Special request to all you kids returning to school in the next few days or weeks:  If you see someone who is struggling to make friends or is being bullied because he/she looks or acts different, or because they are shy, PLEASE step up and say “hi” and smile.  You never know what that kid might be going through outside of school.  Your kindness can make a BIG difference in someone’s life!   Veronica Villaverde-Dayoub

Pom-Blueberry Vanilla Spirutein Protein Smoothie

This week I’ve been having a hard boiled egg and a protein smoothie for breakfast.  I make it with a splash of orange juice, a cup of Pomegranate-Blueberry 100% juice and some vanilla Spirutein, the whey version. I find this is the most efficient way to eat right now while I’m running around doing physical work.  I wish I knew this in the 90’s when I was a fattie.  In the past month I’ve dropped another 5 pounds because (1) I’m walking all over Home Depot every day and (2)  I’m too tired to eat for entertainment when I get home.  Yay, I love when that happens.

Yesterday was another long but productive day.  I began by working on final layout for the September issue of  Horizons Magazine which has to be at the printer on Friday.  I’d asked for an extra five days to finish it so I could work on my rental renovation.  After a morning of computer work, I went over to the rental and dropped off supplies and two bananas for my friend and his worker buddy.   Tod and I went through the place with a checklist and made a pile of items to return and another list of items to buy.  I went across the street to Home Depot and returned a ceiling light, two smoke detectors and a dozen switch plates, receptacles and wallplates.  I then bought the 10 packs of each which was a lot cheaper (thanks Tod for the tip.)  I bought a faucet set, a medicine cabinet and another ceiling fan.  With so many returns and purchases, I’m not sure what my grand total is yet, altho the receipts are in the file and I’ll check them against the bill when it gets here.  When I got back, ceiling fans were going up, the new toilet seat and shower curtain were installed and the place was shaping up.

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Thank you for my life, my job, my home, my health, my friends, my family, my opportunities, my lessons, my knowledge, all that I have and all that I am and everything I’ve been and all I’m yet to be.   Each time I think I couldn’t be happier, you make me happier.  No, really, thank you.

BREAKING NEWS: The Pity Train has just derailed at the intersection of Suck It Up and Move On, and crashed into We All Have Problems, before coming to a complete stop at Get the Hell Over It.

8-10-11 plantings

I woke up at dawn today and went to my rental home to do more cleaning.   It rained while I was there yesterday, so I ran outside and made cuttings of  two bushes and stuck them in the planter out front. This morning I took over some spider plants and mondo grass and a garden hose and this is the result.  It’s my hope that while it’s raining, the cuttings will stay damp enough to take root.  I watered them in real well and will take over some mulch later on.    I’d brought over my vacuum and my friend Tod left his mega carpet shampooer and I spent the morning vaccuming and using the carpet shampooer.  I’m still running out of steam early but I’m making progress.  This week I’ve found physical resources I didn’t know I had and that’s always empowering.

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Gregg Braden

“When we choose to feel feelings (such as appreciation, gratitude, forgiveness, care, compassion) that create what is called coherence in our bodies, science is now documenting that when we can feel those feelings, they are mirrored in the field and everyone benefits from the experience of the relatively few. It is documented that if we can create this effect with a certain number of people, the square root of one percent of a given population, then we will have the effect.”

For 300 years, our science has been based on two false assumptions. The first false assumption is that everything is separate from everything else. That what happens in one place has no effect on what happens anywhere else. And if it looks like it does, it’s only a coincidence.  The second false assumption is that our inner experiences of thought, feeling, emotion and belief have no effect on the world beyond our bodies. Based on those two false assumptions that have been accepted for 300 years by scientists, I can see why there would be a disconnect when they are looking at the magnetic field of the Earth spiking precisely at the moment the human emotion of the planet is focussed on a disaster (as happened on 911 as verified by GOES satellites).  Subsequent studies have found that human emotions, specifically the magnetic fields produced by the human heart during certain kinds of emotion, are now documented as extending far beyond our bodies into the physical world. And now apparent to such a degree that our satellites hundreds of miles above the surface are able to pick these up.

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