Replacement phone on the way

I wrote a month ago that My Samsung Galaxy S5 Can’t Take It (original text below). It turns out I just hadn’t spoken to a knowledgeable tech before speaking to Curtis Moss today. He was the only tech who ever mentioned the Samsung Software Repair Assistant.  I ran it and at first glance it seems to have fixed the dropping wi-fi and video/photo upload issues. When Curtis first mentioned the Factory Data Reset, I was Aries-quick to butt in and tell him I’d already done everything the previous techs had told me to do before I called him. He was courteous yet wasn’t going to let me off the hook. He began walking me through the paces. And he was right. No one had ever mentioned the Repair Assistant and that was one of the first things he said we should try. I got a metaphysical and spiritual lesson from it also.  I bought the expensive Galaxy S5 since I thought instead of spending $150 on a phone that lasts two years, I’ll spend $499 and get a killer phone that will last longer.  A year in I began to have problems.  I see now the Repair Assistant may have fixed them, but no one at the Verizon store nor Verizon online mentioned it to me. I have to take responsibility for attracting willing — but under-educated — helpers. The lesson to me was, there may be good people standing ready and willing to help me, but if they don’t know — and they don’t know they don’t know — how helpful will it be?     Continue reading →

A childhood friend just wrote me on Facebook, “Andrea de Michaelis this is a Barbie dress you made for me when I was a kid. I found it in my things in NC. Your handiwork has lasted almost a half century.”

She was the youngest of our lil group and I liked sewing for her and dressing her up like a doll. I was probably early teens. Red plaid is still my fave flannel!

We can all use a safety net sometimes

Just when I thought I’d uncluttered all I could, I saw my office supply closet with new eyes.  I pulled out 6 old keyboards, 4 trackball mice, 20 lbs of manuals for software I haven’t had for ten years, packing boxes for every electronic device I’ve bought probably ever, miles of computer cable, microphones, headsets, chargers, routers, 10 key adding machine, cassette tape player/recorder, dozens of envelopes to mail out cassette tapes and a dozen small boxes. I moved these all out of the supply closet which left me with a lot more room and another big stack to go through in the living room to recycle or discard.  I have a habit of saving old equipment after it’s been replaced “in case something happens and I need to go back to it.”  I’ve never had to go back to it. Since it’s older and there’s so much new technology, it’s not like any of my friends want it, either. They have their own closets full of their own outdated equipment. I realize now that hanging on to stuff even though I’ve replaced it is a way for me to bridge the gap between what I know and what I’m learning. Between the old me and the new me in the making. My myth, my safety net is telling myself that, “well if I can’t do ___, then I can go back to my old way of doing things,” even if it’s a longer and harder road.  Upon reflection, I realize I’ve done that in my spiritual life as well, hanging on to old beliefs as a safety net ( in case my “new” beliefs didn’t pan out ) until I found my place firmly in my new, wider, more expanded territory. My old stuff, my old issues were familiar and unconsciously I felt comforted by them.  That’s why some have taken so long to drop and are still dropping. Every year I uncover another layer of the personality I know as me, and see more of the deeper Me, the essential Me, my SoulSelf within.

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Links to other stuff I’ve written on My Uncluttering Adventures 

First of all, UFO doesn’t mean spaceship. UFO means “something is airborne and we don’t know what it is until further investigation.” It could be a comet, it could be debris, it could be an optics error. Even if it is visitors from another planet/ galaxy/ dimension, It’s time we accept UFOs and stop being afraid of them. We let tv tell us who to be afraid of with scary stories. All life forms are precious and permitted by God to exist. Equal love for all! And you know what? If we’re wrong and they laser blast us on sight, all we’ll drop is this one body for this one lifetime. These are just our physical bodies , “we” survive in consciousness after death of the body.

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“All your difficulties stem from misapprehension of your true condition. To the degree that you see/intuit/sense your true position, your anxieties disappear, and with them, your problems. Then you see that all is always well.” Frank DeMarco, TGU

We meditate to discover who we really/essentially are, what we’re capable of and what is possible. Only when we begin to know who we are, can we correctly interpret the circumstances and events we find ourselves in. Until then, we’ll imagine wrongs and slights that only exist to a limited mind. These words came to me as I contemplated Frank DeMarco’s lines, “If you do not understand your internal life, you cannot understand your external life. To find your place in the world, you use clues from one to illuminate the other.”

“Your life has meaning, and with sincere effort you can find that meaning.” All your difficulties in 3D life could be seen as stemming from your misapprehension of your true condition. To the degree that you “see” [intuit, sense] your true position, your anxieties disappear, and with them, your problems. Then (only) do you see rather than hope that “All is well, all is always well.” If you do not know what you are, how can you know what is happening around you? If you do not understand your “internal” life, you cannot understand your “external” life, and if you cannot use clues from one to illuminate the other, you have little ability to find your place in the world.   In his blog, DeMarco discusses exploration with the non-physical world and his sessions of communication with disembodied entities he calls “TGU — the Guys Upstairs.”  Visit  –> http://ofmyownknowledge.com/blog/
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