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Blog entries by sunshine44
Vent and purge post*****
Trigger warnings
Don’t read further if you don’t want to hear unpleasant things rn.
I’m trying so hard stabilize. To remain positive. But in truth, many nasty things are occurring in my body. I’ve lost track of updates. I took a 4th ambulance in. I’m on home...
Well…. My body is STRONGLY feeling the pull of this eclipse. No surprise. I first went down around 2017 eclipse and knew the 2024 one would affect me as well. These things are like full moons on steroids for some of us. 🙈😵💫
Anywaayysss with the eclipse on my mind and distracting from immense...
“There will be a time, when the dark finds out that it has been serving the light.” ~ Similarion J.R.R. Tolkien
Many in the me/cfs community are more tuned in than not I have found. Partially by necessity at times from this wretched illness forcing us into cocoons that break (and...
Hi everyone,
Starting a new blog entry on it because … well I just am. I feel like posting a song. I’ve mostly not been able to listen to music past month. But, a song will do right now.
Things have continued to be rocky with me. My family left town for 5? Days and I was on my own. After all...
If you pray, will you pray for me please?
I have covid pneumonia and was just sent home by ambulance by an overworked worn out ER.
If you know how severe my situation already was, you know I could use all the prayers.
🙏💗
“May the light illuminate all hearts” ~ author unknown
From my room to yours, close your eyes and feel the sun 💛 let it feed your own inner light ✨
“However long
or dark your night is
Right where you are
That’s where the light is
My love
The sun
Is a reflection
It’s true
We’re one
We are each other”
One of my most favorite songs.
I used to listen to it and sing it over and over at campfires as my limited energy allotted. It...
Barbara O’Neill has some amazing gems of wisdom pertaining to health. I’m not even going to summarize. If interested, highly worth your time to watch this in its entirety.
“For some you will be a mystic
For some you will be crazy
For some you will be a wise man
For others you will be misunderstood
You will be a good example to some
A danger to others
To some people you can be a good friend
Do you realize?
You are merely a reflection of the state of mind of...
Sharing a beautiful song and a writing from rosemary gladstar ✨☀️
“Tomorrow brings the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. It's a reminder that even in the darkest of times, the tiniest glimmer of light can bring hope.
As Howard Zinn so sagely said, "To be hopeful in bad times is not...
Tonight we will explore medicinal mushrooms in healing gut health.
Something modern society has gotten far away from …. Is remembering the healing qualities of many mushrooms. They are in a category of their own food wise, they are not quite a vegetable and they are quite intelligent! I highly...
I had a dream…
It’s probably intense for many I’m sure. That’s your invitation to leave 😉
The good news is it’s not just cathartic for me but possibly others too. Hence why I’m sharing.
“You watched me burn”
I live in a small ish town of 20k. On the tip of a lake. This dream took place in...
This is to help remind me what and how I’m doing it because sometimes i have so many Things up my sleeve I lose track, ha! And maybe it will remind someone else too … or maybe someone wants to add things they are doing in comments.
We all know gut health is important with this illness. Many of...
“All right
Wild child, full of grace
Savior of the human race
Your cool face
Natural child, terrible child
Not your mother's or your father's child
You're our child, screaming wild
An ancient lunatic reigns
In the trees of the night
With hunger at her heels
Freedom in her eyes
She dances on...
My daughter has been showing signs of what I have or mold illness or a combination of both. For sometime now. 5 drs past 10 days. The most ridiculous diagnosis reasons for throwing up 3-5 am while just wanting to sleep and feeling burning up with no fever, 2 abnormal thyroid tests but not off...
Eclipse
Moon
Enough,
Enough
Close the doors please 🙏
“Strange times we're living in
World can put fear in ya
Hierarchy parties, they make us feel inferior
Greed runs through the parliament interior
Devils walk among us, they fit the criteria
Eerie theories strike fear in weary minded men...
The current situation.
Why is this whole illness such a nightmare from beyond? It’s like some of us have to stave off demons from every direction whilst already battling for our lives alone.
So, I have a few things that are approaching medical intervention, if I want to stay alive that is...
“…hi Ren… I’ve been taking some time to be distant,
I’ve been taking some time to be still
I’ve been taking some time to be by myself and I've spent half my life ill
But just as sure as the tide start turning
Just as sure as the night has dawn
Just as sure as rain fall soon runs dry when you...
"I have woken up
With heart broken again
No smart poetic answers
To the suffering that rages
In places I do not know
No fancy spiritual philosophy
That shields them
When the bombs fall
Just a tiny voice that whispers
The love of peace
Even in the midst of war."
~...
Fires…::…..
“And if you have ever been abandoned. Be a constant. If you have ever been wrapped up in nights so dark, you could not find your way back home. Be light. If you have ever fallen apart into a thousand, fractured pieces and wondered where on earth everyone has gone. Be present. If...