This was our first Thanksgiving in Ocala, Florida (and will probably be our last). Through no fault of anyone other than our upstairs neighbors (it’s more of a structural thing than them–except they work odd hours, coming in late and leaving very early in the mornings), and that the friends we have here aren’t any more social than the ones we left behind in south Florida. Sad to say. Granted, a few were ill and no one can blame them for not wanting to get together, but some didn’t even call or message. And I’m not the type to invite ourselves to someone’s house for Thanksgiving, even friends we’d had Thanksgiving with before.
If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio:
It is what it was
If I sound a little sad or aggravated, I guess I have been. But I’m working on my DE-Program process (Integrating the Spirals) and “letting it go.” Writing this post helps. It is what it was. I know we’re all adjusting to a “new normal.” I just wish people wouldn’t ignore us/or anyone. I don’t think it’s healthy to stay “shut in.” Of course, I am all for doing stuff on my own, Ms. Independent here. But I think all this time during COVID has really punctuated the point of getting together with others. I love my monthly Zoom calls, but hanging out in person–well, there’s so much that could be said for camaraderie.
Who did you celebrate with?
Our little local restaurant (we walk to) was closed for Thanksgiving day, so we ordered our food the day before. And then, I reheated our food on Thanksgiving day. And it was all delicious–more on that and pictures in a few minutes!
Our longtime friend, Nancy, sent us a bag of organic lemons. I call these our Sarah lemons because they grow on a lemon tree I gave Nancy years ago when her daughter, Sarah passed away. And Sarah loved lemons. Nancy was going to drive a couple hours to come visit us before Thanksgiving but I was sick that day, so she mailed these instead.The day before Thanksgiving we walked to our little local restaurant to have a cup of Christmas cheer with our bartender friend, Rob. My mom always used to have a cocktail on Thanksgiving and call it her “Christmas cheer.” So, this was a special pumpkin martini and I thought of her as I enjoyed it.One of my mom’s handkerchiefs, the Avon nativity set (that my mom and I had both collected one each when she sold Avon), a ceramic angel that was a gift, and a glass Christmas plate. I’m also putting a Christmas globe out, with a blue Fenton Art Glass deer, but otherwise, that’s all I’m doing to decorate the apartment for Christmas.I have to glue one of the gifts/hands that broke from one of the wise men. This is a closeup of the Avon ceramic nativity scene. I put it on our bar so I could meditate on it while I wash dishes in the sink. I typically have a Fenton candy dish sitting on mom’s handkerchief in this location.
I mused over some of the things I have from mom and dad, grandparents, and cousins. One gift I wear often is from my first cousin Greg–a garnet string of chip crystals. I’m always so thankful for the gifts from family (I have so few of those kinds of momentos). I love useful gifts or things I can wear to remember my loved ones. How about you? Do you do that too–think of your loved ones when you use or wear things they gave you? To me, that’s the heart of holidays like Thanksgiving.
Alone together
So, I called some family friends who were also alone for Thanksgiving, and enjoyed our phone calls, but Richard and I celebrated Thanksgiving alone this year.
I have a strong feeling that we’ll be up north with family next summer and thus, won’t even be living in Florida this time next year to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends. Oh, well! I’m glad we did it when we did a few years ago and will have to settle on simply being grateful “We did that then.”
We had turkey, stuffing (dressing), a very small amount of bourbon gravy, which was new to us, and green bean casserole, also new to us and very creamy and cheesy. We also had carrots and potatoes and a fantastic yam/sweet potato casserole with little marshmallows on top–I hadn’t had one of those casseroles in years!
We ended our Thanksgiving feast with a slice of chocolate cream pie (as I’ve been doing a lot lately reminiscent of my dad–he always loved a good chocolate cream pie. I found the Edwards brand in the store freezer case and have decided it’s the best for the price for us now).
What “food” holiday do you celebrate?
What similar holiday do you celebrate in your country?
I love Diwali in India. I’ve celebrated it several times with coworkers. It will be one of the things I miss when I retire. Actually, I’ve worked at home for the last 6.5 years, so come to think of it, I haven’t celebrated Diwali in person with anyone for a long time. I love Indian food, so it used to be one of the holidays I always looked forward to when I worked in an office–all that delicious food!
Giving thanks for ALL
I love gifts that keep on giving. Here’s the new crystal bracelet from one of my cousins who I met recently on Facebook–she makes these. I bought one to match for my daughter, and then one each for our three granddaughters in their favorite colors for Christmas. And I’m wearing Color Street polish on my fingernails, which I’ll post about next (my daughter is a Color Street stylist). I’m still juicing these lemons from Sarah’s lemon tree too. I think I will get them all used up before they spoil without even needing to freeze the juice.
Yours in expanding, thankful, revolving, spiraling consciousness,
To our better health, ease, joy, and sustainment in JOY!
Energy/Omniscience (Omnism) governs ALL. Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.
My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is more timely now than ever because I know people are suffering. (Let me know if you’re interested in working through the Integrating the Spirals course.)
