Author Archives: Andrea

Ailey Hines donates violin to homeless 10 year old Jazmin, thanks to a Facebook shout out

Jazmin with violin donated by Ailey Hines

Last Sunday, a friend shared a post on Facebook with a link to http://www.ifhomeless.org/: “Seeking violin for a homeless child: I am the Case Manager for a 10 year old homeless child, who is in need of a violin. She watches Charlie Daniels music videos of him playing all the time which has inspired her to learn how to play a violin. My clients school offers classes, but if you do not have your own instrument, then you must pay $10 a month, which is not in the budget of a young homeless child. That has not stopped her from sitting in the class to just watch and listen to the music of the violin playing. I would like to help this young child with receiving a violin. If your organization can help, please contact me. Receiving an instrument for a homeless child is like becoming a millionaire, a dream that she feels will never happen.” Facebook friend  Ailey Hines donated her violin to 10 year old Jazmin. She is a homeless child living in a shelter, with a love for music. This year Christmas came early for this child and remember that name!!! Jazmin, the violinist.”

Don’t think I am incompassionate because I am not sentimental

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It is not that I am unsympathetic to the troubles of the world, it is that I understand that how I feel about a situation adds to the world mix of combined thought power, and that is what determines future experience.  When I hear of trouble, whether through a friend, on the news or upon hearing a siren, I immediately send up a prayer: “Bless them, bless this situation,” and consider for a moment that they’re in capable hands, everything will work out as it should, things can be easier and less severe than it now appears.  Then I continue on my merry way.  I don’t put a bunch of posts on Facebook showing every traumatic happening, such as the hurricane makes her way up the coast.  I don’t focus on that at all because that’s not what I want to add to the mix.  I want to add hope and reason, I want to add understanding, thankfulness and relief.  So when I don’t repost your disaster photos, I’m just holding the Light my friend, just holding the Light.

Please leave me out of your silly girl sh*t while I’m over here trying to save the world


Iz you iz or iz you ain't

I giggle that I unfriended someone not because she keeps contacting my bf, but because she continually references their prior sexual relationship and inviting him into another. It’s become a topic of conversation among friends “I don’t know why she unfriended me,” who feel the need to keep the stories coming back to me. She’s never once asked me why. Girls, I’ve been around the block and he is his own man. I don’t have time for stuff like this, ok? I’m flattered, but there’s enough to go around. Abundance abounds, in all things. Plus I’m over here trying to save the world and stuff and can’t be bothering wondering iz he iz or iz he ain’t my baby.

I was talking about you,
You silenced me.
I tasted your sweetness and everything stopped.
Bewildered, I fled to the house of my heart
and there, you caught me. Rumi.

Thank you, Universe and everyone in it who conspires to make everything I want come true

Yesterday I was with a friend working on a project and I left my handy dandy sawhorses with them.  I forgot that I need them in the garage today to prepare the packages for mailing of the November Horizons Magazine they will deliver any minute now.  I usually lay a sheet of plywood down as a workspace atop the sawhorses.  I wondered what I could use instead, but nothing came to mind.  But, life being what life is, I wandered out into the garage to see how the solution would reveal itself to me.  I moved my car out of the garage and into the side yard.  I walked back into the garage and saw the garbage bin and the recycling bin side by side.  Perfect.  Thank you, Universe and everyone in it who conspires to make everything I want come true.