You can feel the season changing. Fall is coming. Rain, and the rainy sound of cicadas. Temps in the 60’s feel more like 50’s.  In the past few days, people have gone from shorts and T-shirts to hoodies and sweatpants. My furnace came on overnight!

The virus is still with us.  It changed  all the things we would do in the summer, and will be affecting how we live this fall as well. That is our reality, now.

The weather has been challenging, too. After the storms  on August 10, there are still fallen trees and damage here. Since then,  Hurricane Laura has ravaged Louisiana,  some parts still suffering damages from Hurricane Katrina 15 years ago.  And the hurricane season is far from over.

Meanwhile, wildfires burning in California and the Pacific Northwest. There are fire-tornadoes and fire-clouds! The red sky over San Francisco has been called apocalyptic. You’ve seen the photos. This is what climate change looks like.

Here’s the National Weather Service outlook for today–

Watches and Warnings are up for Sally in the central Gulf Coast. Smokey conditions remain in the Northwest and CA. Critical fire weather threats may cause rapid fire growth around the CA/OR/NV junction. Locally heavy rain may produce flash flooding in the mid-south. pic.twitter.com/IPHD64dNGV

— National Weather Service (@NWS) September 13, 2020

And here, in Chicago it’s sun and Sunday. The milkweed pods are ripening, and there are many monarch butterflies. The waning crescent moon in the morning light was so beautiful! Yes, there is beauty in this world.

Even in these uncertain and pandemic times, there is beauty, and hope and courage. Every day.

If you take care of your inside it will radiate on the outside. It is not about looking like a super model but having a healthy lifestyle. If you take care of yourself physically and mentally it will show on the outside. Do you know someone who does not fit society’s standard for beauty; yet their confidence and energy make them attractive? Do you know someone who does fit society’s standard for beauty, but they lack confidence and you can discern they have a negative view of themselves? What is the difference between the two people? One person has learned how to feel good about themselves. When you feel good about yourself it shows.

How do you feel good about yourself? You may feel people have damaged your self-esteem; however, we can be our worst critics. You do not have to agree with the negative words people have spoken about you. Do not participate with their negativity. Practice positive self-talk. Use positive self-talk to let go of any negativity, doubt, bitterness or self-pity that may have taken hold of you. Forgive yourself for past mistakes. Acknowledge that it is okay to love you. You may have imperfections, so what. Do not let family, friends, co-workers, the mirror or society determine your self-worth.

Do not focus on external things for your self-esteem. Focus on living a healthy lifestyle by making it a priority. Think positive about yourself. Spend time around positive people who can reinforce positivity in your life. Eat healthy, exercise, and get your rest. Concentrate on the inside and watch it manifest on the outside.

by Edward Shanahan.

Providing a new service of just Spirit Communication and Circle of Energy from Chicago Psychic Medium Edward Shanahan.

As time wanders into the abyss as it passes by, some memories never get lost in time, and some new memories can be created from times past, through experiences.

I have decided to provide another service for groups of individuals, be it held at their location or a haunted historic home is in the S. W. Suburbs. The home was built in the 1800s and remained in the family of a Senator until the youngest of the family passed, and no one has lived there since.

It is a combination of my Circle of Energy Seance and Spirit Communications during the Circle of Energy to provide an entertaining, spiritual, and an experience of what is waiting to be known from the Spirit World.

I will start with a short reading of each individual participating as a way of knowing who the old and young souls would be. Then the candles will be lit, and the lights turned down, and eventually, the candles being blown out.

At your location, you decide on the number of individuals you would like to invite, most seek to bring about their loved ones, and all can try.

If a large group of individuals, then there would be the circle of people around the table, I leave the Spirits decide who will be at the table, and the other individuals can sit behind those sitting at the table.

At times a person’s home has spirit activity. Then I provide more to help determine who or what the active spirit is before we go and do the Circle of Energy Seance with Spirit Communications.

If a location is active and the owner desires to bring calmness to the situation, then I will make that my goal by the end of the session.

My new service can also be provided at the historic home mentioned in the article. It will be limited to the number of people who can participate, but if interested, there are the spirits of the historic home that can also be attempted to bring across.

Some decide on a combination of loved ones and the spirits of the historic home.

As with any of my services that I offer to the public, the fee is based only on time spent, not the number of people participating.

For information on this new service, go to my website (Edward Shanahan) and email me from there seeking information about the service and mention it in your email.