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 all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
For more spiritual and esoteric updates, who we’re connecting with in Ocala, Florida and more, follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour
Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, wherever you happen to be in this big, wide, beautiful world that we live in. Take a breath on this one. I’m typically not here to be political. So that’s my intro and my caveat here. But Robert F Kennedy Jr. Checks so many of the presidential boxes for me if not all, and as you know, I don’t believe in perfection. So here’s the Kennedy 24 campaign letter number one that I received because yes, I signed up to subscribe to his campaign. I have not donated yet though because I’m still on the fence about who I’m gonna throw my support behind. I like Vivek, I could deal I suppose with the T man, should he come through all of his legal battles. But I’m absolutely not voting for a Democrat. And you may be able to ascertain why by the time I get to the bottom of this but our economy in the USA is in the tank. And there’s just been a lot of decisions made in the last couple of years that I am adamantly against and disagree with. I won’t name names but you can probably ascertain who I’m speaking of. And in no way do I feel the current person in charge is cognizant. That’s the kindest way I can say it. I have been a Democrat in my life. So, it’s not about party. I’ve been Republican. I am an independent because I’m an independent all the way around here. You know, I try to stay as brand-independent as I can, as well even on the Being Wholly Vibrant blog when I talk about particular holistic, health and wellness solutions. But I won’t go on a tangent there, no spiral thoughts here. I’m just going to read the parts of the campaign email letter #1 from Kennedy 24 that resonate the most with me and then I will read the very special letter at the end in full because I feel that it speaks volumes, and whoever is elected president in this country, I hope they will bear that letter in mind. I’ll remind you when I get there. This is called Notes from the Campaign Trail and it’s written by the campaign director, Amaryllis Kennedy. I do not know her. I’m not affiliated with the campaign. Again, as I said I’ve never read anything she’s written before so forgive me if I stumble over any of the words Okay, here we go!
If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio (and there’s a few minutes of BONUS info on the audio, plus me getting kind of emotional, BUT I aimed to read the parts that most resonated with me–turns out about 95% of it did!):
Campaign email letter #1 from the Kennedy24 team I received
Friend –Back when I was a college kid studying in England, I fell in love with a radio broadcast called “Letters from America,” narrated by Alistair Cooke. Stories of everyday existence back in my beloved country made me feel less alone, somehow, in my wistfulness for America, my devotion to all that she is, and my hope for all that she might yet become.
In these last weeks since taking the helm of this campaign, I’ve come to recognize that same sense of homesickness in our movement. Only the home we all long for is a future America — one of health and wealth, of fellowship and freedom, of truthfulness and promise. We all know that this home exists just as surely as I knew mine lay across the proverbial pond, back when I was a lonely student in that chilly, British dorm. And so I figured that perhaps we should take a lesson from that old radio broadcast and share some weekly letters from across our national movement, to keep us all connected as, together, we walk home.
This first note is going to be a long one, so make a cup of tea and settle in…
There’s much exciting progress to report — ballot access plans and poll numbers, grassroots events and media awakenings, finance committees and mobile apps to fuel the historic work ahead. But before I get into all that, on this thanksgiving weekend, I want to start with the prayers.
Almost every day, sometimes several times a day, one of you writes to tell me that you are praying for Bobby, praying for our campaign, praying for our country. These notes mean more to me than I could ever say. I believe that Bobby was prepared by Providence for this moment and that every one of us, in our small way, has also been led through a series of lessons and experiences in this life that have equipped us with the unique fingerprint of insights and skills that we each need to play our supporting roles in the forces of light.
Back in those undergrad Oxford days, I served as the sacristan of my college, Pembroke, and prepared communion in our beautiful chapel each Sunday morning, as many of my friends slept off their late Saturday nights. I was often a little groggy myself, truth be told, but there was something profound about that quiet morning crispness as I walked across Christ Church Meadows, where Tolkien is said to have opened C.S. Lewis’ mind to the existence of a higher power on an overnight stroll. The early sun would begin to clear the mist from the river as I made my way toward the dreaming spires of town, punctuated just as I arrived by dozens of hand-rung church bells from each of the colleges, beginning moments apart, like the singing rounds my grandma used to lead us in as kids.
I have the same sense of breaking dawn about this moment. Bobby is leading us into the sun and the daylight is burning off the mists. It reminds me of wise old Ben Franklin’s quote at the end of the Constitutional Convention. Having mulled the half-sun carved on the back of George Washington’s chair all those hot, muggy Philadelphia months, he said as the last signature was added to our highest law, “I see now that it is a rising and not a setting sun.”
For the first time in my lifetime, Bobby is proving Ben Franklin right. And it is the highest privilege (and heaviest responsibility) I have ever known to lead this campaign beneath him. I do so as the steward of every American who yearns for the country they know lies just beyond the darkness of corruption and the mists of government lies. The country of our hearts.
Each of you has been prepared for your role here, just as I have. Looking back on your life’s experiences, you may notice that you have seen and done things that make you uniquely qualified for your particular work supporting this campaign. A connecting of the dots. Seemingly random opportunities seized or challenges overcome or career moves made that now, years later, make sense as a sort of curriculum that delivered you to this very moment.
Take my life, for example. Three unusual professional phases that each taught me core lessons I needed for this work.
First, my years at CIA, born of the desire to talk with our adversaries face-to-face, to understand them as humans rather than media cartoons, to see if maybe there wasn’t some different path to peace. I joined after 9/11, fresh on the heels of my twin degrees in international law and theology, trying to make sense of the goodness of people in the context of such violence and pain. The Agency was pitched to me as a secret version of the diplomatic service, building relationships with those adversaries too hostile for normal embassies and black-tie parties.
