The Three of CupsA friend is someone who knows the song in your heartand can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.— Author unknown If you’ve been reading my blog this year, you know that I’ve been leading us on a journey to “Graceland,” in which we are honoring Grace, Virtue … Read more
There’s a man in New Orleans Who plays rock and roll He’s a guitar man With a great big soul He lays down a beat Like a ton of coal He goes by the name of King Creole… Thank you. Thank you very much. – Elvis Presley All who know me well are aware that … Read more
Thank you. Thank you very much.— Elvis One year ago today, we embarked on our journey to Graceland. Yes, today is the holy and sacred day of the birth of America’s very own Horned God. For it has been revealed that Elvis Presley was a Sun King. It is a fact, is it not, that … Read more
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.— Thornton Wilder This Friday, it will have been a year and a day since we set out on our magical journey to Graceland. If you have joined us along the way and are wondering what the … Read more
There was three kings into the east,Three kings both great and high,And they hae sworn a solemn oathJohn Barleycorn should die. — Robert Burns We have come to another turning of the Wheel of the Year, for now is the time when many flowers have ripened into fruit, grain, or seed, and what has been … Read more
The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows. . . — William Cullen Bryant As the Wheel of the Year turns now to the fullness of Summer’s lush ripening, we continue on our Graceland journey — that … Read more
Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crewThis planet is not terra firma.It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for.It’s lonely.It’s small.It’s isolated, and there is no resupply.And we are mistreating it. — Astronaut Scott Carpenter As we journey to Graceland, we honor the lovely Grace, Thalia. Thalia, who is also considered … Read more
Where flowers bloom, so does hope. — Lady Bird Johnson Now the Wheel of Time has turned once more, and Spring gives forth Her new life and abundance. Sweet possibilities float through the air like pollen. This tender time of fragile, but relentless new growth is a time for breathing, clearing away what is stale … Read more
The way the night knows itself with the moon,be that with me.-Rumi A powerful beginning to the new astrological year, we celebrate the first full day of Spring with a Full Moon, the Seed Moon. My friend, Chapel Hill astrologer Lynn Hayes, writes, “The Libra Full Moon will move into position to square Mars and … Read more
We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.— Helen Keller On our journey to Graceland, I would suggest that you dispense with any excess baggage that … Read more