http://braintissue.today.com Just another Today.com weblog Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:26:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My husband suffered a massive heart attack Christmas week of last year. In that time he has managed to apply for SSI and be denied and now we are smack in the middle of an appeal, an appeal that he is scared will be yet another denial. I ... http://braintissue.today.com/2009/08/07/the-social-security-madhouse/ I think it was yesterday that I became completely faithless in the way that things are shaping up in this country. Everything is ass-backward and the wrongest of the wrong are the ones being bailed out. Meanwhile, people are still losing their livelihoods, their homes, their families. I ... http://braintissue.today.com/2009/08/07/still-just-a-rat-in-a-cage-no-job-yet-but-if-you-wanna-buy-some-candles/ Marijuana is a safe alternative to pharmaceuticals available by prescription by a medical doctor. In some cases, Marijuana is still illegal, even though it has never been shown to cause the same dangers as do many of the other, traditional and presumed safer-because-they-are-FDA-approved drugs most doctors prescribe to their patients ... http://braintissue.today.com/2009/08/04/marijuana-is-illegal-but-it-is-ok-to-od-on-opiates-right/ I am in the middle of a long, drawn out spiritual lesson, and though I might complain a lot through it all, the truth is that at the end of it I will be stronger, wiser and one step closer to being my Authentic Self than I was before my ... http://braintissue.today.com/2009/07/21/the-luminous-heart-the-dual-nature-of-our-lessons/ Ever felt like somehow God forgot that you were part of the world and that it was never fun that you go through what you go through? It was never meant that we were supposed to suffer without learning something about that suffering we went through. Hello, I am the Black ... http://braintissue.today.com/2009/07/15/the-luminous-heart-special-black-sheepyou-are-not-alone/ When thinking about the life lessons we are taught, we try to block out those painful things we are going through and replace them with things that are a bit more comforting to think about. What we are not realizing is that the trials we go through and keep on ... http://braintissue.today.com/2009/07/15/the-luminous-heart-that-ton-of-bricks-that-keeps-falling-on-your-head-2/ The world is chock full of unhappy people who have a lot of money. It is very possible to be rich and unhappy, and it all boils down to knowing what you are supposed to be doing with your life versus what it is that you are doing for your ... http://braintissue.today.com/2009/07/07/the-luminous-heart-when-what-you-are-supposed-to-do-is-obvious/ Over the course of time we learn things about ourselves through others. Though it is painful, we all grow out of relationships, and sometimes this does not mean that we grow out of them and abandon them, but that we grow out of what they have grown into. It is ... http://braintissue.today.com/2009/07/05/the-luminous-heart-growing-out-of-our-relationships-and-back-into-them/ The news was very hard on everyone. We'd seen much come and go...mostly go, but this time was rough. The pain is real. The loss is huge. I have not cried this much in many years, and perhaps the tears were more to quell the aching in my own soul, and ... http://braintissue.today.com/2009/06/27/the-luminous-heart-a-proper-goodbye/ Saying goodbye to our childhood icons is never easy. Though I cannot say that I was never a fan of Michael  Jackson, I can say that I was not so crazy about his weirdness over the last few years. I never pretended that I was ever Fawcett's Charlie's Angels character (I ... http://braintissue.today.com/2009/06/25/childhood-overthe-passings-of-farrah-fawcett-michael-jackson-and-ed-mcmahon/