Hello there fellow Human, I hope you are having a lovely day. 
​Today's post is a gentle reminder in case you've forgotten and the difficulties of life are getting the best of you.

YOU ARE THE MOST POWERFUL TRANSMITTER IN THE UNIVERSE!     YOU CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS!

And here is some scientific evidence to prove that YOU and WE are indeed far more powerful than we were ever lead to believe.

This is from Bruce Lipton, Ph.D in Developmental Biology. Bruce Lipton has now spent decades studying the body. Here is one of his findings . . . .

Every cell in our body is a live cell.
Every cell has a minus (negative) voltage on the inside of it and a positive charge on the outside.

There are about 50T, yes TRILLION, cells in our bodies! (I wonder WHO counted them all)

EVERY CELL HAS APPROXIMATELY 1.4VOLTS 

50T times 1.4 volts equals 700 TRILLION volts of electricity IN OUR BODIES RIGHT NOW !

Just think about this. It's truly incredible the actual and real power, electrical power we carry with us every single day. Now scroll back up the the African proverb I started with about the mosquito.
YOU ARE NOT A POWERLESS BEING! YOU ARE AN INCREDIBLY POWERFUL BEING.
Now what are you going to do with this new information?

Science is discovering new information about US all the time and our world seems to move faster and faster as the days, weeks & years seem to fly by but HOW EXACTLY can we utilize this new information about how truly powerful we actually are?  

Well, first we've got to learn how to slow things down and get back into the driver's seat of our own buses.

HOW? you ask . . .

Well . . . first we need to slow things down in the moment and BE PRESENT IN EACH MOMENT.
This is an acquired skill but not too difficult when you put your intention into doing it. Don't let your mind wander off and think about what you need to do and get done today. Don't think about anyone else for 10 minutes. Devote this tiny block of time only to yourself. Be present with You.

Now, I want you to BREATHE in slowly and consciously through your nose to a count of 4 and fill your lungs.
Work those stomach muscles.
Hold that breadth for a count of 4.
And now slowly breathe out through your mouth to a count of 4 and empty your lungs. 
Pull those stomach muscles in.
REPEAT this three more times.
Feel your body relax and too the tension you may not have even realized you are carrying in your body release as you breathe like this. Consciously. Deliberately. Don't think about anything else while you do this breathing and centering exercise. 

Can you now feel how the chatter in your head has quieted? That's exactly the point. You have now taken back control of your 'Monkey Mind" that's constantly in reactionary flight or fight mode and climbed into the driver's seat of your own vehicle. Congratulations! See how easy that was? There are millions of things that vie for our attention all day long. Just remember YOU HAVE CONTROL OVER THIS and now you know how. So begin a new habit TODAY to employ this breathing technique to be the driver and navigator of your life as you go through your day and meet the challenges before you. With practice, you will become so good at this breathing trick (and no one will ever have to know you are doing it) that it will become impossible for anyone to know your off your center.

So when you have integrated this technique and calmed your thoughts, NOW you actually consciously in the present moment and can really begin to use the super power of the 50 TRILLION cells of your very own body.
Remember my previous post here in February this year about NIKOLA TESLA? (If not, check it out below.)
He said, 'If you want to understand the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.' Now, our thoughts have vibrations, a specific frequency and energy to them too. Absolutely everything in this universe does. There is an energetic frequency to EVERYTHING, including thoughts. Especially thoughts.

Negative thoughts and words have low vibrations. Positive thoughts and words have higher vibrations and frequencies. We want to carry and be at higher vibrations and frequencies. That's where the fun and magic is. All disease starts with long term low vibration. It's a choice. Choose high vibe. 

Here's what you may not know - Thoughts create reality. Everything humanity has ever created began with a single thought. Good, bad or indifferent, it all began with one single thought that we kept thinking about and gave more energy to and took steps towards making it until it manifested itself in reality. 

Examine your beliefs about yourself and how the world is and more importantly WHAT IS IT YOU WANT YOUR LIFE AND OUR WORLD TO BE LIKE. Act as if.  Hold that energetic blueprint. Want more peace in your life? Want more peace in the world? Quiet your own mind and be that first, a peaceful, kind, caring person.
It is a magnetic energy. Likes attract. Watch your self-talk like a hawk and be mindful of how you talk and think about yourself and others. Make a conscious effort to raise your vibration higher, keep it there, make it your own personal happy place. Live by the Golden Rule. Treat others as you would have them treat you. 
Be that person who lights up a room and others are happy to see because your high vibe positive energy is contagious.  

Final words:  THOUGHTS ARE VIBRATIONS, WORDS ARE VIBRATIONS. CHOOSE HIGH VIBES  AND YOU'LL SOON NOTICE HOW FAST TIME FLIES BUT KEEP BREATHING CONSCIOUSLY TO BE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT SO YOU ENJOY THE RIDE . . . . 

Take it from Willie Nelson. He knows a thing or two about navigating the vicissitudes of life and here's a great song he wrote about it called Just Breathe.



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Hello again Everyone,

I hope this message for you today finds you in good spirits. 

As I promised in my February RESTART blog post I aim to PROVE to you that #HAPPINESSISACHOICE .

If you truly want to have happiness as your natural state of mind, first you must have this intention.  Again, I will remind us that everything is Frequency, Energy and Vibration so we've got to get into the habit of consciously CHOOSING a higher vibration. Shifting mentally, choosing a different thing to focus our attention on. Build that habit.  Strengthen that muscle. The easiest way to begin building this mind shift is to adopt an Attitude of Gratitude. Generally, it is nothing more than focusing more on 'What is working in your life? and being appreciative for those things great and small. When you begin this practice, you may only be able to name a few items. 

