I just woke up from a little nap, clicked on Booman and lo and behold I see that Shirl has been talking about me..again..she wrote the tale of two strong women earlier this summer and posted it on Village Blue, I wrote this following reply and posted it there also. Well since she posted her part, I must now post my part of the story.
I first ran into Shirl of the Stars in April of this year when she posted an article on a political blog site of which we both were members, Booman Tribune. It was her’ Notes from the Margin’ series and I was immediately prompted to write a comment praising her for her writing and urging her to write a book.
She replied in the nicest way, as she is wont to do and as one thing led to another I emailed her, she emailed back, then we started instant messaging and finally had to talk live.
Well that first night we talked was just splendid, we chatted for hours, laughed, cried, shared all kinds of stories, I read her some of my poems and so on.
At one point I asked her if she knew about Seth and Jane Roberts and that brought out a whole new discussion as you might imagine.So meeting Shirl of the Stars, brought all of this to the fore again as Shirl with her patient and thoughtful messages awoke the fully spiritual side of me.
More than that I found a friend such as I had searched for my entire life, one who was akin to me, one who shared the same outlook, the same deep and emotional past life and most definitely a kindred spirit.
She has brought me into her spiritual family and I have brought her into mine and together we have created an even larger spiritual family when the two families meshed.
However, the size of the combined spiritual family was not large enough even yet for us and through our joint efforts we have been able to continuously enlarge that family.
When I told her I was thinking of starting my own interactive blog site, she was a tiny bit skeptical, but said go for it and I did. During the hectic two week period when I was building the site, I could not have done it without the support of my dearest friend Shirl as well as another dear friend Dewayne (Infidelpig on Booman).With this new site Village Blue, jointly administered by the two of us we hope to expand our spiritual family evermore and that is our hope. All you who read these words are a part of that family and we welcome you in, fold our arms around you and send loving energies to all.
I give thanks to All That Is and the ‘Powers of the Universe’ for the divine plan that allowed Shirl of the Stars and I to someday meet in this world reality.
Diane of the Wind
So turnabout is fair play, tell me your favorite stories of Shirlstars…why you love her, why you think she is a special as I do…and do you picture her like I do, ‘dancing on tiptoes through the tulips in a pink tutu’…
I love Shirlstars for all the reason I gave above and a thousand more….sides she looks beautiful in that pink tutu…BTW I am the taller one in this pic…
I will get you for the pink tutu, I swear I will!
Well isn’t that something?
I was just sitting here thinking, “you know I’ve had it with these anonymous scrreennames and sitting out there talking (or trying to) a bunch of bizarre cyberfictions without the slightest idea who they are. Strange things happen under the veil of anonymity….I want to see some faces, I want to know who the hell I’m dealing with here.”
Then these two diaries. Hm. Nice little nightcap. Thanks ladies.
Hi Stark, I know you are new to the site, but we have been revealing ourselves to each other on this site for a long time now, soooo many of us, not just Shirl and I…one of the purposes of the cafe and the tell us about you diaries…so we get to know each other as people, not just anomyous words on a screen, we have formed all kinds of connections in many different ways, in short there is a lot of compassion and caring that goes on here that you just will not find in very many places I think.
For that reason it becomes harder and harder to get mad or stay mad at another member, we are really friends, who just get together to talk about issues and personal things as well, like humans do.
For faces we do have the frappr site, where you can see a lot of pics.http://www.frappr.com/boomantribune where you can see locations and pics of quite a few members..
Thanks diane. You should not think I’ve been ignoring all that (I’ve been lurking on some of those threads and in the cafe, too). Still just a little dizzy if you know what I mean.
A lil’ overwhelming isn’t it? 😉
So much hope and love flying all over the place here…I jumped in and then drew back…and now I regret it immensely. (real life has a lot do with it but I also have “issues” so to speak)
Take your time…somehow this place kinda grows on ya…I think it’s the green. 😉
There’s a hell of a lot of good food in here, too.
