A friend’s Facebook post got me thinking about this topic. And the answer that dropped into my mind was actually a question. That is, “Are you a Nationalist or a Globalist?
I was born and raised in The United States of America. I consider myself a nationalist who enjoys all the freedoms we have in this country.
Traveling
Yes, I enjoy traveling. And I’d like to travel more. But at my core, I remain loyal to the land of my ancestors. It is said that everyone came to America from somewhere else, and the same could probably be said of all who live anywhere, as when you trace the lineages back multiple generations, most of our families did not originate in the country we now call home. Even my Cherokee ancestors came from somewhere else initially.
I’ve been to a few other countries in my life such as, Canada (as a child when my parents took me to Niagra Falls, and we went to Canada to enjoy the view from the Canadian side). Mexico, when my husband and I took an ocean cruise. And another time, when I went with friends on a yoga cruise that ported in Cozumel. Then there was the Sacred Celtic Journey to Ireland, England, and Scotland that we took in July 2019, plus the associated “winning” trip back to Newgrange in Ireland, December 2019!
About Kings and Queens
I go back and forth with how I feel about England. But we fought a war against them, so there’s that. I’ve written before that my mom was no fan of Queen Elizabeth, but loved Princess Diana. Personally, I cannot stand King Charles (and yes, I call him King Chuck at times because it amuses me.) But I have always wanted to visit Wales, and I was closer to it than I thought as we toured Bath and Wells, England when we went to Stonehenge. We were with a group though, so even had I known, we couldn’t have accomplished a visit there at that time.
You have to know who you aren’t in order to determine who you ARE.
I simply feel at heart that I am a Nationalist. I know I adamantly disagree with global organizations such as the World Economic Forum and their mission to CONTROL the world. And I strongly dislike the World Health Organization and the massive disservice they did to the world during COVID. Ugh.
People who feed on greed and then turned us against each other score no points in my book. The Rockefellers, Morgans, and Vanderbilts. Rockefeller’s ruined West Virginia (and not only for their need for control over coal) but in other ways too. John D. Rockefeller Sr. ran an oil monopoly (Standard Oil) and later, perhaps to soothe his internal guilt, decided to become a philanthropist. I always find it amusing when guilty parties opt to do a ‘little good’ for the ‘every man’ after taking advantage of them for decades. For further reading, check this out: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/jekyll-island-conference
Family history
As a Daughter of the American Revolution who has Native American ancestry, too many people forget all of us have come down through lineages that have been persecuted. Thus, I have compassion and do not want to persecute ANYONE. I was raised not to see color, but in the last few years have been called names because I that was not the way they thought it best for me to think.
My puritan ancestors (see the stones engraved at Plymouth Rock, MA if you doubt this), brought Christianity to this country via the Mayflower. This is why I have had debates on the facts of our Christian nation heritage. Now, people may want to do away with that now, with all their “love and light,” but as for me and my house, we understand the foundation. And a house with a failing foundation is at risk of degradation and crumbling down.
Remember not everyone who lives in America is FOR America.
I’ll go back to spraying our Japanese Knotweed with salt and vinegar now. Many blessings!
. ❤️🙏💙
Integrating the Spirals
I’m encouraging those “over 60” to open to lifelong learning (observe and gently question their pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’), become more aware of their thoughts and emotions, consistently move their bodies (too many are stuck in their heads and physically unhealthy), become strong, and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, body. And to question EVERYTHING!
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
I have had a trip to visit Salem, Massachusetts on my Warren Buffet annual To Do list since 2017 at least. I’m thrilled to say, I can check that off now!
On Sept. 20th, 2025 my daughter drove my eldest granddaughter and I to see the sights of Salem, Massachusetts. Salem is a bit more than two hours from where we live in New Hampshire.
