Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Posted by transiten (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Hehe, I got it. Transiten's Mars transit brought her a whole bunch of cédilles ....
Courtesy of araucaria.
Large ones and small ones, but none she could access herself.
So then the ensuing frustration brought up new Lyme symptoms.
(But maybe this is not a matter to be kidding about...)
Sending healing to you in any case, transiten,
and may there be nothing left of your illness other than a faint memory.

Thanks ulliI appreciate grim humour as long as it's done with compassion, i joke a lot about my Lyme. Remember when i was at my worst and Loreen from Sweden won the European Songcontest with "Euphoria", the refrain goes "Euphoria, I'm going up up up up up" and my head went "Borreeeeelia, I'm going down down down down down".
Only the deadly serious matters are truly funny, but of course it depends of the intention behind the joke...

I have a cousin in Hamburg who has Lyme, also Marianne mentioned she has been battling it...

so I know it's no joke, nor was I intending to make light of your suffering.

My husband, who is a GP, has taught me that making sick people laugh is half the battle won.

[araucaria]

Sorry, I was not having a joke at your expense, transiten, I actually missed your original post at the bottom of a page - does that make it sound worse?

Here's my medical story for today. A young neighbour came up to me the other day to ask if my son worked at the hospital, and when I said yes, he told me he had given his mum a piece of paper, which turns out to have been a prescription. So this little kid, who has learning difficulties, seems to be pretty smart because he must have worked that out all by himself from the name on the 'piece of paper'. I hope he's pleased with himself and that his mum is doing OK.

[transiten]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by transiten (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Hehe, I got it. Transiten's Mars transit brought her a whole bunch of cédilles ....
Courtesy of araucaria.
Large ones and small ones, but none she could access herself.
So then the ensuing frustration brought up new Lyme symptoms.
(But maybe this is not a matter to be kidding about...)
Sending healing to you in any case, transiten,
and may there be nothing left of your illness other than a faint memory.

Thanks ulliI appreciate grim humour as long as it's done with compassion, i joke a lot about my Lyme. Remember when i was at my worst and Loreen from Sweden won the European Songcontest with "Euphoria", the refrain goes "Euphoria, I'm going up up up up up" and my head went "Borreeeeelia, I'm going down down down down down".
Only the deadly serious matters are truly funny, but of course it depends of the intention behind the joke...

I have a cousin in Hamburg who has Lyme, also Marianne mentioned she has been battling it...

so I know it's no joke, nor was I intending to make light of your suffering.

My husband, who is a GP, has taught me that making sick people laugh is half the battle won.

Of course ulli i understand you had no intention to make light of my suffering! That's what i meant...it's difficult to be clear when typing as one cannot see the facial expression and hear the tone of the voice....

[Wind]

My daily horoscope tells me today that Mercury-Saturn conjunction is only going to worsen my neurasthenic condition which is already affected by the moon-Neptune opposition. Like I haven't noticed it! As optimistic I usually tend to be, I feel like I haven't been tested this much in a while. Dark and cold winters are not helping my physical & mental ailments at all...

I'm just feeling blue again, but his too shall pass... I hope.

[ulli]

Posted by Wind (here)
My daily horoscope tells me today that Mercury-Saturn conjunction is only going to worsen my neurasthenic condition which is already affected by the moon-Neptune opposition. Like I haven't noticed it! As optimist I usually tend to be, I feel like I haven't been tested this much in a while. Dark and cold winters are not helping my physical & mental ailments at all...

I'm just feeling blue again, but his too shall pass... I hope.

Since Mercury moves so quickly and the moon is faster still,
the optimist in you won't be too challenged.
See the positive in everything, I always try to tell myself....
It is there, somewhere, hidden underneath the rot.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Benevolent Bear (here)
Family Thanksgiving today Turkey has been in the brine and the oven, ham has been glazed, walnuts candied, marionberry pie baked, spinach salad with mandarin oranges and plump organic dried cranberries (working on), White Trash Toffee made, whole wheat biscuits a bakin', green bean casserole in the makin' mashed potatoes a boilin', mashed cauliflower almost ready (not necessarily in that order)... A combined effort!
Kids and grandkids all delicious! Time to scoop up with a spoon and savor!

http://greatgrub.com/recipes/white_trash_toffee

Have a great weekend Villagers

Weekend’s Thanksgiving smells still linger. Time to hit the half eaten pies and and leftover turkey sandwiches. And here’s a Christmas cheer to begin the next round of family gatherings at Benevolent Bear's "Home Sweet Home".

Teddy, the talking porcupine, wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IEc8k4LUQ7g

"Teddy Bear," the porcupine, doesn't like to share...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UGz8jcbJjRw

[Wind]

Posted by ulli (here)
Since Mercury moves so quickly and the moon is faster still,
the optimist in you won't be too challenged.
See the positive in everything, I always try to tell myself....
It is there, somewhere, hidden underneath the rot.

Yes, sometimes it is just really hard to see the good things underneath it all. However, I'm more convinced than ever that this Earth is just a really hard school for all of us, we wouldn't be here right now if we weren't brave enough (or foolhardy). The darker the night the brighter the dawn.

[meeradas]

One of my tracks has seen a sudden surge of "+9200% plays" in the last two days.
Strange... must have landed on a prominent playlist somewhere, after all this time of 'just lying there'.
That's the track.

Didn't know i could get excited about sth like this... but maybe it's just a jammed browser with that thing on 'repeat'.

[Marianne]

Are we really at the end of November?? And Where Did Summer 2013 Go?

Looking forward to Thu-Fri off and seeing Susan/family. I'm staying away from the stores on black Friday.

Wind, hang in there. Things will brighten up soon.