This is why I want to share with you a little framework to begin this practice. You can alter it as you like and make it your own. If you practice journaling you will have a record of your progress. Here is a month's worth of ideas to ponder each day to develop an Attitude of Gratitude. Write about each of the prompts whatever comes to your mind.

30 Days of Gratitude

1.a Memory
2. a FREEDOM
3. a TASTE
4. a COLOR
5. a SONG
6. a PLACE
7. a GIFT
8. a FAMILY MEMBER
9. a SIMPLE PLEASURE
10. a POSSESSION
11. a GIFT FROM GOD
12. a PIECE OF ADVICE
13. a SMELL
14. a LIFE"S LESSON
15. a MYSTERY
16. SOMETHING HAPPENING TOMORROW
17. a SACRED SPACE
18. an ACT OF KINDNESS
19. a BOOK
20. a TRADITION
21. a TREASURE
22. THANKSGIVING, A MOMENT
23. a TEACHER
24. a PROMISE
25. a CHALLENGE
26. an ANIMAL
27. a FRIEND
28. a GOAL
29. SOMETHING IN NATURE
30. a MOMENT FROM YESTERDAY

Share your experiences about this exercise and how it shifted your focus to a more positive outlook on life in general. How you found yourself pivoting out of a negative thought pattern more often? Are you catching yourself and consciously choosing to focus on more positive thoughts?

 
Do you know that mathematics was not CREATED by man? It was DISCOVERED!
Did you learn this in school? I sure did not.

A very famous quote by Nikola Tesla - 

'If you want to understand the secrets of the universe,
think in terms of ENERGY, FREQUENCY, & VIBRATION.'
How is energy, frequency and vibration represented? 
Through numbers, BOOM! What's more, not everything has a constant frequency, it fluctuates depending on a whole host of variables. 

How do we work with energy, frequency and vibration? With NUMBERS.
We represent the strength and power of and frequency of energy and vibrations through numerical equivalents. 


I've spent years trying to understand what this quote actually means. I think I've figured some things out.
Everything, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING that exists has its own energy, frequency it vibrates at and a unique vibrational pattern. EVERYTHING. 

That includes numbers. All numbers have their own frequency, vibration & energy pattern. 
Literally EVERYTHING has its own frequency, energy and vibration. Everything, including us.
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#Tesla was also fascinated especially with the numbers 3-6-9 and said 'If you understand the magnificence of 3-6-9, you will begin to understand the secrets of the universe. That is quite an interesting and provocative notion.

Here is a short video explaining the magic of 3-6-9 with #9 especially. Nine is simply magic! 
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Here is some more interesting info about single numbers plus double and triple digits that are the same that I've discovered recently thru unusual sources - collective human knowledge throughout history and cultures and also through channeling. If you are skeptical about channeling, that's ok. It proves your do not just swallow whatever your hear. You are a more discerning human being. At some point though, you inevitably come to a conclusion that there is a higher order or hand that is playing a role and channeling is just one way to tap into this type of information.

1 - 1st, New Beginnings, rewrites and reframing
2 - Duality, Free Choice
3 - Catalyst, the spark that starts a change
4 - Gaia, Earth, Grounded, 4 Seasons, 4 Directions of North, South, East & West
5 - Raw and Massive Change
6 - High Spirituality, Harmony, Humans at our highest level
7 - Spirituality
8 - Manifestation & Abundance
9 - Completion, Endings, Graduation
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MASTER NUMBERS
11 - Illumination
22 - Duality, Also think 'As above, so below"
33 - Compassion
44 - Unknown to us at this time
55 - Not understandable to us at this time
66 - '' ''
77 - '' ''
88 - '' ''
99 - '' ''

Think about how many times you have looked at the clock and it read 11:11. Many interpret this number as a reminder that God is reminding us of His benevolent presence and that We are dearly loved.

And finally, I feel it is necessary to include GEMATRIA in this post. Many have never heard of gematria, myself included until a few years ago. In gematria each letter of the alphabet has an equivalent numerical value which starts with A equaling 1, B equals two, etc. to code a message. 

So the conversion of each letter into it's numerical equivalent and then added together to arrive at that sum.  There are various ways of interpreting the numerical values. One way is to keep the word or phase's whole sum. Additional info can be gained by further reducing that sum  by adding the digits together until you have a single number from 1-9.  Refer to the list above for a few single digit meanings. 

So there seems to be some universal agreement about the meanings of numbers but as I've already mentioned but there is also a personal filter playing a role when anyone uses a Gematria calculator to decode words and phrases. By that I mean what captures your attention when you scroll thru the dozens of pages of meanings for any particular word or phrase. You must trust your intuition and also use discernment.

It is merely a reference. Ciphers have been used almost as long as humanity has been around. We choose to share information with some but perhaps not others and this is one way to safeguard a message or share it openly without having to also share every detail. 

Many people are more familiar with using the date of your birthday and reducing that numbers of the date into a single digit to arrive at 'Your' number. A lucky number perhaps because that is the date you began this earth walk? 

I am not trying to enlist anyone to believe any single part of this discussion. I am merely sharing what I have discovered about numbers I find fascinating and a way they have been used historically you may not have known about before.

What I do strongly believe is what Nikola Tesla shared about the numbers 3-6-9.

Mathematics was not created. 

​It was discovered. 

My own biggest take away in this expanded understanding of numbers is specifically about the numbers 3 and 5.  Both three and five symbolize CHANGE but here's the magic of this new info . . .THREE is like a catalyst, a little SPARK of change that sets something in motion. FIVE, is MASSIVE or RADICAL CHANGE. . . .

​Share your thoughts about your own relationship with numbers and if you learned in school that mathematics was not created, it was discovered.

Greetings Everyone!

