AWE AND ORDER

The awe is here...the order? 

Not Sure!

* "Already Done~" in the cosmic sense....Say "Yes" and nudge the story forward.

 Suspended Animation~

String of Pearls Poems/Images/ "Color by Technicolor"

Open your Electronic Scrapbook and Have Fun with Words/Worlds

Butterfly Lights, glass colors in door

Sinking into Calm and Quiet:  both are necessary

Deep Time

Deep Rest

Deep Space

Deep Water

"Depth of Fields~"

"I see a field of Black and White horses!"

Time Out~

Deep Reset

** WHITE SPACE 101

An Opportunity for Creativity

"Spend time doing nothing, thinking nothing."

"Can help brain and cognition."

"Even 30 second bursts can work."

*** Phoebe's Angel Sketch

Light and Time

A friend calls and talks:  "I am writing but it isn't clear yet...."  

"I'll REFINE when it's TIME~"  

**** I hear bits of music: "It is the evening of the day...I sit and watch the children play..."

TIME IS ON MY SIDE

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Resources:

* The Complete I-Ching, Alfred Huang

** GMA 3 ABC TV. Aug 26, 2021, Jen Ashton, M.D., White Space 101, an Opportunity for Creativity

Music:

**** Rolling Stones: As Tears go By, and Time Is On My Side, classics from the Stones: remembering Charley Watts, drummer

Meditation:

Deepak Chopra online

Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga, integrative exercises: 

Tai Chi, Dr. Paul Lam, worldwide online Tai Chi for Health

Dr. Yang Jwing-ming, YMAA.com online exercise, Instruction books, novels: and More

Yoga: Honor Your Body...Peggy Cappy, Relaxing Yoga  and other programs PBS 

Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist , Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images IMAGINE~

* Already Done, I-Ching, ink sketch

art work by Dahlis:

Butterfly Lights, photo

Black and White Horses, oil panting

*** Phoebe's Angel, pencil sketch

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE~ PREQUEL

 

MEMORY JAR

This post is a prequel to the following story: A JAR, (published July 8 2021) a bit of background here~

The original Memory Jar from the post * Message In A Bottle was published on this blog, Out of the Blue,  on Jan 13, 2913.  What Fun!  Just beginning to collect memories then with a few positive notes and now she expands to a fully stuffed jar!  

I picked out a written message at random and it read:  

"SOMETIMES I AMAZE ME!"

When I see this original jar, and hold it in my hands, I think of my young as a child and her father working together on the small farm.  I can feel the barn and the horse and buggy and the cow and a few chickens, a small and rustic farm.

I always loved the **aqua blue jars, made in Indiana USA from local sands that surprisingly contained chemicals that spontaneously spawned the glorious colors in the glass.

I will sift through the message memories when "time and space permit" and add some new ones:

What will they be?

STAND LIKE A TREE

THERES IS A PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS

ALL IS WELL

KEEP MOVING FORWARD, ONE STEP AT A TIME, QUIETLY AND SLOWLY

HELP IS HERE

"Thanks for the Memories" Song by Perry Como

Resources:

* Message in a Bottle, song by Sting and the Police

** Ball Jar Company, Indiana, USA, original blue glass Perfect Ball Mason Jars made between 1910 and 1923.

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Memory Jar

A JAR

It has/is a jarring "time" for everyone~ identity disruption, hobbies derailed, "free time" to relax? 

Gone But Not Forgotten.

Shadow Land

"Sorting through STUFF"  the stuff has increased exponentially.  Where does it come from? "Time to Sort?  Paint?  Write?  Think?  Think Again?  Overthink?

Underwhelmed/Overwhelmed by "reality"

VANISHED

To Minimize Plastic, why not switch to glass mason jars for water storage?  I Have jars of many colors and sizes, from years ago!  

Of course I do~ I love jars!  

 Especially  * BLUE JARS!

"Little Jars all in a Row" and Bigger ones too~

Invisible Jar

Some months ago, I had an opportunity to take over filling the glass mason jars with fresh filtered water every day.

HOW AM I GOING TO DO THAT?

I "thought" the task and hand/hands through thoroughly.  I'd have to be strong enough and confident enough to pick up the jars, carefully, and with two hands gripping, fill each jar quickly but not rapidly.  I'd have to be in sharp focus, no daydream in case a "jar" slipped through my slippery wet hands.  

