froggy

About me:

I am Choctaw. An enrolled member of the Great Choctaw Nation.

Following in my ancestors footsteps, I am an aspiring
healer, studying hard.
"I am convinced that the universe is under the control
of
a Loving purpose. And that in the struggle for
righteousness man has Cosmic Companionship. Behind the
harsh appearance of the world there is a Benign Power."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Life is a serial lesson that must be lived to be learned."
Froggy~~

"He pressed his Master time and time again to explain the secret to him. The Master replied "Whatever I speak still belongs to me. Experience is the only teacher worth following. Go, and let the current carry you and enlighten you."


"love is wild, its whole beauty is in its wildness. it comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers. It comes on its own remains as long as existence wills it and just as it had come one day, as a stranger, as a guest, suddenly one day it is gone.' there is no way to cling to it, no way to hold it."
~~Osho
"When I was a kid, I wanted to be Sampson. Later, I realized that the lust to be a superman weakens us.
In fact, lusting after anything is a 'dis-ease',
because it ia all an illusion."
Froggy~~


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I Served in the U.S. Navy. And I was a part of history.
I was there during the early atomic bomb tests.
Participated in Operation Hardtack in which we set off 13
Atomic bombs. Some less than four miles away. And we
were aware that, as Bob Dylan famously sang: "The
times they are a changing.">br>
Seeing a nuclear explosion in the movies or on TV is one
thing. Seeing one up close and personal is a
terrifying experience. And I don't mean as an officer back
in the bunkers, or away off in the distance on the
flag ship. I mean close. The white out is nearly
blinding, even with your eyes closed and your
forearm pressed against your eyes. You could see
through your arm.. see the bone. Shine a flashlight
through your hand sometime. You'll have a
dim idea of what I mean.
I still have nightmares of 'white outs'. Afterwards, dead
fish floating as far as the eye can see. And every
man jack of us knowing that the world had just
changed. Forever.
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A long time businessman, I was the volunteer director in
the late eighties of an apprenticeship program for
street people for 6 and a half years. We taught
them the trade of wood working. We took no donations of any
kind and paid the students and the overhead with
money we received for the products we showed them
how to build. Office furniture. The quality was
legendary and the prices were unremarkable.
So it can be done without panhandling the government or
begging from the populace. Of course myself and the staff
were unpaid, so that helped. We paid the
apprentices minimum wage while they learned. And of
course the regular woodworkers were paid also.
We had 18 success stories out of 200 apprentices over 6.5
yrs... it seems a low %. .. so many drifted back into
drugs and the street scene before they graduated from
the program. The call of the wild is powerful.
After six and a half years without a paycheck, I had to go
back to work. lol.
Now a days I sell the shelters you see below.

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we are designer creatures. Some one, or some thing, designed us. We are Not the Architects of our own design. There-fore, what ever we are, how ever we are, is how we were designed. But we are malleable and can rise above our hardwiring.. hopefully I have. Time will tell.

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"So it is that every person you meet, each soul who crosses
your path and affects you - wonderfully and terribly,
briefly or for a lifetime - is here for that reason, and
every relationship you engage in is but a small scene in a
vast, ever-unfolding human panoply that is being endlessly
enacted for the purpose of your soul's development. When
you recognize this, you will suddenly, breathtakingly see
that each person has been brought to you with a high and
elegant purpose, that each soul has come to touch your soul
and teach it, that each relationship exists to hasten your
own soul's beautiful awakening. No longer is anyone a
tranger; no longer can any of your relationships be seen as
failures or mistakes." Daphne Rose Kingman~~ ====================================================================================

Poet, writer, philosopher, ex-power lifter, (I tied a
national record that stood for nine years.) Sailor,etc.
I am now a gentler soul.
Business man, father, dog trainer, sold a dog to Bill
Shatner..oh yeah, I did lunch with Captain Kirk! :o)

Met Johnny Cash and Bill Monroe one night in Port Hueneme
at a place called Roses Cantina. Pissed Johnny off by
dancing with his girlfriend while he was in the back
room signing autographs for the guys.. ;o)
I thought his girlfriend was a lot more interesting than
his autograph. lol.

