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More Work in Progress

The next steps in creating my art dolls depend on where and how the sculptures will ultimately be displayed. I have been working on both outdoor “garden dolls” and some new pedestal top pieces for gallery display.

A garden sculpture obviously needs to be constructed to withstand the elements, and live happily outdoors. The skeleton of the figure below titled “Tend” will be kneeling in a garden space tending to the plants around her. Her dress will consist of cast concrete that will fill up the chicken wire frame.

Skeleton form of garden doll "Tend"

Skeleton form of garden doll “Tend”

“Contemplate” is a gallery doll that is a reimagined version of an earlier piece titled “Driving in Reverse.” This steampunk styled doll has a padded wire skeleton and hand stitched clothing. A pair of boots and some additional mechanical elements will complete this piece.

Art doll "Contemplate" still under construction.

Art doll “Contemplate” thinking now about some shoes and accessories.

Next time… some finished pieces to look at.

Works in Progress

Travels during July kept studio time down a bit, so I thought I’d share shots of art dolls in progress this week.  I’m busy working on a couple of outdoor “garden dolls” for a fall show, and building gallery inventory back up from recent sales.

Each face starts as a disk of copper that I cut from 16 oz stock, flame anneal, and hammer into shape. Cutting, sanding and polishing bring each face to completion.

annealed copper disk with face outline

Annealed copper disk with face outline

Hammering face into shape

Hammering a face into shape

Copper face after shaping and polishing

Copper face after shaping and polishing

Eyes are fashioned from copper or brass headed fasteners onto which I torch fire powdered glass enamels.  By mixing opaque and transparent colors I can achieve an infinite variety of colors.

Hands I shape from copper tubing hammered and cut to form the sculpture’s wrist, palm, and four of the fingers.  Wire brazed into a notch cut on the side of the palm forms each thumb.

Close up of the hands of "Whee!"

Close up of the hands of “Whee!”

Next week I’ll share a few more bits and pieces.


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Steve L. Alves

Steve L. Alves, 73, died April 14, 2012 at Zambarano Hospital after a long illness.

Born in West Warwick, Steve was the son of the late William and Lena (Amaral) Alves and brother of William “Bud” Alves and Earl Alves of West Warwick.

Steve graduated from West Warwick High School, the University of Rhode Island and Providence College. He taught physical education for nearly three decades in the West Warwick School Department. Steve was a celebrated athlete and coach. He coached football at West Warwick, North Kingstown, LaSalle Academy, Cranston East, Shea and Coventry. He is a member of the West Warwick Athletic Hall of Fame and the Rhode Island Football Coaches Hall of Fame.

Steve was the former husband of Margaret (Sinnott) Alves; father of Cheryl (Alves) Carbone and her husband, Stephen, Deborah (Alves) Tellier, Steve Alves Jr. and his wife, Lisa, and James Alves and his wife, Lolita. Steve leaves behind nine grandchildren, Christina, Heather, Hillary, Robert, Stephen, Cameron, Madison, Aidan and Austin, numerous nieces and nephews, and scores of great lifelong friends.

Steve would like to acknowledge and thank all of the dedicated caretakers at Eleanor Slater and Zambarano Hospitals.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. April 24, 2012 in Holy Apostles Church, Scituate Ave., Cranston.

Donations in his memory can be made to the West Warwick Wizards Athletic Awards Association. For online condolences please visit www.boyleandsonfuneralhome.

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The How and the Why, a play about womanhood, family, and survival of the fittest

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Date(s) - Monday, February 27, 2017
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

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By the writer of hit TV shows In Treatment and The Affair, this exhilarating and keenly perceptive play about science, family, and survival of the fittest grapples with the choices faced by women of every generation. Emotion and evolution collide on the eve of a prestigious conference when an up-and-coming evolutionary biologist wrestles for the truth with an established leader in the field. The air crackles between the eminent professor and the maverick graduate student, whose theories might just change the way we regard sex itself.


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Taking Action for Healthy Lakes

Lakes and rivers are at the heart of the people of the Upper Tippecanoe River Watershed. They provide a place for recreation as well as reflection. Lakes and rivers help us remember our past, while providing a vision for the future. They are a vital component of our economy and a focal point for bringing friends and family together. Healthy lakes are among the most precious gifts we can ensure for our community and leave to our children. We have the opportunity and responsibility to leave such a legacy for future generations.

The Watershed Foundation (TWF) was founded in 1997 to protect and improve water quality in the Upper Tippecanoe River Watershed; spanning from Crooked Lake in Whitley County to Lake Tippecanoe in Kosciusko County. The Clean Waters Partnership was founded as an extension of TWF in the Warsaw-Winona area. Over the past 20 years, TWF has worked with farmers and lake residents to implement over 200 water quality improvement projects. In the last three years alone, these efforts have prevented over 556 million pounds of weeds and algae from growing in area lakes and streams.

This hour-long documentary, produced by TWF and WNIT, explores the beautiful and unique aspects of our watershed. Together, we are making a difference!


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vendredi 29 novembre 2013

Matte painting

Pretty much my matte paintings for our animation, others are just sky clouds and top view stuff not worth showing here!

Hope you like it :)

day time, some bright saturated colors to give a feel of fresh air! that's what I intended it to be for the day! I tried to remember what it feels like to go out and take that deep breath at the top of a mountain during summer and then looking at the rivers and streams surrounding us, what an nice feeling :D

I kind of started those drawing about 4 to 5 time each XD sometimes it went from ok let's start this all again to hey bud, why don,t you move that mountain a bit closer to the left.
Trying to apply proportion colors and composition, and also give it a sweet look :)

Loved doing those big night sky environments.
I made them thinking back when I went to Percé in Quebec, one night particulary, the sky was clear, we went outside with our bottles of wine, a bit happy if you know what I mean and the only thing I could see was not the cute village all lightened up in the night but THE SKY and the Milky way. i fell on the floor and stayed there a good 5 mins only looking at that beauty.
So yeah, loved those and I hope I kind of grabbed that feeling of magnificent space and night mystery.

On an other end, I'm kind of borred to have those assignments at school that I feel don't reflect my passion for art and feel take that away from me in the sens that I kind of rush many things just to get them done so I can get back to what I really love. But at the end, it ends up that I have a ton of super fasty stuff that I don't like and so little of stuff that I love doing :(
Speaking of which, here is a scrap of Storyboard (most stoopid class ever where we watch our teacher showing us movies saying " have you seen that? let's watch it again, not yet satisfied, lets watch it again!" dahhhh can't handle this anymore! XD sorry) i'm  rushing this last work and then doing environments and character desing for my fun :D

*dafuck can't put this text centered O.o

These next 3 session we can make our own project for all the time!
I really hope that I am gonna be able to convience the teachers to let me paint and draw instead of doing fast concept art on the side fro teams taht I might not care about!
Let's cross our fingers to diversify my subject and range of knowlege :0
Next year, I try to get an internship yeah!

mercredi 27 novembre 2013

School n stuff yo

Here are some desing I have done for school's project #3

It's a team animation and here it goes!

Video of the process so farz!

And some concepts yo!

dimanche 24 novembre 2013

Car desing?

Whoah, this has been a though one!

