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We bought our house about 3 years ago and the previously there was a black locust tree about 8 ft from the house. The previous owner cut the tree down before we moved in but the tree tried to send up shoots every year from the stump.
Is it a bad idea to have a black locust tree that close to the house? I don't think the top of the tree will hurt the house but I worry that the roots will damage the foundation. Any thoughts on this? |
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- Posted by dan_staley 5b/SS 2b AHS 6-7 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 21, 11 at 17:41
Cut it out and kill it. There are worse trees to have that close to the house, but not many. Dan |
Dan, I already tried cutting it down to the ground several times. It doesn't seem to kill it. Any thoughts on how to achieve this? I would prefer to not having to use chemicals. |
When you cut it down, immediately paint a weedkiller containing the active ingredient triclopyr. That material is moved into the roots and, over time will kill them so now more sprouts. But you need to repeat the cut and paint every time you see new growth. Best time to do it is fall, when the sugars are moving into the roots. If you don't want to use weedkiller, then simply dig to the base of each new sprout, then yank it off the larger root it arises from. This method does work but requires a longer period of time than if you used the weedkillers as described above. Whatever method you use, the goal is to starve the roots. In any event, it may require several years. It's your new hobby. |
- Posted by dan_staley 5b/SS 2b AHS 6-7 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 21, 11 at 19:19
It's your new hobby. Agreed. I don't know how well copper nails would work on that one. Dan |
I know you said you preferred not to use chemicals, but, IMO, that's the sensible way to address the problem. A very small amount of a relatively safe chemical (at least safe on a per use basis and for this application-trying to avoid the philosophical hypotheticals) can do the job very well and save you possibly years of continuous effort. Either triclopyr (Brush-B-Gon, Garlon, etc) or glyphosate (RoundUp, Gly-4, etc) can do the job well. Use them in their concentrated form and apply them to the freshly cut phloem. It's also important to treat all the suckers (not just a few or a few now and a few some other day). |
I will give the triclopry or glyphosate a try then when I get a chance. Thanks guys! |
Black Locust makes great firewood if that's any consolation ;-) Another good time to cut these down if you wish to minimize the post removal root sprouting (sorry..no way to *completely* eliminate the root sprouting) is to whack it down to the ground in late spring as soon as it sets flowers. At this time of year it has exhausted the most of the energy that was stored in the roots from the previous season in order to make the current year's leaves and flowers. Treat the stump with herbicide as others have described no matter when you take it down. - Brad |
When using systemic herbicides, I find fall (before dormancy) works best. I get absolutely zero sprouts on most anything I treat at that time of year. The chemical is pulled down into the root system, as the sap is moved down, and works extremely effectively. If I wasn't going to use herbicide, I'd definitely prefer doing the removal in spring just after the tree leafs out, for the reasons Brad described. |
- Posted by stevelau1911 6a (My Page) on Wed, Apr 25, 12 at 2:20
I just cut down a 2ft diameter black locust which was sending shoots all throughout my flower beds, and into my neighbors garden. I'm going to guess that these shoots will persist for a few years, but my idea is to drill some holes in the cambium of the tree stump, and inject some stump killer into it. There are thousands of roots within about a 40ft radius so it's almost impossible to dig them all out, but I would guess that after so many years of continual mowing and shoot removal, the roots should run out of energy. |
