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We Are It, Sailors, We are It . . . . .

By Veronica Hallissey on April 13, 2021 in Lesson, Observations, Touchstone

Take to Heart This Earth Planet Classroom. . . . .

I have been in a few rooms when some beloveds have been preparing to transit this world. Some have been hospital rooms where it has been calmer when attention is focused on what was happening and not being diverted from the one leaving our world.

I am grateful to those who felt safe with me to share their experiences in leaving this world and trusted me to understand what they were saying. I have been there when information went against beliefs held by others present and the words were ‘it’s the medicine talking’ or some religious salves they felt necessary.

When our David said they were calling his name with his presence required for work on the Intergalactic Council for Peace. . . he was alert and not dreaming. It would have been cosmic shortsightedness not to avail his caliber of knowledge when the need was acute and the service on hand.

We have seen unqualified people in high places requiring expert and precise knowledge. We are living the results of such a calamitous journey now. And how we rejoice to see learned ones called upon again for what we hungered.

I took David’s statement as truth of the Council because I had heard the topic discussed years before his hospitalization. And never by him but by people well versed in stellar knowledge.

When my mentor, the Nazarene stood on the rock and said his famous much rendered I will build speech that the Romans took and ran with, he also said in plain words that here on Earth we are the reflection of heaven and heaven the reflection of Earth, the what is loosed segment seldom repeated.

Take those words seriously because they are meant to be serious. There is no better place than here right where we are. We are the reflection. We are it, sailors, we are it.

The only reason to make a difference in this world, altruism aside, (the true altruistic persons are few, if any) is with the difference we make in ourselves. When we come to this conclusion and know the reason, we will remember that the purpose of this Earth is to be a classroom.

Things are not going to change because the purpose for us is to change ourselves. And we hold that card. When we do, we are graduates to the Universe, where there are places needing work.

Places are many. . . planets and worlds with names and no names but workers are few. It’s like Ethics class where conscience line dries for public scrutiny. Nobody shows up. Will you?

artwork by
Claudia Hallissey

The Happy Camper Gleanings. . . .

By Veronica Hallissey on April 8, 2021 in Observations, Paradigm

Man can strike the essence of what is wrong in the arena the heavens cannot reach.
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Man must process an enormous amount of garbage in the place where integration of the human is of vital interest.
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The sounds of mortal life cut deeply and quickly and with great pain to those who have ears to hear.
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Television is the answer to a lifetime prayer for some. To be entertained without having to participate is the ultimate dream.
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Rehearsed rhetoric is a game to use for one’s own justification.
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Humanity’s progress comes quarter inch by quarter inch. We can jumpstart evolution simply by opening a book to learn something new.
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Mass evolution is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms; never a fact and never a reality.
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Ambition takes on the sharpness of a double edged sword. Not only do we benefit when applied to learning, but our circle of commitments benefit also.

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Motion gives the illusion of growth and to man means progress.
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Life is a pleasure when all things are left out except those giving pleasure. Yet we all know that only with struggles do we actually prosper in character.
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What is here and now is no different than anywhere else. Only our sense of it makes a difference. And of course, the costumes.
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The life of the least is more than something. It is all there is.
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The universe may be neither good nor bad, but it cares because it too, must survive.

Some Awards Do Not Hang On Walls. . . . .

By Veronica Hallissey on March 13, 2021 in Observations, Paradigm, Touchstone

Often we think nothing has been accomplished in our lives, so I encourage journal keeping, if only a few sentences limited to what one learns in the day. Many of us have enlisted our efforts in what cannot be seen. The journals will show the awards that hang on the heart and not on the walls. They will show that some awards money cannot touch and are priceless.

The following maxims and gleanings were taken from a June 10, 2013 entry. Some were scribed and others focused in dialogue. Sit with one or two and write what you know when they take your thought. Surprise yourself with what you have learned on your journey. . .

Feeding a body is crucial but to starve a mind is criminal.
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The world is full of many riches. Mental activity in only one form is not for everyone.
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We can walk from the mental buffet and eat a bit from all tables and never be at a loss to learn.
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When husband and wife, daughter and son, sister and brother, friend and lover skills are not called upon, make cradles and cars, books and hats and be a prized trophy of a human. Do and you will be shown how.
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How we conduct our lives and what we learn determines the world we prepare for.

