This is a common theme during holidays. For many it’s a stressful time, and people can tend to bonk out. The sentimental season can draw us to familiar people who we might be better off without. Since it’s a Universal pattern I see each holiday time, I share this here. A galpal heard from an ex she’s ready to be done with, and wrote: “So… big conversation… some emails… and silence. Is this the ebb and flow of a “I need to feel safe and in control” return? (Sheesh…)”. I responded, “It’s some of that and some of “I don’t know what I want and until something else peaks my interest, I’m gonna toss random balls into your batting cage since it’s familiar and I need comforting right now.” There’ll likely be enough back and forth over the holidays to keep you hopeful yet irked and another disappearing act for January. I see another man at holiday time, any time now in fact. But it’s still not over… Whether that’s good news or bad news, don’t take score too soon.” And remember if you’ve got your attention filled with the wrong one, there’s no room for the right one to come in.
Author Archives: Andrea
Narcissistic Parents: Bless the children who have to raise themselves and each other
I just keep reminding myself that some people were raised differently and it’s not my job to fix.
Forget her size, here are Marilyn Monroe’s measurements
How ridiculous to debate someone’s dress size when you don’t take into account that sizes differ in different countries, and change throughout the years. Here are Marilyn’s measurements from her dressmaker in current American inches:
Height: 5 feet, 5½ inches
Weight: 118-140 pounds
Bust: 35-37 inches
Waist: 22-23 inches
Hips: 35-36 inches
Bra size: 36D
<– When my body measured 35-22-35, it was 1970, I was 5’9 and weighed 115 pounds. I wore an American size 8. I was NOT shaped like the pic of her above. I was a beanpole.
I only have “hay fever” if I’m eating processed foods
The joys of living in the sub tropics. It’s not just humidity and misquitoes, it’s seasonal oak pollen and barometric pressure changes that leave our sinuses in a quandry. Shall I drain or clog? I used to have hay fever when I was a teen, then grew out of it and then grew back into it when I bought my home in 1983 and began gardening daily. Years later, I discovered that I only have sinus problems – increased mucous – when I eat processed food. Processed food is anything with a label, anything not in it’s natural state. Even a few slices of bread or a can of chicken noodle soup will do it to me. So I usually eat those things until I’m tired of the sinus dance, then I’m off it again for a few months for relief. So, if you have sinus trouble and eat a typical American diet of processed foods and drinks, know that it’s likely related. I choose my battles 🙂
I love Mary Jane shoes
Mary Jane shoes make me feel like I’m Alice in Wonderland.
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.