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    Could be a message in here somewhere ...

    I think a few ... but up to you ...


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    Quote Posted by rebel (here)
    When I first came here back in 2011 I wanted to go by my acronym but I misunderstood the registration form (not good with left-brain tasks) and put my real name where my handle should have gone. Then the next time I returned I was still on the Wade Frasier kick - and he requires posters to use their real name. Now I'm kicked out of that thread anyway, I thought I'd use my handle. For some reason, as I was entering it, this name struck me so there we are.

    I've no problem with my name being used, not like one can hide on the net anyway.

    The day I left, I lost my tangible perception of God. Still had the connection but I could no longer believe in my definition of God. It took a year to find a better definition - one less personal and requiring greater levels of responsibility and commitment. This one doesn't give out favors on a whim - only on merit and only in direct measure to my input. I hate growing up. I really thought miracles would sustain us (me) in the end if I had unwavering faith. Now I know better. Nothing is free. Not even God's beneficence - not once one is awake, aware, and sentient. The ignorant may be helped gratuitously but the sentient must garner their own resources. Only then can they be helped. (I should have known that, but I didn't want to grow up) (I don't like grown-ups, they are duplicitous) (but I learned there is another way to grow up)

    These kinds of things would be so much easier to bear with some one to help. I hate being on my own all the time - with only my own inner council for support. I got to do something about that...maybe that's why I'm back.
    One more, Ernie.
    The planet is waking up, and everyone's earlier concept of God is shifting to include not only self love and self enlightenment but also community action. Of course it's up to each individual where they wish to direct their efforts and energy.
    For some it maybe the health sector ( which may cure their hypochondria in an instant) while for others it's in the field of educating (curing their phobia of ignorance.
    For others still there is work to be done in the area of racism, or gender inequality, or domestic violence. The gap of wealth and poverty. Even rebellion against false authority has a part to play
    As long as we remember that God has a plan, and that plan means a betterment of the whole planet. If one can align with this Greater Plan, in any way, one is automatically protected in miraculous ways.

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    Quote Posted by dan33 (here)

    From 0 to 1:24
    I love this guy. I used to eat a lot at his London Restaurant with was called Langan's Brasserie, and which he shared with Peter Langan. He would always sit by the entrance with Peter, greeting the guests.
    Later when I lived in Barbados he and is beautiful wife Shakira who was a former Miss Guyana were at several of the Heron Bay Christmas parties I attended there.
    Heron Bay is a mansion owned by Sir Anthony Bamford, who makes road building equipment and I used to be a regular guest at his exquisite home. Could write a fabulous gossip book about my Heron Bay adventures, but will not do so. Respect people's privacy.

    Shakira Caine

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    I just noticed, it’s been a part of my cube—hanging largely unnoticed—for nearly a decade now…the more things change…


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    “Save the Kale Campaign”

    I’m committed to eating fresh, but I’m bad about trudging out in the cold, sleet and snow. I got a great tip from Mark, the veggie guy at the market. It works. I just revived a bundle of kale purchased almost three days ago.

    This works on lots of greens such as herb bundles, and red leaf lettuce.

    - cut off 1/2”-1” the stem bottoms
    - soak in filtered water for 15-30 minutes. (saturation creates crisp, firm leaves)
    - place in plastic bag, remove band if it’s too tight
    - repeat each day or two as needed

    I’m running a unscientific experiment. I split a bundle of kale and stored half in a Microfiber Salad bag and the other half in plastic bags that Mark suggested. The same for red leaf lettuce.

    One last tip: every three days, I mix up a batch of MMS solution and filtered water in a spray bottle. I use it to clean the fruits and veggies. I let them sit for ten minutes. The old batch of MMS, I use on the sinks, counters, etc.

    (Lets pretend that a lot of 'I' weren't used up there.)

    <3
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    Barbados is badly affected by the Chikungunya virus and it has already struck down one of my in-laws. Can we all please send uncle Karl some healing? If this gets any worse we will have to cancel our flight in December.
    Husband Luis is paranoid about catching that virus.
    I must say, the worst infections happen on the plane...as everyone breathes in contaminated, recycled air.
    The winter flights are the ones to watch out for, since lots of people carry all sorts of flu viruses then.
    I wish I could bring the whole lot here to Costa Rica.

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    Michael Caine has always been a great actor, here's just one great scene of his.


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    WIth Love
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    <3
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    Ulli, someone I know picked up the latest "Indonesian" cough which she said was nearly unbearable. She's doing better know, wish you the same. I wonder how all these flus in the different continents connect now.

    Here's another Lully:



    and another sync because I've been watching some beautiful oriental jewels too

    following my research into the Berber tribes of North Africa*. And if anyone here could recommend me literature focused on their origins, I would be ever so happy. Seems to be quite a mystery.

    ---
    *which in turn led me to Tibetan jewels

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    This was pretty much about last week but Tom talks about the North node in Libra and I like his mantra. His next report will probably come out in a day or two.

    He's in Liverpool, probably can't wait to get back to his jungle in Costa Rica.



    Love

    Nora

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    Quote Posted by Nora (here)
    This was pretty much about last week but Tom talks about the North node in Libra and I like his mantra. His next report will probably come out in a day or two.

    He's in Liverpool, probably can't wait to get back to his jungle in Costa Rica.



    Love

    Nora
    Thank you Nora - sounds exactly right, up to and including using 'cheerio' to mean 'hello' (in the UK at least, it invariably means 'bye'); I seem to have done that myself this week... a new kind of swan song perhaps


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    For you all !