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What you love into being, you become and graduate to.
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When you become the person you hope to meet, you are the person looked for.
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Go with the God who made you. He, She, It, They certainly did a good piece of work with you.
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Remember, when beliefs are dislodged, often the person holding them is dislodged also. But further study ALWAYS enlightens because the premises are broadened, the picture enlarged. Do your best and study hard. Ancient studies taught me that educating a son, one educates one man. Educating a daughter, one educates a family. What happens on the world stage is determined by what happens within the four walls where one’s life begins. Begin anew.

artwork by Claudia Hallissey

When I love you is coupled with a hug. . . .

By Veronica Hallissey on February 25, 2021 in Love, Observations

These are my progeny I am fortunate to see at least with photos. I am impressed that there are several lady greats in our lives. And I am also impressed with the knowledge of two close mister greats. There are others I am certain in my scattered large family that I do not know, but I welcome any word of them.

These past few years have been difficult for the many youngers. And I know the families at hand give support as they can.

I know the parents of these jenny gene children read my posts when able and are learning about these children from this grandmother great. I wish them luck in their endeavors in understanding what has been borne of them. No doubt they will be scratching their collective heads with puzzlement trying to decide how to cope.

When I understood the maxim ‘as the twig is bent’ and realized that the twig is bent upon arrival with a history! . . it was the beginning of a lifelong journey toward the heart of Me. Many a parent has voiced the timeworn plea of I treat them all the same! I would quietly assure them but they arrive not from different countries but different worlds!

And no way will our words mean the same to each of them. Except these words. . I love you coupled with the strength of your arms around them. There is no misunderstanding when hearts press each other.

And they will insist every day of their lives that they were the favorite child . . . .

Gleanings. . . a few. . .

By Veronica Hallissey on January 29, 2021 in Observations

Man’s kharma is his dharma, the coin he uses to buy for himself the peace he seeks.
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To see through the eyes of an Other will put one’s heart into divine orbit.
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Can man run far enough and fast enough to escape the swollen burden of coming to grips with self confrontation?
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The moments of glory that belong to the sainted adulthood of which we are capable are the redeeming moments of this world. The rest of it is the fourth grade.
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There is that point where everyone is eager to understand until the minute personal responsibility would be required for actions taken.
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As we stretch to pour the milk out of the pitcher, we are blind to the fact that it is only out of abundance we continue to pour.
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We are laughed out of the curriculum when our search involves basic origins and we find answers.
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Born into human reverence, can any male child grow into adulthood?
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Who we are, what we are, where we come from and to where we go are not confined to the adolescent search of most religious organizations. The adolescent feeds on glamorous charismatic assumptions. Often held on sadly to the grave.
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The premises of life’s purpose are the meat of our lives and the wine of our maturity.
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The hurts and bruises humans endure should be worn as karate belts. Black belts should be worn for psychic bruises.
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Words have a weight which carry an indepth report on everything. Now tell me what you think.
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To Answer. . . our very best. . .

By Veronica Hallissey on December 17, 2020 in Observations, Touchstone

This has been a hard year for all with unavoidable obstacles. We have wondered together if there would be Light beckoning to grant some reprieve during these holy days and holiday season. There was and is but we do not let up on our vigil until given word it is so.

The journey has taken us through some dark places but we have found Light as we are bent to do. We have come thus far and now keep our guard up until our commitments walk with us.

We miss the little rewards we needed to break from the work of dailyness that bowed us down even in normal times. During the health crises and political turmoil without them, our dispositions have been tested. But we are a dependable people and wish to prove we are equal to the task. Our progeny will one day question us and ask what did we do? . . .

Our answer will be. . . our very best.. . .

The Learning Place. . . .

Do you not think
that where you go
at night is the place
where you are healed?

And awaken
to a morning full
of exuberance, to face
another day to fight clean?

For those things you see
at night, every time
you close your eyes and trust
you will find your way. . .

to the place you know best
that heals the wounds
tearing you apart . . .the who you are,
in still this best of all learning places. . .

to find you do not run away. . . .
and with courage stay the course.

(Suzanne sent me this photo of another quilt. Another memory. . .)

The Past Is Still Happening. . . .

