It’s March 1st, 2024; Here’s an original traditional country song for you today. It’s a story about young ones playing games and then later, adults playing games again. Great times!

Our big announcement is official!

Here’s the sixty-first new music post for 2024, as I consistently share an original song each day this year. Have you ever played this game with anyone, Rock, Paper, Scissors? I’m so looking forward to playing games like this, board games, and such with our three young granddaughters when we move to New Hampshire by the end of June this year! Yes, it’s now official! That’s our big announcement! We’re leaving Florida and moving to New England (over a thousand miles away)! Woo-hoo! We’re excited about it!

We’re moving north!

A fellow Facebook friend posted the following one day in his Facebook Stories and I grabbed it (I save a LOT of these as screen captures). It spoke volumes to me at a time when I felt low (“down”) about friends who never visited, never invited us anywhere, and so on. I felt like we always had to drive TO see everyone and then NO ONE was there for us after Richard had a stroke (Oct. 2022). I thought once we moved to Ocala and left Bradenton, I could get over it and get on with life, but unfortunately, the friends we moved here to see have not visited either. So, I give up.

We are thankful that Richard’s sister and her husband have visited us, and two of our friends we’d not seen in decades. So, there’s that. We sincerely appreciate that they chose to take the time to visit us here in Ocala, FL!

It’s time for us to make the move

After Richard had the stroke, my daughter had mentioned several times that perhaps it was time for us to leave Florida. She genuinely wanted to come and help us, but she has three young daughters, a job, and a husband who works too. They are also landlords. To say they have a LOT going on would be an understatement. My daughter has a LOT to juggle. Thus, I know we were on her mind, especially when her brother, my son, left Florida and moved to North Carolina.

When my son left Florida, I felt so alone here. I mean, we used to have friends we thought cared for us–we certainly cared for them. And I don’t want to be bitter. Some of our friends have passed away in the last few years too. So, I just don’t feel there’s anyone left here to help us as we get older. And my daughter wants to help us.

Meme: “In life, friendships change, divorces happen, people move on, others die. By Les Brown; Life Learned Feelings

The more I walk my talk and work on my Integrating the Spirals processes, tips, and tricks, the more I understand why people have shied away from us. They are busy in their own lives and we just don’t rate high enough on their list of priorities to try and come and see us. One has tried, but I was sick the day she was going to drive two hours to visit with us–I am hopeful we’ll see her again before we move.

Though I do look back, I’m always reaching for the better feeling thought, as Abraham-Hicks says. I am always working on myself, and am currently taking a class with a Theosophy group of about twelve people. I am grateful for them, otherwise, I’d feel quite left out. As an only child, feeling “left out” was always the worst feeling I had. I would even force myself to sit at the dinner table with my parents and watch them eat whenever I was too sick to eat (as a child). That’s how much “joining in” meant to me as a child. And the community has meant just as much to me as an adult. It must be because my soul has always recognized that, We Are All Connected.

I will sit with my feelings and meditate on the external sounds that I am unattached to. This always helps me heal and balance my mind because it’s all frequencies), and God only knows what others’ motivations are. All I know is, I’ve tried. And as Richard often says, “The road runs both ways.” If we mean that much to our friends and family, they will make the effort to come and see us.

All I can ever do is, mind my own Energy. Just as my t-shirt/mug/sticker design says, Minding My Energy. If I didn’t get down once in a while, I wouldn’t appreciate ALL the times I’m UP! And I’d rather laugh than cry. Wink!

My meme: The planet has ice at both poles. If you want to get warmer, move closer to middle ground. Polarized people are often colder (bitter).

Years ago I had rented a condo on the lake in New Hampshire and invited friends and family to visit. Dad didn’t think he could even make the trip, though he said he would have liked to, and I understood because of all he had to do with caregiving for Mom. But it was the first time in my life that he didn’t visit me in a new place. And cousins who didn’t live that far couldn’t find the time to visit. But one of my coworkers from a few years prior found the time and inclination to visit me there, and she got to meet my granddaughters. I was thrilled! I will never forget her choosing to visit me–it meant the world.

