Here and Now...What's Happening?

[meeradas]

May your 2019 be as colourful [and maybe not as convoluted] as this old piece of mine:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=3616&d=1293919134

[norman]

For 2019, a gear shift . . . . . . .


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[Valerie Villars]

It's been raining for forty days and nights here in Louisiana, or pretty damn close. Over a month. I'm beginning to feel like Noah. The horses and the dog are fed up too.

:sun: coming tomorrow and for at least three happy days.

[Valerie Villars]

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[onawah]

Ancient Aliens
The Alien Phenomenon
TV-PG
"Erich von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods challenged everything we thought we knew about mankind’s history, suggesting that aliens visited Earth in the distant past. Fifty years after the book’s publication, is he about to be proven right?"
Premieres on Jan 04, 2019
https://www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens/season-13/episode-14?cmpid=email-hist-ancient-aliens-2019-0104-01042019&om_rid=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&om_mid=525635369&kx_EmailCampaignID=26509&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-ancient-aliens-2019-0104-01042019&kx_EmailRecipientID=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72%20&os_ehash=44@experian:8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72

The first episode of History Channel's new series Project Blue Book premieres on 1/8 at 10/9 Central Time
https://www.history.com/shows/project-blue-book?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxND1oPPU3wIVmbrACh0qmwb7EAAYASAAEgIP5vD_BwE&ef_id=EAIaIQobChMIxND1oPPU3wIVmbrACh0qmwb7EAAYASAAEgIP5vD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!4850!3!321574587249!b!!g!!%2Bproject%20%2Bblue%20%2Bbook&cmpid=paidsearch_G_ProjectBlueBook

[onawah]

The first episode of History Channel's new series Project Blue Book premiering now 10/9 Central Time

[RunningDeer]

Great Blue Heron highlights: court, nest, raise a family
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[Dennis Leahy]

Wow, that's cool! What is the medium? It looks like a batik made with colored pencils.
May your 2019 be as colourful [and maybe not as convoluted] as this old piece of mine:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=3616&d=1293919134

[onawah]

Awesome footage! Thanks Paula! Blue Heron is one of my medicine animals. The look so gawky with those long necks and even longer, spindly legs, but I watched one on Dauphin Island once for about an hour standing perfectly still on one leg, so poised and alert. yet completely at rest. A life changing interlude for me. There is a beautiful metal sculpture of one at the entrance to the downtown shopping area where I live, so I am reminded of my experiences with Blue Heron often.
Great Blue Heron highlights: court, nest, raise a family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH5K4tjjBjs

[RunningDeer]

Awesome footage! Thanks Paula! Blue Heron is one of my medicine animals. The look so gawky with those long necks and even longer, spindly legs, but I watched one on Dauphin Island once for about an hour standing perfectly still on one leg, so poised and alert. yet completely at rest. A life changing interlude for me. There is a beautiful metal sculpture of one at the entrance to the downtown shopping area where I live, so I am reminded of my experiences with Blue Heron often.
Great Blue Heron highlights: court, nest, raise a family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH5K4tjjBjs

onawah, I posted the Great Blue Heron vid with you in mind. I've shared with you that my all time favorite post of yours is the Blue Heron on Dauphin Island. It's below and I took the liberty of adding an extra return space between paragraphs for easier reading.

BTW: I enjoyed your otter power animal post earlier today. :thumb:


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onawah's repost:

When we left Missouri for a week in February 2008 for  Dauphin Island, a small vacation island off the coast from Mobile, Alabama, there were 5 inches of snow on the ground, but after the 10 hour drive, we were in a sunny, balmy climate; certainly a welcome change at the end of a long winter.

    Dauphin Island is quite small, but there is a powerful, ancient and sacred Native American site there called the Shell Mounds, which was especially treasured by the women. There are Post Oak trees there, some over a thousand years old, all gnarled and festooned with Spanish moss. Long ago, different tribes from all over Turtle Island gathered there in peace, and their most powerful Medicine Women were brought there to be buried. Since the site is close to the beach and shellfish were one of the main sources of sustenance to the people, there are countless empty shells intermixed with the soil, thus the name “Shell Mounds”. At night, the shells glow in the dark and are strewn all along the paths, so you can actually walk there on a moonlit night without flashlights. There is a peaceful calm pervading the park, and the presence of Spirit is palpable.

   On the day after my first visit to the Shell Mounds, I was sitting alone on the beach, soaking up the sun and watching a shrimp boat trawling past, followed by a group of dolphins who were feasting in the boat’s wake on the catch of the day. I was sending a telepathic request to the dolphins for a “hello”, hoping they would come closer to shore( on the condition that they weren’t too busy or too hungry to greet me,  but they were evidently more interested in lunch...).

   I was soon to discover that my call had been answered by a different creature, however.

   First I should explain that. I have a friend named Sunshine  who is a fifth generation Apache Medicine Woman.  Some years ago, knowing that I revere Native American spirituality, she asked me if I would like her to give me a sacred name, to which I agreed. She consulted her Spirit Guides and they said my name was “Dancing Crane”. The reason, she said, is because I move like a dancer in spite of my limp (just one injury resulting from a near-fatal car accident), and because I love to dance. ( I took Sacred dance classes for 5 years with a world class dancer named Youkta, who had a lot of Native American blood, and I’m sure she had been N.A. in past lives, as have I.) Also, my disability inclines me toward standing on one foot a lot of the time... (One leg is actually shorter than the other due to bone loss, so I have had to work on balance.)

   Cranes often stand on one leg and are amazingly graceful and balanced. Their mating dances, in particular, are spectacular.  So Crane naturally became for me a symbol of my disability, and a teacher of the way to work with my wound, both as an artist and as a wounded healer. At first, I didn’t feel a strong connection with Crane and I didn’t especially resonate with the name Dancing Crane. I wanted something poetic sounding, but my experience at Dauphin Island changed my feelings about my name and about Crane Medicine.

   Back on the beach, after I had given up on a dolphin connection and had laid back on my beach towel to meditate for awhile on the perfection of the sun, the surf and the warm sand, I sat up again after a bit to look through the cache of shells I had collected from the beach. I began to pull them out of my jacket pockets and brush the sand from them so I could get a better look at each object’s delicate perfection. After a moment, for some inexplicable reason, I turned my head all the way to my right and to my amazement, saw a crane standing there very calmly, perhaps 5 or 6 yards away from me. It seemed completely settled and at peace, and I had the impression it had been there for some time, though I had neither seen nor heard it arrive. I didn't know then what kind of crane it was but it was grayish, brown and white and had an ivory bill. It was perfectly poised standing there on one leg, facing the ocean, but since a bird’s eyes are on either side of it’s head, it must have had me in its sights, though it appeared not to notice me at all.

     I actually couldn’t see at that time whether it was standing on one leg or two, because it was facing the ocean and so I was seeing it in profile.  I watched it for perhaps 10 or 15 minutes, sighing restlessly and shifting around rather uncomfortably on my beach towel, yet it didn’t move a muscle. I found myself wishing it would move, so that I could see if it was on one leg or two, which I knew was of significance.

Presently when it did, I could see it had indeed been standing on one leg, as it brought the tucked up leg down to the sand and turned to face me. Then it slowly opened its beak wide and closed it again almost with a snap, as if it was yawning or making a commentary. I felt perhaps it was finding my restless, impatient company a bit vexing! (That yawn was rather a humbling element of the overall experience…)  It  fixed me with its placid, golden-eyed gaze for a long moment, blinked once, then turned unconcernedly  towards the ocean and tucked its leg up again.

   After another 10 minutes or so of the bird standing perfectly poised and immobile, with me, the rather unwilling birdwatcher, trying unsuccessfully to be patient and get comfortable on my towel, I began again to wish that it would move, if only to break the monotony. Of course, I knew that the crane was there for a reason, and I understood that it certainly had to relate intimately to Crane Medicine, but the contrast of the unperturbed bird and my increasingly restless state caused  too much discomfort for me to have much perspective or insight at the time. (...Which was precisely the lesson, I was later to conclude...!).

   Presently, however, it turned again and began to walk directly towards me, as though I weren’t even there, which I found extremely disconcerting. It was about 2 to 3 yards away when it abruptly veered towards the ocean instead, tracing a path in the sand, perhaps 2  yards in front of the edge of my towel, and then continuing on to my opposite side, to a spot about 10 yards away and somewhat further back from the beach. It stood there calmly for about 10 minutes more with its back to me. By now I was ready to jump up and do somersaults, I was so restless, but suddenly the crane flapped its wings effortlessly a few times to lift off from the ground and took off flying sedately along the shoreline until it was eventually out of sight.

   In the mood I was in at that moment, I was more relieved than anything else. The part of me that was programmed at an early age to disregard unfamiliar things like Native American shamanism was very much in the forefront of my being on that day. I wasn't sure why, but I thought perhaps it was because the surroundings were still so unfamiliar. More likely, though, is that the old programming was up for revision and cleansing.

   In time, as I had a chance to reflect more on my experience, I felt this was a significant instance of powerful animal medicine for me. I think I had reached a kind of stasis, where I needed once again to change my attitude about my disability. I had been growing accustomed to perceiving it as a hindrance, preventing me from feeling peaceful or from living in balance and harmony with myself and with Nature. It is an issue I have been working with for years and I have gone through different phases with it. At other times in my life, my disability has seemed more like a gift, and I think the Crane’s visit was meant in part to make it possible for me return to that more positive point of view.

    Thanks to my friend Sunshine, Crane had become both a teacher and a symbol for me of my disability, and so seeing the crane standing so gracefully, patiently, peacefully and perfectly in balance and calm, really brought the message home to me of what the necessary shift in my consciousness had to be, and it was about more than balance. The very nurturing energy I felt from Crane also had a shamanic message for me as a “wounded healer”.  I felt that Crane was not only showing me what I needed to incorporate more into my being, but was also healing me with its presence and imprinting its message deep in my being.  

onawah's update post found here. (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=654386&viewfull=1#post654386)

[onawah]

Thanks again, Paula! :blushing:I'm getting a lot of exposure today on the forum. Earlier, I also posted links to those old spirit journeys on Mike's thread here: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105615-Your-Soul-s-Pre-Birth-Plan&p=1268729&viewfull=1#post1268729

Awesome footage! Thanks Paula! Blue Heron is one of my medicine animals. They look so gawky with those long necks and even longer, spindly legs, but I watched one on Dauphin Island once for about an hour standing perfectly still on one leg, so poised and alert. yet completely at rest. A life changing interlude for me. There is a beautiful metal sculpture of one at the entrance to the downtown shopping area where I live, so I am reminded of my experiences with Blue Heron often.
Great Blue Heron highlights: court, nest, raise a family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH5K4tjjBjs

onawah, I posted the Great Blue Heron vid with you in mind. I've shared with you that my all time favorite post of yours is the Blue Heron on Dauphin Island. It's below and I took the liberty of adding an extra return space between paragraphs for easier reading.

BTW: I enjoyed your otter power animal post earlier today. :thumb:

[meeradas]

Wow, that's cool! What is the medium? It looks like a batik made with colored pencils.

Hey Dennis,

i wish it would have been "batik made with coloured pencils"...
but no, it's digital (ugh).

I just experimented a lot with graphics software (until around 15 years ago),
and this particular piece [inspired by Hundertwasser's work]
is one (good one) of about 3000 "paintings" i made, back then.

I like that you like it!

[meeradas]

after a long time, there's some attendance on my ignore list, once again...
won't say more than "an easy guess".

[RunningDeer]

after a long time, there's some attendance on my ignore list, once again...
won't say more than "an easy guess".

Your post reminds me of the PurpleLama communication style. https://i.imgur.com/NcwNuGS.gif

[meeradas]

Your post reminds me of the PurpleLama communication style. https://i.imgur.com/NcwNuGS.gif

:biggrin1: Reilly and me, we're kin, somehow...

and Ernie KNOWS what i hinted at. :eyebrows:


PS:
What happened to Ilie?

[Dennis Leahy]

Wow, that's cool! What is the medium? It looks like a batik made with colored pencils.

Hey Dennis,

i wish it would have been "batik made with coloured pencils"...
but no, it's digital (ugh).

I just experimented a lot with graphics software (until around 15 years ago),
and this particular piece [inspired by Hundertwasser's work]
is one (good one) of about 3000 "paintings" i made, back then.

I like that you like it!
I have a CAD background (the world's most boring digital drawings), but also have an artistic eye and bought a program called "Painter" years ago, in the hope of creating digital artwork (of the caliber shown on the package literature.) Ha! Just like anything else in life, the tools are only as powerful as the hand (and heart) that holds them. Alas, my attempts didn't look like the digital artwork on the package. :~)

As you know, through the magic of modern, large format inkjet printers (or if we're being fancy, "giclée"), this could be physical artwork - anything from a CD cover (for a retrospective of 1970's psychedelic music?) to a "sofa-sized" print. ["Sofa-sized print" has to be the most depressing phrase ever presented to artists. hahahahaha]

[meeradas]

[...] Sofa... depressing [...]

Not to every artist :becky::

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(fan-tas-tic german lyrix!)



[...] this could be physical artwork - anything from a CD cover (for a retrospective of 1970's psychedelic music?) to a "sofa-sized" print. [...]

Nobody's funding me... should i invest myself... and present it to folks... who probably wouldn't buy?

I just can't "sell" myself, that's my problem...

but then, i'd like to have this sofa myself!

[Ernie Nemeth]

That's the thing. Some of us only need a hint and we know. This is not an appreciated or a recognized skill. It comes with a certain type of advancement. And a certain type of personality...

[meeradas]

That's the thing. Some of us only need a hint and we know. This is not an appreciated or a recognized skill. It comes with a certain type of advancement. And a certain type of personality...

You are most definitely wired correctly, Ernie!

[Ernie Nemeth]

Thanks bro, needed that. You're pretty OK too!
😈

[RunningDeer]

2019 Cahow Nesting Season Begins As Female Lays An Egg! Jan. 10th (2 minutes)

Live Cam here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQdW_5Bw3cE) or @ NonsuchIsland.com (http://www.nonsuchisland.com/live-cahow-cam/).




After a month at sea, the female Bermuda Petrel returned the nesting burrow on Nonsuch Island, Bermuda to lay the pair's single egg! Watch the highlights and learn what to watch for in the coming days.

We're excited to share a brand new live viewing experience featuring the critically endangered Bermuda Cahow, a kind of gadfly-petrel that nests nowhere in the world except rocky islets off the coast of Bermuda. In the early 1600s, this once-numerous seabird was thought to have gone extinct, driven out of existence by the invasive animals and habitat changes associated with the settlement of the island. In 1951, after nearly 300 years, a single bird was rediscovered, and since then the species has been part of a government-led conservation effort to revive the species.

This on-camera pair has been together since 2009, using this same burrow each of those years, and has fledged successfully for the last four years. During the nesting season, the cahows only visit and court under the cover of night, then head out to sea during daylight hours. The pair returned to the island in early-November to court and mate, then will disappear out to sea for the month of December.

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Much of this conservation work by the Bermuda Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has centered on the creation of manmade burrows to increase nesting habitat, and to create new colonies on larger islands that are more robust to the increasing threats of hurricanes. The Cornell Lab entered into a partnership with the innovative Nonsuch Expeditions, a multimedia and outreach effort centered on Nonsuch Island that is committed to raising awareness and conserving the unique animals and environments on and around Bermuda. They have successfully broadcasted from a cahow burrow in past years, and this year we are working together to create an experience that will blend both live footage from a new camera as well as interaction with DENR Senior Terrestrial Conservation Officer Jeremy Madeiros during his weekly nest checks throughout the nesting season.


The CahowCam is a collaboration between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Nonsuch Expeditions. You can watch the cam live at AllAboutBirds.org (http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/53/Bermuda_Cahows/), and learn more about Nonsuch Island's environs (including the cahow) at nonsuchisland.com (http://nonsuchisland.com)

[RunningDeer]

Common Raven Claims Hunks Of Meat From Ontario Feeders – Circles Back for Seconds (1 minute)




The Common Raven towers in comparison to the other species that visit the Ontario FeederWatch cam. Not only are they large in size, they can also pluck quite a payload from the feeders with their incredible bills. Watch an individual pick chunks of meat from the Hache's platform feeder and swiftly haul them out of the backyard.


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[RunningDeer]

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There are free range chickens and rooster(s) that’ve learned how to fly the coop and walk the property. I happen to notice this one guy drop a feather while he was about 4’-5' away. I thanked him.

I’m in the middle of a fast, so I took it as an encouraging sign.

Rooster - new beginnings and power
Chicken - overall good health and prosperity


There are different breeds here and they all get along. This one breed is extra fun to watch with their floppy feather hat, especially when they pick up the pace. You can't help but giggle and smile. They don't stay in one place for long, so I stop the world to take in the show.


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♡

[avid]

So cute - love your birdy-vids Paula x
I notice some days if I have a problem, a soft white feather will float down to me onto my garden. I save these, as they mean nice things. Up above, in the vast countryside skies, are giant seagulls, flocks of crows, sparrows, starlings, pairs of doves, robins, blackbirds and woodpidgeons, multitudes of goldfinches, a gallant kestrel, pairs of pied wagtails, and a sneaky red squirrel creeping across my big garden wall. Who left my little downy white feather...? Under big feathery coats little downy feathers grow? Still cling onto pozzi-vibe messages - even if it’s just thanks for the garden birdy-fud 😀

[Melinda]

This is kind of a work in progress. But I was thinking how nice it might be. Especially given how hard it can be to find people to discuss the world in depth like many people do here.

It's got what I consider the basics.

A Big Foot. A herb gardener. A yogi on a laptop.

A cigar smokin' gnome hosting an all night snackery.

And Forest Whitaker's face (from the film Arrival) as he contemplates a mysterious alien presence.

https://i.imgur.com/o4gRI5Y.jpg

[RunningDeer]

This is kind of a work in progress. But I was thinking how nice it might be. Especially given how hard it can be to find people to discuss the world in depth like many people do here.
How fun, Melinda! Great idea. https://i.imgur.com/3x9om0z.gif It reminds me of “Where’s Waldo” discovering all the themes.

[RunningDeer]

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[RunningDeer]

6 Million Views - Congrats!

Thank you, Avalon posters and viewers
Old and new
Same goes for Guests, too

A special shout out to Ulli, the originator of the thread.https://i.imgur.com/clt9QW1.gif

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P.S. The Here and Now thread is 1,210 shy of 6,000,000. I’m early with this post because of a winter weekend storm. Fingers crossed the power stays on.

Lots of folks will be out with their shovels.

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[RunningDeer]

Dr. Zach Bush: So Much Wisdom!





"...But let me tell you about what my experience has been in those last moments with patients who are dying."

“… but there's one sentence that came back again and again. And I had one ICU shift that was very weird where I worked for 36 hours shift. I see three people die and I bring them all back.” “…every single one of them, their first sentence was “Why did you bring me back?”

"...And what I've seen it to be is a massive expansion of consciousness of reality of awareness and ultimately of love. And the most poignant examples of this are people that actually die biologically and we spend 15 or 30 minutes and ICU resuscitating them with drugs and shocking their chests like you see on TV shows and everything else and we have a dismal track record..."