The Jars would have to be in "perfect order" and  set up for easier lifting into the resting place cupboard.  Again, total focus.  Quiet, Clear, Precise. "Just like painting~ relaxed alertness."

I'll try one small jar first. and see how it goes.  Just one jar the first day.  It worked!  I am ready!  I felt like "fetching water" in the "old days" and marveled at the calming effect of the lineup of jars waiting to happen.  

JAR MANAGEMENT

Sort of like an assembly line.

Sort of like a science project.

Sort of like a science lab with beakers, empty and full.

"Mom's Science Lab, Mom ain't here."

WATER MANAGEMENT

The sounds of water entering into the jars is like music, and the frequencies emitted changed as the jars filled.  Letting me know when it was time to switch jars.  SO calming~  Like Painting.  My hands move with dexterity, holding a jar instead of a paint brush.  I felt like the water was like a running fresh spring.

Pick up a jar, move a full jar to a new location, swiftly yet deftly pick up another empty jar and gently fill it.  When all are filled "in exact order."  Pick up the full jars one at a time, with two hands, and move to the next step.

Pretty Jars (sort of) All In A Row~

Lid City!

LID MANAGEMENT

"All" the chosen jars, be they Mason, Ball, or Atlas combinations thereof, in my case, use the same size lids, BPA free and made by the  *Ball Jar company, long lasting and dishwasher safe (top rack) AND I even have a (wait for it) Lid Washer Basket!

Pretty Lids all in a row and color coded besides.  The color of the lids can be a clue as to what batch the water came from.  For example, jars topped with white lids may be used before the 
"newer refill" of jars with blue lids in the back row, hence the pick up order on the shelf, and water is used "in perfect order" so always fresh water is appearing at the right "time" and rotation of jars is accurate.

I know!  It's over focused thinking, but "Hey!" **Alton Brown is grinning.

The "Jarring" daily experience leaves me with a calming moment...Painting with Water!  I also noted my shoulders, arms, and fingers all got stronger as well as dexterity and eye hand coordination.  Ability to place lids securely on jars and double check them "feel" like putting paint tube tops back on paints after a session!  What Fun!  

MEMORY JAR

A large blue quart Ball Perfect Mason Jar used by my Paternal Grandfather on the farm from many years ago greets me with "memories" jotted on bookmarks made of colored note cards cut lengthwise.  Filling the jar:  Poem lines appear here as do Song Titles and Music Phrases and Painting Ideas and Dreams and more. 

*** "Looking Through Windows" I have a suitcase/freight train full of memories TIME AFTER TIME

I have a Blue Jar full of memories I almost left behind...."Time After Time"

"Time is Teching"   Memories Are Made of This~ 

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Resources:

* Ball Jar Company, Collector's Edition 1910-1923. "Near the turn of the 20th century, The famous "Ball Blue " color was created when the minerals in the sand used to make the jars resulted in an unexpected aqua color.  These aqua jars were beautiful and became popular for preserving and storing jams, jellies and other recipes.  Today with the NEW Ball Collector's edition jars, you can relive history with a vintage design, color, and logo from a bygone era." Made in the USA, 2018, Hearthmark LLC, 9999 E. 121st Street Fishers IN 46037 USA

** Alton Brown: various media,  Fun with food and science too, "Timer after Timer" Alton is always "on time!" Good Eats and more

PUR facet water filter

Music

*** Cindi Lauper sings Time After Time

Song of the Day: Harry Stiles, Sign of the Times, 2017

Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Photos  by Dahlis:

Shadow Land

Reflections

Invisible Jar

Science Project

Pretty Jars All in A Row

Blue Sunlight 

CODE OF MANY COLORS

I saw a Dolly Parton interview.  I drifted in and out of dozing, high alert, and full sleep state all at one "time."  I picked up the usual Bits and Pieces of "it's all random" data.... 

One "time" in sleep-wake state, I picked up some "words" (how did they get there?)  Instead of "hearing" Dolly's Coat of Many Colors sung, my brain "spoke":

CODE OF MANY COLORS

What? 

I came to full awakening "instantly" grabbed the notepad and pen at the ready and quickly scribbled the coded message before it escaped.   

What else?  Later in the show, again daydreaming, I "saw" in my imagination a large dark purple sphere expanding before my inner eye in the lower left foreground of my perception.  The shape had small silver sprinkles, like quartz or ice crystals.  It expanded outward in front of plain cream colored background.

