I have been absent from Copperstrings for over a year. I feel badly that people have sent me messages and friend requests that I did not see so did not respond to. I apologize to all of you. I have had a difficult year. I am a caregiver to a disabled woman Veteran here in the US. Her health has been poor and my time has been divided between her medical needs and the care for my 30+ cats and my disabled puppies. I have also been dealing with inner turmoil related to my childhood, whihc has taken a great deal of my emotional energy. I hope to be a more consistent participant in the future, and I wish everyone well.

OK, deep breath!  just listened to the ethereal music of the meditation, am tired of ignoring my Self, my Spirit and getting lost in the to-do's of home ownership, career, a wild, overgrown garden and love...oh love...sweet as it is. Parenting half-time allows me much freedom, yet, the constant nag of worry is still there, even when my beautiful, talented and amazing daughters are with their dad.  Being in relationship, as delight-filled and intimate and challenging as it is, will be on-hold while John leaves town for 2 weeks.  Work is so crazy busy and deadline driven currently, I'm dropping balls...then to go to the mall and spend so much money!  On myself!  Guilt ridden and wondering where my discipline and resolve was ...I sit at t...

Was shocked to see my last activity was nearly a year ago. I've had a very difficult time since early 2011 following the death of my father who was a primary abuser in my life. Had to deal with issues that had never surfaced previously. I've just completed working through a second wave of internal backlash. It is settling down now and the end of the month I am looking forward to having my final medical issue repaired. Since Friday I've been watching the specials on 9/11, especially the information that was hidden in 2001 but now public. I also think I dissociated the event after living it along with the rest of the world that day live on television. Was glad to see the invitation to the 9/11 Intention Experiment and have signed up. A...

Ever since I’ve been living in New Delhi all by myself, this feeling of people’s interference has intrigued me more often than not. Sometimes it’s made me wonder if living single brings along a baggage. But over the years I noticed interestingly, that Indians in general are curiously inquisitive about anything which is not their business. Initially the neighbours/semi-strangers/ office colleagues enquire about your age and then your marital status and the reason for being single. Not satisfied, they want to know the reason for your living single and why parents do not stay together. The amount of rent and if there’s some partner staying together is also enquired about. Bucketful of advise such as it’s risky for a single female living a...

Across the globe there are found large wastelands of plastic bottles. This is mostly evident at what used to be scenic locations once upon a time, and have been converted into popular picnic spots. People do not pay heed to the environmental damage and have a tendency to dump plastic plates and bottles among other refuse in these places, thereby further converting them into wastelands. Moreover, we also see empty plastic bottles being strewn across the city roads. All this shows mankind’s negligence towards protecting our planet. Firstly, it is important to understand the need for recycling plastic bottles at homes. One can regularly wash the empty water/ soft drink bottles and reuse to carry water/ juice etc., if needed. This will...

JUST SUPPOSING Supposing this           Imagine if you can That everything is nothing           All is in a dream The dream is life is God and man           Good and evil Love and fear old age and youth           With all that comes between Before and after day and night           Sleep and dreams the same All part and parcelled right or wrong           Along with life and death Within this dream called life Yet all is just that part           Before we know we’re dreamers In Gods game called life           Until we know we’re dreaming We are crazy as can be           Thinking thoughts that hurt destroy All along the way           Blaming other beings in our dream For what we think a...

freedom / n. 1 the condition of being free or unrestricted 2 personal or civic liberty; absence of slave status 3 the power of self-determination; the quality of not being controlled by fate or necessity 4 the state of being free to act. Humans have a tendency to define freedom by their circumstances. If you are imprisoned - you are not free (you're restricted by walls). If you are in relationship with others - you are not free (you're restricted by obligation, responsibility and duty of care). If you are sick - you're not free (you're restricted by the limitations of the disease) and so on. It is an absolute truth of human nature that we can experience life from two perspectives - that of our perception, and that of our expanded inf...

GRATITUDE FOR Common things iNFINITE TREASURES FROM THE MIND           iSN’T LIFE AMAZING ISN’T THE TELEPHONE A BLESSING           wE CAN TOUCH WITH MILES BETWEEN ISN’T TELEVISION GRAND           we can see the world or watch it rain in spain           We have ships that travel even to the moon SATELLITES IN SPACE           eLECTRICITY AND TOILETS FLUSHING CARS TO RIDE THERE HAVE BEEN a lot OF CHANGES SINCE WE HAD TO GO           OUTSIDE IN WINTER STORMS AND SUMMER RAINS  tHERE IS FAX… BIG MACS… COMPUTER SCREENS           CELLULAR PHONES AND MEGA MARKETS FRUITS FRESH FROM LAND AND SEA           WE HAVE FLOWERS IN WINTER THERE IS DANCE AND MUSIC COLOR AND SOUND           LIFES ABUNDANCE ALL AROUND ...

A Cosmic Joke: Did they get the wrong date? The following information was passed to us recently.  Normally we wouldn’t include what is already being forwarded to people’s emails but this makes fascinating reading and the rationale behind it is quite plausible.  If correct this is hugely significant.  It would be a cosmic joke if this turns out to be more accurate than some of the other predictions. As the old story goes, there’s good news and there’s bad news: GOOD NEWS: The world will not end on 21 December 2012. BAD NEWS: The world ended on 21 December 2010. Errrrm.  When? Astrologer Victoria Peltz recently wrote an article explaining that we are – or may be - two years off in our calendar because of the confusion back in...

TRUTH OR SIMULATED ILLUSION Humility and the part it plays in your life Humility and gratitude are both sides of the same coin It is a coin that you inherit as you go higher in conscious states. Humility is what lets you Hear and Gratitude is another coin that has on the other side Happiness. Gratitude for what you might ask. Gratitude for the life within you that grows and evolves you to higher and higher states of profound peace and joyful love without boundaries. States where we see that the idea of a separated world is all in our head and has never has been a reality outside of our head. We helped create that world because the real reason we ever inhabited that physiological dimension of separation is so that you cou...