I’m pooped! I could barely do anything on Sunday because we walked about 7,000 steps on Saturday! Even today, Monday, I’m moving fairly slow. I did manage to accomplish my Jiggle Butt dances yesterday and today, mostly because my husband, Richard, wrote a couple of new songs in remembrance of the thirteen female witches hung during the Salem witch trials. FYI: Twenty people were executed in total; nineteen were hung and one was pressed to death. UGH! (Two hundred were accused of witchcraft/consorting with the devil.)
One of my dear friends from Florida lives in Salem now. She texted me several great tips, like where to park for free (a few blocks from the downtown area), and potential places to eat, etc. She also invited us to visit her and her husband at their in town farm, which we did at the end of our day! And THAT visit was the highlight for me, as Salem is too commercialized to suit my taste.
Driving around Salem
My daughter thought it best to drive us around to some of the sites first, that would be too far for us to walk too. Great planning and thinking on her part! This is a fairly good sized town with lots of one-way streets, and some two-way streets that allow parking on both sides, making driving around a little hairy.
Salem’s witchy history
First, we drove by the Proctor’s Ledge Memorial. We could have parked at the closed down Walgreens at the corner, but didn’t realize until we passed that corner, and her GPS had already taken us around the block in the neighborhood to get to it. We didn’t want to go around it again. My daughter always considers how residents feel about all the traffic (as I raised my kids in Daytona Beach, Florida and they know traffic).
While I was reading about early American history and what religious ties might have led to the witch trials in Salem, I read about the Puritans (of which my lineage traces to and why I feel such disdain for the Church of England), and how even the Puritans disagreed; some were Separatists, who believed there should be no state established church) and some were Non-Separatists/Nonconformists who remained loyal to the Church of England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Puritans_in_North_America
Spiral thought: It’s a rather confusing subject, but since I was raised in the Mormon movement, one can see why this thread runs deep with me, that of separating from the Church of England and its Catholic roots. I’m now such a Separatist or staunchly religiously independent, that I am not an active member of any organized religion! If curious, refer to my previous articles: https://sheilamurrey.net/2018/11/06/the-fences-of-religion/ and https://sheilamurrey.net/2019/08/23/about-omniscience/
Hocus Pocus
This is one of the houses used in the Hocus Pocus classic film. It’s known as Max and Dani’s House. It’s located at 4 Ocean Ave. in Salem, MA. It’s a private residence and perhaps the most iconic film location from the movie that fans want to see. I was surprised that it was right on the water! The marina and the many boats in the water made this a beautiful spot!
Off to the side of this house, you’ll love the beauty of the water! The boats. The marina. It’s simply spectacular!
Marina and water next to the Max and Dani’s Hocus Pocus house.
We drove by The Witch House at Salem while looking for parking downtown. My friend, Jen, gave us parking info, but many lots were full (even the parking garage was full). We eventually took her advice and parked by Furlong Park on Franklin Street. That meant we had to walk across a bridge to get back to the downtown area, but it was free, and one can’t argue with that!
The Witch House Salem: https://www.thewitchhouse.orgA street named after my family name. Williams Street. (My daughter also drove by and took a picture of a Square that had her husband’s surname.)We saw a festival going on at this park – through the fence, but it was too much for us to walk back there to check it out after we eventually parked the car.The Witch Museum. This is a big draw! There seemed to be quite a long line and I don’t think any of us were in the mood to go anyway. We just wanted to get a feel for the town.The memorial to the founder of Salem: The Roger Conant Statue. https://www.salem.org/notable-locals/roger-conant/The Hawthorne Hotel. We were going to eat lunch here, but the sign outside the door said the kitchen quit serving breakfast at 11am and wouldn’t reopen to serve dinner until 5pm. My friend, Jen C., said the food here is very good. A fun mural that I thought was well done. It’s Pirates climbing a rope ladder and ropes on the side of a store. Note the iron fence. There is a lot of iron fencing around town.Driving around town. I enjoyed checking out the old architecture of the buildings, the stone walls, the iron fences, foundations and fireplaces of the homes, and the brick sidewalks and cobblestone streets.
