Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: honeycomb

  • Healing is all the Buzz!

    Sacred Stories

    (A woman living in Florida, articulates her amazing synchronicity with a friend who lives in Mexico around a shared joy of the art form of dotting.)

    Note: Ze/Per/Hir/They – These pronouns offer inclusion and accuracy for someone who doesn’t identify by the male/female gender classifications, and were used in the original communication, and included here out of respect.
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    About 4 days after my surgery, I had an amazing dream and sent an email telling zer about it:

    I want to let you know that your dotting has factored into my healing process.

    My post-lumpectomy healing has been progressing really well. Last night I slept perfectly again, aided by XS Tylenol, and dreamed that you and I were emailing each other using only dots to communicate. We did it so much that the predictive text feature started suggesting dots for us to use. The really amazing part of the dream was when the dots came off the screen and morphed into a honeycomb alive with buzzing bees. I awoke feeling better than ever, almost zero discomfort, as if the bees and honey had permeated my body and resolved all physical issues.

    My friend wrote back:

    OMG!!

    First off, I’m so happy to hear that you are healing well and slept well with no pain!

    But…. Last night I was sitting here with a pencil and paper trying to figure out how to make a honeycomb out of dots. How cool is that!!!

    (really what is reading off a screen but just a bunch of dots we programmers call pixels)

    Here’s to more healing. Holding you in the buzz.


  • Reaching Out

    There isn’t anything anybody wants
    that is for any other reason than that
    they think they would feel better in having it.

    Our Love,
    Esther
    (and Abraham and Jerry)
    Excerpted from Seattle, WA on 7/3/99

    This morning I am pondering….

    What have you lost and/or gained from COVID-19? Some people have lost their lives, others have gained weight.

    My pondering has led me to wonder about the loss of our peaceful, easy, feeling with being with our daughter, Stacey. Stacey is our only child. We were sooooo young when she was born, we all grew up together. Most of our adult life there has been no one we more enjoyed that peaceful, easy, feeling with. Admittedly, the emotional distance predated the global pandemic. Likely, it was exacerbated by the political polarization that predated the pandemic.

    AS I WAS KEYING IN THESE WORDS, Stacey send her dad a text message saying she would like to come up and see us, and asking if we would be comfortable!

    We would certainly be more comfortable if we knew she was fully vaccinated.

    On the surface “things” can look like they can be disconnected, but there truly is no such thing.

    Last evening I could feel someone reaching out, a felt-sense someone was needing support. I did not know who, what, when, or where, so, I went to bed early with this intention on my mind and in my heart: May all beings come to the end of suffering.

    Checking text messages early this morning revealed the particulars of the reaching out, and I was blessed by a FaceTime visit with my friend who had sent the text message asking for support the night before.

    Just now, as I was reaching out asking for this emotional distance to be spanned, Stacey was also reaching out wanting the same thing.

    We all know that a peaceful, easy, feeling feels better.

    A friend shared having a dream that her entire body was covered with a honeycomb. It was very soothing — sort of like a protective layer. She woke up feeling very supported.

    A bit later, she discovered that WHILE she was sleeping and dreaming of a honeycomb, her friend/colleague was awake trying to figure out how to create a honeycomb pattern with ink on paper with a dotting tool!


    Bees, honey, and honeycombs are significant to life on earth. Neanderthals probably used honey as a food they gathered. The family of apes are known to utilize honey.

    What we humans are going through on earth at this time is not new.

    EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED.

    The wisdom and awareness of this, as truth, is what is new….