By Veronica Hallissey on December 8, 2020 in Observations, Poetry, Touchstone

I looked for the journal entry until I had to stop last night because of a heart willing itself to stop if I did not. My eldest son as well as a beloved friend once called my persevering tendency unnerving. Both vowed they could not live my way. I learned much later to call it the jenny genes. I make myself sick with them.

This morning in picking up clutter I looked askance at a first hand written journal to open on July 23, ’73. With Hello!! I read the following in firm 42 year old handwriting in ink. . . .Our pianist sons were playing a new LP of the Canon when I first heard it. Later in Munich, at a travel conference we stood at Christmastime alight with old decorations in a nightime fairyland. I realized it was not a first time for me.
I wrote. . . .

I hear Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major and I yearn for a time I can see in my head. I am there in my hooped dress with cinched waist and I can see a swarthy looking, paunchy violinist (forgive me) bending close to the dancers. There is an ensemble but the violinist I can see expressly. Where is this taking place that it can move me to tears?

It’s not so much memory but participation, complete with all the emotion. Why does this move me so and why does it have power as if I am in it now? Who was I and where was I and where am I traveling now when I hear it? No past or future, just eternal now?. . . .

The rest of the entry deals with various elements of time and intensity and psychic talents. Rich stuffs in explanation but having been clueless to this aspect with no one in my immediate circle versed in these subjects . If family has no knowledge or the subject taboo, where does the child go who only knows to be called weird or different? Ahhh you wondered why I obsess on this subject?

I still look for the date on which the following poem was written. The Europe business trips were in the ‘70’s. I posted this once in 2015 and a reader was overwhelmed with did it happen this way? Exactly.

I hope when one does not fit the outlines for normality, one will be given space for being unique with a welcome to this world. We all might learn something. Parents and siblings especially.

December Confirms The June Woman

It is June and I stand poised on the landing of the half circular staircase.
I am hearing the strains of the Canon not heard in this, my lifetime.
Shocked still, caught in the shadows of half remembering and
yet reluctant to confront the shaded memories, I wait.

She is visible, the young woman gliding with joy to the music
which carried her down the long hall. She curtsies to the throngs
lining the great walls.

I stand, not moving. Her joy is mine, translating to an emptiness
in my heart. The tears scald my cheeks and the rest solidify
in a mass in my throat. I cannot swallow. I am in danger
from within and without.

It is now December. I am before an ancient building in a city
bearing her years gracefully. The snow is circling my feet and the wind
is freezing my eyes. I am rooted to this spot. The air is ringing with
the sounds of holiday; lights flicker their ritualistic colors in harmony.
Yet I stand immobile.

On the second floor of the ancient building, caught in the winter of my memories,
I see the long hall stretching before me. The strain and refrains of the Canon
carry the young one still, waltzing yet. The violins smooth the way for her
memories to be built The red vests of the rotund violinists complement
in contrast their black , slicked hair. They bend and bow in homage.
Their music locks her destiny forever.

My eyes are again in danger, this time of freezing in their sockets with the
salted tears that cannot stop. The memory does not move, not to one side nor
the other. My will forces my eyes to play again what can only be seen in my
throbbing head. Courted through centuries with great care to remain hidden.
I unwittingly jarred the box housing those memories.

In retrospect, I was ready. It was my time. I turned away shaken and knowing,

the past is still happening.

A Chance To Make Better. . . .

By Veronica Hallissey on October 22, 2020 in Essays, Observations, Touchstone

Gratitude. . for lives consciously loved through. . . . . .

She was a friend of the boys and came to share her grief with life; an aspiring legal mind that looked to reason the why of it all. She asked in despair, why did you settle for so little?

Words escaped me because life had given me so much. Yet her question haunted me all these years as I struggled with it. The question, unsatisfied with my answers, kept returning.

Have I lived a substitute life the erstwhile minds labeled, by allowing others to shine? That deserves its own essay with arguments.

How to evaluate others’ perspectives fairly without the ability to see behind their eyes? How to gauge the value of what I would have missed, taken other than the path destined? Big questions that deserve consideration.

I listened and watched for full impact of President Obama’s speech in Pennsylvania. His words impaled my skull. No, he said, we weren’t completely successful, but we made conditions better. I paraphrase because this is what I needed to hear.

