Actually, it has been more like three nights of those days. I have a love-hate relation with this person who haunts me at night, steals my sleep and consequently my energies. This person befuddles my thinking and often confuses me to the extreme!

I often scream at her, or him or even IT, to go away and leave me alone! Do you think they listen to me and do as I ask? Of course not. Why would I ever not hear what I have to say or not believe that something important is in there hiding, waiting and expecting me to know exactly what it is all about. OF COURSE I KNOW!

Yea right. I don’t know nuttin’ about nuttin’. Well, at least not at the beginning of about 72 hours. It takes me those 72 hours to #1, figure out what is keeping me awake, #2 why is it keeping me awake, #3 Do I own IT. #4 should I and can I do anything about IT that will give me some peace, or should I just tell IT to go away and try to get back to sleep????????

You are a very rare human if you have not had one of these nights!

Truly, I do my best work after dark. So many issues do come to all of us in the dark, looking for resolution. There are not usually so many distractions, or noises then. The darkness often acts as a movie screen with the characters and circumstances more apparent, facts and reasons are more easily defined from a less personal viewpoint. We are able to detach more willingly. Solutions can come to us more freely without prejudice and good decisions can be achieved.

It is vital to feel what you feel and to try to understand the feelings and emotions of everyone involved. This way, a fair and kind conclusion can be reached.

It only takes a simple request to Spirit asked out loud (so that all the Universe can hear and help you) and the answer you need will come to you. Simply ask for Peace if that is all you can do.

Be grateful. Say thank you.

Hang in there. Some bodies Love you!

Websters Dictionary says that a mistake is to understand or perceive wrongly an idea, answer, or act that is wrong, in error or in blunder.

Well now, that statement certainly opens up a can of very squiggly worms!!

I think about the “mistakes” I have made in my life fairly often much to my chagrin. I make that statement today, knowing full well (after much experimentation) that no such thing exists.

We do not make mistakes. I repeat, we do not make mistakes!

Based on the knowledge we have at the time, we make a decision, perhaps a statement, only to discover later that we might have made a different choice and brought about a different and perhaps more desirable outcome.

This is one of the ways we gain the wisdom to make more informed decisions and have patience for ourselves and others. It is a little bit like putting your hand too close to a fire and getting burned. You only do it once.

There are a lot of one times in life.

I encourage you to give yourself a break and permission to make “mistakes”. The lesson’s outcome will stay with you for a very, very long time and make you a wiser, more tolerant person.

Harm no one, including yourself, if it is possible to do so. Be kind, beautiful One!

Living out your existence in a human form is defiantly not for the faint of heart or one who lives without courage on a daily basis. Being human is a really, really big deal. Somedays, it is like walking into a very dark room with your hands tied behind your back, blindfolded and your mouth taped shut so you are unable to scream.

At other times, the sun is shining so brightly that you need your sunglasses, suntan lotion and a beach! It is such a glorious day today that it is difficult to remember just how horrible your life was yesterday. Why bother remembering that anyway.

Are you getting my drift? It is all about the feeling. How is today, this very moment encouraging you to feel? What is the emotion entering your core, your chakra, your heart and all the Being that you are. This human that you are? This mass of energy and matter that you claim is yourself. (there is much more to tell on that particular subject, but that is for another day)

Have you ever really given thought to the idea that you get to choose? YOU DO get to choose every thought, energy, reaction or response to any given moment or experience in this human life you call your own. These are the decisions that you make during every single second of your time here on earth.

These decisions define who you are….every single one of them. Every action you become, tells the world and everyone around you who (and what) you are. You are one hundred percent the Creator. Just how is it that you want the world and all its inhabitants to know you??

Of course, you are not “perfect”. None of us are or ever will be. This lovely Earth is our gameboard and our playground. Our safe place to learn, grow and become all that we planned for.

AND YOU GET TO PLAY THE GAME HOWEVER YOU WISH TO!!

Just how you define a “good and kind person ” is up to you. Just remember that everyone else who is here with you is playing the same game that you are or close to it. We all are doing our best to “get it right” Also remember that each one of us is working with a different definition of those words. It is an important game rule to not be judge and jury.

Some are not interested in joining our game. That’s okay. They have their own game to play and the rules may not be the same. We are all on a similar journey to Home. It is just that some of the roads are different and the directional signs are in a different language. It is all perfect and just as it should be.

I am here because I desire to play My Game my way. My choices may not be the same as yours or they might match up. Either way, I will meet you again on the other side and we will have a drink and a laugh together to celebrate ourselves and our success at playing The Game.

