Art & Music – Page 6 – Integrating the Spirals

April 13, 2025April 13, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Self Reflection

‘Thrive in 25’ – Exploring Calligraphy

It snowed again yesterday, so I found some examples of calligraphy I wanted to try with the new fountain pen I bought for myself for Christmas. Yes, I am a slow starter, though I was excited about it when I purchased it. But I have had renewed interest in this art form for several months thanks to a fellow blogger.

A few examples

These are from the beginning, just after filling my fountain pen with ink:

Thinking of Richard’s song, The Last Romantic: https://youtu.be/cofs9kGpGuQ?si=J6_iTmj2-R0zoxVW

Now, on the next attempt:

Every Step of the Journey IS the Journey (Found from one of my favorite places, White Sands Buddhist Center in Mims, Florida. https://www.visitspacecoast.com/profile/mims/attractions/white-sands-buddhist-center/

In honor of the 5th book I am working on. We Are All Connected.

The fountain pen:

Fountain pen: https://wordsworthandblack.com/

Thank you to Gray Summers for the inspiration!

My husband decided to delete his art and music website

So, if you got multiple notifications, I apologize. I felt the need to remove the link to his website from many of my former blog articles.

Everything happens for a reason in the multiverse with myriad sides to every story

Yes, Everything Happens for a Reason in the multiverse and Everything Resolves to Gratitude. Knowing that each of us (as fractals) uplifts my mind and allows me to view life as a lively kaleidoscope grand design that moves about in an ever-expanding, revolving, melodious, consciousness. Even if we have to disconnect from some people, for a time.

Enjoy (IN Joy) everything and love! Be Everything All the Time. Let’s THRIVE in ’25!

Yours in expanding, coexisting (because there’s more than one-side to every story), balancing, spiraling consciousness,

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

About us

Richard and I play at the intersection of Energy, Spirituality, Health, and Music, to let FREEDOM ring for ALL! We’re down to earth (even if we are conspiracy theorists), yet not in the ground! We’re just dancing around in rhythm with the mystifying Multiverse… all humble like. But we’re always thinking, onward and upwards, so we keep exploring and creating!

My husband of 20 years, Richard Murrey, is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (having penned over 400 original songs). Richard’s artwork and many of his songs can be experienced at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

Video of us performing Live: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

All of our 400+ original songs are available for song placement in TV, film, games, etc. Video content creators, filmmakers, podcasters, production companies, deejays, Vloggers, YouTubers, and more can use our original music and songs in movies, TV shows, video intros, and such. We’re also seeking bands to play our songs. If you know of any up and coming musical artist, please forward this blog article to them.

Sheila’s books on Amazon

My meme: Books by Sheila –Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

I have four books on Amazon. The two most recent are: Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally and Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection. I invite you to check them out and leave a review on Amazon for me, if you’d be so kind. Amen. Namaste. OM

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

Connect with us

The social channels where I am most active (after thoroughly testing out others in 2024, I’ve dropped a few. My stats revealed almost no one opened my blog posts from Substack, Locals, or Instagram. I still have accounts there but I won’t be posting to those anymore):

April 6, 2025April 11, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Expanding Consciousness, Mind-Body

Integrating the Spirals: Mother Daughter night out dancing

My daughter and I went to a dance class last night where I saw many dancers of different race, culture, sexual orientation, etc. and I found myself being delighted at how well everyone did, totally enraptured by the dancing, paying attention to the instructors, and wrapped in the love of music and community!

I only danced a little because my daughter didn’t want to try it, so we mostly sat and talked. It was a different scene for us. But we really enjoyed having mother daughter time, and people watching! I only recognized three songs out of the 2.5 hours we were there.

To get an idea of the size of the dance floor. There was an upstairs where more people could hang out and dance too, but we didn’t go up there.

Here are a few short clips of the dancing (I took these mostly to capture the type of music they used):

Dancing 1

Dancing 2

Dancing 3

Dancing 4

Do you know the songs? Let me know in the comments.

Feeling it, or not

I can’t say I felt GodBumps while listening to the music last night or from watching all the people dance, but I had an enjoyable and refreshing experience. I was a bit disheartened that none of the music I heard matched up to the level that my husband’s produced over the years (no ego here), and that I don’t know what else to do to get his songs out (in a massive way) to prove that. Perhaps, it’s just something that will never happen. And I have to accept that.

Syncronisticly, a friend sent me this “good example of AI” / positive (her words) this morning. I had heard about this mashup but hadn’t seen it til now. I am curious what you’ll think of it:

Presidents singing, “We Are The World.”

