I met a guy the other day on the bus. He did not smell good and when I touched his shoulder, all I felt was skin against boney bone!
He talked to me.
No one else on the blue bus going up upper Granville where I live, was even bothering to strike up a conversation.
He lives in a small room, downtown in the not so nice area. Out of his meager govt cheque, he pays $400.00 for a paltry patchwork of a square pen.
Never complaining, he gets off the bus to panhandle at 7-11, a few blocks from our 1000 sq ft 2 befroom apartment, just off of 71st. I hear his coughing; like something out of a bad movie. Probably not much older than me, he seems ready to ... croak!
What does this man need more than anything?
Human kindness.
Soon after, walking to Safeway to buy some water and flowers for myself, all I can think about is HIM and how I have been touched ..
Blackberries and grapes are my gift.
Since this man has no teeth.
Beaten and thrown him into jail for searching through downtown back alleys for bottles, at the wrong hour.
What does it take to raise somebody's spirit?
I buy him a cup of warming tea, before he goes back outside for the night, to beg for money from people driving expensive cars,that barely care to slow down to ask his name.
I figure if I could spend $100.00's earlier that day, at Chapters, on good books for my mind, I can do something even better for my heart - by loving another in such a seemingly insignifigant way.
In a wounded world, severely tilting on its angry axis, how far can a little kindness go ....?
Hope to see my new friend, soon.
Katherine Marion
p.s.
Thanks Jennifer, for inspiring me, with your recent facebook post. More people just need to get out there and do something. Simply 'knowing' is not enough.
p.p.s.
Sadly, this is not my home. Mine is being taken form me, as you read. I have just received filed papers, from my landlord whom I am legally ' fighting' in Tenancy. Yet, as good a time, as ever to be grateful for what I do have ... As we all should be!
p.p.p.s.
I captured this pic a few years ago, after a heavy and happy snowfall in magical Marpole, when we were living in a cozy cottage on a retired UVIC's Professor's property, a few blocks away.
Enjoy!
Speaking my truth, as the light that lives inside of me -turns me on and tunes me in .. From breastfeeding to rape, loving respect to abuse issues and deviant behaviour. I AM every 'victim's' www.SupernatruralWoman.com saviour. Leaving my imprint on their dusty mirror, tossing my sun-lightened locks to the wind, riding their rage, and never looking back, as i gain magical momentum, transforming all and touching even more .. katherine in Greatness
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Two Souls As One
Hugging on the floor at quarter to 4 in the A.M.
Amen
Or, is it ehem?
I was laying flat on my back in the morn
Freely
To be just me
Out of his bed came a hairy sleepy head
Kaelin
Came on in
Kissing me on the cheek he took a peek
Son-shine
Light of mine
Falling slack to lay himself on his back
14 years
Young - no fears
Right beside me to stetch out, naturally
Relaxed
Floating in comfort with straightened backs
Silently communing with one and everything
We sail
With masts set to send out a healing exhale
Knowing we as one - meant to have fun
Two souls
Bodies as whole as LOVE does extole.
Katherine Marion
http://www.supernaturalwoman.com/
p.s.
Since my Canon EOS stopped working, after getting caught in that exciting Penticton sand storm on the end of July long weekend, I have merely existed!
Just this week, and going strong ... I utiilized the convenience of my other trusty Canon ... movie camera, which is what I shot this shot upon. As my no longer to be termed "wee soul-mate" and I lay on the beaten-up hardwood floors of the home we are soon to leave for fresher parts of this pretty province that we really have to get to know.
Knowing doesn't always come while standing up. Sometimes you have to find a place to rest your head and throw your feet up ... wildly into the air. To linger there, for a consciously connecting while. Enough to make your starving soul smile - especially if you have travelled a weary and wounded while.