Thanks for stopping by. It feels sooooo good to be back! Can you believe it's 2024 already? It feels to me like there is a quickening in the movement of time. It's been a while . . . but I always knew that the special message to the world I was gifted simply must be released. Honestly, the magnitude of it scared the daylights out of me. I tried. I tried for years actually but it wasn't the right time for this message to gain traction in a big way. I've had plenty of success spreading this message with individual students and small groups for more than ten years now but today I begin this relaunch because 2024 is the Year of REVELATIONS! So, prepare yourself to have your hair blown back and your socks down because the flood gates on what has been hidden from the general public worldwide is not longer coming in drips - the flood gates have opened!

I know I am not alone in feeling like we've all been put thru the wringer in the past couple years. Clearly the entire world has been touched in a way humanity rarely has in history. I don't want to dwell on all the dark parts of that hell fire, I am coming in this time ready and actively reinventing my future. I hope you are too. 
'We're deeper than the sh*t we're in.' Iggy Pop said that and it has lifted me up and carried me thru countless trials and tribulations in my life. Perhaps it will be Good Medicine for you too . . . 

#1 New item - CULTURAL COMPASS RADIO
I've got some exciting news about FIVE #NewFeatures I'll be adding not just to my website here but to a wider audience in the form a brand new podcast - - - Keep an eye out for Cultural Compass Radio. I have already recorded several episodes. I've been sitting on them for a time because I've had to reconcile with my own fears of stepping into this role in a new and very public way. 
I'm no stranger to radio, I have worked on the radio twice in my life. Each time was a unique experience that I enjoyed immensely- one a news commentary format, one a musical format. I always loved the radio. There is something magical about the signal traveling thru the ether and reaching us the world over. 

So yes, the new podcast will continue in the vein of this #GoodNewsRevue blog with examples of was IS working for us and uplifting little nuggets to make you smile. I have always felt there is far more #GoodNews in the world than we have ever been led to believe. Haven't you too wondered while watching the evening news . . . Isn't there any #GoodNews in the world? We certainly haven't had much of that in the main stream media. . . . Friends, we didn't come here to suffer! 

#2NEW ITEM - #ChooseHapiness
To that end, I have been creating many episodes on the new #CulturalCompassRadio podcast and this #GoodNewsRevue called #ChooseHappiness .  I'm super excited about this #2 part of the new content. I think happiness is our natural state and I hope to convince you this is true too as well as give you over 100+1 ways to get back to your happy place in short order.

#3 NEW ITEM - #AnimalMedicine
There will be a continuing thread about #AnimalMedicine in my blog and thru the new radio podcast. #AnimalMedicine comes from the First Peoples of our world - the Native Tribes. The very word 'Medicine' has a different meaning in Native culture. Medicine, can mean actual medicines as we know it, something that heals the body when it is not well but it also means 'a LESSON' or knowledge for mankind to help us live life in a Good Way. 'AnimalMedicine' is a body of knowledge of the Native Peoples of the world that has at its heart individual lessons straight from #GAIA and the natural world including the animals. They believe that if We, humanity, would learn the ways of the animals, we would learn how to better navigate our own lives. There are Native prophecies that said there will be a time in the future when Natives will need to share their knowledge with the rest of the world . . . that time has come. It actually began in 1988 with the Grandmothers of the Seneca Tribe who tasked one dead dear granddaughter named Jamie Sams to gather this knowledge of the animals and share it with the world in book form. I discovered this book in 1988 and have never felt so blessed to have this powerful body of knowledge in my personal tool box. Let me just say at this point that this body of knowledge does not conflict is anyway with my faith in God. It only enhances it for the Lord created it All.

Interestingly humanity already has many examples of #AnimalMedicine across cultures outside of Indian Country. It just isn't called that or actively using the knowledge of the animals. As one example, just ask yourself what comes to mind when you ask yourself what is a characteristic of Horses? Universally, the answer will be 'strength or power'. We literally measure the strength of motors in 'horse power' don't we? Wouldn't you like to learn more about the ways of the animals and how to apply this Medicine to your own life? These are very special teachings because we are literally meeting these animals in real life on a regular basis. The lessons are interactive. I am a firm believer that this is decidedly not random, but put in our path to help us better navigate our own lives and make us look or ask or even as confirmations and warnings.  I feel like these are 'active' lessons because no matter where you live, there will be at least some of the animals, creepy crawlers, winged ones, furry, feathered, 4 or more legged ones like ANTs or HAWKS or CROWS or RAVENS, MICE or SQUIRRELS.  So the #AnimalMedicine is another new addition to my content offering I hope you will enjoy too. 

#4 NEW ITEM - CULTURAL COMPASS
This isn't new, it was gifted to me in a channeling in 1997!  To my great surprise and chagrin, I only LAST NIGHT!!! realized that I received it in a channeling through automatic writing. Thank you #EdHarris . I never considered that 'channeling' can and indeed does happen in this way, by automatic writing. I knew as I wrote it over a period of a month that this information was not mine because it was literally coming THRU me, not from me. I didn't even know exactly what to do with it for some time. I did know that this could be a framework for a powerful new diversity training program, one that is unique in the market. Mind you, diversity training programs in 1997 were basically all oriented to our DIFFERENCES, not how we are more alike - They included information like when in Japan, do not expect your Japanese counterpart or host to shake your hand upon first meeting you, that is not their custom, they bow. I had high hopes of running with this new diversity training model but it wasn't to be. Already wokeism was taking ahold in our American culture and I saw it first in this realm. It immediately became all about the DIFFERENCES (and so reinforced separation amongst people) not the truth that we are more alike than different which would have brought us closer together not further apart. #CulturalCompass didn't even get its name until 2004! And the story of that naming is none other than DIVINE ORDER! I promise to share that story with you all soon on a #CulturalCompassRadio episode.  It was given to me by a mistress of a former US president, one we all know . . . I kid you not. I may even get lucky and be able to have her as a guest on the podcast!
​The Good Lord works in mysterious ways you well know . . .   