Better get back to perspective and cube drawing pretty quick! I used some photoediting for the wheels and engines! Otherwise build it all up ! so much construction XD And rendering wasn't easy at all, learning how material works n stuff haha! learned a freakin lot yo! so yeah, spent my entire day on this!Gotta watch on how I manage my layers and how I construct, will exercise on that cuz it's one of my biggest flaws!
Otherwise, that's it! Hope you like it

thanks to scott robertson for his helpfull tricks on veichule desing !

lundi 18 novembre 2013

some moar stuff :)

Character desing for class, still a bit stiff from my point of view, but i'm working on smoothing and letting my self go a little more in my paintings, kind of trying to enjoy the process more than the final look :)

vendredi 1 novembre 2013

october studies

Started to make some daily 30 mins study, trying to understand form and colors+ brush economy :)
Based my study on Shaddy Safady and Bryan lee's teaching :)

I left the original photos cuz I know I am making failures and things could go better, but he! that's what learning is ;)


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Va. Beach first responders ready for college weekend

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Firefighters say they are ready to answer any calls this weekend at the Oceanfront, where large crowds are expected as part of the unofficial event known as College Beach Weekend.

Last year, emergency personnel dealt with stabbings and shooting incidents, and Virginia Beach Police made more than 150 arrests when large crowds roamed Atlantic Avenue.

The fire department says close coordination with the police department this time around will raise everyone’s level of effectiveness.

“Crowds at the Oceanfront are nothing new to the city of Virginia Beach,” said Amy Valdez, a battalion chief for the fire department.

This year, Virginia Beach Police are ready to limit access to Interstate 264, if needed, to manage traffic, enabling first responders to answer emergency calls without having to deal with traffic jams. If gridlock begins to build, the traffic plan would limit access to I-264 so that the routes into the resort area would be via Shore Drive, General Booth Boulevard, Virginia Beach Boulevard and Laskin Road.

“That is really the concern for our emergency services — can we get our ambulances and our fire engines through the traffic and through the crowds to where they need to be to assist our citizens and our visitors,” Valdez added.

10 On Your Side spoke with several Oceanfront businesses, and their plans range from already knowing they will close for the weekend to possibly closing, depending on what happens with the crowds.

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Tuesday, July 8th, will be the first meeting for the Poland Park Neighborhood Crime Watch.

It begins 7pm at the Poland Park shelter house.  Fliers will be passed out in the area of Chillicothe that is invited to the meeting.

Anyone from around the city who wants to start a watch in their area is welcome to attend.


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Burnt Toast

Sundays from 8:00pm - 11:00pm on 89.1 WBOI

The Burnt Toast Show, established in 1978 and carrying the Burnt Toast name since 1998, is modeled after free-form radio shows of the '60s and '70s. The show is an eclectic mix of songwriters, acid jazz, fusion, funk, R&B, jam bands and creative rock...basically, talented musicians performing great music that you rarely hear on commercial radio stations. Sit back, relax and let your mind unwind.


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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Thoughts from Harvard's Dean of Admissions -- William Fitzsimmons

Underlying the many questions we receive each year about finding the “right” schooling to prepare for college are two themes:

1. Do colleges prefer some types of high schools over others and thereby offer an admissions advantage to students from such schools?

2. Are there certain kinds of schools that provide exactly the right preparation for college?

The first question is easy to answer: No. We admit students and not schools, and there is no admissions advantage for attending any particular type of school. There are thousands of secondary schools in the United States, and one of our greatest assets is their astonishing diversity. Of course, some students are home-schooled, and there are others who have experienced several different kinds of schooling.

We are vitally interested in whether or not applicants have taken full advantage of their educational opportunities, whatever they might have been. If so, they have a much better chance of maximizing the use of Harvard’s resources.

Harvard’s recruiting has increased exponentially over recent decades, part of a larger pattern of outreach by American colleges and universities. As we have traveled around the nation and reached out to students from every imaginable kind of secondary school — urban, suburban, rural, large and small — more students than ever before have come from schools that have never sent anyone to Harvard. It is exciting to “open up” new schools, and their students add a dimension that greatly enriches Harvard.

In previous generations, private secondary schools supplied the overwhelming majority of the students at Harvard and its peers. This September, public schools provided almost 70 percent of the students entering Harvard, and even that percentage is misleading with respect to the economic diversity of today’s Harvard.

Similar to private colleges, private secondary schools have raised substantial funding for financial aid and have recruited aggressively to ensure that they reach out to talented students from every economic background. Today’s private school students are very different from the stereotypes of the past. In fact, many private schools have considerably more economic heterogeneity than some of the public schools in their own areas due to the stark economic segregation in many communities reflected in high real estate prices.

There are many excellent public and private schools, and both types of schools vary in quality. This leads to the second major question about whether certain kinds of schools provide exactly the right preparation for college.

The key element in finding the right kind of primary and secondary schooling centers on the fundamental issue of the match between the student and the school—the same issue we stress when it comes to college choice. Especially because children develop at very different rates from one another, the worst thing to do is to use a “one size fits all” solution. Even for the same child, a high-powered school might be a poor fit in the early years, yet just right later.

Outstanding students at any stage—pre-school through graduate school—tend to cluster at certain schools for all kinds of reasons, including the past history of the schools, their missions, resources, and various socioeconomic factors including financial aid availability.

When a secondary school sends large numbers of students to top colleges, is it because of the quality of the education it provides or is it because of the students it attracted in the first place? The same question could be asked about Harvard. This “chicken and egg” issue will never be settled, but it is important for families to know that Harvard and all of higher education are now reaching out to talented students everywhere.

Parents often sacrifice a great deal financially and in other ways to send their children to private schools, or endure complicated transportation logistics to access magnet public schools. Some spend large percentages of the family budget to live in an area with a strong reputation for its public schools.

It is always difficult to measure the educational benefits of such actions. Some parents are pleased with the results, while others are less certain. Ultimately, it is what students themselves do to develop their talents at each stage of their lives—whatever the resources might be in their communities and in their schools—that matters most. The American dream can be attained through many routes—and through any kind of schooling.


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Andy Laperriere & Jeff Applegate: Could The Election Be Any Closer?

November 2, 2012

With only a handful of days to go before the election, what’s at stake for investors? How big a deal would a second term for President Obama or a first term for President Romney be for the economy and the markets? Top rated Washington analyst, Andy Laperriere and Morgan Stanley’s global Chief Investment Officer, Jeffrey Applegate weigh in on this week’s Consuelo Mack WEALTHTRACK. Continue Reading »

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StG 44 surfaces — in “gun buyback” in CT

You never know what’s going to turn up at a gun buyback. Usually it’s junk…. but then there’s this.

It’s every gun historian’s nightmare: a priceless, irreplaceable piece of history crops up in a closet, and rather than take it to a dealer or auctioneer, the little old lady takes Uncle Bob’s priceless artifact to a gun “buyback,” where anti-gun authorities are collecting guns for destruction.

Usually, these “buybacks” bring in rusted Lorcins and cheap single-shot shotguns. There’s no danger of rare collector guns going under the torch. But in Connecticut, a complete, serviceable 792 x 33mm StG 44 was turned in just that way to a buyback, reports New England Cable News. Fortunately, an informed, honest cop saved the weapon from destruction, and its owner will be allowed to sell it out of state, rather than sacrifice a $25-30k weapon to the smelter.

The reportedly NFA-registered gun was a WWII bringback by an deceased family member.

There is a video report, from which we snapped these screenshots, at New England Cable News. We are told that the M14 and M16 displayed with the StG at the start of the video are not also turn-ins; they’re police armory weapons that were taken out to show the reporter how the StG was the grandpappy of them all.

While this weapon was registered, the next one might not be. We desperately need a provision in the law to amnesty register such discoveries. In fact, ATF could do it by regulation, if they weren’t fully in the pocket of the gun control party, because the law provides for periodic amnesties, a legal provision that the managers of the ATF have never cared to comply with.

He’s from the Government… and he was really here to help her. Weren’t expecting that!

Administration jeremiads against the mortal menace of the M1 Carbine notwithstanding, World War II weapons are no significant part of the criminal’s armory. It’s probably also time for a hard look at the Curio and Relic area with a view to streamlining regulations, reducing paperwork, and clearing all that old stuff off the NFA register — this would require a legislative change.

