Yesterday we went to the local recycling kiosk near our grocery store, and were surprised to learn that it was closed permanently. The two closest ones were in a town about a thirty minute drive away...in kind of a bad part of town.
Last year Anthony had decided for us to keep our CV we pay. Every can, every bottle, the state charges a nickel (five cents for those of you outside the states) so if we return it we can get our money back. We used to do this years ago as a child, collect bottles to bring back in a wagon to the local liquor store, so we could buy candy.
Now it is difficult to get that money back. Somehow it went from something we did as a kid, that worked,, your local liquor store or grocery store would give you back the money the state had them take if you returned the bottles and aluminum cans, to something we have always done but you could only redeem at a local recycling center, and now you have to spend time and gas money to go get your pennies back. A huge car load of recycling, for us, would give about seven dollars.
I can put the recycling into the recycle bin like I always did, lose the money, and have less around to attract rats.
Instead, I am going to research ways to reuse and recycle. And to avoid bringing the packaging into the house in the first place. Our transition to carton milk or glass bottle milk is a start.
Everything is interdependent. China doesn't want our recycle. And we haven't yet developed the technology to burn our trash for energy like in some of the nordic countries.
I'm going to talk a little more about rats for a minute. I was surprised to learn that poisoning them isn't exactly the best option. Many predators, such as owls and rattlesnakes and coyotes, eat the poisoned but not yet dead rodents. Then they die. The poison just works itself up the food chain.
In our neighborhood, they are chopping down all the majestic eucalyptus trees on the side of the freeway for freeway expansion. People who live in homes near this area are experiencing a huge uptick in the rodent infestation. There's no more habitat for the rats or the predators. There is need to protect the home.
Apparently, all of the methods used were up for discussion on a local social media site. There were animal activists who wanted cruelty-free methods. They felt that the box the rat climbs into and gets electrocuted is the most merciful. Most agreed the glue traps were cruel and also caught other things like lizards and birds.
Even the classic snap trap had its pros and cons in the discussions. If there are kids or animals around they can get hurt. It could break a bone. The wisest one would set the traps around the property at night, check them in the morning, and set off each trap to keep the birds and lizards safe.
Even bait was up for discussion. Meat plus peanut butter. Snickers bars. Gristle and bones tied firmly with wire to the trap so the rat would have to tug. One intelligent woman got sick of them gently lifting the sunflower seeds off the trap without tripping it, so she super-glued them onto the trap, and it worked.
Everyone agreed rats go into the engines and chew wires under the hood of cars parked outside, it's serious property damage from the rodents. And ones that go into homes cause serious health risks and property damage to the structure. We had them inside the walls of the old townhome we lived in. All the neighbors had them and the homes were connected so there was no way to exclude everything off. I used to always keep a set trap in their favorite spot under the master bathroom sink. I felt it was better to trap the ones where it was easy than to seal it off and risk more of them chewing holes someplace else. I'll never forget the horror when one day one was scratching around behind a kitchen cupboard trying to get in. I stapled metal mesh over that spot. One also chewed around the downstairs bathroom fan, and I blocked that one with foam.
There's the concern that the food we raise for ourselves attracts them. The grapes, the tomatoes, the fruit trees. The pet food outside attracts them too. The poison makes them thirsty, so they come drink out of swimming pools and fountains. My dad used to sit outside with his gun on summer nights and shoot them off the fence. A friend of mine who lived once in my town did that at his home two freeway exits away, and he got twenty-two in one night, right in his back yard.
This isn't how Gaia wants any creature to live. Everything has a right to a place to live its own life. Animals need habitat. Humans do too. There has to be a balance. One day, the equation will even itself out, and there will be food for all, room for all, and no taking and opportunism like there is today.
Let's take this up one level to the realm of Spirit. Believe it or not, a total war for souls has been going on right under our noses.
Long story short, the strongest vibration wins.
Thoughts are things, and the battlefield is the human mind, which is linked to our ability to co-create with Creator of All That Is.
I watched the new SNL and the rerun of last year's season opener with Kanye. There's a lot of sophisticated stuff going on there under the guise of humor. It's through the appeal of being 'cool' and 'informed'.
Chevy Chase knew back in the day when he was making fun of then president Gerald Ford that his 'reach' was powerful.
Now they have weaponized it. TWDNHOBIAH have put so much into entertainment. When I see the football games Anthony watches, I see how it plays out to the seven-year old level of mental and emotional development that 'rules are good and life is fair'. It helps people believe life is good. You know, the best win. They like to align themselves with that.