“…death is not not an endpoint. It’s a transformation moment. It’s an expansion beyond the limits of this frail biologic shell that we carry around. And the instant that we step out of that, we find out that the universe embraces us in every single second of our existence and complete acceptance of who we are we are enough in and of our own identity of I am at every second of every point of our existence. And it’s the disbelief of that that's keeping us locked in these stupid conversations we just had for last …”



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CABIN TALK
Published on Jan 19, 2019
SUBSCRIBED 15K

Link to the entire interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3aOQ0N74PI)

more snippets:





“…At the end of the life, we've termed it death. And what I've laid out for you today is the possibility of the death of our species in seventy years,100 years. Who cares if was 200 years, it's still pathetic. And so we have, we're looking at the last chapter of life on earth with our current course of action. But let me tell you about what my experience has been in those last moments with patients who are dying.

We have the belief, I think in our subconscious because of the movies we watch, because of the TV shows we watch, because of our our big divorce from the death process, it's become sterilized.

"You a have probably not seen many people die. You’ve probably not seen your loved ones die. They've probably died in operating rooms, or in ICU or and they died before you could fly across the country and see them."

"So very few human beings are now watching this process of of death. And it's allowed death to be defined as an endpoint, as a contraction or a disappearance rather than what I what I've actually seen it to be. And what I've seen it to be is a massive expansion of consciousness of reality of awareness and ultimately of love. And the most poignant examples of this are people that actually die biologically and we spend 15 or 30 minutes and ICU resuscitating them with drugs and shocking their chests like you see on TV shows and everything else and we have a dismal track record..."

“…meanwhile been in the ICU for a week or a few days or weeks, months in some cases.”

“…and by this time they've been isolated away from humans for quite some time they're only touched by latex gloves hands. Only people with gowns on will come and see them that masks on. They haven't seen a human face and close up in months. you know they're so isolated and lonely and they go into this moment on the other side. And then we start working on them and doing our code and and as the hero depicted on TV, you become that doctor that pulls somebody back from that that other side of the veil and it…”

“…these patients for hours after these experiences they all told such a similar story on the other side of biologic life…”

“…you just couldn't pick three different medical cases or three different human beings and every one of them, the first sentence was “Why'd you bring me back.” And then as they start to get oriented and in the in the hours that followed, they are telling their loved ones, I went into this space and it was bright white light everywhere and I in that moment felt completely accepted for the first time in my life. "

“…that if we need a death moment to transform completely to let go of all of the preconceived notions of what it is to be human. And to say you know what we are beings of light and we are completely accepted at every moment including this moment when we would…”

♡

[Chanie]

Back in 1966, a young First Nations’ boy named Chanie Wenjack died while trying to escape an Indian Residential School and return to his home 400 miles away. He would have celebrated his 65th birthday today. On this snowy winter day, I am taking a moment to remember him and his family.

See: https://www.secretpath.ca
Note: Click on thumbnail to enlarge.

[TargeT]

Domestic Violence Australia piles on the Gillette misandrist commercial.

Interesting.. given the source.

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[Valerie Villars]

Saints vs. Rams

Damn that was tough loss. The referees dropped the ball.

I'm waiting for the full blood Supermoon eclipse. Best of 2019 to everyone, here on Planet Earth.

[Carmody]

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[Nat_Lee]

Je suis seul à la maison, j'arrives tout juste de travailler et j'ai bravé le froid hivernal du Canada (Québec). Il fait présentement - 19 degré mais il fait environs - 30 avec le facteur vent. J'écris en français pour ceux et celles qui comprennent et pour tout les curieux qui iront traduire ce message. lol ... Je vous fais un petit bonjour à tous, certain me connaissent et savent que je ne viens plus souvent. Je pense à vous et vous souhaite une belle année 2019 pleines de belles surprises et surtout riche en amour ! J'attends en ce moment au téléphone pour parler à un représentant de ma Banque. Je n'ai pas encore défait mon sapin !!! hahahaha !!! Aurevoir et à bientôt !
:sun: :o:flower:

[TargeT]

Je suis seul à la maison, j'arrives tout juste de travailler et j'ai bravé le froid hivernal du Canada (Québec). Il fait présentement - 19 degré mais il fait environs - 30 avec le facteur vent. J'écris en français pour ceux et celles qui comprennent et pour tout les curieux qui iront traduire ce message. lol ... Je vous fais un petit bonjour à tous, certain me connaissent et savent que je ne viens plus souvent. Je pense à vous et vous souhaite une belle année 2019 pleines de belles surprises et surtout riche en amour ! J'attends en ce moment au téléphone pour parler à un représentant de ma Banque. Je n'ai pas encore défait mon sapin !!! hahahaha !!! Aurevoir et à bientôt !
:sun: :o:flower:

Translated:

I am alone at home, I just got to work and I braved the cold winter of Canada (Quebec). It is currently - 19 degrees but it is around - 30 with the wind factor. I write in French for those who understand and for all the curious who will translate this message. lol ... I say hello to you all, some know me and know that I do not come more often. I think of you and wish you a happy new year 2019 full of beautiful surprises and especially rich in love! I am currently waiting on the phone to speak to a representative of my bank. I have not yet defeated my tree! hahahaha !!! Goodbye and see you soon

[RunningDeer]

Salut Nat_Lee, https://i.imgur.com/Vlz1VQ6.gif

C'est bon d'avoir de vos nouvelles. Bonne année et bonne santé, joie et paix.

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Hi Nat_Lee, https://i.imgur.com/Vlz1VQ6.gif

It’s nice to hear from you. Happy New Year and continued health, joy and peace.

Je pense à vous et vous souhaite une belle année 2019 pleines de belles surprises ...

[Nat_Lee]

Je suis seul à la maison, j'arrives tout juste de travailler et j'ai bravé le froid hivernal du Canada (Québec). Il fait présentement - 19 degré mais il fait environs - 30 avec le facteur vent. J'écris en français pour ceux et celles qui comprennent et pour tout les curieux qui iront traduire ce message. lol ... Je vous fais un petit bonjour à tous, certain me connaissent et savent que je ne viens plus souvent. Je pense à vous et vous souhaite une belle année 2019 pleines de belles surprises et surtout riche en amour ! J'attends en ce moment au téléphone pour parler à un représentant de ma Banque. Je n'ai pas encore défait mon sapin !!! hahahaha !!! Aurevoir et à bientôt !
:sun: :o:flower:

Translated:

I am alone at home, I just got to work and I braved the cold winter of Canada (Quebec). It is currently - 19 degrees but it is around - 30 with the wind factor. I write in French for those who understand and for all the curious who will translate this message. lol ... I say hello to you all, some know me and know that I do not come more often. I think of you and wish you a happy new year 2019 full of beautiful surprises and especially rich in love! I am currently waiting on the phone to speak to a representative of my bank. I have not yet defeated my tree! hahahaha !!! Goodbye and see you soon

First Thank you TargeT for the translation ;-)
I just have found a wrong but VERRY funny part in the translation dought ... lol ... Look :

FRENCH: Je n'ai pas encore défait mon sapin !!!
ENGLISH: I have not yet defeated my tree! lol .......
Real meanning: I have not yet undone or remove my fir tree (christmas tree).

Well thanks for the laught and for your help ;-)
Have a nice day you all

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Merci RunningDeer et j'aimerais bien goûter à ce chocolat chaud !! MMmmmmm ....

[Flash]

Allo Nat, j’ai hâte de te voir!

I was going to write about the minus 20 centigrade and fareinheit at minus 20, they reach each other) with feelings of -33 because of the icy wind.

But Nat beat me to it !!!

I have had my first day on a new project, a 6 months contract, to implement integration policies of women on the board of low cost lodging. Yeah, over 70% of those in cooperative housing are women but their board is composed of 80 of men
So women needs are still unet and not listened to. (Lot are single mothers etc).

So, Target, I will now have access to lots of studies and stats on women - neat for arguments on women threads loll

And had to walk 40 minutes in that cold to take public transportation Rrrrrrr

Everyone was with heavy winter coats and scarfs covering their faces, plus parka hoods up. Nobody who has not lived in those northern countries can imagine the cold.

Target, you took the right decision when moving out of Alaska!!!

[TargeT]

is russle brand subtly pro trump?

mHTR-XF6MXU


broke a tooth in half tonight... wtf, the blood wolf moon was last night!

[norman]

Serendipity Machine 11.19.03 (haunted) (by the Quiet American) . :tape:


https://www.quietamerican.org/download/disc-dm/Serendipity_Machine_11-19-03_(haunted).mp3

Serendipity Machine 12.13.03 (morris)
https://www.quietamerican.org/download/disc-dm/Serendipity_Machine_12-13-03_(morris).mp3
:music::drag:

put on your best headphones

[RunningDeer]

Bermuda Petrels Reunite After Female Returns (3 minutes)





The female Bermuda Petrel returned to the burrow in the late night hours of January 21 after a week of foraging over the Atlantic Ocean. Watch her arrival spark some loud vocalizations and a long session of tender allopreening. Both birds have remained cuddled up in the burrow, but the male will eventually leave the incubation duties to his mate as he heads out to sea to refuel.


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Cornell Lab Bird Cams (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZXZQxS3d6NpR-eH_gdDwYA)
Published on Jan 23, 2019

[RunningDeer]

Live Stream: Brownville's Food Pantry For Deer




Wild deer having their meals on feeding pantries in the town of Brownville, Maine. The food is distributed by a few inhabitants of this town to support these animals through the severe winter. There are over one hundred deer wandering there. You can find all 3 cameras here. (https://www.youtube.com/brownvillesfoodpantryfordeer)


Brownville's Food Pantry For Deer Feeder View
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A couple of 8 Pointers a week before feeding started. (1:47 minutes)
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[avid]

Cheeky chaps scoffing - makes me so happy, thanks to those who care, thanks for these lovely videos Paula x

[meeradas]

At the moment i type this,
i am being "grilled" by 33 wifi networks @ 2.4 GHz, and 12 wifi networks @ 5 GHz.
45 networks, probably round the clock; my own wifi is of[f course].
Just to make you feel better...

[nothing to do with it, but: imagine having this on 24/7... feel good?]
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[RunningDeer]

Mourning Dove Coo Calls - Close-Up

My favorite part is @ 1:01 (https://youtu.be/3Km-jtXueTw?t=57).




Did you know they make these haunting sounds through their nostrils? A gulp of air a big chest expansion and it comes out their nose.

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[RunningDeer]

:bump:
Hummingbird Pool Party
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Bushtits flash mob the birdbath
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Baby Owls in Bird Bath
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Woodpecker makes Bird Bath his own Spa (4 minutes in)
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♡

[avid]

My birdie-bath is enjoyed by birdies big and small daily, fresh water. However, there is a delinquent in their midst, a feather-fluttering frenzied gulp/cleanse routine by the ring-necked dove, who preens afterwards on the edge, turns, poops into the water, and flies off! A new take on ‘drinks poops and leaves’ mad apostrophe scenario.

Apologies to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_TrussLynne Truss

[RunningDeer]

You poked my heart... it's sprinkling vs it's raining
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Talking Twin Babies
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Charlie bit my finger - again
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[avid]

Our ancient tortoise before his rehoming after folks’ passed...
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Dan the Terrible....!
He lives down south now, cuddled in the vast bosom of his latest worshipper, a perfect garden, he has never grown so must be at least 70 years old... what a wee sneaky tortoise 👍😎😄

[TargeT]

Fundamental physical constants
Where do they come from?
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[ThePythonicCow]

Fundamental physical constants
Where do they come from?
I agree with Robert Distinti's ongoing (and far from complete) work (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyA7M234nykgKUSs_L9AjZQ) - these constants are symptoms of confused and incomplete theories.

Our currently generally accepted theories of physics are a bloody mess.

[Dennis Leahy]

Allo Nat, j’ai hâte de te voir!

I was going to write about the minus 20 centigrade and fareinheit at minus 20, they reach each other) with feelings of -33 because of the icy wind.

But Nat beat me to it !!!

I have had my first day on a new project, a 6 months contract, to implement integration policies of women on the board of low cost lodging. Yeah, over 70% of those in cooperative housing are women but their board is composed of 80 of men
So women needs are still unet and not listened to. (Lot are single mothers etc).

So, Target, I will now have access to lots of studies and stats on women - neat for arguments on women threads loll

And had to walk 40 minutes in that cold to take public transportation Rrrrrrr

Everyone was with heavy winter coats and scarfs covering their faces, plus parka hoods up. Nobody who has not lived in those northern countries can imagine the cold.

Target, you took the right decision when moving out of Alaska!!!Flash, 40 minutes, at -33°F?! You are much tougher than me. You must have studied Wim Hof methods.

I do live pretty far north (it was somewhere between -19F and -26F here this morning.) At those temperatures, or -33!, it nearly sucks all the heat out of my body to walk a short distance. I seriously doubt I'd have a pulse after 20 minutes.

You made me think of this:

When I was 20 years old, I walked backwards, into the wind, from Nederland, CO to my rented cabin in Eldora, CO. Dead of winter, strong wind in my face (if I had faced it) coming from the Continental Divide at the end of the canyon. I don't remember knowing the temperature, but with the wind it had to be 30 or 40 below. It was over 3 miles, and even with a scarf, I would have had frostbite on my face.

Flash, I hope that was a one-time epic journey and not part of this contract!

(and Target is snickering at us, walking on the beach, 78° and sunny...)

[Mike]

(i'm snickering at you guys too from sunny Florida;))

Dennis and Flash, you've reminded me of something I had sort of forgotten.

This was in 1995 or so, my freshman year at Oswego St University, in upstate NY. It's a sh!tty, dreary campus - or at least it was then - with faded brown, nondescript buildings all brooding under heavy, grey skies (except for moments in August, Sep, and October..and maybe May). Bordering the campus is Lake Ontario, which is a lovely sight in the summer and spring..but a desolate beacon of hopelessness in the winter months. The whole thing has a very arctic feel to it. The small college town is among the most poor in the country..so between that and the weather and the generally heavy feel of the place, only an absolute idiot would go there(me).

This was December i think. i was at a bar, as usual, waiting for my ride to take me back to campus. waiting in lines or waiting for rides has always been unacceptable to me. i just can't do it. so i left...

it was late, maybe 2am. don't know how cold it was, but it was very ****ing cold. well below zero with heavy gusts of wind. it was one of those absurdly heavy snowfalls that, when you stretched your arm out in front of your face, you couldn't see your hand..it just vanished into the whiteness. i didn't believe in wearing coats back then...it was a hassle to find a place to hang them up in a crowded place.. and besides, i didn't trust anybody in those college bars.

so i was walking along in a white v-neck tshirt and jeans. that's it. campus was about a 20-30 minute walk, at best. but i was full of beer and liquor and that kept me warm for a bit. after maybe 5 mins of walking i ran into a group of people i didn't like, so naturally i disbelieved them when they told me i was walking the wrong way. campus was that way they told me, but i wasn't hearing any of it.... it was all sure, sure go **** yourselves!.. and i was on my way. i could hear the echo of their laughter diminish as we slowly began walking in opposite directions, and that's when the doubt started to creep in. but i was proud, and i wasn't about to admit to a mistake in front of them...so i let them walk a while. and then, i turned and started towards campus. already my hands and feet and arms were practically numb. i stopped briefly in a pizza shop to warm up, but it barely made a dent.

after about 25 mins i could begin to see the outline of the sh!tty brown buildings under the campus lighting. almost there. but by then i was so cold and so tired and so drunk that i needed to stop, so i think i'll just lean against this snow bank here for a few mins and rest..ah yes, that's nice....it was blocking the wind too, which was a beautiful thing.

after a few mins i couldn't get myself to move. conceptually i knew i could die there, but strangely enough it wasn't enough motivation to get me going. i was just totally gassed. nothing left. next thing i recall was a car pulling up to offer me a ride. i don't remember saying this, but the driver told me the next day that i had told them i was cool, no worries, go on, i'll walk back. they had to practically usher me into the car! very strange.

those kind people even escorted me to my room that night. i'm pretty sure they saved my life

[onawah]

Record Low Temperatures Threaten Year-Round Shorts-Guy Population
https://thehardtimes.net/culture/record-low-temperatures-threaten-year-round-shorts-guy-population/
https://thehardtimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/shortsguy.jpg
"CHICAGO — Climatologists are blaming record-low temperatures for the steep decline in Year-Round Shorts-Guy populations, resulting in a massive shortage of exposed, hairy, mid-winter calves, according to a new study released today.

“An increasing number of well-calved men are buying full-length pants for the first time since high school. This is incredibly dangerous, as their own family members may not recognize them and reject them,” said study author Janet Baker, as she adjusted the leggings she regularly wears to work, dinner, and bed. “This particular strain of men are known to typically ‘run hot.’ Their decline could single-handedly end the entire cargo short industry.”
The Trump administration, unwilling to acknowledge climate change, has pinned the decline on cultural and economical changes.

“Year-Round Shorts-Guys were a byproduct of the Clinton presidency, and have never had anything to do with the environment. These same men flocked to dot-coms with lax dress codes and listened to Sublime in droves. We are now in the midst of a shift back to conservative business practices, and the understanding that Sublime truly sucked,” said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. “Under our strong leadership, America’s men have reclaimed their minds and, most importantly, their pants.”

Leading climatologist Alberta Gutierrez refuted the White House’s position.

“Guys who only own shorts are fully clothing themselves because of unprecedented, rapid shifts in temperature. Most of these guys have already known for years that their favorite college bands were lackluster,” said Gutierrez. “Sadly, this sort of fallacy is what we expect from this administration. We could be facing an extinction-level event, where these men are forced to become ‘socks-with-sandals’ guys.”

Scrambling to save the critically endangered men, a handful of privately funded chimera research labs are racing to hybridize Year-Round Shorts-Guys with Jeans-at-the-Gym-Guys.

“It is our last chance to save this species of American man. Unfortunately, our biggest problem is finding women willing to carry such a dense baby to term,” said Gutierrez."




it was late, maybe 2am. don't know how cold it was, but it was very ****ing cold. well below zero with heavy gusts of wind. it was one of those absurdly heavy snowfalls that, when you stretched your arm out in front of your face, you couldn't see your hand..it just vanished into the whiteness. i didn't believe in wearing coats back then...it was a hassle to find a place to hang them up in a crowded place.. and besides, i didn't trust anybody in those college bars.

so i was walking along in a white v-neck tshirt and jeans. that's it. campus was about a 20-30 minute walk, at best. but i was full of beer and liquor and that kept me warm for a bit.

[Flash]

(i'm snickering at you guys too from sunny Florida;))

Dennis and Flash, you've reminded me of something I had sort of forgotten.

This was in 1995 or so, my freshman year at Oswego St University, in upstate NY. It's a sh!tty, dreary campus - or at least it was then - with faded brown, nondescript buildings all brooding under heavy, grey skies (except for moments in August, Sep, and October..and maybe May). Bordering the campus is Lake Ontario, which is a lovely sight in the summer and spring..but a desolate beacon of hopelessness in the winter months. The whole thing has a very arctic feel to it. The small college town is among the most poor in the country..so between that and the weather and the generally heavy feel of the place, only an absolute idiot would go there(me).

