Oh wow, miracles are real, because somehow this jolt of reality as poetry arrived unbidden, and synchronistically, when this is all that I have been thinking of/feeling for the past week (or lifetime).
Andrea, you have been and continue to be one of my most effective prescriptions; medicine that I take in willingly and lovingly. May your medicine, in all of its forms, prove as miraculous as mine feels. May your post-materialist perspective bless you and all those you love, especially those fur-babies.
May you find strength and support from all of us that you have touched so deeply with this note, with all your spoken artistry, and with your ever-unfolding imagination of what is real beyond mind and matter. Thank you deeply 🙏🏻❤️😎
Andrea, I'm back with more blessings to you ... this time for the reference to The Telepathy Tapes. I was in the middle of listening to another book, but thought I would check that podcast first. O...M...G...🤯 (but with a happy face). This is also such important medicine for me right now, as I'm deep into the materialist-spiritual tug-of-war as it relates to my ego and letting go. To a science/physics/engineer like myself this has become a somewhat existential question. And I think these might push me over the mountain of materialism. I'm starting to see the view on the other side. Starting to loosen my mind's clench-hold on its view of reality. Starting, maybe, to surrender. Which feels so good. No one wants to cling as tightly as I find myself clinging. But I want more than just accepting these mind-blowing additions to our seemingly tight-nit reality. I want to fall in love with this expanded landscape of reality, and I am letting my heart lead me on this journey. And these Telepathy episodes (especially episode 3 and 4 so far) have blown open my heart and had me laughing and crying as I'm walking on the beach with AirPods in my ears. People probably think I am a nut case. It will be interesting to see my family's reactions when I turn them on to it. I will request they listen at least until Episode 3, and I figure anyone will be hooked by then. Anyways, a long note just to say Thank You again. You cannot know how much your post and this bonus reference has meant to me. Bless you Andrea 🙏🏻❤️😎
The Telepathy Tapes - Me too! On Saturday I laid on the couch for hours, in pain from a recent treatment, and after being blown away by Andreas recent entry, I was yearning for ‘something’…. more… then I tapped into Episode 1 of The Telepathy Tapes, and have loved being led gently and expertly into this world I knew nothing about. I devoured all episodes in 4 days. Took copious notes in my journal. I feel an undergirding of hope in a way I haven’t felt for a while. Thanks Andrea!
Wouldn’t it be interesting if all of us chronically unwell people, lying in bed for various reasons and feeling we’ve little to offer, were listening to the Tapes and birthing a quiet revolution in the way humanity percieves reality?
And I saw and felt and wandered in my own dark shadow that scares me with its sharp edges and violent imagery: the giant alligator its maw wide open, razor teeth ready to receive me..”and my little dog, too.” The gator’s red breath smelled of fresh fish and old blood and my fear was raw as his next meal. Then my crazy little dachshund, forgetting she is blind, can suddenly see and she begins to run the full length of him to reach his tail and take him “ off guard.” I chase her, catch her, and fold her in my arms, my protective spirit giving me courage in the face of fear. And the bull gator flipped around to face us, mouth closed. I was unafraid. He stared at me. We looked deep into each other’s eyes and I could see sunlight dancing in the amber. Could he see bright jewels sparking the ocean of my eyes? So we remained until I woke.
Oh, yes. I am at this point in my treatment that the only thing that matters is my gut and intuition which is now totally in opposition with the white men in white coats. The "treatments" for my terminal cancer, if I follow my physician's advice will likely make what's left of my life, unlivable. I just completed a solo three week camping and hiking trip. If I accept the treatments, that will be the last one. My spirit and my heart says no. I've escaped the cage of my mind.
I feel so much gratitude for all the wisdom you share with us through your poems and through sharing your journey. Thank you for blessing us all with this abundance.
PS - Sometime last year I saw you and Meg at a local garden center, all of us shopping for flowers and plants. I couldn't decide if I should speak to you about this gratitude, or let you have the privacy of being in public with people who love you admiring quietly from afar. I like to think the two of you felt a bit of warmth wash over you as you went on with your day.
So, here’s a thing: you are so beautifully connected to people, to wonder, to nature, to love.. you are contagious. I am so lucky to get to share your work with my high school students who, when they read your work aloud in class, put their hands over their hearts and often apologise for stray tears. They also raise their fists in the air for the humanism you represent. I teach in an international school, so there are some who are newly introduced to standing up for marginalised voices. They’re listening. Some are so well in-tuned and you speak to their cores.
I “adopted” one of my former students, a Ukrainian (non-binary) who has been displaced since the bombs fell in Kiev. I gave them “You Better Be Lightning” and your work has been so healing for them. They’ve even returned to my classes to help me teach it.
You matter. Sending all of the best in my heart to you. Thank you.
