Gaia Community: OfMay's Blog

Cannibalism OUT of Capitalism.

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:55:03 GMT

Let us stop chewing cancerous holes in our planet for the sake of greed based consumerism. Stop contaminating our food, earth, water and land in the name of greed. A loss must be taken on industries and businesses that create wealth by the use and employment of systems, process or ingredients whose effect on neighboring organisms are found to deplete or weaken vitality and diversity in any way.

The more diverse that our natural supports systems are and the deeper that we utilize those systems in supporting our lives, the richer our lives will be. Living filters, nutrient, plant and animal cycles must be honored and worked with. That field of wheat is your mother’s breast. That dairy farm is smug in the terrain of your abdomen. A nuclear reactor is balanced on a pin within your head. There is no elsewhere. We are here!

Tags: The stoy of stuff, nature, vitaility, toxic, food, soil, Capitalism, Cannibalism

Lobbyists

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:56:47 GMT

We are lobbied into more and more corporations making money
through laws, ordinances and systems put in place by our
government which is in cahoots with the same corporations.
The heads of these corporations are leaching there wreath
off of the other 95% our population. Our government’s aid to
us in striving for self reliance or the shadow of it anyway,
has been replaced with aiding corporations in making as much
money as possible with the least expense possible, no matter
what the cost. No citizen, community, government, country,
landmass, planet, or recourse in this corner of the universe
is safe under this system.

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i think, I Wonder

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:49:23 GMT

i think, I wonder

Tags: cable, analog, digital, choice

Bliss Breath

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:00:35 GMT

Bliss Breath

Through the history of Breathwork a lot of time and effort has been spent in dividing and naming as much drama as possible. It is my feeling that working with the basic feelings triggered by the drama is all one needs to bring to the breath. The need to linger or focus on the drama tints the tones the color and depth of the Breathwork to follow. Holding the focus of the Breathwork solely on Unity, speaking only about of fear-based feelings of separation in direct relationship to Unity has a major effect on the entire process.

This should not be confused with avoiding the pain of separation and the fear is produces. You cannot avoid it. Spiritual by-pass has nothing lasting to offer the Breathwork participant. Our fears must be honored and brought in to partake of the feast at loves table. Listing or naming every minute aspect of drama that could possibly be worked on in a session has little value on its own. Connection or Unity needs to be the center point. The drama is the door we pass through, it is not the context or the destination.

With drama off the main stage the focus of the breath is set squarely on Unity. Breathing through archetypal themes of fear and drama we move toward forgiveness and love. This is the focus of Unity by Unity within Unity.

The buzz in many modalities including Breathwork is moving more and more toward the themes that one finds in the third and final stage of a breath cycle. In this phase one can find a bridge to a state of compassion filled bliss.

This steady increase in focus represents a great planetary shift. This shift in focus has done much to raise the vibration of the entire planet exponentially. Holding healing and not drama as the focus of our lives can bring changes that aide us in singing the song of Unity. A song that when song by all, be it in mind, voice, or body, tones the voice of the planet through compounding vibrations of the all that is one.

Neil Douglass Klotz offers us wonderful glimpses of the Aramaic language that Jesus spoke. Through Klotz’s work I can see possibilities for expressions of love I had never dreamed of, yet grieved for in my soul. Through these glimpses I have found the teachings of Jesus breathing in my body.

Our Shem, our vibration: the unique thing that we can vibrate the world with through our day-to-day lives, Is a true and open expression of life. When each aspect of entity is singing as if blind to all else, focused only in unity, in Shemia: the vibration of heaven. Then to that extent heaven is alive in our mists.

A birthing of heaven waits within our breath. The space of Unity only comes when we fully acknowledge the pain of existence without judgment. It is only by embracing the deepest darkness and brightest light that we are able to bring ourselves to the vibration vision of unity, heaven holding hell lovingly in its heart.

It is my feeling that such a path was spoken about in the words“ those who follow me will do more and greater things than I”. Jesus knew that people breathed fully into their Shem they would birth Love into a world of darkness, birthing heaven into hell. People focusing their lives in such ways would gain exponential strength and ability from the synergy that would be invoked.

Spirit drenched in love, alive in the breath of humanity, blowing freely through the air*, wind,* and atmosphere* of the earth. Such a dream of heaven is in sharp contrast to the stench of a planet fearfully and compulsively ingesting its self.

Breath is the only tool of the body that Jesus talks to us about. The path forward must lie upon that path. Breath is the gate to a room without doors or walls, ceilings or floors. It is Unity.

Focus on the bliss Buzz; keep the darkest dark and the brightest light held open in your heart, building more energy with each breath. Listen and breathe again. Listen and move through the tears into the Eye of God.

Breathing deep into love and fear; exploring your path from there and blessed will be your journeys!

It is my belief that our breath is the portal to a vast and powerful plain of Unity.

*In Aramaic the word for Spirit is the same word that is used for Breath, Air, Wind, and Atmosphere.

