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How One Interior Designer
is Helping — with Her Invoices

Interior designers typically serve the 1%. Jessica Helgerson wants to turn that on its head.

By Aimee Rawlins, Fast Company, February 10th, 2021

https://www.fastcompany.com/90602613/how-one-interior-designer-is-fighting-homelessness-with-her-invoices

“The one percent” is most often used as a pejorative, shorthand for elite, out-of-touch vultures who prey on the working class. But a new initiative from a Portland, Oregon, interior designer is taking that moniker and flipping it on its head.

The One Percent Project, launched by Jessica Helgerson Interior Design, asks clients to put 1% of their invoice total toward addressing homelessness. This line item, which is totally optional, will appear on their monthly invoices as a sort of “voluntary tax” that the firm likens to grocery stores asking you to round up.

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The Vancouver Sun: The Solution to Homelessness, DTES Chaos and Disorder has been Known for Years

 

Housing First was the big idea in the late-2000s when it came to solving the problems of homelessness, addictions and mental illness sparked by the closures early in the decade of mental institutions like Riverview. Photo by NICK PROCAYLO /PNG

Daphne Bramham: The solution to homelessness, DTES chaos and disorder has been known for years

Opinion: It’s hard not to think that our governments are throwing good money after bad when policy-makers ignore both the evidence and the experts

By Daphne Bramham, The Vancouver Sun, January 28, 2021

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/daphne-bramham-the-solution-to-homelessness-dtes-chaos-and-disorder-has-been-known-for-years-just-not-acted-upon

VANCOUVER, In 2008 — the same year that Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson pledged to end homelessness by 2015 — a five-year, $110 million, federally funded trial called At Home/Chez Soi began in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal and Moncton, N.B.

For the trial, 300 participants were identified in Vancouver, which was described as “distinct” from the other cities because of the geographic concentration in the Downtown Eastside and the high rates of substance use.

Of the 300 participants, 200 were the control group, left to lead their usual chaotic lives, and 100 were given homes.

“The trial was doing what we knew was the most effective intervention,” said Julian Somers, now a distinguished professor at Simon Fraser University. “It was proof of the concept that to a large extent long-term homelessness was the result of neglected mental-health and addictions issues.

“And there was a possibility that we would be able to achieve an alternative that eventually the provinces and territories would take on.”

In spring 2014, the results were released:

The At Home/Chez Soi report provided evidence that not only is it more humane and compassionate to move people off the streets and into housing, their lives also become measurably better and — better still — it costs taxpayers measurably less.

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Heavenly Blessings: The Blessing & Virtue 
of Beauty

 

Quan Yin and Mary Magdalene, the Magdalena, through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, explain and expand the blessing and virtue of beauty for us.

They say beauty is to be in harmony with All That Is, physical, emotional, spiritual — inner, outer, within, without — to become a perfect mirror for all of God’s creations.

Quan Yin tells us, “In beauty there is strength, there is power, there is nobility, there is sensitivity and the ability to rise above. . . the ability to transmute, to cleanse.”

Beauty is in everything we see, the good, the bad, the ugly.

Heavenly Blessings Radio Show:
The Blessing and Virtue of Beauty with Quan Yin and the Magdalena

Meditation 7:16 – 16:31 Quan Yin, then Mary Magdalene at 30:14

Embracing what we believe is the shadow of our soul, our sorrows, anger, fears, our core issues and the entrenched old belief systems is beauty — is looking in our own mirror — letting go, forgiving, being compassion, in gratitude creating that perfect reflection of God.

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Heavenly Blessings Radio Show: Archangel Michael Explains Love and Truth

 

Archangel Michael on Heavenly Blessings radio show, through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, explains Love and truth in this way:

“Think of them as a double helix, as so intricately intertwined that they cannot be separated, and that it is not a hierarchy.

“I have said that truth is Love and Love is truth.

“And what is the ending point?

“The ending point and the beginning point is truth and how do you know truth? It is through Love. The beginning and the ending point is Love.

