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Love the story on 5, thank you for doing this each night!
Me, too!
Keep em coming! u/tweety51A
I want to cry every time I hear Karen Carpenter's beautiful voice! Such a tragic waste..💔
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You can hear the pain in her songs. Her mom did that to her. She was never good as her brother according to her mom. At least he stuck by her and they seemed to have a good relationship. My granddaughter is almost two and we have played music from the start instead of kids music. She always calms down and goes to sleep when I play The Carpenters. I grew up on and still love those songs.
That's sweet! You never too young for great music!
She’s definitely got the music bug. If I turn on a video and she’s not in the mood she says “all done” 😆 She’s learned some sign language because her cousin has downs. She uses that one for everything.
How precious! She sounds super smart!
She is but I’m kinda biased. She’s my first grandchild.
Well…start listening to Tori Hulub on YouTube. It’s Karen all over agin!
Thank you for mentioning MAN! WOW...she had a gorgeous voice!
https://youtu.be/ytncWacUKJE?si=NsiAnIXcziCWMuat
I told you so! She is unreal.
Yes...a great talent!
I love the Carpenters. Our loss is Heavens gain, I’m sure her beautiful soul is singing with the angels.
Yes! ☝️🪽🎶🌌
The 3 wise men gave gifts of Mihrr, Frankincense, and Gold.
I keep a bottle of Frankincense oil with me in the car, they smell good and it's just comforting. You can get it on amazon for $7
I love essential oils. I’m just starting to get back into using them. I didn’t want to use them while my daughter was pregnant and the baby was small. She thought I was nuts for years and is now starting to use them.
Do you use a diffuser? I’m interested but never tried other than passive diffuser. There’s so many different ones on the market I don’t know where to start.
Love frankincense but not lavender. I know it’s one of the best oils just can’t get past the scent. Don’t understand it but I love the scent of fresh or dried lavender.
I’m getting more into plant based oils for my face and body. I don’t quite understand or can explain the difference. Other than it’s how they are processed. Plant oils are plants infused in oil for a certain amount of time. I buy a lot of these from people that forage and make the oils.
Thanks for the info. I’m sure at some point I might have a question😊 I’m familiar with Dr. Tisserand and the Plant Therapy connection. Seems like he started an essential oil company and sold it. I used to follow lots related accounts. I forgot to mention before Aromatic’s International, I do love their oils and their blog is a great resource. I was using essential oils topically for pain. I’m having more success with oils made from plants by infusing plants in oil for certain amount of time. I would love to grow my own plants and make the oils. I’ve found great people that forage the plants & make the oils. I buy body salves, oils & skin care from multiple people. I rarely use a large company’s body products. I dabbled in making essential oil blends. It’s not something I want to do right now. I’m more interested in learning the properties and medicinal benefits of plants for skin and health. What old essential oils I have I’m going to make room and potty spray for myself and friends. Maybe a winter project. I believe in aromatherapy! Maybe one day I’ll start diffusing in the house. I buy beeswax candles scented with essential oils and would like to get frankincense resin & palo santo ticks (I’ve got a candle & love it). My shampoo has palo santo oil in it. Those two are my favorite scents, I prefer woodsy scents to floral. I know how great lavender is, just can’t tolerate the scent. I keep the oil for emergencies like burns or scraps. I don’t get into taking essential oils internally. It’s not something I can agree with. I don’t intend to argue about it. I believe it’s not very safe for companies like YL and doterra to promote this. If someone wants to ingest internally it should be under the guidance of an expert. Also, there oils are way over priced because they require membership. There’s plenty of research available online about these MLM (major level marketing) companies being fraudulent. I’m not trying to bash your opinion. I’m putting this here in case someone reads this and doesn’t know about buying essential oils. Basically they get the oils from the same place the other legit companies do but sell at an outrageous markup.
