Category: Inspiration

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Don’t Cause Permanent Harm Over A Temporary State Of Mind

Brittany Traynor

“My feelings of being in the wrong body started when I was a toddler. I hated girl toys and I only wanted to play with boys, I had short hair and dressed myself like a boy. I didn’t understand other girls my age so I felt out of place.

When someone would mistake me for a boy I would feel so good, much to the chagrin of my older sister who would quickly correct them and exclaim, “that’s my SISTER.” At 4 I worked up the courage to ask my mom, “Does God make mistakes, because I think I was supposed to be born a boy?” My mother replied, “No God doesn’t ever make mistakes, he made you exactly the way you’re supposed to be, a beautiful little girl.”

And that was that. I didn’t have any more delusions because my mom cleared it up for me right then and there. Don’t get me wrong I still didn’t like my body and dreaded growing breasts one day, but I didn’t have to question if there was something wrong with me. I was allowed time to grow up, and once I hit puberty I not only felt like I was in the right body, but I became a girly girl!

If I was born in our society today I know I would have been “affirmed” by my teachers and started on a cascade of interventions that would have left me infertile, mutilated and without the husband and two beautiful children that I have today.
Our kids don’t need to be socially or medically transitioned. They need to be left alone, and they need time to grow up.” ~ Brittany Traynor

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Thrive With Compassion

Thrive With Compassion

Good call Mary, good call! To my readers, I wish this for you. More awareness, more intelligence, more competence. For you and yours.

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Marriage

Marriage

I stood in my bedroom doing my makeup when I heard my parents across the hall in the bathroom. My father was groaning in immense pain and luckily my mother was there to help him. I was a self-absorbed twenty-something at the time—bouncing back and forth between two men like a rubber ball. But this moment between my parents struck me.

My father moaned. “It’s okay, Chris,” my mother said to him. “I’m here.”

That was the start of my father’s painful side effects from his prostate cancer years prior—something that would only get worse with time.

As I leaned toward the mirror, slipping mascara onto my lashes, I heard more grumbling from my father. I froze. I was stuck in their moment with no place to go. I heard a clank in the bathroom. A mess was made out of my father’s control. My mother would be the one to clean it up. “I’m so sorry,” my dad said.

“It’s okay, Chris,” my mom said. “I’m here.”

After I was done with my makeup, I sat on my bed with the door cracked open. While I was nervous about my dad’s health, tears fell onto my jeans because I finally realized something — THIS is marriage.

Marriage isn’t found at the big wedding, the trendy date nights, or even hours spent together on the couch watching Netflix. Marriage is found in the darkness — with one spouse helping the other during a time that would be humiliating to share with anyone else.

As young girls and boys, we watch movies and read stories about happy endings, blissful beginnings, and comedic in-betweens. But true romance is found when two people need each other, are vulnerable with one another, and can wholeheartedly depend on one another during the darkest times in life.

I sat on my bed, and at that moment, I decided to stop bouncing. I wanted my future to look like my parents’—imperfect but beautiful. My parents’ marriage and my marriage have been full of dips and peaks, but witnessing the true love in their moment will forever keep reminding me that marriage is found in the toughest spots in life — even the bathroom.

Credit: Angela Anagnost-Repke, Writer

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Changing Your Mind

Changing Your Mind

This is not wholly true. Sometimes an original datum can remain uninspected, even in a bright person, such that they cannot receive or operate on new, correct data. There is a technique to handle these false datums by helping the individual expose them to view, thus relinquishing their hold on his thinking.

At other times a datum can be given to a person when he is in a state of fear, grief or apathy such that the datum has the power of a hypnotic suggestion.

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You Are Awesome

You Are Awesome

Now if, as soon as you read that, some counter intention to it came into your universe, just reread the line then remind yourself of the last person you helped, the time you overcame an obstacle, the time you attained a goal etc. Keep doing this until you realize you ARE awesome! This civilization rolls along on the backs of people like you and me who do the right things in life. It is impeded by those doing the wrong things. The sooner the 75% of us trying to make it go right get the 25% out of the way, the sooner we can all flourish and prosper.

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How To Save Your Life – Part 2 – Staying Alive

0. Be Prepared.
Whether it is a trucking or petrol strike, a riot or other civil unrest, a local, national or global food shortage, a solar eruption that wipes out the electricity grid, a cyclone, hurricane or tsunami or earthquake, there are any number of reasons you should not be caught without being prepared. As one site says. “The future belongs to those who prepare.”

While you can, go onto Google and research a bugout bag then gather the components you have selected and pack one.

Here is a starter list.