I have been journaling for almost 15 years now and I love what I write. It makes me laugh, lifts me up and I love having a record of good & funny things that have happened in my life. I don't as a habit write about negative experiences. I have only once actually. I simply don't want to relive those dramatic and traumatic experiences. Ever notice how it is the negative memories that most deeply ingrained in our memory banks and not the positive memories? Why is that? 

What is new about #CulturalCompass this time around is that I will be speaking and writing about it, not only teaching it. I am going to turn the very notion of #CULTURE on its head. #CULTURE is a verb too you, know. To Culture. as in a laboratory petri dish. But when we think of #Culture as a noun i.e. American Culture or Czech, Russian, Jewish or any other country's #Culture we all seem to think that it is something that simply IS that has evolved over time, not something we can have an active part in creating. I feel the necessity to put this out to the world anew now because the very notion of #CULTURE is under assault and being mortally wounded by a thousand micro-cuts like 'The culture of violence' today or 'Food Culture'.

THIS IS THE REAL MAGIC, I want to talk about - US, ACTIVELY CREATING OUR CULTURES ANEW, ACTUALLY BEING PROACTIVE IN CREATING OUR CULTURE. Are you game?  My reason and drive for #CulturalCompass is for us all to actively create a culture we can be proud of and it starts with 360 degrees of cultural examination and understanding. We are going to use our compasses to navigate this adventure - all 360 degrees of it. Yes, we will take a very deep dive into #Culture and I will prove to you beyond a shadow of a doubt that we, as human beings, no matter where we come from on God's green earth, are more alike than we are different. Period. That fact alone may be a great big huge #REVELATION for you but the real fun starts when we actively use this notion of CREATING our CULTURE.

#5 NEW ITEM - THE CITIZEN WISH LIST
​I have always thought that our system of governance in America needs an additional way for The PEOPLE to communicate our wants and needs with those we have elected to do our bidding. It has to be PUBLIC, where everyone can participate and see it. I even want to include children's voices and have them talk about this in school. I was sick and tired of the empty promises made by them on the campaign trails and then immediately forgot once they were in office. It has reached epidemic proportions at this point. Basically the two-party system isn't working so well at all, we see the same types of users and abusers in government there only serving themselves instead of us! WHO THE HELL DO THEY THINK THEY WORK FOR??? I was possessed with this idea for several years beginning around 2008. You'll remember that year I'm sure. It was the year Bush & Obama crashed the the stock market nearly and housing industry with bad Fanny Mac and Fanny Mae loans clearly. I was living in Florida at the time and my husband and I had a stone masonry business doing the most beautiful natural stone flooring inside and out as well as tilework for kitchens and bathrooms that you've ever seen for $5-10M homes. In 2008 80% of our clients stiffed us. We lost $30,000 in our rent-to-own arrangement to buy the house we were living in in Jacksonville as well as the house. We were financially ruined. I felt so helpless to address any of this and my mind was in overdrive to find a solution to stop this from ever happening again. Hence the #CitizenWishList was born.

One of my personal coping techniques is to turn my personal pain into something useful and beautiful.
THIS was a whole new level in equal measure to the pain because I knew the pain was not only mine. 10's of thousands of people lost homes and businesses because of that swindle!

For two years, I mapped out the topics we need to collectively address as well as a vision for how this national conversation might play out in reality. What I didn't have at that time was a tool to make it happen. In 2010 I moved back to Prague where I had lived before starting in the fall of 1990 just after the Velvet Revolution and the country's first free elections in 40 years. I was about a month into the 3rd or 4th round of my Czech Adventure that a met a Greek man online who gave me the missing link so-to-speak, with an actual tool to make this work.

But I have jumped ahead a bit in this story and I need to share a vital piece of the Citizen Wish List project. For this to be successful, The President of the United States has to buy into this idea and lead it. He's got to speak about it. Of this I was absolutely sure. Leadership, top down must be onboard. The problem was . . .I knew Obama was not the man who would lead this. I knew this in my heart. So I worked on the ground level and talked it up here.

What I never counted on was OTHER COUNTRIES wanting this too and telling me WE NEED THIS every time I spoke about it. I was completely caught off-guard with how many people from around the world were excited about the notion of a #CitizenWishList for THEIR countries! It was snowballing at a rapid pace. I never intended to save the world, I was only trying to help my own country. This is feedback from the PEOPLE not any governmental figures so, we'll see how this all plays out in the future.
Be careful what you ask for . . . 

So my #5 NEW ITEM is relaunching the #CitizenWishList and I can feel with every ounce in my body that NOW is the RIGHT TIME. Thousands of new jobs will be created with the Citizen Wish List just to manage the massive amount of information that will be generated in the starter 9 conversation categories. Another benefit of this upcoming national conversation is that we will put the brakes on good programs getting axed with each new administration. I wanted a way to keep doing what IS working and address the broken bits so We'll see how it all plays out . . .If you like what you've read up to this point, leave a comment . 

Our future is not written.
Hold the Light.
This is a battle for our minds.
We are more powerful than we know.

Many are waking up to this truth.
God wins.  WE win.
Hold the Light.
Act as if it has already come to pass.

Pray for Debt Forgiveness.
Pray for a Debt Jubilee.
Pray for a reset.
Slaves no more.

What we do now is essential.
No one's role is too small.
Do you know how very special you are?
Overcome your fears.

This is how we give up our power.
Hold the Light. 
Dare to dream a new world.
Act as if. Pay no mind to present circumstances.

