Sisters of the Valley

12/08/2025

A regular user of our natural pain relief products checks in with her review. Thank you, Wendy! ❤️

12/08/2025

We live in the mouth of the dragon. Very profound.

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12/08/2025

Your monday morning Mettie meme! Solstice is coming.

12/08/2025

Does anyone else feel like the early winter darkness hits harder the older we get? It never bothered me as much as it has this year, and so I went looking . . .

Here’s what the scientists say:

1. Our internal clocks get less flexible with age. The brain has a tiny center that keeps time — the suprachiasmatic nucleus — and like everything else, it ages. In youth, it adjusts like a gymnast.
In our 50s, 60s, and 70s? More like an old farmer who does NOT appreciate being woken up at the wrong hour. So the earlier sunsets hit harder, the mood dips come quicker, and the sluggishness settles in deeper.

2. Our eyes literally take in less light. Even with perfect vision prescriptions, our pupils get smaller as we age, and the lenses let in less bright light. So the world isn’t just darker — it actually looks darker to us than to younger people. This has a real impact on mood, energy, and circadian rhythm.

3. Melatonin and serotonin shift. As we age, we start producing melatonin earlier in the day (hello 7 PM sleepiness), and our serotonin — our “feel decent” chemical — becomes more sensitive to light changes. Winter reduces both.

4. We tend to spend more time indoors. Cold weather + aging joints + long darkness = fewer trips outside. Less sunlight means:
• lower vitamin D
• lower mood resilience
• higher inflammation
• and that sense of being “pulled inward” whether we want it or not.

5. Age brings reflection (which darkness amplifies). Winter makes us contemplative anyway, but aging makes it even more so — we feel the cycles more deeply, the transitions more sharply. The early darkness can stir up memory, introspection, even a touch of existential melancholy. It’s normal. It’s human.

The good news? Older adults respond BETTER to the remedies than younger folks.

• A light therapy lamp for 10–20 minutes in the morning works wonders.
• Any exercise, even a short walk outside, even on a cloudy day, resets the brain.
• Warm indoor lighting boosts mood.
• Rituals — like fire circles, candlelighting, prayer beads, or a cup of something warm — help anchor the spirit against the seasonal tilt.

So if you’ve been feeling like the darkness is hitting harder this year… you’re not alone, and you’re not imagining it. You’re just human, aging beautifully and biologically, in a season that asks us to slow down and turn inward.

Be gentle with yourselves out there. We’re all walking each other toward the light of the solstice.

12/07/2025

The Spirit of Christmas, Mettie style.

12/07/2025

We lost 2,403 Americans on Pearl Harbor Day, 97% of which were military. Then, Japan lost over 150,000 of their people by the end of 1945 from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that year. The % of the population Japan lost that were military was roughly 10%. So their strike cost us 3% in civilian deaths and our strike cost them 90% in civilian deaths. We lost 2,400 people and our retribution plan cost them 62 times that in casualties.

History books call these acts 'retribution', but the scale tells a different story, doesn't it? Pearl Harbor was a military strike. The retribution course was not; atomic bombs erased entire cities of families, elders, children, workers, and students.

This isn’t about blame—it’s about clarity. When we look honestly at what happened, the myth of tit-for-tat justice collapses. War always punishes civilians first, worst, and longest. And we still haven’t learned that lesson.

12/07/2025

All batches hand-made, by the cycles of the moon, in the medicine-making kitchen on the land where we live, work and pray.

12/06/2025

Hey you all, facebook is shadow-banning again, while claiming they are not. Smash the like button or share our page and ask others to do the same. It's a small act of resistance, but we would appreciate it. Also, they are not showing our posts in your feed like they did before November 25th, the day they made a pay-out to us. So do interact, like something, like the page, hate something, the interaction will make our stuff pop back up in your feed. You don't want to miss a Mettie Meme, do you? (Hint: Laughter is medicine.)

12/06/2025

Can anyone look at this chart and tell me if there is any other conclusion one can draw other than the fact that it is wise to abandon Instagram and Facebook and put all one's business social equity into Tik Tok?

I mean, what else can be concluded, from these numbers. The video in question is the one where Sister Hilda asked me if I had any relationship advice for the young and I said, 'yes, or***ms will make you stupid'. That's the video. Is it the content or the platform? Must I run more tests?

12/06/2025

Friday night in Mettieville. It just happened to be . Maybe you all won't find this funny, but I find it to be hilarious on many levels, but then, I hear the chatter that inspires these memes.