Doesn't matter what time they tell you it is. 'Time' is ours to make and not to borrow. Fears are never to swallow. Letting go ... can mean being kind. Catching up on creating space for yourself can be done anywhere. Fully clothed or close to bare .. Naked is the truth and more tender is the heart that digs deeper ..
Now Sweeter,
Katherine
Saturday, September 11, 2010
My Shining Son
Yours is the light that shone through me
Yours is the heart that loves ever truly
Yours is the love offered unconditionally
Yours is the truth accepted gratefully
You are the blessed one with new hope
You are the old soul who in me awoke
You are the Angel with wings to cope
You are the poem I freshly re-wrote
I am the grateful one with you as mine
I am the receiver of these gifts sublime
I am the thankful for knowing you in time
I am the better as I touch this new divine
We are as perfect as two hearts can be
We are so special the world must see
We are all love, honesty and intimacy
We are forever with spirit's set free!
Katherine Marion
http://www.supernaturalwoman.com/
p.s.
This rainswept Vancouver evening, rather than go to a party I was invited to, I perused through pics ... Finding this enchanting photograph of my 8 year young homeschooler, after he was taken by MCFD, and not yet, returned to me.
The year was 2005 and I feel like we both have been through a couple of world wars. And, survived! Yet, within me, and surely, both of us, lingers this longing for an innocence lost, never to be seen or felt, again.
Thus, I choose this image as a heart rendering reminder of a beauty that lays embossed within the beautiful bowels of my lonely, lost heart, now being re-found and restored. After wandering in bewildered anxiety for the longest loneliest while, I am slowly picking up the precious pieces of a fragmented dream and putting our loving lives back together, again.
I captured this picture of Kaelin at the gate to our cozy cottage in magical Marpole. This seemingly tragic time was the most blissful period for us. Torn apart and returned unto one another, we appreciated every stolen second we were given or not ... Apart, we prayed and affirmed and held onto hope. It worked. Bringing us back together came about because we believed.
The power of love can transfrom anything. I am, I have and I offer ... living proof!!!!
Keep Believing,
We are
Katherine
Monday, September 6, 2010
I Can Only Dream ...
I can only dream ...
Of my raw vegan pie - Coconut Cream.
I can only dream ...
Everything tastes as good as it may seem.
I can only dream ...
Life treats me in the kindest extreme.
I can only dream ...
Love makes me host to a yummy team.
I can only dream ...
Creating joy from a flowing stream.
I can only dream ...
Plucking bliss from a moon-beam.
I can only dream ...
Making ecstasy from a silent scream.
I can only dream ...
Katherine Marion
http://www.supernaturalwoman.com/
p.s.
I created this rawsome gift of Mommy's yummiest; Raw Coconut Cream Pie to Dream On ...
Greg had driven over to visit from the Valley and I went to wondrous work .. in Purring Kat's kitchen.
Since I had recently smashed the last of my lovely crystal plates, all I had to display my 'gratitude on a platter' was a soft pastel blue plate that my happy homelearner and I had purchased at some big box store we should almost feel embarassed to have ever step loving foot in.
Thus, holding up my rawstruck trophy, I posed in my new Lululemon hoodie and smiled for a camera that loves food that looks good and tastes even better!
p.s.
My non-fattening crust combines various soaked seeds and nuts and low on the glycemic scale - dates.
The filling is pureed banana blended with fresh, baby Thai Coconut and more delicious dates to add natural sweetener to the best consciousness-raising cake, ever.
Top with a few fresh blueberries and you have got yourself more than a few bite-full's of BlISS!!!!
Eat up ... and here's to the Beauty to be found making love to our food.
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Happy 8th Birthday - Charlie Bear!
Single Mommy M and her son, C
Share a wee bite of joy with me
Single Mommy M and her son C
Enjoying a belated 8th birthday
Single Mommy M and her son, C
Eager to eat healing and healthily
Single Mommy M and her son, C
Receiving love given; unconditionally
Single Mommy M and her son, C
Appreciated by our raw family
Single Mommy M and her son, C
Filled with excitement and glee
Single Mommy M and her son, C
To honor them, grateful are we
Single Mommy M and her son, C
Welcome to our yummy party!
