Thursday Thirteen - In Honor of Mother’s Day

Thirteen things I did not get from my mother.  1.  Protection - My mother did not protect me.  I was physically and sexually abused. 2.  Listen - My mother did not listen to me.  I told her about abuse that was happening, and she did nothing.  3.  Comfort - When I was hurt or sick, my mother never comforted me.  My mother would pull away from me when I tried to hug her.  4.  Honesty - My mother did not tell me the truth.  My mother was a compulsive liar.  She never told the truth, even when the truth would have been easier to tell. 5.  Knowledge - Knowledge of women stuff (hormones, sex, menstruation), you name it, my mother did not talk about it. 6.  Cooking - I always wanted to cook.  My mother never let me in the kitchen to try cooking.  7.  Possessions and food - My mother would not let me have what my siblings had, unless they had the chance to choose first.     8.  Support - My mother did not support me in anything that I did.  She did not go to plays, events, anything that had to do with me.  My mother is excellent at giving criticism.  I got lots of that. 9.  Religion - My mother practiced a warped version of Catholicism.  She tried to give me this one.  No thanks, I will pass on this one. 10.    Family - Because we lived in an abusive household, loyalty was expected, even if you were having the shit kicked out of you.  It was “the family” against the big bad world.  11.  House cleaning/ clutter - On the outside, our house looked very nice.  On the inside,  ohh baby, let me tell you, it was another story all together.  12.  Being true to yourself - Materialism, that in a word is what my mother was all about.  Labels, appearances, what other people think, being the best, being the richest, whatever, and if you were not you would lie about it.  My mother was all about keeping up appearances at all cost.  How you truly feel, and what you truly believe did not matter.  13.  Love - My mother did not teach me about love.  In fact, my mother often told me that she hated me and wished that I had never been born.  My mother blamed me for any and all problems in our family, and for problems she had with my dad.  So to summarize:  If you want to be a good mother, just give your child everything that I did not get.

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Thirteen Things About My Dog Cosmo

Thirteen Things about My Dog Cosmo.Here he is, on my bed watching T.V.  with his ball.     I think he is irritated with me for disturbing him!!!    1.  He loves me unconditionally 2.  His favorite movie is Uptown Girls with Brittany Murphy in it.  I think his real favorite actor is the Pig - Moo! 3.  He loves to watch TV. 4.  He hates the “Empire Today” commercials.  The ones where they sing that awful song “call 1-800 empire…”.  He hates this commercial so bad, that he literally attacks the T.V.  Who said Dogs couldn’t work in Marketing? 5.  He howls every time I say my nieces name. 6.  His favorite toy is his Blue Ball. 7.  His favorite pastime is to look out the window and watch the birds and the squirrels. 8.  He may only be a little dog, but his protective bark makes him sound like a German Shepard. 9.  He is a Lhasa Apso.    About the Breed:  Taken from http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/lhasaapso.htm  The land of Tibet was the home of the Lhasa Apso - the breed taking its name from the sacred city of Lhasa. For at least two thousand years the breed was only bred in Tibet by holy men and nobles. It was used as a watchdog in temples and monasteries, and was considered sacred, for when its master died, his soul was thought to enter the Lhasa Apso’s body. Although they were thought to bring good luck to their owners, Lhasa Apsos were virtually impossible to buy. Happily these very precious dogs, and the equally prized Tibetan Terrier, spread to other parts of the world, mainly because the Dalai Lama. Tibet’s ruler would present them to visiting foreign diplomats. The breed was first seen in Britain in the 1920’s and was introduced to the US in the 1930’s. 10.  He has a rather large arsenal of tricks:  He can give hugs, catch and toss a ball, sit, shake, give 5, on the side, in the hole, and he has soul!  Just to name a few. 11.  When I am at Jehara’s flat, if he sits on her beautiful ivory rug from West Elm he totally blends in, and I often trip over him. 12.  He is my little protector! 13.  I love him with all my heart!

