Monthly Archives: April 2010

I will miss you on Facebook

Even though it’s a hoax,  I’d miss everyone who would leave Facebook when they begin charging $3.98 a month for it.  I get more than $3.98 a month worth of fun and cyber-tribing out of it, as well as more than $3.98 a month worth of business from it.  Aaah, I made up a new verb.   Well, I guess I’d just have to morph into a new tribe if it ever did happen – I hope you’re in it.

Andrea

Staying skilled and open to change in today’s employment market

Florida Today writes in Career centers brace for wave of clients that the end of the space shuttle program could send thousands of aerospace workers into joblessness later this year.  But this isn’t just about one sector’s struggles.  “If we don’t have aerospace workers going to a restaurant, using a dry cleaner or going to the doctor, you see a ripple effect start to happen.”  Career centers offer one-on-one and group help with skills training, career counseling and other support services.  I’m all for getting trained in relevant technology to keep up with the times.  It’s scary when what you’ve always done for a living is no longer viable.  But that means it’s time to move into a new area, time to get trained for the transition.  I wonder what else I would do? Continue reading

What I Did on Saturday

Yesterday I began the day by gathering some plants together for a galpal to pick up.  She recently bought a home with a big sunny yard and I had lots of cuttings and seedlings for her.  There were loquat seedlings, 2 big aloe plants, 2 pineapple plants, an areca palm, a live oak and a laurel oak, some jatropha almond, lemongrass, ginger and night blooming jasmine.  Yin Yang followed us as we wandered through the yard, but Izzy was nowhere to be seen.  He’s such a fraidy cat, but once he meets this pal in person, he will want to climb in her car and go home with her.  We found out that little oak seedlings have a long tap root and that aloe stays shallow.  The areca palm was remarkably easy to dig up, as were the two pineapple plants.I have a lot of ginger and as we cut a few new ones for her, we could smell the fragrance.  Mmmmm, nice. Continue reading

Remember an active hurricane season doesn’t mean any will make landfall

The news is at it again. In Consensus Growing for Active Hurricane Season, Paul Yeager writes:  When private forecasting company WSI increased the number of predicted tropical storms and hurricanes in its updated Atlantic hurricane forecast, it added to the growing consensus among forecasters that the 2010 season will be an active one.  Skeptics of the accuracy of seasonal forecasts are numerous, often citing the inability of forecasters to predict the weather for next week as evidence that a seasonal forecast is impossible to make with any accuracy and is therefore useless.  In fact, three private outlets, along with the federal government’s Climate Prediction Center, all correctly predicted that the 2009 season would be less active than the 2008 season. The initial forecast for all of the entities was for a greater number of storms than actually occurred. ### end of article excerpt Continue reading

Pulling dollars out of “nowhere,” Dollars waiting in vibrational escrow, Synchronicities at play

Yesterday they delivered the May 2010 edition of Horizons Magazine, and that’s typically a high dollar day for me.  I pay the printer today, and I also pay the post office for the 100+ stacks of magazines I mail to locations where I have no driver.  Postage averages about $360 for this mailing, and I usually give the post office a check for $400, to keep a credit with them. I was about down to the wire in the checking account when I went into the post office.  It was one of those days when I am literally walking right up to the counter to pay for something that, two steps away, I’m not sure where the funds are going to come from.  Last minute for real.  To my delight, I had so much credit in my account that I did not have to write them a check.  I love when that happens! Like last week, my tax refund was direct deposited into my account, again a time I thought I was down to the wire.  So once again, when I thought I was low on funds, I really had all I needed stored up for me, kind of like what Abraham-Hicks calls “vibrational escrow”. Continue reading

I Spent Earth Day 2010 in my Garden

I got to work in the garden off and on almost all day yesterday.  I took a lot of cut branches, palm and palmetto fronds to the street. I took some pine and oak branches to the firepit area to begin curing.  I took the cut camphor and bay branches there also, for my full moon ceremony on Wednesday April 28th.  I built a little bamboo fence to line the west side of my driveway.  Since my ficus privacy hedge went down to the ground with the frost, that area felt so bare and open.   Usually when I look out my front window, all I see is my little garden courtyard, with a wall of ficus and turk’s cap and eleagnus all around.  Now when I look out, after the freeze, I see right out to the street.  Which means everyone walking by can now see what’s behind my privacy hedges and into my yard.  So I took a half dozen lengths of cut bamboo and made a 5 rail fence for myself. Continue reading

Neurotheology: How God Changes Your Brain

 One of the emerging academic disciplines that many seekers are honing in on these days is the whole field of “neurotheology.” Basically what is going on here is the application of scientific method to the study of God. We know, for example, what the brain looks like when it is focused on anger. Brain scans also reveal what the brain looks like on forgiveness. The question is then, what does the brain look like on God?  Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Mark Waldman have co-authored a book entitledHow God Changes Your Brain.” In the first chapter they write, “We are currently studying Sikhs, Sufis, yoga practitioners, and advanced meditators to map the neurochemical changes caused by spiritual and religious practices. Our research has led us to the following conclusions: Continue reading

Honoring Mundane Tasks as Sacred Offerings to my Own Success

Tuesday I spent the day getting my first quarter financial documents ready for my tax chick, Lois A. Fredricks.  I created a checklist for myself, to make it easy for me to remember what all she needs me to give her each quarter.  I love lists, and especially checklists.  They make it possible for me to easily do what might otherwise be complicated stuff. Early on Tuesday, I wrote on Facebook: I’d would love to open my Excel spreadsheet just once without a feeling of … wait, I can decide ahead of time how I want to feel as I open the spreadsheet. I can be excited about the clarity I’ll have after I’ve filled it out, and how organized I feel knowing what’s what. I can think of the end result instead of dreading the mundane muddling thru the figures… It’s my decision. Continue reading

How do you attract a new source of income?

A friend asked me, “Exactly what do you place on your “list” for a new source of income, job/career/whatever? How is it worded?  I am interested in working one. I now know ALL the stuff I DON’T want so I’m a whole lot clearer on what I do want. But not sure how to structure the list. Thanks.”

I responded, “I’m ready to attract a new source right now myself so I can free up some time. My script goes something like I have no idea where this new source of income will come from, nor how it will begin, nor how small of steps I may be making right now that I don’t even know I am making. I will keep my eyes out for clues as I continue doing what I do and do it in a happy and contented way since I know it’s all related.” Continue reading

Doctors Again Dabbling in Psychedelic Drugs

Interesting article and we’ve got some comments at the end.  In Doctors Again Dabbling in Psychedelic Drugs, Katie Drummond writes: (April 12) — Recent studies are offering compelling evidence that modern medicine should reconsider the use of hallucinogenic drugs in the treatment of several psychiatric disorders.  A handful of elite research institutions, including Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Harvard and New York University, are conducting tests on the potential for hallucinogens to offer beneficial, long-term changes to an individual’s brain chemistry.  Most of the current studies are concentrating on psilocybin, a key ingredient in the hallucinogen known as “magic mushrooms.” Continue reading