Rise and shine at 7 am.

Hot shower. Water drains slowly. A small amount of water on the floor when I get out.

I pack and check out.

Breakfast at Coffee Tree. Fruit bowl, 2 scrambled eggs, camomile tea and orange juice. $7.

I arrive at Dr. Vega for my 9 am appointment. Comfy chair. Cleans my teeth using scaler. X-rays a couple of teeth to see if there is a cavity in between. Cavity free. Yay! Suggests an implant to replace missing molar at back. Cost of visit – $110. Implant estimate $1200 – $1400.

Arrive at Ministry Of Exterior by 10:30 am. My notarized (in Loja) German birth certificate is accepted. I pay $4 for my “Empadronamiento”. I am advised to return to Cuenca next week to attend at the “Cedula” office.

I meet up with Renata at the Relax Travel office. I decide against crowding in the back with two people for the 3 1/2 hour trip. After some bartering we wind up with Renata & I in one car for an extra $12. I sleep in the backseat for a while.

We arrive in Loja by 3 pm and catch a Ruta Taxi back to Vilcabamba. I appreciate Vilcabamba all the more upon our arrival.

I walk to Shanta’s and enjoy a vegetarian pizza.

Trina drops off my key.

Boot shine in Cuenca 

Happy FULL moon.

I meet Renata at the bus terminal. Eda, my new landlady, invites us to take the Vilcabamba taxi with her to Loja.

I buy some roasted chocolate paste. I get some documents notarized.

Renata and I take Relax Travel 0983629898 Av. 18 Noviembre 01-78 , the alternative to Elite Tours and only a few doors up from them, to Cuenca. The car is new. Renata is crowded in the back with two others while I sit up front. I sleep part of the way. We arrive at 3 pm.

We check into Villa San Marcos which is on the same block as the Coffee Tree cafe. Spotless great room for $15. Close to everything. The place is recommended by Jerri.

Villa San Marcos – 07 2847375; Borrero 5-91 y Juan Jaramillo

We scout out places to eat and settle on the Taj Mahal restaurant for delicious spicy rice fare.

We enjoy a couple of hours and our tea at the Coffee Tree cafe before heading back to our rooms.

I am on Skype with Celeste for a good part of the morning.

Renata comes by to go over some documents.

Hare Krishna food for lunch. 

Trina assists me in getting mask making supplies.

I make a batch of double peanut butter chocolate.

I attend the art show at Cafe Cultura.

Pat and I dine at Hosteria Vilcabamba. The opportunity for “papas puree” (mashed potatoes) finally presents itself.

Trina and I share some more time communing and picking out songs.

Another day of confirming the benevolence of all.

I program until 1 pm.

The baguettes are extra crispy crust today. They go well with my juices. I sit with Raphael at the Juice Factory.

I nap in the hammock for an hour.

Chaska and I get mask making supplies and say hello to Gaby, Jacob and Leo.

Chaska applies paper towels soaked in water + flour on my face while I lie on the yoga mat. A blow dryer speeds setting the mask. A super food smoothy and 5 hours pass while my halloween mask is designed and decorated by Chaska. My coconut oil, cacao butter and rose concrete creme feels great on my face. The final touches to the mask will have to wait until tomorrow.

I wrap up some programming after breakfast.

Trina stops in at the “office” while I venture to the Juice Factory via Heather’s place.

I sit with Jerri sharing my baguettes and drinking two juices. Jerri, her dog and I walk along the canal road. A flat road overlooking the valley. It’s my first time along this road. I cherish and appreciate sharing the afternoon with Jerri.

I converse with Will for an hour as the sky goes through the colours of the sunset.

It’s the opening night of Root’s turned lounge. After a brief chat with Rorrie, the “producer” behind the transformation, I call on Trina. We walk back to the “Lounge”.

Outside Roots I reconnect with Anna, who is back from the summer in Tahoe. I am delighted.

I mail chocolate to Mindy.

