I am too blessed to be stressed
and too anointed to be disappointed!
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...the fire still burns...
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Birthday Tree - Olive
Olive, The Wisdom, loves sun, warmth and kind feelings, reasonable, balanced, avoids aggression and violence, tolerant, cheerful, calm, well-developed sense of justice, sensitive, empathic, free of jealousy, loves to read and the company of sophisticated people.
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My Interests: GOD, My Family, Living in a earth-based society that is ecologically founded (on THIS planet? wish me luck!), The Arts, The Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Natural Medicine, Horticulture, Computers, Internet, Marketing & Promotions, Pets, Crafts, Painting, Sculpture.
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"The greatness of a nation, and its moral progress, can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~ Gandhi ~
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We must all begin the work of healing our planet.
Here are some things you can do to begin:
Buy locally grown and produced foods.
Buy organic foods.
Buy products that are Fair Trade Certified.
Wear vintage & recycled clothing.
Look for sustainable fabrics such as organic cotton,
hemp, bamboo and lycocell (tree fiber).
Purchase non-toxic cleaning products. Use natural fiber sponges and cleaning agents that are biodegradable, phosphate-free, chlorine-free, and unscented.
Reduce paper use. Use rags instead of paper towels; cloth napkins instead of paper ones. Buy post-consumer recycled paper and recycle it when you've used it.
Refurbish responsibly. Use water-based or vegetable-based paints, stains, and varnishes. Don't wash paint thinners, household cleaners, oil, or pesticides down the drain or pour them on the ground; use them up, give leftovers to friends or a charity, or dispose at your local toxic waste disposal center.
Repair instead of replace. Reupholster furniture. Resole your shoes.
Replace disposable goods with renewable ones. Buy rechargeable batteries. Use dishes instead of paper plates.
Plant for the planet. Strengthen your garden's resistance to pests by planting resilient plants, by rotating the fruits and vegetables you plant, and by attracting friendly bugs to prey on the pesky ones.
When your appliances aren't on, they're still using electricity. Plug as many of your electronic appliances as possible into a power strip, and turn off the power strip when not in use.
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Music
Acoustic, Ambient, Classical, Contemporary Native American, Metal, New Age, Pop, Rock, Hard Rock, Reggae, Smooth Jazz... actually, I listen to just about everything. (And I LUV good tribute bands!) All time favorite artists: Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin, Marc Bolan/T. Rex, Michael Jackson, Russ Ballard, Tommy James and The Shondells, Joe Satriani, Collective Soul, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gravity Kills, Free/Paul Rodgers/Bad Company, Virgos Merlot, Gary Wright, Steve & Dave Gordon, Fluke, Lift, Gizmo, BFE, sHeavy, Collide... and Musical Starstreams (Love you, Forest!)
R.I.P. MJ
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Movies
THE MATRIX, THE MATRIX RELOADED, THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS... QUEEN OF THE DAMNED... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE... HARRY POTTER (all)... BLADE, BLADE 2, BLADE TRINITY... THE CROW... THE RING, THE RING TWO... STAR TREK (entire catalog)... LOTR... DUNE... PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN... TERMINATOR, T2, T3...
A CORPSE BRIDE... CONSTANTINE... DOGMA... GHOST RIDER... ERAGON...
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It was Socrates who wrote, “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
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Television
I don't see much TV anymore (it generally annoys the beegeezuz outta me), but I have always been a Trekkie, and love Doctor WHO (I met Jon Pertwee!)... most other sci fi programs, including Space 1999, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica... I'm hooked on Dog Whisperer (Cesar Millan rocks!)... and I always seem to park it on the educational channels when all else fails; Animal Planet, History Channel, and Nat Geo being my faves... but I make time for Prisonbreak, Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fringe, 24, House, Bones, Doctor WHO, Smallville, and Supernatural.
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Books
The Bible, Anne Rice, Frank Herbert, Anne MacCaffrey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Isaac Asimov, Dr. John Gray, Maya Angelou, Susun Weed, Scott Cunningham, JK Rawlings, Carl Sagan, Paramahansa Yogananda, and so many many more.
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I will light the match of smiles. My gloom veil will disappear. I shall behold my soul in the light of my smiles, hidden behind the accumulated darkness of ages. When I find myself, I shall race through all hearts with the torch of my soul-smiles. My heart will smile first, then my eyes and my face. Every body-part will shine in the light of smiles.
