Another profound experience happened when my little papplion dog Minky passed away in my arms. We had to call the vet because she was very sick and her heart was weak and giving up. She was 13. I was absolutely devastated.
Before she left, I told her I will always love her and be here for her and asked her to show me that she was happy on the other side by sending me a yellow bird which would fly into my hands. Have no clue why I thought of that at that moment but I did.
And a few days later that is exactly what happened—I opened my bedroom patio door and in flew a yellow bird into my hands, not before, and not since—just that one extraordinary moment.
Joyce added: “Experiences like these remind me that we are never alone. Intelligent, intuitive life forms are always around us—far more connected to the greater whole than we realize.”
One day, a woman named Joyce contacted me through our podcast and said she was trying to send me a synchronicity but it wouldn’t go through on the podcast website. I sent her my email address and a few days later, I heard from her.
This synchronicity she sent about a black crow is particularly powerful.
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Earlier this summer, I was at home with my patio door open as I often do. Suddenly, from my bedroom I heard fluttering, banging, and shuffling noises. A beautiful large black crow had flown inside and was frantically trying to find her way out, crashing into the kitchen, walls, paintings, and furniture.
My first thought was to gently cover her with a towel and release her outside, but that proved difficult—she was terrified fluttering about non -stop and left quite a mess. Eventually, I was able to guide her through the small patio door with some careful movements showing her how and she finally flew out. Now she returns often, perching on the railing, and I feed her when she comes by. She never makes a sound just peers in my window and waits for her cookies.
Here’s where the synchronicity comes in: My son, who lives across the bridge some distance away, was meditating at the same time. When I later told him what had happened, he went pale, got goosebumps, and said, “Mom, I just saw exactly what you described was happening here —while I was meditating.” He doesn’t exaggerate or embellish stories, we looked at each and it was a beautiful moment that we shared together which drew us even closer together.
….into Fascism. The supreme court gave trump the green light for ICE to detain anyone who isn’t white, speaks Spanish, and works at a low wage job – gardener, picking fruit, car washer, you know the jobs,
As Justice Sotomayor wrote in her dissent: “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
There is no difference between what Hitler’s SS did rounding up Jews and what trump ‘s ICE is doing rounding up Latinos and people of color. Racial profiling.
So for those of you who voted for this madman because of “what’s happening at the border” or for the “economy” or for whatever other reason, and for those of you who continue to support him, welcome to the equivalent of Nazi Germany 2.0, trump style.
On September 7, there’s a lunar eclipse at 15 degrees Pisces, the first of two eclipses this month. These eclipses often bring up unresolved issues from the past and address something in our lives that is nearing completion.
You can see the moon down there in the 3rd house, with the horseshoe shape – the North Node – next to it. When that node is conjunct the eclipse, it tends to be a positive event.
To find out how this eclipse will impact your sign, here’s the written forecast for September.
What if AI could show us the future—and what if that future was our extinction?
We the People: A Premonition is a gripping political thriller that explores the terrifying convergence of autocracy and climate collapse. Set in a not-so-distant America ruled by a fascist regime, the novel follows three unlikely heroes brought together by one truth: if they don’t act, the future is lost.
Luna Ochoa, a former FBI analyst turned underground investigator works for Leo Montoya, a reclusive millionaire funding a network tracking the government’s abuses. When the advanced AI they created suddenly starts making predictions of humanity’s collapse—nuclear war, ecological annihilation, and widespread oppression—the danger becomes existential.
Enter Jake Kessler, a Pulitzer-winning journalist silenced for exposing political corruption. After crossing paths with Luna, he becomes entangled in a movement bigger than any of them imagined. Together they enter a race against time—not just to survive, but to reclaim the future.
The novel asks the question at the heart of today’s global crisis: Can we still choose a different path? Drawing on the ancient Athenian model and powered by modern technology, their vision is to build a new system where people participate in governance directly—every voice heard, every idea tested. It’s dangerous. Revolutionary. And it may be our last chance to avoid extinction.
