I haven't been posting any news lately because frankly it's all the same stuff. BUT... I loved this story of a paper mill that's reusing it's steam and creating its own (and more) electricity, particularly with all the stupid 'power crunch' stuff here in California. Very cool.
posted:9:46 AM | link |

"Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."
-- ?schylus (525-456 BC)
-- Greek tragic dramatist
posted:9:39 AM | link |

Hey, John's a model! *grin* Take a look see:
Cerridwen's Closet: Pirate Shirt - that's our backyard there too.
posted:9:36 AM | link |

I dreamt last night that I had a discussion about creativity with Mike Nesmith (yes, the Monkee with the knit hat - LOL) and woke up with these song lyrics in my head:

"I know that something very strange is happenin' to my brain.
I'm either feeling very good or else I am insane."
-Sweet Young Thing, The Monkees

Story of my life - LOL.
posted:8:35 AM | link |

I think it's really funny that when you simply don't agree with someone else you suddenly "have issues" with them, and you "can't see the truth". But I think the other people just get pissed because you really ARE just shrugging them off - not giving them any energy, and when they have a mission to change the world or convince everyone of something, you're really screwing up their plans - LOL.

Here's a recipe for feeling powerless... believe you must make everybody else do or think the same way. Might go well with a side dish of frustration.
posted:7:47 AM | link |

I think I've been dealing with some deep issues, mostly in my sleep, and last night, I finished them. It's weird because, although I was feeling the energy of these issues, they didn't seem to apply TOO directly to my life right here and now. In some ways, it's like a memory from the past that comes up to be finally resolved - but it doesn't have a LOT to do with your current life - only bits and pieces or a similar basic framework. Last night I slept for like 10-11 hours and dreamt deeply about these emotional issues and ideas - well, anyway, I woke up feeling like something had changed for the better, and I like that feeling, of course. I'm still trying to figure this out though, so pardon me if this entry is a little vague - LOL.
posted:9:16 AM | link |

It rained last night and is raining now, on and off. It's wonderful. I know, I post about how wonderful the rain is everytime it rains - get over it. It's still wonderful. The outside has that damp, earthy smell instead of a dry dusty smell - ahhhhhh.
posted:9:12 AM | link |

"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."
-- Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (1889-1977)
-- British-born actor, director, producer
posted:7:44 AM | link |

LOL - well I figured out what I felt "was coming" yesterday. The bull. THREE more times. First time, tom and I (John was at work) went out there and made sure he kept moving. Second time (he came back - the barn up the road apparently doesn't have much to hold his interest) I was in the shower and tom had to shoo him along with the shovel. He jumped over the fence to the bull's side to move him along, and then jumped back rather quickly - heh heh - but it worked. Third time, *tom* was in the shower and I had to stand guard while the bull roamed closer. I waved around our broom (I watched our rancher neighbor who's like 5 feet tall MAYBE herd cattle while walking along, just using a long stick) and made noise - the noise seemed to do more. The bull moved from one pasture fence to another, so I was running back and forth, always telling him "NO!" and "Move along, nothing to see here." Then tom was back and we both stood at the fences. The poor bull - we both got the feeling that he was just grumbling, vocally, AND in mood. Finally, he moved off down the road and back into the hills more. Egad! Hope he stays there!
posted:7:43 AM | link |

You know that feeling when you KNOW something is coming, but it's not manifested yet? It's a very intuitive thing. It could be a big thing or just a small change kinda thing. Or it could just be a creative thing, like an urge to draw something. It's basically like the first conscious awareness of something emerging from the ethers - LOL. Anyway - I have that right now. It can be a little distracting sometimes to say the least - heh heh.
posted:9:56 AM | link |

It's kinda funny how when you set out an intention to create something (using reality creation) you say, for instance, "I want to create this specific color of paint in order to finish this painting I'm working on." And then when you go to the store, that paint is sitting right there - sometimes even on sale. Or sometimes it even shows up as a gift or hand-off from a friend - something like that - a little more unexpected. But what's interesting is that we have been trained VERY well to think that if we WANT that paint in the store, we must have a job, to have money to BUY that paint.

And the road back to trusting intention and impulses/intuition, like you did with the paint, to guide you to the money as well, is a tough one. But sometimes you just gotta admit to yourself, "Yes, I do believe I will need money in order to do such and such." and you gotta stop trying to work AROUND it. We're used to looking through the structure of money creation into the smaller arena of creating 'other' things. Because the ability to create money through intention and intuition changes the entire playing field. It changes all the dramas we've set up (well, most of them.) It changes the core beliefs we've set up around who we think we are. It changes all SORTS of stuff. It changes our understanding of our own sense of POWER.

Think about it. Let's say you're really good at, for instance, running into a person that you need to talk to, just when you need to talk to them - either at work or outside of the work environment - doesn't matter. That's an unconscious but fluidly functioning use of intention and then following your intuitions/impulses. Now, let's say you can do that when you need MONEY that you don't currently have in order to finish a project and your impulses just tell you to go sit in a park. That's where the control issues come up, eh? We've been taught to think that there are only a few specific ways that money comes in, but the universe has no such restrictions, so why should WE believe in them? I mean - it's like the idea of "acting professional" - SOMEONE first decided what that meant, and everyone else just accepts it in due course. But its not an absolute at all, and maybe, just maybe, if you asked yourself, YOU would run a business QUITE differently, eh? ... Just some deep thoughts this Sunday morning - LOL.
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