Sarah Gillen

04/26/2025

My dearly beloved dog moved on before he could use this ramp. I'm hoping someone can use it. Brand New

Brand New, never used, still in box. 6 ft, 16 gauge steel carpeted folding dog ramp, folds to 3 ft. Rubber pad protects car or furniture, includes strap with hooks if stabilizing is needed.

02/06/2025

We can do this.

12/17/2023

This view of life is what Earth needs to survive

This is written by Chief Dan George,
In the course of my lifetime I have lived in two distinct cultures. I was born into a culture that lived in communal houses. My grandfather’s house was eighty feet long. It was called a smoke house, and it stood down by the beach along the inlet. All my grandfather’s sons and their families lived in this dwelling. Their sleeping apartments were separated by blankets made of bull rush weeds, but one open fire in the middle served the cooking needs of all. In houses like these, throughout the tribe, people learned to live with one another; learned to respect the rights of one another. And children shared the thoughts of the adult world and found themselves surrounded by aunts and uncles and cousins who loved them and did not threaten them. My father was born in such a house and learned from infancy how to love people and be at home with them.
And beyond this acceptance of one another there was a deep respect for everything in nature that surrounded them. My father loved the earth and all its creatures. The earth was his second mother. The earth and everything it contained was a gift from See-see-am…and the way to thank this great spirit was to use his gifts with respect.
I remember, as a little boy, fishing with him up Indian River and I can still see him as the sun rose above the mountain top in the early morning…I can see him standing by the water’s edge with his arms raised above his head while he softly moaned…”Thank you, thank you.” It left a deep impression on my young mind.
And I shall never forget his disappointment when once he caught me gaffing for fish “just for the fun of it.” “My son” he said, “The Great Spirit gave you those fish to be your brothers, to feed you when you are hungry. You must respect them. You must not kill them just for the fun of it.”
This then was the culture I was born into and for some years the only one I really knew or tasted. This is why I find it hard to accept many of the things I see around me.
I see people living in smoke houses hundreds of times bigger than the one I knew. But the people in one apartment do not even know the people in the next and care less about them.
It is also difficult for me to understand the deep hate that exists among people. It is hard to understand a culture that justifies the killing of millions in past wars, and it at this very moment preparing bombs to kill even greater numbers. It is hard for me to understand a culture that spends more on wars and weapons to kill, than it does on education and welfare to help and develop.
It is hard for me to understand a culture that not only hates and fights his brothers but even attacks nature and abuses her.
I see my white brothers going about blotting out nature from his cities. I see him strip the hills bare, leaving ugly wounds on the face of mountains. I see him tearing things from the bosom of mother earth as though she were a monster, who refused to share her treasures with him. I see him throw poison in the waters, indifferent to the life he kills there; and he chokes the air with deadly fumes.
My white brother does many things well for he is more clever than my people but I wonder if he has ever really learned to love at all. Perhaps he only loves the things that are outside and beyond him. And this is, of course, not love at all, for man must love all creation or he will love none of it. Man must love fully or he will become the lowest of the animals. It is the power to love that makes him the greatest of them all…for he alone of all animals is capable of love.
Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world. Instead we turn inwardly and begin to feed upon our own personalities and little by little we destroy ourselves.
You and I need the strength and joy that comes from knowing that we are loved. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.
There have been times when we all wanted so desperately to feel a reassuring hand upon us…there have been lonely times when we so wanted a strong arm around us…I cannot tell you how deeply I miss my wife’s presence when I return from a trip. Her love was my greatest joy, my strength, my greatest blessing.
I am afraid my culture has little to offer yours. But my culture did prize friendship and companionship. It did not look on privacy as a thing to be clung to, for privacy builds walls and walls promote distrust. My culture lived in a big family community, and from infancy people learned to live with others.
My culture did not prize the hoarding of private possessions, in fact, to hoard was a shameful thing to do among my people. The Indian looked on all things in nature as belonging to him and he expected to share them with others and to take only what he needed.
Everyone likes to give as well as receive. No one wishes only to receive all the time. We have taken something from your culture…I wish you had taken something from our culture…for there were some beautiful and good things in it.
Soon it will be too late to know my culture, for integration is upon us and soon we will have no values but yours. Already many of our young people have forgotten the old ways. And many have been shamed of their Indian ways by scorn and ridicule. My culture is like a wounded deer that has crawled away into the forest to bleed and die alone.
The only thing that can truly help us is genuine love. You must truly love, be patient with us and share with us. And we must love you—with a genuine love that forgives and forgets…a love that gives the terrible sufferings your culture brought ours when it swept over us like a wave crashing along a beach…with a love that forgets and lifts up its head and sees in your eyes an answering love of trust and acceptance.
This is brotherhood…anything less is not worthy of the name.
I have spoken.