Yours in expanding, revolving, limitless, spiraling consciousness,

To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY! (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

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

My books on Amazon

I have four books on Amazon. The two most recent are: Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally and Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection.

Connect with us

Here are the social channels where I am most active:

April 3, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Balancing perspectives, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Shared Posts

Songwriting. A Journey.

Songwriting. Dreams. Both strangely inspiring and logical too. Perfect therapy. A journey of a single step. First step? Maybe an unusual or common …
Songwriting. A Journey.

April 1, 2025April 11, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Mind-Body

Integrating the Spirals: Putting the heart in our AI-driven future

Have we disconnected from our heart and soul as we pursue Artificial Intelligence (AI) song generation, or in any AI pursuits for that matter? That was the subject of this fascinating YouTube video.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/o1XNbOEmBLk?si=c50eqSe0aGpzixIW

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/o1XNbOEmBLk?si=c50eqSe0aGpzixIW and my comment

Are we losing the heart in our AI-driven future?

After all of the AI song generation I’ve done, and that my husband has done in the last few months, I can tell you this: While the songs may stick in my head, I’ve yet to feel GodBumps (the way I explain that soul resonance I feel) as I listen to our AI songs. And that disturbs me. It also makes me think this way of creating music is best used to get ideas from and then go back into the studio with real singers and musicians in order to put out quality music.

For me, this means, using AI to help me build the skeleton of the lyrics, then I massage them and ensure the lyrics relate MY personal story, and then let the AI general the singing and music as an initial raw demo.

My husband writes all of his own lyrics and lyrical structure. Then he plugs his lyrics into the AI song generator to have it sung and played. Most of the songs he’s plugging into the AI generator are his, songs he’s already had played/sung by real live musicians and he’s published/released. He’s simply using AI to generate a different version. A different sound. It’s fun for him! Far be it from me to deny him of that.

My hubby’s original song, The al gore rhythmic. I think you’ll find it amusing!

Yours in expanding, revolving, limitless, spiraling consciousness,

To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY! (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

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

My books on Amazon

I have four books on Amazon. The two most recent are: Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally and Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection.

Connect with us

Here are the social channels where I am most active:

April 1, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Holism, Shared Posts

Owning Music Is Making a Comeback

There was a time when Saturday afternoons meant flipping through bins of vinyl or CDs at the local record store. You’d save up for weeks just to buy …
Owning Music Is Making a Comeback

March 30, 2025April 11, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections

‘Thrive in 25’ – Art Class: Fused glass jewelry

My daughter and I took a jewelry making fused glass art class last Saturday night–a week ago. It was fun because we did it together, but it was more tedious to me than fun. I still prefer the glaze/paint/carve art we did a few weeks ago (the mugs: https://sheilamurrey.net/2025/03/06/thrive-in-25-art-class-mugs-back-from-the-kiln/)

Fused glass jewelry pieces

I went to class not knowing we would make more than one thing, so I had put no thought into what I might create. Perhaps this worked in my favor, because as I played around with different colors and sizes of pre-cut glass, I remembered how I love cairns when we’re out hiking. Thus, I decided to assemble several. And my daughter found the little butterfly glass rounds, so I added those to a few of the pieces. A couple of the pieces I arranged in a particular order, such as the one that looks like a candle, with a couple of clouds above it and earth beneath. Had I really thought about it, I would have picked a piece of orange glass for the small flame instead of blue, but eh, it’s art!

I got a pic of my daughter while she was creating her pieces. She told me she didn’t have many photos of her actually crafting, so… I snapped one. I got photos of my tray of glass bits and a couple of ‘in progress’ photos of my glass projects. Then there’s a final ‘after kiln’ picture of my daughter’s projects as well as mine all together. Finally, the last photo in the gallery that follows is of our front enclosed porch too, so you can see where we’ll be playing games and having cocktails some evenings. When winter is completely done, she will move the snow shovels and such so it will even feel a bit roomier. Plus, we’re going to start some seeds too, in containers that will sit on the windowsills. The box under the table is for all of us to use to recycle cardboard in.

Still undecided

I’m still undecided about creating more AI generated music, so here I sit, reading other blogs, some books, and beginning a new exercise routine. Oh, right, and continue procrastinating about writing my 5th book. I just feel like if no one is buying the first couple of books (that I wrote myself, the two initial books were multi-authored books), then why bother! I know that’s probably not a good way to think, but that’s honestly where my mind has been at lately. Plus, I want to start my calligraphy writing/drawing stuff. Hmm… where do my days go?