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Sales trainer, wood worker, I've been a mechanic,
electrician, plumber, driver, bodyguard, salesman,
cook, maintenance worker, salesman/advertising agency
owner, ofc furniture mfg/retailer, fund raiser,
carpenter, bicycle retailer. Had one of the
first water bed stores in the pacific northwest. We
sold them in retail stores, fairs, home shows and flea
markets, had a booking agency in Portland, made
the first light shows set to stage musicians
instruments, trained dogs for people all over the world,
worked as crisis phone op on suicide line, had a fix it
shop doing repairs on just about anything, reorganized
a nightclub/restaurant into a profitable biz, back from
the brink of bankruptcy, made a million dollars and lost
it. Made four people wealthy. Worked at a carnival
guessing weights. Worked for a while finding lost
people and things. Restored pickups and classic cars,
built performance engines (as a business owner), made
signs,
contracted farm labor crews for farmers, designed, wrote
copy, and directed and produced and appeared in
television commercials. etc. restorer of antique autos,
etc. You name it, I've probably done it. 'Rich
man, poor man, beggar man thief. Dr, Lawyer, Indian
Chief.'
I was in the cotton fields when I was six. And setting
spikes in the cherry orchards when I was nine. Bucking
spuds and hay in the fields at 12. Working as a
carpenter at fifteen.

============================================================================================ I have been asked about the hat in some of my pics...
I am an enrolled member of the Choctaw tribe so I guess I
came by the Cowboys and Indians image honestly.
My Grandfather was gifted mystically or spiritually, what
ever you want to call it.. He dowsed for water
successfully and was something of a 'knower' as well.
I remember my Grandfather telling me that,
although he was strong, that he could not bend his
grandfathers bow. How we have declined as warriors over
the decades. lol. Before the white man came with
the horse, Indians would run down their game on foot!
Just keep chasing and tracking a deer until it dropped
from exhaustion!

We catch glimpses of what we were when we hear stories of
the woman who lifts a car off her child that is pinned
under it in an accident. I think our minds keep
us trapped in this pale shadow of a reality.
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Grand father was also was a bit of a seer into peoples
problems. What you might call a medicine man type of
guy.. I try to follow in his footsteps, and am working
on healing at the present time.
I have had some success's with people and animals. Nothing
to get me on Larry King Live, but enough to encourage
me to continue in my healer quest.

I make no claims to heal people or animals. It is their own
immune system that does that. When people tell me
they are a healer and they can actually heal other
people, I always invite them to go to Children's
Hospital with me to liberate some kids from their
wheel chairs. That usually shuts them up. lol.


Keep in mind that ALL healing, is done by the patients own
immune system, not the healer.
A healers tools are primarily used to distract the patient.
but sometimes, tools that have been touched
by a master hands, have vibrational characteristics
that have been known to enhance a persons faith.
"It is not me that has healed thee, but thy faith".
Although it is
possible to realign the spine and other chiropractic
techniques to ease pain..but to actually banish a
serious disease from a patients body is beyond the
power of any 'healer' living today.. can you imagine
the superstar status of a person who could actually do
that? :o) Although the qi gong healers from China, for
instance Dr Effie Chow, amaze me.

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I have had the best, materially speaking, that life has to
offer, and found it un-fulfilling. I have been wealthy
and found it empty. I lived with a Tantric Sex
Master for six years, and found nothing of any real
value there in spite of having had for six years, the
best sex the world has to offer... But being in love is
always fulfilling. It stops time. It erases sorrow.
It soothes anger. It lifts us up where we belong.
In short, it does the same thing drugs do.. but better.
With no side effects.
A wise man stays in love, for the withdrawal effects have
been known to kill strong people. :o)

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In case you wonder about the name froggy, the frog is one
of my spirit animals. :o)

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Faith is the bird that feels the light while the dawn is still dark. Tagore~~>br>
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No good without evil... No love without hate... No Heaven without Hell... No light without darkness... No girls without money! Budhha~~

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A mother and her son lived high on a mountain over looking
a beautiful valley. One day the young boy became angry
with his mother and ran outside to the edge of the
cliff and yelled....:"I hate you, I hate you." And the
echo came back..."I hate you, I hate you." Hearing the
echo he ran back inside and told his mother there was a
mean person outside that said they hated him. His
mother told him to go back outside and yell...."I love
you, I love you." Life is like an echo! We often
get back what we send out.
anonymous~~

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing
enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we
let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.
~ Nelson Mandela

"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows
and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word
“love”.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere
produces and restores life."

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"All worldly pursuits have but the one unavoidable end,
which is sorrow: acquisitions end in dispersion;
buildings in destruction; meetings in separation;
births, in death. Knowing this, one should, from the
very first, renounce acquisition and heaping up, and
building, and meeting; and faithful to the commands of
an eminent guru, set about realizing the Truth
(which has no birth or death)."
Milarepa~~ Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistake - Mahatma Ghandi VIOLENCE I object to violence because when it appear to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is parmanent - Mahatma Ghandi Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary - Mahatma Ghandi ===================================================================================

"Bullfight critics, ranked in rows,
Crowd the enormous plaza full.
But only one is there who knows,
And he’s the man that fights the bull."
Ernest Hemingway~~

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