I will run amid the thickets of melancholy hearts and make a bonfire of all sorrows. I am the irresistible fire of smiles. I will fan myself with the breeze of God-joy and blaze my way through the darkness of all minds. My smiles will convey His smiles and whoever meets me will catch a whiff of my divine joy. I will carry fragrant purifying torches of smiles for all hearts.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda ~
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Heroes
YESHUA, my dad, my mom, my husband, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Susun S. Weed, Eric Draven, The Vampire Lestat, Sarah Connor, Neo and Trinity
I love to separate this from that, as Vasalisa did during her stay with Baba Yaga in the chicken-footed house. Separating this from that — making piles of similar things — helps me make sense of the complicated world I inhabit.
Separating this from that especially helps me make sense of medicine. What to do with all the modalities, methods, and manners of healing? I sort them into seven medicines, based on their safety. This helps me maintain and regain health simply and safely.
The first four medicines — serenity medicine, story medicine, energy medicine, and lifestyle medicine — build health. The more we actively engage in them throughout our lives, the healthier we will be. The last three medicines — herbal medicine, pharmaceutical medicine, and hi-tech medicine — are life-saving in emergencies, but undermine overall health.
Serenity Medicine
The safest way to heal is to let Nature do the work. This requires nothing from us. And the more nothing we can provide, the more effective serenity medicine is. Unplug the phone, leave the computer turned off, enter the silence, cultivate acceptance, abandon the mind’s ceaseless control, and be here now.
Story Medicine
The stories we tell ourselves, according to my mentor Jean Houston, create our lives and thus our health. What are the stories you tell yourself about your life and your health? This is story medicine.
When we seek diagnosis we are looking for story medicine. Different healers offer very different kinds of story medicine. Receiving information from people telling different stories can be very confusing, until we see the sameness in their stories.
I sort story medicine into Scientific, Heroic, and Wise Woman types: Something is broken and needs to be fixed (Scientific). Something is toxic and needs to be cleansed (Heroic). Something lacks nourishment and wants to be whole (Wise Woman).
Story medicine is information medicine. Information alone may be heartless, however. So we open ourselves to wisdom and intuition, to our unreasonable fears and longings, even as we search the internet and seek second opinions in story medicine.
Hands-off diagnosis is much less likely harm the questioner than — and in skilled hands as good as — x-rays, CAT scans, radioactive tracers, and exploratory surgery.
Energy Medicine
Chi, ki, veriditas, kundalini, life force, orgone, wankan tanka . . . even if we can’t measure it or see it, we know there is an energy that animates and heals. Ways to use this energy are as myriad as our ability to imagine.
Hands-off healing, laying on of hands, Reiki, Muriel, comfort touch . . . we sense this energy in our hands and in the hands of healers. We know we can use the power of our intention to help direct this energy.
Homeopathy, flower essences, gem stone elixirs, mojo bags, rituals and ceremonies . . . energy medicine gives us physical things to focus our intention on, to help us envision our health, our healing, our reality.
Sound healing, color healing, art therapy, drumming . . . energy is vibration and vibration can heal. Resonance gathers our wholeness. Prayer, chanting, kirtan, focused meditation, visualizations... energy medicine attunes us to health.
Did someone say placebo? I’m fine with that. Instead of energy medicine I could call it placebo medicine. It still works, as science as shown us. And since placebo medicine does so little harm, I’m all for it.
Lifestyle Medicine
Nourishment and activity are the core physical components of health.
We nourish ourselves with all our senses. Nourishment occurs in single instances. The specifics of nourishment have been argued by Americans for hundreds of years, with no particular winners. My simple rules for superb nourishment: Eat foods without ingredients. Eat locally. Eat widely. Avoid high-fructose corn syrup, enriched flour, all soy foods except miso and tamari, and all oils pressed from seeds.
Tonification builds functioning, unlike stimulus, which erodes it. Tonification is rhythmic and, for best results, occurs regularly and repeatedly. Daily is usually too much for most people. Muscles are strengthened by being torn; they need several days rest to recover and gain tone.
Herbalists are especially likely to confuse stimulation and tonification.
