Drumming Article

January 20, 2012

HI Friends

Here is a great article about me. It was published in the

January 2012 issue of NW Boomer & Senior News,

Portland/Vancouver Edition. Click on the pdf’s below to read it.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Hugs    Connie

Drumming

Standard time tonight

Saturday 11/5/11

I have been trying to stay conscious about how this whole time change thing works this year. I feel like I’m not that upset by the change this year, but I’ll let you know tomorrow when the impact hits. Connie

Back to Standard Time

This coming Sunday, 11/6, is the end of Day Light Savings Time for 2011. I wrote about this in my monthly email for November. I added a list of suggestions for dealing with how the time change makes us feel.

One of the most important of these points for me was to get a full spectrum light and see if that helped. Instead of a lamp I got a full spectrum light bulb which I put in one of the living room overhead fixtures I don’t use often. Now, each morning while sitting on my couch and working I have the light on for 20-120 minutes.

I have done this every day for the last week. I don’t know if it has helped me feel better, but it has helped me be more focused on being mindful and exploring what’s going on with me rather than fighting the change or feeling victimized, angry and out of control because of it.

I have had times of discomfort, but for the most part it has been a time of meditativeness and internal exploration. I’ve taken time to work on my book and to be more focused on that. So, I guess what I’ve felt the most is that I’m back in charge of my life.

So the other points I put in my last email were

1. to change the way I viewed the time change

2. to journal about the time change

3. to make sure I had some packages of soup in my freezer

As I was writing this, I realize that I have done all of the points I suggested. I haven’t changed the fact that the time change will happen, but I have, for right now this minute, changed how I feel about it. I’m no longer dreading it. I’m seeing it as an accompaniment to the color changes outside!

Oh, and one other thing I’m doing. I upped my dose of vitamin D that I take daily. My doc had suggested 4000 units of vitamin D. I’ve been taking 2-3000/day, but I raised it up again to 4000 units. All of these things seem to be helping me overall. I’ll keep journalling about this as the time changes this weekend and after to see what happens.

On my path       Connie/gmnite

Abundance Day 124

Hi All

I just sent out an email reminding everyone to come to my drumming circle on Wednesday night. I would love to have lots of new people who have never been before join us.

These drumming circles are so much about abundance for me. They remind me that abundance comes from unexpected places. You can plan all you want and do the work to make something happen, but in my experience so many times real abundance and real breakthroughs come from directions I’d never expect in a million years! This has happened so many times for me that I can’t count the times.

This year has been an abundant year for me. I have an abundance of friends. One really great friend allowed me and my oldest daughter to stay in her beach house over Christmas. The weather while we were there was abundantly beautiful. The type of cold, clear weather that doesn’t happen often at the beach, and it happened three days in a row while we were down there, heaven. I could look out the window above my bead and see so many stars, stars that are not in the sky up here!

Another really great friend brought fudge for me. Yummy, yummy, yummy. And I’ve gotten a bunch of wonderful emails from friends telling me various wonderful things like how much they like having me in their lives. I feel the same way back.

Did you have an abundant Christmas? What does abundance mean to you and in your life? Besides money how does abundance show up for you? I’d love to hear.

Have a great New Years Eve and 2010. I wish for abundance in your life.

Connie Hill/Grandmother Knight

www.gmnite.com                            gmnite@yahoo.com

Abundance Day 95

November 29, 2009

Hi All

I haven’t written in a while. I think inspite of what I know I have been too scared to feel abundance or to allow abundance into my life. This month has given me lots of opportunities to feel abundant: a great Astrology Salon and Drumming Circle; gifts of time with friends; my oldest daughter and lots of friends to share Thanksgiving with; lunching with my youngest daughter; time to volunteer at the library; time to write; and so much more.

I haven’t been open to all the abundance that I had in my life, but I’m willing to open to that abundance, now. I ask spirit to help me see all the abundance and prosperity in my life, each day! Thank you for all of you who tune in and read this blog and comment on it.

Many hugs to each of you.    Connie/gmnite

Abundance Day 55

October 20, 2009

Hi Everyone,   Well, here are some of the rattles participants made in the last Rattle Making workshop I lead at New Renaissance Bookshop. Is it any wonder I feel so much abundance? All of those who attended were so wonderfully creative! Aren’t these great? I’ll be leading another

Rattle Making workshop in January. Go to newrenbooks.com after Nov. 1 or my website, gmnite.com if you want to find out more or if you want to register. Come and you’ll experience abundance in a day as well!

Take care on your path, Connie/gmnite

Abundance Day 54

October 19, 2009

   I’m finding out more and more about abundance. It comes when I wait and listen, not with force. I used to say waiting was procrastination, but I’m finding that waiting is so very important. It’s like being marinated, when the soaking is done the product is much more flavorful and tender. Waiting and listening, for me, make the answers I receive feel like “ah ha” moments.

   I remember many years ago I was in a women’s group and each of us were given a name to tell us our job and who we were in the group. I was named The Listener which, at the time, I didn’t understand at all. Now, I realize I am The Listener. I listen with my ears, but also with my other senses and I hear things that are sometimes amazing. When I listen and hear and act on these senses abundance shows up. I find that the angels open the doors and whatever I need appears. Sometimes I have to sit with what appears before I see it’s value, but the value and rightness is always apparent if I open my eyes and mind.

   Lately I’ve been trying to force things and it doesn’t work–AT ALL. This morning I’m reminded that listening and hearing and then acting is what I need to do. Connie/gmnite

Abundance Day 35

September 30, 2009

Abundance is having a support group of loving and caring people around me. Each person has a different task to fulfill in my life and I in theirs. Abundance is beginning to see these differences. I love to see the differences in everyone. We all have similarities, but the differences are so much fun to ferret out. I love our differences. These differences are abundance to me-where we are experts, our passions and our missions, our callings.

Enjoy and love your differences and see your abundance.

Connie/gmnite

Abundance Day24

September 19, 2009

Today was filled with abundance for me. I taught a rattle making class at New Renaissance and a great group of women attend. Each woman made a beautiful rattle. One’s was shaped like a heart and painted red white and gold. Another’s was oval and painted with grass and sunshine. Another’s was black with stars. And another’s was shaped like a raven. All were fabulous and loved the class. And I loved teaching them. That is great abundance to me teaching and having people love what they learned.

Later I had tea with James Wanless. How much fun was that? He looked through my Soul Collage cards and did a reading for himself with them. What an honor to have the master of collage card decks use my cards! More abundance.

Then off to dinner with Carol May and six of her other friends. A couple I had known before the dinner and a couple more that I would like to get to know more now. Good food and talk.

A fabulous day, a very abundant day!        Connie/gmnite

Abundance Day 22

September 17

What is the difference between abundance and clutter or too much? Can you have too much?

I think clutter or too much is a form of hoarding. For me it’s a way to try to fill the symbolic hole within. My “inner hole” symbolizes undealt with loss, and maybe grief and stress. When I’m stressed that symbolic hole gets bigger and the compulsion to fill it looms like a goblin or a ghost. The need to get/have/spend more grows.

So abundance, for me, is not about having more. I can go out and spend any time on “stuff.” But many times just having more does not satisfy. It’s almost like getting drunk on needing/having/spending.

When I can face the underlying fear that hole inside gets smaller and abundance shows up. Cleaning and decluttering time for me!

My oldest daughter just moved and let go more than half of her stuff. That act of power brought up the urge for me to look at my stuff, my clutter and how it relates to abundance for me. Paper and dust and stuff does not abundance make!

How do clutter and abundance work in your life? Or is something else besides clutter your comfort?

Abundance on your path.  Connie/gmnite