Finally, credit where credit is due. Hats off to Officers Crabtree and Cavanna and the Hartford, CT Police Department for ensuring the survival of this rare example. And thanks to The Gun Wire for steering us to the story.

The images all came from the NECN video.


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Urban Environments and Interactive Technologies

Friday, Sept 25, 1998
9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Bartos Theater
MIT Media Lab

20 Ames Street

Anne Beamish is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Her research centers on the design of on-line environments and how information technology can support both virtual and physical communities, collaborative work, and institutional learning.

Thomas J. Campanella, also completing an MIT Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning, specializes in American landscape history, the emerging built environments of Asia, and the impact of digital technology on the physical city. He has published in Harvard Design Magazine, Urban Design International, Places, Metropolis, Landscape Journal, Terra Nova, and Orion Quarterly.

Ellen Crocker is Lecturer in German in Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT. She is co-director of "Berliner sehen," author of the interactive CD-ROM "In der Niederlausitz," and author of several German language textbooks.

Glorianna Davenport heads the Interactive Cinema Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. Trained as a documentary filmmaker, her research explores issues related to cinematic journalism and the collaborative creation of digital media experiences, where the task of narration is split among authors, consumers and computer mediators.

Theresa Duncan worked as a writer and editor on "Beyond the Wall," an interactive project on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial. In collaboration with the artist Monica Gesue she produced two acclaimed CD-ROM games featuring young girl protagonists, "Chop Suey," and "Smarty." Her latest software product, also centered on a female protagonist, is "Zero Zero," a collaboration with the graphic artist Jeremy Blake.

Kurt Fendt is Research Associate in Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT and co-director of "Berliner sehen." His research focuses on hypertext and literary theory and their application in digital media for the Humanities.

Bruce Joffe is founding Principal of GIS Consultants of Oakland, CA, which provides planning and implementation management services to cities, counties, and utility companies around the world. He serves on the editorial advisory board of Geo-Info Systems Magazine, and works on city simulation modeling games in his spare time.

Malcolm McCullough teaches in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is the author of Abstracting Craft : The Practiced Digital Hand, and Digital Design Media (with William J. Mitchell).

William J. Mitchell is Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. His publications include City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn and The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era.

Shigeru Miyagawa is Professor of Linguistics and Kochi Prefecture - John Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at MIT. He is the Executive Producer of "Star Festival," a multimedia, interactive novel about Japan which was awarded the "Best of Show" at MacWorld. He is also working on a digital narrative about the civil rights movement in the South. These projects are being incorporated into the social studies curriculum (K-12) in Boston and elsewhere.

Linda Stone is the director of Microsoft Research's Virtual Worlds Group, a team of engineers, artists, and animators working to develop multi-user, multimedia technologies for the construction of social environments in cyberspace.

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Can you account for the switches from verse to prose and back in the play?

Such switches can be classified by two reasons. As far as I see it, the nobles typically speak in blank verse. It is formal way to communicate for them, for instance, the way the king, the queen speak to Hamlet, Polonius or Laertes, etc. whereas the characters who are not the social group that has lower status do not speak in verse but talk. For instance, the way the gravediggers speak to each other. However, we can observe that Hamlet speak both in blank-verse and in prose. Such switches can be explained by the fact who he speaks to, what he wants to express and what role-playing he does. Hamlet speaks in prose with gravediggers, actors, Ophelia and Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, which somewhat shows his insignificant attitude towards those people. In contrast, Hamlet's soliloquies or deep thoughts and observations are written in verse.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

12172013 Revelation Fields: Swimming Ice Blowing In the Wind (snow, crystalline stones, suns)

Sacred Song Blessings, gift all a good song, because you are perfect in all that does song. Our hearts reach into heaven, and we flood, with a sound, the music of Angels, that gift us pure sound. I want you to know, that you are part of God, the echo, that lingers till light hits the "Dawn". And we are the magic, that children who know, the heart always has pureness, like the blessed snow!

Image by Aunt Seasons That Sing, silver child.
Revelation Fields

Look at the sky it's revelation moving wide. Simply an understanding of the clouds we demand. Look into the heavenly while we glide. Hope and dreams come into the memory of our pride/clan. We are the children who will see. We are the children forever bee. It's a hope and a dream for all this cosmic stream. It's a hope and a dream to bring this in, to the weeping, the willows and the vines.

Everyone thinks they know just what to receive each day. When  looking inside of the sky we wonder what we are to display. If we know such waves, why do we have to save, all the children who need us by their side each day? When we look at the religious fare. We get so exasperated with their lack of care. Yet it's immoral to want to achieve@#% (really, is this the belief?). I say, "It's going to be along time before we believe" (in our dreams and to achieve them, impossible as it may bee, it's part of the sacred tree). It's all about the waving towards the enemy (uniting what we oppose). Telling them come on home for all to sea (envisioning the great dream, brotherhood beams). And we need a clan to demand, that law of love live upon this land. And when we seek and trace the immortal's human face. We are looking to achieve in this great cosmic stream. We are looking to achieve all this mesmerizing beams.

Heaven take a hold of me, to wrap your heart around this seed. We are the thankful tribe to hold our hands to the devoted and wide. We are treasures we are concerned about the mortality of the burn. Yet if we purify each stream, the field on fire will grow again. All the sprigs that are born with the seeds of God as horns. Let us call out, Brotherhood is here. Listen fervently to the children of the Rainbow everywhere. It's time to seek an open heart of the meek. It's time to bless and pray and open our heart rays.

Heaven come into our hands. Let us instill mortal man, that is a great spiritual tool, the lights that fill this world. We are dreaming together as it seems. We are beaming all over and spilling in the seams. WE are children of light that shines. We are learning to forgive man who wasn't kind. And with each day we find there is a life that is worth saving true. We say it's a life of what we need to dew. Heaven has the clues. Heaven has the great knews.

White Buffalo Calf Woman singing in the air, to wipe our/out all that seems to be the gospel that is feared. And the law of love is growing everywhere. As we compete on how much we can give and care. Love lives in the air. Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star drums for all the children who are roaming close and far. And with each breath that he takes, he gives love as an embrace. To purify the streams where the lights of the glowing beam. And it's true and blue inside of you, when holy walking does the knews. It's time to bow down, to every single relative on the ground. Love is the law of sound. Love is the law of fields. Love is the law that is reel. Love is rolling on the devoted hills. Love is the red road when we roll that stone for real, blessings to all the sacred wheels, to the hoops and circles of the streaming fields. And with this roaming chance, it's sacred romance. We send blessings to you, with fire and water that makes is all come true. And we send blessings to you, all the smoke and breath of life lifts us up too. We send blessings to the sacred nine streaming fields and four holy directions of the cosmic wheel. We bless all the seals (broken open as your book of life, sharing sacred fields together, the land of the real painted pictures of steel/strength of sky scrapers/touching the sky, why does man need alibi/s). Let there be love on the cosmic wheel.

Morning Star, the Cosmic Earthly Field
  • Whitebuffalocalfwoman Twindeermother Relatives, the perfect field image. Eight red dots represent holiness and star in the middle is nine sacred streams flowing through the sacred field, which is held together by four directions. This image is awesome, because it's the three colors or roads of the universe, blue, red and yellow. And all colors/sound streaming comes from these crossing fields of blue, red and yellow. This camera man I don't have the name of (called by, not the Great Name which is written on the book of life sang in a simple song), however the rainbow colors he shines through is a perfect forming field. Remember blue and yellow makes green, the spiritual stream, which in the image beams. Aho (may your spirit fly) and over the Rainbow arcs/hoops we flow, the universe guides the stows (stow a-ways). White Buffalo Calf Woman your Twin Deer Mother, elder crystal child,, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy
    excerpt from SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013
    12152013 Honoring Our Great Spirit Mother: Swimming Ice Blowing In the Wind (snow, crystalline stones, suns)

    36 minutes ago · Like Image: These are 8 holy directions (wakan or holy walking), then there is where I stand, all around (9).