With cinematic pacing, unforgettable characters, and razor-sharp political insight, We the People is not just a warning—it’s a call to action. It reminds us that democracy is not a guarantee. It’s a choice. And the most important character in this story is us.
Our brainwashed Florida governor DeSantis & his surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, say the state will eliminate all vaccine mandates. This includes vaxes for measles, mumps, chickenpox, polio…all the diseases for which most of us were vaccinated when we were kids.
From NBC News: “All of them. All of them,” Ladapo said during a news conference as the crowd stood and erupted in applause. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.” He said the Florida Department of Health will work in partnership with the governor.
Think about that for a moment. If one kid in a 5th grade classroom comes down with measles or polio, how many other kids will get the disease? How many might end up in an iron lung, if they still exist? Or die?
“And during a 2024 measles outbreak in the state, he said that parents should watch for measles symptoms but could make their own decision about whether to send children to school. He did not encourage vaccination.”
The joke here is that DeSantis claims this is part of the establishment of Florida Make America Healthy Again commission, which will recommend the “state-level integration of President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again effort.
The commission will be chaired by first lady Casey DeSantis.”
This is the kind of insanity that has taken hold in red states in this country. It’s the trump and RFK malignancy taking hold.
The iron lung in the picture at the top? One man, a victim of polio, ended up spending 70 years in that thing.
It certainly seems as if this administration’s goal is to kill as many people as possible.
About a month ago, Paula Bruce told me that our mutual friend, Lynn, had had a great reading with a local psychic/medium, Vickie Burnett. Lynn’s sister had passed away some months ago and she wanted to know how she was doing.
So I got in touch with Vickie & booked a reading.We agreed to meet at Barnes & Noble. Her reading for my sister, Mary, who passed away in June 2023, was impressive. I showed Vickie a photo of my sister and she immediately had trouble breathing. That fit. When Mary was in ER, she was put on oxygen. I explained that Mary had a strep infection but that the doctors didn’t know its source and that she died within two days of sepsis.
“So what’s she doing on the other side?” I asked.
“She needed to recuperate and spends a lot of time alone. She has no regrets. Eighty percent of the time, she’s recuperating. The other twenty percent of the time she’s hovering around, like remote viewing from the other side. If you hear a rhythmic knocking, it’s her, saying hello.”
I have heard that rhythmic knocking from time to time but have always thought it was one of the cats getting into something. I told her about the hummingbird that, shortly after Mary’s death, flew right up to my face, so close I could see the color of its eyes, and that I felt certain it was Mary, checking in. Then, when Megan was rock climbing with a friend in Washington state, a hummingbird hovered just overhead. Vickie nodded. “Yes, that was your sister.”
Vickie and I sat and talked for another hour and I asked her to come on our podcast. Turns out, she also has a podcast, Weird & Everything. When Paula called to find out how the reading went, I told her about Vickie’s podcast. And here comes the synchronicity.
“What?” she exclaimed. “I’ve listened to that podcast for years! I didn’t realize the Vickie on that show is also Vickie the psychic! She investigates haunted houses…”
It’s an interesting synchro that illustrates how we are all connected.
So Vickie will be on our podcast on September 10. The clip at the top is from one of Vickie’s podcasts.
36 years ago tomorrow, August 31,, our daughter Megan Maya popped into the world.
Well, she didn’t exactly pop. I was in labor for 36 hours. But wow, at the end of it there she was, a little beauty with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen. We took her everywhere with us – Ecuador, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Aruba…& she still loves to travel.
The above picture was taken in Cuba, where some of Meg’s friends also joined us for a terrific four or five days.She’s sitting between Rob and me. Here are more photos:
These days, she’s working as a naturalist on whale boat tours n the San Juan Islands, so we go to her and get to see these magnificent creatures.
Meg & Rob playing chess in Costa Rica
So happy birthday, Megger! Thank you for choosing us as your parents!