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"All we have to do is take you along to the hospital and say we have a nine year-old boy who's capable of performing the operation! I'm sure they'd prepare the theatre immediately!" Synopsis Maurice Estoral, one of Mac's favourite authors, is waiting to undergo a life-saving brain operation in the neuro-surgical section of Westbourne Hospital. Only one man has the knowledge to carry out this procedure - Doctor Emil Kados - but he is involved in a tragic plane crash en route to England. Although he survives the crash, Kados is now in a critical condition and will not be sufficiently recovered in time to perform the operation. Mac wants to use the BIGRAT to transfer Kados' knowledge and experience to another surgeon, but Sam Loover is adamant that a fifth person cannot be allowed to find out about the machine. With time running out for Maurice Estoral, Mac transfers Doctor Kados' brain pattern to Joe, but how are they going to get a nine year-old boy into the operating theatre? Pretty easily, as it turns out. The Characters Joe 90 Joe doesn't really do much this week except act as a sounding board for Mac as he plots to save Estoral. They go to Switzerland together to visit the hospital where Doctor Kados is recovering, so they can record his brain pattern, and then obviously Joe is able to complete the operation perfectly and the great Maurice Estoral is saved. Did you ever doubt it? Professor McClaine Mac is apparently responsible for looking after various bits of electronic equipment in the theatre at Westbourne Hospital, which I suppose makes a vague sort of sense. He's an electronics expert, and...no, actually it doesn't make any sense at all. 'Electronics' is a vast field covering so many areas; he can't possibly have made the BIGRAT and know all about neurosurgery and also have knowledge useful for that 'sonic death ray' project that the baddies wanted him for last time. Sorry, but no. I'm not buying it and neither are you. After realising that the only way to save Estoral is to take matters into his own hands he uses his influence to get himself a front-row seat for Estoral's operation, supposedly on the pretext of looking after all the equipment during the op. However! This is all part of his fiendish plan, as he pulls a gun on the man who's going to attempt the operation in Kados' place (Doctor Blakemore) and insists that Joe be allowed to do it instead. 'Uncle' Sam Sam appears for just one scene this episode, when he stops by the cottage to argue with Mac about using the BIGRAT to transfer Doctor Kados' brain pattern to another surgeon before clearing off back to London, presumably to do something far more interesting... "Record my brain pattern?" Joe receives the brain pattern of Doctor Emil Kados, leading brain surgeon and a rather pleasant if vaguely-accented sort of chap. We briefly see him on his flight to London, where he takes advantage of the opportunity to have an entire bottle of whisky all to himself, and then again after his plane crashes when Doctors Blakemore and Sherman visit him in a Swiss hospital. We're told that he will live, but nothing else. Mac also receives the brain pattern of an unnamed WIN agent in order to help him handle a gun properly. Dialogue MAC: "Do you have much trouble normally with the servicing of this equipment?" "Professor McClaine, I'm going to give you three seconds to get your hands out of my trousers, and then I'm going to have you escorted off the premises..." MAC: "Are you performing
this operation yourself, Doctor Blakemore?" "Batman!" ... Sorry. MAC: "Maurice Estoral...y'know
Joe, he's one of the greatest writers the world has ever known." "So does he only write
those books where men and women take all their clothes off and roll all
over each other, Dad?" KADOS: "Is the storm likely
to get any worse?" "That's good to hear." BLAKEMORE: "Do you need to
see any more?" "You have a really small weenie and clearly the pills aren't working. What more is there to say?" ESTORAL: "Doctor Blakemore,
I am a man of some maturity. I feel that you have been trying to tell me
something. Perhaps you would be a little more explicit? I would rather
know the truth." "There's no easy way to
say this, but...you're pregnant." RECEPTIONIST (talking on the phone): "Yes, I'll impress that on him." "The words 'I am a ninny', on his forehead. In red marker pen." BLAKEMORE: "I've made my
decision. I'm going to operate." "And if you go out on
the town the night before?" JOE: "Scalpel...scalpel!" "Don't you ever listen to all that stuff they teach the kids in schools, about not running with sharp objects? You give that to him, he...why, he might run with it!" Trivia At the Cottage A new piece of BIGRAT equipment is unveiled this week - it's a balloon with some antennae on it. Oh yes indeed. Well, there's more to it than that obviously, but not much more. Once high enough the balloon acts as a relay point between the BIGRAT itself and a portable brain pattern recorder Mac uses to record the brain pattern of Doctor Kados, in what my notes for this episode tell me was a 'very funky sequence'. I seem to have written that down in bold, so obviously I was very impressed with it at the time... Also, with both Mac and Joe in Switzerland, the BIGRAT is seen to be capable of automatically operating itself in order to record this pattern... Interestingly, in a line filmed for this episode but deleted from the final cut, Mac would have revealed the reason behind his having