Jessamina's Blog

Delightful Apple Pie! Step One : Get on your Motorcycle and head out to the local orchard on a picture perfect day. Make sure to fill your sidecar w/as many Competent pickers as you can comfortably manage. Step 2 : Get your team on board for tasting and picking the best apples. Step 3 :get them home and wash them well..(the apples & the kids) Step 4 : make some Awesome Apple pie Filling for 1 pie Cut up 5-8  apples (depending on size) we used; mcCoun, gala, and honeycrisp Saute in a large skillet w/ 3-4 tbsp butter Add 1/2 cup sugar Add some shakes of cinnamon.. Keep shuffling those apples around until they are so fragrant you must taste it (around 7 minutes).. It's probably done. Step 5 : Pour it out of the skillet on to a cookie sheet to cool to room temperature. What you've got is the perfect consistancy now for ( Step 6 )pouring into your favorite double pie crust. Or on top of ice cream, or inside pastry puffs, or on your oatmeal. Anyway.....

Reiki translated: REI-Spritually Guided KI-Life Force Energy "spiritually Guided Life Force Energy"... that's it! Not a religion or a belief, a power that you can direct and use.. Accessed through an attunement process, that was passed down to me through my father; a Reiki-Master-Teacher in both the Usui and Kuruna Systems of Reiki. Now I've been attuned to the Master-Teacher level in the Usui tradition, which means I can "turn on" the Reiki in others through an attunement process, and practice Reiki at a very high energetic level. Reiki is a form of energy healing that is very easy to learn and use. It activates and energizes the crown, heart, and hand chakras to direct  "universal life force energy" into another person. When you connect with the Reiki "ray" you are also receiving reiki right through these chakras as well..i find that the more time I spend in the Reiki "ray" the more I feel connected to source, my guides,...

Marie Frey, passed this September.. She was Birth midwife for my little Ryder James two years ago..Her crossing has brought back memories, some fond, some challenging.. Marie was a creative thinker..she kept having me switch 'pushing positions' until the 'Key'(his head) fit through the 'lock''(my Birth canal!) She also suggested that Anthony get in the bed with me..He was behind me supporting me as I found the position to best birth my boy, Ryder ..beautiful.. She was so compassionate too…When me, hubby, and baby were separated after the birth, there was a (3 hour!) gap between my birth-time and the time when I could be in a recovery room w/baby..(Due to an understaffed “transport” dept.) Marie offered to take me herself in the wheelchair to the post partum floor..the nurses wouldn’t allow it..but still.. These things meant a lot to me as I was a crying hormonal feral mama all alone in that delivery room...I am grateful for her compassion and expert...

The Postpartum period for a new mama is crucial.. Ideally her house is clean, her sheets and pj's smell yummy, there is plently of comforting foods and fresh fruits in the fridge... Any visitors that come should bring her food, visit a short while, and clean something.  Folding laundry, or playing with her other kids is fine too.. Everyone that passes new-momma-goddess on the couch or bed should ask her if she needs anything. If she says no, go get her some water. She's really busy adjusting to her new role as mother (of 1, 2, 3, or 4 etc. children) She's figuring out how her baby feels constantly..(hungry, tired, cold, scared, comfortable, curious) Her hormones are wacking out.. She needs help and doesn't want to ask you (or yell at you, or cry while she's talking) Her boobs are taking up alot of space. (in her mind, in her baby's mind, in her husband's mind, in the bed, in her bra)...maybe ask, "how are the girls?" Can you o...

Here's a flourless chocolate cake recipe from the Goddess of Culinary Delights, Sister Goddess Rosemary ( paisanovich@yahoo.com for more recipes!)..We've all been so curious about it! 1 pound semisweet chocolate (I like Lindt 70%), coarsely chopped 1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2 inch cubes, plus 1/2 Tbsp. 1/4 cup Kahlua 8 large eggs 1/4 cup sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 1/2 tsp salt Confectioners' (10x) sugar or cocoa powder for garnish. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Using 1/2 tbsp butter, grease a 9-inch springform pan & line bottom with parchment paper. Cover pan underneath & along sides with foil and set it in a roasting pan. Bring a medium saucepan of water to boil. Comibine the chocolate, butter & Kahlua either in a metal bowl or use the top of a double boiler & set it on top of the simmering water. Melt the mixture, stirring until smooth & crealy, about 5 minutes. Reserve. In another bowl, combine eggs, sugar, van...

I PRAISE THE DANCE... I praise the dance, for it frees people from the heaviness of matter and binds the isolated to community. I praise the dance, which demands everything: health and a clear spirit and a buoyant soul. Dance is a transformation of space, of time, of people, who are in constant danger of becoming all brain, will, or feeling. Dancing demands a whole person, one who is firmly anchored in the center of his life, who is not obsessed by lust for people and things and the demon of isolation in his own ego. Dancing demands a freed person, one who vibrates with the equipoise of all his powers. I praise the dance. O (wo)man, learn to dance, or else the angels in heaven will not know what to do with you... -- Saint Augustine

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. -Albert Einstein Does this make you feel better? Sometimes I feel foolish while I heed the urgings of my intuition.. Doubt it. Make light of it.. Commit the sin of making fun of it out loud, to protect my dignity. Sometimes it feels as if it's lack of faith to admit that you feel unsafe, pay for insurance, following an unfounded hunch..Or is it? Preventing a problem, preparing for change, or securing safety is an invisible act. It is a craft, an art, and should be honored as such..our destiny is in pondering our truths and co-creating with these laws.. You are a genius, divine woman... a goddess.