
Resonance Is the Key
As I have been spending more time experiencing Peace as the baseline, life has apparently decided to give me plenty of opportunities to practice it.
First there were the kitties.
Then the cars.
Then clients began having unexpected problems and emergencies.
One thing seemed to arrive immediately after another until even my husband finally looked at me and asked:
“WHAT IS HAPPENING?”
I had to smile because the answer came almost immediately.
Nothing needed to be solved all at once.
We simply needed to meet each situation as it arrived.
One thing.
One moment.
One response.
Then the next.
Instead of allowing everything to become one enormous problem, each event could be met individually with as much Grace and Peace as we could bring to that moment.
Perhaps this too is part of learning to live with Peace as the baseline.
Peace does not necessarily mean that life becomes peaceful around us.
It means we learn to remain centered while life continues being life.
Tending the Garden
At the same time, I had been feeling somewhat scattered.
Disconnected?
Distracted?
I wasn’t quite sure what it was.
When I awakened this morning, however, I felt strongly that I needed to ground, align, and reconnect with the energetic work that has long been part of my spiritual practice.
I realized that I had not been regularly checking in with what I call the Hope Corridor, the nodes, grids, and ley lines with which I feel connected.
So I became quiet.
I grounded.
I established the energetic practices I use around myself and my home node.
Almost immediately I felt a deeper connection and Peace return to my Being.
And I heard:
You needed to tend your garden.
I understood.
For me, tending the garden includes tending my own inner landscape, but it also includes the spiritual relationship I experience with the Earth.
Others may understand this differently, and that is perfectly all right.
The deeper principle is universal.
We must tend what has been entrusted to us.
A garden left unattended eventually becomes overgrown.
So can our inner world.
So can our spiritual practices.
So can the relationships and purposes that matter deeply to us.
Sometimes feeling scattered does not mean something is terribly wrong.
Sometimes we simply need to return to the garden.
And Then Came Rapa Nui
Something interesting often happens after I become quiet and reconnect.
Rather than deliberately searching for something, something seems to find me.
That happened again today.
After my morning practice, I began my ordinary day and was unexpectedly drawn to a video about Easter Island—Rapa Nui.
I have felt a strong connection with this island for decades without completely understanding why.
The video explored an unconventional interpretation of the great statues of Rapa Nui. Using information gathered from existing research and examining it with AI, the creator proposed that aspects of the statues—their locations, heights, orientations, and even some of their features—might have carried information connected with Polynesian navigation, community, ceremony, and relationships across the Pacific.
It also offered interpretations of the roads, stones, and ceremonial practices surrounding the statues that differed from some of the explanations I had encountered previously.
I cannot tell you whether these theories will ultimately prove archaeologically correct.
That was not what mattered most to me.
Something underneath the information caught my attention.
One word kept arising:
RESONANCE.
Suddenly I understood why the video had appeared after my morning experience.
Whether or not every theory presented proves historically accurate, it awakened something important within me.
People connected through resonance.
Places connected through resonance.
Sound connected through resonance.
Community connected through resonance.
And perhaps remembrance does too.
Resonance Is the Key
I began thinking about how often resonance has guided my own life.
For many years I sought answers.
I searched.
I studied.
I questioned.
I followed one thread and then another.
And seeking served me well.
Seeking brought remembrance.
Remembrance brought alignment.
Alignment brought embodiment.
And embodiment has gradually brought me to the realization that I no longer need to seek in the way I once did.
That doesn’t mean I stop learning.
It means I have stopped believing that I must chase the next revelation.
There is a difference.
I am learning to become still enough to recognize what resonates when it arrives.
The next book.
The next conversation.
The next memory.
The next person.
The next experience.
The next unexpected video.
Whatever is needed seems to appear when I am quiet enough to notice it.
Perhaps it always did.
The difference is that now I am consciously participating.
From Seeking to Allowing
Why has this changed?
I think because there is more Peace in my life.
And with Peace has come patience.
I don’t feel the same urgency to force understanding.
I can witness.
I can wait.
I can allow.
And when something resonates deeply, I can explore it without immediately needing to control where it leads.
That may be one of the greatest changes occurring within me.
For much of my journey I went searching for the Light.
Now I am discovering that when I remain grounded in Presence, what I need often finds its way to me.
This is not passivity.
It is participation without control.
I still choose.
I still act.
I still discern.
But I no longer need to pull the flower open to see what is inside.
I can tend the garden…
and allow it to bloom.
Perhaps this is another meaning of Peace as the baseline.
Life will continue presenting challenges.
Some will reveal places within me that still need polishing.
Some will ask me to act.
Some will ask me to wait.
Some will simply ask me to witness.
Each becomes part of refining the rough edges until more of the diamond of Being can shine through.
And so today I return to something very simple:
Ground.
Tend the garden.
Remain in Peace.
Notice what resonates.
Allow the next step to reveal itself.
Because I am discovering that expansion does not always require reaching farther.
Sometimes…
we expand by becoming more deeply rooted.
And perhaps that is how we finally learn to be both:
Grounded upon the Earth
and open to the Infinite.
Another understanding has already begun arising from this—an old story of two brothers, and what it may reveal about ego, alignment, separation, and Presence.
But that is a story for another day.