Walking around downtown Salem
Once parked, we walked several blocks to the downtown Main Street area of Salem. It’s nice! It is blocked to cars, and is a wide street where people can get in and out of a variety of shops and eateries. (I think the cobblestone got to my feet though! And I was even wearing good ‘walking shoes’! I could not imagine walking around there in boots or healed shoes like I observed many women wearing! I will NOT suffer for anyone’s perceived idea of beauty.
The first shop we checked out was The Good Witch of Salem. It was a very small shop all built around the story of a good witch. The items in the store for sale were things having to do with a fiction book written by Ashley Tina (the store’s owner).
I glanced through the some odd 20 page book and saw few words but lots of illustrations. (She probably did write a good story, but we are two very different authors! Thus, I am a harsh critic.)
I couldn’t imagine having the money to start a store built around one book! The store carried little girl clothing, a doll (no doubt the heroine of the book), fake (extremely dyed) crystals (okay, to be fair, they were quartz), a bit of jewelry, and other small items. This didn’t interest me at all, but my daughter and granddaughter enjoyed looking it all over. In fact, this story reminded me of a line in Hocus Pocus about the sisters noticing how people had turned All Hallow’s Eve into a frolicking fun time! I found a quote that’s close:
Quote from Hocus Pocus
In fact, even as we walked into the second shop my eldest granddaughter remarked, “The first place was all cheery and light, and now we’re descending into the depths of darkness,” or something to that effect. I take creative license here to paraphrase her. Ha!
The darkly dreaming shop was The Black Veil Studio on the corner of Essex Street and Sewall. I almost bought a few things in this store, but I wanted to see what else I might find later on. (I didn’t end up buying anything but food! Ha!) Hats off to these guys though. The shop definitely sets a haunting mood!
Screen capture of an older Facebook post for The Black Veil Studio referencing the shop we’d stopped in at 304 Essex St.
We popped into another gift shop (I didn’t catch the name) to look at t-shirts, stuffed animals, hats and so forth. And then… we stood in a short line to go into Professor Spindlewink’s World of Wizardry.
About a third of the items they offered for sale were things my son-in-law can print on his 3D printer, so again, I wasn’t too impressed. But sure, the large articulating dragon for $49 was cool. I also liked the vibe and perhaps we should have taken in the attraction part of it. We just didn’t want to overwhelm our sensitive 13, nearly 14-year old.
Screen capture from Ecosia search for Professor Spindlewink’s World of WizardryPhoto I snapped as we left the shop because I had recently drawn of a tree and it was so stunningly similar to the tree on the glass of the shop, that I gasped!
While walking down the cobblestone-and-brick Essex Street (in the middle of downtown Salem), we saw several street performers. You could chuck in some coins or cash as a tip and have your photo taken with them. It’s nice because that street is closed off to vehicle traffic.
There was an overwhelming amount of shops, attractions, museums, restaurants, cafes, and people standing in lines to enter most of them. While it isn’t Disney World, it sort of has that vibe. I wanted something more authentic. Fact: Walt Disney was a descendant of Rev. George Burroughs, a victim and the only minister executed during the Salem witch trials in 1692.
I nearly missed this very large engraved stone on the side of a building paying homage to Alexander Graham Bell! And of course, this thrilled me to no end because he’s kinda the epitome of my career which merged electronics and communications!
It may be difficult to read, but this is a huge engraved marker that I nearly passed by as we walked up the street between shops. This site may help you discern the text: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=230062
We had a lovely sit down lunch at an Irish pub called, Olde Main Street Pub. I loved the delectable fish ‘n chips I had (best since my time in Ireland in 2019). My daughter enjoyed her pulled pork sandwich and my granddaughter liked her cheeseburger, but said the fries were the best! (My full review of our lunch is on Yelp.)
