Moving Again!

My life is in transition again.. I am moving. I have just broken my lease to move out early and will be vacating my apartment Jan 31.. and possibly even sooner. I was talking to someone yesterday who may need an apt just for the month of January.. so life is, as always, up in the air.
& I am starting to think about packing up my things again.

I have barely even moved in, the mirror by the couch never even got hung up.. many paintings never even made it to the walls.. this has felt a bit like a 'show-room' apartment, not very lived in.I will be very glad to move down closer to the ground.. houses are just more 'homey' and grounding.. I think I will enjoy this a lot more.

So, back to the boxes. I just listed my couches (sofabed) and chair on Craig's List - Craigs list is amazing, and all over the world now! I was just checking out the furniture selection in Vietnam & in Portugal.. cool!! &in Hawaii - I just found a Hawaiian Palm Christmas Tree!!! wonder if the kids would go for that?

Memories of my short & sweet stay on Pacific Ave. A friend of mine is buying my dining room set.. I really like it.. & might get to buy it back in a couple years! ; )

keeping the bookcase behind the dining table and so far the bed & bureau.. so far..

life is strange and fun - it flows in mysterious ways.. and it always keeps us on our toes.

Tippytoes! (ok, I am deleriously tired and slightly overwhelmed right now - 'Night)

just came back to add a PS to this. Just a thought - Its interesting how I used to have so much dark, deep and bold colors in my last place, even black.. and this one is so white-beige.. just like a blank canvass.. like a cleansing.. and now I am feeling like I need color - bold, bright, light, colorful, flowing, translucent, vivid, .. but color: Green, Red, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Purple.. alive!Mmm, yes, that feels good!

Life is Messy - Play Hard & Have Fun

Excerpt from Anne Lamott's book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

Besides, perfectionism will block inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are words we are allowed to use in California). Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Clutter is wonderfully fertile ground—you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, fix things, get a grip. Tidiness suggests that something is as good as it's going to get. Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

When I was 21, I had my tonsils removed. I was one of those people who got strep throat every few minutes, and my doctor finally decided that I needed to have my tonsils taken out. For the entire week afterward, swallowing hurt so much that I could barely open my mouth for a straw. I had a prescription for painkillers, though, and when they ran out but the pain hadn't, I called the nurse and said she would need to send another prescription over, and maybe a little mixed grill of drugs because I was also feeling somewhat anxious. But she wouldn't.

I asked to speak to her supervisor. She told me her supervisor was at lunch and that I needed to buy some gum, of all things, and to chew it vigorously—the thought of which made me clutch at my throat. She explained that when we have a wound in our body, the nearby muscles cramp around it to protect it from any more violation and from infection, and that I would need to use these muscles if I wanted them to relax again. So finally my best friend Pammy went out and bought me some gum, and I began to chew it, with great hostility and skepticism. The first bites caused a ripping sensation in the back of my throat, but within minutes all the pain was gone, permanently.

I think that something similar happens with our psychic muscles. They cramp around our wounds—the pain from our childhood, the losses and disappointments of adulthood, the humiliations suffered in both—to keep us from getting hurt in the same place again, to keep foreign substances out. So those wounds never have a chance to heal. Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp. In some cases we don't even know that the wounds and the cramping are there, but both limit us. They keep us moving in tight, worried ways. They keep us standing back or backing away from life, keep us from experiencing life in a naked and immediate way.

So go ahead and make big scrawls and mistakes. Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow (inadvertently, I'm sure) forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

Vibing Christmas Marketplace

I was busy all day preparing, making and serving great food & didn't take the time to take very many pictures. Above, my co-workers for the day Lyndsay and Angus from Rawlicious.

Below is a pic taken from the Rawlicious kitchen. It was so nice with all the sparkling lights and people and music - fun. Great stuff - gems and beeswax candles, essential oils, superfood chocolate, High vibing chocosol chocolates and drinks, lots of handmade things, clothes, knit & sewn, natural fabrics, homemade music, best kind, raw products, foods, health books, Dvd's, Raw t-shirts, Art!! chakra cards, violet glass - all your ultimate health and reconnection needs!

Aum My Goddess!!! Groovinda is making a long skirt for me to match my beige hemp shirt!!! And the best hemp apron ever, custom made, I got measured - so excited!!!
Love Groovinda, .. & Deepika (Terra Tree) They shared the kitchen with us to make very special tea.

