On a limb with Claudia

A friend of mine sent this to me and I thought it was so very cool that I had to pass it along. I’m not sure where it comes from so we’ll say a little blessing to the author who put it together. (If anyone knows who wrote this, let me know!)

Thursday Thirteen # 18 – Food for thought.

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A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye…and YES science now shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

2.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.

3.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

4.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

5.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

6.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

7.
Avocadoes, Eggplant, and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female – they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? …. It takes exactly 9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

8.
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the motility of male sperm and increase the numbers of sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

9.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

10.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

11.
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

12.
Onions look like body cells. Today’s research shows that onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.

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One last thought added by Claudia. Our bodies informed about our environment through our food. This is true for Honey Bees. Why wouldn’t it be true for us?

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This tattoo artist had breast augmentation for the tattoo on his calf.? You’ll be shocked to learn that his body rejected the implants and he had to have them removed.

I have a whole bunch to say about this.

Maybe later.

After I stop laughing.

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Yes, the scenery in Denver just improved by one hunking Swedish notch.

Peter Forsberg returns to Denver.

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Rhonda, nee Chuck, at Foster me up! invited me to join a Meme Mondays. The idea is that you save your meme’s and awards for Mondays. So here goes.

Mimi the Queen of Memes started a new Message in a Bottle Meme last week:

You are about to send a virtual Message In a Bottle across the Blog Ocean. Leave a message in the sand or on the bottle. Write anything you wish. Be a pirate or a poet. Serious or silly. Anonymous or not.

What message would you like to send out to the universe?

Message In A Bottle Meme:

1. Compose a message to place in your virtual bottle
2. Right click and Save the graphic above
3. Use a graphics program of your choice to place the message on the picture
4. Post the meme and these rules on your blog
5. Return your “Message In a Bottle” to me via email ~ mimiwrites2005 at yahoo.com, sign the Mr. Linky at Mimi’s site and leave a comment THERE telling her you’ve finished. IF YOU WANT YOUR MESSAGE TO BE ANONYMOUS PLEASE SAY SO.
6. Tag a minimum of five people – or your entire blogroll – to do the same. Notify them of the tag.

Here’s my message in the bottle to the world:

I tag:

Jill at Another day in the same life

Christy at Bring me up!

Deb and Damozel at Bare Naked Politics

Harlekwin at Bohemian Rapsedy

Chuck at Foster me up

Van at FuriousBall

Colleen at Loose Leaf Notes

Grace at Sandier Pastures

Monty at The CEO

Kelly at What did you do?

Enjoy!

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I realized that I have a few more questions to answer by the end of the month! Yikes! Time to get busy answering a few questions.

She asked me a few questions about spirits.

1. Do you have a familiar spirit that you feel like you’ve gotten to “know”?

This is a challenging question for me because it turns on the idea of “knowing”.? As human beings, our minds think in past, present and future.? “Knowing” a friend means that you know their history, their present world and their future goals and plans. Right?

In my experience, and again it’s just my experience, spirits live past, present and future all at once.? “Knowing” a spirit is to know their presence, the way they feel or even smell, their ideas and wisdom.? Some spirits are funny, full of laughter.? Others are serious and wise.? Some spirits have great capacity and wisdom.? Others do not.? Just like people.

I meet, engage, and communicate with beings – human, animal, spirit, and others.? Some spirits have been around me all my life.? Others pass through my life.? Just like people.? Just like beloved pets.

2.? Would you consider writing a biography of a spirit you’ve lived with?

No.? Mostly because, in my experience, spirits don’t really have a biography.? Once unattached from their body, they no longer care or remember their life.? Remember, as spirits, their experience is past, present, future all at once.

I believe that we make connections on a soul level.? These connections can last an eternity. Once we leave this human experience, our connections to other beings is what remains.

Another way to say this is: Our ancestors wait, almost begging, for us to ask for their help.

Murder? Violent Death?? Yeah, it’s really common for people to ghost hunt for “information” about murders or violent death.? My experience with these beings is that they want someone to understand their pain.? They don’t care about setting things straight or finding their murderer. Why would they?? (Remember past, present, future all at the same time.)? These beings want to be known, heard, and? understood.

Many ghost hunters disagree with me here.

I can only speak to my own experience.? Certainly my experience is influenced by my experience with people in therapy.? There is no real truth – five people who have the exact same experience will not be impacted by that experience in the same way.? What is different?? Our experience, our history and what these events mean to us.? Why would it be any different from spirits?

3.? Can people train themselves to see things outside the physical world?

Of course.? First, you must understand a few realities.