11/22/2023

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09/30/2023

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/every-child-matters-september-30-orange-shirt-day
Today is the day to wear orange shirts to acknowledge and support Indigenous in their recovery from terrible abuses and deaths when taken from their families and put in residential schools. Please show your support!

Orange Shirt Day, also called National Day for Truth and Reconciliation or National Day of Remembrance, is observed yearly on September 30 in Canada and the United States. The Day extends from the St. Joseph Mission Residential School Commemoration Project and Reunion events orchestrated by Chief Fr...

08/16/2023

Healing and progressing psychologically is manifestly the process of evolving spiritually. Identifying and resolving hidden pain and shadows frees us from unconscious assumptions that bar us from experiencing deep belonging with Life. Seeing ourselves not as part of Nature dooms us to a disconnected, howling need that we cannot fill. We blame circumstances, or others, or our past, for our loneliness and despair. We try to fill the void with constantly acquired stuff; manufactured excitement; stunted intimacy when we don’t really know how to connect with or feel safe with others; even excessive medical attention for conditions created by our domination of the environment.

On this page we’ll talk about belonging, individuality, being aware of All-That-Is, part of Spirit, and our True Selves.
We will discuss paths of evolution; practices that help highly sensitive people be resilient in this challenging world; and ways to free ourselves from false and damaging views of ourselves, others, and life.
And we’ll explore the wonderful, joyful ways to be more the beings of light and love that we truly are, as well as the paths for helping all of us, human and other-than-human, realize a future of abundance, health, and interdependence.

All of life, the Universe, our bodies, every dimension of being, is energy. Everything is created on an energetic level first. Every creation must travel from idea, through development and alignment of energy pattern, through various states of energy, to physical manifestation, if that’s where it’s headed. Even then, everything is virtually all energy. Atoms are energy in space with only the tiniest amount of formed matter in the nucleus. Atos are patterns of energy.

I have worked my entire adult life with energy in psychological, physical, and spiritual healing, for individuals, families, and areas of Earth. The task is to identify the energy patterns that heal, refine, and direct the manifestation of healing. We need the enhanced energy to raise states-of-being, help transform cultural attitudes toward Nature, women, indeed anything seen as other, for the massive transformation needed for Earth to heal in a way that allows humans to be part of the future.
First, to heal the Earth and our cultural crises, we need to heal ourselves of the blocks and beliefs that hold us apart from our true selves, apart from each other, and apart from Nature.
Yes, the Law of Attraction and many other programs talk about energy being the creative force, that our negative energy promotes and attracts negative energy. And they are right to a point. We need not to talk only about what we can get for ourselves, even when it is about what we can heal in ourselves. To move into the transformation that is possible, and that Universal energies are indicating we can succeed in becoming, it ie essential that we see All-That-Is as truly all one. We need to see others who are different, pandas, dolphins, anacondas, spiders, the folks down the street, and the folks around the world, as US. We need, as a race – the human race - truly to experience being natural beings; being responsible for the wellbeing of all that we have heretofore been destroying; to live in a state of being all in life together.

Our individual state of being affects everything. Our grasping, sense of isolation, discord, affects everything. The energy of those states affect the Earth, affect the cultures we live in. The energy of domination will never create wholeness.
Enough people doing our work to come to peace with our shadow-sides, and resolve our wounds, will raise the Energy of the planet, affecting the direction in which we are headed. Our raising our own vibration raises the energy of the whole.
Raising your energy to be in a state of peace, joy, connection with All That Is, will raise the healing, transformative, synergistic energy on the planet. We must clarify our energies and connect with the deeper truths of All That Is in order to manifest the healing and peace we want to see.
We must do our work in order to heal and embrace life and settle into our places in the Flow of Life, as well as see the much wider intelligence, beauty, and opportunities of healing the planet. Healing, raising, transforming the energy that then creates the physical manifestations of those energies, becoming the physical world.

12/21/2021

Winter Solstice is about the magical energy of Spirit that can best be perceived in safe, natural darkness, as most beings become quiet and still. Feel the stillness of the Spirit-point within you vibrating as one with the air, the starlight, candlelight, trees and plants, the earth, the silent, blanketing snow. Drink deeply of it. Recharge your Spirit in that moment of infinite Peacehttps://mailchi.mp/dcbe31fb30d5/blessings-on-solstice

09/07/2021

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09/29/2016

In Central VT: This group for women will help you take the next major step to be more connected to your Spirit, feel calm & confident amidst the chaos, and be more self-loving. Call for more info!

06/22/2016

Never give from the depths of your well, but from your overflow. ~Sufi saying