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• "Stay together, friends Don’t scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made of being awake." ~ Rumi
• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~ Marianne Williamson from "A Return To Love"

The fairy tale that should have been read to us when we were little.

Once upon a time

in a land far away, 

a beautiful, independent,
self-assured princess
happened upon a frog as she sat
contemplating ecological issues
on the shores of an unpolluted pond 
in a verdant meadow near her castle.

The frog hopped into the princess’ lap
and said,“Elegant Lady,
I was once a handsome prince,
until an evil witch cast a spell upon me.

One kiss from you, however,
and I will turn back
into the dapper, young prince that I am 

and then, my sweet, we can marry 
and set up housekeeping in your castle 
with my mother, 

where you can prepare my meals, 

clean my clothes, bear my children, 

and forever feel
grateful and happy doing so.”

That night, 

as the princess dined sumptuously

on lightly sauteed frog legs 

seasoned in a white wine 

and onion cream sauce,

on her veranda under the evening sun,

dhe chuckled and thought to herself, 

“I don’t think so.”

The moral of the story:

Even enchanted princes can become

lame frogs.

Are you tired of loud talkers, frustrated with stupid people, slow drivers, crazy customer service, idiots in line . . . (name your own!) Ahhhh, Lame. Lame. Lame!

In 1993 I had several surgeries in 9 months which caused me to slow down in my ability to walk due to physical pain from surgery and left over etherland!

I clearly remember taking my time getting across an intersection while cars waited for me. I also remember thinking how many times I’d waiting for people who were elderly, or with small kids, who caused me to wait and sometimes miss a green light. I’ve never had issues with that, but at the same time, having to slow down myself, I was “in that body” of a person who couldn’t go any faster and really “got it”.

So, if you’re healthy and strong and flexible and can pretty much run around being, doing and having what you want today; when one of “those people” come across your path (which they will), don’t be lame! Just think of the following open-minded, higher conscious thoughts or prayers. And breathe.

Help me remember that the jerk who cut me off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.

Help me to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can’t make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.

Remind me, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that I can only imagine in my worst nightmares.

Help me to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.

Remind me each day that, of all the gifts I have, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those I hold dear. Open my heart not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let me be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love.

Did he?

At 23, and a natural athlete most of his life, 12,000 calories-a-day-Phelps can, evidently, afford all the fat and sugar his body can injest, while he keeps up his swimming. Seeing past photos, he’s always been slender too. That’s great. But… is he being a bad role model for millions of kids around the world with his new fame and sponsorships who’ll want to walk in his size 14’s?

Why not Speedo and rubber dome swim caps and goggle companies?

Why not something athletic and healthy? Or, a health company for exercise and good food?

Didn’t he talk this all out with “mom” before he decided? She’s a school principal for heaven’s sake, she absolutely can’t not know the issues of kids and nutrition issues.

I don’t know why, but maybe he does. And, maybe there is a silver lining in this that with all that exposure he’ll be hooking into it some “get off the couch kids and be more like me, even if you eat all this food that’s not so great for your age” motivation.

I hope so. I like him and all the athletes just fine and want them to win, win, WIN more of course.

Shawn Johnson did the same. McDonald’s is all over her “official website.” Go figure! Well, that’s just one of the issues. The “figure” will “go” with lots of high fat and sugar foods.

I know that rock stars, sports and other “role models” aren’t responsible for anyone’s lifestyles and choices, what they do or don’t do, but for busy moms and decision makers in the home who have to deal with kids and their peers and their wants, it gets old.

We’ve been in a crises for decades. How can such an immense issue as education, K-12 in particular, be so mute? Or, maybe the more important question is, “who” is keeping this issue mute?

An uneducated person is not prepared for and will not make it in our world. An uneducated generation of people will fall their nation. The USA is falling. Now. It’s falling. NOW!

Get the kids off tech-toys and into education.

Away from TV and into nature.

Talk to them. Spend time with them. Help them learn. Stretch their minds.

Find out where the schools in your district stand. Get your Strong American School Toolkits for parents, teachers and communities. Click here.

I give blood. I hope you do too!

After I gave my first gallon earlier this year, I received in the mail from the blood center a letter of thanks and a lapel pin signifying my contribution.

Maybe some people like and wear such things, and I understand that the blood center is happy I do my part, but I don’t need a pin; it’s clutter to me.

I took it back to the bloodmobile last week when I donated again and gave it to them to route back to their office - I also don’t need to spend postage returning it! and will not throw it out either of course, that is unnecessary trash.

Further, I just called their office, thanked them for their expression of gratitude and asked them to mark my file somehow signifying that I would rather not get these in the future. I hope they can actually do that.

TO DO: Feel free to let others know that you don’t need rewards, pins, name plates, plaques or whatever form some appreciation may come.

Yes, it’s wonderful being acknowledged and thanked, but using materials to make items that end up in storage and/or the garbage soon enough is not a good thing. Believe me, I’ve decluttered plenty on my organizing jobs as well!