This was December i think. i was at a bar, as usual, waiting for my ride to take me back to campus. waiting in lines or waiting for rides has always been unacceptable to me. i just can't do it. so i left...

it was late, maybe 2am. don't know how cold it was, but it was very ****ing cold. well below zero with heavy gusts of wind. it was one of those absurdly heavy snowfalls that, when you stretched your arm out in front of your face, you couldn't see your hand..it just vanished into the whiteness. i didn't believe in wearing coats back then...it was a hassle to find a place to hang them up in a crowded place.. and besides, i didn't trust anybody in those college bars.

so i was walking along in a white v-neck tshirt and jeans. that's it. campus was about a 20-30 minute walk, at best. but i was full of beer and liquor and that kept me warm for a bit. after maybe 5 mins of walking i ran into a group of people i didn't like, so naturally i disbelieved them when they told me i was walking the wrong way. campus was that way they told me, but i wasn't hearing any of it.... it was all sure, sure go **** yourselves!.. and i was on my way. i could hear the echo of their laughter diminish as we slowly began walking in opposite directions, and that's when the doubt started to creep in. but i was proud, and i wasn't about to admit to a mistake in front of them...so i let them walk a while. and then, i turned and started towards campus. already my hands and feet and arms were practically numb. i stopped briefly in a pizza shop to warm up, but it barely made a dent.

after about 25 mins i could begin to see the outline of the sh!tty brown buildings under the campus lighting. almost there. but by then i was so cold and so tired and so drunk that i needed to stop, so i think i'll just lean against this snow bank here for a few mins and rest..ah yes, that's nice....it was blocking the wind too, which was a beautiful thing.

after a few mins i couldn't get myself to move. conceptually i knew i could die there, but strangely enough it wasn't enough motivation to get me going. i was just totally gassed. nothing left. next thing i recall was a car pulling up to offer me a ride. i don't remember saying this, but the driver told me the next day that i had told them i was cool, no worries, go on, i'll walk back. they had to practically usher me into the car! very strange.

those kind people even escorted me to my room that night. i'm pretty sure they saved my life


lolllll gosh we can be stupid when we are young - and old. Between this and your altar to Saturn, better have a real good sense of humour. lolllllllll

Of course they saved your life, they knew you would die and they knew you may lay down anywhere along the path and die if you did not get into your room.

Most northern people will do that, save someone's life when they are too stubborn to move away from the cold. Cold is what was maintaining tight northern community life before the advent of petroleum, electricity, etc.

Cold makes you drowsy, more cold, more drowsy. And you want to sleep it off. Not a good idea, believe it.

I have been told repeatedly since childhood to never lie on a tree or on the ground when it is below zero, with the potentiality of dying being really there and told to me (in fact, this happened to my dad, he was gazed while working while nobody was around, in Labrador. Very cold night and he was saved because a guy in the camp decided to search for him - you know what they were looking for: barks and trees fallen down covered by snow, they could in fact have been a man).

When in some unknown place, do like the locals, exactly as they do, because they usually know their place and their ways of doing is based on necessity usually. So in Florida (luuuucky one!) I gladly behave like a Floridian. Beach, warm, sun, smiling, and eating heavy greasy breakfasts.

[Flash]

Allo Nat, j’ai hâte de te voir!

I was going to write about the minus 20 centigrade and fareinheit at minus 20, they reach each other) with feelings of -33 because of the icy wind.

But Nat beat me to it !!!

I have had my first day on a new project, a 6 months contract, to implement integration policies of women on the board of low cost lodging. Yeah, over 70% of those in cooperative housing are women but their board is composed of 80 of men
So women needs are still unet and not listened to. (Lot are single mothers etc).

So, Target, I will now have access to lots of studies and stats on women - neat for arguments on women threads loll

And had to walk 40 minutes in that cold to take public transportation Rrrrrrr

Everyone was with heavy winter coats and scarfs covering their faces, plus parka hoods up. Nobody who has not lived in those northern countries can imagine the cold.

Target, you took the right decision when moving out of Alaska!!!Flash, 40 minutes, at -33°F?! You are much tougher than me. You must have studied Wim Hof methods.

I do live pretty far north (it was somewhere between -19F and -26F here this morning.) At those temperatures, or -33!, it nearly sucks all the heat out of my body to walk a short distance. I seriously doubt I'd have a pulse after 20 minutes.

You made me think of this:

When I was 20 years old, I walked backwards, into the wind, from Nederland, CO to my rented cabin in Eldora, CO. Dead of winter, strong wind in my face (if I had faced it) coming from the Continental Divide at the end of the canyon. I don't remember knowing the temperature, but with the wind it had to be 30 or 40 below. It was over 3 miles, and even with a scarf, I would have had frostbite on my face.

Flash, I hope that was a one-time epic journey and not part of this contract!

(and Target is snickering at us, walking on the beach, 78° and sunny...)

No, not part of the contract, although for the first time in my life, I walk to my work place - would love it if it weren't that cold. And god d... icy. I felt on the ice on the sidewalk last wednesday, and my elbow took all the weight, I thought I had broken it. Finally it is mostly bruised. So I bought some spikes to wrap underneath boots this morning. Misery lolll Also got my car stuck on a snow bank. The city were coming to remove the snow and the cars in the way, and luckily, the towing guys have been gracious enough to pull my car from the snow bank for free.

Another storm is foreseen for Tuesday and Wednesday.

And yes, the cold pinches my face, I wear a scarf that covers chin, cheeks and nose and forehead, yet, my eyes are often filled with tears because of the cold (no pain, just an autonomous body defense mecanism).

Younger I used to run in summer and winter. In winter, I would put vaseline on my face, plus scarf, but I avoided running in those very cold days. The cold air burns your lungs literally (not a figure of speech).

[TargeT]

(and Target is snickering at us, walking on the beach, 78° and sunny...)

it gets down to like... 72* at night!

https://i.imgur.com/59WAWNB.jpg


But yeah....

https://i.imgur.com/IjQbl3C.jpg

(*snicker*)

[Strat]

(i'm snickering at you guys too from sunny Florida;))


High five! Raining all day in jax though.

@flash I'm the same way with running. I can't run in winter anymore though cause i developed some weird allergy. The cold air here doesn't burn the lungs but the lack of oxygen is very noticeable.

I love running in the hottest part of the summer. We have heat warnings just about everyday in the summer, so its nice to know your body can handle a run under those conditions. Only thing about summertime running though is the sun, bad for the skin.

[TargeT]

I haven't heard this speech in a while, but it is WELL worth the 20 min.... very powerful information and Truth (with a capital T).

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[Mike]

I haven't heard this speech in a while, but it is WELL worth the 20 min.... very powerful information and Truth (with a capital T).

Cxhah1scGpw



I've always had a terrible time trying to read his books, but I really enjoy listening to him talk and flesh out his ideas. That's a great speech.

This is Wallace on responsibility and maturity.
https://youtu.be/dLHoEQSoGLs

[RunningDeer]

This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio (https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/))


I haven't heard this speech in a while, but it is WELL worth the 20 min.... very powerful information and Truth (with a capital T).


Cxhah1scGpw

[AutumnW]

Mike and Dennis,

Glad your both still alive! Flash, your Dad too! Speaking of cold, when I was six and seven years old I would walk a half mile to school on my own, when it was 10 below zero F. The schools closed when it reached twenty below. That's probably including wind chill.

I can remember always being a little cold trudging off to school but never complaining or asking for a ride. Had I known I could have died if I'd somehow fallen asleep outside in that weather, I may have been a bit nervous. As it was, the worst I ever experienced were patches of mild frostbite on my face and feet where the top layer of skin sloughed off. No big deal. The thing about the prairies is its a dry cold. I hate hate damp cold and damp heat. Love dry weather.

[Patient]

I have to jump in here, just because of the synchronicity...i just came in from shoveling snow off my driveway. Yes, I am cold too, but not Canadian prairie cold - that is "cold". :)
Funny, Target feeling a cold 72 degree night, but when your body aclimates to the region it feels different. I recall being in Nevada swimming while the locals were wearing sweaters and boots.
Quebec knows winter too! I was in Quebec City one winter and there was a heavy snowfall. What a beautiful winter city - images of that night are solid in my memory.
I wonder if the planet will settle into a new set of seasonal weather patterns or if temperatures are going to continually bounce around like they have been lately. Temperatures constantly flucuating 10- 20 degrees in a day can not be good for many areas. Imagine the trees on the west coast of North America with freezing temps and high winds, etc.

[meeradas]

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no comment [...] - i guess this is already discussed elsewhere on here

[Baby Steps]

Someone just grabbed the mace in Parliament again. On the live feed the BBC panned to a large clock face, then cut the sound, then went to a test screen, then back to a very perturbed Parliament, that was trying to do business as usual.

You could tell something untoward had happened.

[AriG]

It’s official! Hell has now frozen over!

[bogdan9310]

Reality as you know it, is defined only by yourself. The best allegory to describe this is the highway: every individual is driving its own car, and their personal, tailored reality is defined by what is inside the car. They can look outside of it, and they can see others, but they will only pay close attention to what is inside their own car, or at the traffic signs. You could be living in a completely different universe from the person passing you by.

[Bluegreen]

Twenty-four below zero and sunny!

:sun:

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[RunningDeer]

{I choose not to fly.}

The TSA (and other experiments in evil)





In 1961, a psychologist conducted an experiment demonstrating how ordinary men and women could be induced to inflict torture on complete strangers merely because an authority figure had ordered them to do so. In 2001, the United States government formed the Transportation Security Administration to subject hundreds of millions of air travelers to increasingly humiliating and invasive searches and pat downs. These two phenomena are not as disconnected as they may seem.

“…The real experiment was designed to see how far those ordinary men and women would go in inflicting torture on others when commanded by a perceived authority figure. “

“…the security theater was never meant to keep us safe in the first place. The TSA is not a well-intentioned agency in need of better management or more funding or more highly trained agents. On the contrary, it is doing precisely what it was created to do. The problem is that most people do not know what it was created to do.”



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corbettreport

Published on Feb 1, 2019

TRANSCRIPT AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/tsa

[RunningDeer]

Sanctuary Sunday: two lambs and a bunny! (3:30 minutes)



Claudia of Cabin Talk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRExLQDlfd5sjEiNAgc6qQ/videos), runs a “Happy Heart Sanctuary”. (see photos (https://happyheartsanctuary.org))

Her first animal friend was Eddie, a one-eyed pit-bull. Recently, Claudia got a message saying there is a little goat that needs a home, otherwise it will end up dead because she is "not big enough for the freezer" according to the guy who owns the goat mill. One other wasn’t eating so she took her in as well.

Claudia Stauber (https://claudiastauber.com) is an author, activist, animal lover and earth advocate. She lives in a log cabin in Vermont. She earns a living building log cabins and renting them out to vacationers as well as doing workshop retreats. All the money she earns including from her book sales goes towards the “Happy Heart Sanctuary (https://happyheartsanctuary.org)”. Volunteers have helped her get the sanctuary up and running.

Here’s a brief 3:30 minute introduction to her growing animal family. She has names for all of them.


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[jokerrabit]

very interesting uplifting article I'm reading ATM, about a Christian woman that truly understood the real message of the Bible https://firsttoknow.com/thrive-2019-according-wise-woman-youve-never-heard/?utm_source=contentad_backfill&utm_campaign=thrive-2019-according-wi-213724&pp=1&utm_medium=157904&ck=ed8f69d84b301472ba3336795dc3135a

[Swan]

Good article jokerrabbit. I try to follow my intuition, and lately had an experience which reinforced how important it is.

Every morning I shop at the local organic food store. A couple of weeks ago I had a strong intuitive feeling that I shouldn't go. It made no sense at all, but I decided to respect it. Instead I drove to a health food store to get some vitamins. On the way home I drove past the organic food store and saw a police car outside. The next day when doing my usual shopping I asked the owner what had happened. ( I just assumed it had been shoplifting). He replied that for the first time in 7 years there had been an armed robbery.

"Just the time you usually shop, he said. Good thing you weren't here.".

[RunningDeer]

very interesting uplifting article I'm reading ATM, about a Christian woman that truly understood the real message of the Bible https://firsttoknow.com/thrive-2019-according-wise-woman-youve-never-heard/?utm_source=contentad_backfill&utm_campaign=thrive-2019-according-wi-213724&pp=1&utm_medium=157904&ck=ed8f69d84b301472ba3336795dc3135a

Thank you, jokerrabit. https://i.imgur.com/3x9om0z.gif

Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) - Intuition means to be taught from within.

“The Game of Life and How to Play It” (http://psicounsel.com/thegameoflife.pdf)

"Your Word is Your Wand" (https://cslasheville.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/shinn_your_word_is_your_wand.pdf)
"The Power of the Spoken Word" (https://www.law-of-attraction-haven.com/support-files/the-power-of-the-spoken-word-florence-scovel-shinn.pdf)

[RunningDeer]

On aging:

55 F/12C degrees today. Tomorrow it may top off at 60 F/15 C. Last week my car doors were frozen shut for three days. By day 4, the sun helped enough to unfreeze them, but it made it even more slippery to walk around the car. It was safer to go through the passenger side and scoot* over to the driver’s seat.

*Scoot translation = OMG where did that 20-30-40-50 year old flexible body go?

While I was out, I figured I’d add to my stock pile of bird seed. The 20 lbs. bag felt like 40 lbs. Where did that 20-30-40-50 year old body go?


https://i.imgur.com/0rT6rBg.jpg


♡

[avid]

On aging:

55 F/12C degrees today. Tomorrow it may top off at 60 F/15 C. Last week my car doors were frozen shut for three days. By day 4, the sun helped enough to unfreeze them, but it made it even more slippery to walk around the car. It was safer to go through the passenger side and scoot* over to the driver’s seat.

*Scoot translation = OMG where did that 20-30-40-50 year old flexible body go?

While I was out, I figured I’d add to my stock pile of bird seed. The 20 lbs. bag felt like 40 lbs. Where did that 20-30-40-50 year old body go?


https://i.imgur.com/0rT6rBg.jpg


♡


Oh dear, I know what you mean, I have to order 2 10kg bags instead of 1 giant one, more expensive, but I physically just can’t lift the big one now.
The hi-energy no-mess is also expensive, but there’s never any waste - just a vast scoffing horde of birdies balancing on the renewed pole-mounted bird feeder with 6 ports, and a tray beneath. Daft neighbour’s cat hasn’t dangled off this tray yet.... Just love watching all the wildlife antics in my garden.

[RunningDeer]

Oh dear, I know what you mean, I have to order 2 10kg bags instead of 1 giant one, more expensive, but I physically just can’t lift the big one now.

The hi-energy no-mess is also expensive, but there’s never any waste - just a vast scoffing horde of birdies balancing on the renewed pole-mounted bird feeder with 6 ports, and a tray beneath. Daft neighbour’s cat hasn’t dangled off this tray yet.... Just love watching all the wildlife antics in my garden.

I’m still trying to figure out a perfect system for the wild life. One that’ll also fit into my budget. Depending on where I go, a 10 lb. bag is only $1 less than one that’s twice the size.

A couple of years ago I heard a noise on my deck 1:30 in the morning. Two big raccoons spilled open one of the bird feeders. They continued to chow down even after I turned on the outside light. It took two door slams for them to finally skedaddle down the stairs.

I also discovered bits of pine cones on the passenger side of the floor. The little mouse critters set up house in the air filter. It cost over a $100 to fix it. As expected, the professionals had no advice beyond coming in every now and again for them to check things out. Ca-Ching! That same year, I woke up to rustling in one of the bird seed bags that I thought was sealed tight. A little guy was feasting on a mid-night snack.

After a ton of research, I found a solution. They are repelled by the smell of peppermint. I put cotton balls in ziplock bags and pour peppermint essential oil (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QVNKSA2/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) on them every now and again. (keep bags open) I do this all year round. I’ve put them in my closets and the car. The same for where I store my paper products. Problem solved.

One year, I discovered they chewed up my extra candles! So now I purchase bees wax candles and keep the spares in the refrigerator. The grains like rice and barley and beans, I store them in liter size mason jars.

Now, the little guys have no access to the stash. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/clap.gif

[avid]

Good grief - the devious ways we have to safeguard critter-fud! I use old polythene cleaned out paint tubs with press down lids, stops damp and sneaky wee scoffers.

[TargeT]

This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio (https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/))

[QUOTE=TargeT;1272029]I haven't heard this speech in a while, but it is WELL worth the 20 min.... very powerful information and Truth (with a capital T).


But wait... there's more!

The death spiral of Irony as entertainment in society.
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[RunningDeer]

Big Red And Arthur Spend Morning Tending To Nest Site (2 minutes)




February's arrival means we'll hopefully be seeing more of these two as they prepare the nest for the upcoming breeding season.  

With one stick at a time, Big Red and Arthur have been busy building up their nest all morning long on the Red-tailed Hawk cam. After plenty of rearrangements, new additions, and bowl-forming, the Fernow nest site is really taking shape!

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Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Published on Feb 5, 2019

Watch live at allaboutbirds.org/cornellhawks




A Red-tailed Hawk pair has been nesting above Cornell University’s athletic fields since at least the 2012, making use of two different light towers for their nest sites. In 2012 and 2015, they used a tower near Fernow Hall, and in 2013, 2014, and 2016, they used the tower nearest Weill Hall. We installed cameras at both of these sites to get a better look at the intimate behavior of these well-known birds as they raise their young amid the bustle of a busy campus.

[RunningDeer]

How TV News Manufactures Consent (6:10 minutes)





You are NOT strange if you are angry about TSA molestation. In fact, you're strange if watching strangers getting molested doesn't make your blood boil. That's exactly why the talking heads on TV try so hard to convince you otherwise.

SHOW NOTES (https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=30065)

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corbettreport

Published on Feb 5, 2019

[avid]

I stopped flying because of all this personal intrusion, xray violation of my body. I refused to renew my passport, as I have seen enough all over the world to realise things were becoming worse annually, forced off a plane at gunpoint in Sudan, Africa, having to get multiple transfers to get home due to religious incursions, intimidated at usually friendly borders, having to ‘make payments’ to go to lawful venues, and just to fly in my own country having to take three times as long as usual to go places.... pathetic.

I turned into an angry, challenging passenger, so I now tone it down a bit and go by rail, and woe betide any company who doesn’t stick to my booking contract, that is MY seat for the duration. However, on the ghastly rail journey home after Xmas, all rules were broken as some large woman without a seat sat on my soft luggage in the rack, and melted my Ferrero Roche chocolates, I was absolutely livid with that company, and despite not getting promised inclusive refreshments, one of my pressies was trashed. I have claimed for compo....! What has become of me now? :rolleyes::rolleyes::rant:

[RunningDeer]

https://i.imgur.com/2RDAByA.jpg

Deleted original post that triggered someone.

[avid]

Aaaarrgghh! So annoying, so unfair, disgusting, perpetration of demeaning psy-ops so we are used to being subjugated - er - some of us will NEVER be. Thanks Paula, will share these wherever I can.

[RunningDeer]

How to get rich super quick! (5:18 minutes)

Claudia of Cabin Talk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRExLQDlfd5sjEiNAgc6qQ/videos)


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Goat fun here at the farm 😂❤️🐐 (1:18 minutes)

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[Dennis Leahy]

Does anyone else appreciate animation? That is, offbeat, creative, bizarre, brilliant animation?