Focus on general Wellness.
Feed your body.
Fill your thoughts with Goodness.
Act as if.

Be the change you want to see.
Create it with your own consciousness.
Do you have food, shelter, water & love?
You got this. Hold the Light.

Practice an Attitude of Gratitude.
Your thoughts create reality.
You must look head on at the negativity.
Use this as the contrast to create.

What is it? What do you want?
See it. Smell it. Hear it. Feel it.
Imagine it in techni-color detail.
This is your responsibility.
The power is yours.

Never doubt this.
Your will is FREE and
it is very powerful.
Discernment is essential as it is creative focus.

Hold the Light.
​The power is yours.

It's the First Day of Spring . . .

Yes, Respect is Due.

Respect for the earth. Respect for the water. Respect for each other and other peoples' opinions - even if you may not agree with them, and their way of life. This new line of fur clothing and accessories has a story and the moral of the story is Respect Is Due. 

NO new animals were farmed or harmed to create these beauties.

They were created first as a desire to give back to the brave #WaterProtectors on The Great Souix Nation from the #StandingRock reservation. In 2016-17 the YOUTH began a stand, the likes of which we have never seen in our lifetime. They stood up to the big oil company who rerouted the DAPL pipeline onto their reservation and underneath the mighty Missouri River - the primary source of drinking water for 18M people! The oil company did this against and in direct violation of the Treaty of 1861. In case you do not know this, treaties are the highest law of the land. They supercede any local, state or even federal laws.  If you are not in the know about the big oil industry it will be shocking for your to discover their practices of profit over safety for the earth and people.
Pipelines leak. Pipelines leak a lot and companies have an abysmal track record of ignoring this, not cleaning up their messes and lying.

What happened at Standing Rock is nothing short of historic. Unfortunately, this story was not told truthfully in the media.

It began on April 1, 2016. Ironic that it was April Fool's Day but this is no joke considering these seven brave  youth members discussed this amongst themselves. They said 'Why doesn't somebody DO something about this?' Another said, 'Nobody cares about Indian Country.' Then another said, 'Why don't WE do something?' They then went to their elders and discussed the matter with them and told them of their intentions. Their elders agreed the time had come to make a stand. They supported the youth in this effort. Being like most young people today and media savvy, they put out a call to the world for people to come and support them in a peaceful prayerful stand to protect the water, which in the Lakota language is #MniWiconi. A quite amazing thing happened. Over 10,000 people from around the world from as far away as Japan, Sweden & South America came to Stand in Peace against this pipeline.

This angered the oil company and they threw the full weight of their resources behind destroying their protests. They militarized the local police department with weapons no police department should ever have - weapons that are AGAINST GENEVA Conventions! YES, a private for-profit oil company actually used LRADS (a sound weapon), dogs, water cannons, rubber bullets and a host of other evil weaponry against PEACEFUL Water Protectors in AMERICA. It is the single most disgusting abuse of power in America I have ever witnessed.

One day in early fall the police raided the camps. They brought their military vehicles onto the sovereign territory of the Souix reservation and destroyed tipis, confiscated personal & sacred objects from the camp and arrested! a lot of people. I was watching a live video feed that day and was horrified. A few days later I was watching a live feed by Dallas Goldtooth who was driving in his vehicle and talking about this raid. As he was driving down the highway not far from camp he saw a mountain of trash dumped by the side of the road that wasn't there before. As he gets closer he stops and realizes in horror that this was all the the stuff the police had confiscated from the camp. In the mountain of 'trash' dumped by the side of the road he sees their tipis, clothing and many sacred objects - Eagle featherd pipes and prayer sticks. Imagine if you will, the police barging into your church on a Sunday morning, harrassing the parissioners, arresting them for practicing their reliigious rights and then destroying the church and confiscating the crosses, chalices, the icons, the statues of Jesus & the Blessed Virgin Mary. Now if this is not disgusting enough, imagine finding those sacred objects dumped along the side of the road destroyed, uninated & deficated on, just to make sure you got the message that THEY are more powerful than you. This is what happened at #StandingRock that day.

I was so horrified by what I witnessed, my brain started to think of what I could do to help - to show my support against these egregious and illegal acts and maybe return something the the first people of our nation. What began as realizing a long-time wish of creating clothing and accessories with leather turned out in very short order into what you see here . . . the line of RESPECT IS DUE. I never intended to work with fur or enter into a full blown apprenticeship in the fur trade. But this is exactly what happened when I began to look for the leather I wanted. I not only found the leather, I found out that the fur trade has indeed an enourmous number of practices that are hugely disrespectful to the animals- and so I also ended up having materials coming to me from many directions as I shared the story of Standing Rock and what had & still is happening there.

#RespectIsDue.

I want to share just one more thing with you . . . .

In Native & First people's culture around the world part of their teachings are not only about respect for the land, Mother Earth who provides everything we need, but also for each of the animals. They believe that every animal has a lesson for us, for humanity. These lessons are called 'Medicine'. If we observe the ways of the animals, we will learn very important lessons about how to live our own lives.

I have been studying this Medicine since 1988 when a very special woman named Jamie Sams published a book called Animal Medicine. I highly recommend you borrow it from your library or better yet, purchase your own copy from her website HERE:  jamiesamsbooks.com/medicinecards.cfm 

These lessons and this Medicine has literally changed my life for the better more than any other single thing I have ever done. What started as a way to give back to the brave Natives of #StandingRock in some small way what was lost but making a special gift for every one I knew who stood up and took a Stand for what is right and honorable, became an ever greater personal blessing and responsibility for myself to share this story and this Medicine with a wider audience outside of Indian country.  I have come to realize this is a huge opportunity for a teaching moment in history. It is my way of giving back. Giving back and honoring the sacred Native ways of the eagle, the otter, the fox, linx, bobcat, rabbit, beaver, Jamie Sams for her contribution to the world, the youth from Stand Rock and those who came to stand with them and most importantly, the water.