TO DO: If you are in charge of “giving appreciation rewards/awards”, 1) ask what they might like, give options, 2) give them the option of not getting anything, but having the option to opt out, 3) maybe, for the cost of the token and postage, make an option to give that much in money/kind to a charity of their choice, or back to your own charity or cause. Options are a good thing.

Now, go give some blood!

Don’t you get tired of people whining about age?

“I’m too old.”
“I can’t, I’m over (put an age here).”
“You know how it is when you get over (age).”

OCH! STOP!

If YOU feel stuck, then just be stuck by yourself! Don’t dump that on me or anyone else, thank you!!

The recent Dara Torres Olympic body-and-mind-of-a-winner shows that we/people/women can do a lot more with our bodies and health . . . if we are willing to do the work.

She’s not alone of course. There are plenty of people out there up into their 90s who are skiing, swimming, hiking and still jogging.

Okay, I can hear it now, “I’d be like Torres too IF I had the money and the trainers, and, and, and.”

STOP!

DO THIS

1) Change your mind right now about what you want and what you believe is true.

2) Create a plan to make the changes you want.

3) You don’t need to look like or compete in anything like Torres or anyone else. Define what is right for you and GO DO IT!  

4) At the very least, if you’re not going to do the above 3 steps, then just stop whining! Every time you say “I can’t because…” you’re solidifying that for yourself. And, your influencing children and others in that negative direction.

If you think you can’t, you can’t. Fine. But, keep it to yourself!

“Never put age limits on your dreams.”
~ Dara Torres

WHAT?

You know these people right? Even the Pope changed this tune recently! ”

But, bottom line is, how can we think that we’re IT. The big IT!? That’s ridiculous! Arlie Petters, Professor of Mathematics, Physics, and Business Administration, Duke University says, “We don’t know what’s in 96% of the universe.” 96%! Heelllloooo!

“. . . to suggest that we’re alone [in the universe]
is excessively egocentric.”
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, PhD,
Director, Hayden Planetarium, Host of Science NOVA

If you want to hear the full statement of the pope, you can hear it on Radio Irish! Ahhh, those Irish-Catholics, they can say it all so lyrically toooo!

What fears are stopping you from your best life?

What fears are keeping our countries and peoples from working together for peace?

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” ~ Marie Curie

I looooove quotations. There’s so much packed into just a few words.

This series is on fear. Fear is our greatest enemy, always has been, always will be.

There are 2 places we can be, two ends of a spectrum of feelings.

FEAR ____________or_____________PEACE

Some say, “fear or love, not peace” but what I know is that there are only a handful of humans that have ever known, or now know what pure unconditional love is.  But, we each have experienced peace from time to time. We know what that feels like.

Check yourself daily to “feel” which way you are leaning. If towards fear, about anything, get back to peace ASAP. This act alone helps shift the collective consciousness towards peace. This act alone makes all the difference in the world in your mind and body, for the world around you and everyone else.

Bertrand Russell:
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bob Dylan:
I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Bonaro W. Overstreet:
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.

Chet Atkins:
Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Don Miguel Ruiz:
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Dorothy Thompson:
- Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
- The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
- Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

Eleanor Roosevelt:
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt:
You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Marianne Williamson:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marilyn Ferguson:
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom. 

To find more quotes on fear from this list, click here.

Choose peace. No matter what.

“There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal
to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze
the causes of happenings.”
~ Dorothy Thompson

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STOP, SHEEPLE!

Don’t send your daughters, little girls and beautiful teenagers into an FDA/Merck needle that has no basis!

Here is one video by The Health Ranger to learn more about these lies. Protect your children.

More at ABC.COM News. Click here.

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Hi and welcome to HAL; Humans Are Lame!

There are millions of examples everyday reminding us that we’re not the sharpest pencil in the box. Obesity, war, famine, abuse, debt (personal and governmental), oil crisis, self-inflicted illness (smoking, drinking, eating), tabloid scandals and scandals made by tabloids, greed, relationships in crises, our education system tarnished or low on the “best of education” lists, murder, rape, robberies, lack of government support, lying government officials,  our country and our world spiralling out of control.

There’s plenty more, but how depressing!

This blog is a place where raising our collective consciousness, one reader at a time, is the goal.

Where issues will be discussed and solutions offered.

Where I get to rant about things that make no sense to me might be the same things that make you mad too.

Please, I want you to jump in too. Add your views, ideas and solutions in the Comments section.

The only way out is through. We’re not going to make it “through” this at the rate we’re going. We’re already way behind the 8 ball. But, maybe, just maybe, with our collective consciousness raised even 1%, we can shift what is to what can be.

Come back again as I begin my support for you and me and the planet to shift and transform, one issue at a time.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
~ Margaret Mead
US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978)

What drives you crazy, about anything? I look forward to hearing from you!

Kim
Dr. DeClutter

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