My fish ‘n chips at Olde Main Street Pub, Salem, MA
We saw some great characters in full costume regalia such as, Frankenstein, an old hag witch (see the photo), the clown from IT, Mike Myers from the Halloween movie, and Sarah Sanderson from Hocus Pocus (of course)! The gal even resembled Sarah Jessica Parker, and she did a bit of acting to drive that point home! Much of the town celebrates the Hocus Pocus witches, since it was filmed in Salem.
I liked the little alley we walked down that had the blue painted trees. After taking this photo, we began taking a lot of selfie group pictures. And I realized that I’d never learned how to set the timer on my new iPhone 16. (Go figure!)
At the temporary Blue Trees art installation. Left to right: My daughter, eldest granddaughter (front), and me (behind her)! –Sheila MurreyThe temporary Blue Trees art installation.The temporary Blue Trees art installation sign.
I put my hand out over each stone marker as we slowly and solemnly walked through the park (to leave a gift of loving Energy to all of the persecuted and murdered) at the Salem Witch Trials Memorial. THIS was the most poignant part of our day!
I had not realized how many men had been hung after being accused, and the young man walking behind me commented the same. I also did not realize that all of the ones paid tribute at this memorial died on different dates, some in July, some in September. We also noted that several were hung on Sept. 22, 1692. But this was one of the main reasons I’d always wanted to visit! To learn the real history of the Salem witch trials. (Especially since going to Ireland, England, and Scotland in 2019 and learning of the Cathars.)
After dining, we happened upon the Bewitched Sculpture and took more photos there as well. I was always a fan of the show (since childhood), so this was a fun moment! Elizabeth Montgomery in that role was probably the one who got me so intrigued with witches at a young age. Oh, and The Wizard of Oz film, which is still my favorite movie of all time! Ha!
At the Bewitched statue of Elizabeth Montgomery. Left to right: My daughter, eldest granddaughter, and me! –Sheila Murrey
Here we are in front of the old hag witch. And no, we’re not sure which movie or story she’s from. I searched online but could not find a name for this particular witch. She’s wearing a pilgrim type hat that’s black with a red belt above the brim, a red gown, black robe, and is holding a staff or broom in one hand, and a candle holder in the other.
At the hag witch statue. Left to right: My daughter, eldest granddaughter, and me! –Sheila MurreyMy granddaughter wanted us to take her picture in the stockade.
After this, we stopped at a bakery and donut shop that another customer at the pub had raved about. One was Lulu’s Bakery and the other was Funhouse Donuts. We got several treats to bring home.
NOTE: I must say, Lulu’s Bakery had one of the best brownies I’ve ever had (which Richard and I shared on Sunday/Monday)! I didn’t get a donut, but my daughter said they enjoyed them.
On the long walk back to the car, I stopped in front of the Wesley United Methodist Church to look at the stained and leaded glass windows. I couldn’t help but gasp at the sign on the side about the parking and note that on a Saturday, the parking lot was completely empty! All that space that could have allowed visitors a place to park without having to walk as far. Ugh
I’m sure someone in charge at this Methodist Church thought this old English font typeface sign would make people chuckle. I didn’t find it funny at all by the time I was struggling to walk back to where we’d parked.
I always wanted to visit Salem with my friend, Susan who grew up there. She’s into a LOT of the same things I am, and I think she could have shown me more of the authentic side of the town, but we’ve simply never managed to do it–yet. Tick tock time’s a wastin’! But if I never go again, at least I can check Salem off my ‘To Do List.’
After we left the downtown area, we visited my friend, Jen C. and her husband at their home. My daughter got a couple photos of my granddaughter playing ball with Jen’s dog, Misty. I thought I’d share it to show how we ended our day on a high note:
Granddaughter playing ball with Misty. Love the sun streaming through in this photo! –Photo credit goes to my daughter.
❤️🙏💙
Integrating the Spirals
I’m encouraging those “over 60” to open to lifelong learning (observe and gently question their pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’), become more aware of their thoughts and emotions, consistently move their bodies (too many are stuck in their heads and physically unhealthy), become strong, and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, body. And to question EVERYTHING!
