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Mary Jane shoes make me feel like I’m Alice in Wonderland.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Sunday Morning in Cassadaga, I get a message from Marla Chirnside
We drove Sunday morning to deliver the December Horizons Magazine to Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp and arrived just after the Colby Temple church service. We headed over to the bookstore for the afternoon message service held in the meeting room each Sunday at 12:30. I got a surprise message from Spirit through psychic medium Marla Chirnside – it was an emotional connection, uplifting, encouraging, personally relevant. See Marla on the 10-28-13 episode of Florida Crossroads, and on the NBC Today Show (Cassadaga The Psychic Capital of the World episode) that aired last summer. In both film clips, she is shown giving a reading in the message service and then each reporter follows up with the person that received the message. Both individuals, a man and a woman, said that she was very accurate with her message. I can agree. Continue reading
You don’t save the drowning with thoughts on hydrodynamics or respiration
Some race into an early grave never realizing they are out of control. Others choose an early grave, never realizing they are in control. Neither can change their own singular and destructive focus. You don’t save the drowning with thoughts on hydrodynamics or respiration, you just pull them from the water and hope they don’t fall back in or pull you in with them. William Lovelady
Wow, five months of daily contact and not one disagreement, neither trying to fix nor parent the other, who knew it was possible? “When you’re emotionally free, it makes other people comfortable and happy to be around you. It energizes them and encourages them to be clearer about their own feelings.” Deepak Chopra
Healing and Medicinal Properties of Cooking Spices
The spices I use are known to possess therapeutic and healing properties. Spices help you elevate any dish from the ordinary to a feast for the senses of sight, smell, and taste. Spice your meals to enhance your food with better taste and medicinal and healing properties without adding calories. Spices and herbs maximize nutrient density. Herbs and spices contain antioxidants, minerals and multivitamins. Spices naturally increase your metabolism. Because spices are nutrient dense, they are thermogenic, which means they naturally increase your metabolism. Spices have real medicinal properties. Centuries old eastern medicine and now recent studies and scientific research both boast the healing benefits of spices. My faves: Continue reading
Every meal a healthy, nurturing flavor feast
About 4:00 am this morning I went outside for a beautiful 4th quarter moon meditation, and the moon was straight overhead. I picked some fresh rosemary while I was out there and went inside to make a roasted veggie soup for the man. Some friends laugh about my soups and teas of sticks and twigs, but I like to turn each meal into a healthy, festive brew using fresh herbs and dried seeds and spices that I grind myself. The soup was delicious, the recipe here. I especially like to prepare food right after meditation, it extends the meditation time and allows the food to become imbued with my feeling of love and contentment. That makes every dish a healing balm. My food blog here –> Goddess Grub, Lowfat and Luscious Meals for the Goddess on the Go.
What has been a significant defining moment in your life?
Mark Tietig 1983 aboard La Calma
On Facebook, my spiritual brother Jeffery Stone asked a great question: “I’ve been pondering life and my journey, thinking about how I am defined by my life experiences and those moments that molded my character. I thought about how so many things could have worked out quite differently had things not changed on a dime or been different by a mere two degrees … good, bad or indifferent … So I’d like to ask that you think about and share what you feel has been a significant defining moment in your own lives … I know that we all have so many ...” GREAT QUESTION! After pondering, I shared, “In 1983, I went on a 3 month sailing trip from Miami, FL to Anapolis, MD with a friend who’d been blinded in a sailing accident four years earlier. Afraid of the ocean and being near large submerged objects, it was a daily test for me of faith and trust. It culminated in me doing something I would never have considered doing months earlier: My blind friend set out on a solo sail with his guide dog using his 33′ Cheoy Lee sailboat’s voice feature for the satellite navigation system. We’d be filming from a boat behind him. I was on the crew that sailed him out of Government Cut in Miami, the channel out to open sea. Once in open waters, we transferred on to the other boat. That means standing on the very bow of the boat, about 3 feet away from the other boat, and waiting for the waves to sync up before jumping onto the second boat, without falling into the deep ocean in between. Continue reading
Always hold an umbrella for a mom with kids
Coming out of the market I saw a young mom with 2 kids in tow and a cart full of groceries going out to her car in the rain. I ran over and held the umbrella while she got kids in their seats and bags in the car. What a blessing to be able to do that. Talk about Grace falling like rain. I live for little stuff like that.
A lazy, rainy Thursday
97% humidity, 72 degrees, it’s cozy inside, eating hot bowls of potato and roasted pepper soup for lunch while watching the rain fall in the garden and drip off the leaves. The MiniCow is in her basket on the little round table. I couldn’t be more content. Thank you to Whoever made that happen. And yes, I know I helped.
I take a day off to lounge in bed. Well, almost.
I rearranged the master bedroom Tuesday night. I didn’t set out to. I was vacuuming when I decided to wash the window sheers and the several wall hangings I use to make up my Arabian Nights harem canopy for the bed. I moved the bed around, moved three chairs out of the room, moved one back in, night stands out of the shed and placed on either side of the bed, a variety of lamps and lighting: red, amber, 25w and 60 watt white. I’m mega sensitive to light so I like to have choices. The room measures 15 x 20 and the bookcases lining the walls have my astrology, tarot and divination books in them. This is a good room to study in. There are now lamps at each sitting station. I like to keep my room as my sanctuary, it’s the only room in the house I am not reminded of the office. I often feel as though I’m on vacation when I spend time in my bedroom. It reminds me of being at a hotel the day before a conference, relaxing, skipping the opening night dinner to catch some alone time. It feels deliciously self indulgent. Continue reading