April 15, 2015
7:31 am
I have been up for about one hour. This is my first morning home. I feel transformed. I have a new outlook. I am glad I took two days to come home from down the mountain.
There are things I want to do this morning:
I will study the meaning of Guvurah. Setting Limits.
There are numbers of blogs I want to write.
There are many impactful events at home, but I feel this new outlook is influencing me.
INTRODUCTION TO #PASSOVER VILLAGE RETREAT
(#PassoverVillageRetreat ) REVIEW
I want to do a review of my #PassoverVillageRetreat before I completely re-enter being home, This is my second night down from the mountain of #AngelesCrestHighway.
I have been doing a lot of entries on Facebook. I uploaded a lot of photos. I started a new Facebook Album to continue the one I started called: #JourneythroughtheNarrowPlacestoPromisedLand
PROFOUND HEALING EXPERIENCE
#Passovervillageretreat 2015 was a profound healing experience for me. There were a number of takeaways.
One was, never give up. We are each on a @RareSeeds #Journeythroughnarrowplacestopromisedland .
I have attended the Passover Village for many years. The event is generally held beginning Thursday following the traditional Seders. It runs until Sunday afternoon, which some days can fall either during the official Passover or following the eight day holiday.
Some people arrive as early as Wednesday to help set up camp and a meditation walk. The Passover village has been ongoing for two decades and next year will be its 21st year.
I imagine I have been coming here for close to 12 years if not longer. This was the first time that I remember coming a day late. I did not arrive until Friday just as Shabbat prayers and the beautiful potluck were happening.
Egypt, in the telling of the Passover story, represents the narrow places both within us and outside if us.
The promised land represents in the telling of the Passover story, The arrival in the land of milk and honey.
In my own personal metaphors, the promised land represents my home, that I call the enchanted Garden. The enchanted Garden is also as I have named it, a name for the new earth that can be renewed one seed and one dream at a time.
The Passover Village for me and others is profound healing experience. It is a place where a small group of people, relatively small, come together and participate cooperatively in community and authenticity, that pretty much brings the depths of each person present. To be in such an experience so many people coming forth from their taps and often expressing their narrow places and arriving at a place of tears of joy and receiving a peek into human potential of the community to come together, even for a few days, is profound life shifting experience for many who attend.
This is not what you would call the kind of experience that warrants coming home and another person saying, "how was your weekend?"
Truly the Passover village touches transformational places inside us. It warrants not rushing back into every day life.
That's why I'm taking at least 48 hours to come down from the mountain top both literally and figuratively before reentry into my every day life.
OUTCOMES
I will rearrange these later in order of significance.
I'm feeling more confident about my organization in the EEG Mobile for the long distance trip in August and September.
This trip gave me more in the sense that I am practicing for the long trip. I want to be in tremendous organization in the e.g. mobile by the trio to the National heirloom expo.
I'm more resolved than ever not to allow the home stresses to stress my kidneys. I want to graduate from having a vacancy at the house feel like a life-and-death issue that restricts my breathing.
I'm real clear that issue said home trigger childhood unresolved Darrell places, conflicts inside.
DELIGHTFUL MEMORIES FROM #PASSOVER VILLAGE RETREAT 2015
oh my God! Shoshana! What a delight to have her in my life!
I love the way she and Rick, her husband live. What a beautiful quality of life they aspire toward.
I'm delighted and feel so supported by Rick and the way he constantly was there for me. This in itself is healing to my kidneys. Every time I asked him to help me move something he was there for me. He's one of those kinds of people that if I were on a desert island I would know I would thrive with him as part of my community.
I would love to have one of his pieces, his woodworking creations at my home, in San Diego.
I want to communicate to him a big thank you for all of his support of me at the weekend.
HEALING MOMENTS FROM #PASSOVER VILLAGE RETREAT
Having Dan call me a brother at the end. I was taking photos during this hug fest at the end before people went up to begin leaving. Dan and I approached each other. This was sweet.
Alan wanting a hug. That was sweet there's a lovely photo believe I got a lasting memory there for him. I feel so much more excepting of him, rather than triggered. It's so sweet to except him as he is. As Eva would say, he's a real beauty.
I feel in this moment, healing with Eva. I do not feel afraid to texture and have the fear that she will shoot back a disapproving text that steals my energy.
I loved taking at least a half hour after everyone had left and I was outside the gate of the camp doing personal ritual. I really came into the beautiful healing moment of gratitude and enjoying for the first time the nature of the environment.
I took time to do meaningful ritual and photos honoring Emily, honoring the morrow ABCs, picking up bits and pieces of trash. I find this an enjoyable and rewarding activity.
REVELATIONS
I don't have to kill myself or die over the responsibilities I've taken on at home. 8:19 AM April 13, 2015. I don't have to let conditions at home make me sick anymore. I can walk away from the stress and have a good day. God will help me resolve the issue in his timing. I will not run out of money due to vacancies.
I want how I want to communicate with Laurie now via text she's having a very big day in New York.
10:27 AM had tired I will wait till the next search of inspiration arrives before continuing may get ready to leave for San Diego home
TO DO, THINGS I NEED AND WANT
Work on walking papers! Have a page that goes in the new 2015 whole seed catalog that has a picture of the enchanted Garden mobile one and describes my journey.
Haven't 30 8 AM in the day of beaury.
Work on Planned Parenthood certificate. Repeat small version.
I need a small size effective plan parenthood certificate for when I adopt seeds out. Perhaps I will be adopting our plants once again as I did turn I can't Taylor years
It's now 7:53 AM April 14, 2015. I'm feeling a bit hungry and I'm going to take a little break now to eat something
I feel very safe here at mass. I've been hailing moment and this is very healing to my kidneys and my whole being. I'm glad and taking time to create this review.
