25 July 2010
Why I Love Robin
Posted by Robin Easton under: Hobnobbin' with Robin .
ROBIN’S NOTE TO READERS: my dear friend, Wilma, titled this post,”Why I Love Robin”. At first I was unable to use her title. I felt like the world would think me a braggart. I felt I had no right to “claim” that much. But the more I thought about it, I realized it wasn’t about ME. Wilma wrote this post from a place of deep love and respect, and if I didn’t use her title, I was in essence throwing away her love, her heartfelt gift to me. I couldn’t do that, because I love Wilma. So often our egos prevent us claiming the gifts others lovingly give. Wilma I claim you and your precious love as part of myself. Love, Robin (This is Wilma in her amazing garden. Wow!!)
Wilma Ham of Wilm’a Blog and Women Like Me is one of my favorite bloggers. She is exceedingly honest and openly loving. She expresses these traits on her blog, where she explores the ways she feels “ego” is holding her back, the places many of us don’t want to look at, let alone share with others. So we remain held hostage by shame or fear. But not Wilma; she just tells it like it is. Readers flock to her in droves, because she’s so honest. She helps us feel we too can be honest and share our deeper selves. In this guest post Wilma refers to two of my posts, which I’ve placed active links to. I’m humbled to see myself through Wilma’s eyes.
Wilma Writes: In the comments that Robin’s posts invoke, I observe pain and tears. I observe a frozen world starved of love and a freezing of our hearts and actions; a wintry scene, devoid of colors, with feelings that are numb like very cold limbs. Why do most of us live life this way? (Wilma refers here and below to, ‘How We Shape Our World’, where I share an unforgettable experience I had in a supermarket.)
I too found myself one day going around the supermarket like a cold frost. Arriving at the checkout I did not pay attention other than to observe how fast the line was moving; never fast enough. A woman in front of me could not pay for all her groceries; she had to decide what to leave behind, her smiling small child unaware of the frost around her. Something stirred in me; I felt compassion and wanted to pay for her groceries. But I was too frozen to act, feeling angry at the world that let this happen, and feeling the other frozen people pressing behind me. The moment passed and I went through the checkout irritated and alone, having failed to connect, having failed to defrost the world around me. I feel pain when I think about this.
Then I read Robin’s blog post ‘How We Shape Our World’. She is in the same place, a supermarket checkout line. This is what her world looks like, she writes: “The man in front of me puts his bread on the counter, notices the checkout woman’s tears and looks back at me, his eyes filled with concern. He can’t speak or hear (he is deaf and mute), but his eyes pierce the distance between us, and I hear his heart’s cry as if it were my own. The crying woman, the tender man and myself suddenly are drawn into a world of our own, like precious figures in a tiny snow globe. Magical beings who have never met are about to collide in a moment of divine grace. I’m now right in front of the crying woman. People press in behind me angry and impatient. Love’s in front of me, anger’s behind. What do I do? Moments like these are special because we can shape the outcome. I step behind the counter, wrap my arms around her shoulders and let her sob. ‘It’s all right. You’re not alone.’ I cry, she cries, and the beautiful man cries, We were all healed that day because we each chose to shape our world.”
Reading Robin’s words defrosted me, she healed me too. Feelings woke and rose up; I entered a different world, Robin’s world full of color, life and vibrancy. Robin breaks the ice and enters the world waiting beneath the surface of our man made frozen landscape. In New York City she sings this image in her post, The Soul of New York City; “I didn’t wait for Life to give me something; I dove in and gave to Life and reminded myself that I still stood on Mother Earth.”.
That is why I love Robin. That is why I will love her book Naked in Eden, the story of a young woman’s awakening, as she turns away from death, and walks into the arms of Life. This is the image Robin sang to me about her awakening and the wild places she loves: “We (these places and I) still speak to each other, heart beat to heart beat, over great distance . . . I am still held by these places, held in their loving arms . . . they sustain me during times in the city. They ARE ME.”
Robin’s is a story of homecoming, of great Love; her images guide us home, leaving the frozen world behind.
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Wilma Ham Says:
25 July 2010 at 4:57 pm.
Dearest Robin, yes how beautiful to refer it back to claiming love and that is exactly what is happening here. Thank you for hearing me, we need to go beyond to the bigger picture behind this.
