Aggie's Rest

04/11/2024

It's been a really busy week so and the weekend is going to be as well. Got some seed starting done today on the lanai during a rainstorm. It was beautiful! My favorite thing to do in the evenings is watch a nice film and embroider. Have a wonderful evening! Love you, Sher

04/03/2024

I believe I'll get back to posting. Here in Florida, I have great internet, and life is settling down. More importantly, my wonderful family and family of friends who give me great joy. Much to share, stories to tell, life to live. Will include a few photos as I go along. Love you all, Sher

06/05/2022

Very interesting, and growing in my backyard. Love you all, Sher

10/26/2021

Soaking grains--using less energy. Working smarter not harder used to be the motto at the farm. Well now, it is still mine--rocks are hard. Ask a child working in a sulphur mine if hard work pays. Insane notion.
Yesterday I ran the gamut from Bible to farm to forgiveness, gratitude and grace to accountability while throwing in a cartoon and a reference to Dr. Joe Dispenza's (fb wouldn't allow me to edit the spelling of his name on yesterday's post) incomparable work.
The takeaway actually requires little work. Meditate, pray, get answers, declare intentions, follow through which leads to my title. Yes, soaking grains overnight or for several hours at least lessens cooking time and energy-fuel use. You can do it with beans also and nuts. If I soak walnuts overnight, drain, and rinse, I can eat them without risk of canker sores--and their texture is marvelous!
All of this requires less fuel and cooking-plus less cooking water--and these are small things each of us can do to make a difference, and we can because there is an awful lot of each of us!
What else can we do? Itty bitty things to improve our health and well-being. The biggest even just one minute of no thought, just breath and work up to more moments. We need to be relaxing without phone in hand or near our heads.
I was at a play in Oberlin, Ohio 3 summers ago before covid and looked around. I'd already turned off my phone off and had put it away and noticed nearly everyone in the theater was looking like monkeys fixated flicking their thumbs on an object of great interest instead of quietly conversing with each other awaiting the dimming of the lights and rise of the curtain. I though to myself, laughing to myself at the sight, has the world gone mad?
Well, part of it has. Decorum, civility, boundaries severely breached. It's up to us to do a re-do. Soak it in, see what we can each do as our part to broach the breaches to make things better. Sometimes, breeches are involved. (folks, decorum.)
Soak those grains, rinse, look at alternatives, perspectives--look beyond instant gratification to see long term sometimes disastrous effects of great harm.
And make a nice pan of real Southern cornbread without sugar to go with those beans and rice. Love you all, Sher

10/25/2021

Well, Lordy, y'all who have known me for a while know that my last couple of decades have been filled with the trials and tribulations only the likes of Job have known. If you have no familiarity with the Bible, it is basically from good to bad to best for the fellow who keeps on keeping on.
I just got up from a meditation. One of Dr. Joe Dispensa's. Now hear this: All of those t and t's I mentioned? Fodder for my upcoming YouTube videos, writings and books. Folks have been telling me for years to make videos after hearing me tell one of my stories and I leave them laughing and uplifted with a little measure of grit for them to have more power and to use their own voices in their lives--gain a new perspective on a situation or situations and as Sarah O says: "There we have it."
You see, the powers of forgiveness and gratitude join forces like all the Superheroes combined with The Force--and by Grace. I must quote "May the Fourth be with us," from Dark Wing Duck who strikes again and commands all good be mine--ours!
May Day, and the first Saturday and May the 6th be all holy days henceforth forevermore. Why? My ex husband and I met on the first Saturday of May that year, May 4, at an arts and crafts festival--a real kismet story I'll save for a later date. We married on the first Saturday in May that year, May 6, and mean-nest mean of all, circumstances forced me to sign away my interest May 6, 2021 in the farm at my kitchen table at the former home of my beloved Aggie's Rest. And to top that off, his little girlfriend called for a special prayer time that day at my beloved church to "increase the positive energy there" prior to its reopening. I kid you not! Truth is much stranger than fiction, wouldn't you say?
I'm shaking my head and chuckling right now, because I'm not having to wear my hip waders to deal with the bull puckey anymore! Hallelujah! Amen!
Now, let's get on our prayer caps or positive thinking if prayer is out of your activity spectrum and:
"You will declare a thing and it will be established for you;
So light will shine on your ways." Job 22:28
Our words are power are powerful, and so are our actions. Just be sure the means and ends are consistent. And sometimes you have to hold folks accountable for their words and actions. The light bulb moment will occur!
The situation cost me years of my life that now will benefit me. One of my friends here in Florida, after hearing of just a tip of the iceberg agreed that I should be able rest on my laurels for this and several lifetimes and should never have to work again. for all that I did for the folks up there. Hmmm. Is writing and talking work? Love you all, Sher

