How to Clean Your House

My Yenta --

You are such a gift to us all.  And since you've been gone, I hadn't been talking with you about what was going on here in Grand Junction related to incoming writers and wise women who have much to offer us.  One just lost her husband recently -- which is the first for me, and it happened right about the time of my 50th birthday.  She was then and is today, just as you described your Charlotte.  She had the centeredness before he got ill to be amazingly helpful to him -- bringing alternative information and products to him (such as 'organics' and supplements), which gave them a lot more quality time than he would have had in my opinion.  I was blessed to be included in the afterparty (would you call that a 'wake') and was astounded to see how she looked just like she did the last time I'd seen her, assisting him at a fundraiser event for their organization..... WOW, SHE has something amazing about her. 

I'd not seen her much, naturally, as she was retreating to those closest to him and their family over the last months and years but I made a point to call her regularly in the weeks before he passed and after.  She was off doing a lot of things just because they also have a business and birthdays and family situations in other states, but this past week she was able to attend a gathering I pulled together for the wise women who either are becoming part of Lumigrate officially in the last week or who, like my friend, are going to at the least be providing a place for us to gather to do women's circles.  To 'dance with Kohava', to find out from Analii how our movement patterns are contributing to our pain and what to do about it.  

I find it very synchronistic that you got back from your trip and wrote this today, as I believe it will provide a wonderful place for these women to 'hop in' and say hello for the first time perhaps.  Because I can see how we're a circle of women forming virtually and realistically (with some men reading but none writing YET)(but I'm working on that as you can imagine, they're just not 'sticking to the Lumigrate wall' like you women are -- they must not yet be al dente). 

And I so very much think it's amazing our Yenta was related to someone who worked on interpreting Occam's Razor more recently.  Contact was one of my favorite movies when I was first an OT, living in Denver -- I even remember who I went to see it with -- he didn't quite 'get it' but he was intrigued how it got me lit up saying 'it's like they finally made a movie that is what I think is going on!'  Years later What the #$% (Bleep) Do we Know came out. 

AMAZING, that's all I have to say.  Thank you, SO MUCH, Yenta.  We ARE all connected and with everyone grabbing an oar on Lumigrate, it will be 'many hands, light work'.  Interestingly, the exercise you gave people about the 'activity analysis' is something I will be developing in the near future, working with patients in the Valley who have chronic pain and illness (my specialty), and then providing here on Lumigrate for ALL to access.  That was official as of last week as well.  Something you also didn't 'know' ... at least I hadn't told you.  .... .  Just a few patients here and there, no worries, I'm still here with Lumigrate too. 

"All things being equal, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one"

"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree", Yenta.  Thank you for sharing your family stories and history with us!

~~ Mardy

Mardy dawlink!  I'm finally caught up.  I have to tell you, this jet lag think is no joke! No?  I had read your response the day you posted it and when I realized it didn't make sense to me I knew I needed to hit the hay, so to speak.  According to Moishe, I was a bit meshugener (crazy) what with the wanting to clean and then staring into space.  Thank G-d Lumigrate had gotten the last good bits of my brain before it took flight on me.

Now being the hippie that I am, I could fall back on the "cosmic connection" we all have and use that to my advantage in the explanation of how "I knew" to write about Occam's Razor.  This is where things get patshkin zikh mit (messy).  I believe, bubelehs, that we have spirit guildes and they direct us.  Not that they tell us what to do, but point us in the direction of where to go... erekh (round about).  Having free will, the choice is ours to follow that or not.  Unless you are conscious of your guilde you won't know you're choice is in front of you.

As a thinking group we tend to put too much thought into things, we always have.  Occam's Razor is a simplified means of "breathing" through our lives.  It's not revolutionary, it's not new and shiny, it's not another pill to take; it's a simple way of being; lightening and enlightening your soul.  Now THAT would be part of the cosmic connection.  If you lighten your "load" or stress it will actually effect everyone you come in contact with.  Then you have the Tricle Down Theory. Oy vey, I'm getting such a headache!

If you don't know that one, you've probably heard that "stones roll down hill"?  (I've actually heard another word instead of 'stones' but for our purposes 'stones' will do just as well)  That's the Tricle Down Theory.  If you're relaxed, simplified and unstressed, the person or persons you work with, live with, meet with, will be as well.  AND if you explain how this happened to you... you get the idea.  So now you have Occam's Razor and the Tricle Down Theory and G-d knows how many other things we can label in there all at once, when all it really is, in it's simplist form is: YOU!

See?  We think too much bubelehs.  Before I went on my excursion to see my sister in law, I mentioned cleaning out closets.  Now, we're cleaning "house".  Who knows what could be next?  Maybe we'll build a car. Hey, it couldnn't hurt!