Herbal Medicine
Herbal medicine does not stand alone here, nor is all of herbal medicine encompassed in this section. Nourishing herbal infusions and most herbal vinegars, for instance, are part of lifestyle medicine.
The medicines here stimulate and sedate. They include hydrotherapy, many massage therapies, and acupuncture, as well as herbal medicine.
I break this section into ten smaller sections so my sorting can give me more information on safety and make my choices easier. (1) Motherwort tincture sedates and tones, (2) skullcap tincture sedates and nourishes, (3) chamomile tea mildly sedates, (4) catnip tea sedates, (5) passion flower tincture can sedate strongly, (6) hops tea very strongly sedates and may be mildly addictive, (7) valerian root tincture sedates strongly and can be very addictive, (8) poppy head tea is a strong, addictive sedative, but it is not a narcotic, neither is the potent sedative (9) wild lettuce sap, but (10) poppy sap/opium is a narcotic.
Pharmaceutical Medicine
Morphine and heroin are drugs made from poppies; they are part of pharmaceutical medicine. I define a drug as something that does not grow out of the ground (thus opium is not a drug) and cannot be made in your kitchen. I include vitamin and mineral supplements and essential oils in pharmaceutical medicine.
Hi-Tech Medicine
So useful. So enticing. So dangerous.
Here we break boundaries: We stick our finger down our throats, we break our child’s will, we run fluids up into our intestines (enemas and colonics), we control our feelings with psychoactive drugs, we open our bodies with surgery, injections pierce our skin.
So useful. So enticing. So dangerous.
Set a Time Limit
I have arranged the medicines according to the harms they are likely to cause, how likely those harms is, and how severe those harms may be. But all bets are off unless you set a time limit for working with each medicine. Neither rushing into hi-tech medicine, nor procrastinating about acting, will support optimum health.
For best results, when I have a problem, I start with serenity medicine. If I am not “well” in the appointed time, I go on to story medicine and again set a time limit. Without time limits it is easy to get pulled into frustrating repetitions of non-diagnosis and clashing opinions. Become your own expert; write your own story. And use the tools of energy medicine to make it real, within your time limit, of course. Change your diet if you need do; exercise more. But don’t be afraid to use herbal medicine when your time limit there is through. And do go on to drugs if herbs don’t do what you need in the time you set.
Sometimes surgery and hi-tech saves the day, but set a time limit on this, for sure.
In emergencies, I use all the medicines at once. Sorting them this way helps me cover all my bases instead of say, doing ten different energy medicines. All the medicines at once is integrative medicine, and it can work wonders in my experience. Just remember to set a time limit for leaving daily use of herbal, pharmaceutical, and hi-tech medicines behind and relying on health building with serenity, story, energy, and lifestyle medicines.
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What you have called heaven, too, is a state of being.
It is the experience of Oneness,
the ecstasy of reunification with All That Is.
It is the knowing of the true self.
There are no requirements for heaven.
That is because heaven is not a place that you get to,
it is a place that you are in, always.
Yet you can be in heaven (Oneness with All)
and not know it.
Indeed, most of you are.
This can be changed, but not by something you are doing.
It can only be changed by something that you are being.
This is what is meant by:
There is nothing you have to do.
There is nothing to do but be.
And there is nothing to be but One.
~~| Neale Donald Walsch, Communion With God p. 148 |~~
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About me:
Originally from Houston TX, graduated high school in Austin TX, currently based in Arlington (DFW) TX... started out in Fine Arts, Graphic Arts, Music, and Horticulture - your basic treehuggin' hippy chick "MIT" (Muse In Training) who dreamed of a ecologically sound commune in the mountains... first job experiences were in radio promotions, moved into programming and on-air talent, then on to a major record label where I started in promotions, moved into A&R, basically decided artists deserved better and left the industry to pursue a career in graphic design and marketing... took time off to have three awesome kids (born at home, no less) who are now all growing into beautiful young people whose company I love most (you can see them in my Top 24)... during my time as a "stay-at-home" mom, I studied holistic health for nine years and became a Master certified Herbalist and Practitioner... my love of music, art, promotions, production, event planning, and creative people drew me back into the entertainment industry... been bustin' my rear to make a difference in the world ever since... here's a run down of what I'm into currently:
INFINITE SOURCE PRODUCTIONS, my own company established in 1985, providing an array of creative services, event production, promotions & marketing, stage & touring management, and talent buying/booking as well as representing exceptional original music artists like GIZMO and LIFT as well as some of the best tribute acts in Texas such as the legendary SWAN SONG - A Tribute to Led Zeppelin, BEBE LE STRANGE - A Tribute to Heart, KOZMIC THRILLS - The Ultimate Janis Joplin Experience, SOUL SACRIFICE - The Santana Tribute, THE PURPLE PROJECT - A Tribute to Deep Purple, THE ONE PERCENT BAND - A rockin' Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute, and several more.
