24 hours ago, I was awash in sadness and in need of support. In those 24 hours, I have received a lifetime of love, caring, kindness, concern, advice, suggestions, light, and wisdom from my wonderful community of friends.

My friends do you know how special you are? Do you realize the power of two or more gathered together can creates miracles? And do you understand that your part in the supporting of  this process is the dearest gift one can offer one in need?

There is much to be said for the connection here in this community. The energy is palpable and circles the globe many times over. Souls from around the world are truly neighbors, coming together when someone is in need with virtual chicken soup and chocolate cake! We do live right next door to each other every day here. We share some inspiration, some youtube song fests, some laughter, some inane silliness, some hugs and love and some pain and sorrows. We are family without the dramas! LOL

24 hours ago, I asked for some love and light. I got infinitely more than I could have ever imagined! I got hope, I got faith and I received so much abundance. I am rich in all ways that matter. I also have received kind words and light from some wonderful new people in my life as well,  who unselfishly voiced their concerns and understanding to a person they not been friends with before today. There were poems and their were emails. 

I know not exactly what will happen within the next few weeks, but one thing I do know without any doubt....we will be okay. And the reason I know this for CERTAIN, has more to do with all of you, than with anything else. You are all manifestations of God. And as such we are as connected through this grand adventure we call life.

And I bow humbly to all of you for your support and kindness always.

You are all love. And by being loved by you all, I am strengthened and know I am never alone.

Blessings and thanks. I will now try to find something fun to blog about so I can get back into balance.

In the meantime, check out Mimi's blog!!!!!!!

Aley

Values my parents taught me remain with me  to this day, some are tweaked and some are placed into a quiet resting place for now...but my parents were good people...and they gave me great hope for the world and my life.

When we moved ot Washington in the late fall, we financed a business here to fulfill Keith's dreams. We worked for 7 years to save for ad manifest the right location for it. The desire to open a Holistic Healing Center was something that progressed as we came to know more people here. We added Drumming and Reiki meetups, a great massage therapist and acupuncturist! Things were manifesting in right time.

I intended to work with Keith in the office, but when we got here, the deal we were told we were getting was not the truth. We were lied to about the amount of income the office made, the overhead expenses and the patient base. We literally had to start from scratch, which meant I needed to find work immediately, so we could pay the bills, and Keith had to work alone in the office, doing all the front office work and his own work too.

I worked the tax season with a grand bunch of people and after April 15th, I spent time looking for more work. I taught 2 courses in summer 1 online and also spent time looking for more work to supplement our income. Our savings dwindled. I was unable to spend much time in the office, and when I did the insurance companies did not pay what the patients were billed and the biggest insurer in the state informed us they do not take new providers. There were other stumbling blocks, but you get the idea...

Each month as the end of the month came around, I wondered how we would pay the rent and the expenses. We has never taken a salary and many times we have had to kick in our savings. The economy is so bad people now that people who would drive to our office, tell us they cannot afford the gas. People are losing their jobs and their insurance and cannot come, and of course others do not have the insurance to come see us. Medicare and Medicaid never pays.

We are about ready to close shop as we must cut our losses at some point.

We are very disheartened and discouraged.

After cashing in all our retirement early to buy the business and to move here, we are now completely out of funds to keep throwing into this venture. It saddens me most as my husband is a grand healer. He is truly good at what he does. His life is healing and loving others. To see him facing this decision is devastating to me.

If you are a person who prays or sends light and resolution to a situation, I ask for your energy in an outcome for the highest good of all concerned. I hate to think we were called all this way to be disappointed once again in our endeavor to help others. But if we were, I need a clear and affirming message of how we need to proceed next, so we can begin healing and working on the next grand adventure! I always release my expectations when I invite the divine to show me the way...

I know we are not alone in this or any other situation. Others are finding their lives a struggle for balance and healing.It seems many people are going through all kinds of difficult situations right now.

We all can pull together as a community and stand tough.

And I know if any community can do it, this one can!

Big hugs and love to all of you who make my world a much more loving space and for listening to my unfolding...there is no FEAR, only love.