Clothes
Underwear appropriate to your climate and season
A pair of sturdy shoes or boots
2 pairs of socks
Long, strong pants
2 shirts, one short and one long sleeved
Warm, waterproof jacket
Hat
Bandana
Hankerchief
Rain covering
Spare specatacles

Water
1 litre per person per day
Means to purify collected water (coffee filters, colloidal silver or iodine drops or iodine tablets)

Food
At least enough MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) for 3-7 days
Comfort food
Pet food if you are taking them

Shelter
A tent or two 3m x 3m tarps, one for over and one under, to stay dry
Sleeping bag or pad and blankets

First Aid Kit
Bandaids
Bandages of various sizes
Gauze
Sticking plaster
Scissors
Dropper
Cotton balls
Instruction booklet
Honey (antibacterial, antimicrobial, throat soother)
Petroleum jelly
Imodium (for diarrhea)
Aspirin or Panadol
Tweezers
Safety pins
Hip flask of alcohol for anesthetic or antiseptic

Heat
Have 3 ways to start a fire. Here’s 4:
Waterproof matches
lighter
9 volt battery and fine steel wool
FireSteel and scraper

Cooking
Minimally a large cup or small pot to boil water, ideally a camp or scout stove
Pot scraper/cleaner
Spoon, knife and fork
Plate
Bowl

Light
At least 2 flashlights and backup batteries
Ideally a light with a hand crank so it can be recharged
Candles

Tools
Survival knife
Leatherman Multitool or Swiss army knife
Good scissors
Sewing kit
Gem saftey razors

Weapon
Hand gun or rifle
Ammunition

Toiletries
Soap
Shampoo
Tooth brush
Tooth paste
Washer
Toilet paper
Towel
Cotton buds
Sunscreen
Toothpicks
Dental floss

Miscellaneous
Cash
ID (License, passport)
Medical records
Sturdy duffle bag or back pack large enough to hold contents of bug out bag
Paper
Pencils
Fishing line
Ziplock bags
WD-40
Plastic garbage bags
Packs of normal cards
Pack of Canasta cards
Other games
AM/FM Radio
Mobile phone
2 way and or short wave radio

Make a diary note to check the kit each 3 months to make sure it is present, accessible and the components are operational and unspoiled by storage. Do not store the batteries in the torches or radio as they can corrode the terminals. Swap out the batteries each time you check your kit.

Formulate an emergency preparedness plan with your family and friends so that each knows what to do in the event of an emergency. Once a year, drill it. This should include a local and remote rendezvous point.

Improve your communication skills. It is better to talk than fight your way out of a fight.

Do a first aid course. They are cheap and held frequently.

If you are able to and of a mind to do so, procure and learn how to handle weapons.

Learn a marshal art.

1. Be aware.
Be informed of the truth and lies, learn who are the players and who are the pieces in the game of life as it is being played on the crazy planet. Be aware that most people are broken pieces, not up to being a piece or a player.

Be aware of the game plan of your opponent, their strategic plan and their tactics as well as the mechanisms by which the players and pieces operate.

Do not spend all your time doing the above. Do it only to a point that you know the scene then spend a minimal amount of time each week keeping abreast ofthe current scene so you are “in the loop” but not so much it is all encompassing or enturbulating (upsetting) you. Remember, the bad guys have power only to enturbulate. That is their game, to enturbulate. Don’t play their game. Do not allow yourself the luxury of becoming enturbulated.

2. Spread the word.
Inform others who are awake so they too are aware of the above. If this is your calling and you can afford to do so, by all means make this your full time activity. Otherwise restrict your time involvement so you can play your main game.

3. Pick your game.
Decide what game you will play that is pro survival for you, your family, your groups and society and the other life forms and the environment. It should be something about which you are passionate. If you don’t know what it is and cannot easily figure it out, contact me. If I am no longer around, look around for someone else who is playing a pro-survival game to which you could enthusiastically contribute your time and energy and help them play their game better.

4. Identify your allies and opponents.
Find out who is a potential ally – who playing the same game you have picked to play. Connect with them and see how you could leverage each other’s assets.

Discover who are your apparent and underlying opponents. Identify non-aligned parties who could be swayed either way and find out what they are wanting to accomplish.

5. Do everything feasible to not play the game of your opponent.
Once you know who they are, identify their game plan, formulate your own and decide what you can do to not participate in their game. Determine your own course of action. Opt out of the group think. If “everyone is doing it”, investigate doing the opposite.

6. Play hard to win.
Once you have identified the opponent, understand their game plan, have your own game and once you are no longer supporting or playing your opponent’s game, put the pedal to the metal on your game!

Wheat berries
buckwheat
rye
barley
oat groats
millet
sesame
brown rice
flax
corn
alfalfa
lentils
mung beans
almonds