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Spoken Words of Love: Melanie Lutz talks Mels Love Land at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore

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It’s amazing how it’s always all there. So many cues, clues and symbols. Opening doors into new worlds just waiting. Waiting for the decoding and the processing and the recognition. Sitting right in front of you.    With the popularity of Dan Brown novels and all the scholars and resources and the internet you would think it would be easier to get it. It took me a bit of time to find this recording of my first bookstore reading of Mels Love Land.  Through the magical practice of love and patience and faith, I share it now for your listening pleasure.  It was recorded at the now moved Bodhi Tree Bookstore in West Hollywood, California with lots of friends, strangers, lovers and family in the audience. Enjoy. Mels Love Land is a love movement into the heart of unconditional self love. It is a practice of seeing with love and having that be the beginning and ending of every conversation. Love is the decoder to every situation you find yourself in. Like The Miracl...

Joy Made Manifest is Love - Igniting Moments in the Poetic Tradition

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It is always a treat to see one of the greats in spoken word and discourse on the poetic tradition, David Whyte talking and reading his poems in person.   It was a true blessing and gift to join in the celebration of words in harmony with spirit at a recent Saturday morning in Santa Monica, California at the First Presbyterian Church that found Mr. Whyte touching deeply on one of his favorite topics, igniting the soul of passionate creative expression, this time discussing Williams Wordsworth.   Whyte talked about the moment in his work that Wordsworth committed fully, heart and soul, to his life’s work and love, Poetry. “After dancing all night, Wordsworth walked into the morning light somatically alive, casting his eyes on the beauty of day break, once and for all dedicating his life to sharing/writing his poetry free of the burden and besiegement of other’s voices.” (I love the use of ‘somatically alive’ in reference to the joy that flowers after a night of dancing.) Mr. Wh...