MY President. . .

I saw this video this morning and was blown away at the intelligent approach that Barack is taking. I am just SO VERY RELIEVED to know that we finally have someone smart at the helm.  Listen and enjoy! Welcome BACK to AMERICA!

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Pennies from Heaven

This is the window that my student has been working on for weeks now. The first photo shows how it looks as we have been working on it. The pennies are under the glass helping us raise the glass up into the lead as we went along constructing the window.  Once the window is soldered the pennies will no longer be needed. It makes a sort of polka dot image at the moment but soon all the copper pennies will be removed from the image to reveal just the hummingbirds and the flowing lines of the lead. It has been a fun project and it will be great to see it completed. The second pic shows the window right side up.

The voyage of the Pinta?

Interesting how I am finishing up a glass piece for a man who needed some glass to show through this cast iron image of - one of the ships that found it's way to the Americas - for a nitelight. . . just as America is about to embark on a voyage of it's own to forge a new path.

We can leave the ship of fools behind and start forth with a leader who is not only "Joe-cool" but who has the INTELLIGENCE to lead us in a sane direction.  This is not just a good day for African American's, it's a great day for the entire world! We have ALL been holding our breath not wanting to "jinks" this transition of getting G.W. Bush OUT OF THAT SEAT in Washington. It's been REAL George, but no one is saying that it's been REAL NICE to have you sitting in the seat of power, and no I don't and never did - "want to have a beer with you."

Fear is what got us into this mess, and what has perpetuated the situation to fester and blister until finally, even the most fearful among us is finally realizing that "this isn't working."  This is not about "gloating" - this is about bringing the ship back rightside up and evening out the balast so we now can sail straight into what ever storm or clear skys are ahead.  There was just no arguing with, or explaining that could be done to get through to some people - so the fear mongers being lead by the nose by the types who only wanted to fill their pockets because of THEIR fear of never having enough wealth to make them happy or to feel secure - now that the ship has capsized and has thrown off many of the folks who just couldn't make their view work, nor hang on any longer. . .now many of them are in the drink. . .and a new crew has come on board.  Many many people are hurting right now, and to those who helped create this situation, I show no sympathy - I only feel like it is about time that you are blessed with the lessons that you so strongly demanded that you get.  

It is definately a NEW ERA. I just got word about some people who caused others some terrible life altering grief in the past 5 to 10 years, and as of recently, THEIR luck has finally turned and they are not doing well, in fact they are suffering. It occurs to me that when people do bad things to other people, when the tide turns, I can only feel a bit of satisfaction for justice prevailing. I am soooo ready for America to reach out to the rest of the world with a leader that can be believed. With a leader that can have a sane plan of action.

This is not to say that it is going to be easy. The last crew on the ship did some major damage, engaged us in some horrible wars, and ruined a lot of good will that America used to have. We have broken masts, sails that need repair, and holes in our bulkheads . . . but American's don't run from a challenge, we only need to be told what to do and how to do it. Now we have a leader that we can get behind, now we have a leader that we can feel good about.  Sorry George, you had your shot and you just didn't know what to do once you got there. Filling your and all of your friend's pockets is not a way to build a strong country. You may believe that you will be taken up in the Rapture so it doesn't matter what you do or did to the planet, or to the masses. . .but what if we change dimensions and those "chosen" to move forth along the evolutionary path are those who helped their fellow man, those who did positive things while being selfless, the meek - so to speak . . . when Mother Earth decides to make the shift that I think is coming in 2012 . . . I can imagine those who will make the change, and those who will be left behind as the ship sails into the sunset.

Our newly outfitted ship is going to sail BACK to Europe with a whole new perspective and a whole new outlook for the world.  I'm excited to see what will transpire in the months and years to come!

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1/11/09 @ 1:11. . .interesting

It's Jan. 11, 2009 and last night it was very cold. I so look forward to warmer weather, and more sun.  Today, we are blessed with more sun, and I am so grateful!

Netflix has done something that in some ways has helped me, but in other ways  has not. . .they figured out how to allow INSTANT MOVIE ACCESS on Macintosh Computers. During this cold and frustrating time, before the ousting of Bush and Cheney, before what I can only hope is the audacity of faith in the American people to no longer put up with disappearing money going into secret gov. projects, the lies, the raping of the middle class, before the birth of the new Rennaissance in the world where there is more personel respect for fellow human beings and respect for talent and honesty, and a return to the self respect we all can earn by being involved with our own hands in the process of creativity. . .before all of that comes to be. . .or I hope comes to be. . .I have been watching way too many movies.  

There was a time when I looked to the human experience in song lyrics, and now I'm doing that same thing in watching movies.  I've seen a whole lot of human experiences from Native American Indians dealing with catholic priests when this country was still covered in forests, to seeing old guys playing "Space Cowboys."  It has helped pass the time, and given me a LOT of insight.  So many years have gone by without me having an opportunity to watch movies that I've kinda gone a little crazy on this tangent.

