The Pont d'Arc is a large natural bridge, located in the Ardeche department in the south of Franc. The arch, carved out by the Ardeche River, is 60 m wide and 54 m high
Loki had a little fun with me last night. At my expense. And oddly enough, the lesson was about keys.
I've had some issues with my banking and bill pay recently after the latest upgrade to their system. I was getting mean phone calls from a credit card company. So I dropped Anthony off after school, and went straight to the bank.
When I was done he needed to go to sports practice, so I met him at the door.
When he is at sports practice, I go to the old house and work.
When I picked him up, I sheepishly admitted to him the the one and only time he let me borrow his keys, I lost them. Keys to the old house, new house, mailbox, everything.
Anthony laughed. I've already told him that if it wasn't connected to me I would lose my own head, I lose things so easily!
This is when Loki showed up.
What message to us? HE IS RISEN.
Huh? What kind of message is that?
So I explained to Anthony that Loki is a teacher in Native American culture. He teaches us important and valuable lessons, but also, in doing so, often messes with us and makes us look and feel like the joke is on us. He is a trickster God.
Anthony asked, 'Is Loki good or bad?'
I said, from my heart, 'Loki is good but nobody anywhere likes it when he shows up for a lesson. It isn't fun. But his lessons stick.'
Anthony needs his keys. So I took him straight to the local hardware store to make duplicates from mine. I had all the keys on my person except for the mailbox key. And he was delighted to see the decorative keys. He chose for himself Star Wars and our local baseball team. I had told him that sometimes when Loki comes you just have to accept the situation and roll with it (in other words to just say F-ck It! and let go of the old problem, like we were doing there. Moving On...)
Well next door to the hardware store is our favorite local Mexican restaurant. It's not really Mexican because the owner is from El Salvador or someplace else in Central America. Yes, Latinos here make a difference in whether they are Mexican or not. The food is different actually. For example, people from El Salvador use banana leaves to wrap their tamales when people from Mexico use corn husks...so Anthony and I had a nice meal out that we haven't had in ages. It's been so long that the owner lady exclaimed to Anthony 'you've grown so tall!' and hugged him.
When we went to the old house afterwards to double-check I hadn't left the keys outside...we had both looked in the car so much at the ballpark the coach asked us if everything was okay?...and we agreed to make sure of this here at the old house, even though we'd moved on...I had an overwhelming feeling to check the two wreaths I had brought into the garage because of the painters.
There they were! in the wreath of Easter Eggs. The keys were stuck between the eggs.
This was the one and only Easter decoration in the whole old house! We had moved everything to the new one.
And at the new house? We have only one decoration too, in the lawn, a picket sign of a cross that says, 'HE IS RISEN". Everything else was left in the boxes.
Sigh.
THAT is the lesson of Loki. Anthony thinks it worked out for the best because he has better keys, the same old keychain he got from Kevin and Bean (anyone listen to KROQ out there? lol), and a good meal on top of it, our own Taco Tuesday.
I think he's right.
Ross:
Carla keeps learning with her lessons. I showcase her as she goes through her day to day in order to help YOU recognize your own healing patterns in the midst of Life In General.
On my end things are progressing at great speed with alacrity of awareness becoming clearly obvious to those of energy Carla refers to as TWDNHOBIAH. As with this image of our joyous countdown (we are at fifty four days) it is, as some of you would say, 'the writing is on the wall'.
Already at Carla's hospital there is great change. The Chief of Surgery has hired a lawyer to explain to her the legal meaning of the bylaws, and as they are written surgeons are by no means required to take ER call. She is refusing to lie and tell the surgeons that call is mandatory because she is fully aware that at both sister hospitals, surgeons are paid a stipend to be available for call.
And it's a lot of money.
Carla has written a letter complaining for her all-night shifts, and the risk of losing her medical license due to fatigue. She also pointed out that surgeons and anesthesiologists top the list of incidence of physician suicides, which are epidemic proportions.
Magdi wants to back administration because their contract is on the line -- administration decides who gets hired or not to provide this service. But the anesthesiologist Shamila who is Vice Chief of the Department of Surgery has gone in with her Chief of Surgery and signed the letter of demands to administration.
Feedback from the Chief of Surgery when Carla shared with her that the 'all-nighter surgeon' confronted her about the letter is that it was not only Carla, but a whole movement from the nurses and everyone else in the hospital. News is that there are to be no more robotic appendectomies because they are not cost effective (materials cost less but the additional time and manpower far outweighs the savings).
So everything around them is in great flux. (he puts his finger to his lips) Only it's quiet, and behind the scenes.
I want you to know it is that way with everything right now. The power is being challenged from within in order to make things more fair.
Carla's sister's brother in law is a teacher. He teaches high school part time and at the night school/university part time. Carla shared with Benjamin how her father was a teacher, and grew to hate the principals and administrators who created so many new rules to frustrate him. He just quit. He always worked two jobs, a day one and a night one like Ben, and for many years it was the respect of the students in the English as a Second Language adult class at night that kept him going.
Ben said that once the principals get to that level they will smile at you and lie through their teeth and tell you anything. They just don't care. **
I told him about Dr. Peter our ENT surgeon. He was recruited ten years ago to the hospital with a stipend to last three years. A big one. The community needed his services, administration said. Dr. Peter is so good that the CEO of the hospital system has gone to him for care, as well as the daughter of the number one administrator for our own hospital.
Dr. Peter just learned recently that for patients who cannot pay, the hospital will reimburse the surgeon so it's not a burden on them. This policy has been in effect for many years, ever since he first came.
Until he learned, he had to do all of those cases without compensation, 'Pro bono', for free...and administration had watched and no one had said a peep about it. Everyone knows he has a wife and four sons to support, and his wife works for the same hospital system at the corporate office.
Ben's face twisted in disgust at hearing that story. Carla told it to him to let him know the corruption is in all areas, not just teaching. And Ben shared that it just makes him sick to know this happens, that it's not right, and it's not fair.
When you go to the standard media outlets, my friend, I want you to ask yourself this question: who runs it? who decides what is on the air and what isn't?
I want you to follow the money.
I want you to realize that there are only six major corporations who control all of the information that goes out everywhere on the planet, and they are actively censoring everything.
I want you to make the connection (gestures with his hands coming together kind of like the ASL sign for 'more') that the alternative media has been infiltrated too, by the competition of the standard media outlets who want to control EVERYTHING, that what you are looking for with regards to 'signs of changes' to accompany our precious countdown, nothing is going to show up on a screen until the very end. I know you have been trained by your leaders and educators to look to the outside for validation of truth--the equivalent of SNOPES for everything, before you believe and accept it.
This is a most convenient fact for the six corporations who handle everything, isn't it?
But with Loki as with Carla, I want you to look with your 'eyes that see' for what is going on around you, right in front of your nose, behind the scenes at the places where you work and live.
It's going to be amazing when everything fits together (laces fingers together).
I guarantee it!
clap! clap!
Aloha and Mahalos,
Namaste,
Peace,
The Jewels,
Ross and Carla
