There's no use in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work, anyway Tuesday :-)

A therapy night for us and some thoughtful reflection.

Where do you find real nourishment?

There are thousand of things in the world that provide you with only mediocre nourishment; the influences that deeply enrich you with their blessings are much smaller in number.

To say it another way: You derive a bare amount of inspiration and teaching from the great majority of people, songs, images, words, stories, environments, and sights; whereas you draw life-sustaining illumination and spirit-ennobling motivation from just a precious few.

I invite you to identify that special minority, and take aggressive steps to be in ongoing communion with it.

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My Ancestry DNA results came in. Just as I suspected, my great great grandfather was a monarch butterfly.  Much of who I am is still wriggling under a stone.I am part larva, but part hummingbird too. There is dinosaur tar in my bone marrow. My golden hair sprang out of a meadow in Palestine. Genghis Khan is my fourth cousin, but I didn't get his dimples. My loins are loaded with banyan seeds from Sri Lanka,but I descended from Ravanna, not Ram. My uncle is a mastodon.

There are traces of all people in my saliva.

3.7 billion years ago I swirled in golden dust,dreaming of a planet overgrown with lingams and yonis.

More recently, say 60,000 B.C I walked on hairy paws across a land bridgejoining Sweden to Botswana.

I can no longer hide my heritage of raindrops and cougar scat.

I am made of my grandmother's tears.

Admit it, you have wings, vast and golden,like mine, like mine.

You have sweat, black and salty, like mine, like mine.

You have secrets silently singing in your blood, like mine, like mine.

Don't pretend that earth is not one family.

Don't pretend we never hung from the same branch.

Don't pretend we don't ripen on each other's breath.

Don't pretend we didn't come here to forgive.

- by Fred LaMotte

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Anaïs Nin said, "There are two ways to  reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work." For two reasons, Anaïs's formulation is especially apropos for you right now. First, you should not allow yourself to be seduced, tempted, or won over by sweet gestures alone. You must insist on sweet gestures that are synergized by a sense of wonder and an appreciation of your unique beauty. Second, you should adopt the same approach for those you want to seduce, tempt, or win over: sweet gestures seasoned with wonder and an appreciation of their unique beauty.

Buenas noches!

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