I hear the wind rustling through the trees,
I think it is my mother
She is speaking through the tones of bamboo
and tall giant trees I have no name for

Her speech comes through periodic waves …
There she is right now – she sounds exciting:
whooshing back and forth, creating an undulating stir amongst happy
leaf-filled branches

What did you say?
I can’t hear you now,
wait, wait, come back – don’t go.

Are you ever afraid to go outside into the rain and wind…into the unknown of any given day?

It is hard to know what you will find and scary enough just looking at what other people are going through. Whether we know them or not, many are in one kind of pain or another, looking for light on the other side of a very dark cloud.

The buzzing, whirling, ringing and tapping of all the “traffic” in our lives can drown out important sounds and an equally important silence. It can block out our sun. Knowing this, can you envision being the light for someone … for a day? Maybe slow down and actually hear what he or she needs to share… whether you understand him or not.

Being there is the real gift — and when you do give like this, here you are for you, and there you are for her. When you are open and positive, then those around you can be open and receptive.

Tis’ the season of harvest and expressions of gratitude … but most of all, each of us is looking for the Light.

Shine yours,

Mozella Perry Ademiluyi

www.mozellaonthemountain.com (blog)

www.loveisamountain.com (website)

Visionaries are talking about change; it is in the air … everywhere!

Recently, Jere Stocks, President of the Washington Adventist Hospital in Maryland, spoke of “Transforming Care”. He proposes that a “mind, body, spirit” approach to healthcare is an essential step in the right direction. Mr. Stocks and his colleagues are actively defining and pursuing a wellness-based model as the 21st century way to educate and empower their community in the all-encompassing meaning of well-being.

Autumn sunrise at Serenity on the Mountain

A few weeks ago, NBC aired a weeklong special called ‘Education Nation’ – again the topic of change. Our failed public school systems must incorporate innovative models that explore and incorporate the different ways our children learn. Educators are calling for answers to the question of “how to fix our schools” and teachers must face their part in this challenge.

Keen life observers like JJ Michael (last week’s Secrets Unraveled) help us connect the dots between what happens outwardly with the inner meanings and consequences. She offers a “mind, body, spirit” explanation to everything we encounter in our lives…truly, life is never as it seems.

What changes do you propose — it does take a village!

Mozella Perry Ademiluyi

www.mozellaonthemountain.com (blog)

www.loveisamountain.com (website)

I absolutely love the title of JJ Michael’s latest novel. I do not read fiction often; however, each one of her last three titles represents masterful storytelling about adventures into the seemingly conflicting crossroads of mind, body and spirit: “Life Is Never As It Seems” and “It’s Not Over Yet” – they are page turners!

There are many “secrets” unfolding in our world that do not receive much mainstream attention, at least, not yet. Most people are still distracted and mesmerized by the politics of life and the sensational headlines that relentlessly bombard us.

However, all over our earth, there are small and large circles of people connecting with each other around experiences and information that open our hearts and mind – that make us grow. There are historic sites, happenings and dates that have marked highly significant events in our planetary (and personal) evolution – you will not read about them in The Washington Post…therefore, many of them have so far occurred unnoticed.

The world’s consciousness, and our individual one, is moving toward new paradigms in all areas of life…

Explore …

Mozella Perry Ademiluyi

www.mozellaonthemountain.com (blog)

www.loveisamountain.com (website)

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti – I am not sure why I feel so astounded that The Shrine, Fela’s club, is thriving on Broadway. Perhaps it is the transportation of this very Nigerian vibrancy from the streets of Lagos to Main Street, New York? The actors were tremendous in portraying Fela’s artistic, personal and political style.

Fela was adept at speaking through his music. He was also raucous, very controversial, and highly entertaining. The play, Fela, provides a creative education that extends well beyond the stage, into the surrounding theatre and through the often-pulsating, enthusiastic audience.

The more we are able and encouraged to peer into someone else’s world, the more open we become to a wide array of cultures, values and other systems that exist in this expansive, interconnected web of human beings. When we talk to diverse people, we have an opportunity to discover the underlying stories behind narrow newspaper headlines. We learn to appreciate that ‘true’ communication is an effective means of understanding and tolerating each other.

Even if you are not on center stage, your story has something important to add to how someone else processes the world.

Speak up …

Mozella Perry Ademiluyi

www.mozellaonthemountain.com (blog)

www.loveisamountain.com (website)

“All stages of life are marked by meetings under the conversation tree” – Joseph Ki-Zerbo. Every culture, every major piece of writing highlights and celebrates the vital importance of conversation – of our need to communicate with each other.

Great writings, artifacts, art and music fill museums. They are evidence that humankind has always needed and desired powerful forms of dialogue.

This past weekend, many of us extended our hands in friendship to celebrate the opening of Love Is A Mountain’s Global Women Story Circle ™. I created this ‘talking circle’ to encourage people around the world, especially women, to share a different kind of news – their own. This vehicle can open doors, cross boundaries and diminish barriers built by ignorance. We can transform the way we understand and embrace others by directly connecting to like-minded people in another part of our country or our world – having a pen pal – but with larger, more purpose-filled objectives and outcomes.

I invite you to create or join in a circle of conversation at www.globalwomenstorycircle.com.

Tell your story and share your wisdom!

Mozella Perry Ademiluyi

www.mozellaonthemountain.com (blog)

www.loveisamountain.com (website)

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)