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WHAT IF 

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were loving? . . . 

 

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Mel's Blog For Writing + News + Loving Thoughts + Love Actions

Updated: Sep 29, 2024

BE LOVING

Take nothing for granted. Now is what we have. This moment. In its fullness and its entirety, to be inspired, to be loving, to be you.

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Day 18 NEXT 100 Heart Art. The Blueprint of the Heart.

AWAKEN: LOVE IS GOING TO BREAKTHROUGH

Let's go to back to the beginning. Your OG birthday. You may have come out of your Mom's body with purpose and began 'life' on your own. In the OG machine, the review in the present moment with baby's mind... What are you here to do? How are you going to move through the world? Are things going to be challenging? Will you let what happens to you cause fear or, or. Are you going to choose love? Go all the way back. Connect to the baby vibes. Allow the intersection to give voice to the dreams and wishes your heart makes. Generate a significant shift and change in the chemistry of your brain waves by practicing OG Love. Baby love.

We are Born from love. to be love. It doesn't mean we don't have feels about it.

REMEMBER: LOVE IS THE WAY

Remember you are a loving, inspired, creative wonderful person. Remember the truth alive in the fierce beats within the electrical system of your heart. Maintain your connection to the beat of your heart, that lives and breathes in all things. Remember who you are. Remember, love lives and breaths within all things. It is a level of deepness and openness, a meeting place of all hearts, the collective collaboration of all that is. See the moment of transformation in clarity, as a natural flow and function of the heart.

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DAY 18 / NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | BE LOVING

FOUNDATIONAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS AFFIRMATION

Affirm It

I see the light and love in everyone I meet.


PRAYER'S OF THE HEART

May you see love beyond any anxiety, in myself and others

May you embrace any change as the blessing it is and

May you be lifted above any circumstance

in the full radiance of your being.

LOVE ACTIVISM 💚🌱✨ A WAY FOR SWITCH

Recently the World Central Kitchen went past 100M+ meals served. Led by Chef Jose Andres WCK is about serving meals after disaster strikes, their core motto brings tears to my heart, "Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people may eat, we will be there – we must be there." This organization demonstrates the way through this time of transformation. It is worth your time, attention, and if you can, a donation. Food is a universal human right. WCK is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. We build resilient food systems with locally led solutions.


WCK serving thousands of hot meals & sandwiches in response to Hurricane Ian brought this picture. It is what nourishment, community care, mutual aid does, bring a safe, collective giving what they have, from the heart and soul of our connections. Chef Jose Andres met the need in the moment, answering the call.

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WCK is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. We build resilient food systems with locally led solutions.

If you have time to listen into a person of faith, Chef Jose Andres, leading from the heart, with love enough to feed the hungry and give water to the thirsty and mobilize nourishment as a demonstration of what is possible in the darkness of disaster, here's a talk that strikes to the core, as we were coming out of the worst government response to a natural disaster that killed 1M+ Americans, he sat and discussed what is truly the heart of Jesus. The heart of sharing the gifts you've been given and the love that heals when given from the heart.



LOVE ACTIVISM OG: IN THE WORDS OF CHEF JOSE ANDRES


“Pealing potatoes with ex convicts. Washing lettuce with the homeless taught me the complexity of life. It taught me to listen.”


“WCK came out of the inaction from years before during Katrina from my sitting in my living room watching 100s of people in the dome hungry and thirsty and I didn’t do anything.”

“I thought, I am a cook that feeds the few, but I have the talent to feed the many.”


“With Haiti. That is the moment that I had to act and I was called to show up and listen.”


“Willingness to learn. Sometimes we must learn to be helpful. Learning is the experience of life. In the process you listen to the voices of the voiceless. Why do we not listen to those who feel alone during emergencies. This is the empathy that makes World Central Kitchen what it is.”


“Together we the people, next to the people in their darkest hour, and this power of the people. Those that do not think like you are not your enemy, they have a different point of view that allows us to feel the power of collaboration.”


“Everybody wants to put their demons away, and bring out their better angels. There is so much goodness, we are opening a little window into the heart of the matter during the darkest hour.”