I read Shirl’s rather wordy “adopted daughter” series at the orange place and was just captivated by it. Then on my first day here at the Trib I saw that she was here and that her picture was posted and it was like “OMG!…that’s Shirl!” I don’t know why, because I’m really very socially stunted in my real life, but I got the feeling I could talk to Shirl and she’d listen. So I did. And she did.
Your friendship is so cool. When are either of you going to get on a plane and meet for real?
When are we going to meet for real, don’t know if I can take any “realer” than it is…but since I won’t leave the town, let alone the state, it will have to be her, she’s the lagger.
Diane isn’t sure she wants to meet “The Tall One” in person. . . .she might have to admit she is only 5’6″ tall.
I am a very contact person. My hugs aren’t just virtual. I have been on a hugging marathon since the fall of 2000, and I will and do hug anyone anywhere anytime. Perfect strangers in the hardware store, street people, waitresses, anyone anywhere anytime. I attended a lot of workshops and seminars in the past 5 years and some of those had 115 participants. I made sure I hugged everyone of them at least once, usually several times over the course of a 3 day event, as I asked for their intros and stories of who they were. So I have literally hugged thousands of times in the past 5 years and I ain’t gonna stop now.
Diane claims she is a person with very strictly defined personal space around her. She is not so sure about the hugs. I torment her with it all the time. . .but I guess I should just let her decide, she’s the one that will be missing the awesome experience it is. And these are Starfilled super galactic angel hugs. . .so it will indeed be too bad if she chooses to miss out.
We will meet, when the planets align correctly, and the stars are all in the right places.
It is kinda cute, when I started out with my marathon of hugs, I would search everyone out myself. Over time, people started searching me out and forming lines. Every break time someone would say, “Where’s Shirl? I need a hug” And you have to know I just LOVE IT!!! Can’t think of anything neater than people searching me out to get a hug.
With strangers it is even more fun, some of them have the strangest looks on their faces as they find themselves walking willingly into a hug from Shirl. Sort of like, WTF? why am I doing this. . .but then it is always Thanks! But really, I am the one that is blessed by the hugs, so see how selfishly motivated I am.
Laura, who knew you are such a diplomat. . .”rather wordy”. . .Ha! and INDEED! It was only about 45,000 words. . .It was horendously wordy. . .but what ya gonna do?
I was so tickled when I got that first email from you too. Your a peach to be sure!
I’m waiting for her to get moved so I won’t have to help her move stuff. . .such a friend I am. . .
I was just thinking there are other friendships that have been made on this site, Kansas and Katiebird…All the folks who went to DC and Crawford…and many more that I have seen grow and develop over these last months.
And how many of us now count Susan and Boo as your friends, btw Susan has a great voice and laugh over the phone, never talked to Boo but I’m sure he does too.
So tell us about the friendships you all have made, and if you haven’t reached out to someone that you admire or feel a kinship with, now is the time. It’s just as easy as an email…then chat on IM and then call…just like 1, 2 and 3. Who knows, you may find that missing link/soulfriend in your life.
Hey Diane, if you keep talking like that you just might find yourself with more emails than you can possibly read or respond too. 🙂
You are, as Shirl would say, such a cutie patutie and I would be happy to get emails from you, for one….
but shirl is the one that eveyone wants to be adopted by, and I am soooo jealous as I always thought I was the mother hen ….but I doubt that folks would be flocking to their email to contact me, such an odd thought, flocks of people all trying to chat with me at once, lol.
Since this is a love fest here tonight with Shirl and I and you all……hugs and kisses to a real sweetie and great addition to this big tribe, I am so glad you made the jump over here.
What you said so well, Diane.
Katieb and I actually met during the Dean campaign, but our friendship has blossomed even more because we’re both here. I take unending credit for luring her here and will accept applause for same. 🙂 Diane, I think you must be the one who lured me here, without even knowing me. It was your invitation to all of us on NYCO’s temporary blog after the pie wars.
As for hugs. . .I’m kinda with Diane on that usually. I mean, there’s an entire church I could never belong to because of the compulsory hugging there, lol. There might be other reasons, but that one’s enough! But hugs from Shirl of the Stars? I suspect that would be a very different thing, indeed, something to make a soul feel warm, comforted, safe, and loved.
