— Monday, March 21, 2016 — // -4˚C / +24˚F & snowing ‘lightly’ @ 11:11 am in Atlantic Canada on the Second Day of Spring, 2016 🙂 —
I have become almost magically optimistic about the future lately — Hmmm? Have I clued into positive trends in the world of Spirit? Or is this not so early onset Alzheimer’s? 😉
Bare Ground beneath our local species of Cedar tree as the Nor’Easter begins – this was at about 8:37 am today, March 21st, 2016 -jrw-
— The Weather Network said we should expect between 15 and 25 centimeters of snow today ( um, six to ten inches? ) The local CBC channel told us this morning they expect we should get about 10 centimeters / 4 inches? – then later amended that to say we might get another 5 centimeters later tonight, after the evening commute home?
— This is a view of the ‘Deer Hill’ that I haven’t ‘published’ here yet – The hill is actually somebody else’s property. Cathi says she wishes we could own it- She’s got ideas concerning gardens and safe passage for deer forever and maybe even a swimming pool.
— My novel keeps growing in my mind faster than I can get it out and into word processors – In that manner I work out a lot of stupid dead ends before they waste time? At least I’m not wasting paper –
— At about 10:30 am. The spot beneath the cedar tree is now covered by ‘new’ snow. (I had to walk out to this area to bring back the garbage can the garbage guys usually leave upside down, but today they left it right side up, so it was filling with snow.) — shrug —
— I realized before I began to write this, that at about this time last year, I didn’t want to know anything about any more snow falling from the sky and building up on the ground- Today I pretty much knew it was coming – um, part of this is trusting teevee and radio weather people – and I still felt like the world was okay, that Spring is coming, that people are will be nicer to each other – That even nasty people will realize they don’t like being nasty? — I don’t know – Maybe something on a nearly sub-conscious level has become more optimistic since Canada elected a new ‘government’ that at least claims to value human beings over the principles of greed and divisiveness.
— And I think this is the photo that I took around 10:30 this morning that I thought best showed the developing snowstorm. -jrw-
— And I guess none of the photos I’ve put up here today do anything to explain the odd optimism I’ve been feeling. As a matter of fact, the day is kind of grey and brooding – and the snow that is falling doesn’t feel particularly friendly or compassionate – But the world still feels like it is becoming more friendly, more loving, more welcoming? So, of course there will be set-backs and dark moments – But I still feel like something deep down and subtle has changed for the better.
Here’s a little more of the decorative glass thing hanging in our porch window, looking to where the deer come to say hello and, “We’re hungry-” In this photo you can actually see how it hangs. This photo was taken at about 9:40 this morning, with the cell phone again, the usb connection routine is wonky and I want to try to get it right – silly me – —jim w—
Weird Dreams and/or ‘Psychic Experiences’:
—Wednesday, March 9th, 2016 — // — It’s 0˚C / 32˚F and we have Freezing rain and Ice Pellets falling at the moment in our little corner of Atlantic Canada @ 1:11 pm — I think I remember a couple cute, dark haired young women having their birthday today, but I don’t know if Jean and What’sername would be embarrassed if I named them here, so maybe we better leave them anonymous for now —
— I had a night of weird dreams that might even have been spooky contact with people who were not in their bodies at the time. One might have been a place memory – a dark haired woman wearing a dark ‘fashionable’ leather jacket walked past me – I was sleeping in the lounge chair – fell asleep watching the network news channel – She was probably under five feet five inches tall – walked past me – to the living room door to the dog’s ‘run’/ fenced in yard. She opened the door and stood there, staring out – I got the impression that she was surprised by the weather. I also got the impression that she was someone who lived in this house before we did – Someone who is still alive and at the time might have been dreaming, might have dreamed she was back living in this house and maybe she was or wasn’t aware of me being there, might just have charged through her memory of the living room and opened her memory of the door and stared outside at something she might have been dreaming – or if this was a place memory – she might have been upset about something that happened years ago here and that memory could be stamped pretty strongly in her memory – She might re-live whatever happened every now and then.