Just when I am overwhelmed by all the noise, you come and silence it. You have always done that for me, remind me that I am the one in control of the volume button. I can even turn it all off. I just need to remind myself I create my own reality. And Lonesome Windmill is an amazing image.
I've never known someone who clings so tightly to life with just her words. Your words. And who is also letting go every moment. I'm crying for you, for someone I don't know, but do, somehow. It is your gift, to feel known. To touch a part in your readers that they recognize deeply. And I'm crying for the pure beauty of your poems. THIS poem. Ah! Please keep correcting your mind. Please keep tuning into what is really real. Thank you. What a gift you are!
Your courage and clarity are inspiring. How we spend our days matters more than how many days we spend humaning on this fragile planet. Beyond this place is a mysterious realm where our souls continue to experience wonder and joy. Wishing you fulfillment on your journey.
After reading your post today, I am convinced that what will heal us is a return to our child's heart--the innocent one, the one that had faith and imagined other entities and worlds beyond what reason and rationale provided. A return to hope. A return to love. A return to wonder.
And your final thoughts reminded me of something I heard Rick Doblin say in an interview with Shawn Ryan on the therapeutic use of psychedelics: "We are returning to a more spiritualized humanity." I have never forgotten that.
Welcome back. We will always wait for you, no matter how long it takes.
Oh Andrea, this is a gift. Thank you. You help us all open the cages of our minds. Last night I heard from a young woman in Gaza, speaking to a roomfull of US college students over zoom, say "May your dreams be bigger than the obstacles you face." We all need to be dreaming, bigger than the obstacles. With love and gratitude to you.
Dear Andrea! Your thoughts and words always touch me to my core. Wishing you endless rolling, green meadows and baskets of drippy, sweet peaches and strawberries on a shortcake! May you find the blessings you give to us so freely. You have enriched my life! And yes I’m wearing and loving my knitted hate/hat all winter in frigid Michigan! ❤️
Oh wow, miracles are real, because somehow this jolt of reality as poetry arrived unbidden, and synchronistically, when this is all that I have been thinking of/feeling for the past week (or lifetime).
Andrea, you have been and continue to be one of my most effective prescriptions; medicine that I take in willingly and lovingly. May your medicine, in all of its forms, prove as miraculous as mine feels. May your post-materialist perspective bless you and all those you love, especially those fur-babies.
May you find strength and support from all of us that you have touched so deeply with this note, with all your spoken artistry, and with your ever-unfolding imagination of what is real beyond mind and matter. Thank you deeply 🙏🏻❤️😎
Andrea, I'm back with more blessings to you ... this time for the reference to The Telepathy Tapes. I was in the middle of listening to another book, but thought I would check that podcast first. O...M...G...🤯 (but with a happy face). This is also such important medicine for me right now, as I'm deep into the materialist-spiritual tug-of-war as it relates to my ego and letting go. To a science/physics/engineer like myself this has become a somewhat existential question. And I think these might push me over the mountain of materialism. I'm starting to see the view on the other side. Starting to loosen my mind's clench-hold on its view of reality. Starting, maybe, to surrender. Which feels so good. No one wants to cling as tightly as I find myself clinging. But I want more than just accepting these mind-blowing additions to our seemingly tight-nit reality. I want to fall in love with this expanded landscape of reality, and I am letting my heart lead me on this journey. And these Telepathy episodes (especially episode 3 and 4 so far) have blown open my heart and had me laughing and crying as I'm walking on the beach with AirPods in my ears. People probably think I am a nut case. It will be interesting to see my family's reactions when I turn them on to it. I will request they listen at least until Episode 3, and I figure anyone will be hooked by then. Anyways, a long note just to say Thank You again. You cannot know how much your post and this bonus reference has meant to me. Bless you Andrea 🙏🏻❤️😎
Got to get to episode 6.. that’s where it gets really expansive! Enjoy!
Yes Kate, I've listened to them all now, and they are truly mind-blowing. Awesome. Have recommended them widely.
The Telepathy Tapes - Me too! On Saturday I laid on the couch for hours, in pain from a recent treatment, and after being blown away by Andreas recent entry, I was yearning for ‘something’…. more… then I tapped into Episode 1 of The Telepathy Tapes, and have loved being led gently and expertly into this world I knew nothing about. I devoured all episodes in 4 days. Took copious notes in my journal. I feel an undergirding of hope in a way I haven’t felt for a while. Thanks Andrea!
Wouldn’t it be interesting if all of us chronically unwell people, lying in bed for various reasons and feeling we’ve little to offer, were listening to the Tapes and birthing a quiet revolution in the way humanity percieves reality?