We are All Related. You can't drink oil. #WaterIsLIFE

I do not have endless supplies of material to work with to create these clothing and accessories.
If after checking out my slideshow of most of the things I have created and you are interesed is purchasing something, please contact me directly via feedback to this post for any information about special orders, pricing or just to comment.

Don't you just love to get good mail? You may remember the mail that you could actually hold in your hand, came in an envelope with a postage stamp and was delivered by the postman? Most people's mailbox never sees anything more exciting these days than monthly bills or flyers for weekly sales at your drug store or super market. The simple joy of receiving 'good mail' from a thoughtful friend or relative brings a special kind of recognition that you are loved.

To that end I have created a line of #GoodMail with all original art for note cards, greetings cards and postcards to share the love. Available in 2 sizes of Note Cards & Greeting Cards and box sets of 10 & 20.

If you would like to purchase some #GoodMail  just click on the individual item in the slideshow and it will take you directly to the site that manufactures these.  There are two different sites that actually make them. You will also see a number of different ways these designs are used on other products so feel free to browse, comment and shop.

Don't forget to check for special sale prices and discounts for multiple purchases.
Find the DISCOUNT CODE on the individual sales pages.

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ALL ORIGINAL DESIGNS YOU WON'T FIND IN ANY STORE OR AROUND THE WEB - ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE.
ALL PROCEEDS SUPPORT Further GOOD WORKS OF THE CULTURAL COMPASS INSTITUTE PROGRAMS . . .

                                                   To purchase click on individual item.

*These products are manufactured by two different companies so don't be surprised if you click on different items and a second site opens*

It's a word I realized recently we rarely hear or even see any more. 

I'd like to bring some dignity into our collective consciousness. Won't you help make this a reality?

Dignity can only exist where there is also RESPECT.

​Respect is Due.   Pass it on . . . .

 
This is a Public Service Announcement.

It is time to wake up and realize your own personal power. No matter what negativity your life may have at this very moment, nor what horrors you have experienced in the past, it is absolutely possible to transform it into a life you LOVE from this point forward. This I promise you. 

Invest the next 18 minutes and 37 seconds into the beginning of this transformation.
​Listen in to this TEDx Talk recently by the amazing Mary Morrissey.  
It's called The Hidden Code For Transforming Dreams Into Reality .
Do share your thoughts in the comments below afterwards. 

It's time to tell the story. High time. 

The story of Native peoples, their TRUE story is just now beginning to be told, not by others this time, but by Natives themselves. 
And it is one of beauty and oh, so much pain . . .We have so much to learn from them.

​If you have seen Rise, Red Power or other documentaries, give us your thoughts . . .

I am sharing this recent interview from Democracy Now! with two indigenous women filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival this year.

Published on Feb 28, 2017 http://democracynow.org - We speak with the filmmakers behind RISE, a new VICELAND series that examines indigenous resistance past and present, from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation’s resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline to “Red Power,” which looks at past indigenous resistance and the evolution of the Red Power Movement. Michelle Latimer is a Toronto based filmmaker, programmer, actor and activist of Métis and Algonquin descent; and Sarain Carson-Fox is an Anishinaabe artist, activist and the host of the series. The RISE series airs on Fridays at 9pm EST.

A powerful and moving  official trailer for this upcoming documentary film of the same name - More Than A Pipeline.  

So absolutely cross-culturally aware, Filmmaker, Robert Bridgeman literally lives his name. This film so eloquently bridges the culture and commonalities of positive path.   

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 Hello My Relatives,

I have been away from this blog these past three months because I have been focusing on a very important development from Indian Country across my other social media platforms. Literally every single day since the last week of August unbelievale events have been happing at #StandingRock - both beautiful and horrid.
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 If you have not yet heard what is happening with the original inhabitants or our country - on the Standing Rock Souix Tribal lands in South Dakota, I am not entirely surprised. There has been a virtual media blackout of the absolutely historic events going on there which began on April 1st.
 
This is a peaceful spiritual battle for the protection of our waters, specifically Lake Oahe and the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers. Every day begins with prayer & ceremony for the water and for the oil company too that they will see that this must change. It began in the most beautiful of ways . . .the Indigeonous Youth of the Youth Council of the Souix Nation were sitting around early this year and talking amongst themselves about this pipeline project and saying, 'Whay doesn't someone DO SOMETHING about this???' Then they said, 'Hey, Why don't WE do something?' They then went to speak to their elders about this. The elders wholeheartedly supported them in taking this stand because #WaterIsLIFE . This is the basis of their cultural beliefs. 

This is in no way an issue that touches or effects only the Souix Indians. They have taken a stand for the protection of these waters - 'For as long as it takes'  - the primary source of drinking water for 18M people in the United States against an oil company trying to build a 1200mile pipeline thru their lands and under their waters. 

For non-natives to fully understand the context of this epic story and history in the making, a couple things must be clear . .  . We ARE water. Our bodies are literally more water than anything else . . .

​Our waters are seriously in danger. You also may not know this because of the corporate greed and level of media manipulation regarding reporting on this.

Do not worry so that these numbers differ some. You get the point, I hope!  What's more, when we are still in the womb, we are 100% water! Throughout our lives we lose more & more water down to approximately 60%.

Please understand also, that Peace is not passive. Peace will not back down. The  #WaterProtectors as they call themselves, are not protestors but PROTECTORS of the water, what natives believe to be the 'first medicine' and source of life.  It is the very core of the belief system. 