experimented on Joe in the first place; a child's mind is so much more receptive to the brain-pattern transfer process than an adult's. If only they'd left that line in then it would have gone some way to explaining the premise of the entire series... Calling all Spectrum agents! Finally we get an appearance by a major Captain Scarlet character. While Doctors Blake and Sherman are represented by the puppets who are best known for playing Captain Brown and the World President respectively, it's Symphony Angel who gets to be the first Scarlet regular to appear in Joe 90. Now sporting enormous black hair she plays the stewardess on Doctor Kados' flight to England, and dooms herself and the majority of the passengers with her cheery optimism in the face of a raging thunderstorm. But Symphony isn't the only Angel to appear this episode, however, as Rhapsody also makes a brief appearance as the nurse at the Swiss hospital now sporting another even bigger hairdo. And that's about it, except for... Ahhh! Monkey Bastard cameo! Yes, he's lurking in the background at the hospital...holding a picture of a grumpy old lady by the looks of things. It's probably his dear old mum... Where have I seen...? There's re-used stuff a plenty this week, so much so that I wonder if this episode was specifically written simply to get some more use out of the medical props and hospital sets that were built for the Captain Scarlet episode Operation Time. The masks and surgical smocks for the puppets are used again here, while the operating theatre is almost exactly the same as the one as on Cloudbase, hardly anything has been changed. Here's Cloudbase's... ...and here's this episode's. As you can see, the panels on the walls are the same, the trolley of surgical instruments is the same, the two mobile computer thingies appear to have swapped places, the bed and whatever that thing is on the ceiling have moved across, and a desk has been ripped out of the far wall and brought nearer the camera. Even the machine with all the knobs and switches that Dr Magnus used to electrocute Captain Scarlet is here. The only new thing part of the room would seem to be the floor, so while I can understand them wanting to get their money's worth on this set they still could have disguised it a bit better. Painted it a different colour at least. And it's not just props that reappear; the rather distinctive operating theatre music from Operation Time can also be heard during the operation scene, while more recently the interior of the plane seen in this episode is the same one from Splashdown and The Most Special Agent. There's also a few models that seem vaguely familiar but which I can't quite put my finger on (the plane, the Swiss hospital), while Mac uses a gun that could easily be mistaken for a Spectrum handgun painted black... Oops! Mac and Joe apparently left all the lights on in the cottage when they went to Switzerland to record Kados' brain pattern. That's not gonna look too good when the electricity bill comes in... Also, Mac is quite clearly standing on a box during his argument with Sam. My favourite moment of the episode comes as Doctors Blakemore and Sherman debate whether or not to let Joe take over the operation. Just behind them, in the background, you can see Joe moving across the screen as if he's coming to take their place...only they've clearly just stuck the puppet on a trolley or something and are pushing him along the set. He's not moving naturally, he just glides past in the background as stiff and immobile as if he's on wheels. It's terribly amusing. Additional Notes The episode opens with Doctor Blakemore and two nurses carrying out a rehearsal of the operation they're going to perform on Maurice Estoral. Taking Estoral's place under the sheets is Doctor Sherman, and I honestly don't know why he's there since they're actually testing all the equipment the operation will require for real. "Switch on the laser lance," Doctor Blakemore tells a nurse, and a rather ominous buzzing noise is heard as the laser is powered up. My own personal theory is that Doctor Sherman got drunk the previous night, found his way back to the hospital and decided to have a nap on the surgical bed, so that when Blakemore and co came in next morning nobody knew he was there. He's only saved from having the top of his head phasered off by Mac's sudden entrance. And with Mac's arrival, Doctor Blakemore dismisses the two nurses. "Thank you Doctor, good night." they say cheerily, despite the fact that it's broad daylight outside... There's plenty of sequences involving the Jet Air Car in this episode, so many in fact that it becomes almost fetishistic. There's roadworks in progress; the Jet Air Car flies over them. There's a train at the level-crossing; the Jet Air Car flies over it. The