Walk the path you love. 👣 Love the path you walk. ❣️

in #cannabis6 years ago (edited)

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This rose garden is on the grounds of a beautifully converted Carmelite monastery, which is now the renowned San Angel Inn, in Mexico City. Thanks, again, to Derek and his family for sharing so much hospitality with us. What a gorgeous, and memorable day. 🌹


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Juan, guarding. Arturo, stretching.


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More paths for your pretty feet.


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Arturo Ponce de León is our enormously talented and visionary lead bio-fractal architect. He applies "the geometry of life, to the design of spaces, construction and interiors."

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What would happen if your fascination about a particular thing only grew, and was not suppressed or restrained?

Of course legions of frightened, half-hearted people would tell you to be less obsessed, and more balanced. They would try to talk you out of your fire: "Woah... turn it down... chillllll....."

Whatever. Besides that lameness.

What would happen... if you allowed your fascination to take you as farrrrrr as it wanted to take you... well beyond smoothly plastered walls and Netflix. I don't care if it's math, music, or mothering...

Mothering is a great example.

I would say, and most would agree, that Dayna Martin allowed her fascination with a certain kind of mothering, to carry her all the way past social and cultural convention... and into new realms of what parenting can look like.

For many well-intended people I know, the idea that a child deserves the same kind/amount of dignity that an adult deserves is ludicrous. The discounting of a child's innate personhood is sooooo hard-wired and baked-in as normal, anything less than strict obedience sounds like lunacy to authoritative ears.

My point with the contrast is to show how very brave and revolutionary it is to raise free and happy children, in a world that still mostly believes in a false right to rule over others.

If Dayna had chosen to turn down her passion or voice about this particular Way of Being in the world, consider all the influencing toward peaceful parenting that would NOT have happened. How much further behind would that aspect of consciousness -- which is the innate dignity of children -- be?

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The depths to which I want to understand cannabis' ways and wisdom has yet to find a bottom, or an edge.

Well, there is of course the forced and immoral edge of prohibition, which hinders all research, study, and wholesome investigation. 💥

And as a result, there are legal and housing restraints I am subject to, but aside from those...

...medicinally, historically, politically, spiritually, functionally, commercially, psychologically, cognitively, botanically, responsibly... in all the ways it can be known, understood, experienced, learned from, and enjoyed... THAT IS WHAT I WANT.

I want that for me, and every single person and animal on the planet that needs/desires it.

Because behind her gateway, is abundant life.

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A question for you:

(1) Is there something -- anything, really -- that holds and keeps your focused interest to the point of time-loss?

(2) If so, can you imagine taking that topic/issue (like cannabis/hemp, or peaceful parenting, or homesteading, or singing, or seriously whatever) and study/practice it in the immersive way that devotees cannot resist... and let the new learnings reveal your next steps.

That's how I navigate my unfolding path... just ride/follow the edges of my new learnings/discoveries.

You will lose some people and things you thought you wanted to stay in your life.

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It will hurt like a mofo.

But then you're made new.

And then you're given keys...

...to whatever locks you have chosen to play with in this lifetime. USE YOUR KEYS. 🔑

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Sometimes your sheer inner groundedness will have to be enough to sustain you.

It can. It will.

This post is to encourage all with the heart of a devotee, TO ACCEPT + LEVERAGE YOUR DOGGEDNESS.

Your peculiar intensity.

I am so grateful for this platform that allows us to freely express honest sentiments that are energetically helpful to both creators and readers. Thank you, Steemit, for carrying -- and not censoring -- all our words!

I am GRATEFUL for the (block)chain of events (haha) that brought me to Steemit nearly two years ago, thereby dropping me in a crypto-reality I may not have otherwise ventured into on my own. I'm not crypto-rich, but I am crypto-free. Living, writing, expressing, connecting, transacting on it. Because of it. Satoshi, and other purveyors of blockchain technology, I LOVE YOU.

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Gus spotted this ashtray sitting in front of us at Sandy Toes, a lively beachfront pub in Ambergris Caye, on San Pedro. There were also burnt fiat bills from various countries taped up all over the place. That amused us.


Also while we were in Ambergris Caye, I received an email saying I had been awarded a scholarship I applied for to the Sativa Science Club for Certification in Cannabis Science!

Four years ago, I was actually afraid to put the following statement on my LinkedIn profile (but I put it there anyway):

"I stand for the legal and social vindication of cannabis/hemp, and the personal liberation of those who know her."

Like many others, I wanted to shift the public perception of a gravely misidentified Gift of Nature. I also feared the professional consequences of openly associating myself with a plant that has such a distorted reputation.

Sure, now it's a sexy, already-lucrative industry that has a lot less stigma than it did just a few years ago. (Hooray!)

But before trending smoothed the road a bit, the ride was rougher. The alienation and lost opportunities were real. Still are. According to the FBI's crime data report for 2016, more people were arrested for cannabis possession, than for all violent crimes, combined. If that doesn't clearly reveal an intentionally designed mechanism that enables the US to lead the world in enslaving its own citizens in slave labor, then I don't know what will.

