In the meantime I have taken the liberty to line the lounge and the entire high rise with plants.
Yay! next, we will fit all the plants with those speaker thingies, and have a Plant Wave symphony!
@unk-p We will be sitting up here at the top of the world, revolving around and around to the music of plants while we capture the carbon and talk about how Louis DeJoy is going to be fired.
My friend Gina sent me this poem today:
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision fop tomorrow.
And this one is from ee Cummings:
For the leaping greenly spirits of trees
And a blue true dream of sky
And for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes
And this is the sun's birthday
This is the birth day of life and of love and wings
And of the gay great happening illimitably earth
Lifted from the no of all nothing
Human merely being doubt unimaginable You?
And now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
After hearing that the three men in the Ardury case were found guilty by the jury, I am feeling that the feminine yang energy will be counteracting the hyper-masculine yin energy. We are going through the phase of matriarchy replacing the hyper-masculine patriarchy.
I think there may a bigger story here, but I found this very interesting, I hope you all do as well.
Scientists confirm Plants use quantum mechanics to perform the most important biological process on earth photosynthesis
This little movie, based on an excerpt from Michael Brooks’ latest book, « At The Edge Of Uncertainty, » describes the quantum mechanical actions behind plant photosynthesis. Includes a glimpse of how a plant absorbs photon energy and converts into its own growth cycle.
Hi Everyone!
I meant to swing by to say Happy New Year earlier, but I've been struggling a lot lately.
Nothing new, just the same old depressions and anxieties as ever but with some added layers for the new year.
Long stories short:
- My husband is in need of another heart procedure and our insurance co. is fighting him and the doctors on what that procedure should be.
- We are in the process of selling our house in the city and moving to a completely different area in the suburbs (more MAGAT-y but safer and quieter). We will make enough profit to get a small condo in BC Canada as our vacay home/escape hatch.
- Our daughter and her BF came down with Omicron over the holidays and we couldn't socialize with them safely. She lost her job in the process.
- I have been enrolled in a dog trainer certification program however have had to kind of suspend and delay that due to everything else that is going on.
I miss everyone here very much, but I just get too overwhelmed most days. I try my best to engage in self-care but it's difficult to do anything with this pandemic going into its third year.
I will poke around the threads and see what you all have been up to - maybe someone has some insights into whether or not things in the US and world in general will improve soon. I just turned 60 and am realizing that my life is 2/3 over, possibly 3/4, and I may not live to see the Great Turning.
Much love and health and happiness to you all!
Welcome back Laura! So great tree you here again and thanks for your update.
Absolutely LOVE the idea you can spend tine in BC Canada! This is fantastic. Glad a new opportunity opened up for you to move to a new house not too far from your area either.
I bet you will make a great trainer when the time is finally right.
Sending you a big hug!
You know those stories our parents/grandparents would tell about walking 3 miles uphill both ways in the snow?
Well, during these Covid Times I think some of the experiences our now younger generation is handling will make those snow stories seem like a cake walk. And they will not be exaggerations either.
Think about a teen, 20 or 30 something year old currently in the workforce at a grocery store, school, government agency, newsroom, court, hospital, restaurant, shipping business, actor/musician, travel industry job or student.
Spending just 30 seconds thinking about each one listed should be an eye opening exercise if we are honest. As much as these times have changed me, I can't begin to imagine how they have change the generations coming behind me. We haven't even mentions the non covid thing they will be dealing with which is the climate crisis.
Walking 3 miles (uphill )in the snow. Ok, having to walk in the snow to school or a job was not fun at all. What is going on currently is a way of life for 2 years now. It hasn't been seasonal.
Well, during these Covid Times I think some of the experiences our now younger generation is handling will make those snow stories seem like a cake walk. And they will not be exaggerations either.
Think about a teen, 20 or 30 something year old currently in the workforce at a grocery store, school,
My son is 20 and he is saving up COVID memorobilia such as a mask, his positive rapid test stick, his vax card, etc. to put in a shadowbox... all so he can show it to future young people.
We just saw Hairspray on stage in Grand Rapids. (Vaccinations required and masks at all times in the building)
seeing this show was like a Xanax for the soul. I don’t know how anyone could walk out of there with anything other than a smile on their face and a song in their heart. We had the most wonderful conversations with the twins about segregation and the civil rights movement last weekend to prep for this. And the audience seemed to resonate with the messages too. Not scared to say I cried several times!
@thehappymedium sent me this story: In an attempt to get it to leave his store, an employee fed a deer a peanut bar. The deer did leave but...
I'm going through this now with squirrels at the bird feeder.
@jeanne-mayell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeXuo2FOAAU
Interesting Radiolab podcast on Pig/human organs. Ticks are scary.
Well, The site is back and working right now.
(Who else can't wait for Mercury retrograde to be over? My husband was without internet and phones for 3 days this week at work so you were in good company Jeanne!)
If you can read this, you made it back, yay!
SO, how did you spend your time waiting for the site to come back? Friday?