“And how do you know Love? It is through the Divine Knowing of Truth.

“Truth is the Divine Knowing, what you may think of as supreme intelligence, wisdom, substance, inspiration, ideas, and Love is the expression and how that is experienced.

“If you wished to make a deeper separation you could think of truth as Divine Masculine and Love as Divine Feminine, but as you know, they are united as One.

“Love is the fuel. Love is the substance. Love is the movement, and so, very often when you are working and being in the Love, you feel the certainty of being able to operate, shall we say, within the Universe that you are occupying, whether it is this Universe or another, it matters not.

“When you are in certainty of truth it is more akin to the stillpoint. So, both are necessary.”

Heavenly Blessings Radio Show

The Blessing and Virtue of Truth with the Mighty Ones

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Galea, Neptune Communications Officer, Heavenly Blessings Radio Show

 

When we came – and there were many different voyages and migrations – but think about what we have done; and I only speak of myself and my family who have traveled from distant galaxies, from CeeCeeCee, but we came; we made that voyage of thousands of years in what you think of as ‘time’ because we were passionate.

There was never a ho-hum moment. We were passionate not only about serving the Mother, but over the moon – and the many moons! – about assisting this planet in Ascension, about having beings in form that were truly beings of Love, of light, and creating a planet of Love.

The passion drove us, the Love fuels us, the truth supports us, but it is All One thing.

(See bottom of post for Porlana C Meditation.)

Galea of Neptune Returns:
Celebrate Your Victories – They Are Many!

Heavenly Blessings Radio Show, October 11, 2016
Linda Dillon: Channel for the Council of Love
Suzanne Maresca: Host, InLight Universal

Meditation from 14:10 to 23:23

https://goldenageofgaia.com/2016/10/24/transcript-galea-neptune-returns-celebrate-victories-many-heavenly-blessings-october-11-2016/

23: 23 Galea: Greetings, I Am Galea.

Suzi: Welcome.

Galea: It is my honour and my pleasure to be invited back this day – or any day! – for you know I am Communications Officer, also assigned to Intergalactic Council, on special assignment, also with planetary systems of Earth, of Gaia, connecting not only with our beings on the ground, but with many humans as well.

It is true that there are many challenges and much change that is occurring upon your planet at this time, and for some of you, you may think of it as a cleansing. Our perception of it is a process, not only of Ascension, but of becoming.

You have a saying on Earth, upon sweet Gaia, “That the truth will win out, that the truth will prevail.”

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The Mother’s Hope and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

 

Below, in teachings of the blessing and virtue of hope, Divine Mother Mary says, “February 14th is a declaration — the Mother moving amongst everyone — encouraging the women, girls, children to declare Who They Are, not to permit any more violence.”

On Valentine’s Day in Vancouver for the last 30 years, there is a march for our missing and murdered indigenous women.

Recently, I was in our Downtown Eastside witnessing a young girl with 2 black eyes shooting up. She was oblivious to me as I sat in a car 6 feet away witnessing her bind herself with an elastic tourniquet and find veins in her wrists, arms, legs covered in sores to quell her extreme addiction.

She wiped away dripping blood with grubby smoke-grimed hands as I surrounded her with every Divine Being I could call in.

A little while ago, one of the young women in recovery where I volunteer said to me, “When I was in the throes of my addiction, I knew I wanted to experience this, so I could turn around and help others. . .”

This ties in with what the Mother says about hope below and what I have experienced.

From our sorrow
can come our joy,
our sacred purpose.

The Blessing and Virtue of Hope, as taught to us by Universal Mother Mary explains:

As within so without, the shift, our Ascension, occurs on all levels, mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, beginning with an end to self-sabotage.

With husbands, children, neighbours, parents,
 when we see them awakening, or wavering, that is when we turn 
to our bedrock of hope and the knowing — not the thinking —
but the knowing, That All Is In Divine Order.

