I would like to celebrate by letting everyone in my life know the Love and Happiness that I have for each and every one of you.  I am very grateful to have you all in my life!

For each and everyone of you are special to me in your own way.  I would not be who I am if it were not for each of you.  The collection of all our talks, hugs, smiles, laughter, tears, pain, joy, and the sharing of our truths has affected me just the same as the planets and stars affect me within the universe on this wonderous day of celebration for my birth to this world.

So you guys are all my own personal planets and stars, yes you are a STAR of my life.

Thank YOU ALL for allowing me to give my Love to you all, and being true mirrors of my Divinity and reflecting that Love back to me.  For as today is my day, so is it YOURS!  For without any one of you I would not be!

Much Love to All!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We Are Ricky

Welcome 2009!!!!!!!!!

I've been looking forward to this year for a long time for many reasons.  The first reasons is that I will be 30; something I have been looking forward to for awhile now, and the excitement of getting to look forward to 40 soon....I can't wait!!! :)

Second, my birth month and date has always been a 9 (1+26=27=9), so I have always said that I help bring the energies of the upcoming year for the whole world, because my year numerology always matched the earth's year.  So this year, not only is the world going through their 11 year gateway, but I get to go through it double in less than a month.  (1+26+2009=27+11=9+1+1=11)

I just realized while writing this, that gives me a 11:11 year, OH MY!!!!!!

I've always had a feeling that this was going to be a great year for me, and I'm extremely excited to see it unfold.

Much Love to all through the New Year!

I'm currently down working in Texas still in support of Hurricane Ike.  As the winter months have came along, I've started to miss the bright days of winter in Colorado from the snow covered landscapes.  Just when I started to really miss it, check out what the universe brought me and all of Houston for a night early Christmas present.  Yaaaaayyyy!  Though it probably will not stick and will not be there in the morning when I wake up, I'm really enjoying the site of the snow flake filled night, and watching all the kids out playing in the snow.  I'm sure they don't get to see it here all that often, so there is so much joy running around in the night tonight. :)

 

Listed below is my latest message from The Universe that I get from www.tut.com and I thought I would share it with you guys.


It takes a BIG person, Ricky, to accept full responsibility for their own happiness.

It takes an even BIGGER person to accept full responsibility for their own unhappiness.

But, Ricky, it takes a spiritual GIANT, who upon realizing any degree of unhappiness, decides to be the change they seek - in spite of having to endure the "same old, same old" that may linger own for awhile.

Yeah.

Fee-Fi-Foe-Fum

The Universe

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If you can imagine it, you can have it, Ricky.  This is the name of the game.  This is the lesson to learn.  It couldn't be any easier.  Reality is not what your eyes show your mind, but what your mind creates for your eyes to see.  You are not limited by logic, the past, or the world around you.  You are not even of the world around you.  You are supernatural, pure spirit.  You came first.  Magic, miracles, and luck are the consequences of understanding this, the inevitable result of dreaming and acting in spite of appearances.
you are ever so close.  Simply stay the course.  It won't be very much longer.

    The Universe

This was my message from The Universe (www.tut.com) on this past Friday.  I know I've probably said this before, but I really enjoy getting these messages every day during the week, especially during the times when I'm working disasters.  I can get so caught up in working 14-15 hour days, that I forget to spend a little time each day to put focus on creating my own life.  That's where the messages from my little friend the universe comes in handy.  They remind me to turn the auto creator, you know like auto pilot, off in my head, and actually take conscious responsibility or creating my own life.

The past couple of mornings have been really interesting.  I have been noticing something that seems really weird until I was able to understand what was happening.  It's funny the things that we notice when we are exhausted, very little energy to focus.  I've always been able to truly see things better when I am a couple steps out of focus.  Our brain is always trying to define things for us, to tell us what is real and what is not.  But during the times when our brains just can't seem to grab that focus and give us those answers, like during sleep deprivation, is when we are able to actually see things in a whole new reality.

