fragments of a memory of a dream. We put the pieces back together. They have been scattered across the earth in the defiance of our species but again, soon, shall we be whole as is our destiny, as we have been created. There are forces at play in this universe working against those who struggle beyond the day to day existence, why struggle? We only struggle against ourselves. We must learn to let go and look towards the stars for in them is the answer to all life's mysteries. In so looking towards the stars we must also realize that they are but reflections of our own Divine nature and awaken within ourselves this understanding that within our own heart we do hold the key to the universe. Blessed is this day and blessed is our way. Take joy in the work that you do for each moment is precious.

love and light to all

Jingle bells

Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:25:50 GMT

so i got to spend the weekend with my bro in seattle land here and now i am at aislinn's. Hooray! I so needed this weekend. Jammed with my bro, he's an awesome guitarist. Went for a hike up this park mountain thing and saw Reineer (sp?) volcano dealy. Active too. There's a couple of them around here i'm like, yea, great idea people, put a major city right here next to explodey doom world if these things go off. *shakes head* Whatever, man. Just like putting san francisco on that fault line too. Putting all these people in one clump with these silly stick frame houses just equals disaster when the earth burps. Ugh. Basically, the world is going to hell but we all know that. I think i'm just going to go try and settle down somewhere that's ok for my head to live in and drink... damn do i like alcohol. oooh buddy. i miss the sweet numbness that intoxicating drink brings to the body. it's sure something special. Then i don't have to think about what a shit hole things are turning into. But life is beautiful. I like to be alive. I wish everyone were alive, really. and that everyone be free of suffering. I hear there's a door job at wal-mart i could get. "welcome to wal-mart, have a sticker, enjoy your impulsive buying of useless crap! HAve a nice day" Yea, that sounds like that perfect job for me. And i could get a big screen tv and all the neccessities of American living. I mean, isn't that the dream? I like that... That sounds really cool. ANd a dvd player so i can watch all the hot new violent films from hollywood because they always know what's the bestest most awesomest in the world for entertainment! I mean, they're hOllywood. I saw the hollywood sign. You can see that thing from a long way away.

I sent the president an email incurring the wrath of god on him if he didn't knock this war shit out and start paying attention to the suffering people in his own country and quit causing such destruction. i'm such an asshole. But really, god isn't real. He's a figment of the imagination like Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny. heh. If you guys want to send the president an email you can go to votenowar.org or .com or one of those and there's an option you can send an email to the representatives or the president. I figured, what the fuck, I'll send mail right to the top. But now i can't get on that email account. I wonder why not. Damn. This whole war idea is really pretty silly. Money and oil. Let's kill lots of people because it doesn't really matter as long as we got lots of money and oil it's alright. No problem. Bull shit. It's all a bunch of bull shit. And they've totally taken away all our rights for anything. I htink i'm going to just play music. I like that idea.

We went to see Dashboard Confessionals last night. Brand New and MXPX played too. that was pretty funny to see them. So i squish my way up to the front and got pretty fed up with it after a while but i didn't really know the band i was squishing up for and just was like, forget this, i'm just going to be on the stage and people can squish to the front to see me. heh. someday maybe. Who knows. Maybe not. I'll just start working for "the man" and i won't have time to do anything creative or joyous with my time because i'll just come home from work and drink and the latest and best thing'll be playing on the flashing image screen that I just couldn't possibly miss, play some video games or something, then i'll have to go to bed so i can wake up early and do it all over again. Oh yes, i do love this. That's the way to true bliss. America! America! God shed His grace on theeeeee and crown thy good with brother(and sister!)hood, from sea to shining seeeeeeeeeeeaaa.

From Kucinich.

Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:07:24 GMT

Don't hear this stuff much coming from the mouths of politicians. check this out

"As we stand on the threshold of a new millennium, it is time to free ourselves, to jettison our illusions and fears and transform age-old challenges with new thinking. We can conceive of peace as not simply the absence of violence but the active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness, of respect, trust, and integrity. Of peace, wherein we all may tap the infinite capabilities of humanity to transform consciousness and conditions that impel or compel violence at a personal, group, or national level toward creating understanding, compassion, and love. We can bring forth new understandings where peace, not war, becomes inevitable. Can we move from wars to end all wars to peace to end all war?

Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development for economic and political justice and for violence control. Its work in violence control will be to support disarmament, treaties, peaceful coexistence and peaceful consensus building. Its focus on economic and political justice will examine and enhance resource distribution, human and economic rights and strengthen democratic values.

Domestically, the Department of Peace would address violence in the home, spousal abuse, child abuse, gangs, police-community relations conflicts and work with individuals and groups to achieve changes in attitudes that examine the mythologies of cherished world views, such as 'violence is inevitable' or 'war is inevitable'. Thus it will help with the discovery of new selves and new paths toward peaceful consensus.

The Department of Peace will also address human development and the unique concerns of women and children. It will envision and seek to implement plans for peace education, not simply as a course of study, but as a template for all pursuits of knowledge within formal educational settings.

Violence is not inevitable. War is not inevitable. Nonviolence and peace are inevitable. We can make of this world a gift of peace which will confirm the presence of universal spirit in our lives. We can send into the future the gift which will protect our children from fear, from harm, from destruction."

Congressman Kucinich is the 2003 recipient of the International Gandhi Peace Prize. Former recipients include Eleanor Roosevelt, Cesar Chavez, A.J. Muste, Dr. Linus Pauling, Dorothy Day, Sen. Wayne Morse and Marian Wright Edelman.

yey! This man is all about goodness for us and the way he got into politics is interesting too. He was a congressman for Cleveland by the age of 23 and mayor of the town by the time he was 31. He shot down the banks and the corporations who wanted to buy the municipal electric center because it would have given them monopoly over the power, risking his political career but keeping to the moral values of life. The dude's a vegan too and is all about human rights and has a universal health care plan and all kinds of goodness. He's funded his campaign out of his pocket and has done most of his own work going door to door talking with the people. He knows the issues. He knows what it's like to live in this society as it is. I say vote for him! i wonder who else is trying to run, is it just him against bush? If it is oooh boy is bushy boy gunna have a run for his money, like he was ever even voted for in the first place *spit*

a new light in the darkness

Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:52:57 GMT

this looks promising. Check this man out. I think i must place my vote for him from what i have read. This man gives some hope.

http://www.kucinich.us

Go man, go!

What is the nature of the world?

Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:41:41 GMT

I was given this question by a buddhist master in new york the day before leaving on my sailing journey. I am interested in what any of you might have on this topic, do reply. I am open to whatever insights you all may have =o) My original reply was that of light and love, naturally, but have refined it to Emptiness as that has more truth to it. Though there is no wrong answer. It is a question of the heart. So what is it? ideas anyone?

Life the Universe and Everything

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:55:13 GMT

The circle is whole and complete. One unit, radiating, expanding eternally outwards
towards the infinite. When but of a spoke of the wheel, it is difficult to see the workings
and one may become dizzy with contemplation of the agendas of who is spinning it? But
we are all a part of the wheel and the wheel turns. In the center of the wheel is the
emptiness that is everything from which it is formed. All and nothing expands from this
center as the birth of a star system in an explosion of cosmic orgasm. Pure joy and love
explode through every last fragment of stellar intergallactic star dust and fill the wheel with life. And we
are all part of the wheel.
So the thoughts that flow endlessly from the ocean of emptiness are grasped upon and
flittered away, passing like clouds through the screen of our mind. Some grand and
wonderous, beautiful creations worthy of the greatest light; others, disfiggured demons
from the depths of our subconcious that cause great disturbances in the minds of those
who are lost in the muddled confusion of reality. We all have the choice. Observe the flow
of the thoughts as a child might on a warm sunny summer day laying in a field of grass,
observing the passing weather above and with the imagination, creating something unique
and individual to themselves with what they see. They are not afraid as the clouds can do
no harm. Or, one can allow the clouds to become demons that swirl and swarm around the
mind like a frenzied hurricane, relentless in the onslaught of chaotic catastrophe.
It is all created with ones mind. We all create the wheel in which we spin upon and
dance upon and laugh upon and love upon. See that we are the creators of this wheel and
one is spun free from it to stand above it, to observe more simply the truth of its working.
And we are all a part of the wheel.

-yes

weee!

