Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It didn’t happen because she didn’t tell. The latest of the assumptions made by his surrogates is to suggest that sexual assault or harassment doesn’t happen if the survivor doesn’t tell. And yet, just this morning I listened to a…
The Gaslighting of America
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. In the last few days, we’ve been inundated with revelations of alleged sexual assault regarding our male candidate running for President. Some women in the media are referring to the denigration by that man of his accusers as gaslighting. They seem…
This Reasonable Woman’s Perspective
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I’ve always considered myself to be a reasonable woman. It used to be that I could listen to surrogates for the conservative party and perhaps disagree with something they said. I might even vehemently disagree, but a few years ago, when all…
Finding That Still Point
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Energy swirls into manifestation. Everything amounts to thought in motion. Some view that as a spiral, some a vortex, but however you view it, energy moves. The universe and all within it is a projection of collective thought or consciousness….
The Queen in Charge: Tarot for Sunday, 9 October 2016
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I love Court cards, particularly the Queens. Court cards either represent an individual or qualities thereof. For example, the Queen of Swords in the Thoth deck I’m using today depicts the Queen reclining on her crystalline throne surrounded…
As Garden Season Ends…
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The dome we put in was a complete success. The hugel beds which we also put in exceeded our expectations as everything we planted both inside and around the outside of the dome went crazy. I’ve frozen more beans…
Finding Inner Strength When You Have Nothing Left
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Oh my. Where do I begin? Donald Trump has an opinion about veterans who suffer from PTSD. They’re not strong¹ in his estimation. From Vice President Joe Biden on Trump’s comments: “Where in the hell is he from?” Biden asked at…
Reaching For The Stars ~ Tarot for 3 October 2016
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The Star, the 3 of Cups, and the 10 of Pentacles are present in today’s three-card reading. The elements of Water and Earth along with one card from the Major Arcana are represented suggesting that our emotional and physical presence…
What’s In A Name?
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission is assigned the task of rolling out legal recreational cannabis in our state. Retail outlets were finally approved as of yesterday along with some rules regarding the naming of various cannabis strains. Girl Scout Cookies,…
Veterans Need Safe Access To Medical Cannabis
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. After all the work Rep. Blumenauer and Senator Merkley did to give veterans safe access to medical cannabis in the latest funding bill for the Veteran’s Administration, that section was stripped from the bill and when it finally passed Congress,…
A Year of Initiation
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. We’ve had three 999 days this month where the date reduced to 999. Today, 9/27/2016 is the last of those days. 999 reduces to 27 which reduces to 9, the number of endings and beginnings, completeness and revelation. And since…
A Veteran’s Worth
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. My husband, Jerry, is a disabled Vietnam veteran and has been so since his discharge in the mid-70’s. An outpatient clinic opened in our area and he goes there for his medical and vision care. But for dental, we drive…
A Higher Point of Origin
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. If we all decided tomorrow to wake up and be nice to everyone from that point forward, our world would change in an instant. Completely. Gone would be the hateful comments we hear daily in the media. We would elevate…
High Horses
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I read something today about patriarchy that really has me scratching my head. Although I think I understand what the author was talking about, I disagree with her premise I guess. At least I think I do. Apparently women are…
Another Batch of Cannabis Oil
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It’s time again to make some cannabis oil. It’s that thick, sludgy resinous oil made from cannabis that saves lives. I know because it saved mine. I originally used a method described by Rick Simpson, but then I found an…