“The mission was simple. Jesus showed up. Nothing goes as planned. If we plan too much, then nothing will go as planned…. In the process the solutions arrive.”


“Women feed the world. I would like to give women the respect, honor and power as the channel for this next movement of nourishing, restores the soul, and rebirths a thriving world. The first act of love, the mother feeds the children. A moment we are unconscious, a moment we don’t remember, that connection. A mother feeding every one on earth, that moment of love, that moment on earth, that moment of nourishing the world. The mother, the maternal, shows up… give the power of nourishment of the soul, giving voice to the voices, more power to the powerless and these moments we receive the nourishment of the heart. It is love. Giveback all the love we received with love.”


May you be inspired to take loving action.


Love, Mel


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Updated: Dec 11, 2024

HAVE FAITH

Faith is an aspect of consciousness. Put another way, you choose what you give power to. "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." Matthew 17:20 Gently consider where one places faith, this placement becomes the origin story for a heart led transformation.


In these beginning years of the 21st Century we are presented with choices, we are offered opportunities to move into the deepest loving available in each moment, or something else. We offer up at this time~ an intercession to consider where your rage is coming from and where we are placing our faith. Consider the possibility you've given everything all the meaning it has, consider to live in capitalism in the United States of America, where we live on unceeded land, colonized to remove native ingenious people wisdom and sovereignty, where we inflicted trauma on folks who had been living peacefully for 1000s of years. Consider you don't know what you don't know and shut it for a moment. To listen in and find where your rage resides and what could be the best way to address it. Go deeper. And, then, go deeper still. What are the connections, how can you repair the breach.


There is a saying in the course in miracles~ anger may take the form of any reaction ranging from mild irritation to rage. The degree of the emotion you experience does not matter. You will become increasingly aware that a slight twinge of annoyance is nothing but a veil drawn over intense fury.


We have been assaulted through colonization, time, actions and systems implemented to cloud our thinking, to stop our natural expression of F-this. We do not have to take it, we can build towards atonement, reparation and a just, loving ecosystem that is built on foundational health and wellness. It is important to recognize our annoyances, our rage, our trauma and find loving expressions to transform, heal and grow in our stewardship of connection to all that is. Addressing our rage, understanding connection to source is the first prong of true loving. Safe dissolution of where our rage resides, not getting diverted, manipulated away from the truth of our rage. Perhaps, now, injustice needs to be expressed in healthy, sustained ways. This rage expressed is a function of health and wellness and is a deep practice for community building, for organizing aligned in love. We have gone away from accountability, integrity and allowed bs to flourish as oppressive transgressions wrestle control across hate filled actions throughout our worlds. Healing through unprocessed rage, supported by folks who have been egregiously harmed and used, abused, shamed is where we need to do the necessary work. Have faith through any process that feels nourishing, safe, constant to you, that is rooted in love, allow safe expression of healthy rage. Be in connection to the deepest root cause of your rage. Find faith in loving action to move through all of it, to feel the grace of gratitude, to address, express, co-create and steward a new system to thrive while the old 20th century systems become obsolete. We are a community, with all living things.

Day 17 NEXT 100 Heart Art. Love is an Open Book of Life.
Day 17 NEXT 100 Heart Art. Love is an Open Book of Life.

AWAKEN: OUR CONNECTION TO ALL THAT IS

Have faith in earth's magic to reconnect you to the great turning, to all that is. Choose Love. End of story. Nothing shall be impossible unto you. Nothing. Shall be. Impossible. Experiment, experience and grow in your connection to the very earth you are here to thrive in. Here's a picture from one of our community medicine making days at the BirdHouse Apothecary to giveback in our abundance and to flourishing in our collective healing. To love our neighbors, because we are our neighbors.

Perfect for Fall. Preparing Medicine of Nature. Bury Jars to Ferment. A month later we have Fire Cider to keep you healthy through the winter months.

REMEMBER: IF YOU KNOW WHO YOU TRULY ARE YOU WOULD LOVE EVERYONE.