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
I’m encouraging those “over 60” to open to lifelong learning (observe and gently question their pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’), become more aware of their thoughts and emotions, consistently move their bodies (too many are stuck in their heads and physically unhealthy), become strong, and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, body. And to question EVERYTHING!
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
When I worked for a university (for ten years), I came to realize just how much the formal education system lagged behind in the knowledge they were teaching.
Consider this. Think about how long it takes to get a group of academics together to make degree program decisions, gather textbooks together (it often takes years for authors to write and publish textbooks!), recruit and hire faculty, as well as, prepare learning objectives, course syllabus, outline, instructions, tutorials, learning aids and all other materials. It’s no small feat! And all of that takes time.
A college or university administrative staff then has to prepare a course catalog and academic calendar schedule. And this is only some of the work that has to be done on the student registration side! There are all other kinds of actions that must be performed (setup) before students can show up to attend classes: admissions, financial aid, bookstore, etc.
When you get down to the nitty gritty of it, you can begin to understand why college programs are not on the cutting edge of science.
My educated conclusion? Research institutes may seem like they are on the leading edge of science, but they are also likely slower at disseminating their research findings and groundbreaking discoveries than most of us want to believe.
Perplexity answers
Screen capture: I asked Perplexity.ai why Higher Education seems twenty years behind. (Part 1)Screen capture: I asked Perplexity.ai why Higher Education seems twenty years behind. (Part 2)Screen capture: I asked Perplexity.ai why Higher Education seems twenty years behind. (Part 3)
One way I integrate mind and body
Part of what I teach in Integrating the Spirals is bodily movement when reaching new awareness, setting new intentions, or receiving new information to fully embody it.
JIGGLE BUTT has become the daily integration exercise I do that’s fun! It started as a way to promote my husband’s original songs, but now, it has become so much more!
I hope to encourage others over 60 to be open to lifelong learning, aware of thoughts and emotions, consistently move their bodies, become strong, resilient, and create their own Jiggle Butt videos too!
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
My credit union sent the following helpful information and tips regarding scams to me (and their other customers) the other day. I found it useful, so I thought I would share it:
Don’t get caught in a Money Mule scam – from my credit union. For obvious reasons I don’t want to disclose the name.Red flags to watch for and how to protect yourself
I had never heard of a Money Mule scam before. I mean, I guess in concept but not in name.
Now, it’s up to us to do our due diligence to ensure we don’t fall victim to scammers.
By being better informed we can stop scammers from stealing our hard earned money!
Perplexity
I’m using Perplexity AI now to copy and paste potential job scam offers. I’m also using it to ask some scholarly questions pertaining to the research I have done for my 5th book!
So far, I am finding the answers and feedback it provides very helpful!
Subscribe to my YouTube channel
JIGGLE BUTT has been continuing to work out and get some views and Likes. These keeps me accountable to get my daily exercise in AND promote my husband’s original songs too! Thus, I love it! I really hope to encourage others over 60 to create their own Jiggle Butt videos too!
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
In continuing my chats with fellow blogger, artist, and friend, Linda of Creative Artworks Blog, I discovered another rabbit hole of inquiry and self reflection this morning. And it is the rabbit hole of ‘Longing.’
When I leave someone or something, (or they leave me), I continue to feel a sense of sadness. Ugh! Yet, I know that is somehow tied to selfishness on my part.
Hmmm.
I think of the song, Everytime you go away.
Selfishness is tied to ownership.
Meditating on this, I find that when I say, ‘my’ anything, I am attaching some level of ownership to the person, place, or thing. Some degree of ownership comes from loving. Interesting!
Perhaps this is one reason the Buddhists teach us to detach. The less attached we are, the less suffering. when we can focus on the new homes or adventures our far away loved ones can have without us, instead of thinking about how much we miss them, it frees our thinking minds!
