Hi Dear Friends
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Oh my goodness, yes indeed, "runaway train" is an excellent description of this thread,
Gypsie Deb! It took me nearly three days to do that detailed catching up last time, and I see that this thread's gotten back into an active phase, so I think I'm gonna just have to do a bit quicker, less detailed catching up this time! Better start catching up now, while I still can!
Thanks, everyone, for your sweet comments on my latest avvie!
Heather, that's an endearing story about you with your chest cold sounding like a little kitten crying ... best wishes for your continued recovery from that pesky bug!
That poor little self-obsessed bird in your yard, does she ever take the time to eat or sleep, I wonder?
Laura, Thanks for your prayers regarding the Gallery; the group could use them!
I've been sparing everyone the details thus far (though at some point I may put in an official prayer request, and/or even discuss aspects of it on the mothers thread, which would be quite relevant
), but it seems that things may now be reaching a crisis point, with enough members getting sufficiently dissatisfied with the current politics that there will probably either be a "revolution" leading to an improved situation, or there may be a mass exodus in a few months. We try to keep a low profile and stay as detached as we can in order to keep from getting overly caught up in all the negativity and power struggles, but it's not always easy.
Our sense currently is that most people are at least holding out for the upcoming busy summer season due to the sales opportunities, but once that's over, who knows
... it's definitely continued motivation to keep reading A New Earth, anyway!
Best of luck with the continued job search; it sounds like interviewers are finding you to be a well-qualified candidate, and once the opportunity and the timing are right, it'll happen for sure!
I also pray that you continue moving and being guided toward discovering your passion and living it.
Gypsie Deb, thanks for continuing to keep us posted about dear Nicola and baby Beth! I've added in my continued prayers, and it sounds like the prayers have been helping.
That's wonderful that you've found an art deco house!
I have always liked art deco too! I too am looking forward to hearing about it when you get the chance!
Yes, the prices of food have been going up here too
-- it's been a big topic on the news lately. It's helped some that we tend to eat mostly vegetarian now, but even some of the fruits and vegetables are pretty expensive as well!
Sandy, speaking of art deco, in addition to everyone else's descriptions, another feature of it, I think, is that it incorporates the shapes and flow of nature into the design of furniture, etc., for example, a floor lamp with the stems, leaves and blossoms of a flower worked into the design. If you do a Google search on "art deco" and click "Images," it'll show you pictures of all kinds of gorgeous examples.
That's a great story about the cardinals with the side view mirrors on your cars!
I also got a kick out of your initial reading of my question as "buck dancing while wearing dogs!" What a funny concept, and what a funny image it brings to mind!
Even dancing with attached chihuahuas would probably still present a bit of a challenge!
Or, maybe one really
could dance while wearing dogs, if they just wore "dog clogs?" I did a Google search just for the heck of it, and yes, they really do have such a thing!:
Those are kind of cute, actually
-- I might not mind having a pair!
I, too, have found myself asking for our Divine Parents to just be there with me in meditation a few times now, accompanying me through whatever else I do in the meditation, and they have done so -- it really is comforting!
I agree that love is the fundamental healing force behind everything, and what our main work boils down to is really just removing whatever fears, resistances, or blocks we still carry to allowing it to flow freely to and from us. So in that sense, I guess it
is simple, when you get right down to it!
Your garden sounds wonderful, and it sounds like you and George are really carefully tending it and getting really beautiful, nutritious vegetables from it as a result! I remember seeing him writing about it once on another thread, and how much he enjoys it -- what a fun thing for you both to share and nurture together!
As dedicated as you are to its upkeep, I'm sure you'll keep those bugs under control!
I loved your story about maneuvering through the thread lines in the garden -- it
does sound just like those movies where the brilliant, highly-trained burglars have elaborate plans for breaking into a museum and stealing a world-famous diamond!
Your mention of George's diabetes reminds me again of the Ornish diet -- We're primarily following it for weight loss right now, but his latest book, The Spectrum (just came out in January 2008) discusses adapting the basic eating plan to target it specifically to prevent and reverse several different conditions and "dis-eases" (as Louise Hay calls them), including Type 2 diabetes, as well as high cholesterol, overweight, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease (what he originally got famous for), prostate cancer, and breast cancer. It sounds like you already eat a lot that way already -- vegetarian, lots of whole grains, etc.
We are still working on buying only enough fruits and vegetables at a time to eat them before they get old and start losing their life force and their appeal!
We also still tend to eat too many grains and too little fruits and vegetables, all in all
, so I think that'll be our next step, trying to tweak things to improve that balance.
November, that's a really good thing to remember about putting mirrors in birds' cages. We always had mirrors in the birds' cages too when we were kids growing up, but none of our birds ever laid eggs, so perhaps they just happened to all be males.