Prayer Date: 11022013 We Are Champions of the World (excerpt)

 Image by Rainbow Mother Yaniv, Rainbow child.
What is a FIELD?
1. A field of spacial relativity is four directions or four sides, often a square. Within this square lies another smaller square, and as it flows inwards through the actions of holy love, a flowing occurs down the spiraling path, an inner sun appears. This is a circle, ring or hoop.
2. A field is represented by Rainbow Mother (square) and Crystal Sun (circle, folds through love).
3. The buffalo represents all beings in four directions. The buffalo robe is four directions in rainbow colors. All things wear a buffalo robe of colors or vibrating frequencies (magnetic).
4. Becoming wakan or holy walking helps one know the buffalo robe, the sacred prayer cloth of many colors. Or know thyself as a Sacred Being.
5. Fields represent a Sacred Being, thus each of us is a field or spacial relativity.
6. We say, "All my Relatives" because we are all relative to each other, relatively close to your field.

7. To cleanse a field say,"I bless the sacred nine streams and four holy directions" with fire, water or smoke. Nine streams of color 1-9 is the rainbow trail in which all life moves in hoops or rings. Nine streams flow through the hoop. Four directions hold or embrace the flowing or is the hoop. This blessing cleanses a field. However fields change momentarily and it's up to you to bless constantly and stay vigilant throughout the day, the dreamspace, fields in which Grandmother wields. Grandmother is the containment of many fields, doorways into the eyes of each child. She is the Grandmother who weaves us all together in the blanket of life. Each spacial field holds four directions, inside and outside. We are beaming lights of the Rainbow Clan.
Excerpt from SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2013
Prayer Date: 11022013 We Are Champions of the World
I bless the sacred nine directions in you, my relative of the blue. Welcome into our hearts. Welcome into the new view. Blessings you forever, in the Wind and it's true!

Prayer Date: 11022013 We Are Champions of the World (excerpt)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2013 (Sacred Song excerpt)
Wake up and find the heart inside that alarms widely to see the fields running free. Don't you want to know the waking the show that you are part of this great dreaming. We are standing in a field together making it wield. We are forging ahead making our bread to make it better. It's the SACRED WHETHER.

Time is coming inside where we must stand up and prescribe. Care about everyone underneath the sacred sun. That would be you and me. Dreaming of champions in the cause ......... ways. There is much to act upon and share the waking the song. Listen children to the ONE, the great circle of everyone. We are children part of this Song. We are champions with a cause. Love and Brotherhood to everyone. Teachers learning from the SUNS. Listen with your heart and find your way............. (rolling wave). Listen with your heart and find the saved.

Listen, listen, champions running in the fields. Everywhere you look they wield, all the sacred circle of the wheel. Champions of the World are coming home, just learning how to phone. Learning how to pick their bones. Warriors of the spirit come and take your place. I know it's your FACE. I know it's your PLACE. Everyone has a place upon the wheel. It's God's heels. It's where we walk and talk the wheels. All the  stories tell us true of all that's been done. Now it's the SACRED SUNS. We are Champions of the WORLD.

White Buffalo Calf Woman sings for all the SACRED SINGS, the WINDS and the BREEZE. WE are sharing all that "CAUSE  -  WAYS/waves". Brothers Sisters everyone. Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star our Father Red Hand knows the call. Drumming for the beat of the world, the Buffalo Drumming is heard. Let our cause be true and just, bring the sacred must/musk/dew. Let our hearts be true and clear, with LOVE that is NEAR, blessing those in FEAR. Bowing with my Relatives true, the HOOPS and MUSE, those funny too. Laughing Singing on the Ghost Dance DAZE, hear today, we shed our rays.
Sing a song, and get along, to have joy in life, full of tears, because you know, the sacred flow is all we have to get us home! Dance all day, and learn to play, with all you do and think and say, because we need love to please, to open hearts and doors to be! Welcome all your relatives, into the heart of all your sin and say, "I love you this very day" and "I won't let you get away!". I will fight for love this day, I will fight to show the way, because I am here to love you dear, my heart that sheds so many tears. And when we hope to comfort folks, then we will be prepared to say, "Come pray with me, learn joy to speak, and song and dance will keep us in relief". Whisper song and let a breeze come home to know your knees, where prayer is your living sacred breeze!

  • WhiteBuffalo CalfWoman Relatives, a bit more about the Morning Star. Your devoted servant, White Buffalo Calf Woman, elder crystal child,, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy

    Lakota (Sioux) Morning Star

    Just before the sun rises, there is a star standing alone, shining brightly in the east. The Lakota (Sioux) refer to this beautiful sight as the Morning Star.

    This star announces the coming of sun and light to the earth; it heralds the dawn. Because of its great importance in the gift of each new day, the morning star is often used in designs and decorations.

    Black Elk spoke to the star as follows:

    "Morning Star, there at the place where the sun comes up, you who have the wisdom which we seek, help us in cleansing ourselves and all the people, that our generations to come will have light as they walk the sacred path. You lead the dawn as it walks forth, and also the day which follows with its light which is knowledge. This you do for us and for all the people of the world, that they may see clearly in walking the wakan(holy) path, that they may know all that is holy, and that they may increase in a sacred manner ..."

    (Adapted from Ron Zeilinger's Lakota Life)

    ps. These are the 8 holy directions (wakan or holy), then there is where I stand, all around (9).

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All our Relatives, Please, Please join Us
in the Holy Ghost Walk, Gathering in Homes!

 New moon January 1, 2014 aligning with the sun

(solar and lunar calender align, January 1, 2014, a cycle of renewal)
Ghost Walk  (Sing, Dance, Gather) with us (where you are) each New Moon.
 From the darkness we arise a heavenly child, a divine light from within.

Image of a beaming field by Grandmother Upon the Hill, a gray child,
streaming stones among the mountain tones and buried bones,
 the Suns are born (children of the rainbow clan, all our relatives, the spacial fields).

Relatives of the Rainbow Clan,

You and you and you and you and me too. There are only a few more New Moons (re/birthing) to go, until we start to flow where it's the spiritual growth, the Great Push (January 1, 2014). We need you to share and shine, to bring in wine, tears divine. We send greetings and blessings as we join together in this dance, the Holy Ghost, the Spiritual toast, we greet you to the sky and back to the why, where we say, forgiveness is treasures, let joy overcome. Tonight it's a way to let love under ONE. We cherish this world, because we are SUNS, each child, each enemy, each parent with a child. All the the little creatures, the rocks and the sticks. All the little varmints (rats, social interrogatory) which pick up the holy wicks (spat, now let's go to work), sparking the willing to have faith in a song, where are all together, moving along. We send blessings in this song. Let your hair down, sing and dance abound. For it's the spiritual soul within that leads and says, Holy to my Spirit, for I am going to bloom. I will share with this world. I will shine until NOON (inner brightest like a Star). We will become treasures when we pray along, together in a song, all together God's ONE. All the little spiders, who weave us to cradle the song. Telling us a story, that look out, watch the bones. There planted deeply a treasure under the stone, if we look closer, we might want to shown, love gifts and hooves (kicks and shoves, like parents on a rug).
 Bowing with all our Relatives, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy

Event: Ghost Walk, the New Moon Dance
(Monthly three day gathering with the family and friends, relatives in the winds)
Official Title: Katchee Tope wha: “the Clouds that Dance Ceremony”

