6/06/2024 Body Aware

        Your body is your temple. It requires maintenance. Teeth and heart your 2 main ones. I was lackadaisical when it came to my teeth. Get your teeth looked at 2 times a year. Internal med doctor once a year. One guy was feeling tired and would take a nap before a ball game. He attributed it to getting older. His tests prior showed no big problems. But he was felled by a heart attack. I think he was late 40s. He didn't know it at the time but both grand fathers suffered the same fate. Good to know your family history. When your doing something different in your normal routine, it's best to get it checked out thoroughly. For a suspected heart ailment a catherization is the best way. With this they can see any blockages. What you can do at home is monitor your blood pressure. See a doctor if over 140 over 80. Ideally  it's 120 /80. Still even with good blood pressure numbers, you still have to look at other possible things that are different than what has gone on in the past.

       Everything has to be maintained and it takes time and work. Your body, your house, your car and family. One thing that doesn't require work is contemplation. In this endeavor, many good things can come from it. 10 minutes every day. Even a couple minutes is better than no minutes. By keeping a journal, you will be able to see the changes. Write down the things that upset you. This is what you have to work on. By doing this you are making yourself stronger and better. You will be more comfortable in your own skin. No strenuous work, just a little bit of time. Try doing it in the morning to set the day off in a positive direction. You can say to yourself this day is going to be even better than yesterday.

6/02/2024 A Jury

        So we have a democracy. It is held together by laws. Break the laws and you have prosecutors on your tail. They have to supply evidence about your wrong doing. They charge you. Then a jury of your peers is picked. Then the trial. It is not a popularity contest. The jury judges based on what the facts are presented to be. The ex president told the press he would be testifying for himself at the end of the trial. The end comes and he refuses to take the stand. The jury comes back with  the guilty verdict.  Then he attacks the court personnel and others who are not part of the trial.  What gives here.   He makes outlandish statements about the election in 2020 and each court he brings it to says no basis to bring this to court. Why because there is zero evidence here. 

        Every Republican house and senate member disagreed with the jury. They didn't hear the evidence. The jury did though. So these Republicans dispute the American people and their conclusions, with no evidence presented by them. Nothing. When commonsense goes out the door our freedom may not be too far behind. They will dictate to everyone what they feel. So free thought goes bye bye. Book banning, black lists, barb wire encampents and persecutions on what they feel, no evidence required.

       When we go before our maker, we will see that it is us that will do the judging here. You will relive your thoughts and deeds once again and how they affected other people. It will be a sobering moment for you. Now is the time to be true to yourself and to see who you really are warts and all. Let us make better choices in our daily lives. In making it better for ourselves and as well for others. The change is best accomplished here on earth. This recognition can be aided  by invoking divine spirit into our lives.  Allowing it to be of service will increase our joy in life as we make our future choices.

5/25/2024 U.S.A

        Memorial day is here. It's  a day we recognize the sacrifices of those who formed the union and those who worked to keep the union intact. It began because people were upset about taxes. But it morphed into a more nobler cause. A government that would recognize all It's citizens as valued contributing members. It took awhile to get here.  People were given more freedom than ever before. Tyranny was shown the door. But they're always trying to sneak back in, even to this day. The US stayed together after the Civil War. By staying together we became stronger. That strength was needed when WW 1 came around and then 20 years later WW2. It was the US that changed the tide in this horrendous war. Without the US we would have been part of the thousand year Reich. There are people today that still want to recreate this scenario. The US must remain united to confront this from happening. This is why this year 2024 is so very important. For us and the world this upcoming election is critical. We can make more uncertainty for ourselves and grief. Or we can be thankful for what we have. To preserve what we have, we must uphold the constitution and our own hard fought for.... democracy. It is very hard to create something of value and so bloody easy to knock it down. Let's  keep building like our fore fathers have done. Let's keep weaving that tapestry that makes America great. God.... please keep on blessing America. But we have to show that we are capable of earning that blessing as well.

     Go in God always.

5/16/2024 it's a Maybe

        So I sat on edge of bed this morning and put my attention on spirit for a second. I get   something big is coming. It repeats over and over, same words. What is coming, have no clue. Is it a world event or something that is more personal. Strange indeed. We'll see if it comes to pass. I think it will happen in weeks not months. Time will tell.

5/14/2024 So.....You Want A Bigger Truck Do You

        I wanted a 26 ft U-Haul truck for the move, with a tow dolly. That was my goal. 1900 dollars and I could get it. Finally saved enough money. My wife gets dream to rent a smaller truck. So I put a reserve on a 20 footer as well as the 26 ft one.  The 20 footer was 200 cheaper. A week before the move, U-Haul calls, they say I can have the 26 footer for the price of the 20 footer. Ok... I say, thanks.  Load up on Sunday and take off late afternoon on Monday. My wife can't take the movement of the truck so we went to U-Haul and turned in the truck for 2 pods. It took me 3 days in 85 degree heat to pack each one. I  did all the lifting. So I didn't heed the dream and I paid the hefty price.

       A word on stuff. In hindsight. I would do a way better job in controlling my gathering of stuff. It catches up with you. Go over your stuff and do some serious evaluating. I gave myself an F in this department. Better organizing was in order. I didn't do it. And it bit me.

       The guy at U-Haul said it was unusual that the bosses were bending over backwards in helping in our quest to get the pods swapped in. He couldn't get over it. Says this has never happened before. I attributed it to divine spirit looking out for us. The pods arrived at their destination in a rain storm and I got them unloaded, in the next 2 days. Fitting the stuff into a smaller place is taking 2 weeks. With all this work, falling asleep is no problem.

       The next quest is finding a job.

5/09/2024 Cheese It. It's The Cops

        During this move, I brought with me some hard boiled eggs and some cheese. I kept them in an insulated bag with some frozen water bottles. When I got to a hotel I would put them in the fridge. Around the 4 th night out on the road, I get a dream. Don't remember much of anything except the word cheese. I took that to mean toss the cheese. Which I did that morning. One of the illnesses you can get from cheese is listeria. Or salmonella. Don't need that. I'm thankful to spirit for the dream. Just that 1 word cheese got the message across. During my life I got food poisoned bad 2 times. One from a warmed up meatball sandwich, I got from a bar near my work. The other time was a fast food hamburger joint. Ate 2 greasy burgers. Huge mistake. I might of had a slight musgiving about it. But I was stupid then. Survived it and learned a valuable lesson. Never got sick at home. 2 times on the road. Listening to Spirit's clues helps in not having to go through these type of experiences. Use them, the clues and nudges in every aspect in your life.

5/05/2024 Pardon Me

        I dropped my lock card key into the latch. The hotel door slowly opens to a woman sitting in a chair. Damn it. I say sorry. She says it's ok and gets up to take walk to front desk. We wait. She comes back with new key for me to a room 5 doors down. The key works, but I quickly knock before entering. The lady that handed me the key laughed. I'm getting the luggage in the door and she comes walking back. She says now my key doesn't work. Back to the front desk. Not a short walk. I'm glad she had a laid back demeantor. This hotel was strange. No elevators. Initially they gave me a room on second floor and I had a lot of luggage on the dolly. That meant walking bags up the stairs. A second guy came and said he'd get me a room on 1st floor. That key opened the lady's room. To make a left you had to go right, then down a tiled ramp, then cross the atrium which had a pool in it but walls blocked the view of it. It did not block the humidity. Then on the left side it was up another tiled ramp. On to a carpeted floor and down a small decline of vinyl plank flooring. Other than that, everything was ok. 

       Back to the lady whose life got interupted. She makes her life better by going with the flow. When irritations arise she's up to the challenge. She did better than me that day.