http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog To help the Michael Community connect Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:42:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You are your own Avatar Oh sure, there are lots of lessons in Avatar. There are metaphors aplenty in the movie. Cameron didnt mean them all. He isnt there yet. But all we are here are representations, images of our higher self. The whole place is a game. Lets look at ... http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog/?p=152 Richter magnitude is completely misunderstood by the population. It is not a measure of ground motion. It is a measure of the energy released at the starting moment of the quake. It is also does not scale by a factor of 10. It scales by a factor of 30, more ... http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog/?p=151 I've heard a lot of moaning and groaning about brothers, sisters and in-laws lately. Maybe because the holidays are upon us. And we all have that favorite relative to get into a political or religious debate with over the Thanksgiving turkey. Then before you know it, sensible adults are acting ... http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog/?p=73 The sun is playing hide and go seek more and more. That usually seems normal now. Maybe think about this. Life is like hide and go seek. Opportunity seems to appear and vanish. Perhaps that is because our perception of what opportunity is may be limited. Not every thing we want appears ... http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog/?p=72 So a big lesson right now is just do what is obvious. I love the I Ching. This comes from that and my friends Volker and Sanford. We are in a position to stride forward. So how do we go? The simple path is to do what is obvious to you ... http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog/?p=71 We are about to come out of our funk. The last 18 months or so have been about being present, to the point of exhaustion. That was the initial point of Don Henley's lyrics of this song. Maybe it meant we all do what we have to do to get ... http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog/?p=70 It's getting colder here, but also wetter and muggier. The latest space invaders are fungi and mold...not my favorites. it seems to be an uphill battle daily to keep the windows, walls, bathrooms, and kitchen free of mold...let alone my lungs! Thank goodness the autumn also brings me lemons....they grow everywhere ... http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog/?p=69 One of the peculiarities of living in California rather than a more civilized place like Hawaii or Arizona, is experiencing a one hour, artificial change in our clocked time twice a year. Here I am bopping along through life, fairly well-adjusted, when....Wham! Suddenly I have to convince my body to ... http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog/?p=68 The energy will shift next month. Right now, things seem a bit instinctive. The world seems to be pressing in on you just a bit. But after the 5th, we expect the energy to shift and everyone to try to move beyond where we are now and put the last ... http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog/?p=67 What a whirlwind Halloween! With all of the emotional disturbance in the wind, I juggled emergencies with family and friend frolic for a wild Friday and Saturday. Five young adults and...ahem...me, stayed up watching scary movies, drinking hot cocoa, and playing computer games until long after midnight. Then magically, Sunday morning after breakfast, the ... http://michaeleducationalfoundation.com/blog/?p=66