My Grandmother has passed away.  She was a woman of faith who loved, and was loved by, her family and community... and I miss her terribly.

In Memorium - Edith Mae Thornton, 86

Edith M. Thornton, 86, of Park Vista Independent Retirement Center, and previously of Lowellville, passed way peacefully Sunday afternoon at Hospice House after a short illness.

Edith was born Sept. 25, 1923 in Youngstown, a daughter of Harry and Rhoda McElwain.  She graduated form Rayen High School and married the late James F. Thornton on June 16, 1945.  James passed away July 9, 1994.

Edith leaves two sisters, Eleanor Dicks of Zephyrhills, Florida and Eileen Davis of Hubbard and a brother Walter McElwain is deceased.

Edith also leaves three sons, James S. (Janet) Thornton of Boardman, David H. (Paulette) Thornton of Poland Twp., Gerald E. Thornton of Lowellville, and a daughter Marilyn J. (Andrew) Acierno of Liberty.

In addition, she will be missed by nine grandchildren, Nicole (Steve) Cain, Andrea (Robert) Neff, Gerald (Megan) Thornton, Lori (Bradley) Timko, John M. Thornton, Lisa (Guy) Young, Summer Thornton, Michele (James) Dierkes, and Melissa (Emmanuel) Vlahos.

Also eight great-grandchildren, Katrina Neff, Andrew Neff, Elizabeth Neff,  twins Kyle and Nathan Cain, Nikolas Young, Ava Timko, and Xander Thornton.

Edith was a very active member of Richard Brown Memorial Methodist Church, and before that, in the McGuffey Methodist Church.  She sang in the choir, served on many committees and was active in United Methodist Women and the Mothers Club.  She was very committed to family and especially enjoyed family gatherings and the great-grandchildren. She will be greatly missed by her family.

Her hobbies included knitting, needlepoint  and roller skating with her husband.

Calling will be at 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the Thompson Funeral Home (4221 Market Street, Youngstown, OH, 44512-1119, (330) 788-6568).  Friends may also call from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Richard Brown Church  (1205 Elm Street, Youngstown, OH, 44505, 330-743-5432).  A Service will be held at the church 11 a.m.

The family requests that tributes be contributed to Richard Brown United Methodist Church.

So for those of you who's December has been filled with holly and jolly and other things ending in olly, skip down to the Fall update, everyone else, read on.

Stop and take a Deep Breath.  You are ok.

I know this has been a difficult month for many of you and you are not alone.  I have never seen so many clients and friends having such a difficult time as I have this month and for many it has nothing to do with Christmas and the holiday season.  For many, business is down or relationships are strained, it may be the weather, it may be the season, but many of us are having a difficult month and are afraid that this will be the new normal in the coming year.

Relax and Breathe Deep.  You will be ok.

At first I was taking it case by case, person by person, trying to figure out what was going on, why is this wonderful person feeling like this?  Soon I saw that that was not the right way to think – It's just December.  Freakin, flippin December.

Let the tension and anxiety flow away, and Breathe.

This is not the new normal.  This is not what 2010 will be like, and you are not alone.  So what I finally realized I need to be saying to people is, "Relax, Chill out, Breathe Deep and don't make any important decisions until January."

Relax your neck and roll your shoulders – feel the tightness loosen, and Breathe.

You are deeply loved and cared for and I pray for each and every one of you this December and for the coming year.  It will be ok and we will all get through this together.

What ever you can Breathe through, you can Live through.

Relax, and Breathe.

My talk at ULE was a blast and will be available for sell on DVD first quarter of 2010, although I did discover that suits seem to scare the heck out of fairgoers.  Who knew?  Then, off to Rochester for readings and networking with my New York peeps, leading to a booking in January for radio with Michelle.  Right away off to Texas to see family and help my Aunt after her heart surgery, she's doing much better.  One day at the Warren fair before the travel caught up with me and I crashed, but some good readings.  Then three days in Sandusky at Midnight Moon and Karen's Wellness Center, both leading to spring classes: Auras – the Light Fantastic at Midnight Moon and Your Spiritual Toolkit – Psychic Development Intensive at Karen's.  Finally, Victory of Light in Cincinnati where I attempted to give readings in a noisy hallway because they lost my paperwork.  Blerg.

Funny thing at Victory of Light though, the second day the reader across the way comes over with her head hung low to say, "I need to apologize to you."

"Fer what?  Why, what did you do?"

"For years," she said, "I've been telling people that no one can 'see auras' and Spirit Artists are all frauds, but seeing you work has changed my mind.  I believe that you are the real deal and see those energies.  I am so very sorry."

I looked at her for a minute and said, "Hey, no worries.  If it makes you feel any better, I've said some less than kind things about angel readers."

Cuz the technique is always less important that the person doing the reading.  There are amazing psychics and readers out there giving incredible readings with the strangest methods and others who will sit and read you a Tarot interpretation right out of a book and call it a reading.  Talk to people, get recommendations and remember not to talk down any particular style because you never know who is out there giving the most incredible readings using two twigs and a glass of water.

Ok,  so, since I hate to see audio on the site without transcripts, I've started transcribing my radio apearances.  The urge to edit the print version is almost unbearable!  Anyway, from my first visit to the AC and Kelly in the Mornining show on Hot 101 on 7-09-2009 I give you the first segment:

The Birthday Wheel

AC McCoullough:  Hot 101 AC and Kelly in the morning it is 7:34. Your Hot 101 Storm Tracker 21 weather.