Highlight of my day probably was finding the most special Christmas cards ever. I wondered if Saskia would mind if I bought her out of her home made collection of Christmas cards.. but she was totally ok with it. & I gained a new friend!! : ) She wrote poems in them and coloured and cut out and decorated them, very beautiful - but I only have a few.. which is perfect, only sending out a few special cards this year anyway, keeping it simple.

and I bought one special one from her brother who also gave great Hair-apy treatments!!!
Kids naturally have high vibes which get transferred to us who get our scalps massaged by them.. way cool, fun. Neat Idea - & beautiful enterprising kids!!! Love that!

& when the Marketplace finished and people started clearing out.. the place started getting transformed for the evening.. DJ setting up at the front...

..and meanwhile live music of all types -lots of drumming- from the back..

This is the way Christmas shopping should be done - Community style - & with a party afterwards!

Mystery of Life

This thought on the Mystery of Life is by Osho from his book Courage, the Art of Living Dangerously. I have borrowed this book and want to give it back tomorrow evening - the books owner is hosting of the big reggae party taking place after the marketplace. ..and I am determined to finish it tonight!!


"The whole history of philosophy, religion, science, mathematics has the same root, the same mind -- the same itch. You may scratch yourself one way, somebody else may do it differently, but the itch has to be understood. The itch is the belief that existence is not a mystery. Mind can feel at home only if somehow existence is demystified.
Religion has done it by creating God, the Holy Ghost, the Only Begotten Son; different religions have created different things. These are their ways to cover up a hole that is uncoverable; whatever you do the hole is there. In fact the more you cover it, the more emphatically it is there. Your very effort to cover it shows your fear that somebody is going to see the hole.
The whole history of mind, in different branches, has been doing patchwork to conceal this hole -- particularly in mathematics, because mathematics is purely a mind game. There are mathematicians who think it is not, just as there are theologians who think God is a reality. God is only an idea. And if horses have ideas, their God will be a horse. You can be absolutely certain it will not be a man, because man has been so cruel to horses that man can be conceived only as a devil, not as God. But then every animal will have its own idea of God, just as every human race has its own idea of God.
Ideas are substitutes for where life is mysterious and you find gaps that can not be filled by reality. You fill those gaps with ideas; and at least you start feeling satisfied that life is understood.
Have you ever thought about this word understand? It means standing under you. It is strange that this word has by and by taken a meaning that is far from the original idea: anything that you can make stand under you, that is under your thumb, under your power, under your shoe, you are the master of.
People have been trying to understand life in that same way, so that they could put life also underneath their feet and declare, "We are the masters. Now there is nothing that is not understood by us."
But it is not possible. Whatever you do, life is a mystery and is going to remain a mystery."

Winter Marketplace this Saturday at Toronto Sprouts !!!

I wanted to post the flyer for the Winter Market at Toronto Sprouts .. but can't copy the image, so here are snowmen from an installation in Moscow. ; )

for the flyer click here!

We are busy at Rawlicious getting ready for it - I wil be there again bright & early tomorrow morning - preparing lots of food, nut loaf patties for the Wraps and the dressings and sauces.. and Pizzas! & we are planning on having some warm Miso Noodle Soup in case it is cold out & Tropical Green Smoothies - my favorite!!

& tonight we are home getting books and DVD's ready to bring. We have some of our raw & health books that we have republished to bring and some DVD's. The DVD's are great - I will post a link to them soon how to get them online.

For now, come down to the once a year awesome, high vibe marketplace.. great place to get the BEST gifts!!!

There will be cool yoga clothes from Yogagurl !
Hemp clothing by Groovinda !!
Truffles and chocolate from Fred !!!
More chocolate from Chocosol !!!!
The Fairy's Tonic - Kombucha from Zoey !!!!!
Upaya Naturals - Organic, Raw Vegan Health products !!!!!!
Living Libations - highest vibe essentail oils, cosmetics, Incredible-superfood chocolate bars !!!!!!!
Ruth's Hemp Foods !!!!!!!!
Me to We - Montage Music -& - In the Raw ... !!!!!!!!!
The Best Food Ever !!!!!!!!!!
Nujima Living Foods !!!!!!!!!!!
E3Live !!!!!!!!!!!! (I was saving the 12 exclamations for them ; ) -big fan! )

& so much more - music, jewellery, clothing, artwork.. lots of raw & health stuff

Come Join Us - it's going to be a huge great fun get together!!!

& Ther is a high-vibe Reggae-Groove fest gathering being planned for the evening ! Yes!!!
xo, Hope to see as many of you as possible on Saturday!

