I was recently approached by Teresa Silverthorn of Conversations with a Mystic to write a brief introduction about myself — how I came to do what I was doing, what got me involved in all this, etc. Well, it didn’t take me a New York minute to realize I had no idea what to write about. What to say that hasn’t been said in my various and nefarious Bios already out there (Author Bios that I intend on condensing into one someday)? I sat down to start writing (I still do much of this with pen and paper) and two hours later I was done. Below is what resulted…

A pretty unremarkable life indeed. I honestly cannot remember any one circumstance in my life that would have pulled me toward pursuing the ‘mysteries’, except maybe my actual birth into this world. From what I have been told regarding the years of my infancy and earliest childhood (years I cannot remember, of course), I was stubborn and resistant to everything around me. By the time other children were adept at composing sentences to express their needs and feelings, I could only say one word – NO. For me, this was the perfect word. Apparently, I was so talented at using this word, my father had decided that I must have been born with certain mental disabilities.

Well, all things considered, I eventually learned how to compose sentences, and this I continue to do. However, one thing remained at the core of my being, and this was that there was something terribly wrong, something totally unacceptable with this world.

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I was born on March 13, 1985. It was the Week of The Dancers & Dreamers, Pisces III, Density of Innocence, and Chinese Zodiac year of the Ox. All I can say to this is “Philosophical, Miracle Working & Helpful,” and this is what I’ve come to be – but before this came to be, a darker side had to come through to align me with the true aspects of these signs. However, I am more of my higher nature today then I’ve ever been before, but my darker side will be mentioned later.

I grew up an only child and in no way can I say that my up bringing was bad. I did more to myself to make my own youth difficult than my parents did, but the older I grew into myself, the more I realized that the choices I made in my past we’re made with a purpose. It was all so that I could better understand others and what situations they are going through now and not judge them for what they think or what they do, only to better guide them when brought to the attraction.

When I first started school, I was quickly bored with most of the classes and I was of course labeled a “Riddlin Child.” Lucky for me, my parents disagreed with the school and denied them the right to medicate me – in which I was certainly blessed! Later I would find out that our schools were given bonuses of $500 a month for each student who took Ritalin. I was instead shoved in to Special Education classes, but again, another blessing took place that I was not aware of until several years ago. While I was being placed into the Special Education classes the general use of the Phonics Reading Program was being replaced with the Look-C method, which really made it more difficult for “ordinary” children to learn how to read and it created less desire to learn!

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Findhorn is the end of the world. At low tide, a mixed colony of grey and common seals bask and sing on the sands of the north shore. Atop a small rise, amongst the dunes and marram grass, stands The Old Shack, windowless and silent. Abandoned, lonely, a brooding sentinel it has become a reassuring presence on my daily walk with the dog. It is almost a friend.

Beneath The Old Shack’s black tar paper roof, once white painted planks are faded, chipped and flaked. In the silvery areas of bare wood, dark vertical cracks widen and lengthen with each passing season and rust-red tears weep from old bolts, hinges and nails. Many paths lead through grass and gorse to The Old Shack, only to meander away again, as if in disappointment. For it’s door is always closed.

I have photographed The Old Shack from every angle, at most times of the day and in all weathers. I am fascinated by its ordinariness and extremely grateful for it’s presence. For this landscape, of beach, sea, dunes, mountains and The Black Isle beyond the firth, is beautiful, often stunning, but so very hard to portray. Whether lending scale to big skies, a focal point in the landscape or as the subject of a graphic close-up, The Old Shack has never disappointed me.

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How much do you value your life.

At the age 25 I thought I could do anything. What a wonderful feeling? But, as I found out that life changes on you at anytime. My marriage ending because my husband decided to fall in love with another. I had a child to raise on my own. My home was sold and divorce was on it’s way. The other women wanted everything I had with my family.

How Life changes in minutes?

One day I am happy and wild and think I can do anything want and little did I know that my husband at the time was having an affair. Love no longer was part of us. Changes do come and be ready to decided what your are going to do.

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With a desire to feed his family, provide for their needs and live up to the father figure he never had, this husband, father and friend is a shining example to Black entrepreneurs everywhere. (NOTE: One need not wear a suit to be a true entrepreneur.)

It is 6 a.m. in Harrisburg, Pa., and Leroy A. Jackson, III, (or “Mister” as he’s called by his close friends) is already dressed and eager to start his workday. Dressed in an unassuming blue-collar ensemble, he builds up a sweat—in 35 degree weather—as he stocks his delivery truck for today’s run.

