Chy Does Persephone

Chy is a librarian and mother of four...

Cancer Survivor and Alternative Treament Advocate

Susan Liberty Hall, sister of the late LA Lakers' owner Jerry Buss, former Playboy bunny, author and alternative-medicine-for-breast-cancer-recovery advocate, talks about her new book, "Ha, I Laugh in the Face of Cancer", with me on Healing Wisdom. Listen here: http://womr.org/podcast/cancer-survivor-susan-liberty-hall/

"Location Scouting"

This picture reminds me of a French film from the 60s where there's suddenly a dreamlike tableaux or "series of shots" which seems confusing and out of context. Part dogma, part maude. But the poetic French voice over makes it all okay.

Mais que dire de son imagination? Où était son comeuppance? Pourrait-elle retrouver, dans la stérilité de son monde de banlieue? Voudrait-elle? Son cœur était auxiliaire à son bonheur. Comme tirer un as de pique d'une diseuse de bonne aventure gitane, était son sort de ses mains? Destin a été perdu avec la mer n'est plus une toile de fond pour ses crimes et des craintes? La mer, la mer .... un vieil ami familier, dont elle serait coupée pendant la durée de son humble existence. "

English subtitles read: But what of her imagination? Where was her comeuppance? Could she find it again, in the sterility of her suburban world? Would she want to? Her heart was auxiliary to her happiness. Like pulling a Ace of Spades from a gypsy fortune teller, was her fate out of her hands? Was destiny lost with the sea no longer a backdrop for her crimes and misgivings? The sea, the sea....an old familiar friend, from whom she would be severed for the duration of her humble existence."

Pandora's Jukebox

Check out my music show every 4th Sunday of the Month from 9pm to midnight EST. Here's my playlist from last night...like Cinderella in her glass slippers this will soon disappear.

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Holidaze and Holy Days

Big holiday weekends scare the heck out of me. Mayhaps, that's because I lived on the busiest street in Venice Beach. A million people, was not uncommon number of city folk and tourists reaching their dreamboat destination on a single day. That's a verifiable statistic. Traffic was impossible, so I was oft a shut-in. Not a fan of the beach until I discovered angels and the night. Now, I dig the sandy beaches in daylight hours. Anyhow, I'm numbing up for this weekend's beastly traffic with endorphins, brought on by having two of Hero's friends over for afternoon play and dinner at Cafe Peoples for a hit-and-run-dinner. Three kids is a great number. They've been playing all sorts of imaginary games, flying a kite, hitting the car with a t-ball. Of course, three kids means more leftovers for me. Which is the downside of a surplus of kiddos.

Great holiday weekend for readings! Love my work!

Paris 1900

Erika Wildman and Jessamy Scovil as Parisian stage performers...

And me, feeling my inner Native American man trapped inside a white man trapped inside a white woman...trying to express my inner Sully from Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.



And, me being girly....

Warrior Flapper Goddess: High (Art) Alert

These are from my photoshoot with Zumba Goddess Jessamy Scovil.

The Infamous Can Detox Festival

Red Dead Nettle is an herb that grows like a weed on Cape Cod. I found it in my friend's garden patch, she was about to prepare for planting. We used her phone app to identify it. Discovering that it is purgative, astringent, diaphoretic, and styptic, we decided to harvest it. We dusted it off and made bunches to dry in the sun.

Red Dead Nettle helps against hemorrhaging, assists in reducing fevers, dries phlegm, and increases sweating. Makes a lovely detox tea by itself, but I added two cups of Red Dead Nettle to a quart of water. Brought it to a boil and simmered on low ten minutes. Next, I added two sprigs of Spearmint and two leaves of Greater Celandine to steep another 10 minutes. Add honey for a tasty cup.

Look what other stars are showing up to the yearly parade of botanical couture...

Nettle can't keep his hands off Red Raspberry. We never thought we'd see those two hookup. They are so hot together! I'm a little worried about Red Raspberry though, she's a bit of a midget this year, and we're thinking she's on one of those Paleo vegan diets with absolutely no bat guano or fish bone. Say what? Not even now and then? That girl's got restraint. But she's lookin' fine!

Flowers are in this year. Thank God, wasn't it high time? Good news for Sweet Woodruff. That pattern is just to die for. And she's great infused with cocktails, or so I hear. Wouldn't you like to know. Oh, I think she just batted a petal at us. I feel faint.