gates at the hospital are closed (?); the Jet Air Car flies over them. Padding if ever I saw it, but what's sadder is that these bits are probably the most exciting parts of the episode. And speaking of the train, it's very strange to see contemporary-looking railway vehicles in any of these shows... There's a nice moment of puppetry during the scene on the plane, as Dr Kados looks out of the window at the storm for a few moments before going back to the book he's reading. Suddenly there's a big flash of lightning, and he nervously looks out the window again. It's such a little thing but it does go some way to making these puppets seem more life-like... This newspaper covering the plane crash is quite interesting, as newspapers go, particularly the beginning of the lead article... If you can't make it out, it reads as follows: CAPTAIN WILLIAM BARRY, AND CO-PILOT FRANK CASPER, WHO TOGETHER PLAYED A MAJOR PART IN FOILING A SINISTER PLOT TO DESTROY THE FREE WORLD, WERE AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE YESTERDAY FOR THE ROYAL INVESTITURE. This is a reference to the previous episode, as apparently this newspaper mockup was first created for the epilogue of Splashdown. Although it doesn't actually appear in the finished episode (Mac just reads out the above but we don't see it close-up) it was probably intended to be. In fact this particular newspaper has quite a long and distinguished career in the Supermarionation shows, having had any number of different headlines slapped on it over the course of the various series. At any rate it appeared in the Thunderbirds episode Path of Destruction which I just so happened to watch over the weekend (in High Definition, ooh, get me!), which is the only reason I mention it. I'm not such a rabid fan that I can detail the entire history of a prop newspaper. Well, thinking about it I probably am. But I'm still not going to. Final Thoughts One of the things Joe 90 did very well and that the other Supermarionation series never even attempted was small, intimate character-driven shows where not much happens but you still get a nice warm fuzzy feeling by the end of it. This, sadly, is not one of those episodes. This is just tedious, with the climax being particularly uninvolving since a brain operation - the very thing the whole story has been building up to - can't be shown on screen, so all you get many closeups of a clock while the other characters just stand around and watch Joe. Also, Mac pulling a gun on two surgeons and then getting away with it entirely just doesn't feel right. He's not going to get punished, because he knows that if the doctors or nurses tell anyone what really happened no-one will believe them, which I guess makes some sense but it does highlight a rather manic streak in his character... At least with Operation Time you had the excitement of a car chase and an evil Mysteron agent; this is basically the same story but with all the exciting and interesting parts taken out, leaving very little left to recommend it. The only remotely exciting scene would have been the plane crash, but we don't even get to see that as it happens off-screen. There's some nice character work between Mac and Joe, and between Doctor Blakemore and Maurice Estoral, but it just isn't enough to save this episode from a pretty low score. It's not unwatchable in itself, just rather boring... RAT TRAPs (out of five) A scene from the unfinished episode The Amazing Colossal Mac... Joe's getting a bit cross that I don't include many pictures of him in these guides, so here's one just to avoid his wrath... "Ooh, that's a nice one of you. Shows off your jawbone ever so nicely..." "I was so sorry to hear
of your illness, Mr Estoral." It was a good fifteen minutes into the operation before Mac realised he'd accidentally given his son the brain pattern of a top chef, though everyone agreed that Joe's 'Brain d'Estoral in a white wine sauce' was to die for... |


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Lowes has 75% off outdoor plants now so I've snagged some great deals but some of the things they've told me are perennial here I'm not so sure of. They were cheap so I can give it a go but I'd hate to think of looking forward to enjoying them next year and they don't come back.
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- Posted by rainydaywoman_z8 OR (My Page) on Mon, Oct 19, 09 at 22:31
My experience with light-colored New Zealand flax has been bad. I had 3 very large ones that died last winter when we had some freezing weather. (Notice: I'm in zone 8b and flax should be hardy.) But a friend said his was regrowing from the root after it died down--he mulched his. I had forgotton to mulch mine. |
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You don't have to do this alone.
