Nov 22/2025 Rolling Pepercorns

         One day  I'm in  St Vincent Depaul thrift store and I see a glass pepper grinder with black and silver overlays. I snap it up for  $2.50. At the Dollar Tree, I buy $1.25 pepper grinders and take these corns and transfer them into the new pepper mill. On the plastic pepper mills the grinder part does not screw off. So, I take it outside and rest it on concrete and give a medium hit with the hammer to the side of grinder. I finish it off by prying it off with screw driver. Takes 1 minute. I put some corns in the new grinder then add red pepper in then the peppor corns again. Then the red pepper. I fill the grinder to top this way.

       This day I didn't want to go outside. So, I used a heavy duty steak knife to cut the plastic cap. Then switched to a butter knife to finish it off. It popped off in a couple minutes. But not in a controlled matter. Corns on the floor , in the sink and under the microwave. Lost about 1/8th of a cup of corns. Aa I picked up the microwave it was stuck to the hard formica. Got 3 feet loose after some effort but the 4th didn't budge. I worked the microwave from left to right while still lifting it up. It finally let go.

       So this negative event turned into a positive. The floor got a good sweeping in which it needed. The sink got a good scrubbing and that microwave problem. Now when the first of every month comes. I will lift the microwave so it doesn't become a problem. The seal is good to prevent the microwave from slipping around. 

         So when negative things happen in life, don't get mad or try to get even' look deep and find the gift. It is there. Is it always easy,  NO.

         This year I have been trying to be mindful. Yesterday I walk out the door and check for my stuff. No wallet. Back to the house. Well at least I didn't get to the store and buy stuff and then find no wallet which I've been known to do. So a 2 min mistake instead of a 40 min one. This mindfulness has been working out for me. Happy about that.

         I read where a lot of nutrients are located in the skin area of veggies. So I decided to try putting a grapefruit peel in a blender,  an added lime and lemon juice. It blended into a pink juice. Looked good but tasted lousy. Bleech! Good thing I had pineapple juice in the fridge. It doesn't always work out.

Nov 12/2025 Stairs Can Bring You Up or Bring You Down

        Last week, I waa looking for my other slipper. I always had 2 , now I'm down to one. The one I found was in my bedroom. Been a week and I still can't find it. So I was wearing my heavy duty sandals and I'm near the basement steps and the door is open. For some reason I'm looking to my left away from the steps. I turn to my right and the sandal catches the tile sideways causing me to tilt to the open staircase. I put out my hand to catch myself on the door jamb. Saved myself. It waa a lack of focus on my part. A family member in their 80s took a misstep on the stairs recently and put themselves in major pain. Waited 2 weeks for the operation on his shoulder. In pain for 2 weeks before operation and now after. Pain meds weren 't cutting it.  I am very greatfull that I didn't go down those stairs the wrong way.

        What did I learn, to be more focused and having gratitude. A small thing could've become a very major disruption to my life. Spirituality plays the long game. No need to hurry anything. It is the accumulation of many, many small events over the course of a life time. Recognizing it as truth will definitely make your journey a lot smoother. If you are obsessing about anything, you can change it by changing your attitude about it. You can say what am I missing here. There is a lesson here for me. So these little potential problems could of turned into something major and unpleasant big time. That little thing gets mega gratitude from me. See how these little occurences in life have saved you from major harm. This is real contemplation. Learning from other's misfortune will also help in developing gratitude in you. This way their lesson becomes your lesson as well. Take 1 day a week and look for the lessons you experienced small and big and write them down in your journal.

Nov 07/2025 Pancake

         I wake up around 5:30 am. everyday and pick up the phone and scroll the apps. Around 6 take care of the cat. Then exercise with the 20 pound dumbell and various body stretches. After 21/2 years I have muscle tone in the arms. Which was my goal. I took the slow road. It worked out really good. Last month I got a free flu shot without insurance. Lucked into that one. The last 4 months I was hearing about the shingle shot. Each year I would hear about it. But now it is even more so, for me to take notice. I take that as a nudge from DS to get it done. This one will not be free.  300 from a drug store 200 from the county. My mother once had the shingles and it was not fun one bit.

        Now, for the pancake. I would alternate between eggs one day to cereal and to something new a pancake, around the first of the year. Got a mix and used water. It didn"t go to well. But I kept trying every 3rd day. Making them too thin, over done and not too tasty. Then I decided to add, buttermilk. The results were not that good as well. In April I found a mix with Bluberries im it at Wallmart. I pour the mix into a small square bowl. Just a little shy of half a bowl gives me 3 small 4 inch diameter pancakes. Now, these blueberries if you can call them that were little blue micro  balls that could pass through a fork's tines. In truth you can't really call them Blueberry pancakes. By June my abilities were 4 out of 10. One day I saw blueberries at the store and got them. Added them to the mix, big improvement. I stopped with the buttermilk. I take a non- stick pan and strike it with a butter stick unsalted butter. Then drop a loose batter into the pan. Another improvement I made was adding a little more water. I was always making it too stiff. Another hard part was staying focused in not over cooking the pancake. If it got overdone , I would scrape it with a serated knife. I use a wooden spatula to limit my use of plastics with food. Today I made the best pancakes ever, looks and taste. All in all it was worth the effort. This endeavor helped me in perseverance as well as keeping focused.

