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“We, the greatest of all creators, with capabilities to build cities and inspire nations, are squandering our time watching reruns of The Office. We have forgotten that whole galaxies exist within our grasp.”
Pam Grout
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
“We, the greatest of all creators, with capabilities to build cities and inspire nations, are squandering our time watching reruns of The Office. We have forgotten that whole galaxies exist within our grasp”
I am the author of 20 books, two screenplays, a live soap opera, a TV series and enough magazine articles that I haven’t starved in 25 years without a 9-5 job. On this site, you’ll find all sorts of information about my books and about my career as a freelance magazine and travel writer.
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Pamela Sue Grout
The Taz Grout 222 Foundation was launched to honor Tasman McKay Grout who spent 25 short years on the planet inspiring everyone who knew her to live and love better. Everything she stood for was some variation of this theme: create relentlessly, love fiercely and do quiet, kind things for the underdog.
Each year on February 22, the 222 Foundation awards a $12,222 grant to an innovative project or person with a big idea to change consciousness and therefore change the world.
We look for projects that support the following ideas:
1. A change in perspective is our greatest need. We believe all people (no exceptions) long to be generous and create beautiful things.
2. Today’s hopelessness is based on false premises. We look to defy the old story of scarcity, lack and the need to fight for resources. We aim to prove that the universe, once liberated from no-longer-working paradigms of scarcity, is generative and endlessly abundant.
3. The us against them model is kaput. We believe all humans are interconnected and that even tiny actions have great significance
“It is paradise here, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear.”—Jedidiah Jenkins
Wow! You guys blew me away with all your inspiring, encouraging comments. Thank you! SO MUCH!
I read and will consider every word as I commence on this exciting, new writing journey, knowing that, in the end, the muses always get the last word.
Even though I wrote an entire book on gratitude, I learned during the opening weeks of the World Cup that I still take way too many things for granted.
Take my hometown, for example. While I certainly include many of its assets on my daily list of amazing awesomeness, I didn’t realize how much I overlook until all these media outlets from all over the world started praising little old Lawrence, Kansas. The ultimate compliment, mentioned by many of the journalists, was “I could live here.”
I already appreciated that we Lawrencians are radically inclusive and open to everyone. And that we have scores of musician and artist transplants from California to New York and that the southwest corner of our Meadowbrook Apartments is considered by Google Earth to be the center of the earth.**
And I knew beat poet William Burroughs chose to live here longer than he lived anywhere and that our 100 Good Women (an organization that helps anybody with anything) raises funds with an annual Mrs. Roper walk.
For those who forgot Helen Roper from Three’s Company, think colorful caftans and over-sized costume jewelry on a rousing bar hop down our equally-colorful, historic downtown.
Though I regularly wrote travel articles for the very publications that praised our town, it never occurred to me to sing my own hometown’s praises. Like Byron Katie said yesterday, “the ego tries to talk us out of a perfect life.”
So, thank you universe for so clearly pointing out that, no matter how appreciative I think I am, there is always room for more gratitude, more enchantment.
Every single flower, tree and bumblebee is a gift to me. Every grin, every face, every living thing with which I share this wonderful world — thank you Louis Armstrong — is worth proclaiming huzzah from the tippy top of Mount Oread (yes, we even have a mini-mountain here).
So here’s to embracing it all and never again missing life’s gorgeous moments and unending gifts.
#222 Forever!
**The childhood bedroom of Brian McClendon, the co-inventor of Google Earth lived there (at the center of the earth) from the time he was four through age 18.
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
“In grace you see a light that covers all the world in love.”—A Course in Miracles
You may have noticed an uptick in the number of posts from me this week. I’m gearing up for my next writing project which requires me to tune in, to listen, to focus daily.
And because I like to celebrate exciting news with my peeps — that’s you, by the way — I’ve been inspired to share some of the ideas that are currently pouring through.
I’m thinking a lot about what I’m calling reality fields. Different dimensions that exist all at the same time. That’s why you notice some people spending all their energy on grievances (things that need to be fixed or changed) and others that live in utter amazement and gratitude. Both, of course, exist.
Each of us has a direct influence on the reality field we inhabit.
Since I’m no longer interested in manifesting “things” (that’s the easiest trick in the book), I’m focusing on expanding reality fields that show off the aliveness and intelligence in which we all swim. Hundred monkeys is happening, folks.
Among other things, I’m curating a book of stories about things we once believed were impossible that are now ordinary as pie. I’ve collected a whole library of “You are never going to believe this” tales.