Dance when heat and cold (mist/smoke of the ghost) find each other bold, binding to bring in the new, the ghost dance comes to infuse, the soul has risen, awaken and driven, the heavenly soul does reign. Renegades put on your shelter (warriors uniform, buffalo armor, rainbow colors purified), because it's turning to helter skelter (confusion and frenzy, bubbling up the soul does reign).  White Buffalo Calf Woman sings
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Pray With Elders around the World
Image by Aunt Daneen Seasons That Sing, Silver Child
Paradise gleams, the field in the trees, dew in the breeze!
Join Hoop 6 (Stepping Stone) - Teach what is right, that law is the LOVE, then when two hearts is united, we share with intelligence. However if LOVE doesn't lead the way, then we fight to unite LOVE, two broken hearts, then we know that we are walking the truth path, the love to each other, the kind that lasts, over rolling hills in time, over the suns, and into the heart of the blue seas of every one. We are the Prophecy, the Rain upon the Land, so parched, it will need a Rainbow, to serve it home the right way and know where to land (the Rainbow always lands on the pot of gold, abundance, brotherhood)! "I Bless Myself" and "I Bless the World"


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Monday, September 12, 2011

German minister advises colleagues to shun Facebook

Germany's consumer protection minister has warned her fellow cabinet members against using Facebook to promote their work citing data security concerns, in an internal letter obtained by Der Spiegel.

In an article to be published Monday, Der Spiegel said the minister, Ilse Aigner, a longtime critic of the privacy policies at the social networking site, had outlined her objections to the other ministers.

"After an intensive legal review, I have concluded that it is crucial to ensure that the button is not used on any of our official ," she wrote in the letter.

Aigner, who said she quit Facebook a year ago protesting its practices, added that "fan pages" which users can join to get information about organisations should also be avoided "in light of justified legal doubts".

She said ministries and members of parliament should "set a good example and give data protection its due".

German data protection authorities have raised the alarm in recent weeks over Facebook, and in particular its "Like" button with which users indicate their preferences as they navigate the site.
Privacy watchdogs warn the information is used to create personalised user profiles, for example for advertisers.

Aigner's ministry later released a statement outlining its objections and confirming the advisory to ministries, adding that the warning extended to as well.

It cited authorities' findings that Facebook compiled data on Internet users visiting sites with an integrated "Like" button, even if they were not Facebook members.

"This data can be used to create a detailed user profile, although Facebook denies creating such profiles for Facebook non-users," it said.

It said Aigner would "soon" visit the United States to speak with executives from Facebook and other firms "about respect for German and European data protection policies".

Facebook said Thursday it would sign up to a voluntary code of conduct in Germany to protect users' data, the first time the site has agreed to such measures in a country particularly sensitive about privacy rights due to gross abuses under the Nazi and communist dictatorships.

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Price’s Confirmation as Health Secretary Seems Certain

Final approval of President Donald Trump’s choice for Health and Human Services secretary seems certain.

Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., has long pushed for the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act — President Barack Obama’s health care law — and major changes to Medicare and Medicaid, both of which are major features of the Republican agenda, the Associated Press reported.

On Wednesday, the Senate voted 51-48 against Democratic delaying tactics against Price, opening the way for the former orthopedic surgeon and seven-term Congressman from Atlanta’s suburbs to be confirmed as health secretary.

Republicans believe that once in that position, Price will have the Department of Health and Human Services issue directives weakening the Affordable Care Act. Such actions might include restricting access to free birth control for women who work for religious-affiliated nonprofits, and allowing states to test different ways to use federal Medicaid funds, the AP reported.

Price could also lead the way in implementing a still-undrafted Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

At Senate hearings on Price’s nomination, Democrats accused Price of conflicts of interest in acquiring shares in health care companies, supporting legislation that could benefit those companies, and using insider information to make investments, the AP reported.

Price has said he’s done nothing wrong and that the purchase was made by his stockbroker.

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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama joined protesters outside the White House – protesting the man inside the White House.

The Obama Administration has come out strongly supporting the OCCUPY MOVEMENT and members of the Cabinet, including President Obama, took part in demonstrations outside the White House last weekend.

Weeks after taking to the streets in Manhattan, Occupy Wall St demonstrators were camped a outside the White House.  When President Obama saw them he ran out and joined them.

“The President joined with the protesters as they raised their fists at the White House. They all chanted, we are the 99, we are the 99,” said Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary.  “President Obama is one of the 99, he feels like he is one of them. He knows he is one of them.”

Joe Biden also supported the protesters saying, “hey, I could be out of a job in fifteen months, too. Then what will I do.”

Mr Obama said people were angry because Wall Street had not been following the rules.  “And I’m mad at them too.  I gave them rules and they won’t follow them.  When I’m in charge you do what I say,” Obama reportedly told reporters.

The protesters, including the President are lashing out at corporate greed to the ballooning deficit to, above all, the political class.

“We hate politicians,” said Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

“Politicians are only interested in keeping themselves employed, so they don’t make decisions for the people,” said Valerie Jarrett, Senior Adviser to the President.

The movement is targeting  “the 1 percent” – wealthy Americans whose taxes Mr Obama wants to raise to pay for his program to boost jobs.

“Hey, I’m not in the 1 percent,” the President told WWN.  “I’m in the top 2%.  The top 1% are where the real greedy guys are.”

It’s not clear who will Occupy White House in 2012.


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Cell Phones in Sunday School

Teenage Girl Sitting Outdoors Using Mobile PhoneRecently I was looking for a picture of a child reading on the stock photo site that I use. I got a good amount of photos to choose from. In the first row of options was a picture of a child “reading” from their phone.

Kids today have cell phones. Cell phones can be distracting, so it can be tempting for teachers to prohibit the use of cell phones in the classroom. However, people sometimes have their Bible as an app on their cell phone. So simply prohibiting their use is not the answer.

A better response would be to limit the distraction, but teach good Bible skills for cell phone users.

Limiting the Distraction

1. Create rules.

In order to limit the distraction that cell phones can be, you need to create some rules for using them in the classroom. It will be up to you and your students to create specific rules for your situations.

Here are some parameters that should be covered in the rules:

  • If a student has a cell phone, but not a Bible app, then the phone needs to be turned off and put away. Exceptions to the rule (ie. a child is expecting a call from their parents) should be dealt with by the teacher on a case by case basis.
  • If a student  has a cell phone with a Bible app, they may use it under these conditions:
    • the phone needs to be put on silent
    • when not using the Bible app, the phone needs to be face down on the table or under their chair.
  • There will be a consequence for breaking the rules. For example, “If your phone becomes a distraction it will be taken away until the end of class.”

2. Teachers should model proper cell phone use.

Teachers can become distracted by their cell phones as well. Make a point of leading by example.

  • Put your phone on silent.
  • Use only the Bible app (if you don’t have one, put your phone away.)
  • If you do have a Bible app, teach your students Bible skills for Bible apps.
  • Don’t be distracted by your phone as students are arriving or as they are leaving. Show them you care about them by being prepared and focused as they arrive.

Teach Bible Skills for Cell Phone Users

Students may not realize that using a Bible app still requires Bible skills. Continue to teach Bible skills for hard copy versions of the Bible. These skills are useful regardless of what type of Bible you use. Talk with your students about using a Bible app for Bible study.

Here are some topics for discussion:

1. The advantages and disadvantages of using a Bible app.

Some advantages include easier searching, the selection of versions available, the ability to compare versions. Some disadvantages include limited text on screen (esp. certain devices), loss of context, some difficulty in comparing texts (esp. if they are from different books of the Bible.)

