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I got a shout out from the Baltimore Sun about the guy there - the TV critic - who I blogged about yesterday. (Yes, I called him out for being a sexistscroll back to yesterday morning.) I could not help but post this mornings article in the Baltimore Sun because I think there is something funnyI must have gotten a bit under his skin (oops??).because check this out: one of those pesty things called like a woman caught himyes, caught him being a sexistsometimes you just cant hide those things!
And kudos to Laura Vozzella taking on her colleague at the Baltimore Sun. Here is the article:
Laura Vozzella
December 5, 2008
Fox newswoman Greta Van Susteren didnt like what The Baltimore Suns David Zurawik wrote about her recently on his blog, Z on TV. So instead of just stewing about it, she fired back on a blog of her own.
I am supposed to take his silly whacks? I dont think so, she wrote on GretaWire. I dont take his criticism personally - frankly I am on TV, he isnt. You know … those who can, do … those who cant, are TV critics.
Was it more fun being a TV reviewer before reviewees got their own blogs?
Call me strange, but I actually enjoy the give and take of doing criticism on the blogosphere - even with people like Greta Van Susteren, Zurawik said.
Yikes! Im staying out of this one.
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what is the best holiday gift idea Holiday Gifts: Food in Baskets, Bottles Boxes
Gifts of food, whether home made or store bought are always appreciated. You can buy decorative boxes, all sizes and shapes of baskets, or use bottles ranging from empty liquor bottles to the standard Mason jar. Visit your local resale shops or check on-line auction sites for great deals on baskets, bottles and boxes.
For those of you who love to bake, whipping up a couple dozen of five or six different types of cookies and boxing them with a pretty bow make a delicious holiday gift for friends, family or even your childs teacher. Kick the gift up a notch by adding some homemade candies.
Need a gift for people who love being outdoors, pick up a nice inexpensive picnic basket and add a bottle of wine, some cheeses and crackers with a small cheese cutting board and a couple of pretty wine glasses for a classic gift. Theyll remember you for years to come each time they use it.
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Gifts of food, whether home made or store bought are always appreciated. You can buy decorative boxes, all sizes and shapes of baskets, or use bottles ranging from empty liquor bottles to the standard Mason jar. Visit your local resale shops or check on-line auction sites for great deals on baskets, bottles and boxes.
For those of you who love to bake, whipping up a couple dozen of five or six different types of cookies and boxing them with a pretty bow make a delicious holiday gift for friends, family or even your childs teacher. Kick the gift up a notch by adding some homemade candies.
Need a gift for people who love being outdoors, pick up a nice inexpensive picnic basket and add a bottle of wine, some cheeses and crackers with a small cheese cutting board and a couple of pretty wine glasses for a classic gift. Theyll remember you for years to come each time they use it.
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Dottie Zimmerman is a 63-year-old mother of three, an award-winning religion teacher at a Toledo Catholic school, a former Ursuline nun, and a director of the Childrens Theatre Workshop. Mrs. Zimmerman said in a recent interview that although she doesnt channel Padre Pio publicly very often, she hears from him almost daily.
For the last five years, Mrs. Zimmerman also says she has been Padre Pio, letting the dead Italian Catholic saint mystically speak through her.
It is a she said, and although she never asked for it she believes she must use it to help others, especially children.
Last month, Mrs. Zimmerman channeled the saint during a meeting of the Toledo Lightworkers Co-op, a group of people who explore alternative spirituality.
It was the fifth or sixth time she has publicly channeled Padre Pio, a Capuchin friar from Pietrelcina, Italy, who was known for bearing stigmata, or the wounds of Christ, on his hands and feet. He died in 1968 at age 81 and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002.
ll make these pithy little comments. He has a wonderful sense of humor, she said. One of the things that he insists is that we breathe deeply and we laugh - love, laugh, and breathe are his three words.
An eighth-grade religion teacher at St. Patrick of Heatherdowns School for nearly 30 years, Mrs. Zimmerman said she felt as though spiritual conversations had been percolating within her for years before she began to explore her gift.
She had dismissed the voices as figments of her overactive imagination.
m a very creative, right-brained person so this must be just me imposing my imagination on situations, she said. That sounded logical to me.
It took a word from her adopted daughter, K.C., now 16 years old, and guidance from her younger brother, Jim Uhl, a psychologist and ex-Jesuit priest, to push her into taking the next step.