Katherine Marion
http://www.supernaturalwoman.com/
p.s.
There are 4 at this conscious celebration of friendship and forgiving. Kaelin is behind the scenes, documenting this delicious scene for his own rawk'n Mommy.
Last week, we prepared a rawstruck treat for Charlie; one Banana Coconut Dream Pie.
Arriving at the door, we surprised our downstairs friends and fed them .. on many magical levels.
Bearing gifts of gratitude; meant to melt in your mouth .. we dug into divinity.
Happy 8th Earth Years - Young and Effervescent Charlie!
We all love you - now and forever.
Rawsomely yours,
Katherine
Friday, September 3, 2010
Connecting To A Higher Realm
What's the real value in this superficial society of focusing on making money?
A severely inflated economy and a deepening sense of senseless inequality.
Why do people like my Father work so hard; dying 3 years before retirement?
Thinking they will never get out of debt, their fearful heart attack is hell-sent.
Who is the governmet but a group of fat-cat's licking up your sweet cream?
Selling you a ton of lies and blindly stealing your most delicious dream.
Where will you ever find respite from one more mournful ruse and legal ploy?
Most find solace in pills, cigs and booze; addictions paid to skillfull destroy.
When will fools wake up and count their blessings by the beat of their heart?
Only after most of what they have learned and earned does to early depart.
What does it mean to get caught up in a counting machine of a lovesless life?
You marry for money, forget about love and bury your dead,beloved wife
How did anyone ever forget about the one universal truth that does count?
Hold onto kindness, share compassion, or to not much shall you amount!
Katherine Marion
http://www.supernaturalwoman.com/
p.s.
Often, I wonder what essentially makes people happy.
Deeply sensing that those we somehow 'lose', also lost their dreams, around the same insane time their taste for life was destroyed.
Knowing that I am meant to do more than search for one more over-priced rental and bash my head in ... feeling guilty about so much work that does not seem to be getting done.
Remembering, that if I keep on believing a myth that has been sold to me as long as I can remember, I might as well my breaking heart; to dis-member.
Every moment is so precious and we rarely truly experience many such magical momento's in a lifetime.
Why would we waste a tear or a dip into the endless flow ... to needlessly buy into a dead story, when we already truly KNOW?
p.p.s.
This is the magic mirror I can not enough give conscious cause to look upon and into ... Kaelin created this wall colloage of collective consciousness, from our buried-away pictures in the dreaded and ever so messy "Blue Room", last year. He is so proud as he sits in front of his wonderful work.
Now, this works for me!!!
Hot 'n Ready To Heal and Squeel
It all began the other blessed sun-kissed day..
After travelling outside, on my bicycle to play.
Meeting a handsome drug addict along the way
$20.00 - to talk to me, is all I made him pay
Stripping off his fancy shirt in the light of day
While flexing, the wierdest things he did say
Senior Center secretary seeing the display
Wore a smile rather than a frown of dismay
Walking down back stairs to avoid the fray
I ran away from him, pretty pronto and amskray
Cycling downtown to file my late tax return
Finding out a phone call costs 50 cents - to burn
A man at the booth, with wanting did yearn
To teach a lesson you must also be keen to learn
For gourmet raw food; my belly was set on churn
I asked that music promoter to drive down ..and turn
Afraid I was a Woman who was intent on him to spurn
He took his time parking as his gut did surely set churn
Gorilla Food; where we talked for a tasty hour or two
6 ft 3 telling me," Gain weight" with my pounds too few
I let him bite into my hemp seed chocolate cake so true
Strangers come together while senses rawsomely renew
For a Monkey Sandwich a woman will almost anything do
Takes away the hunger of treats too sparse and seldom few
Some of us have no intention of setting up someone to screw
Beings, actually of the sweetest and sanely conscious few
Besides what's a mid-life Momma wearing hot gear to do?
