Accomplishment @ MindSay

Guess who is a licensed driver now.

I KNOW.

I'm just turning 24 next week and stuff ... thought it was time to get that done.
Oh, and my 2nd permit expired today, and I didn't feel like getting it a third time, so today was the day.

MEGA stress related to this event, such as waking up at 1:30 and being unable to fall back asleep until after 3 (not the best sleep levels to try to teach on, FYI), almost crying a few times this morning, and white knuckles gripping the wheel during my practice lesson, but the result was a 'Pass', and thus... no more anyone saying, "Well, if you had your license, you could ----".

Of course, I have no car, no money for either a car or car insurance, or anything of the sort, so it's pretty much EXACTLY the same boat I've been in my entire life, but I'm allowed to operate vehicles now.

Oh, and I decided this was the thing momentous enough to update my first Facebook status.  :-P

Things I did whilst enjoying Earth Hour:

- Knitted a few rows on the scarf I'm working on.

- Read a few chapters of a book I bought ages ago but never have time to pick up.

- Wrote a letter to a friend by candlelight and pretended I was in Colonial times where this was standard procedure.

- Realized how ridiculous it is to be nostalgic for something I've never experienced (you know, living in Colonial America) but continued to do it anyway.

- Played a quick game of 'Tissue' with my cat (I throw it up, he bats it around).

- Planned my 2 cooking lessons for this upcoming week (cookies with my reading group, Hawaiian Pizza with my writing boys).

- Decided to spend the hard-earned, not-really-there-to-spare $200 on an iPod in the next upcoming days.  I have the iPhone, and I am so NOT a tech person, but I use my phone...for phone purposes (SHOCK!).  I dial the digits and I send the occasional text; no pictures, no checking-of internet, no music.  If I could go back in time, I would not have let my father and the saleseman talk me into it because I DON'T USE IT.  So I need a music player.  I've made a solemn promise that if I do this, if I spend this money, I will use it to go on at least 2 long walks a week (3 when school lets out).  I like to listen to music when I work out, and this will afford me that opportunity.

*Earth Hour sorta turned into 'Earth 3 Hours' because I was so engrossed in stuff (especially the first 3) that I looked up and it was 11:45.  Oops.  Oh well; can't wait for next year's!

one of my purchases from the fiber show sunday was a drop spindle. this is a small and lovely wooden tool used for thousands of years to spin fiber into yarn before the invention of the spinning wheel.  I read the directions and even watched a demo and a video and I am pround to announce that after one hour I have 32 inches of white yarn. YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING you might be thinking.  I mean now I can understand the meaning of the word spinster and how desperately one wanted to avoid it. much better to work with the yarn after someone else has spun it and made skeins.

 

I am not going to be a spinner. I thought it would be nice to be able to make my own small quantities of yarn from wool I dyed myself and of course now I am having second thoughts. I must admit though when the first part actually "took" and the fluffs of wool were turning into a slubby twisted yarn I was sort of amazed. like the first time you make bread from scratch or see a seed you planted sprout or see a baby that you grew inside you. yes indeed. pretty pretty good.

Off to school I go ... It's midterm week.  One test, one paper and 2 "portfolio" projects due today!  It's cool though.  As an adult, I actually DO the work!  ;)  I get off on that feeling of accomplishment.  I DO like the kudos from the teachers as well!  lol

 

later ...

 

~ B

WORK AND ACCOMPLISHMENT

We have yet another story of Wo for you. Now Wo is not a male or a female, as we have said before. Wo is a wo-man. So Wo can be either gender in your mind, but we'll call him a "he" because my partner is a he. You realize that in your languages everything is gendered, don't you? English, the language that my partner speaks, is the least-gendered language on the planet. Almost all of the other languages spoken on Earth must have every object be masculine or feminine. You're consumed with it. It's not that way on the other side of the veil, dear Human Beings. There's no gender on my side of the veil. Get used to it!

