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Happy Full Moon

May 28th, 2010

Happy Friday my friends!

We are still less than 24 hours to the waning side of our May, Milk Moon. Did you get a chance to go outside last night and look at that beautiful full moon? I did! Wow!

We built a full moon fire and cooked and ate dinner around it. Then we roasted marshmallows and watched the moon rise over the trees on the east side of our yard.

After we tucked the boys in and Mike disappeared into the computer room, I wandered into the dining room with a piece of paper and my favorite gel pen.

I wrote a letter to the Universe. A letter of gratitude and love and admiration. A letter of intentions and excited expectations. Then I took it out to my fire, which was now a glowing array of red/orange coals and ash. And after a brief grounding/centering, I added my letter to the circle of coals. It immediately burst into yellow flame and as I watched the smoke from it rise into the night air, I intended in my heart that also were my words of gratitude and intention released into the Universe…. So mote it be.

This morning, I squatted on the flat river rock in the middle of my small raised garden bed in the morning sunshine wearing my pajama pants and housecoat, in my bare feet that were damp from the dew in the grass, dragging my little hand rake through the soil, loosening up the small weeds that were beginning to root.

This rock has become my favorite place. I love the way it feels under my feet. Especially in the morning when the sun has warmed it and I walk through the dewy grass and then step with my cool, damp feet onto this wonderfully warm stone. I love to squat down and play in the dirt. I love to touch all the plants and talk to them. I tell them how beautiful they are and how LOVELY they’re looking today! I tell them how lucky I am to have them growing here in my very own garden and how delighted I am to see that they’re thriving and happy!

This rock in my island. Right in the middle of paradise.

The clusters of green near the lattice are all climbing flowers. Four o’clocks and morning glorys and sweet pea. They’ve already got their tiny little arms outstretched and reaching! I’m so excited that they’re growing so well!!

I’m looking forward to getting my little garden expanded to the other side of the lattice this weekend. I really can’t believe how much I love gardening and that I haven’t been doing it all my life. _sigh_ Shoulda been a farmer. LOL

Spending time in my garden is the perfect thing for me to do this weekend. With my little fire ritual last night, there’s nothing that will suit my attraction energy better than spending the next few days doing something I LOVE doing. Talk about amping up the feel good vibe!

I hope you intend to spend your weekend doing things you love. There’s no better time to take a break and do something nice for YOU than now!

If you love to garden also, I want to share my very favorite gardening book with you. It’s my little green gardening bible. Jerry Baker’s Great Green Book of Garden Secrets!! I don’t even know where I got this book from, but I’ve had it for years. It is FILLED with tips and tricks and tonics and it’s all natural. For example, to get rid of slugs you mix a can of beer, 1 TBSP sugar, and 1 tsp bakers yeast. Let it sit for a few days, and then leave it in your garden for them.

But that’s not all. There’s tips on planting and cultivating and fertilizing and composting and even more that I’m not even thinking of. I LOVE this book.

My affirmation today is~ As I love, so I create!!

Have a FANTASTIC weekend!!

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Mother Earth Day 2010

April 22nd, 2010

Happy happy happy happy happy Mother’s Day my dearest Mother Earth!

Earth day is sort of a special day for me. I mean, I know, it’s Earth day, but the path I’m on began Earth day 2008.

The first thing I ever did to consciously conserve was back on Earth Day in 2008 when, as suggested on tv, I unplugged everything in my home that wasn’t in use. This included lamps, cable boxes, toaster, toaster oven, can opener, tv in the family room and basement, etc. I did it for one month on a pretty regular basis. Sometimes I’d forget, but for the most part, I walked around unplugging things all the time.

I got my electric bill the next month and it had gone down $40! That’s freaking incredible! After that, I unplugged even the things I hadn’t before. I put the microwave, desktop computer, modems, and all televisions on power strips so you needed to flip the power switch before using and I started making a turn through the house every night on my way to bed to check all outlets when I locked the doors.

The next month, an additional $15 was missing from my bill. I was sold. Conserving energy was not only good for my environment, but it was also saving me an immediate $55 PER MONTH!

I even had an additional physical benefit that I can’t prove, but that I’m sure of none the less. I’ve had hormonal issues for years. Since I had Michael when I was 20 actually. My menstrual cycle would go anywhere from 24 days to 40 days instead of an average of 28 as it should be. I panicked multiple times thinking we were pregnant again. Not fun.

I started unplugging everything in my home, and 3 months later my menstruation normalized and has been perfectly balanced since. I made no connection until one year later, ON EARTH DAY 2009 when I was talking with someone about unplugging and suddenly made the connection in my head. I grabbed a calendar and counted backwards and could SEE that on the 3rd month after Earth Day, I was at 28 days and had remained consistent (after TEN YEARS of consistent inconsistency!).

Curious about the possible connection I looked it up and was ASTOUNDED at what I found. There is SUCH a connection! Do your own search. Electricity creates what is called an electromagnetic field, or EMF. Run a search on your favorite search engine for EMF hormone connection.

And this isn’t just a feminine issue guys! Men have hormones too! Menstruation involves progesterone, estrogen, testosterone, and THEN some. Men have all these hormones too! We, as watery humans are walking talking hormones. Electromagnetic fields affect EVERYONE! Even animals.

I’m off to the store to see a man about a horse…. no wait… to see about getting a lilac tree :) They are my favorite and I promised the boys that we would plant something large and permanent for our Mother Earth today. I hope you’re doing something for Her today too. Every tree and every bottle and every piece of trash counts. Honor your life, our planet, our Universe, our future generations and make a change for the better and start today!

~OxOxx ∞

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The Food Revolution

April 12th, 2010

Long time no see!!

I meant to keep up with my blog while I was in Colorado, but it turns out that when you’re sitting across a table from your main reason for being online, ya lose the need to BE online. I barely touched my laptop the whole time but for checking email. I’ll be posting pictures soon!

Last night I was lounging in bed watching my favorite shows that recorded on my DVR while we were gone. I LOVE my DVR! I had 2 episodes of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution to watch and I love getting to watch episodes back to back like that.

I watched the first 2 episodes of this new program and had remained unsure of my interest in it. I love the concept. I mean, better, healthier, unprocessed lunches offered from schools. That’s the most fantastic thing I’ve ever heard! Our lunch programs in public schools is deplorable. As Jamie learned this week, french fries are classified as vegetables in the school lunch line. It’s disgusting in my opinion. I wasn’t sure if I was terribly impressed with the show as a whole to begin with though. It kept my attention enough that I kept recording it.

We’re up to episode 4 now and I’m hooked. Jamie took the local radio DJ to the mortuary to see the XXXL caskets and talk disease. Then he introduced him to all these kids whose lives have been touched by obesity in some way and the loss they’ve had to experience because of it and he turned that guy around. You could see it dawning on him that he’d had no idea how bad it really is.

Anyway, I really love this show. I truly hope that he really HAS begun a food revolution. I believe that he has. During one of his interviews during the show he talks about how he started cooking because he just wasn’t good at anything else… And it made him feel alive and it made him light up inside when he did it. THAT is the reason I believe he could change the way America sees it’s food. It will be fantastic!!

Go check out his site http://www.jamieoliver.com/ and see his show on ABC Fridays at 9pm EST.