Robin, you are a gift and we need to claim it.
Thank you my dearest friend and thank you all on this blog for claiming Robin too.
Love and nature are waiting for us, much love, Wilma
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Nardee Says:
25 July 2010 at 5:01 pm.
Been going through a long term crisis and it has been some time since I’ve responded to ANYTHING. However, I just have to say: Love you Robin. I just DO. Can’t help it!
Nards
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Robin Easton Reply:
July 25th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Dearest Nards, I can hardly believe you are here. I have tears in my eyes. I have been to your old site a few times and then saw I couldn’t leave a comment. Then I wrote you a long email, but since my old computer crashed I lost a LOT of things and could not find your address anywhere. I think I still have the email somewhere as a draft, unless it was lost too. If I can find it I will send it to you. It was just to tell you that you are with me and thought of with so much love. I am moved to tears seeing and feeling your strong loving presence here. I KNOW you love me and I LOVE you and we always will, Nards. I just DO. The connection will always be there. I am stunned by all you have been through, my heart reaches out over the miles and simply holds you, I am with you and I love you. Forever. Robin
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Wilma Ham Says:
25 July 2010 at 7:08 pm.
Dear Nards, I am so thrilled that you are here now and are claiming some defrosting too. Isn’t it absolutely beautiful to have a place to bask in love and to get Robin’s image of what is possible.
Beautiful people like you and me do not deserve to live in crisis, never ever. We all deserve to claim love from everybody and everyone around us. I wish that for you always and thank you for claiming Robin too and a hug from me, Wilma
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Bob Zybach Says:
25 July 2010 at 7:56 pm.
May God bless and keep you always
Robin: Nice post. A conversation I had with my son a few years ago during a very trying time came from the theme song to his wedding. It is Dylan’s line: “And let others do for you.” As you say, it is about them, not us, that these things are said and done. And it takes true humility to accept that fact.
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
Bob Z.
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 25th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Dear Bob, yes it is always about them and what we can let others do for us. Receiving and giving, we need both; “May you always do for others . . . And let others do for you”.
How come songs, words of creativity, never restrained, always touch our heart so much?
How come in daily life words like those can hardly ever be spoken?
True humility, true love, true knowing thy own greatness and thus daring true claiming, what an image, what a future you are showing in your comment, Bob.
Thank you for speaking up and much love, Wilma
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Evita Says:
25 July 2010 at 7:58 pm.
Hello Wilma and Robin
My goodness what incredible energy to have the two of you here together. I am overcome with emotion for the stories you both shared are so deeply moving. I think of myself, and how many times I was frozen and did not act, when my heart was calling out just the opposite. The moments pass and we are left with that cold feeling.
What and why has our society become like this, or more so, why do we continue to choose to stay frozen? Is it the Ego? Is it our pride? Is it our Fear? I guess in a way it is all these things. But the good news is that we are melting, and more and more of us and faster and faster. So this post comes at just the right time to open more hearts to the beauty that we are, when we allow ourselves to shine!
Robin – I love the title and it is making me thinking of one day starting a series – get people to share “Why I love Robin” 
Wilma- thank you for this, and I love those huge cabbages! Ignites my passion to start growing some of our own!
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Wilma Ham Says:
25 July 2010 at 8:39 pm.
Hello dear Evita. Oh Robin does deserve love coming back to her, doesn’t she?
I don’t know, I really do not know; “What and why has our society become like this, or more so, why do we continue to choose to stay frozen?”
But I can see the harm it does, so much harm . . .AND we are changing, times are achanging, (another great Dylan song!). If we can write posts like this without being locked up or taken away, then we are changing.
We need to look at that and see how this makes a return to love possible.
The garden is just amazing and nature is amazing. Evita, nature intelligence as explained by Machaelle Small Wright in her books is just mindblowing and so supportive of the fact that love and living peacefully is possible NOW. But we have to change our attitude from being frozen to paying loving attention and opening our heart AND mind and letting another way of living in.
