Mental Messaging

I went to church this morning.  The young lady who preached (who looked like Mira or whatever her name is in that Disney animated feature of the Scottish princess who with bow & arrow quested and won - heavens, that is all I remember) gave a powerful testimony of achieving peace through the shepherd and friend, the Lord Jesus.  The Holy Ghost was present and instilled in my head and I assume all heads & hearts there this morning, what I needed to do. Ask, Act, Endure - reach out to G's family and try to share from the heart again.  Think that is why I saw Becky in Jewel on Sat after having a premonition I would; God telling me that my sense of community starts close by. Takes courage, but I can do this.

On a closer note, as G asked, I can accept it , but do I have to embrace it?  Interesting question. If you only just accept something, doesn't that give you leeway to remain critical and grudging? As in judging?  If you embrace something, you not only accept it, you give yourself to see positive in it.

I received my books from Moody yesterday...my goal is to read "Pilgrim's Progress" in the new year; maybe even over the holidays. 

Terror Stricken at What We Have Become

Liberty and justice for all

A person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Lady Liberty is very familiar with the taste and smell of money and acts accordingly.

A kangaroo court.

It just makes me heartsick that Tsarnaev was denied his basic rights as an American citizen.  They will sentence a young man to death or to life imprisonment for the crimes actually committed by the Police State our Nation has become.  What an anathema to the values of the red white and blue that have been drummed into our heads since birth.  Where is courage and true patriotism today when needed most?  Jim Fetzer is one of the few who display both virtues. Writing on “Veterans Today” he published an article http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/04/15/faking-the-boston-bombing-how-it-was-done/

In it he describes trying to contact Tsarnaev’s lawyer, Judy Clarke, and pleading with her to use the outstanding clues that show what a travesty of reality this ‘event’ was, and yet the fake scenes are still running and he received no reply.  What a Judas she is!

Lord have mercy for we’re most likely about to put to death a young man who was caught in a frame up fiendishly concocted by the same old rulers of the world.  And I use plural as it’s all our responsibility for denying the facts and believing the propaganda bullshit; the worst will be those who demonstrate gratitude to the State for his unjust killing.  After Aurora, after Newton, CT, after JFK, after the Zimmerman telegraph, after Sacco & Venzetti, after the Lusitania, and on and on, - these rulers are still being served.

Meanwhile the National Guard, Reservists, DHS, Police Departments are gleefully working in accordance to drill on American soil, in American residential neighborhoods, on Main St USA, practicing their ability to command and control ordinary citizens.  These exercises are a slap to our moral face, they trample on our basic “God Given” rights as put forth in the Declaration and outlined in our Constitution. This Kafkaesque trial, the effrontery of these drills, are acute, stark precursors to the burial of our principles. 

Epiphany on my Dietary Habits

I know I have a hypothyroid condition - dry skin, eyebrows that stop 3/4th across, ridge lines on a few finger nails, plantar fascitis, slow metabolism with an inability to lose weight even though I diet....and bigtime genetic factors.  Since i am not convinced that taking synthroid or another thyroxine prescription will affect these symptoms successfully I have been careful about my diet, trying to eat 'clean'.  But what an epiphany i had recently about a multitude of items i've been digesting that are actually terrible for hypothyroidism!

First & foremost i had been taking soy isoflavones as an estrogen replacement as I'm post menapausal.  Little did i realize these estrogen interrupters significantly and adversely affect TS3 and TS4 levels. Scratched those off my list immediately!

As i read about the worst foods for hypothyroid persons I found I was also eating peanuts, plus almonds, cashews, and walnuts - all of which are very bad.  Plus i've been regularly eating peanut butter on whole wheat bread, another no-no. Brazil nuts, hazel nuts, sunflower seeds are okay.  

Spinach - here I thought I was super healthy, eating shells florentine and putting baby spinach leaves in my salad greens - argh; spinach inhibits the thyroid's hormones too. As of course do broccoli and cauliflower, which are well known goitrogenic vegetables.  Here I fell into the myth that as long as cooked, they were okay. So there I was trying to eat these at least once per week.  So wrong. Actually, even cooked they can impair excretion of proper hormone levels.  So scratch those off the list entirely.  No cole slaw for me either - ever, at least until i lose weight.

Peaches, pears, and strawberries also make the 'do not' eat list - my favorite fruits! Fortunately, apples, oranges, pineapples, and grapefruit are a-okay. 

And here is the zinger: tea - black, green, and white (although white has the least) tea have high levels of fluoride in them!  More in a steeped 12 oz cup of tea than 2 gallons of fluoridated drinking water!  My Brita is fine, but my goal of drinking at least 2 cups of green tea a day is probably doing a number not only on my thyroid, but my bones!  No more chai black tea, no more Earl Grey, no more kombachu, no more jasmine green....on and on...I collected a big bag of all these teas to donate - let someone else absorb that fluoride - it damages the thyroid - at one point in the 1900's they used it to treat hyperthyroidism!!  

So a new leaf is turned over - an herbal one from now on. Have also started to take Coleus Forkshelli (sp?) along with my ashwaganda and bladderwrack. Seems like a magic potion, does it not?!  Hopefully it will do some magic and perk up my thyroid gland.  Two or 3 months probably needed....will revisit the subject in May or June to report back.

After commenting at a site on FB a couple days ago, received a snide piece of advice to "research somewhere other than Google". Funny how the personna remains the same despite the years. Suddenly my old sensitive nature flared in hurt & rejection. And anger.  Unless you're psychopathic, egos are such frail items! :)  My swarmy (at least i hope it was) comment in return was, "where the hell would you suggest lady? Encyclopedia Brittanica?" (Seriously, where & how does one do research today? Alles in on line.)  Then i posted a link to very well documented .org site that does do its research & lists references to reputable scientific journals. But that had me down. To hell with FB anyways; why allow someone i don't know from Eve to upset my feelings?  In many respects that's an issue with that entire entity - the interaction is a charade.

Guess that was the motivation i needed to begin my jottings again. Over on this new blog site where i don't have to worry about the grammar resulting in odd translations; at my old site it became i couldn't use contractions, they were translated into strange wingdings....very frustrating.

Not that i have anything of import to blog about mind you.  Although I did take a photo awhile back that i wanted to share.  Don't know if i can add categories on this blog, but this would go under "recycling":

G actually cut this detergent bottle but what an amazing scoop it becomes! Will last forever! (not really a good thing is it?) Filling the birdseed holder with it.

One last comment - sort of a segue -- woke up this morning on the endtails of an apocalyptic dream - G&I had just come to and found ourselves in a wasteland surrounding a huge lake. Next we were in small boat on the lake and came upon a huge Titanic ship bobbing up & down. We couldn't believe we hadn't learned from our past mistakes. Then we were 'rescued' by some humans amazed we had been found. But i realized they thought we had just been lost when i knew we had come to the future from the past and was for some reason fearful they would find that fact out.  So i was playing along...now i realize this thought probably came from reading about the Montauk Project last evening.  What's not dreamt of in our philosophies!

till later.

Fresh start on the timeline of life...

As long as you're alive, there is opportunity to change, and that is what makes life a challenge.

2015 Resolutions:

1) Want less, need less, love more

2) Practice mindfulness even more

3) Save concretely

4) Create

5) Have f-u-n

and as usual

6) Lose weight (goal 20 lbs)

This is a Poinsettia purchased last year that was planted southeast facing in April. It grew huge over the summer, and when transplanted to a pot & brought inside, the shortened days made it bloom at 48 d latitude!