My friend Margaret Ann Lembo got to see the Dalai Lama when he was in south Florida last week, and she writes about it here and below:

On Wednesday, February 24, 2010, I had the great honor to be in the same room as H.H. the Dalai Lama. It was a big room and there were approximately 3000 people there with me, but at least I was in his presence. The last time I had the blessing to see and hear him was between Hurricanes Frances and Jean in the Fall of 2004. There were about 10,000 people in the stadium for those events. I was blessed to attend the General Address and the 3 days of teachings of Padmasambahva that followed.

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If you could change anything about your life, in the blink of an eye, with no consequences, what would you change?  What would you try for the first time?  What would you do differently?  I would love to hear your comments.

I went to the market yesterday morning and bought some fresh asparagus, snow peas and organic broccoli.  I’ve been craving fresh greens and have eaten a lot of them the past two weeks.  Yesterday I got on the scale for the first time in a week and I was down five pounds!  Wow, and without trying, I like that.  I even bought a rotisserie chicken and ate that for 3 days.  I avoided starches while I had my head/chest  congestion, so that likely caused the weight loss.  I don’t even think about my weight now, which is cool. It took a couple of years of consciously eating the things that are best for me to develop my new eating habit, b ut now it’s second nature.   I’ve been wanting a lot of light vegetable soups lately, and I make a small one or two serving soup at a time so I can have a different one each day. Continue reading →

A friend wrote on Facebook last week, “Sometimes I worry that I am not accomplishing enough. That I am not growing into some unknown ideal, on a soul level, fast enough. It’s as if I am expecting, at any moment, for God to walk up to me and give me a ticket for soul-loitering. Now silly is that?” Through the years, so many friends have mentioned detailed ideas to me that I encouraged them to consider selling the design or producing it, but at the time they lacked the experience or the belief that what they had developed was good enough to sell.  I see these items on the market now 10 and 20 years later by other people.  When we’re not sure is when we have a lot of Power.  When we are in that uncertain place, that place of doubt, if we act as though the Power is completely behind us, It will be.

The best mother thinks she’s the worst mother and the worst mother thinks she’s the best mother. If you have an idea and are having doubts about it, that’s good news.  You might just be on to something.  And if you think your life is just doing okay, you’re probably doing a lot better than you think you are.

This past week and a half I’ve had a lot of head and chest congestion and when that happens, it’s easy for me to let myself get backed up in my work.  Much of what I do is by phone, so when I can’t do hours worth of calls each day, the work begins to pile up on me.  When I’m feeling stressed and rushed and overwhelmed, that’s when I’m glad to know about natural, herbal alternatives like Valerian and St. John’s Wort, which affect the same brain pathways as anti-anxiety drugs like Xanax.   Read more: “Valerian and St. John’s Wort for Anxiety: Relieving Anxiety and Depression with Mild Natural Herbs”. Continue reading →

UPDATE:  I WROTE THE BELOW POST EARLIER AND IT IS WRONG. THIS IS WACHOVIA/WELLS FARGO. If you see 336-970-4221 on your caller id, or have gotten a call from your bank telling you a loan payment is late when you know it is not, these people are PHISHING for your personal information in order to scam you or even steal your identity.  Read the experience others have had with this phone number.  I was checking voice mail and see this number called several times in one day but left no message.  Be safe.  When in doubt, Google it and go to  http://whocallsme.com/ And never give personal info out to anyone who calls you.  I AM LEAVING THIS UP FOR PEOPLE TO SEE.  THESE ARE NOT PHISHERS, IT IS WACHOVIAWELLS FARGO AND I WAS LATE ON A PAYMENT WITHOUT KNOWING IT – I checked my own files to tell me this.

Andrea