Growing your own veggies is the best, so I will be egging you on. Hugs Wilma
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Julie Says:
25 July 2010 at 10:22 pm.
Wilma, I want to hug you and shed a few tears, tears I can’t name yet are all too close to the surface. Tears for all the moments I, too, have been frozen; said what I was thinking only to have it land painfully on others’ ears; been too timid to be my full self… The wholesome realness that is you and is Robin endears me to you both so very much… so much that unnamed emotion wells to overflowing. Some days I wonder: Will I ever be as brave and full of GIVING love, and honesty, as you and Robin? I dearly hope so. Love and many hugs, ~Julie
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Sweet Julie, you are loving and giving, most of the time we do not notice as we live in a very needy world where there is a lot of love to give and pain still might overshadow the love we give.
We are still all hurting and therefore prone to see the pain and feeling we do not do enough. But good times are coming and how YOU love nature and your Space of Love that you create where you live is very important. That love ripples through the earth into the universe. THAT is very much needed love and very honest, dear Julie. I claim that love in you, the earth is claiming that love in you. Love and many hugs back at ya, xox Wilma
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Joy Says:
26 July 2010 at 2:17 am.
Wow ladies..the energy on this site today is amazing! Thank you!
As far as defrosting..my little freezer on the boat needed defrosting..a chore I’d put off for quite some time. It took a few days to complete, yet when it was done, I felt a layer of chill had also melted from around my heart..Interesting to me because I lead with my heart so it’s usually quite open..I hadn’t even realized my heart needed a bit of defrosting as well..luckily it must have been a new layer as it naturally sloughed off on its own..The world seemed fresh and new..
I tend to be a giver, and I find great joy in people’s reactions as they receive..However, I also find it a bit sad because I think simple acts of kindness should be the norm, not the extraordinary that stands out as such..
As a giver, I needed to learn to receive well..I believe in the force of Energy/Love..so I realized if I wasn’t willing to receive I was blocking Energy/Love..instead of magnifying it as it flowed through me..
I think the message you are sharing here today is awe-some..thank you for your openness…
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Hi Joy, I love how practical daily doings can translate in such great daily doings for our spirit. Yes defrosting is still a needed practice in this current world but not for long, not for long. Then as you say, acts of kindness and being love in action will be the norm, we will not be able to do otherwise.
It is interesting how givers tend to forget that without receivers there is no giving possible, and as always how astute of you to realize and change. Being love in action is paying honest attention to the wholesome ‘what is so’. That means often looking at the part we play as well and the more we all share about what we are finding our with our honesty the more we are all ’seeing’.
Dear Joy, I am grateful for your openess too, much love, Wilma
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Jenn Says:
26 July 2010 at 5:09 am.
Robin, I choose to agree with Wilma, I love you too! You are such a sweet spirit, and yes, I think it is that gift you have of making something frozen, Real…. bringing it all out in the open with this gentle compassionate gift of service. Thank you for being who you are.
More specifically, thank you Wilma for sharing also.. and these parts really made sense to me:
In the comments that Robin’s posts invoke, I observe pain and tears. I observe a frozen world starved of love and a freezing of our hearts and actions; a wintry scene, devoid of colors, with feelings that are numb like very cold limbs. Why do most of us live life this way?
I admit, that I am a hugely sensitive soul, and yet even I have gone numb from my past to survive it… and am just recently getting in touch with that. It is hard because I am so sensitive that I am easily over-stimulated when I am so open, and it feels so vulnerable all the time, on the verge of migraine when I push too much in that open state. Sigh. I have much more to learn bout myself of how to be “compassionate” and yet not losing myself entirely… or wait, maybe that’s my problem.. I want to be both.. hmm… so much to think of lately on my journey. and certainly I don’t want to have icicles on me any longer. Thank you for giving me much beauty to ponder.. and hopefully it will help me to shape my world and feel.. my weakness and my greatest strength. hugs, to both of you.. luv Jenn
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Dear Jenn, I agree that most of us have frozen over as a protection and that that is sad.
I agree that openness need managing and that it is a skill you can learn until the world’s energy is no longer too disturbing. John and I have chosen to live in a very peaceful environment and we too notice the difference when we leave here and enter the energy of the city. I never knew much about energy, skeptic as I once was, but now it makes sense. Just looking at how people move, interact and talk shows the obvious, erratic energy and how can you NOT be effected by that? Then when we come back home it is a different story.
