tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79034101571500611322024-02-21T01:44:30.600-08:00SmartyPants196SmartyPants196 will tell you what she thinks about all kinds of political, social and feminist subjects. Don't ask if you're not ready for the answer. She is a SmartyPants.SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.comBlogger283125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-1945988005275247802022-12-07T15:58:00.002-08:002022-12-07T15:58:29.828-08:00Joni Mitchell in London in 1974<p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZ3j4DQLVk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZ3j4DQLVk</a> If you have an hour or more sit back and see Joni Mitchell play her music on her guitar, piano, and dulcimer. She has such spirit and sings like a meadowlark.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjedHRH5LAFRur9qgRviiBSj7z9SqHx4o_usSa6HTCGpnl6wOkXRrWPgxLKsg7oDUmTX_3a_GLka3P8ilH4EjAFUHnUeqAE0gYSB8oQg8_rbvbEtHxhYfk_gQIYsLQbcxpARz0aYgcy39o8XS89j2eU_7wHcRhuDjf9kj9QvXateOkxn8oDGV4IfJ8bDw/s960/Joni%20Mitchell%2075.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="717" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjedHRH5LAFRur9qgRviiBSj7z9SqHx4o_usSa6HTCGpnl6wOkXRrWPgxLKsg7oDUmTX_3a_GLka3P8ilH4EjAFUHnUeqAE0gYSB8oQg8_rbvbEtHxhYfk_gQIYsLQbcxpARz0aYgcy39o8XS89j2eU_7wHcRhuDjf9kj9QvXateOkxn8oDGV4IfJ8bDw/s320/Joni%20Mitchell%2075.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><br /><p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-9627331167288226192022-12-03T16:53:00.000-08:002022-12-03T16:53:04.469-08:00The song "Nellova" is about a birth control pill I had a bad reaction to<p> <a href="https://dianedevillers.bandcamp.com/track/nellova">https://dianedevillers.bandcamp.com/track/nellova</a> from my cd 'Camas Swale" produced by Craig from Riffraff production. Mark plays lead guitar on most of them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO8SWRbAO49K1k1jwVUYtCFt53HOJ3YaNzEjt8dFjtgVt2-vBjIoYmUzjQXlrGcjMG9DIWAODqLONGcq9RxzfsehBo8VJDZLhdmqXyJqQkqoWmQ07136aziNAIVH_SM2h2FonsXtG82OrgPB0a_SSA-bTOkO-vLieCnCuE5iphN0n9mC-ZXT-rSoN5Jg/s1124/Cave%20with%20hotsprings%20in%20OR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="843" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO8SWRbAO49K1k1jwVUYtCFt53HOJ3YaNzEjt8dFjtgVt2-vBjIoYmUzjQXlrGcjMG9DIWAODqLONGcq9RxzfsehBo8VJDZLhdmqXyJqQkqoWmQ07136aziNAIVH_SM2h2FonsXtG82OrgPB0a_SSA-bTOkO-vLieCnCuE5iphN0n9mC-ZXT-rSoN5Jg/s320/Cave%20with%20hotsprings%20in%20OR.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-11423545352481461972022-11-04T19:26:00.001-07:002022-11-04T19:26:12.729-07:00Sweet Article about Thankfulness<p> <a href="https://www.karengirlfriday.com/8-ingredients-for-a-thankful-heart/">https://www.karengirlfriday.com/8-ingredients-for-a-thankful-heart/</a> when you are getting ready for thanksgiving this article will make you smile. We all have something or someone to be thankful for</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0pp15w3ISSwuE6aCTDJMYdqLlzU-H3JYU1LoA73ZnDA8CpTapUtLZLT2-lqKOeWI5NZwRcyMu-4CWq6rmm_pWT_Amv-LOX6jvzkhPJVhCbjAMH_KhkGSsKvZ_9G6fYoJJp8reH-rRWbhwZEt-HVGJ0BGh6A4Illi0kv07fYh8FI2IlICfM5W6PkhshA/s1000/9-poppy-dream-nailia-schwarz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1000" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0pp15w3ISSwuE6aCTDJMYdqLlzU-H3JYU1LoA73ZnDA8CpTapUtLZLT2-lqKOeWI5NZwRcyMu-4CWq6rmm_pWT_Amv-LOX6jvzkhPJVhCbjAMH_KhkGSsKvZ_9G6fYoJJp8reH-rRWbhwZEt-HVGJ0BGh6A4Illi0kv07fYh8FI2IlICfM5W6PkhshA/s320/9-poppy-dream-nailia-schwarz.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-5334212103120049142022-06-20T14:49:00.003-07:002022-06-20T14:49:52.054-07:00A teacher with a Gun is Like a Cook With Rat Poison<p> </p><div class="iv iw ix iy iz" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h1 class="pw-post-title ja jb jc bn jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm jn jo jp jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1fd4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.016em; line-height: 40px; margin: 0.6em 0px -0.27em;">A Teacher With a Gun Is Like a Cook With Rat Poison by Katherine Valentine</h1></div><div class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph jz jb jc bn b ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq co" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3387" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #757575; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.79em 0px -0.42em;">Do you like pink and blue AR-15s?</h2></div><figure class="ks kt ku kv gz kw gn go paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="kx ky dq kz cf la" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 692px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="gn go kr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1200px;"><img alt="" class="cf lb lc" height="473" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/700/1*jC1kKESwRIyIN4A0jkz2Pw.jpeg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 692px;" width="700" /></div></div><figcaption class="ld bm gp gn go le lf bn b bo bp co" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #757575; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;">Image from <a class="au lg" href="https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/285780827_2795640227248572_7794454504297033500_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=_lauAFlrFmEAX-SqovC&_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&oh=00_AT_3hP_VeKYcLJ1v1y6fU1eMnKV0X8Jz4i_ReTK-9Q40MA&oe=629FCEC8" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Facebook</a></figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1962" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">A teacher teaches; a gun kills. Teaching is not killing; killing is not teaching. In fact, one could say that killing is the very opposite of teaching.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="23e7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">We would not be talking about arming teachers if it were not for so many school shootings — <a class="au lg" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1101050970/2022-school-shootings-so-far" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">27 so far this year</a>. There would not be so many school shootings each year if it were not for gun manufacturers and distributors and the National Rifle Association. Gun manufacturers and distributors and the NRA would not be big business if there were not big profits to be made by selling guns.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2ea5" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">It’s all about selling guns, ammunition, body armor, holsters, concealed carriers, bore sights, cleaner kits, spare magazines and speed loaders, storage cases and gun safes, and ear protection. And more guns.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f03b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">And lots more profit.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="35fc" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Guns are not like bread. You eat up a loaf of bread in a week or so and then must either forgo sandwiches and toast or buy more bread. Manufacturers of bread are assured of continued profits. Meanwhile, there’s a Winchester 94 .30–30 1899 Lever Action Rifle from 1894 on sale right now that’ll still kill you. (I’m not going to link to the advertisement for safety reasons.) Gun manufacturers don’t mind if you collect an old weapon here and there, but to ensure their profits continue, they have to get you to buy the latest, in-style killing machine. The AR-15 will do it — you know, like the one that kid used on May 24 to kill 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Better yet, two.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c934" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Salvador Ramos, the shooter at Robb Elementary, has become an “influencer” in the killing industry! Like any influencer, he encourages people to buy products and thereby create profit for manufacturers and distributors. Like any recent AR-15 influencer, he creates profit for Colt, the manufacturer of this most popular (and profitable) rifle, and for <a class="au lg" href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/215666/number-of-federal-firearm-dealers-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20there%20were%2052%2C799%20federal%20firearm%20dealers,of%20firearm%20dealers%20has%20been%20decreasing%20since%201992." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">52,779</a> gun stores in this country. Ramos and the other AR-15 influencers do this by making us afraid for our safety and the safety of our children. We are now so terrified for our safety that we buy <a class="au lg" href="https://www.safehome.org/data/firearms-guns-statistics/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">20 million guns</a> a year and now live in a gun culture.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6677" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">So now at school, we want to arm teachers.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f64e" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Think about this for a moment. Which of the teachers you had would you have wanted up in front of your glass in body armor with weapon in holster and gun finger at the ready?</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b1d3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Would it be Miss Summers? Remember her coming into second-grade class that day with a basket of daisies from her garden? She gave a lovely flower to every boy and girl in class. No, Miss Summers loved everybody, probably even if they had an AR-15. She could never shoot anybody.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7282" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">How about Mr. Frasier? Mr. Frasier once picked up a boy and turned him completely upside down to demonstrate what “invert” means. But when he wasn’t inverting fifth-grade boys and fractions, we could see that Mr. Frasier had this tremor in his hands. He might have shot the wrong person.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1dd0" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Then there was Mrs. Barkley, who really did bark in high-school English class when anybody began a paragraph in an essay with “But.” But Mrs. Barkley once called Abie a “Jewboy,” and she always gave him a bad grade. No, arming Miss Barkley would surely be like giving the cook rat poison.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8f0d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Think back. Do you remember any teacher you had who would have been capable of protecting students with a gun? I can’t. Besides, the idea of arming teachers so the gun industry can continue to rake in big profits really is the stupidest idea ever.</p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph lh li jc lj b lk ll kd lm ln lo kg lp lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc iv gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f805" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;">Or maybe you agree with Ted Cruz — you know, that senator who’s been bought by the gun lobby — that the best protection from gun violence is more guns. Well then, after the next school shooting, you’ll probably be talking about arming not only the teachers but all the students, too. I’ll bet Colt will be happy to produce a backpack-sized lighter-weight version of the popular killing machine, in pink for girls and blue for boys. Maybe they’ll call it the MAR-15 (M for mini).</p></div><div class="o dz sp up ih uq" role="separator" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); display: flex; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 32px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 24px;"></div>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-1804392090075984502022-05-21T17:11:00.002-07:002022-05-21T17:11:27.213-07:00The 13 characteristics of a Pure Soul<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #484848; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">A few of the main characteristics of a Pure Soul are:</span></p><ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #484848; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 25px 25px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">The Soul is full of infinite knowledge and vision. Hence, it can know and see everything. However, due to the deluding karmas sitting over the Soul, we are not able to grasp this infinite knowledge and vision until we attain Self-Realization. Param Pujya Dadashri says, the Pure Soul is in the form of light (of knowledge). On the basis of this light, the Soul is able to know the objects to be known. When all of its light is uncovered (i.e. if all the deluding karmas would be removed from over the Soul), we are able to know everything of the entire Universe i.e. we become Omniscient.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It is full of infinite energy and strength.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Further, it is the abode of infinite bliss i.e. permanent happiness. Those who have experienced the full state of the Self, feel constant happiness and joy radiating from within.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It is detached (asanga).</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It cannot be tainted (nirlep; unsmaerable).</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It is invisible.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It is formless (amurta).</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It is illuminating and indestructible.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It is eternal i.e. permanent. The Soul is never born nor does it ever die. It is the physical body that dies and takes rebirth.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It can expand and contract. For example, it expands in the elephant to the size of the elephant and contracts in an ant and becomes of the size of the ant’s body.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It is due to Soul that one can feel. The Soul is present throughout the body. Wherever you feel any sensation e.g. the prick of a pin, it is because the Soul is present there.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It is indivisible.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">It is immiscible. It never mixes with anything and loses its inherent properties. Its original properties always remain intact. For this reason, we are able to separate the Soul and the body and realize the Self.</li></ol><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #484848; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.9em; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Only when one understands the properties of the Soul, one can manifest and experience the Soul.</p><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #484848; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Self-realization</h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #484848; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.9em; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During the process of Self-Realization, we embark on our journey of understanding the properties of the Soul. As this understanding of various properties enhances, we are slowly able to separate the pure Self from the impure body complex; the impurities being in the form of anger, pride, deceit, and greed.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #484848; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.9em; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With this separation happening more and more frequently, we harness greater oneness with the real Self (the Pure Soul) and begin to experience its properties to some extent. For instance, you get an inkling of the property of infinite strength of the Soul when you are able to remain cool and untouched amidst adverse situations that are painful. You get the flavor of the detached, permanent and blissful state of the Soul when you observe how the worldly things that bring pain or pleasure in life, come and go away after some time, displaying their temporary nature.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #484848; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.9em; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus, after Self-Realization, as we remain more and more one with the Self, we slowly but surely begin to experience each characteristic of the Soul in a greater degree. After Self-Realization, with the real vision gained from Gnani, as we start seeing the living beings around us as Pure Souls, our interactions with them start becoming pure. And simultaneously, our awareness of, ‘I am a Pure Soul’ also increases.