Easy Almond Milk

Quick & simple thought - to make Almond Milk the easy way - I was wishing this morning I had soaked almonds last night - I usually have a bottle of them in the fridge.. but didn't today & just when I really wanted them. - Take 1-2 Tablespoons Raw Almond Butter and blend with 1 cup of water - How simple is that - Oh, & I added a huge Medjool date.. because I was really craving the sweetness. So..

Granola + Banana + Almond Milk & Maple Syrup (or Agave) = the Best Breatfast Ever!!

Later - Just got back from the Cacao Loft and Toronto Sprouts, well-stocked up again! Mmm.. alfalfa sprouts, broccoli sprouts, Sunflower sprouts.. soon to be a big sprout salad! with a plate of crackers and guacamole to go with dinner.. the nuts are soaking because I am going to make blueberry pancakes (as soon as I am finished this) so they will be ready to eat, warm from the dehydrator, for breakfast!!

Cancer is a Fungus !!!?!

This is a subject I have been wanting to blog about for awhile now.. I have been hearing several people talking about this lately - of the possibility - that Cancer is a Fungus!

& now Tracy is at Hippocrates and I have just recently heard that Dr Brian Clement is advocating this also. This is huge news!

Watch this interview with Doug Kaufmann of Know the Cause as he interviews Dr. Tullio Simoncini, M.D. who has discovered the cause of cancer. Dr. Simoncini shares information about Fungus/Yeast and Cancer.

Dr. Simoncini's Cancer Therapy website.

Dr Doug Kaufmann's website Know the Cause is filled with more information and shows like this one that inform you about health breakthroughs. He has also written books about fungus and about cancer.

Candida, Yeast and Fungus a Cancer - Baking Soda to Cure

Taco Wrap

This is my favorite lunch these days. First remove the center spine carefully.

Then I put on a nut cheeze and a Nut Loaf Patty (recipe coming soon in upcoming book! : )

Guacamole..
Red Onion, Tomato..

Salsa ..and finally shredded Romaine on top. (or lots of Sprouts! )

Fold bottom up and then fold the sides in and hold it all together with a couple toothpicks, and Voila! A Taco wrap : )

God's Original People: Raw Foodists

Mom called last night and had a great thought - she was reading the following passage from the bible and she was thinking and believes that God's original people in the Garden of Eden were Raw Foodists and - more importantly.. when we eat Raw Foods - WE begin to feel some of what the original people felt.. we become closer to source, closer to being a part of God.

And God said, "Behold I have
given you every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth
and every tree, in the which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat...
...
wherein there is life,I have given every green herb for meat"
and it was so...
And God saw everything that he had made,and behold, it was very good.And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 1:29-31

9 Breaths of Amazing Grace

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I bought the initial SUN cd (4 copies- for me & my fav people! ; ) when they first came out and now am excited to listen and follow the 9 Breaths of Amazing Grace.

This follows the book released earlier this year "Amazing Grace: The Nine Principles
of Living in Natural Magic" by David Wolfe and Nick Good - which I loved!!

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The Jaguar Path

I am at a shamanic yoga workshop this weekend:

The Jaguar Path
a fusion of Yoga and Shamanism

taking place at the Sananda Yoga Studio today & tomorrow - Saturday and Sunday

In these two sessions we will experience yoga practice and mystical shamanic journeys to heal our past,and nourish our future, leading us to power and enhanced perception.

Ray will addresses the three perceptual states of mind, body, and soul.

• MIND: through lectures in clarification of yogic terms such as chakras, nadis, samskaras, energy body, etc.

• BODY: through yoga asana, and the Jaguar Moves accessing energy.

• SOUL: through shamanic journey in soul retreival and chakra clearing.

I had a black jaguar run with me through the jungle in my shamanic journey this afternoon - isn't he beautiful?!!

Yogis and shamans are one and the same; they are men and women who study the human condition and through their practices become their own teachers and healers.The Yogic path as shamanism leads to the understanding of this world as a matrix of energies and offers techniques on how to intervene on the realm of mind, body and spirit in order to acquire healing and enhanced perception.

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Yoga and Shamanism are two ancient systems of healing and living that enable us to realize mundane life as a profound and mystical experience. The yogic world refers to this as the path to enlightenment, the Shamanic world calls this the path to enhanced perception. Both of these spiritual traditions cultivate the understanding and experience of the energy field that creates the Matrix, our body, and our luminous sphere. The purpose of this work is to serve personal and planetary healing.

