Between the Weeds

Inspiring thoughts about life seen between the weeds by creative business owner, Laurie Rohner.


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The choices we make matter.

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

Many years ago I faced the hard realization of the two choices facing me. It was a great fear I held for my life. What if life never got any better? What if I am doomed to live a life filled with disappointments and challenges making my suffering to be unbearable? I knew then as I do now I had the power to choose another direction. My fear was, would life make me bitter and ugly.

Nothing in life happens without our approval. See it and realize every choice has an effect, an outcome we have to take. Sometimes it is predestined and other times our choosing. No matter which it is we can always decide how we will react. Whenever the world gets a bit dark and I feel overwhelmed I go and walk in nature. Find your own grounding method. Make a cup of tea and sip it conscious of each sip. Take a bath imagine a beach. Whatever works for you. Sometimes I find a place and sit down for a few moments but always I remove my self from the darkness.

White Iris Nature Art Painting by Laurie Rohner

White Iris Nature Art Painting
by Laurie Rohner

I am a big believer of meditation and angel/guide(s). Through meditation I can receive valuable information about my life circumstances. I know my upstairs friends are always there helping me out when I need them. Lately needed more because I have huge decisions and life changes happening.

Remembering the divine-ness of your life is epic. The choices you consider will follow darkness with bitterness or transform a bad situation into a creative light filled wonder.

I am filling my life with creative positive choices.  When I was younger I easily found the good in every situation but as I gathered more challenges and life experiences I realized my outlook was becoming cloudy and dimmer.  A true life course correction happened. Think of your self as a charged metal rod and the challenges as iron shavings clinging to the charged rod. Switch the charge and the metal shavings fall off. Switch your thinking and the energy of your life changes freeing your thoughts and energy to work with understanding and acceptance, and not fear of loss and hopelessness.

I have created two web sites for my painted work, Laurie Rohner Studio and Painted Furniture Studio. I have created a separate site for selling my home/studio. I am creating what I want through the suffering and transforming my life into a life I see living. Not everyday is it blooming with happy thoughts but the darker ones do not hang around as long. Inside everyone there is something we can change making each life brighter. I’m tired could change to wondering I am low in energy my body wants to take a break and then to I need to appreciate my self and give your self a break. Small changes lead to epic changes in all things.


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The Power of Love.

“Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot foresee the outcome.”

- Deepak Chopra, modern day mystic and best-selling author.


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“When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.”

- Sara Paddison, best-selling author.


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Living life in reverse.

“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”

– Margaret Young
, was a popular singer and comedienne in the United States in the 1920s.

I love this thought about living life in reverse. How many people today are still chasing their tails in circles only to discover they have nothing more than what they had when they started out on their journey. For myself I have been through a bunch of ups and downs making me question my thoughts and vision for business for personal and overall perspective about my life. If we live from our heart the path before us becomes clearer, illuminated by a source many think they know but only can intuitively know.

I have opened myself up to my heart and have listened carefully to the whispers from the Divine Goddess. What I discovered was my love to paint with watercolors. I love to paint renderings of nature, of serene forests and woodland creatures and flowers. This is a path I had abandoned some years ago because I did not have the belief in my work. I followed the money trail with a number of creative careers. The whispers though were always there and never quiet. Now I am venturing down this old path. I am nervous anxious and excited about my new direction.  I would be grateful if you would take a peek and see some of the small little watercolors I am working on at Between The Weeds.

The painting here is the first of a series I am starting using a new product for watercolor paintings which allows the artist to paint a watercolor and seal it on a framed board and no glass is needed. Fabulous invention.

Vermont Watercolor Landscape Painting Trees Woodland Fairy Forest

Vermont Watercolor Landscape Painting Trees Woodland Fairy Forest

Vermont scenic landscape watercolor painting is of the trees in a woodland fairy forest. This original is for sale by Laurie Rohner.

Once upon a time I lived in a wonderful place called Vermont, maybe you have been there? I remember the beautiful cool woods I would escape to on a warm summer day. You could smell the ferns in the air as a gentle breeze would kiss your face. This is where fairies live and earth magic is alive. Great painting to compliment your fairy houses.

