9/8/26
Happy International Literacy Day!
Summer Surrender Into September
Namaste Shine of Divine Design!
I greet you on this Transformational Tuesday after Labor Day; a day that for many of us (still) signals the end of summer. Perhaps it is just a habit since long ago, when i was growing up, school started after Labor Day and those days are long gone!
Fall Equinox is 2 weeks from today so accordingly with that ancient tradition, we have 2 more weeks of summer! The vlog I shared here in this space a few days ago had the backdrop of mama Mount Shasta freshly blanketed with snow which definitely felt like a turn of the season!
Oh how I love this mountain and Mother Nature! Of course, we have many ways we measure time and season to help give ourselves a sense of purpose and reason. Labor Day was yesterday; first established in 1882 with a rise of rebellion against horrific working conditions. I spent a chunk of the day working on puppet scripts and songs to rehearse with my puppet buddy, Kim for our return to Mount Shasta Library Storytime this week. I have spent many hours for the monthly volunteer gig over the last year. Blessed in my own playhouse with a spectacular mountain view and a groovy creative vibe, it is a labor of Love. What a long way away from deadly sweatshops et al of yesteryear. So blessed! I have the puppets, instruments and dino hats for the littles ready to go library play in the morning. ROAR for early literacy!  The 60th International Literacy Day is today and it was founded for awareness and action towards global literacy. At that time, literacy basically meant reading and writing. Now there are 7 areas of literacy named as key for 21st century living; Globalization/Multi-Cultural, Social, Media, Financial, Cyber/Digital, Eco/Environment, Arts/Creativity. Of course, i would add Spiritual to the list of Literacies because knowing our own hearts and deeper levels of Spirit in and through us as well as holding more understanding and compassion for all paths of faith/religion, is also a key for our humanity's evolutionary healing and well-being.
Newly produced Compassion in Action Om HomETV playing below!
This moment is a great time to speak of the work I have been doing here for spiritual family literacy. The upcoming date of 2/7/2027 will be the 20 year anniversary for the New Thought Families website. It was birthed as I was spiritually parenting mijo Jeremiah who turned 7 that month. And it came about as an extension of my FUNdamental literacy work with Laurie's Stories which went online in 1999 (!). I speak to my personal journey in the vlog as well as the summer turned surrender, and ultimately compassion in action as acceptance and celebration for the ongoing process of production. As Abraham-Hicks says, "You can't get it wrong and you'll never get it done." Life is a never-ending evolution so thereby there are endless opportunities to 'get it right'! For my part, I continue to align with my divine shine to do what's mine yet am increasingly aware of the impracticalities of trying to serve so many areas of my Literacy Library all by myself ~ well, never alone, 'It is not i but the Spirit within me that doeth the work'. Still, the video work alone would be better served by at least 1 more set of hands and eyes and then there's the 4 websites ...! Let's just say, behind the curtain is way more than meets the eye from structural foundations to visionary implementations! So it is for all of us, and the many labors of Love we engage in on the daily. Some questions regarding my life's work and heart callings that may also serve you:
1. Is this heart calling/life work coming from unconditional Love or is this my wounded heart needing healing in another way? Or both?!
2. Am I called
to this in a fresh way today or out of old habit?
3. Is there something(s) I can release to free up energy?
4. Who am I serving with these offerings? How and why?
5. How is my vibrationship with my life and spiritual callings?
6. What natural progression/evolution is calling me to next steps?
7.
Who can I partner with for the highest good of all?
Ah, yes friend, we always do well to check our vibrationship in any given moment. And while we can be well served by our magnificent mind in asking questions, looking at humanity's history and embracing our potentialities, it is our Spirit that is ever ready to guide us higher. As I spoke of in this month's vlog, Wayne Dyer said (and wrote a book of the same title), "There is a spiritual solution to every problem." However you term 'problem', aka challenge, etc., our higher being and celestial team of angels and ancestors is always cheering us on to grow and glow! When we align with the shine of our divine design, we do shine! Our happy place is indeed spiritual solution! And perhaps the best revolution!
