{"id":1531,"date":"2015-09-17T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2015-09-17T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:44:23","slug":"the-bodhicitta-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/the-bodhicitta-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bodhicitta Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to this week\u2019s art\/life trail ride\u2026September keyword\/focus point: Love.<\/span><\/h4>\n

What lights you up and makes you feel radiant?\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Bodhichitta_heart\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bodhicitta Heart, Drozda, Mixed media on board, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Vincent Van Gogh<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

“Until you have loved you cannot become yourself.\u201d<\/em> Emily Dickinson<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

\u201cLove is everything it\u2019s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for. And the trouble is, if you don\u2019t risk everything, you risk even more.\u201d<\/em> Erica Jong<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

\"Bald<\/a><\/p>\n

I was in the garden on a recent afternoon and a swift motion pulled my attention upward\u2026a bald eagle was gliding through the yard just above the high tree tops\u2026there and gone. <\/span><\/h4>\n

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I stood still and watched the sky<\/span>. <\/span><\/h4>\n

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Moments later high overhead, so high it was difficult to keep them in sight, I see a pair flying together circling, separating, coming back to slide through the bluest of skies. They smoothly pivot and ballet their way in sight dropping low then rising so high that they become almost invisible melding into the blue hue. For a full five minutes I twirl and crane my neck to watch them and \u2026 then off they go.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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An hour later I\u2019m leaving my forested neighborhood and as I come around the bend…<\/span><\/h4>\n

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\"Cape<\/a><\/p>\n

…a Cooper\u2019s hawk slips in front of my windshield and disappears into the low branches of a grove of pines. A magical afternoon.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Speaking of magical\u2026this week, in addition to birds, I watched a 2014\u00a0animated film<\/a><\/span>: Song of the Sea\u2026I\u2019ve long been interested in this classic tale of loss of soul and after being immersed in the otherworldly quality of the films environment I went into my library and read once again Seal Skin\/Soul Skin in Women Who Run With the Wolves<\/a><\/u><\/span> by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. I strongly recommend this as worthy reading and re-reading<\/em>\u00a0any time when time seems to be running out<\/em>.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Each autumn and on through the winter months we have the opportunity to turn toward the natural quieting down period where replenishment of the soul song allows reminders of:<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why are you on the trail?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How do you return to your heart\/work?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Last month on the third Thursday<\/a><\/span> I introduced you to my friend Christine Williams and her book The Listening Project<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/strong>. I trust that you had time to check it out on Amazon<\/a><\/span> to see if it spoke to you.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Today I’d like you to meet<\/span>\u00a0my cyber- sister Medea \u00a0Bavarella Chechik<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"Medea-Chechik-200x300\"<\/a>\u00a0 Medea Bavarella Chechik<\/span><\/p>\n

I am inspired, moved and touched deeply by Medea’s honest willingness to bring the art\/life of compassion into balanced action. Feisty, funny and a wellspring of thoughtfulness she will soon be sharing her production of:<\/span><\/h4>\n

WOMEN WHO LOVE WITH WISDOM & POWER, a video summit\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

and we\u2019ll all be invited to attend as her guest. I’m so honored that she has scooped us up and specifically asked us to ‘listen in’ to others lined up with a powerful message that the Dalai Lama proclaimed in 2009: <\/span><\/h4>\n

“the world will be saved by the western woman.”<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Take a look at Medea’s website project called\u00a0HerStoryEvolves<\/a><\/span>\u2026perhaps you will find that you would like\u00a0to contribute your own story to this healing site where others may find inspiration through your voice.<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"riders<\/a><\/p>\n

I feel that the more models we have for moving through Act III with grace and courage the better we will each be at bringing our best to the world. Today I celebrate Medea\u2019s wit and willingness to travel into new territory giving us all a chance to learn with\u00a0her. <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

I also celebrate each one of us and our heart\u2019s opening to the Love that surrounds us as we come closer to the turn into the quieting time of the natural year.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Exercise for the week<\/strong>…hone in on one or more of the entry points on the mind map below and take yourself into your sacred\u00a0space…journal what you discover…and if you are willing…share in our\u00a0comments.<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"Mind_Map\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mind Map for Journal \/ Loving the Self, Drozda, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

See you next Thursday\u00a0for our\u00a0last entry in the September trail ride of Love.<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"Droz_moon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am a working\u00a0Heartist\u00a0<\/em>with more than thirty years of practice in supporting the creative best in each of us to come forth and shine.\u00a0<\/em>Join the movement:\u00a0make joy the vocation of your mind<\/strong>.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Connect with\u00a0the uplift of \u2018Luna See\u2019 and\u00a0Lifecycle<\/a>;\u00a0time\u00a0management tools for aligning with natural creative rhythms. Discover and uncover the ecstatic thrill of \u2018making life the master peace\u2019.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Let\u2019s travel together\u00a0into realms of calm and\u00a0renewed heart-centered emphasis.\u00a0<\/span>Discover and expand your ability to experience,\u00a0express, create and contribute your deepest\u00a0and wisest <\/em><\/strong>most\u00a0authentic gifts to this unspeakably beautiful world.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to this week\u2019s art\/life trail ride\u2026September keyword\/focus point: Love. What lights you up and makes you feel radiant?\u00a0 Bodhicitta Heart, Drozda, Mixed media on board, 2010 \u201cI tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Vincent Van Gogh “Until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,2,3,32],"tags":[27,37,26,59,51,22,43,60,10,38,30,52,55,62,61],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artlife","category-natural-time-management","category-slow-time","category-starting-over","tag-art-life","tag-artlife","tag-artist-blog","tag-children-artoutdoors","tag-christine-williams","tag-donna-iona-drozda","tag-lunar-phases","tag-medea-bavarella-chechik","tag-natural-time","tag-natural-time-management","tag-starting-over","tag-the-listening-project","tag-tools-for-change","tag-video-summit","tag-women-who-love-with-wisdom-power"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6htPT-oH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}