I just saw a new episode of The Real Housewives of New York City.  I see that, like the other Real Housewives shows, much of the dialogue is contrived as everyone “sets the record straight” to explain how horribly they were edited to look on last year’s show.  Alex McCord had it right when she called Jill Zarin a mean girl acting like she was in high school.  But it’s not just Jill, it’s most of the women on most of the reality shows.  And what’s the other show?  Basketball Wives!  The cat fighting, the gossiping. the posturing, the one-upmanship.  I can only watch a few minutes of this type of show.  I haven’t been able to make myself turn on a moment of the Real Housewives of New Jersey yet this season.  Except for Jacquline Laurita who minds her own business, the others are pretty scary: back-biting, vicious and vindictive.  I just don’t vibrate there at all.  It just seems mean spirited and cruel, and I don’t really see the point in that.  What’s funny to me is that these women don’t seem to notice that they are just the same as the ones they gossip and complain about.  When I come across a mirror, I look into it long enough to see myself. fix what needs fixing and move on.

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Galpal Shannon Burnett of Conscious Living Partnership came by yesterday and we had the most fun time catching up together.   I like when I need to meet with friends and we have tea at my place.  It’s more relaxed and we have complete privacy and no interruptions.  Plus I get to bring out all my teas and honeys and stevia and neat saucers and teapots.  I’d made some iced raspberry clementine tea in case we wanted iced.  We first toasted with white grape juice in my best crystal, with fresh mulberries floating on top.  I told her they were from my tree, then I took her on the yard tour.  We walked right into the tree and nibbled mulberries right off the branches. We’d kind of limbo under the branch and catch it in our teeth.  They are so sweet right now, and more of them are ripe every day. Continue reading →

I had a really good time in the garden yesterday morning.  A gal pal came by to get some plants for her yard.  Since the big shade is over my house once again after the freeze, I had all sorts of plants that needed full sun and had to be dug up and moved.  So we’re moving them to her yard.  I get a lot of enjoyment out of my yard.  It can be as much work as I want it to be, and as much fun as I want it to be.  At this point, I seldom buy new plants, I’m usually just moving them from one place in the yard to another.  That in itself can be a full time job. Continue reading →

Great. I just listened to voice mail and got today’s Bright House message that says sometime between 1:00am and 6:00am the phone, internet and cable tv will all go down for 2-3 hours while they do their routine maintenance.  Oh good, the time I use the internet the most, and about the only time I get to watch tv if I’m going to.  Thanks, Bright House.

I really hit the floor running Monday morning.  I did a pile of paperwork, returned a bunch of calls, and did a shout out on Facebook for ads for the June Horizons.  I went outside and watered the entire front of the property before 10am.  There is a line of jatropha (a kind of almond) trees along the front that are coming back nicely, and I want to keep them watered this year.  I turned the a/c on Saturday afternoon.  I was glad to have made it through April being able to keep the windows open.  I am under such good shade here that the house stays pretty cool.  I like having the windows open so I can hear the outside sounds: the crickets, the birds, the squirrels, the wind in the leaves and the chimes, the rustle of the soft bamboo leaves.  Continue reading →

The other day on Facebook I posted a link to the original 1973 Jesus Christ Superstar, sung in English and with subtitles in Spanish.   I made my Facebook post after reading at  This is Alabama, We Speak English.  Tim James is betting his election that Alabama voters prefer what he calls “common sense” to “political correctness.” The Republican gubernatorial candidate is running a provocative ad arguing that Alabama’s driver’s license exam should be given only in English. “This is Alabama; we speak English,” James says. “If you want to live here, learn it.” Continue reading →

I just learned of the oil spilling from the ruptured well off the coast of the state of Louisiana. We’re all blessing the water, right? It might be a good idea to gather friends and go to the beach if one is nearby, to bless the water and bless the shoreline. Or just send some prayers out from home, from where you are right now. See the spill being cleared and the ocean fresh and clean again. An exercise: Breathe in the impurities and breathe them out as an offering up to God. Breathe in God’s love, and breathe it out onto the waters.

Bayou Woman suggests praying for strong northerly winds blowing and dispersing the slick to deeper waters. This is when our daily practice pays off, adding to a strong group mind with focused intent.  This is real life 3-D alchemy.  I stopped by the beach this morning and brought back a small jar of the ocean to place on my altar to be prayed over.  You can do the same.  Who’s up for a drumming on the beach to see how much oil we can dissipate via sound waves?

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