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #484848; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.9em; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From Savana East Dada Bogwan</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhoHHj2h6OlLj0L-HBgMXCzqNumSCKtHE2wwTypo1ss8uOBYoPLe4MmNF6Xmc_Rl1pUpzRJmo50JFghjXk3yqhPO2ujt3UjhiDfF8zmz6qJy_1Yx3SYU0BQDsBsdMw_yr0HKJ15xOBIF4gk-soi7lGK3MbPOx6BabV1Xiy5RJW_k4VxN3ddEcrDhEx4g/s1124/Cave%20with%20hotsprings%20in%20OR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="843" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhoHHj2h6OlLj0L-HBgMXCzqNumSCKtHE2wwTypo1ss8uOBYoPLe4MmNF6Xmc_Rl1pUpzRJmo50JFghjXk3yqhPO2ujt3UjhiDfF8zmz6qJy_1Yx3SYU0BQDsBsdMw_yr0HKJ15xOBIF4gk-soi7lGK3MbPOx6BabV1Xiy5RJW_k4VxN3ddEcrDhEx4g/s320/Cave%20with%20hotsprings%20in%20OR.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div class="g g-25" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #484848; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px auto; outline: none; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"></div>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-3626488703758452682022-04-22T19:24:00.001-07:002022-04-22T19:24:19.137-07:00How to Live in the Moment<p> </p><div class="styles_editorWrapper__StjJ8" style="background-color: #fafafe; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><div id="editor-js-l2b895k5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="codex-editor" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="codex-editor__redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 300px;"><div class="ce-block ce-block--focused" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">Dr. Carmen Harra is a renowned intuitive psychologist, best-selling author, radio show host, relationship expert, and TV personality. Combining incredible...</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">MINDFULNESS</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><h3 class="ce-header" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px 3px;">6 Mindful Habits For Better Mental Health</h3></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 12px; width: 736px;"></div></div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">MINDFULNESS</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><h3 class="ce-header" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px 3px;">How To Mitigate Emotions In Unprecedented Times</h3></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">8 MINUTE READ<a href="https://blog.sivanaspirit.com/mf-gn-art-living-present/?_kx=dMho_VRuL0NjATNVXQDfTWFeKcBW4MYbzkD33nA5ROE%3D.Jv8pBH#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">Load More</a></div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><h1 class="ce-header" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px 3px;">The Art of Living In The Present</h1></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">By<a href="https://blog.sivanaspirit.com/author/carmenharra/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">Dr. Carmen Harra</a><a href="https://blog.sivanaspirit.com/category/mindfulness/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">MINDFULNESS</a></div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">After my husband passed, a whirl of past and future danced in my mind. The sad movie of every memory we shared played endlessly: there he was on the night we met, the wildly handsome young man with a heavy mustache. Enchanting. Then we were waltzing on the dance floor of the restaurant he owned, stepping into our new home, toasting across the dinner table, and cradling our baby daughter.</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">My heart was anywhere but in the present, oscillating between painful “what ifs” and still more painful “if onlys.” Doubt weighed down the hours. With time I realized that I had to release my sadness and reclaim my joy, and that I could do this only by detaching from what happened or might happen and diving into what was happening then and there. Being in tune with time is an art, a true skill. As with anything else, it requires self-mastery. But its rewards are invaluable: peace of mind and greater understanding. After all, you exist in this very moment, not one hour ago or in two weeks.</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">If you’re having trouble remaining present, take these seven actions to help return you to right now:</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><ul class="cdx-block cdx-list cdx-list--unordered" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px 0.4em 40px;"><li class="cdx-list__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5.5px 0px 5.5px 3px;">Don’t Try to Escape the Moment</li><li class="cdx-list__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5.5px 0px 5.5px 3px;">Embrace Your Pain</li><li class="cdx-list__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5.5px 0px 5.5px 3px;">Ground Yourself</li><li class="cdx-list__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5.5px 0px 5.5px 3px;">Project a Better Future</li><li class="cdx-list__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5.5px 0px 5.5px 3px;">Remember what Didn’t Go Wrong</li><li class="cdx-list__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5.5px 0px 5.5px 3px;">Welcome New Joys</li><li class="cdx-list__item" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 5.5px 0px 5.5px 3px;">Make Necessary Changes</li></ul></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><h2 class="ce-header" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px 3px;">Don’t Try to Escape the Moment</h2></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">Your present may involve much struggle and confusion, but trying to evade the situation won’t help you resolve it. Accept what’s happening with a calm mind and courageous heart. “Fighting the tide” will cause you to sink. Relinquish your resistance and fear; such emotions prolong your problems. You will be surprised at how powerful you’ll prove to be against the things that scare you the most. Your obligation to be present holds true through both good and bad, so stand tall and face each moment.</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><h2 class="ce-header" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px 3px;">Embrace Your Pain</h2></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">It’s okay to feel pain; it’s as much a part of life as every other emotion. Many people are afraid to hurt because they forget that suffering actually makes them stronger. Let your pain come and go, allowing it to run its course with no hesitation. Cry if you feel like it. Yell and beat a pillow if you’re upset. Pain is your most powerful emotion, in fact, since it strikes more deeply than other feelings. Pain fortifies you, each time with a new coat of endurance. Harness its full force by utilizing the creativity, ingenuity, and resourcefulness that come along with feeling hurt. After pain subsides, resilience blooms.</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><h2 class="ce-header" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px 3px;">Ground Yourself</h2></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">Refocus on the present when you feel yourself getting carried away by yesterday’s sorrows or tomorrow’s anxieties. Sit or stand with your feet planted firmly into the ground and clear your mind. If possible, stand outside barefoot and allow the energy from the earth to rise through you. Place your hands on something (a table, wall, tree, etc.). Concentrate on how that object feels, its surface, size, and texture. Run your palms across it. Inhale deeply and notice what you smell in the air: plants, food, a candle?</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">What do you hear: the TV, birds, kids playing? What do you taste on your tongue? Immerse your five senses in your surroundings to reel yourself back into the present. Understand that you need to be in no other place than where you are now.