In the picture above I am in my studio circle where I do feel so lit up. I took many 'calls' there for the SoulPlay House series and for the new Om HomETV series for children and families. I *thought* Soul Playhouse was for spiritual, playful adults and after a year of production with little to no engagement, I truthfully don't know who it was meant to serve. Yet! I totally trust Spirit and all the happy moments of vibrationship i have experienced along the way. And of course, i know that ALL we do is an evolution and part of the spiritual revolution SOULution if we flow it that way! Aho!
 Playful Presence of Love Blessed Expressed!
The ambitious 13 week schedule I had set here for the summer quickly got off calendar yet stayed somewhat on track. 11 of 11 Soul Playhouse shows happened, mostly posting on their scheduled Saturdays. 8 of the 13 new Om HomETV shows are complete and the other 5 have most of their pieces/segments ready to be put together. 8 Spirit ABC pages are redone and published with another 8 well underway. In retrospect, if that was my sole or main focus of the summer, it was possible yet as I talk of in the vlog, Feature Creature Teacher Octopus has been showing me alot of wisdom from her 9 brains and 3 hearts! The Feature Creature Teacher section of Leaping Literacy Library has free streaming ETV videos with the downloadable powerpoint celebrations and printable Ask and Affirm Cards in the Member Library linking up. Rabbit, Rainbow and Seed downloadables are on the Free Shelf for the rest of September! All of the resources are coming together at the pace of grace in the Library in support of spiritual family literacy. There are home spiritual practices and curriculum also being combined as I weave threads from working with youth and families in Unity churches and the masters degree I did decades ago in curriculum design for early reading fluency. Our lives are a web of intersecting threads!
Panther Meadows, Mount Shasta
September's interfaith calendar is full of intersecting threads with many cultural traditions for Equinox (9/22) worldwide. The 21st is International Peace Day.
Join us for a visit to Mount Shasta's Peace Garden!
Today begins the 8 day Jain Festival, Paryushana Parva which has it's own threads of literacy with sacred card and letter writing and exchange within families. This weekend Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year begins and Sunday is Grandparent's Day.
Tomorrow eve, the 33rd Unity World Day of Prayer begins.
The theme for this year's worldwide 24 hour prayer vigil is Love is Alive and the affirmtion is,
Love leads me. Faith steadies me. Prayer carries me forward.
I will be joining in Love, faith and prayer as I bake up some yummies and drive them down to see my old ladies in Latrobe for luncheon on Thursday. And so it is we live our prayers in the flow.
Panther Meadows, Mount Shasta
Thank you friend for being here as a divine design intersecting thread of Love and care in this moment. I truly appreciate you sharing in my journey! I hope you found something useful for your own steps, mindfulness, heartbeats, prayers. I see, know and affirm the shine of your divine design. Namaste Light of Love!
9/4/26
Summer Surrender Into September Vlog
Namaste Divine Presence of Love Expressed!
Surrender Into September blog is still on the way yet wanted to share the vlog without further delay! There are 2 more summer share videos included here along with my sincere gratitude for the gift of your presence here and the deep hope that you are in your spiritually nurtured place of September oneness, goodness, blessedness. You are divine and you bless this world with your shine! May you continue to align!
Summer Surrender Confessions and Reflections Vlog w/ Mount Shasta September Snow Reveal:
My monthly Sing-Alongs continue with September's Singing Circles on the way. They are all found on the Leaping Literacy Library Sing-Along page. And here is the one from August:
August Reflection Songs:
From the summer series of newly formatted and produced Om HomETV shows especially for children and families:
Compassion in Action Om HomETV
Here @ New Thought Families, our free streaming spiritual resources include those found on our ABC pages, Multimedia page and For Humanity ABC daily Play and Pray calendar. Our Free Shelf is at our main branch Leaping Literacy Library!
Much more to say so the Summer Surrender Into September blog IS on the way! Blessed day! Namaste, Love!
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Laurie Story V Living Spiritual Literacy