I hadn’t yet read The Devil’s Chessboard or researched the full extent of our nation’s egregious intelligence crimes, but I knew that daylight was the best disinfectant and I pressed back in my interviews on the potential for abuse when work is undertaken in the shadows. “Oh, but the Church Commission!” I was assured and, naively perhaps, I reasoned that the best way to guard against future abuses was for good people to flood out the bad. Talking with enemies beats bombing them, after all, and I felt sure that my moral true north would keep the darkness at bay. What I didn’t yet know, in those young years, is that corrupt structures are designed to isolate lone lanterns in the basement — that only a removal of the roof up top can truly flood the entire house with light.
Almost as soon as they hired me, I began flagging potential crimes and sending complaints up the command chain, making myself such a thorn in the side of the corrupt seventh floor that they shipped me out to the field in isolation, exiled from Agency offices and charged with safe-guarding those adversaries who put their own lives on the line to offer warnings before bombings that they privately feared would take too many civilian lives.
Side-lined though I was, I don’t regret the years I spent in that service. It gave me a lifelong understanding of the humanity of our enemies, to eat in their homes and play with their children. My job was never to lie to them — they knew who I worked for and that by sharing information with me, they were preventing this or that attack. Many of them had gotten themselves into something they had first believed was righteous and now wanted a way out. Wanted to preserve life instead of taking it. Often, I sensed that we were all just trying to escape the same darkness above us, the leaders on all sides of that endless war — and every war — who profit from the violence that tears the rest of us apart.
When word of the CIA’s abhorrent torture program began to emerge, I knew my little lantern in the proverbial basement wasn’t making any difference and I left in disgust. I took with me an unshakable devotion to ending the imperialistic impulses that I had seen claim so many innocent lives, to dismantling the heinous tentacles of our security services, and to lifting the shroud of secrecy that hides these abuses from the tax-payers who fund them.
For six years after that, I learned a different set of skills that I would some day need for this campaign — this time in the realm of business and tech. Unable to share my first-hand criticisms of the forever wars until my cover had been rolled back, I looked for another way to help make a difference while I waited. A friend of mine was blogging back then and explained that she paid her bills with affiliate links — the small commissions she received when a reader clicked on one of her product links to make a purchase. That seemed like a lot of spare change rolling around the internet that could add up to something good. So I hooked up with an engineering pal and built a little startup that used natural language processing to identify product mentions and make them shoppable, with the proceeds benefitting the charity of the readers’ choice.
Born in a literal garage, our baby technology ended up being used by big publishers like Hearst and Conde Nast. We took venture funding, built a team of several dozen and raised over a million dollars for soup kitchens and animal rescue groups, hurricane relief and just about every other community cause you can imagine. I never liked the tech world very much, but it taught me an enormous amount about managing organizations and leveraging nationwide networks to do some real good. I took those skills to Twitter, where I ran product for their Consumer Commerce Division with an even bigger team, and got a first-hand look at the power and peril of Silicon Valley giants run amok.
Finally, in 2015, word came from on high that my old cover had been rolled back. My third professional chapter taught me the most, perhaps, in preparation for this campaign. It began the moment I could talk about all that I’d seen: the horrors of war and the Washington corruption that drives them. I left the tech world behind me and sat down to write a book. It talked about how young people get dragged into the illusion of battle in their blind desire to do something righteous. It talked about how if we stop to listen to our adversaries, we’ll find that they are ensnared in the very same trap. It talked about the corruption of our leaders and the profits that fuel the whole murderous system. And when I published it, the government went on the offense. They flooded the media with attacks and the Amazon reviews with trolls, just like they’d warned me they would. They even surveilled my emails, as I discovered from an anodyne notification that Google sent me three years after they had stopped.
But truth, as we know in this campaign, resonates at a different frequency from propaganda. Readers around the world reached out to tell me how my message of dialogue moved them, how they too felt it was time to dismantle the security state and break free of our leaders’ endless cycles of war. God cleared the way, then, for speaking truth to power. I made a Netflix series about the US Government’s militarization of the developing world. I wrote about the role of the spooks in the assassinations of the 60s. I investigated Lockerbie and Iran Contra and tied them together — the perfect example of blowback, when our country’s crimes contribute to costing our citizens their lives. I spoke all over the nation about a different path, a more human way forward. Eventually, I keynoted the midterm Libertarian convention, calling for an end to our war machine the same week I got married in 2018. And the man I married turned out to have a father who was fighting for these same things as well.
My mother says that coincidences are God talking. I hear those stories of synchronicity every day on this campaign.
In my case, the synchronicities began with this winding road I’ve just described, a path guided by instinct and grace, equipping me with just the right quiver of arrows to play my small role in this revolution of peace. From CIA, I received my detailed knowledge of the corrupt forces we come to vanquish and the human suffering that will continue to result if we fail. From those days in business and tech, I received my gifts at building nationwide networks of people and organizing millions of small actions into large-scale impacts. And from my years publicly challenging our national warmongers, I received my rock-solid conviction that the lies of a corrupt few will never silence opposition voiced by the righteous rest.