The map above depicts exactly what has been quietly or not so quietly happening around our country for the past few years. YES, the level is shocking . . . .
Worse, these pipelines are built along fault lines, major damns & aquafers. 



The force with which this specific pipeline company, CEO Kelcy Warren and Energy Transfer Partners has met with the peaceful resistance is horrifyingly overwhelming and against the law in a staggering number of ways. Worse, this is SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for these companies and cozy politicos across the globe. The arrogance and path of destruction behind them is mind numbing. 

Just to bring you up to speed, The governor of South Dakota (a total patsy for big oil and decidedly NOT the citizens of his own state, has mobilized the National Guard (at tax payer expense against Americans). The pipeline company has a private militia there which has deliberately driven 20 miles out of its way to bulldoze sacred burial lands and use all of this military hardware against the #WaterProtectors in the most sadistic way. The State, Morton County Police Force and the private militia of Energy Transfer Partners is equiped with TANKS, MRAPs, Concussion GRENADES, WATER CANNONS (used in sub-zero temperatures), SOUND WEAPONS, RUBBER BULLETS, TEAR GAS, BATONS (used with abandon) DOG KENNELS (for prisoners, not dogs), ATTACK DOGS, HELICOPTERS, CHEMICAL-SPRAYING PLANES, SNIPERS, AGENT PROVOCATEURS, ELECTRONIC JAMMING DEVICES & SOULESS THUGS shooting PRAYERFUL YOUTH & ELDERS, MEDICS, JOURNALISTS in the FACE,  IN the BACK.

This is a movement, the likes of which this country has not been seen in more than 150 years! Perhaps EVER because it is not only the 420 Indian Nations of our country coming to the aid of the #StandingRock Souix, but literally First Peoples from all of Turtle Island, all over the globe AND non'natives from the entire world.  

This is a historic STAND. 

You can't drink OIL. 

What is being addressed at #StandingRock is a shift back to a more healthy path, a RESPECT for the life-giving properties of our planet and a demand that new decision-making criteria be immediately implemented.

That it is simply NOT OK to endanger the primary source of drinking water for 18M people. 
NO Corporation has that right. 

The numbers at the camp have grown from a group of 7 youth council members to 10,000 at its peak in just eight months. Winters in the Dakotas is cruel, it is not for everyone but new re-enforcements have just arrived. A beautiful turn of events and prayers answered. 4,000 VETERANS have shown up from the four directions to lend their support.  They began immediately by being a human buffer between the private & government terrorists and the unarmed #WaterProtectors .

They got down on their knees. 4,000 Veterans of The United States of America, lead by Wesley Clark, Jr., got down on their knees and they asked the Tribe for foregiveness for the sins of their grandfathers and elders before them who commited past wrongs against the First People, for their own racism, for the lack of respect shown by them towards the WWII Native Code Talkers. It was the most beautiful amazing plublic healing I have ever witnessed in my life . . .and the HEALING of our past and co-creation of our future continues. We need YOU because democracy is an audience participation sport!

​Stay tuned. There is soooo much more to this story . . . .  #WaterIsLIFE

#DefundDAPL
#NODAPL
​#MniWiconi

ENJOY
If you need to put a smile on your face today, check out these humorous memes on our Pinterest Board "Thinks that Make Me Smile'.  You'll be glad you did. Here's the link :  
https://www.pinterest.com/culturalcompass/things-that-make-me-smile/ 

Have a look around. There is another board titled: 'Things That Make Me Laugh''
Find it HERE:
https://www.pinterest.com/culturalcompass/things-that-make-me-laugh/

ENJOY!  Tell us which ones put the biggest smile on your face today.

If you've ever doubted that one individual can make a difference, fear not. YOU are one of the most powerful transmitters in the universe and together, WE, can sort out all the things in our world that are not working quite right. True, we have a monumental task before us, but truth and love will prevail.

Thanks for stopping by again. After last week's posts I hope you all are sharing your Citizen Wishes.
Just click on the "CITIZEN WISH LIST tab on this website. You can answer each category individually from here.

Forgiveness is golden . . . Share a little kindness. It's contagious. 

 The #CitizenWishList Project is about finding the common ground across political parties and dare I say, in spite of them sometimes. There is a whole lotta common ground we are not maximizing for positive change, friends. I aim to prove this to you, with your help of course.
The #CitizenWishList is not only about WISHES but also collecting REAL EXAMPLES of what IS working.
The reasoning behind this is simple. Not everything is broken even though the system may pain us in ways we feel powerless to change. We actually ARE doing some things right.

Let's make sure we keep doing those things that ARE working.  
More than that, let's duplicate those REAL EXAMPLES as often as possible, wherever possible.

So here are the first statistics about WISHES  & REAL EXAMPLES in the initial conversation categories. 
I will only discuss the breakdown of these two things in this blog post.
I do not want to significance of tracking these two items to get lost as this adventure grows legs. . .

Please keep two things in mind as you read this.
     1. These are the very first responses. 
     2. The number of participants will continue to grow and these numbers will change AND the conversations will go deeper and deeper and each category will divide into multiple sub-category conversations about more & more specific things.

Remember too that YOU have the power to make this happen first by participating yourself, and secondly by sharing this #CITIZENWISHLIST Project with as many people as you can. We even want to hear from children. Afterall, this is for THEM as well as all the children for seven generations to come. 
Let's be good caretakers in the present in such a way we not only have a WAY to participate , but DO make good decisions about the future. So, having said all that, here are the first stats from the Citizen Wish list Project . . .

1.  #CWL4WORK
50% of participants shared WISHES for something they would like to see.
50% of the participants share REAL EXAMPLES of what is working regarding any aspect of WORK.
Hmm, interesting.
If you listen to the media today, one might expect the numbers sharing WISHES to be higher.
Great news is that 50% did not.