And this, in my endtimes is what I struggle with. One would think that after a lifetime of hard trying one would have something, a tangible something to hold in one’s hands. But the prior President’s words were meaningful as he gave hope to the community workers needing guidance.

My teachers say it may not be in our lifetimes that we see the success of what we do completed. What has given me motivation and hope to keep on keeping on have been lives of great dedication to those values of mind. They have been a testimony to the commitment and devotion not only to intangible values but to humanity.

We are a country of immigrants granting second chances. We don’t junk humans. Even in our common singular lives we have many of those chances to better all lives we touch. It is not the road most traveled and it is not easy, but to make better is what should be our intent.

Perhaps teaching our young to persevere with good intent is to benefit the All, which is Life. Success is perhaps like this. . .my inlaw mother calling to me as she drew last breaths and took my hand. She lifted my fingers with a kiss to them. . . . and I knew she was grateful I was in her life.

For over a half century I tried. Easy, of course not with almost a century of rock driven issues for her to peace. The mills of the gods grind slowly. But her next borning in whatever world will be with an eager leap.

When we help to make better. . .Conscious Evolution with thanks to Dr. Jonas Salk. . . with love.

Portrait of Dante
by Wikipedia

A Cosmic Prayer for Mankind. . . .

By Veronica Hallissey on October 17, 2020 in Observations, Poetry, Touchstone

Much crowds my head and I would wish to put it out like a grand buffet. But it would bring dyspepsia for the majority and who would turn away. But life is a balanced judgment. We seem to be fed what we need and purposely not what we want. And that is where good judgment is balanced.

This poem came from June ’93 journal and written in November 2013. It was meaningful to me then and meaningful now. It is something we as God Participants can do. As mothers and fathers we can love the children and feed them those things that will provide nourishment for growth in a world we cannot imagine.

The poet, Kahlil Gibran called people Earth Gods. I scribed from the Teachers that we are God Participants. Mother God, Father God, love your children and prepare them for the world when you send them out the front door without your shepherding.

It is the only gift that matters, for you will have given the best of who you both are.

A Cosmic Prayer for Mankind

We would wish for much.
We would wish
for the sublime love
that was preached
from every mountaintop.

We would wish
for a mother’s love
to be there for the infant
and the father’s hand
to caress the brow of every child.

We would wish for peace
within the human psyche
and learning to be brought
to the dinner table
and the breakfast table everytime.
And love to be served
as the main course.

It is much that
we wish for;
much that we yearn for.
But peace is designed
for the human in mind
from birth to the grave.

Bring peace.

Make It Count For Real. . . . .

By Veronica Hallissey on October 11, 2020 in Observations, Poetry, Touchstone

Since I know that no steps are skipped in Evolution, lest we have gaps in behavior even more difficult than what we see, I admit to fatigue as the years encroach. Coming to mind from a time past is our eldest as he waited for his father to drive him to the train back to Chicago. His words still echo in me. ‘You must get very tired waiting for all of us to catch up to you,’ he said. Taken by surprise I murmured something but what? Was I so easy for him to read? To this day my one regret is not being able to convince those I love most.

At the time this poem was written (journal entry, December, 2015) I had finished Michael Talbot’s Holographic Universe. Affirmation, verification, understanding all plied their substance as I approached my 85 years. How much of everything is illusion, how much gravity filled draining away, siphoning of matter because of our Earth Hostess? And I, with a foot in another world, lived it every minute with a paper trail.

How much of everything, life itself, is lived in the head? All of it or much and neatly done but tiring if one is not a ‘walk through.’ The only way to make it count is to take it seriously and play it for real. Else the quagmire deepens and stagnation results and we are still on watch.

The Sound Loaf

Evolution or God
(perhaps one and the same)
finely grinds the meal ever so slowly,
while I cannot breathe with the dust in the air.

But there will one day be understanding
with the digestion of the bread. . . .
The wholeness of the grain
so nicely baked till the hollow sound
is heard when tapped
gives credence to the sound loaf.

I can no longer wait for it all to cool.
It has taken far too long for this bread
to be made and yet still to be digested.

The bellies are still
immature for whole grain.
Pablum is the mushed cereal
of sort for feeding infants
too long in the pram.
I suffered the parents to grow up

and now have no time to wait for the children.

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