letting the waters flow and what it’s all about

The river is flooded. Our car is still in the garage, and because some major roads are closed due to the flooding, public transport is all snarled up. So we kept Rubin off school today.

I already made one heroic journey this week to bring him home from school on the bus. The round trip took me two and a half hours, and involves a change of bus in each direction. That’s just too much. Especially if you have to do it twice a day. It really isn’t worth me coming home in between dropping him off and going back to pick him up.

However, I don’t want him to miss school tomorrow as they have the dress rehearsal for their show. So, looks like I’m on the bus again with him in the morning.

It has rained more today. And there has been a pretty decent thunderstorm. But when it cleared, we went for a walk. I wanted to see some of the floods, but the most dramatic parts are further away from where we live, so I only got a few shots of the bloated mill pond and the watery fields.

At the moment, I’m feeling remarkably well. I’m about 6 weeks into my ‘no wheat, no dairy, no yeast, no sugar, no fruit, no caffeine, no refined carbs’ eating regime and the results are fantastic. This week I have been really getting into superfoods. I don’t mean broccoli and oranges. I mean maca, lucuma, cacao, wheatgrass, gojis and things like that. I’ve been starting the day with hulled hemp seeds blended with water (which is basically raw milk) and adding maca powder, cacao powder and wheatgrass powder to that. Sometimes with a little coconut milk and agave nectar too. It is super-delicious and keeps me going for hours.

I’d read that maca can really help with chronic fatigue and it’s one thing I hadn’t tried before (I was already a firm believer in the powers of cacao, spirulina and the highest quality aloe vera drinking gel). Judging on how I’ve been feeling this week, I’m fully convinced of it’s power now. Luckily, the little health food store in Winton has just started stocking some of these more difficult-to-find products, too. I’m making regular trips to this little shop, and the one on the route to school, to stock up on seeds, powders and oils every couple of days.

I’ve also completely lost the taste for coffee. Since I started the regime, I’ve been having the occasional decaf soya latte, to satisfy my desire for my old favourite brew, but I haven’t been able to drink the last few I’ve ordered.

I also switched to Rooibos tea with rice milk when I came off caffeine, as I couldn’t bear the thought of missing out on my daily cups of tea, but now I’ve lost the taste for that too. I’ll make a cup, sit down with it, then leave it to go cold. It doesn’t feel harmonious to my body so I don’t really want it now. Now I’ve realized that, I can let go of the old habit, which just seems like a ritual I don’t need anymore.

So I am naturally cleansing myself at the moment, and it seems like the Earth is cleansing herself too.

I’ve been thinking about White Tara, one of the female Bodhisattvas, recently, and her message to me is always about sensitivity to food, people and the environment. Yesterday I found this piece of writing about White Tara on the web, and it feels important to me and relevant to the time we’re in right now:

The myth of the White Tara began when she showed up as the tear of Avalokiteshvara. She appeared when Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of all Buddhas, moved into a state of compassion… when his mind and his heart met in wisdom… and the suffering he saw because the the lack of this balance, made him cry. Then he could see Her… or it is said she appeared. For that is who she is, the compassion expressed in that tear. It could be said the tear cleared the eye to see her. She is the expression of compassion. It is time to let the waters flow… let our tears cleanse and nourish… let it dissove fear in all its manifestations especially hatred.

When the 1000 White Taras are named the tone of the planet will shift from one of fear to one of compassion, of love.

{found at www.whitetara.com}

Seems to me this can’t happen a moment too soon.