kiki and electa and phyllis dai komyo

For some reason I have avoided phyllis dai komyo. This potent symbol has a similar name to a buddhist chant I do-- daimoku--which is interesting, and I've only started using it because long distance reiki worked so well when I did it without Phyllis. But she's needed now as I need all the help I can muster for a couple of my great friends.

One of them is my best friend's grandmother, Electa, a vibrant 94 year old who stayed up until 1am to watch Barak Obama win; she'd been following the election for two years, and her dream was to see him become president. It's fascinating to watch: a small white woman, born at the beginning of the century who puts a black man at the top of her list. CNN has been her best companion for the past two years of both of their lives.

Her mind works better than mine, she reads a book a week, she hobbles around her spacious apartment where she remarkably lives on her own and marvels at the flashing coloured lights she can see stream up and down the CN tower from her window. As a gift, I bought her Obama's autobiography before I left Toronto, and she relished and devoured it within a couple weeks.

Few visit her other than myself, her hairdresser, and her sister. She eats frozen food as it's just easier to heat food in the microwave than cook, she says.

I visit her once a week when I'm in town and bring her fresh food, movies, and just listen to her talk about how she used to be in plays and always got the starring role when she was younger, how she'd play hockey, her wonderful sister, and how her great grandchildren ask her if she was born in the age of the dinosaurs!

She usually goes to bed at 9, but has been feeling quite tired and "off" since staying up late that Nov. 4 to watch the election. I'd like her to live the rest of her life at home, with great quality, so I'm sending her reiki twice a day and empowering it with Phyllis. When I return to Toronto, she will receive some in person too!

For Kiki, another great friend, I'm doing the same. She's an incredible singer (at www.myspace.com/kikimisumi) and she inspired me to join Buddhism and to practice it daily which has saved my life. Now her life needs saving, as a cancer has come back--this time in her lungs. Just two years ago, she had a huge tumour removed from between her heart and lungs and she's been in great fear since. Maybe the fear attracted more, maybe the mold in her house did, maybe the cancer just spread despite all the vitamins she has taken, but she needs a big dose of reiki before the surgeon does another Cat Scan in December to decide whether to open her up again in January. I've been so ill that many times I have wanted to die, and she wants to live so desperately that she puts me to shame.

I send her reiki whenever I think of her each day, ending in Phyllis to help aussage my worries, and I ask you to visit her webpage photo and send it to her also.

I've taken up the practice of also sending reiki to other souls in need that I read about in newspapers, new ones each week; perhaps Kiki and Elekta can be the ones you add to yours.