I meet with Richard at his house at the quatros esquinas (four corners). I agree to rent the upper floor one bedroom apartment with a magnificent view of Mandango and the village. I will be moving in November 15th. Tzai and Vinaya live there now. They share a homemade chicken soup with me.

Pomcho delivers the seed of life pendants he made for me.

I meet up with Trina at Roots and we walk to Cafe Cultura. Both the conversation and the 5  course dinner are nourishing and satisfying.

The First Course

I awake from a dream where I discover my mail being opened and destroyed.

A morning of trust (faith) in the benevolence of life. I am aware of my mind embracing the worst case scenario in several situations that arise. I witness how the scenarios reslove themselves without the drama that the mind has fabricated. Trust affirmed.

I sit with David Wright and Renata at the Juice Factory for lunch.

At home a tiredness washes over me. I put off taking a nap as long as I can. I succumb.

Trina and I walk to Madre Tierra.

Sarah D. emerges from the reception. I love seeing her again. I am happy that she is back.

Gail allows Trina and I to use the conference center for Trina to experience the space for performance purposes.

The Space

We explore use of the space with both Melissa and Gail while I enjoy the evening dinner special of mashed potatoes, carrots and beef stroganoff.

A moonlit stroll home in the warmth of the night.

I awake with insights and inspirations.

Trina books an appointment with a dentist in Cuenca for me.

Trina makes a delicious soup with ingredients from the garden for our lunch at her place. Will and I exchange thoughts regarding the use of the work require in place of need or want. We speculate on the injection and use of coins into the Vilcabamba economy.

Walking back from Trina’s place I experience a movie moment. Vibrant company, weather and environment.

I vacuum seal more chocolate at Heathers. I wrap the chocolate in the other plastic first and it slips into the bag easily. Heather and I share some time afterwards.

I walk to the post office to mail chocolate to my daughter Sarah and my friend Juno.

I make a new batch of double peanut butter chocolate.

Trina & I start referring to working on our computers together as being at the “office”.

New guest at the meditation center – Arianna.

I like the feel of the cool tiles in the heat of the morning.

I watch a video made by my friend Darren who made his way to Auroville in India.

I lunch at Madre Tierra. A drop in temperature and lightning announce the rain. A hummingbird flies from flower to flower in the rain.

Dinner is at the Chinese food restaurant.

I am consciously replacing the words need and want with require.

I awake with the idea of removing the second O in good.

I feel god.

I am god.

God for you.

Will drops in on his way back from the market. We exchange ideas around the words assume and speculation. I happen to have the http://wordinfo.info dictionary open to augment the conversation.

Great to see Jade at the Juice Factory who is back from Cuenca.

I arrive at Chaska’s around 12:30 pm. I clean files and programs off her computer. Smoothies and sandwiches to satisfy my hunger.

A taxi picks me up as I walk back into the village. My first free cab ride. Thanks!

I meet Pat in the village. As we set off for the Chinese food restaurant, a smiling Trina approaches. We all dine at the Chinese restaurant.

I chat with Emma sitting at Pura Vida.

I get home to find an email from my Sarah. Yay!

I read a Facebook post about the flood and hail in Loja yesterday. Loja is a 45 minute drive from here and about 2500 feet higher. I watch the YouTube video showing the highlights including making a snowman from the hail. All this while enjoying warmer weather and light rains here.

I eat at Hosteria Vilcabamba before going to Norie & Richards place. We share a whole afternoon of interesting conversation.

I dine with Will talking about Bitcoins and drumming at Sambucha’s.

Keisha and Casey drop off 2 loaves of rye bread. They’re carrying around the baby duck they found a few days ago.

I mail chocolate to Tara in Toronto.

I sit with Renata and Jerri while eating my bread and drinking my juice.

Trina and I dine at Pura Vida.

I make a batch of double peanut butter chocolate. Fred my new neighbour here at the Center helps me grind the dried red bananas.

I mail chocolate to Anna. I pick up mail containing Rose Concrete and a new Debit card.

Watching Cabaret movie with Trina while it’s raining outside. Feels as if I’m in a movie. Everything is turning green.

My new Debit card works at the ATM by the church.