Truthfully, when Bobby asked me to take over leadership of his campaign, every selfish part of me wanted to stay firmly planted in the wings. I’d been co-managing our efforts since the beginning and I felt confidant about the tasks ahead, vast and vital as they were. But I knew that official leadership would bring with it all sorts of other psychic assaults — the media attacks and opposition smears that come with any visible role in the battle against tyranny. I have three cubs and worried about the effect on them. And I knew, too, that many in our movement would feel anxious about turning over the reigns to a person who once worked at the very agency that has stamped out so many lives, encroached on so many liberties, and played what I believe to be an incontrovertible role in the assassinations of Bobby’s uncle and father.
As I have shared on social media, I deeply understand and appreciate this fear. If I didn’t know me, I would have it too. But alongside that understanding is my certainty that the only solution is for us to run a winning campaign, so that a Kennedy Administration can finally bring an end to the very abuses and lies that rightfully make our community suspicious of government sabotage in this and all peaceful movements for change.
As counterintuitive as it may seem, many of the fiercest activists for ending our military imperialism and the hideous crimes of our intelligence apparatus are military and IC veterans who witnessed abuses while serving. Dan Ellsberg. Ed Snowden. Chelsea Manning. Ray McGovern. The presidents who have warned us most presciently about the dangers of the defense industrial complex and the CIA — Ike and JFK — were themselves both veterans.
General Smedley Butler, who foiled the Wall Street Bankers’ Coup to overthrow our government in 1933, was a three-decade veteran of the Marine Corps and forward-deployed arm of the CIA’s horrors in Latin America. This experience allowed him to speak truth to power and safeguard our republic against the very forces that he had once served. I attach his remarks below, as true today as they were then, and I draw inspiration from those before me, who have metabolized the crimes they witnessed into an indefatigable drive to rid our nation of such mortal dangers and set us back on the path to freedom, transparency, and peace.
Their example helped guide me, when Bobby asked me to take over.
I would guess that, one time or another, many of you have found yourselves faced with a similar quandary. Do I speak out for the truth? Do I put my head above the parapet? Or do I protect myself against the attacks that such vulnerability may unleash in the hopes that someone equally qualified will do it in my place?
But the thing is — there is nobody equally qualified as you. Each of you, like me, has lead a life of unique lessons. And each of you is irreplaceable in this fight.
As I was reminded recently by a wise man, the book of Esther asks us: “Who knows if perhaps you were made for just such a time as this?”
I believe that you were. I believe that I was. Above all, I believe that Bobby was.
And so I said yes.
On this thanksgiving weekend, and on every future day of our journey, I hope that you will ask yourself the same question that Mordecai asked Esther. And I hope that you, too, will say yes.
Yes to hosting gatherings. Yes to wearing your Kennedy shirts. Yes to giving of your time and resources. Yes to showing up. Yes to whatever your heart is guiding you to do right now.
Because that is how we stay in our magnificent power. That is how we link arms, across cities and pastures and mountains. That is how, together and at last, we prove Ben Franklin right.
In the oncoming warmth of that rising sun, I send you each my love and respect.
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Team Kennedy24 campaign letter #1 (sent to Sheila Murrey via email list)
Thoughts
Since this has been quite the lengthy letter and the kind of letter I’ve never posted before, do let me know in the comments if you’d like to read more of these. As I’m retiring in 10 more working days, I’ll have time to share these as they come into my email inbox. Whether you vote for RFK, Jr. or not, at least you will be informed (from his perspective) how important this next USA election will be. I have a feeling it may very well be the most important one of my lifetime. And as of this moment, I know who I want to vote for as President, but I am typically “on the fence” until I stand in the ballot box–and sadly, I have not voted in many years, because as Russell Brand has said many times, “I don’t vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties,…” and that is how I’ve felt too, and why I changed from Republican, to Democrat, to Independent in my lifetime.
Yours in expanding, revolving, attempting to see ALL-sides, spiraling consciousness,
To our better health, ease, joy, and sustainment in JOY!
Be the best version of who you want to be–because if you’re reading my words your soul is probably beckoning you to align with it and live up to your highest ideals. Not perfect because who is perfect? Most stagnate or ‘get stuck’ while on their way to being whatever they think perfection is. Making progress is enough. Carrying your Karma lightly is enough. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.
Energy/Omniscience (Omnism) governs ALL. Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.
My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is more timely now than ever because I know people are suffering. (Let me know if you’re interested in working through the Integrating the Spirals course.)
As an empath I want to help ease suffering and raise our vibration to offer hope. I want to uplift others and expand our collective consciousness. I teach breath work and meditation so we appreciate the value of Detachment. We till our inner soil with our breath to calm the amygdala and institute peace. Meditation is an easy way to Connect us with spirit, higher selves, Omniscience God, and receive non-programmed personal guidance.
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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 all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
For more spiritual and esoteric updates, what I’m integrating, who we’re connecting and more, follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour
My uncle Jim (my mom’s brother) got into wood turning years ago and for a long time I had no idea what he was doing–I could only picture table or chair legs when he’d tell me about wood turning during phone calls . If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio (and there’s a few minutes of BONUS info on the audio this time too!):
Wood turning history
In discussing woodturning with my uncle Jim, I asked him if there was anything he’d like me to include in the article maybe about like the history of it, or just how enjoyable it is when you’re crafting from the wood like that?