If yes, check these out:

"Madame Tutli-Putli"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAb0LkVTq5Q



"Ryan"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbkBjZKBLHQ

[RunningDeer]

Mule deer buck shedding antlers on film (1:05 minute)
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Q&A


Why do deer drop their antlers?

It all starts during the rut. Throughout this time, deer begin to lose the velvet on their antlers. ... The biggest reason behind this is a drop in testosterone in the deer. As the testosterone drops, the antlers begin to loosen and eventually fall off.


Do deer antlers fall off every year?

Mule deer, whitetail deer and other ungulates shed their antlers once a year. It can take as little as 24-48 hours for the antlers to actually fall off, but the shedding process takes between two to three weeks and then new antlers will regenerate throughout the summer.


What happens to deer antlers?

Shedding happens as the bucks testosterone drops after the breeding season is over. Their antlers fall off to the forest floor or into the fields. A popular activity that hunters enjoy is the shed hunting season. ... These antlers will be consumed by the wildlife in the woods.


Do deer shed their antlers at the same time?

Usually they lose them one at a time, but I've seen them drop both at the same time after being spooked. It's seems that most younger deer take longer to drop the other shed compared to older deer. Very true. Its common that the antlers fall off separately, but in a relatively short time frame.


How long can a whitetail deer live?

Few whitetail deer live more than 5 years in the wild. Some whitetails have been found to be up to 11 years old in the wild, and domesticated deer have lived up to 20 years.

[Jake]

Wow... 3:20 am here in Olympia WA. I just sat up from a fully conscious OBE. I had some goals in mind for the next time I was 'out',, but it is snowing and I got caught up in amazement as I flew around, playing in the snowy sky... The OBE was cut short by a large flash and a 'bang' just over my bedroom. No bs. Power is on, no transformer to blow. I went outside to check. No wires down, no branches down... that was intense. For a split second, I was above my house, AND sitting up in my bed at the exact moment something flashed above the house. I can't sleep now....

I'm sorry if I cluttered up the 'here and now', but I had to share...

My senses are still reeling.
Jake

[Flash]

Got to bed past midnight and woke up at 3:30. Had to drive daughter downtown for her to take a bus from her college to go to Quebec City.

No convenient city buses from my place to downtown at that hour nor subway -tube-metro.

Now I can’t sleep either anymore.

[RunningDeer]

Wow... 3:20 am here in Olympia WA. I just sat up from a fully conscious OBE. I had some goals in mind for the next time I was 'out',, but it is snowing and I got caught up in amazement as I flew around, playing in the snowy sky... The OBE was cut short by a large flash and a 'bang' just over my bedroom. No bs. Power is on, no transformer to blow. I went outside to check. No wires down, no branches down... that was intense. For a split second, I was above my house, AND sitting up in my bed at the exact moment something flashed above the house. I can't sleep now....

I'm sorry if I cluttered up the 'here and now', but I had to share...

My senses are still reeling.
Jake

Cluttered up? Heck no, Jake. That's what makes this tread a unique place. https://i.imgur.com/CmhIveh.gif



Got to bed past midnight and woke up at 3:30. Had to drive daughter downtown for her to take a bus from her college to go to Quebec City.

No convenient city buses from my place to downtown at that hour nor subway -tube-metro.

Now I can’t sleep either anymore.


And for Flash…a cup of java.
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/coffeebath.gif

Sometimes when I can’t sleep, I’ll have coffee and it does the trick. The only way I can explain it is your energy is too racey and the caffeine brings you down a notch.

[Flash]

Wow... 3:20 am here in Olympia WA. I just sat up from a fully conscious OBE. I had some goals in mind for the next time I was 'out',, but it is snowing and I got caught up in amazement as I flew around, playing in the snowy sky... The OBE was cut short by a large flash and a 'bang' just over my bedroom. No bs. Power is on, no transformer to blow. I went outside to check. No wires down, no branches down... that was intense. For a split second, I was above my house, AND sitting up in my bed at the exact moment something flashed above the house. I can't sleep now....

I'm sorry if I cluttered up the 'here and now', but I had to share...

My senses are still reeling.
Jake

Cluttered up? Heck no, Jake. That's what makes this tread a unique place. https://i.imgur.com/CmhIveh.gif



Got to bed past midnight and woke up at 3:30. Had to drive daughter downtown for her to take a bus from her college to go to Quebec City.

No convenient city buses from my place to downtown at that hour nor subway -tube-metro.

Now I can’t sleep either anymore.


And for Flash…a cup of java.
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/coffeebath.gif

Sometimes when I can’t sleep, I’ll have coffee and it does the trick. The only way I can explain it is your energy is too racey and the caffeine brings you down a notch.

Did have coffee and I slept for 2 hours. And had the weirdest dreams

[Forest Denizen]

Wow... 3:20 am here in Olympia WA. I just sat up from a fully conscious OBE. I had some goals in mind for the next time I was 'out',, but it is snowing and I got caught up in amazement as I flew around, playing in the snowy sky... The OBE was cut short by a large flash and a 'bang' just over my bedroom. No bs. Power is on, no transformer to blow. I went outside to check. No wires down, no branches down... that was intense. For a split second, I was above my house, AND sitting up in my bed at the exact moment something flashed above the house. I can't sleep now....

I'm sorry if I cluttered up the 'here and now', but I had to share...

My senses are still reeling.
Jake

I always get up early, it's usually my favorite time of day. Pre-dawn. 4:30 or so. Got up this morning and drove 10 minutes to the beach to have my coffee sitting in my beach chair.

Dark.. surf rolling in. Sanderlings (cute, mostly white, little shorebirds) running back and forth at the water's edge, feeding. Started to drizzle. Supposed to rain here today.. :raining:

Jake, your frequent and conscious OBE's sound so cool! I haven't had many (conscious that is). Wondered if maybe that was lightning and thunder you experienced? Thundersnow!! Oh well, no lightning emoji :blushing:


Got to bed past midnight and woke up at 3:30. Had to drive daughter downtown for her to take a bus from her college to go to Quebec City.

No convenient city buses from my place to downtown at that hour nor subway -tube-metro.

Now I can’t sleep either anymore.

Well, Flash, you had some nice extra time with Mini-Flash! :heart:

Have a lovely day!!

:flower: :flower: :flower:

[RunningDeer]

Wow... 3:20 am here in Olympia WA. I just sat up from a fully conscious OBE. I had some goals in mind for the next time I was 'out',, but it is snowing and I got caught up in amazement as I flew around, playing in the snowy sky... The OBE was cut short by a large flash and a 'bang' just over my bedroom. No bs. Power is on, no transformer to blow. I went outside to check.
My senses are still reeling.
Jake

Jake, your frequent and conscious OBE's sound so cool! I haven't had many (conscious that is). Wondered if maybe that was lightning and thunder you experienced? Thundersnow!! Oh well, no lightning emoji :blushing:
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/write.gif Here's a link to Jake’s thread, “The Out-of-Body-Experience. A Place Where Science and Spirituality Meet (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?74995-The-Out-of-Body-Experience.-A-Place-Where-Science-and-Spirituality-Meet.&p=877170&viewfull=1#post877170).” The opening post includes a link to his book called, “The Book of Jacob”. (free pdf)

[RunningDeer]

Serenity Saturday! A little piece of happiness❤️
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CABIN TALK
Published on Feb 16, 2019

[avid]

Phew - a wondrous view of sanity in our daft world! Thanks Paula :heart:

Today was unusual, my neighbour’s cat, who visits my garden daily, likes a wee pat, became ultra-snuggly, wrapping himself next to me as I sat on my sofa with patio doors open for sun and fresh air, I have been fighting off an unpleasant flu bug with loads of colloidal silver and natural stuff, yet my resilience seems to be weakening. He would not leave me alone, so in the end sadly had to lock the doors with him miaowing on the outside. Don’t want to upset my neighbour.

She is coming tomorrow to take all my extraneous paper and card stock from my plan chest, as she works with disadvantaged children. I have loads of lovely stuff, but really will not use it now. Plus I have lots of crafting equipment, that can be used as my visual-creation times are over. So hopefully I will feel better tomorrow, and my vast collection of materials will be used at last :sun::Party:

[RunningDeer]

Hot cuppa comin’ your way, avid. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/cat.gif

https://i.imgur.com/u2IdGEl.jpg
♡



Phew - a wondrous view of sanity in our daft world! Thanks Paula :heart:

Today was unusual, my neighbour’s cat, who visits my garden daily, likes a wee pat, became ultra-snuggly, wrapping himself next to me as I sat on my sofa with patio doors open for sun and fresh air, I have been fighting off an unpleasant flu bug with loads of colloidal silver and natural stuff, yet my resilience seems to be weakening. He would not leave me alone, so in the end sadly had to lock the doors with him miaowing on the outside. Don’t want to upset my neighbour.

She is coming tomorrow to take all my extraneous paper and card stock from my plan chest, as she works with disadvantaged children. I have loads of lovely stuff, but really will not use it now. Plus I have lots of crafting equipment, that can be used as my visual-creation times are over. So hopefully I will feel better tomorrow, and my vast collection of materials will be used at last :sun::Party:

[Rosemarie]

Hello. I am new here. Enjoying this forum ( first one ever ) very much. Learning about so many topics at once, I have to make myself quit reading or seeing videos to live outside this screen. My first language is spanish, but since birth been around americans or british friends because of my father business, So I don’t have too much trouble understanding english. ( I thought ) I speak it ( those old enough remember father Sarducci from SNL ? My ex husband says that I spoke with that accent ) and prefer to read in english ....... but I have come to realize I am kind of lost in translation and sometimes cannot pick a hidden meaning or a subtle joke done with a little malice or innuendo. Sometimes I take thing literally when they are not meant to. I don’t know if I can explain it.
I hope to be able to participate in the forum in the future when I get more confidence in my own voice and learn how to post photos , links and videos here.
In the here and now : I woke up very early and drove to my family house in a hill overlooking the ocean. I enjoy very much that old house that has been in my family for 100 years. They say ghost live there, but since young I used to sleep there alone, more afraid of the living than a ghost. Just entering the property I am reminded of family members gone but never forgotten. So many wonderful memories. It is home. The one constant in my life after living in other countries and other houses. Here I just park myself on a hammock and read.
I hope I did not mistaked this thread of here and now
Please excuse my english , besides my grammar being bad I am typing from a iphone with a small screen.

[RunningDeer]

I hope I did not mistaked this thread of here and know

Sending out a belated Welcome to Avalon, Rosemarie. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/s-welcome.gif

The Here and Now thread is a perfect place to voice your opinions. These threads (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?90-Forum-Technical-Q-A) will help with the technical information. If you're a visual learner, this thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66104-How-to-Tips-with-Visuals-for-Links-Quotes-Images-etc.&p=766948&viewfull=1#post766948) may be a good one to check out. You'll see the first post includes a table of contents. The Sandbox thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14962-Sandbox-thread-OK-to-practice-posting-here) is where you practice how do I do this?.


Father Sarducci - the Missing Commandments - (3:13)
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[RunningDeer]

Beautiful lady inside and out. Husband #3 was an abusive man.


Carole King And Daughter Exclusive Interview in Australia (13:34)




Carole King’s Daughter says:




(After “Tapestry”, the ground breaking album) “She sort of made it so that our lives weren't that different. She didn't get a new car. She was just the same old hippie mom she was before. It didn’t change her at all.”

She's not a fashion model. She’s just a regular person. And she's a very warm, earthy regular person. And people just connect with her.

She’s the most optimistic person I know. And my mother actually has the secret to the universe. It’s just to look at the bright side and find the bright side of everything and not dwell in the dark side. It’s not always easy. It’s not, but she manages to do it.


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Kouqbe Vyen
Published on Oct 17, 2017

[Valerie Villars]

Thank you Paula. For your optimism, acuity, technological deftness and love of nature, including humans. You are a sweetheart.

[RunningDeer]

https://i.imgur.com/tqtqjhf.jpg

♡


Thank you Paula. For your optimism, acuity, technological deftness and love of nature, including humans. You are a sweetheart.

[Valerie Villars]

From my heart to yours. You are a good person. An extraordinary one. Thanks. You are really wonderful.

[Dennis Leahy]

...
I hope I did not mistaked this thread of here and now
Please excuse my english , besides my grammar being bad I am typing from a iphone with a small screen.

No mistake, you do understand the feeling of this topic, Rosemarie. Your English is great.

You cracked me up with the Fr. Guido Sarducci reference! hahaha Now, I will hear that accent every time I read your words. :bigsmile:

[Joe Akulis]

*pokes his head in the door. looks around*

Hello. :-)

[RunningDeer]

https://i.imgur.com/Kd1SOSV.gif

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*pokes his head in the door. looks around*

Hello. :-)

[Rosemarie]

...
I hope I did not mistaked this thread of here and now
Please excuse my english , besides my grammar being bad I am typing from a iphone with a small screen.

No mistake, you do understand the feeling of this topic, Rosemarie. Your English is great.

You cracked me up with the Fr. Guido Sarducci reference! hahaha Now, I will hear that accent every time I read your words. :bigsmile:

Nooooo. Can we change that to Sofia Loren or Claudia Cardinale ? Jajaja. Nooo. Father Sarducci is ok :silent:

[Bubu]

Handyman dropping by with the possibility of staying in this beautiful village of yours. Can and willing to fix broken faucets, collect water from trees,..:flower::coffee::beer:

[RunningDeer]

Handyman dropping by with the possibility of staying in this beautiful village of yours. Can and willing to fix broken faucets, collect water from trees,..:flower::coffee::beer:


https://i.imgur.com/Q0z4l7u.jpg
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[Bubu]

Thanks Paula, How do I post vid from my file?

[RunningDeer]

Thanks Paula, How do I post vid from my file?
I assume from my file means on your computer? You can't directly upload to Avalon. What I use to do is upload to my YouTube account and then on to Avalon.

For instruction on how to add a YouTube video see post #14 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66104-How-to-Tips-with-Visuals-for-Links-Quotes-Images-etc.&p=767096&viewfull=1#post767096).


https://i.imgur.com/F5VZkI8.gif

The second method is to add the YouTube address and type beginning tag and an end tag.

Note: don't leave any space within the tags.


https://i.imgur.com/OzoK1Ag.jpg

[RunningDeer]

Morning Arrangements To The Red-tailed Hawk Nest



Big Red and Arthur make morning "nestorations" to the Fernow nest site as breeding season nears.

Last year they sent off three youngins’ into the world. (2nd vid below - 1 minute)


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Red-tailed Hawk Chicks Exercise Their Wings – June 1, 2018

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[RunningDeer]

Female Cahow Returns After Long Foraging Trip (2 minutes)





“Welcome home! The female cahow returned to the nesting burrow this week to relieve her mate from a 13-day incubation bout with some added tender preening. It’s not uncommon for adults to spend 2–3 weeks without food during an incubation session. Now it's the male's turn to stretch his wings. over the ocean and fuel up on fish and squid! 🐟🦑”

“This on-camera pair has been together since 2009, using this same burrow each of those years, and has fledged successfully for the last four years.”

“In 1951, after nearly 300 years, a single bird was rediscovered, and since then the species has been part of a government-led conservation effort to revive the species.”



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February 20, 2019

We're excited to share a brand new live viewing experience featuring the critically endangered Bermuda Cahow, a kind of gadfly-petrel that nests nowhere in the world except rocky islets off the coast of Bermuda. In the early 1600s, this once-numerous seabird was thought to have gone extinct, driven out of existence by the invasive animals and habitat changes associated with the settlement of the island. In 1951, after nearly 300 years, a single bird was rediscovered, and since then the species has been part of a government-led conservation effort to revive the species.

This on-camera pair has been together since 2009, using this same burrow each of those years, and has fledged successfully for the last four years. During the nesting season, the cahows only visit and court under the cover of night, then head out to sea during daylight hours. The pair returned to the island in early-November to court and mate, then will disappear out to sea for the month of December.

[Dennis Leahy]

We had about 8 inches (15cm?) of snow last night, with drifting. Here's looking out to my back porch early this morning. There are already lanes and holes from the squirrels I feed, tunneling looking for peanuts:

http://www.leahyguitars.com/Imagez/Two/DriftSquirrelHoles_4617.jpg

[Jake]

Everything is covered in snow, and Dennis is feeding the squirrels... Cheered me up, somehow... love to you brother...
Jake

[RunningDeer]

Iced Eagle Rescue on Lake Michigan (8:49 minutes)




By fortune or misfortune, an eagle that somehow had the inconvenience of coming into contact with Lake Michigan during the recent polar vortex was in trouble. Finders had been watching 4 eagles eating something out on the edge of the ice. Three of the eagles eventually flew away but the fourth remained, and it was immediately apparent that something was wrong.

We were able to keep him on the shoreline ice and convinced him to go ashore so we could gather him(and his 8” ball of tail ice) to take back to the 'Wings of Wonder' to assist in the defrosting process.

Second video below is the release.


https://i.imgur.com/kEcx3ED.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HXAaXBw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/awkDaTi.jpg

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[full summary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe5XtDg0FxQ)]


Iced Eagle Rescue on Lake Michigan - released! (3:12 minutes)




The slow motion release @ 2:09 (https://youtu.be/amKqpasojQ4?t=129).

The eagle flew off, towards the Lake Michigan shoreline, with grace, purpose and strength landing on a tree branch about 300 yards away. Within minutes 2 adult bald eagles appeared, soaring overhead, checking out the perched eagle.


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[full summary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amKqpasojQ4)]


https://i.imgur.com/F5VZkI8.gif

Baby Eagle Save (6:40 minutes)



We found a baby Eagle stuck in the weedy water and took him by boat to shore.

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[Valerie Villars]

Is today Bill's birthday? I kind of remembered it because he has the same number as me, 22, and he is a Pisces like my son.

[RunningDeer]

Is today Bill's birthday? I kind of remembered it because he has the same number as me, 22, and he is a Pisces like my son.

It's tomorrow. Tomorrow's here for some. (Bill's HB thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106161-Happy-Birthday-Bill-Ryan&p=1277219&viewfull=1#post1277219))


https://i.imgur.com/ZmBMcvi.gif
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[Valerie Villars]

For some reason I remembered the number 22. Oh well, I have too many candles on my cupcake.

[RunningDeer]

For some reason I remembered the number 22. Oh well, I have too many candles on my cupcake.
Happy Pisces Birthday to your son, Dustin. http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/balloons.gif
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Valerie, you remembered correctly. The thread was posted on February 22nd, but it was a day early. [click here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101842-Happy-Birthday-Bill-Ryan&p=1209808&viewfull=1#post1209808)]. Bill’s birthday is the 23rd.


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[Valerie Villars]

Thank you Running Deer. Dustin's birthday is March 3rd. He is grinning right now.

I guess I don't have to worry about how many candles are on my cupcake. Thank you. :bearhug:

[Valerie Villars]

Paula, I just saw three running deer in the pasture across the way. I've never seen that before and I've been here almost two years.What a nice synchronicity.

[RunningDeer]

Paula, I just saw three running deer in the pasture across the way. I've never seen that before and I've been here almost two years.What a nice synchronicity.

I got chills reading this and still have them! Way, way cool...

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[meeradas]

Here's a treat - an audio-visual delicacy:

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May you last until the very end.

[TargeT]

if you understand the context, this short video shows an amazing struggle, individual vs corporation...

it gives me hope.

