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  Emerald Aisle Forest I am nearly two weeks past the date I prefer to post, but I was deeply occupied doing things that really matter to me and most of them included traveling. Since early April I have put over 2000 miles on my car.  That is a lot for me!  I have dug razor clams, picked morels, gone fishing, helped my aunt with an estate sale, shopped with her for a new place to live, walked on Rialto Beach, and more.   During my recovery it became clear that I have to make even more changes to my lifestyle if I want to continue to live here and thrive.  The most important thing that I have done is to change the name of my place from Emerald Aisle Farm to Emerald Aisle Forest.  Honestly, it is much more of a forest than a farm.  As a forest I will be able create a harmonious balance with my surroundings versus the constant battle with nature in order to farm small parts of this property.  Emerald Aisles are Green Paths or Green Trails and th...

  https://youtu.be/JYalx8bvEyg "Brain surgeon reveals how to heal trauma" is in the headline for this excellent podcast where Lewis Howes interviews Dr. Jandial.  I have personally spoken with brain surgeons but not one with this ability to express how the brain works and heals.  I suggest listening to the above interview while you are doing your chores.  It is long but worth it! Lewis Howe's is an amazing interviewer.  I have listened to well over 50 of his interviews and have gone on to do further research on most of those guests.  As far as I can tell, politics are NOT on his list of discussions.  He is a man who created The School of Greatness podcast to share information about embracing health, growth, and change.  The link below takes you to his podcast page.  https://lewishowes.com/podcast/ My Brain I have been incredibly unforgiving of the way my brain works in the past.  Today I am grateful for the ability I have to be able to ...

https://untetheredsoul.com/michael-singer Michael Singer Podcast I listened to this podcast while cleaning clams and doing kitchen chores this morning.  The link above the podcast link is a short biography of his work.  He is one of the many speakers I listen to and his message is one of the most powerful.  

  Bouncing Back From Grief We are often expected to bounce back from grief.   Our nearest and dearest can be impatient with what they perceive as our lingering. Pressuring us to move on almost always creates a niggle of wrong doing inside of us.   Nobody is pressuring me to move on but then I am not talking about it every day so it really has little impact on anybody else.   In my grief over the loss of my dog I’ve connected with a deeper older grief that I have not set free.     And that older grief scratched the surface of an even older grief.   It seems like the deeper I dig, the more I dig up.   Because I cannot remember the source of my older grief all I can face is a nagging feeling. I did not used to know that much of what I was experiencing was grief, because I did not know to identify the feeling with that name.     One old grief that thrust itself forward was coming home from school one day to find the giant teddy bear that ...

  Good morning, everyone, You may have noticed that I did not post for the month of January 2022.   I could have written something ahead of time but I didn’t.   I could have written something last week but I didn’t.   I chose to be on schedule with the February post.    I could not have written anything for four weeks because of the position my body had to be in for optimum healing from my foot surgery. Self-awareness is a practice that I initiated several years ago, but that practice has deepened over the past year and intensified in the last two weeks.   My concept of self-care has greatly expanded just in the last eight weeks.   I wrote a post a few months ago about my pain with my foot. I even managed to make the connection to my life foundations.   Wednesday will be the end of the 5 th week after the surgery.   I have been freed to put 60 lbs of pressure on the healing foot but it could be longer than three weeks before I can w...

  This is the original statement We are "Partners in Believing".  We believe in each other.  We are each on a separate journey of mastering our minds.  We recognize that we are making free choices. We share our accomplishments and dreams to strengthen our vision.  We offer support to each other.  We are not defined by our circumstances. The reason I updated my statement is because I am about to make this blog a lot more public than it is now.  It is time to really generate " Partners in Believing" .  (I will read through each post and lock each one that I believe could have a direct reflection on anybody I know that could cause them harm.) I have chosen to share with people in my life who I believe are really expanding their belief in themselves but it is not leading to a visible expansion.  This is caused by me, not them. It is a reflection of my action or lack of action in my world.  Sharing our(my) growth is incredibly important....

  Prayer Most people are familiar with prayer in some form.   Even people who do not call themselves Christian often reach out in a form of prayer that expresses what their desire is.      If you want to learn to pray the way someone else does, you can research prayer books, listen to people pray, and discuss prayer with those who do a lot of it.   You will find a variety of methods and beliefs that will astonish you. There are a lot of people who pray out of habit and not desire.   Some people pray from a sense of guilt and even when they don’t feel guilty, they pray exactly as if they are.   Some people close their eyes in prayer and others talk to God, eyes open, staring into sky.   Some people kneel and others stand. The topic I am addressing today is very touchy to those who believe prayer is a demanding litany.   A lot of disappointment comes to those who treat God as if he is their earthly father.   If your prayer is si...

