Bad Bunny

 

 

First off, Happy Easter. A co-worker commissioned by boyfriend, Eddy Rey Zavala, to paint a naughty or bad bunny. lol I know, right? Well, this is it. As my sister has to conduct ASU Zoom meetings from home, “Bad Bunny” has been behind her blocking the hall way, so that I can move freely without being on camera. My camera is set up around the corner with a wall full of paintings by my favorite artist, all much different from “Bad Bunny” here.

Since we are all quarantined and not able to gather with the family for Easter and our annual E Egg hunt, I wanted some backyard fun, a mini golf course. The bunny artist created the most adorable 3 hole, mini golf course for me, with a fairy theme, of course. Eddy, myself, his brother, and my sister, had a good time navigating the bumpy terrain.

I hope that you were able to create some new traditions and ways of connecting with your loved ones.

Flashback Friday

Happy Friday? Well if you are happy add your good vibes, and if you are not happy, please take some good vibes. As I have been home for 3 weeks now I am for one feeling the change in lifestyle, both positive and negative, mostly positive. I don’t know about you, but I have been in reflection and experiencing a somewhat life review.

I am of the mind that I create my reality, all of it. When we as humans catch a cold, and I am not talking about CV-19, just a common cold or flu, it makes us stop and pause all daily activity. This seems to be a time we we all globally have to take a pause from our daily mundane routines, and perhaps relax. Also, and most importantly, a time to create. Create in any and all mediums. So, that all sounds so serious but the happy side for me in the creation of my reality process is matching vibrations, selecting a memory that gives me the emotion that matches the outcome of my new reality.

For example, music. We all associate memories and emotions to songs, or music. In my last post I shared The Bee Gees, and I recalled that time, working in the crowded disco after Staying Alive, came out in the theaters. A vivid flashback of the men in their white suits, and blue shirts, with gold chains at the open neck, spinning ladies around the lighted dance floor.

One of my happiest memories occurred at age 13, sometimes in the summer of 1972, tanned and thinking I was so cute in my short navy blue kolats (skorts), and white off the shoulder peasant top. Going to our local park (one of the only places a young teen could go to socialize), early evening, watching baseball, eating corn dogs, swinging under the tall pine trees. The associate song is of course.

Saturday in the Park

Chicago

It could be a cool blog challenge if anyone wants to play? Make a Flashback Friday blog post with a positive memory and song. Link me and I will link you back. Let’s all reconnect, I for one, have a little time now.

Tag you’re it! 

On a spiritual note, and astrologically, tonight there is a conjunction of Mercury and Neptune and from what I read a powerful manifesting energy. I am not an astrologer, so I will leave that to one of them. I just resonated with the information and then I saw a planned global meditation. Let’s empower ourselves, get into our happy places, and do this.

Saturday, April 4

Global Peace Meditation 10:45 p.m. EST

This is a guided meditation you can used at the scheduled time.

Art

“Hippy Chicks”

Ke Robinson

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Silver Linings

We are living in a historic moment in time. A world all at home. It has its wonders and its weirdness. I for one was somewhat prepared. Once I found myself teaching online (distance learning) I recalled requesting that, literally when I was first looking for a teaching position I wanted an online position. Although, I am happy that my desires are manifest, be careful what you ask for. I am not in regret for having my desire manifest, I just did not imagine that it would manifest in this manner.

A proclaimed homebody, I am already tired of being at home (it has been three weeks) as I was on Spring Break before. It is so funny for me to be over being at home, me? Really? The silver lining has been observed in various places, from various people: for me learning mad new skills, time to stop and reset, the pollution has left the cities, neighbors are being giving and caring to those in need, and many other things. What say you? Do you see any silver linings in this global “lock down”?

I feel like I have time.

Be safe, be well. Sending out lots of love.

Tibetan Healing Bowls

Edited to add:

The Bee Gees

Because, I can.

The Great Bell Chant

The End of Suffering, in a nice way.

 

Artist:

Ian Fisher

Signs of Spring

As I live in Arizona the joy of Spring is tempered by the onset of Summer. However the pre-Spring season is so beautiful here and I am sure in many places. The butterflies, the birds, the bees, soft sun and gentle breeze. Also I have a break from school -yippee!

I finished the quarter with a poetry project, trying to get teenagers to write poetry was literally like pulling teeth. However, I got a handful of good ones. I won’t be sharing any of them here but I will express my reaction to them. After the molar extraction three of my boys wrote love poems, needless to say I was impressed. A couple of decent love poems from the girls. They also wrote odes, some humorous and some sweet. This project ended just prior to the Parent Teacher Conference, where a couple of brothers were redeemed by the sweet poems they had written about their mother, she cried when the translator read them to her. My student looked at me like, thank you. Always good to write a poem about how much you love your mother before Parent Teacher Conference.

Six of my students will get to attend the literacy event at ASU as a result of their efforts and over Spring Break and I am creating a fabulous Spring Poetry Bulletin board display in the hall outside my classroom.