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plus, struggle always produces amazing results (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dh-RL__uN4)

[norman]

“Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.

When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers.

These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance.

It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.”

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Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank Of England, addressing the United States Bankers’ Association, NYC 1924

[TargeT]

I've understood for years that my most entertaining forms of "news" have been extremely biased.

I've never seen it like this opening monologue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h1ooyyFkF0)... and I've been watching for decades.....

...












I used to think I was neutral, I think I need to own that I'm now a fanboy I guess.

BRING ON THE LAUGH TRAC!!



BTW... anyone notice he LITERALLY called (in a "funny" way) for the deaths of lumberjacks (https://youtu.be/_h1ooyyFkF0?t=378)?

[norman]

for sale on ebay uk right now.... no bids yet . . 22hours left to go.

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I'm not the seller, and I don't know the seller.

[TargeT]

Joe is getting some sophisticated and good conversations... here's a great clip

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[meeradas]

winding down from a term of job hell...

already feeling better, through this:

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--- but damn, now i'm listening to


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbTXqrS9l5E

and lo!, gettin' worked up again... better postpone it

[TargeT]

Joe is getting some sophisticated and good conversations... here's a great clip


Great break down!

Love seeing the Twitter CEO put in the hot seat
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And mental pallet cleanser:
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[Flash]

Real non verbal language analysts name observations, describe the non verbal language in details - I mean details much more than what I see in the video, tells you what it is related with in terms of behaviors, based on thousands of hours of research, but do not give constant personal opinions on which they finally deduce some conclusions that may be or often are false.

I truly dislike this non verbal analyst woman. To me she is the David Wilcock of body language analysis. Knows enough to fool everyone.

Furthermore, she is only half right about her body language observations and their significance.

I dislike her, she drives us in the wrong direction. She is not good man!!!!!!!

BUT I truly like the interview. Joe and team are really good.

[TargeT]

Here, this will explain everything

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[RunningDeer]

Dr. Jerry Tennant: Recharge Your Battery and Heal | Electricity of Life (15 minutes)




@ 7:07 (https://youtu.be/QfA16ff43Kg?t=427) - "If the health of living cells is governed by voltage then an obvious concern in modern society is the rapidly growing pervasiveness of wireless technologies. We asked Dr. Tennant to identify some of the greatest obstacles we should be aware of today.

Well, there's no doubt that we have all sorts of things that affect us. You know, for example, if I had you hold your arm straight out and check the push down on it, you would be strong. And then if I had you take a wristwatch with a battery in it and hold it right up against your chest and I pushed on your arm, you would go weak.

So again, when we put electromagnetic energy within our personal magnetic field, it weakens us, our particular frequencies weaken us. And so we're being bombarded with that sort of thing all the time.

Here’s the bottom line of the whole thing.

We are constantly wearing ourselves out. So you get new cells in the macular of your eye every 48 hours. The lining of your guts replaced every three days. The skin you're sitting in today is six weeks old. Your liver is eight weeks old, and your nervous system eight months old. So as cells wear out you have to make new ones. Or if the cells get damaged some way, you have to make new ones. So chronic disease only occurs when you lose the ability to make new cells that work.

Let me say that one more time, chronic disease only occurs when you lose the ability to make new cells that work. Which leads one to the question of, “Well, what's it take to make new cells that work?"

Answer @ 8:40 (https://youtu.be/QfA16ff43Kg?t=521)



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ThunderboltsProject
Published on Feb 27, 2019




In part one of this presentation, Dr. Jerry Tennant introduced us to his extraordinary research into the complex electrical circuitry of the human body. Since his own remarkable battle with debilitating ailments, Dr. Tennant has worked to develop a kind of map of this circuitry, to understand its essential connection to physical wellbeing.

In the previous episode, Dr. Tennant discussed the particular significance of the circuitry connecting teeth to other regions of the body. The concept of illness arising from electrical imbalances is, of course, unconventional in most modern medicine. However, the application of electromagnetic therapies in healing is not new. In this conclusion, we asked Dr. Tennant to begin by discussing some of the earliest examples of the use of electromagnetism as a physical remedy.

PART ONE is two posts down (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=1279973&viewfull=1#post1279973).

[Flash]

Dr. Jerry Tennant: Recharge Your Battery and Heal | Electricity of Life (15 minutes)




@ 7:07 (https://youtu.be/QfA16ff43Kg?t=427) - "If the health of living cells is governed by voltage then an obvious concern in modern society is the rapidly growing pervasiveness of wireless technologies. We asked Dr. Tennant to identify some of the greatest obstacles we should be aware of today.

Well, there's no doubt that we have all sorts of things that affect us. You know, for example, if I had you hold your arm straight out and check the push down on it, you would be strong. And then if I had you take a wristwatch with a battery in it and hold it right up against your chest and I pushed on your arm, you would go weak.

So again, when we put electromagnetic energy within our personal magnetic field, it weakens us, our particular frequencies weaken us. And so we're being bombarded with that sort of thing all the time.

Here’s the bottom line of the whole thing.

We are constantly wearing ourselves out. So you get new cells in the macular of your eye every 48 hours. The lining of your guts replaced every three days. The skin you're sitting in today is six weeks old. Your liver is eight weeks old, and your nervous system eight months old. So as cells wear out you have to make new ones. Or if the cells get damaged some way, you have to make new ones. So chronic disease only occurs when you lose the ability to make new cells that work.

Let me say that one more time, chronic disease only occurs when you lose the ability to make new cells that work. Which leads one to the question of, “Well, what's it take to make new cells that work?"

Answer @ 8:40 (https://youtu.be/QfA16ff43Kg?t=521)



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ThunderboltsProject
Published on Feb 27, 2019




In part one of this presentation, Dr. Jerry Tennant introduced us to his extraordinary research into the complex electrical circuitry of the human body. Since his own remarkable battle with debilitating ailments, Dr. Tennant has worked to develop a kind of map of this circuitry, to understand its essential connection to physical wellbeing.

In the previous episode, Dr. Tennant discussed the particular significance of the circuitry connecting teeth to other regions of the body. The concept of illness arising from electrical imbalances is, of course, unconventional in most modern medicine. However, the application of electromagnetic therapies in healing is not new. In this conclusion, we asked Dr. Tennant to begin by discussing some of the earliest examples of the use of electromagnetism as a physical remedy.

Click here for PART ONE of this interview. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPDPrXEAe1s)

Isn't electric and electro magnetic circuitry what Acupuncture is in fact based on?

At least the acupuncture that my friend practices is.

Very interesting, thank you.

[RunningDeer]

Isn't electric and electro magnetic circuitry what Acupuncture is in fact based on?

At least the acupuncture that my friend practices is.

Very interesting, thank you.

Yes, acupuncture is covered in this first part as well. Tai Chi and Qigong (Chi Kung) help run the energy through the meridians.


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Dr. Jerry Tennant: Healing the Body's Electrical Circuitry | Electricity of Life (21 minutes)




@ 9:09 (https://youtu.be/MPDPrXEAe1s?t=549) "…So I went to that seminar and I got the Russian device and began to recharge my cells and in about six weeks or so, things began to get better.

The other thing that happened about that time was that I was on an airplane and there was a nurse sitting next to me from the Dallas area. And she began to tell me that she had lymphoma, had this big tumor around her neck and scattered throughout her body. And that she'd gone to Mexico and in a matter of days the tumors were gone, even though MD Anderson had told her to go home and die.


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So I went down to visit with the docs that helped her to see how in the world they did that and that was sort of the beginning of my journey along with this other business of the electronics to figure out how to get well.

And one of the things they taught me was that essentially all tumors are associated with infection in your teeth, particularly root canal teeth. And so she had gone down and they had pulled her root canal tooth and cleaned up the infection in her mouth and in a matter of days her tumors were gone.

And she sent me not only photographs but she sent me her medical records from MD Anderson when she came back and they proved that her tumors had disappeared.

So I had a root canal tooth here in what's called the spleen stomach acupuncture circuit and so my Docs here in Dallas said there's nothing wrong with that tooth. But I had also developed a bleeding disorder and so I went back down to Mexico and had the dentist, that had operated on this nurse, work on me. And when she pulled that tooth, there was so much infection in the bone, it splattered all over her mask. And yet I had no symptoms as far as the tooth was concerned. But 48 hours after she pulled the tooth, my bleeding disorder was cured and that was rather amazing.

And then over the next six weeks or so, my brain started to work again. And so that's how I started going down this road of figuring out how the body really works and what the role of voltage is in the body, because it's obviously so different than what I was taught in medical school.

One of the things that I was led to try to understand was acupuncture. Actually, that was part of a bigger picture in that I was sitting in my chair at home and I said to myself well, obviously traditional medicine that I was taught, told me go home and die. And so that obviously wasn't working so well. But sometimes chiropractic works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes acupuncture works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes essential oils work, sometimes they don't, etc etc.

So there are all these various medical models that sometimes work and sometimes don’t. So my thinking was, if I could figure out, there has to be a common denominator that goes through all of these. Otherwise, because I mean if things work, there's, it's because it's following some basic laws, some basic rules of how things are supposed to work.

If I could figure out what that common denominator was running through all of these different, then I knew how to get myself well. And it began to become apparent to me that the voltage piece was the common denominator for all of these things.


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ThunderboltsProject
Published on Feb 23, 2019

[Valerie Villars]

Very interesting RD. It is amazing how connected the health of our teeth and gums is, to our over all body health.

As for the Tai Chi, I do about ten minutes of it twice a week, as part of a Body Flow class that I absolutely KNOW helps my overall health. There is a lot of yoga, too.

[RunningDeer]

Very interesting RD. It is amazing how connected the health of our teeth and gums is, to our over all body health.

As for the Tai Chi, I do about ten minutes of it twice a week, as part of a Body Flow class that I absolutely KNOW helps my overall health. There is a lot of yoga, too.

That's great, Lady Valerie! It's a good investment in time, energy and $. Tai Chi strengthens focus and flexibility of mind and body.


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10 Benefits of Tai Chi That Will Surprise You




Tai Chi is an extremely interesting and enjoyable art form. Even better, it’s easy to practice. The requirements for equipment and space are absolutely minimal and the exercises can be practiced almost anywhere. Most importantly, the benefits of Tai Chi are immediately apparent to anyone who participates in it.






1. It Isn’t Just A Fad

Unlike so many exercises, Tai Chi isn’t a new fad that will disappear just as quickly as it arrived. It has existed and been practiced in China for over a thousand years.

2. It’s For All Ages

Tai Chi is a gentle art. So much so that people of almost any age or physical condition can undertake it. In fact, many prominent teachers began their careers teaching Tai Chi late in life.

3. Strength and Endurance

Tai Chi has proven to be an exercise with significant benefits in the areas of balance, upper- and lower-body muscular strength and endurance, and upper- and lower-body flexibility, particularly in older adults. In one such study, people in their 60s and 70s practiced Tai Chi three times a week for 12 weeks. They also undertook a myriad of physical fitness tests to measure balance, muscular strength, endurance, and flexibility before and after the 12 weeks. After just six weeks, statistically significant improvements were observed in balance, muscular strength, endurance, and flexibility measures. Improvements in each of these areas increased further after 12 weeks.

4.  Asthma

The focus on proper breathing techniques makes Tai Chi incredibly beneficial for sufferers of asthma.

5. Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia  is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders and is associated with high levels of impaired health and incredibly painful symptoms. The cause of fibromylagia (FM) is unknown, and there is no known cure. In a study of 39 subjects with FM who practiced Tai Chi bi-weekly for six weeks, it was found that FM symptoms and health-related quality of life improved after the study. This could be good news for many other individuals who suffer from this disorder.

6. Aerobic Capacity

Aerobic capacity diminishes as we age, but research on traditional forms of aerobic exercises has shown that it can improve with regular training. In another meta-analytic study, researchers looked at seven studies focusing on the effects of Tai Chi on aerobic capacity in adults with an average age of 55 years. The investigators found that individuals who practiced Tai Chi regularly for a year had higher aerobic capacity than sedentary individuals around the same age.

7. Stress Relief

The breathing, movement, and mental concentration required of individuals who practice Tai Chi are the perfect distraction from their hectic lifestyles. The mind-body connection is also important here, as it has been reported that breathing combined with body movement and hand-eye coordination promotes calmness.

8. Walking

Walking speed decreases with age and research suggests that it may be associated with an increased risk of falling. In one study, however, it was found that individuals who practiced Tai Chi walked significantly more steps than individuals who did not.

9. Joint Health

Many forms of ordinary exercise subject the shoulders, knees, the back and other joints to ill-conceived, repetitive, unnatural movements. As such, a great number of active people eventually develop joint problems. However, classical Tai Chi, through the experience of multiple generations of practitioners who practiced from a young age until the end of life, fully grasps the importance of proper postures and movements to protect and strengthen the practitioner’s joints for long-term, repetitive practice.

10. Internal Organ Health

Tai Chi’s fluid spiraling and bending movements, as well as its breathing and meditation components, massage the internal organs and release them from damaging constrictions brought about by stress, poor posture, and difficult working conditions. It also aids the exchange of gases in the lungs and help the digestive system to work better.

[article (https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-benefits-tai-chi-that-will-surprise-you.html)]
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[ThePythonicCow]

:blackwidow:
Some how I doubt that's a common Tai Chi movement :).

[RunningDeer]

:blackwidow:
Some how I doubt that's a common Tai Chi movement :).
It’s pretty close with a little flair added. Tai Chi is more than slow movements. Each is a defensive move (kicks included).

Dr. Yang Jwing Ming of Yang’s Martial Arts Association is my Tai Chi teacher. He demonstrates the fight techniques below. In the first video @ 1:28 (https://youtu.be/m4ccN_yYKlA?t=88) is example of a quick strike. The second video covers more of the applications.


Yang Tai Chi for Beginners 11-minute Clip (YMAA ) Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

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YMAA
Published on Jan 12, 2012

[summary and links here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ccN_yYKlA)]



Tai Chi Chuan - Chin Na - fight techniques by Dr Yang Jwing-Ming



This video explains how we can use the Chin Na techniques of Taiji Chuan for the self defense. Slow motion and explanations, and then real speed for each technique. Dr Yang Jwing-Ming is a well known master for whom you can find references here below.


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Books @ Yang’s Martial Arts Association (https://ymaa.com/publishing/book)

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[ThePythonicCow]

Some how I doubt that's a common Tai Chi movement :).
It’s pretty close with a little flair added. Tai Chi is more than slow movements. Each is a defensive move (kicks included).
Little did I know that my uninformed attempt at a little humor would earn me my first Tai Chi lesson.

Thanks!

[Hym]

Also, a very natural method of taking care of yourself is one developed and taught by a dear friend, Robert Allen Pittman.

His site is Wisbod.com, which is short for Wisdom Of The Body. Allen's path is that of a lifelong teacher whose base is whole-istic and experienced through decades of studying with many masters of the martial arts. Amongst other paths, he has taught corporate client protection and was at times the bodyguard of the Dalai Lama. I would say that he is most accurately described as one whose life is dedicated to empowering his students to heal themselves.

Allen is one of those who embodies the proof of the test my good friend, one of his students, and I use when encountering those of extraordinary abilities. So, you can do that (insert moving extremely fast, jumping higher than the current world record, etc..). Can you heal and can you teach others to heal themselves? He is this.

The introduction to his method goes thus:

"Wisdom of the Body is a....

technique of teaching- a way of teaching - and also a specific system of techniques which when put together- form a means to restore and reawaken essential instincts in the physical body. The target of this system is restoration and de-traumatization of the person.

The fusion of martial arts techniques, yoga techniques and physical therapy along with the understanding of child development, in particular brain formation, is what makes the system unique. This system functions as a rehabilitation method as well as a conditioning method. However the central idea of the system is to allow a person access to their core emotions and values.

In essence Wisdom of the Body is directed to someone becoming themselves. Because of this it is compatible with Jungian Integration or the Perennial Philosophy. While the system of Wisdom of the Body hypothesizes a pre-existing individual self it is also compatible with Buddhist approaches which theorize a constructed self.

Either approach to the human personality requires the layers of a persons experience be connected with the experience of their own physical body. "

When you go to his site I'd suggest reading all sections, including "My Physical Path" and "My Spiritual Path".

By the way, I have no financial interest in anything he produces or profits from.

Enjoy..

Linked @ Wisbod.com

[RunningDeer]

Cahow Chick Hatch Highlights – March 9, 2019 (1:54 minutes)




Watch highlights of an endangered Bermuda Petrel chick hatch from its egg in the late night hours of March 9!

Review: We're excited to share a brand new live viewing experience featuring the critically endangered Bermuda Cahow, a kind of gadfly-petrel that nests nowhere in the world except rocky islets off the coast of Bermuda. In the early 1600s, this once-numerous seabird was thought to have gone extinct, driven out of existence by the invasive animals and habitat changes associated with the settlement of the island. In 1951, after nearly 300 years, a single bird was rediscovered, and since then the species has been part of a government-led conservation effort to revive the species.


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Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Published on Mar 12, 2019

The CahowCam2 is a collaboration between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Nonsuch Expeditions. You can watch the cam live at

http://allaboutbirds.org/cahows

and learn more about Nonsuch Island's environs (including the cahow) at

http://nonsuchisland.com

[ThePythonicCow]

Serious, amusing, brief clip of lady firing her eye doctor:
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I approve of this message :).

[Hazelfern]

My heartfelt apology for my god awful post(s). I am truly sorry. This place is sacred and I thank the group who continue to make it be so. No excuses, no denial. My posts have degraded along with my thought process. Please carry on.

To those who know.

[RunningDeer]

♡
https://i.imgur.com/SlQHZfU.gif

My heartfelt apology for my god awful post(s). I am truly sorry. This place is sacred and I thank the group who continue to make it be so. No excuses, no denial. My posts have degraded along with my thought process. Please carry on.

To those who know.

[Hazelfern]

You have skills and make me laugh Ms Paula.

You have captured my stick figure emoto. Love you MP :heart:

[RunningDeer]

Calvin Nicholls' Remarkable Artistic Process (3:35 minutes)




Thousands of intricate pattern pieces are cut, shaped, and glued to the body form.

Artist Calvin Nicholls walks us through the artistic process of his remarkable works of art.



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[more samples here (https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=Calvin+Nicholls&tbm=isch&source=univ&client=safari&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC-e3dl4ThAhVGw1kKHcNuCb0QsAR6BAgAEAE&biw=1119&bih=626#imgdii=y_-9jQ9gU_wr7M:&imgrc=zfJp8oPSo7eFZM:)]


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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Published on Mar 14, 2019

[RunningDeer]

Serenity Sunday at Happy Heart :heart: (2:40 minutes)

We are all just little seeds trying to sprout on the same planet!

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March 17, 2019
Cabin Talk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRExLQDlfd5sjEiNAgc6qQ/videos)

[Stephanie]

Serenity Sunday at Happy Heart :heart: (2:40 minutes)

We are all just little seeds trying to sprout on the same planet!

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March 17, 2019
Cabin Talk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRExLQDlfd5sjEiNAgc6qQ/videos)

Thank you, dearest RunningDeer,
the videos you post are lovingly, wonderful!
:bearhug::dog::cat::flower::bearhug:

[RunningDeer]

Philippine Eagle: Adaptations for Hunting (1:46 minutes)

Our "Bird of Prey" documentary will be streaming May, 2019.
For more information about the film, visit the website: birdofpreymovie.com (http://birdofpreymovie.com)

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Published on Mar 19, 2019

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[RunningDeer]

Baby Kalayaan: Great Philippine Eagle from Chick to First Flight (9:53)





Watch Kalayaan, a Great Philippine Eagle, grow from a nestling to fledgling. Produced for the Philippine Eagle Foundation educational outreach program.


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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Published on Mar 19, 2019

[Valerie Villars]

After months of rain we finally have a beautiful sunny, cool green day, expected all week, and I am watching my mini rescue, Annabelle Lee lie in the pasture, enjoying the sunshine.

[RunningDeer]

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[RunningDeer]

Live Cam at Sapsucker Woods, Ithaca, NY
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Cornell Lab Bird Cams

Started streaming on Jan 4, 2019

Watch LIVE at http://AllAboutBirds.org/CornellFeeders for news, updates, and more information about the pond and its surroundings.

This FeederWatch cam is located in the Treman Bird Feeding Garden at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Perched on the edge of both Sapsucker Woods and its 10-acre pond, these feeders attract both forest species like chickadees and woodpeckers as well as some species that prefer open environments near water like Red-winged Blackbirds.

[RunningDeer]

Jumping little baby lamb Jack😂 (2:07 minutes)
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Cabin Talk
Published on Mar 21, 2019

support Happy Heart Sanctuary at happyheartsanctuary.org (https://happyheartsanctuary.org)

[RunningDeer]

I recently took a couple of on-line courses (https://gigiyoung.com/shop/?tx_product_cat=courses) from Gigi Young on the ‘clairs’. Some may be familiar with her by way of Daniel Liszt, the Dark Journalist. She’s been a guest on his X Series (https://www.youtube.com/user/darkjournalist/videos.).


clairvoyance - inner sight
clairsentience - inner feeling
clairaudience - inner hearing
claircognizance - inner knowing
clairaugustus/clairsavorance/clairscent - inner smell and taste


There’s a lot of free information over the internet from many sources that’ll help you either become aware of or brush up on your natural abilities. Usually there’s one or two clairs that are the strongest, but all can be enhanced with practice.



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To get a sense of Gigi's style, I've added her most recent video from this morning.


ET Guides vs Spirit Guides?
snippets




ETS have us questioning our role in the cosmos. They bring us to ask questions about our consciousness and other lives. They bring us to questions about time, the nature of time, past lives, parallel lives. We start to think about our consciousness projecting into lives on other planets. We start thinking about ourselves in terms of a cosmic being rather than an earth-based being.

When we start thinking about our spirit guides in a cosmic way, it's actually a very sophisticated way of thinking about our soul and our consciousness. Suddenly the other side is no longer the other side this nebulous word that we use to describe where our deceased relatives go, where we go ,it’s sort of just like this blanket place that exists beyond the veil.

That’s not the case when you have a cosmic guide. The moment that your perception goes cosmic and you regain your cosmic consciousness, you start to realize that the other side is actually different densities and dimensions. That they can be traversed in your astral body. And you start to become aware of who you are and how you function as a multi-dimensional human. And that isn’t the case with just spirit guides.

The traditional beliefs around spirit guides, although you may naturally begin to wonder about lucid dreaming and interdimensional travel and things like that on your own, the traditional teachings about spirit guides don’t necessarily lead you there to the same intensity that when you have a cosmic guide.

There's a bit of a dichotomy between what I would call the traditional spiritual teachings that were very popular before 2012 and the teachings and the new teachers that are coming forward that are post 2012 is we’re dealing with a different type of light, at a different type of consciousness, and our guides are appearing to us.

I think in more of their real form a lot of people were perceiving angels and spirit guides in more of an earth-based way because that's what would work. But in reality, if that veil were removed they probably look more like interdimensional beings with the exception of some.

So that's really the dichotomy. That the dichotomy is that when you start going interdimensional, you start to think of your spirit guides as cosmic and interdimensional, it completely changes the way that you interact with your soul and that you think about your soul and that you think about the world around you.


YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo_fdaL6nGtL3fjyP8NsNaw/videos)
GigiYoung.com (https://gigiyoung.com/)
blog (https://gigiyoung.com/blog/)


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Published on Mar 23, 2019

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[RunningDeer]

Big Red Rolls an Egg & Arthur Brings a Snack (3:20 minutes)





Last season, this Red-tailed Hawk pair raised three little ones. They’ve been doing their couples thang at the campus since at least 2012. Note: Arthur comes in about the two minute mark.


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Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Published on Mar 23, 2019

Watch live at allaboutbirds.org/cornellhawks




A Red-tailed Hawk pair has been nesting above Cornell University’s athletic fields since at least the 2012, making use of two different light towers for their nest sites. In 2012 and 2015, they used a tower near Fernow Hall, and in 2013, 2014, and 2016, they used the tower nearest Weill Hall. We installed cameras at both of these sites to get a better look at the intimate behavior of these well-known birds as they raise their young amid the bustle of a busy campus.

[RunningDeer]

It's Mueller Time (1:41 minutes)
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Solentgreenis people
Published on Mar 25, 2019

[TargeT]

THEY LIVE (Instagram version)
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[RunningDeer]

Big Red Lays Egg #2 (2:10 minutes)



And then there were two! Big Red hunkered down and laid another egg in the Red-tailed Hawk nest this afternoon. Get a glimpse at both eggs as she rises off the nest to reposition them during an incubation break. If Big Red's history is any indicator, a third egg will put the finishing touches on the egg-laying period in the next 48–72 hours.

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March 26, 2019


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Sunshine and Sheep at Happy Heart ♥️ (3:05 minutes)
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Cabin Talk
Published on Mar 25, 2019

[RunningDeer]

Big Red Lays Egg #3 In Cornell Hawks Nest! – March 29, 2019




Big Red just laid her third egg of 2019! Watch the entire egg-laying process in which Big Red hunkers down, lays the egg (shortly after 2 minute mark), and finally rises to check on it. The eggs in this clutch were all laid three days apart on March 23, 26, and 29. Big Red has laid three eggs in each nesting season since the Red-tailed Hawk cam started broadcasting in 2012. Red-tailed Hawks have been known to lay 4-egg clutches on occasion, but based on BR's history, we expect this may be the end of the egg-laying period for the Cornell Hawks. Way to go Big Red and Arthur!


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Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Published on Mar 29, 2019

[RunningDeer]

Granny Makes IRS Scammer Go Insane & Waste 2 Hours

Madame, you have to make a particle payment today so we can cancel your warrant. You have to make a payment of at least $1,200 now.




This IRS scammer really commits to his act and threatens granny edna multiple times, claiming we will go to jail if we don't pay him enough gift cards. Eventually he goes a little crazy.


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Kitboga

Published on Jul 21, 2018

Calling scammers live every day on twitch: https://goo.gl/uhpWGT

[RunningDeer]

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[RunningDeer]

Iris Returns To Hellgate Osprey Nest! – April 2, 2019

(Iris lands 32 seconds in)




Guess who's baaaaaack!?! Iris, the matriarch of the Hellgate Osprey nest, landed softly at her nest site in Missoula, Montana on the morning of April 2. Iris and Louis typically arrive back to their territory in early April after completing their long spring migration. Now that Iris is back, the Hellgate Osprey community is anxiously waiting for her mate, Louis, to make his return.


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Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Published on Apr 2, 2019


https://i.imgur.com/F5VZkI8.gif

Summer of 2018


Papa-Louis delivers fresh fish so Momma-Iris can feed LeLe.

https://i.imgur.com/vx7IQhl.jpg

[RunningDeer]

Ole Dammegard and Cody Snodgres: What’s Going On? (67 minutes)

Propaganda is just another word for strategic deception.





“…there was a priest that was that he was standing there giving ceremony and this guy jumped up and stabbed him. So let me point out that so many times when they want to go emotional, they go for women and children. That’s the key. One because that's the thing that affects us emotionally. Old guys like Cody and me, nope doesn't really work but women and children. And if they cannot do that or if they need added emotional impact, they will go for nurses or nuns. And if they’re men. it would they will be priests.”

“…these operations are designed with strategic deception in the media around the world in different countries to play on people's fears in a church or a mosque is most of us in our hearts and minds think that a church and a mosque is a safe place. We also think that schools are safe places. And that's precisely why these operations are targeted at the safest places that we all normally believe whatever country you're in.

“…these are mind control traders and this stuff is going to continue. But getting people peeling back the layers and getting people aware of what they're doing, that is the key. Because if you're aware of what they're doing, then the fear factor does not come in and cause you to behave in a pre-planned way. The way they want you to behave. Which is to give up your rights and your freedom and then substitute through that the tyranny of this new world order. It's a mind-control program pure and simple.”

“…so if if these stabbings are real, I would suggest that we might be looking at a coordinated violent attack. But carried out by professionals that are just stabbing people right, left, and center to create this fear. I do not think that these are natural events occurring identically in three different countries at the same time. “

“And also these these crime scenes are just a joke, but it is through media that they can control us. At this moment, we're being bombarded from all different directions about in in the world how bad it is, how fearful we should be. All the attacks, all the violence, all the accidents, all the murders, all the gang rapes, all the immigrants…it’s just being pumped at us. And I would suggest a lot of it is just not true.”

“We're being bombarded. We’re living in a time now that's unprecedented in the history of the world with Google and Facebook, Twitter, all of these big information control monopolies that are working internationally all around the world. And they're at a point now with the AI artificial intelligence algorithms, where they can create and manufacture propaganda on a scale that’s never been seen before. Propaganda is just another word for strategic deception.“


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Cabin Talk
April 2, 2019

You can find all the info on Ole and Cody at lightonconspiracies.com (https://lightonconspiracies.com) and support them in their mission!

[RunningDeer]

American Goldfinches Molting Into Bright Yellow Breeding Plumage




You know it's springtime when American Goldfinches start to dazzle us with their breeding plumages. Soon, male birds will be decked out in brilliant yellow feathers, a shiny black cap, and contrasting black-and-white wings. Breeding females aren't quite as flashy. They leave their caps at home and dress in a duller yellow plumage than their male counterparts.


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Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Published on Apr 2, 2019

Watch LIVE at http://AllAboutBirds.org/CornellFeeders for news, updates, and more information about the pond and its surroundings.

[Melinda]

Robert Smith from The Cure being... Robert Smith from The Cure :
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Cathartic. No offence to the lady in the video.

Aside from what is says about the entertainment industry, it sort of reminds me of when I encounter adorable Love and Light peoples who recoil at the mention of any darkness in the world.

I try to stay away. That way everybody wins.

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[RunningDeer]

Arthur Brings In Monster Piece Of Bark, Hawks Remodel Nest Bowl (3:20 minutes)



Listen to Big Red call in Arthur, who is carrying a gigantic strip of bark in his talons. The hawks decide that this is the perfect material for remodeling the nest bowl and make quick work of the renovation.

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Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Published on Apr 4, 2019

[Melinda]

Love your animal kingdom update posts, RunningDeer x x

Been floating in and out of ‘compassion fatigue’ of late. I tend to ignore its moan, like a passing burp, but it’s usually a sign to get back to nature

The trees, the birds (with their song and feather medicine), the tiny gentle winged ones with their translucent bodies.

Even the tiniest ones converse. I notice how when I tune into one, with a peaceful air, their demeanour changes and they emanate more of their unique personality – changing their body language. The other day I stopped and walked back over to a wasp that was pootling about near an empty cigarette box left on the pavement. This particular wasp gentleman seemed tired. He stopped and turned around and looked up to say hello. I think he was retirement age. A little surprised to ‘hear’ from me, but courteous to converse with.

Animal hugs are healing too. Came across this artist who creates a world of giant furry friends. So on a fluffier note, here’s a selection.

(Assuming they’re vegetarian, I’d quite like to visit) :

https://i.imgur.com/1Hrtjef.jpg

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Japanese Illustrator Imagines A World Where Humans Live Among Giant Animals (30 Pics) :

https://www.boredpanda.com/giant-animal-illustration-ariduka55/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

[RunningDeer]

Love your animal kingdom update posts, RunningDeer x x

Been floating in and out of ‘compassion fatigue’ of late. I tend to ignore its moan, like a passing burp, but it’s usually a sign to get back to nature

The trees, the birds (with their song and feather medicine), the tiny gentle winged ones with their translucent bodies.

Even the tiniest ones converse. I notice how when I tune into one, with a peaceful air, their demeanour changes and they emanate more of their unique personality – changing their body language. The other day I stopped and walked back over to a wasp that was pootling about near an empty cigarette box left on the pavement. This particular wasp gentleman seemed tired. He stopped and turned around and looked up to say hello. I think he was retirement age. A little surprised to ‘hear’ from me, but courteous to converse with.

Animal hugs are healing too. Came across this artist who creates a world of giant furry friends. So on a fluffier note, here’s a selection.

I enjoyed your descriptions and the art work, Melinda and can relate to compassion fatigue. I notice that my need for more cave time comes up more than in years passed, but the bounce back is equally as quick. My sense is this quickening is a good thing. Kinda like we’re coming to a place of less lag-time and more no-time with manifestations, what nots, and such.

Have a restful weekend...

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[RunningDeer]

Louis Returns To Hellgate Osprey Nest! – April 5, 2019




In 2018, Louis completed his long journey back to the nest on April 4. It’s fascinating how their inner calendars work. It was almost to the day. His mate, Iris, returned on April 2nd. (below)

@ 1:30 there’s a close up of Louis, and an even closer view @ 2:30.





A male Osprey swooped onto the Hellgate nest in Missoula, Montana this morning. Watch the bird make a confident landing and immediately begin making arrangements to the nest. By the looks of it, this male is likely Louis—the patriarch of the nest and Iris's mate. If this visit does mark Louis's return, he would be right on time! In 2018, Louis completed his long journey back to the nest on April 4.


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Iris Returns To Hellgate Osprey Nest! – April 2, 2019

(Iris lands 32 seconds in)




Guess who's baaaaaack!?! Iris, the matriarch of the Hellgate Osprey nest, landed softly at her nest site in Missoula, Montana on the morning of April 2. Iris and Louis typically arrive back to their territory in early April after completing their long spring migration. Now that Iris is back, the Hellgate Osprey community is anxiously waiting for her mate, Louis, to make his return.


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Cornell Lab Bird Cams
Published on Apr 2, 2019


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Summer of 2018


Papa-Louis delivers fresh fish so Momma-Iris can feed LeLe.

https://i.imgur.com/vx7IQhl.jpg

[Melinda]

I enjoyed your descriptions and the art work, Melinda and can relate to compassion fatigue. I notice that my need for more cave time comes up more than in years passed, but the bounce back is equally as quick. My sense is this quickening is a good thing. Kinda like we’re coming to a place of less lag-time and more no-time with manifestations, what nots, and such.

Have a restful weekend...

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Juicy response – Thank you :star:

I hear you on the lessening of lag-time between phases, and speedy manifesting. Mmhmm.

Appreciate the squashing :) :)

I’m sending you this guy. Found him on the web. Looks like he could get the job done.

Could be a she, in which case I hope she’s not offended :

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[RunningDeer]

https://i.imgur.com/cM1JTdR.jpg

[meeradas]

flu + insomnia, great... well, Pauler, i could really use some of the above

[RunningDeer]

bourbon + teddy bear + teepee + blanket http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/s-good-night.gif

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flu + insomnia, great... well, Pauler, i could really use some of the above

[meeradas]

Solution = bourbon + teddy bear + teepee + blanket

Well, it was so successfull that i slept the whole DAY away... cannot decide if that's good or no... *yawn*
Guess i'm still at it - see ya later!

[Rosemarie]

This has been on my mind lately.

I am kind of new here, a member since Nov 4, 2019. I sometimes wonder why I am here. Never learned of Bill Ryan or Project Avalon until I started investigating UFO’s, the secret space program and whistleblowers around Sept of last year. One thing took me to another and very late in life I found this forum which I have grown to love..... but feel I am a taker and not a giver. I don’t know what I can give back for all the information I am getting.

I have lived a very “ normal “ life. I don’t remember anything at all of a past life, never seen an alien , a UFO, I am no healer ..... everybody here it seems has had some kind of experience I have never experienced.

[AriG]

This has been on my mind lately.

I am kind of new here, a member since Nov 4, 2019. I sometimes wonder why I am here. Never learned of of Bill Ryan or Project Avalon until I started investigating UFO’s, the secret space program and whistleblowers around Sept of last year. One thing took me to another and very late in life I found this forum which I have grown to love..... but feel I am a taker and not a giver. I don’t know what I can give back for all the information I am getting.

I have lived a very “ normal “ life. I don’t remember anything at all of a past life, never seen an alien , a UFO, I am no healer ..... everybody here it seems has had some kind of experience I have never experienced.

That’s probably not true (that everyone here has had an experience) and think about this:

Here you are on this (on the surface) isolated orb in an uncertain universe, seeking answers to questions that have been pondered for a millenia! You are in the company of Plato, Gallileo and daVinci! That is certainly not mundane! Do you realize how many humans never contemplate the origins of existence? Yet here you are, perhaps a mere 20% of the population, asking the difficult questions! That is remarkable and so are you! And I’ll venture a guess that by virtue of your choosing to join in right here and now, that something spectacular and magical is about to happen in your life (and btw- late in life? Give me a break! Not only will most of us live to be well over 100, you don’t have a single wrinkle on your very pretty and youthful face!):hug:

[RunningDeer]

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♡

[Axman]

This has been on my mind lately.

I am kind of new here, a member since Nov 4, 2019. I sometimes wonder why I am here. Never learned of of Bill Ryan or Project Avalon until I started investigating UFO’s, the secret space program and whistleblowers around Sept of last year. One thing took me to another and very late in life I found this forum which I have grown to love..... but feel I am a taker and not a giver. I don’t know what I can give back for all the information I am getting.

I have lived a very “ normal “ life. I don’t remember anything at all of a past life, never seen an alien , a UFO, I am no healer ..... everybody here it seems has had some kind of experience I have never experienced.

No not everyone and no worries Iam in the same boat.

Axman

[Rosemarie]

Thank you Arig for your kind words. You made me smile. RunningDeer thank you your words and advice. Will try to fine tune to pay attention to my inner voice. Axman , thank you. I am in good company in that boat.

[Kryztian]

I have lived a very “ normal “ life. I don’t remember anything at all of a past life, never seen an alien , a UFO, I am no healer ..... everybody here it seems has had some kind of experience I have never experienced.

Rosemarie - It is great that you are able to be where you are at intellectually without having had unusual experiences. For those of us who have had experiences, you ability to see things the world the same way as us and coming from a position of reason and not experience is validation and a gift to us. Thanks! :bigsmile:

Richard Dolan, arguably the most famous UFO historian in the U.S.A. has never seen a U.F.O. and yet he is able to get to the same position.

But if you really do want to have an experience, there are things you can do to increase the likelihood - visit sacred places, meditate, go to a shaman, learn a healing technique like Reiki, or join the Avalon Forum. Wait, you did that last one - I guess you are on the way!

[TargeT]

I have lived a very “ normal “ life. I don’t remember anything at all of a past life, never seen an alien , a UFO, I am no healer ..... everybody here it seems has had some kind of experience I have never experienced.

I share this as well, I give my best to experience-rs; but since I have almost zero (ok... absolutely zero) "experiential knowledge" it's very hard for me to relate... in fact I often get frustrated with the complete lack of corroboration or evidence.

at the same time I contrast that with the fact that I do not have a referential base to judge from, since I have not gone through these experiences....... I think that is partly why I'm seen as a grudgingly valued voice here... I bring up that which non-experience-rs don't get when explaining their (those who have gone through things I haven't) situations to people like me.... Kinda like the devil's advocate that is really on your side... Or so I rationalize to myself.
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But if you really do want to have an experience, there are things you can do to increase the likelihood - visit sacred places, meditate, go to a shaman, learn a healing technique like Reiki, or join the Avalon Forum. Wait, you did that last one - I guess you are on the way!

We met in person... do you think this is the case? Did I seem unready or unprepared for something like that?

I dunno... I think we all have a path and the fact that it isn't shared is important... we all have something, even if slightly different.. we all have experiential knowledge that is useful even if it is not fantastic.

I feel like I excel in that mundane theater.

[Rosemarie]

I have lived a very “ normal “ life. I don’t remember anything at all of a past life, never seen an alien , a UFO, I am no healer ..... everybody here it seems has had some kind of experience I have never experienced.

Rosemarie - It is great that you are able to be where you are at intellectually without having had unusual experiences. For those of us who have had experiences, you ability to see things the world the same way as us and coming from a position of reason and not experience is validation and a gift to us. Thanks! :bigsmile:

Richard Dolan, arguably the most famous UFO historian in the U.S.A. has never seen a U.F.O. and yet he is able to get to the same position.

But if you really do want to have an experience, there are things you can do to increase the likelihood - visit sacred places, meditate, go to a shaman, learn a healing technique like Reiki, or join the Avalon Forum. Wait, you did that last one - I guess you are on the way!

Thank you Krytzian for making me see it from another perspective. Yes, Finding Avalon has been one of the greatest joys lately. I keep coming back to it every spare moment I have. Never cease to learn something new. Still, have so many questions. I should take advantage of having BR living 4 hours away and invite him for coffee and a conversation. That would really send me on my way. :coffee:

[Kryztian]

But if you really do want to have an experience, there are things you can do to increase the likelihood - visit sacred places, meditate, go to a shaman, learn a healing technique like Reiki, or join the Avalon Forum. Wait, you did that last one - I guess you are on the way!

We met in person... do you think this is the case? Did I seem unready or unprepared for something like that?


I missed the introductory hour and a half at Avalon. I had no idea what experiences you did or didn't have. If I would have had to hazard I guess, I would have taken you for someone who "saw" something in the military.

Unforunately, some people see these "experiences" as a badge of honor which I think is a TERRIBLE notion. I can't tell you why I have had a few (and not much) and why you may not have, but if I had NOT had them, I would not be here on Avalon. I would be on the outside laughing at the silly people "who believed all that cr@p!"

The things I listed above don't guarantee you would have any experience and I think you should only do them for the sake of participating in that activity. Just like at the Avalon gathering, we went out for a skywatch. We were hoping we would get some type of show: a UFO or something - and we didn't. But we had a great time chatting in the desert and really got to see the stars. (I'm from light polluted New Jersey near New York City) and that made it worth the trip alone!

So, no matter what you may or may not have experienced, I don't think that makes you any more of an insider or outsider here on Avalon. We also need people who are open minded and grounded - sometimes a rare commodity on Avalon - and people who just care about humanity and creating a better world, no matter where you are coming from.

[Kryztian]

I should take advantage of having BR living 4 hours away and invite him for coffee and a conversation. That would really send me on my way. :coffee:

Sounds like a good idea. Bill suffers from not having enough social stimulation when he is in Ecuador. I just got to meet him last week and had the pleasure of going out to meals with small groups including him and we all appreciated his friendship and intellect and vice versa. So :coffee: sounds great!!!

[Flash]

As far as I am concerned, even experiencing anything or being an experiencer, is still in the mundane theater... seen from a vast perspective, and we pretty much all excel at it looks like.

Target, even though your energy is hugely different than mine, i do not see why you would not excel in Avalon parts as well as in the rest of life parts. Same with Rosemarie.

I need you for arguments purpose, it enriches life and discussions:)

[Rosemarie]

sorry, still learning how to quote just a small part of a post. Writing in an iphone is driving me crazy and blind. . Was answering KRYSTIAN when he was saying he would not be in Avalon if he did not had an experience.

I have always been very opened minded and never satisfied with what I was taught and experienced. I did try to fit in , all my friends are practicing catholics really believe their faith and I am the black sheep always questioning it all. Just a few friends are open to learn and are starting to awaken and questioning things.

Being here and reading about your experiences is filling a void. I might be too gullible in some cases, so I did ask BR to point me in the right direction with some people.

Thank you all for making me stop doubting myself about my place in Avalon. Target, Flash this thanks is also for you.

[Kryztian]

As far as I am concerned, even experiencing anything or being an experiencer, is still in the mundane theater... seen from a vast perspective, and we pretty much all excel at it looks like.

Well said, Flash. The title of this thread is "Here and Now" and it is about ALL of our experiences. Whether you are watching osprey migration, mourning over a lost friend, or sitting on a beach watching the sun set, you are having an experience in the hear and now, and it may cause you to think deeper about life it the universe and see that human existence is just more than a bunch of molecules colliding with each other.

And just after I typed the last paragraph I had an experience. My crazy needy loving cat jumped in my lap, force me to cradle him in my arms, put his paws in my face and purred like crazy. There, once again, I am an experiencer.

[Orph]

sorry, still learning how to quote just a small part of a post.
Did you mean when you want to quote somebody else's post? If so, read on. If you meant something else, please disregard the rest of my post.

Okay, so you've hit the "Reply with quote" icon on somebody's post and their entire post shows up in the reply box. Simply 'delete' anything within their post that doesn't need to be there and leave those parts of the post that you are replying to. Be sure not to delete the 2 quote boxes at the beginning and end of the other persons post. (looks similar to this ---> [quote] at each end of their post).

Then be sure your reply is not 'within' the quote boxes of the person you are quoting.

[Frenchy]

edit :
This has been on my mind lately.

I am kind of new here, a member since Nov 4, 2019. I sometimes wonder why I am here. ... One thing took me to another and very late in life I found this forum which I have grown to love..... but feel I am a taker and not a giver. I don’t know what I can give back for all the information I am getting.

I have lived a very “ normal “ life. I don’t remember anything at all of a past life, never seen an alien , a UFO, I am no healer ..... everybody here it seems has had some kind of experience I have never experienced.

Thanks for your honest, heart-felt thoughts....
Your presence here, is already giving much to all of us. You do not need to
question why, each living entity on this Earth, plays their essential part. Presently, you believe you have no memory of your Purpose, and I suppose this does not matter too much right now. Might be revealed, as you ' leave the Theatre ' ! !

It would be Wonderful, if you've come to Earth, or re-born here, without trauma, a ' Blank Page ', to carry information forward, on behalf of those before us, who did suffer. { Other threads I've mentioned Corrine Gouget, Karen Silkwood, Alec Collier, etc., who suffered for us... }/

Unlike me, you have no great predijuce [ sp ! ], and so are able to pick-up only the good aspects of life here on this { } Earth.


For this, you are essential here, amongst friends !

And, yes, if Bill, opens up the ' Ranch ' like Field McConnell, some might never regain their previously mediocre lives !

[Rosemarie]

It would be Wonderful, if you've come to Earth, or re-born here, without trauma, a ' Blank Page ', to carry information forward, on behalf of those before us, who did suffer. { Other threads I've mentioned Corrine Gouget, Karen Silkwood, Alec Collier, etc., who suffered for us... }/

Unlike me, you have no great predijuce [ sp ! ], and so are able to pick-up only the good aspects of life here on this { } Earth.


For this, you are essential here, amongst friends !

And, yes, if Bill, opens up the ' Ranch ' like Field McConnell, some might never regain their previously mediocre lives !

Ok let’s see if I understood Orph instructions. If not I will be deleting until the end of time.
I love what you say Frenchy, and it feels true. I really want to know why I came to earth, what is my purpose in life. Raising my 2 kids I always said.... I was meant to do this. Loved being a mother.....but I raised them good and now they are living as they should their own lives and now I am asking myself....what now. There has to be more. I know I have to be attentive to signs and inner voices.....
I really need a few answers. But yes, I feel like a blank page sometimes. I have lived a wonderful life. Do not get me wrong , I have experience pain, sadness, loss, but have always taken it with a grain of salt. Never asked why me.... it just needed to happen and I carry on. It feels good to acknowledge that.

It worked Orph ! Thanks.

[norman]

Pretty Much the Weakest Argument Against Conspiracy Theories Ever



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[Valerie Villars]

Norman, that is one of the most on point, hilarious videos I have ever seen, "On the Experts" which I used to think were smarter than I am. Priceless. Having worked with those buggers, the posture is so ciiche' and spot on. 23.00 minutes in.

[2aware1]

Here. Now. Needed to come back to Avalon. 1142 am. Holding on. Where am I. Find any pieces that make sense. A coffee cup. A black hairband around the doorknob. Chords. Birds chirping, woke me up early. Here. Looking through...
Love.
Shannon

[meeradas]

state of the system

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[22:21]
published yesterday


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aah, know what? "F" this!

Rather lighten up your day with HER:

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[Forest Denizen]

The beach this morning near where I live.. for your viewing pleasure.
Relax.. Breathe.. Enjoy

With Love

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[Swan]

The beach this morning near where I live.. for your viewing pleasure.
Relax.. Breathe.. Enjoy

With Love

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Beautiful. Lucky you.

[Forest Denizen]

The beach this morning near where I live.. for your viewing pleasure.
Relax.. Breathe.. Enjoy

With Love

rvcPHaSL4wE

Beautiful. Lucky you.

Well, it’s not meant to be about me. It’s for everyone here on Avalon to enjoy :flower:

Offered with Love. Gaze at it and empty your mind :heart:

[Valerie Villars]

Just sitting on my porch, listening to the Blues and ate my first two boiled crawfish of the season. I gave the third to my dog, Doucette. Doucey Doo. The sun is shining and we are going to eat a few more. The air is cool.

[Patient]

state of the system

ZUGh1Su7-ok
[22:21]
published yesterday


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aah, know what? "F" this!

Rather lighten up your day with HER:

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Thank you for this post - it inspires me to keep working toward getting a new acoustic kit. My kit was stolen a couple years ago. I only have an electronic kit right now. Although it is good, it can not take the place of an acoustic kit.

[WhiteFeather]

I tried to stop a murder Paula this last week, from "doctor" created morphine overdose. The patient was not given an opportunity to use a morphine pump. She was forcibly shot in her butt with a fatal dose of morphine, not able to regain consciousness or have her say. She was quite lucid before being "murdered" by doctor and did not want to be forcibly held against her will.

A N Y O N E if they submit to checking themselves into a medical hospital runs the risk of being murdered and the doctors W I L L get away with it. That is the sad and sorry fact these days.

If we allow this it will only get worse, not better. A monster is a monster is a monster, even if it wears a nice pretty white robe with initials above the pocket. They are what they are. AND they will not change, and it will only get worse.

Bob, hopefully your friend's account will be seen by many. I was going to add a video but it’s no longer available called, “Rosalind Peterson: Steps To Protect Yourself, Or A Loved One From harm When Hospitalized“.

Rosalind Peterson’s 99 year old mom had to go to the hospital because she was having dizzy spells after she tripped and fell. They ran the usual minimum battery of tests and everything came back perfect right down to her cholesterol levels. But given her slight high blood pressure, they wanted to keep her over night. Rosalind Peterson instructions were no one is allowed to administer any thing without consulting her because she was her mom’s health care power of attorney. Before Rosalind Peterson went home to change her clothes she reiterated one more time not to give her mom any medications. The nurse was not in agreement and Rosalind told the nurse if she did it’s a law suit. A doctor came on the shift after Rosalind left and he ordered 16-17 tests on Rosalind’s mom. She listed a few: bone scan, MRI, brain scan, xrays, etc.

Side note: Rosalind Peterson passed away on 2-4-18 (cancer)

Here are a couple of her accolades and accomplishments:

Elana Freeland: Rosalind Peterson recently died. She was one of the first leading activists opposing what is going on in our skies and destroying the soil and vegetation. In 2010, she spoke at the UN.

Rosalind Peterson of California Skywatch was a certified USDA Farm Service Agency Crop Loss Adjustor working in more than ten counties throughout California.

(continued (https://www.facebook.com/Rosalind-Peterson-In-Memoriam-165113074143900/?hc_ref=ARRoUxKJWM0aRIzaORdFJyTnNorVl_rzFrfzgu8kj3msSLVcqu0YfxzfYAyW5d7yDAM))

Thank you and Godspeed, Rosalind Peterson. ♡

I have just learned today, rather a little late, of Rosalind Petersons Death in 2018. I did a search here on Avalon and came across your post. I'm so so saddened. Thanks for sharing Paula. I just visited her facebook memoriam page. Sad sad news. What a wonderful woman and activist in the Geo-Engineering Field to say the least. Her work will live on.....

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PS Im Sorry for the long quote post.

[Carmody]

Full moon on its way tomorrow.... a 'pink moon', no less.

aXnfhnCoOyo

... of course, things will go all pear shaped, pressure is high, etc. High emotions and high strangeness, is the norm...

Watch out for it in ourselves, is the key point. Be on guard thrice over re posting on forums, or getting upset, and so on. Breathe.

[Valerie Villars]

Well, this past weekend and the coming are the 50th anniversary of the "New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival". And I'm on my property looking at the largest, widest, most overarching chemtrail I have ever seen, north of New Orleans, in the country.

We got a gate across the driveway and I was able to let my horses out of their pasture to wander the property. They were hysterical and ecstatic. Freedom for them felt good. And so then I felt good.

[meeradas]

wandering around town, putting my new lens to use (https://500px.com/photo/304073961)

[Rosemarie]

Saw this today in the internet and I found it so beautiful.
Cannot give credit to anybody as it did not say who wrote it.
My mother died 5 years ago. She had the best death possible. While holdings hands with her I realized she had gone to sleep and died. Looking back I realized that was a present from my guardian angel. I have been feeling a little blue lately and even if I am a grown woman I find myself missing her more as time goes by.

“ there is not a piece of you
That was not once a piece of me , the mother said.
If you ever feel alone
Run your fingers over skin
Squeeze to feel bone.
I am there, I am there.”
:heart:

[AriG]

Saw this today in the internet and I found it so beautiful.
Cannot give credit to anybody as it did not say who wrote it.
My mother died 5 years ago. She had the best death possible. While holdings hands with her I realized she had gone to sleep and died. Looking back I realized that was a present from my guardian angel. I have been feeling a little blue lately and even if I am a grown woman I find myself missing her more as time goes by.

“ there is not a piece of you
That was not once a piece of me , the mother said.
If you ever feel alone
Run your fingers over skin
Squeeze to feel bone.
I am there, I am there.”
:heart:

Rosemarie,

How beautiful and how melancholy, and how very lucky you are to have had a wise mother with so much spiritual depth. Weeping now reading your post.

With Love,
Ari
,

[Melinda]

wandering around town, putting my new lens to use (https://500px.com/photo/304073961)

Wow meeradas, your work is stunning. Rich and atmospheric. Much of it dark and elegant. Infused with light. Reminds me of the twilight hours – a place between realms.

Thought it deserved its own exhibition – so I whipped one together (as I listened to James Gilliland and Ken Rohla discuss the weirdness of the world.) Threw a few cats into the crowd. Cultured cats.

I won't claim to be much of a curator, but it's the thought that counts isn't it? (Yes, let's go with that.) :

https://i.imgur.com/alrrDt0.jpg

On another note – I wandered into the park today to give thanks to the earth and the tall green beings. It had rained earlier in the day, so the air was fresh and the land quite blissfully free of people noise. Much as I love my fellow humans, I tend to prefer my tree time with few around. I was pressing my hands gently into the earth to mediate and give thanks, when someone else's dog sauntered over from a distance and decided to stay a while. Came for some strokes and a chat. So we hung out for a moment or two. He had a soft caramel fur with cloudy white patches. His eyes were kind, if a little heavy with the weight of the world. He had to go when his owner / walker started yelling at him. But he didn't rush. At least we were buddies for a few minutes. I love that about dogs. Good people most of the time. Often their hearts are vast and hardy and open. Even if their bodies are only tiny.

Good wishes peoples of Avalon. May good things find you, even when you don't expect them...

[meeradas]

... Thought it deserved its own exhibition – so I whipped one together (as I listened to James Gilliland and Ken Rohla discuss the weirdness of the world.) Threw a few cats into the crowd. Cultured cats.

I won't claim to be much of a curator, but it's the thought that counts isn't it? (Yes, let's go with that.) :

https://i.imgur.com/alrrDt0.jpg.

Wow, Melinda, that's grand!
Thanks so much to help visualize that - i had not been able to...

Is that photoshop work? Perhaps i should look into it (have refused to, until now).

the photos would really have more impact if they were that size;
the biggest i had made is 120 x 80 cm on canvas (and that's already impressive -
the right and left monochrome photos on last picture would be approx. that size).

Maybe it inspires someone to help me set it up for real... !

A special thanks for the cats! And you're right with dogs (and trees)!

Beautiful. And highly appreciated.

[Melinda]

Wow, Melinda, that's grand!
Thanks so much to help visualize that - i had not been able to...

Is that photoshop work? Perhaps i should look into it (have refused to, until now).

the photos would really have more impact if they were that size;
the biggest i had made is 120 x 80 cm on canvas (and that's already impressive -
the right and left monochrome photos on last picture would be approx. that size).

Maybe it inspires someone to help me set it up for real... !

A special thanks for the cats! And you're right with dogs (and trees)!

Beautiful. And highly appreciated.

Thank you meeradas. I'm so glad you enjoyed it :)

It was fun adding the cats. I feel like the one in the lower right corner is really contemplating your art.

To answer your question, I used a version of Corel PaintShop Pro, not Photoshop.

Your pics make me think of the kind of photos I would love to take, if only I had the talent and the skill. But instead I occasionally get lucky with a pretty pic here and there. Below are a couple I took years ago.

This first one is of the Faroe Islands in northern Europe. In the summertime the days are long, and the night is more of a dark twilight. This pic was taken on regular film, and I quite like the artefacts and painterly feel that gives it. If there's any magic to it though that comes from the location. My humble clicking on the most basic camera couldn't really do it justice. You would take incredible photos there, if fate ever sailed you in their direction :

https://i.imgur.com/gsWjcg1.jpg


This one is in Scotland, not far from the capital, taken on a digital camera. One of those moments where you get your friend to stop driving just so you can stare out the window and soak in the light :

https://i.imgur.com/2QM6o3g.jpg

With everything going on around the globe, all the pain and machinations, art and photography create something that draws me back to my soul. Reminding me of the beauty in the macrocosm and the hidden worlds revealed in the tiniest of detail. Layers of beauty in the stillness of a frame. It's a pleasure seeing work as wonderful as yours. I look forward to seeing more, if I'm around when you post it.

[meeradas]

To answer your question, I used a version of Corel PaintShop Pro, not Photoshop.

Well, Melinda, i have paintshop pro right here, but cannot do the things that you did with it... you obviously know what you're doing - hats off!



Your pics make me think of the kind of photos I would love to take, if only I had the talent and the skill. But instead I occasionally get lucky with a pretty pic here and there. Below are a couple I took years ago.

https://i.imgur.com/gsWjcg1.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2QM6o3g.jpg

With everything going on around the globe, all the pain and machinations, art and photography create something that draws me back to my soul. Reminding me of the beauty in the macrocosm and the hidden worlds revealed in the tiniest of detail. Layers of beauty in the stillness of a frame. It's a pleasure seeing work as wonderful as yours. I look forward to seeing more, if I'm around when you post it.

Melinda, these are great, considering that they are straight out of camera, without any "shopping" or else!
This was my preferred way of shooting (no altering); and i loved film! - but hated the processing (incl. the chemical waste);

until ca. three- four years ago, when i got to know raw format and lightroom...
these really give you the means to "develop" photos towards what you saw in the moment you took the photo.

As for talent - i do not really think it's necessary; it's all a matter of trial and error through a lot of practice.
Myself still far from "having the eye"... but i'm getting better...

No need to wait for me posting more - go here (https://500px.com/herbgarmsen), anytime.

Thank you, once again, for your kindness and beautiful work!

[2aware1]

here now. free internet news. hmm. fingers on keys. awaiting coffee. blue speaker light. little notes on bit of desk. shoe. chords. yellow. black. fan buzz. hot already. how. here. now. music. here now here now here now here now here now.

[Kryztian]

A poem for the Here and Now thread, and for the Everywhere and Always too.

Hymn to Time
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 - 2018

Time says “Let there be”
every moment and instantly
there is space and the radiance
of each bright galaxy.

And eyes beholding radiance.
And the gnats’ flickering dance.
And the seas’ expanse.
And death, and chance.

Time makes room
for going and coming home
and in time’s womb
begins all ending.

Time is being and being
time, it is all one thing,
the shining, the seeing,
the dark abounding.

[Strat]

So maybe this is common knowledge but I didn't know until I read it a about a week ago (just now remembered): When the Titanic went down over 1500 people died. There were a lot of wealthy/influential folks on board like John & Ben Guggenheim and the Strauss.' A Canadian newspaper estimated the net worth of the top 12 passengers of 1st class at $191 million (over $2 billion today). That's 12 people!

The Titanic didn't have enough lifeboats. The company who built her was held responsible, White Star Line. The owner was JP Morgan.

I'm going to look more into this. I heard the typical iceberg story but I mean icebergs and boats have been around for a long time. Why would you take the most sophisticated, expensive, beautiful work of art, which has highly valued people on board and hand her to Cletus? I mean I get it, **** happens, but that seems worthy of investigation.

[Sierra]

wandering around town, putting my new lens to use (https://500px.com/photo/304073961)

Wow, Meeradas. You have become a phenomenal photographer. Are you familiar with the work of Fan Ho? I used to have a book of his (Hong Kong Yesterday, B&W photographs), but now you have to pay 900.00-1400.00 for it (Amazon books or ABEBooks.Com).

Two new books are coming out on Amazon this month for 45.00 (a piece) however, if you want to snap one up ;). I think you’d really enjoy his work. I don’t know if they will have the magical silver emulsion photography of boats on water...

[genevieve]

Strat: Major financial guys (e.g., bankers) on board who were opposed to the Federal Reserve Bank taking over, or something like that. Nefarious doings, for sure.

Best wishes!

[meeradas]

listening to

nonkeen - Diving Platform (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGRIiuvJU8Y)

OGRIiuvJU8Y

i guess that's for Carmody... and you.

[Daughter of Time]

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful mothers.

May you have a joyful day.

With love,

Daughter of Time

[norman]

my best quote of the week:


We need a higher standard of morality than what we've been socialised into tolerating.

by youtube content creator Soph [in a promptly banned and now unavailable video]

[Flash]

Hi everyone,

Some news from here and now, in Montreal.

First, the good: Mini Flash, after the great battle that has been hers for years, making up for a diagnosis of deep speech impediment, learning disabilities and motor skills impairment is now finishing her college degree in Social Work, which will allow her, is she wishes, to work as a technician in social work. But that is not all

She has been admitted in a very tiny 60 students group (restricted admissions) for a bachelor degree in Social Work at none other than McGill University (second best in the whole of Canada). She is starting in September. I am soooo soooo soooo proud of her. She never thought, despite her wishes, that she could go to university (I must admit that myself I was hesitant to wish that too, the base prognostics from speech therapists having been that she would probably not finish primary school).

I want to thank everyone here who supported me through our mishaps during those many years, with texts, prayers, advice, from what to do to combat bullying to help in depression to natural cures to healing..... name it. We, together, have been and still are successful. You were part of the village that helped raising her.

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The second news: years ago I had problems with my thyroid gland, with a cyst. It was borderline cancerous, they wanted to remove half my gland but I refused. And I could keep it at bay for almost 10 years altogether. However, last Friday, I saw the specialist. It has gotten much worst with the surrounding cells being affected. I am meeting a surgeon next week for another biopsy. Hopefully it will be negative, but I reactivated my thread of 2013 on thyroid. I am rereading it and making a plan to work on this. Anyone who wants to participate is welcome.

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A third news: I had a few auditing sessions with James Newell. Guys/gals, it works!!!!! This is the shortest most efficient PTSD/hang ups/psychological knots therapy I have ever had. And I am qualified to compare not only from my life history (I did have all kinds of therapies throughout time) but also professionally qualified.

What I perceived is the following: most therapies are language based, and go from the present to the past (in alternative, sometimes to the way past in other lives). When therapies are language based, or even movement based (ex core energetics, which makes you get out your emotions by moving and acting them out), they will help you get the emotions and blocks up to your consciousness, but they won't help you to clear them off literally.

After being conscious, when going on with language, you keep swimming in the same waste land, not able to get out of it. Language or movement are too slow and not holistic enough.

Auditing makes you first talk, then review in a very fast fashion, so fast in fact that you end up not being able to use words. What happened with me is that I felt on my visual cortex to process the information, and it is images that were coming up. Very fast. And then all of sudden, after few repetitions, new images not seen before comes up. And then you can see what was the whole purpose of the difficult experience you had. Absolutely a revelation. And in my case, very self responsibilities involved.

It reminded me of what I read about people dying, that they revised their whole life in a few seconds in a visual format (slides unrolling fast). It felt like that.

Then we went further, the position of being in the story, then the position of being an observer, then the position of doing the same or similar to others. It changes the perspective of the event completely.

Then we know why the event happened and what was our own involvement and decisions in it.

Great experience, feeling lighter afterwards.

Have a good day everyone.

[Kristin]

So GREAT to hear from you Flash! Thank you so much for sharing all of the news, we'll be thinking of you and please let us know how the tests go. Big hug and lot's of love to you. :bearhug:

[RunningDeer]

I reactivated my thread of 2013 on thyroid. I am rereading it and making a plan to work on this. Anyone who wants to participate is welcome.

Flash’s thread: Help please, thyroid cancer (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?62836-Help-please-thyroid-cancer&p=723107&viewfull=1#post723107)


https://i.imgur.com/A8g6A2v.jpg
♡

[avid]

Huge hugs Flash, Mini-Flash a triumph over adversity, well done.
Yourself, so stoical and positive - keep well.
Thanks for the James Newell info, how did you do it - online/Skype? Can’t do Skype myself, but would love to unravel ‘stuff’.
Hope all goes well with treatments :flower::bearhug:

[Flash]

Huge hugs Flash, Mini-Flash a triumph over adversity, well done.
Yourself, so stoical and positive - keep well.
Thanks for the James Newell info, how did you do it - online/Skype? Can’t do Skype myself, but would love to unravel ‘stuff’.
Hope all goes well with treatments :flower::bearhug:

yes with James we audited through skype, although he told me that if I continued, at one point, we would have to meet. Nothing definite yet. Also, he had met me in Laughlin and we had talked. I am not sure he does not have to meet you for a first session, you would have to ask him.

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thanks for your wishes, Paula, Kristin and Avid.

I should add: Gosh AM I HAPPY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE. TREATMENTS ARE FREE. And i have no health insurance (some do for private services when working for big enterprises). I could never have afforded it, ever, being diabetic.

[Mark]

More wishes for you Flash and also you, RunningDeer, in regards to your health. For all others undergoing difficulties physical, psychic or otherwise, energy sent to souls of good faith and positive growth for the entire human family.

[Wind]

Greetings and blessings to everyone. Here's a good reminder for all of us.

Av3wiiFKxc0

[2aware1]

here. 1123 am. friday. here. now. coffee. ick. airplane sound. wonder. how did i forget.... so much. full circles. again. orbit. again. land. again. somehow. again. do it again. no erasing. no reading. step forward. keep going. a screen. a light. here. now. hold on.

[RunningDeer]

A Friday flower for you, 2aware1. ♡

https://i.imgur.com/lWmu1wc.jpg


here. 1123 am. friday. here. now. coffee. ick. airplane sound. wonder. how did i forget.... so much. full circles. again. orbit. again. land. again. somehow. again. do it again. no erasing. no reading. step forward. keep going. a screen. a light. here. now. hold on.

[Mark]

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[2aware1]

here. now. panic. morning. work. noooooooooooooooooo. universe, help me see my path today. help me get through it. help me move on. just help. here now. ok. coffee... ok. fingers press keys. ok. move on. get thru. ok.

[2aware1]

reply to self... (ok, so. remarkable. it is 1036 am. was getting ready for work. checked my phone and at 938 I received a txt msg from an old avalon user/ friend of mine who wrote, he thought of me. he snapped a photo of something that reminded him and that's that. i rarely hear from this person and we are not as close as we used to be. but i asked the universe and got a little sign. i know we get them all the time, i just... needed that little nod. so, thanks..... universe. :-) really. and hold on. reminding myself to listen.....)

[RunningDeer]

reply to self... (ok, so. remarkable. it is 1036 am. was getting ready for work. checked my phone and at 938 I received a txt msg from an old avalon user/ friend of mine who wrote, he thought of me. he snapped a photo of something that reminded him and that's that. i rarely hear from this person and we are not as close as we used to be. but i asked the universe and got a little sign. i know we get them all the time, i just... needed that little nod. so, thanks..... universe. :-) really. and hold on. reminding myself to listen.....)
Synchronicites come my way in the form of feathers, animals and numbers.


Sending a little nod out to you, 2aware1. ♡
https://i.imgur.com/lJEYTNU.jpg

[ThePythonicCow]

Synchronicites sometimes come my way in the form of little posts and comments from some of the fine members here.

https://media.giphy.com/media/t061R01m2Pq6s/giphy.gif

[Mark]

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[Rosemarie]

Reading yesterday some of the threads I found them difficult to read and comprehend how difference in opinions could cause so much antagonistic feelings. Members getting hurt and not trying to walk in somebody else shoes.

What I have learn in my sixty years of life is that you have to put everything in perspective and see what is really important in life. Why get so mad with somebody you know has its mind all set with a certain thinking. Is it that important to get your point through ?
We are just passing through life. Don’t waste time getting all worked up with things that in a few months or years would seem they were not worth it.

Just love. Give love. Give your time to others. Focus on the important and worthy things in life. Getting mad with somebody in a forum is not it.
Sorry I cannot participate in the “ serious “ threads. My english is not good and I cannot defend my point of view in another language. But I love this forum and I continue learning.
My 2 cents.

Edit:spelling correction.

[Bill Ryan]

Reading yesterday some of the threads I found them difficult to read and comprehend how difference in opinions could cause so much antagonistic feelings. Member getting hurt and not trying to walk in somebody else shoes.

What I have learn in my sixty years of life is that you have to put everything in perspective and see what is really important in life. Why get so mad with somebody you know has its mind all set with a certain thinking. Is it that important to get your point through ?
We are just passing through life. Don’t waste time getting all worked up with things that in a few months or years would seem they were not worth it.
Just love. Give love. Give your time to others. Focus on the important and worthy things in life. Getting mad with somebody in a forum is not it.
Sorry I cannot participate in the “ serious “ threads. My english is not good and I cannot defend my point of view in another language. But I love this forum and I continue learning.
My 2 cents.

:bump: (several times over.) :heart:

[avid]

Just lately, after reading so many divisive threads, and wondering WHY are these folk going down this vile circulatory ‘plug hole’ of negativity, is there something all-pervasive in the ether at the moment? Has something been ‘sprinkled’ into our sensibilities to stir up such unusual traits?
Hopefully not........
Otherwise, all I want to do lately - checking in a few times a day as usual - is AAAAARRGGGHHH! Give us a break you negative folk, go away for awhile until you can contribute something positive, helpful news, interesting facts, happy incidences....

[Stephanie]

Synchronicites sometimes come my way in the form of little posts and comments from some of the fine members here.

https://media.giphy.com/media/t061R01m2Pq6s/giphy.gif
Sigh!So lovely, my heart melts.:bearhug:

[RunningDeer]

A shout-out to an Oldie-but-Goodie out there. I caught your name under the thank section on one of the threads.


A feather thanks for the synchronicity. ♡
https://i.imgur.com/VYk4SdN.jpg

[Strat]

Minor venting I'll place here cause I don't mean to keep bumping my cluster headache thread. Also these type of 'venting' posts I'd rather get buried in the net in threads like this than stand out.

Last night was absolutely vicious. It took every drop of energy not to lose control due to the pain. Somehow I pulled it off and got through it though. Like I said before I just wish folks could understand the gravity of the situation. The sense of panic that the pain brings on is about as bad as the pain itself. You want to 'do' something - anything - to make it stop but it just wont no matter what. Only thing to do is try and remain calm and not give in to despair; then the pain takes off like wildfire and you're just along for the ride. This is where CH's get their terrible nickname.

[RunningDeer]

Minor venting I'll place here cause I don't mean to keep bumping my cluster headache thread. Also these type of 'venting' posts I'd rather get buried in the net in threads like this than stand out.

Last night was absolutely vicious. It took every drop of energy not to lose control due to the pain. Somehow I pulled it off and got through it though. Like I said before I just wish folks could understand the gravity of the situation. The sense of panic that the pain brings on is about as bad as the pain itself. You want to 'do' something - anything - to make it stop but it just wont no matter what. Only thing to do is try and remain calm and not give in to despair; then the pain takes off like wildfire and you're just along for the ride. This is where CH's get their terrible nickname.

Sorry for your pain, Strat. https://i.imgur.com/Wfi0NBS.gif Migraines are brutal. I use to get them. For the two worst, I went to the hospital for a demerol shot. On one of those trips, I’d hit my head against the window for second or two of relief.

My lifestyle has changed since those days. Gone are: stressors, vampiric friends and family, environmental factors such as mold and mildew and diet (especially dairy; cheese was the worst). This past May was my 31st year doing Tai Chi...small, incremental changes netted big results. Now I may get a headache once a year.

What can cause a migraine?

Doctors are not sure what exactly causes migraines. But, many things can trigger a migraine. Different people have different triggers, which can include:

Stress or anxiety
Changes in hormones (in women)
Bright lights, loud sounds, and strong smells
Smoking
Drinking alcohol
Certain foods, such as chocolate, cheese, salty foods, or processed foods
Food additives such as MSG (sometimes added to Chinese food) or aspartame (an artificial sweetener)
Not getting enough to eat
Not getting enough sleep
Intense physical activities
Changes in the weather
Some medicines



https://i.imgur.com/F5VZkI8.gif

This is Dr. Yang Jwing Ming, my Tai Chi teacher. The vid begins with warm ups. Jump to 13:22 (https://youtu.be/4YJu8e-c6bk?t=802) for the Chi Kung exercises. Chi Kung is simply running energy through the body. A slow, steady breath is beneficial to the practice.


Stretching and Warming Up. Yang Jwing Ming
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[Strat]

I don't have migraines I have cluster headaches.

Thanks for the tai chi video. I've been interested in it for some time to improve overall health.

[ThePythonicCow]

cheese was the worst
Hah - the only "food" that my son can find in my kitchen - cheese - cheddar cheese from the raw milk of grass fed cows.

I buy and consume it in bulk (with lots of salt). Awesome stuff.

Strange is the diversity of human (and other being) nature.

[Strat]

Cheese hasn't been an issue for me but milk (or whatever bs 'they' put in it) definitely is.

[RunningDeer]

cheese was the worst
Hah - the only "food" that my son can find in my kitchen - cheese - cheddar cheese from the raw milk of grass fed cows.

I buy and consume it in bulk (with lots of salt). Awesome stuff.

Strange is the diversity of human (and other being) nature.

I caught your post a few weeks back and checked out Bunker Hill Cheese (https://bunkerhillcheese.com) site. It's too pricey for my budget.

Every once in a while I have a hankering for a cheese pizza or some smoked cheese. I figure my body needs it. And I don't have the negative effects like I use to because my body is much more in balance.

Come to think of it, the last time I had cheese was right after I checked out your cheese site. https://i.imgur.com/ZOHujJ9.gif


Strange is the diversity of human (and other being) nature.

True that. I'm better about not worrying about everyone's diet choices. I want us all around for a long, long time.

[ThePythonicCow]

The name escapes me

Heini's (https://heinis.com/) .

[RunningDeer]

The name escapes me

Heini's (https://heinis.com/) .

Yes, that's it...a.k.a Bunker Hill Cheese (https://bunkerhillcheese.com). I found it in my contacts and updated my post up thar.
{insert cheese pizza smilie}

[Mark]

Here and Now, it is the first day of Finals on the last week of school for the year.

This is my first year of teaching Reading Comprehension to 9th graders, which has been a revelation. I read to my own kids almost every night for the first few years of their lives, so reading was never at issue. Also, the school I teach at in Central Texas is 96% LatinX, so there is a substantial population of undocumented kids. 3% white and 1% black, with a heavy emphasis on the trades and alternative education.

Summer break is going to be very nice, it has been difficult and amazing to build relationship with and work to inspire these kids to be more than their surroundings expect them to be. The fear of the past year has been palpable for many of them. They've shared the stories of their family members being arrested and deported, some of them disappearing for weeks and months at a time and hearing their stories from friends has been really eye-opening.

I'm going to enjoy camping and being a river rat, waking up late, writing and doing the work of the city during the break.

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As Eckhart says A grievance looking for a cause...

[Strat]

I don't mean to keep harping on this but I have nobody to talk to - this cluster headache **** is outta control. Just got through w/ more literal screaming pain and broke some ****. It sucks im on disability and live with my folks, would you tell your mother about how miserable your life is? Shes on the verge of tears when she looks at me. It's ****ing rough. It's called suicide headaches cause people kill themselves from this **** and I have to fight off the suicidal thoughts during the bouts. Its ****ing miserable. Why would I share this with loved ones? My day? Yeah I was vomiting in the toilet and trying not to kill myself - was lovely.

So tonight or tomorrow I'm thinking bout checking into the ER which is something everyone just loves doing. **** man. I'm trying to keep it together its just so hard.

[RunningDeer]

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I have to fight off the suicidal thoughts during the bouts. Its ****ing miserable. Why would I share this with loved ones? My day? Yeah I was vomiting in the toilet and trying not to kill myself - was lovely.