Like I was saying before, I have been working 14-15 hour days for the past month.  Getting up for work around 5:45am and getting back to the hotel from work around 10pm.  During the times when I'm working like this, you really do nothing but work your butt off and sleep.  Normally 6 to 7 hours would be completely fine for me, but after many weeks of not having a break to re-charge at least one day a week, then the exhaustion begins to set in.  After only a month the exhaustion is still not all that bad, you can easily snap back by just sleeping in one day.  Normally my limit for working that many hours straight is about 3 months, then the rabbit hole vision comes, though I have worked as long as 8 months straight at that many hours with only 3 days off.  I will not be doing that again any time soon though.

So back to my past two mornings....

After getting up, taking a shower, and getting ready for work, I head out to my work location.  This is normally only about a 15 minutes drive from the hotel.  The past two days, while driving to work, seemed to be a little bit more blurry than normal.  Even though I was driving well and getting though traffic with ease, I just didn't seem to be there completely.  It was if everything here on Earth was the dream, and I was really laying in some other world sleeping.

I really didn't have a lot of time to put a lot of thought to all this, because once I pulled up to work it would be a none stop day of working.  But after the second day and having the same experience once again, it really caught my attention.

Even though I didn't fully know what was going on, I was enjoying watching this movement of energies that seemed to be my life here.  Then yesterday afternoon I got my daily message from the Universe, what I posted above, and everything just clicked.

Every-body's perceptions of reality is something that we can all debate for the rest of time, but for me in that moment it all seem to make since.  The feeling of not fully being here was correct, here being the existence/perception/consciousness of Ricky, was very true.  The movements of energy I was seeing was actually the creations of my life flowing through space, and even though I was partially in that creation,  I was also partially in the existence of the creator creating that existence.

It was a really awesome experience!  A part of my consciousness was worried that I need to focus more, so that I didn't have a wreck or something on the way to work, but the winning majority vote, of my consciousness, was HOLY COW THIS IS FREAK'N COOL, CAN WE DO IT AGAIN!

I just had to share this with everyone!  May you all enjoy the Co-Creation with yourself, the creator and the created!

Bright Blessings as Love
Ricky

Hello to all my friend out in Gaia world!

I'm sitting here in my hotel, after a long day of work, my eyes carrying the weight of exhaustion, and I find myself connecting with the energy of all my friends in this wonderful place, wondering how everyone's lives are going in these moments.  With working many hours a day, every day of the week, I rarely have any time to talk with my friends or family, but at the same time there are moments when I can feel their love and prayers coming to me from across the country.

I was asked by an old friend, last week, how many more years was I going to continue to do disaster response work.  It was weird, because my first reaction in my head was why would I ever stop, and this got me to thinking.  There are many people out there that think I'm crazy for working 80+ hours a week, and sometimes working months without a day off.  But for some reason I love what I do.  I have always worked best under pressure, and I handle stressful situations better than most.  In my head I always say, that I like to work hard when I'm working, and then play hard when I'm not. 

My friend has a regular m-f job, a mortgage, many bills, a husband, and a child on the way.  To her that is the perfect life, to me I'm sitting back thinking she's crazy..LOL  She will live out the rest of her life like 90 percent of the people in the world do.  They go to work every day, on the weekends the do things around the house, and maybe once a year they will have the money to go on a one week vacation to the beach or maybe Disney world for the kids.

The there is me, I live out of a hotel 95% of the year, my work takes me to places that have been devastated with destruction, I never have chores around the house, I work for months straight without a break, working 80-100 hours a week most times, but then when I do take time off..............I get to do things like....go to Washington state for two weeks and hike in the mountains, take a 2 1/2 month trip driving around the country, go to Sweden for 2 weeks or a month, or many other out of the country places I plan on visiting.  I also get to help those people who really  need it the most.  I can be completely exhausted one minute, and the next minute someone walk up to me in tears and tell me "thank you" for providing their family with a place to live after they have lost everything.

Plus I am going to be 30 soon, and I can actually say that I am completely debt FREE, and am able to save money.