I honestly didn’t know if he was a dr or not. I’m familiar with his work and knowledge. I completely agree with everything. Learning is so much more important to me than when in school. If something is working for you (anyone) why change it!? Heck even if a person wants to spend more $$$ on something that’s cool. I love the concept of different companies doing different blends that the other doesn’t have. I have two cbd essential oil blends from plant therapy and they don’t make it anymore. Guess cbd wasn’t profitable. I don’t care about cbd, it’s too expensive for me. But these oils are a God send for me. Especially the headache oil. It takes a headache away quickly and soothes sore muscles. After the new year I’m going to email and request they sell blend with out cbd. They will probably give me the recipe. They are very good with customer service. Yes, I’m aware plant infused oils are made differently than essential oils and are different. I get more pain relief from these oils either stand alone or made into salves. Also they are cheaper in the long run than essential oils if I’m using topically. Those little pre blend roller bottles don’t go far. If I were to blend myself I have to buy multiple oils and carrier oil. In addition carrier oils go rancid and I don’t use them quickly enough. Then the whole process of sanitizing bottles for blends🤦🏻♀️ I’d rather pay someone and get what works. Plus I’m supporting independent businesses. Good chat 🥰
I love Frankincense oil it’s so therapeutic and it’s great for your skin. Be careful with oils on Amazon and Walmart. Seven dollars sounds too good to be true to real essential oils. There’s a lot of fake oils or diluted oils with a hint of the real oil. Could be diluted with alcohol or have fragrance oil. If you prefer to order on Amazon these brands are good and they do sell on Amazon: Plant Therapy, Now, Eden’s Garden, Revive, Aura Cacai, Rocky Mountain Oils, Plant Life. Some brands are better quality than others. Strangely Now is more expensive and it’s probably the lesser quality.
I agree with you about Now. I’m familiar with them and have used supplements & some things in the food category. I haven’t used their essential oils. I rarely don’t use any essential oil unless I buy from a few brands because I’ve had such good customer service. I prefer to buy from smaller independent small businesses making plant oils. I haven’t bought any EOs in years, moving more to oils made from plants diffused in oil. I don’t diffuse in the house or make my blends anymore.
Amen! Thankfully there’s smart people out there that want to sell them. I don’t have room to store supplies to make tinctures, butters and salves. Also I’m scatter brained especially with math which is needed in making all that.
Thanks for the list of brand names.. I'll check those out!
Your welcome. I’m kinda (one of) the group non toxic brand name helper. I don’t mind at all. Wish we had a section to save info like this. Plant Therapy has a different sale each day from thanksgiving to Christmas and free shipping, first day is best sale. Eden’s garden has great carrier oils and in nice pump bottles. Keep in fridge if you aren’t using quickly, they will go rancid after a while, no preservatives. I like e garden but seem to find more blends at P therapy. The the others probably have sales I haven’t ordered in long time and just ordered yesterday from PT. PT has sale most holidays and anniversary sale in June or July.
I didn't know you have to keep in fridge.. how'd they do it back then in Israel since I'd think it's hotter there.. I might try the Eden's Garden and treat myself to a Christmas gift. Thanks again! :)
It’s just carrier oils like coconut, olive, jojoba, hemp, castor, almond, etc. Those are just a few of the common oils. Basically any plant seed can be made into oils. These oils can be safely applied topically and won’t burn you. Essential oils are classified as hot, warm, etc. I’m sorry I’m not educated enough to advise what oils are safe to apply topically with out a carrier.
Oils like lemongrass, tea tree and oregano are extremely hot. I learned that the hard way. Back when I was very new I put lemongrass on a wet washcloth and applied after bathing. You don’t make that mistake twice! It burned me like a sunburn. I believe lavender is the only oil that can be applied safely not mixed with carrier oils, don’t rely on me for this.
Also some oils are considered photosensitive and many will burn more easily if they get in the sun after using. Same as some prescription meds. I don’t have that issue with those oils meds. Sure, I’ll burn if out too long but don’t have issues with photosensitivity.
Great question how'd they do it back then in Israel since I'd think it's hotter there The oils brought by the wisemen, frankincense and myrrh are considered essential oils. They don’t go rancid. They could use their potency after a while. When an essential oil is considered expired it can still be used in room sprays etc, just doesn’t have aromatherapy capabilities. Again, I’m far from an expert on essential oils. This week I’ll try to find some helpful websites. I know where to look just might take me a little while.