I saw a terrible hit against a player, not sure if it's Philadelphia or Green Bay, I think it was Philly. Someone on his own team hit him from the side with the helmet. As a former surgical resident who did two years of trauma rotations, I could see the way the head stretched to the right and snapped back it was causing a serious injury. And the player was motionless on the field. Breathing, talking, My guess is perhaps a C7 or T1, I could be wrong. But he was carted off the field, with players kneeling and everyone clapping. For the viewers, the injured player was being sent to medical care so everything was okay. But for me, and my training, that's surgery, and rehab, and never being able to play again. Maybe never being able to walk or live independently. That's a price that's too high to pay for any sport.
Add to this the sophistication of the spiritual knowledge, a whole other layer. For the energy of the group. For how rituals work, how sacrifice energy works.
It's murky at best and very dark, very very dark to know there are adepts who are working with this kind of energy on a grand scale.
That's why Ross and I have this photo for you. Look at the background. Checkerboard. Black is white and white is black philosophy, if you will. Now look at the stars. No two are totally alike. You can barely see the checkerboard compared to them. They are beautiful, and lovely, and a delight to behold. They are organized together in a regular grid pattern, able to help one another as a team to lift each other up and even increase the total energy of the whole.
These stars are you. They are you, where you are, and your connections with other like-minded souls are effectively obscuring the background. You are doing your job right where you are, and if you like, you can increase your intensity all the more by thinking good thoughts, eating clean foods, getting fresh air and sunshine, doing things you enjoy that don't involve social media/TV/movies/music --you know, getting out in Nature--and helping to make everything around you the best you can. I cleaned a kitchen counter yesterday. It makes a huge difference in the energy of our home to get all that old mail and receipts off it.
Be You. Be the You-est YOU that you can be. Expect for the best. And keep telling yourselves 'this or something better'.
It will be so.
Ross
Anthony is healthy. Carla felt better on Friday when she worked on her call shift. Yesterday they ran errands and I was with them. I had Carla take Anthony out to eat for Mexican food at a proper restaurant, not a taco stand, to celebrate this new phase in both of their lives.
The new work schedule has come out for the months to the end of the year, October, November, and December. Carla is working half time on it--last she heard she was full time, no one said anything to her about the changes--and yet Carla has more O.R. calls than anybody in the department! It's 'all or nothing'.
At first Carla was concerned about her income. But in her heart, this is EXACTLY what she wanted to manifest. A time for her to enjoy her home and family, and for cutting back, to slow down, and to clear the house and set back up her office to continue her healing work with me, as an outreach.
The loan is going through, the refinance, which is going to bring her monthly house payments down to something more sustainable than they actually are.
Carla is wanting to buy chickens to have her own eggs.
At the store while going shopping, Carla was appalled at the prices. At one store, there was bacon going for ten dollars a pound (the going rate is six) and also for mayonnaise, the vegenaise the clean one was going for ten dollars a jar. Carla thought perhaps she could make her own mayonnaise, they hardly ever use it, mostly for making the BLT sandwich, that's it. We are not a big mayonnaise family!
Carla has an eye to both worlds, on earth and in Spirit, but she also has an eye to manage the home. She's done well through two marriages and now life as a single mother, and she knows what to expect. The prices over Anthony's brief lifetime have been creeping up tremendously. Dinner for two once used to be twenty dollars now it's twice that. Including tip, it's a lot of work at the helm to clock in enough time to pay for a breather from her hectic life by not having to cook dinner in the kitchen.
I want you to keep your eyes open like my wife. Look and see what the master manipulators are doing to the common human condition--the rising rents, the price of health care, the traffic, the pollution, the food supply, what happens to the bees--all of it is unsustainable. Think to yourself what you can do to help restore balance both in body, mind and spirit around you. Do not go full force into becoming what is known as a 'doomsday prepper' but try to keep in mind your resources you need both of time and talent--to live a better life, one which is in balance, and ready yourself, take the steps needed to restore balance. Even with little steps.
As an example, the it has been raining the past few days, not a downpour, a sprinkle, but Carla is content. She knows her roof is in top shape, she paid well for it, planning in advance for herself and for her family for when winter, the wet season comes. To boot she has both of her fireplaces ready, all cleaned by the chimney sweep, all she needs is wood.
There is great joy and self-love in such preparation for one's earthly needs. The planning, the ability to think ahead.
And add to this, another level, to the realm of Spirit? The preparation for this brings eternal joy and contentment!
Here is one more lesson for you: https://johnsmallman2.wordpress.com/2019/09/28/love-of-a-magnitude-never-before-experienced-in-human-form-fills-each-ones-heart/
It is with our love for you that we both share it.
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Aloha and mahalos,
Namaste,
Peace,
Ross and Carla
The Twins