I walk over to Trina’s place and enjoy a celery soup she made from the celery in the garden.

We come back to my place and watch the movie Burlesque.

I mail chocolate to Jeanette and Keith.

I notice a big box with NCR written on it in the CACPE credit union office. I suspect it contains an ATM machine.

I sit with Kent at the Juice Factory eating my baguette and drinking 2 juices. Ben joins us then George and finally Trina.

My bread order is delivered by Keisha. We get to know each other a bit before she leaves. The bread is crispy the way I like it.

Trina comes by. A short while later Pat joins us. We hang out.

Trina (left) and Ginna (Flying) at their class today.

I mail two packages of my chocolate to each of my friends Kaya and Celeste in Toronto. My first Ecuador chocolate export.

It’s a bowl of fruit, 2 juices, 2 baguette, 2 bagel and 2 mangoes day.

I talk with my friend Steve in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada.

I catch a nap listening to the rain fall.

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NEW Moon.

I arrive at Hosteria Vilcabamba about 12:30 pm. Order my steak and Elisa arrives. We lunch together. There are white flower bouquets on tables and at the bar. A hummingbird arrives at the bar bouquets and flits from flower to flower.

If Hummingbird has flown into your cards, get ready to laugh musically and enjoy Creator’s many gifts. Drop your judgmental attitude and relax. Hummingbird will not doubt give you a flash of the spirit, darting here, there, and everywhere. Get ready for a strange new burst of energy which may send your senses reeling.

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I walk to Heather’s in a light rain. I use Heather’s vacuum sealer to package the chocolate I made yesterday. We chat for a couple of hours.

Trina comes by and we watch the start of the Auroville documentary.

Medicine Cards: Hummingbird

44 – Hummingbird: Joy

Hummingbird is associated with the Ghost Shirt religion, which taught that a certain dance done properly would bring about the return of the animals, and that the white people would disappear; the Indian race would be restored and a regenerated Earth would come into being where the pristine conditions of life would prevail… a message of salvation. Once again the Original People would know the joy of the old ways. In Mayan teachings, Hummingbird is connected to the Black Sun and the Fifth World. (We are now in the Fourth World, moving into the Fifth World of peace, healing, and transformation. The end of this the Fourth World is a time of great transformation and change, of what some say is the coming of the Black Sun.)

The song of Hummingbird awakens the medicine flowers. Hummer sings a vibration of pure joy. Flowers love Hummingbird because nectar-sucking brings about the reproduction of their families. Plants flower and live because of Hummingbird.

Hummingbird can fly in any direction. Hummingbird can also hover in one spot and appear to be motionless. Great Spirit created Hummingbird to be slightly different from other feathered creatures.

Because of their magical qualities, Hummingbird feathers have been used for millennium in the making of love charms. It is said that Hummingbird conjures love as no other medicine does, and that Hummingbird feathers open the heart chakra. Without an open and loving heart, you can never taste the nectar and pure bliss of life. To Brother and Sister Hummingbird, life is a wonderland of delight – darting from one beautiful flower to another, tasting the essences and radiating the colors.

If Hummingbird is your personal medicine, you love life and its joys. (Do you take the time to manifest this joy in your life?) Your presence brings joy to others. You join people together in relationships which bring out the best in them. You know instinctively where beauty abides and, near or far, you journey to your ideal. You move comfortably within a beautiful environment and help others taste the succulent nectar of life.

Hummingbird holds the Bow of Beauty which is delicately inlaid with gold and silver flowers, pearls, and precious jewels. Hummingbird disdains ugliness or harshness, and quickly flies away from discord or disharmony.

If Hummingbird has flown into your cards, get ready to laugh musically and enjoy Creator’s many gifts. Drop your judgmental attitude and relax. Hummingbird will not doubt give you a flash of the spirit, darting here, there, and everywhere. Get ready for a strange new burst of energy which may send your senses reeling.

Medicine Cards: Hummingbird 

Hummingbird hears celestial music and is in harmony with it. Hummingbird may invite you to an art museum or a concert. Hummingbird energetically embraces the highest aesthetics.

