Path of Totality

Hello again and happy April!

I hope you’re having a great week so far!

Thank you to all the new subscribers who’ve joined the Positive Vibes community in the last week! See below for some links to the highlights you may have missed over the past year.

Cheers,

Yasmine

For New Subscribers

Here are some links to prior issues you may have missed—some of the best ones 😉 :

Why Positive Vibes? (How this newsletter got its start)

A Very Good Year (Contains many of the highlights of the journey for Walk through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America in the year of its release, 2023)

May the Road Rise Up to Meet You (St. Patrick’s Day 2024, with an excerpt from my upcoming novel, The View from the Cliffs)

You can find all the archived issues of Positive Vibes here. (Scroll down on that page after clicking on the link.)

What I’m Feeling Good About

If you’re on Facebook, you may have already seen this, but not everyone is (and Facebook’s algorithm doesn’t show my posts to everyone—who knows how it works?) … so I’m including it here, because it really was a fortuitous circumstance in my life recently:

I needed to rehome an ECG machine (which I had been trying to sell), and one day last month, I received an email message from my good friend and former medical school classmate, Sister Mary Diana, OP, MD, who now runs St. Martin’s Medical Care for the Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation in Nashville.

Sister reported that their ECG machine had broken, and was wanting my input on where to buy another—the options she was seeing were extremely expensive and out-of-budget—and where to look and what to look for. I immediately responded that I had a very good, almost-new ECG machine that needed a new home!

So, we were able to arrange this donation to St. Cecilia—I’m so pleased it worked out the way it did! The machine is already being put to good use for the health care of the Sisters!

What You’re Feeling Good About

One member of the Positive Vibes community, Heddie, wrote in with a truly beautiful message; I will quote part of it here:

You’ll be hearing more from Heddie in future issues—she has a lot of wisdom to share—so stay tuned!

(This section is where I’ll be featuring good news, tips, and bits of wisdom from readers—so please reply to this email and share some with me! It can be anything, big or small. Whatever you’re feeling good about.)

Birthday Vibes

Happy birthday to all those celebrating in April!!

Here are some fun facts about April babies:

More Good News

Don’t forget about the solar eclipse coming up this Monday, April 8! If you’re in the Nashville, TN area, as I am, here are your details:

And here is the full, interactive solar eclipse map for all regions:

Be prepared to view the eclipse safely. Never look at the sun with your naked eye, through regular sunglasses, or with binoculars or a telescope unless outfitted with a solar filter. For more info:

And a heartwarming good-news story:

Funny Vibes

April is also National Humor Month, so here’s a little more …

Pawsitive Vibes

Do you remember Millie, the Maine Coon cat who owns the heart (and the home!) of Patti, another Positive Vibes member?

Here’s another photo of her as she looks today:

And here she is not long after Patti rescued her from a ditch by a country road so many years ago. How far she has come!

Got a pet pic you’d like to share? Please feel free to reply to this email!

Riddle Me This

I visited this place (and took this photo) a few weeks ago. Do you know where it is?

Correct answer will be in next week’s newsletter. In the meantime, if you think you know the answer, or if you have been there, just reply to this email and let me know!

For Your Playlist

For some reason, the “Linus and Lucy” theme always reminds me of Spring … and it doesn’t get more “Positive Vibes” than this! ;)

Here’s the link if you’re on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/01Gb1rVOV5Xq2aOzzqQwNE?si=dcf0def701164cb4

Last Word

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