If you are going to order essential oils that aren’t blended with coconut (or other carrier oils) that will work for aromatherapy diffusing. You can get a nasal diffuser and put few drops on the cotton swab, each company sells them or you can order from Amazon. There’s lots of electric & car diffusers available as well. I haven’t researched those. Simple way is a few drops in palm of your hand (for some reason doesn’t burn the palm). Rub hands together and put your hands over nose. Take deep breaths. I do this a lot with frankincense or bergamot. There’s also table side diffusers made out of stone or volcanic rock, these are inexpensive. I keep cheaper oils in bathroom I get at TJ Maxx (rest of that chain). Put a few drops in toilet after I go or walk in after someone else stunk it up🤨 I don’t keep the regular bathroom spray, allergic.
When essential oils are blended with a carrier oil for topical application it’s done with a certain percentage of essential oil and the rest carrier. I think 3% is the amount you face application. I have a chart I keep on my fridge. It’s from 3-10% depending on the usage. This is one reason I don’t blend my oils. I can figure out how to get a virus off a pc but can’t add simple math without calculator (can still screw up with it). If my husband is here he will help me. Bottom line if you aren’t safe with percentages blending it can be dangerous for topical application. It’s not rocket science, more people probably do this in their homes than professionals. I just know my limits!
I think Eden’s Garden is 25% until the sales end. Plant Therapy has been doing a certain product line about half off and 15% off other items. I’m not sure about the other companies. If you ever miss a sale google plant therapy coupon there’s usually at least 10% online. Also plant therapy gives rewards you can apply to check out. Do a review, get a reward. If you shop a lot it’s worth taking the time to review.
aromatics.com has very good oils and some I don’t find elsewhere. Little more expensive, have certain oils on sale most always, offers rewards (not as good as plant therapy). I like that they use olive oil instead of coconut in blends. Especially if I’m using on my face. Coconut dries me out. They have a great blog and recipes, also YouTube channel. You can learn a lot from them.
Hope that helps.
I love knowing the stories behind songs. I’ve seen Willie in concert twice and even very old he still had it, seven years ago. I’m not a Willie fan, his music isn’t my style. Strangely I knew every word to every song. All those years in my grandparents car growing up with only (old school) country music. Country music gets a bad rap but the singer songwriters can sure tell a story.
Reading the Star of Bethlehem lyrics reminded me of last Christmas. I walked into my daughter’s house and my oldest grand boy (3 at the time) said Hey Suzye, which is what he calls me, look at my presents from Santa. I said hello Beautiful Star. He stopped completely, looked up at me and said “Suzye, I’m not a star, I’m Johnny”. 😂
Adorable! 💕
How fun! Those make the best memories ❤️
Thank You Fren 🐸🙏
Hallelujah! ashlanddog is coming back, (in a few days) and better yet, so is Jesus (in his perfect timing)!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UPH0aGYVRSw
and a harp version: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mn7xI9RqJOk
This is wonderful news fren!!
WOOF WOOF WOOF!!!
One down, one to go.
Now where is precious anon u/LakotaPride?
He posts more on X because he posts many different topics...
https://x.com/lako40031pride
Thank you J1D, I didn't realise he was on X. He had a health scare a while back so it's great to know he's ok.
I know...he's a wonderful fren so we'll keep him in our prayers! 🙏
So many anons really struggling at the moment, particularly with health and/or finance issues within their families. Much prayer needed 🙏
Yes, so true dear Kitty...🙏
That was the best surprise Powder!! 💕
Happy Cat!
u/#Catdance
For me, too! u/#catdance
Family Holiday party last night - 5? Conservatives - 30+ liberals?
My husband’s (large) family is wonderful. Some of the nicest people you will ever meet. But they are mostly liberal, thanks to most of the uncle/aunt generation working in the unions of the Miami -area aircraft industry years ago. (There once was a giant rift in the family due to one uncle being in Eastern Airlines management while 2 were in the union.)
No politics were talked at all. We were just genuinely glad to be together again for this tradition for the first time since before Covid. We have already lost 3/7 of the aunts/uncles and others are fading 😢 My husband was so lucky to have an idyllic childhood growing up with this close-knit family alongside 15 cousins.