 

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Thursday Thirteen Think Pink

Thirteen Things about pink and neon pink.  Okay, this one is for my sister.  We were doing these writing exercises, and one of them was:  What do you do when you are in a Neon Pink Mood?  I never read mine to my sister so I am going to write it here today.  I love you sis! I miss you sis!!!!  Why do you live so far away from me???????      1.  When I am in a neon pink mood, I love to chew Hubba Bubba Pink Bubble Gum, or Bublicious Bubble Gum!   2.  When I am in a neon pink mood I hop into my neon pink Mercedes convertible with my neon pink flamingo and I drive to my neon pink cabana at my beach with the neon pink sand where I lay under a neon pink palapa on my neon pink lounge chair while my cabana boy dressed in neon pink pants brings me a neon pink strawberry daiquiri.   Ooh  awwww  I am now blind from the brightness of the neon pink.  3.  Bright pink is the energy color I send to people with strong white light when my friends are feeling down on themselves.  I send my love energy on a neon pink cloud.  I think neon pink helps to get their attention.  4.  Sometimes I surround myself with a pink bubble while I meditate with Rose Quartz.  5.  Sometimes I am tickled neon pink when I hear about the exploits of my very mischievous niece. 6.  When I drink too many margaritas I see neon pink elephants. 7.  If you want to see a Neon Pink tank…   click here:  http://www.aleksandramir.info/projects/pinktank/pinktank.html 8.  Pink is the color of universal love. Lovers of beauty favor pink. A pink carnation means “I will never forget you”. 9.  Pink is a combination of red and white. The quality of energy in pink is determined by how much red is present. White is the potential for fullness, while red helps you to achieve that potential. Pink combines these energies. Shades of deep pink, such as magenta, are effective in neutralizing disorder and violence. Some prisons use limited deep pink tones to diffuse aggressive behaviour. 10.  Pink provides feelings of caring, tenderness, self-worth, love, acceptance, calm feelings, relaxation, acceptance, contentment. 11.  Reebok makes a neon pink shoe!  Please get me a pair of these for my birthday!   he he he he   12.  Using Pink: Both red and pink denote love but while red is hot passion, pink is romantic and charming.  Use pink to convey playfulness (hot pink flamingos) and tenderness (pastel pinks).  Multiple shades of pink and light purple or other pastels used together maintain the soft, delicate, and playful nature of pink.  Add strength with darker shades of pinks and purple and burgundy. 13.  Pink is the universal color of Love, which makes it a perfect feng shui color to soothe the energy.  Its gentle and delicate feng shui vibrations have a proven soothing effect on one’s behavior.  You could almost say that, as a feng shui color, Pink literally soothes the heart and fills it with love!

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13 of My Favorite Goddesses

Thirteen of My Favorite Goddesses 1.  Kuan Yin - Goddess of Compassion.  Exerpt from Goddess & Heroines by Patricia Monaghan  Just as Catholic Christianity has provided an antidote to pure theological patriarchy by encouraging the reverence of the Virgin Mary, so Chinese Buddhism evolved a feminine bodhisattva, or Buddha-to-be, named Kuan Yin. And just as Mary captured the hearts of Catholic worshipers, so Kuan Yin far outstripped the male bodhisattvas in popularity. Both in Japan (as Kwannon, who is often pictured as male) and in pre-revolutionary China, this semidivine being was honored in virtually every home; she was the most powerful being in the entire Chinese pantheon. It was said that Kuan Yin was so concerned for humanity that, upon receiving enlightenment, she chose to retain human form rather than transcend it as pure energy. And so she would stay until every single living creature attained enlightenment. Her name translates “she who hears the weeping world”; Kuan Yin sat on her paradise island P’u T’o Shan answering every prayer addressed to her. The mere utterance of her name in prayer was said to assure salvation from physical and spiritual harm. Even better was the observance of Kuan Yin’s own testimony of peace and mercy; her most devout worshipers ate no flesh and lived entirely without doing violence to other beings.  **************  2.  Oya - Change 3.  Brigid - Inspiration. 4.  Isis - Mothering 5.  Hecate - Crossroads 6.  Pele - Awakening 7.  Maya - Illusion 8.  Artemis - Selfhood 9.  Vila - Shape Shifting 10.  Maat - Justice 11.  Lakshmi - Abundance 12.  Sekhmet - Anger and Rage 13.  Ix Chel - Creativity

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Thursday Thirteen Plus One Extra

