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Monthly Archives: January 2014
At the end of the day ….
Very interesting blog.
~~January 17, 2014~~
Seven fires prophecy is an Anishinaabe prophecy which marks phases, or epochs, in the life of the people on Turtle Island, a Native American name for the North American continent. The Seven fires of the prophecy represent key spiritual teachings for North America, and suggest that the different colors and traditions of the human beings can come together on a basis of respect. It predates the arrival of the Europeans, and contains information for the future lives of the Anishnaabe which are still in the process of being fulfilled.
Originally, the prophecy and the Ojibwa migration story were closely linked. However, the last half the prophecy appears to apply to all peoples in contact with the Anishinaabeg. Consequently with the growth of the Pan-Indian Movement in the 1960s and the 1970s, concepts of the Seven fires prophecy merged with other similar prophetical teaching found among
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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND A HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR AS WELL!!!
Very nice designs
Unknown Singer
I hope you enjoyed this Christmas gift to you from me. I heard this song on the radio the other day and knew I had to create a painting with the song and put it in my blog for Christmas. The words are so touching and beautiful. Happy Holidays to all my new friends on WordPress. Thank you for your connection as a new blogger and I look forward to reading all of your blogs next year.
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand has always been a role model to me. She is an independent woman who fought her way into the music business. She had people who didn’t like this strong, confident woman. But many of us thought she was terrific and still do. She was a woman who knew what she wanted but she wasn’t a classic Hollywood beauty. She was Jewish and her nose was bigger many movie producers and record companies thought she wasn’t pretty enough for the entertainment industry. She never hid who she was, she just sang like a nightingale and acted with great talent. She has been a mother and is now once again a wife. She is married to James Brolin. She has always been private yet not hiding who she was and wanted she wanted to accomplish. Then she accomplished it with style and dignity.
Don’t be a vulture’s diet
A quick warning to enlighten the public. Hugs, Barbara
It’s a sick pic, I know. Sicker still is my gut after hearing how a well trained “sales rep” got all of the personal information out of a student with their “I want to help you” tactic, and then had them sign away,online no less, their life. Bad enough what the loan rates are today, far different then when I was a student. Now there are loan sharks adding more fees just to guide students on how to pay them back. At an initial sign up fee of $1,400 and a processing fee of $50.00 for them to send in the payment every month but till when?I can’t find all the information on their site it say’s ” call”. What I have researched and found on other links are many disgruntled clients, even some who say their loans were not even paid back ,the lenders did not except…
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White Male Bias – Nope Nope Nope.
Interesting stats
The idea that those in control would want media to promote their ideology seems obvious. Let’s examine two helpful charts.
Huh, a bias toward white males. What could it mean?
A Composition of Excerpts
Images of the goddess
Beyond God the Father (excerpt)
Why indeed must “God” be a noun? Why not a verb—the most active and dynamic of all? Hasn’t the naming of “God” as a noun been an act of murdering that dynamic Verb? And isn’t the Verb infinitely more personal than a mere static pronoun? The anthropomorphic symbols for God may be intended to convey personality, but they fail to convey that God is Be-ing. Women now who are experiencing the shock of non-being and the surge of self-affirmation against this are included to perceive transcendence as the Verb in which we particapate—live, move, and have our being. —Mary Daly
The Divine Spiral (excerpt)
The importance of the Goddess symbol for women cannot be overstressed. The image of the Goddess, inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.
The Goddess is also important for men. The oppression of men in Father God-ruled patriarchy is perhaps less obvious but no less tragic than that of women. Men are encouraged to identify with a model no human being can successfully emulate: to be minirulers of narrow universes. They are internally split, into a “spiritual” self that is supposed to conquer their baser animal and emotional natures. They are at war with themselves in the West, to “conquer” sin, in the East, to “conquer” desire or ego. Few escape from these wars undamaged.
—Starhawk
Meditations with Julian of Norwich (excerpt)
God wants to be thought of
as our Lover
I must see myself so bound in love
as if everything that has been done
has been done for me.
That is to say,
the Love of God makes such a unity
in us
that when we see this unity
no one is able to separate oneself
from another
—Julian of Norwich
May the goddesses bring love and peace to all hearts and peace to all souls
10 Small Acts of Kindness That Will Make a Big Difference
Some ways you can create so peace in the world
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
Plato
When was the last time you did a good deed? Without expecting anything in return? Just like that…
If you don’t remember, I’m afraid you’ve drifted apart from the real human nature. You’ve fallen into the trap of today’s society and have come to the point where you do good to someone only when you want something back or have other stimulus to do so.
But if you do, you certainly remember the incredible feelings you get after that. Because that is what good means in its original meaning. That is how our soul and mind work when not affected by outer temptations and tendencies like consumerism and egoism. That is how we were meant to communicate with one another – by doing good, being kind, helping whenever we can and never expecting anything in return.
By being…
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Good African elephant news
This is the video to watch today. If you only have one, let it be this one.
This April 2018 video says about itself:
The Elephant National Park, lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, white rhino, whale, and great white shark.
Another video used to say about itself:
The Elephant Documentary
24 July 2013
Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. Traditionally, two species are recognised, the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), although some evidence suggests that African bush elephants and African forest elephants are separate species (L. africana and L. cyclotis respectively). Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. They are the only surviving proboscideans; extinct species include mammoths and mastodons. The largest living terrestrial animals, male African elephants can reach a height of 4 m (13 ft) and weigh 7,000 kg (15,000 lb). These animals have several distinctive features, including a long proboscis or trunk used for many purposes…
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Small Victories Masked by Petty Defeats
Wonderful poetry to start your day.
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