The slimline wood turned pen my uncle Jim made. I think it looks cool sitting on this wood bowl we bought years ago too. Can you see it? It blends in!
Here’s what I learned from my uncle (written mostly from his perspective):
The history of turning
When I think back the history of wood turning goes back a long, long way. Even before we had electricity and metal equipment, turning the lathe goes back to when the lathe was called a pole lathe. They would take a tree and bend it over something else to enable a sort of treadle, that would allow the wood to turn. Later, someone invented a foot treadle to power the turning machine. That was used all the way until they got electricity and motorized lathes came into being. That gives you some history of how the wood is turned. I find it is a very fulfilling thing to do and artistic in a way too.
There’s one magazine I have had, it kind of got expensive, so I’m not taking it now. It showed how people turned simple things to turning pins and bowls to more artistic things. And it’s become a very artistic and elaborate hobby for many people. Some people are professional woodturners and they make their living. For me, I’m just not interested in that kind of thing. It just goes way beyond my ability and it is just something I’m not interested in. Also, sometimes it takes months to accomplish one of these complex projects.
Different kinds of wood turning
Of course, learning all kinds of different ways of wood turning can lead you into creating something, and developing some items that you could market. Many wood turned items have become popular. There’s one kind of wood turning that is called Segmented woodturning, which I would love to be able to do. It’s where you make weight at that table saw. You saw up just small pieces and it takes some learning to be able to know the exact angles and you have to decide how big you want your piece to be. How many segments and such. You cut all these pieces, you make a ring and you glue all that together, and then you stack those and then of course you turn it until you have an outcome that is quite beautiful.
And then there’s one they call Dizzy. They take very, very small thin layers of wood and there shall I say kind of up and down. You kind of bend them to a certain degree and glue them in turn and you get these beautiful shapes and colors so it can be very pretty and very pleasing. So it’s very satisfying. Like, say it’s artistic and so it’s fulfilling for people.
How my uncle learned wood turning
I’ve always wanted to do wood turning since I was in high school and I couldn’t get into that. The teachers seemed to kind of want to keep me in academics (instead of wood shop) as if I was going to college even though I wasn’t interested in going to college. But that didn’t seem to matter. So anyway, I never was able to get into that until much later in life. Your aunt Janice’s sister Janet said, “There’s an article in the paper, about a little place called Woodcraft and they’re going to be having an exhibit.” And it wasn’t about turning, it was about carving. And that’s a whole other ballgame. People carve wood ducks and spend months and months on them because they use very little knives. And they’re, they’re so patient and they’re carving feathers to the point that you can’t tell this wooden duck from a real duck! It’s very time-consuming.
So anyway, I went and I happened to go see this thing and it was a it was probably three and a half feet long and a half two foot deep. And it was probably two and a half feet tall. It was a big display of an old western saloon. And it had all the tables and chairs turned and people were carved in it too. It had a whole grid like set up. I wasn’t interested in carving but it was interesting to look at. I saw a gentlemen there I knew. I told him I was interested in turning and he invited me over to his shop to see what he’d turned.
So that began my love for turning and specifically, turning pens. It was a wonderful blessing for me that Don (a gentleman that a church family friend had dated for several years) was willing to spend that time and introduce me to such an interesting and fulfilling craft. People make more elaborate and complicated turns, like Dizzy bowls where they take different pieces of wood, close together–glued up. They’ll skip every other one. And so it’s called an open segment. And that’s a different thing to look at.
Look at some artistic turning videos. It’s wild the designs that people come up with. I mean some will combine turning and carving together and they just come up with some very unique and different-looking creations. People even get some of their works into museums!
You can get into some very, very expensive turnings. One can spend thousands of dollars. But, it may take months to create each project. That gives you some ideas of how many types of turnings there are to look at (see the YouTube links in this article). Different and unique designs to expand your vision and a knowledge of turning. For me, it’s just something very satisfying. This form of arts and crafts is very relaxing.
The Slimline pen in action.
Wood turning safety
When you are working with a piece of equipment such as a lathe, safety is of the utmost importance. A motorized lathe is revving at fast speeds. My small lathe can turn at 3500 RPMs; others can turn up to 5000 RPMs. So you have to be careful and stay safe. Of course, we wear a mask or a shield that can filter all the air. Because wherever you turn, whenever you breathe, what goes in stays in so you can’t be without something that filters those particles out. And sanding is the worst. You’ve got to have a filtering system, whatever that may be, whether it’s just on your face or whether it’s a piece of equipment that continually filters the air. You have to be careful with that and always wear a shield because you’re turning off pieces of spin. In the beginning you’re gonna have some bark flying off and larger pieces. So you got to protect yourself that way. And of course, you have to remember that it’s happened before where we have had a few people die from performing wood turning.
