5/10/26 Mother's Day Circles of Friendship, Love, Truth
Namaste Marvelous Mothers and Co-Creators of all humankind! Greetings from beautiful Mount Shasta where the trees behind me are green once again and the mountain is showing more and more of her volcanic rock underbelly after a minimal snow winter. I started this magnificent month on Beltane May Day with an open house party that held lotsa celebration invitations including a feast, flowers, and mini May Poles. Fun friends came and we heart connected, sang, and played in so many fun ways.
 
Beltane is the mid-point on the Wheel between Ostara Spring Equinox and Lithia Summer Solstice. It is a time of creative, intertwining energies. Fun friends spontaneously did a mini May Pole in the kitchen (rather than the beautiful outside) proving the point that creative energies of sponteniety can provide some of life's best moments! Traditional Beltane colors are red and white for the fiery summer and the new beginning purity of spring. My alchemy creativity led me into rainbow colors for lotsa intersecting colorful fun! Flowers were of course also central and I broke out the mermaid flower crowns for folks to wear for the party. Unfortunately, half of them went home with them instead of staying behind to live with the mermaid tails. Oh well, so it goes with mother creativity generosity! My abundant soul gratefully knows there is always plenty! And there are always new ways to play ...
My pink sparkle friend Ember and I have taken to bringing our sparkling selves to the streets; why wait for a party to dress up?!
Here we are sitting on my altar thanks to digital magic. I am wearing a necklace on my neck altar also featured on my house altar with a close up below. It was my mama's necklace and perhaps her mama's before her. Irrespective of whether the necklace was grandma Mary's (who passed on when my mama was just 10), the Eldo Rebekah tradition the necklace embodies was definitely something grandma Mary was a part of, and my mama and aunt too. The R for Rebekah has become the R of Reverence for me and the 3 intertwining circles stand for Friendship, Love, and Truth. The Friendship was fostered between those Lodge ladies and in the community at large. The Love, in large part, employed caring and service for others in family and community with special emphasis on those most vulnerable; children, the elderly, the sick, and the poor. Truth was representative of living a moral life based on beliefs of virtue and fairness evident in the good deeds and ways lived. 
The Lodge ladies loved to dress up in their formal gowns for meetings and pot luck parties. Even though I was never part of the Lodge, I realize I am living the ideologies in so many ways! I love that in being me, perhaps I am honoring my mama Hazel and grandma Mary as well as the goodness in those circles.
Indeed, I do actively honor my ancestors on the reg. Their pictures are on my walls and I often set special altars like this one. There are Mother's Day cards given to my grandma Dee, cards I gave to my mama and a few cards given to me. I also pulled out the Eldo Rebekah Cookbook I frequent that has many recipes contributed by my mama including her Recipe for Success that includes smiles, faith, hope, friendship and love.
What is your recipe for success, friend? What mama and grandma traditions live on in you? My mama's smile lives on in me as part of a fulfilling, successful life. I often do what I can in honoring her and all my ancestors and yet I am also continuously reminded that I have a duty in honoring myself and the special gifts I came to give. One of my greatest gifts was mothering Jeremiah and yet, he as a priority, changed long ago as he became the capable, incredible man he is. Still and always, we are given choices of how and where to prioritize our time and treasure. Where do we give and live our Friendship, Love, and Truth?! We can always look in the mirror, around our homes and communities. We can also look at our society at large whereby billions have been going to war and millions taken away from the poor recently. We
do well to remember that Mother's Day was initially visioned as a Mother's Day for Peace coming out of the Civil War. So, yes, we are choosing moment by moment how and where to put our focus, energy, heart.
I had many offerings I wanted to present (before!) today including a Mother's Day Sing-Along yet I made other life choices that prevented it. I did get a music video page done with featured 'mother songs' including a few special songs written for my Jeremiah and the 'My Mother is a Butterfly' song that features him in his sweet boy voice when he was young. Music and song is a huge mother and grandmother passed down tradition in our family that has indeed included those intertwined circles of living and giving through generations.
I continue to heal the places in me that have been in the way of living my highest priority intentions. For New Thought Families, these priorites include the Spiritual ABC resource pages and new Om HomETV shows especially for young children and also some for families. I have a new 13 week series beginning in June I will speak to next time. For now, here is my gorgeous bedroom view I am so blessed to be living in my every day waking and rising. I choose to keep breathing in sacred awareness that I am and we all are mothering our greatest next best selves even through all the seeming dysfunction.
And while the mountain view from the back of my Om Home is breathtaking, i offer you the bountiful beauty of the dandelions growing at my front door. I consider them a wonderful celebration knowing there are many who are not a fan of divine dandelion and choose to take them out. So it goes in the moments and circles of life and time that we choose what is ours to do, to nurture, to mother, to celebrate. As always, dear one, I am grateful for the gift of your presence here. I celebrate YOU and your Om Home! Namaste, Love.
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Laurie Story V Living Spiritual Literacy