Thirteen Things About Colors - Plus One WHITE Meditation/  Dream: Truth of the highest order. Enlightenment. Energy in its most pure form. Divinity. Aura: Never a predominate color in the aura unless you are looking at an angel or an ascended master. Healing: Charging the energy field,  bringing peace and comfort, divine light or whole white light entering.   VIOLET  Meditation/  Dream: Conjures feelings of enchantment, wishes fulfilled, of dreams made fact. Transformation of the self or of some aspect of your life into a higher form. Connecting to your higher self. Aura: This color in the aura is the highest vibration for the human spirit. A person who is in command of his life and energy. A visionary. Violet with a gold outline is a person who is one with spirit and is in service to mankind. Healing: Connecting to spirit, the opening of the third eye, the clearing of the head, purging the auric field of distortions.   BLUE  Meditation/  Dream: Blue is the energy of pacification, self protection, sweetness and tenderness, and of loyalty. It represents contentment and reunion with the Earth. Aura: Blue in the aura represents a teacher or a very sensitive person. They are kind and caring and will do much to help others grow.  Healing: Cooling, calming, restructuring of the etheric level, taking away pain when doing deep tissue work and work on bone cells. Blue also helps to expand a person’s field to connect to his/her life task.   GREEN  Meditation/  Dream: Taken most directly from nature, these hues often are expressive of constancy, self-affirmation, security, self-esteem, and of deeply rooted pride. A healing meditation may contain green, as it is the color of new growth. Aura: Green in the aura signals a very intellectual person who may possess healing gifts. At the very least it signals a nurturer personality and one that will do what they can to make another comfortable. Healing: Charging the heart chakra, balancing the aura, general healing, sometimes charging the aura to ensure well being and health, and to remove illness.   YELLOW  Meditation/  Dream: Representative of cheerfulness, radiance, relaxation and release from burdens. It is warmth of sunlight, the halo around the Holy Grail. Yellow is hope and also intelligence. Aura: Yellow, like green also signals a very intellectual person. They are powerful thinkers, and idea makers. Healing: Charging the brow chakra, clearing a foggy head.   ORANGE  Meditation/  Dream: Symbolic of fire, of expanding energy, power and the omnipotence of the sun and the majesty of sunsets. Energy to accomplish ones goals. Aura: A very ambitions person who needs to succeed and has the energy to do so. Healing: Charging the auric field, increasing sexual potency, increasing the immunity system.   ROSE  Meditation/  Dream: In meditation or dreams represents self-love, also resurrection. The color of flesh, of sensuality and emotion, romantic love, and supportive love. Aura: A person in-love with another or in-love with one’s created environment. Healing: Subtle healing and love. This energy puts back a sense of self love and self worth.   RED  Meditation/  Dream: Red represents the will to achieve, energy, intensity, and struggle. It is also appetite, desire, and reproduction. It is life in the “now.” Aura: People with mostly red in their aura are fiery spontaneous people. They are often fearless, or appear that way. Red’s make good police and firemen and soldiers. Red will also be found in the normal aura for brief periods during great anger or passion. Healing: Super charging the auric field, burning out cancer, warming cold areas.   GOLD  Meditation/  Dream: Divinity transforming lower energy to upper energy. Spiritual power in all aspects operating for the greater good. Aura: Gold in the aura is rarely a predominate color, however you can find it as an outline to another color, like violet. Gold as an outline in the aura adds the dimension of spiritual nobility and rank, a person that has and is achieving great spiritual progress and work. Healing: The restructuring of the seventh layer of the aura.   GRAY  Meditation/  Dream: Grey in a dream or meditation signals excessive energy being burnt off. it is also a lifting of intense fear or some life-threatening situation. Aura: A person who’s life-force is leaking away due to unhappiness, sadness, depression, or illness. With the color black a person with advanced cancer. Healing: Only used during a healing when excessive energy must be removed because the person can’t handle it.   BLACK  Meditation/  Dream: In the shinny black variety it is a closing in of energy and resource to protect ones self. The velvet or shinny black is not a negative color to get in a meditation, especially if you are feeling burnt out. A velvet black light opens up the Aura so that it can accept higher colors. Aura: A dull lifeless black in the aura shows a person who is very far removed from the constructive forces of the universe. With the grey streaks, it shows a person being destroyed by his or her own actions and lack of spirituality. Note: Wearing black is very common and it opens up the human aura to all the other colors.  Wearing black also protects your energy from leaking out to others. Healing: The velvet black color is used to bring a patient into the state of grace, silence, and peace.   SILVER  Meditation/  Dream: Silver relates to the moon, the subconscious, and the female aspect of the universe.  Aura: Not a color usually present in the aura in any great quantity. Healing: Used to purge the auric field and to charge the sixth level of being (karmic level), to remove old karma that is no longer needed.   INDIGO  Meditation/  Dream: Purple or indigo in a dream or meditation signals  some kind of psychic power or ability or some kind of psychic force. Aura: In the aura shows a very intuitive person, a person with prepackaged abilities that come from before birth to be used physically in this incarnation. These people tend to be square pegs as far as society and fitting in is concerned. This will change as  more of the current generation is born with this color and takes its place in society. Healing: The opening up of intuition or of some psychic ability.   CRYSTAL  Meditation/  Dream: Transformation into a new form or a higher energy state. Crystals amplify and a crystal light will amplify your own energy to a higher level. Aura: A crystal aura around a person is clear but will have other colors intermingled with it. This is the ‘chameleon’ aura. People with this aura will take on the attitudes and ways of those around them. The aura of others becomes their own aura. It is important for these crystal people to only surround themselves with the best influences possible, for obvious reasons. A person with a crystal aura must learn how to separate themselves from everybody else.  Healing: Sometimes used to fill in an empty spot where some energy was removed, so that nothing unwanted takes it’s place, till the person’s energy field can replace the vacuum with its own energy field.

