If trying to match previous levels of feelings, are you not automatically setting yourself up for disappointment? Each "Love" that we are fortunate to have in Life, is a totally unique, not to be repeated experience...that will match any previous levels of emotions/feelings, thoughts, inspirations, depth, what have you. Years ago I met a writer in Paris, and one piece of advice he passed on was "Love as you find"...all-in-all, quite sensible as everyone is not and cannot be the same so neither can be any "Love of my Life". You can only turn on or off any of your "receptors" and only you can control the number of "Loves" that are allowed to enter your life. To experience Love, both to give and receive is probably the greatest experiences we can have as humans, or so I think...%)
How did the probe returning to Earth, in the first Star Trek movie put it....that Earth is suffering from a virus of "carbon infestation" called Mankind...have we turned into an infestation...%(
Because it is always easier to meet the left person, I mean the wrong person; there are so many! You can't avoid them, they are everywhere. The streets, the parks, the markets, even the Laundromats are just filled with them! It is exasperating... You get up and go to work, and there they are as soon as you open your door! On the streetcar or bus you are surrounded by them,,,,at work, you must be politically correct so that means that they are all wrong there also! What is a person to do!?If there are so many wrongs in Life, how can it ever be right....or should it be left...oh where to turn!? Perhaps I woke too early and turn over and go back to sleep? My apologies, I just could not resist the temptation to play with words on a theme that on a more sober note, affects us all to some degree. Anything helpful to say? Well, perhaps change the locations of where you have been looking, or perhaps stop for awhile and perchance he may find you, at an art show or at a market wanting the same eggplant that you want! Hey, it opens a door....%) patience...you will find each other. %)
FDA approved the cloned meat products yesterday; small articles in papers across US and Canada , I read the Canadian Times Colonist on line and one called World News...try the English edition of MSN news, the German one, not a word...strange...There should be some groups that are trying to have the EU Parliament ban these products, what they're names are, I don't know yet Some of the "Green" and environmental groups should keep up with this, they are a good source. Try the DVD website I posted.%) ciao for now.
I knew that I had some documentary dvd's around and here is one called "Hidden Dangers in Kid's Meals:Genetically Engineered Foods; it is actually 3 videos in one, featuring Jeffrey Smith, author of the international bestseller, "Seeds of Deception" available via
orders:1.888.717.7000. Unfortunately there is no other language version, as there really should be, nor a European distributor....anyone know anyone...??? These really show the damage being done and what may enter our food systems in Europe. A mention was made about pollution of the air...one really horrible note to come out of all the burning of the mad-cow infested cattle in England is that the smoke carried the spores of these animals into the air...and come down and guess what... yuk!
For anyone interested in art works for walls,I came across this fom my mail: " Modern digital canvas" is the strong, stylish, and affordable art solution for any interior. Our cool original modern images are thermally printed on cotton canvas. They arrive fully stretched and ready to hang. Sized 3-5 ft high and priced 145$ to 345$ US
This is a nice process and I'm sure there are art shops here in Europe that can also produce these cotton canvas works from your own photos, paintings, drawings etc. other than simply having prints made should you wish to sell any, rather than just a one-time sale and the original is gone forever. %)
My apologies for being the messenger(harbinger?) of "ill" news, but it does worry me after seeing some of the results of this garbage on children, especially in the US were these "products" are dispensed as school lunches...I wanted mine away from any chance of that and thankfully, so did they. Mad cow is now starting to spread across Canada and the US, as for all intent and purpose there is no real health inspections anymore, as more and more of the US beef industry is saturated with "bovine growth hormones" in which the altered growth hormones are beginning to jump to the human gut/ intestines; this as now also occurring from the grains like corn and soy, corn-oils etc. They are genetically altering the human immune system and then, of course, human reproduction, as it is now causing mayhem in cattle and swine throughout North America...genetic engineering for our "brave new world". England, under severe pressure from US industry lobbies on/ of food products has already agreed to no labels on GM foods...are we next...%(
Thank you for a moment of refreshing sanity. You have precisely hit the main point of this ancient custom, which is still far better than the random attachments formed in the heat of some lustful impropriety after a few bottles in some dark lit bar where one can't even make out the other's face until the next morning.... Arranged does not preclude free will, or free choice, well not in Western Europe at least; Eastern Europe still seem s to have issues with really allowing their females total equality and free will of choice in "arranged" marriages. In Western Europe, arranged actually implies "with consent" of the parties involved; a most civilized and deliberate calm method when one realizes just what is / are the benefits to be gained. In one form or another most of Europe's old families still use this method and the rate of success and satisfaction...happiness is still much higher than the hit and miss methods used by everyone else. No matter who is "chosen" for us, we still always have the final and absolute last word of yai or nai...with or without a lustful smirk on our faces...%)
A passing note on the subject of Healthy Food: One of great concern should be to ban ALL genetically modified foods and now cloned meat and "by products" from the US into Europe. As of yesterday the US Dept. of Health has given their imperious permission for cloned meat production. Their so called "testing" of this, is even worse than their infamous no testing of genetically modified grains despite all the outcries from independent scientist in all fields of genetic/ cell research which is so ignored, that now no labels are needed to warn people, again despite all the protests by consumers and especially farmers whose animals were fed these foods and now can't reproduce...do we in the EU have enough protection against allowing this poison into our markets??
