{"id":3372,"date":"2010-11-05T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T22:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2010-11-05T21:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T03:27:26","slug":"gaia-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiasgarden.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/05\/gaia-planet-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaia ~ Planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something beautiful and uplifting for a chilly, cloudy Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Secret ~ Planet Earth<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"582\" height=\"351\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Vl0QhUO_nHw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"582\" height=\"351\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Vl0QhUO_nHw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As each day passes my\u00a0 art work area gets messier.\u00a0 So today, I decided to clean and rearrange everything and now all of\u00a0 my acrylic paint tubes and brushes are in their proper places and everything is ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>I have two paintings I need to finish so they can be hung in a local shop and I know I should be working on them, but there are other things that need to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, outside my window clouds are gathering and the promise of rain is in the air.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Before I go I will leave you with this poem by David Whyte;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sweet Darkness<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">When your eyes are tired<br \/>\nthe world is tired also.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">When your vision has gone<br \/>\nno part of the world can find you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Time to go into the dark<br \/>\nwhere the night has eyes<br \/>\nto recognize its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">There you can be sure<br \/>\nyou are not beyond love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The dark will be your womb<br \/>\ntonight.<br \/>\nThe night will give you a horizon<br \/>\nfurther than you can see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">You must learn one thing:<br \/>\nthe world was made to be free in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Give up all the other worlds<br \/>\nexcept the one to which you belong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet<br \/>\nconfinement of your aloneness<br \/>\nto learn<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">anything or anyone<br \/>\nthat does not bring you alive<br \/>\nis too small for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cEveryday Goddessing\u00a0 is about     sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful     Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a     wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that     everything we need and are looking for is already inside\u00a0 each of  us.\u201d \u2013    Rose Arizmendi<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something beautiful and uplifting for a chilly, cloudy Friday. The Secret ~ Planet Earth As each day passes my\u00a0 art work area gets messier.\u00a0 So today, I decided to clean and rearrange everything and now all of\u00a0 my acrylic paint tubes and brushes are in their proper places and everything is ready to go. 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