</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><h2 class="ce-header" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px 3px;">Project a Better Future</h2></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">No matter what you’re going through, you can always choose to envision a more positive future. This helps you feel in control of what’s to come instead of feeling anxious about it. Allow yourself to daydream, imagining the best possible outcome for your efforts and the most favorable resolution to your problems. Also, perform actions that are reflective of the good things you’re planning. If you have an upcoming interview, for example, buy yourself a brand new outfit in which you feel sharp and confident. Your mind is a magnet for the outside world, steadily pulling in your thoughts. Preparing for blessings to come increases their likelihood. As I like to say, reality reflects what the mind projects.</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><h2 class="ce-header" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px 3px;">Remember what Didn’t Go Wrong</h2></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">We’re quick to obsess over the bad and hesitant to admit the good. This causes a disproportion in our thoughts, placing emphasis on the heavy, fearful ones. Remind yourself of all the times you were divinely protected and spared from something truly bad. This will break the pattern of fretting over the future. You are the architect of your life and can influence its direction entirely once you’ve learned to calm your mind and control your thoughts.</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><h2 class="ce-header" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px 3px;">Welcome New Joys</h2></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">After my husband passed, I felt guilty when I wasn’t sad; it almost felt wrong to be happy without him. But I reminded myself that he wouldn’t want me to suffer, and slowly I reintegrated new reasons to be content. Allow happiness to return to you in new forms. Never put conditions on being in good spirits or having continued faith. Even if you’re experiencing health issues or financial burdens, you have many other sources of fulfillment. The ability to multiply and expand your happiness is entirely yours because joy is your birthright.</div></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><h2 class="ce-header" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.6em 0px 3px;">Make Necessary Changes</h2></div></div><div class="ce-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ce-block__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: background-color 0.15s ease 0s;"><div class="ce-paragraph cdx-block" data-placeholder="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0.4em 0px;">Change forces you to pay attention, remain present, and take action. There’s no better feeling after a difficult experience than a shift in scenery and environment. Don’t be afraid to make the improvements you’ve been putting off: move to a new location, get a better job, make different friends, and so on. Staying stuck in the same circumstances will leave you constantly reverting to the past. But seeking exciting possibilities and hopeful opportunities will teach you to honor this precious moment in time. Living in the present may not always be easy to do, but it will restore elements of incredible well-being. Integrate my seven tips above to embrace all of life’s moments and rediscover your joy right now.</div></div></div></div><div class="codex-editor-overlay" style="box-sizing: border-box; inset: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: fixed; z-index: 999;"><div class="codex-editor-overlay__container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; position: relative; z-index: 0;"></div></div><div class="ce-toolbar ce-toolbar--opened" style="box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 0px; transform: translate3d(0px, 72px, 0px); transition: opacity 0.1s ease 0s; will-change: opacity, transform;"><div class="ce-toolbar__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: unset; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="ce-toolbar__actions ce-toolbar__actions--opened" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; 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border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid rgb(232, 232, 235); box-shadow: rgba(13, 20, 33, 0.13) 0px 3px 15px -3px; box-sizing: border-box; left: 142px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 1833px; transform: translateX(-23px) translateY(8px) scale(0.9); transition: transform 0.15s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s, -webkit-transform 0.15s ease 0s; visibility: hidden; will-change: transform, opacity; z-index: 3;"><div class="ce-inline-toolbar__toggler-and-button-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 6px; width: 193px;"><div class="ce-inline-toolbar__dropdown" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; border-right: 1px solid rgba(201, 201, 204, 0.48); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-flex; height: 34px; margin: 0px 6px 0px -6px; padding: 0px 9px 0px 10px;"><div class="ce-inline-toolbar__dropdown-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><svg height="14" viewbox="0.2 -0.3 9 11.4" width="12" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M0 2.77V.92A1 1 0 01.2.28C.35.1.56 0 .83 0h7.66c.28.01.48.1.63.28.14.17.21.38.21.64v1.85c0 .26-.08.48-.23.66-.15.17-.37.26-.66.26-.28 0-.5-.09-.64-.26a1 1 0 01-.21-.66V1.69H5.6v7.58h.5c.25 0 .45.08.6.23.17.16.25.35.25.6s-.08.45-.24.6a.87.87 0 01-.62.22H3.21a.87.87 0 01-.61-.22.78.78 0 01-.24-.6c0-.25.08-.44.24-.6a.85.85 0 01.61-.23h.5V1.7H1.73v1.08c0 .26-.08.48-.23.66-.15.17-.37.26-.66.26-.28 0-.5-.09-.64-.26A1 1 0 010 2.77z"></path></svg></div><svg class="icon icon--toggler-down" height="13px" width="13px"><use xlink:href="#toggler-down" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"></use></svg></div><div class="ce-inline-toolbar__buttons" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1000" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHPnot8D26saCVciE08FTyGKHZWSNC9kIMvUxXopTjACJ3r2nuToTKgWLe_fqEvOPCgUwGr5PktVfiZs1yAaUKcfwDeetyi3rOelVc_QOOnqxNs9aJ8ExV_5j7UaKVB1wRQF1_gIGoMtk7K8lf4Jde6F4ia7lyk5vlAPoECp0MsRuab4f6OPL2EePVaw/s320/9-poppy-dream-nailia-schwarz.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-29054762930091136412022-04-16T19:41:00.001-07:002022-04-16T19:41:38.399-07:00Address Global Warming if not for the Children but for all our sakes<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-crisis-can-we-still-save-our-childrens-future-yogendra-sharma/">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-crisis-can-we-still-save-our-childrens-future-yogendra-sharma/</a> </p><p>We only have so many years before we could make our earth uninhabitable. Let's do it for the children of the world, leave them a world we'd want to live in. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbGG4XeWUDHa0d1HdD7-Zwy48KJ3E0mEJGJCtk_VxPAbgdvUawMSh3gNM79uOQEkuNFA2eu0MJrD-uNSHkZLxF9BgPq-21ngPEb6ymMcU8gPO4ExGwOu6GONynl5N46ZimHn8OI9bSu2rQgmxMogMUMJK1w-gkiTdwJ6XZOW0o6vqch7mRVvnOsADzA/s3696/Flicker%20female%20o%20%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3696" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbGG4XeWUDHa0d1HdD7-Zwy48KJ3E0mEJGJCtk_VxPAbgdvUawMSh3gNM79uOQEkuNFA2eu0MJrD-uNSHkZLxF9BgPq-21ngPEb6ymMcU8gPO4ExGwOu6GONynl5N46ZimHn8OI9bSu2rQgmxMogMUMJK1w-gkiTdwJ6XZOW0o6vqch7mRVvnOsADzA/s320/Flicker%20female%20o%20%20(1).JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-35232423142812488022022-03-23T19:44:00.001-07:002022-03-23T19:44:43.463-07:00Tireless founder of the Multiple Sclerosis Movement: Silvia Lawry's Story<p><a href="https://momentummagazineonline.com/tireless-crusader/">https://momentummagazineonline.com/tireless-crusader/</a> Silvia Lawry founded the MS movement and pushed her community for funds and research.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFAlYmspcQrzAetT1v9JBOt2X1GW5h3wbZEowjTZnxSP2UKuXNSbkJBNKBZ06sb9ehmXUXWLnBYtxQ_Jn9GGqHTFrHvnxbncyCGg-sGOnTzleChm-h155__jhEM_7xhyb1FdugcHM60YHI0foYCVjeXMVtKbPDYcCdy3hp6OoS6i_lhs1xgtmL8pSgBg/s4160/IMG_20211231_193619646.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFAlYmspcQrzAetT1v9JBOt2X1GW5h3wbZEowjTZnxSP2UKuXNSbkJBNKBZ06sb9ehmXUXWLnBYtxQ_Jn9GGqHTFrHvnxbncyCGg-sGOnTzleChm-h155__jhEM_7xhyb1FdugcHM60YHI0foYCVjeXMVtKbPDYcCdy3hp6OoS6i_lhs1xgtmL8pSgBg/s320/IMG_20211231_193619646.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-40537747875570734862022-03-23T19:20:00.001-07:002022-03-23T19:20:44.606-07:00Advice from an old Hillbilly<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Advice from An Old Hillbilly:</span></p><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Keep skunks, bankers, and politicians at a distance.