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:28:19 GMT

leaving sequim. traveling off to new lands of adventure. where are we going? WHo knows but it's sure to be excitement. wee. juice is good. i love fruit. fruit is awesome. i love trees. the earth is so beautiful. hooray for earth! =o) "No GIR, Earth is our enemy!" "I understand" Life is such a wild trip. We spoke with our blind healer friend lady in key west the other day, she filed for bankrupcy and said that life was like being dragged through a pile of burning hot coals but jumping and dancing and giggling about it the whole way, "yey! I'm being dragged through a pile of burning hot coals, weee!!" she's really funny i love her. maybe she'll come live in a cabin with us in the mountains somewhere. she needs to get out in the woods somehow. key west is so jagged out it's hard to really think there or do anything. i think she'd be able to see again if she could get out and clear her head for a while or something. that'd probably be good for her. and for everyone but we're losing all our natural lands it's near impossible to go anywhere unless you go a long way away. some times not though. maine's got it good still. keep it! don't let them cut it all down! They've destroyed enough and there's no need to do it anymore. Grrrr to tree killing.
fuckin hippy. hahahahahahahahahahahaha whatever. so pasay. bleep. magic bumpkins for super pot praise! hooray!

Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:41:11 GMT

Overcast and grey outside. yesterday was beautiful. went for a hike out in the forest. This place has an incredible national park land right here, a million acres of awesome old growth forest. They'd better leave these trees alone... they're the last few left in this country =o( The Rymons are a really fascinating family. Mountain's dad is a retired college professor who introduced the first human ecology program in the country and they all know all the birds it's crazy. Birds are amazing little critters. Saw some deer in the back yard, a mommy and two little ones. awwww. I need to get out and do some excercise i feel like such a blob. It's nice to have computer access here for a little while. It'll be cool to move over to port townsend for a little while. we need to do some writing. Anybody want to set up a 'get amanda a lap top so she can write some really awesome stories more easily' fund? heh. if one of those little machines are meant to come into manifestation then so shall it be. it's not really necessary though, i have a nice fatty journal to write in. who knows what's to come from that. i started putting down some poetry and stuff. perhaps i record the future of things to come? or re-record our true past stories. what are our real stories of our history? Does anyone know for sure? I mean, history has been so warped and twisted that noone remembers and noone tries to remember because most are too stuck on the boob tube and the insane propaganda that it forces into one. Yuck. That thing hurts my head to see. There's a crazy satelite deal with so many channels here. but they have this one channel called Free Speech TV which is really pretty spiffy. hooray for free speech! So, yea, i've kindof been trying to find where we really came from, what civilization was like waaaaaaaay waaaaaaaaaay back to the roots. we need these stories. they're ours. What are they? They say the first civilization was Sumeria but i think it's possible that there were others before that because that all deals with everything in the middle east. It's easier to find artifacts and stuff from there because it is easier preserved but what of the americas ancient history? what about the Mayans? i think they're far more ancient than our original discovery but the natives of these continents were completely wiped out and many civilizations here had a mostly oral record system so how could we know unless we can tap into our cellular memory and recall it. woooee. what a thought. We need these stories... don't you folks worry, i'll do some research. You can sit back and relax cause come the day it really won't matter then it just won't matter. Do something nice for your neighbor. Love a flower.

infinite light

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:44:32 GMT

summary of the crazy land-
*friendly people
*north east has the most amazing scenery
*weeks spent trying to get a box when we get to the last day we're finally given a couple of computer boxes and stuff to pack our shit in
*rastafarians enjoy our company in santiago, yey!
*Get sick off some nasty green leaf thing... don't ever eat greens in foreign country. gross. no matter how much you want them...
*less cars does not always equal less stench =o(
*Everyone wants the dollar.
*question, what is money?
*beds are lumpy and uncomfortable
*expensive as SHIT if you use the dollar, not so bad in pesos but you can't buy much with it. Just to add to the insanity
*A whole lot of paint would do wonders for the place
*if only the could get good veggies there...
*No problem

And what is money? this all encompasing idea that has the world in its mighty gnashing jaws. "Money is everything," "time is money," "Nothing is free," this last one i hear today in the store around the corner from mountain's folk's and I kindof smiled at this because the man was very right though he did not mean it in the way that i heard because yes, nothing IS free. Rather difficult to put a price on Nothing. But really, everything is nothing and nothing is everything because everything is empty though the emptiness is all so how can we put a price on this nothingness that is empty? because we have manifested it into being with our thoughts. They've even put a price on nature but it's all in their own mind which is quite unfortunate seeing as how all the land is being clear cut and wasted away because of the price on it though they do not make any money off of it. They're just making conditions shit poor for our children and our children's children. Are they thinking of them? What kind of world would they be living in if we continue like this? It's already been depleted so massively already what will it look like in 30 years? 50 years? 100 years? If we continue life like we are now? everyone driving cars and buying more. It can not continue. People! We need to smarten up! but what can we do about it?