Aley

No QAR, so I shall make up my own..my freshmen composition students are hit with this community exercise every year...and other teachers do a variation on this as well.

10 people are on a burning rooftop. Only three can get plucked off by a helicopter. Time is running out...please make your choices and state the reason for them. The best thing to do is choose quickly...

Limited information tells you there is a:

a pregnant lady

a grandmother who is helping raise her 13 grandchildren

a world renown surgeon

a famous rock star

a famous senator( not sure which one...hmmmm)

a football great...???

a firefighter who survived 9/11

a religious leader. (the Pope, the Dalai Lama, Pat Robertson, who knows?)

a medical researcher who founded a cure for something

you.

 

This is an exercise I give to my students to reach a consensus as to whom to save and why.

You  may not want to list your choices, due to being vulnerable to chastisement, but you could share what this brings up for you...and how you feel society looks at this type of exercise...

If you are game, it could be a great blog....there is no reason why you could not appeal to be lifted from the building...perhaps you are here to change the world?

Do you dare? I only ask that no one "slam"anothers comment, keep within the rules of proper debate!

 

fun, no stress...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I grew up in the 60's when black and white TV was the norm and we had shows on at night like "The Naked city" and "Dragnet". I remember coming home from school to reruns of Perry Mason with Raymond Burr at 4:00! Detective and police shows were the theme of the day.

I find it fascinating TV has this cycle of shows at certain times of our lives. Right now we are enmeshed in the reality show cycle, and spin offs of Dr. shows. I am not a big TV watcher, but what I do see broadcasted lately is repugnant at best!

The old shows had some part of the material that had to be handled delicately. The Hays code was implemented in movies so we would all be morally upstanding.  TV shows also had the nice dad and the dilemmas of dating and who would do the dishes tonight. The cop shows had voice overs that narrated them like the film Noirs did in the 40's and 50's.

I am taking a class right now in Film Noir. It is not a genre, it is a style of films. Hard boiled detectives and femme fatales, lots of images of corruption and death. And the lighting in the films full of darkness, raining and nighttime shots.

I had a hard time finding these films to watch for my class, and the reading of the stories of the writers of the time bring those narration voices in my head as I read along. Reminds me of Argosy magazine my friends daddy used to read.

I am really enjoying the contrasts! Fred McMurray plays Walter in " Double Indemnity" a film about an insurance agent who meets femme fatale Barbara Stanwyck and works to bump off her husband for the insurance dough! (I'm even beginning to talk like Bogart) If you remember McMurray in "My Three Sons" this characterization would be completely an opposite type casting!

The best part of watching all these old films is the way the "forensics" have changed and how the crooks could never get away with all the crap they did now with DNA and other technological tools.

A real blast into black and white reality....!

I love learning.

Travel with me and you stop along the way for coffee and sometimes naps! I also love singing along in the RV and having Chloe with me so I can snuggle with her when I get the chance! I have logged millions of miles in my life since my birth, I was born to roam and love to be on the road. I hate planes, I love driving!

And I love laughing! And I am so goofy, my friends let their goofy side come out too...I am chatty with people I meet, ask strangers to take pictures and enjoy the little shops along the way! I try to find things to laugh about...and never really am without a day of laughter!

When my son and I travel together, we are quite a pair. We listen to Monty Python and have learned all the words and say them. We have had some real grand moments laughing at local signs. There is on on 1-10 in LA out of Mississippi: Bubba Oustalet Chevrolet! We laughed about that, as anyone with Bubba as a first name cracked us up! (no offense to Bubba's out there!)

Traveling always brings stories...like Su and I coming back from Maine last year blew a tire on the RV and sat on the side of the highway for 7 hours. People thought we were enjoying the view and tooted horns at us and waved. We were sitting in chairs so if the RV was hit we would not be creamed! The tow truck was called and took 7 hours to come!

Stories, fun, laughter, coffee, and waffle houses...at 2 AM....ask Martha, she traveled with me! And Keith and I are in a zen state when we travel in the RV together...we are happiest when on the road!

I LOVE traveling!

 And don't forget the Star I found on Christmas Eve during a white out snowstorm...