Wonderful to feel the energy coming from the retreat. Love the pics! Those smiles make me smile!

Jane (Auntyangel), I love how upfront you are with your posts. I felt your anger when you responded initially. I share with you the cloyingly annoying: everything is roses and teddy bears. I don't think there is any shame in speaking one's truth.

I guess I have always sought the light. The devastation to Mother Earth is our collective shame, yet there are those actively, sometimes quietly, protecting the trees, the plants, the animals, the water. That's why our individual actions are so crucial.
I live in the country, a kind of isolation really, from dense populations. A kind of avoidance. When I travel to a place like Phoenix, it is an assault on my consciousness. I get angry, I feel like I am moving in thick, icky goo. And I look around at my fellow humans and I want to take them by the shoulders and say WAKE UP. Instead I go to the desert, breathe the sand and rock and succulents. Rejoice in the messages from the winged ones, and the four leggeds.
That is more real to me than any construct of the human population. And yet, the cities are a mirror for me: of the fear, of the blindness, of the illusions.

tigger