I also have to clean the garage, fun! (not fun) Enjoying the weather. Happy almost Spring everyone. Only three days left of Mercury Retrograde.

Painting: Monet

This was my 777th post

A Golden Gift

 

I am happy I have magical paradigm, one in which I believe. Just yesterday afternoon I had another visitor, a golden dragonfly. He or she positioned them selves on the branch of a Mexican Bird of Paradise with bright orange blossoms, so that the sun hit it perfectly and light it up like am LED light, like a golden gemstone emanating light. It would take off and return finding that same magical position, over and over. A very cool show. I wonder when others see these things if they too think of magic. Right before writing this I saw them again, this time they were flying in and around the fairy house.

I share this from another blogger, The Golden Dragonfly Society.

 Why the Dragonfly?

As a nymph the dragonfly does not impress.
But his transformation to flight is the best.
Agility and lightness on his wings
Foretells the happiness and joy he brings.
Flitting from side to side and up and down
He’s searching for something all around.
With eyes that provide unlimited vision
He serves as a symbol for self revision.
Shifting perspectives, we see different things
Like changing reflections from his flapping wings.
So he is a symbol for life’s transformation
And all that comes from self realization.
Who would have guessed that the dragonfly’s flight
Would mirror our search for the meaning of life!
— Some One

The totem for me is golden (Archangel Gabriel) as it was from the setting sun in the West, golden communications, transformation, and change. Have a blessed week.

Dare to Dream

Hello friends. I am enjoying a much needed Fall break. Now in a state of reflection, and a bit early for Mercury Retrograde, but re-evaluation. I stumbled upon this series of videos by this film company, Anthony Chen productions, and at first watching some amazing NDE stories. The first one I saw was with Jeff Olsen, and it was truly inspirational. One lead to another which put all Chen’s videos in my feed.  I have felt an uneasiness of late and consider it could be hormonal? However, I am intuitive and I do not like to dismiss my feelings and instincts. So I reflect, I try and reflect without self-judgment but also with self-responsibility and ownership. I do believe my world, my life, and my feelings, are all what I make them. Therefore if I feel uneasy, why?

In my reflection I think, “So, what now? What is the next step toward happiness, life purpose, and expansion?” I feel like I have slipped into the mundane while dealing with realistic, everyday existence. Not okay, and not enough. I wish to be able to function optimally whilst performing a human daily existence. I should be performing from a higher perspective.

This morning I was exploring grad schools and exploring degrees in my old passions, The Arts, and theater. At the same time this video “Dare to Dream“, with Marc Allen, started playing as it lead from another video, as I was reading up on degrees in Children’s Theater, I didn’t even see the title. Marc wrote and discusses his theory The Core Belief Process, from his book “The Greatest Secret of All,” which is as simple as 8 questions (excerpted from his blog):

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This activity can help you deal with any difficult situation or problem in your life. All it requires is answering these questions as honestly as you can, either in your head or on paper:

1. What is the problem? Just describe the situation, for a minute or two.
2. What emotions are you feeling? Just name them, in a word or two. Is there fear, frustration, anger, guilt, sadness? Sometimes just the act of naming the emotions will be enough for you to let at least some of them go. At other times, you have to go through all the steps of the process before your emotions shift.
3. What physical sensations are you feeling? Take a minute to tune in to your body. Briefly describe what you feel happening physically.
4. What are you thinking about? Take a few minutes and say out loud or write down what has been going through your mind. Is there a repetitive stream of thoughts you’ve been having lately? What are those recurrent thoughts?
5. What is the worst thing that could happen in this situation? What is the worst-case scenario that you can imagine? If that happened, what would be the very worst thing that could happen to you? It is good to shed some light on your deepest fears, because you come to realize that the chances of those deep fears actually being realized are very slim indeed.
6. What is the best thing that could happen? What would you like to have happen ideally? What is your ideal scene for this area of your life?
7. What fear or limiting belief is keeping you from creating what you want? Now we’re getting to the core of the problem: What fear or limiting belief can you identify? State it as simply as you can — the simpler, the better. I’m a fool with money… I don’t have what it takes…. It’s so hard to succeed…. It’s all so stressful and unhealthy….
8. What affirmation can you come up with that counteracts that negative or limiting belief? Put it in directly opposite words, if you can. Play with it until you find an affirmation that feels good to you and speaks to you in your own unique way. I am sensible and in control of my finances…. I am creating total financial success…. I am now creating abundance in my life…. I am living the life of my dreams, in an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way.
9. Say or write your affirmation repeatedly over the next days, weeks, and months. Write it down and put it in places where you see it often. Repeat it—or repeat them, if you have several—in the mornings and throughout the day whenever you remember, especially when doubts and fears arise, as they almost surely will. When you repeat it enough, it will become more powerful than your doubts and fears.

When you go through this simple process, startling changes can start to happen almost immediately. You don’t have to believe the process works as long as you see it working in your life, in an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way.

Source

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I am unsure about grad school, or even which degree to pursue if any, but I want to have a limitless scope of dreams.

