A Big Love Campaign

This little cutie is so close to having the way she lives and breathes changed forever, all thanks to all you who have loved and supported her through a heart wrenching but amazing journey, even though we are so so close we still need your help !!!

Your gift of love will be a gift that will last a life time

Hello folks. I have been doing some writing for a woman who has the most incredible story, and now her and her family need some big love.

Due to infertility issues resulting from cancer, Kylie traveled to India to realize her dream of having a family through surrogacy.

Her two baby girls, Namaeya and Hati, came into the world by caesarian section on May 10, 2013, weighing in at 2.2 lbs and 1.6 lbs. They were 12 weeks premature.

Hati has had a variety of health issues, including a tracheostomy. She has congenital varicella, causing scarring to her liver, kidney, and eyes. Although she has exceptional functional vision, she is classified as legally blind. She also has periventrical Laukomalacia.

She has spent her first two and a half years labeled as Failure to Thrive and has a gastronomy tube to feed, a tracheostomy for subglottic stenosis, epiglottic collapse, and occasional seizures. In the medical world they call her condition, complex.

Hati requires 24 hour care, frequent hospital admissions, and has undergone numerous surgeries. On a dime, she can become acutely unwell. Even a common cold can cause respiratory distress and threaten her life.

Hati has fought for every single breath, every day, for the last three years. She spent the first 6 months of her life in hospital. She was 4 months old the first time that her mom ever held her in her arms. NICU was just the start of a long, gruelling, and heart-wrenching journey that still continues today.

She has not been able to simply be a child. She cannot join playgroups, and visitors are at a minimum. Her mom, kylie doesn’t take her out to shops or on normal child outings due to risk of infection and overnight visits to family and friends are just too risky and difficult to manage.

Kylie’s life’s passion is family and her vision from the beginning has been to simply be a mom to her children and to enjoy life with them as a family. The only thing that matters to Hati’s mom and her family is getting Hati out of danger and to a life without a tracheostomy. Kylie’s heart’s desire is to see her and Namaeya running full of joy and antics with the other kids and looking forward to making their own dreams come true.

How can you help?

There is treatment available in India that would make a huge difference. It could be lifesaving, as well as see Hati tracheostomy-free.

The treatment is Stem Cell.

They have been doing Stem Cell treatment in India for over 10 years. It is a cell regeneration treatment. Hati would undergo a procedure that would include – MSC cells collected from her bone marrow and then injected into the areas of the airway that need help. She would also undergo a gastronomy tube weaning programme in an attempt to be G tube free. We would then return to Australia.

Our Little Girl Seeks BIG LOVE campaign makes that possible for Hati. Your donations, along with public sharing through social media, email, and your email contact list, can and will make that real.

This is Kylie’s family and they are strong. Hati’s spirit, Namaeya’s devotion, and Kylie’s belief in her precious family has already transcended and defied a hopeless prognosis. Her two little miracles are a shining example of how love, vision, and passion can rule over the darkness.

If there is anything you can do to support our Little Girl Seeks BIG LOVE campaign we will be forever grateful.

From our family to yours, we thank you in advance.

 

Have you ever noticed though that we, usually when we are teenagers, feel the pull towards finding out for ourselves? This puts me in mind of the great struggle between parents and their teenagers. Timeless.

The poet’s name is Amanda Hoppes

A Day in the Life

Beautiful

Emotional IQ?

We have names for “sensitive” people now, like “empath”, even “indigo children”, but really we are not those things. We are actually what healthy is. It is healthy to care and love and be aware of what others are going through.
The majority have learned to be without compassion and awareness in order to thrive in a cruel world. There is a book that people read to raise their emotional IQ, and like so much of the “philosophy” out there, it teaches people to “control” their emotions. This is not the way. If you want to raise your emotional IQ you need to have emotions, feel them, and express them. That’s how you get good at it. That’s how to “know thyself” and therefore others.
We will know that we have had victory over “evil” when we no longer consider caring, compassionate, and emotional, people, “sensitive”, but rather, consider hard people to be odd and in need of healing. ❤

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Mighty Waves

“Go ahead and cry” they say, an oh, do I feel those mighty waves, oceans of wisdom and healing, pushing and rolling against my breast. But today, like yesterday, I’m  afraid. Like so many, I am afraid.

The torrent though, the healing howl of winds let loose, the monstrous rush of those great and mighty ocean waves, are timely now.

But I, like so many, am afraid. To start.

C Villeneuve

For All of Our Kids

For all of our kids ❤

Magdalene Laundries

What they are in denial of is their fear of knowing and telling the truth. This is the thing. They fear the terrible “God” that has wielded these terrors and horrors. They are not necessarily “in denial”, as they are subconsciously catatonic, severely traumatized. That’s what they are in denial about, not the truth, but the wrath. They know the truth. C. Villeneuve

The religious practice of making people shamed, as though nothing but dirt, in order to enslave them to striving for redemption.

 

Dinner with Mangoes

 

   

Okay, another food post. I really should try to shape this blog a bit. Not today though. Today I’m making something delicious to eat. Here’s what I’m going to have for dinner.

I’ve got a boneless, skinless chicken breast that I’ve cut in two and placed into the oven. They are already cooked from yesterday, so they simply need to be warmed up. I rubbed some olive oil onto them and then covered them lightly with cinnamon.

I love cinnamon on chicken but it often burns if you start your chicken with it, so, because I’m only warming, it should work. It just adds such a mild, almost innocent, flavor to your chicken. If you are preparing chicken and add the cinnamon about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes before it is ready, add some juice to that baking dish because the cinnamon added to the chicken makes a delicious gravy.

I’m also having a tomato and avocado salad that I saw on youtube. A very fresh tasting salad that combines chunks of tomato, avocado, sliced cucumber, and red onion, with a simple lemon juice / olive oil dressing. I added some chopped garlic and some capers. I also sprinkled a bit of celery seed into the bowl and mixed all of this goodness together and put it into the refrigerator until dinner.

For the chicken, I made up a sauce with mangoes. I diced those up with finely chopped ginger, more garlic, a hit of orange zest, some dried thyme, chopped fresh cilantro,and some salt. I turned it into a pulpy sauce with one of those hand mixers that works like a blender. Once mixed, I added a small bit of finely chopped jalapeno pepper.

This sauce came to me in a daydream, so when I did the taste test and my mouth cheered in delight, I was thrilled. I will serve this on top of the chicken sprinkled with sunflower seeds.

If there is any sauce left over I’ve decided I will mix that into a cucumber salad for tomorrow. I’ll shred the cucumber like a coleslaw, only a bit bigger strips, I’ll add onion, celery seed, and dried cranberries, probably a twist of black pepper to finish it off.

I love that such beautiful and delicious meals can come from basic and simple ingredients. It always feels like some kind of great victory. It is especially great when those creations are this healthy.

Maybe I’ll hit that cucumber salad with a slight hit of mint. What do you think?