“It can be a grueling career, for sure. But I have to feed my family,” he says without missing a beat while stockpiling.

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The self-proclaimed Internet Rock Star, Brian Fanale, is all the inspiration you will ever need to learn how to become a profitable internet entrepreneur. He has created MLM Lead System Pro as a guide map on how to do it right. His story demonstrates to you just how unquestionably any person can become successful with the right system.

How Fanale Started

In early 2005, Fanale had been out of college for nearly a year after graduating with a pre-med degree. Even with his pre-med degree, Fanale received negative feedback regarding what the future in medicine would be from nearly all of the doctors he consulted concerning the pursuit of a medical career. Many of these doctors were disappointed by the current industry and their lack of family time. The more Fanale saw what the actual day-to-day life of a doctor was like, the less he desired that to be his career choice. For Fanale, friends, family, and lifestyle were his highest priorities.

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You’re probably familiar with the major Hawaiian islands, like Maui the big island, but did you know that there are actually many other islands in the Hawaiian islands chain? In fact, there are a total of eight that are recognized as the main islands in the Hawaiian Islands, and many other smaller uninhabited pieces of land.

Kaho’olawe is the smallest of these eight. It is located southwest of Maui and southeast of Lanai, and measures just 11 miles by 6 miles, with a total area of 44.6 square miles. It is relatively dry because it lies in the rain shadow of Maiu’s East Maui Volcano, which has an elevation of over 10,000 feet. In part beause of the lack of rainfall on Kaho’olawe, more than a quarter of the island is badly eroded.

Today, there are no permanent residents living on Kaho’olawe. However, the island was once inhabited, with fishing communities along the coast by about 1000 AD. Some of these communities began cultivating inland areas. The island was also home to a large basalt quarry. On Kaho’olawe, some evidence of these earlier settlements can be found, such as carved petroglyphs on rock surfaces. A stone temple is thought to have been built at least 500 years ago. It is believed that the population never exceeded a few hundred people due to the lack of fresh water.

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The date was June 11, 1966. I was fifteen years old. I am half finished with my Biology final exam. I had studied for this exam for a week – I needed to ‘ace’ it in order to keep my 4.0 GPA intact. It was not going to happen – well not that day anyway.

The biology teacher got called out of the room and returned with a subpoena for me. I was to be driven to the County Courthouse to arrive by 2:00PM. I had no idea what it was all about. I had never been in trouble and since I was only fifteen, I never even received a proverbial parking ticket. Despite my protests, I was escorted out of the class, put into a taxi and whisked off to the courthouse.

At the courthouse, I was taken to the chambers of the Honorable Matthew. I sat in one of the two chairs that faced the judge’s desk. After waiting about fifteen minutes, the Judge suddenly entered his chambers from the courtroom. I immediately was the proud recipient of “Who the hell are you?” and “What the hell are you doing in my chambers?” from the Judge. Ordinarily, I would be intimidated by the environment and the bellowing, however, I was pissed. I needed and wanted that ‘A’. So I told him my name and related my tale of woe. I thought I saw smoke coming from his ears as I was finishing my story. At this point, I think he was more pissed than me.

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Thinking positive and thinking right are two different things, thinking positive can still get you nowhere although you arrive there being mentally happier and ready to go. Positive thinking is not bad it helps us cope with the day’s events in a manner that most people would find relaxing and laid back. Thinking positive allows ourselves a larger bandwidth of stress we can deal with before we finally crack and succumb to stimulus response.

Thinking positive and acting positive must be used together to create a real harmony of this working relationship. By acting out positive events in your life you are thinking right by thinking positive and not acting positive is just thinking positive, although everyone starts at the beginning so it is a marker to place but it’s not the end.

The beginning is positive thinking but we must branch out further and expand upon what we are looking for in our “Positive Nature”. For positive thinking for many is the hopeful feeling we have that things will work out. For example:

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I want you to try something with me, close your eyes and get comfortable. relax your face muscles down to your toes, sense the bodies awareness of itself, pull yourself deep into that sense of body awareness feel the here and now, be present to your energy, your heart pumping to your breath and your movement of your chest.

As you continue to find yourself deep into this awareness I want you to feel as if a window on the top backpart of your head open, when it opens you find yourself above the world, looking down.

I now want you to imagine a network of lines forming into balanced geometric shapes, imagine now that you can spin the globe and stop it with your finger. Spin that globe now… Now watch it as it spins notice that the geometric shapes stay the same now drop your finger to the earth and stop the globe.

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