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Thirteen Things about Chakras.  1. The Crown Chakra is at the top of the head, and the color for the Crown Chakra is Violet. 2. The Crown Chakra works with metabolism, central nervous system, head, cerebral cortex, upper spine, and hair. 3. The Third Eye Chakra is between the eyebrows, and the color associated with it is Indigo. 4.  The Third Eye Chakra deals with the endocrine and nervous system, autonomic nervous system, hypothalamus, eyes and the pituitary gland. 5.  The Throat Chakra is located in the throat area and is associated with the color blue.  6.  The Throat Chakra deals with the parathyroid, balance of Yin and Yang, ears, sinus, thyroid, and respiratory system. 7.  The Heart Chakra is located in the chest, and is associated with the color green. 8.  The Heart Chakra is the center of love for self and others.  It deals with the heart, lung, lymph system, immune system, allergy, blood pressure, and circulation. 9.  The Naval or Solar Plexus Chakra is located around the solar plexus, and is associated with the color yellow. 10.  The Naval Chakra is the bodies battery.  It deals with the digestive system, stomach, liver, pancreas, gall bladder, bile, and small intestines.  11.  The Sacral Chakra is located above the genital area.  It is associated with the color orange.  12.  The Sacral Chakra deals with life force issues, energy, abdomen, spleen, urinary tract, kidneys, ovaries, uterus, and blood sugar. 13.  The Root Chakra is located at the base of the spine and is associated with the color red.

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Thursday Thirteen - Thirteen Healing Stones

