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A Celebration of the Life of John Heider
1936-2010

I wanted to wish you a blessed Birthday Mindy, and a prayer that you feel the blessings in your life for all the days ahead of you!  

Love.  D 

it's been almost 3 months since nat passed on!  i think of her daily and the inspiration that she was, and is, to so many.  sending out continued love and prayers for peace.  you will never be forgotten natalia!!   

i am quietly mourning the loss of Tim Russert of NBC/MSNBC news (Meet The Press, The Tim Russert show, etc.) and author (me and big russ - etc.)  

Stan Grof is doing his first 'teleclass' (it's FREE) on April 29.  I have nothing to do with this (except that i will attend) and thought some of you might be interested enough for me to post it here.

Here is the announcement i received:

Dear Friends,

We're very excited to announce Stan's first teleclass, where he will be interviewed over the phone by author Alan Davidson. Up to 200 people can join the call live. You can also listen to it over the internet. Details on joining the teleclass are below. 

i've just learned that Ronnie Haire, who has been on the Esalen Grounds crew for the past many years, took his own life today. wow. i am so saddened and surprised by this. prayers and love to ronnie and all the esalen family and others who were touched by his life. light a candle if you feel so moved.

a recent DANIEL BIANCHETTA photograph below:

'our own' John Callahan (left) and Ronnie Haire (right)

Above is a DANIEL BIANCHETTA photograph

http://www.bigsurphoto.com

i know i have missed a lot not being on the site much these past couple months.  my persona/ego has been kicking & screaming at the rest of me about this because i LOVE iThou and my extended family here.  yet my SOUL has been guiding me to put my 'discretionary' time into other things, most particularly silence and solitude, along with website/practice building and responding to my mom's increased level of elder-care demands, etc.  the silence/solitude has really made a difference in decreasing my level of burn-out with my elder care issues.  a peek or two on the site has shown me that there are wonderful threads going on here re: mothers (kathleen's posts and mindy's mom passing, etc.)  i can only practice what i preach by trusting this process that has me missing most of this.  there is no doubt that i, as a whole, have much needed this retreat.  

12/16/07

 as i passed through the atlanta airport this evening, i had a short, and wonderful, visit with our own John Callahan!  what fun.  

just wanted to check in as i have mostly been off the site the past 2-3 weeks.  i've missed it!  i'm very far behind on 'The Latest' and hope to catch up some this coming weekend.

 my mom is having major medical/mental meltdowns which have left me with little time left over for much of anything else but work and mom (plus i got to go see grandson for a few days!)  anyway, when i do have a few minutes i am organically seeking silence and solitude rather than cyberspace.  

 just wanted y'all to know i'm here in spirit and think of/pray for y'all daily.  

 love and blessings.

 dorothy

thought i'd share some photos i've taken over the years and embarrass david a little in the process.  haha

 here's david playing along side Bruce Langhorne (who is Bro Bru of BruBru's hot sauce and also Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man".)  Bruce's website: http://www.brobrubru.com/brobrubru.html

David & Gordie Ryan (http://www.obatheband.com/oba_the_band.html)

 David being Aleksander's Dad at Gazebo (Aleksander's BD party!)

 AND

and to YOU, my dear!

just pretend it's US!!!

Blessings for a wonderful birthDAY and birthYEAR!  you will be in my thoughts and prayers!  love to you.

(it's your birthday already where I am!) 

i have danced many a dance to this band. love 'em.

i was a 'Fortune Teller' at a Halloween party last night for a whole bunch of kids. it was a cool party. it was in a dark chunk of woods, no electricity, and with a burn ban due to drought only candles and a small fire in a BBQ grill. it was a great atmosphere.

there is an old 'dead' small motor-home in there that i set up as a fortune telling place. the kids loved it. each kid got 'smudged with sage smoke' as they walked in the door and told about how Native Americans had used this ritual for eons to cleanse their "auras" and what an "aura" is (energy field around the body - good and bad vibes, etc.) [now remember, this isn't California! these kids had never heard of most of what they got in this short experience! haha]

i've not been a reality tv watcher. at least until recently.........by accident, of course haha (yet serious)

i've never watched any of those shows. i think of the reallity tv craze as proof of how shallow life can get.

