Update On Cupcake Crawl! Get Free Cupcakes From Our Winner

Butterlane has sent me a message, our winner of the cupcake crawl posted in May. Anyone who comes into Butter Lane and mentions Rosalee Laws’ blog gets two for one cupcakes Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays through the month of February. (Limit two per day.)

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New York, NY 10009

Go get those cupcakes everyone!

My New Mission Statement

With the term religious comes suspicion and mental images of religious wars.  It is no doubt it has almost become a derogatory term.  I myself have sometimes been guilty of stressing the point “I am spiritual not religious.” I use to joke that I was spoiled by all the religions I have studied. I have to say here, by no means do I claim to know everything about any one religion, I find that impossible and I could not learn enough about one let alone all religions even in a lifetime.  Book knowledge is not the same as living your life as a Christian, Buddhist, Wiccan, or any other religion.

Previously, I would say I wanted to bring together the people that now claim themselves to be spiritual and not religious but I think my quest has expanded.  In addition to getting people together I need them to acknowledge the core principals we all share one example being the priority of the earth because no earth = no people, people !

Furthermore, I feel it necessary to inform those “spiritual but not religious people” that people who are religious are not an enemy and just because religion shapes their lives, this is not a bad thing.  This has become a new unaddressed prejudice all in itself, especially within my generation.

So my intent 3 fold

1. Getting people to acknowledge the core principals we all share despite religious and non religious differences

2. Getting the “spiritual but not religious” group to understand those who choose to live a religious life

3. Harness the power of technology and the internet to organize the unorganized in the interfaith community and show those who are not aware the strength that comes with it.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17

• @squeakypants *nods* #
• *hugs* @adamsdayoff #
• midnight the official launch of http://www.lightonfibro.com For National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day May 12th. #
• @sirkitree ok im really late with this but yes !!! Friends of Richard website!!! I’m there! #
• missing @adamsdayoff #
• Please play a song about a polar bear..*eats free cotton candy* #
• Ok i got a panda thats ok too ! #
• Missing th Adam again! #
• @goulashriot dreamin of brownies and all that goes with them. #

From Consumerism to Identification Through Occupation

I was recently reading The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, one of my favorite books at the moment, and he commented on the drive for people to identify with objects. This is so noticeable with mass consumerism and marketing in the west. Sorry for stating the obvious. Our society makes people think they need that shiny thing to be better. But my thought is, we are becoming more aware that we identify with objects, but not as conscious that we identify with our occupations, and are looking for ourselves from them. The movement of the identification with things is evolving to the identification with occupation.

When we meet someone new one of the first questions we ask is what do you do? I am guilty of this and I believe most adults are. It is really just that old song and dance of sizing people up. The bureau of labor and statistics shows that people between the age of 25 -34 stay at their jobs less than an average of 2 years but most within this age range most really stay less that 12 months. We all know statistics can be bent to our needs so I looked at several different reports and came to the same conclusion.

I do not agree with most on the subject of why this is happening. Most of the resources I have come across on the matter claim out generation are such techies and feel we are so arrogant and feel such entitlement that we can never be happy with where we are. I agree to some extent but I believe it goes beyond this. I belive it is more personal and on some level spiritual. I think we go to job after job looking for ourselves, thinking the next job will finally define us, and give us our identity. This explains our diminished sense of self when we are laid off or fired, even though statistically we would have quit in a few months anyway. There are some that are exceptions to this. They know their jobs do not define them, when someone asks them who they are they do not answer with a job title. This serial job jumping is in direct alignment with a shift in conciousness, which may be happening. Sorry to go all New Age on you, but until we come to the realization we are not our jobs and can not be defined by anything outside of ourselves some of us will be playing job hopscotch for a long time.