 

Addendum: I had actually intentionally went to check out the video “Dare to Dream,” as it had been playing as I slept the night before and I wanted to know what had gone into my subconscious. Therefore the material already had an expansive influence on my morning attitude. I did not tell the story wrong on purpose. lol

Back to School

In the words of one of my favorite pod casters, Rex Bear, of Leak Project, “How the heck are ya?” I hope everyone has enjoyed your summer? I went to school; chilled a lot (which was awesome), caught up on movies (mostly the Marvel stuff), I read three and a half books (“Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister“, (which I loved) and finally after 2 years got back to Scott Westerfeld’s “Uglies” series. Wow I just noticed a theme here. lol  I met a Facebook friend, had a party (for my FB friend) and really enjoyed my summer (despite the heat) for the first time in a very long time.

Now, I am back for my second year teaching, which already is much better than my first year teaching. For one, I know all my students, except for two, secondly, my class size is smaller, and thirdly, I have an amazing new Reading program for my Structured English Immersion (SEI) students, which is who I teach. Oh, and all the cool writing lessons I get to teach that I got from my summer program at ASU. I have a real challenge ahead of me this year, but I feel up to it. If  I am absent, this is why, but I do love to write and blog.

Art

by

Jane Palmer

Reincarnation

This is from the question and answer website Quora, the response is by author, Tom T. Moore to the question: If you believe in reincarnation, what would you come back as? Moore’s answer is very detailed and specific and follows what beliefs I had determined on my own. I found it very interesting, enjoy.

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So if you believe in reincarnation, what would you like to come back as? Would you be the same gender as you are now?

People misunderstand reincarnation. Our souls volunteered for the “Earth Experiment,” and in order to be even considered, our souls had to reached a certain vibrational level. They agreed to be veiled from knowing their true identities. This was done, so that the souls would learn how to make billions of decisions. Why? because our souls were promised that one day in the future, our souls would meld together to form a creator (something that has NEVER been done in any of the other billions of universes), and we would take over running this universe, allowing Creator to move to a higher level. Our souls need to know how to make decisions, without relying on memories of how we handled a certain problem in thousands of other lives.

Our souls split off fragments of themselves for these Earth lives. There are typically six to twelve fragments of a soul (all with different soul interests) in what are called “soul clusters,” which work life after life with other soul clusters. Each soul fragment has on average, six hundred to eight hundred lives. Why the big difference? I was told it is up to each soul. Some like to experience everything the Earth has to offer as fast as possible—what I call the “drama queens.” Others choose to take it slower.

Our souls are not sitting around. While these lives are going on, they are having 500,000 to one million lives perhaps going on all across the universe for their learning, in preparation for their future duties as a creator.

Also, there are 12 parallel lives for each of these Earth lives all going on at the same time, on different frequencies, so that the souls get the biggest “bang for the buck” to compare how we react to lives on different frequencies. We are on Time Line 6, the middle frequency.

Our lives can be anywhere over thousands of years, depending upon what we need to learn, and our associations with the other soul clusters. My next Earth life will be as a female space pilot on one of 17 Earth star ships in the 3400 era, then back to the 2600 era to help “prepare” people for star travel, then back to the 3400 era again. Although I’m a very old soul sitting at 1,005 lives, as I keep coming back to push people along, I was told I still have 300 lives to go, some all the way back to the 1800s. So not only can we have lives forwards and backwards, but some of our lives can even overlap. I’m told that approximately half of my remaining lives will be as a female.

Hope that helps explain things a little better. I do have a free, weekly newsletter where people from all over the world send me questions to ask in a meditative state. You can check it out and subscribe if you wish at Yellowstone & Quakes, Immigrants, Homeless, ET’s, Cosby, Hinduism, Gary Sinise. I do not harvest email addresses.

Tom T. Moore

Author The Gentle Way Books, Atlantis & Lemuria: The Lost Continents Revealed!

 

Painting   (He looks like male figure skater, Johnny Weir)

Victor Nizovtsev

Blog Birthday Bash

 

 

Blue Butterflies & Me is 7 years old today. Being as blogging started as a fluke, it has remained a consistent part of my life. it is also my first blog buddy’s birthday, Ody Mama, sadly she is too busy to blog, but I have her on the phone. Happy Birthday girl!

First year of teaching done, time for some cake.

Love you all! Thank you for being in my life.

The Seeds are Inside the Core

The apple has been eaten, proverbially, I don’t really like apples. The school year is over on Thursday, my first year as a teacher is done. How do I feel about that? I feel good about it; in that, it is over, and in that, I feel accomplished. It is good to work hard towards a goal, but very consuming. So  consuming I could not stop and focus on a movie, (I did however spend a day watching videos on YouTube a month or so ago).

From the fire to the frying pan, (an idiom) I have been lucky enough to earn an invitation to a summer writing institute at ASU, it is teachers, teaching teachers. I have had the best 10 days of my life recently, so many wonderful things and opportunities, I can’t even begin to share them all.

I like when my sister sings, unrelated, but she came in singing.