05.28.11
Posted in Nature Realms, Observations, Pachamama's Beautiful Food at 10:38 PM by Margaret Gilfoyle
Small is beautiful. And as my friend Carol says, I pack it in. Photo above is from 2010 back garden (“Last Year’s Thorn Patch”) in September.
The space was literally a thorn, bind weed and dandelion overgrown gravel driveway in the back yard of my rented house in Paonia. I prepared the bed by the “lasagna method” described in Rodale’s Organic Gardening book: laying down the overlapping, flattened cardboard layer, a thick layer of my yard’s raked leaves and grass clippings, coffee ground and eggshells, the spring of 2010 – purchased topsoil and compost.
This year’s garden has the most variety of vegetables, fruits and herbs that I have ever grown. Here is a list of what’s in the ground as of May 28. I am particularly thrilled to be growing celery, stevia, tomatillos, lima beans, quinoa, and the two varieties of blackberries this year! The corn is sprouting today, the variety beans including my first lima bean plant!, quinoa, kale, spinach, beets, carrots, potatoes, snap peas all up or beginning to show above ground.
2011 Garden Paonia
Yukon gold potatoes
Red Pasada potatoes
Russian kale
Spinach
Rainbow carrots
Rainbow beets
Sugar snap peas
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Volunteer chard
Volunteer onions
Volunteer lettuce
Quinoa
Peaches and cream corn
Blue lake green beans
Cherokee wax beans
Purple queen bush beans
Baby lima beans
Pickling cucumber
Zucchini
Butternut Squash
Spaghetti squash
Pumpkin
Yellow pear tomato
Sun gold tomato
Sweet 100 tomato
Cherokee Purple tomato
San Marzeno tomato
Lemon boy tomato
Tomatillos
Ancho chili
Jalapeño
Green chilies
Artichokes
Raspberries
Ever bearing Strawberries
Rhubarb
Bartlett pear
Golden delicious apple
Concord grapes
Black raspberries
Prime Jan blackberry
Prime Jim blackberry
Gooseberry
Watermelon
Stevia
Celery
Basil
Purple basil
Rosemary
Dill
French thyme
Chives
Sage
Oregano
Lavender
Arugula
Mesclun mix lettuce
Morning glory
Nasturtium
Lily of the valley
Sweet woodruff
Tomorrow I”m making an arugula pesto to top gluten free bruschetta along with some sharp white cheddar for a local gathering and Huichol fire ceremony. The arugula was a volunteer plant I inadvertantly thought was a weed today- then the pungent scent of the leaves made me smile as I recognized a great appetizer in the making!
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04.25.11
Posted in Breath of Light with Margaret Gilfoyle, Nature Realms, Observations at 4:34 PM by Margaret Gilfoyle
Yesterday I merged with rain clouds
in fully luminous whites and grays,
and swinging low above the earth
braided myself into wind, water
and ancestral celebration
like some wild hair
being guided
into heaven.
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04.18.11
Posted in Observations at 11:20 PM by Margaret Gilfoyle
Pouring rain at eleven PM on the night of the April full moon. There is a richness of Energy, of Light and my heart is very aware, emptied, sensing…each person’s heart I think of, seeing within them to an unfathomable degree. I have an aching love, a compassionate love of endearment for all. There is no separation. I AM my twin sister, my father, my son, my neighbor, the boy in Africa I saw a picture of today, the woman rejoicing, my friend with cancer. And I have come to a balance within me, being all of these people, all life. In the emptiness I have suffered, greatly, through death, and wrenchingly still being alive, through hardship and exquisite joy in nature, the clear gladness of loving, and rawness, judgment, guilt, hope and giddiness. Now, this unfathomable, expansive breadth in the sound of rain, following the drops’ path from unseen clouds, beyond, the living moon. Joined by millions of drops, lightening now, their pounding on the roof lessening, the elixir seeping into the spring earth filling me with such love, such love, God, for being a part of it all. In this space, this arena, I float, open. The buffalo hide drum in the other room cracks a sound, I am joined by Spirit. Orbs, stars, sweeping presence that embraces. Images of people emerging from woodland, and they know me. We have lived in each other’s hearts for eternity. It is not a question. We have walked together, walk as I type, up slim trails curving round mountains where I cry with joy, at coming back, coming home, my family, amongst ancient hewn rocks, praising Inti. My family, spearing an antelope on the plains. My family, black dancers bold and graceful. You are my family. My past, present and future. We are One. We are not afraid.