K.C. had been communicating with angels since she was a toddler, Mrs. Zimmerman said, adding that the teens is Michael the Archangel.
She kept saying, Mom, the angels say you can do this, youre just not. Youre just not. And I said, Honey, no, this is your gift. Its not mine, its yours.
Meanwhile, at Mr. Uhls suggestion, Mrs. Zimmerman decided to give dream therapy a try during the summer of 2002.
In this dream I kept seeing a Merlin character, she said. … So he [Mr. Uhl] said if hes reoccurring that much, theres some energy there that we need to look into, and he gave me a couple exercises where in fact I would start asking Merlin what he meant or why this happened in the dream. … And I would write answers, and its like the answers would just come automatically. … Well, pretty soon I couldnt write fast enough, they were just going in the computer, and then one day he just says to me, You know, I am not Merlin. I am Padre Pio.
Mrs. Zimmerman said she was both stunned and humbled by the revelation.
s a person that I had admired since I was a little kid. My mom had a big, huge admiration for Padre Pio. We followed his history a lot, she said.
I revered this man. I put him on a pedestal - a big pedestal, she said. So one day I said to him, How come me? You are one of my favorite saints, why are you talking to me? He said, Well, because you have the gift. You have something that you have to do with it. You have this gift but you werent accepting it. The angels kept tell you but you wouldnt listen, so we sent in the big guns.
Mrs. Zimmerman, who was named the outstanding teacher in the 19-county Toledo Catholic Diocese in 1981, said it was an odd sensation to begin writing down Padre Pios messages.
It just came through my arm … I didnt think I was hearing anything, but my hand would keep writing, which was a really strange feeling for me, she said. But then I couldnt go fast enough and when I transferred to the computer, all of a sudden it was a different sensation and I find it very difficult to describe. Its not hearing, but its like if I looked at you and could tell what you are thinking.
After a while, Mr. Uhl suggested she try channeling Padre Pio.
He says, You know, I think you could let him speak through you. I think thats where maybe we are going on this. I said, s scary … I dont want somebody controlling my brain. I dont know if I want to do this or not.
But Padre Pio told her - and Im using as a verb because I dont know what else to say, Mrs. Zimmerman explained - that he has no control over her, she can break it off at any time, and that he would never interfere with anybodys free will.
s like the Prime Directive from Star Trek, she said.
The first time she attempted to channel, Mr. Uhl began by performing a ceremony with incense and chanting, Mrs. Zimmerman said.
He was blessing and incensing the west and the east and all that and I hear this voice say, Tell him just to get on with it! We dont need all this ceremony! And so I started laughing and Jim said, s so funny? … and I said, Padre Pio said, s just get on with it.
Mrs. Zimmerman said she channels other spirits besides Padre Pio.
Every Saturday, for example, she channels her mother, who died two years ago, by typing out a letter to her surviving father, which she has collected in a looseleaf binder. He really looks forward to it because he misses her so dreadfully, she said.
She also channels her late husband, John, who crossed over 16 years ago.
When she channels Padre Pio, Mrs. Zimmerman speaks in a normal tone of voice but the rhythms and inflections of her speech change.
Mrs. Zimmerman recently gave a demonstration of how she channels Padre Pio while sitting at a dining room table in her fathers house in Lambertville, Mich.
In the 25-minute session, with eyes closed and hands folded, the Italian saint, speaking through Mrs. Zimmerman, discussed a wide range of topics, including the U.S. presidential election, the future of the Catholic Church, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
All presidential elections are a reflection of the way the world is at the moment. They all speak of change, Mrs. Zimmerman said while channeling. So if youre looking for change, you have a wide path. They are all having their plans, their paths. Which one do you feel comfortable with? That, my brother, is your choice and I cannot tell you that.
But do know that there was no accident that there was a female within this, because her purpose was to open the awareness of the line of the females, of the path of the females, not her particularly, but the path of a female, that nurturing, that love aspect that is part of what goes along with the term female.
On the clerical sexual abuse crisis, the Padre Pio channeler said: The priest abuse and some of the other things, that is not making the church a bad or a good place. The way it will work is how it is handled. And in those dioceses where it is being handled openly and with compassion and with care, and explanation and openness, I think those parishes and that church there will be very strong.
Regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy, Mrs. Zimmerman said while channeling that everyone who that day went immediately or into heaven, including those who perpetrated this particular incident. They didnt have their 21 virgins in their party but they were celebrated for three days in partying and love and acceptance because they did what they thought they were supposed to do.
The session closed with Mrs. Zimmerman channeling the saint as saying, If you have no more questions, I greet you once more and ask you to be open, to be aware, and I ask you to laugh because laughter is so wonderful, and to love and to breathe deeply often during the day. And I withdraw.
The session was very tiring, Mrs. Zimmerman said as she rubbed her eyes.
She said she is hoping to use her gifts to encourage people, especially children, who may have similar talents but are afraid to use or even acknowledge them.
Mrs. Zimmerman just this week had her first book published, Why Am I Different?, by Outskirts Press. It is about a young girl who must cope with her gifts of seeing and hearing spirits.
More and more kids are coming to me who are hearing voices or who are seeing spirits, some of them both, and lately Ive asked him [Padre Pio] if this is an area that Im being directed towards and he said, Absolutely. Thats one of the reasons why youre here, to help these kids understand that its a gift and its not a fearful thing.
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For the last five years, Mrs. Zimmerman also says she has been Padre Pio, letting the dead Italian Catholic saint mystically speak through her.
It is a she said, and although she never asked for it she believes she must use it to help others, especially children.
Last month, Mrs. Zimmerman channeled the saint during a meeting of the Toledo Lightworkers Co-op, a group of people who explore alternative spirituality.
It was the fifth or sixth time she has publicly channeled Padre Pio, a Capuchin friar from Pietrelcina, Italy, who was known for bearing stigmata, or the wounds of Christ, on his hands and feet. He died in 1968 at age 81 and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002.
ll make these pithy little comments. He has a wonderful sense of humor, she said. One of the things that he insists is that we breathe deeply and we laugh - love, laugh, and breathe are his three words.
An eighth-grade religion teacher at St. Patrick of Heatherdowns School for nearly 30 years, Mrs. Zimmerman said she felt as though spiritual conversations had been percolating within her for years before she began to explore her gift.
She had dismissed the voices as figments of her overactive imagination.
m a very creative, right-brained person so this must be just me imposing my imagination on situations, she said. That sounded logical to me.
It took a word from her adopted daughter, K.C., now 16 years old, and guidance from her younger brother, Jim Uhl, a psychologist and ex-Jesuit priest, to push her into taking the next step.
K.C. had been communicating with angels since she was a toddler, Mrs. Zimmerman said, adding that the teens is Michael the Archangel.
She kept saying, Mom, the angels say you can do this, youre just not. Youre just not. And I said, Honey, no, this is your gift. Its not mine, its yours.
Meanwhile, at Mr. Uhls suggestion, Mrs. Zimmerman decided to give dream therapy a try during the summer of 2002.
In this dream I kept seeing a Merlin character, she said. … So he [Mr. Uhl] said if hes reoccurring that much, theres some energy there that we need to look into, and he gave me a couple exercises where in fact I would start asking Merlin what he meant or why this happened in the dream. … And I would write answers, and its like the answers would just come automatically. … Well, pretty soon I couldnt write fast enough, they were just going in the computer, and then one day he just says to me, You know, I am not Merlin. I am Padre Pio.
Mrs. Zimmerman said she was both stunned and humbled by the revelation.
s a person that I had admired since I was a little kid. My mom had a big, huge admiration for Padre Pio. We followed his history a lot, she said.
I revered this man. I put him on a pedestal - a big pedestal, she said. So one day I said to him, How come me? You are one of my favorite saints, why are you talking to me? He said, Well, because you have the gift. You have something that you have to do with it. You have this gift but you werent accepting it. The angels kept tell you but you wouldnt listen, so we sent in the big guns.
Mrs. Zimmerman, who was named the outstanding teacher in the 19-county Toledo Catholic Diocese in 1981, said it was an odd sensation to begin writing down Padre Pios messages.
It just came through my arm … I didnt think I was hearing anything, but my hand would keep writing, which was a really strange feeling for me, she said. But then I couldnt go fast enough and when I transferred to the computer, all of a sudden it was a different sensation and I find it very difficult to describe. Its not hearing, but its like if I looked at you and could tell what you are thinking.