Ray H. Crist, the founder of Jaguar Path, is a certified Hatha yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance. Ray has studied with Dr. Alberto Villoldo with The Four Winds Society, and has teachers he visits often in Peru and South Mexico. He has received his initiation as a healer and teacher in the Andes by the Q'uero Indians. Ray holds a degree in Chinese Medicine herbology, and a degree in teacher training of Thai Yoga (Bo Ran northern style). He is a Reiki practictioner. He currently teaches at Kripalu Center. His first practice was in martial arts: Tai Chi (chuan) and Kung-Fu (wu shu). Ray is now based in the Berkshires and travels the world with his workshops. For more information please visit www.raycrist.com

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Power of 3 - Sunlight, Biophotons and Quantum Physics

I started posting on these 3 things which are all on my mind and I thought somewhat unrelated.. but then I saw the connecting link - Fritz-Albert Popp!

In 1974 German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp has proved their (biophoton light & mitogentic rays) existence, their origin from the DNA and later their coherence (laser-like nature), and has developed biophoton theory to explain their possible biological role and the ways in which they may control biochemical processes, growth, differentiation etc. Popp's biophoton theory leads to many startling insights into the life processes and may well provide one of the major elements of a future theory of life and holistic medical practice based on such an approach. fom Biophotons-The Light in our Cells

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Eat Raw Organic Sunshine - Doug Hines new site
Creating World Peace through or Food

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Lynne McTaggert on Quantum Physics 1 of 2


Lynne McTaggert on Quantum Physics 2 of 2


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I have been reading quite a bit on biophotonics - trying to understand how the violet glass works ..I had heard and found lots on the internet about how ultraviolet light is antibacterial.. and how the violet glass will protect and keep the life force already inherent in the substance being stored in the glass intact for a very long period of time.. but only in translating German text am I getting how violet glass actually increases the force field of ultraviolet as well as infrared rays - which both have a very healing and intense energy.

These illustrations show the light which enters green, amber, white (clear) and violet glass:

These pics show the energy field of water stored for a week in violet, amber and white (clear) glass:
other UV & biophotonetic notes:

UV light is subdivided into three bands: UVA (320-400 nm), UVB (290-320 nm) and UVC (<290 style="font-weight: bold;">genetic mutations are reversible by UVA and violet light by means of the so-called photo repair.

By the insights of biophotonics, the conventional conception of the organism as a being well separated from the environment can be replaced by the vision of openness and transparency of the individuals existing in a state of permanent exchange or interdependence.

The electromagnetic radiation on our earth
We are not aware of the high electromagnetic energy field around us. As shown in Figure 1, the wide spectrum of electromagnetic radiation reaching the earth from the sun through space covers all frequencies from cosmic rays, gamma rays, X-rays ultraviolet, visible and infrared radiation up to radio waves. A considerable part of this radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth and will not reach the surface of the earth. It is know that the ozone layer in the stratosphere absorbs almost all short wave lengths of ultraviolet light. It is very important that this high energy radiation does not reach the earth surface or only in a very weak form as UVB-light in order to avoid changes in DNA structures of living cells. This absorption of ultraviolet light is a counterpart of the open window in the region of the visible light. Other open atmospheric windows are found in the infrared region and in the electromagnetic spectral part of radio waves.

Winter's coming - Dress Warm!

My Birthday, Adventures, Galleries and Drums and so many things!!...

On the roller coaster of life here I am going on a loop again. This happened about a year ago, around the same time, around my birthday. This time it is not so personal, and although it affects me, it isn't so directly personal as last time.. but I have been doing some big life-thinking stuff this past week. ..and all is well. Feel like once again I know who I am, where I am and well, who really knows where we are going.. or anything for that matter.. but I am feeling great again..

and like a true superhero, that I can take on whatever curve ball life throws at me and '..here I am doing animated Laura Croft style fighting moves in my head.. lol" & then spreading warmth and love and white light around ..coursing through dimensions.. making it all turn out well. Every situation can be flipped into a positive, right? you know it.

So here I am back blogging again. I love it here in my little on-line journal world.
& Whats been going on these past few days?

This afternoon I went to the AGO (Art Gallry of Ontario) Grand re-opening with a friend and the line up was almost all the way AROUND the block - like 1-2 hour line to wait in to get in. So we went to a few other galleries, including my fav - the Bau-Xi gallery and picked out a painting for my dining room! ; ) ..by TimMerrett

Excavation #01/11/08 (from J. van Huysum-1722)
2008 - oil on canvas - 24 x 47.5 in. - $6800 ..There were so many beautiful paintings there, as usual. But first really I think I'll save up and one day get my Hang Drum!