— But that wasn’t my only weird dream or psychic experience – I spent some time in a zone I sometimes ‘wake up’ into – an area where you’re not quite totally asleep, and not quite awake – in this ‘zone’ I can often hear the thoughts and conversations of lots of people at once, like picking up a phone and hearing every conversation in your district going on at once – usually not being able to to understand who’s talking to who, but sometimes I can ‘zoom in’ on one conversation between people who may or may not know I can hear or ‘tune in’ on them – rarely, someone who knows me will talk to me like I’m there – where-ever they are? A couple times I’ve felt like I floated into somebody’s house and caught a conversation between a couple I know and one or both of them would become aware that I’m there and say something – not always comfortable with the experience? Like, “Hi, we know you’re there, we don’t know how this is happening, but please go away and let us talk in private?”
— Early this morning – Maybe around 6:30 am Atlantic Time – I heard a lot of voices all talking at once – and didn’t particularly want to try to tune in on any of what anybody might be saying – And then I became aware of a not-so-pleasant ‘awareness’ focused on me and I ‘prayed it away’ – reached for my connection to the ‘Divine’ Personalities Who have helped me in the past – ‘Forces’ or ‘Personalities’ the mere mention or thought of will drive anything negative away – The ‘bad guys’ don’t want to mess with these guys and women and get out of dodge in a hurry if they know anybody like that is connected with me.
— This used to happen a lot. I spent several years when I never knew when I was trying to fall asleep whether I’d be atacked or come into contact with ‘not-so-friendly spirits’. And then, one day I blurted out that I’d had experiences like that to the right person at the right moment, and this guy, a Yogi, smiled and told me what to do, and if the ‘unpleasant entities’ don’t immediately leave, there’s something else I can do – Ask Ascended Masters for help and then Meditate for at least five minutes – as a ‘Thank You’ for Their help? (The longer the better.)
— But anyway, this morning, nothing unpleasant stuck around. But I was still feeling like I was shaking – shivering inside my body here – like a spiritual PTSD thing? Remembering a bunch of unpleasant encounters with not so friendly arch-types, whether they were real or not? I tried to connect with my higher Spiritual ‘Friends’ and protectors and fell asleep in the process –
— And then I dreamed that someone was telling me about some new development in the ‘Web’. They called it something like a ‘Wexler Press’ or a ‘Wiz Express’ or something like that – something like Twitter, they explained, but everything is encrypted and nobody you don’t want spying on your private life, private thoughts, vulnerabilities – etc, like if you need to tell somebody you won’t be home for a couple hours and don’t want anybody who might want to break and enter your premisis to know about that, you’d have no problem at all telling the person who needs to know what’s happening without alerting any ‘bad guys’ to that set of circumstances.
— When I woke up from this ‘conversation’ I felt 1,000% better. – You know? When you talk to somebody who is so positive and wise and full of nurturing and can inspire you any time you talk to or see this person? You get that, “Jee. I’m glad there are people like this in this world -” feeling and I was ‘energized’ for a couple hours.
— I’ve become used to the feeling that something not quite right is happening to someone somewhere – Anxiety? The feeling that not just another shoe is going to drop, but something is about to drop and you don’t know who it might effect and you have no idea where it might happen? – And it might be a simple case of eating something with too much sugar or caffeine at the wrong time and nothing bad is happening anywhere?
— But lately I’ve been feeling like something really good is about to happen to me or somebody I care about, and I get this happy tingle and I spend a couple hours wondering if I’m going to get a happy message from somebody somewhere –
— And, today, as the freezing rain is falling – and cars are moving up the very slight hill I can see from the living room door as the dog is slipping and sliding around out there – in the wet snow that’s turning to mush – I have that unreasonably good feeling that something good is happening, or is about to happen – & I like this feeling.
We had some flurry activity this afternoon. – A dusting on the stones of the stonewall-
— Monday, March 7th, 2016 — // 0˚C / 32˚F & Lightly Flurrying In Atlantic Canada @ 5:15 pm // — I think today is exactly six months away from my birthday – might depend on leapyear and stuff like that —
— I really have almost nothing to report – You don’t really want to know about how many trips I made up and down the stairs to do a little bit of laundry – I did add one old poem to the “Aerendel Magazine Archives” page here – And I took a couple photos of the dog playing in the snow and the dusting everything is getting here.
