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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month we wanted to post this in honor
of our good friend, lynnieb, and for all the other fighters out there!
Please go to our friend's photostream...Linda, is a very strong person ..We love you ,Linda!
www.flickr.com/photos/lynnieb/
COMING OUT OF THE DARK (Gloria Estefan)
Why be afraid if I'm not alone?
Though life is never easy, the rest is unknown
Up to now, for me, it's been hands against stone
Spent each and ev'ry moment
Searching for what to believe
Coming out of the dark
I finally see the light now
And it's shining on me
Coming out of the dark
I know the love that saved me
You're sharing with me
Starting again is part of the plan
And I'll be so much stronger holding your hand
Step by step, I'll make it through; I know I can
It may not make it easier
But I have felt you near all the way
Forever and ever, I stand on the rock of your love
Forever and ever, I'll stand on the rock
Forever and ever, I stand on the rock of your love
Love is all it takes, no matter what we face
October is breast cancer awareness month
Worldwide, breast cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, and colon cancer). In 2005, breast cancer caused 502,000 deaths (7% of cancer deaths; almost 1% of all deaths) worldwide. Among women worldwide, breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death.
In the United States, breast cancer is the third most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer and colon cancer). In 2007, breast cancer is expected to cause 40,910 deaths (7% of cancer deaths; almost 2% of all deaths) in the U.S. Among women in the U.S., breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second- most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer). Women in the U.S. have a 1 in 8 lifetime chance of developing invasive breast cancer and a 1 in 33 chance of breast cancer causing their death. A U.S. study conducted in 2005 by the Society for Women's Health Research indicated that breast cancer remains the most feared disease, even though heart disease is a much more common cause of death among women.
The number of cases has significantly increased since the 1970s, a phenomenon partly blamed on modern lifestyles in the Western world. Because the breast is composed of identical tissues in males and females, breast cancer also occurs in males, though it is less common.
Even in the middle of a leap - Ouzo knows everything that happens around him, where all dogs are, but once he evaluates the information and assesses the situation, he turns to more important things, such as a me and his ball.
this is not my work...I am just a photographer taking hdr graff pictures.
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The mere sight of Han River being enveloped with the sea of clouds that day was extraordinary. My only goal was to capture the vivid colors in fine detail. But oh, the glass window of 63 Bldg. overlooking this exact scene was muddy outside and littered with high five's inside, everywhere. Suddenly, one lady appeared out of nowhere with a pocket size spray container to vanish all the traces away. She did a really good job!
People from all over the world stop by to take a glimpse of Han River and the mountains surrounding it's beauty. I remember well just before I packed up my gear when I kept on hearing some tiny ringtones. When I bothered to take a closer look, ah there in that little corner was a lost mobile phone from a forgetful owner. I brought it to the lady attendant hoping to find it's rightful owner.
Could it be that some people who visited here just got overwhelmed by the sight of Han River that day that someone just forgot everything else. Or was it the beginning of someone's heightened awareness to appreciate what most people easily take for granted?
Venus might not be able to check her breasts but you can.
Being breast aware
Whatever your age, size or shape it’s important to take care of your breasts. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, so it’s important to look after your breasts by being breast aware.
Being breast aware is an important part of caring for your body. It means getting to know how your breasts look and feel, so you know what is normal for you. You can then feel more confident about noticing any unusual changes.
How do I check my breasts?
There’s no right or wrong way to check your breasts. Try to get used to looking at and feeling your breasts regularly. You can do this in the bath or shower, when you use body lotion, or when you get dressed. There’s really no need to change your everyday routine. Just decide what you are comfortable with and what suits you best.
Remember to check all parts of your breast, your armpits and up to your collarbone.
The breast awareness 5-point code
1. Know what is normal for you
2. Know what changes to look and feel for
3. Look and feel
4. Report any changes to your GP without delay
5. Attend routine breast screening if you are aged 50 or over
from www.breastcancercare.org.uk/breast-cancer-breast-health/b...
A Repost of my Experience on June 15th 2007
Posted For Breast cancer Awareness Month!
I do not have to go back until I'm 40 :)
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I had some stomach concerns
so end of may i got a cat scan on my abdomen area.
then ............ 2 weeks ago I was told
"Your Cat scan Came Back Normal But
You Have to get a Mammogram Right away
something showed up on your Right Breast"
so today was the day.
35 years old and needed a mammogram.
My First one.
I have lost sleep for two weeks, had nightmares when i did sleep
being told i only have a Year to Live. To hear the news in my dream
made me think about How it must of been heard thru my dads ears
and needing to register in his brain..... AND i don't wish those words on
ANYONE.
SO I got the mammo. She said have a seat
the doctor will review them and speak with you today
since there is a concern here.