You’re both stars.
Kansas, as with everything (and especially with me)there is a story behind the story of the hugs. And I am so not surprised and extremely happy that you get what they are about.
As a child, as a young person, and well into my middle years, hugs or “acceptable physical touch” was something I longed for and needed in my life. I was too shy or skitish to take advantage of the opportunities for that physical touch when it did come my way. After all, I was very busy keeping those walls and fortresses around my heart strong, high, deep, wide and impenetrable.
Flash forward. Over the course of my spiritual seeking, I was constantly reminded that I wouldn’t make it very far along the path I hoped to journey if I was unwilling or unable to fully open my heart to everyone.
OMG! Scariest thing I ever heard. . .and I prided myself on not finding much to be afraid of. But deep within me I knew it was true.
Skipping the details. . .it was a process. . .but I finally became willing to trust that I could survive having an open loving heart that allowed everyone in.
The past 5 years that coccoon has burst open and the butterfly has spread her wings and flies among the stars.
So, there is nothing false or pretencious or obligatory or “me” centered about my hugging.
I noticed when I went to these large gatherings of spiritual seekers, teachers, healers, and sages at the seminars I attended that we were from literally all over the world. Most were there by themselves. And you know how any of us can feel hesitant, shy, on the outside looking in, etc. in any gathering of “strangers.” Add to that, that some were persons of great renown with huge impact on our personal lives through their writings and teachings and most all of us were a bit overwhelmed.
So, Shirl hears spirit telling her, that she has the capacity and capability of mediating that situation. Go offer a hug and ask them about themselves (sounds familiar, eh Diane). That began my marathon hugging. That continues my marathon hugging.
I have no agenda about this, and I absolutely love the outcome of it. Every hug is offered from the purest place of love and caring of one human to another. It is that simple and simply beautiful in its results for me and the other participant.
Since I have fallen in love with all of you here (far more real than you might imagine), I just have to keep spreading those hugs around. Whatever you or I may need from them is given with a very happy heart.
A lovely story.
Knock it off… You’re gonna make me cry here or something. Jeepers creepers…
You guys are beautiful. All of you, what a wonderful gathering of souls. Thank you. Hugs and smooches!
Ahhh Sherm. . .come on in. . .we’ve plenty of hugs just waiting for you. And cry? Oh my dear, you will have to go some to beat me. . . never saw a kleenex box I could walk past. I have a friend that says I’m a “snot-slinging-sob-sister” and another (who has the same overactive tear ducts I do) that says we are “Cry-baby whiney butts with attitude”
Glad you are here to share with us.
Big hugs, and stardust for your pillow
Shirl
Big hugs to you too Shirls… And thank you for the stardust for my pillow, it’s much appreciated.
And VERY glad to be here… you guys rock.
as women warriors who are placed here to guide us and keep us focused.
I am half the woman either one of you are. Sometimes it hurts and sometimes it inspires me to be all that I can be. Tonight it hurts unfortunately… but it also gives me hope… love always gives me hope and you two are masters of it.
Peace and love to both of you. You are the best.
Which half? Heeeeeeeeheeeeeee. . . .couldn’t resist.
I will share with you what has been told down through the aeons, it is not true, your perception, that you are even one bit less than either Diane or I (or anyone else for that matter). You are perfectly, divnely, beautifully who you are and where you are along your path of journey in this moment. It is no more or no less than any other as they journey along their path. Some are more focused in areas that you are not at this moment. You may desire to have more of that focus in your journey. If so, then you will guide your steps accordingly. If not, then you will choose whatever focus you wish to have that will best express your journey here, and that is exactly how it should be.
I understand and feel what your intent was with the lovely statement, and both Diane and I are very humbled that you would hold such a thought. We view YOU as one who walks beside us and shares with us all that this journey has to offer.
Big huuuuuugggggggggssssssss
Shirl
… the better one… hehehehe… now it was my snarky butt who couldn’t resist 🙂
Thank you shirl, I do walk with you and I am proud to be a part of the journey.
