Ow, my hands and arms are all sting-y from the palmetto thorns today.  I woke up with all intention to get my monthly billing out of the way first thing, but then thought to set the sprinkler up in the yard.  As I looked around the property, I noticed the natural walls I line the driveway with each season using bamboo and palmetto fronds were deteriorating.   I got my wire cutters and disassembled the west wall.  It took about 5 minutes as the dead fronds just dissolved.  I saved the longer young bamboo stalks and took the old, rotted ones along with the palmetto remnants out to the street.  I took stock of the ficus growing there, and began to weave a wall using the young bamboo and a few sturdy older pieces.  One purpose of the wall is to give me privacy when someone pulls into the driveway.  Another is to block the view and sound from neighbors to give us all privacy.  I repeated the wall on the east side, and hung some longer bamboo between the loquat trees.  The loquats are bearing fruit like crazy!   Continue reading →

A friend I usually text with called last night and he sounded muffled, far away and in a tunnel.  I could catch every 4th word or so.  He has a Motorola Triumph and it seems this is a popular problem with that phone. His is out of warranty so I Googled and found a fix:  ”My wife has taken back her phone 4 times now to the store and got another brand new phone and nothing fixed it. This is because all the phones at that store came from the same batch or date manufactured. Some dates are effected while others are not. The problem is with the Noise Cancelation Device. On the back at the top of the phone, above the camera is a little rubber strip cover. This is glued in place but with a thin knife you can easily and carefully remove this.   Continue reading →

I love the night sounds of nature, especially being in it and away from “the box.”   “The box” meaning being surrounded by electricity: the hum of the refrigerator and tv, the sound of the water pump, the buzz of sitting next to an electrical outlet. About 2:00am, I heard a giant weird crash outside and went out to investigate.  I could hear something crashing off into the woods. Poor whatever it was scared itself.  It sounded like a mastodon, so was probably a raccoon.  It was only about 50 degrees out there at 2:00am.  There is a beautiful night sky, and it’s supposed to get down to 38.  I can hear the wind chimes in the garden and the leaves rustling overhead.    I feel refreshed just being in nature.   Whether I am walking through my little trails and gardens here, or sitting out at the firepit under the big oaks listening to the lizards and squirrels and birds at play, nature relaxes and renews me like nothing else. Continue reading →

Don’t tell me something didn’t happen when I watched it unfold before my very eyes.  Literally.  On the monitor in front of me.  Earlier this week I’d posted at Jeremy and Misty, I wish you well but please block me that I came home exhausted from a family emergency to messages and calls telling me my ex has been spending time with someone. We’re not together, they’ve been interested in each other since last year, I have real things on my mind and I don’t care.  My issue is he kept up several very contrived lies to keep getting personal favors (transportation) from me. Then I came across him telling her that I hold him back and I don’t walk my talk. This from a man who told me I saved his life, was his stepping stone to freedom. That to me was the ultimate betrayal.  Days after I make the post and the drama has died down, she writes:  Continue reading →

For Valentine’s Day, as I reflect on my love life the last year, I am reminded that I attract everything that comes into my experience.  As long as I love being a lifeguard, I’ll attract the swimmer in distress.  Because of the private consultation work I do, I am several times a day vibrating in the space of someone in the midst of conflict resolution.  The purpose of the consult is to raise the vibe, so by the end of the session, I’m usually back in a good place, or I take some time to myself to get myself back in a good emotional vibe.  My work is one reason I go for years between relationships.  My distorted belief based on history (which was only my history because it was where I vibed in the past) is that I can either pour all my energy and attention into my work or I can pour it into one person. My distorted belief is that I can’t successfully do both.  Hence, I attracted someone in whose vibe I didn’t allow myself to successfully work my practice.  I attracted a vibrational match to my belief, even tho my belief was false.  Since it was MY belief, it became MY reality.  I attracted it. Continue reading →

“Jeremy and Misty, sorry, I am dealing with real things right now and can’t be bothered with your deceptions. Know that who you think are your friends are not since they are contacting me. I’ve had wacky chicks calling and messaging me for days, supposedly friends of yours, telling me stuff that I don’t care about and is none of my business. You’re both single, who cares? And what kind of friends are those anyway? I do not need the stress. No hard feelings but please block me and let’s be done.  I wish you well.” Continue reading →

Two days ago, 3 loved ones were in a car accident and one has already blessedly passed.  It was their wish to die at the same time, and it appears they are getting their wish.  It’s been a hectic few days for me, since the family sees me as the go-to person for gathering info and making phone calls. I’m working two days on no sleep.  Early this morning I finally got a few moments alone in a corner of someone’s room and fell promptly asleep.  I had a vivid dream of sitting with my mom, and we were in the hospital room where she died in 1996. Continue reading →

Last month, Facebook friend Rosie Neal saw posts on a friend’s Wall she thought I should be aware of.  Though trying to be helpful, I felt it was deceitful to the mutual friend for her to send me her login and password info. I’d been blocked from the friend’s wall for a few weeks while we were having a disagreement.  Rosie wanted me to see his behavior for myself, encouraging me to disengage from him once and for all. It was none of my business. Even though she was trying to be helpful, a few messages later I had to be free of  her energy for awhile so I unfriended her. Continue reading →

Whatever is inside you is constantly oozing out of you like the trail of a slug. Instead of leaving an icky sticky mess behind you, let others get caught up in your sweet sticky sparkliness.

Just a few hours after I shared a post on my Facebook wall, I began receiving messages from gleefully self appointed double agents in a matter a friend and I consider resolved.  Please do not send me what he wrote to you in confidence, nor (secondhand/hearsay) details of phone conversations.  That’s not the kind of friend you want to be.  That’s deceitful.  No one deserves that.  And Rosie Neal I unfriended after you sent me your sign on info and password because you thought I needed to see something that was none of my business: you profess to be his friend, or mine?  I will not be a party to deception.  He and I have settled our differences.  If you were entrusted with a secret, why are you divulging it?  Everyone loves to talk, and those you talk to behind the scenes talk to me.  This is not who you want to be. This is not where you want to vibe.  Count me out of all of this.  It’s none of my business, I do not care, and I simply have other things to do that are a lot more fun. We all try to fill our emptiness with something outside ourselves until we learn we can draw from the wellspring within. It’s only the deepest drinks that satisfy me.  Nonsense like this are but feathers on the wind of my life, soon to be puffed away as the nothingness that they are.

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