Tuesday, Tuesday!

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I titled today's blog "Tuesday, Tuesday!" because it is my favorite day of the week.  Each Tuesday I volunteer time at Common Ground (http://www.embracehumanity.com/) doing whatever service I can for our community.  It's really simple stuff - answering phones, changing out candles in our votives, watering plants, etc.  And I just love it!  Another speciality about Tuesdays is that the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month, we meet at 10AM for Women's Wisdom, a gathering of women who sit in a circle and who share at whatever depth is available at the moment.  I am reminded of a saying, and forgive me, I have no idea where it came from:  "Joy shared is doubled, sorrow shared is halved".  That pretty much sums it up.  What an amazing and healing group it is. 
And the last part of the afternoon, from 4 to 5PM, I stand (along with another member of our community, occasionally another one or two join us) at the corner of Irvine Blvd and Prospect Ave in Tustin, holding a sign that reads "Imagine Peace".  This started a couple of years ago, I think, at the suggestion of one of our members.  At that time, we held monthly meetings around the idea of holding a global perspective (for the life of me I cannot think of the precise name! ! !) for peace, interdependence, and reverence for all life.  At first there were quite a few of us and little by little, it became my friend and I.  I sometimes arrive there feeling a bit tired and, when it is either very hot or on the cold side, wonder how I can make it through the hour.  Amazingly enough, the first wave of a motorist's hand is like the best medicine in the world.  Immediately my body responds, my heart opens up and there we are, together!  Sometimes I notice that the driver of the car passing by seems to be intent on not looking at the sign or acknowledging our waving hands.  And I know enough about the workings of our eyes that the message has been received and it being filed away in the brain somewhere.  And so I say "Bless you" and deeply and truly mean it.  There are some who honk horns almost before they reach the intersection, anticipating our presence and wanting to be counted among us.  There is a school bus driver who flashes her lights and/or waves her arm.  Sometimes if the bus goes by with children in it, they lower the windows and flash peace signs!  It is just too precious for words.
Well, now, I didn't exactly mean to go on and on and yet . . . I am sure you will allow for my burst of enthusiasm about this experience.  Using the word "enthusiasm" reminds me that I once purchased a tee shirt in Ashland, Oregon, that had a large design of fireworks going off and underneath it said "Caution, wearer is subject to bursts of enthusiasm!"  Don't know where that shirt is today and I do wish I had it back!
So now I close this post with a prayer that you, too, have such a day each week in your lives - that your heart and mind and passions are stirred to do something for the sake of us all.  We are all in this together!
Thanks for it all! ! !