I was outside picking mulberries just now for my friend Joy. Since I’d picked a pint for myself and one for my neighbor the other day, I didn’t know if there would be much more ripe and within reach. I began at the back of the tree and moved counter clockwise around it, picking all the black berries I could reach. After a pint it looked like there were no more for today. Then I stepped 6 inches back, and suddenly I was surrounded by ripe berries! I thought, mulberries are like opportunities. You work one section until you have taken all the mulberries you can see and you think there are no more. Then you step 6 inches to the right and you’re in a whole new world of mulberries.
Author Archives: Andrea
Abraham-Hicks Synopsis – Stop Telling The Old Story
I listened to the monthly Abraham-Hicks cd in the car Monday (San Rafael 8-1-09 workshop) – it’s such good stuff. I’ve gotten their cd of the month for as long as they’ve offered it, and it was audiotapes before then. I usually listen on my long drives up and down I-95,so I am not distracted by turns and stop signs and traffic. I can just drive and listen, so it’s like being in a 90 minute workshop of theirs each month. As I drive, I always have a writing station set up so I can quickly take notes. I’ll share highlights from the recent San Rafael workshop here: Continue reading
Favorite Abraham Hicks Processes
These processes are summaries of those recommended in the book Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks. They continue to be both fun and life changing for me, so I hope that you will have a similar experience. Although most of these processes can be done in your head, your degree of focus while writing makes them much more powerful and effective in changing your point of attraction. Continue reading
Rest in Peace, little Brother

Bobby and Andrea 9-9-75
My kid brother Bobby died 34 years ago today. He was a beautiful and troubled soul. Rumi says, “A stone I died and rose again a plant; A plant I died and rose an animal; I died an animal and was born a man. Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?” and”Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl. Rumi” RIP, B!
You Can Tell By The Questions How Much Work Has Been Done
Yesterday I spent a half hour on the phone with a man who called about the mailbox visualization he read at A Creative Visualization to Attract Dollars. You’re walking out to your mailbox, and you’re excited because you know good things are in the works for you. You’re opening your mailbox, and you see an unexpected big check payable to you. You’re thrilled, you’re excited, and you know there’s more where this came from. Yes! He wanted to know should the check be in an envelope or not? Continue reading
I will miss you on Facebook
Even though it’s a hoax, I’d miss everyone who would leave Facebook when they begin charging $3.98 a month for it. I get more than $3.98 a month worth of fun and cyber-tribing out of it, as well as more than $3.98 a month worth of business from it. Aaah, I made up a new verb. Well, I guess I’d just have to morph into a new tribe if it ever did happen – I hope you’re in it.
Andrea
Staying skilled and open to change in today’s employment market
Florida Today writes in Career centers brace for wave of clients that the end of the space shuttle program could send thousands of aerospace workers into joblessness later this year. But this isn’t just about one sector’s struggles. “If we don’t have aerospace workers going to a restaurant, using a dry cleaner or going to the doctor, you see a ripple effect start to happen.” Career centers offer one-on-one and group help with skills training, career counseling and other support services. I’m all for getting trained in relevant technology to keep up with the times. It’s scary when what you’ve always done for a living is no longer viable. But that means it’s time to move into a new area, time to get trained for the transition. I wonder what else I would do? Continue reading
What I Did on Saturday
Yesterday I began the day by gathering some plants together for a galpal to pick up. She recently bought a home with a big sunny yard and I had lots of cuttings and seedlings for her. There were loquat seedlings, 2 big aloe plants, 2 pineapple plants, an areca palm, a live oak and a laurel oak, some jatropha almond, lemongrass, ginger and night blooming jasmine. Yin Yang followed us as we wandered through the yard, but Izzy was nowhere to be seen. He’s such a fraidy cat, but once he meets this pal in person, he will want to climb in her car and go home with her. We found out that little oak seedlings have a long tap root and that aloe stays shallow. The areca palm was remarkably easy to dig up, as were the two pineapple plants.I have a lot of ginger and as we cut a few new ones for her, we could smell the fragrance. Mmmmm, nice. Continue reading
Remember an active hurricane season doesn’t mean any will make landfall
The news is at it again. In Consensus Growing for Active Hurricane Season, Paul Yeager writes: When private forecasting company WSI increased the number of predicted tropical storms and hurricanes in its updated Atlantic hurricane forecast, it added to the growing consensus among forecasters that the 2010 season will be an active one. Skeptics of the accuracy of seasonal forecasts are numerous, often citing the inability of forecasters to predict the weather for next week as evidence that a seasonal forecast is impossible to make with any accuracy and is therefore useless. In fact, three private outlets, along with the federal government’s Climate Prediction Center, all correctly predicted that the 2009 season would be less active than the 2008 season. The initial forecast for all of the entities was for a greater number of storms than actually occurred. ### end of article excerpt Continue reading
Pulling dollars out of “nowhere,” Dollars waiting in vibrational escrow, Synchronicities at play
Yesterday they delivered the May 2010 edition of Horizons Magazine, and that’s typically a high dollar day for me. I pay the printer today, and I also pay the post office for the 100+ stacks of magazines I mail to locations where I have no driver. Postage averages about $360 for this mailing, and I usually give the post office a check for $400, to keep a credit with them. I was about down to the wire in the checking account when I went into the post office. It was one of those days when I am literally walking right up to the counter to pay for something that, two steps away, I’m not sure where the funds are going to come from. Last minute for real. To my delight, I had so much credit in my account that I did not have to write them a check. I love when that happens! Like last week, my tax refund was direct deposited into my account, again a time I thought I was down to the wire. So once again, when I thought I was low on funds, I really had all I needed stored up for me, kind of like what Abraham-Hicks calls “vibrational escrow”. Continue reading