Monthly Archives: April 2009

Shree Mataji is now in Palm Bay until May 14

Ma Yoga Shakti

Ma Yoga Shakti

Friday May 1 – Sunday 3rd May 2009 There will be a Retreat with Shree Mataji

On Mothers’  Day Sunday  10th May, Mataji will give the Sunshine Lecture at 9:00am and at 11:00am we will serve a Mothers’ Day Brunch. Bring a vegetarian dish to share.   All welcome to spend Mothers’ Day with our spiritual mother – Mataji.

On May 12th and 13th  Mataji will conduct meditation classes from 6.45 – 7.45 pm. Love donation – $10.  Please pre-register.  Yoga Shakti Mission is located at 3895 Hield Rd NW, Palm Bay, FL 32907. A mile west of Minton Road, just north of Palm Bay Road (exit 176 off I-95) Call  321-725 4024 and visit  www.yogashakti.org

Giving testimonials

Wednesday, April 22, 2009.  Happy Earth Day. I’m celebrating by communing with my yard all day, and today is also trash day and recycling day for me.  And the day I get to water, so all the trees and bushes will get their own drink.  That means I won’t be glued to Facebook or Twitter during breaks, like I am when I need to stay at the computer.  Sunday I got to visit with friends in person that I typically only Facebook with, and one of them has my Connecting With Your Angels, Guides and Teachers cd and my Sleepytime Recharge cd.  I told her that I had her testimonial on page 21 of the April Horizons.  She got excited because she had not noticed it.  One of the people I follow on Twitter is Havi at http://www.fluentself.com.  She had a good article on Why People Don’t Give You Testimonials.  However, I don’t agree that it’s difficult to get someone to give you a testimonial, so I’m glad I didn’t read that before I got some. Continue reading

Daily doings around AndreaLand

Tuesday, April 21, 2009.  Yesterday was a flurry of getting the May Horizons Magazine to the printer – which I do electronically by the way, via cyberspace.   So while I had to stay near the computer in case they called me to make changes, I was able to go out and play in my yard.  Here are my Facebook posts of yesterday:

Andrea de Michaelis is up and at it again. I love Monday mornings.  Another whole chance to do it all differently if I want to. I love new beginnings!

mag just went to the printer! Mama cardinal is on the nest. Her bush now has a safety collar on it like the dogs wear since YinYang took too much interest in it yesterday. Yinny is now banned to the house. Continue reading

Pod people; I never change until I am ready to

I am getting the May Horizons Magazine off to the printer today. I finished it yesterday morning in time to go to the birthday celebration for The New Way POD.  They had a picnic under the a pavilion at Kelly Park in Merritt Island.  It was a beautiful day, and there was plenty of food, good music and best of all, I got to see a bunch of my buddies in person!  I’ve been working on special projects the past couple of months and have not gotten up that way on Sundays as I like to do.  Thankfully, there is a core group of them on Facebook that I get to stay connected with that way.  It was so much fun getting to hang out in person.  Continue reading

My Facebook posts this week

Sunday, April 19, 2009. I’ve spent the last few days finishing up the May Horizons Magazine and today it goes in to the printer. When I have to stay glued to the keyboard and in the office for days at a time, my only goof-off time is when I am rebooting the computer.  Then I may run out in the yard and do some quick task, just to take a break and get out in the sunshine for 20-30 minutes every few hours.  That gives me my Vitamin D, too.  Sometimes it is enough of a break in the work to simply sign on to Facebook and seek what my buddies are doing.  Some days I don’t even get on, and some days I make a dozen or more posts all day long.  Here are some of my Facebook posts from the last few days.  In Facebook, when you “make a post”, your photo and your name appears in front of each post:

I just got an email with a real compliment… I think. Someone wrote, in response to the pic of me with glasses on my blog site: “Why not be real and use a photo of who you are today, not 20 or 30 years ago?” Obviously they have never met me in person or they would know that’s what I look like and the pic is barely 3 years old. Continue reading

Changing with the times, contracts, extending credit

I’ve spent the past week doing final layout for the May 2009 Horizons Magazine.  Although most of the articles and ads are placed months in advance, final layout week is not just a heavy 10 days of design tweaking, it is a constant flurry of mail and email revisions and phone calls for payment.  I’ve got a simple policy: an ad goes in when it is paid for.  Period, end of story.  The result of that is that no one ever owes me money.  It keeps everyone honest and out of debt.  I’ve got several friends and clients and advertisers who all extend credit to each other, and they are always in an uproar because of who owes what.  It’s been going on for years.  There’s always an underlying tension and judgment (why is she here at this dinner with a new $80 handbag when she owes me $100?)  It just causes more problems than it solves, so I just don’t do it. Continue reading