Had a seat. Tec. Comes out and escorts me to the dressing room.
she said You Can Get dressed now, then before she shut the curtain
she looked at me and said "The doctor reviewed your films
and they are Perfectly fine. He will not need to see you today
he said See you in 5 years for a routine 40yr old screening"
I was Put Back for a few reasons.:
The soft sweet smile she had.
she must LOVE her days when she can Deliver GOOD news.
I said "Then WHAT was up with the CAT SCAN?"
she said who knows sometimes they just have an abnormal read.
But you are fine Perfectly Fine, she smiled again.
NOW here is the part that set me back into a few moments of
silence...............................
How many Women get as far as i did today
and Hear different news?
devastating News?
Life changing news?
where do I go from here News?
I feel For them. I whole Heartedly DO now!
I am AS OF TODAY one of the Women Who can Proudly Say.
"Ladies GET your Mammo's gram'ed, I GOT mine DONE" :)
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. EVERYONE remind your LOVED ONE's to get their mammogram. EVERYONE will be happy you did!
Psychic Awareness.
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Steve.D.Hammond.
As Breast Cancer Awareness Month draws to a close, I would like to make one last dedication to the cause.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, yet the most curable if detected early. I cannot stress enough the importance of looking after your body and health by being breast aware.
www.breastcancercare.org.uk/breast-cancer-breast-health/b...
only codding...
Dictionary
Definitions from Oxford Languages
To cod
verb
gerund or present participle: codding
INFORMAL•BRITISH
play a joke or trick on (someone).
"he was definitely codding them"
From the upcoming Series : 'Prostate Daze: The Waning of the Latter Ages'.
With apologies to James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Johan Huizinga, and all those of a certain age.
Perhaps laughter is the best medicine.
Juvenile Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) nicknamed 'Wallace' explores the old beaver lagoon.... The beavers no longer rule here, sadly....
A Volkswagen Beetle decked out in a cancer awareness theme.
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Planar Awareness is a hip New Age philosophy that requires it's adherents to always look at the upside. Unfortunately where the mind is willing the flesh is weak. The doctor says I can take the neck brace off in about a week.
The Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Even though I pulled over on Highway 59 on the opposite side he was on, he was very aware I was taking this shot. Several cars/trucks obstructed my view on several of those shots! I kept the barbed wire in to add a bit of 'flair'.
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awareness, 2003, 83" w x 70"h, Combine/mixed media painting on lamp-shade material.
This was one of my very first large paintings that doesn't respect boundaries. The handwriting is my own ... words of love and encouragement to myself... intimate letters of understanding and openness to myself.
Included we see a blue bedsheet, a favorite of mine, used for many years until it began to rip and was not useable on the bed anymore. I tried many times on different occasions of clearing-up, to throw it in the garbage. At every moment of throwing it out... I could not. I kept it for quite a while afterwards and it finally found its final home here. The fabric is sooo soft and luscious that it has always been very important to me. The color is divine.
Also used here is a pair of old summer pants I used to wear when gardening, I wore them until they ripped (and quite a bit afterwards) and were no longer useable. Again, in blue.
I found the crotch area (opened zipper) very important here as the central image. And I named it "awareness", because it was the very last word written on this painting, and it signaled its completion... or beginning.
I find the earthy colors highly powerful against the sky (spiritual) blue. Great contrast and combination. Also included are road maps and my fathers old dress patterns (which I had painted on).
It hangs in my bedroom.
I am aware that the word transvestite is unpopular and despised but I am happy to embrace it and call myself one. I am after all a man who dresses up in the clothes of the opposite gender and I will admit at times I find this an erotic experience. My motivations in dressing up as a woman are not actually for sexual arousal but if it occurs then I will enjoy the moment. I am in fact motivated by several things and I am hard pressed to ever work out which one I truly desire.
I've got the sexual arousal out of the way so I'll move onto the other motivations that drive me to create a female alter-ego. I have a definite part of me, that once was very dominate, that is transsexual. In my early years I definitely felt I should have been a girl. By my late teens this feeling still existed but had diminished as my teenage hormonal changes kicked in. I started to enjoy the thrill of being a boy presenting as a girl, that was incredibly exciting but then after about three attempts I was caught by my parents and told to stop dressing up like a girl. As many of us will know stopping cross-dressing does not stop the desire we have to engage in the activity. However, I was a cowardly individual and stopped physically cross-dressing though the idea still excited me greatly and had the potential to induce the occasional moment of sexual arousal. I would masturbate and enjoy the pleasure only to swiftly feel disgusted and ashamed of myself. But, the desire would surface once more before too long and I would go through the whole cycle at regular intervals but was not actually cross-dressing.
