The Universe is waiting to delight you. You’ve just got to get into the vibe of allowing it. It won’t matter if one stream of income is slowing down because something else will come along to replace it. The only reason it hasn’t so far is because your belief and expectation are not there yet. If you’re not noticing opportunity, you’re simply focusing more than half the time on observing how things are not going so well. By changing your focus, you talk yourself into a new way of thinking and that is what changes your world. 

If one income stream slows down, be on the lookout for opportunity

Here I have the zapper positioned above the yellow jacket nest but I saw very few yellow jackets. Last night I lowered it down so it’s about 8 inches above the nest. I saw one yellow jacket walking around outside two sundowns ago. This morning I just saw one crawl out of the hole in the ground so I guess that is their nest. I turned the zapper on and went back out to watch and he was just walking along the palmetto fronds about a foot away from it, did not seem interested in the light at all. I I raked away some of the ground debris, carefully and cautiously so as not to disturb any other hidden nests. I enjoy doing yard work when it’s in the fifties and sixties and seventies with low humidity.

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Prayers for a sweet friend just taken off life support. Hard as it is, get used to death. When you understand it, you stop considering death a loss. God would not stop a caterpillar from becoming a butterfly, an acorn from growing into an oak, nor a tadpole from becoming a frog. That’s simply dropping one body and acquiring another. Would we keep a toddler in kindergarden or a 6th grader in elementary school? No, we let them graduate to the next phase in the process, so they can continue to learn and grow and become more of what they are meant to be. That’s all death is: going from one form to another. We survive in consciousness after the change called death of this physical body. Grief is work but it doesn’t have to be grim. When you check out of your physical body, your work is able to take on a new dimension.

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In honor of administrative assistant’s day, I’m giving mine the afternoon off. Well, ok, so I am my own assistant but it helps if I pretend I’m 2 people. When the magazine editor delegates the administrative work to the assistant, that clears the editor’s desk to focus on the mag. When the assistant’s work piles up, I sit at her desk and do that job. Being self-employed and working alone, I sometimes have to employ tricks to keep myself motivated. I said I wasn’t going to do it again but I just set up a computer in the living room, this one for tarot and astrology. I try to share space in the magazine office but that doesn’t work well for me. It’s too easy to let myself be distracted. I work more inspired when I have dedicated workspaces.

Everyone will have the May Horizons this week. It seems I’m always waiting for somewhere to open so I can take care of business. By noon I’ve put in an 8 hour day. I like jumping into work as soon as I wake up. That’s when I have my most energy and am most successful at multitasking.  Because as a reformed type A personality, it’s all about how much can I get done all at one time, right? Is that because that’s how I measure success or is it simply that I justify all the staying in motion as something that needs to be done in order to move forward? I do feel the need to stay in motion and move forward although I’ll be the first to admit I spend a whole lot of time coasting.  But my brain and body have grown so accustomed to being busy that it’s the default program. That’s why I meditate twice a day, to remind myself I am more than this body, I am more than the thoughts that come out of this brain. So twice a day I have the opportunity to see whether I’m doing busy work or if I’m actually doing something that needs to be done.  Work? Play? I don’t always make the right decision. But twice a day I give myself a reminder and the opportunity. My mind is always subject to change upon evolution of consciousness.

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I just took the giant pruners out to the west woods to try cutting palmetto fronds away from the one above where I think yellow jacket nest is. Sure enough I cut the fronds away and there is a hole in the ground at the base of the one palmetto trunk. It is less than 3 feet away where the hanging zapper was and I don’t see any yellow jackets around it. I’m going to carefully and little by little clear out the pine thatch that has fallen into the palmettoes. That was what I was doing when I got stung a couple of months ago. Now I will be careful and do one small area at a time and be on the lookout for them. I will try each sunset putting the zapper up to see if I can find where they are. It’s no fun stomping around in the woods if I think they’re are yellow jackets hiding.

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I wonder what he can see that I can’t see?

Did you ever have everyone around you see something you couldn’t see, and you were the last to know it?

Not everything is visible to the naked eye.

There is so much more than we know, waiting to be known.

It is absolutely astonishing to me that grown adults don’t know how to put a few sentences together in support of their position without blaming and name-calling someone else, and making mean spirited and derisive comments. Unfrknbelievable. And to all my Facebook friends who continue to blame Clinton and Obama for all the world’s woes, please unfriend me now. It got old years ago. Now you just sound bitter about everything and I know that’s not who you are. But I’m as tired of hearing it as I am sure you are tired of hearing my hopeful optimism. As you were.

Benny loves his new grooming mitt. See them here –>  https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N9KSITZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1492646257&sr=8-2&keywords=pet+grooming+glove+cats

Just rearranged the contents of my freezer. Frozen fruit up top with lemongrass, ginger, chili peppers. Tv dinners 2nd shelf. Proteins 3rd shelf (chicken breast, fish, turkey meatballs, turkey sausage.) 4th shelf bags of veggies (green beans, peas, mixed veg, mini corns on the cob.) Lower pull out rack is for all the breads and frozen dumplings and raviolis (yeh, that drawer is way too full.) Afterward I looked and saw how straight it was and wondered why I’ve been thinking it was too crowded. Then I turned around and saw the one pound bags of culinary seeds that I’d taken out last night and not put back yet. They’ll have to go back in bottom refrigerator tray. More than half the stuff in my refrigerator is either condiments or pantry items. This is Florida, everything is subject to humidity unless it’s in an airtight container. My refrigerator is the most air tight container I’ve found.