Winter Solstice – Bungie Cord Edition

Here’s what happened…..(I’m watching Monk reruns. All credit goes to the writers)

September hit and life got really busy. I found myself in three choruses and auditing a history class. This on top of trying to keep up and run the house etc…

Life was going pretty well except that I was pretty tired and found myself in a chorus that I was not enjoying and found the experience to be pretty stressful. I cannot believe that I said the words stressful and chorus in the same sentence…a clear indicator that something was wrong somewhere. I pushed myself through it…I don’t like to quit things.

A couple of weeks after the concert, and a weekend trip out of town, I came down with a fever. a high fever. We’re talking 103-104. Burned for days… 2 weeks actually. I’m not afraid of high fever. The heat burns out the bad bugs. My biggest mistake was staying in bed so much… I got pneumonia. pretty bad.

It became clear that I needed to see a doctor…I ended up in the emergency room, and in the hospital for a week. Great doctors, great staff…though they beat up my only arm really bad. Finally my veins gave out and they decided not to continue IV antibiotics, and sent me home.

I’m home a couple of weeks now…pretty tired and with frozen shoulders. I was looking at a meridian chart the other day. The lung meridian runs right across the top of the shoulders and down the arms. perhaps not a big surprise that my arms are not working right now.
Of course, the hospital staff kept sticking me with needles and have you ever spent any time in a hospital bed? with those rubber pillows? omg.

Anyway… My lungs are clearing, I’m getting some energy back though I’m pretty tired, and here I am a solstice and Christmas with empty hands… no gifts, no decorating… nothing… not even much of a schedule besides lots of bodywork to try to get my arms back…

Thank God the solstice is here. The days will get longer now, and spring is going to be here soon. Time to sweep the corners of life and clear out the dust some more. I’ve been doing it all year… swept out some pretty ugly stuff…Solstice helps me reflect on how much work I’ve done and remind me to keep going with fresh spirit.

BCF – Monteverdi Madness

Well, we did it! We sang a great concert There are really no words that describe the magnificience of this music. It gives joy to my soul to be in the midst of the sound and be contributing in it.. This is truly one of the great masterworks of the Roman Church. Here is one more example of this marvelous music.

I’ve been imagining Monteverdi, in the room, with us, all week,listening to his music as is endures through the ages. I hope he is pleased.
My only regret this evening, as I write, is that I will be unable to present an example from the performance that the BCF chorus has just done.
I hope the music will bless you and inspire you to beauty and faith.

BCF Monteverdi Vespers Week – Wednesday

Ah! Monteverdi! Genius! I’m pretty busy singing this week and thought I would find another fine example of the music to share…
This one is currently kicking my butt The alto part is very low, and there is sooo much text! These Vespers are beautifully crafted. It is a privilege to sing them.

We are singing about five hours per day. The chorus here is top flight and our director is outstanding.

I hope you will enjoy!

BCF Monteverdi Vespers Week!

Hi all I’m preparing to leave in a few days to go to the Berkshire Choral Festival in Massachusetts to sing. I’ve had this opportunity for the past four summers. I’ll have more details after I arrive next Sunday.

We (the chorus) arrive on Sunday, rehearse Monday through Friday, and sing a concert on the following Saturday night.

This week…The Monteverdi Vespers (1610). For your listening pleasure, have a listen to the video below… This is one of my very favorites! Double chorus, 8 voice parts…oops! Did I say 8 parts? I meant to say 10 parts! If you watch the video closely, you will be able to see the two choruses work together. Enjoy!

What You Pray For

I believe in God’s provision for my life and the power of prayer.
I believe in an angel guide of our souls and bodies.

Those who do not believe in quite this way speak of manifesting and sending white light and visualizing outcomes.

