Showing posts with label animal totems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal totems. Show all posts

Monday, April 30, 2012

A New Perspective




My friend Sarah is celebrating one year of Follow Your Feel Good, and she asked her face book friends today what their favorite place in nature was and why. There will be a drawing on Friday, and three lucky picks will win a copy of her book, What the Walrus Knows: An Eccentric's Field Guide to Working With Beastie Energies.

I encourage you all to check out Sarah's work, as she is a genius at finding the "feel good" in life, and helping others tap it's power. She can also have you talking to elephants before you know it, but that's another story. I've learned so much from her.

Today's post was inspired by my answer to Sarah's question.

I loved playing in puddles as a kid. I loved rerouting the minuscule streams in my driveway after a rain. I could get absolutely lost in tiny swirls of sand, a trickle's force as it plunges over a pine needle dam. Crouched and bent I entered a mysterious world.

So today, although we've had no recent rain, I took my camera to the driveway, and shot a few pictures from the wee perspective of my driveway's miniature riverbed. The view I got was a little tilted, a little out of focus, a little eschew, a little "Alice in Wonderland", and it's out my door on an ordinary day, waiting to be discovered.

We think nothing ever changes.

We think life plods along and if we're stuck in a fog, we have to accept it, when in reality...

...we're a tilt away from a new view. The smallest movement can open a door to a new definition.

JOY: everywhere we look, every thing we hear, every sensation beneath our feet, if only we will see.

♥ K.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Pursuit of Creativity Challenge ~Day Five~



This little grouping of treasures adorns my windowsill.
A string of beads for Rainbow Meditation~
A bottle I bought just because~
A small pocket mirror I received from my friend Sarah~
A cloth bag I created to hold totems, good luck charms, and copies of prayers I don't want to forget~
And a passport cover, for a yet to be acquired passport, because I'm going to Italy.


Kimberly

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Finding Five ~Day Three~

Monkey madness. Who knew living in northern Wisconsin I could come across images of, and references to, monkeys--five times over the course of a day. Here you go:

  • (Okay, maybe for this one I cheated a little bit.) I typed in Monkeys on Pandora and jammed out to The Monkees, The Beatles, Good Love, and many other mid-sixty tunes. I was thinking "monkey" the whole time. :)
  • Squirrel! Radio featured the monkey today. I learned how they represent ancient wisdom, and the light and dark side of the human psyche. Who knew?
  • Heard an ad for QuitPlan (a way to stop smoking) that refers to smoking as having a monkey on your back.
  • Sat with my son while watching Public Television. Guess what the show was about...Baboons.
  • Thought about "monkey hugs" as I kissed my teenage children good night. They used to wrap their little legs around me with arms around my neck. Wow, how I miss that.
So there you have it! See you tomorrow for another grand adventure into finding five. Always remember--what you focus on grows, so see the good stuff.

Kimberly

p.s. Here's a link to Squirrel! Radio http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.talkshoe.com%2Ftalkshoe%2Fweb%2FtalkCast.jsp%3FmasterId%3D86437%26cmd%3Dtc&h=be03c
Check it out at 1:00 ET every Wednesday with Sarah and Tami. Absolute blast. You'll learn so much you never thought you could know about animal totems and the power they can have in your life.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Boogie Down ~Day Three~

My friends Sarah Seidelmann and Tami McCall are certified Martha Beck Life Coaches who co-host a weekly program on Talk Shoe called Squirrel! Radio.

Every Wednesday at 1:00 ET, the show explores the meaning behind animal totems, and how to use the insight and wisdom gained to better our lives. I highly recommend checking it out. Look for site info below.

Today on Squirrel! Radio we talked about the Buffalo; my chosen "Beastie of the Year". He will have special significance for me as the days of 2011 roll by.

Here is a sliver of Buffalo wisdom:

It is the totem of abundance. 
Do not push or force, but follow the easiest path.

Focus on abundance, express gratitude, and trust Spirit.  

In keeping with our weekly retreat, I typed "Buffalo" into Pandora, and got a list of artists and songs with that word in the title. I clicked on Donna The Buffalo, and it was a good choice. Here is a sampling of lyrics from her song Family Picture:

The world is a wondrous puzzle
everyone a piece and every piece fits
every piece is alive making energy
energy pulls the pieces together...

Every piece is a part of the whole
No one piece more important than the rest
So stand up, take a number
Every piece here's got someplace to go...

It all fits together in a family picture
and every wallO's got room for that.

To learn more about Squirrel! Radio, or Sarah and Tami's work as Life Coaches, check out the websites below.

http://www.joyjunket.com/metamorphosis-coaching/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Tami-McCall-Life-Coaching/141643572516194
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=86437&cmd=tc

Thanks for visiting! Keep your dancing shoes on.

Still hummin' a tune,
Kimberly