What is That?

Angles of Lavender Light, Shapes Appear

* I had recently watched Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, giving his take about the Big Bang Theory.  "Which One?"  Expand and Contract many times? 

 

Then I retraced myself back to a little child.  

The visible and invisible spectrum appeared in my imagination.  My Dad explained about Ultraviolet and Infrared rays of invisible light.  

My words for these "color fields":

ULTRAVIOLENT and INFO-RED

It was years before I realized their true spellings....

Rainbow Bright, Refracted Light

** QUANTUM THOUGHT

Some time later in the next day or so, (it is always "later" for me).  I read the  Shirley Gram newsletter from actress, author, dancer, and spiritual teacher, Shirley MacLaine. 

Shirley writes, "A physicist friend was talking about...quantum thought.

'A field is defined as an invisible moving force that influences the physical world....  

The ancient definition of spirit was an invisible moving force to influence the physical world.' "

Shirley Continues:

"Quantum Thought and Spiritual Energy are the same.  They have equal authority over what we view as our physical reality." 

" A CALM MOMENT RESETS PERSONAL FOCUS" 

Natural (no kidding) Green Light on Crane Painting

"Time" is synchronicity "all the time."  I picture "time" as a circle or a spiral or maybe a bubble shape, or maybe a series of bubbles?  A flash of light? A balloon?  What's your take? 

Then I thought of Yin (dark, stillness, cool)  and Yang (light, action, warmth).  These dynamics of  Day and Night: Night and Day are ever changing.  the Analytical and The Intuitive: the Head and the Heart: the Logic and the Empathetic :  Both are necessary: "all in balance." 

 *** Musician Yo Yo-Ma's ,comment was, "We have to go back and forth a lot in order to gain that equilibrium."  I pondered, it is really tough to achieve or even visualize "The Just Right"    

I asked a question.  "What is your take on reincarnation?" 

"Scientifically, reincarnation means passing your genes, DNA, memories (written or pictures)  into the future."  

"What a concept!"  

Instant Recognition? Genetic Memory?  "I already know you?"  How is this possible?

"Intent Leads Energy"

Cindi Lauper, singer songwriter's words and music are floating in now:

**** "I have a suitcase of of memories, I almost left behind, Time After Time...."  

"I see your True Colors are Shining Through...."  Music, choose your frequency as needed, music can energize you or impart calm.  What do you need right "now?"

Science, research, development, theories, storage and information retrieval, the push and pull of computer codes and new lenses and instruments:  technologies are ever changing and expanding. Data collection is amazing and "moving forward."  New waves, frequencies, and particles are discovered and mutate into mixes unseen before.  

Orbs of Light in Action

+ "MOTION MADE VISIBLE"

A friend contributed:  "When you send out and receive positive energy, you change the plus "charge" of the universe/cosmos for the better.  It is like charging a battery for the cosmic good."    

Recently someone sent me "Pink Clouds" in her imagination!  I picked them up one afternoon...at first a I saw a grey mist with a few thin pink threads woven into the mix, sort of like a quilt.  The next early morning at  5:43 AM, I awoke, dreaming of a cotton candy fluffy pink clouds in the shape of an arched  rainbow!  Who Knew?

"All is possible with the mind," Dr. Paul Lam

"All?'

"ALL!"

+ "SAY YES, MOVE FORWARD"

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Music: 

Dolly Parton, documentaries from many sources, fun, inspiration, positive, creative, book outreach for children, Songs Tell Stories: "Coat of Many Colors that my Mama made for me"

Song of the Day:  Enya: Far and Away: "Wide Ocean....This is my journey, Far and Away..." Only Time collection. 

*** Yo-Yo Ma (cello solo) Largo from the New World Symphony, Antonin Dvorak, Margaret Hoover Firing Line, PBS.org, (March 2021)

**** Cindi Lauper, award winning singer, Time After Time, True Colors, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and more

Creativity

+ Kid Stew, PBS.org for kids of all ages!  Sample Quotes: "Motion Made Visible" and "Say, Yes, and Move Forward."  Books, authors, artists, music, imagination, and creativity.  Best of all, Ozzie the blue merle Australian Shepherd Dog! 