About songwriting

Check out my husband’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey and specifically, any songs he put out before Feb. 2025. We counted again and he has written nearly 700 original songs!

Everything happens for a reason in the multiverse with myriad sides to every story

Enjoy (IN Joy) everything and love! Be Everything All the Time. Let’s THRIVE in ’25!

Yours in expanding, coexisting (because there’s more than one-side to every story), balancing, spiraling consciousness,

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

About us

My husband of 20 years, Richard Murrey, is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (having penned nearly 600 original songs).

Video of us performing Live: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

Sheila’s books on Amazon

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

Connect with us

March 30, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Shared Posts

Minisa’s Art and a Traditional Healing Way for Times Like This

The Elders say… Greetings Beloved Kin, In the beginning of my journal, I often quoted what “Minisa says.” By her words she encouraged me to say, “the…
Minisa’s Art and a Traditional Healing Way for Times Like This

March 16, 2025April 11, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Balancing perspectives, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Self Reflection

‘Thrive in 25’ – Purging files, clearing chakras

How often do you purge your computer files? While I’ve been laid up with a chest cold I’ve been purging some digital stuff, documents, photos, etc. I’ve also been clearing my chakras. And I think the purging has aided me in that process. I even took some notes and turned them into a song. I won’t promote the song though, as it really is just a release for me (of course if you subscribe to my YouTube channel you’ll see/hear it). In fact, I’ve got a couple more songs coming out this week that are also a bit of shadow work getting cleared. It might surprise a few of you.

The way I figure it, I could either just delete this stuff, or go ahead and turn it into songs in case anyone might use it to help them clear their chakras as well. I know from all the kaleidoscope and mirror ball work I do (and teach), that everything works for good, eventually. Maybe not all at the same time though. And it’s okay. You remember the Indian saying, right? It will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not yet the end. Or something like that. And no worries, the sauna is helping me clear the chest cold. I’m also taking a great homeopathic remedy, loading up on fluids and vitamins, and have even laid under a PEMF, red light heating pad for a while. I follow quite the regimen! Ha!

Temporary placements of latest art pieces

These are a couple of the last art pieces I purchased from Linda Lewis before she closes down her Etsy shop and moves to Thailand. I already sent her the photos via email, but thought I’d share them with you all too, since my spa room is still a work in progress (and probably always will be).

Screen capture: From Linda’s Etsy account when the app let me know what I’d ordered and that they were being shipped.

Linda’s painting, “No rain, no flowers” on an 8×10 canvas board. As you can imagine, the blue blocks of clouds and the saying are what drew me into this painting. It sits on the chair rail for now. I’ll get a frame and hang it next to my sauna at some point. For now, it’s happy under photos of my husband and me, and next to pictures of our eldest granddaughter when she was a baby.

For now, Linda’s wood-burned owl sits on the chair rail under the skull that usually hangs outside in October, and under my dragonfly painting and butterfly fabric wall hanging that a friend in Florida made. At any rate, the skull doesn’t really belong here because I want this wall to represent flying things (butterfly, dragonfly, and owl). I just haven’t felt good enough to fix a hangar onto the owl.

Latest music videos

As I said, the surprise video is on YouTube but I’m not promoting it. Here are the two most recent music videos prior to it though:

Miracles we Create. –Sheila Murrey

Born to Breathe. –Sheila Murrey

If you’re new to songwriting

If you’re interested in songwriting, you might want to check out my husband’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

If you’d like to try Suno AI, you can sign up for free using my link: https://suno.com/invite/@atomicsoundquality3245

I’ve updated the Connect with us section below, so keep scrolling…

Everything happens for a reason in the multiverse with myriad sides to every story

Enjoy (IN Joy) everything and love! Be Everything All the Time. Let’s THRIVE in ’25!

Yours in expanding, coexisting (because there’s more than one-side to every story), balancing, spiraling consciousness,

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

About us

My husband of 20 years, Richard Murrey, is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (having penned over 400 original songs).

Video of us performing Live: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

Sheila’s books on Amazon

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

Connect with us

March 14, 2025April 11, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Balancing perspectives, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Self Reflection

‘Thrive in 25’ – Hitting it big!

Have you ever wanted to “hit it big” with a song, book, or other creative endeavor?

We have. But then, we really are simply seeking royalties to augment our retirement income because neither Richard or myself care about awards or red carpet snobby events.

