Returning to Center
Spirit, I am no one
So that you may be all things through me~
As I gain power,
I continue to funnel my gaze
and my power
toward that which I choose to see as my life
With Gratitude
And with Love~
SB
4/4/2010
I know this as a truth, as my truth, even though I can’t say that I can truly feel its depth in this moment. We returned from a wonderful vacation, the best and most wonderful I have ever been on in fact, and my tires have been burning rubber for my first few days back, no real time to process and feel the transition. As I waken this morning, things have indeed ground to a halt, for a few moments anyway, and the silence is deafening. I have actually had as many musical gigs in the past 4 days as I’ve had in recent memory which has been great. Unfortunately the music that was generated was largely mediocre. Now each time that this was true it was due largely to circumstance, but this is not an excuse in my book. I havd lived the first half of my life on a steady diet of excuses, victimhood, and fingerpointing and none of it really did anything but allow me to justify remaining just where I was. I’ve been weaning myself off of this bitter brew ever since, sometimes more successfully than others. Being as pro-active and pro-creative as I now seek to be, medioctity in any form is really not ok with me. I am more than this, we all are actually, but I can only claim it for myself. I truly choose to live my excellence this day, delivering the full potency of my beingness and my magnificence in every moment. To lead by example and uplift and inspire all with whom I have contact. This does not necessarily translate into being big nor loud as this fullness is just as much about stillness and gestating the possibility of what could be. So I drop the stress and the trying in this moment and allow pregnant possibilities to be born through me this day. And as I ride the bus to my wonderful class today I vow to strive to make a difference, through deep embodiment of the sacred, one heart at a time.
I wrote this one on my trip…
Poetry Mind
Takes reality and distills its Spirit
Allowing my to sample and suck
the honey, the nectar
To hear its’ music
and dance amongst the notes and rhythms
discovering stillness and shadows and spaces in between
that have seldom been seen
And may, in fact, never have been
Shodow puppets upon the walls of this mind
Allowing me once again to find
That these keys of perception
have been left upon the table
The doors have been unlocked
And because it allows me to see more
I’ve decided to walk~
SB
9/18/2010
Blessings on your sacred journey this day~
Oh Saffire, your writing has evolved, richened and matured so fully. I sense a humbleness within this mastery and a most sincere movement past ego towards the Divine. My heart holds gratitude and Hugs for you..Gratitude for all you ever taught me (so much!) and Hugs for your refined and sensitive spirit that teaches us all to reach for more!
These days I am inspired by Keisha “Little Grandmother” of the Rainbow Tribe and her message to humanity coming from Native American elders. Certainly being in kindness and compassion, vibrancy and joy is important during these shifting times. I love what an orchestra from Philadelphia is doing….600 members committed to doing 600 “acts of spontaneous singing” over the next 12 months–so far I’ve seen tapes of 3 of them–at an airport and shopping malls. People are just milling about when suddenly people next to them and all about burst into song; filling the space and stopping everything. Faces registering first shock, then surprise, then softening into amazement, Joy! Your path is so vitally important, Saff..I know you helped me to free my voice..and unleash pent-up creativity. Musical vibrations are vitalizing!! Much love to you, dear Soul.