There is a lot going on that we have not been aware of for a long time, some people like you and Robin and many others here have become aware and I love that we are now having the words to explain what is going on. And with the words we can now form different thoughts and as thoughts manifest, manifest a different world. You hang in there dearest Jenn, keep observing and taking care of yourself in a way you see fit, but do not freeze over again. Trust yourself, compassion need to be managed for the moment and do not make yourself wrong about that. Once the world is ready to be love, you will be ready too and that is wonderful as you are then able to cope and show others who still need defrosting.
Much love, Wilma
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Simon Hay Says:
26 July 2010 at 5:16 am.
Hi Wilma and Robin. Beautiful, poetic, and rich with love.
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Tess The Bold Life Says:
26 July 2010 at 8:24 am.
Hi Robin and Wilma,
I lived in a frozen family trying desperately to break and crack through the ice to no avail. I was the one who pulled everything from under the rug and brought it out into the open and paid a dear price for doing so. I never did crack the ice so I left at 17. The gift in it all is I was free. I took all that energy and love and poured it into myself, own family and others. I see the ice melting more every day and am thankful that we’re finally at a tipping point. The ice and gray are so distant I no longer even see it in my rear view mirror. Amen!
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Amen indeed! Tess, your journey is beautiful, you are beautiful on the inner and the outer. How cool is that. And yes the ice is melting, the more love each individual is able to muster does make a difference. That is all we have to do, love and love more and we can do that now, can’t we?
I’d say, being able to love is indeed so freeing. No more heavy mental baggage to carry around, less and less nasty thoughts clouding the sun, I agree your rear view mirror must have some amazing views as well. It shows in your love for your mother, how freeing is that. Instead of burdening her with your past, you love her to bits. Oh Tess, you shine so bright, you and Robin alone could make the world tip. Amen! XOX Wilma
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nothingprofound Says:
26 July 2010 at 9:08 am.
A lovely tribute not only to Robin, but to Wilma as well. Two great souls meeting on the highway of life.
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Thank you for listening and ’seeing’. In that you also claim yourself as we are all one and that makes loving others such a great gift to all of us. Therefore I am grateful for you being here and adding to all this love, it means so much more than we know. xox Wilma
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Kristie Ryan Says:
26 July 2010 at 11:19 am.
Wilma~ Thank you so much for pointing this article out to me. I am new to this blog and had never read that story. I just finished it and all I can say is Wow. Truly amazing, I absolutely loved every second of it.
Wilma and Robin~ you are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your stories and for showing others that there is a better way.
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Dear Kristie, you are pretty cool yourself with all your love for nature. Sometimes the world take a not so great turn-off and get lost in a not so wonderful neighborhood. However once we all realize we took a turn that is no longer serving us, we can change tack and move in another direction. That is actually really cool, just like nature can recover we can too with the help of each other. Therefore it is lovely to see you here and knowing you are with us in desiring to do things differently. As Tess says, the tipping point must be near and you will enjoy reading Robin’s posts AND her book. Much love, Wilma
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Peggy Nolan Says:
26 July 2010 at 12:01 pm.
Dear Robin and Wilma,
I read your comments on Wilma’s Blog, Robin, and I’m often blown away. You have an amazing ability to get right to the heart of things. It’s easy to see why Wilma loves you
This thawing out reminds me of the concepts and practices I’ve put into place in my own life – In the very moment we recognize and feel that we should do something (pay for the woman’s groceries), we hesitate. It’s in this hesitation that the act of self-betrayal takes place…and we create a story or justify our behavior as to why we didn’t act. Something in us held us back – old programs, old agreements, old tapes, that darned little ego, fear…but the good news is that awareness clears out the gunk and we can do better next time…because there will be a next time when we can be (as Wilma loves to say) Love In Action.
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Hello dearest Peggy. I do agree with you how Robin’s comments so add value by putting things in a bigger picture and good on you for noticing that too. Like attracts like .
I love how you call these acts of holding back ’self-betrayal’, it feels like that doesn’t it? you are spot on, we betray our loving compassionate self.
