This is Florida and we get lots of bugs outside, especially living in a wooded area as we do.  When my Uncle Jimmy built my house in 1984,  he put 100 pounds of boric acid in the walls, which he said would control the bugs, especially the  palmetto bugs and cockroaches.  It apparently worked really well because until last year, 27 years later, I hadn’t seen any bugs inside except for the occasional ant.  Last year I saw a small roach on two occasions and Saturday I saw one in my kitchen cabinet.  That was all it took to get me out to buy a Raid Concentrated Deep Reach insect fogger and set it off before I left for church. Continue reading →

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is no more with us physically. He left his earthly body on 24 April 2011 at 7:40 a.m (10:10 pm Eastern time). “Service to man is service to God.  Dedicate all your gifts to service to mankind, to all living beings. Love all, Serve all.”  Sai Baba’s devotees called him Swami.  I learned at church this morning that Swami had passed and I was at once joyous yet sad.  My astral body had its few minutes of tears, even though I know there is no death.  I discovered Sai Baba in 1990. A series of synchronicities and “accidents” had me in stop at Pat Thomas’s house in the middle of the day.  Judy Kopp, whom I did not know at that time, came by and invited Pat to go to the home of Buddy and Shanti Balwant, devotees who had just returned from India where they’d gotten darshan from Sai Baba.  Not knowing who it was, suddenly my mouth was saying, “I want to go.”   Continue reading →

I like having a secret crush on someone. It gives me fuel for visualization and floods me with endorphins, without the aggravation of interaction or feedback.   I see them as a muse and use the energy to fuel my passion for whatever projects I am involved in.  I find a muse is a powerful catalyst to my creativity.  Even more so if they don’t know they’re my muse.  Sometimes more so if they think they are, yet aren’t quite sure.  There’s such power in keeping it to myself, but also fun in the playful interaction with them when we both know we’re doing it.  I find it crucial to my creativity to have a muse, although it’s only every few years that someone comes along that really stokes my fire.  I mean, I have a lot of creative friends and they ALL inspire me but every so often one flame flares higher than the rest and the creative juices begin to flow.  What brews up can be very powerful and transformative.    Continue reading →

Today like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened.  Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading.  Take down a musical instrument.  Let the beauty we love be what we do.  There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.  Rumi

Free e-book:  Rumi The Book of Love, translation by Coleman Barks
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I wrote in I Remember Momma about how my mom died on April 8, 1996 of her first heart attack.  We didn’t expect it, she’d not been sick, so there was no time to worry beforehand.  My mom and I were very close and we spoke on the phone nearly every day.  I always thought that when she passed I would freak right out, but surprisingly I didn’t.  In fact even now, 15 years later, it still feels as though she’s just in the other room and that I can speak with her anytime I want to.  In the two days between her heart attack and passing — which we did not know was going to happen —  she was heavily medicated and could not speak, yet managed to open her eyes very wide once in order to look me in the eye and let me know she was still in there.  I talked to her and I whisper-sang to her.  Her lips looked dry and I asked if she wanted Chapstick.  She pursed her lips and I put the Chapstick on her.  It was the most holy moment I ever spent with her.    Continue reading →

Don’t be spooked about the state of the economy.  Not everyone is in a downturn.  Remind yourself that doesn’t have to be your experience. Remind yourself you can attract a different result.  How you thrive depends on how you think.  Remind yourself that opportunities can be found everywhere.  Remind yourself that God/Spirit/the Universe is your supply.  Remind yourself that you attract what you focus on, then focus on noticing all the good things there are around you.

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Interesting.  I had a reading with a new client and she’s one of the Real Housewives.  As soon as I got off the phone with her, I did a quick word search at my blog to see if I’d written anything snarky, but she’s one that I like so all was well.  I like how that always seems to work out.

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Good things fall apart so better things can fall together.  That’s true — there’s a trick to that, though.  When good things are falling apart, you have to look at them and remind yourself they are falling apart to make room for something better.  Then look everywhere for evidence of that “something better.”  If good things fall apart and you start thinking it will only get worse, if you start collecting evidence of that, well, we always find what we look for.  So when your world starts crumbling around you, that is merely past momentum catching up with you and making a clean sweep.  I’d suggest it’s also the time to clear up your past, do some serious introspection and forgiveness work and get your Ho’oponopono on.  Then get excited that good things are on the way and better times are to be had.  Look for evidence of that everywhere.  The best is yet to be.

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I’ve got a real life friend I’ve known since the mid 80’s.  We mostly talk about nature or yard stuff or music or the day’s surf or good times from back in the day.  We reconnected after several years’ absence. Most recently he’s got a galpal who doesn’t approve of our friendship so we mostly interact via Facebook. That was where I discovered a side of him I hadn’t seen the 25 years I’ve known him. That was where I learned Domino had become a conservative Republican and stayed glued to Fox News all day, believed what they  said and actively touted it on FB.  I don’t mind when friends have their own opinions, but I don’t need their propaganda plastered on MY Facebook wall.    Continue reading →

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