The Community has provided me a forum to have my questions answered, get feedback on parts of my business I am working on, and even keep me accountable to my business tasks. As the only practitioner in my business, it can be easy to get distracted, put off other tasks, or just feel like I am spinning my wheels. If I want, any day, I can check in with the community and know that I am not alone. I can see my business growing along side others. Together, we work on the monthly focus and bring ideas to areas where we feel stuck or vulnerable. It is nice to have a place where I'm not the only one who has questions and sometimes, I can be one to help another person get clarity. Most of all, it doesn't matter if you are just starting out or been in business for years, there is something for everyone.
Since diving into the Community, my business has seen me step into it and really take stewardship. My e-mail list has grown, my writing is improving and there is more clarity about who I am serving. I have been able to get important systems in place to help make some tasks easier to do and provide more support to my clients. I have been able to embark on bigger projects because I have the ability to ask questions, benefit from the experiences and gifts of the other members, and bring these to the community I serve – which is saving me hours of research about learning the necessary programs to get the work done. My heart is being supported in my own healing journey and even though it is something I feel is more personal, having the community be able to cheer me on or witness it allows me to keep with it when it gets tough or challenges me (gently and lovingly) when I try to step away from it.
Nicole McKay – website: Birthgoddess
Why we are offering this community
Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have helped people connect with others. But the ever-flowing stream supports distraction rather than presence and action.
Similarly, we've seen people who would love to have a mastermind group and struggle to find the right mix of people. Small groups form, then fall apart. And, even once formed, sometimes there is a real confusion about how to move forward because everyone is at the same level of inexperience, and it's hard to really help each other in big ways.
We want you to implement what you've learned. We want you to feel empowered through seeing your business get better and better as you take the next step, and the next.
And we want to see your heart deepen in love and wisdom, and to see your business and your being flourish in vibrant ways.
In short, we want you to be successful, however you define it. And the most successful people don't do it alone. As our team member Jason Stein says, "Together is better."
What's different about this community?
Many communities, social media for sure, but even facilitated communities, leave you to just do what you do. They "empower you" to make your own way.
The truth is that community can be challenging to form. It's hard to approach a stranger and ask for help. Without a successful structure, it can seem like tossing a coin as to whether you actually get useful help.
We offer a successful structure, one that combines a few different elements:
- Instructional Design. There are proven ways that adults learn, implement and change. We've honed a lot of this in the programs we teach, and we bring the best of those structures, without bringing the intensity of a learning program.
- Awareness. If you go to a gym for awhile, but then miss a week or three, how do you get back into it? You can do it through force of will, maybe. What a difference if instead someone from the gym called you with a compassionate "Hey, I noticed you weren't there. We miss you! How can we support you to get back in?"
We have Mark, plus Steve, our Director of Education, and our community facilitators, who are active and present. We help support what people are doing, and keep it flowing. A loving, aware, human personal touch and awareness of our members, and a gentle, compassionate support to engage.
- Expert support. We know how powerful it is to get the right input from an expert to further empower you. Without making it as intense as a learning program, we still bring in coaching and support so that you can get questions answered, and get support on what you need to move it along. This way, you have access to specific expertise when you most need it.
- Spirituality. Love changes everything. To consistently hold love in your heart, and in your business, can radically alter your experience, and your clients' experiences, of what you offer. We have a variety of spiritual resources, including virtual retreats, weekly Remembrance meditations, and a library of helpful recordings and teachings.
These four elements will support you to take the next step in your business, and in your heart.
Am I going to be overwhelmed?
Are you overwhelmed now? Because so many of us live full, busy lives, it's probably true that something may need to move to make space for this community, even if it's not as intense as a program.
But not as much as you might think.
Here's a common experience: let's say you're working on something – content for your website, or strategic planning for an offer, or just trying to figure out your marketing plan. You spend hours spinning, trying to get it done.
Then, you get on the phone with a buddy, or post a question to a group of people you trust, and the response gets the juices flowing, gets you on track, and you get done what you need to get done in just 45 minutes.
It does take time to engage with a community of learning and practice, but it ends up being far more efficient, effective and – let's face it – fun, than spinning your wheels on your own.
