I'm just about to head off to bed...but I wanted to document this day...to remember
it...because it is one of the very best days I've had in ages. I was sorta concerned
when I received a message that it was time to stop being a sloth and get back into
the swing of material life. I mean it's been a year or more...I wasn't even sure I
still had any muscles left in there. I was a bit afraid they'd all atrophied away to
nothing during my long stretch of idleness.

Well, idleness isn't right...I was anything but idle during that time...but it was all
spiritual and energetic work I was doing...you know, lottsa naps, and horizontal meditations,
and more sleep that you can imagine. I could do four naps a day on a day when the Zap was
really flying. I didn't consider them naps, to me they were being very busy in the astral
arena...but it LOOKS like napping to everyone else.

But, I accepted my message this morning, doused myself with insect repellant (flies are the
price we pay to live in Australia...they are horrid...but it's worth it), gathered up my gloves
and tools, wheeled the barrow over and got stuck into it. Next thing I knew four hours had
passed. One whole section of my flower garden looks like somebody gives a hoot about it. Everyone
is neatly pruned and trimmed and weeded...I think the plants are probably grinning out there
under the stars tonight.

When it was time to get dinner and finish the household chores I stopped for a few minutes, just
looking around. It's rained recently so it's actually beginning to look like sping...green grass,
trees in blossom, butterflies flitting about the place...I felt this whole new appreciation of
where I live. Don't get me wrong, I ALWAYS appreciate my place...my roots go so far down they
rest in the crystal heart of Mother Earth...but this was different. I felt more a part of it
today than I ever remember feeling before. I guess just part of my new awareness of Oneness with
Universe.

So, I'm standing there, brown as a bean from being in the sun all day...dirty feet...and a grin
that wouldn't go away. I felt like I was hearing a tune, or a rhythm, that I haven't heard for
awhile...the rhythm of the natural world. I hadn't realized how deeply I missed it.

How lovely to be back in tune once again.
yarra