    Good morning !

    Here in Gatineau, Canada it is a sunny day with a little bit of cloud . The weather is only 56 F outside Brrrrrrrrrrrr !

    I had a super conversation on the phone yesterday on my way back to Gatineau with an Avalon Friend and I wanted to share my happiness with you this morning !
    Thank you Ulyse30 for your generosity !
    I had a great time !
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    A song I haven't heard in years popped into my head this morning. When this happens, I know it is a message for me.

    Quote You do what you gotta do
    When you know what you know
    You hang on till you can't hang on
    Then you learn to let go.

    You do what you need sometimes
    But when it's all said and done
    You do what you gotta do
    And you let that pony run.
    I think this is happening, actually, because as I put out fires I am not burned. I am grateful, and I am relieved. I also sent a little prayer out this morning, something like "May the Universe be pleased with my actions, my efforts." Because the actions are instinctual and rapid fire. Not much time to think through a darned thing, haha.

    Much Love,
    Life is a road we don't travel alone. But everyone's on their own journey home.

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    Quote Posted by ulli (here)
    Araucaria, the only time I resent your mammoth posts is when I don't have enough 'time' to read them slowly and carefully.
    Well, here are just some mini thoughts....which popped up while skimming the above....
    About survival in a death camp....
    Victor Frankl in his book Man's Search for Meaning figured that he was one in 28 survivors of Auschwitz because when opportunities for escape presented themselves he rejected them, on the basis that he was (as a MD) taking care of an inmate who was sick, and didn't want to abandon him.

    Oops, the other ones...already forgotten.
    Can some of the mind readers here please help me and remind me what they were?
    My short-term memory loss is getting worse (the more I worry about it, obviously)

    Oh, about extinction....
    There is no death, only transformation. Ask Pluto- he knows best.

    Take water...below 0' C it is solid, and above 100'C it vanishes into thin air, with the remaining water molecules possibly wondering WTF happened to their buddies.
    Thank you for your kind comments, Ulli and Dan. This is a response I nearly forgot to post.

    From the standpoint of the subject, death is not extinction, no. But from the standpoint of this reality, it can be awkward to handle. If you have a cup of tea to make, best not put the water in the freezer; but all is not lost, you still have the water. On the other hand, if you let it all boil away, then you’ve got a problem. I see death rather as a door to an adjacent rom. We get called in one by one; sometimes there is a mistake, and someone comes back with a little info on what they saw. And sometimes the soundproofing is not so good and we hear things going on. And we have no idea what people do and where they go from there (some may come back in to join us). It all depends what we make of the room we are in. It doesn’t have to be a dentist’s waiting-room, or a prison. More likely we are in line for an audition, but the actual audition is being done surreptitiously for the present crowd scene, and behind that door we find out how we fared. That would explain our feeling of being watched, recorded, and why we should just ignore the cameras.

    Whatever is going on, clearly murdering large numbers of people is disrupting this whole process –including on the other side, with the influx of involuntary gatecrashers – possibly for the purpose of having the whole thing called off. Or maybe there is a bunch of actors following a script to test how the others react?

    The concentration camp is a microcosm of the ‘prison planet’, or more neutrally, this enclosed space. To choose that where you are is where you need to be is a powerful expression of freedom: you just ignore the walls. Those who fared better than most were Christians and Communists, with their shared belief in something bigger and in the value of helping others. (Pauli says Communism ‘strikes many (including myself) as a heretical Christian sect (especially because of the eschatological expectations attached to it)’.) The Communists were carrying on their organized resistance by other means, for example through a system of redistributing rations to help those in greatest need; a degree of survival being a tangible result. This all makes sense if we see other people as a lifeline outside the prison of self. ‘Go within’ is a useful precept some of the time; the rest of the time, you need to go outside of yourself. It’s the back and forth that counts, like breathing.

    So this watchful eye looking after each other was the very real observation process that turns a destructive experience into a constructive one. Its illusory radioactive counterpart, then the Gestapo, the kapos, now Big Brother or the NSA, is a terrible distortion of this basic need to watch over each other. So really, we are not auditioning for anything; we are just having an experience, and when we’re done, we’ll go and have another one.


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    TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE




    Ta-ta, "H."


    ...and the antidote to Luis.



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    Ah memories ... ain't it a bitch???



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    People have got to reclaim government ...

    Let us focus ...

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    ...from a Friend, timeless insightfullness, we are there, now, here and now, very good read thru link, im(higher)ho

    Kudos, Sister Megan Rice!

    ......


    Moral Courage & The Story of Sister Megan Rice
    --by Michael Edwards , syndicated from opendemocracy.net, Oct 01, 2014

    To remain in prison for the rest of my life is the greatest honor you could give me:
    the story of Sister Megan Rice

    For Rice, the immorality of nuclear weapons is linked to the injustices she has witnessed first-hand in the dehumanizing conditions of the prison system. Both stem from a culture of violence in the USA which is reinforced at every turn by allegiance to the military industrial complex and the interests it serves, and which filters down like a poison through the institutions of prisons and police, schools and even families.

    Where does moral courage come from - the energy and strength to challenge and transform much larger powers?
    A prison correspondence provides some answers.

    http://www.dailygood.org/story/857/m...chael-edwards/

    Funny, how our 24 hour a day nonstop news never talks about stories like this. And how our own government is deciding to start monitoring it's citizens for "truthiness".

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    Near where I used to live, in 1978

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