Painted on a specially treated watercolor cradled panel.
My watercolor is painted much like an oil painting, but now this artwork is for sale without the need of glass, what a fabulous concept. Painting is on a special treated panel with a 2″ band of wood around the panel. The panel is protected with a fixative and ready to hang without the need of glass or glazing.

Palette: earth brown, deep green, golden yellow, leaf green, sky blue, bark brown, payne gray, sage green.

Watercolor on panel.
12″H x 12″W

All rights are not transferable with the purchase of this painting and remain with the artist.
The copyright is for photographing and does not appear on the original.

Ask about shipping charges outside the 48 states.
I ship everywhere please before you order ask for international shipping actual charge to your location. The price for shipping everywhere is only an estimate.

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Can we gain once we have lose everything else?

“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”

I know this is a dismal thought to many to lose everything but let me explain why this quote hits home. I was standing on check out line in the grocery store and a little peeved at the price of all that I had in the bags. I thought when are things going to turn around? When is it going to become understandable? There has to be some reason for all this chaos but what could it be. On the drive home I thought about maybe I should be doing something different with my life. Is this the Universe saying I am in it up to my thighs and it is only going to keep getting worse?
Then a whisper of an idea came to me. Could it be that the feeling of loosing it all was the best thing for me? When you go through tragedy lose, financial, emotional and very personal,  you finally will come to a stop. A holding pattern of sorts and from that moment you can make the choice to leave the pain and lose behind or hold to it tightly in fear of more lose only to experience the next round of turmoil. It is coming because you have chosen it to be more lose. I find these moments to be turning points in my life and ones that need to be there but when you see them for what these moments are let them go. What is left is what is needed for the next step in your life. When we allow ourselves the lose, the gain is always going to come if we allow the cleansing of the lose. It has to because the lose formed a void and the universe is always filling the voids. You decide what the direction will be.
“The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.”


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Love wins every time.

“According to A Course in Miracles, there are only two basic emotions: one is fear, the other is love. You may fear the disapproval of others. Take that risk and you’ll discover that you receive more approval when you don’t seek it than when you do. You may fear the unknown. Take that risk as well. Wander in there, asking yourself, “What is the worst thing that can happen if this doesn’t work out?” The truth is that you will just move beyond it. You’re not going to starve to death or be tortured if it doesn’t work out… Fear knocked at the door. Love answered and no one was there.”


- Wayne Dyer, page 29 from his book “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace.” Dyer is a popular American

self-help advocate, author and lecturer.

Feel good and let in love.

On a day when things were looking a little bleak I found this quote by one of my favorite soulful people in the world (Dr, Wayne Dyer) and on the best inspiring blog about love, The Daily Love. Much needed right? If I was a dog that is how I feel now. Have a brilliant epic day. Kick fear to the side and show everyone some more love.


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Bound to live up to what light I have.

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

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Searching for truth.

Lately I have found I am searching for an answer but I did not have the right question. You can not find any answers if you do not question. Then I found a beautiful documentary on TV and on a channel I do not normally watch. It was about The Pyramid Codes. I discovered a truth that whispered on the air and I found myself realizing I had asked the wrong questions. I decided it was time to change my thinking and start doing. I have read so much and studied for many years about life religion and the psychology of the mind only to find empty promises mixed with lies and misconceptions. I am not judging but I do not understand why we need to fight, why there is such strife and chaos and why does religion condemn those who think for themselves? Why is everything under the umbrella of man? Why did it not fall under woman? And then as I watched this program I could see what the truth of man was. It was a lie. It was a lie perpetuated by men for the purpose of gold money and power.

What has been taught may well be a huge lie. Science now understands maybe as far back as 24,000 years ago there was a time referred to as the Golden Age. It was a matriarchal society. Not that women had the power but that women and men were of the same mind spirit and emotion. Woman was the heads of their households and owned property. What happened to this enlightened age? A group of religious priests found they liked power and money. They developed a payment system. Over time the matriarch system fell to the side and we have lived in a patriarchal system ever since, meaning man’s law. The same belief brought society to the dark ages or iron age which we still live in. Fear women would usurper their power the freedom of enlightenment was diminished to fall into obscurity.