Human beings see in a very, very small range of light.? We hear in an even smaller range of sound. ? Moreover, our mind dismisses 80% of what we see and hear and 100% of what we don’t understand or expect.? Further, the minuscule amount that we manage to take in is translated through our experience and history.

Start here.

Understand that you don’t see everything.? You cannot hear everything. And more than anything you are right at this moment missing 80% of what’s going on right in front of you? at this moment.

Dragons?? They probably exist.? Why else would there be a word for dragon in every single language around the world?

Bigfoot? Why not? A person is more likely to see Bigfoot in the Rocky Mountains than a wolf.? No shit.? (Check out the documented sightings at BFRO.net)? We believe wolves exist.

Spirits?? They are right in front of you.

Angels?? Sure.? Why else does it feel so amazing in old churches?

There are great programs available.? But if you cannot accept the previous as possible, you just won’t get there.? And that’s fine.

There’s a time for everything.

And what if it’s all bullshit?

What if it is?? Who cares?

The most intelligent of all of us believe that we know, and understand, a fraction of what exists.? Maybe we are simply not smart enough to get there.

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I have some fascination with these Unconscious mutterings – mine and yours. Here’s mine for this week:

1. Protocol :: for life.
2. Girlfriends :: are a blessing and a curse.
3. Shoulders :: to cry on.
4. Coming home :: finally!
5. Let it in :: Light
6. Honor :: Yourself first.
7. Tyler :: is a great name but not one I’ve used…. yet.
8. Thriller :: Women’s (Like my first novel!
9. Angela :: Banning (OK, I have no idea who this is – it’s the first thing that came to my mind and wouldn’t leave. Any ideas?)
10. The winner is :: the one who reaches their goal with their honor intact.

What are your unconscious mutterings for this week?

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Since I started the week with a sad Marine, I thought I would end it with a cool Marine story.

Marine Maj. Brian Dennis, 36 years old, made friends with an abused, traumatized dog he called “Nubs”.? More than once, he saved the dog’s life.? And now, Nubs is coming to live in San Diego with Capt. Eric Sjoberg until Major Dennis returns in March.

Now how cool is that?? (Click here to read the story.)

With a little luck, they will both live happily ever after.

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Thursday Thirteen # 17 – Trip to the Haunted Hotel.

This Thursday Thirteen is a little story about my weekend in Glenwood Springs at the Haunted Hotel.

1. How it all started:

My friend and her husband take child-free trips every quarter. They invited us to join them in Glenwood Springs.

“But that hotel is haunted,” I said.

“Oh God,” my friend replied. “Can you just deal with it?”

“Um, I guess so. I mean they take dogs so Rose can go.”

“Then it’s settled,” she said.

2. One week prior to our trip, my phone rings and it’s the Hotel.

“We need your confirmation today for your reservation next week,” a slurring voice said.

“For next week? Really? Why?” I asked.

“We’ve had a large number of cancellations due to the excess snow. We are ending our normal 48 hour policy. You have to tell me TODAY if you are going next week.”

“Uh, Ok.” (I can be so very articulate.)

I called around to my husband and my friend. We don’t believe that the hotel had cancellations due to the snow. In fact, most hotels were overbooked. We decide that we were going. Period. We were going to go to the Haunted Hotel.

3. Confirming the reservation:

I called the hotel to confirm our reservation the day before we are to check in. The man I spoke to no longer works there. Turns out he was drinking on the job. Who knew?

“Well at least we don’t have to deal with that jerk,” my friend said.

“I think the ghosts got to him,” I said.

“Probably.” I can almost hear her eyes rolling in her head. “See you tomorrow.”

4. Saturday morning, my friend and her husband cancel.

We on our way to Haunted Hotel… alone.

5. Checking in at the Haunted Hotel.

As I walked through the hotel, I could feel the ghosts come to check to see who was there. I’ve never had this experience. These ghosts were sophisticated, awake and intelligent. They just came to say ‘Hello’.

The lobby was grand, large with a huge gas fireplace and a person playing the piano. Of course, the apparitions hang around the room – a brown haired man with a large mustache, red vest, white shirt, dark pants. He is smoking; A girl wearing a dark grey dress with a white puffy hat; a couple of kids.

As I approach the front desk, the new front desk manager (red-haired cow) is bitching at the ex-Marine clerk. As I approach, she pierces her lips and says, “I just want to make sure we have your schedule correct.”

I raised my eyebrow at the male ghost who was making fun of the red-haired cow. The ex-Marine clerk caught the look and stepped back from the red-haired cow. After pretending to listen to hearing a raft of crap from the red-haired cow about the dog, I checked in.

6. You’re in room 106.

“How was it?” D asked.