Heck, even just getting support so you know what to focus on, will save you heaps of time, rather than following a scatter-shot approach.
The opportunity to experience meaningful community with others, in your top-quality partnering process, adds a whole other dimension that helps ground and deepen our own personal learning journeys…
I look forward to continuing to learn from you Mark, to take more classes, be part of your Community, and to continue to tell others about your wonderful work.
Thank you.
with much love,
– Rosa, diapraxis.com
What's Included?
The Community is in three sections: Business, Heart, and Connection.
In the Business section:
Every month there's a business focus. If you choose to engage with it, there's a worksheet, resources, and the shared energy of community focused on a particular aspect of business.
There's also a live coaching call, where one of the Heart of Business practitioners is available to answer any questions or help you through any challenges you have. These calls are recorded, so you can learn from the coaching others receive as well.
Business case studies: Each month we feature one of the in-depth interviews we've conducted with people who have successfully applied Heart of Business principles in their own business and seen the results. We dive deep to have them share what they did that made them successful, so you can follow to.
Q&A videos: There are have also been questions in business posed, and we have short videos answering those questions.
In the Heart section:
Once a week we have a live Remembrance call, where the community gathers for spiritual practice together. It's only 15 minutes, and yet it goes deep. There is something so powerful about being in a heart space together, and people remark on how profoundly it affects their day and their week.
We also have a large library of these recorded Remembrances, on a wide variety of topics, such as Removing the fuzz of too much thinking, When Deadlines and other urgent things are pressing on you, Returning to your business after grief, Moving rapidly at the speed of the Divine, When fear is consuming you, and others.
Spiritual Nourishment Q&A: There are some profound questions that have come up for community members, and we have a library of Mark's responses to these questions. Questions like: "Wanting more versus surrendering to what's on your path," "Accessing guidance for big decisions," and "Can't get past wanting to be small and invisible in business and life."
In the Connection section:
As you might imagine, we have a Forum. A safe, truly private, community. (1) It's private, not on social media, so it's confidential, unsearchable, truly safe. (2) There are clear guidelines of engagement, so that it's a true safe space for learning and receiving help. (3) Not only is the Heart of Business team active in the Forum, there are facilitators monitoring it, supporting you and all members in getting the most out of it, so it can be a lively, engaged place to receive and give wisdom.
Partnering program: We have a long history of partnering people together in our programs. We are tweaking and improving that program, and bringing it to this community, so you can connect with others, live on the phone, or in person if you happen to live close by. The guidelines, orientation and support we have for partnering means that it's not just a social connection, although it's that too.
Our intention is that the community members you partner with help you get things done, whether it's support for your heart, holding space while you get guidance, or compassionate accountability in working through an exercise or getting something constructive done in your business.
Virtual Retreats: For years, every other month, Mark has led a Virtual Retreat, where the community gathers to do spiritual practice (your own practice, or you can try the ones we offer), go deep, clear the clutter in your heart, and get deep guidance and heart nourishment.
The retreats are profound, and worth the cost of admission to the community on their own. Mark was initially surprised at how powerful the virtual format was for retreating, but it turns out to provide an excellent container: the power of spiritual practice done in a group, support and guidance from a teacher in your spiritual journey, and without the expense of traveling or staying somewhere.
Partnering with other class mates on the way was such an integral part of the journey, and also participating in the forum.
What's it cost?
$95/month or $1045 for the year (if you commit to being in community for a year, we want to thank you by giving you month 12 – on us). The cost is designed to be low enough for you can enjoy ongoing membership, and still give us the resources to make this a true community, with live resources, and people who engage with you, rather than just an automated self-study program that collects virtual dust and gets ignored.
Can I try it out?
Yes! You can try it out. Something we know about community and developing a sustainable business: both take time. From our perspective, we'd love you to make a minimum six month commitment to really experience how our Community can help you and your business blossom.
We also understand, especially if you're less familiar with us, that you might not be feeling that commitment, and so we do offer a monthly payment option.
If you do take on the longer commitment and something comes up, we can put your membership on hold until you can return, or transfer it to another program later, or even just refund you a pro-rated amount.