the universe is expanding and awakening our conciousness on a global scale. stress and insanities are in our heads we deal with what comes as it comes. I am in washington, safely. train from L.A. to here. beautiful trip. can't believe the insanity of it all but it's over and done with for now and here we are. what are we to do next? goodness for the universe, all i can. that is my lot. my life is for this planet. Perhaps we can find ways of alternate energy sources, to live more in harmony with this beautiful planet that we have inhabited. we are extremely fortunate to be alive and in existence during this time. THis is a very important time in the history of our race. Whatever is to happen in these times shall be amazing and incredible to behold as the goodness of our race shall overwhelm the darkness that has draped over our species and our planet for thousands of years. We must process our own emotional limitations and step above them. We must process our own physical limitations and step above them. WE must process our own mental limitations and step above and beyond them as well. What we see is only one millionth of reality, new dimensions will open up to us when we learn to live from the heart. Our existence from our heart is the only way to change anything as we listen to this all important center of being we change how we view the world, therefor changing our world. The world around us is directly corresponding to the thoughts that we produce. we can do it. it is up to US. we must stand up for our rights as soveriegn citizens and free spirits that we are. love yourself, love those around you. love all, unconditionally. i love you all and miss you. I'll try to make some phone calls soon. we'll be here for a little while. where we go next i know not. what is to be in our future, if i were in tuned with the universe on the levels that are necessary i would be more apt to perceive yet now, only the great spirits know and i hope and pray for all the goodness and glory of light and life to fill all hearts of all beings through all realms of existence so that we may all be free of suffering. there are no limits. expand your minds and free yourself from the form of flesh. excellerate yourselvese and know that all that you need to live right and beautifully is in YOU. you can do it! and together we stand

peace
joy
harmony=life
blessed be

ship wreck!!

Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:40:16 GMT

ok guys, listen up. This is absolute insanity that has ensued here and i don't know how this is all going to work out or anything but we were cruising along with the most awesomely beautiful weather we could imagine, cruising on through the bahamas down the tongue of the ocean (pretty cool place to travel) This whole trip this way through the ocean towards the carribean is known as the "Thorny Path" Because we're just bashing our ways into the east trade winds and against the currents. craziness. but good things Reflections was an awesome upwind boat, we didn't even need to use the auto pilot or anything so we go through there and come out and are now located in Baracoa town on the eastern most north coast of cuba. but the awesomest part of this all is, Our stuff is all in this cool big ass ware house. And we have no more house because it slammed against the coral. D'oh! Insanity I tell you. Beautiful fucking night too and Slam! Bang! boop bump beep eep!!! Right in front of this crazy little village, like, right in front of it so there was this swarm of people to help us get all our shit out and i tell you this was the nastiest place to run aground. they drag the boat up over the coral on to the beach into the bushes, strip her of every last bit of hardware and now we have no home. nothing. but all our shit. in a big ass warehouse. and we have no idea how we're going to get it all back to the states, how we're going to get back to the states, or how any of this is going to work out at all. we have very little money and we're not even supposed to be here. craziness i tell you. The people here are really happy though. Impoverished but there's everyone out in the streets partying and laughing and dancing and playing music and this island is an awesome amazing beautiful island paradise that would be really cool to go explore but we have to figure out what the fuck is going to happen with all our stuff. The authorities have been really helpful and have hooked us up with place to stay and food and everything so it's cool. the room we have tonight isn't so great but it's a place to sleep i guess. I think we go to mountain's parents when we get back to the states, west coast sounds really great. We'll try to get out to hawaii or something if we can. I think we try to get a multihull next time but i don't know. it's gunna be tough but we'll do something good. I don't know what's to come of all this but i'm sure we'll find out soon enough. gotta go though, update later. weeee...