Now the questions I get the most are, do you miss not getting to see you friends and family often, and yes I do.  There are a lot of people in the world that I care dearly for, and I hate that I don't get to see them that often, but they all understand, and we enjoy our time together that much more.

The hardest part about all of this is getting lonely, most of the times I'm to busy to think about it, and a lot of times I work with really good people who all understand the life we lead.  Every-time I go out to some disaster, I always manage to meet at least one person who I create this temporary bond with, and those people become the family on the road.  It's funny how we manage to show compassion for each other, so many people in this work are always on the look out for those who it's starting to weigh them down, and there is always someone that rushes to cheer them up. 

Who knows how much longer I will be doing all of this, for I never know where my perception is going to go, or where the universe is going to lead me.  But in the mean time I enjoy that my job is rarely boring, and all the great people I get to meet along the way. 

Would all of this be easier to handle if I had a partner to go along with me?  Yes and No!  It would take a very special woman to be able to handle my life, because not only am I not like the normal guy, but I also don't have the normal life.  Do I believe that very special woman, that would love all of this just as much as I do right now, is out there?  Yes I do, and I'll be the luckiest man in the universe when I find her. 

Until then, I trust in the universe to put me exactly where I'm suppose to be, and doing exactly what I'm suppose to be doing.  If I have to deal with moments of loneliness every so often, then so be it.  Every person in this world has to deal with something in their life, and if being lonely is the only thing that I have to worry about through my life, then I'm doing good.

I always say....It's not my emotions, thoughts, knowledge, or experiences that make me happy in life...I either choose to BE happiness or not, then the world, my emotion, thoughts knowledge, and experiences are created to match that which I already AM.

I AM THAT, I AM

So tonight, I want to thank all of those who think of me in love, for it is a wondrous feeling to have in the exaction.  Feel free to comment , or email me, and tell me how things are going in your lives, until the time comes when I'm able to connect again by phone or in person.

Love to ALL!

My day started off as my eyes cracked open slowly from a restful night's sleep, to gaze upon the interior of a beautiful cozy little cabin in the hills of North-western Washington.  I looked around the cabin to notice that my friends had already stirred awake and were probably sitting outside enjoying the morning.  Though a part of me wanted to slip back into that wonderful land of dreams, another part, the stronger part in that moment, wanted to go find my friends and join in what moment of joy they might have found in the early morning view.  Though I wanted to immediately go outside and find my friends, I also knew that I do much better in the mornings once I have washed myself back into this reality with a nice hot shower.

In a short time later I find my friends, and we begin to talk over the topics of how beautiful it is, how we each slept, and any dreams that one might want to share with the group.  At this moment I was looking forward to the wonderful day I would spend with this great group of people I chose to surround myself with on this fine mountainous day. 

I invited Keith and Aley, two wonderful friends of mine, to join me, as a get away from their busy lives of running the chiropractic office and teaching online college classes. 

Aley and Keith had asked me if Donny, a friend of theirs from Gaia, could also join us on our trip, because he, like me, was going to be up for a visit with them at that time.  Though I did not know Donny, I had not connected with him on Gaia before, I knew that if Keith and Aley liked him that so would I.  And I was correct.

Sitting outside that morning, everyone enjoying their first and second cups of coffee, and myself enjoying my morning vitamin shake with soy milk, we all began to plan out our day of events for this wonderful Summer Solstice together.  Aley and Keith were only up for a couple of days out of the 5 days that Donny and I were staying, so we let them have the choice of what they would like to see.  Aley said that she wanted to go up to the furthest point of the North West part of the country, so we pulled out the map and within a few minutes had planned out a day of places we wanted to go see for the day.  We also decided that it would probably be good to get our day started off with a nice hearty breakfast, so Keith cooked us up some eggs and bacon.

After breakfast and everyone getting ready, we piled up in my bright blue rental car to begin our celebration of the longest day of the year, and OFF we went.  While enjoying nice talks and beautiful scenery out the window, we headed up to Cape Flattery Washington, the furthest corner of the west of the country.  When we arrived, there was nothing there but this small parking lot of cars, and a sign pointing to a 1 mile trail that made its way out to the cape. 