Quilting Arts and Fit 2 Stitch, fabric painting and design, 3-D effects, get an inside look into how an artist/designer creates.  "Learn Something New," PBS.org

Science

* Michio Kaku, physicist, author, of books The God Equation, Time Travel, String Theory and more.  Christiane Amanpour, Journalist series on CNN and PBS, Michio's interview with Walter Isaacson, 2021 

Neil de Grasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, book and series, "out of the box" thinking.

Exercise and Meditations:

Imagine Healing, Debra Basham and Joel P. Bowman, Ph.D, Healing Touch Therapy, EFT, Hypnotherapy, authors, pre and post surgical support and more.

** Shirley MacLaine, actress, author, dancer, and spiritual teacher.  Shirley Gram free newsletter, books: The Camino, Out on a Limb and many more

"All in balance and not too much of any one thing~" Gu, Jiong: Traditional Chinese Medicine 

Dr. Yang, Jwing-ming, ymaa.com: novels, include Genetic Remembrance, Sun Catcher and others available online from Kindle. Online instruction available, Taiji, Qigong, energy work.  Traditional Teaching, ancient techniques 

Dr. Paul Lam, taichiforhealthinstitute.org, online worldwide, Tai Chi for Health

Deepak Chopra, meditations online.  "There is no wall between the visible and the invisible, because the wall didn't exist in the first place."

Dahlis Roy, Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images:

Photos by Dahlis:  Sunlight through blue and green squares

Angles and Shapes of lavender light

Rainbow Bright, Refracted Light

Art Work by Dahlis:  oil painting,  Dancing Cranes in Natural Green Light

Pink Lotus,  crayon drawing

Contributed Photos and Art Work, printed with permission:

Yin/Yang with Light Emerging:  Art Work by Jay Van Shelt (a.k.a. Bapu Dass) 

Orbs of Light in Action:  photo by Sue Broome, Angel Communicator, Author

TIME LAPSE MEMORY

Time lapse memory?   What is THAT?

In color and in black and white they come, images parading, awake or asleep.  "The mile a minute mind" is at work and play, fast yet slow all at one "time.... and place."

Memory comes in with bits and flashes of light and dreams, of daydreams and conversations, on "TV" or online shows.  Sudden inspirations appear as if by magic, without looking for them....an answer to a question may pop up years later "sometimes."  An image from long ago flashes by.  

 A full motion stream of old newsreels in black and white or color may by steam by swiftly with express train speed.  I very seldom hear words or dialogue to accompany the photo journals.

"All of a sudden" I saw a show (unplanned) based on old photos and newsreels!  Trains in motion, countryside, big cities, families!  What is this?  It was a 2 hour program:  American Experience. I watched it all, all at once.  Near the end (which I almost skipped)  a comment appeared:

+  "The intuitive process of writing, is to absorb everything around you, and that becomes fuel for the process of writing, you draw from places that you don't even know you've drawn from."

That same intuition, for me, also applies to applying paint to canvas, crayons on paper, ink with pen or brush and pencils of all kinds, collages, images, imagination at work and play.  I saw pen picture in my head: Drawing the Curtain.

Many years ago, while driving down a road, I had a conversation.  I heard a song while writing?  What is it?  I asked my friend.  No clue.   

A month later, I heard the song again by accident on the "radio" (radio daze), again while driving. "That's it!" I shouted out loud!  So I got the name and recording group:  Pink Floyd, On the Turning Away.  The lyrics stuck with me and still do.

Time Lapse Memory~

I felt more complete now, a piece of a musical puzzle had "come in."  

You can see the faint blue butterfly about 1/4 of the way from your view of lower right hand side of the painting/sketch. Fun with color and light.

Time lapse Photography on the Walt Disney Show (early TV) opened my "eyes" as seeds sprouted and grew to plants, flowers, and trees right before me!  Flying Horses flew in Fantasia movie~ I am "there!"

One of my writing coach editors said one day: "You're like a human fax machine, you are at rest, work, or play and and get constant faxes coming in day or night! 

"What is a fax machine you ask?"

Music comes in at "any time"  waking day or sleeping night.  "Now" I am listening to Schumann in my head, a piano piece.  Why? Gentle, Quiet. much needed.

Recently I heard Africa, a song by Toto over and over in a memory loop of perfectly replicated full sound and lyrics for self entertainment and a bit of pep.  How?

