To everyone who’s sent me a message on Facebook the last year and didn’t get an answer, I just found all those messages.   How nice that Facebook lets me archive them for Big Brother rather than delete all the nonsense spam people I don’t know fill my box with so I can’t see messages from friends.  Hopefully friends know if they are ignored, it’s simply I don’t have time to wade thru the spam to uncover valid messges from people I actually know.  And all the dudes I don’t know who act like Facebook is a dating service?  Come on guys, annoying!

The new design looks fine to me, different but easy enought to navigate once I took a moment to figure it out.  I seldom use the message feature since so many people, even ones not friends, send stuff there and it hides my real friends messages.  I have over 3000 friends.  I get like 20 a day spam messages and I just don’t look at it anymore.  Now it seems I cannot send a Facebook message to someone unless I have my chat feature open and then it is a chat message to them. I stay offline just to not have nonsense sent there. Hey, if it was easy we wouldn’t get to work our brains and keep our neurons firing!

If you want to change the world, it’s not necessary to do some great thing. Just do lots of little things, everywhere you go. They add up to something great.  Ven Baxter

When I began seeing studying the life force energy, I became aware of the deeper significance of my life and everything and everyone in it.  I could see as well as feel the connection more acutely and behaviors that had before been mundane now became sacred to me.  I learned that by looking at life as though everything and everyone is connected and that the Universe is joyously waiting to do my bidding, I tuned into and became part of some great flow.  Thirty years later, I am still learning to surf it.  Think about it:  say you wake up tomorrow morning and know it’s all sacred and connected, and you have no responsibilities from the past, no dollars owed, no discordant relationships, nothing you have to do.  And you’ve got about $112 million in the bank.   What do you do that day just for the fun of doing it?  What plans would you make and who would be there with you in them?

I think it’s hilarious that even when something is in writing so it can be easily read and understood, and just a few lines,  many, many people read stuff into it that clearly is not there.  It’s true, we don’t see things as THEY are, we see them as WE are.  And boy, are we unfocused, out of touch and take stuff personally.  Glad I’ve stopped taking things personally and thinking it’s all about me.   As Valerie Allen says, “It is not reality, but our perception of reality that leads to our actions.”

Beloved Bernadette

I wrote on Facebook about a couple I know who split after 28 years and said, “We must always be on the lookout for plan B.”  My smart guru galpal Bernadette Carter-King reminded me, “My opinion is we will always get what we are on the lookout for.  What would happen if we stay focused on plan A?  Since we create our reality, plan B will happen in spite of how plan A could have succeeded.”   No one knows how to put me in my place like my pals!

I posted a situation on Facebook and didn’t name the parties and didn’t give any identifying hints.  A friend wrote:  “If I was either of these two individuals, I would be really pissed at you for discussing us on FB. I would consider it a breach of confidence. Discussing a case privately among peers is one thing.  Opening it up for global discussion is entirely inappropriate.” I replied, “This couple does not even have a computer.  My job requires discretion, and it also requires sharing and helping us realize we all go thru the same stuff.  I learn from the mistakes of others and am always open for new solutions, hence my posts.”  What do you think?

“You’re allowed to believe in a god. You’re allowed to believe unicorns live in your shoes for all I care. But the day you start telling me how to wear my shoes so I don’t upset the unicorns, I have a problem with you. The day you start involving the unicorns in making decisions for this country… I have a BIG problem with you.”
— Matthew Schultz

I went into Publix Bayside this morning to buy some apples and realized I didn’t research them first. I know you use different ones for baking than for hand eating, but I didn’t know why.  I don’t eat enough apples to remember which is which.  I saw Richard Romandetti in the produce section and asked if Publix had one of those charts that show apples from tart to sweet.  He had something even better.  He knew everything about the apples, he answered all my questions and told me stuff I didn’t know.  I thought no wonder they have him here, he knows his stuff. “How do you know all this?” I asked him.  “They send us to school for it,” he said, “they teach us all about it.”  Wow.  I had no idea.  I figure whenever I walk into a grocery store, whoever is stocking the aisles is just a worker who knows how to put things neatly on a shelf.  Not so.  I told Richard my aunt was baking a pie and I wondered which apples would be best.  He began to tell me the difference and it was great, it was like an Alton Brown segment. Continue reading →