Earth is sick
Animals are sick
Humans are sick

If we continue our current lifestyle, we will extinct ourselves.  Please wake up.  The time is now for change.  Stop drinking so much.  Give your nervous system a chance to recuperate.  Let your kidneys, liver, adrenals restore its cells.  Give the earth time to restore its vitality.  Let drinking be a celebration for alcohol is divine nectar.  Drink moderately & environmentally conscientiously, our body is a temple.  Think about how each choice we make impacts the environment.  Is it a coincidence that May gray and June gloom coincides with when drinking is heaviest?  Our collective drunkenness affects weather patterns.  

Smokers, I write this with love and understanding.  I was once a careless smoker, flicking my butts into the streets.  Not considering what happens when it rains and gets washed into the rivers, streams, oceans.  Last year, Coastal Cleanup Day cleaned up over 2 million butts, constituting about 26% of all trash picked up.  Please please please be mindful of your butts.  Smoking is a prayer, our breath is sacred.  Maybe consider smoking organic tobacco from a water pipe.  The water filters the smoke, eliminating the by-product of cigarette butts.   

Reduce trash to zero waste.  Sort for recycling and buy things that are reusable or recyclable.  Compost your kitchen scraps and grass clippings.  Composting  recycles organic material and improves soil fertility, making plants naturally resistant to pests.  This in turn phases out the need for pesticides and chemical fertilizers, which help our oceans and bodies of water.  Partipate in cleanups.  Reduce consumption of beef.  Eating vegetarian has a greater impact on the environment than driving a hybrid.  It's better for your health and the health of our planet.  Try eating hempseed, which is a nutritionally dense source of protein and essential fatty acids, with blackstrap molasses, a rich source of calcium.

Energize the body.  Strengthen your immune system.  Meditate, still the mind.  Breathe deep.  Wake up.  Be here now.

I started composting on our balcony to reduce our organic matter going to the landfill and to make valuable worm castings for our plants.  I made my own compost bin by drilling holes on the bottom of a 10 gallon plastic container, and the lid. A second 10 gallon container collected drainage from the compost.  I bought redworms at the nursery.  They were small and skinny and looked nothing like the big fat round worms in the pictures.  I dumped the worms and dumped a dying sequoia plant and all the soil into my new compost bin.  And I started to send my coffee grinds, and even blended vegetable and fruit scraps so that it's easier for my worms to digest.  It was going real good, my worms were getting big and fat and I was pleased with my composting experience overall. 

Second week into composting, I noticed the water in the compost was not draining properly.  I added more shredded paper, and even added more dirt.  By the end of the second week, my worms were not moving and the compost smelled really bad.  I was discouraged with my progress and emailed a composting expert I met in my Green Business networking group.  As I was about to lay down for a nap, I received a clear thought to drain the second container.   When we lifted the second container, the smell was beyond horrible.  My husband who is my hero in helping me drain the excess water, said it smelled worse than a 10 ft pig poop lagoon!  What's funnier is we had to bring the second container full of stagnant compost water inside our home to flush it down the toilet.  It made our whole home stink!  We laughed, lighting incense, cleaning the bathroom with peppermint hemp castille soap and spraying everything with eucalyptus essential oil. 

In our efforts to reduce methane, I created the worst smell of my life.  I was reminded of Lao Tzu, who once said that if we wanted to shrink something, we must first let it expand.  By sunset, a double rainbow appeared over our balcony.  I took it as a message from the elements that nature will do its part to help me.  Sunday we had beautiful sunshine to dry out the methane and my husband turned the compost several times. 

Today, on Monday, my compost smells like dirt, and my worms are alive.  It really is a miracle.

We set an intention offering love and gratitude for a clean and healthy river, and requested prayers from friends and family to amplify our intention. After checking in with I Love A Clean San Diego, we headed toward the river with our bags and trash pinchers. Our first view of the river was discouraging. The water was stagnant, brown, and stinky. I offered organic peppermint essential oil to the spirit of the river.


As our bags filled up with trash, I noticed a different view of the water. There was movement and bubbling stream. I am reminded of the Grandmothers Message, that underneath imbalance is harmony. The presence of the Divine is everywhere. The Divine is in the weeds, which help heal the soil.

At first glance, the river looked uncared for, with stray pieces of wood boards laying around. But in expanding and widening my focal point, the serpentine flow of the river can be seen. The river looks healthy and reflective of the surrounding wildlife.

And I noticed two small dragonflies. Dragonflies are symbols of courage, strength, and renewal. They represent powers of light and transformation, and the ability to see the truth. They are messengers from the elemental world to seek out parts of our habits we need to change.

The earliest memory of cleaning was when I was maybe 6 years old and in trouble with my grandmother.  She was scary at times, and even the dog was scared of her.  I remember sitting on my knees, waiting for my grandmother to come and yell at me.  It was then that I started picking up debris from the carpet, hoping it would brighten her mood so she could find it easier to forgive me.  That was the seed that sprouted my love for cleanliness and its connection to forgiveness. 

Dr Joe Vitale writes of a Hawaiian therapist Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len who is known for curing a whole ward of criminally insane patients without ever seeing them.  He reviewed the patients' files in his office and then looked within himself to see how he created that person's illness.  As he improved, the patients improved.  They eventually closed down the ward because the patients all were released.

My friend Tina who is also a therapist explained that when one part of the system improves, then the whole system automatically improves.   In metaphysics, there's a principle called entrainment, which states that a lower vibrational pattern can be permanently changed into a higher frequency by coming into contact with a higher vibrational energy source.

So, the best way to bring healing to the entire universe is by  taking complete and total responsibility for everything in your life, by working on yourself, loving yourself, caring for yourself.  Just begin to clean, to say, I'm sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you...