We began our hike upon the trail, not knowing what beauties lay before us.  Even if we could have known what was ahead, it would have NEVER been able to describe to breath taking beauty that we found.  A trail winding up and down the mountain, some parts having stepping stones made out of tree trucks lined along the ground, other parts having a wonderful walking bridge and steps leading up the mountain, and other parts just being beautiful raw areas of forest with dirt trails leading the way.  Three-fourths the way up the trail, we were taken off guard by this beautiful cove that was probably 2 or 3 hundred feet down to the ocean floor.  From that point on it was one beautiful view, over looking the shore of ocean and land, to another.  The whole time we were like a mixture of children and tourist.  One moment we are climbing in trees and getting really to close to the edge of cliffs to look down, and other moments we are taking picture after picture of everything around us.

After taking in all the tranquility and joy that could have filled a whole state of people, we decided to begin our trip back.  It took us twice as long to get back as it did to get there, because everyone of us was walking very slowly to savor the beauty of such a wonderful place.  It was as if we were ok with the fact that we were leaving, we just didn't want it to happen to fast.

Once we got back to the car and back into reality again, we all realized that we were all very hungry, it's amazing how so much beauty can take your mind off of such a basic thing as hunger.  We asked around and found out that there were no restaurants around, except a small pizza place on the Makah Indian reservation.  Going into this small place, that wasn't even finished yet, we placed our orders for FOOD.  After settling down even a little more from all the energies of our journey so far, we realized that we had ordered 3 pizza's for only four people, we all just laughed in wonder of how much pizza we were going to have left over.  After eating we stopped at another place or two on our way back to the cabin, not really spending much time anywhere, because what could truly hold a candle to the beauties of our day already.

Understanding that the Solstice is known as a powerful day to set your intention of what you would like to create in your life, we all decided to have a small drumming/ceremony to symbolize sending out our intentions to the universe.  With me having the most experience in ceremony, everyone just let me come up with something for us to do, which was perfect because while building the fire I had the most fitting thing come to mind for us all to do.

We decided to do a mixture of drum ceremony, and intention ceremony.  It would comprise of four rounds, in the first round everyone gave a prayer to the universe, or their version of the Divine, then drumming and me playing my flute to honor those prayers.  The second round we began drumming, while taking turns passing around a pad of paper, and giving each person time to write down the things they wanted to create in the following year.  The third round I told everyone to get crazy, to drum as loud and fast as they wanted, to move around, shout out, sing, or what ever they wanted to do to build the energies that would help send all of our intentions out into the universe.  The forth round we started drumming while giving each person time to take their piece of paper with their intentions on it and place it into the fire, watch it burn and see their creations go out to the universe.  We ended the ceremony with giving thanks to the universe/Divine and to each other for sharing such a wonderful ceremony and day together.  The ceremony ended perfectly with a nice light shower beginning as the sun began to retire from the longest journey across the earthly skies.

In completion to a most WONDERFUL day in celebration of life, we all sat around the fire talking for a short time, and then headed in to slowly whine down to the end of a glorious day of friendship, beauty, serenity, laughter, and JOY.

 

I don't even know if I'm going to be able to fully express my love for this country far out in the hills of Northern Washington.  I'm sitting outside this small cabin about 12 miles south of Forks, WA and it just takes my breath away.  Something out here just fills my soul with such power of Divinity.  I was lying out in the grass awhile ago and just staring out at the mountain ridge behind the cabin, when I was just filled with so much joy that I thought I would cry as it overflowed through my body.  I haven't felt inclined to write in some time now, and laying there I just felt this urge to go get my laptop and write while I was enjoying this spectacular day.

The sun is shining so brightly and so warm, that I had to come out of my pull over that I normally would have to have on here in this part of the world, even at the end of June.  Though it can be a little chilly here, it seems to be a cold that is unlike any other place I have been.  There is no bite to the cold; it seems to be this wonderful cooling embrace of comfort.  I have never felt so good anywhere in the country as I seem to feel here, it's like this most wonderful Spring.