        When I eat breakfast I like to listen to chants I find on You Tube. One of the chants is HU. I keep the volume low, it's a nice pleasing effect. It starts my day off with a positive spin.

       Have a great day!

Oct/ 30/2025 DS in Action

           Stands for Divine Spirit. With me it is with my efforts in fixing some problem I have going on. I do what I can and then ask DS to intercede for me. Then I get to see how it does things.  You can say coincidence but I do not. It operates on it's schedule. Alot of times I would like it to be  quicker though. 

      When I'm in a store, I have a couple things in my hand. The person that is front of me has a cart of stuff. My thoughts are let me go ahead but I say nothing, then the person would say go ahead of me. I do. Then I say to them May God do something good for you before the sun sets. I also let people go ahead of me at stores. So, yesterday at Wallmart I park behind a car. There is a faint bumper sticker that says may something good happen to you today. A verification of my own thoughts. Greeting people with have a nice day can help them out during their day. A little upliftment who knows how that can benefit them. I know one thing it makes me feel good. 

        So I push through the problem at hand. Like the problems with my car since the beginning of February. It still ongoing. But many times DS has helped me out of a sticky jamb. When a  new problem comes up, I say I will get through this. And I do with the DS help. When you can see it for yourself. Your world will change. Don't sit back and wait for divine providence but do take action. Then your eyes will be opened. This is what these Blogs are about. Every Sunday look back at your week and see if you can spot it's help. Also how many times did you call on DS to help you out. Answers can come in seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks. Take note. So worth it.

Oct 20/2025 HELL

         It is real. It is of your own making. You can choose actions here on earth, that will give you that experience. Also, you will judge yourself when you die. If you believe yourself to be unworthy, you will be in Hell as well. 

        To get out of that so called place, forgive yourself and ask for God's grace. You can do this on both sides of the veil. When you forgive others as well as yourself, you release the shackles that bind you to the lower realms. 

        When out and about, be kind to others even if they're not nice to you. Try to turn the conversation to a positive tone. Or you can ask DS to intercede for you. And the last resort is to walk away from the situation. Try to stay positive in whatever predicament happens to be in front of you. These actions will pay off for you in making your life better. Sow good seed for your future harvest. And Hell will no longer be of consequence for you. 

Oct/11/2025 They Hit the Mark

          On the Road with Steve Hartman, told the story how an Oklahoma high schools' basketball title win presented a quandary to the team that won. Team A won on the court. But it's coach felt an unease about it, because there was some problem in the score keeping. When he got home, he wanted to get the game film and review it. After the review he found that his team actually lost by 1 point. He told his team the bad news. He took a poll of the players and they all wanted to return the title to team B. Legally they didn't have to but morally was another story. Team B was given the plaque by team A.

        This story is what it is all about when the human race can shine bright. We can all aspire to do the same in our own life. Team A showed the world the right way to live life. Kudos to them! 

         Making the right decision in our life can get tricky but we can call on DS for guidance.

Oct/07/2025 That First Impulse

        My car has over 205,000 miles on it. But when I hover over the motor, I feel that the motor is good. Other things have been going bad though to be expected. So I don't get rid of it. That first thought worked for me. Now, I'm getting this new phone. I'm in T - Mobile, use to be Sprint. I've had a Note 9 since 2017. The case is messed up and new screen is 250 dollars. So I'll get a new one. My first impulse was to stay with the Samsung new phone. They had a new android phone Google. I liked it and it was also an android phone. I got that. Got home and it had a glitch in the software. Couldn't use it. Bring it back and they fix it. Good I 'm happy. Go home  find out latter that my notes did not transfer over to the new phone. Call them up, they say it should transfer since they're both android phones.  Go there and gal finds out the notes only transfer if it is a Samsung phone. Go home new phone is working. Juice up my old phone. Can't make calls but I can get my notes to come up. They want 75 dollars for a restock fee eventhough I had it less than a week. Now I'm thinking hold on to both phones.

         So there you have it. I listened to my first thought with the car and that worked out in my opinion. Then I disregarded it with the phone. Aaagh! So I'm at 50 %. I want to be at 100%. But in baseball terms I'm batting .500 which is way more than good.

        It's always something. But when we go through it. Hopefully, we still have our somewhat peace of mind.