— Cathi ‘shared’ a definition of ‘Trumpery’ someone posted on ‘effbook’ – I re-shared that –
— The odd thing is, I suddenly felt a bit of a Spiritual Lift a short time ago – Like something wonderful happened to somebody I know and they wished I was there to experience that with them.
— Therefore, this is not a case of me about to drop dead from boredome. This is me enjoying a happy moment or two when nothing is falling apart or crashing in on us.
— If some of my more sensitive friends were not totally allergic to smiley faces – I just might have added one here.
Sunday, February 14th, 2016 — §§ — -18˚C / 0˚F – Dark and Clear in Atlantic Canada @ 11:11 pm — §§ — Today was my Uncle Larry’s Birthday —
The river here is frozen solid and covered with snow except for a little bit under one bridge, that I can’t see very well as we drive toward it. But I’m not about to try to drive a big heavy truck across the ice – Too many people back where we used to live died that way – at least a couple of fatalities every year.
— It was pretty nice and toasty inside here today. Cut and split hardwood heats a lot better than cut up pieces of pallets thrown away by businesses.
— Cathi made lasagna that had both me and the dog drooling as it cooked. And we have a heart-shaped chocolate cake to dessert with.
— But – Remembering friends who hated Valentines Day because they were bullied and/or never picked to be anyone’s Valentine. Perfectly beautiful people with a lot to offer – made to feel inadequate and unlovable by the stupid school system that was forced on us.
And this guy with #ptsd is suffering big time and I can’t do anything but pray things begin to get better for him.
— The above tweet was posted by a guy who is currently homeless because he was fired for having PTSD symptoms during a major suicide epidemic when the previous Conservative government was closing down Veterans’ Affairs Offices to pocket over a $Billion$ and Veterans with problems had an even harder time trying to get help within a system that already tries to vilify them for not being ‘man enough’ to ‘get-over-it’ when the nightmares of brutal conditions, ugly death and military insanity in any conflict won’t just go away because some idiot with a couple of stripes says they should.
But Hummingbirds were my sister Diane’s favourites and she’d appreciate this photo of a Green Throated Mango Humming Bird.
— I had a couple weird dreams last night, and when I told her about that my favourite Valentine told me she did too. But I also made contact with a cousin who died last year – I dreamed we were in a room with a bunch of relatives – The scene reminded me of a lot of family get-together-s while we were growing up and in our twenties and thirties – My cousin sat at a computer and busied himself doing something. In the dream I remembered he’d died and I asked him if I was the only one who could see him or was he visible to everybody there. & drat – I woke up before he could reply.
& Here’s a nice photograph re-tweeted by a Hispanic guy with a lot of heart.
— I’ll forget about all the time I spent today trying to fix problems caused by Microsoft’s idiotic new ‘Update’ glitches and remember the happy minutes of conversations I had with Cathi and the strange but fun interactions we always have with our four-legged friends.
— [ Imagine your favourite Happy Smiling Face here – I won’t tell you about the firefox extension add-ons that substitute cute photos of kittens for any shot of Tom Cruise in social media 🙂 ] –,
Monday, February 8th, 2016 —§§— -10˚C / +14˚F & Just beginning to snow @10:15 am in Atlantic Canada —
New Brunswick Provincial Green Party Leader and MLA David Coon Tweeted that a First Nation’s Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth – has been written into the Constitution of Bolivia.– Empty Pockets = Not as bad as empty hearts. –
— Wild and crazy dreams earlier – Between 7:44 and 8:04 am, after just about passing out after my head hit the pillow — going back to bed after putting out the garbage and getting Cathi off to work — I dreamed Cathi was telling a long time friend that she’d been seeing an old flame from way back, off and on since high school, and stringing everybody else in her life along the whole time. In the dream I was shocked and when I looked at the clock I thought I was looking at a ghosty spirit wearing some kind of weird medieval clothes with long wool coats and cloaks and wearing a digital clock around his heart level, which was barely visible through the flowing and wind-blown layers of cloaks. I was very happy to realize that dream was ‘just a dream’ and then wondered if I’d experienced some kind of a ‘not-the-friendliest-spirit-in-this-world’ – projected mind game – that was supposed to get me upset and off-center. Stranger things have happened. ( & now ‘expert’ conspiracy researchers are saying that rogue dark ops groups have the technology to do that??? — yeah, it’s possible )
You have a right to know what you’re eating/putting into your body.