What I found the most fascinating is that it may not be man who is the cause of this chaos but the very nature of the earth. The earth not only spins on its axis but sort of wobbles around to and this wobble takes about 26,000 years to complete. It just happens to also coincide with the Mayan calendar which ended in 2012. This means not the end of what we know but the beginning of what we have forgotten. When Dec 2012 clicked by, we entered the coming new year and we are starting the journey towards the next Golden Age. No we are not going to see an abrupt change in thinking but the earth itself will start to change. A good change, electromagnetically change. When you see how the pyramids themselves produce energy after such decay and damage imagine what they did when they were first constructed. These structures were thought to be built to help diminish the effects on people and their spirituality, their enlightened state of being, though the creators of the pyramids knew it would not stop it. How advanced these people were and how arrogant and ignorant we have been. As new discoveries are made we have to start asking better questions. These people of the Golden Age are not simple-minded ancient people but as we uncover the truth we are the  society made up of  simple-minded ancients. Science is just getting a handle on how much we have not understood and are now starting to ask the right questions, finding the truth long forgotten but never lost.

As a delightful Egyptian Scholar said on the program “We already have the answers, it is called knowing” Beautiful thought knowing. Does something inside you know truth? Maybe nature or the pyramids will show us ours.


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Create Your Own Trail.

 

Create your own trail.

How do you create the trail you are walking upon? What logs have fallen in the way or what bridges have appeared? Maybe tree stumps have risen in the water to help you along your trail? My trail is much like the one you see with tree stumps allowing me to cross calm waters to a shore that is well-marked. The light filters down and the air sweet with the aroma of fern fronds, mosses and pine being released as I softly step always moving forward on my life’s trail.

OK knock it off this is fantasy land, no this is not real, my mind tells me  and you are never going to be walking on ‘that’ trail, not if I have anything to say. You know the chatter always clattering on always telling us we do not measure up to _________. I do not know about everyone else but I am sick of listening to the chatter. It is the chatter on the internet telling you to buy this to improve you because you are not good enough, on the news reporting illusive doom, the incessant dialog that speaks to everything but your true being, the soulful spiritual you who is perfect and always enough. Instead I am now the observer, the trail blazer and the peaceful calm.  The mind is the illusion. My reality is the life that is unfolding and just as the path bends, I lose sight of where it is leading me I stay focused on observing everything around me. It is each step. Each step is different from the last.

Today create your own trail. Do not define yourselves, that is the minds doing, just focus on the trail life has put in front of you. Observe and trust your soulful self, it will guide you.

 

 


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“Worldly riches have been feared, despised, condemned, and even hated by spiritual aspirants, because of ignorance of how to be in them and yet not of them, how to possess them and not be possess by them. Doubtless this attitude of repudiating and ignoring wealth is less deceiving than the other error; greed and the worship of money and the fear of losing riches. But the really wise avoid both attitude through knowing worldly wealth to be but a reflection of the real, the spiritual riches that must be sought first, last and always. Having found the riches of heaven, you cannot escape the riches of earth unless your purposefully repudiate them.”

- Annie Rix Militz from her book “Both Riches and Honor”.


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Inspiration and Solitude.

Inspiration and solitude.

“Oh curious one, do not worry about what may come. You are here to live, to love and to learn every step of the way. You are constantly learning, discovering and becoming anew every moment. You have the full support of your Creator and when you know this all obstacles will fall away and you will join happily the dance of Life! Each moment is precious, no matter what it may contain, savor its flavor and then let it go!”

- Jackson Kiddard, author & polymath.

Some inspiring thoughts to start your week knowing you have everything needed to successfully meet every need, every circumstance and every joy that is brought to you. I believe this quote with all my being. Living within the space of the present is exhilarating but not easy for us to embrace. Solitude is a way to connect and solitude in nature is a shot of spiritual latte. Live in the absolute present each and every moment this week and savor its flavors.

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