Julanne's Village Jewels

                                                                                                     INNER                                                                                                        A friend of mine mentioned to me the words INNER ELDER. It was the first time I had ever put those 2 words together let alone realized what they meant. For many years I have been AWARE of my INNER CHILD and have paid ATTENTION to 'her' within myself in loving and caring ways, through visualization and conversation.  It has always been very helpful to me.  The words INNER ELDER struck a cord in me as something I want to pursue. I was immediately 'thrown' back on myself as to what is going on with me right now. What does that mean, really? ELDER, ELDERLY. . .words I have heard since childhood but now, alas,  I  am ELDERLY. I am an ELDER. This calls for a shift in CONSCIOUSNESS for me. I can no longer regard myself as other or separate  from others who are 'older

  EVIDENCE I'm sure we are all familiar with mystery stories or whatever where we want to see and perceive the EVIDENCE that declares what has or is happening.  It's very normal to want to know for sure  beyond a reasonable doubt, what is so! After all, if we have the EVIDENCE than all is well. it's like in this picture, the water falling through the rocks had  to have come from higher up. Here's the EVIDENCE  right here. I remember many years ago going to a seminar and the person was talking about EVIDENCE. What I  really  remember was the realization of how much I KNOW and TRUST in the areas of LIFE I 'can't see, hear, feel or even taste , because there is no tangible  EVIDENCE and yet I KNOW  it's happening or has happened sometime, even millions of years ago. A perfect example is the WIND blowing  and the trees moving. Virtually all events in HISTORY and in NATURE fall into this category because we have  EVIDENCE even if we didn't experience somethi

                                                                    BLUE CONVOLVUS OPULENCE OPULENCE . . . Isn't that a magnanimous word? OPULENCE means wealthy, rich, a little more than well-to-do, perhaps well-off. That is how I have felt lately, coming upon or finding something I'm seeking or needing.  I have a very special frame in my bathroom that I like to switch pictures in from time to time. I knew the one I wanted to put in the frame and when I went to look for it ( in the exact  envelope in which I stored it, ) it was not there. I wouldn't give up and continued to go back to look for it 4  times! At last, on the 4th try, there is was nestled gently in between other photos. One might think I was a bit obsessed, which I was, until I found that picture! The feeling that swept over me was one of relief, of course, but also of OPULENCE, of being well off, wealthy  in a sense. I found what I most wanted in that moment! The sensation  in my body was palpable, I could fe

                                                                                                SEEDS When I went for a walk yesterday around the lake, I watched as these tiny pink flake like twirley things came falling all around me. They were so beautiful, they reminded me of soft blossoms falling from a tree. I picked one up and saw that it was a SEED inside this precious pink pod. It was gorgeous with teeny tiny stripes of a deeper pink running across the whole pod which was about an inch long. It had a gentle curve, with this tiny seed at one end of the pod. It was as though it was 'hand made' by God, one SEED per pod. It was from a Maple tree. I marveled at the fact that the very tree it came from, which was very tall, had started from a SEED just like all the ones falling to the ground. It was astonishing to me to think that every  tree, flower, vegetable, animal, person starts out as a SEED!(maybe some things have a different way of starting out!)  I decided to bring ho