Yes! The enormous Christmas tree comes down today, and all the Christmas stuff gets boxed up and put away for another 11 months…
And then my writing life finally gets back to normal around here. I am ready for it!
It is always interesting to wonder about what will be going on the next time the Christmas tree goes up, though, isn’t it? I have no clue what will be happening in my life by Christmas 2024. But this past year, I have been so blessed.
I loved having houseguests here for Christmas — it was the first time I had people here for Christmas in the nearly 6 years that I’ve owned this home. And I felt truly blessed to be able to have a home to offer people in need (the wonderful young married couple currently abiding here with me). I am of course envisioning that they will find the perfect home for themselves and be able to move on to a truly wonderful phase of their lives together, and that Christmas 2024 will find them safe & happy and living a blessed life in a new home, whatever that home turns out to be.
As I keep getting older, and as Christmases (and Time, in general) keep passing, each of my Christmas memories become more and more precious to me. And 2023 is going to stand out as a truly remarkable one for me. I learned a lot about human nature and the Power and the Flow of turning everything over to God.
Okay.
Although I will miss my beautiful tree, it’s time to focus strictly on the writing again. So today is the day!
***************
We’re getting info from truthers hither & on, that NDAs are everywhere and there is NO INTEL to be had, and that we are getting “very, very close” — so I bought extra groceries at the store again today, gang.
And I bought a little extra non-perishable stuff and put it in the free food pantry over by the church. (Where anyone in the village can help themselves if they need food.) (I think I am the only person in the whole village who puts organic food in there. I am absolutely obsessed with food being organic, gang, and I guess I want to press my obsessions onto everyone else!!)
Oh! And guess what? For about two years now, I was the only person left in the village who still had a Trump flag displayed in front of my house. And last evening, I saw a house with a brand new “Trump in 2024” flag displayed on their house.
People are getting back in the game, gang. Even if we don’t end up having an election this year, I still like seeing those new flags coming out.
*********
This seemed like a very promising sign– even though Simon Parkes is one of those people overloaded with NDAs now and so he gives out very little information. However, he posted this yesterday:
His Connecting Consciousness group in Nevada was on a local Fox TV news station!
I thought that was really incredible, gang. Television news exposure of Connecting Consciousness! I believe this is a first for CC and MSM.
Nevada CC Community Service Organisers Adella & Jonathan on Local TV Mornings on Fox 11 (3 mins). [watch it here]
******************
Everything else in the truther movement has gotten really oppressive, gang. In my opinion. And also for my girlfriend here, who is my only friend following truthers and the Q movement — she has 99.9% given up on all this, too.
The nastiness between Phil and Nick never ceases now. I pray every day for Nick Alvear, that he will be protected by God and find his way into the light, that God will help him find his way to a higher vibration if that’s what is needed.
It’s really discouraging to me that people cannot be more like Simon Parkes — sue someone if they commit slander or libel and just move on. Not constantly draw attention to it and get everyone extremely riled up.
My girlfriend and I used to be avid Phil followers. But now we text each other to see if there is anything we need to know about, because neither one of us wants to contend with the onslaught of the Nick & Phil war.
This is the belief I personally follow on all of it; speaking solely for myself:
“39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. ” Matthew 5:39-48; KJV
And also, I love what Leo Tolstoy had to say about Jesus and Jesus’ view of courts & judgments, overall. (It is Tolstoy’s painstaking interpretation of the above Scripture.) It is very powerful, indeed. From Tolstoy’s What I Believe (8hrs. ):
**********
Okay.
Ross K. Nichols has begun another great new Shabbat series —
Birth of a Deliverer – Shemot (Exodus 1:1 – 6:1) (1 hr 20 mins):
And don’t forget James Tabor’s new series! I am really loving it. If you missed the most recent lecture, I’ll post it again:
Jesus Archaeology #3 A Forgotten City–the Urban World of Jesus (42 mins):
************
And Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File that had some very interesting things to say about being an Australian living in England. Here is part of what he said:
“My generation of Australians are stereotypically loud and abrasive, our gestures are wider and take up more room, we are ruthlessly funny, unguarded, contrary and inappropriate, yet conversely conservative, stoic, compliant, fair and reasonable, and we love our mothers. What makes up the Australian character now I can’t claim to know—it’s been nearly fifty years since I lived there, and perhaps the whole notion of a national character has been brought into question — but I recognise the essential Australianness that was baked into me by a brash Victorian sun in almost everything I do, everything I create. […]
You can read it in full HERE.
Other than that, gang — all is quiet around here.
We have had a few dustings of snow, but nothing that accumulated. I am back to the flow of showing up at the train station 3 nights a week, and having a “real life” the rest of the time.
I am seriously looking forward to my career stuff in 2024!! I hope you are anticipating a sunny outlook for your life, too, wherever you are in the world!
Okay.
Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya!!
*************
I leave you with a gem from the late George Harrison – ”Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)” 1973. A song that is also a meditation. Enjoy.
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope with this heavy load
Trying to touch and reach you with
Heart and soul
Om
My Lord
Please take hold of my hand
That I might understand you
Won’t you please
Oh, won’t you?
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope with this heavy load
Trying to touch and reach you with
Heart and soul
Om
My Lord
Won’t you please
Oh, won’t you?
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope with this heavy load
Trying to touch and reach you with
Heart and soul
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me, keep me free from birth
Now give me hope
Help me cope with this heavy load
Trying to touch and reach you with
Heart and soul
Om
My Lord
c – 1973 George Harrison






