Friday, June 5, 2009.  My brother sent me a link to Employees: Haunting Caught On Tape – Greenville, a news story where a ghostly apparition is caught on camera. It happened about 25 miles from his home in South Carolina.  It is an area known for paranormal activity, including the phenomena known as The Seneca Guns. Brothermine wrote about them here.  My brother is a very psychic guy and he works in a very conventional mechanical engineering type job in the areospace industry.  He’s very low profile about his psychic gift (yes, we both hate that term, but we’ve gotten over it) and selective who he shares information with about anything paranormal or metaphysical.  He’s not an attention seeker and doesn’t feel like he has to prove anything to anyone.  He knows who he is.  Back to the surveillance video on the news story at  Employees: Haunting Caught On Tape – Greenville Continue reading →

Wednesday, June 3, 2009.  Well, I really got a crash course in perception again yesterday. The night before, I’d been tired from driving all day, yet not quite sleepy enough to go to bed.  You know how that goes, you’re awake but not real alert.  Tired and wired I call it.  And no, I don’t drink 🙂  So here I was really tired and clearing some things off my desk when I came across a pair of tweezers I’d used to pull out a splinter a few days ago. I’m not one to tweeze brows or shave legs or whiskers since I’m so fair you can barely notice it. But as I sat back in my chair with the tweezers in hand, it seemed a good idea to reach for the mirror and do some eyebrow shaping.  You already know where this is going, don’t you? Continue reading →

It’s June already!  How cool is that? Well, not very cool anymore, as the weather heats up.  Temps have been in the mid 80’s and humidity about 75%, and very pleasant.  I began turning my a/c on a couple of weeks ago.  I love the fresh air, but not the humidity.  I like a fan blowing on me all the time; maybe that’s a menopausal thang.  Yes, when is that going to end anyway???  I’ve been hot flashing for 15 years.  Enough already.

Hey, I snapped a cell phone pic on Saturday as I was driving.  I am not a fan of my full face, no-bangs look, but in the hair-growing-out process I need to keep it out of my eyes.  As soon as the bangs drop below my chin, I can stick my hair behind my ears and be done with it.  As the weather heats up, it is growing faster.  I’ve learned that it keeps it stronger and healthier when I snip the ends every few weeks, and when it’s strong, it grows faster. Continue reading →

I love the hair and makeup commercials I see on tv and on AOL: “Tricks to Beat Frizz on Humid Days” the headline reads.  “The Best Foundation for Summertime.”  Have these writers ever lived in Florida?  It doesn’t matter what gel or spray you put on your hair and what styling tools you use, the Florida humidity in the summer will soak into your hair as surely as if you walked through a steam bath.  And waterproof, sweatproof foundation and mascara?  Not so.  They slide right off.  Until I travelled outside Florida for the first time, I thought everywhere had high humidity.  After I took my first trip out west, I realized that wasn’t the case.  I lived in California for awhile and that’s when I realized, ah, that’s where these writers live.  They must think everyone lives in the same climate as they do.

Sunday May 31, 2009. My brother gave me a small tabletop rose bush earlier this year.  It arrived with one rose and a small rosebud.  Within 2 weeks, both roses were spent, and I placed the bush on the table in the sunniest corner of the back porch.  I mean, it being a tabletop rose bush and all. Weeks and then months went by and, although the rose got a couple of hours of direct sunlight each morning, it wasn’t really growing and it took 2 months until I saw another rosebud on it.  My brother would ask how the briar patch was doing.  Then I had the idea to plant it in the yard, just 3 feet from where it sat on the porch, and it immediately began to grow.  The full sun all day long made the difference.  I told Brother Jerry about it, and he said, “That little briar patch is kinda like people, you can baby and pamper them and try your best to make them bloom, but the flowers don’t appear unless you allow them to have their own little place in the sun.  Then the laws of nature brings forth the roses.” Continue reading →

Saturday May 30, 2009.  I watched the tv show Mental last night. Chris Vance is Dr. Jack Gallagher, an unorthodox psychiatrist who becomes Director of Mental Health at an L.A. hospital. He takes on patients battling unknown, misunderstood, and misdiagnosed psychiatric conditions.  Gallagher has developed an ability to get into the minds of his patients and see the way they see reality, allowing him to uncover what might be the keys to their long-term recoveries. This perspective leads him to offer alternative treatments for his patient.  I wondered why I was led to turn the show on, but then I saw the doctor and staff around a table discussing treatment plans.  Since one patient had already gone off his medication, Gallagher suggested they keep him unmedicated, let all the chemicals get out of his system, and use counseling, acupuncture, visualization and other forms of alternative therapy.  Then after the patient had a period of no medication, re-evaluate him in light of new technologies. You can imagine that not everyone at the table was in agreement.  One responded “You don’t treat schizophrenia with aromatherapy.” This might be a very good show.

Later in the show, Gallagher is approached by an authority at the hospital who asks for his cooperation in keeping the funding in place from the major pharmaceutical companies who use the hospital to run their drug trials.  This should play out nicely as a story line.  And also educate some people; especially the elderly who are over-medicated and sit in front of the tv all day.  I hope they watch this show.

I spent about 10 years with the tv off, and it’s just recently come back on.  That’s a good thing to do to gain perspective.  Now I see programming is slowly making some changes for the better.  It’s encouraging.