AND the good news is, it indeed starts with awareness and that is what I see happening. There are cracks showing up in the ice and sunlight and love is getting in. Yeahhh.
Before we know it, we can only be and do Love In Action and that is the very best way we are supposed to live.
Peggy, hugs to you, my fellow ice breaker, xox Wilma
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Wilma Ham Says:
26 July 2010 at 2:34 pm.
Sweet Julie, you are loving and giving, most of the time we do not notice as we live in a very needy world where there is a lot of love to give and pain still might overshadow the love we give.
We are still all hurting and therefore prone to see the pain and feeling we do not do enough. But good times are coming and how YOU love nature and your Space of Love that you create where you live is very important. That love ripples through the earth into the universe. THAT is very much needed love and very honest, dear Julie. I claim that love in you, the earth is claiming that love in you. Love and many hugs back at ya, xox Wilma
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Ginae B. McDonald Says:
26 July 2010 at 3:41 pm.
This is great and I LOVE to hear good things about a good person! Thank you Wilma! I love Robin too!
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Lisa Marie Says:
26 July 2010 at 5:36 pm.
Dear Wilma,
These are all such tuned-in and wonderful observations, you two do seem to have lots in common!
I loved Robin as I became acquainted with her writing, which moved me with its capacity to convey a heart with limitless love. Then I saw a recent video post and I realized she oozes it in person too. Just watching her talking and laughing made me happy.
She knows (and remembers to keep knowing with every encounter) that it’s okay to chill the frost out there. She demonstrates loving as an art form.
Dear Robin, Big hug for sharing your response to Wilma’s title, and for honoring it. That really made me think.
Thanks to you both, Love, Lisa
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Liara Covert Says:
26 July 2010 at 7:56 pm.
You remind us there is always something we can do with the love we are and what we have.
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Yes Liara, what you say here is right on the dot. We have a lot of generosity in us, a lot of love to give and yet we are so restrained. It has been lovely to have expressed what Robin is doing and it has been even more exciting to see it being received by her and all of you.
THIS is our greatest do-ing on earth, giving and receiving love and how little do we do it and how unfamiliar we are doing it.
Thank you for your loving act, it is gratefully received, much love, Wilma
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Wilma Ham Says:
26 July 2010 at 8:53 pm.
Dearest Lisa Marie, yes Robin makes living an art form and how absolutely beautiful is that?
How absolutely needed is that? She defrosts me and yes I do agree, her response to the title shows so awesomely this very point this whole post and this whole blog is making.
We can claim love and when we do we give and receive a gift at the same time. Robin received mine and gave me one by honoring my out poor of love I could not do at the check-out.
I am finally reaching out and am not rebuked. THAT is wonderful and we absolutely need more of this claiming going on, so much more.
Dear Lisa Marie, thank YOU for listening. really listening to what is going on, I feel claimed by you as well and that is precious. Much love, Wilma
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marcel lemieux Says:
26 July 2010 at 8:56 pm.
Hello Wilma..it is a fine gesture to bring Honor, love and respect to someone who is special to us…Robin has a beautiful mind, heart and soul and is very generous in her energy, love and writings. She well deserves all the good of life…may both of you continue to share and receive ..peace..Marcel
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Dear Marcel. Thank you for adding your Honor, Love and Respect into the mix. Robin is indeed singing a beautiful image about how life can be, we so desperately need another one to replace the world image we currently live in. We need a new one that propels us forward in doing things differently, mainly becoming the Love that we Are. A world full of Love In Action is paradise and we can have that right now.
Thank you for your action of Love, Wilma
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Hilary Says:
26 July 2010 at 11:45 pm.
Hi Robin and Wilma .. so glad you kept Wilma’s title .. “Why I love Robin” .. it’s good to accept love when it’s given .. so often we brush it away .. or think we’re not worthy of these ‘nice’ comments .. but we are – people don’t say thank you enough .. or acknowledge things done well ..
We need more love and thoughtfulness around us .. and you both offer so much ..
I must come back to the actual post .. for now – with love and hug or two .. Hilary
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Hello dear Hilary. You are spot on, giving, accepting Love is so important and yes, we are just as tight with it as with money. We absolutely need more presence and connectedness, it is time to see each other for who we are. That would make such a difference. Dear Hilary, know that we see you for who you are and know we are sending you love, both Robin and me.
