A lot of manufacturers talk about how wonderful a car-installed GPS (global positioning system) would be for being able to find your car if someone stole it. But isn't that one of the FIRST THINGS a car thief would be LOOKING TO DISABLE in new cars now? Weren't key-starts and door locks and car alarms ALSO supposed to be theft deterrents? LOL.
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I couldn't get to sleep last night, but didn't feel like getting up, so I spent a few HOURS laying there, playing with shirt designs in my head. See, I'd found this really interesting mottled crushed stretch velvet fabric in a store the other day, but didn't get any because I didn't know what I would use it for. I may not have gotten any sleep, but now I've got a good excuse to go buy a few yards of that fabric! LOL.
posted:11:02 AM | link |

THIS is certainly an interesting perspective on the recent bout of virus attacks and Microsoft and internet protocols. Hmmmm.
posted:9:05 AM | link |

Perspective really is everything. For instance, since we cannot burn our trash during the dry season, it kinda accumulates until we can take it to the local dump. And it looks like SO much, particularly in our smallish living area. And then we pack it in the Honda Civic and it STILL looks like so much. And then we get to the dump and unload it all and it looks like so very, very little, next to the quite larger pile we are tossing it into, and looks totally inconsequential next to the full extend of the land fill itself (which is kept EXTREMELY neat and kept up, particularly for a DUMP!). And during the rainy season when we CAN burn it, a whole lot of trash burns down rather quickly into a very little amount of ash. I don't know what it all means on a metaphysical or ecological level, but there you go. (Side note: whenever we go to the dump I keep my eyes out for old boxes of "Mr. Sparkle" - *grin*)
posted:11:59 AM | link |

Many of you know that I am a huge fan of "The Goonies". Well, I can barely contain myself... first, the DVD with the deleted scenes and commentary and stuff is coming out on August 21st (the amazon link) (now all I need is a DVD player - DOH!), AND I just heard that they are going to be making a sequel AND all of the original goonies are going to be in it! WOO HOO!!! Through my surfing I came across The Goonies web site (probably made by one of the biggest fans of all times - LOL) and found this picture, which I'm borrowing for a bit - it's all of the goonies NOW, including Richard Donner. *grin*


posted:1:42 PM | link |

Funniest headline I've seen in a while, accompanied by a rather amusing article as well: 'Ladyboy' Breasts Go Missing *grin*
posted:9:32 AM | link |

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. Click here, and make sure your browser is Java enabled - may take a little while to download on a dialup connection.
posted:2:58 PM | link |

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."
-- Bruce Barton (1886-1967), American writer, congressman
posted:8:27 AM | link |

Personal power, by its very nature, isn't something that can be given to you. If someone 'gives' you power they can take it away just as well. Power is something that you must TAKE. (Note: not FROM others, just take, assume, include, etc.) A friend of mine told me that when she was raising her small daughter, she used to give her daughter similar commands that she gave to her dogs. And when her daughter was old/aware enough to say, "Why are you treating me like the dogs?" then she stopped doing it.

It's also easy to get caught up either in the questioning of power 'out there' or in the struggle to attain it - if you rely on getting outside confirmation or acceptance of this change. The questioning or struggle CAN helpful in that you become really aware of the situation and perhaps build a lot of strength in the process. But the struggle is not the solution, it's not what will create you as powerful.

Power is a mindset. Power is the ability to set out intention and make decisions and know they will come about. Power is getting all of your own energy aligned so that you're not fighting against or doubting yourself (or struggling with yourself 'out there' in the world at all either.) And when you step into 'power' (or being able to do what you couldn't before, for instance) you are deciding to become this new person who holds these new attitudes and energy.

No one will tell you that its okay to step out of your old self and into the new one - well, no one with any REAL authority since you're the only REAL authority. And you can spend as much time gathering your energy as you like, but eventually it WILL become obvious to you that the time has come to choose - and that you're ready to NOT get sidetracked by old thoughts or distracted by dramas or take another spin around the endless circular platform you've been playing on for a while now.

The paradox here is interesting. If you've been assuming this outward or other authority OUT THERE, THAT is the challenge to be overcome, the assuming of your OWN authority in your life. It's not about getting permission to change - that wouldn't actually change the framework at all, would it! *evil grin*

So, are you ready? And, if you said yes, did you feel like you MEANT it? And if you did, then let's go - there's a lot more to do. ;-)
posted:11:37 AM | link |

I like to call this image, cryptically, "Green Nuts". *grin* The one on the left is a walnut from the walnut trees out front and is about the size of a golf ball. The image on the right contains two green acorns from a live-oak tree in our yard - they are each about the size of the end section of a pinkie finger.

The links at the top of the page there are now functional! At the moment, most of the sub-pages there (except 'food' and the individual gallery pages) are modeled after the design on this page, but probably won't be like that forever. But in general, now you've got more to 'browse' here than before, and I've also added two links to the 'weblogs' section in the left column as well.

Oh, and Happy Birthday to my old friend Sara, who I haven't connected with in a long, long time, but who I always think of on August 5. :-)
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