This is a post from my sister, Maria.
Change has come to America.
This is the slogan of the platform of the new presidency and today I felt I had become part of this new energy. Today I did something totally different, a paradigm shift for me. As America is in the process of making this paradigm shift , I had decided to take the day off. Without even realizing nor planning it, it just happened
I did so
today, the day in which as a nation ,are all in the consciousness of entering a new era. I came to do this out of feeling totally burned out and exhausted from much stress past few months. The cause: ” Everyone else is more important than me”. I slept all morning, something I had not done in over 20 years. I realized it was something my body and mind were needing desperately but I had not
taken the time to do. (more…)
for just a moment with me that you are in this huge mansion with many doors, all different colors and shapes and with many different designs. You walk around and around trying to figure out which one should you attempt to go through and even see if it opens up. You ask yourself, ” Where are the keys, how do I open the door? ” Well this is a question I believe we are all faced with at some point in our lives. How do I open the door to the many possibilities that are available to me, how to I open the door to love, how do I open the door to seeing life as a wonderful canvas in which I am the painter, in which my hands, my words and my actions are the colors of which
Have you ever been on a camping trip and needed to start a fire? Did you know that there is a specific way to ignite the fire so it is able to grow? On my first trip many years ago to the out doors, I thought it was just getting a bunch of logs together and setting them on fire. But as I watched someone with more experience than I methodically put the logs in the form of a tepee with space in between each log I was amazed. One of the most important things she told me is the fire must have room to breathe,” you must approach this with intelligence and respect, you cannot smother it or it will not grow and the match that ignites that fire will die.” 
Have you ever done a remodeling job in your house? Remember the experience and the frustration? This is how it usually starts for me, I start to get an idea about a project that I want to do because I have become tired of the decor or it is outdated and old and needs remodeling. I can’t help but think that this is what we find ourselves in as the changes in our financial system and those around the world are collapsing. Ouch! That hurts to even write that.