  Dear Readers, This is an acknowledgement of your successes both current and future.  I even have a smile for your past successes. I want to see you succeed. I hold space for your successes in my heart.  I see your bright future full of happiness, success, and love. I see you shining brightly, holding your torch up high, illuminating the hidden treasures that in the dark we all thought were traps. I acknowledge each of you as you dove deep into yourselves when you thought you were in a bottomless pit and pulled your true love self into your own arms and hugged her. I see how all of us have taken some of our fears and turned them into love.  I see how we opened our eyes to our true hearts and began sweeping out the corners and removing the cobwebs of criticism, hate, manipulation, and discontent, that we had accumulated from outside sources. As I face fear, I uncover truth.  I don’t always like that truth in the moment, but eventually I see “re...

  A State of Pain I am in a State of Pain.   This is a particularly rough time for me because I feel as if I am being thwarted, especially since I did not publish a September Post.   I have not been able to even type with two hands for 4 days.    I will go to a Sports Medicine doctor on Wednesday for a diagnosis of my left shoulder pain.   X-rays at Urgent Care showed no breaks or any serious problem.   There was just a little bit of arthritis that the doctor was certain would not cause this much pain.   She’s the one that’s sending me to Sports Medicine.   I will either be given an ultra sound or an MRI.    The only two things that I can research after that appointment are bursitis and torn tendons.   I hope it is bursitis!   I wish to be healed, but I am in this state of pain for a reason.   If that reason isn’t attended to, there will not be much healing.   I did not fall.   I did not have an accident...

  Releasing Old Beliefs I recently released a belief that a lack of money was going to keep me from fixing or finishing some things that are important to me.   I was unaware that I was busily outlining the chain of events as I perceived they had to happen.  I cannot remember what I was listening to that brought this understanding to me but as I turned my problem over to a higher power, along with the words where I allowed that my needs would be met without me limiting or defining how it would be done, but that it would happen with ease, the process began.  Those aren’t my exact words.  I don’t remember what my exact words were but I do remember the relief I felt as I released the belief that I must struggle to have my needs met.  I released the belief that my dreams were too big for my circumstances. I was guided to ask a person who could and would give me a hand at no charge.  In order to do this, I had to release my belief that I shouldn’t ...

  Writing Writing is a way to express something in a way that simply talking cannot do.   I relate it to fermentation. Fermentation is a process extracting energy from carbohydrates without oxygen.   I put my fruit juice in a stainless-steel bucket, add yeast and sugar, and stir twice a day.   As the yeast begins to transform the sugar, foam begins to build up, growing, growing, growing, and then poof, it all begins to shrink.   To me this is very much like the discussion of an idea with other people.   When the foam shrinks below the scum line on the sides of the bucket, it is time to pour the liquid into a carboy and make an airtight seal with a trap which I top with a sulfur dioxide solution.   Fermentation shifts inward as gasses created by the process push the oxygen up and together, they escape the trap without allowing more oxygen to enter.   The fibers of the fruit fall to the bottom of the jug and the juice begins to clear. (Clarify...

  Expectation One of the most powerful tools that we can add to our toolbox is to release expectation .     There are some positive uses for expectation, such as sending your child off to school expecting them to have a good day.   There are some perfectly rational expectations such as expecting water to flow when you flush the toilet.   But we frequently use expectation as a weapon which can lead to sabotage of ourselves and others and we don’t know we are doing it.   Most of us are familiar with planning a day out, possibly where we go to the park and expect to be able to play on the swings, only to find that the swings are all occupied.    We can wait for a turn or we can find something else to play with.   At least that is what we would tell our children when we arrived at the park and found no swing available.    When a child has an emotional melt down over not being able to find an empty swing, we teach them how to pu...

  Fertility “The state of being fertile or fruitful; the quality of producing in abundance: fecundity; productiveness: as, the fertility of the land, or (more rarely) of a breed of animals, a race of men, or an individual.” --American Heritage Dictionary   My highest priority at this time of year is fertility.  All things that require fertility must be considered when growing a garden, a lawn, a park, or just a terrarium.  Then of course, I want eggs that can be hatched into baby chickens.  Fertility means high levels of productivity.  I also want the daffodils and the crocus to multiply, the fruit trees to bloom so that they can be pollinated. I am struck by the incredible balance of nutrient rich soil.   I am also spellbound by the cycle of nature.  I have literally watched Hardpan Hill Farm transform into Emerald Aisle Farm.  There is another form of fertility that is in full swing around here and that is my abundance of c...