I checked the site when I woke up and checked it an hour later. Today was a very free day and I was blessed with a visit from my daughter. We chatted together, chatted with my husband, and chatted with my dog. (We actually do have conversations with him, we speak, he reacts. It's fun!) My daughter and I then played with the dog, a lot. Then it was off to have afternoon tea together, the reason for her visit. What a lovey time together at a cute tea house. SO much fun! We were the only ones there, so it was about as safe as it can possibly get.
I checked the site again when I came home. I said goodby to my daughter and told her to have a great rest of her day. I then started organizing my home. I found 2 pairs of never worn fluffy warm socks! Score! Found my thoughts drifting a lot to everyone on the forum who is in the path of the bomb cycle and wished I could wish everyone on the site a safe weekend. Stopped organizing when an old friend texted, it was such a nice surprise! I also connected with some people I hear from much more often who I adore. Even sent them photos of the tea with my daughter.
I got excited to see the site was back up but then it wasn't up anymore. Sad me. Then a very happy me because that old friend who I mentioned earlier invited my me and my husband to a touring Broadway show next month. OMG! Was thrilled when my husband told me he was free that evening! OMG OMG!!! Old friends, dinner, show.. it has been YEARS since that was even a thought let alone a real opportunity!!!!
Then saw Jeanne's post, OMG!!! Then poof it was gone. Sad me. But wait, it was back again and I saw everyone slowly come out of "Forum time-out".
So before the site has a chance to poof send us all on time out again, I want to actually wish everyone in the path of the SNOW-BOMB BOMB- CYCLE WHITE OUT BLIZZARD event, a safe weekend. May the snow be a soft, healing, peaceful blanket of beauty and calm. May you know that you are not forgotten. May it be a time for you to go within and reconnect with yourself.
And take my advice, boil some water, get out the finest tea cup you own, (even if it is simple mug) and have a cup of tea while watching the snow fall softly to the ground. You can even dunk a cookie in your tea. Or even bake a cookie to dunk in you tea, If you live on the opposite end of the coast or somewhere in-between, have a cup of tea anyway and imagine a snow-scene appear out of your kitchen window. Or simply enjoy what Mother Nature has to offer from the other side of your windowpane. Perhaps a bird flying onto a tree branch or a cat rolling happily in the grass.
Then come back and post what you noticed while sipping your tea. If the site goes down again before you can, post when it goes back up when we get off time out again.
And make sure to say a prayer for Jeanne who will likely be holding her breathe anxiously watching how the site runs over the next few days. (Jeanne...tea will help, and bake some bread. Or cookies. Perhaps it is time for a good book.)
Enjoy the weekend! May it be filled with love, joy and unexpected blessings.
I checked the site again when I came home.
I got excited to see the site was back up but then it wasn't up anymore. Sad me.
Then saw Jeanne's post, OMG!!! Then poof it was gone. Sad me. But wait, it was back again and I saw everyone slowly come out of "Forum time-out".
So before the site has a chance to poof send us all on time out again, I want to actually wish everyone in the path of the SNOW-BOMB BOMB- CYCLE WHITE OUT BLIZZARD event, a safe weekend.
I got excited to see the site was back up but then it wasn't up anymore. Sad me. ...
Then saw Jeanne's post, OMG!!! Then poof it was gone. Sad me. But wait, it was back again and I saw everyone slowly come out of "Forum time-out".
Mercury retrograde. They say it helps get perspective. I got an email from @unk-p, asking how I was doing, he said he was concerned. I assumed he was talking about the website glitch, and I wrote back about that. He said, NOT the site, Jeanne, THE STORM! ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE BOMB STORM THAT IS DESCENDING UPON YOU! DO YOU HAVE A GENERATOR?????
For the last two days, I could feel this thing coming towards us, the news reports getting more scary. And the North East collective getting more nervous. It was in the background of my mind but I kept pushing it away. A week ago, I was thinking about this possibility. I swore I'd buy a generator, but did I? NOOOOOO, I did not. I had also planned to order a cord of wood, but did I? No Sir. I did not.
So why is this the storm of all storms? Have I been watching too many episodes of Station 11? Have you guys watched Station 11? @kksali got me into it and it's keeping me up at night. Okay, that is all I have to say.
Except that whenever this website breaks, I feel so much love for everyone when it comes back up.
We are a tribe. And this is how I stay in touch with you.
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P.S @unk-p didn't actually put anything in all caps or even call it a bomb storm or say it was descending or use four question marks. He's not alarmist like that. But that's how it echoed in my mind as I hurried off to buy wood. He is a sweetheart to care. That also floated in my mind in the nicest way.
A week ago, I was thinking about this possibility. I swore I'd buy a generator, but did I? NOOOOOO, I did not. I had also planned to order a cord of wood, but did I? No Sir. I did not.
In my experience, when I think maybe i "should" go do something but then I either forget or get distracted before I can do it, that's the universe telling me "stop freaking out, you're going to be fine. This needs to happen (for x reason or reasons we can't really tell you right now), but trust us, you're going to be fine, and you'll wonder why you were worried at all"