Finishing wood turned pieces
When you complete a wood turned item you may feel negative with your finished piece. You may start with only 200, 300, 400, or 500 RPMs spins, because it’s out of balance. So once you get it in balance, then you can turn the lathe speed up and you can turn the piece quicker. And then when you’re sanding sometimes use either high or low speed, but some people forget and just turn their lathe off. Well, then they forget. Then they put a new piece of wood on the lathe and it gets out of balance and they turn that thing on and it’s running at full speed and the piece flys right off. Even at your best of anchoring this thing a piece can come flying off or it can just simply break apart. And that does happen. I like to work with one-piece/solid chunks of wood. But some people like to work on a piece of wood that has more holes in it. They say the more cracks in it the better because it gives the finished piece character. And it does look nice, but it’s just not one of my things. I delight in the natural beauty of the wood grain (the design within the wood) of the solid wood pieces.
See the natural beauty within the wood of this slimline pen?
Then there’s a whole world of skill and how you use your tools. What to do and what not to do. Because we can catch and therefore things can come apart if you have to get down to where you’re fairly thin. And you’ve got some of these holes and things that could catch (on the lathe) and things could come apart. People have been hurt by these kinds of things. That’s just some of what you can do.
There are times that you’re gonna be using a table saw again, some here wood pieces. Get it down to small pieces like it could be two or three feet long, maybe only three or four inches wide and that’s when you’re cutting all these small little pieces. So use tables. To do that. Of course, add some safety and sometimes you’ll be using the bandsaw to it again, a great big chunk of wood and it’s just got four corners. You want to make this thing round because that’s a lot less vibration, a lot less beat and bang for the lathe to get this thing around. So if you use a bandsaw you can cut those corners and make it a round piece of wood before you put it on the lathe, which is wonderful. This also offers an extra measure of safety while you’re using all these different kinds of tools.
The joy of wood turned pieces
But here again, it is just as enjoyable because you can do so many other things with what they got flat. And if you were making a table you got a great big piece of wood there for a slab for your tabletop, if that’s what you make it out of it. You can always branch out into what was called flat work which is building cabinets, coffee tables, side tables, and dining tables. All these kinds of things have gone by the way side though. I’m sorry to see less turned pieces when I see advertisements now on TV of wood items. Solid flat furniture is one I see a lot. And they’ll say they’ve got a certain price for all these tables and chairs. And you look at that. Just straight edges. There’s not one bit of terrain there. There’s nothing artistic about it. Right. Oh my goodness, that is so plain. That bothers me but I know it’s quick and fast and cheaper. So they can just simply cut it out. Put it together. Put a finish on each piece and out the door it goes. Oh no, that’s not for me.
How to turn a pen
Here’s a short video on the making of a slimline pen:
I hope everyone (who celebrates it) had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.
Yours in expanding, turning, revolving, spiraling consciousness,
To our better health, ease, and sustaining lives of JOY!
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The sunken continent of Lemuria will rise again. If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio (and there’s a few minutes of BONUS info on the audio this time too!):
Lemuria is a continent
Lemuria will resurface again ….
I share with you wisdom and knowledge about it
(Read if resonates with you)
Lemuria and Telos
The Age of Lemuria lasted about 4,500,000 years BC, until about 12,000 years ago. Until the sinking of the continents of Lemuria and after Atlantis, there were seven large continents on this planet. The continent of Lemuria was located in the Pacific Ocean and extended from the western United States and Canada to lands in the Indian Ocean and Madagascar and included what is now Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Islands, New Guinea, the Easter Islands and Hawaii. Before the fall in consciousness, the Sumerians lived on a fifth-dimensional frequency and were able to change dimensions, from fifth to third, at will.
The first souls who inhabited the planet came from the land of Mu in the Dahl Universe, about four and a half million years ago. Among the first to arrive were many of the Ascended Masters who today help humanity.
Later, other races from Sirius, the Pleiades, Alpha Centaur and souls from other planets came to evolve here. Together they formed the Lemurian civilization, which became the cradle of the Enlightened Civilization on this planet. It was the “Motherland”, which helped the birth of other civilizations. The Atlantis arose at a later time.
At first, the Lemurians preserved their awareness of Christ and expressed their divinity in all areas of their lives. At that time they lived in a wonderful paradise, of exquisite beauty, abundance and perfection. The lack of disease, and limitations were unknown to them. They lived in peaceful control with the elements of nature and they lacked nothing. Most lived in their bodies of light of 5ª dimension, but they could at will, lower their vibration to experience the densest levels of the physical. During the first centuries of Gold, Lemurians experienced a perfect balance between their masculine and feminine energies, and between mind and heart. This balance allowed the almost instantaneous and perfect manifestation of everything they wanted. For hundreds of thousands of years they used the universal laws of Sacred Knowledge wisely and the Sacred Llamas of God, loving, honoring and protecting their temples for the benefit of humanity.
The progressive decline of consciousness put an end to golden centuries. They began to experience other forms of life and the misuse of their divine powers, losing the consciousness of Christ and the ability to magically manifest what they wanted. Little by little, the old balance of male and female energy leaned in favor of the mind over the heart. As a result, the divine love and compassion of the “mother” aspect of the Father/Mother God slowly vanished from his consciousness, resulting in an increase in expressions of male manipulation, domination and control that persists today. Little by little they lost their ability to consciously create and the unconditional love of the Presence of the Mother became a forgotten memory for them. It took a long time, but in the end they reduced their vibration to the level of the 4ª dimension and later to the density of the third dimension in which we are today.
Great avatars were sent to re-awaken their consciousness, to be able to get out of their self-inflicted darkness, but mostly they were strongly rejected by frequencies of opposition to the Light.