I’ve learned to never underestimate the power of prayer, and never treat it as a toy or a magic wish machine that will give me anything that I want.
I also do not believe that I can bargain with God. The whole conversation that runs like this…”If I do this, then You do that” is dangerous stuff. For starters, the odds of me actually doing what I’m promising God is pretty much slim to none. You know, the old promise, “If I can have this thing that I’m praying for, I’ll never do so-and-so again”. Really? Can you do that? I sure can’t. I’m human and bound to fail. Best not to make those promises.

All this said, I find it comforting to see glimpses of what I consider to be God treating me as an indulgent parent would a child. Not granting every wish and spoiling the child, just giving a treat and sign that he is listening and loves and protects me. It is often my heart’s delight.

Just in the past few weeks we have been thinking of tables….I’ve wanted a round pedestal table, with leaves, in a nice wood. it would be great if it were not brand new so there would be none of the off-gassing issues which are common with new things. Well, several tables soon presented themselves.

You, gentle reader, might be tempted to say coincidence. I can tell you that before I began to focus on this and even to talk about it, tables were not presenting themselves.

There have been several in recent weeks.

One was very nice wood, with leaves that slid under the table…it was rectangular…I passed it by…Then there was a round (yay) one of unknown origin that was sold before we could call the seller. Then, yesterday! An estate sale, two doors from us. I got there at the very end of the day and there was one piece of furniture left… guess what that was? The table was offered with six chairs. Four high ladder-back chairs with cane seats, and two Hitchcock chairs that belong to the table, which is also Hitchcock. Included in the deal are table linens, some never used, for just a few extra dollars…All pieces are in excellent condition.

A fun extra bonus in this little adventure is that we have met a local woodworker! When we are ready to build our house we may want to hire a woodworker to build a few things for us.

Do you have a story to share?

Frankenpot

I did not coin the word…. in fact, franken, as in Frankenstein, as in the monster maker, is being applied to GMO foods now by many who are terrified of what these foods will do to our health and ability to continue to survive as a species on the planet.

Now, the mad scientists are genetically modifying marijuana. They have known forever that Cannabis is very effective in curing cancers. I just learned about that when I watched Run from the Cure
Cancer treatment is big business, so let’s not have any actual cures please…or dare I say prevention… If people are either cured, or never get cancers in the first place, then they won’t need treatment, right? Well… we can’t have that! Let’s have lots of debilitating treatments that cause early death and make lots and lots of money for the cancer machine. Never mind that people die early from the treatments, we are putting so many additives in the food, and poisons the environment that there is a guaranteed stream of people with cancers to make us lots and lots of money.

So, first we genetically modify the cannabis… there…that will ensure that it will no longer work to cure cancers…done. Then we can synthesize the cannabis, because we can’t patent a natural substance, and we know that your body can tell a natural substance from a synthesized one and that it will not work. Then! stroke of genius! we will sell it to you, for lots of money, and it will not work! But, no worry, we make lots of money!

Maybe we can also sell you more of that cheesy pink ribbon and bracelet crap to go with our new bogus cannabis cure…there… perfect.

Parasite Cleanse Part Two with a Two Part Bonus

It is now day 16 of the parasite cleanse. So far this is pretty easy…no apparent die-off at this point and no herxing. I expect that may take a bit longer as these critters like to embed pretty deep and take a while to dislodge. Meantime, my usual detox habits, fresh veggie juice, coffee enema and a medical food made by Metagenics (Ultra Clear Plus) are helping me feel well.

Last post I did not talk about what I’m taking so I thought I would now…
There are two things. First a liquid extract containing Wormwood, Black Walnut, Clove, Olive Leaf, fennel, and Citrus Seed. I take this twice a day, morning and night every day.
Along with that I’m taking Artemisinin four days a week. Here is the first bonus… Artemisinin along with being good at getting rid of parasites is also good for getting rid of cancers! There seems to be a bit written about this online. Here is just one link

The second bonus is that I’m crediting this combination for clearing up a UTI that I was hoping to not have to take antibiotics to get rid of! YAY! Wormwood et al is great stuff!

