Gaia Community: Farland's Blog

What are your favorite 15 minutes of the day?

http://farland.gaia.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:05:41 GMT

Oh I haven't written for so long I love Siona's questions. I live in a place with no connection at all to the internet which is wonderful! Sometimes I have a quick chance to get online and I check the Gaia Q&R and feel or more thinkt that it is switched around. There are two ways I am seeing it now. One is that all my answers want to be the same so I am thinking that there is one answer to all the questions. The other way is that the questions are the answers. Siona is asking the answers. I like to absorb them I am so in love with just living and no explaining or contemplating forward or back.

Tags: QaR, minutes, time, day, favorite times

How do you describe yourself?

http://farland.gaia.com — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:33:15 GMT

Someone missing her feathers or fur. Or maybe i feel that way because we have moved so far from where we began as humans and I don't have the capacity for that distance.

Tags: QaR, description, self, community

How did you learn to swim?

http://farland.gaia.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:05:39 GMT

I just remembered this today. When I was a tiny unborn foetus inside my mother she went water skiing. My father and his brothers had built a home made ski jump and they were all skiing off it. My sister was a small baby a few months old and my mother was pregnant but so soon again she was aftraid to tell her in laws, so she bravely went over the ski jump and did a huge belly flop into the water as she crash landed she was worried about me inside her and oh how I hated water and swimming as a child I refused to learn to swim and every forced lesson ended in tears. Maybe there is some connection. I have learned to swim it has always been an act of overcoming fear more than an act of swimming. I don't like the feeling of my legs dangling in the murkiness below me I don't mind being head down if I coud breath underwater it would be fine it is having my head in a different element than the rest of my body that is so frightening.

Tags: QaR, swimming, trust, learning, water, floating

How does your mind relate to your body?

http://farland.gaia.com — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:00:07 GMT

They are kind to eachother it is a relationship of compassion and there is such caring and sharing taking turns in who gets to lead maybe depending on who feels more willing. I think there were times in my life when one woud rule over the other or be mean spirited but most of the time they were pals and there is a lot of joking that goes on too.

Tags: QaR, mind, body, life, holistic

What animals have made a difference in your life?

http://farland.gaia.com — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:03:14 GMT

Every one. The ones I have eaten and lived with and the animals that live around on the other side of the planet and the ones the cave people speared ten thousand years ago and the animals that evaded the spear. The animals I have read about in stories and Gnomi whining at the door right now who wants to come inside.

Tags: QaR, animals, influence, life, love, meaning

Where is your favorite place to hide?

http://farland.gaia.com — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:55:54 GMT

The idea of hiding is scary to me because of the possibilty of being found that is then presented. Sometimes I like to be alone and I go into the wilderness which is always close by. Then I feel the opposite of hiding I feel so so exposed to the trees seeing right through me and the wind doing what it wants with me or the darkness or sun and that is the best feeling.

Tags: QaR, hiding, secret

What type of weather are you wishing for today?

http://farland.gaia.com — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:20:33 GMT

I LOVE that we have no choice about the weather and it can change so many times! Today looks dreary I think that means it is hiding something some secret surprise.

Tags: QaR, weather, day, feelings

What kind of angel would you want to be?

http://farland.gaia.com — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:35:05 GMT

I want to be my father's angel. When I was little I wanted to be an angel so achingly I could almost feel the feathers arching across the place where the humerus joins the ulna.

Tags: QaR, angel, guardian, guidance, protection

What does flourishing mean to you?

http://farland.gaia.com — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:36:01 GMT

Flourishing is growth and change together so maybe sometimes it is new growth and sometimes the growth of decay, or in the depth of snow or the rushing meltwater from spring thaw or the dead leaves mulching into new soil. There are little stashes of dried out foodstuffs in the back recesses of my cabinets and drawers and holes for creatures to come and go throuh cracks in my floors and walls. That means to me that my homeplace is flourishing.

Tags: QaR, flourishing, growth, growing, thriving

How do you know when you're on the right path?

http://farland.gaia.com — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:18:18 GMT

I think there is no such thing there is only the path you are on or maybe no path in front only the one you have left behind and if you are on a river then you leave not even a bent twig that you passed at all.

Tags: QaR, flow, path, calling, life

What do you search for within yourself?

http://farland.gaia.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:09:37 GMT

When I am searching for something in me it is most often the empty spaces I am lookng for feeling for and if there isn't enough empty then I want to make some more it might be in my mind or between my bones or my belly or my heart. I like knowing I have room for things to move in if they need a home for awhile.