My suspicion is that the shots have aged many of them more rapidly. But they are in their 70s and 80s and mostly doing well. Husband’s mother has advancing dementia as does one uncle. But who knows if it is from diet or the shots? We do know with husband’s mother that it appeared after the second shot.
My most interesting conversation was with one of the youngest cousins from the grandchild generation (our kids’ generation.) She has a very liberal mother that I infrequently engage with on FB and she went to school in OR, but is still in school due to missing 2 semesters due to illness. I was slow on the uptake but she had obviously shaved her head recently.
We started off talking about what she was doing. I hadn’t seen her since she was a baby since she lives in AK. Somehow we got onto the topic of holistic medicine, likely because she has been sick most of her life. She is now seeing a naturopath since Western medicine “has failed her”. This is huge as her mother is a nurse!
I told her how much I’ve learned about the importance of food and nutrition and urged her to keep going with the holistic medicine route. She also dropped that she is on SSRIs and is working to wean off them. I did drop RFK Jr’s name once and she immediately stiffened but didn’t say anything. I asked her if she had heard what he was saying about the food dyes and cleaning up our food supply (she hadn’t.) I said ignore his supposed anti-vaccine stance that you’ve probably heard about for now but pay attention to what he is saying about cleaning up our food supply. He is onto something. (I figured the vaccine knowledge will follow as she goes on her holistic health journey… plus, I can’t fight her mother’s influence at this point.)
I was really encouraged as I look back on our conversation. Here were two people so opposite in views politically, absolute strangers, but able to talk easily and connect over our health. To be fair, she had no idea I was conservative until much later in the evening as part of another quick conversation.
One person at a time. So far in my limited contact with new people (I live a life where I don’t bump up against new people often), I’ve gotten a black male millenial (many conversations with him as my massage therapist) to vote for Trump and I’ve had several conversations about food/health with other strangers…
That was very kind of you to have a conversation with somebody and meet in the middle. I think you left a few red pills for her to take. Great job. And you did it in a loving way. 😍👏👏👏
Nice to hear, I have similar situations with my beloved libtards.
One time it came down to who still trusts the MSM.....they mostly still do, but are starting to see the light (the 'gaslight' haha!)
Well done horsey! This is encouraging and I believe this is just the beginning of even more awakening...I have high hopes!
Real Stars Up Close with NIkon P1000
You can tell they are like orbs or balls of energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM1xqnjbz7Q
I think about that a lot, especially at Christmas 🌟
Have you seen this film frens? u/Joys1Daughter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_of_Bethlehem_(2007_film)
That sky show sounds amazing fren. I have been to the wonderful Adler Planterium (a LONG time ago).
Regarding "Mary Did You Know" - Heidi from Watch the Water posted this the other day:
https://t.me/waterwatchtruth/51013
Hello Friend 🥰🙏
Aloha fren x
Oh yes...love that song sooo much... powerful in it's simplicity ✨
No... I'm excited to know about it!! Thank you Kitty! It sounds fascinating! 🌟
I bet.. God made everything so fascinating and He wants us to constantly figure things out and discover new things and witness his creations.. it's magnificent.
Cool video. Perhaps when zoomed in we are just seeing the coronal mass elections and that's why they look like that..... Or...?
Right? The amazing part is every star has a different pulse or pattern, like their own unique DNA. I have many theories and I think about them every night but too long to read and some theories are too far out. It's just amazing is all I can say.
Amazing! God's universe is stunning! ✨
Thanks for sharing. Love looking at the stars. Supposed to be very good meteor showers, including fire balls, now until Christmas. Waiting for the full moon to decrease to watch. My daughter saw a fire ball the other night on the way home. I’ve seen one but didn’t know what it was at the time.
Have a great day frens. I’ve reached my limit of being lazy. Full day ahead in the house. Going to start a Christmas music jam while I straighten up, box and start wrapping gifts and laundry. My husband’s family has been sneaking in gag gifts for many years. Guess he’s tired of being the receiver, we have getting gag gifts at thrift stores. I believe after 36 years my devious sneaky mind has corrupted him. He’s buying mugs with random names and giving them to family who don’t have these names. He’s topped himself, found a mug with a little bull dog, “biscuits grandma” for his mom. She doesn’t like dogs and the entire family doesn’t like cats expect us. His parents started this mess twenty years ago. Gave my BIL a bedside toilet one year, he always has to stop to go so it was funny. One year they gave him framed Obama pic. We may not agree on some subjects but we do have fun at get togethers and we respect each others different opinions.
