My friend Sharon Yeago wrote on Facebook: “I expect there will be lots of new jobs created on the east coast… a risk analyst predicts $20 billion in damages from Irene… $10 billion will be paid out in insurance claims, she says.  That’s $10 billion guaranteed base available to insureds to pay construction companies, plumbers, electricians, construction suppliers, workers for a variety of fields… I’m sure folks are already making their plans to head to the affected areas as soon as the storm clears… they always do in Florida.  Let’s not think that the big insurance companies are making these jobs… let’s remember that the insured (especially the families and small businesses) paying their premiums that will create those jobs.

If I go outside and look at what’s going on, it’s beautiful, sunny, breezy, air fresh. If I turn on the weather report, they’re trying to freak me out even tho the storm is way offshore. Should I sit home glued to the weather and worry where the storm might go next? Or go outside and enjoy the day?  In October 2004, I wrote about my experience riding out Hurricane Frances in a hotel room that my van broke down in front of in Lake City (on my way to Franklin NC where the next day they had flooding). If you watch the weather today, be the vision keeper with me, breathe some peace into the storm and know it’s possible for it to pass without damage to anyone.  Here’s what I wrote in October 2004

Is there anyone from the past you’d like to apologize to? I’d like to apologize to my folks for giving them such a hard time growing up with a teenage brattitude. I didn’t know how hard they had it and how much of their own lives (and dollars) they sacrificed for us. I’m sure they didn’t know what they were getting into and they made the best of it.

To attract what you want, you need to release resistance. The way to release resistance is make yourself think thoughts and do activities that make you feel happy and free. Then what you want will show up by the time you’re done having fun. And if what you want isn’t showing up? That just means you haven’t had enough fun yet. Trust me.

In my 20’s I spent most of my time:  trying to figure out who I was.
In my 30’s I spent most of my time:  trying to convince myself I knew who I was.
In my 40’s I spent most of my time: deprogramming myself , proving who I could be.
In my 50’s I spent most of my time:  realizing who I actually am is ok after all.
What about you?

Did you know that it takes 32 glasses of water to neutralize the acid from one 12 oz. carbonated soda?   Did you know that when our body pH is acidic, it promotes illness and poor health?  Scientists and doctors have found that over 150 degenerative diseases are linked to acidity, including cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, gall and kidney stones,osteoporosis, hypertension, memory loss and many more.  All diseases thrive in an acidic, oxygen poor environment.   Continue reading →

I love to be baffled by incongruent thoughts; it re-routes my neural pathways.

Paving neural pathways to achieve meditation and access elusive inner states

Your life is your message.  People don’t recall your words, they recall what you did. They recall every time you didn’t do what you said you’d do. Don’t become one of them. Do it, then tell me about it.

The older I get, the more clean and less cluttered I like my surroundings. I used to have to be surrounded by my stuff. Now I like the empty white space. I like lots of space between my molecules.

YouTube is not just music videos.  I love YouTube for tutorials of all sorts. This week I’ve been watching how to repair subflooring and swap out electrical switches and install ceiling fans. Friends have used it for guitar lessons, how to shampoo a carpet, sew a french seam, how to make origami paper cranes, watching an entire surgery online, kayaking, photo editing, stucco repair, anything DIY.