June 11, 2026

I’ve had such feelings of sorrow lately.  And moments of great joy, but the sorrow has brought many tears that needed to flow into the world.  Tears about a friend departing physical life, tears for a world in stress and so many people brought low. I’ve wept recently for the relinquishment of a dream — it was time for it go but I still felt have felt the loss. Last week I even shed tears for this year’s summer garden, never planted.  So you see, It has been a tender time.  It hasn’t been a suffering time, more of a time of release.

Today — wanting to be active because I again felt saddened — I unpacked a small box of books, including The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran.  It opened to the following thoughts about joy and sorrow.  It felt so much like a hug from Life’s Wisdom and those who walk with me.  How could I resist sharing it with you?

On Joy and Sorrow
   By Kahlil Gibran

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

And how else can it be?

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. 

Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”

But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. 

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.

So we see that I’ve been emptying and filling then emptying again, in the universal rhythm of balance.  I think this is part of our work in the world right now, counting the joys, feeling the sorrows and their release.

May it serve us all
May this rhythm bring balance
May the river of our tears reach the vast, open Ocean 
And be absorbed in her great expanse of being. 
That is my prayer, in a tender time.

Shared with you with Love,
Mayet

June 4, 2026

Today a message came for us from the Heart of Love.  I think it’s a very exciting one, enjoy!

💚 🌎 💜 Mayet

Message From the Heart of Love
Get Ready to Discover Your World Anew!

We open the floodgates of our hearts and overflow with love for you in this time of great blessings coming forth.  We wish to issue an invitation to you that you are more than ready to receive.

We invite you to look to nature, to the earth, with new eyes and open mind. There is something more to see and to know.  Bless and honor her, delight in her, talk and sing to her, she is birthing new worlds and ways.  Do this and she will pour forth unto you and unto All, many fold.  This is true in profoundly new ways because the quantum connections are now open that facilitate this.  

Enter into your relationship with the fullness of Gaia — with the giving plants and plant beings, the lofting birds and Avians or winged ones and all the precious animals and varied and wondrous life forms.  Rejoice with the amazing earth beings that support them, the water and air sprites and spirits, the patient and strong rock and mineral beings, the majestic mountain ones, the glorious flower beings.  And the full, beautiful rainbow of peoples upon her.

Sit by the rippling waters and listen, feel what is there.  Feel the air and sun upon your face and rejoice in their embrace for they know you.  Dig your fingers and toes into the earth and inhale deeply; acknowledge the wonder of the plants and creatures you meet in your day.

Doing this will not be new for many of you, but if you let your relating be simple and pure of mind you will recognize the “more” that is now there and it will be profoundly felt as a rewarding exchange.  Enter in with the radiance of love that matches the frequency of Life and the radiance of service and support of all life to all other life. 

Match the level of peace that is there, meet it in your highest, as it meets you.  Express, share, give forth your glorying radiance to nature.  As you do, ask to join and be joined by them anew.  Prepare to be amazed and to realize that now you can experience Gaia and Life in a uniquely fresh way.

This is one of the great gifts of your time.  We invite you to hear this as an invitation to expand your experience and expectation of your world.  Run forth to accept the invitation with your arms and hearts open to receive and be received, and be ready to discover your world anew!

May 28, 2026

I told you a week or two ago that I’d been feeling a little boring lately. This happens when I’m doing the same things every day for long periods of time. My mind gets restless and my body stiffens a little because I’m thinking the same things over and over and using the same postures, so muscle movement becomes more limited as well. Mental and physical tension starts to build up as a result. Movement — emotional, physical, and mental — as well as variety, is important to keep me from becoming a dullard.

When it happens I need to change things up and get some flow going. I have to use a little creativity and imagination to get started. I usually have to challenge myself to get out of a rut, and that’s not always easy.

This time I reached for a book I’ve had for years, How to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith. The back cover has a warning instead of a promotional blurb. First it says:

“At any given moment, no matter where you are, there are hundreds of things around you that are interesting and worth documenting.”

Then comes the warning:

“!WARNING
To whoever has just picked up this book: If you find that you are unable to use your imagination, you should put this book back immediately. It is not for you. In this book you will be repeatedly asked to… suspend your disbelief, complete tasks that make you feel a bit strange, look at the world in ways that make you think differently, conduct experiments on a regular basis, and see inanimate objects as alive.”

Following that is an illustration of someone with a picket sign in front of their face that reads, “Everyone is an artist” ~Joseph Beuys.

German artist Joseph Beuys’ famous phrase, “Everyone is an artist” (Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler), encapsulates his expanded concept of art as a fundamental human capacity. He believed every human being, as a “freedom being,” can use their creative energy to shape, transform, and renew society, a practice he termed “social sculpture.”

Keri Smith’s book — which is handwritten, self-illustrated, charming, and quirky — has 150 ways to… well, in my case… quickly get myself out of a rut using the author’s suggestions for off-the-wall things to do that are fun, interesting, and creative.

Each suggestion in this book is designed to create curious little collections that you can group together in a sort of temporary home museum. For instance, “#25 WATER Find and/or research as many different shapes made by water as you can. And come up with some new ones.”

So I decided to look out for those and took pictures with my phone of water drops on my counters, sinks, of spills, and rain patterns on the window. And I even found one out on the road during my walk that looked just like an embryo, the picture above. Do you agree?

To come up with a new shape, I froze water in a plastic cup that had a bottom shaped like a five-pointed star. It bulged out on the sides, distorting it oddly, and shoots of bubbles formed from the center outward into each of the five star points. It was very cool looking. Pun intended.

Another one I did suggested choosing a few objects from around the house that date back to my childhood and writing about what they correlate to. I selected several, wrote each up, and sent the stories, along with the objects, to my boys, giving them stories and treasures to carry forward. They like that sort of thing a lot.

These are just small things, but they are working. My mind is creaking its way back into a more creative mental process by enticing it to think and perceive the events of a day in a fresh way again.

I’ve decided on one more. It starts with a Carl Jung quote: “Sometimes a tree can tell you more than can be read in a book.”

Then Exploration #59, The Language of Trees, suggests, “Collect as many parts of trees as you can. (Use things that have fallen naturally; you don’t want to harm the trees.) Arrange and rearrange your collection in pleasing ways. Play with it. Talk to it, listen to it. Hang it. Study the shapes and textures. Do drawings. Hang things from branches. Celebrate trees!”

Perhaps you’d like to join me in this, or something of your choice, and we can get our groove back together.

Smiling at the thought, and sending love,
Mayet