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">The best sermons are lived, not preached.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Forgive your enemies; its what GOD says to do.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">If you don't take the time to do it right, you'll find the time to do it twice.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Don't corner something that is meaner than you.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">You cannot unsay a cruel word.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Every path has a few puddles.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Don't be banging your shin on a stool that's not in the way.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Borrowing trouble from the future doesn't deplete the supply.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t judge folks by their relatives.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Silence is sometimes the best answer.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Don‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin' you none.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">The biggest troublemaker you’ll ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin’.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Always drink upstream from the herd.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Good judgment comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgment.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.</div></div><div class="yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0cxmmr5t8 yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0oygrvhab yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0hcukyx3x yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0c1et5uql yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0o9v6fnle yiv4998703770ydp9baff1d0ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "UI Helvetica", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">Most times, it just gets down to common sense.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_KRG2cDq8jNSsCybKQwfML18oCBzeq5NJ1tvz-LzHDm5dxiOQ3S5UPUcje1DTkdCMp1ADvnXUZ_KnQ8__puxQ7A-UT_pZAA397tgM03QLML0R6ZKwI_Su6qer4a9wDkQLZkIAT_k_8gw1k-sFXRQmiaGnrIx1YIjPFa_4y7ayr81MNg4QdFBlXKmAEw/s480/Moon%20by%20Ron%20Evry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_KRG2cDq8jNSsCybKQwfML18oCBzeq5NJ1tvz-LzHDm5dxiOQ3S5UPUcje1DTkdCMp1ADvnXUZ_KnQ8__puxQ7A-UT_pZAA397tgM03QLML0R6ZKwI_Su6qer4a9wDkQLZkIAT_k_8gw1k-sFXRQmiaGnrIx1YIjPFa_4y7ayr81MNg4QdFBlXKmAEw/s320/Moon%20by%20Ron%20Evry.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-5518418966066490022022-03-14T17:01:00.002-07:002022-03-14T17:01:16.952-07:00Ever wonder just what Karma means? Here's your chance to learn about reaping what you sow.<p> <a href="https://blog.sivanaspirit.com/sp-gn-immutable-rules-karma/?utm_source=campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Blog%20-%203%2F14%2F22%20-%20karma%20%28UMcKAj%29&utm_content=sivana_blog&_kx=dMho_VRuL0NjATNVXQDfTWFeKcBW4MYbzkD33nA5ROE%3D.Jv8pBH">https://blog.sivanaspirit.com/sp-gn-immutable-rules-karma/?utm_source=campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Blog%20-%203%2F14%2F22%20-%20karma%20%28UMcKAj%29&utm_content=sivana_blog&_kx=dMho_VRuL0NjATNVXQDfTWFeKcBW4MYbzkD33nA5ROE%3D.Jv8pBH</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjY9lZ_20GsjJE5OLriKoINcP1LNfMzvCLOsfOblXFbhr5TE0fLQxdubHpEcBWTJ1wOMeDRPDmHZDUrvhItAOceM81-kHJvBWN5TS6yob3wYV0K3T-oLV9Wnt-PPZffVwimPV2f_5a-rDbUtkyLpYWyMmRLfp_ZDiVPq4rXIhAN_zwa63-ZrPgqKr9wg=s3696" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3696" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjY9lZ_20GsjJE5OLriKoINcP1LNfMzvCLOsfOblXFbhr5TE0fLQxdubHpEcBWTJ1wOMeDRPDmHZDUrvhItAOceM81-kHJvBWN5TS6yob3wYV0K3T-oLV9Wnt-PPZffVwimPV2f_5a-rDbUtkyLpYWyMmRLfp_ZDiVPq4rXIhAN_zwa63-ZrPgqKr9wg=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Wonder just what Karma means and how to get good karma? Read this article so that you can start a good path to reaping what you sow<p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-67497014306674056282022-03-13T16:02:00.000-07:002022-03-13T16:02:09.065-07:00<p> Great advice on how to write a good book description from the e-book company Draft2Digital that Smashwords authors are being switched over to.Check out my e-book 'From the Waters of Coyote Springs.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj85YkIIH3onGw3PznuIMU0gipxBObauuWVJ5b1PjJDzcSNS5c6uC7o-f0oxmYZ0Kx6mvU6wOgEyImC6qIAyNCALHqp2oDDlXZtQXF58Ck5BB2cWNGGV_hHRs7q_SmjDJpjQmjgpgPwNPszBnyXf3JtreGBu__bJLn1S5HYPG3tyAleSsRN04sGjruwng=s2500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj85YkIIH3onGw3PznuIMU0gipxBObauuWVJ5b1PjJDzcSNS5c6uC7o-f0oxmYZ0Kx6mvU6wOgEyImC6qIAyNCALHqp2oDDlXZtQXF58Ck5BB2cWNGGV_hHRs7q_SmjDJpjQmjgpgPwNPszBnyXf3JtreGBu__bJLn1S5HYPG3tyAleSsRN04sGjruwng=s320" width="195" /></a></div><br /> <a href="https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/capture-readers-with-better-book-descriptions-for-fiction/?vgo_ee=FKK6jQv0quBggXb6GOm0OA%3D%3D">https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/capture-readers-with-better-book-descriptions-for-fiction/?vgo_ee=FKK6jQv0quBggXb6GOm0OA%3D%3D</a> <p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0Oregon, USA43.8041334 -120.554201215.493899563821152 -155.7104512 72.11436723617885 -85.3979512tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-83353067361956294822022-03-06T20:02:00.001-08:002022-03-06T20:02:56.202-08:00Finding peace in these times of uncertainty. How to find out what is the truth<p><a href="https://www.thebespokediaries.com/post/identity-purpose-relevance?utm_source=so&cid=8eea78f4-aa33-48aa-9e3c-337094490026&utm_content=37f04fde-14be-45af-959e-7a012ec7e571&postId=5ba56934-fdc7-4f32-9dfc-2072d1d25e16&utm_campaign=7e9e3575-f634-4977-baae-91e1cd63e181&utm_medium=mail"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiizgagHZ_b4U2OlCs2-YCxA3NJQM-Z5LKp66ovMgnvRDeD2j9aK_B2U9wPrxeZhhKzL4gGG226-pxrhwKEh3Kq0Z1oy1JxVrwAnOX7aoch6I0Rp3W8JwkYQTfBTWXE6VRjsYCbMFLrL_lc96SMzIIN0HqXPKrQNc1Nuhyp6b9MqnxO0jqwCmOiEB5K9A=s700" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="700" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiizgagHZ_b4U2OlCs2-YCxA3NJQM-Z5LKp66ovMgnvRDeD2j9aK_B2U9wPrxeZhhKzL4gGG226-pxrhwKEh3Kq0Z1oy1JxVrwAnOX7aoch6I0Rp3W8JwkYQTfBTWXE6VRjsYCbMFLrL_lc96SMzIIN0HqXPKrQNc1Nuhyp6b9MqnxO0jqwCmOiEB5K9A=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />https://www.thebespokediaries.com/post/identity-purpose-relevance?utm_source=so&cid=8eea78f4-aa33-48aa-9e3c-337094490026&utm_content=37f04fde-14be-45af-959e-7a012ec7e571&postId=5ba56934-fdc7-4f32-9dfc-2072d1d25e16&utm_campaign=7e9e3575-f634-4977-baae-91e1cd63e181&utm_medium=mail In this world of uncertainty, we are faced with so many myths and lies. How do we find the real truth?<p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-41094685799594954012022-01-29T15:59:00.001-08:002022-01-29T15:59:26.703-08:00Anthony Hopkins Wise words about finding kind and loving people and letting go of the rest<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">I Need This In My Life</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">April 29, 2021 ·Wise words from Anthony Hopkins:</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">′′Let go the people who are not prepared to love you. This is the hardest thing you will have to do in your life and it will also be the most important thing. Stop having hard conversations with people who don't want change. Stop showing up for people who have no interest in your presence. I know your instinct is to do everything to earn the appreciation of those around you, but it's a boost that steals your time, energy, mental and physical health. When you begin to fight for a life with joy, interest and commitment, not everyone will be ready to follow you in this place. This doesn't mean you need to change what you are, it means you should let go of the people who aren't ready to accompany you. If you are excluded, insulted, forgotten or ignored by the people you give your time to, you don't do yourself a favor by continuing to offer your energy and your life. The truth is that you are not for everyone and not everyone is for you. That's what makes it so special when you meet people who reciprocate love. You will know how precious you are. The more time you spend trying to make yourself loved by someone who is unable to, the more time you waste