In time much of this will be clear to many and peace will rain down upon them.

Tags: Breath, breathwork, Aramaic, Neil Douglass Klotz, Edward DiMaio

Who are we to ourselves and to the world?

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:48:09 GMT

It's time to strip corporations of the same rights as individuals! It is the only way that we can truly get our government back as a servant of the people. Lately it has been proven so clearly that many corporations take much, much more than they ever give back. Socially and environmentally many corporations offer deserts where there were one lush forests. With fair wages paid as well as TOTAL REPARATION of the the environment, is there room for the huge profits corporations are so willing to defile anything for?
With the corporate lock on our government the military as well as many other agencies, created out of service to the people and the environment, will continue to be forces that secure cheap labor and raw materials world wide instead of being an active agents of peace and justice.
Agencies created to maintain and improve air and water quality have been gutted and left lame. We once set benchmarks worldwide for acceptable and unacceptable as ingredients in food cosmetics and the environment Now, due to corporate influence and control of our government, we allow known cancerous ingredients many products that we use and consume.
I live in what once was a fishing town. Now the fish are filled with mercury and PCB's. Local wells are tainted with lead from chemical applications to the land. Can one make clam to profits when so much is poisoned? Why do we as taxpayers pay for such cleanup time and time again?

What we did not know at the drafting of the Decoration of Independence is that CLEAN WATER AND LAND ARE THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL INGREDIENTS FOR FREEDOM. With out that all there is is shopping. Until we culturally give up the dream of buying the "Newbig" everything! There will be little juice for such changes. We have turned form a righteous wold leader fighting for freedom and justice to a self poisoning greedy gang of thugs.

We can still choose. The time is now!

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Opus in Stone

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:51:47 GMT

Opus 40.

One of the greatest testaments to the power of creativity and commitment as a gateway to creating beauty and inspiring humanity. Better named Opus 38 Harvey Fight died working on his Opus in stone two years before he planned to complete it. I have walked the 5 acre former quarry now sculpture many times and each time it moves in my differently. Like a prayer it has given me what is needed and has taken what is not.

Tags: Opus 40, Harvy Fight, Stone

Grace in the Gratto

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:26:27 GMT

Grace In The Grotto

Tags: Rena Cade, Edward DiMaio, Annie Kaufman, St Therese's Retreat, Colombus, Ohio

and so on

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:21:25 GMT

and so on

Tags: Joans Beach, NY, LI, edward DiMaio, fall, 2008, sunset

Apple tree hole, whole apple tree.

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:16:09 GMT

Whole Apple Tree, Apple Tree Hole

Tags: apple tree, hole, apples, gifts, pain, edward DiMaio

Leo's Pome for Today

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:41:33 GMT

    Righrous life

          Warm insight

               GOD FIRE

   Jealous Wolf

                rob their grass

                                To be NOTHINGNESS

Tags: Leo the cat, Poem, poetry, Edward DiMaio

Leo the cat writes poetry from time to time

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:28:00 GMT

Leo the cat writes poetry from time to time

Skillfully arranging words in corners,
in and around the fridge

Leo’s skill with words is on par with his ability
to perform Contact improve with the fridge.

Words thoughtfully placed hear and there

By the water bowl

the drums

near the sink

or the back door

A tattered magnet with the word “storm”
lay upside down by the dogs bowl.

its wounds making it slightly difficult to be read.

eight words in all tonight

Presently Leo is attempting to rub his face on the memory of my beard and somehow sit with his face as close as possible to mine.

Back to the words:

pleut (rains)

miss

Spirit

Vision

Temple

Storm

Skills

Capricorn

Pleut miss spirit storm

Vision temple
Skills Capricorn.

Wow you can really tell who his influences are!

Tags: cats, cat, poetry, poetry magnets Leo, leo the cat

Vow

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:40:17 GMT

I Edward John Leo Francis DiMaio

this day do solemnly vow

to take you, Hochma, the eternal aspect of my soul,

to be my bride.

To Love you honor you and cherish you,

For richer or poorer,

in sickness and in health,

from boundless elation to the greatest fears,

till death do us part.

This day I saw my fear of death clearly driving an insidious habit of chaining myself to my
perceived expectations of others,
In seeing that I realized that thwarting my Shem was in fact the death that I feared.

Tags: vow, wedding, Shem, hochma, bride, love, honor, cherish

Graves

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:58:37 GMT

How about this:

All who can dig a grave in there frount yard.
rope it off add a headstone.

Banner could read How many children have to die?

How can we ask our children to murder?

It need not be six feet deep, a sugestion of depth would go a long way.

Tags: war, murder, killing

Is the blood on our hands or in our hearts?

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:36:16 GMT

This post 9/11 GI Bill is the epitome of what is so vilely wrong with our system.

We are generating laws that are setups for the violence we see in the world. It is not some dark enemy it is the laws we pass and the amount of fervor in which we enforce them.

