We know that cells have their own intelligence, capable of operating in organisms in both cooperative and adverse ways.

I once read that each human being is like a cell within the body of earth and that we individually and collectively play roles similar to that of a cell in our own bodies.
Some cells feed and build … others appear like renegades with destructive intentions.

We are more connected to each other and our host, mother earth, than we act as though we realize. We typically do not think that what one cell ‘feels’ and does in one part of the body can profoundly affect another. Likewise, we do not understand that what we do in one corner of the world can actually reverberate and influence others all over our earth.

Like the huge tree root above – each part in one way or another touches the whole. Imagine if we believed that every thought, feeling and action had some important consequence to ourselves, or on someone or something else.

Think about the impact…

Mozella Perry Ademiluyi

www.mozellaonthemountain.com (blog)

www.loveisamountain.com (website)

I expected to be alone for the day – touring London on the big red, open top, hop-on, and hop-off bus.
The last time I actually toured it was when I was 16; so I got a real kick out of the whole idea of again doing so in a city I visit often.

Shortly after I boarded the tour bus at Baker Street, a young Chinese woman (who has lived in The Hague for the past eight years) asked me to take a picture of her. She too was traveling alone. That was the beginning of a nine-hour journey of friendship together.

Jing and I watched the famous changing of the guards, toured Buckingham Palace, cruised down the River Thames and soaked in the other historic sites. An onlooker would have assumed we were old friends: chatting away, laughing, taking pictures together, and catching up with life. In one of the exquisite palace staterooms, she excitedly exclaimed, “Mozella, this really is a fairy tale!”

Jing is an open, warm, intelligent and refreshing reminder that friendship often begins between strangers who simply exchange hellos.

Smile at someone you don’t know!

Mozella Perry Ademiluyi

www.mozellaonthemountain.com (blog)

www.loveisamountain.com (website)

Feeling your way, finding your rhythm takes time when you are facing something new. We have to propel our way forward, get some movement going, as well as maintain balance and direction. So many things can go wrong: too deep, not deeply enough, steer right to head left and left to head right…instructions can be so confusing.

We lose patience and want to understand how to be exact in what we are doing…especially if there is an audience: people are watching…expecting us to fall into the murky waters below that await the inexperienced.

The lesson I experienced whilst punting in Oxford, England is that friends and even people you don’t know are willing to support your efforts to learn and help you push away from collision when they see it coming…and that, yes, it’s okay if it takes time to gain momentum. Try in spite of the possibilities of not winning or not succeeding – imagine not making the effort at all. We may remain ‘safe’ but no action at all…gets us?

Venture out, take a chance … go on, you can do it!

Mozella Perry Ademiluyi

www.mozellaonthemountain.com (blog)

www.loveisamountain.com (website)

In my travels, I have seen many historic sites that chronicle the rise and fall of great civilizations – sometimes we know what happened, other times we speculate. Do we go “too far” causing us to begin again, forcing us back to square one?

We enjoy our technological advances and especially revel in the modern ways in which we communicate with each other. Perhaps it is the old fashioned in me that looks back on the good ole’ days when we called each other!

I feel we have lost something very important – actually many things. I am not totally convinced that what we have replaced the old ways with is capable of nourishing our souls. Perhaps this is part of our problem. The customs of people naturally connected to themselves and our earth draw the interests of many of us. We gravitate toward some of their simpler and deeper ways of being and doing.

We may not want to replace any of our modern day conveniences or new ways of doing things. However, is there a genuine substitute for the ability and privilege of touching, and hearing one another?

Just reflecting,

Mozella Perry Ademiluyi

www.mozellaonthemountain.com (blog)

www.loveisamountain.com (website)