High Mesa Happenings & Heartstrings

A Soothing, Summer Voyage into the Fantastic: a Must See

Summer is here! In past times, the car was loaded for a Summer vacation. Maybe not this year. We are watching that gas tank. Here is a proposal:

* secure a comfortable position in front of your screen

* rest your mind in knowing this trip will not add to pollution, road rage or stressors

* take a deep breath of anticipation

*  click Download FantasticTrip.pps, wait a couple of seconds,  enjoy!

(... and maybe you just get a still screen after clicking "open" in the dialog box; breath in; go to your taskbar, all the way down of your screen, to the right side and surf over the icons; click on the one that says: slideshow)

It's awsome!

Posted by NWH

Heal the Healers: a Retreat at HMHC

On May 31st, staff from H.E.A.L. spent the day at HMHC for a “Heal the Healers” retreat. Barbara Mader, RN, CHRP and Director of HMHC, and Misty McArthur presented a program of stress relieving techniques and exploration. 

“The day was a most wonderful gift to our small group of six who enjoyed the center's positive energies,” writes Danietta Owens, Office Manager.“Thank you Barbara and Misty! We appreciate all the time and work you put into this wonderful and insightful day." 

 

 

 

Posted by NWH

 

Solstice Moon Illusion

Whether you’ve seen it on June 18^th of this year or not, the picture below is true to the awe filled eyes we get when looking at a Solstice Moon Illusion.

 

The full Moon beams through trees in Manchester, Maryland. Credit: Edmund E. Kasaitis. Copyright 2008; all rights reserved

Pretty amazing view, uh? It is said that we humans are the only ones to see the Moon blown up, (and likely other deformed stuff, too.) There are oodles of scientific, cultural, spiritual and more explanations. In fact, it is an optical illusion, like the Ponzo Illusion .

 Wait a minute, what fact and says who? Beauty, or in this case the unusual or the peculiar, lies in the eyes of beholder, doesn’t it? What if….

Here is another optical illusion, created by humans, for fun…

Elevator in Hong-Kong

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On Peace

Jane B-Y sent us words on Peace by Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, known as Monsenor Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador. Witnessing ongoing violations of human rights in his country, he started a group speaking on behalf of the poor and victims during the civil war in El Salvador. He was assassinated in 1980 during a sermon, by a death squad. The movie Salvador by Oliver Stone renders the political stage around the life of Monsenor Romero and on the Civil War of El Salvador.

"Peace  is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism,
Peace is generosity,
It is right and it is duty."

Among others, Jane has included this photo (Bakersfield, CA,) titled "The Day when God dropped the Paintbox".

Sometimes, looking at beautiful colors of nature helps me to gratefully be still.

NWH 

Amazing Striped Icebergs

I like Nature. I spent most of my 3 first years of my life outside, almost all day long and well into a night a lot of times. Don't ask, it's my story.  After these former years, it often has been a challenge to be drawn into cultures where nature seems to have become a stage backdrop or a prey to satisfy personal needs. I can't do it. I have to live with Nature: feel, see, touch, smell, nurture with it. Doing so allows me to practice awe,  respect and gratitude in my life. I like that.

Thank you Jane B-Y for sharing the below wonder of Nature.

Amazing striped icebergs

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melted water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form. When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.

To see more colored and shaped icebergs, go to

Australian Antarctic Division.

Enjoy.

Posted by NWH

National Nurses Week: A Special Gift from HMHC to All Dedicated Nurses

To honor their dedication to the health of others, High Mesa Healing Center is celebrating National Nurses Week, May 6-12, 2008, with a Complementary Healing Touch Session for nurses. The gift also includes free Migun Bed Sessions.

Please read on how Barbara Mader, RN,CHTP and HMHC Director, is expressing the passion and dedication of her own vocation, and of those who chose to serve others in the Health Care field.

"A Profession and a Passion"

Often described as an art and a science, nursing is a profession that embraces dedicated people with varied interests, strengths and passions because of the many opportunities the profession offers. As nurses, we work in emergency rooms, school based clinics, home health and homeless shelters to name a few. We have many roles- from staff to educator, to nurse practitioner and nurse researcher and serve all of them with passion for the profession and with a strong commitment to patient safety.