In my early teens I was also captivated by women acting in films and wished I was an actress then one day stumbled across Danny la Rue, at the time was a very popular entertainer in Britain, who was a female impersonator. To my astonishment everyone seemed to enjoy seeing his performances. He wore lots of glamorous make-up, dresses and wigs and to say my whole world stopped and I was enraptured would be an understatement. To my fearful cowardly closeted transsexual teenage self I was stunned that a man could make a career out of pretending to be a glamorous woman. About the same time I came across the word transvestite and it was a eureka moment. I realised I was not alone, there were others that felt and had the same desires as I did. I think discovering the word transvestite saved me, it really did. I suddenly saw a way forward. If I could not be a girl I could dress up as one on a temporary basis, lots of men also desired this as well, I was smiling for months afterwards feeling a burden had been lifted!
Also, around this time another entertainer from Scotland was enjoying popular success in the entertainment world, this was Stanley Baxter who played many female characters and went the whole way with the make-up and costumes not just a male parody of a woman. I was so fascinated and in awe of Danny la Rue and Stanley Baxter I decided I too would become a female impersonator...ha! Of course my lack of nerve and inner fear of desiring to dress as a girl dominated me and I suppressed the urge though it certainly carried on in my head and yes on occasion I found myself full of angst and masturbating, pleasure mixed with fear and self loathing. It took me a long time to finally don a wig, slip into a dress and put on make-up, well over twenty years.
Nowadays I do still have the occasional all consuming desire to become a woman full time, I can find myself weeping that I have a male body but I also know now that this will pass but will inevitably return. The sexual arousal can still occur and like my teenage self I still on occasion masturbate and I don't feel too guilty about it when it happens. I am keen though to get past that as I feel a powerful need to tuck away my male genitals and have a flat female looking genital area. I feel a wave of relief and joyful emotion wash over me when I am finally tucked. Once I have my breasts attached and having shaved off all my body hair an inner peace and contentment settles on me yet I am also buzzing with excitement.
I won't deny I am very happy attempting to appear as a woman, part of me wishes it was real but part of me enjoys the sheer adventure of daring to cross-dress as a woman and going through all the effort of body shaving, tucking, taping, applying make-up and then actually starting to dress in lingerie and female clothing such as dresses and skirts and I love, absolutely love, to wear high heels. A huge part of the thrill and reward I feel is knowing I am really a man acting the part. The suppressed performer within me enjoys this aspect. I love the idea that anyone who sees me dressed as a woman may, just may, possibly believe I am a woman. To succeed in that convincing illusion is my ultimate dream and the goal I strive to reach. It is one of my biggest motivations.
Whilst I do gain deep emotional satisfaction from dressing as a woman the actor I wish I had been thrives on the challenge of performance and trying to carry off the portrayal. I have noticed with my cross-dressing I do like to try different appearances, looks and persona's. I have to confess I used to terrify myself in my early cross-dressing days back in 2000 to 2004 by some of the ways I would dress and pose, it was clearly motivated by sex in some way. I would strike (well try to) seductive, teasing, somewhat provocative poses wearing very short skirts and big heels and trying to pull off a sexy look on camera...if that is not sexually motivated I don't know what is!
I used to be ashamed of myself after such cross-dressing moments but these days I feel it is best to acknowledge I did it very willingly and was keen at the time so there is no point in denying it. Even now I harbour the occasional desire to try and look sexy and seductive as a woman. Of course it all quite pathetic as I am a man in his mid fifties so it is a delusional fantasy but despite knowing this the bottom line is it is rather fun to attempt such a thing so why not just go for it if one has desire to try it.
Regarding the photo I am posting with this narrative, that represents one of my 'off the rails' moments. I know it is an unrealistic female look and very much an obvious transvestite choice but I also know when I did it I felt I was on an adventure and for me, a dull male, it was very daring. What really surprised me was just how euphoric I felt once I was dressed and wearing all the make-up and the big wig, I adored it! It was a moment of pure elation and such fun. I do not regret going for this look and I was actually rather at home with it and my confidence increased considerably leading to poses for the camera like this one. If that was me as a man I would be looking very self conscious, dressed up as a woman and wearing all that make-up I was the opposite, I loved the camera!
Being a transvestite, despite the negative aspects, the physical challenges and the fear of discovery it does provide amazing experiences and excitement on many levels that just being a man can never provide. Being a transvestite works for me and every time I recall a cross-dressing session I simply cannot help smiling and feeling rather nice in a wee bubble of joy.
Two aspirants and an instructor practice spiritual body awareness contortions during a class at Clam Harbour Beach. The guy is finding it challenging visualizing left from right.
Is the aim of my environment awarness final project :)
Im toooo tired to even talk about anything .. but ya im still alive!
Tomorrow is my FINAL DAY FINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYY :D
bss i wont say anything more about the poster and LOGO (final version)
not in the mood :P
thanxx a lot for those who helped me ..
special thanxxxx to Doodeh and Le'3z :D:D:D