Big hugs back, much love, Wilma
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Liara Covert Says:
27 July 2010 at 5:18 pm.
Being love enables one to feel part of everything. We are all the same and can make peace with life.
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Yes Liara, love is connection and how wonderful is that. It makes everybody legitimate, a human being who I love. Hate is no longer possible and as love has no opposite we will have peace eventually. Oh Liara, it is such powerful energy and we waste it. Therefore people like Robin are so precious, and thank you again for another loving comment. Love Wilma
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Dorothy Stahlnecker Says:
27 July 2010 at 10:37 pm.
Wilma and Robin, so glad I stopped by tonight as there is (as you know) so much uncertainty going on in my world lately. Thus, sharing and seeing other women and how they cope can often be the precription life gives, one we should take and relish as the way to good mental health realizing we are not alone in our sometimes unknown journey for peace.
Wishing you the very best, Dorothy from grammology
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Lovely Dorothy, yes, loving is good mental health, absolutely. Imagine a love filled world where we really pay attention to each other, where we really see beyond into the inner soul and fill every need.
Uncertainty would be a thing of the past, we would know there is always someone whose love we can claim and who will claim us. We have no idea how that would make us feel but I can guess.
I can guess from Robin’s and my own checkout story.
Oh dear Dorothy, you so beautifully describe what is happening here on Robin’s blog because of who Robin is. We all need big big doses of love to fill our empty tanks and yes you are NOT alone. Much love and much peace, Wilma
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Chrissy Says:
28 July 2010 at 3:07 am.
A lovely genuine post and it made me think how much we all touch each others lives at times, not just in real life but online too.
It was also lovely seeing the comment at the top from Nards, it made me smile hugely, I have missed her.
I feel thankful for all the wonderful people I have discovered on the net, particularly Robin because she has touched my life for sure and I know that I am a better person for it
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Dearest Chrissy, I love how you claim Robin with your wonderful expression of your own love. In the end it doesn’t matter if we reach each other in person or on the internet, it is about the connection of soul energy and that goes beyond material presence.
We still have little understanding of the enormous power the energy love carries, we only are beginning to see the top of the iceberg. Nature also has its own energy to contribute if we only tune in and start to notice. There is still a lot of defrosting that needs to happen before we can let in all the beauty that is literally right there in front of us.
I am just so grateful that at certain places like this blog, we ARE seeing it and letting it in, we are claiming the beauty Robin IS and that is a huge beginning.
Much love to you, Wilma
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Lauren Says:
28 July 2010 at 7:14 am.
Robin knows how to love like a fish knows how to swim. Robin IS love. I come here for love and it never fails – love abounds here.
Thank you for your love. I soak it in and rejoice in love.
Big hugs.
Lauren
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Dear Lauren, thank you so awesomely much for your bold claim of who Robin is and what she means to you. We need love, there is no question and isn’t it wonderful that there is a ‘love-station’ where we can come and fill up. It takes a real commitment to her calling, to so boldly make a stand for Love and just let it flow out like Robin does. What it shows to me is that SHE does have discovered a very great infinite resource of love herself, which is Nature. Because Robin defrosted, she now can access that abundance and pass it on to us. THAT is such a gift and oh how I love it that we receive it. It promises so much for our future.
Dearest Lauren you keep on soaking till you reach the infinite supply, the world needs that. xox Wilma
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Robb Says:
28 July 2010 at 1:06 pm.
Kia ora Robin and Wilma,
Sorry I am so late to the party,but I just retruned from 3 days in the mountains. I got sunburned the first day up in the snow it was so beautiful, and the next two I battled a raging snow storm. I loved every second, and in my time tending a fire that provided much more than just warmth I thought of you both. I think you both are just wonderful, and examples of Openness I try to follow. Kia kaha.
Aroha,
Robb
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Wilma Ham Says:
28 July 2010 at 3:59 pm.
Kia Ora Robb. You are never too late, you bring the fresh mountain air with you and that is always welcome at any time. And as you were there, you were here contributing to the love we all feel by thinking of us and thus including and connecting our souls with yours and the mountain . THAT is actually an awesome gift and so appropriate. Robb, thank you, you claimed Robin in the most significant way you could do it in, in the wild and with the warmth of a fire as a symbol of her love.
