Author: Cyndi Lenz
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Weekly Photo: NOW
Now Right NOW I’m sitting and looking at my pretty tree. When I first moved here I didn’t even bother. Too much drama of the past. I have worked Christmas for the past 6 years. It gave other nurses a chance to enjoy their holidays. I’d like to say it was meaningless. It wasn’t. It…
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A Christmas Wish for you guys

I just wanted to wish you all Happy Holidays! May your family feel the love, peace, and joy that come with the spirit of Christmas. It’s a been a good year and I am so grateful. Why I wish for the coming year and is that we can talk to each other and not be…
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Happy Yule/Solstice Be the light!
Happy Yule/Solstice Here is an interesting video about Yule. It’s all about the the light. History of Solstice The winter solstice (solstice is Latin for “sun standing still”) happens at the same time for everyone on Earth. It represents the exact moment when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted at its furthest point away from…
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Gathering Weekly Photo

Gathering May 4th,2014 We had a funeral for the St Lucie River and the Indian River Lagoon which had been devastated by discharges from Lake Okeechobee. Both turned green with poisonous green toxic algae. Our lives would never be the same again. As a way to protest we held this funeral at Phipps Park which…
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Lessons learned from Phil Ochs

Originally posted on cyndi lenz: Lessons learned from Phil Ochs I really never knew that much about Phil Ochs. I knew his voice that’s for sure. It is so distinct which makes watching his story even harder. Harder but compelling. I watched this documentary and could not stop thinking about it and all the important…
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Fear and loathing in america

Last week I lost some friends because I simply asked them to wait out an investigation. They said no. It actually started when the Syrian Refugees crisis was prevailing on the news. Real friends that I know were all happy that Rick Scott was saying there would be no Syrian refugees here even though he…
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Bright Lights: The Real Boston Tea Party

December 16th is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party This Day in history: the Boston Tea Party The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax…
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Bright Lights: The Children of Canada
#welcomerefugees #welcometocanada Compassion and inspiration Bring your kleenex < 'We feel as if we got out of hell and we came to paradise' https://t.co/OAKFMMskix #WelcomeToCanada pic.twitter.com/mgkPYU5Bxb — CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) December 12, 2015
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Bright Lights:Justin Trudeau and Canada!

#welcometocanada #welcomerefugees I feel very inspired by the compassion of Prime Minister Trudeau and the people of Canada who have shown us what it is like to be human. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Greets First Intake of Syrian Refugees By Mirren Gidda 12/11/15 at 4:08 AM “A government plane carrying 163 Syrian refugees…
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Bright Light:Mandy Patinkin
Here are two two videos of Mandy Patinkin helping refugees. Amazing man! “We need to come up with a new paradigm.” Mandy Patinkin