My Yesterday...

Emmmmmmm, not too far from Stirling actually! Only about 800 miles! A plane would get you here within the hour though! I've been out again today and will post a discussion about that, shortly. I've uploaded my pics so it's all systems go. It's still a bit wet out by the millponds and in the woods at the moment, but I went up on the Downs, where it's all chalk and porous. Brightest Blessings, my dear friend, and thank you for your contribution. xxx

Yes, my friend, I had a wonderful day. I've never seen the pyramids for real, but they look gigantic in pictures and on the TV. I agree, the sea's waves bring tremendous energies to the shore. On the south coast, near me, we have pebble beaches and the drag of the waves on the pebbles is awesome. I love water. Brightest Blessings, my dear friend and thank you for your contribution. xxx

That would be great pal , do you have my new email? some years ago Hubby and I quite a few of the abbeys round the borders , we did about 7 or 8 it was really lovely , We went to Rimini in Italy a few times too and when we went to San Marino I felt as if there was presence there . It just had such a beautiful feeling . I just don't know how to describe it really xx

I'm not sure whether I have your new e-mail my friend. Perhaps you could send it in IM to make sure? I get those feelings in a lot of places, including churches, cemeteries, ancient burial places, etc. Forgot to put the pic in last time. Try again!

I like all those historical things too. I visited a monastery or friary last year, and loved it. I'll post a pic here for your hubby. Yes, I often think back, and the strange thing is, I can actually envisage those times as if I'm really there, so I really do believe I was here before, and one time, during the Dark Ages. Difficult to explain that, but it's a strong feeling I have. Funnily enough, I wrote an article on Leeds Castle, in Kent, yesterday. If you'd like to have a read, let me know and I'll send it via e-mail. Thank you for your sentiments my friend.. I hope so too, although I weary a little faster these days! Brightest Blessings, and thank you for your contribution. xxxx

I love to walk along the seafront and undercliff walk, as well, my friend. As you say, the smell of the ocean, and the lapping of the waves on the beach, is wonderful. Water is very calming, I find, especially moving water. Brightest Blessings my dear friend, and thank you for your contribution. xx

Don't wish the kids' lives away my friend... they grow up too quickly as it is, and you'll miss those tiring days out with them, when they've left the nest, just as I did. But, then you'll be able to take your time out and contemplate life and the beauty and significance of Nature, my friend. You have that time to look forward to. Stonehenge is a mysterious, energy filled place, and I love to spend time there, and at many of the megalithic sites here, in the south. Avebury is quite magickal because if you look at the Stones there, they seem to take the form of deities and animals. It's quite an experience. Brightest Blessings my friend, and thank you for your contribution. xxx

Oh, you make that sound so wonderful, my friend. I love to walk and sit by the sea too. In fact, when I lived in Brighton, which is a coastal town, I used to sit on the pier, where you could watch not only the activity on the water, but on the shore as well. I could sit for hours taking it all in. There's a pebble beach there as well, where you can hear the pebbles shifting with the waves as they recede. Brightest Blessings, my friend, and thank you for your descriptive contribution. xx

Yes, you will, my friend. It's quite a satisfying thing to do. I got myself a bit lost and it's all a part of the "healing" process. Now the decent weather's here, I shall be going out a lot more... my knee needs strengthening up again as I haven't been walking too far from home. Brightest Blessings, my dear friend and thank you for your contribution. x

It certainly helps, Deeeky. My freedom to be at one with Nature and to be able to find my inner Self is important to me. I hate being indoors all the time, especially when the weather's good. Also, I need to re-strengthen my knee after about three months of struggle. It's feeling so much better now, so there's no reason why I can't get it back to strength. Yesterday was another test, but more on that later. Today, I'm relaxing with my son and his family, as usual. Brightest Blessings and thank you for your contribution, my dear friend. x

Yes, we have, when I wrote about Megalithic and Neolithic sites, my friend. I want to go to Dartmoor badly. My close friend visits Torquay and Exeter almost every June, and spends quite a bit of time up there. He's promised to take me down there sometime, but I don't think it will be this year. Not sure how he's fixed for going away, as he had an op recently, and extra time off work. I went up once, in a car, but it was beginning to get dark, so it was up, and straight back down, without getting out. The strangest thing happened on the way down though, which I'll never forget. Maybe that's what draws me back... I don't know. I've been to Exmoor many a time... the top of Summer Hill is one of my favourite "escapes". It's so quiet up there, and as high as Lynton, if not higher. Quite a climb but a good place for finding your inner Self. I'm looking at visiting Hever Castle sometime this year, for a jousting tournament, and also, will possibly be going back to Glastonbury, very soon. Brightest Blessings, and thank you for your contribution, my friend. xx