Thirteen Healing Stones 1.  Amethyst - Promotes spiritual awareness, improves self worth, aides with headaches, insomnia, and meditation.  For the Crown Chakra. 2.  Dark Green Jade - Opens the qualities of mercy and compassion, opens and heals the heart.  Frees one from anger, selfishness and greed.  Known as the Kwan Yin stone - it helps those on the path to enlightenment.  For the Heart Chakra. 3.  Lapis Lazuli - Cleanses the mental body, promotes deep penetration to heal outdated thought forms and mental patterns.  Prevents negative thoughts from becoming karmic patterns, releases outworn karmic patterns for healing.  Changes negative views of reality to positive outlooks, heals mental body damage from old traumas in this life, reprograms the mental body, facilitates all healing.  Lapis is best worn with other stones like Amethyst or Rose Quartz to mellow and gentle its effects.  I always use this stone during crystal healing.  For the Throat and Third Eye  Chakra. 4.  Sodalight - Balances the pituitary gland and the Third Eye Chakra.  Heals the lymphatic and glandular systems and nerve endings.  Soothes and heals the central nervous system.  For the Third Eye Chakra. 5.  Chrysocolla - For women’s all-healing and internal physical healing.  Assists with releasing grief, pain, sadness and fear from the emotional body and aides in the entrance of joy, certainty and peace.  Supports letting go, surrendering pain and worry to universal love.  For the Throat Chakra.  6.  Blue Calcite - Soothes the throat, eases the ability to speak out, heals throat center blockages and throat diseases, clears old this-life traumas held in the throat.  Supports peaceful assertiveness, aids shyness, promotes the ability to speak ones needs.  Soothes anger, creates readiness for peaceful change to ones life, and brings inner peace and quiet within.  For the Throat Chakra. 7.  Bloodstone - A very protective stone.  Fosters courage, creativity, healing, and moving forward in one’s life path.  Cleanses the blood.  For the Heart Chakra.  8.  Amazonite - An excellent stone for people who work at a computer all day.  This stone protects your energy from other sources like microwaves, t.v.’s, and computers.  It is a soothing stone that calms the brain and nervous system.  It balances masculine and feminine energies.  It dispels negative energy and emotions.  For the Heart Chakra.  9.  Blue Lace Agate - Makes self-expression easier, aids speaking out, aids speaking and validating one’s emotional truths.  Offers courage, aids shyness and tendency towards self effacement.  For the Throat Chakra. 10.  Botswana Agate - Affects the heart like a stone thrown into a pool, with rings and ripples radiating out to heal old pain.  Heals heartache and heart pain layer by layer.  Replaces pain with joy.  Heals and warms the heart offering comfort and security.  For the Heart Chakra. 11.  Petrified Wood - Aids concentration, grounds and centers those unable to persevere on their life path and life goals.  Slows one down.  Heals being scattered, flighty and indecisive.  Helps those who cannot complete what they start, promotes setting and keeping goals, steadies and stabilizes.  For the Root Chakra. 12.  Pyrite - Aids prosperity.  Uplifts and grounds at once.  Helps with self control and will-power.  For the Navel Chakra.  13.  Malachite - Detoxifies the emotional  and physical body, releases negative/painful emotions, clears and releases old traumas from this life and past lives.  Detoxifies the liver and gall bladder at physical and emotional levels.  This stone brings things out from within.  This is said to be a stone that is protective and enhances prosperity.  For the Navel and Heart Chakras.

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Thirteen Things about Health Insurance Companies 1. They only care about money 2. They do not want people to get better. 3. They over-rule your Doctors recommendations 4. They give crappy customer service 5. They live for fucking people’s lives up 6. They make money off of the sick and dying 7. They discriminate 8. They demoralize 9. They are unorganized 10. They bring shame onto this country. ( See the movie Sicko!!!! People in France, England, Canada and even Cuba were amazed at how bad our health care system is thanks to Health Insurance Company Greed.) 11. I HATE THEM!!!! 12. greed, Greed, GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 13. They would rather people stay sick or die, then get the treatment they need.

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Thirteen Things about My Father 1.  He loved to fish. 2.  He loved to read when he had the time. 3.  His favorite poet was Pablo Neruda. 4.  He loved pound cake. 5.  He drank Dewar’s Whiskey. 6.  He had a mustache. 7.  He was a Naturalized American Citizen. 8.  He knew more about American History and Government then most Americans. 9.  He taught me the Importance of education. 10.  He viewed me as a possession. 11.  He sexually abused me.  12.  He was physically violent with me. 13.  In some perverted and sick way, I think he loved me.

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Thirteen Things about Amethyst. 1. Purple is my favorite color. 2. I see and read auras. 3. I love my Cosmic Cosmo!!!!!!! 4. The ocean is my favorite place. 5. I have dug up some of my crystals at the mines in Arkansas. 6. As a child some of my fondest memories were at Pikes Peak in Colorado. 7. I love the mountains. 8. I believe in Magic. 9. I visited Jane Austin’s home in England, and stood by her writing desk, and looked out her bedroom window. 10. I love to create art. 11. I have wonderful friends. 12. One of my favorite films is the french movie Blue, from the Red, White and Blue Trilogy. 13. Another one of my favorite films is - The Double Life of Veronique - The music in this movie is heart-wrenching.

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