Also, doing Psychic Phone Readings by appointment and even Private Psychic Readings with Spirit Communications or Design Your Own Psychic House Party, details are on my website at https://edwardshanahan.com

Be ready to experience what is already there.

Edward Shanahan

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6.5 million cases of Covid-19 in the United States.
196,000 Covid-19 deaths in the United States.
Let’s play college football!

Louisiana Tech vs Baylor postponed because of Covid-19.
TCU vs SMU because of Covid-19.
Let’s play college football!

Vanderbilt announces all fall sports will be played without fans.
Iowa St, which originally was going allow 25,000 fans to attend, now will play football without fans.
Let’s play college football!

Memphis has paused football activities due to positive Covid-19 tests.
Penn State has paused multiple team’s activities due to positive Covid-19 tests.
Let’s play college football!

Twenty-two schools have cut at least one athletic program because of financial issues due to Covid-19.
Stanford leads the way with eleven programs eliminated.
Let’s play college football!

Fifteen percent of college athletes diagnosed with Covid-19 show signs of heart inflammation after recovery.
Other athletes have suffered from lung disease, low levels of oxygen, and kidney and liver failure.
Let’s play college football!

The Mountain West, Mid-American, Big Ten, Pac-12, Ivy, and every FCS conference has postponed of canceled fall football.
The ACC, SEC and Big 12 think they know better.
Let’s play college football!

The University of Mississippi-430 cases of Covid-19.
The University of Alabama-500Plus cases of Covid-19.
The University of North Carolina-1106 cases of Covid-19.
Clemson University-400 new cases of Covid-19 this week.
Let’s play college football!

Dabo Swinney, Clemson head coach-$9,315,600 salary.
Nick Saban, Alabama head coach-$8,857,000 salary. 
Jim Harbaugh, Michigan head coach-$7,504,000 salary.
Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M head coach-$7,500,000 salary.
NCAA college football player-$0.00 salary.
Let’s play college football!

We’re in the midst of a pandemic.
There’s no vaccine.
Twenty-two students on the field making contact with each other on every play.
Another hundred on each sideline with little social distancing.
Let’s play college football!

Add all this together and it’s a recipe for disaster, but
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!!!
LET’S PLAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!!!!

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I was researching my RokBlok Record Player post when I came across Run-DMC’s “Rockbox” video. Can you see where the cross-reference happened? Anyway, I love this song. It’s the perfect collision of rap and rock, and at the time, it sounded so fresh. There was nothing like it.

As I watched the video, I delved into the comments and realized there’s a lot more story behind the song and video for RUN-DMC’s “Rock Box.”

For all you sucker mc’s perpetratin’ a fraud
Your rhymes are cold wack and keep the crowd cold lost
You’re the kind of guy that girl ignored
I’m drivin’ caddy, you fixin ‘a ford

The music industry didn’t even consider hip hop a genre in the early ’80s, and the whole rap-rock phase would take years to fully catch on. Though the Beastie Boys, and several others along the way, toyed with the idea, it was RUN-DMC who pioneered this style on that fateful recording in the spring of 1984.

As the story goes, Profile Records saw some success with RUN-DMC’s first two singles, “Hard Times” (1983) and “It’s Like That” (1983), and wanted the rap group to record a full album.

Influenced by the loud guitars and heavy rhythms of the metal band Riot, who was finishing up recording their album in the studio before RUN-DMC took over, producers Larry Smith and Russell Simmons decided to try their hand at a similar sounding beat for the up and coming rap crew. They enlisted the help of their friend Eddie Martinez to record guitar chops over the track they would come to call, “Rock Box.”

Upon listening, Profile Records president Cory Robbins was not feeling it, saying the song sounded “weird” with the guitars, so they recorded another version without them. Though Kool DJ Red Alert played this version on his New York radio show, it was Smith’s version, with the distorted guitars, that became the more popular version. Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?

Fun fact #1: The first video Profile Records produced, “Rock Box,” was the first video RUN-DMC ever made, and it was also the first rap song to get regular rotation on MTV.

Fun fact #2: While most magazines were oozing compliments about the groundbreaking tune, Pitchfork‘s Tom Breihan would soullessly state years later that “The only real misstep is “Rock Box”, a track that buries a decent banger under layers of unbearable hair-metal guitar wheedling.” Thanks, “Clueless” Joe Jackson.

Fun fact #3: On the making of the “Rock Box” video, DMC says, “We weren’t into it. It was just something we were told to do. And the director had the idea to have some little boy chasing after Run-DMC, to show that we had appeal to the younger generation. A little white boy, too.”

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