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My son is now old enough, tall enough, and interested enough to help me wash dishes. Perhaps I should define help from a 15 month old. He climbs onto the sturdy chair I have placed next to the sink, chooses a utensil and a dish at random, and proceeds to play in the water. Sometimes he bangs them together to make music. He plays in the spray of he water and sudsy foamy bubbles. More importantly, he gets to share my world . Elbow to elbow, we work. Occasionally, he hands me a dirty dish. And I smile and say 'thank you - what a good helper" and I proceed to scrub it. Sometimes he takes a newly washed and perfectly clean dish out of the drying rack and adds it to his collection of forks, spoons, pots, and pans that still have remnants of lunch on them. 'That's the point of this game, right Mom?' his innocent smile seems to say. I try not to get frustrated. So when almost all the dishes are clean (some washed twice) and he has one lonely spoon and bowl left in the si

This morning, I pulled on my long johns for the 47th time this winter, bundled myself and my son in hats, mittens, scarves, and snowsuits, and went for a walk in the wide wide world. Crisp and cold, the ice and snow snapped under my boots. The sky was blue and clear. And the sun was shining. Actually shining. Life giver and life sustainer, the Sun is greatly missed on gray days of winter. Grateful for the warmth of the sunshine, I stood for a moment basking in the beams. The light kissed my cheeks and eyelids. And I smiled. "I miss you," I thought. "I have missed you, Sun." It was like saying 'hello' to a dear friend. As I continued my walk, I saw the Sun winking at me from sparkling icicles and diamonds in the snow. Icy puddles became mirrors in the light. My walk became about walking past the shadows of houses and trees to reach the next space of light. Life is like that sometimes --- walking past the shadows and walking thru the shadows to reach the next

Time and time again in mediumship readings . . . those in Spirit confirm: they love us and they want the highest and best for us. And they want us to be happy. Truly happy. Oh, they like being missed. They like knowing that they were and are special. Who doesn't? *smile* But humor aside . . . They don't want us to be so mired down in grief that we don't live our lives. They especially don't want to be the excuse for someone not progressing in life. That's a lot of sadness to lay on them. So take personal responsibility for your Happiness and Unhappiness and find ways to express Joy. Honor them and their memory by realizing how precious Life is, how amazing this opportunity to experience Life is, and share that Joy with Others. Our loved ones in Spirit want us to live joyously and gloriously.

If you are the person who is receiving a mediumship reading and desiring spirit contact, you have a very important job --- CONFIRMATION. This means confirmation either by your own personal knowledge or thru the personal knowledge of another person known to the spirit. During the course of the mediumship reading, you can confirm the information that you know to be true. And some information may require validation after the reading with friends or other family members who are privy to this certain info. Here are some examples of ways in which a spirit may try to validate who they are: The spirit's personality traits or physical characteristics may be described. This is part of what I call the Essence of Spirit . Most spirits are willing to share how they passed with the medium. Sometimes the spirit will give names very clearly or just the initial. Often spirits will give important dates of reference to further validate themselves. They have been known to mention other family members,

We have had SNOW, snow, and more snow. [The good news is that the house doesn't look like an igloo. Yet.] After over two and a half feet of snow, Ole Man Winter decided to take a break from dumping mountains of white stuff on us. And he let Jack Frost take over. Jack gave us some bitter artic temperatures that created ice sculptures on the houses. Huge pillars of ice are reaching twenty feet toward the ground, delicate dribbles of ice create a lacy crystal veil, and a collection of ice spears bend inward toward the house like an row of big teeth. We are surrounded by ice and snow. And we are living in a 'fortress of solitude'. Do you remember Superman's secret hideout in the Artic? It was called 'The Fortress of Solitude'. [Gosh, I sound a little geeky.] Created with the power of a special crystal from Superman's home planet Krypton, the Fortress emerged out of the Artic snow with big juts of ice formations and several smaller ice details. This was Superman&

After a loved one passes, it is common for a grieving person to cocoon for a while. They may withdraw for awhile to regroup and remember. They review memories of their loved one --- the good, the bad, the otherwise. This is an important step. After all, relationships with others help us to discover who we really are. It makes sense that their deaths help us to discover who we really are, too. For some, a loved one's death may jumpstart thoughts about their own mortality, and they may begin to explore their spiritual beliefs and make a more conscious connection with their soul. They may also develop or seek spirit communication with their loved ones in Spirit for evidence of survival after so-called death. Some people have the additional journey of coming to terms with how their loved ones passed (ie. sudden passing, long illness, murder, suicide, accident, etc.) This is normal as well. However, those locked unhappily in the 'how and why did it happen this way' seem to suff

Early in my mediumship development, I noticed that it was sometimes the things that seemed inconsequential to me that had the most meaning for my clients. To further explain, I am referring to the wonderful little tidbits of information that spirits share during a reading that cause a client to exclaim, "Yes! I know what they're talking about!" These statements are usually accompanied with either a fantastic laugh and/or grateful tears. During a mediumship reading, I focus on bringing through the Essence of a Spirit. This establishes who we are connecting with in Spirit by either physical traits or conditions, personality, or other information. With these identifiers in place, a conversation (of sorts) emerges with those in Spirit. Symbols, events, visual or other sensory cues, or funny circumstances may be mentioned. For example, this might take the form of a vision of keys followed by the smell of dog food and the sense that the person in Spirit is laughing at my client

This Sunday, I will be the Featured Speaker and Medium at the Church of the Living Spirit. [My home church! *smile* I've been speaking at and serving at this church for almost 15 years.] Church services are held at the Assembly Hall in Lily Dale, NY at 10:30 a.m. For those of you who are not familiar with a Spiritualist church service, here is a basic outline of events: Lecture from the featured speaker (me, this Sunday) Healing time - opportunity to receive beautiful, channeled energy from one of the healers Messages from Spirit - demonstrations of mediumship are presented by the medium (me, again!) giving short messages to those in the audience Music - songs with live music accompaniment Bonus : This particular Sunday is the church social, known as Medium's Sunday. After the morning church service, join us at the Lily Dale Fire Hall for fellowship, brunch, and/or to register for mini-readings. Lunch is $5 ($2 for children), $7 for mini-reading. Or $10 for both lunch &

Sometimes clients and friends contact me because they are in emotional crisis. When they are in the deepest parts of their misery, they typically refer to it as "a deep, black, and scary hole". This hole seems endless and horribly traumatic. Frequently, they are so locked in a painful loop of their own mental and emotional anguish that they cannot embrace Hope. Many times their feelings are a reaction to: the death of a family member or friend divorce job insecurity or loss of a job financial hardship health concerns and so on The most used word is "crisis". And in response to the "crisis", they are contemplating extreme actions and are seeking external validation of the "right path". Sometimes in mediumship readings, their loved ones in Spirit offer their opinions about a client's situation, but I encourage clients to take time to listen to their own soul. Cultivating a conversation with your soul is vastly important in life. Whether you ar