Be in touch with your loving. Allow yourself to be in connection and community with those who love what you do. When we are in our loving, we are pure potential, connected, soulful, all knowing. When we align ourselves in faith in out loving our connection there is nothing that is impossible. Like my favorite songwriters: Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer wrote, "You got to spread joy up to the maximum, Bring gloom down to the minimum, And have faith, or pandemonium, Liable to walk upon the scene." Have faith in your joy, in your ability to shift your perceptions from fear to love.

DAY 17 / NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | HAVE FAITH
DAY 17 / NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | HAVE FAITH

FOUNDATIONAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS AFFIRMATION

Affirm It

I am determined to see things differently. I am a Miracle Walking.


PRAYER'S OF THE HEART

May your faith have the conviction of your soul’s code, may discipline be your companion as you enjoy the energy and power of faith.




LOVE ACTIVISM 💚🌱✨ A WAY FOR SWITCH

Perhaps as you allow a new vision for seeing something differently, by shifting a degree or two on something you come around it, you shift your perception and grow in more perspective of the wholeness pattern. Our friends at https://www.ctznwell.org have been organizing with love, connecting to evolutionary community wellness. Consider supporting them and their offerings, consider organizations that want you to think, thrive, love and grow in connection and wellness. It is our time to experience the healed expression of a harmonious society and engage in co-creating an ecological renaissance.

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Wanted to shout out to my Aunt Judy Lutz on her quilting victory for her sacred geometric pattern. It is loving. It represents her years and years of crafting, her commitment and work to grow in vision and to express a beautiful pattern. Congratulations on this wonderful offering. Well deserved. You da best. It is an integrated expression of a soul in balance and a reminder of the crafts we grow through the work, care and commitment to realizing an artistic work.

Second Place in Best in Show lap quilt "Spiral Motion" by Judy Lutz. Crafting is an essential part of peace filled lives. She did win with her "Memories of my Grandmothers."
Second Place in Best in Show lap quilt "Spiral Motion" by Judy Lutz. Crafting is an essential part of peace filled lives. She did win with her "Memories of my Grandmothers."

Peace can be found in fully shared loving rage speaking up to right injustice, to out trauma and to share what is most tender to your heart. Years ago listening to a panel talk about racial justice and the work of Martin Luther King, Jr on a panel Dr. Cornel West shared “Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love feels like in private,” this Professor of Philosophy at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University articulated to me for the first time the power of the true expressed loving in right relationship to all that is -- work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through his study, his voice and steward-ship of Gandhi's principles of non-violence. Our rage against and within the machine in the march to freedom is the essential necessary work and expression to achieve an ecosystem in balance and free from the shackles of history.


Love, Mel


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Updated: Dec 10, 2024

CHOOSE AGAIN

Check in with yourself. Is this for the benefit of your purpose, is it for loving, is it necessary? Run a momentary check in within, listen for direction. No matter what choice you've made, it is absolutely okay to choose again. Everyday we are allowed to turn the ship, to steward our energies toward what is most connected within our being. You did not sign up for abuse, for things that are not for us. It is within you to empower decisions, to shift, to transform and to begin again. Tomorrow, yes, is a new day. Don't get caught somewhere, doing something that is hazardous to yourself and your community. CHOOSE AGAIN.

Day 16 NEXT 100 Heart Art. Everyday, In Every Way. We Begin Again.
Day 16 NEXT 100 Heart Art. Everyday, In Every Way. We Begin Again.

AWAKEN: THE TRUTH OF WHAT AND WHO YOU ARE

Whatever you are doing right now that isn't loving, therefore not true, and a waste of time, stop it. Do something loving, dance to the beat of a new tune. Get into the loving of your heart. We've been through a lot. It is time to consider there is another way. To take necessary actions with so much love. To connect to what you love, what is joyful, to what brings you into right relationship with your soul's code. It's time.

Biophila. Love of all living things. Love is the Highest Vibration. Let your love flow.

REMEMBER: WE HAVE SO MUCH LOVE. YOU ARE HERE TO SHARE IT.