Thermography – Initial Impressions

A few days ago I did another thermography study. As you may know, I’m monitoring my left breast as along the left side of the surgical scar there is a large lump of scar tissue that the surgeon (Dr. Scary Pants) wants to biopsy, and I don’t want to at this point.
Last December I took a comprehensive array of infrared pictures and though the left breast is hotter than the right, the tissues responded appropriately to the cold challenge. and even cooled down more following lymph drainage and an adjustment to my leg length by inserting a heel lift into my shoe.

It has been 6 months, and frankly, I was a bit nervous about the pictures this time… While I’m still waiting for the final report, I can say what I saw on the screen… I was encouraged.

Thermography is done by taking infrared pictures of the breasts, which show heat patterns, then challenging the body by making the hands cold for about a minute, then re-taking the pictures and measuring the difference in temperature of the breast. Areas where there is increased blood flow, a sign of tumor growth, will remain at the same temperature, or even become warmer…

Here is what we saw… keep in mind that this is not the final report. Neither breast had red or white spots. Good! Red and white are very hot colors. I know that red could have been in the spectrum because there was red at my neck. The areas in question were cooler, and cooled down after the cold challenge. Again, good. There are two spots under my arm that, though not red, did not cool down after the cold challenge. Not sure what that means. And, in the right breast, when you look at the picture taken from the side, there is an area of heat, though smaller this time than last time.

The office that does the thermography also takes a picture of my back. Of the three places where I’ve had thermography, they are the only one who take that shot. I would suggest that you ask for a picture of your back… Here is what I found.

There is a red spot in my back directly behind my left breast. I said yikes! Then I asked to see last December’s pictures of my back. Well…. last December my back was very red, and the red extended all up and down my spine! Double yikes! It seems that I’m clearing that heat up. I’m so glad it is better and I’ll be keeping an eye on my back pictures from now on…

I’m hoping to have a final report in a couple of weeks, and results of conventional blood work in about a week…

Another Good Reason to Do Live Blood Analysis

I’m traveling to DC this week and seeing the usual doctors and alternative care professionals and friends…So far, so good…

I just thought I would say a word or two about live blood analysis. I’ve found it to be a valuable tool, and I’d advise anyone to do it.
This time we look, and lo, critters (omg) that look like worms! Let me just say yuck! One of them appeared to have legs and a head and everything. Others were long… very long…Happily all appeared to be dead. Also in the field was a white cloud of something that we’ve never seen before… I’m thinking it is related to the critters…Metabolic waste perhaps? Dare I say poop? Gross.

Lately I’ve been taking some rather large doses of digestive enzymes. Sometimes with food, and sometimes without food. When you take enzymes with food they help digest the food… if you take enzymes away from food they go looking for something else to digest. I want that. The enzymes strip the protein coat off critters and all kinds of things that hide behind a protein coat… This makes the lurkers visible to the immune system so it can say “ah ha!” and get rid of them. I’m thinking that is what I’m seeing in my blood. Good to know. And now I’m taking a round of herbal parasite and protozoa killers, and eating a fair amount of organic raw garlic. Let’s make their previously happy home too uncomfortable for them to stay.

These parasites, are a drain on the body. They eat, they poop, and they generally make a mess. I’ll be darned if anyone is going to be eating my lunch but me

Run From the Cure

I’ve another interesting lecture and video to post! Earlier this week I was browsing through wordpress blogs containing tags that I am interested in and came upon a blog with a post titled Run From the Cure. After I stopped laughing, I watched it. See the blog post here

I’ve gotten a major education in the medical uses of cannabis. While I knew about appetite stimulation and sleep as positive results of using cannabis as an adjunctive therapy, I was surprised to learn of the plant’s long history of use, and of its apparent cytotoxic abilities…

Fast forward a couple of days, and on the Mercola site I find Run from the Cure and a rather long article… click here

While I’ve never been interested in marijuana for recreation, I am very interested in saving my own life, and the freedom of everyone to choose the therapies that work for them.

What do you think?