Tags: QaR, seek, searching, self, interior, inside

What would you like to come back as?

http://farland.gaia.com — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:41:32 GMT

I feel as though I have been practicing in this life to turn into a bird there are too many many kinds to know which one and if I somehow don't if I turn into a worm instead then the practicing will have been enough.

Tags: QaR, reincarnation, choice, reincarnate

What religious figure would you like to have met?

http://farland.gaia.com — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:15:32 GMT

I would today want to meet the Saint Francis envisioned by Nikos Kazantzakis. I would like to meet that man because I am re-reading his book now, picked out of a free box with the same cover I remember and more so remembernig the force of the book when I first read it in high school.

Tags: QaR, religion, past, person, spirituality

Do you try to love unconditionally?

http://farland.gaia.com — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:26:51 GMT

I think there is only that kind of love.

Tags: QaR, love, unconditional love

What does your intuition sound like?

http://farland.gaia.com — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:00:10 GMT

It doesn't sound so much as exist like a strong river current that I am delighted to ride.

Tags: QaR, wisdom, inner knowing, intuition

What is the most difficult thing about your spiritual path?

http://farland.gaia.com — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:36:05 GMT

What I like most are boulder strewn or snow up to the knees paths not really paths at all or random animal trails I like the paths that one would consider difficult. I don't mind a smooth highway kind of path if it goes from here to the far horizon and there is some challenge in the far distance covered. Maybe the hardest part is the reality of not having wings. I pretend I do but it is not the same..

Tags: QaR, spirituality, path, lessons, difficulty

What was your favorite childhood song or lullaby?

http://farland.gaia.com — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:35:58 GMT

It was "The Friendly Beasts" I love that it is from 12th century France.

Jesus, our Brother, strong and good,
Was humbly born in a stable rude,
And the friendly beasts around Him stood,
Jesus, our Brother, strong and good.

“I,” said the donkey, shaggy and brown,
“I carried His mother uphill and down,
I carried His mother to Bethlehem town;
I,” said the donkey, shaggy and brown.

“I,” said the cow, all white and red,
“I gave Him my manger for His bed,
I gave Him hay to pillow His head;
I,” said the cow, all white and red.

“I,” said the sheep with curly horn,
“I gave Him my wool for His blanket warm,
He wore my coat on Christmas morn;
I,” said the sheep with curly horn.

“I,” said the dove, from the rafters high,
“I cooed Him to sleep that He should not cry,
We cooed Him to sleep, my mate and I;
I,” said the dove, from the rafters high.

Thus all the beasts, by some good spell,
In the stable dark were glad to tell
Of the gifts they gave Emmanuel,
The gifts they gave Emmanuel

Tags: QaR, song, childhood, lullaby, memories

When were you last completely dependent on someone?

http://farland.gaia.com — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:48:28 GMT

I think I am dependent on everyone in the whole world and everything in the whole world.
And maybe even beyond that.

Tags: QaR, dependent, gratitude, help, support, illness, youth

Can you create something beautiful just by looking?

http://farland.gaia.com — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:09:22 GMT

That is the way it is unless you have got a troll splinter in your eye or in your heart

A reminder of one great Hyperboreal story with many tellings

An evil "troll" makes a magic mirror that has the power to distort theappearance of things reflected in it. It fails to reflect all the goodand beautiful aspects of people and things while it magnifies all thebad and ugly aspects so that they look even worse than they really are. The trolls delight in taking the mirror throughout the world to distort everyone and everything. They enjoy how the mirror makes the loveliest

landscapes look like "boiled spinach." They then want to carry the
mirror into heaven with the idea of making fools of the angels and God,
but the higher they lift it, the more the mirror grins and shakes with
delight. It shakes so much that it slips from their grasp and falls
back to earth where it shatters into billions of pieces — some no
larger than a grain of sand. These splinters are blown around and get
into people's hearts and eyes, making their hearts frozen like blocks
of ice and their eyes like the troll-mirror itself, only seeing the bad
and ugly in people and things.

Tags: QaR, beauty, beautiful, wabi sabi, perfection

How could your life be more balanced?

http://farland.gaia.com — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:21:39 GMT

I love the feeling of balance. I think bodies are happy to be balanced enough to play with the concept to push to the edges and back and that must be the same for the mind kind of balance and the spirit kind too.

Tags: QaR, balance, life, well-being