HOWEVER, with that said, a few weeks ago i had the tv on while doing some paperwork. what i had put on ended and a show came on. i was on a roll with the paperwork so didn't change it or cut it off. it was background noise.

then i heard this guy start to sing and i was hooked. don't know why he moves me so much. he's now in the top 4 and i sure hope he wins this competition! he's a talented, humble, spirit-filled dude who loves his family (he's a stay-at-home Dad) and has sure paid some dues.

one nice thing is that with You Tube, i don't have to watch the whole show each week. i can just go listen to his performance on the net.

his name's Cas Haley

here's the first one he did:

i came upon these videos on youtube this morning and was moved to post them. 

i read some of tom brown, jr's books years ago and believe he's doing good work on the planet.  this was the first i'd learned about his family/teen/kids programs.  expensive though.  

 first, i like this 'quote video' (tom brown, jr quote):

this is part of the one about the family/teen/kid's programs (the full version is on their site):

Today is Albert's BIRTHDAY!

In gratitude Albert, for all you do, and all you ARE!

Love and Blessings

Dorothy (& Others In The iThou Circle)

Silly movie - but 'fitting' somehow....

Last august, in a desperate attempt to break free, a friend of mine flew up here from florida to see me for 5 days.  I didn’t recognize him when he got off the plane.  it had been a few years and alcohol and psych meds had turned him into a zombie.  his soul was stone dead.

He spent those 5 days begging for help while holding his booze and armor up to block any such thing from happening (seemingly).  he kept going down to the floor and asking for ‘open seat’ work.  I obliged.  over and over again, until I finally said ‘no more.’  I told him I felt like he was using me to simply ‘jerk him off’ energetically and that until he could let go of all the toxins he was pouring into himself I didn’t see much point, or hope.  I was ‘hard’ on him.

i feel moved to post how amazed i continue to be that:

i appreciated so much that some of you 'followed the journey' and supported this process over the weekend. Here are a few pics and one video of the sweat lodge site created here on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. thanks for your prayers. thanks for the pendant (i wish i had taken a pic! i placed it on the altar just as i was entering the lodge.) and thanks for indulging me here to keep involving ya'll (it feels similar to pushing my grandson on you haha). here's 8 pics and a video of the site. and i'll stop now, i promise! (at least for awhile!)

gathering of the poles

david o on left (what a gift.....his coming across country to lead us in this adventure!)

“Bridging the Americas – Reunion of the Eagles and Condors”

Spring Equinox Events in Peru and Across the Globe

(March 20, 2007 for United States)

offering received today!

and the gift goes on.........

thank you iThou circle and sh!

love and blessings.

To learn what 'OFFERINGS: PASSING IT ON' is, click on the OFFERINGS tab in 'The Latest' or go to the web address: http://www.ithou.org/offerings.

Great having natalia rae join us for the global weather report and keeping us posted on karma kitty and other nat adventures.  love and blessings and healing and light and goodness and God be with you and with karma kitty (who is housebound for much too long!!)  dt

not sure if this will work but i've put some things 'out there' on the talking stick section of this site that didn't end up in my profile.  in case you are interested, i THINK these links will take you there.

In early 1978 I spontaneously began a very intense kundalini transformation process in which I went insane/psychotic and had not a clue what was happening to me or what to do about it. I ran to doctors, preachers, etc. and learned quickly that I needed to shut up and stop trying to find answers 'out there' or there could be a very bad result (ie hospitalization ala dick price, etc.). A couple of months after this process began, I was very blessed to be led to a teacher who told me "Honey, what's happening to you is phenomenal and something you MUST surrender to.

in sunday's Big House weather report i spoke of my grandson, austin. so although this may be a "grandma syndrome" thing, i want to share this video from a few years ago. austin never learned to crawl. instead, he "walked on his butt" and looked like a crab. he did this for about 3 months. i think at least some of you will find it funny! there's a more recent video of him in the "My Videos" section of my profile showing us how to "clear our minds" :-). that's my boy. :-) thanks for indulging me. i promise not to do this very often.

a friend emailed this to me. it gave me a chuckle. i work with at-risk youth, so i relate sometimes!

A Meditation Tool:  A simple, yet profound thing i learned from Papaji (HWL Poonja) is that it is impossible to THINK while holding the breath.  To explain further, it IS possible to deliberately think one word at a time while holding the breath, but when the mind is on a thinking, thinking, thinking rant, holding breath will cease the thinking.  

I will be receiving a faxed copy (around 3 am!) of all the items up for bid at the auction being held for the family of Antonio Esparaza on Saturday.  I'm willing to fax (and maybe even scan/email) this list to others who, like me, cannot attend the auction but would like to possibly bid on something. If you know someone from Esalen who may be attending the auction you could call them with your requests.  (Or maybe someone attending would post their cell phone number here and be willing to bid for some folks?)  If you don't have a contact, then I'd be willing to ask my angel, who will be available via cell phone during the action, if he would take on more than just me! This offer is good up to only a certain number of folks (due to time limitations) so if you're interested, better get to me quick!  haha  Email me at:  dntaweb@verizon.net