Good points, don't worry about spelling or verb tenses, that comes with practice; many speak another language far better than writing it, just communicate, that is more important for now; I learned English (and americanese) from comic books but it took a long time to learn it properly and schools in the US were difficult.%)
Very nice; very touching. Many artists of various degrees and in various fields have ended their days in mad-houses, asylums and that vague myopic modern term "institution". Not all, by any means were insane but most were "misunderstood". Of "Vince Baby", as I once called him, I did several "cartoons" of his paintings and his gravestone . Some found them amusing, some outrageous...different perspective...ah well, poor ol' Vince....%)
LOL!! Love it sort of reminds me of my old home...ever see the movie by Mel Brooks called "Young Frankenstein" with Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman as Eyegor, the Hunchback?? decor is very similar. If I paint my walls, I use cans of Dali or Magritte, among others, just stir and splash on! Right now walls are covered in artworks; hate bare walls, no character or taste like vanilla icecream...%)
At night, I'm trying to read through 2 books; one is going faster because of the fascination with the topic: Talisman by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval about all the secret symbols built into the architecture of Paris and London based on the ancient cults of Isis and the Rosicrucian's; the other is The Jesus Papers by Michael Baigent about the purported escape of Jesus from the Crucifixion.....lots of assumptions by authors and some ,I think, far fetched translations/ interpretations. His book Holy Blood, Holy Grail was full of mistakes and fraud that I'm surprised it is still up for sale...
I wonder if Picasso would have extended that to include the art students ,who upon graduation from the Sorbonne, paint their bodies and run off down the streets of Paris...ummmm, most likely, he had a good sense of humour; then again, a naked body is Art, isn't it...%)
Good response; Love is unconditional, (perhaps unconditional surrender?) It as a concept has no limitations, we put those on due to variety of reasons, causes, be they social, moral, whatever. Unconditional Love is there for all of us; it is our choice to accept it without reservation or we attach limits/ boundaries and therefore chance it,; it is "to each their own". Love...saying "I love you" to another is the most powerful thing in any language; it can also be the most terrifying to hear. 3 little words that carry so much, promises so much some cannot bear the responsibilities implied; such is the awesome power of that phrase to many, while for others, it is part of their unemotional detachment in the cold rendering of their occupation. Open hearts and open minds are extremely difficult to contend with at the best of times...and moods.&)
Lol...Smoky, you live in Zurich; the "gnomes of Zurich" does not only pertain to bankers but to art collectors. There are many vaults under ground filled with art works....and for those who would rather see the money rather than the painting(s), do as I did once paint a picture of piles of money! Worked for me, the owner was so amused, he actually kept it on his wall for his grand-kids!! (yes, they still have the paintings their short-sighted parents wanted to sell; they got the joke...%) )
LOL! I like that; good idea. Hide it in your underground vault with all the proper environmental controls. Make sure vault is perhaps in Base or Bern; lots of art there in vaults...%)
What is wrong with "vintage music"?? It's great,(well, some of it is) it's like a vintage wine; gets better sometimes with age. Somehow I have managed to still have most of the old rock & roll records I had when in my teens and those I collected when I used to deal in them. I even found a box load of cylinder recordings from the 1890's by the Edison Recording co. I had to borrow the proper playing machine to hear them; what a laugh they are; folk songs from Ozark Mountains in the US. Vintage music allows us to "see" into the past worlds that existed and it does make you smile like when people actually danced to a song called The Purple People Eater! %)
I think that all artiste's are naturally biased towards their own creations, as they should be. Picasso once said, when asked what is a painter, replied "Exactly what is a painter? He is a collectoe who wants to form a collection by making his own paintings of pictures he has taken a fancy to in other people's houses. That's how it is---but then it becomes something else." Painter can quite easily be a substitute for sculpter, writer, etc. in many areas of creating "art". There comes a transition when part of the artist's soul, if you will, enters the work that makes it uniquely his own; it does become that "something else"...%)
