Washington's District of Columbia has a member in the House of Representatives but she can't vote on the house floor, only on committees, and they still have to pay federal taxes, unlike Puerto Rico & Guam - SO.... D.C.s new license plates are coming out with "Taxation without Representation" instead of the old "Celebrate and Discover" - think this will get them the attention they've been wanting?
Quintessence - "In philosophy, quintessence refers to the fifth element after air, earth, fire and water proposed by the ancient Greeks to describe a sublime, perfect substance. .... Cosmologists have proposed that a mysterious substance called quintessence can explain why our universe is accelerating. But what is it made of?" LOL - on Highlander, they'd call this 'the quickening'. New agers might call it 'the shift' or an 'acceleration'. They ask what is quintessence made out of? I'm wondering if the answer is either simply not within the framework of physical reality. We might as well ask, 'what is consciousness'. And yet, it is these questions that helps us reach out for new answers. Oh hell - maybe I just thought the word 'quintessence' was cool - LOL.
Last night I had a dream that a group of three or four older black calves were sneaking through our yard. I would think of it as a typical 'cow' dream *grin* but I think I just CALLED them cows but they were animals of a different sort altogether. Like it was the next dimensional neighborhood or something. Both John and I see things out of the corners of our eyes out here all the time - each of us has 'seen' a man walking around - wearing jeans and a blue chambray work shirt. AND... if you've ever just listened to cows yowling at each other without knowing they are cows, they will bring to mind DINOSAURS. Often I wonder if herbivore dinosaurs and cows are the same essence energy. Perhaps coyotes and mountain lions and bobcats could be similar to CARNIVORE dinosaur energy. And we just translate that energy into the belief framework that we are familiar with. Hmmmm.
I have spent much of the morning in deep conversation on one of the email lists I'm on. We're all trying to understand the concept of 'resistance' and 'pushing against' and how 'what you resist persists' and how to RELEASE the resistance. There's nothing quite so amazing to me as figuring out HOW my energy's been locked on some kind of belief or emotional pattern, and then stepping out of it - feels like you can stretch your wings as if for the first time. The tricky part is recognizing the FEELING of resistance, particularly when it's something you may have felt your entire life and it feels so NORMAL you don't even really SEE it. It's like suddenly becoming aware of the wallpaper on the walls in the house you grew up in.
Consciousness and awareness - what an excellent mystery to play with. *grin*
Wow - a Japanese woman emailed us today and asked if we would let her translate our Reality Creation 101 Lessons into Japanese so she could put them up on her web site - of course we told her yes! How exciting is that? *grin*
I was just outside, sitting by our windmill as our well pump pumped water into our holding tank... (the windmill spins, but the plunger is broken, so it doesn't pump via wind power - we have to turn on the electric pump and then wait 30-60 minutes and then turn it off. I keep SAYING we live out in god's country - LOL)... when a WONDERFUL breeze came by and ruffled all the new grass on the ground. Suddenly I was reminded of SOMETHING from my childhood, but I couldn't place the specifics, just the feeling of wind blowing grass - very calming and comforting. Anyway, it was a very cool moment in time and I just wanted to share that.
LOL - everyone else has been looking at their referrer logs and finding strange and disturbing search requests that have little or no connection to the real content in their web logs - the OBB referrer log lists normal searches that make sense, like "blog" and "Tesla".
It's probably because I'm not a Goth, but I don't think I'd ever be genuinely comfortable sitting down to watch a movie on a couch that was made from a casket - but I guess that would be 'more Goth' than say, just getting a regular ol' couch upholstered in black fabric with a spiderweb pattern all over it? *grin* However, there also seems to be a lot of nice pieces on this page that even IKEA wouldn't mind selling.