Transiten, hope you are doing well on your journey.

Lyme ... I don't think I'll have any more re-occurences of it. For me, keeping an alkaline state was the first big step in healing, done with raw juicing ... celery and cucumber juice, with a hit of fresh pineapple juice. Sometimes adding beetroot juice instead of pineapple. Drink it first thing in the morning. Eat a salad for lunch with raw seeds or nuts, dressed with fresh flax oil and a few drops of umeboshi plum vinegar. For dinner, don't combine proteins and carbs ... they don't digest well together. If you're eating protein/dairy/meat, only eat veggies with it. If you're eating grain/starchy carbs, only eat veggies with it. It's not as restrictive as it may sound ... in fact, this kind of eating is more creative and interesting than the S.A.D. of meat, 2 veg, and starch (yawn). Marilyn Diamond has great recipes. If anyone struggling with lyme wants to talk, please do PM me. I haven't forgotten the helpless, hopeless feelings associated with it.

My mom is having her 87th birthday this week. She doesn't like rampant materialism, so gifts must be useful and/or consumable...I've made 5 boiled-wool dryer balls, and will re-mill a batch of her favorite carrot seed soap, wonderful for skin.

Next week is Pop's 90th birthday and we're having a get-together with far-flung family coming to my house for a party. (I'll have to clean places I've been ignoring.)

Loving the village and all who gather here,
Marianne

[Benevolent Bear]

Time to boot, scoot and boogie! So much to do, so little time!

Have a great week and a Happy Thanksgiving to all of the Village!


1961 Lambretta TV175 Scooter outfit. Photo: flickr/kenjonbro

What a dream machine!

[1inMany]

Oh, spiritwind, what a difficult situation. May the angels surround your sister and keep her feeling warm and loved with their wings. And the little one, too. And wind, and those of you who are struggling, may these rough spots be smoothed swiftly.

A long conversation with M this morning revealed some things to me. At first, I wished I didn't know. But if I didn't know, I couldn't create a warmth for Little One to access when he feels alone and the chilly absence of love and light in his life settles upon him. And if I didn't know, I wouldn't be able to charge M's battery from the drain of heaviness. My prayers are not "please let whatshisname leave them alone"...my prayers are "please let this lesson be as swift as possible."

Please let this lesson be swift, please limit the suffering to only what is the bare necessity. Please give us all wisdom to know when to step in, please give us the patience to wait until the lesson has been learned. Because the wisdom I acquired from last time, painful as it is, is that to intervene with the intention of protecting Little One we all might prolong his suffering because the lesson has not yet been recognized.

Universe providing opportunities for insights as it does, this conversation reminds me, beyond the shadow of a doubt, M is a blessing. I am so proud of her, the way she is embracing Higher Knowledge. She understands this situation from a higher perspective. This might well save her from the despair that tends to settle when trying to help a little one while your hands are tied.

And so, I say this prayer, this blessing, in my heart, I say it out loud, it echoes through the Great Vastness.
We Rejoice in the Love and the Light and the Unity of the One Infinite Creator. We are Grateful for its Peace and Compassion...

Something to ponder:

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Much Love,

[Flash]

Absolutely hilarious. There is a big debate right now in the province about reasonable adapatation for religious purposes and a lot of critics from every sides. A reporter, who has a regular televison program decided to animate his whole show with a burka, as if nothing was there, he did not ever mentioned his burka. Of course, part of the program was about two daycare employees working in tchador, face covered in a daycare in center Montréal, two French Canadian having been asked to dress with it in a "muslim" daycare (which is not legal by the way, daycare are supposed to be areligious).

Look at the face of the invitees

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=b-POE5CznuM

Niqab in the daycare

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ft4pjjuav8w

One of the two canadian girls

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zGP2dUKjJmE

[Flash]

My truth: I have been very much exposed to the Muslim world and I would never have accepted that my daughter goes to a daycare where women's faces are covered. My understanding stops at the scarf. I would want my daughter to be able to see the non verbal language of her supervisor at all times.

[Calz]

[Flash]

the necklace does not make it Calz, lol lol lol, not muslim enough

so cute doggy

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I can imagine a kid being admonised by his daycare educator and having nightmares at night with black shadows.

Then, here, 20 years later, telling us that some shadow beings were coming in his sleep and picking him up when he was Young, all in black (the daycare employees at nap time) and use putting the member in the thread sections for those who had close encounters.

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Spiritwind, I am here with your sister, all my heart to her.

[Calz]

My bad ...

[Calz]

Nice jam ... nice crowd reactions ... damn ... life was a whole lot simpler back then ...

(yeah yeah I know ... livin' in the past ain't here and now ...)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8jxs0ybnsEQ

[Calz]

Sorry for grabbing a 2nd helping ... this is just so damn good I cannot resist ... perhaps next lifetime???

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R8M8R835Ck4

[RunningDeer]

Second time today, two low flying helicopters over head. Low enough that I felt my apartment vibrate. This morning SE to NW there were two black helicopters. Just now two greenish khaki colored ones flew from NW to SE.

There are so many planes and helicopters of late that I’m conditioned to not pay attention. These were low enough to check them from my porch. This morning, I gave them the “I’m-watching-you-eyes.” I see how futile that was. Grrrrr!

[ulli]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RE7M7tB4_qY

Why we don't have free energy. Yet.

I'm learning to trust my instincts, slowly. I did not have a good feeling about Dollard, yet I contributed when they were raising funds to establish him in his new lab.
I wish I had that money now to replace my iPhone, which had the wi-fi go kaput just after the guarantee ran out.

But on the other hand- the story isn't over yet....
Keeping my focus on it, and asking the Villagers to do the same.