I have been in such a timeless state in the 7 days that I have been in Washington, that I catch myself constantly feeling like many weeks have passed in the outside world.  Not once in the 7 days that I have been here have I set an alarm clock to get up by.  Even though there are so many things that I want to see, and I know that I don't want to sleep really late, because it would keep me from seeing many of those sites, I just seem to get up in perfect timing with my body and my spirits want to venture across the land.

No longer than an hour ago I was just sitting watching this herd of about 20 elk in the fields to the East of my cabin.  Normally I would have taken a few pictures, and then grown bored after a few minutes of watching them do nothing but eat and move around, but today I sat quietly and just took in the beauty of these magnificent animals for well over an hour.  In my silence they even managed to get as close as about 50 foot from me.  This being my first time to see elk in the wild, I was just awestruck by their size; they seemed to be as big as a horse.  They didn't seem to mind me being there, though every once in awhile one of the older females would stand there and watch over me in protection of the herd.

Finding myself being in this foreign north western part of the country, being as I grew up in the deep south most of my life, I find that the land holds such a beautiful amount of mystery to me.  I never really remember having this feeling in the south, even though I grew up in the farm towns of the back country in Mississippi which hold their own beauty in my heart.  I look out across this tree filled ridge of mountains and valleys with this earth shattering wonderment of what this land holds within its belly of existence.  Everywhere I look nature is showing a different face than what I'm use to, there are different birds, insects, flowers, trees, and animals.  A part of me wants to ask some of the locals if there are bear, cougars, moose, or even wolves in this land, but then I ask myself, "if I was to find the answers to these questions would I lose that overwhelming sense of mystery that I feel right now?" A mystery that I want to hold on to for awhile, so I've decided to go forward not knowing the answers, so that I can have the excitement of finding them all on my own.

I site here thinking, what I would do to have this most beautiful area of land that my very kind hosts seem to hold here in their life.  I believe I could live here for the rest of my life, and never have a single worry in the world.  I don't even think that I would care about money, which is a big thing to say in this day and age.  This has to be the most beautiful spot in the world to me right now, even though I have seem some most wonderful breathtaking places in my journeys around the world, this place just seems to hold such a energy of home to me, a place where I could actually see myself being for the rest of my life.  If I could bottle and sell the feeling that I have right now, I do believe that I could be a millionaire times 10, because in my heart right now I feel like I'm the richest man in the world.

A friend of mine gave me a desk plate once that said "The Journey is The Reward", and holey shit isn't that the TRUTH!  So now I'm going to put my laptop away for awhile and go in search of the many mysteries before me, with one more lifetime of a week before me on this great trip.

It's been quite some time since I have blogged here, just really haven't had the urge to spend a lot of time online lately.  Though tonight I just felt like sharing some of myself with all my friends here.

For the past few weeks I have been feeling really weird, but it's been a weird that I have never experienced before.  My mind has been so silent, but yet so anxious.  My body has been building up so much energy in the past month, like it's getting ready for something.  The only thing I can relate the feeling to, is like during a time in your life when you know you life is about to change big time.  Like the day before you start college, a couple of days before you move out of home for the first time, or when you getting ready to start you life as a husband or a wife.  But the difference in my experience and all these, is that I don't have any certain thing that I know is coming that is causing all this energy.  Every night for a week now I have found myself having problems wanting to go to bed, I just keep walking outside and pacing and pacing.  For no reason at all, or at least not one that I've figured out yet..LOL

So the feeling is that something major is going to happen in my life VERY soon, or at least I hope it happens soon, because I don't know how much more I can take this anxious feeling. 

This weekend I'm flying up to Seattle to visit with some friends and get out in nature for a couple of weeks.  At first I thought this was what was causing me to feel like this, but even though I am really happy to be getting up there and around friends I love, that just is not it.  But that's not to say that whatever is going to happen will not happen up there, just that I can't think of anything as of yet that could cause such a change in my life.

I'm excited to see what lies before me, if any of my friends here have any opinions about what's going on, please feel free to share.

Much Love to ALL