Radio in this area sucks except for a few special shows - same old same old. I've been looking forward to the time when INTERNET radio steps into the limelight and makes broadcast radio irrelevant. Looks like we're getting a lot closer to that time - YES! *grin*
This is really cool - 2 Russians and 1 American are now aboard the International Space Station for a 118 day mission, but before they do anything else they have to run around and turn on all the systems before they run out of oxygen - first things first. *grin*
Tip of the Day: If you want dogs to like you - saw a rawhide bone in half and when you're blowing away the rawhide 'sawdust', get a bunch of it in your hair. *grin*
I was playing around with the OUIJA board yesterday (talking with my inner self, my oversoul, whatever you wanna call it) and the first thing it spelled out was "PEN" - meaning... go get your pen and do automatic writing, you're SO beyond using the OUIJA board. *grin* Well, before I did that I decided to be funny and ask who was going to win the presidential election. Then I promptly forgot about that question and was thinking about something else while the planchette was busy spelling things out - at first, being rather DENSE during all of this (heh heh), I thought it was trying to tell me to go read something. Then I realized it was answering my previous question - "GO RE.." OH - GORE! LOL. Then it kept running off the board at this one angle, and finally I realized it was pointing to the PEN on the table - heh heh. I finally gave in and picked up the dang pen and wrote a few good pages of stuff down.
CHRISTOPHER HOPE was disappointed by the warning he spotted on a gallon container of the laboratory disinfectant Hibitane. "Avoid contact with brain," it told him, thereby spoiling his plans for a fun-filled afternoon drilling holes in his skull and pouring disinfectant into them. (Blue Moon)
A little dusty brown calf just hopped the barbed wire fence and wandered down into our 'driveway' and the dogs went nuts. I chained up our gate so the calf wouldn't come into our yard, OPENED the other gate so he could get out, and then got closer so we could have a chat. I said, "I assume that you're on your way out and are going to use the gate over there, right?" *grin* And that little calf looked at me, NODDED up and down a few times, and then started walking towards the open gate! He stopped to eat a little grass on his way, but was out the gate in only a few minutes. That was cool!
Yes - Tom is blogging again! Guess the drugs finally wore off, eh? Oh, I'd LOVE to leave that out of context, but I just can't *grin*, although many of you probably know he got his wisdom teeth removed and was relaxing and recovering instead of blogging - I'll never understand some people's priorities. LOL. Oh, and in unrelated blog news, please note the addition of a few new links to the left as well.
I WARNED ya that I was doing a redesign! :-) This one's a little lighter than the last one - still has a November kinda feel to it though. BTW, the yellow image in the main graphic up there is actually a piece I painted in acrylics that is currently hanging on the wall above my bed - 36"x28", I believe. I was also able to add a little style sheet magic with the links too.
Remember Magneto, the character in the X-Men who could control metal? Well, looks like the mutants are starting to turn up for real! (mutants meant in a good way, of course.) From Blue Moon News...
" Leonid Tenkaev, a factory worker; his wife Galina; their daughter Tanya; and Tanya's son, Kolya all have some strange ability to attract and make metal objects stick to their bodies. According to Dr. Valeri Lepilov, professor of physics at Saratov State University, the four have only to concentrate and think about generating heat inside their bodies" in order to set in motion some strange ability that triggers their alleged magnetic properties, which is said to be extremely powerful. Leonid, who was born in 1928, reportedly can attract up to fifty-two pounds of ferrous metal, (iron bearing) to stick to him at any one time. According to Dr. Lepilov, removing it is difficult---"like dragging a metal object off of a magnet." The entire family was flown to Japan to demonstrate their "wild" talents. One of the witnesses, a Dr. Atsusi Kono, who was at that time the chief physician at the Djo Si Idai Hospital in Tokoyo was so impressed that he commented: "There is absolutely no doubt that the objects stick as if their bodies were magnetic." The family first noticed their wild talents in 1987, the year after the accident at Chernobyl, which lies about seven hundred miles to the west of the Tenkaev homestead. It has been suggested that the accident had something to do with their abilities, in some as of yet undiscovered way, but there is absolutely no 'scientific evidence" to support this. Are they the only ones? Well.. ..no. In June of 1990, the "Soviet Weekly" carried a story about a militia patrolman named Nikolai Suvorov who also had this rather odd ability. (At the bottom of the page is a link for you to see a picture of this man with all sorts of things stuck to his body.) And in 1991, Bulgaria's "Sofia Press Agency" reported that no fewer than three hundred "magnetic" people turned up for a contest to see who could attract the most metallic objects to their bodies for the longest time."
Happy Halloween! Tom has posted some TERRIFIC jack-o-lantern shots on his page - go there now... IF YOU DARE! (heh heh - I love that phrase - as overused in halloween-time commercials as 'TIS THE SEASON FOR SAVINGS' is at Christmas.)