I found this information: https://www.beairdmusicgroup.com/aboutlarrybeaird the other day about the success of the gentleman who founded the Nashville, TN music studio where we spent a lot of money having our original songs demoed, some songs more than once when Richard would rewrite lyrics. This About page, astonished me–the level of success the Beaird music studio has had to date.

To me, the list of Larry’s successfully produced songs (for others) says we worked with one of the best music studios in the country. And yes, music studios use the best studio musicians and singers. Ergo, when our songs don’t hit it big, it must be our fault. Our songs must simply not be that good. That’s a shame considering we have penned over 400 original songs–NOT counting the stuff we’ve created in the last few months using an AI song generation tool.

Art class – The wave

The art class I took last Friday night with my daughter was to create a fused glass ocean wave! We really enjoyed the class, even if I had to put a slight damper on it by saying something I shouldn’t have said. Ugh. My mouth. When will I ever learn?

Here are the before and after photos:

The Wave – fused glass template top left (clear glass over paper picture of what it should look like when finished), in progress on the right, and my finished piece but not yet fired on bottom left. –Sheila Murrey

The Wave back from kiln and glue into a stand. I had wanted to make one of these from the time I saw the first one in the art studio. All thanks to my love of spirals! –Sheila Murrey

Brought the plants outside for some sun

Don’t worry, I’m bringing them back inside by sundown. It’s going to hit 50 degrees Fahrenheit or more several days this week, but still dropping into the low thirties or even twenty degrees at night, so it’s still too cold to leave them out. As well, I keep the orchid inside all year around (it was a Florida plant that stayed indoors there too).

Peppermint, basil, lavender, oregano, parsley, and the Florida orchid.

So far, the oregano, lavender, and basil (in larger pots in the background, look like they may have survived the winter and snow, etc. but we’ll see in a month or two if they actually start growing again. That is why I took cuttings and potted them in small pots to bring some inside for the winter. I’m an experimental gardener in that way. Always adopting the “wait and see” attitude and “giving life a chance.”

Latest music video

As I mentioned the other day, here’s the music video for my song, Looking back at you:

Looking Back at You. –Sheila Murrey

If you’re new to songwriting

If you’re interested in songwriting, you might want to check out my husband’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

If you’d like to try Suno AI, you can sign up for free using my link: https://suno.com/invite/@atomicsoundquality3245

I’ve updated the Connect with us section below, so keep scrolling…

Everything happens for a reason in the multiverse with myriad sides to every story

Enjoy (IN Joy) everything and love! Be Everything All the Time. Let’s THRIVE in ’25!

Yours in expanding, coexisting (because there’s more than one-side to every story), balancing, spiraling consciousness,

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

About us

My husband of 20 years, Richard Murrey, is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (having penned over 400 original songs).

Video of us performing Live: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

Sheila’s books on Amazon

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

Connect with us

March 13, 2025April 11, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Balancing perspectives, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Self Reflection

‘Thrive in 25’ – Sacha Stone, Sasha Stone, and birthing Peace

So, yes. There are two different people named, Sasha Stone. Oops, guess one spells it Sacha Stone. I honestly didn’t realize this until I began writing this the evening of 3/12/2025!

Sacha Stone on YouTube

I think I like this Sacha Stone guy. He quotes Terence McKenna, so there’s that. (I love listening to the flow of wisdom that exudes from nearly all of McKenna’s recordings. I must buy his book one day. But I digress.)

Did you know there’s another Sasha Stone? Yes, and though their names are pronounced the same, the preceding Sacha is a man, while this next Sasha is a woman. At least she looks and sounds female. And I’ve been reading her Substack articles for years! So, when recently someone asked me if I liked Sasha Stone, I immediately replied, “Yes!” but I was thinking of this one, not Sacha. Now, I’m taking some time to listen to some of Sacha’s recordings (apparently he’s an old rock star too).

Sasha Stone on Substack

Link to article: https://open.substack.com/pub/sashastone/p/who-killed-the-democratic-party?r=5g6f6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Latest music video

Whispering the Truth (of the Dao). –Sheila Murrey

I’ve put the Moonlit Odyssey music video on the back burner, well, maybe I will get it done tomorrow for the full blood moon eclipse, in favor of crafting one for this new anti-war/peace/let them live song. This original song was inspired by my near incessant thought that all of these soldiers could walk away and there would be no more wars. It’s within every soldier’s sovereign right to walk away (yes, I know it might cost them their life or freedom to do so).