Is this right for you?
If you find yourself spinning your wheels and wasting a lot of time, if you find yourself wanting to be connected to your heart more than you are, if you want your business building practices to reflect more spirit and less struggle- then please do join us in the Community.
The door is open, and we are ready to welcome you, and learn with you, and practice with you.
Monthly Business Focus – We focus on one topic each month, to keep you on track with worksheets, checklists and any resources we have to help support you – without feeling overwhelmed. | |
Monthly Business Support Call - We gather as a community to ask questions and support one another on the business journey. | |
Case Studies – to help you learn and implement Heart of Business principles from others who have been successful and see positive results for yourself. | |
Live Weekly Remembrance Calls – to nourish your spirit and reconnect you to your heart. | |
Remembrance Call Archives – every session is recorded and available for you at any time. | |
Q&A videos & audios – providing business insight or spiritual nourishment on a variety of commonly asked questions (and a few uncommon ones, too). | |
Partnering Program – facilitated partnering to provide for compatible support and accountability on a one-to-one level | |
Virtual Retreats – every other month | |
Private, safe Community Forum – to share, practice, and provide support for one another. | |
Real people – Facilitators and a Community Manager to monitor and help in the forum. | |
6 months Make one payment today (you can suspend/cancel at any time) | US $570 |
12 months Make one payment today, and your 12th month is on us (you can suspend/cancel at any time) | US $1045 |
Monthly Payments (one payment now, with all following payments on the same day of each month) | First payment $95 now, then $95/month |
Still have questions?
You should be fierce in protecting that which comes from your heart. If you choose to let us help you, we are humbled by that trust.
If you think maybe this program is what you need, but you're not quite sure, please ask. We don't want an unasked question or unexpressed concern to keep you from getting clarity for yourself, whether Yes or No. Please reach out.
Use our Contact form, or call us at 1-503-282-3037, and if you get voice mail (we are a small company), we'll get back to you.


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"The Friday Night Lights Miss Spirit Award goes to Brenda Holder!"
The talented student had just performed, singing to the song, "Angels Among Us," which she had practiced for four months.
The pageant was actually held on May 17, but Brenda couldn't be present. A tragic accident had taken the life of her uncle and she would stay by her mother's side and share her grief.
So, in June, a special awards recognition ceremony was held just for Brenda. She wore her pageant dress and dedicated the song in the talent category to her uncle, Miles "Woody" Holder, she recalled with tears.
Brenda was escorted by her friend Jeremy Hitson. Her face lit up as she added with a sparkle, "He is my fiancee."
Her parents Jim and Mandy Holder were present to help cheer her on during her performance, along with her grandparents Howard and Frieda Mercer and other family members, who came from out-of-town for the special event.
There were 17 entries in the pageant — including Brenda, who has been with Friday Night Lights since its inception in January 2013. Performing with the group, she said, is her delight.
Her school years include Arnold Memorial Elementary, Cleveland Middle School and Cleveland High School, as well as Trousdale.
Brenda is also among the 15 who have been nominated for the Cleveland High School Hall of Fame induction, to be held Sept. 5, and she is working on her speech for the event. This is the second year CHS has had the Hall of Fame program.
But the young performer and athlete is not only interested in performing — she is also involved in sports and other activities. "I'm a good basketball player," she said. And she has several medals she garnered in Special Olympics, including bocce and swimming.
It's been a wonderful 33 years together, Brenda and her parents agree, starting two years after the Holders were married. Brenda was adopted by the Holders when 9 years old, after two years' living in their home.
During Mrs. Holder's first year of teaching in Georgia, she had Brenda in her class. When Brenda needed a place to go, the Holders invited her to stay with them. This led to their foster care and about a year later, they began adoption procedures in Georgia. The adoption process was delayed for a year when Mr. Holder moved to a job in Tennessee.
They hold a special pride in their daughter, who has worked 14 years at Jenkins Deli — along with her friend Heather Collins. Mrs. Holder says her daughter has surpassed her with her skills and expertise at her job.