I am currently watching a family grieve as their matriarch passes. She is holding on with tenacious strength, though she is not conscious. Because of my spiritual beliefs, I am actually OK that she is passing. She was in tremendous pain, both physical and psychological. I believe that where she is going, she will have [...]

I have recently decided to start acknowledging the Goddess in my life again. I worked a bit with her in the past but I didn’t delve all that deep into it. It wasn’t time yet, I suppose. Now it is. It’s not that she ever left, she didn’t, she was right there all along. But [...]

Dear Friend, The country is in real trouble right now, with unemployment spiraling out of control. President Obama’s stimulus plan provides money to expand unemployment assistance. But a group of Republican governors, led by Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, is trying to score political points by blocking that assistance from reaching the people who need it. It’s [...]

I have been so upset lately over what is going on in Iran. There is no excuse whatsoever for any government to disallow it’s constituents to speak their voices. We ALL have the right to assemble, protest, and speak our opinions about our leaders. The leaders should work for the people, not the other way [...]

Finding the way home.

I am not a Jehovah’s Witness, but I read their literature from time to time. I came across this article in Awake! It is from the Dec 2007 issue. The Bible’s Viewpoint. Why Care for the Earth’s Environment? Human activities may be damaging the health of our planet now more than at any time in [...]

Banana peels, coffee grounds, crushed eggshells, plant matter, tea bags, vegetable scraps … all of these go back to nature easily (thank god) but they can serve you by becoming soil if you compost them. Even if you don’t garden, composting is better than sending stuff to the landfill. Basically, this is how it works: [...]

The Celestine Prophecy, a book by James Redfield, addresses the issue of negative ways people handle each other. In order to fill what we feel as a loss of energy or a loss of power, we subconsciously attempt to take energy from others. Which then drains them and causes them to seek power back, or [...]

When I try to blog about our win, about Barack Obama becoming our President elect, I simply cannot come up with any words. I well up with emotion and struggle to think of anything to say. It is not only because he is Black. Not just because we have come this far. But also that [...]

I stumbled on this religion and did a little reading. I had heard of them before but it didn’t take the first time. This time though, wow. This religion fascinates me! I will be going to a service tomorrow to see how it fits me. So far, online, it fits me very well. Here is [...]