Every few months I take thinly sliced marrow bones, beef organs (whatever is in stock), chicken feet, garlic, onions, sweet potatoes, and lots of parsley and spinich (at the end of cooking) and make bone stock. Cooking for 12-24 hours (I like closer to 24 hours) I then let it cool overnight and bottle and freeze them in mason jars. I pull from the freezer as needed. My kids use to drink this when they were young, now they see organs and feet in the pot and don't drink it. The older kids sometimes.
Not to long ago one of my girls wanted to read me an article from the internet claiming the value of this miracle elixr. After she was done I said, "Hey know it all (I didn't but wanted to) this is the same stock I've been making your entire life!" Actually I did say something LIKE that. She let me know she wouldn't be drinking mine because it's gross and that she will be buying hers.
My face smiled and I told her I was glad she was learning so much and taking responsibility for her health. Heaven forbid she realize my stock is much more nutritionally dense, and so much cheaper than a good quality stock at Whole Foods. But our kids will always know more than us....until they/we hit 40 and then we are like, "Mom and Dad, you are SOOOOOO RIGHT about everything you tried to teach us!"
I lost my drivers licence a few weeks ago and figured all this rain we were having would keep people at home. Walking into the DMV there was only a handful of people. I was at a teller withing 15 minutes. Thinking I would just pay the replacement fee and be out of there was only hopeful thinking. She said I needed a vision test and a written test and I'd have to take a new picture.
I hadn't showered in 2 days (ok 3) and my hair not shampooed in almost a week. I had a bandanna around my head, greasy hair strands sticking out of a boho style but more like boho grundge. Standing in line for my picture caused a panic and sweat beads began dripping from under my pits and tits because I didn't have a bra on. With each drip I remembered breastfeeding and that sticky juice mixed with sweat....it always smelled so sweet, even with B.O.!
In front of the camera the lady asked me, "Are you ready for your picture?" She smiled at me kindly as if she thought, "Honey do you know how you look and do you know this will be your picture for the next 5-10 years?"
So I smiled and thought "Fuck it!" My picture reflects that thought exactly.
And then I sat down to take the written test and failed the first question. And I failed the second and many more questions until the computer just said, "FAIL 2 more chances to re-try."
At least I got the ball rolling on my license so I was thankful for what transpired. Driving home I felt a wave of fucked feelings wash over me...... then I SMILED.
I said outloud, "FUCK YOU ego!....I honor your place, and I am forever grateful for your contrast but this bitch is going to choose OTHERWISE." (I do talk and cuss outloud daily.)
On a RAMPAGE of APPRECIATION I WENT! Thank you love for my vehicle, thank you I have money to pay for gas, and the renewal fee. Thank you I pay taxes which keep the roads and traffic lights working. Thank you I am driving and not in the hospital. Thank you for the DMV test which I will pass. Thank you for my orange tree. Thank you for my job! Thank you for new clients! Thank you I love to be thankful! Thank you for the extra abundance in all things that have been coming my way..... Thank you that I cry! Thank you that I enjoy lovemaking with myself! Thank you my heart feels. Thank you that when I am a bitch, I am quick (most of the time) to apologize. Thank you for LOVE!
A Course In Miracles Lesson 38 (yesterdays)
"There is nothing my (Shannon and put YOUR name here) holiness cannot do.
Your holiness reverses all the laws of the world. It is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance and limits of any kind. Your holiness is totally unlimited in its power because it establishes you as a child of Love, at one with the mind of her/his Creator.
The Course is a RADICAL mind reversal spiritual psychotheraphy program as I call it. It reminds us of our TRUE IDENTITY; and then helps us to release the illusion/lie of this world of FEAR and in turn, how to live moment by moment in the TRUTH OF THE LOVE THAT WE ARE!
I AM holy. I am very holy! When I come to you with a smile, with a kind word....when I see you through the LENS OF LOVE, I LIFT YOU UP, I show you through LOVE, that YOU ARE LOVE AS WELL.
TOGETHER WE WALK HAND IN HAND. Because I know I am holy, I've acted in such, and now you REMEMBER (because we all forget) that you are holy.
And you feel so good you go home and bless your kids! You look at your bills and remember....you are holy! You are ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE....all is well! The bills will be paid....they always are (why do we forget?!) And that night you bless your partner and make delicious love and then your partner REMEMBERS she/he IS HOLY/is LOVE.
The task of salvation is given to us humans. We SAVE ONE ANOTHER when we remind eachother of who we TRULY ARE. We are LOVE. All we need is WITHIN US.
We remember by spending time with our own soul/spirit. Spend TIME with YOUR SOUL! So much it wants to share with us! 🥰
All my soul sees, and highly honors your soul. I BOW TO YOU. This is Namaste. ✌🏽