Talent Coordinator, TEXAS GUN AND GUITAR SHOW
Talent Buyer, TEXAS POP FEST
Talent Buyer, TRINITY RIVER FIESTA
Graphic Arts Director, TEXAS MUSICIANS MUSEUM
Staff Member, STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN REMEMBRANCE RIDE & CONCERT
Producer, ROCK THE DEAD, A Day of the Dead Festival
Entertainment Director, NORTH TEXAS ROCK RALLY, where I worked with the best crew imaginable as well as many national music artists, over 100 local and regional artists, plus 20+ well-known motorcycle builders. Some of those music artists included TED NUGENT, JERRY CANTRELL, SEVEN MARY THREE, WARRANT, STEPHEN PEARCY (RATT), SKID ROW, FOGHAT, BAD COMPANY (BRIAN HOWE), GEORGIA SATELLITES, RICK DERRINGER, PAT TRAVERS, MARK FARNER (GRAND FUNK), JACKYL, DAVID ALLAN COE, JIMMIE VAN ZANT, MOLLY HATCHET, BILLY JOE SHAVER, PAULINE REESE, AUSTIN ALLSUP, and others.
Some of you may remember me from past projects like:
Editor/co-Producer, THE SOUND magazine online (1999-2004)
A-Muse of the Muses of Sound Live Web Radio Show on Musicians.net (2000-2001)
Director/Organizer, One World Beat Global Music Festival DFW, oneworldbeat.org (2004)
and back to ancient times in Houston TX: MCA Records, KRLY, KODA, Southwest Art Magazine, and Texas Art Supply
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Keeping time with the Hammer of the Gods since 1999
"Matched with stage persona and instrumental mastery,
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of the Led Zeppelin classics. Craig Zerba's reverence of the Jimmy Page roots offers savage satisfaction coupled with
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Swan Song doesn't just tributize Led Zeppelin,
they transcend it."
--North Texas Music Exchange
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Who I'd like to meet: Jesus, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Baldwin (John Paul Jones), Anne Rice, Albert Einstein, Frank Herbert, Krishna, Paramahansa Yogananda, Marc Bolan, Gary Wright, Susun S. Weed, Anne MacCaffrey, Carl Sagan, Johnny Depp, Stuart Townsend, JK Rawlings, Linda Runyon, and many more independent intelligent creatives to weave a more beautiful and peaceful world with...
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One of the most important ecological influences on our environmentalism was the great biologist Barry Commoner. His important insights included the four laws of ecology, as written in The Closing Circle in 1971:
1. Everything is Connected to Everything Else. There is one ecosphere for all living organisms and what affects one, affects all.
2. Everything Must Go Somewhere. There is no "waste" in nature and there is no "away" to which things can be thrown.
3. Nature Knows Best. Humankind has fashioned technology to improve upon nature, but such change in a natural system is, says Commoner, "likely to be detrimental to that system."
4. There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. In nature, both sides of the equation must balance, for every gain there is a cost, and all debts are eventually paid.
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Our new album is almost out!! You can preview it at www.adrianrocks.com/preorder anyhoo.. Heather made our video for the first single off the album. This song is co-written by Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's. Neat huh? She has produced our whole album called BFD. It's fabulous. So I wanted to share the video with you.
Hello, I Hope you and yours are doing great Just dropping by to invite you to... A Benefit Concert For Missing Child Haleigh Cummings Details On My Profile Saturday October 17,2009
OO Ranch 1001 FM 969 Bastrop,Texas 78602
My band Fate Train and I Will be performing songs from my current CD"Has Anybody Seen Me"and the new CD"A Way to Fly"....