((((hugs))))
spidey
I picture Shirl flying through the universe with me hanging onto her cape…along for the tour ;o)
Favorite stories? Well this will have to wait because surely these favorite stories are yet to occur and I don’t want to limit the possibilities :o)
One more thing. Diane, in the picture, you’re the tall one right?
Actually, it is with both arms wrapped around you. . .don’t use the cape much any more. . .;o) and if you hang on to the darn tights, I might just make an ass of myself out there in the Universe. . .although it might be fun to moon the moon.
I loved getting virtual hugs from Shirls. I also love her spirit and metaphysical side. A real Warrior Maiden Sister as my friends and I say. Many folks look at me goofy when I start talking about the dolphins talking to me in my dreams or my half hawk/half Indian spirit guide that helps me to heal. Shirls on the other hand would welcome the conversation and wrap me in hugs and tell me “Me too sweetie, allow the spirits to guide you and phffft on those that try to poopoo your beliefs.
The love here at this site is genuine and the warmth is surreal at times. But more than that I am overwhelmed with the generosity of others to forgive my outbursts and just ask me to learn from it. Acceptance is the key to all my problems. Thank you both Diane and Shirls for just being you and including me in your journeys.
My favorite shirl moment was around the time of the Pie Wars and the Welcome Wagons were running 24/7 to help diffuse the tension and make people feel welcome; shirl posted one of her heartfelt comments/bios along with her Xena picture but forgot to resize the image so it was monstrously big.
The funny part was the reply she gave, it was something like:
YIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPPESSSS! or some other type of horrified scream, it gave Zander and I quite a chuckle.
🙂
My favorite thing about that time was adopting both you and Zander, and lmao over the two of you. We were all a little punchy through those several days of welcoming.
I can’t even begin to say what the two of you mean to me…you encouraged me to start my own blog, encouraged me to post at Village Blue, encouraged and supported me when I posted diaries here…you’ve been like big sisters as I stumble along this path to middle age…and now I’m reaching out to 50 with open arms!
I’m looking forward to growing up to be just like Shirl and Diane!
There isn’t a day that goes by that one of you doesn’t touch my heart and soul…you make me laugh and think and cry (like now).
You’ve given me inspiration to be a sister to others along the way and the strength to find that support inside myself.
So I fly with Shirl and stick my toes in the sand with Diane…all at the same time!
Hugs and smoochies to both of you!
Thanks you sweet Sally,,,,,and to correct an impression Shirl left earlier, I do hug, will hug her should we ever meet in reality, just not the compulsive hugger like she is…and since she is shorter than me, I fear I will hurt her if I hug too much….lol. (For those who haven’t caught this yet, I am really the shorter, but don’t like to admit it…lol)
But I fear I am more earth bound presently than the starry one I call Shirl…who is always whirling…thus my name for her Shirleywhirley…
Sometimes it’s tiring soaring with the angels and eagles and butterflies….and Shirl!
Sometimes it’s nice to be the dog or kitty or wolf or Diane….and lay down in the sun and rest…
You are both a perfect balance…to the other
I see aloha did her 3 mistake again….lol..
Yes I am about ready to lay in the sun and rest awhile, my arm and shoulder are killing me from all this blogging.
Everyone has been so kind and sweet in their comments on this diaries, I’ve shed a tear or two…well maybe three…
All the good things said, I wrap up and send back to all of you, with yes hugs, kisses and much love. If there was no one in this forest who would hear the trees fall.
I like to tease Diane about the hugging. And I know she won’t be able to resist it (even if she wanted to) any more than anyone else has. . .heh!
I have been totally surprised to note that not one person has ever backed away from or avoided one of my hugs. Especially when I have the absolute nerve to walk up to total strangers on the street and give them a hug. . .you would think at least one of them would have pushed me away and called the cops. . .or the loony bin. So far, it has not happened.
So Diane is no standoffish, touch me not. She is a grand hugger in her own right. She just hasn’t decided to do as much of it as often as I do. Yet.
Hugs, hugs and more hugs
Shirl