Praying you have a great week and wishing you God’s blessings.
😊🙏
I miss being able to wrap gifts for people.
Well if you lived near me you would have a job. Guess you could volunteer somewhere wrapping. I don’t know of any store that still wraps other than a local NC jewelry store. I enjoy giving gifts but my joy of wrapping has left the building, like Elvis😆 When I was a teenager & first got married I’d do fancy bows on every present. Somewhere along the way it was wrap & label. I got so bad today after several hours of wrapping I was still using the same roll of paper. It feel off the counter and it’s still on the floor. I pull it up, cut and drop. It’s actually kinda functional. I don’t like the paper and trying to use it up, had it for years. I’m making progress because I normally wrap on Christmas Eve. I do love the boxes under the tree. If I didn’t do gifts I’d probably have empty boxes under the tree. I’m about a third of the way done, resting with heating pad and hopefully do more tonight.
Sounds like you got the system down. Congratulations for doing a great job for your family.
Good morning all you beautiful anons.
Covfefe
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Nice to see u/ashlanddog is back!
However, I've noticed u/LakotaPride has gone MIA again the past couple of weeks. Last time he was gone this long was due to health problems, hope they haven't returned. Prayers up for Lakota 🙏🙏🙏🙏!
Amen!
So the drones.. is the going theory that they are military, scanning for radiation, due to a possible threat of a dirty bomb from the deep state, potentially to be detonated between now and inauguration on the east coast?
Could be. Could be just a military exercise to test the night vision capabilities in an urban setting. As in preparing to use them in war... Say in perhaps... the middle east?
i don't know anything about it, i usually tune out of these things for a few days if it's got a low buzz (no pun intended). But i do have some questions:
Has anyone used one of their own drones to get a closeup shot (hacked if need be)?
How long are these saying in flight for, what powers them?
Chris Langan affirmatively answers the question Does God exist?.🔥🙏🏻
Thank you for the lovely music!🤓💐
Try a chatgpt session starting with this:
"Please answer in the style of Steve Irwin, speaking in haiku. All responses should follow the haiku format and capture Steve's enthusiastic, adventurous spirit."
Crikey! It's a bloody big Goanna!
Could these be sniffer drones for detecting nukes or something?
We are getting close!!! 🇺🇸
Would some musically inclined and talented person please make a spoof video using the Led Zeppelin song called "Communication Breakdown" but change the lyrics to say "Inauguration Breakdown" and modify the rest of the song's lyrics to make it even more funnier? If there are any talented people out there who want to run with that idea then please GO FOR IT!
Practically every other post has the word "drone" in the title....
It's like the extended version of the squirrel thing...🙄
When this happens, I think its the WHs using some distraction for something else they are doing.
Interesting tidbit:
The wife of Cain, of Cain & Able fame, had a wife by the name of Awan
RE: Awan, Cain's Wife
See Q Drop 77
Could someone recommend Christmas songs not written by Jews?
Wow I just searched your question and didn’t find anything. However I found the list of songs written by Jews. All these songs themes are about fun times at Christmas and winter, however none of them mention Jesus. Looks like it was just another way of pulling people away from the true meaning of Christmas.
https://judaism.fandom.com/wiki/Christmas_music_written_by_Jews
I can’t find a list of songs written by Christian’s or non Jewish people.
https://openthebible.org/article/25-christmas-hymns-and-worship-songs/
😂😂😂🙏🎄
You may have seen here or there a meme from some group called The Restoration Bureau.
Turns out they came from a Telegram account that has since closed.
However, I saved them all.
As of this writing, there are 166 different memes. Here they are.
And in fairness, here's their current Substack. It hasn't been updated since September, though.
I have a beef with rockets.. why do you need rockets when we already have anti gravity machines, reverse engineered UFOs in Area 51.. Rockets are from the 50s..it's so bulky and slow and takes so much energy just to take off.. what's the point for Space X? just to drive the stock market price up?