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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Yesterday I went to the Healthy Living Expo on campus at Florida Tech in Melbourne, FL.  It was a chance to see a lot of people I know all in one place, and that’s always fun for me.  So much of my work entails me being alone to do it, so I welcome chances to get out and mingle, especially when it’s local.  Don’t get me wrong, I love my work, but so much of it is by telephone, one on one.  Astrologically, I have Sun, Mercury and  Venus in Aries in my 12th house,  so working behind the scenes comes naturally to me, and I dig it.  But I’ve now gone a few years without doing much travelling, which I used to do almost monthly for conferences and weekend events, and I am beginning to miss the in-person interaction of a group. Continue reading →

Vac'ing away yesterday

Do you know what dust is? It’s particles of the past YOU. These particles are the remainder of who you were before you became who you are right now.  You don’t vibe in that old place anymore, so those particles dropped away.  You don’t need those reminders.  You wouldn’t leave all your old boyfriends lying all around your house, would you?  If you want change to happen – good change – then vacuum often, dust often, unclutter often. Make way for the new YOU. Create the space for it… then stand back and watch it unfold before your eyes.

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over the rainbow

The birds begin to sing in the morning before I can see the light over the treeline.   Since they can fly higher than me and they’ve been where I haven’t and seen what I didn’t, I trust them when they say the Sun is rising.  Birds never fib to other birds about whether they’ve been over the rainbow or not. Only we humans say we’ve been there and done that when we just wish we had.  The funny part is us giving other people advice about the rainbow we’ve never been on the other side of.