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I know, I know... it's been a while since I have popped into Fubar and said hello to my friends near and dear to my heart and I just wanted to let everyone know just how much I have missed you all!
As the days, weeks, months passed, I have thought of many often, spoken to many on the phone and even had the chance to visit with a few close by and must say I am grateful for your friendship, encouragement and support while I spread my wings and do what I must.
This past winter has been full of new and exciting things as well as many challenges. I had to make some hard core decisions as to how to best utilize my limited time in this existence and have been extremely occupied with life outside the box.
The Humanity Healing Network and the Daily OM have become a focus along with learning and teaching, becoming more active in my community and working hard with the powers that be (political, corporate and community alike) to make a change in the way we as human beings think and do business.
Helping Hands and Second Harvest Food Banks in my vicinity has been a worthy cause of which I donate much of my time these days since the economic crisis has hit hard on the Space Coast. Many who had wonderful jobs have been laid off, downsized and are in serious peril of losing their homes... not because they fell into any housing scam or bought more than they could afford since many have been paying their mortgages til they became unemployed and jobs are non existent. Unemployment only goes so far and after 10, 15 or 20 years goes by of steady work, no one wants to pay the salaries or hire older individuals to do what experience has trained them to do. Sad but true, Florida is a "Right to Work" state that has employees at the mercy of employers. I know of two engineers that are lucky to be waiting tables and another that has taken a position as a "Maintenance Engineer" for a local hotel. Such wasted talent...
Another area of concentration has been trying to get Camp Sister Spirit off the grid and entirely self sufficient however, the Director of CSSFS has been battling severe depression and I gave her a choice of being taken for professional help or just do as she wants and just up and leave or do herself in. Thankfully she saw my determination and is getting professional assistance and taking a break in a place that can provide for her needs.
Helping another friend who is paying her debt to society for past transgressions has encountered other challenges with regard to her children and family relationships and I have taken up providing counsel to them on a daily basis and dealing with legal mumbo jumbo has enlightened me as to how unjust many laws truly are. Fighting a legal system that is corrupt and money hungry is no small task so it's one day at a time.
Another of my pet projects has been working with the West Virginia and Kentucky area to stop mountaintop removal for coal mining. The atrocities that have been allowed under the former administration has poisioned many fresh water supplies, endangered the well being of children and adults alike and had transformed the majestic mountains along the Appalachian Trail into pits of despair and streams of sludge. iLoveMountains.org has been instrumental in getting to the Obama administration and since March, we have has several favorable rulings to end this insanity.
I am also in the midst of collaborating on a new book of inspiration and assisting my husband with his book - a tale based on historical and archeological data of which is time consuming but well worth the effort as we work together strengthening the bond between us (as well as testing it from time to time).
The passing winter has gone and with Spring, new seeds are planted and growing nicely in the gardens as well as within my own self. I just hope that each and every one of us reaps what we sow and our "seeds" are spread for the greater good of every and all.
Missing you and keeping you in my thoughts, words and deeds my friends. Brightest Blessings to All and may the powers that be shine brightly in your hearts, minds, bodies and spirits.
Namaste,
Your friend, Lady Victoria