— Schnarr –,
— & Astrologist & Nostradamus Scholar Dr Luis Turi Told the world last week that there would be nasty Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions on & around February 7th – He was right again.
— more later? –,
— Okay – it’s later —
– Salt Lamp in the porch window, in Cathi’s “Zen Corner” ( I wanted to be sure the flash was not on )– ‘Committee’ meeting – March 17th, 2015 – I think one deer is posing, this was shot through the porch window – there are reflections between us and the deer on the right in this photo.This shows the all white mother deer and her brown & white offspring. Sadly, one or both were killed by a bus between March, 2014 (when this photo was taken) and this 2015 – 2016 winter. There is an all white deer coming around these days (February 2016) who looks young, but might be the mother.– No, that’s not the wolf at our door, it’s Jassper, during a late March snowstorm in 2015 –– And this is Jassper, trying to use his “Jedi Dog Tricks” on us as Cathi finishes baking two loaves of bread last April (2015) – Yeah, I know, that’s the flash reflected – but why do human’s eyes glow red and dog’s eyes glow white? –And this is Moe, making a statement about my Artistic Photo Framing actions. This is a slightly off-kilter shot of Cathi’s Zen Corner.And here we have a single deer, who got the wrong memo concerning the time and place of their ‘Committee Meeting’ – This, and most of the photos after “More later?”, was/were taken with a Samsung Galaxy II phone – not telephoto – So Yes – The deer are that close to us when they come looking for something to eat.This is a photo of the security camera monitor last August at about 1:30 am. The security camera is sitting on a shelf inside a window. The array on the right is the reflection of the camera’s light and motion sensers. Look near the base of the wall in the lower left hand corner. Tell me what you see.– And this is Moe, posing as the poster child for “Whattaya mean, ‘it’s time to get up?’ – I think I’m allergic to ‘morning’ – Pugting up with you humans and your ‘sensibilities’ takes a lot out of a cat with a busy dream life, ya know? –
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016 — -6˚C / +21˚F — Sunny & bright, clear, and colder than yesterday in Atlantic Canada @ 9:11 am — Birthdays today: Close Friend Lisa and Cousin Lyn in Connecticut 🙂 & I think our friend Angie ( née Shean ) up here has a birthday too – 🙂 —
I don’t know if this will be readable – but a friend impressed me by doing this on an obsolete computer with an obsolete operating system and an obsolete photo program.
— Draelen Shantivarta ( ‘Somewhere out west’ -) managed to download a screen shot from the game that several of us are still working on, and, using a G5 Mac running OS X 10.4-something which supports OS 9 “Classic”, where he used Photo Deluxe, a program from the early 90’s, to import, trim, and write every line ( one at a time ) then drag and resize the text (one line at a time). & to tell ya the truth, the screen shot looks like icebergs are floating close to shore somewhere.
Barbara Walters interviewing Bernie Sanders before anybody had any idea that he could do so well in Iowa
— A lot of people were buzzing this morning about how well Bernie Sanders did in the Iowa Caucus yesterday. He started out polling in single digits and ended up in a virtual tie with Hillary Clinton, who is backed by big money and a powerful political machine.
Hillary received 49.9% of the Democratic Votes tallied in yesterday’s Iowa Caucuses, Bernie received 49.5%? That should scare a lot of the wrong people. And six of the delegates were awarded by a coin toss?
— Hillary’s supporters were tweeting up a storm yesterday while Bernie had Michael Moore and a handful of activist celebrities ( including Susan Sarandon ( “Dammit – Janet!” ) and Wil Wheaton? – ( Wesley from Star Trek Next Generation? ) Plus a lot of dedicated grass-roots people. Exit polls cited by the BBC said 84-91% of voters under 30 years old voted for ‘The Bern’
– This is in California? Wow –
— & As for me, I think I’d like to be in a nice warm place like the photo above right now. The person who tweeted it said, “California”? Must be upstate, north of San Francisco?