Millionaire Matchmaker; the monks and the Heart Sutra

Friday, April 17, 2009. Last night I watched The Millionaire Matchmaker on tv.  I’ve seen it a couple of times before.  Her website advertises it as “where successful men come to meet their beautiful and intelligent wives or girlfriends.” The matchmaker is Patty, who is a brash New York type who is almost 50.  The word yenta comes to mind. She herself is attractive enough, she just has a coarse and rude way about her.  And I always feel like blotting her lipgloss.  She charges $25,000 for a one year membership for the men and the women can join free.  What she does for that is has her staff go out on the street and approach attractive women and invite them to come for a group screening to be considered to be matched with a millionaire.  She stresses to the women how much money the guys have, and she stresses to the guys how pretty the women are.  Gosh, how can anyone pass that up, especially in Los Angeles? Continue reading

Seeing beyond the illusion

Thursday, April 16, 2009. My brother Jerry emailed me this morning, “Interesting that we talk about this physical reality actually being a holographic image that our minds have constructed.  Then we do everything we can to have all these things that the illusion tell us exist, rather than seek to have the “higher” things that exist beyond this illusion, the very things that ARE real.   We seek friends, fame, fortune, power, sex, and a myriad of other things.  We say we seek to follow our bliss, when actually we’re following nothing but our desires.  Even the best of us are doing little more than bull shitting ourselves.  No damn wonder people have trouble reaching a state of higher consciousness, an observer state, they’re just too wrapped up in the game.  They want to play in the hologram instead of being focused in the higher vibrations.  Have the cake and eat it, too?   In effect, we think we can bring higher consciousness right into the hologram with us, and play with it like some damn ball.  We don’t want to exist in a state of higher consciousness because that would mean we would lose all these neat little toys we have to play with in our make believe existence.  It’s just a fact, people aren’t willing to give up the hologram.  They love it and will be stuck until their make believe hell freezes over.

Hmmmmmm, I admire you and how you control your time.  Your alone time gives you a chance to better control how much you bite into the illusion.  Yes, of course you’re right it the middle of the holographic game sometimes.  Playing just as hard as anyone else.  But at least you work to control it.”  Continue reading

Hanging with Jimmy Fallon; moving forward, secret key

Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Last night I hung out all night  with Jimmy Fallon.  Well, in my dream anyway.   In the dream, I was living back in Miami and parked in the lot of a condo complex on Brickell Avenue. We met in the elevator as I was leaving and he said he was glad he saw me, he had something to give me.  We went to his condo and he began seaching through boxes and drawers looking for the item.  It began a long dream segment of him saying “wait here, I think I know where it is.”  I got tired of waiting so I fell asleep on the couch.  I woke up several hours later and he was in his bed reading.  He said he didn’t want to wake me.   I reach for my keys to leave and cannot find them.  He says “that’s ok” and gives me his door key.  I turn my purse upside down on the living room table and finally find my car keys in a secret pocket I never knew I had and leave.  When I get out on the street, I cannot find my car.  I walk around and around the block looking and can’t find it.  It was hard to walk, like a big weight keeping me moving slow.  I have learned when that happens in a dream, I usually begin grabbing on to the side walls and pulling myself along, or else turn and walk backwards. I go back up to Jimmy’s and knock and he asks “didn’t I give you a key?”  I ask if I can look from his windows down on the street to find my car.  It’s nowhere to be found.  We keep running into people we know, so there are lots of introductions. To one of my friends he introduces himself as another name and says “yes I know, I look just like him.” The rest of the dream is Jimmy and I driving around looking for my car.  In the car, he talks about how nice it is to do just regular quiet things and not attract attention everywhere.  We never do find my car but somehow that’s ok.  The dream continued even after me getting up several times in the night. Continue reading

Finding satisfaction in watching wildlife as I work

Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Yesterday was really a busy day for me as I worked on final layout of the May Horizons Magazine.   I took several breaks to run around the yard putting out black oil sunflower seeds for the cardinals who are nesting in the bush next to my back porch.  At lunchtime, I sat on the porch watching the mama cardinal on the nest and saw two young raccoons scarfing up the sunflower seeds in broad daylight.  Well, not so broad daylight under the mulberry tree where there is such deep shade, but I usually don’t see the raccoons until sundown.  It was like dinner theater as I watched dozens of little finchy wrens descend upon the mulberry tree. I had the sprinkler going to water in new cuttings, and it was hitting the lower branches. These little birds – whatever they are – were taking turns bathing in the sprinkler. The cats were yards away, looking at them, transfixed.  There had to be 3-4 dozen of them.    Continue reading