But I did get a special drum, a djembe. I'm pretty excited about it. I was thinking I could really use some drumming therapy right now! ; )
It was my birthday yesterday and this was from my Mom. and an amazing book - I am sure it will be, she always sends incredible things!! It is The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart & it picks up where her previous book - The Field left off. It offers some of the very latest scientific evidence about the power of your own thoughts and mind-blowing new evidence about the nature of reality.

Also she has extrapolated a detailed program to direct your thoughts, to increase the activity and strength of your intentions, and to effect genuine change in your life. Cool, we can always use more of that!

I have gotten so many special things this weekend! I got a beautiful Pineda Covalin Bag that I loved so much!! Mexican designer ..and earrings and a big piece of amber with a fly and a fern in it, way cool! ..and a hanging bead thing to keep away evil spirits. They usually stay away anyway, too much light around here for them I think. ; ) but its very pretty!

Oh & I would love to show you my raccoon hat, too cute, wool knitted with raccoon face and ears .. just makes me smile. Its so cozy and warm. And perfect timing - it snowed today!!!


I got my own set of bamboo cutlery, love it!!! To-Go Ware











and a Tropical Hula calendar!!


& special teas and chocolates! )




On Friday we went to the Whole Life Expo - Canada's largest showcase of natural health, alternative medicine, and eco-friendly lifestyles.

Mmm, I just finished a bag of kale chips I got there from Live. Kale chips are the best!!

I also got a purple glass bottle from Bob, the Canadian E3Live distributor, to make solar water in. The purple bottle only lets the suns very healing ultra-violet rays in. !!
..and a cacao, licorice, chicory tea that I am going to go make right now.

oh,and something else exciting. Tracy Ha makes this special smokeless smudge from Canadian Sweetgrass - which is commonly used but hard to distill into an oil, it takes a lot!! and she said there was only one guy who makes it, in northern Alberta and thats where she gets it and blends it with Spanish sage and Moroccan Cedarwood. She sprayed some on Marie & I & it felt so clear after!! It was amazing. She said she thought that this was more effective than smoke smudging.

I got some and also a small wing for smoke smudging. I debated it, because it was from an animal..and I am trying not to buy leather anymore.. but it just didn't feel wrong. This seemed so different, and although I am not ok with myself eating meat.. I felt ok with this. Maybe because it was a more natural process, not factory farming.. that is where my real concern comes from. It's hard to believe how uncaring and cruel we humans can be sometimes. But, thats life. ..and we learn.

I just found this while looking for a pic:

Morning Star is continually creating from the raw materials she finds on her travels. Understanding that creatures are continually vacating their living forms to move onto higher expressions of life. In all indigenous cultures their were those who wore the bones and remnants of animals, bringing healing to individuals, community and the earth through their honouring of life through the animals parts.

Unfortunately we have lost this connection with the earth and man has become fearful of death and the use of animal parts - 'what man fears he destroys' ~Indian saying

Is very true, as humanity becomes more disconnected from the earth in a sterile environment of paper, plastic, metal and concrete. Many spend thlives going from the insides of houses to concrete to cars to the inside of office buildings, with only ever seeing greenery on the discovery channel or in plants brought in to simulate a natural environment. Humanity has a sickness - that is brought about by the disconnection f´rom the natural world - high blood pressure, cancers, stress, obesity and diabeties are telling us, something is wrong with our relationship with both ourselves and the planet. It is time to sit among the trees again and listen to the birds, feel the tactile sensation of furs, feathers, skins and leather. Remembering we did not create the hoop of life, but are a part of it and as we affect it, we are affected by it. Remember to breathe deeply and be in an Attitude of Gratitude for All That Is.

And - on Thurs evening I went to see Gabriel Cousens who was here in Toronto for the first time in 8 years! Marie and I brought up a harmonium for his musical- meditative event yesterday Creating Peace by Being Peace and Kirtan which took place yesterday.
It was the first time I saw and heard him speak in person, that was really great. !

..and now I am tired. The kids were all here for dinner earlier (Kaiyas still here), we ordered Thai, ..and they had a green salad with passion-fruit dressing for me. Nice!! ..so I am off to a cup of tea and back into my book! ..xox Sweet Dreams ; )