View from back of holiday house at feeding time. I had expected to post a message saying that there wouldn’t be a blog this week, as I would be away. However, luckily I have found a minute or two to write a few words which may pass as a blog, if you have an open mind. I am currently staying in a beautiful holiday house at Cooroibah, an
I was happy to hear of the announcement by the New South Wales government that it intends to ban greyhound racing as of July next year, and the Australian Capital Territory’s decision to follow suit. I wasn’t quite ecstatic for a number of reasons. One reason is that there is still another year of racing, during which time an estimated 180 dogs will “suffer catastrophic injuries such as skull fractures
This week, I was so excited to be starting Doreen Virtue’s Fairyologist course, I have had trouble thinking about anything else but fairies and other elementals. I have felt the fairies around me from time to time, but I haven’t yet learned to see them. When I started doing this course, I felt the light and joyful energy of the fairies, and naturally I wanted to feel more of that,
I wanted to do things a little differently this week. Rather than me telling you about the week that I have had, I wanted to ask everyone who reads my blog, if you would like to tell me how your week has been. I am really interested to know the truth of how your week has been, not the answer of “not bad” which you normally give in a social
As I was driving to the station on my way to French class this week, I heard a news item about some offensive cards targeting fat people on the Tube in London. As I had missed the details, after I boarded the train I googled the story to find out what had really occurred. When I read what the card had said, I thought it was rude and disgusting, and
I was moved to choose a card from Magical Messages from the Fairies Oracle Cards (Doreen Virtue PhD) today for inspiration for my blog. If you have been reading my previous blogs, you will know that I have been studying the book, Nature’s Way – Native Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Earth, by Ed McGaa, Eagle Man, as part of my course in Native American Spirituality at AIHT.
One of the books for my course in Native American Spirituality at AIHT is Ed McGaa, Eagle Man’s book, Nature’s Way – Native Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Earth. Each chapter uses an animal in nature to illustrate the author’s point, which is that we must learn from what the animals and the rest of nature have to teach us, if we are to survive the destruction which
I was reminded yesterday how much I’ve changed over the years. Yesterday I heard about the stick insect that my great niece has been keeping as a pet for 6 months. I had no idea that stick insects could be kept as pets, so I was interested to find out all about it, and when I got home I googled and found this: http://australianmuseum.net.au/Care-of-Stick-Insects/ I remarked when I heard about
If you have been reading my blogs about what I have learned from A Course in Miracles, you will remember that the mind is split between our God mind (the part that thinks as God thinks) and our ego mind (where any perceived errors occur). This split occurred when we decided to separate ourselves from God. (We are never really separated from God, but we have convinced ourselves that we
Last week my blog discussed our cruelty to animals and the guilt that that caused us to feel, whether we recognise it or not. This week, I wanted to remind everyone just how important animals are to our welfare, In the past, we have only considered animals of importance if we had some way to use them for our benefit. This is the way that the ego looks at everything: