Monthly Archives: August 2012

August Break: Day Three

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Time to make the donuts.

Even though my contract for my nine months of paid work with Colorado State University doesn’t officially begin until August 15th, summer vacation is over. I went in for a half a day last week, and yesterday for a meeting. Today is the Administrative Professional Council’s annual retreat, and yesterday I got word that the thing that typically starts my year, my first official project, is being sent to me on Monday (and it’s the kind of thing that needs done asap). I also need to put together my syllabus for my Writing for the Web class, and the week after next is our Graduate Teaching Assistantship training, various other meetings, and another training workshop I’m helping to facilitate, so time to make the donuts.

This is what my writing desk looks like this morning. It’s strange, this constant moving between my creative self-directed work and my paid work. I have to admit, I would have loved to stay in summer a little bit longer, and I should warn anyone I encounter at work in the next few weeks: I still have summer brain.

Full Sturgeon Moon Dreamboard

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The Full Sturgeon Moon asks: “What is your intuition telling you about your dreams?”

Jamie says: “The fish influence doesn’t mean that things are ‘fishy’ but rather that there are shining, glimmering, messages just under the surface, in the waters of our intuition, and now is a beautiful time to notice them, to pay attention.”

The joy of making full moon dreamboards is first the magic of selecting the images, putting together the vision, manifesting the answer to the prompt, showing up and staying open, trusting what arises. And then, the secondary magic is interpreting the vision with words. It comes out like a poem, like remembering a dream, a surprise at the same time it’s the absolute truth, what you already knew without knowing. When I got to the end of this one, and this came, “The dream is now,” tears welled in the corner of my eyes, but happy ones–because I know it’s true.

My intuition tells me to live the dream.
To lighten up, relax, soften, be at ease, peaceful and gentle.
To make it an offering, a reflection of love, a still pool, a clean drink of water, a flower floating on the surface, magic that reflects, that ripples out and soothes.
To feed the true hungers, be well-fed and full.
To hold steady and strong like a tree, radiating light and love.
To be as light and strong and soft as a feather, capable of flight, able to see.
To create and make art, to embody wisdom and kindness through word and image and sound and movement and touch, to connect, to heal.
To trust that passion is energy, fuel, power.
Everything is illuminated.
Feel your best.
Bloom like a flower.
Be still like a deer.
Be quiet like a stone.
Be here, now.
Your dream is now.