10/17/2021

Florida. Ah, and the lovely times I've had here, the memories. Even the memories I have with my ex husband who has many challenges.
Those lovely memories--happy times--starry walks on the beach, dancing the night away at my Ocean Child's wedding, being literally swept off my feet to protect them from shells.
Then the memories of beautiful times near Asheville, NC with family and grandchildren. The mysteries of the wonderful places we experienced in England--Stonehenge, Glastonbury--where Arthur and Guinevere are said to be buried. and the magic that happened in our lives with things being paid for unexpectedly from unexpected sources.
And the promises of more wonderful times to come when all the devastating problems that arose (see previous posts!) were resolved.
Oh, the unkept promises of yesterday's tomorrows.
Now, I am keeping those promises to myself! And the magic comes every day. People, places, things, all come to me that feed my soul and make my heart sing!
The next trip to the UK will be a Magical Mystery Tour that includes family, elements of my currently-being-proofread book, and my life long love of a certain British band. And a tour of some gardens that I missed on the last trip, of course!
Let's wrap this up with 5 yoga poses for sleep:
1. child's pose
2. forward fold
3. bear hug once, alternate arm on top
4. figure four once, alternate sides
5. twist knees bent side to side a couple of times--I call it windshield washer knees.
If you need to look them up they should be easy to find with these names.
Videos to come soon with my hints and well, some of my Southern woman musings.....
Love you all, Sher
Florida sky meets water, Me, ready for work

09/26/2021

Have a blessedly beautiful Sunday. Time for self care and relaxation! Love you all, Sher

Me as a 9 year old, surrounded by recipes on the stand my Ocean Child made for me when she was 8.

09/25/2021

Donald Gordon Fraley. Musician. Enjoy!

"A song dedicated to global peace and a permanate cease fire" (Keys,Guitar,Bass &Vocals/DON FRALEY) (Percussion /BOB BOLLINGER) Wolverine Music DON FRALEY

09/24/2021

On being an Empath. What is an Empath? So far it looks as though 15-20% of the population has this trait. High Sensory Processing Sensitivity.
Though in reading about it most points to loud noises, sights, and such, What it truly means goes deeper into processing emotions and feeling the undercurrents of them from others, sometimes even taking on other's emotions, pain, or physical ailments. There are levels, degrees, what have you. The abilities are nearly endless. At least in my case.
I see, feel, and understand people, and the energy they exude-emotions basically. Which, is kind of humorous as one of my favorite quotes is from Tesla: " If you wish to understand the universe, think energy, frequency, and vibration."
As I learn about these things, I have come to understand myself more fully. All my life choices make sense-sense that I understand why I made them-not that they were necessarily the wisest choices.
When you can look back and say, of. I get it-and I get the lesson contained in the whatever it was. We'll call the cumulation of lessons gifts. Very expensive to me gifts.
One of the attributes I have is the gift of helping people get their 'mojo' back whether directly, or steering them toward their personal gifts or answers.
My choice in men to marry? Projects, every one (story for another day's post!) Suffice it to say I gave my Ocean Child my word: no more men as projects. (BTW, Charlie was complete-no project there-he'd done his life's work-now he's a marvelous protective angel. (See earlier posts.)
And, the energy in the realm he is in is the one Anita Moorjani (Sensitive is the New Strong) experienced during her NDE with her father.
I was blessed. Charlie shared his dying experience with me and that realm as well. It is the most wonderful thing in the world to get a glimpse of the Cosmos in moments of transcending the physical. More another day. Love you all, Sher
Another BTW-That's a play on words: Love you all share! We all share--pass it along!
Also see Judith Orloff, MD for more information on Empaths
"Empaths Survival Guide" among many others. Check both she and Anita Moorjani out online for more information and understanding--if you are reading me, you may be an Empath.