depriving yourself of the possibility of this connection to someone else. There are billions of people on this planet and many of them will meet with you at your level of interest and commitment. The more you stay involved with people who use you as a pillow, a background option or a therapist for emotional healing, the longer you stay away from the community you want. Maybe if you stop showing up, you won't be wanted. Maybe if you stop trying, the relationship will end. Maybe if you stop texting your phone will stay dark for weeks. That doesn't mean you ruined the relationship, it means the only thing holding it back was the energy that only you gave to keep it. This is not love, it's attachment. It's wanting to give a chance to those who don't deserve it. You deserve so much, there are people who should not be in your life. The most valuable thing you have in your life is your time and energy, and both are limited. When you give your time and energy, it will define your existence. When you realize this, you begin to understand why you are so anxious when you spend time with people, in activities, places or situations that don't suit you and shouldn't be around you, your energy is stolen. You will begin to realize that the most important thing you can do for yourself and for everyone around you is to protect your energy more fiercely than anything else. Make your life a safe haven, in which only ′′compatible′′ people are allowed. You are not responsible for saving anyone. You are not responsible for convincing them to improve. It's not your work to exist for people and give your life to them! If you feel bad, if you feel compelled, you will be the root of all your problems, fearing that they will not return the favours you have granted. It's your only obligation to realize that you are the love of your destiny and accept the love you deserve. Decide that you deserve true friendship, commitment, true and complete love with healthy and prosperous people. Then wait and see how much everything begins to change. Don't waste time with people who are not worth it. Change will give you the love, the esteem, happiness and the protection you deserve. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797b77; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/greensky-bluegrass-absence-of-reason/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(150, 30, 35); box-sizing: border-box; color: #961e23; text-decoration-line: none;">https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/greensky-bluegrass-absence-of-reason/</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilOt_dT16WAVjZi82gRUX7LhvNkMbFVGDFr3zMwBMZHCBxDVU44sasx_t7sSAeVtExzdN2gTb07z6f0lIhXZy5oplV2oRXfCo-f5_sJ9HeR6VnoB7wEGrTiXCHRabEe-r0NapYkR3T-uxgS8xJmkcmdMZ2AMeCO2Hs2aNk7ryOiu8SSx01e9HfxMfHbQ=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1000" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilOt_dT16WAVjZi82gRUX7LhvNkMbFVGDFr3zMwBMZHCBxDVU44sasx_t7sSAeVtExzdN2gTb07z6f0lIhXZy5oplV2oRXfCo-f5_sJ9HeR6VnoB7wEGrTiXCHRabEe-r0NapYkR3T-uxgS8xJmkcmdMZ2AMeCO2Hs2aNk7ryOiu8SSx01e9HfxMfHbQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNnoCKC6O3bxwlYDD-cl40h78vDwjh0jG9Tdkm-DCxCBFHuEc9Ud5rKP-jb062BfQ7mQGTlPfgkFBXZWL2sJS8A5ieU2tDa6T_Gsj3o7_mNhVuJHIAKG80TGiJKA12Xh0G6f7l_yy7AzIvGllVDsfQadFMHFVmuk7Q8jB1kPh1k1GW1q-ZpROSKx6Fpg=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1000" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNnoCKC6O3bxwlYDD-cl40h78vDwjh0jG9Tdkm-DCxCBFHuEc9Ud5rKP-jb062BfQ7mQGTlPfgkFBXZWL2sJS8A5ieU2tDa6T_Gsj3o7_mNhVuJHIAKG80TGiJKA12Xh0G6f7l_yy7AzIvGllVDsfQadFMHFVmuk7Q8jB1kPh1k1GW1q-ZpROSKx6Fpg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-56507652971009692222021-11-09T11:40:00.000-08:002021-11-09T11:40:29.790-08:00How getting Multiple Sclerosis has been one of the best things that has happened to me. No, really.<p> <a href="https://www.worldpulse.com/community/users/girlpower/posts/101733">https://www.worldpulse.com/community/users/girlpower/posts/101733</a> Read my latest worldpulse post about why getting MS has turned out to be a good thing.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU6R816aTDlcG7cnXJ4NMCkMcnqa7aI-dPpTXI-dWHqnXCHuRrObx5MW7NJieEFKsLFx41sZtSjT8UoED6c4RTvUKtkdCuiMzIvudihV1rB8gx5UCT_qNRXoMiW7JTgjCemZ2Nryoll28h/s960/diane+the+dide+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU6R816aTDlcG7cnXJ4NMCkMcnqa7aI-dPpTXI-dWHqnXCHuRrObx5MW7NJieEFKsLFx41sZtSjT8UoED6c4RTvUKtkdCuiMzIvudihV1rB8gx5UCT_qNRXoMiW7JTgjCemZ2Nryoll28h/s320/diane+the+dide+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-2279598428342553502021-09-12T15:26:00.000-07:002021-09-12T15:26:03.724-07:00Twenty years ago, after 9-11 a thousand Oregonians flew to NYC to help after terrorist attack<p><a href="https://www.kezi.com/content/news/Woman-reflects-on-participating-in-Freedom-Flight--575292571.html">https://www.kezi.com/content/news/Woman-reflects-on-participating-in-Freedom-Flight--575292571.html</a> </p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-20702139613946438372021-06-21T19:33:00.001-07:002021-06-21T19:33:19.121-07:00Best Mandolin Playing I've ever seen. Bluegrass Greensky's "If Sorrows Swim"<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6-GYiA6Q4U&list=PLmDw6e9ij-_BqqXfrDucuEpkC9viUmggz&index=6">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6-GYiA6Q4U&list=PLmDw6e9ij-_BqqXfrDucuEpkC9viUmggz&index=6</a> This soulful, tight group shines on in every song you hear. The songs about conflicts of modern age and the love songs of the millennials. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwomesegY82yqCS7Pr_ygbWO7aQUPK3rWSzNuhYL84C6ARR0PnWCNDwxJdvN_09UcQZO95h3czDRMmat4jb4rtxzM7oD0P7DDfnO21PwEUfV8tLH6T0LCyQ5yAi9n1AswlXZIc8iQcfeI/s1440/Oxilus+and+Angel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwomesegY82yqCS7Pr_ygbWO7aQUPK3rWSzNuhYL84C6ARR0PnWCNDwxJdvN_09UcQZO95h3czDRMmat4jb4rtxzM7oD0P7DDfnO21PwEUfV8tLH6T0LCyQ5yAi9n1AswlXZIc8iQcfeI/s320/Oxilus+and+Angel.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-36534976540118799962021-04-23T11:57:00.001-07:002021-04-23T11:57:33.802-07:0010 Health Benefits of Apple Pectin You Should Know<a href="https://naturalremedyideas.com/apple-pectin/">10 Health Benefits of Apple Pectin You Should Know</a>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-79706427062881624722021-04-12T16:58:00.002-07:002021-04-12T16:58:54.098-07:00America: Golden Country Your Face is so Red<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #59626a; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">REO Speedwagon Golden Country relevant in the 70's and 2021</span></p><span class="ShortLink__link___1y5y7" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #168eea; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="41mc6-1-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">https://buff.ly/3tfwE2W</span></span><span data-offset-key="41mc6-2-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #59626a; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /><br /></span></span><div><span data-offset-key="41mc6-2-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #59626a; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span data-offset-key="41mc6-2-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #59626a; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">and with one kickin solo
Golden country your face is so red
With all of your money your poor can be fed
You strut around and you flirt with disaster
Never really carin' just what comes after
Well </span></span><span class="Highlighter__highlighted___1fgpH" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #ffcccc; color: #59626a; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="41mc6-3-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">your blacks are dyin' but your back is still turned
And your freaks are cryin' but your back is still turned
You better stop your hidin or your country will burn
The time has come for you my friend
To all this ugliness we must put an end
Before we leave we must make a stand
Mortgage people you crawl to your homes
Your security lies in your bed of white foam
You act concerned but then why turn away
When a lady was raped on your doorstep today
Well your blacks are cryin' but your back is still turned
And your freaks are dyin' but your back is still turned
You better stop your hidin or your country will burn
The time has come for you my friend
To all this ugliness we must put an end
Before we leave we must make a stand, oh yeah...
