Buried Treasure 2011

Seth over at The Altered Page has created an event titled Buried Treasure which you can read more about here. It's about going back and finding "buried treasure" in the form of posts that you love. I'm also using two of my all-time favorite pictures for this post.

Here are a few of my "buried treasures"......I had a really hard time choosing.

The Delicate Nature of Being

A More Way

Something of 'This' Sort

Earth Task

I have several videos you can check out if you'd like.

You can also find a link to another of my favorite posts over on the right. Thanks for visiting and Thanks Seth for creating such a cool event!


~magick~
Meliss

Wordy Wednesday 3: Victim

It might interest you to know that the word victim comes from the Latin word victima which means victim, sin offering, sacrifice. In Websters 7th New Collegiate Dictionary, it means:

1. a living being sacrificed to a deity or in the performance of a religious rite
2. someone injured, destroyed, or sacrificed under any of various conditions
3. someone tricked or duped

But it might interest you more to know that it isn't in the Bible. No-where in the Bible is the word victim mentioned. There are a lot of different kinds of people and situations talked about in the Bible, the Bible is a pretty big book (just in case you didn't notice), and they (victims) aren't even mentioned! As soon as I realized this I said, "Whaaaaaa??? For real?"

Now, while I don't believe the Bible is the end all of everything, but I do know it is a pretty important book Full of wisdom. So...if a word isn't even mentioned in it......that means something to me.

But, what?

Someone said, "There are no victims, only volunteers."

Is this "the proof" that that statement is true??

What do you think of the concept that we come to Life to learn different things? To have a variety of experiences? To understand Who or What I Am is through those experiences?

So, if there are no victims, does that mean we are participants? Even in the most horrid things that happen?

I curious, what do you think?

~magick~
Meliss

Mi-ni-Meliss-tic 3: The Greatest Power

progression must have its seasons of repose;

and these are the soul's sweetest music,
harmonizing the entire being and fitting it for mightier battles,
for greater victories.

And in these lulls lies, after all, the greatest power.

from the book Experiences of Eon and Eona

~magick~
Meliss

The Laws of The Woods

When there's no path to follow,
you have to make your own.

A tree that becomes hollow,
then becomes a home.

In the human world, we want to be seen,

not left all alone in a scene filled with green.

But in the forest, invisibility is a gift,

where praying mantis is alone and hope-fully adrift.

Wood dries and it hardens and turns into fuel,

for trees still alive to keep this place cool.

Podlings,

and seedlings,

and strange sticky fruit grow,

while berries do ripen in the summer sun's glow.

Butterflies appear to be sitting in wait,

casting away all control of their fate,

but this is the place where they're most liberate,

for a bloom is a time to stop and celebrate,

all the gifts and the ways that their forest home provides,

place after place to find shelter and hide,

the renewal of life ever-lasting and true,
but this is the last law that I'll tell to you...

If you walk far enough in,
to the deepest
most secret part,

there,
that is where,
you'll find the forest's heart.

~and I hope you do~
Meliss

PS: For my friend whom I adore and miss........squeezies!!