Yearly Archives: 2011

When people are trying to help in unhelpful ways

Thank you but no. My fish would not enjoy being safe in that tree.

Adam Tritt said on Facebook this week, “When people are trying to help in unhelpful ways, know how to say ‘Thank you but no. My fish would not enjoy being safe in that tree.‘ If I ask for a few ounces of help, I will end up with a few pounds and some of it of a type I can’t use, even when I say so. Sometimes I ask for an ear, and end up with advice. Or ask for a listen and end with a lecture. It is all appreciated, but it leaves me, sometimes, often, sitting home alone wishing I could ask for assistance but daring not.” I know you understand.

Lee Tritt died at 4:40 p.m. today, with husband Adam’s head on her chest, holding her hand.

Elise "Lee" Tritt

Our dear friend and sister, Lee Tritt, has left her body. She died at 4:40 p.m. today, with her husband Adam’s head on her chest, holding her hand. Please visit the website to see how you can help, even if you just quickly donate $10 to help the family offset the enormous medical bills. Adam is extremely grateful for the prayers, love and positive thoughts.

We’ll meet again, my friend.

The rental is ready for the next lucky tenant

The rental is ready! Click on the small image to the right and it will take you to a large pdf of the flyer. My friend and master craftsman Tod McNeal tacked down the last edge of carpet last night, picked up his tools and left the place spotless. See pics of a similar home at http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/307-Holiday-Park-Blvd-NE-Palm-Bay-FL-32907/2132219882_zpid/ . Their home and mine look the same inside, both built the same year, theirs is furnished and mine is not. They have panelling, my walls are painted a light color. So imagine the empty space without their furniture. Ceiling fans in every room, good insulation and super cool a/c. My last tenant was there nine years and we never had a problem. She went into the hospital and passed, but her son and daughter in law are available for a landlord reference. You pay the utilities: power, water and cable. I give complete privacy, no surprise visits ever. If you have a problem, you email me or mail a note and I get right on it. There should be no problems since much of the plumbing and electrical has been redone, much caulking and waterproofing, all new floor vents, wall switches and receptacles, plumbing parts and fixtures, all new paint, new sinks and faucets, more. $500/month. If you’re interested, email me at horizonsmagazine@gmail.com

What I waste could feed another family

I had a lesson the other day in how much I waste and what a luxury it is to live in this free and abundant world of ours. The other day I was washing vegetables and chopping them for soup, and I had a small compost pile going. I chopped fresh garlic, an onion, 2 carrots, 2 celery stalks, fresh green beans and kale. I had a chicken thigh in the fridge so I cut the fat and skin off and added it to the soup. As it began cooking, I noticed the small pile of veggie peels, the carrot and celery tops, the green bean tips and tough kale ends. That would make a good soup in itself, I thought. To a third world family, this could make an entire giant soup to feed them for a night. I put it in a pot on the stove and added in the chicken fat and skin. Forty minutes later it was just as delicious as the main soup. I’ll be more mindful the next time I chop. In the meantime, I have a bunny outside who loves the carrot tops and kale ends. And now I appreciate what I have so much more.

Funny how this psychic stuff works — when psychics are wrong

I was talking with a friend today who asked about when psychics get something wrong, meaning they pick up something out of your own mind rather than what is really happening. An example happened this week. I was at the rental watching Tod McNeal connect plumbing under the bathroom sink. The lines were close together and it was very tight in there. A thought popped into my head and I said, “Do you think the inside line is the hot water?” and Tod said yes. So I thought, “Cool, we both intuited where the hot water was.” However, we were wrong. How could we both be wrong? My experience tells me that what happened was that the thought popped into my head when Tod thought “the inside line is the hot water.” I was just picking up his thought. Here I thought the great and mighty Oz was giving me the big answer from the Universe, however I was only picking up Tod’s thought. We both laughed. But sometimes it’s not so funny. Like when you go to a psychic because you’re worried your man is cheating. When the reading says he’s cheating, it’s most likely the reader is picking up your own fear and, your own thoughtform. Continue reading →

When you just want to start all over

I used to think I’d like to wake up one morning and all my past would be behind me, that I would automatically do and say the right things, and everyone would receive me with fresh eyes. It happens to all of us, thoughts of wishing we could leave behind the past momentum and just wake up and be different. No obligations, no burdens, no responsibilities, no consequences. Wouldn’t that be nice? But that’s not usually how it goes. How it goes is that, one by one, day by day, you start becoming aware of how you act and react with people. You start wishing you hadn’t told Debra what you really thought or had taken that extra shot before the block party last night and jumped naked in the pool with your neighbor. You start feeling embarrassed and ashamed to be around people you’ve treated unfairly in the past, and sometimes it makes you feel so guilty that you avoid being around them. Then they notice you doing that and begin staying out of your way, then you begin to feel isolated. Sound familiar? Of course it does, and not just to the 12 steppers. It’s just a stage in the process of life on the Path and we all go through it. It’s just evolution of consciousness, just the shakti moving up the chakras and the higher it goes, the more cobwebs are removed, the more Light comes in, the more awake and aware you become. Sometimes waking up to who are is a welcome change, sometimes it’s SO not. Continue reading →

We are not meant to be all knowing, just loving.

Maybe don’t sell yourself as a “christian” radio station if you’re going to talk like this

I was listening to 90.3 FM WEJF ‘christian’ radio in the car yesterday and the guy was first criticizing a resort he stayed at and how he gleefully took someone else’s parking spot they’d been saving, then he moved on to some distasteful Obama one-liners. Good example, dude, WWJD?

Thank you

Dear God/Goddess/Creator/Great Spirit, thank you for bringing this blessed being into my life — you know who I mean. Because of their direction and dedicated hard work, my physical world is being transformed and upgraded. Whatever I did to attract them into my life, let me know so I can keep doing more of the same. Bless them for the work they do, and may they be paid back a thousand fold. Andrea

Be secure from a change for the worse

No mirror ever became iron again; no bread ever became wheat; no ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light. Rumi

Andrea de Michaelis – Creating my own reality, one thought at a time

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