2. Can you use both a Bible app and a hardcopy Bible?

You can use both. If you are looking at two different passages of Scripture you can look up one on your phone and one in your Bible. You can use a different version on your Bible app then the hardcopy Bible available as you study a passage. You can choose to use just the Bible app on your phone or just a hardcopy Bible or both.

3. How to Choose a Bible app

There are a lot of options when choosing a Bible app. This is an important discussion to have with your students.

When choosing an app:

  • Ask for help from your parents or your teacher.
  • Be aware that some apps are free and some cost money.
  • Some apps are not Bibles, but are devotionals, daily Bible reading plans, quotes, or trivia.
  • If you already have a Bible app, your teacher can review it with you.
  • Some apps have many versions; some apps are a single version.  If it is a single version, make sure it’s a version you are comfortable reading.
  • Different religions also have a bible. Watch for this when choosing an app.
  • Teachers, find some Bible apps that you can recommend to your students (if you don’t know any, find someone in your church who can help)
  • Don’t get distracted with the bells and whistles. Choose a Bible app for its content.

4.  How to Use a Bible app

Bible skills are Bible skills. They are transferable from hard copy to apps. Reinforce these skills with your students.  Also talk about using the bonus features of these apps, for example making use of reading plans, etc.

5.  How to Choose What Version of the Bible to Read in Your Bible app

This is an important discussion that includes educating your students and teaching discernment.

Talk about:

  • Translations versus paraphrases
  • Some versions available could be Catholic bibles, Jewish bibles, Morman bibles, etc.
  • Some versions include the Apocrypha
  • Some versions are more difficult to read.

Have some recommendations for your students of versions that your church uses or versions that are easier for students to read.

Cell phones are a reality in our Sunday Schools. Whether kids use a Bible or a Bible app, let’s continue to encourage Bible reading, Bible studying, and Bible skills! Our goal is the same–making disciples!

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Friday, April 13, 2012

Reflections on Memorializing a Facebook Page

Since I chose to memorialize my brother's Facebook page when he was killed last fall a lot of people have asked me about this. I chose to put this on my blog so I could refer others to this post when asked. The information below was sent to a family who lost a child recently and wondered if they should memorialize the page......
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On Sept. 11 last year my brother was killed in a motorcycle accident. A friend of mine sent me the information on memorializing a Facebook page. I did choose to memorialize his page and I am not sure that was the best decision now that I look back.

Why I chose to memorialize it at the time:
1 - I did not want someone to steal my brother's identity from his Facebook account and create a life for themselves.
2 - His name would no longer show up in searches or in the alerts "people you may know" or "suggestions." I thought some day it might be alarming if his name popped up somehow.
3 - I was worried that inappropriate pictures would be posted to his page. (It has actually been the opposite and we have still loved to see pictures that people are still posting to his page.) But there is still a chance that bad pictures could be posted. None so far.
4 - We do not have his login information and Facebook will not give it to you. We requested his login information and they refused.
5 - My brother suffered from PTSD from a situation that happened when he was a part of in the military and he had some trouble with the police due this condition. I was worried that something or someone he was involved in from the past may show up on Facebook or find him or my family in that way. He was a GREAT guy but all the bad stuff they say about PTSD from the military is true.
6 - As his sister I felt like I had to protect him because Facebook is so unpredictable and you never know what they are going to do with your information. I do not trust Facebook. The company was not started and built on any good character traits. You are welcome to research that if you would like. It has been wonderful resource for terrible situations(Joplin tornado.) All the 3rd party programs that partner with Facebook can pretty much do whatever they want with your information.

Why I wish I didn't do it:
1 - My mother reads his Facebook page ALL THE TIME. It was therapy for her in the beginning. There were beautiful messages and pictures and comments right after he was killed. There are still messages to this day. It is like we can still talk to him. I still write on his wall to this day. Just funny things, or remembering the anniversary of his death, his birthday, writing something funny that reminds me of him. Other people might think it is weird but everyone grieves differently. I am sure there are people out there that do much worse things that me writing on my deceased brother's Facebook wall.
2 - Facebook online and mobile Facebook on your phone are 2 separate things. There have been times that I could not access his page from my mobile phone. I think that is when they make updates etc. Once a page is memorialized you cannot get any of it back. Sometimes the iPhone app is updated and all the info is gone for a few days. Sometimes Facebook makes a change and all the information is gone. I have been meaning to contact Facebook and haven't had the time.
3 - For some reason we can no longer tag pictures or upload pictures to his page. I was never able to upload pictures from my phone once the page was memorialized. Something with the mobile app, not Facebook. I did contact Facebook and they said it had to be the mobile app because everything was still okay when they looked at it.
4 - I probably acted too quickly when I did it. You can always go back and memorialize a Facebook page any time. You have to have proof of death. I sent a link to a newspaper article that reported his accident.
5 - My family had no idea of the positive impact my brother had on other people's lives until we started reading all the memorials and tributes posted on his Facebook page. We learned so much about him and his friends after reading all the comments. We even have new family friends because of the comments on Facebook.

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December 12, 2011

Tyler Ramsey: The Valley Wind

Multi-instrumentalist Tyler Ramsey knows how to hold to back. His sophomore album A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea landed him a job as the lead guitarist for Band of Horses, requirind him to turn things up a little. As a solo artist he persists in creating mainly acoustic songs. His third solo release The Valley Wind is bit more country than its predecessors. Recording took only six days Alex The Great studio in Nashvile, TN, with Band Of Horses band mate Bill Reynolds (bass and producing) an Seth Kauffman (Floating Action) on drums, guitar, background vocals.

Ramsey has a voice filled with melancholy and using echo in songs like 1000 Black Birds and Time Is A Changing Line makes him sounds a bit like the missing link between Ryan Adams and Neil Young. As an accomplished guitar picker channeling his heroes John Fahey and Leo Kottke, Ramsey has the ability to conjure up notes that are not there, The Vally Wind is an intimate, intricate album. With the lonesome The Nightbird Ramsey has written a welcome addition for the playlists of late night Americana radio shows.

(The Nightbird by Tyler Ramsey)

Tyler Ramsey: The Valley Wind

The Valley Wind is released on Fat Possum Record.

  1. Raven Shadow
  2. The Valley Wind
  3. 1000 Black Birds
  4. The Nightbird
  5. Stay Gone
  6. Time Is A Changing Line
  7. Angel Band
  8. When It's Done
  9. All Night

HCTF review of A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Lily Allen Virtual Tour - Last Stop

Lily rocked Chicago last night playing TWO MORE tracks than LA making the set approximately 50 minutes long. No suits...all fans so it must have been a fucking incredible show. Hopefully the set list will turn up and I will have it for all of you lovely lovely readers!

Here is a video of Knock Em Out from last nights show at the Double Door:

And let's back track to Lily's first show at Lee's Palace in Toronto on October 8th:

Also, if you are curious here is the Chicago show review from Something Glorious

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Stoners invited to eating contest at Kung Fu Saloon in Uptown

This is The Dank.

If you’ve never used the word “dank” to describe something awesome or dope, ask your stoner friend. He or she will totally understand why the final round of The Dank eating contest at Kung Fu Saloon in Uptown is April 20. 4/20. At 4:20 p.m. Are you getting it?

The challenge is eating the 10-inch-tall sandwich called The Dank that includes (but certainly isn’t limited to) two cheeseburger patties, two grilled cheese sandwiches, an onion ring and bacon. (Obviously bacon.)

It’s free to enter even if you’re no good at eating a 10-inch-sammie. But there are rounds. Qualifying rounds are April 5 and 12. The top two people who eat “the most Danks,” says a press release — wait, you have to eat more than one? — move onto the championship. That’s the final round on 4/20.

Know what else is on 4/20? Easter.

