@dannyboy I have been a Penzey's customer for years... from days way back when Bill would post passionate missives during the orange stain's first time running. I support and encourage all to support this wonderful company and family.
My personal fave's? Ruth Ann's Muskogee Ave fish and chicken seasoning , Sandwich Sprinkle ( your sandwiches and salads elevated with the kiss of this one!!!). Sunny Spain (salt free lemon pepper seasoning) Smoked Spanish Paprika, the whole nutmeg, Ceylon cinnamon, Ginger and their pepper blend.Their Pie spice blend? I love in my coffee instead of Plain old pumpkin spice LOL
I have their Hug blanket, stickers and pins and love them...and their making a stand and a difference ..and their products!
If you love to cook and love good spices and herbs? Please consider supporting them!!! They have never in all these years disappointed me! P.S. They make great gifts for Christmas or any other time too!
I logged in, just to give the review on Penzey’s spices a thumbs up. online or in store. The themed boxes make especially nice gifts!
Today while doing my normal pre-work but post-workout rituals the book Hope for Cynics introduced me to something that those of us looking to abandon our diet of crap news might want to weave in to their daily dives. It’s called Solutions Journalism.
https://storytracker.solutionsjournalism.org
At its heart, it tracks stories and people who are making differences and solving problems (imagine that!) you won’t find a lot of Baron VonShitsinpants here! From their own “About” page (since I’m still learning of them I don’t want to misrepresent anything)
The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.
Check it out and search the database for things that move you!
New term for something I have noticed:
https://suzannechurchill.com/all-posts/language/fecturing-the-female-equivalent-of-mansplaining/#:~:text=Her e's%20a%20provisional%20definition%20of,because%20she%20is%20a%20woman.
I am thankful for the recent and continuing updates to the predictions page. For the past month, as the election did not go as many of us had hoped, I felt like I had lost my compass in the woods and was wondering about. The expert visions that have recently been posted are like a new compass based on the current reality . . . not an absolute, but a guidance system of sorts as to what lies ahead.
My plan for the next 1-2 years is to be in my 'happy place' and look for signs of hope.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/18/nx-s1-5224086/churches-holiday-grief-loss-christmas
My husband and I are participating in a Blue Christmas service this evening. If you can find one where you live, whether you are religious or not, attending might be a comfort to you. We all need to be in the presence of people who are struggling, grieving and seeking along with us. A burden shared is a burden halved. And we need to gather our strength for what is coming. ❤️
@lowtide I went to a Blue Christmas service last year on the 21st, which is the BD of my son who died that October. Quite a powerful event. This year I went to a service that was called a Blue Christmas, but didn't have the same vibe. There are still a few services at local churches that I can attend. Thanks for posting.
Sharing an inspiring letter one of our community members sent me and said I could post: It came a month ago, but I was too raw to do much at the time. I am so glad I still have it to share with you. What a gift! @dannyboy @tesseract @lovendures @bluebelle @deetoo @cc21 @seaholly @dana @raincloud @luminous @Caroline
Hello Jeanne,I wanted to share this message of thanks with you for you to share with your forum if you'd like.With gratitude,---------------As a long time observer/reader of your forum and predictions, I wanted to offer a note of deepest thanks to you and your community for the focused insight and cultivation of intuition and community that you all have offered. You've all had many hits, and more importantly, have offered much inspiration and rays of hope to so many viewers. A huge thank you to Jeanne for devoting such care in building the community and in leading the way and supporting all the work behind it. I believe in the gifts and talents you all have, and am grateful to receive it.I know many of us were deeply taken aback by the election results, to put it mildly. I can imagine how unmooring it may have felt to many who saw it unfolding quite differently, clear as day. I've been trying to make sense of it all, gathering lessons through it all, hoping and praying that as a collective we learn the lessons and integrate them swiftly and that the mass karma is lifted, so we can progress forward in greater harmony.I still hold hope that the results may ultimately be different — radical change is possible through prayer!-- and there are many logical and intuitive reasons to support proceedings that could change the course of the outcome (in addition to this site and the letters posted, I've been intrigued by the pop up posts from Sterling, postings from Dave Johnson and Cash Peters, and the underlying astrology of this time; to say nothing of the rash of cybersecurity hacks that have become quite commonplace and the underlying incentives of different actors). And yet I love the post someone made earlier about the importance of nonattachment and also think of the lessons that Pam Gregory and others have been reinforcing on taking the eagle's perch, grounding, having deep true compassion for all, and not giving our power away to external events or entities. Now, more than ever, rising up and shining our light and sending healing vibrations of love and harmony to all the world is so powerful.I wonder if people may want to share with each other some of the daily practices they find helpful in uplifting their spirits, their energy, and their vibration to help themselves and help others. I'm happy to share a sampling of some of my practices to get the ball rolling: twice daily meditation and prayer, doing a daily worldwide prayer circle meditation with friends by phone, guided meditations on peace (visualizing expanding as a sphere of peace, light and love from myself to ultimately getting bigger and bigger to spread from my family, to my neighborhood, the country, the world, the cosmos — Self Realization Fellowship has some beautiful free guided meditations on youtube that are 12-15 minutes long each), hiking in the woods and forest bathing, chanting, trying to spend less time reading the news in detail, petting my pets and visualizing that love going out to the universe, taking time to do one thing at a time with more mindfulness etc.).I felt the energy of this forum shift post election and I wanted to share my heartfelt gratitude and sincere appreciation. What ultimately nudged me to message you was that a handful of days ago I had a dream in the early morning (when they say dreams can have more significance if they are supernatural), with the statement "If you all pray hard enough, you can break T's spell." It was an interesting choice of words, and I thought of this group right away. And then of course delayed writing for a variety of reasons. But I felt compelled to share it, as I'm getting the sense that a deep surge of prayer, sending of light to all with great constant intensity may be very helpful. And even it doesn't produce an external miracle come January, it is still of great benefit to the collective and to ourselves as we evolve. So we may do it anyway, even if immediate proof and validation is not apparent.Huge thanks to each of you.
@jeanne-mayell What a beautiful letter this is, poignant and inspiring. When it comes to looking at the future, the first thing I notice is that I am at peace. I’m not fearful. That doesn’t mean I don’t see the threatening reality of this new administration, it means that I see a path forward. In the past weeks since the election, my personal practices remain the same: daily yoga, daily walks, forest bathing. Yoga centers the body and mind and spirit. Walking in nature connects us to the earth in all its dimensions. Both of these practices bring us inner harmony and if we are to focus on light and a higher vibration, we need to start within ourselves. I practice meditation and centering prayer.
Another impression I have about the future is the importance of connection with my community, the people within my circle of light, and looking outward towards the healing of our country and our planet. I am very interested in quantum entanglement and our interconnectedness with one another as well as the potential role of interdimensional life on our planet.
If we are going to help each other through tumultuous times, we must first be grounded ourselves. And like Michelle Obama said, “do something!”
Jeanne, I know you are thinking about the possibility of another Intuitive Way online seminar and hope we can look again at channeling and remote viewing. Spirit tells me that is important.
Thank you again for sharing this letter. I will read it over and over.