Never be coarse in front of Hummingbird, for this is a fragile Medicine which may have no understanding of worldly affairs. Beauty is the target, and its mission is to spread joy or to be destroyed. It quickly dies if caught or imprisoned.

Follow Sister Hummingbird. Be filled with joy and experience the majik of living.

Contrary

If contrary Hummingbird is in your cards in any configuration, it speaks to you of matters of the heart. How or why has your heart center been closed? Have you done something callous to another, causing them to shut off the love they once felt for you? The contrary Hummingbird may presage sorrow and the inability to see the many blessings we two-leggeds have been given and the primordial beauty that surrounds us. If contrary Hummingbird sings its forlorn song, perhaps you should journey into your personal pain and know that your sorrow is your joy in another reflection.

Overview

The hummingbird is a magnificent little creature that, unlike any other bird, can fly in any direction and even hover. Its long beak enables it to draw succulent nectar from every variety of flower. Its movement from one flower to another is a dance of delight, and its singing is a melody of ecstasy.

In American Indian folk stories, the hummingbird is associated with love and joy. Its appearance as a power animal is indicative of the sheer delight of living, and of living the bliss of loving. It implies an ability to see beauty in everything and it is concerned with bringing out the best in people and the good in every situation.

Hummingbird embraces the highest principles and brings the majik of the spiritual realm into earth activities. Hummingbird can help you make the progress of living a Dance of Beauty. Dance in beauty.

Embrace what makes you happy. Be joyful. Count your blessings. Open yourself to pleasure.

Source: Sams, Jamie and Carson, David. Medicine Cards (Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1988). 

Inspired to write my client an overview of what I see happening to their company.

I enjoy my Hare Krishna meal while drinking my juice at the Juice Factory. I buy a loaf of Vinaya’s hearty bread.

I make a batch of double peanut butter chocolate.

I accomplish a lot of work.

I Skype with Anna and Doug who are both in Columbia heading to the USA.

Steven sits with me for a bit to discuss visas. As we’re talking, Ed also comes by to say hello and tells me he’s moving back to the Center.

I sit with Amalaa at the Juice Factory drinking my carrot, beet and ginger juice. Keisha drops off two loaves of bread for me just in time for my juice refill. We’re then joined by Clair and Rob.

Frank, his mother and Tamera are visiting from Cuenca.

As I am leaving, James arrives on his new motorcycle trailer.

I stop in at Pura Vida. I stay and listen to two talented people performing.

Two mangos for a bedtime snack.

What do you think or feel about:

Why is it so hard to tell someone you LOVE them and yet so easy to tell them you LIKE them?

It’s because LOVE is a purposely corrupted, low-vibrating abomination of the word LIKE, which is a VERY thinly disguised word for LIGHT. Just say it in your mouth and be aware of the vibrational rate of the SOUND.

LOOOOVE, then say LIIIIIIGHT. LIght, is a much higher, clearer SOUNDING SOUND, or VIBRATION.

LOVE is low vibrating, Light is high vibrating. This is why its easier to tell someone you LIKE them, because it is a much more accurate reflection of how you FEEL about them. The VIBRATIONS you FEEL for them. You like them, YOU LIGHT THEM!

You SHINE YOUR LIGHT on them. “YOUR LIGHT” —-the light YOU have harvested.

As a LIGHT-BEING, who harvests LIGHT, THE SINGLE MOST VALUABLE THING YOU HAVE TO GIVE IS YOUR… LIGHT!!!

You LIKE them, You LIKE to LOOK at them. You LIGHT them, you LIKE to LOOK at them, to SHINE your LIGHT on them, to PAY them your Attention, to GIVE them your LIGHT WAVES!!!

You don’t want to LOOOOVE them, it’s feels like you are a drooling caveman saying, DUUUUUHHHHHH.

You want them to know, you LIKE them, you LIGHT them! This feels SO much better and so much more accurate of your true intentions.