Success is a subject that has been in my mind lately.  Thinking about business/the human experience/and what does time and the  human experience hold for us?  I.E. - "why are we here?" "what IS success?"  I just am getting out of the past four years of working very hard at trying to have a business - that didn't go well financially, but was it a failure?  was it a success?  Could i possibly have picked a worse time in American history to try to create a new business - involving art and creativity - than during a Republican Bush/Cheney administration? ha ha ha ha ha ha  Am I stupid? Did I really fail? and to whose criteria am I to be held?  Was my "mission" to create financial security for myself and other artists? or was it to "stir the pot?" To shake up the status quo?  Concerning the latter, I am a HUGE success!!!!  I made new friends, I supported many people, I showed many people creativity like they have never seen before, I stepped into the lion's den and taught people that it was okay to hope, to open their eyes to joy and beauty, for them to learn a different way of thinking and acting.  I gave some a new skill, I gave some a new perspective.  Financial "security" is an oxy-moron as we all know. . .I could have had more balanced books, I could have made a financial profit for myself, I could have . . .  

. . .what truly has more value here?  Investing in fellow human beings? or having a pile of greenbacks to falsely make us feel more "secure?"  Watching all the movies, some of which have NOT had a "happy ending" or even a satisfying ending. . .has given me pause to think about what BEING a human being really means. I think truly that we are here as an experiment of consciousness, to explore and push the limits as much as we "humanly" can. I have NOT played it SAFE in all of my 55 years!!!!!!  I did things MY WAY, even tho they lead to hard lessons for myself and some others who have been involved with me.  When contemplating the idea of "regrets" - I have to say that getting to the point of evolution that I have arrived at in this incarnation, the lessons that I've learned in this lifetime - INCLUDING THE SO CALLED MISTAKES - that I have succeeded in having one wild ride in the human sleigh, and I'm looking forward to this new year opening up and getting back into the boat to flow WITH the current this time, to flow downstream and not fight life so much, and see where this new attitude can take me as I continue to explore.  

(I started writing this entry on the 8th, but finished it on the 11th - if you see the contradiction of dates)

This ART is work that I even had printed up into my stationary back in the day, and I used it for a logo until everyone kept asking me where my "ranch" was, ha ha ha! The next drawing is one that I just did for fun a long time ago. Kinda fun, tho, my "dancing horse."

If you want to expand your mind, I have something for you. Turn your computer to the website http://www.divinecosmos.com/ If you go to that website and listen and read everything you can get your hands on done by young David Wilcock, your consciousness WILL expand! For innovative thinking, David does NOT disappoint.

David is all about looking at our Galaxy, our Universe, our Reality in a positive way, and has a LOT of scientific explanations for his theories.  Interesting stuff. Check him out, and ENJOY !  I think that 2009 is gonna be a good year!

(p.s. . . . I'm making good progress on getting rid of the clutter! Along with the disappearance of the clutter, I'm finding peace, self respect, and a real ability to get things done. I wish the same to anyone out there reading this. )

Motivated. . .pushing myself to be. . .

This big fella reflects how I'm feelin' at the moment. .  Cold, a feeling like it will take a lot of effort to move forward, stunned by 2008 but glad it is over, looking so WAY forward to the Spring of 2009, and willing to persevere until it warms up.

Keep remembering the word Rennaissance! For all the gloom and doomers out there, I believe that there is an "energy stream" out there, and it is our choice as to whether or not you tune into the positive or negative side of it.  Just like when you want to jump start your battery so that you once again can get your car to move down the highway. . .it is up to us to jump start our lives to the "positive end."  But also just like the anti-matter negative side of the jumper cables, the negative and the positive wires are connected and are intwined with each other. If you choose a side, doesn't mean that you won't encounter some of the negative, but for myself, I don't at least CHOOSE the negative side to start with.

Altho- it's going to take a push to get myself moving, I'm feeling up to beginning the task. As the first day of 2009, I watched several movies that all dealt with other people's lives and a lot of it showed hardships that other people have gone through to give us all such an easy life now. Ahhhh, progress. Or is it? Sometimes I think we have it so easy that we fail to have the proper respect for the lives and the possibilities that we have now. I've seen Japanese internment camps, Inuit winter life conditions, post civil war traumas and consequences, Cowboy matchmaking in Texas and Mexico, Chinese class struggles and poverty, Russian gangster life in the United States, two movies about India culture - name and family meanings, along with cultural differences from American perspectives, movies with a range of not only time, but emotions (revenge, hope, inspiration, hate, love, patience, tenaciousness, trepidation, as well, and I saw the mini series about John Adams which helped up form this wonderful country of ours.  I did not see ALL of these movies yesterday or today, but I have been getting a LOT of perspective into a lot of other cultures and ways of doing and thinking about what living means to people from around the globe.  

Today being New Year's Day, I decided to take a day OFF from worrying about things, and just do what I wanted to do.  Now that I'm rested up again, I'm willing to start pushing myself into a new year, with a fresh perspective, and mostly a "wipe the slate clean attitude."  There is something about starting a new year, that is like going to confession when it means drawing a line in the sand and stepping over it.

Getting myself back to work, will start for me when I can make some environmental improvements to reduce clutter AND to beautify my surroundings so that I am happy to wake up into my house when I finally collapse in exhaustion.  So first the sweeping, the clearing away of junk, the figuring out how to store that same junk (that eventually will have to be gone through and most thrown out- but later), and I think I'll turn on Art Bell from last night's new predictions  Coast to Coast radio show, turn it up loud and see what people around the world have had to say in the past 24 hours, and after that. . .play some LOUD GUITAR MUSIC to get me motivated.  

Once the environment changes, the lists begin, and the return to working on projects happens also. . .but first it starts with starting!!!!!