(Solo)
Golden country your face is so red
With all of your money your poor can be fed
You strut around and you flirt with disaster
Never really carin' just what comes after
Well your blacks are dyin' but your back is still turned
And your freaks are cryin' but your back is still turned
You better stop your hidin or your country will burn
The time has come for you my friend
To all this ugliness we must put an end
Before we leave we must make a stand</span></span></div><div><span class="Highlighter__highlighted___1fgpH" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #ffcccc; color: #59626a; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="41mc6-3-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Highlighter__highlighted___1fgpH" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #ffcccc; color: #59626a; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbRevcpwtbK0jTQpHA1lzGFIr_wijjDJQRKk5z4LwxmzRDSAoHhGF11IOdrWis3OtlKkvnaFX7UAFHcwL6LUz6sQzEZINpFSIFpjpReeTJXkcIl6lrE_sTkrsDOWfdd5155oNHGqyKACZT/s2048/Capital+Storm+abrewing+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1374" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbRevcpwtbK0jTQpHA1lzGFIr_wijjDJQRKk5z4LwxmzRDSAoHhGF11IOdrWis3OtlKkvnaFX7UAFHcwL6LUz6sQzEZINpFSIFpjpReeTJXkcIl6lrE_sTkrsDOWfdd5155oNHGqyKACZT/s320/Capital+Storm+abrewing+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span data-offset-key="41mc6-3-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br /></span></span></div>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-14302190780045503662021-04-08T19:45:00.001-07:002021-04-08T19:45:10.877-07:00"Goodbye 2020" a profound song about the storm we call Covid 19 by Sheri Nicole Proffitt<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvTYJN3u0U4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvTYJN3u0U4</a> </p><p>This profound song by Sheri Nicole Proffitt is kickin and so meaning ful about the storm we call Covid 19. This should go viral.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHKUMgT81xO3dZhbdnpHdD8euhBDHGpyqOg85uYFe254mrAa8eUoz4pvUm9zoqcNxjMLgQTQP8t-k_qR6kcbVEDeCEIaDsBAq1heVOVNxcW615iQTKg04d9SS5yiX8qrIBoscG4C36Uo6/s1000/Denmark+storm.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHKUMgT81xO3dZhbdnpHdD8euhBDHGpyqOg85uYFe254mrAa8eUoz4pvUm9zoqcNxjMLgQTQP8t-k_qR6kcbVEDeCEIaDsBAq1heVOVNxcW615iQTKg04d9SS5yiX8qrIBoscG4C36Uo6/s320/Denmark+storm.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-71775428034874742282021-03-04T19:47:00.001-08:002021-03-04T19:47:29.600-08:00Father and Daughter both publish books<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoMmhSmjPUyHv28KuJnz3uGIlR7JMV3ebojEOU8esBy1xtK0KuQnZQ6K7dweBinr7bkS1JumC74Iv6nRZUpP13LOFhXAsNqW_J0DLFSUge5o1Zq-oQpcfOF7kn4qFA8snFZghTHtLWvkz/s2048/Cover-Coyote+Springs-resized.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1248" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoMmhSmjPUyHv28KuJnz3uGIlR7JMV3ebojEOU8esBy1xtK0KuQnZQ6K7dweBinr7bkS1JumC74Iv6nRZUpP13LOFhXAsNqW_J0DLFSUge5o1Zq-oQpcfOF7kn4qFA8snFZghTHtLWvkz/s320/Cover-Coyote+Springs-resized.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My father
and I published our books, books that are very different in subject matter, his
book “The Stone Horse & Droshki is a historical novel about the Korean and
Afghanistan War, highly researched and reads like a Tom Clancy novel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My book
“The Eve Chronicles” is a contemporary fictionalized memoir about when I first
moved to Oregon and lived in the Wallowa Mountain working as a timber cruiser
for the Forest Service. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">“The
Stone Horse & Droshki” by Ken De Villers</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is also a story of enduring
love. <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">It’s an adventure historical novel, the memoirs of Colonel General
Yuri Danilov, the son of an American Sioux Indian and a Ukrainian
Mother. Master spy for the Soviet KGB. Top Gun fighter pilot in the
Korean, Vietnam and the Soviet Afghanistan wars. Privy to the internal
workings of the Soviet Union’s Politburo. Also a story of love and
devotion between Yuri and the beautiful Japanese-Russian Eiko Haraoka.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My book
is called “<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The Eve Chronicles” by Diane DeVillers</span></b>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">The
paperback book is three novellas, inspired by the author’s own journals about
her relationships, life, and work in the forests of Oregon, comprise The Eve
Chronicles.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">The
first book is called “From the Waters of Coyote Springs”: Eve searches for
meaning to her life while working in the forest of the Wallowa Mountains in
Oregon. Living in her tent she spends the day doing timber inventory for the
Forest Service. Five other mismatched foresters live in the camp with her.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Felix
and Eve: Felix hires Eve; he’s a cantankerous elderly man who needs
round-the-clock nursing care. She’s a live-in-the-moment type of person. Once
Felix accepts her, he tells of his relationship with the notorious gangster, Al
Capone in Chicago during the 1930s.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">The
Arrangement: Each year under a special arrangement Eve spends the summer on
Catalina Island with Sid, a retired college Professor and Eve’s former lover,
who has a debilitating type of Multiple Sclerosis. An irony is that the author,
having left the forests to work with people as a caregiver, was later diagnosed
with Multiple Sclerosis. This afforded her the opportunity to retire early and
focus on writing.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The three
eBooks are available at Smashwords.com or Amazon.com or any other site that
sells eBooks. The paperback book is available on Amazon and books stores that
can access the Ingram Catalog.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFTRQHBH0Tue41bH9fVm0Y-v5w-zVEMw2IIbJG_97Hs4XDb6pabo2-i7x1x89xzYlpoG_Pn0ZwWtICOFjll-BQyLceiP-c4-2rQUpWPMHXS-m07ZON2aXlyVEDXvYB8w1E7wqlHdlUJs4T/s2048/back+cover+for+dads+paperback+dec++2013+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1384" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFTRQHBH0Tue41bH9fVm0Y-v5w-zVEMw2IIbJG_97Hs4XDb6pabo2-i7x1x89xzYlpoG_Pn0ZwWtICOFjll-BQyLceiP-c4-2rQUpWPMHXS-m07ZON2aXlyVEDXvYB8w1E7wqlHdlUJs4T/s320/back+cover+for+dads+paperback+dec++2013+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-57284175685670987232021-02-28T19:50:00.001-08:002021-02-28T19:50:04.702-08:00A short story by Alexandar Tomov<p> </p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="pybr56ya dati1w0a hv4rvrfc n851cfcs btwxx1t3 j83agx80 ll8tlv6m" style="align-items: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-top: 12px;"><div class="buofh1pr" style="flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; 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display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Firekeeper - short story</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">...In the fall, darkness comes quickly in the evening. Once twilight settles in, the people almost imperceptibly disperse from the park’s pretty walking path, thinking about the next day and the bright future as they walk away. But at the far end of the path, standing by a small fire, the firekeeper always remains. A man with an ancient face, he’s constantly gazing at the flames. Rarely does anyone muster up the courage to venture out to him after it’s already dark. And yet tonight, a strange woman walks down the path and goes up to him in the darkness.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“What are you here for, madam?” he asks, without looking at her.“You know why I’m here. Everybody knows what you do. I want you to burn away my past…”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“You know that I only burn away the kind of past that is so black that it can’t be forgotten, the kind that haunts people until their final breath. Otherwise, I don’t bother. It’s not worth it.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“My past is more black than all the rest,” the woman says, as she fixes the flames with her strange eyes.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The firekeeper smiles.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“That’s what everybody thinks. I’ve been doing this job for about 400 years now, madam. I’ve burned away people’s pasts so terrifying, you can’t even imagine. You know what the price is, though,” he speaks slowly and tosses some pieces of wood into the fire.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The woman’s eyes tear up.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“I suspect. You’d want to know…”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“You’re wrong, madam. I don’t want to know anything, and yet, I still get to see it all. This is one of the eternal laws that govern firekeepers like me, whose job it is to burn away the dark past. When I throw one’s past into this fire, even if I don’t want to, I get to see it all,” his eyes widen in amazement.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Couldn’t we find a way around this? What if you kept your eyes closed, for example?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“I can’t, madam. I’m only human, after all, and I can’t help my curiosity. But don’t you worry. I keep everything I see to myself. That’s the other eternal law. I don’t have the right to discuss other people’s pasts.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Don’t you ever break these laws?” the woman asks and sits down on the bench next to him.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Are we going to do this or not?” for the first and only time, his green eyes pause briefly at her beautiful face.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Will I remember anything afterward?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“You’ll remember everything, but only as a set of images, as fiction. The emotions of the memories that haunt you in the present and determine your future will burn away in the flames, once and for all.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Once and for all,” the woman repeats.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Yes. Once and for all. Once they burn away, they’re never coming back. That’s what all of you people with a black past want, isn’t it?