PP, yes, I am really seeing us all growing and evolving together in parallel as lightworkers with all these tools you've metioned (The Secret, Ask and it is Given, A New Earth, Autobiography of a Yogi, etc.) and the guidance of the Celestials and our higher selves, in a united, mutually-supportive way that is greatly strengthening all of us and really helping us contribute to a major shift in consciousness, a critical mass, that can eventually greatly change the energy of the planet for the better as we continue to support each other in releasing our own resistance and negativity, healing ourselves, and sending healing to each other. It's really a beautiful arrangement!
Your library of herb books sounds wonderful!
If I sat down next to your bookshelf and started looking, I might be in there reading for days!
I'm sending you healing thoughts for the quick recovery of your knee too!
That's great that Oprah is continuing with the Monday night online classes! What a service she's providing to the world!
By the way, I always enjoy and benefit from your thoughts on spiritual matters and the teachings we are all reading and absorbing, as I'm sure we all do!
Maria, welcome to this gigantic thread, which has been going on for nearly a year and a half now!
We often refer to it as our big international coffee house here on these boards, where anyone can pull up a chair and have a cup of tea or coffee and chat about our lives and get to know each other!
Nice avatar, with you and that beautiful horse, by the way!
I'm sorry to hear that your son had that terrible experience with a bully at school!
It sounds like the home schooling has been really good for him.
He sounds like a beautiful, good and sensitive person who may likely be a lightworker himself
-- how wonderful that you have been creating an environment for him that promotes his inner security and healing!
I'm sorry to hear about the situation with your work visa -- that is difficult!
I'm sending along my prayers that everything resolves itself for the highest good.
We're all feeling those high gas prices too!
I agree, summer weather is so lovely, isn't it? It makes all the less-than-perfect things much easier to deal with! Today it got up to 75 degrees F here, even though we're in the shade in the redwoods, and we've had the back door open with the breezes wafting in, very pleasant.
Apparently a major heat wave is forecasted for this region -- the temperature is expected to reach the 100's F in places further inland.
I just checked the online weather forecast, and I'm surprised to see that even here, 10 miles inland from the coast and in the shade, it's supposed to get into the 90's F later this week!
A Jack Russell would be a fun, smart dog to have as a member of the family, I'll bet!
Lilly, your story about the giant zucchini is funny! Zucchini often does grow just a little
too well!
I love fuschias; those are one of my favorite flowers, especially the magenta-and-purple ones; they're stunning!
Yes, I have been feeling a little drained lately, but I've been attributing it largely to the fact that I haven't been exercising for a while (even though we've now moved the treadmill right into the living room, so there's really little excuse left!
). But who knows -- it may be a side effect of all the accelerated growth we all seem to be undergoing lately too.
I never did catch on to ice-skating, and am not a big fan of the cold or of winter sports in general, so I'd be sitting on the sides watching too!
I've heard in some herbal lore that rosemary thrives in homes where a woman is in charge!
I love rosemary in split pea soup -- back in Mendocino, the little natural-food co-op there had a garden out in back, and they'd just cut you stalks of rosemary right off the plant.
I remember driving home with those, and the delicious aroma would fill up the whole car! Mmm, heavenly!
I'm very sorry to hear about your brother's friends
-- sending healing energies to their families and all who have been affected.
Joining everyone else in thinking of
Pet and her family as well. I'm sure she can feel us!
Hello as well to those of you who I didn't address by name here!
Love to You All
,
Aqua Deb
YES! That might work. It is Aqua Deb's prayer that help me think. 
my God I thought they arn't alternate they are like my drunken gypsy family Heeee Heeee 
Lily gave a great description of Art Deco period but I have an idea, if you and George visit Katoomba the period is everywhere, go on the weekday it's less crowded and cheaper. They have hot deals on wotif and you can get a room with a fireplace for around $50 a night. The Art Deco buildings are amazing but let me know if you do go and I can email you a few special places to visit. 
and I 
, will apply for greencards and that will be my new workvisa. 
Should have had my gloves on and you can bet I will have next time! Its almost all better today so at least the effect didn't last long. 
And Ron's photo of the Redwood was lovely too!. I have never seen a Redwood Tree, at least not a large one, but it is my dream to someday touch one of those "giants" and feel its ancient energy. ...someday 
Sandy
ate your shoes? 
) this time around, which has activated everyone's "mother issues" and precipitated this current crisis. 
, and probably needs prayers and healing more than anybody; it seems that she's on a very self-destructive path at present. 
, but it also feels like we did the right thing. I've been getting tons of prompts all day yesterday (especially :22's -- thank you, Bzutu!