The ultimate muscle of this mobilization is the armed forces. Our government is bribing young minds that are, through media, shown doom and gloom all day by our amazingly corrupt media system.

Paying young minds money to kill for a corporate based military so clearly working against the very freedoms that they (the armed forces) originally made possible.

What if we paid an army of educated ecologists to help local populations enhance plant and animal diversity in all the regions of the world, including our own back yard’s? For a country that took that stand, I would lay my life down for.

What if we fought for people’s freedom to love and wed whomever and consume whatever based on their ability to do so peacefully with out unreasonable harm to self or others.

What if we had shown up in Iraq with eco tech and traditional with some modern medicines we would be in a wholly different place in relation to our sons and daughters, as aspect of a globe abundant with sons and daughters.

Through legislated and enforced laws of division we create a dark planet of fear and death.

Through compassion and freedom, we create the compassioned world of love’s unity.

It’s all choices and actions.

Is the blood on our hands or in our hearts?

Tags: Corporate military, war, murder, sons, daughters, violence, control

DOOR COUNTY ICE BOATS

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:49:15 GMT

Ice Boats of Sturgeon Bay

Tags: ice boats, ice, boats, sturgeon bay, door county, edward dimaio

Garden of Ice

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:27:27 GMT

Ice Gardens In My Yard

Tags: icicles, gardens, icedams, edward dimaio, poem

Sublingual?

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:52:57 GMT

Fighting a border line cold for a wile now and have been taking Echinacea in liquid form. Usually I squirt a dropper full under my tong and call it done. However today I did it a bit different. For some reason I took two squirts and instead moving on as usual I paused and held the under part of my tong away from my throat for as long as I could. WOW what a difference! It was if I were engulfed in a vaporous experience of Echinacea that I have never had before in my life. It felt like I was exposing my body in a wonderfully open way. Next time I will try it with less liquid so I get good saturation but do not have to swallow. If like me this is not your custom check it out! Its a bit fun in a sensational way.

Best,

Edward

Tags: Echinacea, sublingual, cold, dropper, tong, edward DiMaio

Ice Garden

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:25:32 GMT

What a display of ice we have this year. The front of the ice-dams are 5-6 inches hight. the soffit is carrying water back to the siding and in spots it is running down behind the siding. I guess I could spend a lot of time griping about it and wringing my hands about what I would have to do to fix it. Mostly i have been loving the icicles! They have been wonderful this year! fat crocked ones, long thin ones, intense ones locked into bushes are my favorite.

recently I have been popping the bigger icicles into snow banks, they look kind of erie and wonderful. Tonight I started purposefully decorating the snowbanks around the house and Gallery.

The hilts of the icicles were for me the body of the form. The points are the roots of the body. Worth pointing up now and then but unless in a trio or other odd grouping my urge is to burry the points and have the hilt tell its story no matter how much leaf litter and single grit is suspended in it.

Tomorrow morning I will take some images of the ice and post them here.

Best,

Edward

Tags: Ice-dams. icicles, hilt, point, sculpture, edward DiMaio, ice gardens

Draining Lake Michigan (one flush at a time)

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:39:28 GMT

Last week I was deep in western Chicago Land. At one point I flushed the toilet and thought that I just dumped 2-3 gallons of water out of Lake Michigan and into the Mississippi river basin. You may say so, what is the big deal. What it comes down to is millions of gallons of water being pulled out of lake Michigan to be used, cleaned and than released into the Mississippi river.

Big cities like Chicago as well as other large cities span the divide between the Great Lakes basin and the Mississippi river basin. When fresh water is pumped out of the lake and piped far enough inland that it crosses into the Mississippi basin. There it is used, cleaned and than released. This drains the lake and sends fresh water, not back to be held as fresh water in the lake, but to be flushed into the salty sea.

I can think of several piers in Door County that end yards before the current water line. Other cities and also draining lake Michigan in the same way. We need to return this water to its source. Yes it is expensive but not as but compared to the value of clean and abundant fresh water.

Fresh water that leaves the lake should return to the lake and not be sent to salty sea. We need all the fresh water that we and manage. A large percentage of the water in lake Michigan is glacial-water and can not be replaced. Lets work to keep our fresh water as clean and abundant as we can.

Best,

Edward

Tags: water, lake Michigan, Mississippi River, Fresh water, falling water tables, Edward DiMaio

60MPG?

http://thefaceofmay.gaia.com — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:18:28 GMT

Looking at the Trib today going through the transportation section. Wow where are the 40 and 50 and 60 MPG cars? Is this such a feat? To double current and long term historic averages for MPG? This should not be such an imponderable challenge. Where is my 60MPG?

When will folks try to sell me a car, not based on marketing findings on sex and addiction, but by the size of my footprint on this earth.

60MPG?

Best,

Edward

Tags: transportation, MPG, cars, chicago tribune, edward dimaio.