Hi Everyone!
Just wanted to pop in and say hi! I finally started working on my taxes (due April 15th here in the U.S.) and worked on them all day yesterday - I'm having to manually reenter all of last year's financial records I previously had stored in my old computer before it suddenly died in October or November of last year
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, so the taxes will take longer this time around as a result.
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But at least I have started soon enough that I can still take lots of breaks in between!
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Like today, after a pretty rainy winter, we had maybe the warmest, sunniest day of the season so far, with a high around 70 degrees F (21 degrees C), so we took advantage of it and sat outside on the patio of a nearby coffee shop. I got a white chocolate mocha latte (decaf and fat-free, even - well, except for the whipped cream on top!
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), and read and journaled.
Sandy, it sounds like you have lots of natural leadership (as shown by your childhood acting story!) beneath the shyness you say you acquired later in life! I really enjoyed your quote from Christ in Tibet - that is definitely the sort of state I would like to be able to get still enough to experience during meditation. Also, your beautiful passage from your journal, and the other words you added to it, what you called a "blast of longwinded hot air," were much more like a beautiful, refreshing summer breeze. Your words brought tears to my eyes, and that is such a beautiful way to think of relating to God too. You definitely SHOULD have a blog -- you have so many beautiful, thoughtful and wise things to say!
So, if/when you have the time and the inclination to tell it, what
did Midwayer Matthew do a few weeks ago that made you roll in the floor???
I did go look at
Paul's (Theocles') latest sculpture after reading your post - breathtaking, as usual! It's an understatement to say that
Paul is one talented artist!
Midix, I agree with
Sandy, the best resource I know of on the Law of Attraction currently is Esther Hicks, who channels a group of non-physical beings collectively known as Abraham. "Ask and It is Given" is channeled material from Abraham, and is extremely helpful, and they have several other books, tapes/CDs and DVD's as well of their workshops, where they talk to the audience about the Law of Attraction, then answer audience members' questions, so one gets to hear many "case studies" of individual people working on applying the Law of Attraction to real issues in their lives, and the pragmatic advice Abraham gives each of them. I know also that Esther and Jerry Hicks, and Abraham, later put out a DVD called "The Secret Behind the Secret," which I haven't yet seen (though I've seen many Abraham-Hicks DVDs and find them so helpful), but if it's anything like their other materials, I'm sure it would be interesting and enlightening.
Nicola, I hope the pleurisy gets totally better on its own! Regarding juicing, I don't think you absolutely need an expensive juicer, though I think the more expensive juicers tend to juice things more thoroughly and the motor runs at a lower temperature so that none of the enzymes in the juice are destroyed in the process. However, juicing with any juicer is bound to be a good thing, and there are still bound to be plenty of enzymes left intact with any juicer, I'd think! Ron and I have unfortunately not been naturally drawn to eating lots of raw fruits and veggies either throughout much of our lives
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, so we've had to kind of teach ourselves to like more healthy food in recent years -- and we've been finding that it does "grow on you," so to speak.
We've also been making it more fun by growing herbs in our kitchen using this cool contraption we were given for Christmas, called an "AeroGarden," which grows seeds with just water and no soil -- you can set it to the particular kinds of seeds you're growing and it comes with grow lights that it automatically turns off and on for the right amounts of time each day for the particular types of seeds -- we don't have to do anything except add water and little nutrient tablets whenver a light comes on that tells us to (which is a good thing, given my normal luck with growing plants!
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). It's really an ideal growing environment -- the basil in particular is just going nuts
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, so we've been putting it into lots of salads and smoothies (and there's even a recipe for basil lemonade that I'd like to try), and we can hardly eat enough of it to use it up before it grows right back again! We also recently started growing some spicy sprouts and microgreens (the spicier sprouts, like radish and broccoli, we've found to be much more fun to eat than only the standard clover and alfalfa sprouts, which don't have near as much flavor), that we got from a San Franciso-based company that specializes in unique and interesting combinations of sprout seeds and has a huge selection. It's added a lot of variety that's made it a lot more fun for us to "be sure to eat our vegetables!"
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Ron and I have both had the "expanding waistline" problem ourselves ever since we overdid it on the Christmas feasting -- funny how it seems to take so much more effort to lose the weight than it did to originally put it on!
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I keep trying to get into a regular exercise routine again too (which I'd managed to keep up for several months last year before I got so busy) to help with that, but so far haven't fully succeeded!
Clare, it really sounds like you have a lot going on at once! I'm sending my positive thoughts and prayers for you, your brother and your family. Moving one's home is already a huge task in itself
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(I was so exhausted when we moved a couple years back, and am so glad we haven't yet moved again since then -- for a while there we were moving every year!) -- and moving your office too at the same time -- it sounds like a really huge transitional phase! Best of luck, and we look forward to seeing you back on the boards again when you have the time!
Kenge, when reading through people's posts just now, I got the image of "Nubbs" as an adult writing her/his biography, and telling the story of how (s)he got that nickname!
Well, okay, back to art and taxes (such an odd combination!
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) -- it's so good to be in contact with you all again!
Love, Hugs and Abundant Blessings to All
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AquaDeb