“Odd, the ghosts just came for a look see.”

We walk past room 105. The door is open and someone is frantically cleaning something. The room is filled with storage files and other junk. The wall paper is peeling from the walls and there are gaping holes in the plaster. When the person in the room hears us in the hall, she closes the door.

“Holy crap, what was that?” D asked.

“Nothing good,” I said closing our door.

7. Florence:

“That’s what they say about me now – lover’s triangle. Like it was MY fault that some patient falls for me. Why do they believe him? He’s alive. And me?” She shrugged her shoulders. “I was no easy woman.”

(While the hotel served as a hospital, a former chambermaid named Florence was murdered when she became part of a lover’s triangle. A disheartened patient hurled a heavy white pitcher at her in a jealous fit over a handsome miner from Aspen. The room – yes room 105 – has so much paranormal activity that it’s currently used for storage.)

8. Why do you stay here? Why not move on?

I asked.

“We live here,” the man with the mustache said. “Flo, me, the kids, the miner and the others. This is our home.”

“I can send you on,” I said. All right, it’s a little bit of a threat – kind of a “don’t mess with me”.

“Don’t be rude. We are happy here.”

9. A meeting of the minds.

“Do you care about the ghosts?” I asked.

“Not really. Will they bother us?” D asked.

“They say they won’t.”

“I don’t care if they are here,” he said.

10. Rose (the dog) needs to go out.

After snapping at the air, Rose wanted to go outside. It was just after 1 AM. Fumbling in the dark, I got dressed, found her leash (not wanting a run in with the red-haired cow), and we entered the night.

The hall was buzzing, almost crackling with energy. We scooted out a side door and begin the normal “dog’s-nose-to-the-ground” run around. She peed in the snow. After running from here to there with her nose to the ground, she took off toward an outdoor patio. Her tail wagged full force and she began the Vizsla wiggle. She ran up to a metal chair as if she was greeting an old friend.

Problem?

No one was sitting in the chair. I had a sense of a person but he (yes he) said nothing and didn’t materialize. Rose greeted someone then trots back to the room.

(According to the experts, the spectral activity in our area peaks around 1 AM and continues from 2 – 4 AM. )

11. A day out:

We spent all day Sunday cross country skiing. After all of our “experiences”, we planned to leave early Monday morning.

12. Ants:

“What are you doing?” I asked D.

“I’m watching the ants. They’ve been moving this piece of rice for the last two days. Look, they are almost out of the bathroom.”

I don’t really understand it, but when there’s a lot of ghosty activity, there are also a lot of black ants. Our bedroom was rife with black ants.

13. A cool ghost story:

“In 1982, the hotel was being renovated and new wallpaper was being applied to the walls of room 551. The next morning, all of the wallpaper that had been applied was rolled neatly on the floor. The wallpaper was replaced, but again found on the floor in the morning. After two or three attempts, several wallpaper samples were placed on the bed in 551. The next morning, all but one of the samples was on the floor. The sample that was left on the bed was applied to the walls and remains there today.” From Haunted Hotel

Don’t worry – we made it back in one piece with a new rule – no more Haunted Hotel – never again!!

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You probably saw this article. I had to share it because when I read it, I laughed my ass off.

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Survey backs image of Mac users
(Rocky Mountain News, February 11, 2008)

Turns out that Mac owners are a lot like that Mac guy on the “Get a Mac” television commercials.

A lot of them really do think they’re better than everybody else, according to AdAge.com.

A Mindset Media survey of 7,500 online consumers found that Mac users to be more assured of their superiority, less modest and more open than the general population, AdAge.com reports.

PC users, on the other hand, tended to be less-creative realists who are emotionally steady and work well with what they’re given.

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Ah, come on, you either are a Mac user, thus believe you are superior

or

you know someone who is a Mac user.

This is your chance to testify.

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“How long have you been back?” I ask.

“A year,” he says. His face holds confusion as if I know something about him that maybe I shouldn’t.

“How is it?”

His pale blue eyes go wide as he attempts to control the flood of emotions. His face flushes bright red, then goes blanch white. His mouth opens and closes as his pink tongue tries to form words. Breathing hard, he comes up with the response he thinks I want to hear.

“It’s great… really great!” His eyes rake my face. Did I buy the lie?

I raise an eyebrow.

“Well….” The emotion comes back full force as he whispered, “I’m working in a hotel… a hotel.”

Then, as quick as the moment came, the moment passes. The emotion is gone. The honesty is gone.

And the lie lingers in the air.

“Really, it’s great to be back.”

On average, five soldiers per day commit suicide, often when they return from war.

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