so, here's the deal.  we are about to lose our home.  and that would put this 70 year old woman, a 5 year old, a pregnant woman and my son - on the street.  and given i don't see how i can get this computer and all the inventory into that cart - i really need the folowing:

please, go to the webpage and order just one pattern.  in return, i will send you another one (your choice) for free.  in fact, i will send you one for every one you order, in case you'd like more.  use the comment section on the page to let me know which one you want for free.

also, if you are in the sac area and know of anyone looking for help - i am also looking for a 'real' job.

God Bless You
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well, it seems nearly certain that we can get thru december.  however, the future remains very UNcertain.  i continue to pray, meditate and practice 'faith and trust' to the best of my ability.  i am continuing the 'sale' on the website.  and continuing to keep my ears and eyes open for 'outside' work.  and trusting that the loan modification will be approved/go thru - whatever all that is.  and even less certain about how to keep the rv.  there are a couple of shows i have scheduled for which it would be much much better to use it than the van.  that is - if i am even able to DO shows this coming year!???
despite all that doom and gloom - at some level i am optimistic.  and it is from there that i wish all a wonderfully happy and love filled holiday and new year.






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these are the thoughts that came to me during and just after my morning journaling practice.

Maybe we are at a moment of Spiritual Evolution as a race - because, until now we have misinterpreted our Divine Urge for 'Expansion'.  As a race at it's level of development we turned the Divine Urge into a belief.  And beliefs operate at the level of doing and having, and are, by nature 'false'.  So, the urge for 'expansion' for Spirit became the 'need' for more at the level of doing and having - more stuff, more fame, more status, more, more, more.  At any cost.  That belief has now been driven to extinction and we must evolve. 
We are evolving into the Truth of Expansion which is about becoming "more".  Evolution by its nature requires transformation, which may look like the 'death' or disappearance of some 'things'.  And at the individual level, that disappearance/change can look a lot less than wonderful. 

Some of us seem to be caught in that part of this evolution - and are in 'real' danger of losing our homes, have already lost our jobs, etc etc etc.  So, I am trusting in TGW (The Great Whatever, as my writer friend call It). 
As I sat in my chair my eyes were drawn to these wonderful flowers I had brought in from the yard.  And I couldn't help but think - how DOES that happen?  How does that little brown bulb turn into these beautiful and complex flowers and leaves - every year at this time????  How DO we humans think we really know anything???  How could we ever believe WE are 'in contol' here? my my


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