Kelly Stevens:  You're looking for a high today around 83 Degrees, 88 for a high tomorrow, then Saturday a chance of showers and thunderstorms.  What's hot in the Valley?  We gotta lot of things, Something very special goin on tonight, we'll tell you about that at Gleener's food bank, Red Cross, Crossroads Sleep Disorder Clinic, That's coming up tonight, I'll tell you about more of that.

AC: Alright, alright, for the next hour we have a special guest in the studio with us this morning.  And it's John Michael Bloom.

Kelly:  John Michael Thornton

AC: Thornton, Bloom where'd I get Bloom at?

Kelly:  I have no idea. Seriously, John Michael, this is what I work with every day.  It must be his psychic powers going crazy, but it's John Michael Thornton, Thank you Ace.

AC:  And now before we even get started, John, we gotta tell…

Kelly:  John Michael

AC:  What?

Kelly:  John Michael

AC:  Ok, I said John.

John Michael Thornton: Close enough.

AC:  God… Can I continue now?  Ok, so here’s the deal, we gotta say what happened here, we gotta say what happened a few minutes ago.  You arrived here a couple of minuets ago, just before we did the Birthday Wheel.  It's a thousand Dollar Thursday.

Kelly:  He comes in.  He sits down.

AC:  Sits down, he's sittin in the chair, Karen is on the phone and I ask Karen, I said when is your birthday, she said January first.  We spun the wheel and the wheel landed on January 26^th.  When we got done with Karen and we were off the air, you said to us what?

John:  January twenty sixth is my birthday.

Kelly:  Unbelievable.

AC:  Wow

Kelly:  Unbelievable.  At which point we all got chills.  I mean, do you realize the odds of that?

AC:  Man!

Kelly:  Well I know that probably doesn’t surprise you, because you're a psychic.

John:  No, it doesn't surprise me.  What do I win?

-Laugher-

AC:  You don't win anything.

Kelly:  Ah, we can give you the Coca's Pizza.  That's about it.

AC:  Yeah, guests of the AC and Kelly show aren't eligible to win anything.

-Laughter-

AC:  So anyway, so, you're a psychic, and where you from, anyway?

John:  I grew up in Boardman, OH. Went to Boardman High School, graduated in '94 and then went to YSU, I was a Religious Studies Major, and then after that traveled around a bit, and then came back here in 2005

AC:  Ok, Kell had some very interesting questions, so um, Kell, why don't you start in here.

Kelly:  Well, no, you wanted to know about nuclear missals in North Korea and I just looked, like, who cares?  You know, you're like, "you think they'll launch them?" And I'm just like, are you seriously wasting your time with a psychic asking that?  I want to know things like, do I have psychic powers?  Does Ace have psychic powers?  Can my psychic powers overcome his psychic powers?

-Laugher-

John:  It's not Deathmatch.

-Laughter-

Kelly:  No, but, do we all have psychic abilities?  How do you know you're a psychic?  Do you just wake up one day and go, "I'm a psychic?"

John:  Well I believe that everyone has a certain amount of innate psychic ability.

Kelly:  OK

John:  And whether or not you decide to develop that or move forward in working with those abilities depends upon your own beliefs, your own desires and what you are looking for in life,  but everyone's got a certain amount of talent.  We're all built to be psychic.  It's the way we're designed.

Kelly:  How do you know?  Do you just all of a sudden feel entities talking to you?  Or is it just a hunch?  What is it?

John:  Well I think some people do have a sort of big, nuclear moment change… I'm stuck on "nuclear" now, it's all your fault Ace.

-Laughter-

Kelly:  North Korean missals, I need to know.  They launchin today or not?  I got stock ridin on this.  Who cares?

-Laughter-

AC:  Go ahead John.

John:  Some people do have, you know, big moments that convince them that they have certain abilities and certain talents,  but for most people it's just you start having, uh, your hunches start coming right.  Perhaps you start having very vivid dreams that come true,  or you feel the presence of disincarnate beings or ghosts around you.  And it sort of builds from there.  There's a lot of different ways it can come through.   For myself, what happened with me was I started having, ah, becoming very very sensitive to the energy that surrounds people, their aura, their chakras field, to the point where I would feel it when I was brushing up against someone and would pick up random, small impulses, what was going on with them, their moods.  Anger especially would seem very bright, very hot.  To the point where even if I brushed up against someone who was very angry I'd feel like I had burns up against my arm.

AC:  Can you tell right now that I'm pissed at Kell?  Can you pick that up?

-laughter-

John:  Do I need to be psychic?

-Laughter-

Kelly:  I mean he's call you the wrong name eight times now.  For God's sake, I wrote it down on a piece of paper for him.  And then he acts like I'm interrupting him.  No, I'm just trying to give you the information.  Let me ask you,  I have one quick question, he can answer it when we come back.

AC:  Ok, we can do that then.

Kelly:  This is what I want to know, If I'm sitting here and I have those vibes, is it something that you should be afraid of?  If by tapping into this will those ghosts and entities start to haunt me?  I want to know that when we come back.

AC:  Alright, ok, what's his name?

Kelly:  Read it, right here.

AC:  It's John Michael

Kelly:  Thornton

AC:  Thornton

-Laughter-

AC:  You didn’t write that down.

-Laughter-

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