Robb, you are awesome, these are miracles of the soul that brings the best out of all of us, nature included.
We do have an impact on our environment, nature does absorb a lot of our emotional and physical pollutions and your forays in nature and the love that you pour out there certainly heal, just as Robin heals here. I love to claim what you did in the mountains.
Kia kaha, Aroha, xox Wilma.
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Nea | Self Improvement Saga Says:
30 July 2010 at 5:21 am.
Wilma you’ve captured the beautiful essence of our dear Robin perfectly. The loving, positive energy that flows from your words is amazing.
Robin’s post on How We Shape Our World was eye-opening for me as well. I thought back to times when I was in a similar situation, but I was frozen as you described. Robin oozes love and compassion. She has a way of bringing out the best in people and I love her dearly for it.
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 30th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Dear Nea, you got it in one; Robin brings out the best in us as she shows us an image of a world we all desire but cannot access, YET.
Someone needs to show us what is possible, someone needs to show us how Love looks like, someone must show us how to be Love-in-Action and pulls us forward. And Robin is doing that for us, Robin is showing us the most powerful energy in the universe. Thank you Nea for claiming what Robin does, that you can do that will make a difference, the more we see what Robin is on about the more we too support the defrosting. Much love to you, Wilma
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Chris Edgar Says:
30 July 2010 at 8:45 am.
How dare you post this, Robin, thou knave, scoundrel and braggart! I like that way of putting it, Wilma — that the world can occur as frozen sometimes — and, having received a lot of amazing Rolfing bodywork recently, I wonder if a lot of this comes from our bodies being frozen in certain patterns of tension. Sometimes when I’m talking to someone I can’t help but just beg them to breathe a little more softly or deeply, because the suffering of holding their breath or gasping all day screams so loudly at me.
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Robin Easton Reply:
July 30th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Dear CHRIS!!! I am laughing my FACE OFF!!!!! Oh I just LOVE humor!! This made my WHOLE day!! I just went for a barefoot jog up a mountain trail and felt HIGH!!! And then to come home to your humor is like the CHERRY on the ice cream sunday!!! Love it!! THANK YOU!!!!!!
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Wilma Ham Reply:
July 30th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Hey Chris, you sure are giving Robin a body work out with your comment, I wonder if it could replace a face lift.
I do think our body is showing a lot of our frozenness, you can see it in how stiff we keep our upper lip and the rest of our moving parts.
I love how you keep focusing us on our breathing, because love is a bit like breathing, soft and deep and life giving.
We can do it with ease or we can see Love as something we have to gasp and be difficult about.
xox Wilma
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Robin Easton Reply:
July 30th, 2010 at 9:30 am
NOTE TO READERS:
Dear Wilma and all you truly beautiful souls, who commented here. I had a somewhat challenging week, and yet I kept coming here to read your comments and Wilma’s comments, and I have been BASKING IN LOVE all week. This was one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve had.
I learned something from you all. You ALL were SO supportive of me embracing the gift that Wilma generously gave me. You not only understood the importance of embracing these gifts of love that others give us, but you then went on to give to me and Wilma and each other as well. I am just blown away by this. It’s astounding. And THAT is what heals the world, because we ARE the world.
Due to WHO you are, I am really having to look at this part of my culture (while growing up) where I was taught by my school, the church, my culture that we should not respond favorably to praise, let alone–and heaven forbid—give ourselves praise. I loved the way Chris Edgar turned this into a joke, because it really brought to light absurdity of that social conditioning. It exposed it for what it is…a lot of rot!!!
We not only can love ourselves and embrace the gifts that others give us, but we MUST love ourselves and embrace these gifts. Being able to receive is often one of the biggest gifts we can give another being, whether that is human or a dog friend. To give to another and have our gift embraced, is to be SEEN! It is to be validated.
I learned much this week, and I thank you all from my heart. What a healing gift. And I thank Wilma for bringing us all together. I am so blessed to have you all in my life.
Love,
Robin
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