Okay - you know those times when you find yourself singing a certain song or doing something that's really indicative of how you feel, but you aren't really paying attention to it until something grabs you? *grin* Well, I was outside with the dogs, and for SOME reason I was singing "My Favorite Things" (which I realize is a GREAT song about holding your tone or vibe no matter what's going on around you) and then I look up and there's a RAINBOW overhead! I was even able to get a photo of it despite the fact that the batteries in my digital camera were supposed to be dead - LOL. I feel so utterly smarmy! *g*
On the one hand, Oregon has a law that let's you put your personal phone number on an official list of people who do NOT want to be called by telemarketers, which is cool. On the OTHER hand, it seems that you have to pay $10 a year to be 'subscribed' to this list and telemarketers also have to pay a fee to get the list, or if they 'accidentally' call someone on that list, get charged with breaking the law. Hmmmm....
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. - Alan Watts
If you think that laws that prohibit adult consensual acts (like prostitution, taking drugs, polygamy, etc.) are a big ol' waste of government time and money, then read Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do - even if you don't agree with all the points, the author takes such a light tone you can't help but chuckle - and I've only browsed through one chapter so far - LOL.
For a long time now we've been looking for 'reality creation' stuff like t-shirts and bumper stickers, but have found hardly anything (which surprised us for some reason - you know when you're really into something but it's not mainstream and you finally REALIZE it consciously? - LOL) - and that's when we found cafepress.com. (Thanks Sharon!) All we've had to do is come up with our own designs and they do the rest - and so that's what we did. WARNING - SHAMELESS PROMOTION AHEAD!!! Stop by the Conscious Creation Stuff page for t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and mousepads with a couple interesting designs, with more to come!
Watched the season finale of last season's X-Files yesterday - missed it the first time around. I was really glad to see how much they really tied in a TON of the details from past shows as I was worried they were just writing scripts AROUND the actors to continue the series - sure they have to do that but it was still a good show. AND I had an X-Files dream last night. I was Skully - it was dark and we were investigating this strange small town. We were being followed and got inside this small INN lobby (very rustic). I replaced this large board in a wall that was supposed to be the door - just in time for someone to come along pounding on it trying to get in. (For some reason my fingers and hands seemed like miniature - but that's a tangent.) I yelled for Mulder to help, but even then the aggressor was getting his fingers in, even though we'd pound them. Then he was in - but the INNkeeper knew about him and had something ready for him. It was this pile of MEAT on the table that immediately distracted this guy, who looked rather normal, but was overjoyed and in X-Files humor fashion said to Skully, "Hello - uh, pardon me for a moment, but I have to do this..." And then he went tearing gleefully into the meat. He would have done the same to Skully and Mulder if the meat wasn't there. So then we were investigating around town and there was a vegetarian man who was claiming the meat guy was from the devil and vegetarianism was the ONLY way to go - he produced rice for a living. The local sheriff picked up one of the bags he was filling and saw a lot of flies and bugs in it and just said, "Yeah right." - Apparently the vegetarian guy had a few 'issues' as well. Anyway - it was a little like the rancher/nomeatcult episode, combined with that 'burger boy' episode, but the point was that they guy HAD to eat the meat - he needed it AND he enjoyed it to an extreme. Just as the vegetarian enjoyed HIS way of life, but to an extreme as well. I guess it was really about any kind of EXTREMELY POLARIZED belief systems - and you can't have one without the other - two ends of the same stick. But the dream was also inferring that there were other answers outside the polarity, but these two guys had defined themselves with the polarity and wouldn't be ready to let go any time soon. Anyway - in my dream it was really well written. *grin*
I'm PRETTY sure that Bob the Angry Flower doesn't WANT to believe in predestination... but he just hasn't gotten the hang of LIVING IN THE NOW yet, I imagine. *grin*
If you're tired of the old basic HTML (hyper text markup language) coding, make way for MRML... Mind Reading Markup Language - the wave of the future - gives a whole new dimension to the internet! *grin*
We've been robbed! Okay, well maybe "robbed" is too strong - but the weatherman (ahem - METEOROLOGIST) promised that it would rain all through the night and it clearly did NOT do that. Sure, everything's still wet and turning greener by the second... but they said RAIN! LOL - as I'm typing this and suddenly the room starts getting darker. I look outside and the clouds are getting thicker... now THAT'S more LIKE it! *grin*