Let's face it, a few years ago we would have never thought that Lilies of the Valley would hook up with 5Dolla Garden Hose, but they seem to be really happy. And judging by the rust on his ring nozzle, I'd don't think he's going anywhere.

You should have heard the birdcalls when this lady showed up this morning. Wow, does Lady Slipper know how to make an entrance or what? She's wearing her own scent too. So creative!

Spring is Here!

Back at the homestead, mama and son eat their first al fresco spring meal together under an umbrella in the sprinkling rain. Salad with a generous portion of lox and goat cheese on a bed of strawberries, pear, red bell pepper, avocado, spinach, romaine, onion, grated carrot and beet. Yay, eating at home.

Podcast Interviews with authors Llyn Roberts and Rosemary Gladstar

Llyn Roberts is the author of many books including, "Shapeshifting Into Higher Consciousness". She's the former director of the Dream Change Coalition. She's been fully initiated into shamanic medicine by the Quechua and Tuvan shamans. Her forthcoming book was co-authored with Sandra Ingerman, while she lived in the Hoh Rainforest of the Pacific Northwest. Click here to hear Llyn Roberts talk about shamanic healing: http://womr.org/podcast/shapeshifter-llyn-roberts/

Rosemary Gladstar is called the Godmother of American Herbalism. She is the founder of the California School of Herbal Studies, author of The Science and Art of Herbalism home study course, organizer of the International Herb Symposium and The New England Women's Herbal Conference, co-founder Traditional Medicinal Tea Company, and co-founder of United Plant Savers. She is the author of numerous herb books including the best seller Herbal Healing for Women. Click here to listen: : http://womr.org/podcast/herbalist-rosemary-gladstar/

This Week on Healing Wisdom is Author Shaman Llyn Roberts

Llyn Roberts is the author of "Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness", "Shamanic Reiki", "The Last of the Shor Shamans", "the Good Remembering" and "Spiritual Wisdom of the Altai".

From her website:
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, Co-Founder of the Olympic Mountain EarthWisdom Circle, Llyn Roberts, MA - is an acclaimed teacher of healing and shamanism. A modern-day mystic and spiritual ecologist, her work inspires a deep sense of belonging with the natural world.

Llyn has trained extensively with traditional Andean healers and has beeninitiated into shamanic circles by Quechua peoples in South America, and in Siberia. She received her master’s degree in Tibetan Buddhist and Western Psychology in 1985 at the Naropa University and interned in India through The School for International Training.

Tune into Healing Wisdom this Thursday at 9am on WOMR 92.1 FM, WFMR 91.3 FM, or streaming at womr.org to hear my interview with Llyn Roberts.

Mother's Day at The Optimist Cafe

Using psychic ability to predict the future is something I don't subscribe to because I think that there are many potential outcomes. And if there is in fact one more likely future for us, it's possible that we are not supposed to know what it is. I usually rephrase questions posed about the future when clients give them to me. I ask how to avoid certain pitfalls or what is for the greatest good in a situation. In my psychic work with clients, I ask for wisdom from their angels to come through, for the angels to communicate information or ways to interpret elements in their lives to help them move along their path. Being accurate is less important to me than being helpful. My aim is to support clients' in their intuitive sense, joy, sense of purpose, and help them ask questions, and come to their own conclusions and offer various perspectives which I willingly acknowledge as ethereal and not cold hard facts. I try to offer different framework to help them move along in their journey to a more holistic place and offers lens with which to view tangible things. Someone once said that the best answer to a question is a question, right?

I love my dear husband and son very much, and that is worth more than any present. Why do people even give presents, when love is the best thing in the world to receive? ...Although, someone anonymously paid for our mother-son breakfast today at a cafe. That was so sweet! And it was a very lovely Mother's Day gift. In enabled me to leave our adorable harried waitress a large tip...although he probably had already covered that too. I'm not above the sentimentality of the physical world. I wouldn't doubt that some angel was involved in making that happen.

Despite it being my profession, in my personal life I still have the occasional reservation about speaking about angels, because a common interpretation of people who do so is that they are being imaginative, cloying or sappy. My experience of the angels and those who make it to the other side where they become guardians or spirit guides, is that they have just as much texture in personality essence and diversity in their expression of self as do those who are living. Every angel isn't Glenda, the good witch. They empathically understand the ins and outs of what it is to be human, so they are instep with the egoic journeys of those whom they are assigned to assist. Some swear, cry, laugh, play, act headstrong, get frustrated, and some are mischievous.