Facebook entries and photos that went with them
Week of limits day of loving kindness, April 12, 2015:
Wrote this coming down from the mountain Sunday, April 12
@Rareseeds #journeythroughnarrowplacestopromisedland
#AngelesCrestHighway #Passovervillageretreat I was pulled off the road attracted by a beautiful yellow wildflower in bloom. Coming close, I'm awed by the fragrant flower essence and realize I'm visiting a community of lady bugs and other creations enjoying a private ecstatic spring reverie that few humans are taking time to witness. Thank you for allowing me to observe for a moment. I'm having a mystical experience noticing, that as I slow down. I see other beautiful colored wildflowers. There are shimmering rocks, really special. The EG mobile, The enchanted Garden Mobile, on a journey I to save our sacred seeds, is behaving like a champ! thank you! The journey to the campground was 26 miles from the base at La Canada/ Flint Ridge. This is an idealic part of town it appears. Rabbi Gershon Steinberg-Caudill Dolores-Lola Gonzales.
Week of limits, day of limits.
Hey bro 13, 2015
Goes with photo of me at the side of the EEG mobile taken by Ariella Shira
@Rareseeds #journeythroughnarrowplacestopromisedland
#AngelesCrestHighway #Passovervillageretreat #OmerDay 9: Day of limits in the week of limits. Leaving AriellaShira Lewis in Covina a precious visit. This was a wonderful practice round for when I am on the road later in August and September toward The National Heirloom Exposition on The Enchanted Garden Mobile's Journey To Win Back Our Sacred Seeds
Week of limits day if beauty
Still at Mayah's. I'm writing on this #Passover village review. It's a bit after 7 AM and I'm still somewhat tired. I think I'll stay here longer today. I'm committed to having a beautiful day.
There is a lot of trauma going on at home. Nadine was in a car accident yesterday.. I'm committed to have a beautiful day
I do not want to rush out of the area.
I just had a vision of visiting Whole Foods Market seal Beach
I'm having to light since the end of #Passover village to retreat to spend time honoring and feeding animals every day.
I realize now that when I was kid from many years I wanted to be a veterinarian. I loved animals very much. The stream was stolen from me because I could not do math.
It's now 8:13 AM
LINKS
THIS IS A LINK TO THE PASSOVER VILLAGE PUBLIC SITE
http://passovervillage.blogspot.com
#PassoverVillageRetreat #Mountaintopexperience
#PassoverVillageRetreat #Mountaintopexperience
FACEBOOK NOTE APRIL 15, 2015
This Facebook Album was started April 4 during the Lunar Eclipse of April 4, The
first Day of Passover. The second night, it is a tradition I follow to do daily Meditations through May 22. Reading from Rabbi Ted Falcon's Book, "A Journey of Awakening." These are hashtaged #OmerDay This day, May 22, is followed by a three-day holiday called Shavuot. In my Jewish Renewal Tradition this is symbolized by a time of Marriage with God and personal integration of the worlds within us.
The preparation for Shavuot, a mountain top peak experience, is preparation for entry into the Promised Land.
In my personal metaphors, the Enchanted Garden is a name for The Promised Land. I also name the land where I live in San Diego, the Enchanted Garden.
This period, the #OmerDay 50 day count period, has been one of my most transformational times of my year. I am keeping a Garden Management Journal (GMJ) in two places. My daily Garden Management Journal is on the #PlantYourDreamBlog Curezone. The other on the #PlantYourDreamBlog Wordpress.
I highly recommend this event. It is one most transformational event I attend during the year in a Jewish context.
Please check out the public Passover Village (PV) site to get on the mailing list. The event is held during the Passover Period from Thursday to Sunday. Offically the first Council is Friday morning. I highly recommend arriving on the Thursday.
THIS IS A LINK TO THE PASSOVER VILLAGE PUBLIC SITE
http://passovervillage.blogspot.com
THIS CUREZONE #PLANTYOURDREAMBLOG CONTAINS SOME OF MY FACEBOOK ENTRIES DURING #OMERDAY SERIES
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2246700
THIS #PLANTYOURDREAMBLOG INTRODUCES SOME OF THE CONCEPTS OF THE PASSOVER THAT HAVE RELEVANCE TO MY PERSONAL JOURNEY.
http://plantyourdream.net/?p=20267
FACEBOOK ALBUMS
THIS FB ALBUM IS A CONTINUATION OF #JOURNEYTHROUGHNARROWPLACESTOPROMISEDLAND
https://www.facebook.com/YourEnchantedGardener/media_set?set=a.10153218112187235.1073742104.504567234&type=3
THE JOURNEY OUT OF THE NARROW PLACES TO THE PROMISED LAND APRIL 4- MAY 22, 2015
#PASSOVERVILLAGERETREAT #MOUNTAINTOPEXPERIENCE
https://www.facebook.com/YourEnchantedGardener/media_set?set=a.10153241560182235.1073742105.504567234&type=3
OTHER #PASSOVERVILLAGE RETREAT FIRST SITE
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2246700
THIS IS THE PDF OF THE "HOMER" CALENDAR I PRINT EACH YEAR
I keep this in my copy of Rabbi Ted Falcon's book, A Journey of Awakening." I recommend you get a copy of this book.
http://homercalendar.net/Welcome.html
@CountTheHomer
Twitter https://twitter.com/CountTheHomer
The Homer Calendar on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/homercalendar
WEBSITE FOR RABBI TED FALCON's "A JOURNEY OF AWAKENING"
http://www.rabbitedfalcon.com/a-journey-of-awakening/
PLANT PARENTHOOD GARDEN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(#PassoverVillageRetreat ) REVIEW