WHAT IS LIFE, you ask? It’s LIGHT!!! Life and Light are two words for the EXACT same thing.

LIFE is LIGHT. Light IS LIFE. Light has a silent ‘gh’ in it, which normally when used and actually pronounced in a word, has an “F” sound, as in the word, ‘enough’

So, Light is really the word Life with a ‘T’ sound on the end of it and Life is really the word Light WITHOUT the ‘T’ sound on the end of it. Just a simple disguise. Sort of akin to slapping a fake mustache on your face, it immediately disguises you, even though nothing else about you has changed.

THIS WHY YOU “PAY” ATTENTION…

It’s the most valuable thing you can do is to “PAY” your attention. To “LOOK” at something. To “FOCUS” on it, to give it your attention, your consciousness. This is why when you “LIKE” something, you pay your attention to it, you “LOOK” at it, you SHINE your consciousness on it. 

When you LIKE it, YOU “LIGHT” IT with your “LOOK”, your “GAZE”, like Sun “RAYS”, you LIGHT IT UP with your FOCUS. You PAY your ATTENTION to it.

In 1890, William James, in his textbook Principles of Psychology, referring to the word ‘attention’ said…

“Focalization of consciousness are of its essence.” Your attention is wherever you are FOCUSING.

Focalization, just like focusing a camera, which is known for capturing the LIGHT of something.

Where is your ‘focal’ point?? It is found wherever the camera, or YOU are LOOKING, or… wherever you have chosen to FOCUS your LIGHTING.

Life, Light, Look, and Like…. see any overlapping sounds and structures??

These are all words hovering around LIGHT, your LIGHT, the LIGHT which YOU ARE and YOU ALONE can choose where to FOCUS IT’S ATTENTION.

Madonna, at an Awards Ceremony, “I guess this means you LIKE me, you really, really LIKE me.”

or, she could have said, “I guess this means you LIGHT me, you really, really LIGHT me.”

Yes, everybody was LIKING you or, LIGHTING you. Everybody was FOCUSING on you, shining their LIGHT on you by LIKING you, BY LIGHTING YOU.

This is why its easier to say you LIKE somebody, you want them to know they have your FULL ATTENTION and that you enjoy SHINING YOUR LIGHT on them. You don’t want to LOOOOOVE on somebody, you don’t want to droooool on somebody as though you are a half-conscious, DIM-wit, with DIM WATTS, and a DIM LIGHT, …NO!!! 

You want them to know your are a FULLY CONSCIOUS, LIGHT-BEING AND YOU FULLY SHINE YOUR LIGHT ON THEM!!!

Katchi hangs out in my room most of the morning. Sleeping in the closet, beside my laptop and then on the bed.

Katchi In The Closet

Ginna arrives noonish. I load a couple of movies on her USB memory stick. She heads into the village. I wait for Trina before meeting back up at Sambucha’s with Ginna.

Keisha & Casey come by to deliver Ginna’s bread and sauerkraut as we’re almost finished our meal. I buy a loaf of their sourdough rye. Crispy and flavourful. It’s the best bread yet. 

I detour via the Juice Factory for a carrot, beet and ginger juice. Next, I  pick up my package of vacuum sealer rolls from the post office. Ready to send chocolate to my friends.

I finish more work at home.

Trina comes back at around 8 pm and we walk around the village and stop at Pura Vida where there’s good music. I listen from the porch because of the smoke inside.

Worked until 1 pm.

2 glasses of carrot, beet and ginger juice at the Juice Factory with my 6 seed bread and bagels from La Baguette. They make the following:

• Monday – Baguette
• Tuesday – Baguette – Sourdough Rye Bread – Chocolate Croissant
• Wednesday – Baguette – Sourdough Farm Bread – Croissant – Chocolate Croissant
• Thursday – Baguette – 6 Seed Bread – Hearth
• Friday – Baguette – White Sourdough Bread – Sourdough Rye Bread – Chocolate Croissant
• Saturday – Baguette – Chocolate Croissant
• Sunday – Baguette – Chocolate Croissant

Napped for 2 hours

Trina came by.