As the shift occurs, our awakening to Divine Right Alignment,
 it occurs not only in men but in women saying,
 “No more” and “Enough is Enough.”

February 14th is a declaration — the Mother moving amongst everyone — encouraging the women, girls, children to declare Who They Are, not to permit any more violence.

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Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem ‘The Hill We Climb’

 

We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another.
We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true.

By Jennifer Liu, CNBC, January 20th, 2021

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html

Amanda Gorman made history Wednesday when she became the youngest inaugural poet during President Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony in Washington. (Click on image above to hear her.)

The 22-year-old Los Angeles resident, youth poet laureate of Los Angeles, first national youth poet laureate and Harvard graduate was invited to speak at the event by First Lady Jill Biden, who had previously seen the poet do a reading at the Library of Congress.

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The Quest for Peace with Chocolate and Avocados

 

Indigenous ways of being often include the wisdom of a matriarch. In the first post below, about peace and chocolate in Columbia, a matriarch paints the story of her people (see the documentary) and explains their peaceful actions as a community amidst extreme violence.

From the simplicity of farming the land comes a way of peace. . .

Archangel Michael in my first reading with him, through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, November 29th, 2011, told me it was time for the Divine Feminine to rise to help create peace on Earth. Archangel Gabrielle told me the same thing – and even that the Mother asked him – Gabriel to emanate as Gabrielle – her.

On the other hand, the avocado farming in Mexico started out as a way of peace but has had incredible set backs. . . drugs, guns and violence. . . Time for change. . .

Cooperation and Chocolate:
The Story of a Colombian Community’s
Quest for Peace

A member of Comunidad de Paz de San José, a “Peace Community” in Colombia, cultivating cacao.

By Agostino Petroni, Yes Magazine, January 14, 2021

https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2021/01/14/harvesting-cacao-colombia-peace/

When it’s time for harvest, Germán Graciano Posso, a 38-year-old Colombian farmer, leaves his village, La Florencita, with a group of co-workers and heads into the hills where the cacao trees grow surrounded by a lush rainforest.

Cacao pods the size of giant lemons hang off the trees’ branches: They come in various colors—green, red, and purple—but tend to turn yellow when they ripen.

Posso harvests the fruits by hand, cracks them open with a machete, and collects the grape-sized seeds, which are covered in a white, squishy casing.

Then he places the seeds in a wooden box where the casing undergoes a process of fermentation. Finally, Posso spreads out the seeds on a flat surface to dry in the sun.

After eight days of drying, they will be ready to become chocolate.

This might seem a common agronomic practice, no different from the one conducted by other cacao growers worldwide, yet it carries a greater significance in this northwestern corner of Colombia.

Chocolate of Peace, award winning documentary

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The Halion Engineers and the Healers of Tralana

 

I’ve been interested in the Halion Engineers ever since I heard in a personal reading that one of my guides is from the ascended planet, Halion.

Below is information through Linda Dillon, channel for the Council of Love, about the Healers of Tralana and the Halion Engineers, and directly below, my guide, Zennoni, describing where she is from and their talents:

Zennoni: Halion is a ray but long ago, Halion was a planet. It was a beautiful planet filled with buildings that you have never seen, crystal cities, and gardens. It was very verdant, in some ways similar to Earth but different, and not of this galaxy.

What happened with Halion, and I was part of this, was that it evolved; we are talking a very long time ago, in your timeframe, about a million years ago. It evolved to sheer energy. There are several planets that have done this you know.

So, you think of what you are going through on the Earth plane right now with Gaia and the evolutionary process of Ascension, well, on Halion, we went through this, too, over a long period, obviously of time.

Eventually, the vibration of the planet and of everybody upon the planet evolved to such a state that we released matter. We became sheer energy and we decided as a unified collective that we would travel the multiverse.

We are known as the Halion Engineers. That is why we are so good with computers, and what we do is we help or we construct, and when we say construct we mean, yes, spaceships, but societies, buildings, infrastructures.