Play with all your heart. Be kind.

The essentials of happiness in life are……

Something to do,

Something to love,

and

Something to hope for.

I want to tell you the story of the Red Daffodil.

I am the Red Daffodil.

I was always a different child. I didn’t fit into any category very well. Always more comfortable with my self and my own thoughts than any group and most people. This tends to isolate one, but I managed to have a few friends, do a few activities and pretty well fit comfortably with life in the fifties and sixties.

Eventually, I married, had a home and family, educated myself, owned a business, got divorced, lived the single life for a while and then remarried and began to have a very different life.

A few years later, I began to get hungry for something of my own again and after we moved to a small town in southern Indiana, I decided to open a little bookstore and art gallery. Sounds okay doesn’t it? Well, it was a leap of Faith! This bookstore was going to be filled with Metaphysical art and books for the Mind, Body, and Spirit. So were the classes and Readings that I intended to do.

It would be an understatement to say that I was very nervous about this endeavor, but I was going to do all I could to make it work just fine. You see, it was located in pure REDNECK territory, smack in the midst of the Bible Belt in small town USA. I wasn’t sure if I was being brave or just plain stupid. Were tar and feathers in my future?

Spirit and the Powers That Be had to give me a LOT of help on this one. They did! With much meditation, prayer, incense, salt, candles and request for protection, I moved forward!

The one thing that still eluded me was what to name it…….more prayers and meditations until one night in a dream Spirit answered me. She explained to me what to call it and why, and that the name would stay with me for a very long time and would all-ways mean much to me. She even told me what colors to use on the sign and business cards and to use inside the store. In short, Spirit guided my every step. My gratitude is endless and to this day The Red Daffodil is who I am and will ever be.

The yellow gold is Spirit …the Light and Being of every faith who dwells in every heart and space. The Red is the Life’s Blood that flows thru every living being and is the same color for All……it connects us as One. Daffodils because they renew and grow every spring, and give an opportunity for growth and expansion and are beautiful to see as are we to Spirit.

So be it all-ways….in peace and love to you……The Red Daffy!

This world of Space time that I( we) live in is without a doubt the most brilliant, marvelous, contradictory, confusing and for me ecstatic place and time to be alive.

It feels like I have been waiting my entire life. I have waited a lifetime to be here just now. It is doubtful that any of us could have imagined the world we have learned to live with for 2020. The changes of life styles and habits will never be what they once were and it is far from ending anytime soon.

We have been fighting a war with an insidious, viscous and deadly enemy. We don’t even know for sure who the enemy is or what weapon we can use to kill him. The one thing we do know for sure is that this enemy takes lives and livelihoods from us. He is a Destroyer.

Here is another thing that I know for sure. Because of him, we are stronger. We are more courageous and steadfast. We have learned that fear and loss will not break us. We have learned more kindness and concern for our neighbors, our family members and even strangers.

We will never forget this year of 2020. The year we all became warriors.

It feels like we are still in the same place doesn’t it? Or does it?

We are so far from the places we were four months ago that there is no measuring or comparing it to anything else these days. Loved ones are gone, homes are gone, jobs and careers are gone, hard earned lives have disappeared almost overnight. The way we shop, work, play, eat out, exercise, live, visit one another, travel…..you name it and I will bet that you are doing it a bit different these days.

I am in my mid seventies. In all those years, I have seen many changes and experienced many things, but never, ever before have I  known a time such as this one. Most of us have adjusted to all these changes. We have searched out and done what needed doing in our lives to keep going and even to move forward. We have sadly said good by to some and gratefully said “Thank God! I love you” to others.

My point is…….that we are all getting a second chance at living our lives. Some day into the future you might decided to get back to the way it was before C-19. I sincerely hope not. Just as I wish it for myself, I hope you have changed. Isolation has a way of creating contemplation and thoughtful searching within.

Could I have been kinder, more patient, less driven by work and more driven by love. Must I always be acquiring “stuff” to prove how successful I am or is there a more giving way to do that.  Could I take the family to the movies instead of playing another round of golf with the guys, or another game of cards with the girls? What do I truly want my life to express. How would I feel if I lost my child to the pandemic? Did I hug them often and actually say” I love you” . So much comes to mind. Was I caught in a trap or was I really sharing myself with those in my life.

On the other hand, many creative and beautiful giving people have shown us their talents and love in so many wonderful ways…especially online. Thankfully we have been sharing together on the internet. Incredible music and creative videos are all over the place online. People are sharing, giving support and encouragement from places over the world. One could say that” the world .com” is alive and kicking!