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“What else?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“I’ve met people who are so selfish that they come to get the black memories that haunt them burned away, but as soon as I scorch them, they start regretting having them burned, realizing that evil was, after all, a part of their soul. That’s why I always warn people in advance. Once I burn away your past, there’s no going back.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Just do it, please,” the woman says quietly.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Alright. Just give me a sign,” he says, as he throws another piece of wood into the flames.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“What should I do?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Put your hand out in front of you. After that, open up your palm and together with it your heart, then watch as your recent and your most distant memories’ ghosts get engulfed in flames…”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Slowly, she stands up in the darkness and complies with the condition.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Incredible… your past really does burn away very slowly, and it’s so black. So very black. Let’s see what’s in the flames… blood, jealously, violence, perversion, greed… my god… you’re… your own…”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Please, just let me know when it’s all burnt away.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Just a moment… it’s done. It’s all dead now.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She sighs in the darkness.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“And what’s the future really like, firekeeper?” she asks him.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Most commonly, it’s an unconscious reflection of the past,” he replies and smiles, as the woman walks away and down the path through the darkness.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Translated from the Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQhEqsIi1qPnMEyDugyKkim1bWLPM4QXA_9x6tIIzzvEIXCTWEdrULH_ZUTIo7T-odxBLhtBU6AxCdpR38OLjYnk7zhfqi6Q0awdENyILiy-Wr1YrzonvSPq1SWzxE7k0D_KHlilMcdoW/s540/swan+t.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQhEqsIi1qPnMEyDugyKkim1bWLPM4QXA_9x6tIIzzvEIXCTWEdrULH_ZUTIo7T-odxBLhtBU6AxCdpR38OLjYnk7zhfqi6Q0awdENyILiy-Wr1YrzonvSPq1SWzxE7k0D_KHlilMcdoW/s320/swan+t.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-25393727157919555692021-02-27T19:55:00.001-08:002021-02-27T19:55:07.446-08:002 Much 2 Soon a song about our love affair<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2aRFtV72BeU/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/2aRFtV72BeU" frameborder="0"></iframe>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-78504582494581724762021-02-04T21:35:00.000-08:002021-02-04T21:35:03.600-08:00John Amo's "We were Hippies" video <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLtoq64jLfI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLtoq64jLfI</a> Got some time to enjoy John Amos's "We were Hippies" video? </p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-64459091883919565632020-12-28T20:05:00.001-08:002020-12-28T20:05:23.745-08:00Father of 88 years and Daughter 63 both publish books<p> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">My father and I published our books, books that are very different in subject matter, his is a historical novel about the Korean and Afghanistan War, highly researched and reads like Tom Clancy novel.</span></p><div id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85186" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 34px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_DyERWl52nT5xdTCZ2uhPGIZGMJi8G_hGRVBtjhE1bW6fXVW6rFVdMMZ9LT5_lHHjPKLDktcIkGw5hXkgNSnOuG8kcbJDUaQysB0GNXSqpSjrii1-ddgIOirzQrAM0qzMgv67uVgQv2wo/s2048/cover+for+proof.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1384" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_DyERWl52nT5xdTCZ2uhPGIZGMJi8G_hGRVBtjhE1bW6fXVW6rFVdMMZ9LT5_lHHjPKLDktcIkGw5hXkgNSnOuG8kcbJDUaQysB0GNXSqpSjrii1-ddgIOirzQrAM0qzMgv67uVgQv2wo/s320/cover+for+proof.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85186" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 34px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85187" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Stone Horse & Droshki” by Ken De Villers</span> is also a story of enduring love. <span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85188" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s an adventure historical novel, the memoirs of Colonel General Yuri </span><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85189" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Danilov, the son of an American Sioux Indian and a Ukrainian Mother. </span><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85190" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Master spy for the Soviet KGB. </span><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85191" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Top Gun fighter pilot in the Korean, </span><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85192" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vietnam and the Soviet Afghanistan wars. Privy to the internal workings of the</span><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85193" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Soviet Union’s Politburo. Also a story of love and devotion between </span><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85194" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yuri and the beautiful Japanese-Russian Eiko Haraoka.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLmWakP1U0e0jljfk8gUzdTgS5gcJXPYJwu0EkrEX0WzuL-e1hJ93F7BhuPd9Xe1gZZZL6UYyUexWGT1MTbR469LJX_cMfmYdjNVTINeLFWEG1wQbYBshnaRKfFfHqg7RQb8Ha-3RV_BCU/s2048/The+Eve+Chronicles+cover-final+oct+10+2013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1451" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLmWakP1U0e0jljfk8gUzdTgS5gcJXPYJwu0EkrEX0WzuL-e1hJ93F7BhuPd9Xe1gZZZL6UYyUexWGT1MTbR469LJX_cMfmYdjNVTINeLFWEG1wQbYBshnaRKfFfHqg7RQb8Ha-3RV_BCU/s320/The+Eve+Chronicles+cover-final+oct+10+2013.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: left;">My book is called “</span><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85196" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The Eve Chronicles” by Diane DeVillers</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: left;">:</span></div></span></div><div id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85197" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 34px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85198" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The paperback book is three novellas, inspired by the author’s own journals about her relationships, life, and work in the forests of Oregon, comprise The Eve Chronicles.</span></div><div id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85199" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 34px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85200" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first book is called “From the Waters of Coyote Springs”: Eve searches for meaning to her life while working in the forest of the Wallowa Mountains in Oregon. Living in her tent she spends the day doing timber inventory for the Forest Service. Five other mismatched foresters live in the camp with her.</span></div><div id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85201" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 34px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85202" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Felix and Eve: Felix hires Eve; he’s a cantankerous elderly man who needs round-the-clock nursing care. She’s a live-in-the-moment type of person. Once Felix accepts her, he tells of his relationship with the notorious gangster, Al Capone in Chicago during the 1930s.</span></div><div id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85203" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 34px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85204" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Arrangement: Each year under a special arrangement Eve spends the summer on Catalina Island with Sid, a retired college Professor and Eve’s former lover, who has a debilitating type of Multiple Sclerosis. An irony is that the author, having left the forests to work with people as a caregiver, was later diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. This afforded her the opportunity to retire early and focus on writing.</span></div><div id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85205" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 34px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The three eBooks are available at Smashwords.com or Amazon.com or any other site that sells eBooks. The paperback book is available on Amazon and books stores that can access the Ingram Catalog.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv3035953931ydpcef5a0c0yiv5093959487yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1557972948809_85206" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 34px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0Oregon, USA43.8041334 -120.554201215.493899563821152 -155.7104512 72.11436723617885 -85.3979512tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903410157150061132.post-81319336166602459962020-11-19T16:37:00.001-08:002020-11-19T16:37:11.769-08:00Ancient Story, a very short short story<p><a href="https://www.wattpad.com/user/dianedevillers22/conversations">https://www.wattpad.com/user/dianedevillers22/conversations</a> I found this story in my dide's writing file and haven't thought about it in decades. It's real short but it's a story that could have been anytime in history. About a woman who is close to giving birth.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3q_jFCPY7QK-Wg59Qr5vteIH8k_McTHgXjhrnGqD2VsBijn4dmHs9NM1VX2pkIzWu8VEl9IIOzNcalKxJfsWkRMcw7T8T88LNpE0dwwq8m4kJDKGm9gDJfjntPbKZXpmC_U8QHKUP5Kqy/s960/_Riverside+in+Oregon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3q_jFCPY7QK-Wg59Qr5vteIH8k_McTHgXjhrnGqD2VsBijn4dmHs9NM1VX2pkIzWu8VEl9IIOzNcalKxJfsWkRMcw7T8T88LNpE0dwwq8m4kJDKGm9gDJfjntPbKZXpmC_U8QHKUP5Kqy/s320/_Riverside+in+Oregon.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>SmartyPants196http://www.blogger.com/profile/16917385418230126646noreply@blogger.com0