25,000 years ago
Twenty-five thousand years ago, Lemuria and Altantis were the two most developed civilizations on the planet. The original intention of the two civilizations was, Atlantis to represent the energies of the Divine Father and Lemuria to represent the energies of the Divine Mother. They were supposed to not only work together for the benefit of both peoples, but also to serve as guides and models for other evolving civilizations, for the younger and less experienced souls.
The differences between them arose in relation to the development and evolution of other civilizations. The Lemurians believed that the other less evolved cultures should be left alone to follow their own evolution, at their own pace, according to their own understanding. While the Atlanteans believed that the least evolved cultures should be controlled by the two most evolved civilizations. His discussions about ideologies led to several thermonuclear wars that weakened the two continental plates. When the wars ended and the dust settled, there were no winners, only death, destruction and the most degrading fall of the human spirit to the point that both realized the fatality of such behavior.
The people, through the priests, were then informed that in less than 15,000 years their continents would sink completely. In those days, as people lived an average of 20,000 to 30,000 years, many of those who had caused the disaster understood that they would live to experience destruction.
Before the sinking of the continent “Telos”, which means “communication with the spirit, was the name of the eastern part of Lemuria that encompassed what is now California and part of British Columbia.
Today, “Telos” is just the name of the Lemur city built below Mount Shasta more than 12,000 years ago.
After having had a lot of warnings about the loss of their homeland, the leaders devised a plan to protect and preserve their records, sacred treasures, their culture and most importantly, to move all the Sacred Flames that were in their temples to a safe place. They decided to build an underground city that would be free of any surface disruption or discord. The priesthood knew that Mount Shasta would be safe during the next changes of the Earth, so the leaders submitted a request to the director of the Agartha Network of Underground Cities, requesting permission to build a city under the mountain.
In order to grant permission to build the city and be part of the Agartha Network, they had to prove that they had learned their lessons of war and aggression. They also had to prove this to other organizations such as the Galactic Confederation of Planets. The permit was granted, but among the other cities of the Agartha Network there was not much optimism in its success.
The starting point in the construction of his city was a large cavern in the form of a dome inside the mountain and several natural tunnels and volcanic tubes. They used to excavate and build the city, its domain of energy, crystals, sound and vibration. Construction continued for several thousand years, the city was designed to house 200,000 people.
Tragically, the exact time of the predicted cataclysm had been underestimated and only 25,000 Lemurians managed to reach the city safely under Mount Shasta when the continent sank. Their records had already been moved and new temples in honor of the Holy Flames had been built. His beloved homeland perish during the starry night. He sank in such a low voice that almost everyone was totally unaware of what was happening. Practically everyone was sleeping during the flood. There were no unusual weather conditions that night. According to a transmission given by Lord Himalaya in 1959 through Geraldine Innocenti, El Morya’s twin name, he explained that many of the priests who had remained faithful to the Light and his sacred vocation, as captains on a sinking ship, maintained their jobs and fearlessly sang and prayed while the water and the waves covered everything. Some priests and priestesses offered to descend with the earth and its people. With the help of their radiation, which literally surrounded the aura of people with a mantle of peace, they reduced fear, so that such serious scars were not engraved on their etheric bodies, which would take them many lives to clean and heal all of them.
Lemuria sank
The earth after the collapse of the two continents
As Lemuria sank, Atlantis began to tremble and lose parts of its lands. The gradual destruction continued for 200 years, until the rest of the continent completely sank. For 2,000 years after Lemuria and the catastrophes of Atlantis, the planet was still shaking.
Hundreds of years after the destruction of the two continents, so much debris had been thrown into the atmosphere that the Earth never became bright in the light of day. The atmosphere became very cold, because the sunlight was not able to penetrate through its thick and toxic layer. Very little food could grow. Many animals and plants perished.
The reason for the little evidence today of the remains of these civilizations is that the cities of the planet that did not sink, were shaken to their roots or were swept away by earthquakes or tsunamis that often reached 600 kilometers inside the earth destroying everything in their path. Life for the survivors of the cataclysms became so hard and difficult that they were quickly reduced to hunger, poverty, struggle and disease.
The original height of the human on this planet was approximately 3.6 meters. The Hyperbóreos were and still are, 3.6 meters high and none of them live on the surface at this time. At the time of the sinking of Lemuria, the Lemurians were reduced to 2.1 meters in height and are still 2.1 and 2.4 meters high to this day. And there has been a greater decrease in the height of this planet, since most of us on the surface are less than 2 meters high. As our civilization evolves, this will be restored. Even now, people on the surface of this planet are being born much higher than they were just 100 years ago.
Telos today
The city of Telos today
Telos is a fabulous and huge city, with a population of about one and a half million inhabitants. There are several towns and they all share the local government.
Telos is divided into 5 levels of several square kilometers below Mount Shasta.
The first level: the large percentage of the population lives under the dome, in the first level. This is also the place where the administrative, public and various temples buildings are located. In the center of this level is the main temple, called the temple of Ma Ra, a pyramid-shaped structure that has a capacity for 10,000 seated people. This temple is dedicated to the priesthood of Melquizedek. The pyramid is white, with the apex, called the “living stone” and was given from Venus.