It's not a bad journey from the Isle of Wight, I wouldn't think, but you have your own heritage there as well, my friend. True, what you say about the sample stones, and if you ever manage to get close enough to touch the standing Stones, then you will feel much more... that's a promise. I think you can get into the area whatever celebration but certainly, both solstices, from ten, on the eve until nine o'clock the following morning. Quite a magickal feeling, especially in the dark of night. Yes, it's understandable that they fence the area off, but what I don't really understand is why the cordon is so far from the Stones. It could have been made a lot closer, to my mind, but then, I suppose it wouldn't avail the number of visitors they get, to the view. Brightest Blessings, my dear friend, and thank you for your contribution. I hope you get to walk in and touch the Stones someday. There is a lot of energy in them. xx

Yes, even more amazing when you actually see the enormity of the Stones and realise that they go some four feet under the ground. To imagine that the they were moved from Wales, all the way to Salisbury Plain, leaves one in awe of the capabilities of the Ancients. As it happens, I didn't find it at all tiring, my friend. I felt more refreshed than anything. Yes, it's good to be able to get around a bit again, and I hope that you'll soon be in the same position. How is your treatment going? Brightest Blessings, my dear friend and thank you for your contribution. xxx

Well done, you! I'm convinced that medical intervention is not always a good thing and try to avoid visiting my doctor as much as possible. Where there's an alternative cure, I feel it's the best way to go. After all, most medicines are evolved from herbal remedies, anyway. As long as you know what you're doing with herbs and alternatives, I find it the better way to go. It was acupuncture that cured the problems which resulted from my RSI. I just never got around to sending you details of the other experience I had, and in the end, it slipped my mind, completely, with everything else that is going on. I'll try to sort that out, as it's been sort of put to the back of my mind, just lately. Brightest Blessings. xx

Well, thank you, my dear friend and soul sister. I guess it just comes from writing what's in my heart and soul. It doesn't seem to be a difficult task for me, but you are my equal at least, when it comes to writing. There is a whole group of people who would love to come to Stonehenge and meet up, so perhaps we ought to arrange one big exodus from the States, to Stonehenge. I'd be happy to meet up with you all, and spend some days or even weeks in that part of the country with you all. It's not so far away really... a couple of hours. Yes, it is great to take time out for oneself every so often, to charge up one's batteries, so to speak. I'm a bit lost at the moment and finding a need to seek resolve. Strengthening my leg is of the essence too... I've sat around for far too long. The caravan sounds a great idea, my friend, and holidays are available whereby you can trot around the country lanes in one. Sounds like heaven to me! Thank you for your contribution my friend, and Brightest Blessings, always. xx