Rather spread this joy to a deserving and attentive crew
Before I wrangled a free Yin class, at YYoga at its best
I met a man on his bike, whom in artistic sexuality does attest
Partner with "The Art Of Loving", where sex never takes a rest
Woman writing "The V-Spot" works for our mag, with sexy zest
1 1/2 hrs of muscle and ligament stretching took us to the crest
As one of the full class of 30, "Never felt better," I gratefully confess
Dan was our kind intructor who gave beyond his all rather than less
Time to take care of ourselves and leave behind self-induced 'stress.'
Later,sweating for 25 minutes in a healing infared sauna, prepared me
For what no sweet soul upon a couple of wheels would ever wanna see.
Spying a guy on a racing bike, with 3 bags of empties; nowhere to flee ...
Hit in ,the face and knocked to the hard pavement, to fall upon my knee
It would have been less painful falling out of a friendly old, oak tree
Rather than being befelled by dirty, hard-core dumpster diver energy
An Angel came up and offered her healing touch Reiki services, luckily
A Victoria homeopath, staying at The Sutton Hotel, set my heart free
A generous gift of a paid cab ride home, along with some freezing ice
Allowed me to thank this loving universe; always ever so kind and nice
Doesn't matter if your "slumlord" still won't take care of the hidden mice
My homeschooler has a bath ever 2 weeks and he doesn't carry head lice
Who cares if I'm evicted and my coward neighbours called MCFD, twice
In this world, meddlesome rodents make themselves known, and are rife
All I know is that every hit feeds my creativity and lengthens my life
And, I'd rather be single and loving my son than be any whiner's wife!!!
Katherine Marion
http://www.supernaturalwoman.com/
p.s.
Well, my right leg can eaily be dragged or lifted, as long as I do not willfully bend it past it's now breaking capacity ... a mere 45%\!
So much for my plan to take a slow ferry out of this far-fetched and often falling apart village of Vancouver. My upcoming landlady is probaby beyond tired of me concocting one more seasoned excuse; " son's assault in a back alley, by 3 teens" - just this week, "Going into anaphylactic shock" - after eating some over-heated thinly sliced rye slices, and finally, being "hit by a mad cyclist" - and dropped merilessly to the ground.
With days needed to get my leg back in working order, after immense and necessary swelling goes down, all I want to do is write, as I sit firmly, upon my firm, suntanned butt, as I find one more excuse to pour out my feelings, as I express .. rather than depress myself.
Who knows, maybe I will work on my tan-lines, during this warm Indian Summer, "Without The Native", as I have been affirming for over a healing decade; after being kicked in the leg and smacked in the face by my x- the one who so lovingly gifted me with a child!
Not only is he coming back to town in October, as he has so kindly shared with me, in a recent strained phone conversation .... I can still feel his heart is more frozen than the ice I hold against my leg.
Besides, his passive-agressive behoviours led him to get his then girlfriend, B, to throw gravel in my face, from a moving car, the day before family court, so many maddeninly crazy yeara ago.
The most recent rat - of the 4 legged and harmless ilk - has left the building, thanks to peanut butter and a Rogers cell phone box that Kaelin rigged up, this week. Don't know if I have guts to work my abs on that floor, yet. But, I will get off my own butt to ready for my fill of rat's tales ...Tenancy meeting, via good 'ol fashioned telephone at month's end, unless something else grabs my magical attention, and I move into the perfect place - before I break - to preciously mend.
To you and your insanely sane sense of humor, my thought-provoking concepts, divine discourse and humorous happenings .. I do graciously send!!!!
p.p.s.
This pic of me in my new Bilabong Bikini, was taken at The Fox Hotel - one deluxe multi-star resort, up in beautiful Banff, a few wonderfully relaxing weeks ago.
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