– And I have no idea where this is, but I do believe I could live there and love it. –
— Looks like the inspiration for the Elven City of Rivendel, as portrayed in The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Movies.
– And this is another beautiful, intriguing place that I think I’d like to at least visit –
— I think my friend, Draelen, knows more about where this photographer/Tweeter is from, I think he told me she’s from Germany – But wow – what a beautiful world we live in. I think somebody tweeted a photo of Leonard Nimoy as Spock with a quote that went something like, [ understatement alert ] “Anybody who would destroy their home planet – is illogical.”
— I spent yesterday doing carpentry stuff, reinforcing the wobbly legs to a computer desk, and then brought an overheating iMac back from its most recent ‘near-death-experience’, caught up with a couple of friends on effbook and twitter, and watched ‘Supergirl’ and ‘X-Files’ before making sure computers were still okay and hadn’t blown up yet and forgot to take one of my medications. ( And No – I’m not one of the people doug otterson cited as needing to self medicate after seeing the photograph of an upright black cat playing a guitar – 😉
— And – I’m still wracking my brains over how to handle difficult passages in a novel that I’m trying to finish.
Sunday, January 31st, 2016 -( +1˚C / +34˚F — Cloudy with about a centimeter of fuzzy new snow coating everything and the sun’s trying to come out in Atlantic Canada @ 8:45 am )-
Looks like someone captured a snowy night somewhere – looks peaceful. I’m not sure where that is.
— Okay, so once again I spent the whole night fixing things on computers. Trying to get things to work that wanted to be left alone –
– Interesting carving on stones in Scotland – One of several photos tweeted by Aillish Sinclair this morning. –
— Google’s Chrome browser informed me that it will no longer support any mac versions hosted on computers with ‘obsolete’ operating systems. – Like OS X versions 10.6 and 10.7 – Somebody needs to take them down a peg – or maybe throw them off the top of a pyramid in Central America and watch them bounce all the way down – Grrrr.
— Oh dangit, I’m trying to remain positive here.
— Jesse Ventura tweeted a schnarr photo of D. Trump and said he feels kind of good about Trump destroying the GOP the way he is. 🙂
– And I think the person who wrote the companion book to ‘Medicine Cards’ said that people who resonate with Lynx-es are rare. – Actually the text describes ‘Lynx People’ as being people who have Lynx spirit guides. If I ever figure out whether anybody or everybody has Spirit Guides hanging around them disguised as Animal Spirits I’ll let you know.
— Um, that’s probably enough for now, Haben Sie einen guten Tag.
Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 -( -7˚C / +19˚F with bright sun shining in Atlantic Canada @ 11:18 am )- Today is my friend Kay’s birthday, & Yesterday was Paramahansa Yogananda’s Birthday.
We could all use a little more light and inspiration.
— I was updating my prayer lists and feeling bad because I couldn’t remember the names of some friends I haven’t seen in a while. I can see their faces and hear their voices and feel their senses of humor, but their names are just beyond my reach at the moment. (sigh, maybe I’m trying too hard.)
— It’s chilly out there in the real world and I didn’t believe I had a lot to say that was worth broadcasting/sharing with anybody – I had a wicked headache yesterday and took some aspirin to deal with that.
— So I checked facebook and one of my friends posted something about not wanting to read any negative rants about the world coming to an end – I took that to mean that she didn’t want to read anything expounding on the terrorist-boogie men who replaced the communist boogie men that too many of us used to believe were hiding under our beds.
— And I tried to remember the lyrics to a song from what? the 50’s? “Forget about the killin and the dyin and the lyin and the cryin and the fella with the switch blade knife – Just think about livin, and think about life.” and it worried me that I wasn’t a thousand percent sure that I had the lyrics right.
