I added some Bonus MP3's to the Audio page. They are recordings I did not immediately post, for
whatever reason. Unless you are a devoted listener, you might want to skip them, but Helpless
is one I especially like.

Life After Death
The Final Surrender
Helpless

Got a request? Drop me a line here.
Vicki

There is little that excites me outside of walking the path. Without the way, where would we be? But the path is difficult and exacting, until the moment that spiritual relief occurs. And this cannot be manipulated or artificially attained. Grace ushers us into the presence of God in its own sweet time. And we are trained to wait patiently rather than storming heaven.

I am impatient by nature, so this lifetime has been one of testing for me. I have to slow down, breathe and call on higher awareness to rescue me when I have bungled yet again.

Bob was an engineer and hated to hang pictures on bare clean walls. But my mother was a water colorist, so there were always pictures she had given us to frame and hang. He measured and marked and frowned as he went about the tedious job of hanging them just right. Now me, I take a pushpin and plunge it into the wallpaper to hang a calendar. And every month I make another sloppy hole. It doesn’t bother
me a bit. Vive la difference.

When I write, it is quickly and intuitively. I trust the voice I have come to recognize as “mine.” I always say it is God’s little joke on me that I tell everything when I write. That is because I am a very private Scorpio in every other way. I was born grown-up, according to my mother and was called Miss Priss. But I also have a wickedly funny side I inherited from my father. I wrote some pretty naughty lines back in my comedy-writing days.

But back to this website and its purpose. It began to support Bob when he was dying. It soon turned me into a writer driven by my passion. I hope you will come back to share life with me as I write and speak. I guarantee it will be genuine if nothing else.

I want you to come with me into the now. It is a dynamically healing place.

On the Audio Page you will find the first MP3's of 2009. They are

Become a Regular

The Kwan Yin Vow

Handcuffed

A Foot in the Door

I have archived the Updates and Audio pages for 2008. That means they have gone away. I am always reluctant to do this, but the old must give way to the new.

The updates are done frequently, so at the end of each year there is rich treasure trove of essays and new recordings. I hope you have enjoyed them all.

Each audio is an adventure into the tao. I hope you will come along with me as I record them this year.

I appreciate regular small donations to the site, as this keeps my operating expenses in line....so give what you can when you can! Thank you for being here for me as I am for you. I love you all.
Vicki

December 27, 08

I have been at work all morning. I have archived most of the MP3's on Audio and also most of my updates for 2008. Should you care to download these MP3's, they will be onsite until January 1, 2009, so act fast! You might consider a small donation if you decide to do that. (Go to Audio to donate and download.)

Donations help me buy batteries for the recorder and defray the costs of the website. What are they?

The price of a digital recorder.
Batteries for it.
Monthly website costs
Annual renewal for the website names...bobwoodyard.com and vickiwoodyard.com

Miscellaneous expenses involved in being a writer. They add up.

The work I do in writing and speaking is free and voluntary.

What a deal!

I wish each of you a happy new year.

This will be the beginning of my fifth year without Bob. I owe the website to him. His charge for me before he died was to find my passion. I live it daily and am grateful to all of my readers and listeners.

Love, Vicki

Here is a bonus MP3 called A Question From a Reader. Click on Audio and then on the title.

I like getting questions and sometimes I don't "hear" the answer until I let it arrive into the recorder.

I refuse to get the Christmas Crazies this year. I may get fat, but not crazy. I made some white fudge with pistachios and Craisins yesterday. Before that, I made spiced pecans and sugar cookies.

I was talking to a friend today who is on my wavelength. She was exhausted from the frenetic vibes of the season. Tis the season to be overworked, underpaid with notes of guilt, loneliness and angst. I think I will create a fragrance about that called Noel, Hell no.

If that offended anyone, you are just not being honest with yourself. The true noel is an inner chord struck by the Master. To that I say Heavens, yes.

Love, Vicki

This just in: Part II of A Christmas Box is on Audio. It's called Why I Share.
Give it a listen and submit a comment.

Dec. 12, 2008--It’s time to sink into a nice hot bath....to soak in the Self that you are. To absorb right energy, conscious energy. You owe it to yourself to rest and relax. As Pamela Wilson says, “Rest and rapture....what else is there?”

Listen to this MP3 called A Nice Hot Bath on Audio. Be sure and dry off or you will be all wet...

Holidays take energy from us as rapidly as casinos take money. You can bet on it.

What can you do to put some nice fresh energy back into yourself? Listen to Into Wholeness Now on Audio and find out. I give you three energy statements to play with. Write them down and try them out.

I vow to relieve the suffering of all sentient beings.

I am in God’s presence now.

I choose to love myself.

Today is Bob Woodyard's birthday. May he rest in peace..

This is the companion to A Christmas Box. When you unwrap the box, it's me ;)
Go to Audio and click on Why I Share.
It's right under A Christmas Box!

Love, Vicki

I just uploaded A Christmas Box to Audio. What I want you to do is sit down and relax for a few minutes as you listen. There is nothing new or different being said; it is the state of peace being communicated.

I am still hoping for a few more Christmas donations. I have two...can you make it three?

Most of you know me by now. What I do is simple. I write about beingness as the solution to everything.

Thanks for dropping by. I welcome your emails and comments.

Write me here and suggest a topic for me to discuss. Thanks!
Vicki

Watching Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison on PBS...weeping when Johnny Cash speaks of home. Writing this:

You are one thought away from enlightenment. What is the thought? It doesn’t matter. It could be about the greatest love of your life or your big toe. It just doesn’t matter.

What matters is that you know this. That you know it so thoroughly that you enter the vacuum of darkness that removing it brings.

Can you bear the darkness of living without that one thought?

This is not a Zen koan but an honest question. Can you experience the answer right now. And if you can’t, why not?

 Simple goodness resides in that darkness; something so primitive that it has never spoken the first word.

Can you be that basic? Can you tend to your needs as they arise. Can you stop lying to yourself by way of thought so that you can know what darkness really is?

Mike asked me to talk about selflessness and giving....so here 'tis. Click on Audio and then click on the MP3
entitled Selfless Giving....