Looking back at you. –Sheila Murrey

If you’re new to songwriting

If you’re interested in songwriting, you might want to check out my husband’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

If you’d like to try Suno AI, you can sign up for free using my link: https://suno.com/invite/@atomicsoundquality3245

I’ve updated the Connect with us section below, so keep scrolling…

Everything happens for a reason in the multiverse with myriad sides to every story

Enjoy (IN Joy) everything and love! Be Everything All the Time. Let’s THRIVE in ’25!

Yours in expanding, coexisting (because there’s more than one-side to every story), balancing, spiraling consciousness,

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

About us

My husband of 20 years, Richard Murrey, is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (having penned over 400 original songs).

Video of us performing Live: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

Sheila’s books on Amazon

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

Connect with us

March 7, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Shared Posts

Update from artist blogger pal who is moving to Thailand and closing her Etsy shop: Challenges 3-7-2025

I should be getting a call back on trying to cancel our house security system. I’ve tried twice, finally managed to leave a call back number after …
Challenges 3-7-2025

March 7, 2025April 11, 2025 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Mind-Body, Self Reflection

Integrating the Spirals: COVID update, fact checking with prior CDC Director, Redfield

I’ve been following Del Bigtree and Dr. Sheri Tenpenny years before the COVID fiasco. As you know, I spent 13 years writing a holistic health book, Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally – available on –>> Amazon.

And THAT’S why we didn’t take the mRNA COVID gene therapy jabs. I haven’t had a flu shot since the early days of it. My dad had one and was sicker than he’d been in his life back then, and he strongly suggested I not have one. But I didn’t listen, and I had a flu shot (sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s, I don’t remember), but then I heard on the mainstream news, that the formulations pushed out each flu season were based on the prior year’s strains and were only a ‘shot in the dark’ as to how effective they’d be for that year. At that point, it was my ‘common sense’ that they probably wouldn’t do any good anyway, so I just stopped getting them. I wrote about all that in my book. Ironically, I didn’t even write about COVID in my health book because I finished the arduous 2nd edition in 2018! Thus, COVID wasn’t even a thing, yet.

Screen capture 1: Email from Informed Action Consent (ICAN) – Learn more: https://icandecide.org

Screen capture 2: Email from Informed Action Consent (ICAN) – Learn more: https://icandecide.org

Screen capture 3: Email from Informed Action Consent (ICAN) – Learn more: https://icandecide.org

Screen capture: Email from Dr. Sherri Tenpenny: https://www.tenpennyimc.com and her Substack: https://drtenpenny.substack.com

Screen capture: MAHA podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ex-cdc-director-drops-bombshell-lab-leak-rfk-jr-and/id1799858188?i=1000697667250

After going to Ireland, England, and Scotland in 2019, and getting COVID in December of 2019 after returning from the second trip to Ireland (for the Winter Solstice at Newgrange), I began digging into that subject because the doctor I’d seen didn’t know what I had (as it hadn’t made the news yet in the USA), but she did ask me if I felt I had to ‘gasp for breath.’ And I bought a digital pulse oximeter (hand-held oxygen meter) because she’d used one on me and explained that my oxygen level needed to stay in the 80s/90s level or I’d have to go to the hospital. The look on her face and the whole conversation haunted me. It would only be a few weeks later that the news of COVID would break nationally, and that my family and I would discuss my symptoms and likely, what I had. It’s all supposition because I wouldn’t do the PCR test either. But I had no sense of smell or taste, and other things that aligned with COVID. –FYI: I wrote about this back in 2021 (Due to the censorship back then, I spelled it as, C*VID): https://sheilamurrey.net/2021/10/20/cvid/

After one of my longtime childhood friends, Joe, passed away after taking the jabs (both a flu shot followed a few weeks later from one of the first COVID jabs, I doubled-down in my belief of NO JABS. Joe was a nursing supervisor who was back in school continuing his education at the time and I know his heart. He wholly believed he was doing the right thing getting immunized. I will never know if he fully understood the risks he was taking though. We wrote the song, First Friends about him and to honor him. People forget about honor.

And if that wasn’t enough, I got COVID again, after we’d moved to Bradenton, FL and had been going out in public a bit more than we had (remember we’d been living in the woods of Hollister, FL for the first 17 months of COVID). In Bradenton, I’d been walking outside every morning at 7am for half an hour. Now, I’m not saying I picked it up from the AIR… but who knows! All I know is after going through that kind of ‘flu’ TWICE, I am even more adamant I need no shots. You may feel very differently and that’s your choice. I fully support body autonomy. Always have. My body, my choice has never been political for me, and certainly not only about a woman’s right to choose.