Be Reel

Dear Dreaming Deep Sara, On Valentine's night, my husband David and I went out to see the full moon rise in our neighborhood in San Francisco. I had gotten ready quickly and threw a coat on over my white cotton pajamas. David is also known as the Angel of Love, and we're about to announce something new and magical. We want to use reels to connect and share the news. 💜 Suddenly, David said, "Let's just do a reel right now." We had talked about capturing and sharing moments of our lives, but of course, that was always something we'd do later. Not at this moment—not with me in my pajamas and both of us in our hats, standing in the semi-darkness. And yet, 15 seconds later, we had recorded our first reel! It's so tiny and funny that I—having been filmed and recorded in countless ways over my 40+ years as SARK—and David, who was once a Hollywood movie producer, found something as simple as recording a reel to somehow feel complex or daunting. But shyness and perfectionism can play on screens inside all of our minds. They definitely sometimes play in mine. Plus, I often get nervous when doing something new, which surprises the other braver parts of me:-) One of our main missions is to communicate Even More Love with the world, and David and I are committed to using technology in every fun way to do so. You can see our first reel here, and we'll be creating and sharing more along the way, and letting you know all about our magical news soon. We love you,  (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) + David (Angel of Love) If you wish to stop receiving our emails or change your subscription options, please manage your subscription. 1288 Columbus Ave, #151, City Of Love, SARK Francisco, CA 94133, US

Happy Valentine's LIFE

Dear soul of luminous reflection Sara,  Have a Valentine's LIFE. You are the artist and valentine of your own life. ❤️🩷 Here is a version of my print with a happy rainbow exclamation that appeared above it on the wall the other day. I send you a Valentine's life where your soul is seen, known and loved, and you are able to choose love more often than fear. Keep choosing.  In the midst of despair, you are able to know that joy didn't depart forever. That in fact, it stepped aside so you could spend some time with despair and practice loving that emotion too. Where you do the deep and necessary psychological excavations and repairs. Where you cry as easily and often as laughing, and there's less distinction. Where you choose peace over trying to be right. Where you rise up and act for what's right. Where you lie down frequently and rest guiltlessly. Where you love wildly with all your faucets turned on, and have beautifull boundaries in place. Where you realize that you are here as much to feel as you are to heal, and that you and life keep moving and feeling forward. My husband David, my co-mentor and an Angel of Love, reminds me every day in every way about seeing with eyes of love as much as possible, and we both practice alchemizing when things look and feel terrible. I like to describe it as the marvelous messy middle. How are you, or can you be, loving in this moment? 💓Let us know where your love is FLOWING. Here's our love for you and your Valentines LIFE. (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy)  + David, the Angel of Love  If you wish to stop receiving our emails or change your subscription options, please manage your subscription. 1288 Columbus Ave, #151, City Of Love, SARK Francisco, CA 94133, US

When nothing works

Dear human soul called Sara, During every terrible time in my life, and in this world, when it feels like nothing works or ever will work, I ask for miracles. One of the best ways to activate miracles is to go on what I call a miracle walk.  I started creating and going on miracle walks many years ago when I lived for a decade outside of the money system on barter and trade. I'd walk out with my palms up and say, "Miracle, find me now." And then I would walk until I saw or experienced a miracle. I experienced a LOT of real life miracles, and continue to do so.  On this day, I walked around the corner and suddenly saw these polka dotted people sitting on a bench, and just stopped in astonishment at the miracle of their attire. Of course I thanked them voluminously for appearing before me. Seeing them reminded me that even though it felt like nothing was working, miracles were.  And it wasn't their polka dots that changed me, it was my mood and attitude that got adjusted because of seeing them. That brief polka dot moment gave me the willingness to face and feel the terrible things, and the difficult feelings I was feeling about them. And that willingness to feel leads to healing. Sometimes I add words or descriptions to my miracle walking, saying things like, "Miracle mood find me now," "Miracle person find me now," "Miracle money find me now." Then I practice tuning my vision to see miracles- tiny or large, everywhere I go. Sometimes they're not as obvious as polka dotted people;-) but they're always there.  I have countless stories of miracles happening. I believe that miracles love to be asked for, and multiply when we do. And, you can ask badly and it still works. There are so many terrible things, and so many miracles to multiply.  Wishing you many more miracles and the willingness to see and experience them- especially when it feels like nothing is working. (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy)  P.S. A few years ago, I experienced the miracle of being interviewed by the illuminated Lee Harris. I decided it would be wonderfull to re-share it with you today. 💜 Lee is a miracle awakener in this world and you can listen right HERE. We talk about creative dreams made REAL, miracles of loss and love, and how we are ALL artists and creatives.  If you wish to stop receiving our emails or change your subscription options, please manage your subscription. 1288 Columbus Ave, #151, City Of Love, SARK Francisco, CA 94133, US

Despair is medicine

Dear kindred human Sara, This December I experienced a new low point. There had been some health and financial challenges, and after the US election results, I descended into a significant depression. During this time, I was also being taken on tours of the underworld in dreams that showed me truly terrible things in our world.  It felt like a dark night of the soul and then my intuition told me that I was witnessing and experiencing more like a dark night of the collective whole. Also during this time, I was privileged to be able to take some weeks away from work, and that's when I became more aware of the many difficult feelings I had been resisting feeling. I knew that these feelings wanted my attention, but I had been resisting in every way- even though I knew that my feelings of suffering were because of my resistance! All my life, I've been acutely aware of how bad things can get and be, especially during the many years I was being abused in my family. I became very familiar with the feeling of despair, and lived intimately with it. Despair is not a popular feeling, and almost no one willingly wants to feel or experience it- including myself. Yet the medicine of despair lives in the feeling of it. So when I emerged from the depression, I finally turned towards despair and said its name out loud, "Despair, I see you, I hear you, I acknowledge you." I felt a slight easing of the feeling of despair as I repeated the acknowledgement. If despair had shoulders, I could feel and see its shoulders soften and come down. And so we sat, despair and I. As other painfull feelings arose, I was able to similarly acknowledge them also, and I began to feel joy return. And I was reminded again that joy doesn't leave during passages of difficult feelings- it steps aside to give the less popular feelings a chance to be felt. It always surprises me how quickly healing happens when feeling can occur. And so, I keep practicing feeling. Join me if you wish. I know you join me in being human and sometimes going through terrible things- I believe that more we can express openly about these kinds of times, the more we can help each other. (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy)  P.S. If you would like this healing art print, you can find it here.  If you wish to stop receiving our emails or change your subscription options, please manage your subscription. 1288 Columbus Ave, #151, City Of Love, SARK Francisco, CA 94133, US