The winner gets a vintage tabletop arcade game, plus line-cutting abilities and round-the-clock happy hour prices. And possibly a stomach ache.

Go-getters, register online here. Slackers, you can walk in without advance notice, though there are fewer seats available for walk-ups.

Kung Fu Saloon: 2911 Routh St., Dallas.

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I moved to the US in 2000. I had a suitcase and a cargo bag with me. Included in the cargo bag was my computer tower…yes the whole box thingy. Being a student, I had no money to either buy a laptop in France or a computer upon arrival in the US, and so resolved to take it with me as it would have been much more difficult to study without one (I was studying web design and management). Needless to say, I didn’t bring it back with me two years later when I came back to Europe.

Fast forward 5 years, I’m backpacking solo through Central America. When I started my backpack weighted 15 kg (33 pounds), not humongous but still, it became a pain fairly quickly to have to haul it onto crowded buses and when walking around a town I just arrived in looking for a hostel to stay at. So I started leaving things behind to drop weight. I ended the trip with 9kg (just under 20 pounds). It was a relief as I got ill towards the end and being able to lift the bag easily with one arm was much appreciated. I got rid of a rain poncho (if it rains just get inside…don’t walk through the street) in Guatemala, left my electric shaver in Honduras and tore out pages of the places I had already been to in my guidebooks.
I think this is when my almost-obsession with travelling light began. And thus in my mind this when my journey with ‘minimalism’ started somehow.
Over our years in London Ann and I accumulated a fair amount of stuff. Each time we moved to a new place we’d try to get rid of stuff but somehow it always seemed like there was still lots to carry despite our best efforts. Still it was a great feeling to get rid of clothes, trinkets and old magazines we didn’t needed or want anymore.
Lately I’ve become more focus on this. Stuff. Do I really need what I have? Why do I want to get this or that? Does it or will it really add something positive to my life? And in the last few months, every few weeks I’ve been going through my materials possessions and got rid of a few items each time. And each time –  without fail – I didn’t regret it.
And so I came across the term “minimalism” (there are many many references to it all over the web) but I’ve been reading about people’s experience with this endeavor and it really (mostly) resonated with me.
The idea that owning less of everything (physical objects) helps to clear your mind and focus your thoughts is an interesting one. The amount of energy we expend getting stuff is huge. Not only do we end up working more to get more money to buy more stuff but a lot of mental space is consumed thinking about whether or not we are making the absolute best choice in an ocean of options.

There are people who work very hard to reach a number. “I own 100 things” or “I own 50 things”. I don’t think that’s what minimalism is about. It’s about what feels right to you. It’s about going through that process of consciously deciding to buy something, instead of just buying it impulsively or to make us feel better on a bad day.
There are as many definitions as there are step-by-step guides on offer online. If you’re curious, check here and here. One of my favorites is actually a post about what minimalism is not about.

That’s what we took with us when we left London. Not so much all and all but the transfers between the 4 trains we had to take to go back to Le Puy were…interesting. Incidentally, that’s also what we started with when we came back from the Philippines.

PS: Ann’s latest article on elephant journal just went live, check it out here.

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  1. Gloria says:

    Not sure I qualify for minimalist designaion but I’m a real fan of clearing out and cleaning up. The clutter in some folks physical environment makes me ill-at-ease and rather “itchy”. Let’s just say I’m definitely not a hoarder and “less is more” better expresses my life plan.

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2NE1 Me2day Dara - Isn't it cute?

Jan 14, 2010

Written on the lamp means "Sandara, I love you to death"
(trans by: COCONUT @ YGL)

Uh-huh. The heart-shaped lamp is cute indeed. Dara was scared an said "This is a mini-fire for Darong who's afraid of being in a dark room by herself!!! Isn't it cute?! ^_^ But when I'm scared, I just go look for CLroo or Minggi and I glue myself to them!ke But for Bom... I can't attach myself to Bom... She'll pretend to be a ghost..it's even scarier!!!ke" So the lamp was actually given to Dara, eh? I wonder who gave it to her. That was kind of sweet though. And lol, Park Sisters are so adorable!

Dara's Me2day + Translated by: PEDOBEAR @ YGLadies.com

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Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Big Waters

Been to Big Waters this evening to see what was around. We went to the main hide first. The feeders were quiet with tree sparrows, robins, greenfinches and a goldfinch. The Great Spotted Woodpecker did show on the feeders but just very briefly. I still haven’t caught up with the sparrowhawk that lives there yet put hopefully I will soon! The pond had 2 Great Crested Grebes, Mallard, Teal, Cormorants and Mute Swans. Two moorhens were fighting on the other side of the pond so not much of interest. I had been the day before and seen the kingfisher but at the other hide. We wanted to see it in better light as it was a dull day last time we saw it. We went round to the other hide and I heard it call as soon as we got there. We opened the windows and it was sitting there with a fish. It gave us brilliant views both times we were there and if you haven’t seen it yet, it is well worth the journey! KingfisherRobin

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Let Your {Happy} Loose

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Today is a more simple and obvious step toward happiness, or it at least seems straight forward enough to me: let loose! Too many people go through every single day being so flipping serious. There are two great ways to let yourself loosen up:

1. Laugh at the things that make you stressed or mad.
Examples: Think about something really dumb you did that possibly even embarrassed you, now laugh about it. Here's one of mine to help you out: I prize my cooking and baking skills, yet at a friends house this past weekend a dish I made took an extra hour because I couldn't figure out how to simply turn the oven on.
Now think of something that is really stressful for you, especially something you can't do anything about currently. Laugh about it. For me right now it's my toilet. The handle broke, and the first day this happened the water ran and ran while I was trying to fill out a $10,000 loan application. As I was getting more and more frustrated with the application, my eyes started watering and I made myself breathe. Then I heard my toilet running and laughed for the next 5min. It gave me the strength to finish the application and even though I was denied the loan (which is important for finishing my last year of school), I was able to walk away from the situation knowing I would figure something out.

2. Dance.
If you're good at dancing, good for you. If you're a ridiculous dancer, even better. Either turn on some music in your bedroom and get your Shakira hips on, or go out to some random bar with a couple friends you can dance with. Dancing will help you be happier in so many ways, namely in getting your heart rate going and in helping you take yourself a little less seriously.
I'll even give you an inspirational playlist:
And dance like you mean it . . . especially to the last one.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. ― Oprah Winfrey

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

My humble little house in the spring time.

I've been neglecting my front yard for a while, so now that it looks nice I want to show it to you. This is my little house yes, is there some where behind all the foliage. So far I still have it under control. I'm not really planting anything new in the front yard. I really have no room, I think.

These coconut trees are kinda new, a few years. I had to replace the other ones died, just got sick all of a sudden.

Yes, my front is there some where.

This path we put in about 8 years ago and I want to do something different, but what??? These ferns need a little help.

This is my favorite feature of the front yard. This fountain we put about six years ago. It was really hard to find a cute small fountain, they are all huge and I wanted it to be proportional to the house. I faux painted with a glazed and then sealed the color in with a good paint sealer. It's going on six years and it looks great. I have a bird feeder near it and is such a treat see all the beautiful birds come for a nibble and a drink. Actually my neighbor Ron's cat is always napping under the fountain, smart kitty.

I wish I could keep the inpatients all year long.

This little mulched path leads to the side gate.

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  1. OMG!!!!!! I would die for your house, gosh marleen all your plants and tropical tree's just love your place. Are their orchids, growing, in the 3rd photo up on the right side??? I have orchids but there the cumbiduim Orchid, which are due to flower in the next 2months. Just love your garden
    Arohanui X :-)


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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Southern Girls need your Gossip

Admission: Yes, I love a good Gossip. The only secrets I hate are the ones I don't know. I'm from the South, we drink gossip like other people drink merlot. The good news is that I'm largely a dead end for it. I just like to know stuff, not necessarily pass it on. The bad news is that I'm a hopeless addict.