"Write Now" as I scribble here, I am hearing in my imagination Yo-Yo Ma play a part of Largo from the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak.  This piece is very calming for me, and Yo-Yo Ma is, as always, "note perfect."

Bits and Pieces, they come in~ in all forms.  Random and unrelated pieces of uneventful information may gradually or suddenly transform into a (breathe) story or (gasp) painting "magic moments" a bit of cosmic perception, without thought or effort.  Linking bits together helps me to understand myself with increased clarity and charges physical energy to continue on for new adventures, new insights.

* Movie Memory: a study of a freeze frame mind?  The person (viewer) may actually see freeze-framed stills of movement such as a horse jumping a fence.  The mind-memory may actually put these "stills" together into a moving whole motion sequence!  Is that why I like freeze frame so much? 

** "Motion Made Visible"

Blues, Greens, Shadows, a touch of Lavender, hints of vibrations and waves of light visible and invisible

First I fast forward on the DVR from slow to fastest speed and "capture" an image. Let's say a Sheltie dog herding sheep. Then I back up to individual freeze frames for concentrated study and reflection.  I see his feet, his alertness, concentration and leg positions.  I note his thick groomed bicolor coat (black and white like some of the older DNA).  I sense his ability to focus on that sheep that wants to bolt from the herd.  I see the Sheltie  halt the sheep's escape, gently and confidently.  I love this dog!  Smile~

I also like to concentrate on charts, formulas, weather maps.  I got through school by repeating images and (rarely) words to myself over and over again until I had memory lock.  Memory is solidified first by pictures and lastly by "lists" or key words gleaned from books (notes in margins of my own books). "Notes" on pads of paper are  coded in shortened words and unintelligible drawings, charts, or scribblings, and are usually completely unorganized.

SAME AS NOW

Years later, I opened some of my Dad's books to FIND!  He had the same way of recording information in his books, the same way of self indexing in the front of the book, and even the symbol of  * "imp." meaning "important...."  I had done the very same thing without ever seeing these books.... What? 

*** "Genetic Memory" ?

I am mostly in deep daydream while I am scanning shows.  Sometimes I am asleep and awake at the same "time."

The Mute Button is My Favorite Silent Friend

That way "voices vanish" and I can concentrate deeply on the plays of light and color.  Sometimes I "read" the closed captions....and sometimes I only see the pictures.....but only one focus at a "time" either seeing or reading, but not both at once....

"Time for a break!"

Several Days later, I come back to continue....

The Blue Planet: Celebrate Earth Week, April 19-23

AMAZING PLACE!

AMAZING PACE!

**** "We are timeless beings having a time-bound experience."  Deepak Chopra, M.D.

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Resources: 

+ American Experience:  American Oz, (first aired April 19, 2021) life of author L. Frank Baum, creator of the classic novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, inspiring films, books, and musicals.

* Oliver Sacks: My Own Life, (2021) PBS.org biography, documentary, Author, Scientist Oliver Sacks has a "moving picture in the mind" conversation with Francis Crick (Watson and Crick double helix DNA team). Plus much more topics for further study and investigation.  "What are you writing about?" Oliver Sacks: "Creativity!"  Way to Grow!

** Kids' Stew: Aired again April 2021, PBSkids.org, Time Travel, music authors, artists, creativity, travel and more.  "Motion Made Visible" Artist Jackson Pollock (character actor) talks about his art work.  "We're from the future," young actors.

*** Dr. Yang, Jwing-ming, Genetic Remembrance (novel)  YMAA.com Dr. Yang is a Tai Chi, Qigong (energy work) expert with much knowledge to share about healthy lifestyle, positive attitude, kindness, and outreach.  Many novels available online including Sun Catchers and others. Informational works and video about Chinese Medicine and correct practice.  You Tube resources

Paul Lam, M.D., Tai Chi for Health Institute, expert programs to improve health and well being

**** Deepak Chopra, M.D., meditation expert, Quote from Metahuman, (2021) presentation on PBS.org  

Music: 

Enya The Memory of Trees

Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images by Dahlis:

Play of Light, a real photo!  Sunlight in kitchen, light refraction, up close and personal

Drawing the Curtain, pen and ink sketch

Butterfly at Play, oil painting sketch, fun with color

Light in Motion, photo vibration waves of blues, greens, and lavender calm and energize in harmony

Globe of Light, photo, spectrum refracts into a small glass bowl