Nancy's Blog August 20, 2010 OF TIME, TWEETS AND SOULS FLYING FREE With all the Facebook, Tweets and Twits stuff going on, I sometimes feel like it's all too much. Just give me a real live human being with whom to converse while sitting in the shade of the redwood tree in my own front yard. No computers, no cell phones, nothing that needs rebooting or recharging! (Except me!)   Especially this week, I feel deep appreciation for the simple things in life....and for life itself. ***************** Earlier this week, I spent nearly 72 hours with a dear woman named Jean, a former client. I had the honor of playing the role of "spiritual midwife" as she transitioned from her body. She'd been valiantly dealing with cancer for several years, and at age 74, it was now time to let go, and move on. After many long hours, during which her body and soul prepared themselves for this transition, I was gifted to be at her side at the moment of release. I was able to witness the look of indescribable joy and awe that shone through her barely opened eyelids in the instant before she left her body. She'd been unconscious for the better part of three days, so for her to return to awareness just enough to reveal that beauty to me - and to her daughter, Sherrie, who was on her other side - was an unspeakably precious gift. I don't know precisely what Jean experienced in that moment, but I do know she wanted us to know it was beautiful beyond imagining. A single tear rolled down her parched cheek, and then she was gone. Sherrie and I sat wide-eyed, feeling an indescribable awe and Lightness of Being, as we both cried and laughed and hugged across her mom's now-uninhabited body.  Then, I turned and softly played "Amazing Grace" on my crystal singing bowls, as Jean's soul flew free.  ************* So, although time marches on at an ever-increasing rate here on this earthly plane, I've been freshly reminded that what truly matters knows not the bounds of time, nor the confines of the body. Who we truly are could never be expressed in a tweet, a twit, a blog, or a book of any kind - Face or otherwise!   As the birds flutter amongst the branches above me, singing their songs with joyful abandon, I find myself joyfully reflecting that each of us has a unique song to sing... and wings with which to fly.  I am blessed with that knowing. I wish for you the same blessing. Namaste.

Relax Into Healing... April 30, 2007 THE VALUE OF SIMPLY BEING How can it possibly be the last day of April already??  I've committed to myself to make a monthly entry in these "blog" pages, and.....well....obviously, I'm one of those people who work well with deadlines.  I will tell you honestly I had to wrestle with a bit of resistance to get my overtired body up from lying on the couch, where I'd been watching the birds circle and land on top of the giant redwood tree in the front yard, and come back into my office and open my laptop.  (OK, I had to wrestle wtih a LOT of resistance to get up and make this entry......to keep my commitment to myself.) But because I believe there is great value in keeping one's commitments, I am now happily tapping away on the keyboard. And because there is also great value in lying on the couch watching the birds circle at sunset,(which I admit I rarely take time to do) I will now return to that very activity, and leave you with these wise words: "Sometimes, on a summer morning, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumacs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. "I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been." -----Henry David Thoreau in Walden Pond Thank-you, Henry, for the reminder that sometimes BEing can be far more valuable that DOing. Namaste. Archives January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 September 2007 December 2007 February 2008 May 2008 June 2008 September 2008 October 2008 December 2008 January 2009 April 2009 July 2009