You see it is not sufficient to simply have, and this is what so many have missed, and that we can help correct, you cannot have, for example, a city filled with beautiful buildings unless there is a plan.

But people tend to think of city planning as physical land use and mass but of course there is a spirit and an infrastructure of community and support that is also required.

So, we assist in the building of that, the construction of that, as well, but we Love physical construction, cities of light, planets, well you would think of them as asteroids because they are not organic.

We build things and we travel the Universe but at that time when we evolved to sheer energy, I also returned to the Heart of One and at that time I took on the responsibility and the joy, the honour of being your guide. I am much older than you and I am also from the future. I am ancient and I am also of the future.

Thank you, Zennoni!

Heavenly Blessings: Welcome the Healers of Tralana
and the Halion Engineers into Your Awareness!

GD: Hello and welcome to Heavenly Blessings with Linda Dillon and the Council of Love, I’m GD. Our guests tonight are the Healers of Tralana and the Halion Engineers. Welcome Linda.

LD: Hi Graham, hi everybody. I’m glad to be back and yeah, we have a new venture tonight into an area we haven’t really talked about before on Heavenly Blessings or on any other show for that matter. So, thanks for having me.

GD: That’s right, we’ve had a theme of Archangels and Heavenly Realm and this is a bit of a break from that. What would you like to start with tonight?

LD: I’d like to start with a meditation and then I’d like to talk a little about my experience with each of these groups, the Healers of Tralana and the Halion Engineers, and channel them as well and have room for your questions and for some discussion.

GD: Perfect.

LD: So let’s begin by taking a nice, deep breath of the deepest blue you can imagine or that you’ve ever seen.

It’s the blue of the deep Atlantic, of Atlantis, of the midnight sky, the deepest, darkest blue pansy or iris and feel yourself breathing in through your nose and releasing the day, the week, we’re almost done, and follow your breath and feel your energy sinking down into your heart.

And feel that relaxation come on in as you follow your awareness, your energy and your Love into your heart.

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An Hour With An Angel: St. Germaine on Love, the Violet Flame, the Perfect Balance of the Mother/Father One

 

THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, OF WORTH AND OF THE UNIVERSE, IN BALANCE

In this An Hour With An Angel radio show, January 2014, St. Germaine eloquently explains:

Love is the completeness, the integrated, unified self in perfect balance, in perfect balance with the All.

It is the experience, the knowing, the connection, the connectedness, the union with the One, with Source, with All. It is you, yes, in physical form, in your heart consciousness but also in all of your bodies, having the experience of being connected to God.

He said we come to know Love in our form through expression:

The experience of being filled and overflowing
with this wondrous sense of miracles, of magic, of unity,
of knowing as you look at yourself in the mirror,
or you look at your beloved, or you look at a stranger,
that you are All One and Connected,
and Interconnected,
and all part of All That Is.

An Hour With An Angel:
St. Germaine on Allowing Love to Transform Us

https://goldenageofgaia.com/spirituality-on-love/st-germaine-on-allowing-love-to-transform-us-2/

GD: Hello, and welcome to An Hour with an Angel, with Linda Dillon, the channel for the Council of Love and author of The New You — Emerging into the Brilliance of Humanity’s Heart Consciousness. Joining her is Steve Beckow, founder of the Golden Age of Gaia and author of Building Nova Earth: Toward a World that Works for Everyone.

Our guest today is St. Germaine. So, with that I’ll pass it on to you, Steve.

Steve Beckow: Thank you, Graham, and welcome, St. Germaine.

An Hour With An Angel Radio Show ~ St. Germaine On Allowing Love to Transform Us

St. Germaine: And welcome to you, my beloved friends. Welcome to all of you, my cohorts, my allies, my beloved ones. It is my honour and it is my joy and it is my play to take this time to be with you. In about one month’s time, you will celebrate — or I would ask you to celebrate — the occasion that is marked on your western calendar, or shall I say your Christian calendar, or shall I say your conventional calendar, as St. Valentine’s Day.

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