September Issue of MSM:
Page 1- Just a moment of your time
COPYRIGHT, 2010 Main Street Magazine/Rain Enterprises

As seen in MSM. Issue_September 2010, ISSN: 1920-4299


Welcome to the September issue of Main Street Magazine.

My northern adventure began when my friend Jen called me on Friday July 30th. Yes it’s true, technically I was not in Northern Ontario yet, the road trip would not begin until Sunday August 1st when we would spend 10+ hours in the car driving from Southern Ontario to Sault Ste Marie. Just the same, the minute the phone rang...my adventure began.

“I ‘m looking for Ms. Rivers, Ms. Tilly Rivers” I knew that impish voice, my girl was up to something.

“You got her” I replied with a smile.

“I’m on highway 400” she informed me, I did a quick calculation in my mind...she is about an hour and a bit away. “And oh yeah, is it all right if I bring my sister with me?”

“Nope” I tell her with the same sass, “Drop her off at the corner and we will pick her up on the way back on Sunday.”

She laughed and hung up with a see you soon.

I had never met Jen’s sister before, but of course heard of her often and was looking forwarding to getting to know her. Friday night us girls let loose, music and tequila...and a very brave neighbour who decided to come for a visit and was...well that’s another story. Let’s just say that you get to know someone when tequila is involved, it should be a rule, like Murphy’s Law or something, ice breaker number one: drink Tequila.

Speaking of drinks...Clare Jackson has returned from his vacation with some new spirits for us to try, Rosemary Peters is tempting our taste buds with her Golden Gazpacho
Recipe and Lily’s Garden never displeases with her line up on male ‘eye-candy’ for us to enjoy, and all your favourite monthly columns are here for your enjoyment.
You will also discover as an added twist of flavour and zing in this month’s issue a story and pictures from my great northern adventure.

A special thanks to Jen, for showing me what poison ivy looks like, delivering as promised a flush toilet and hot shower-for introducing me to great people, showing me nature at its most sincere and staying up late drinking wine and chatting. Love ya!
And oh yes, for the record, for any male readers out there, girls do talk about you guys, it is one of our favourite subjects.

With love
~T~

Rita Berkowitz
www.thespiritartist.com
Publisher: Alpha


Interviewed By: Donna Gray

I visited Rita Berkowitz, Psychic Medium, and author of "The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Communicating with Spirits", at her office at First Spiritual Church of Quincy, MA, where she is a Pastor. A commissioned healer who holds a Master of Science degree in psychological counseling, Rita has the ability to see, speak to, and DRAW our guides, and our loved one’s who have died. Taking a stroll through Rita’s album of spirit drawings, one gets the sense that this lady is blessed with a talent that takes spirit connection to the next level. The fact that she is an excellent artist combined with her gifts/communication skills, help to define the way she helps people to be in touch with their loved ones who have passed on.
Rita had early evidence that she was supposed to be more than a painter. Feeling like she was being pulled to use her gifts, her interest grew stronger after a chance meeting at a winter celebration at a Spiritualist Church. She then traded entry into a psychic development class for a class in painting. The psychic development class helped her to develop her gifts and she began to know she was on the right path to her life's mission. Rita studied at the acclaimed Arthur Findley College in England, a fact she's very proud of. More and more she knew she was to follow the path of showing people their loved ones are still here.
When asked if there’s a waiting period, a time limit, after losing a loved one, before one should seek the help of a medium, she answered, “If someone has moved to a new home, don’t you give them time to get settled?” This made perfect sense and verified some of the lessons I found in her book, which could be described as a “good learning tool” for those looking for “guidance and assistance from family and friends who have crossed to the other side.” Rita reminded me several times that having an open mind, and being open to spirit connection, is extremely important in the search for the love connection that never dies.
Asked how she takes care of herself in light of the way spirit channels through her, and the pull on her energies, she replied that she lives a healthy life style and believes in natural medicine. Rita says, “Talking to spirit is not draining. It’s energizing. I’m not tired, I’m wired,”
This humble reviewer can testify to being totally “wired” when the visit ended, can’t wait to read Rita’s next book “Empowering Your Life With Angels”, and will be making occasional visits to her web site www.thespiritartist.com.
Books: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits