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On this dreary dull cold day in early December I thought a little pink cheer would be nice. It's hard to believe that only about 5 weeks ago I was standing in a big garden plot of cosmos.
I think this is caused by a wood worm but am not totally sure. These wonderful patterns are all over this dead branch underneath the peeling bark
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Welcome to your epic hero's journey! The beautiful 45surf goddess sisters hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Journey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.
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She was a beauty--a gold 45 goddess for sure! A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.
ALL THE BEST on your Epic Hero's Journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
Think he was trying to hide on his way to clear up under the bird feeders, we get lots of these in the garden lately, love seeing them.
Foto plublicitaria (Lío de fotos)
Aprovechando la idea de las fotos anteriores y sabiendo el gusto de mi hijo por Apple y además no estando muy inspirada les dejo esta propuesta
Head pressure, medically referred to as intracranial pressure, is pressure between the skull and the brain. Too much pressure in the head can restrict blood flow to the brain and press on structures in the brain. It is a serious medical condition that has the potential to cause severe damage to the brain or spinal cord. Contact your doctor if you experience pressure in the head. Symptoms of abnormal head pressure include lethargy, behavior changes, headache, seizures and vomiting.Even though it is tempting to think of our energy body as a sort of plumbing system with tubes and vents, the reality is completely different. Our energy system is more like clouds of gases that merge and mingle and sometimes cramp up. Or even better, you can imagine it as different coloured streams of water that weave and intermingle and sometimes freeze into ice. These different coloured water streams are our thoughts and emotions and when we try to suppress these thoughts and emotions they “freeze“ and we experience them as “blocks“ in our mind and body.he head chakras (forehead and crown) have to do with the mental part of our being which consists of our thoughts, concepts and beliefs on the intellectual and spiritual levels. When we experience head pressure we are literally suppressing certain thoughts that we do not want to think. It is this suppression that we experience as the head pressure and it happens completely unconsciously. People without kundalini also often unconsciously suppress certain thoughts but due to their greater unawareness they do not feel the pain of this suppression – they are more numb.In the kundalini process, a thirst awakens in us for expanded consciousness and more spirituality. However, there may be still parts of our old ego alive that do not want to have certain spiritual insights and defend themselves by rigorously suppressing ideas that challenge the old ego. So, this is the inner conflict that plays itself out in our head chakras – the fight for spiritual insights and authenticity on the one hand and the resistance of our old ego that is not yet ready to accept some humbling insights on the other.
Before I tell you what kind of thoughts people typically suppress, I need to give you a little warning. If you are a person with head pressure you will probably not like what I am about to tell you for the very reason that you have repressed these kinds of insights in the first place. But everything in this article is based on my work with hundreds of clients who had kundalini syndrome. All the clients who could take the following advice on board now have much less head pressure or none at all.
In my experience, most people with head pressure suppress self-critical thoughts. These people describe themselves as laid-back, easy going and even loving towards themselves. They do not criticise themselves and when others criticise them, they either completely ignore it or they get angry. However, in order to be a spiritually mature person, it is important that we clearly see our many flaws (without beating ourselves up about them) and then get to work to eliminate these flaws.
For people with low self-esteem, this is not difficult to do as they are usually too self-critical to start with. But it is those people who like themselves and have a high opinion of themselves who are most prone to pressure in the head chakras during the kundalini process. (If you do not like this insight, remember that I warned you!
Before I tell you what kind of thoughts people typically suppress, I need to give you a little warning. If you are a person with head pressure you will probably not like what I am about to tell you for the very reason that you have repressed these kinds of insights in the first place. But everything in this article is based on my work with hundreds of clients who had kundalini syndrome. All the clients who could take the following advice on board now have much less head pressure or none at all.
In my experience, most people with head pressure suppress self-critical thoughts. These people describe themselves as laid-back, easy going and even loving towards themselves. They do not criticise themselves and when others criticise them, they either completely ignore it or they get angry. However, in order to be a spiritually mature person, it is important that we clearly see our many flaws (without beating ourselves up about them) and then get to work to eliminate these flaws.
For people with low self-esteem, this is not difficult to do as they are usually too self-critical to start with. But it is those people who like themselves and have a high opinion of themselves who are most prone to pressure in the head chakras during the kundalini process. (If you do not like this insight, remember that I warned you!
Kundalini awakening symptoms include strange body sensations like shaking, tingling or the feeling of moving energy. On the psychologically level we often experience greatly intensified emotions and a general over-sensitivity to ‘everything’. And on the spiritual level we may experience a great increase of spiritual interest but also a lot of confusion.
The first thing that I explain to all my kundalini clients is that a kundalini awakening and its symptoms can be compared with the awakening of our sexual drive during puberty. Both processes have a lot in common.
First of all, both processes are irreversible. No matter, how much we yearn to go back to the carefree innocence of our childhood, puberty endows us with strong sexual urges that cannot be ignored. In the same way there is no going back once kundalini has made its presence known in our body and mind.
In both processes, puberty as well as kundalini awakening, we are endowed with a lot more power than we previously had. In puberty we develop the awesome power to create a new human being and during a kundalini awakening we receive powers like clairvoyance, supernatural abilities and ultimately the ability to manifest ourselves as a divine being.
But until we are able to harvest the full rewards of these newly awakened powers we have to change radically. As we all know, the transition from being a child to a happy parent usually entails many years of difficulties until we learn to channel our sex drive into loving relationships. Everything has to change during these years – our self-image, our relationships, our ability to take responsibility for our actions and generally our entire outlook on life.
In order to manage this process it is paramount to live as peacefully, lovingly and healthily as possible. Anything that could upset ourselves further like taking drugs, having promiscuous sex or experimenting on our mind with meditation without the help of an experienced kundalini teacher should be avoided.
It is good to have a spiritual outlook on life and develop trust in a divine power. But it is important not to overdo spiritual practices as they make the kundalini stronger. If you feel inclined to meditate daily it is paramount only to do this under the guidance of an experienced meditation teacher who has gone through a kundalini experience themselves.
Do ask your local meditation teacher if they have gone through this but do not be surprised if they haven’t because real kundalini awakenings are still very rare. Luckily, in the age of the internet you can also try to find a teacher online and build a trusting relationship in order to get guidance about how to meditate.
It is particularly important to avoid any form of energy healing like reiki or acupuncture. These forms of healing are devised for people who are not in a kundalini process and often do a very good job. But once we have become over-sensitive during a kundalini process these healing modalities can aggravate us severely.
A comparison with puberty can explain why this is. Imagine being upset about your emerging sexual needs and you go to an energy healer to get rid of them. It is obvious that this is doomed to fail. Our libido, as well as the kundalini, is far stronger than these approaches and we will only end up in even more suffering if we try to remove of either of them.
Another thing to avoid is breathing exercises like re-birthing or yogic breathing. Both are powerful ways to alter our body and brain chemistry and can have disastrous consequences if used even slightly in the wrong way. Breathing exercises can be compared with prescription drugs. They should only be used when administered by a skilful physician and certainly not to someone who is seriously challenged by a kundalini process.
I have had many kundalini clients who read all sorts of horror stories on the internet and were very afraid. It is this fear that makes kundalini symptoms far worse than they need be. Just think of how a teenage girl would feel who is repeatedly told that there is the risk of being murdered by her own husband. While this may be true in extremely rare cases, it is not helpful to frighten young people in this way.
The same can be said about kundalini. In rare cases people may deal with it so badly that they end up in a very painful place. But in order for this to happen a lot of negative factors have come together and it is not useful to frighten yourself with these ideas on top of the challenges that kundalini entails anyway. So I strongly advise people to stay away from reading any frightening material about kundalini.
A kundalini awakening is a very individual and personal process, just like the development of a satisfying sexuality after puberty is a very personal process. People usually benefit a great deal from personal guidance in both processes.
For a kundalini awakening, you need an experienced spiritual teacher who has gone through this process themselves – just like all youths need guidance about sexuality and relationships from someone who has mastered these areas themselves.
People also benefit from guidance about how to deal with their budding clairvoyance, which can be very confusing and frightening for the unprepared mind. However, the biggest challenge is always the very personal material that emerges from one’s unconscious mind during this process, requiring personal advice.
Finally, it is paramount to adjust your spiritual practices to accommodate the kundalini so that it flows calmly and steadily and does not erupt in fits and starts. In order to do this, you need a personal relationship to a kundalini teacher who can guide you in this way.
"I think we got each others presents, I think this Joe, is for you, and you have my jumper, S.J!" laughed Gillian.
You may think of Mitt Romney and his seaside home with car elevator when you hear of the seaside town of La Jolla, but I think of this spot on the beach near where I grew up. The surfer, because I learned to surf right here, the pier operated by Scripps Institute of Oceanography, part of the University of California at San Diego, which brought the town into its own. It is where my brother and I first saw a palm tree and first headed out into the surf -- as big as a house, my dad would tell us -- a point emphasized in the Tsunami scare a year later -- And skin dived and SCUBA dived and caught our daily dinner one glorious summer with the help of a Hawaiian sling. and tide pooled, and counted lobsters for a study, and eventually grew up and moved away. It was good to be back after so many years.
I think I am gonna round out my posts this weekend with a couple images from Greece. Like any great European vacation, the Greek Islands is a great place to wind down. I am almost positive that this was captured in Naxos, although, it is from my body of slides and not really marked. Since my original had virtually no depth and was shot mid day, I created a little drama with textures and painted in the light and shadows. Hope you enjoy!
I don't think there's a need for much of a descriptive narrative about this photo. I think the dress speaks for itself.
Side photo of Rodin's Thinker @ Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, MI. On loan from the Detroit Institute of Art.
[I'm quite proud of the fact that I managed this one with a Manual focus 500mm lens. Its extremely difficult to shoot birds with such a long Manual lens & doing so teaches you a -lot- abt exposure, camera control & most importantly induces a whole lot of patience in you. The 2 other photographers who came along with me on this shoot were both equipped with high speed focus lenses. By the time I'd manage to set up my mamoth lens & try focussing, they would have each exposed atleast 10 frames. It was really frustrating at times... but the learning is phenomenal!]
Think your car is in this pic Curt! This would be Circa 80-82. Shoaf was the last operating mine and coking operation in southwestern Pa. The EPA had worrkied them to death over polution and they had taken major steps to remain compliant. I was not viewed as friendly wanting to take pix and this was as close as I could get as they became rather hostile before my departure, but it was after all only a couple years after the gov't had crawled all over them.
Photo's like this one and others in the photostream were part of the research I was doing to write an article for the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society about the connection of the PRR with the coal mining and coke production in the area and its transport to Pittsburgh. There were over two hundred coking and mining operations in the area and I was armed with county maps, memory and geological survey maps to explore.
I think I have seen this script font in Acme, but I could be wrong. I have definitely seen these vertical arrow signs (as seen here in the corner with "EAT" on it) at newly renovated Acme's in NY/NJ.
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While working in Chicago earlier this year, I decided to check out the local retail grocery situation. There is a lot of change going on here—former market leader Dominick’s is gone after a long decline under Safeway’s shlocky leadership and Central Grocer’s Strack & Van Til and Ultra Foods stores, which also dot the Chicago landscape are closing or being sold. Walmart had just closed a much-heralded urban Neighborhood Market in a new downtown development after only 6 years (similar to this one in CT), and I was starting to see a lot more Kroger-owned Mariano’s popping up. In addition, Kmart had 3 of its 4 K-Fresh prototypes in the Chicago market (one of which was closed by the time I got there).
Then there is Jewel-Osco, always my favorite because of the way my friend’s mom pronounces “Jewel-Osco” in her Chicago accent. It seems to be the only hometown store still standing.
In Des Plaines, IL, a sparkling new Mariano’s was opening and this meant that a few of the Jewel-Osco stores in the area had received refreshes. I decided to check them out to see what the new interiors looked like. I was wondering if Safeway-Albertsons was making them closer to the new Safeway stores in Florida or the Acme stores at home. This store seemed to have a lot of elements of the refreshed Acme stores back home.
[...] While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity [...]
-- Quote by Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Rome, Italy (May, 2008)
I think I like this best of the visit to Venice shots.More to follow. This one has been seen in explore. Big deal. Found it by clicking on "interesting photos from the last seven days"
i took this at my grandparents house, which automatically makes it special.
i just watched Seven Pounds. its funny how watching heartbreaking movies forces you to think of your own life and the people in it. beautiful film though. and for once the tag lines on the box were right--it really was life changing, in a way.
anyway. it got me thinking. it made me question why such horrible things can happen in life. why God allows people to die before their time or lets a disease hang on for years at a time. i hate when i get these thoughts (which has been more frequent lately), because i know deep down that i'm wrong. God knows what He's doing so much better than I do. i should just trust Him. i suppose this is the first time in my life that i've had a hard time really trusting God.
so in the midst of my anger and my questioning, this verse came to mind.
Proverbs 3:5-6:
Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
Lean not on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.
I need to stop relying on my own understanding. I need to acknowledge God's providence in all situations, no matter how bleak. And though trusting is hard, it is such a relief.
oh a separate note, listen to this.
♫ ♫ Boy I think about it every night, and ay
I'm addicted, want to jump inside your love I wouldn't want to have it any other, way I'm addicted, and I just can't get enough ♫ ♫
AMO A FERGIE <3
y mucho Verde, VERDE DE ESPERANZA <3
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The Thinker
Rodin
Cleveland Museum of Art
This is one of several photos I took for the cover of the Materials Science and Engineering Department brochure at Case Western Reserve University. It is from circa 1987. It was taken using a Kodak B*W film designed for documents with a very high contrast.
Broadway, New York City.
My good friend Joy Brown has been making large bronze castings of her ceramic sculpture and is having a show of them in New York City. Joy has been traveling to China to work with a foundry there for many years and these finished pieces were shipped to the US in a large container by ship and arrived a few weeks ago. There will be a sister show in China opening in a few months.
We pulled an all-nighter last night helping with the installation which was done by a great outfit out of Bethel, Connecticut: Mariano Brothers.
We started at 10:00 pm and finished at 3:00 am. There were two flatbed trucks, ours with four pieces starting at 72nd St. and working north, the other starting at 168th St. and working south.
Many of Joy's friends came from all over the country and they were joined by a crowd of curious and supportive New Yorkers. It was quite a scene although after midnight as we moved up town only the core group remained.
Tomorrow, Wednesday May 17th there will be a formal "opening" at 11:00 am at the 72nd St and Broadway installation. The show will be up for at least six months, maybe longer. Each setting has a map showing the location of each of the sculptures. It's a bit of a hike to walk the whole thing but there's a subway line running under Broadway and the pieces are near enough to stops so they can be easily gotten to.
I'm pooped!