I’m hoping in the comments section below, you’ll take the time to comment on whether you’d prefer a book of experiments (ways to experience in real time a different reality field) or a compendium of miracles stories that also shift us into a new reality field.
Either way, I’m excited to share the love blossoming all around us.
#222 Forever!
And, oh yes, have the absolutely best Fourth of July weekend of your life.
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
“Beliefs change the math about what is possible and probable,”– Shawn Achor
In October 1903, the New York Times declared that it would take from one million to 10 million years for men to build a machine that could fly. They interviewed notable engineers, scientists and others who had worked and reworked the formulas only to conclude that such a feat was simply not possible.
Exactly 69 days later, Orville and Wilbur Wright took off in the first engine-powered, heavier-than-air machine they called the Wright Flyer.
And if that impossible thing suddenly became possible, it’s worth examining other impossibilities we’ve long believed.
We live in an exciting, rapidly-changing time. The old, confining reality is dissolving before our very eyes. And the more we open ourselves to stories and beliefs that used to be impossible, that don’t fit into old boxes anymore, the bigger our playground becomes.
The model we’ve invested in for the last several thousand years is a tiny compression of the inconceivably vast and grand reality in which we live. It’s a tiny sliver of the full spectrum of potentiality.
And I, for one, refuse to invest any more energy in anything someone else deemed impossible.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
“We are in our daily lives reflections of what we worship.” — Edgar Cayce
My dad was a Methodist minister which meant I spent most Sunday mornings in church.
Far as I could tell, this weekly gathering served to remind the congregation what we learned last week and the week before that.
To this day, I still appreciate little nudges that help me recapture reality as it truly is. Such as:
Love is always the most stable force. To paraphrase a quote my dad used to say, two or more gathered in love is a stronger energy force than 10,000 believing in fear. If life were a tug-of-war (which some folks believe it is), two energy fields holding love can pull ten thousand over the line.
The world is infinite and offers more possibilities than I could ever begin to imagine. Anytime I rail against anything, I am forgetting that said thing (say injustice, for example) is one tiny, temporary potentiality among the literally unlimited other superpositions.
The world has regenerative powers. And even one person holding that love frequency influences the whole. I wrote about the 4-minute mile rule in one of my books. Once one person does it, others realize they can do it, too. It’s not unusual at Joe Dispenza’s gatherings for one person, wheelchair bound for years, to let go of whatever held them down and begin to walk. And often, that walker inspires others, also in wheelchairs, to stand and walk, too.
So that’s my Monday sermon! Here’s to holding the love frequency while enjoying and savoring the heck out of your week.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
“You are cared for by the universe beyond that which you can measure or understand right now.”—Regina Dawn Akers
Salaam Shabbi!
That may not be spelled right, but that’s what we’re saying these days in Lawrence, Kansas as we host the Algerian World Cup team. Between non-stop street parties, our marching band learning the Algerian national anthem and our quaint little downtown festooning itself in green and red, we’ve managed to create quite a stir. Stan Herd, our local crop artist, even created a ½-acre Algerian flag.
So in honor of last night’s victory of Les Fennecs (our newly-adopted team), I thought I’d take a moment to share with you, my beloved readers, a couple stories that defy the typical fear nonsense kicked up by our crazy egos.
For example, our culture seems to think making a profit should always take precedence, that creating capital is the end-all-be all.
As of last February, a café in Minneapolis has turned that restrictive system on its head. The owner of Post Modern Times decided it would no longer operate as a profit-based business. From that point on, it became a free and donation-based restaurant. While some 40 percent of its patrons don’t donate, the economic equality created with this new model has caused the restaurant to thrive, well beyond its previous levels.
In France, a group of businesses are opening their offices to homeless people in the evenings when they’re not using them. Called the Bureaux du Coeur (“Offices of the Heart”), the non-profit was started by business leaders who believe economic activity should serve society. What a concept!
Together with social service agencies, the now-national movement is consistently described as life-changing. Not only do participants find a sense of belonging (they often stay for coffee when the staff arrives), but old stereotypes about homelessness have been blown to smithereens.
Speaking of stereotypes, I also loved the story about a prison in Washington whose inmates are now rehabilitating endangered butterflies.
So I’ll sign off today with this question: “What beliefs do you have that might be restricting new possibilities?”
Happy Tuesday!
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 22 books including E-Squared, Thank & Grow Rich , The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)and her latest, The Ego’s Playbook.
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