This is number five and it's about Wo, who asked for ascension status. He sat before Spirit and indicated that he wanted ascension status. "I have pure intent," he said. "May I begin the process?" And God saw the purity and said, "YES!" The angels were excited.

Then Wo, on his own, examined what to do next. He stood from that meeting and said, "I've got it! Now, what I will do is work hard in order to climb this ascension mountain, because I know that an ascension energy is the goal and I'm going to climb this mountain to get there. I know what to do. I've got these steps over here, and I'm going to do this and this, for it is the way of it. I'm on my way to ascension."

So Wo started climbing the mountain, and climb he did, for three years. He went here and he went there; he attended classes; he read books; he fasted; he prayed; he meditated; and he followed the many steps that he felt were leading him to the top. Oh, he slipped a few times, bruised his elbow, hurt his toe. [Kryon smile] But he got right up and started again. "I can do this," Wo would mutter to himself. "I know I can get to the top since Spirit said I could have ascension. I'll get to the top!" And he did.

There he stood, at the top of the mountain, and claimed his ascension status and it was beautiful. "Oh, I feel peaceful. I know this is the beginning of a better life," he said, "and I know I have a lot to learn, but this is the first step and I've worked hard to get to it and it took years!"

Wo was congratulating himself when he happened to look over on the back side of the mountain and he gasped in horror! There was a ski lift! A real ski lift! And there were people like him on that ski lift. They were all coming up the mountain one at a time. The total time from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain was three minutes! They were experiencing ascension status!

Wo cried, "It's not fair. It's not fair."

He went into meditation and said, "Dear Spirit, it's not fair. Why is it this way? I've spent all that time and all that hard work getting up the mountain. Why didn't you tell me about the ski lift?"

And Spirit says, "Wo, you never asked, did you? You took a Human assumption to the maximum and never once examined anything else. You felt you had figured it out, had to work for it, and so you did. It was your choice to make the climb difficult.”

Human Being, let me tell you where the ski lift is. Each one of you carries in your DNA the profundity of lifetimes of sacred experience. Shamans, you know who you are in the room. Have you ever wondered, regarding your past lives, who you've been and what you've done? I'll tell you: Those who spend time in a room like this have been there and done that [massive experience with hard work on Earth] and carry with them in their Akashic Record all of the mastery and the Shamanship and experience they'll ever need to go into this ascension status.

Do you understand? The "work" is cumulative, and you've already done most of it by the time you ever have the conscious thought to ask to work on yourself spiritually. You don't have to work and you don't have to climb that mountain and it won't take years. Just go to the Akash and open that jar that carries the sacredness in it of your experiences on this planet, and put it upon yourself and walk out as a Shaman. You can do it now if you wish! So for Wo, we say that if he had only looked at the divine instead of the Human way of doing things, he would not have spent three years climbing a mountain that he didn't have to climb.

How many of you feel that you've got to work for it? "Kryon, I'm not sure I like your message,” you say. “We don't have to work for some of these things?" No, that's not what I said. I'm telling you that you already did! You want to do it again? You want to go through it again? Why use Human logic with a spiritual attribute? Reach in and take your divinity and pull it out of your own experience...one that surpasses almost anything you could dream of. That is, unless you buy into the Human idea that in order to progress spiritually, you have to suffer a bit? Does that sound like God's logic or the idea of men? Some of you will feel wiser tomorrow because you have given intent for your mastery.

"Kryon, what is mastery?" I'll tell you what it is, Human Being. It's when you walk around and you're not afraid of life. It's when you're peaceful when others are not. The situations that would cause drama in others do not in you. It's when the world around you is in chaos and you walk into it and you don't feel chaos. Instead, at some level you feel the wisdom of the ages. You absolutely know it doesn't have to affect you, and it doesn't have to touch you. It's when somebody yells at you and calls you a name and your first reaction is to wonder if they're right! That's mastery. A Human's first reaction is to fight back. A master's first reaction is to check themselves for integrity. Blessed is the Human Being who's asked for that this night for you're going to start to see a change in your life, and the earth will be a better place because of what you've done.

--Kryon