Echo LaVeaux

Intuition Should Never Be Ignored

If you have a gut feeling about something, do yourself a favor and pay attention to it.

Your intuition is like a guardian angel, spirit guide, or nudge from the universe.

It’s a built-in radar, scanning constantly, alerting you to incoming troubles.

Your intuition is there to protect you.

Pay attention to it when you get the feeling that something isn’t right.

Because if you get…

So I had a dream a while ago…

While rifling through a stack of papers the other day, I ran across a poem I’d forgotten I’d written.

A few years ago I awoke from a truly magical dream that I had to capture on paper. It spilled out through my fingers as a poem. The dream sparked a novella called “Beyond the Blue” that I’ve been working on as I have the time.

I hope to have this story completed and published in 2019. For…

Notes To Echo, Volume One: The Human Condition – Pain

Hi all. Echo here. I apologize for such a long delay in returning to this blog. Over the course of 2018, I have suffered crippling physical illness and several bouts of depression. As I moved through the pain and suffering, I gained quite a bit of insight into the inner workings of the internal world. Lots of “ins” there, but it’s true.

Everything is within.

I am going to start blogging once in a…

Swimming In A Dark Place

2018 has been a year of extremes and intensities. I feel as though I have been swimming in a dark place, struggling to keep my head above water and feeling as though there was no use anymore. As if my whole life means nothing. As if everything I do is, in reality, worthless.

I’ve had to accept the fact that I’m not Wonder Woman. I’m just wholly, totally and terrifically human.

2018 started off…

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Four of Cups, Four of Disks

I had a dream last night, a strange dream, a dream where I traveled to an exotic, South American land and encountered an open-air bazaar. There, in the back, stood a table covered in red cloth. On the table were four clay cups, and four small, clay disks. The seller of these wares sat with his head resting on his crossed arms. He appeared to be crying. When I woke up this morning, the only thing…

A new cold weather tradition

As I’ve gotten older, my body is getting used to the hot, humid days of summer in the South. It hasn’t always been this way. (more…)

When dreams become book ideas…

A couple of years ago, after the death of Chris Squire (bassist for the prog rock band Yes), I had a crazy and psychedelic dream about him that has haunted me to this day. A couple of days ago, strange as this seems, I sort of “felt” him all around me. Keep in mind that I never met Squire in person. I only grew to know about Yes after I met Mr. LaVeaux in 2003. My knowledge of the band is quite…

On This the Eve of Halloween

This year, Mr. LaVeaux and I will be having a very low key Halloween. At sunset on Halloween, we’ll be cutting a pumpkin and making our first jack-o-lantern in many years, burning a candle and breathing prayers under the night sky, drinking beer and thinking about those who have gone on before us. The changing season, oncoming cold weather, falling leaves…all of autumn makes me reflect upon the…

Hot Tea on a Cold Day

Sometimes there is nothing more refreshing than a piping hot cup of tea on a brisk, cold day. Tea takes me to other places in my mind, places I’ve never been, places I dream about and conjure in the vast regions of my imagination. What is it like to stand inside the Taj Mahal? Does it smell sweetly of spice? What would it be like to walk along the River Thames in London, a mug of Earl Grey tea…

Thoughts that Ramble in my Mind

It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. Sometimes, there just aren’t too many things to be said. Sometimes, thoughts consume me that I cannot express. This is where I have been. Silent, but with a mind busy trying to understand life. You would think that as a 50-something who has lived through so much good and bad that I would be at a place where I am settled in my thoughts. Not the case. Sometimes…

The image above shows just how far of a reach this blog has journeyed. At least one person in each of the yellow and red nations has visited me here online. This never ceases to humble me. I can’t thank you enough, each of you, for taking time to read one or more of my blog posts. You are the reason I do this. Thank you again.

Those Dark Moments, and the Breath of Light

Dark moments. Everyone has them, some more than others. While there are those who may be in the midst of one right now, there are others who may be emerging. No matter what, we all have those dark moments in our spiritual and emotional lives. How do we cope? We all look outside for answers. Which book to read? What podcast to listen to? Who is the best guru? While there is nothing inherently…