The Work of Byron Katie

I came across this on the internet some time ago and was interested enough to order one of her books, “Loving What Is”. Among other things, it has helped me to realize that my worries (mostly about my children as they grow) really serve no purpose but to cause anxiety within myself, transferred I think at times to my sons. I am teaching myself not to worry so much about them as they begin to go through their lives without me constantly by their side, that my worries will not change what is to be and that they are simply my negative thoughts. When a negative worry begins to forms now, I change it into positivity, sending not my worries to them but little rays of good safety thoughts instead.

http://www.thework.com/thework.asp

 

 

 

Kittens&Dandelions

Recently when I come here, to wordpress, I find myself reading others blogs more and more and I have realized that I am more of a reader than I am a writer, even when not reading, I am more of a listener then I am a talker.

I find people’s words, thoughts and expressions here so interesting, some so very indepth. I feel sometimes my mind is like a sponge, absorbing it all in. It is like being in a very large social gathering with groups in different discussions and you are able to skip around to the different ones.

I am glad there are these things on the internet.

Art, Life and a Link

<a href=”http://www.NewsTarget.com/021764.html” mce_href=”http://www.NewsTarget.com/021764.html”><img src=”http://www.newstarget.com/cartoons/plastic_bags_600.jpg” border=”0″><br>The Plastic Bag Ban (comic)</a>

Commentary by Mike Adams, the creator of this cartoon:

In late March, 2007, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban the use of plastic bags by grocery stores. For the record, I’m in favor of the San Francisco bag ban. It’s the right decision. Given that plastic bags take 1000 years to decompose in landfill, we need to take action right now to stop adding more plastic bags to the planet.

And yet, as I’m pointing out in this article, isn’t it interesting how easy it is to ban plastic bags that are dangerous for the environment but how difficult it is to ban chemical food ingredients that are dangerous to human health? The reason behind this, of course, is that plastic bag companies have a terrible lobby, but big food giants practically run Congress and government regulators like the USDA and FDA.

Banning cancer-causing chemicals from foods has been attempted many times (even by a former top official at the USDA many decades ago), but has never been successful. (I’ve documented some of this history in my book Grocery Warning at www.truthpublishing.com/GroceryWarning.html )

They’ve got complete control over all the toxic, cancer-causing chemicals in the foods. Think about what’s legal: aspartame, sodium nitrate, sucralose, fluoride, MSG, yeast extract, petroleum-derived food colors, toxic preservatives, acrylamides, bisphenol-A and trace amounts of solvents, heavy metals, PCBs, pesticides (and much worse). You name a popular food product found in every grocery store in America, and I can tell you which cancer-causing chemicals it contains.

It’s all perfectly legal. But the bag you carry all those poisons in has been banned.

I guess the priorities of the regulators in this country are pretty clear: Save the environment, but not the people who live in it. (Again, no blame to the S.F. city leaders, since they are doing the right thing here. But wouldn’t it be nice if they could take the next step and outlaw the chemical contamination of foods sold in San Francisco?)

I had a guy come up to me the other day at a health food store who said all this use of chemicals in the food supply was part of a super secret global population control campaign. I thought that was a little too complex of an explanation, actually. If they want to stop population growth, all they have to do is ban beer.

Of course, all these food chemicals do have the side effect of causing widespread infertility, and that definitely impacts population growth (or just makes infertility clinics wealthy). So maybe the guy has a point.

But my whole point here is that if we’re really serious about planetary health, shouldn’t we ban all the poisons IN the bag instead of just the bag? Why not outlaw all the food and beverage additives that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, depression and migraine headaches? I say let’s protect the planet and the consumer at the same time. Hand ‘em a hemp cloth shopping bag filled with fresh, organic produce. That’s how you save the planet AND prevent disease in consumers.

Again, I agree with banning the bags, and I applaud the leadership of San Francisco in being the first U.S. city to stand up and make this important decision. But let’s not stop there. Let’s ban the very real hazards INSIDE the bag, too.

http://www.truthpublishing.com/counterthink_p/yprint-cat21408.htm

In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.
The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate
another mother’s cubs, perhaps she would improve.
After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans” that could be found quickly, were a litter of piglets. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger.

A little tribute for Mother’s Day that my sister sent to me. 

A first sign of cherries

and then, one month and a half later….

cherries! :)

The reference I used from Luis Royo art site.

A sketch that my little niece drew when she was visiting last summer. Her dad drew a little cat in the corner as well :).

Another sketch I drew using another one of Luis Royo’s tarot drawings as a guide.  It was a practice in circles, which I think turned out nice and circley :).

Traveller

 I found two sketch books that I thought I had lost and think now to post a few of the sketches from them here, over the next few days, to keep them somewhere safe. :)  This one is a practice sketch of a tarot drawing I found from Luis Royo’s work.  In this I like how his left hand turned out, his eyes and the staff with his bag.