And perhaps in this “We Are All Connected” metaphysical world, it frees them too! The frequencies are all intermingling.
What is bound on earth is bound in heaven?
My YouTube channel
JIGGLE BUTT has been continuing to work out and get some views and Likes.
These daily videos hold me accountable to get my daily exercise in AND promote my husband’s original songs too! Thus, I love it!
I really hope to encourage others over 60 to create their own Jiggle Butt videos too!
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
I wrote about some of these scams before, but this article by Rebecca Keegan for The Hollywood Reporter was full of more details than I ever thought of when it comes to these scammers (and why they want to move your chat to Telegram)!
I almost hate to comment on YouTube or Facebook posts of people I don’t know, because invariably some scammer tries to lure me to another platform or chat. Ugh! It’s so annoying!
Gullible
I’m gullible at times or in a mood to see how far they’ll go, so I play along—for a little while. But I tell you, 100% of the time, it’s a scammer.
Don’t waste your time on them, please. And certainly NEVER send bitcoin, money, gift cards, etc. to anyone you don’t know!
Link to my YouTube channel
JIGGLE BUTT has been continuing to work out and get some views and Likes. These keeps me accountable to get my daily exercise in AND promote my husband’s original songs too! Thus, I love it! I really hope to encourage others over 60 to create their own Jiggle Butt videos too!
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
It’s taken a good 14 days for me to recuperate from a sucky summer cold. And I’ll tell ya, I am not jumping back to the good near as fast as I used to!
I wrote some of this before, but let me break it down more fully here:
I spent over $1,000 (mostly on the hotel for four nights and gas for my daughter’s car) and rode shotgun in my daughter’s car (with my daughter driving), her 8-year old twins in the second seat, and her 13-year old daughter in the third row seat.
Ah, yes, travelin’ with the children. So much fun! Add to this that the trip was some 14-plus hours (each way) from New Hampshire to my home state–and all to attend my 45th high school reunion. However, joy of joys (note my extreme sarcasm) a mere three HOURS before I was to go to the reunion dinner, I got all feverish and started experiencing the chills, big time! No way could I attend! And that was super annoying. All I could do was lay in bed, shivering, and wrapping myself in towels, and anything else I could easily grab.
Alone in the hotel room
My daughter had taken the girls to her dad’s house about a half hour from the hotel and my best friend and her husband were going to pick me up and take me to the reunion dinner that I’d already pre-paid for. Sad to say, I had to call them and give them the bad news that I’d suddenly taken ill. Mind you, the sciatica I’d experienced months ago that the chiropractor had fixed, returned the night before! Ugh! It was enough to deal with the sciatica again, plus the sore hip that had been bothering me for a couple of months, so I couldn’t imagine anything else going wrong. But it sure did! I was quite the mess!
To relieve the sciatica and hip issues, I’d thought it would be a good idea to take a hot bath. We don’t have a bath tub at home so I’d brought an herbal packet with me in case there was a tub in the hotel bathroom (and there was).
So, about 3pm on the day of the reunion dinner, and yes, while all the girls were away, I’d gotten into the tub. By now, you might guess what was to happen. I used the handrail to get into the tub, but slipped on the way to sit down and yes, I guess it re-aligned my back because the sciatica went away (and hasn’t returned). And I wouldn’t think a hot bath would bring on a fever, but something did!
I get the whole “correlation isn’t causation” thought-process and while I laid shivering in bed that came to my mind, as well as when I had gotten chilled a couple days before (while taking the girls swimming in the hotel indoor pool). Between the chill and then the hot bath a couple days later though? I don’t know. My guess now is that everything converged to reduce my immunity and then, whatever my daughter had when we left, took hold of me. I tend to pick up stuff just within a few days of exposure. And sitting next to her in the car for all of those hours makes the most sense to cause me to get ill.
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.
About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)
Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey
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About us
My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey
Integrating the Spirals 