— shrug –,
So I believe I will take this opportunity to sit back and thank my lucky stars and especially thank all those whose love and guidance have been with me all along, no matter how egotistical or just plain stupid I acted. — Thank You —
Thursday, December 31st, 2015 -( +1˚C / +34˚F Grey, damp – and might even be misty/raining outside at 11:11 am in Atlantic Canada )-
I’m pretending this is the promise of a brilliant sunrise coming for our ‘Civilization’ here on Earth in the year 2016.
— A couple good things happened in 2015 – but overall, I will not miss this last year at all. On the positive side: Canadian humiliated their Fascist Conservative Prime Minister and his divisive political agenda. They elected Justin Trudeau, leader of the Canadian Liberal Party, who won a resounding victory and so far appears to be off to a good start. His ‘Sunny Days’ motto kind of catches in my throat – gag, choke – but at least that IS a positive message and the “Canada is back!” message that everything I believed was the real Canada does seem to be on the front burner these days. I’ll give that a two thumbs up.
— Now lets see how long we can hold JT’s feet to the fire and keep positive, progressive momentum going.
And let’s pretend this is Cathi at a magic wishing well that is guaranteed to grant any reasonable wish she might make. – It really is Cathi. and the fountain is on Queen Street in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
— In the spirit of Optimistic New Beginnings – I spent about an hour on each of two days earlier this week sitting in a waiting room at a vehicle inspection garage here. I was inspired by my wish that all levels of government and all businesses had everybody’s best interest at heart and were completely ethical and honest. —> I sat there thinking I should begin a nice, short, high impact novel with a conversation I had with a mechanic in Arnprior a couple years ago. The weathered-looking man had been tortured for years over the message he got from a vice president of General Motors at a meeting he got a free ticket to. This was at a big deal convention that he was privileged to attend as a reward for his excellence in the service department of a GM car dealership. After the VP gave the assembled mechanics a pep talk, he invited them to come look at what was new in the wonderful new vehicles that the company would be introducing in the near future. My friend the mechanic gawked at a plastic part that the engine depended on to keep working safely and efficiently, pointed to it and turned to the V.P. and said, “But this is plastic – That part has always been metal- This part will wear out too quickly.” And the V.P. scowled darkly and sneered, “Do you like your job? I’m paying somebody two million dollars a year to come up with stuff like this so you have a job!” *** This year I was very happy to see a tweet explaining that the French Parliament had passed a law making it illegal to build anything with deliberately planned obsolescence included in any of its parts. I just hope they can enforce that. Hey! If they can I will jump on any “Buy Stuff Made In France!” bandwagon. 🙂
Thursday, December 24th, 2015 -( +8˚C / +46˚F dark & damp with a full moon shining on Atlantic Canada @ 10:45 pm )-
Full Moon through the fog and birch trees, over Atlantic Canada at 9:45 pm on December 24th, 2015 – photo adjusted with exposure all the way up via Mac Preview app. Earlier there was a jet trail or straight line cloud underlining the moon through a slightly clearer sky. But the pets needed food.Unretouched photo of what happened when I thought I turned the flash off and shot at the full moon. Gotta be the mist in the very damp air.This is the same Full Moon with unexpected Flash effects and the contrast slider turned all the way up via Mac Preview. — Looks like Pink Floyd’s “Obscured by Clouds” album cover.
Cathi and I went to the cinema tonight and saw the new Star Wars Movie. I enjoyed it, even knowing it had been strained through a highly formulaic structure, it was still pretty good. I could guess several of the twists and turns, but the light side shines pretty brightly inside me and sometimes my silly ‘human mind’ can allow fairly clear messages to bubble up all the way through my soul and around my ego- or that’s the way it feels. I like surprises. I like positive surprises even more.
This is the time of year when this planet is closest to the positive spiritual center of the material universe. Every year more and more of us can feel the most beautiful atmospheric vibrations of the year and come away with new and improved insights. Try it – you’ll like it.
Happy Yule, Merry Christmas, I already wished Happy Hanukkah to several friends and now it’s time to wish a Happy Kwanza to other friends. Happy Holidays to anybody I missed. And to anybody who absolutely hates, dreads or fears this time of year – you have my spiritual love, empathy and compassionate wishes that it’s not as bad for you this time as it might have been.