Lauderdale

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:55:18 GMT

it's wild the life which i have aquired byliving aboard reflections, Pirating anchorages for weeks now when there's only a 24 hour limit to our staying. They make it so impossible to survive here. City ordanances superceding International Maritime law which states we can anchor anywhere in navigable waters for as long as we want. Got shooed out of one hole we were staying in, went up the water ways a bit but finding a place to park the dinghy is near impossible. Stopped in front of an empty lot and tied up to the corner of this dock, the lady called the cops on us and the most bizzare scene occured, this is just yesterday. They're all yelling at us to get back on to land, we had to pull the anchor on the dinghy up to do so, just trying to get to land to get some water, they were so close to totally ruining everything, thousands of dollars in fines and criminal tresspassing and bull shit like that but they ended up giving us a $50 fine for not having the registration numbers displayed correctly. Couple of broken pipes on board. Totally could have lost the boat but in the end they were laughing and joking with us and sent us on our way it was such a wild scene i canstill barely believe it. The one cop didn't really want to do too much to us really but the other was like, let's just take them to jail and get it over with. As they were riding away in their high speed super boat, half way across the lake the one who was all hard ass at first (well, they were both pretty hard ass at first then they started talking to us and chilled out) was like, "One with the spirit, Peace, love and happiness" And i was like, holy shit! The cops said that??? What kinda weird ass crazy world are we living in? It was so bizzare. You know this world is fucked up when we think that the cops are too bizzare for us. So we move up the water ways further and now we are pulling our dinghy up to this little public park which turns out to be an ancient native american burial mound of the Tequesta tribe we're like, whoa... surrounded by weird buildings, a yacht club and a parking garage. This place is so straining on us,we're just trying to get the rest of our stuff together and be out on the waters and every day we're here is a day closer to some crazy winds which are definately on their way. it's stressfulbeing in the U.S. we're tired of it and just want to go to New Zealand. They're cool over there... The whole southern hemisphere is pretty cool. It's this whole northern hemisphere that's really got some screws loose. Existence is so simple but they make it so hard for you to live simply. I just want to go back to the tribal days and fish and gather food, weave some stuff and make some pots or something. I don't need all this crazy excess that they have going on. The whole system is soon to collapse on top of itself and what are they going todo when they can't connect to the internet anymore? Or contact their buddy on the cell phone, Or drive the car because their's no more fuel. What's going to happen then? disease breaks out around the world... bombs are dropped on countries... fear runs rampage, looting and murdering and craziness. Trully, armageddon is upon us. If only we had a water maker we would be a complete autonomous vessel, free to do our own thing in life except getting on toland then they slam all these rules and regs on us. It's rediculous. Oh, it's the law. Well, it's your law, buddy. We live under God's law which is freedom of choice and action so long as we are not harming any others which is far from what we want to do. We're here to help heal this broken planet by sharing our light and love to all we come in contact with which is exactly what we are doing but it is still difficult. You'd think we'd get cut a break every now and then. Mountain has worked so hard at putting all this together. I know not what may come of the future but i know that i am definately in for the adventure of a life time if what we've experienced thus far is any glimmer of what's to come. I love life. And I love being and this life is trully precious that we have been granted such a glorious opporunity as such to exist now. Understand your Infinite potential that is your birth right granted to you from the Divine spirits. We are luminous beings of light and love, every one of us, every creature existing upon this planet, every particle essence of what we perceive and experience. Embrace it to the fullest! We have but this one life to live, live your dream and rejoice in being for we are trully blessed to be alive. Perhaps we shall live to see the day when peace once again returns to this tattered planet and all sentient beings are joyous in their existence, living in harmony with themselves and the planet. We are here to protect our Mother Earth and every where i look i see few, if any who step up to this statute which we are meant to live, instead rape and destroy and pollute and it is sad... one day perhaps... hopefully it willnot be too late. What would the native Americans think of the world today if they could see what has happened? it would be a sad sight indeed i am certain of it. Likely we shall be on our way shortly and the next update i hope to be from an awesome island in the carribeans, perhaps from trinidad mostlikely, who knows though. Love and light to you all, you are with me in my heart through my travels and wish you all the best of luck in your journeys of life.

peace
joy
harmony

-amanda

yowzers that's some breeze there!

Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:53:39 GMT

so we've made it up a few keys to Big Pine now. yippe. Not without a bit a crazy wind storm that tore at our sails and flipped the dinghy over, tossing our oars and the seat into the brimey depths. The super space orb radar reflector that was at the top of the mast got flicked off too which is too bad so delays delays. we just want to get some food and go but apparantley that is not what we're allowed to do yet. have to get up to ft. lauderdale to get good bulk food. it's so impossible to eat healthily in this country... i just want some good food grown with love and fresh fruits and veggies and stuff i mean, is that so much to ask? clean water? heaven forbid we'd like to be healthy and not eat all this crazy weird-o chemically treated and super processed, bizzare-oh genetically mutated "food" things..
There must be a reason that we're here for this time now. there's some whales that are beached right near our boat though which is pretty crazy, it hink i'll go try to help them but how could i do that? give em' some love and let em' know that all is well, they can go back to the sea or something, i don't know, i guess they're kinda sick. i wonder what their deal is... they've been there for a while now. I don't know what's going to happen but that's alright, we're here now and we'll be elsewhere some other time but we're here for atleast a couple of days. there's a cool little health food store and a crystal shop and a place to get a shower and it's not key west heh but it's not the caribeans either. ah well. close... yet so far away. and very far away from the pacific. oy. some day. in the not too distant future i suppose. sailing fucking rules though. i gotta get hooked up with some safety gear and shit and know how to do this because that happens.. you get out to sea nad there's some wind. i have to know all about it and i'm all excited to learn i mean, how cool a thing to be able to move your dwelling all over the world with the power of the wind i mean, it's grand. life's pretty cool sometimes. =o)
love and light

love and light

Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:01:02 GMT

contemplating africa
perhaps
winds seem more favorable
where are the maps, captain?
having dinghy engine problems
no sweat
south africa's the place to spiff up a boat
and sell some wares
we'd be right at home
*ponder*
though i'd like to go to the amazon...
peru
not that we can not later
whoo
that's even grander
*ponder*
beauty
love
peace
joy
happiness
eternal
love yourself
and be free
in the wonders
of this infinite universe
be free to spread your wings
And rejoice
fo peace
shall return again
to the Earth

peace and blessings to you all. tried to get in touch.
will try again
hooray for juice!

sea to shining sea

Tue, 27 May 2003 20:56:15 GMT

the universe is a magical sparkling place of wonderment and adventure. Still in Key west but this is looking to be the last week. Final preperations in order and what have you, ready to go sail off into the Unknown. To what end, only our Creator may know for certain. I have recently stumbled across perhaps the most amazing little book and card set i could have hoped to have found. Something like the tarot though not since it is the Kabbalah, the Hebrew language of Creation. It is trully something mystical which i am excited to have in my presence to study and to work with. All I could think of was Pi when i found it at this little book store where i got a whole stack of books to study up on during the treck and as i was looking through and just picked up one of the cards, there it was, that all elusive Pi card i was like, whoa heh. I can see how one could easily spend life times studying this language, the numbers in relation to the letters, the letters in relation to each other and so on and so forth. it is truly a much more fascinating language than this English which we are so accustomed to as it is far more interactive and beautiful. The sound of the breath changes the words. Many glories to be discovered, says she! This journey shall be one of a heightened spiritual awareness. Those whom i shall come in counter with will trully lead to a great awakening. I just wish to share the joy and happiness with you all, this kinship which i have discovered with this most wonderous being is so amazing. We go to spread the word of Love which is trully God's word in all essence of the form and to the lands of the seven seas. Something out of some crazy epic tale is on the horizon. How exciting! I finally was graced the opportunity to meet mountain's healing lady friend. I had not met her yet though i had fealt her presence through their phone conversations while i was in the room. Powerful stuff. Quite amazing. Yet when we went to meet her she was quite intoxicated so i was only able to speak with her for a few moments. It made me so sad that one so blessed with this most amazing gift would choose to do such a thing to herself... I just pray that i will have the opportunity to spend some time with her while she is not under the influence as we have much to learn from each other. Though she is blinded she can See, perhaps better than those who still have use of their vision. The Reflections is in a bit of disaray at the time as we have been working and arranging the boat, lots of stuff needs to fit in a small space, tricky but do-able. It's like some crazy space ship now. There's this crazy silver orb mounted up at the tip top of the mast which serves as a radar reflector for the huge ass ships that might not be paying attention, we're just a little ship but in reality, they're all little ships in the ocean. That's a big space. phew. and a silver tarp over top to keep that most glorious ball of light from cooking us alive while we sit. anyways, i must be off to continue the day's adventure here. Love, light and blessings to you all. Be at peace.