I learned all this when I was a kid, sitting in the back of my grandmother's giant Buick, listening to her and my mother tersely whisper about the doings of my no-good cousins. Who was in trouble with the law, who owed who money, and who was sleeping with that girl "just like cats." Then when you actually see the aforementioned cousin, because they were talking about him while driving to the family event where we'd be having a dinner, I would have to bite my lip and think "I know you're hip deep in it!"

I still get lots of fun gossip from my Southern family, like the preacher's kid who dropped out of the Ivy League school his parents bought him into even though he couldn't spell his name and he's now living at home and working at the Food Lion, but it's different now that I live so far away.

The Rink has proven to be a fabulous Dealer.

Yesterday I got involved in a great conversation about some kids at the rink. Who's dad is crazy, who's mom is a nut (that's easy, we all are) what kid is competing too high for his skating ability and who on earth is allowing that to happen, and so on. I might as well have tied a rubber band to my arm and lay there like I just shot heroin.

Few things: One, I'm glad other kid is not at Stitch's level. Not that I was worried about his competing with Stitch, it's no contest, but it keeps him out of our hair. Two, I'm validated on my opinions of people. I know I'm not alone in my caution. Three, I'm leaving alone. I have some thoughts, but I'm leaving it alone for now.

In the meantime, Stitch and I share something special; A Love of Disco. When he was a baby, the only way to quiet his crying was to rock to the beat of "Dancing in September" or "Jive Talking." Well, all the "Disco Party" stuff was on sale at the party store. I have two 30" mirrorball decals and two albums of Disco mixes, and I'm not afraid to use them. Stitch heard me reviewing the CD's for quality this morning and was doing spirals to the bridge of "Turn the Beat Around."

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Aug 18, 2011

Daily Affirmation:

Keep a clean & organized home, garden, yard.

My word is my bond. Keep my word. If I'm not sure if I will
fulfill my commitment. Do not commit.

Be good to the inviroment.

Help others whenever possible.

Get enough rest.

Meditate daily

Aug 13, 2011

I've been tracking my mood, and sleep around the esbats the last couple of months.
I get moody, depressed, tired, difficulty sleeping. Then the night before the full moon
I require not much of any sleep at all. And am so energized that day...

An esbat is a time of high energy and power. Maybe that is why I feel energized w/out much sleep. I thought that it meant that the moon is most powerful though...

Aug 12, 2011

I keep feeling really mopy sadly all the time lately. I feel better for a while after I've
done a ritual working of one sort or another, connected with Isis... I did do my morning prayers to Isis this morning. Was not overly abundant with energy today though. Just in a hum drum mood..

Then I ended up transplanting my rosemary plants back inside. And wow! I feel so happy. It's like digging my hands around in the soil, and touching the rosemary and whiffing it. That alone and all by itself gave me a happy bubble. *giggles*!!

Maybe connecting with the raw earth is what I'm missing out on lately.
Perhaps I need to sit and make a list of the ways I can connect with Earth.

I love autumn. It is my favorite time of year. In a way when I think of autumn here in wyoming I almost feel sort of lost though. Compared to thinking of it as a child in the mid-west. I'm from Des Moines, Iowa. When I think of back home, I see leaves of all shapes, colors, and sizes on the ground. I could easily gather tons of nature in my hands and bring inside to enjoy; just from walking around any neighborhood. Acorns, rocks, leaves, buckeyes just to name a few of the most common items found outdoors in my home town.

But here in wyoming I don't ever see any acorns. I do love to buy the cinnamon scented pinecones in the autumn/winter. I place them in wicker baskets around my house, with real cinnamon sticks...

I will have to try harder to bond with nature. Maybe go for a drive and find something wonderful & woodly...

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Aug 11, 2011

I have continued in my morning prayers to Isis. Today is the 4th day. I kind of missed yesterday though. And that was actually the day I should have needed guidance the most. I was oh too gloomy.
Anyway, I always feel so good after my devotionals to Isis. I wanted the smoke from my blue candle float upward to the East as my prayers were carried up. A envisioned Isis with her wings spread far & wide glide upward into the East Sun.

It was overcast & gloomy when I woke up. Which doesnt bother me any. I like it cool and gloomy. Makes me happy! But now the morning sun is peeking up. Good Morning Isis!!

With Mercury Retrograde going on until the 27th of August I feel like nothing is going right.
My new camera shuts off when I plug the USB in to the computer to upload my pics. Which is very much bumming me out, since I've been documenting a lot of my life the last few months. When I buy new tools I take pics of them. When I have rituals I take my pics of my altar. Sometimes before & after... Then my dishwasher wouldn't function this morning. After an hour I realized it was the outlet. ?? What the heck! *uuuurgh*

I'm looking forward to the full moon of August 13th (Lughnasadh 15) The Sister Wind Moon.
I am planning to do my naming/initiation either on that night or Esbat (full moon) of September 12th. Which is also a Wishing Moon named the Harvest Moon. I'm more drawn to the September Esbat. It is my birth month. Isis rules over Virgo, Sapphire, and many other elements associated with myself. Autumn is my favorite time of the year. It just feels calming to me. I will also be claiming the Egyptian Pantheon as my spiritual path. I already have a personal relationship with Isis and Osiris.

Also, I have some homework to perform from my Seasons in Avalon on the Sister Wind Moon Esbat. So, I'm looking forward to that also.

Aug 4, 2011

An amazing month of transformation, change, & new beginnings in ways I
did not think possible. It all started the last few days of July actually. Right as
Lughnasadh was beginning.
I told my husband I was moving out to Illinois that I was miserable. That we don't have the kind of marriage that I want. That it seems like we are paying bills is the only reason we're together.
Much to my surprise he didn't feel the same way. And didn't want to split up at all.
I thought he would be relieved. Turns out that even after 24 years he cannot read my mind. *giggles*
So, we've opened the doors of communication. And they are still going. I feel really good.
Through all of that chaos I found Isis. And I feel completely connected to her. I've been reading a lot about Osiris & Isis. Its remarkable how many similarities there are between my zodiac sign, and how they are connected to Lughnasadh.

I feel a new light and a new love glowing inside of me.
Isis is not only a triple Goddess but is known as the ALL Goddess. She covers pretty much everything. She answers prayers to the rich and the poor. She is the only Goddess that is a triple Goddess but does not change form. She stays the same. She rules over so many things that are connected to me as a Virgo. It's so completely amazing. The star where it is said her soul resides is called Sept by the Egyptians. My birthday is in September! She rules over the element of Earth which is the ruling element of Virgo. She also rules over Mercury. Mercury rules Virgo.
When her consort / husband Osiris was killed and his body parts were scattered it was on September 5th that she is said to have found his backbone. My birthday is Sept.6th

Isis' b/day is also celebrated around the time of Lughnasadh. I had a wonderful Lammas ritual a few days ago. Lugh the God of the Harvest & Sun is celebrated on August 7th. (Lughnasadh)
I think I will bake a loaf of bread for my Lughnasadh ritual Sunday night.

I've had a huge fascination with Egypt for a long long time. One of the 1st altar tools I purchased was an ankh. I found out that it meant the symbol of life. But I felt a strong pull to have it. But didn't really know why. I was persuing celtic lore.  And felt that is where the ancient ancestory of Paganism lies. But I have also had an urge to have a Bast or Bastet statuary. Why?? I dunno. Just seems right. After all the cats are the protectors of the underworld. right?

After being touched by Isis it is all slowly starting to make sense.
Things are all coming together...

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