Nursing is a calling, a lifestyle, a way of living, a profession that cannot be lived in isolation; nurses rely on each other for the synergistic effect of teamwork of care giving. It is appropriate that we honor nurses this week in May for the difference they make by stepping into people's lives. Nurses are the heart of healthcare."

Please come out to enjoy a wonderful, loving and relaxing session with Barbara. It is a time to pamper yourselves and to receive thanks for caring for others. Call HMHC at (575) 336-7777, or email at HMHC to reserve your special space.

Thank You to all Nurses!

When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours. Author Unknown

Thank you Linda G. for sharing picture and quote.

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From Barbara's Desk: Click!

Maybe it has come around your desk, maybe not. Either way, click! Barbara, and other friends of HMHC, want to wish you a great day !!!

And if your click doesn't click-me, click or type the following:

http://www.frontiernet.net/~jimdandy/specials/onedayatatime/onedayatatime.htm

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THIS IS JUST Beautiful ! click me

Under the Rock: from a Reader and a Poet

We love to hear from our Readers! Thank you, Linda G.P.

Under the Rock

My soul whimpers under a rock

Of shoulds, woulds, and coulds

Barely intact or stirring

But, wisps of gratitude

Joyfulness and creativity

Escape occasionally

Into the heavens

As ethereal smoke

Sending signals

To protest casualty

Letting troubles know

There is hope

In trusting myself

Trusting others

Nearby is resilience

Even strength

Behind the shady

Side of my interment

During the passage of life

Or this passage of death

The weight of stone

Disintegrates, illuminates

When I concede

Crawling under granite

To escape my own light

Linda Grau Powell

April 5, 2008

Posted by NWH

The Mystery of the Earthshine

Image: A crescent moon with Earthshine over Yosemite National Park in October 2004. Photo credit: Andy Skinner.

Leonardo Da Vinci is popularly known for that smile, the famous "Mona Lisa", or for the perfect proportions of a face or of a human body. While today, folks might be talking and wondering about a code of his, in his times, they were talking and wondering about an "ashen glow," or "the old Moon in the new Moon's arms."  Da Vinci is the man who solved the Mystery of Earthshine. Nope, not a novel of his but an astronomy riddle that can be witnessed tonight. The following article is sent to you by Barbara.

On Monday evening after sunset on 7 April, a 6% crescent will materialize in the western sky.

Set against the cobalt-blue of early evening, the moon reveals its lovely da Vinci glow, a pale impression of the full Moon inside the vivid crescent. Five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was first to explain this phenomenon: it is Earthshine, the light of our own planet Earth illuminating the Moon's dark terrain. A crescent moon with Earthshine is widely regarded as one of the prettiest sights in the heavens.

But the best is yet to come….

On Tuesday evening 8 April, a 12% crescent Moon moves into conjunction with the Pleiades.

("Into conjunction" is astronomy jargon for "side-by-side.").  The Moon will be so close to the Pleiades that, to the naked eye, they seem to touch,  but that is impossible because the Pleiades are 400 light years away. Also known as the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades are a cluster of young stars.  The brightest seven of these blue-white beauties form a little dipper shape as wide about as the Moon (0.5^o).  In spite of their great distance, the Pleiades are faintly visible to the naked eye even from urban areas. On 8 April, the Moon will lead us directly to the Pleiades.  Binoculars are recommended: by scanning around the Moon we will find not just seven but dozens of sparkling stars, some of them winking in and out behind the mountainous lunar limb.  The Moon itself may take your breath away as you sweep your optics across the cratered Earth lit landscape. The best time to look is shortly after sundown, facing west:

The crescent Moon, Earthshine and a star cluster in the same field of view - it doesn't get much better than that.

Enjoy!!

Thank you Barbara. If any of you have a "tale" about the Earthshine phenomenon, send it to the "Comments" section below. We love "mysteries!"

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METAPHORmosis . . . a shift in consciousness!

Take a minute to shift, with the winning YouTube video "METAPHORmosis" by Rowan North.  This video translates a message that was originally put forth by the biologist and futurist, Elisabet Sahtouris. Using imagery, music and words it tells the story of a great shift in consciousness occurring on the planet today.

About the contest winner: Rowan North is a 22 year old student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington. Film-making is his passion and he hopes to use film as a positive catalyst in contributing to the transformational shift our planet is currently undergoing.

http://oneminuteshift.com/videos/rowan_north_video/metaphormosis

posted by PJA