Of course, I was primarily there (for a month in New Hampshire) for my daughter and granddaughters, and I got to see them after work, and on weekends. We had a blast! I also began developing my Integrating the Spirals back then (while staying at the lakeside condo). I couldn’t fully realize that then though. I’d begun bowing to the four directions each day because of a wood plaque that was hung on the living room wall of the condo. The words on that wooden sign fed my soul daily. Later, when we went to Ireland, England, and Scotland on our Sacred Celtic Journey, the seed those words had planted within my psyche and soul resonated with the uplifting and empowering vibrations I experienced at Newgrange, Stonehenge, and with the Yew tree at Rosslyn castle. Aha! Time spent with friends, family, and sacred places matters.

May we all feel freer and soar in ’24! Always planting new seeds and integrating the processes that help me and ALL of us balance and find ease, and JOY!

Yours in expanding, balancing, spiraling consciousness,

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

My playlists

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About us

My husband of 19 years, Richard Murrey, is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (having penned over 400 original songs). You can view his artwork and hear original songs at: http://listen4music.com

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15 thoughts on “March 1st – Big announcement!”

  1. Sounds exciting. There is only so much you can tolerate if you are without visitors. Friends and family visitors are essential for social well being. We need a holistic biopsychosocial approach to well being. Acquaintances on shopping trips, out and abouts, chats on the street, etc. are not fulfilling enough. We do have visitors here, very much less often now, and the feelings during visits are so positive. Covid has a lot to answer for! Trundling along in life and feeling okay is not great for any positive long standing situation. There is new found energy in having a quality social pick me up. Those visitor experiences matter far more than you realise sometimes. I am an introvert by nature. But have the sense to realise how important the whole vibe of sharing and interacting with others actually is. The month of June is just around the corner Sheila. Fun times ahead.

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    1. Thank you so much for confirming my intuitive feelings regarding the holistic biopsychosocial well-being needs, Gray. Yes! I know I tend to lean towards the positive side of life and our lack of socialization the last few years has put me in such a tailspin that it has left me questioning who I am now!
      I mean, when COVID hit here, we had just moved to my son’s off grid property (not far from where we live now), so we had the companionship of my son and neighbors, and later, his girlfriend moved to the property too. Even with the craziness of COVID and stuff shutting down, me continuing to work from home, and us struggling to live off grid (with all the associated challenges that brought), I still felt Connected.
      But after we moved to Bradenton and I had in-person Reiki classes and could go visit friends, I felt pretty Connected again, until Richard’s stroke. In one fell swoop, it felt like the social rug was pulled out from under me.
      I am glad I had the Reiki group, (and virtually this blogger community), but if we didn’t “go to them,” no one came to us. And that was too much for me to deal with. Leaving Richard alone wore on my psyche. I began to question why I felt it important to go work on healing others when he was the most important person in my life. If that makes sense.
      Thank you again, for listening and commenting from your educated and nursing experiential perspective.

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      1. I remember discharging patients after discussion concerning ongoing plans. The Expert Patient who is motivated. And you have described here perfectly. Working with people, not patients as we recognised they shouldn’t have the ‘patient’ tag when getting on with life again, in post cardiac events who required rehabilitation proved to be a very long process of ‘a bit at a time’. It seems you are going to enjoy moving up north. Finding new and exciting events. They do say a change is as good as a rest don’t they.

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      2. Stated true, Gray. Richard’s recovery has been a “very long process of ‘a bit at a time.’” Indeed. And perhaps what I didn’t realize until now is that I needed to recover as well (mentally). Sheryl Crow sings a song about “a change will do you good.” I think you’re right. This change will do us good. It will be a rest. Thank you, Gray!

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      3. You both deserve this new adventure. And to take time out once in a while. You’re not exactly twiddling your fingers and busy doing nothing all day are you! 😊 An active mind, forever enquiring, is a great one to possess. All the best Sheila.

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