2. #CWL4FAMILY
57% shared WISHES for good family relations in any way that the democratic system helps or hinders us.
43% shared REAL EXAMPLES of good family relations.
A sign of a healthy population might show far more real examples of what IS working instead of wishes for improvements. More than half did not do that with these initial stats. 
The good news is NEARLY half of the respondents did share GOOD EXAMPLES of what is working for them regarding Family and all points of our democracies that touch family life.

3. #CWL4EDUCATION
71% share WISHES for something different they would like to see.
29% shared REAL EXAMPLES of what IS working regarding education in all its forms.
This is a sad example of reality today. Woe is us. The educational system is showing visible signs of wear & tear. The good news is almost 1/3 of the respondents are showing us examples of HOW.

4. #CWL4TheENVIRONMENT
50% of respondents shared WISHES.
50% shared REAL EXAMPLES of what IS working with regards to The ENVIRONMENT.
Frankly, I'm pleasantly surprised by this split. The glass is half full but half is not good enough for me.
Is doing something half well good enough for YOU? It's not like we've got another planet we can move to.
Be kind to your Mother.

5. #CWL4HEALTHCARE
72% have WISHES :  (
28% shared REAL EXAMPLES of what we are doing right with healthcare.
No surprises here. We NEED to do better here. Let's put our heads together. Almost one third of the participants are showing us success stories in healthcare. Let's duplicate those things and expand on them.

6. #CWL4CRIME&PUNISHMENT
71+% have WISHES.
29% have REAL EXAMPLES of what IS working well about security.
Crime & punishment really boil down to security, don't you think?
We are really not doing too good in this department. More than 70% of the people are not satisfied.
We can do better.

7. #CWL4PR&TheMEDIA
 Nearly ALL respondents gave REAL EXAMPLES of how to have good communications :  )
They could have shared WISHES, but they didn't. Remember, these are just the first responders. (That was not a typo. I meant to say first responders because that's what they are. They care enough about the future we create for their grandchildren to act now.) This also means we will surely see this percentages shift as more people participate in the process and learn to use this new tool. 


8. #CWL4MONEY
54% have WISHES,
46% shared REAL EXAMPLES about MONEY & good fiscal policy, be it personal finances or any part of that as it relates to how our democracies deal with money.
We could certainly move towards more REAL EXAMPLES than WISHES but I was again pleasantly surprised by so many REAL EXAMPLES! 

So that's the breakdown of WISHES & REAL EXAMPLES in this first look at the statistics for the Citizen Wish List Project. My next post will discuss statistics about what kind of people are participating and why there were some odd control questions.
I hope this post is not only interesting for you but useful.

Perhaps you are wondering why all the hashtags (#s) and capital letters. . . .
This is the way the internet works. Hashtags make information easier to find on the internet. It is also easier for us to manage the conversation categories by building in some organization from the beginning.
As for all the capital letters . . .Until more people learn about this new tool for participating in the democratic process, we need to get everyone familiar with the parts. No shouting necessary.  I know this isn't perfect. If I 
waited for a perfect version it would be too late for us to save the day . . .

To begin using the #CITIZENWISHLIST      Click HERE. 

To speak up is not enough for me otherwise the best I can hope for is only a clarification of any problem.
I subscribe to the Dale Carnegie school of business - 'Speak up about a problem but also offer a possible solution.'
If you want to know why, read the short page on The Cultural Compass Institute website WHY #CWL . 
To add to that 'why' I'll add that I believe at this time in history, the 21st century, We the People, are intelligent enough, educated enough, caring enough, & technologically savvy enough to solve any problem we set our sights on with a peaceful resolution. What's more, for the first time in history, we have tools to have an actual conversation about this in an adult way; openly, honestly and all at the SAME TIME !

We need a new way to engage in the democratic process.  

I have already dedicated five years of my life to this purpose. I am committed  for the duration to convincing YOU this is a reasonable way to participate in creating the democracy we deserve. . . a way to make #TheVoiceofThePeople audible.  Really, what kind of world do you want your children and great grandchildren to grow up in? We are creating it today.
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This is where you begin to make your #CitizenWish come true :  Citizen Wish List 

This is a social experiment.
YOU are the 99%, start acting like it.

The Citizen Wish List Project is a new tool to participate in the democratic process.
Think about it for a minute . . .how do we participate in the process now?
We vote. How's that working?
We write letters to our representatives. Have you lately? Have you ever?
We write, share, & sign petitions. That works sometimes. 
We talk about it all the time with each other. Really, what does THAT help?
It's time for each and every one of us to take a vested interest in the this to make some adjustments.

This is a new tool and a platform to move the millions of dinner table, coffeehouse and talk radio conversations going on every day to a place we can ALL be a part of them and vote these ideas up or down with a collective voice to define & implement what it is we REALLY need. 

There is more common ground here Friends & Neighbors than we are being led to believe exists. 

Transparency NOW. Let's do this together. Peacefully. Respectfully. Of the people, By the people.
Let's make decisions so good that seven generations down the road into the future, our Grandchildren will say 'Thank You for being good caretakers and standing up for the things that matter'.

These are Global, Continental, State, Regional & Local conversation starters in eight initial categories which are common to all human beings.

The categories are:  
WORK, FAMILY, EDUCATION, The ENVIRONMENT, HEALTHCARE, CRIME & PUNISHMENT, COMMUNICATIONS & MONEY .

Good ideas and examples of what IS working will rise to the top and IF, only IF we do this with a critical mass of participants, our collective voice cannot be ignored.

Do It NOW.  Let's do this together. We are the 99%. 

START the #CitizenWishList   NOW.