Winged Spirit

08/15/2026

I just let things go wherever the Universe wants to take me.

08/14/2026

I'm panicking.

I'm completely surrounded by NO air dried Skittles.

Yes, I could have worse problems...

08/14/2026

It’s almost time for PLANT BINGO! Are you ready to win some plants and drink some Boba?

08/14/2026

Interesting. Weirdly enough, I never even realized it was a to***co leaf. I just thought, "leaf". I guess I just connected it to the rural aspects of Calvert County. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Of all the county flags in Maryland, Calvert County's flag is one of the most recognizable and distinct.

In 1966, the Calvert County Commissioners asked the Calvert County Historical Society to develop a flag for the county. A committee was formed and got to work.

The background comes from the black-and-yellow coat of arms of the Calvert family, for whom our county is named. (You also notice this as part of the Maryland State flag.)

Across the center is the flag's most distinctive feature: a to***co leaf.

To***co was enormously important to Calvert County's early economy and was even used as a form of money during Maryland's colonial period. The leaf was made green and pointed upward to represent growth and prosperity.

The flag was first flown at Goshorn Park in St. Leonard on May 21, 1966, and the County Commissioners formally adopted it on June 7.

There was, however, a slight problem with the early flags: apparently nobody could quite agree on what a to***co leaf looked like.

The photograph from the flag's 1967 dedication shows a rather oddly shaped leaf that, to my eye at least, doesn't look much like to***co at all. Later versions experimented with the shape and even the color of the leaf. Around 1970, brown was used, apparently to resemble cured to***co. Eventually the green leaf returned, and in 1972 the Maryland Senate officially recognized the county flag as yellow, black, and green.

In 1996, there was a push to remove the leaf because some people believed displaying to***co on the county flag could be seen as encouraging smoking. The proposal met local opposition, and the leaf remained.

I side with keeping it.

Today we understand the terrible health consequences of smoking, but the to***co leaf on the Calvert County flag isn't an advertisement for ci******es. It represents a crop that profoundly shaped the economy, landscape, and history of this county for centuries. Whatever to***co represents to different groups of people (and there are certainly complicated parts of that history that we should never dismiss nor forget) it is part of Calvert County's story.

And besides, after nearly 60 years, that funny-looking green to***co leaf has become something uniquely Calvert County.

08/14/2026

I want to say thank you to everyone who attended this evening's Southern Maryland Spiritual Roundtable in Prince Frederick tonight. The discussion was amazing - thank you Ellen Bowie for the incredible introduction (for me, anyway) to crystals. You all continue to blow me away with the amount of knowledge you have about so many topics. I do feel like something of a dummy after these discussions but I say that with a light heart. :)

It's wonderful making so many new friends and I can't wait to do this again. We'll be sharing the next roundtable date soon and about the next topic (yes, we have someone already in mind who we hope will share her knowledge with us).

If you're interested in attending or have a topic you'd like to share or discuss, please let us know. I'll be setting up for the next date ASAP and other events we might be having for the entire group.

Many blessings and lot of love (be excellent to each other!)
- Lynn

08/13/2026

Lots of new events being added locally, so if you'd like to stay up to date and you're in the Calvert/Saint Mary's/Southern Maryland region and might enjoy attending, here's your link!

https://beacons.ai/wingedspiritoracle

08/13/2026

KARAOKE NIGHT!🎤🪩

Come enjoy some boba and some music of your choice
With your community at whataboba at 5 p.m to 8 p.m
We cant wait to see you there!!🧋🪩🎤

08/13/2026

Have you ever remembered something you have no possible reason to remember?

Maybe it's a place you've never been. A moment from another time. A life that doesn't look anything like the one you're living now.

Maybe it's a past-life memory. Maybe it isn't.

We don't have to prove what it is.

On October 3, we're going to explore a much more interesting question:

Why did it stay?

A Memory That Isn't Mine
October 3 • 6–8 PM • Whataboba, Lusby
$25 • Limited to 20 people

Bring a memory if you have one. Come curious if you don't.

Tickets: Eventbrite, in comments.

08/12/2026

**“We really enjoyed the banter between you two.”**

Someone said that to Adam and me during a ghost tour last night, and I had to laugh — because that's pretty much how **A Psychic and a Skeptic** came about. 😂

Adam and I have spent a LOT of time talking about what happens when I do a reading, why some of the information I get seems to be accurate, what might have an ordinary explanation, what doesn't seem to have one — and whether any of it actually proves anything.

We don't always agree.

We also don't need to.

Adam can question me. I can question him. We both question me. 😂 And either one of us is perfectly capable of saying, “I don't know.”

So on August 29, we're bringing those conversations to Whataboba — banter included.

It's not a debate. Nobody has to choose a side, and neither of us is trying to convince the other of anything.

And this isn't just our conversation. **You get to be part of it.** Bring your questions, your skepticism, your experiences, your theories, your doubts — whatever you've always wanted to ask a psychic medium, a skeptic, or both of us at the same time.

Believer, skeptic, somewhere in between, or just curious?

Pull up a chair.

**A Psychic and a Skeptic**
Saturday, August 29 • 6–8 PM
Whataboba • Lusby
$25