The second level: This is where all the production and manufacturing takes place to meet the needs of the people of the city. It is also the area of several schools that teach children and adults. Many more people live at that level.
The third level: it is totally devoted to the hydroponic gardens where all their food grows on about 17 hectares of land, which produce an attractive, fun diet and offering a lot of variety. Their planting methods are so effective that only 17 hectares of land is all they need to abundantly grow an enormous variety of foods that nourish one and a half million people, in strong, healthy and non-aging bodies.
Their food is totally organic and of the highest vibration. Their way of gardening does not need fertilizers and does not deplete the soil. They place organic minerals in the water for the plants. The crops have also been improved and accelerated by the great vibration of light, energy and love of Telos.
The fourth level: it contains a little hydroponic gardening, some manufacturing and a large area of natural parks, with small lakes and fountains.
The fifth level: it is totally devoted to nature. There are tall trees, lakes and parks. This is where all the animals live. At this natural level, many plants and animals have been preserved, today they are not on the surface. Their animals are all vegetarian and they don’t eat each other. They live in total harmony, without fear and without any type of aggression towards people and others. Telos is really the place where the lion and the lamb lie side by side and can sleep together in total confidence.
Government of Telos
In Telos, there are two forms of government. The king and queen of Telos, Ra and Rana Mu, are ascended masters and are also soul mates, they make up an aspect of Telos’ government. Being its maximum rulers.
The second form of government is the local Council, called the Lemurian Council of Luz de Telos. It consists of 12 ascended teachers, where 6 men and 6 women are part of the council, balancing the masculine divine with the feminine divine. A thirteenth member, the main High Priest of Telos, at the moment is Adama, officiates as the leader of the Council and in case of having to make a decision and be tied he has the final decision.
The members of the council are selected according to the level of spiritual achievements they have achieved, internal qualities, maturity and the specialization of the area. When a member of the council decides to move to another level of service, the vacancy is made known to its people and those who wish to assume the position in the council can request it. All requests are carefully studied, by the council, by the members of the priesthood, and the king and queen of Telos. The king and the queen have the last word on who will be elected among the applicants.
The New Lemuria
Lemuria still exists in a fifth-dimensional frequency, not yet visible to our third three-dimensional vision and perception. As the veil between the dimensions becomes thinner and thinner, Lemuria, in its new splendor and glory, will reveal itself to us in a very physical and tangible way.
As all of us open ourselves to a way of life that manifests a higher consciousness and we can purify all the distorted and erroneous belief systems that we have embraced in the last millennium, we will be able to perceive our beloved Homeland and we can finally have permission to enter being received by it with all the love and magnificence that it now has to offer.
The New Day, the New World is about to be born.
The New Lemuria, the lost paradise, is about to unfold again. Lemuria, the part that remained faithful to the light and its sacred vocation was elevated to the fourth dimension at the time of the cataclysm. It was never really destroyed in its entirety, only the aspect of 3ª dimension that was in it at that time. Lemuria continued to thrive and evolve to a fifth dimensional consciousness for this day.
“Express your desire to open your hearts to us and trust, because we are not only your friends, but we are also your brothers and sisters for a long time. At a high level, we all know each other very well, because once we were family in the great continent of Lemuria.” Adama
Be the best version of who you want to be–because if you’re reading my words your soul is probably beckoning you to align with it and live up to your highest ideals. Not perfect because who is perfect? Most stagnate or ‘get stuck’ while on their way to being whatever they think perfection is. Making progress is enough. Carrying your Karma lightly is enough. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.
Energy/Omniscience (Omnism) governs ALL. Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.
My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is more timely now than ever because I know people are suffering. (Let me know if you’re interested in working through the Integrating the Spirals course.)
As an empath I want to help ease suffering and raise our vibration to offer hope. I want to uplift others and expand our collective consciousness. I teach breath work and meditation so we appreciate the value of Detachment. We till our inner soil with our breath to calm the amygdala and institute peace. Meditation is an easy way to Connect us with spirit, higher selves, Omniscience God, and receive non-programmed personal guidance.
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 all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
For more spiritual and esoteric updates, who we’re connecting with in Ocala, Florida and more, follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/takeonyour
To our better health, ease, joy, and sustainment in JOY!
Integrating the Spirals to ease unwanted emotions
My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is more timely now than ever because I know people are suffering. (Let me know if you’re interested in working through the Integrating the Spirals course.)
As an empath I want to help ease suffering and raise our vibration to offer hope. I want to uplift others and expand our collective consciousness. I teach breath work and meditation so we appreciate the value of Detachment. We till our inner soil with our breath to calm the amygdala and institute peace. Meditation is an easy way to Connect us with spirit, higher selves, Omniscience God, and receive non-programmed personal guidance.
Be the best version of who you want to be–because if you’re reading my words your soul is probably beckoning you to align with it and live up to your highest ideals. Not perfect because who is perfect? Most stagnate or ‘get stuck’ while on their way to being whatever they think perfection is. Making progress is enough. Carrying your Karma lightly is enough. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.
Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.
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 all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com
I would love to speak at your bookstore, crystal shop, acupuncture/chiropractor office, natural health foods store, art fair, music, or yoga festival. I support healthy lifestyle businesses.
I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving” available on Amazon.
Integrating the Spirals 