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03.17.11
Posted in Breath of Light with Margaret Gilfoyle, Channeled Messages through Margaret Gilfoyle at 8:09 AM by Margaret Gilfoyle
Guide your attention into your hearts. Draw all thoughts to this place, this refuge. Within your heart is the sacred home for which you all long to protect. It is not outside of you. It is not within the walls of your dwellings, the rooms where you live on the earthly plane. The Heart is. The Heart, with it’s graceful chambers, it’s expansion beyond the body, into All Knowledge, All Time. When you breathe, breathe through the entrance to this home of your heart. With Light and awareness entering here, allow the cleansing and opening of your Heart to take place. Unite with the Earth, with Her center, with her Heart. Breathe with Her, and the Love you exchange will uplift you both. The Earth, in Her breathing cycle, cleanses Herself. This is how it is. Uniting in our Hearts, we connect, cleansing, releasing, uplifting. Allowing the extraneous to fall away, we strengthen that which is the dearest.
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06.07.10
Posted in Channeled Messages through Margaret Gilfoyle at 9:47 AM by Margaret Gilfoyle
Now is the time for each of you to radiate in knowing that all upon the earth is in perfection. As the thoughts intended thusly rise in unison into this completed goal, the Earth herself and all actions taking place on it in the completing history will vibrate with that frequency of wholeness. Lament not in what appears to have significantly less than desired outcomes planetarily, but each with your love move into those scenarios with strength of vision- all is in perfection. The strife has ceased, the waters are pure, the simulated sense of doing so now augmented with your Intentional Love. The awakened heart sees thusly, regardless of circumstance, does it not? Allow that deep knowing that from whence brought forth the Initial Desire of Love, has opportunity to manifest through the heartts of ALL creation! Do you fathom the Joy then coming as ALL radiate with the realization ?? We have met this time with the very breath taken as we arose this morning. Breathe again, with the deep awareness of the multitude of songs singing through you. The source which invited creation sings through all. The Source which sings through all is you, and within each breath taken floats the initial impetus of life as well as all actions since. Allow not fear to be a part of it, for, even in your possible sense of unknowing or bewilderment, YOU have been existing through TIME! Allow the current influx of perceiving disparity and strife to diminish, then, of its hold and perception of size to you.
All is well.
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Posted in Breath of Light with Margaret Gilfoyle at 6:38 AM by Margaret Gilfoyle
Moving through interactions with many people releasing varying layers of density, protection, emotional patterns, FEAR. It is all with greater lightening of the connectivity, the matrix, the energetic web of consciousness that I feel. Humanity and my awareness of it — my reason, my initiating desire to BE, here now, is to live, and simply offer assistance releasing the perceptions of the past human enculturalization, illusory definitions of existence and emphasis, three dimensional priorities. As the awareness grows – of the Planet Earth as a living organism with consciousness, with pathways reflecting our own physical systems – circulation, nervous system, lymphatic, digestive, HEART, chakras – functioning as we do – our awareness of how our bodies impulses, responses, our choices, thoughts, subsequent directions, will and are and can – change. We are all One existence on the planet, and certainly, as well, within the Universe. Is it not in perfection, then, that our awareness, our ability to perceive, to anticipate, to feel telepathically, grows? We are One. As you are reading this, I am present within you, and you I. The connections I experienced yesterday, last month, years behind me, influencing each word, each action. Thank you all for your participation in my life. You have literally given me, energetic strength to move ahead, to bike the next hill, to lift the rocks and open to my past with clarity, with understanding, with compassion. The threads between us, of thoughts, the unwavering washes of emotion and love, of fear and incomprehension, thank you. As they course through me, some energies remain awhile, to make sure I understand, and resolve, without judgement, without weight, then move through me. Yet connected, the opportunity is present like a lifting, rising, billowing fish net of light with a person’s conciousness, and animal’s clean vision at each connecting point, to raise in frequency beyond former comprehension, off of the constraints of culture and past world view. What is possible? The building of continuous moments where there is no sense of separation between your hands and the air, your heart and the sun, your belly and the mountains, and between people surrounding you. Yes. This Is. Why shall we focus on such an awareness? Because in feeling all that surrounds us, each other’s hearts, the waters’ density, and on and on, we will make choices that refect our OWN desires to feel joy, to feel clear, light, clean, loved without reservation. This is my prayer. This is a vision repeating with such frequency, widening into more delineated focus, becoming stronger, that the manifestation of such feels surely on it’s way. It is the reality I choose. Blessings to All.
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