Not to mention the well-documented proof that cannabis is the most effective treatment of opioid abuse. And seizures/convulsions, neural degeneration, and a host of other conditions.

And how about using industrial hemp to reduce carbon emissions, repair toxic/demineralized soil, and replace filthy industrial practices and products?

There is so much social and material good to be done by and with this one plant alone. A lifetime isn't nearly enough for rightful celebration of it.

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Now, I better understand that when you love something loudly or proudly, it doesn't only subject you to risk and rejection.

It also subjects you to the reward of being an integrated and self-accepting person.

When you deeply accept yourself, the rejection of others just doesn't matter so much.

When you are accepted by others, it will be based on who you really are.

And what you make when you come together will be astonishing.

For many of us, the season of being prepared in a silo... the long night of delayed dreams and unused gifts, is over.

Time to rise and shine.

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Several years ago at my kitchen table in Illinois, I declared to my Mom and my ex that I wanted my life to be organized around the celebration of cannabis and hemp.

I wanted my body and mind to be healed by it. I wanted to, literally, live in it. Wear it. Eat it. Write on it. Share its goodness with the world by building, and pointing to the evidence.

It sounded crazy...

... to envision and desire a life that's dedicated to demonstrating the richness of a master-plant that we have betrayed and underused to our own deep suffering.


Well, crazy or not... it is actually happening, now!

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EarthAngel Core: @juansgalt, @mikeonfire, Gus, Dr. Albert, @barefootskinny, and me.


What we say today, is a brick in our tomorrow.
So let's build smart, beautiful things.

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Previous Posts About EarthAngels:

* The moon will rise. Perspective-changing in Belize.

* A Belizean Adventure With EarthAngels

* Learn more about earthangel.vision, a decentralized, hemp-based community to heal the earth.

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With special thanks to everyone who continues to care, to hope, to start.

Distraction is easier but, thankfully, not for you.

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Hello Erica our friends in Acapulco need our help.

https://steemit.com/life/@cmduncan94/bringing-cisco-home

What Che did not tell you in her post was Casey and her went to the US Embassy on an emergency basis three days ago looking for assistance.

Casey and Che paid the hospital bill which left them with no more money for food and Casey’s insulin.

The hospital would not release baby Cisco until they paid the $6000.

The US embassy is literally holding them hostage in Mexico now until Che and Casey can document they are US citizens with proof of residency with original documents for the past 5 years to get the baby’s documents to travel home.
Who has that when your traveling? Mind you copies? they can not be digital, everything has to be original documents due to the new immigration and naturalization laws.

A Passport is no longer proof you are a legitimate US citizen.
https://www.gofundme.com/u6rz73-help-us-get-back-to-the-us
Can you please spare a upvote and resteem to them? ty

Thanks as usual for the inspiring, creative message! 🌺 My main problem is just to figure out where to focus. I love so many things! I continually look for a way to combine them all..art, self realization, archaeology, plant medicine, travel, music, growing food, education, helping people find their truth and heal their lives and the world...
I think that reading your encouraging words will help me to get in touch with my truth too, then I will know which way my compass leads.

I continually look for a way to combine them all.

@stillwatersart: I was, too! And I always had the suspicion that we were just a lil' ahead of that conglomerated wave... but now, SURF'S UP! :-D

One thing's for sure... wherever YOU are, the rest of the things you mentioned will also turn up. ;-)

Great words. Dayna Loves it :)

Aw, thanks for conveying that, @knowthycrypto! 💜

Wow.... mind-blowing.....@erikaharris. outstanding photography. Thanks a lot for sharing.....

My pleasure, @pariza! Thanks for commenting.

The photos are a group effort. In this post are pics taken by each of us! Everyone shared their photos, and @juansgalt loaded them all into a super-safe online holding space (of course!) He shared access with me, and I go nuts. :-)

Oh my God I love your pictures , Beautiful

:-) Thanks, @lovelens! The photos are a group effort. In this post are pics taken by each of us.

Wow ,so which one did you take

@lovelens: The first one :-)

I should probably add attribution for each...

its beautiful outside I love the way the flower is
the walkway nice job are you a photographer

Ah yes, if only all our paths could be lined with flowers :-) Thanks for the kind comment, @lovelens. No, I'm not a photographer. Just a woman with a smart-phone, and a desire to record beautiful things for appreciation later.

@erikaharris wow I must say that you are good you're doing a great job and I love your pictures they're all beautiful even if you're not a photographer you have done a great job I love the pictures the colouring and the perspective and the angle which you took the picture is wow wow thank you friend

Amen to this ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Well Done Young Lady. @erikaharris I am Grateful for everything you bring out to the Open and Make People Aware of........

Thanks, @stockjockey! I appreciate you. 🤗

new follower here. Thank you this post was awesome "Woah... turn it down... chillllll....." no way man loved it!!!

Ahhhh, what a refreshing @rushofwaves you are! 🌊 heehee. THANK YOU.