And I saw and felt and wandered in my own dark shadow that scares me with its sharp edges and violent imagery: the giant alligator its maw wide open, razor teeth ready to receive me..”and my little dog, too.” The gator’s red breath smelled of fresh fish and old blood and my fear was raw as his next meal. Then my crazy little dachshund, forgetting she is blind, can suddenly see and she begins to run the full length of him to reach his tail and take him “ off guard.” I chase her, catch her, and fold her in my arms, my protective spirit giving me courage in the face of fear. And the bull gator flipped around to face us, mouth closed. I was unafraid. He stared at me. We looked deep into each other’s eyes and I could see sunlight dancing in the amber. Could he see bright jewels sparking the ocean of my eyes? So we remained until I woke.
Reading this poem, a wildflower sprouted from my third eye. Thank you!!!
Yay!
oooo yes
Oh, yes. I am at this point in my treatment that the only thing that matters is my gut and intuition which is now totally in opposition with the white men in white coats. The "treatments" for my terminal cancer, if I follow my physician's advice will likely make what's left of my life, unlivable. I just completed a solo three week camping and hiking trip. If I accept the treatments, that will be the last one. My spirit and my heart says no. I've escaped the cage of my mind.
Love to you on your journey, Jim. ❤️❤️❤️
I feel so much gratitude for all the wisdom you share with us through your poems and through sharing your journey. Thank you for blessing us all with this abundance.
PS - Sometime last year I saw you and Meg at a local garden center, all of us shopping for flowers and plants. I couldn't decide if I should speak to you about this gratitude, or let you have the privacy of being in public with people who love you admiring quietly from afar. I like to think the two of you felt a bit of warmth wash over you as you went on with your day.
Oh I felt it. ❤️
So, here’s a thing: you are so beautifully connected to people, to wonder, to nature, to love.. you are contagious. I am so lucky to get to share your work with my high school students who, when they read your work aloud in class, put their hands over their hearts and often apologise for stray tears. They also raise their fists in the air for the humanism you represent. I teach in an international school, so there are some who are newly introduced to standing up for marginalised voices. They’re listening. Some are so well in-tuned and you speak to their cores.
I “adopted” one of my former students, a Ukrainian (non-binary) who has been displaced since the bombs fell in Kiev. I gave them “You Better Be Lightning” and your work has been so healing for them. They’ve even returned to my classes to help me teach it.
You matter. Sending all of the best in my heart to you. Thank you.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Just when I am overwhelmed by all the noise, you come and silence it. You have always done that for me, remind me that I am the one in control of the volume button. I can even turn it all off. I just need to remind myself I create my own reality. And Lonesome Windmill is an amazing image.
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Lonesome windmill with friend ❤️
This made me BREATHE and I didn't realize how much I'd been holding. 💜
I've never known someone who clings so tightly to life with just her words. Your words. And who is also letting go every moment. I'm crying for you, for someone I don't know, but do, somehow. It is your gift, to feel known. To touch a part in your readers that they recognize deeply. And I'm crying for the pure beauty of your poems. THIS poem. Ah! Please keep correcting your mind. Please keep tuning into what is really real. Thank you. What a gift you are!
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I love what happens when I close my eyes and feel your words.
Thank you.
I love you Andrea 💖
Dear Andrea,
Your courage and clarity are inspiring. How we spend our days matters more than how many days we spend humaning on this fragile planet. Beyond this place is a mysterious realm where our souls continue to experience wonder and joy. Wishing you fulfillment on your journey.
Andrea,
After reading your post today, I am convinced that what will heal us is a return to our child's heart--the innocent one, the one that had faith and imagined other entities and worlds beyond what reason and rationale provided. A return to hope. A return to love. A return to wonder.
And your final thoughts reminded me of something I heard Rick Doblin say in an interview with Shawn Ryan on the therapeutic use of psychedelics: "We are returning to a more spiritualized humanity." I have never forgotten that.
Welcome back. We will always wait for you, no matter how long it takes.
Thank you for sharing this beauty.
Beautiful. Grateful for your insights into ways to see the world. You are a treasure. ☀️☀️☀️
Oh Andrea, this is a gift. Thank you. You help us all open the cages of our minds. Last night I heard from a young woman in Gaza, speaking to a roomfull of US college students over zoom, say "May your dreams be bigger than the obstacles you face." We all need to be dreaming, bigger than the obstacles. With love and gratitude to you.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Dear Andrea! Your thoughts and words always touch me to my core. Wishing you endless rolling, green meadows and baskets of drippy, sweet peaches and strawberries on a shortcake! May you find the blessings you give to us so freely. You have enriched my life! And yes I’m wearing and loving my knitted hate/hat all winter in frigid Michigan! ❤️
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You are we, we are yew 💚
Thank you for sharing your music, Andrea. It connects all who hear it and I am ever so grateful for your songs. Sending you so much love. 💗