After a while, Mr. Uhl suggested she try channeling Padre Pio.
He says, You know, I think you could let him speak through you. I think thats where maybe we are going on this. I said, s scary … I dont want somebody controlling my brain. I dont know if I want to do this or not.
But Padre Pio told her - and Im using as a verb because I dont know what else to say, Mrs. Zimmerman explained - that he has no control over her, she can break it off at any time, and that he would never interfere with anybodys free will.
s like the Prime Directive from Star Trek, she said.
The first time she attempted to channel, Mr. Uhl began by performing a ceremony with incense and chanting, Mrs. Zimmerman said.
He was blessing and incensing the west and the east and all that and I hear this voice say, Tell him just to get on with it! We dont need all this ceremony! And so I started laughing and Jim said, s so funny? … and I said, Padre Pio said, s just get on with it.
Mrs. Zimmerman said she channels other spirits besides Padre Pio.
Every Saturday, for example, she channels her mother, who died two years ago, by typing out a letter to her surviving father, which she has collected in a looseleaf binder. He really looks forward to it because he misses her so dreadfully, she said.
She also channels her late husband, John, who crossed over 16 years ago.
When she channels Padre Pio, Mrs. Zimmerman speaks in a normal tone of voice but the rhythms and inflections of her speech change.
Mrs. Zimmerman recently gave a demonstration of how she channels Padre Pio while sitting at a dining room table in her fathers house in Lambertville, Mich.
In the 25-minute session, with eyes closed and hands folded, the Italian saint, speaking through Mrs. Zimmerman, discussed a wide range of topics, including the U.S. presidential election, the future of the Catholic Church, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
All presidential elections are a reflection of the way the world is at the moment. They all speak of change, Mrs. Zimmerman said while channeling. So if youre looking for change, you have a wide path. They are all having their plans, their paths. Which one do you feel comfortable with? That, my brother, is your choice and I cannot tell you that.
But do know that there was no accident that there was a female within this, because her purpose was to open the awareness of the line of the females, of the path of the females, not her particularly, but the path of a female, that nurturing, that love aspect that is part of what goes along with the term female.
On the clerical sexual abuse crisis, the Padre Pio channeler said: The priest abuse and some of the other things, that is not making the church a bad or a good place. The way it will work is how it is handled. And in those dioceses where it is being handled openly and with compassion and with care, and explanation and openness, I think those parishes and that church there will be very strong.
Regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy, Mrs. Zimmerman said while channeling that everyone who that day went immediately or into heaven, including those who perpetrated this particular incident. They didnt have their 21 virgins in their party but they were celebrated for three days in partying and love and acceptance because they did what they thought they were supposed to do.
The session closed with Mrs. Zimmerman channeling the saint as saying, If you have no more questions, I greet you once more and ask you to be open, to be aware, and I ask you to laugh because laughter is so wonderful, and to love and to breathe deeply often during the day. And I withdraw.
The session was very tiring, Mrs. Zimmerman said as she rubbed her eyes.
She said she is hoping to use her gifts to encourage people, especially children, who may have similar talents but are afraid to use or even acknowledge them.
Mrs. Zimmerman just this week had her first book published, Why Am I Different?, by Outskirts Press. It is about a young girl who must cope with her gifts of seeing and hearing spirits.
More and more kids are coming to me who are hearing voices or who are seeing spirits, some of them both, and lately Ive asked him [Padre Pio] if this is an area that Im being directed towards and he said, Absolutely. Thats one of the reasons why youre here, to help these kids understand that its a gift and its not a fearful thing.
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New pictures added to the latest wedding gallery. Dolce vita, ravishing red, deep pink and ivory vendela rose petals are drying now and will be available soon to buy online.
Weve got blackberrys now at Pollen so we will aim to reply to petal enquiries in real time wherever possible
Lisa Devlin www.devlinphotos.co.uk has supplied some great pictures for us and she is one of the featured suppliers on our directory
I have developed some wedding confetti cone templates and will aim to get them in pdf form asap for free downloading from the site . Easy to make and fun if you have children involved in the wedding preparations. We have also found that children love filling the cones so if you need to keep them occupied on the morning of your wedding/commitment/civil ceremony- the photographers get some great natural reportage shots - top tip.
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