Hello again.. Always a joy to share with you too...and thanks for your comments about my writing...I don't think we'd be bragging if we said...takes one...to know one. Famous baseball player Dizzy Dean said..."It isn't bragging...when you do it." I always like that and often remind clients we struggle with owning what they do. Anyway, on to the topic. When I hear about your plans to become more active after taking down time to heal your knee...I am in the same place. I have injured both my knees with the very active life I normally lead. Hiking, rock wall climbing, biking, and thousands of hours digging and cultivating our many gardens with pitch fork and lots of compression on the knee caps. When I re-injured my right knee a couple of years ago and then the left one this year I have been the most inactive I have ever been. Thankfully David was willing to pick up the slack and I stayed on my hiney and worked on my writing and developing content for the web-page and doing some photojournalism work. Like you I have been feeling out of shape and yet help is on the way! The first specialist wanted to operate on my knees and of course with my focus of proactive health I refused and went the natural route. Physiotherapy, acupuncture, lots of rest and the supplements GLH/MSM and Chondriton. About a month ago I saw a knee specialist who took forms of my knees and tomorrow I am going to pick up my spiffy new braces that will take the pressure off the knees and realign them so I can walk and walk and walk some more without adding any friction to the knees. I chose a bright yellow with black and I am calling them my bumble bee knee braces. As I am sure you are aware scientists say that bumble bees are not aerodynamically designed to fly with their big bodies and short wings...and yet they do. The fact that I have been able to ward off surgery and bring my knees back to where they are with Spirit's assistance...and my whole person healing practices is why I chose the colors I did. I am also back to doing yoga daily. I used to be a fitness leader at a gym and know how to set up my own cross training program...and from yesterday forward I made the firm intention to align my biology with the highest frequencies possible and make it as strong, flexible and strong as my inner self is. I am ready to have my outer reflect my inner in ways that will allow me to stay youthful and strong as the years go by. Youthing versus aging is a course David and I developed...time to get off my butt and get moving. You and I are great examples that we are only young once..but we can be kids forever!!!! So as I strut around with my BB Braces it is yet another way to show that 'miracles are simple something people haven't seen yet.' I might post a discussion about it...if not I will send you a photo. I am still confused about what you requested of me that I didn't receive. Do you want to resend it? As I said in my other reply I am always interested in you and what you are doing. We are kindred spirits. I love the idea of a group gathering at Stonehenge...how absolutely amazing that would be. If you ever travel to Manitoba...Southwestern area...there is guest room awaiting. Lets hold those thoughts and do our best to manifest them! We are off to Winnipeg tomorrow to pick up those braces...and will check back on Wednesday...or tomorrow evening if we aren't back too late. Raia

I've only been to Glastonbury once, and I felt connected. Something... a spirit, or a deity... I don't know what, entered me whilst I sat on a bench. All I was really aware of was a robin about an inch from my foot. He was talking to me all the while, and he wasn't afraid. I meant to look up the robin and see its powers. Will do that now, I think. Anyway, something entered via my power hand, and I felt it go up my arm and then down inside me. This will sound weird or frightening to others, but I spent the rest of my time in the Chalice Gardens, almost in a trance... especially when I sat in the shelter above the Well. I have to go back... I feel the call. When it will be, I'm not sure but since that visit, I've changed as a person. It's difficult to explain how, but I feel different. I'm going to go check out the robin now, and will let you know what I find. Brightest Blessings my dear friend and thank you for your contribution. You reminded me of a very special moment just then. xxx

Yes, I agree. I only wish I could get there more often. I know the robin was there for a purpose, as it sat by my feet for a good ten minutes, and I noticed that, even though I wasn't really with it... it was only when another woman came along the ridge, that it hopped up onto a branch, as though it didn't appreciate the intrusion. xx

WOW! that is awe inspiring-but it doesn't surprise me about you,being a very spiritual person the way the robin' appeared to you is justification of your progress also maybe he is your totem. I feel the calling to go back to Glastonbury too very much am not sure when myself when but wil definitley be going-the Chalice Gardens is a fantastic place to go I have been many times and come away with so much energy,peace and happiness going there to me is a cleansing time-bright blessings littleowl

Yes, it was just what I needed right now. I'm trying to find my way at the moment... seem a bit lost, but the Henge certainly helps at times like that, as does being at one with Nature. Like you, I like to be on my own at times and yes, I agree we all need it at times. Keep faith, and you'll get to Stonehenge someday, my friend. Brightest Blessings and thank you for your contribution. x

Yes, I think everybody needs it at some time, my friend. Thank you... it took a long time, but my knee is a whole lot better now. I think the cold and damp didn't help it too much either. Stonehenge is a really intriguing site, full of mystery and energies, my friend. I love to go there and spend a few hours whiling away the time. Brightest Blessings and thank you for your contribution, my friend. xx

Oh my... it sounds you're stuck in a bit of a rut at the moment my friend, but when your studying is finished, I think you might very well want to spread your wings a little and enjoy some of the solitary times that we all seem to, a little later in life. Brightest Blessings and thank you for your contribution.

Wow... yes that would be lovely! There are lots of other ancient sites around the area too, like Silbury Hill, Avebury Stone Circle and West Kennett Longbarrow. None is quite as powerful as Stonehenge, but all worth a visit, even to refresh the spiritual being in you. Also, it's not far to the West Country or Berkshire from there, where you will find many other ancient and historical sites. It's not a bad thing to listen to the spirit voices on the wind, my friend. You'll always end up where you're meant to go. I love to take lots of pictures too. Brightest Blessings and thank you for your contribution. xx