The pain we sometimes feel is our experiences that don't allow us to fully express our loving. When you shift from a love as a precious commodity, to a love that is connected to all things. Our love is meant to flow, to be in relational expressing with our lives. We have arrived at the moments where we love our neighbors, because we are our neighbors, we are all interconnected. You are going to be alright. Find ways to let your loving flow.

DAY 16 / NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | CHOOSE AGAIN
DAY 16 / NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | CHOOSE AGAIN

FOUNDATIONAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS AFFIRMATION

Affirm It

I witness the world with loving eyes.


PRAYER'S OF THE HEART

May you stop playing the game of fear and allow the true nature of peace through the gateway of world of love enter your heart.




LOVE ACTIVISM 💚🌱✨ A WAY FOR SWITCH

Perhaps the whole concept of sexual assault, violence against women, the controlling behavior, the blaming, the bullying, the sheer lack of self reflection and accountability prevalent across all our systems will transform as more and more women and men join together to shift, heal and transform this. The necessary work is going to the roots of the issues, to address, to atone and realign in radical consent and breakthrough all of the ways our system indoctrinates the abuses littered throughout our worlds. It is how we consider the possibilities, solutions emerge. Every way it comes up, don't agree with bs statements. Call them out. Take the time to refrain the paradigm. Do not get caught up in the pervasive violence throughout our words, laws, ideas and beliefs. CHOOSE AGAIN. Use every tool necessary to call it out, every time. We must stand together to eradicate, atone and transform the traumas, bias and abuse that liters every part of our worlds. If this is triggering in any way, consider getting involved in a trauma informed healing practice that decolonizes the violence from your body.


Consider Trauma-Informed Healing Practices to Address Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence

The more you understand, the more you release the trauma through a bodily practice, the more you grow, the more healing you express, the more you connect to your intuitive decision making process, the more you engage in the necessary care and work the more care and work you receive. Feel it in your bones. Take the steps toward freedom at a cellular level. Take every moment to remember the truth. You are not to blame. You are here to thrive. You are a force of nature and no matter what may have happened to you. It is possible to stand up, connect to your heart and move on. If you here a calling of what is possible, listen. Welcome to the all systems love movement.


Key principles of trauma-informed practice

  • Safety. Ongoing efforts are made by an organization to ensure the physical and emotional safety of clients and staff

  • Trustworthiness

  • Choice

  • Collaboration

  • Empowerment

A few places to start:


Dance from the Heart practice

Critical Mass Dance Company (CMDC) awakens and activates the creative, intuitive power of the heart through dance & movement for healing, transformation and wellness in mind, body and spirit.


Kelsey Blackwell

From Kelsey - "Bodies are imperfect. I love how they creak and grumble. The tightness across our shoulders, the aching in our chest, that acorn in our throat, these are forms of communication -- communication pulling us towards liberation."


Somatic Experiencing International Practitioners


They support trauma resolution and resilience through culturally responsive professional education, training, research, and outreach in diverse global communities.


An article to get you moving through the space, connecting to your healed and whole senses from The Activist History Review...


Decolonizing the Body: Indigenizing Our Approach to Disability Studies

If critical disability studies is to replace our traditional analyses and modes of intervention, then we must continue to approach dis/ability within the broader matrix of colonization, questioning and challenging the ways in which dominant power relations recognize, regulate, and govern our lifeways.


Follow this twitter account for some thought medicine.


Birds Flying High. You know what I mean. The Fundamentals of flight.
Birds Flying High. You know what I mean. The Fundamentals of flight.

Some people would rather die than change their mind. Don’t be one of those people. Consider the possibility of what love would do. Take loving action.


Our work is healing at least, seven generations of our bodily traumas. Enjoy the process of healing no matter what you come up against. It is your time to remove all disease and practice the power of connection to your inner power. If a practice becomes redundant or you feel it isn't transforming at the cellular level, choose another, choose again, until you are humming with the divine love and wisdom of your very being...


Love, Mel


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WHAT IF

all our thoughts

were loving . . .


consider the possibility


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