Well, it seems everyone reads and styas up with the sciences and their publications regarding "aliens" or exobiology matters....if it were publically revealed that we are not alone, have never been alone, would it really make any differences at all in your lives and if so, how, why. After all these years since the various military services around the world have made their cases that we are not alone, what does it matter anymore? Or did the showing on television of films by aircraft gun-cameras and tv cameras of live broadcasts from Mexico city just a couple of years ago, somehow slipped your notice....as did the French, Belgian and Russian films made by their stations, aircraft etc. It was around 1955 that the first US military finding pronounced their findings that we are not alone. Despite all their subsequent denils, those findings are still on record, as those of Col. Phillip Corso.former advisor to President Eisenhower, and Chief of the Army's Foreign Technology Division to which retrieved alien technology was distributed. It is all a matter of public record, as are the current projects on trying to duplicate alaien technology as outlined in the bookSight Unseen by Bud Hopkins and Carol Rainey...read a little. %)
Very nice, I like that as also John Lennon's Imagine; its verses like these that give us Hope, including a hope that each new child may make this world, this Planet a far better place for all than we have, each in our own little ways.... Another is Alexander Pope's Essay On Man...the interconnectedness of us all with our Planet.
Now this is the response that I would have liked to give on behalf my 2 children; perhaps it soon will be. They had been in Canadian schools since kindergarten with the French Immersion programs. I let my daughter attend school for a year in France and her Canadian grade level was as when I attended as a child, 2 to 3 years ahead. She managed to hold her own for most subjects, others weren't even offered for another 2 years and yet, Canadian schools are about 2 years ahead of the US schools! Now she can't wait to get into Uni. back in France or Italy for her particular curriculum. My son also felt the same; low quality taught by potentially good teachers who are too stressed out by their schedules and , very unfortunately low pay and no respect from their Provincial governments. Teachers in North America are not held in any high regard; during my time in US schools the typical attitude from parents was "oh so smart know-it-alls.."; never mind the quality of the "average" students that are graduated without being able to/ or having any interest in reading, writing or math skills; is it any wonder that the average newspaper is at a 4th grade level, while a more "classy" one as the Wall Street Journal is about a 7th grade level...the teachers there aren't much better I found; one high school Geography teacher could not find British Columbia province, let alone it's capitol on 3 different maps. Maybe he was just having "issues" with the maps... When I transferred from France, they put me back 2 years as I was considered too young for the same work that in their system wasn't done til the 5th and sixth grade...age was the sole criteria. Though my English was not very good, I was humiliated. At university level in France, it was sheer delight; very stimulating, open inter-action with the professors that reminded me of the Classical Greek models we pictured of Plato and Aristotle. And yes, I did feel very well prepared at graduation. I really should have stuck with my chosen direction instead of taking a sharp turn to a side-road that almost proved impossible to get off of. Now they both will have all the benefits of finishing their studies in Europe, where I know they shall be much better prepared for whatever directions they take in Life. %)
I Love music! To lift my feeling/ mood depends upon how high and how far I want to go to get away from whatever is making me "down"; it could be some of the Baroque military marches of brass and drums from les marches militaire de la Grande Armee of Napoleon, to Lully, to rock & roll "novelty" songs like any from Dickey Goodman famous for his "Flying Saucer" songs to Sam the Sham and the Pharoes with "Wully Bully" or the cool sax of Stan Getz or the Ramsey Lewis trio, Modern Jazz Quartet, etc. Everyone flies with what they regard as "good music" which is not only great but "fun", that is what really lifts you up from "dem mean ol' blues" of life....that puts you in the downs...or so I think, thinks I, I suppose...%)
Do not sell it!! Make the prints, various styles and sizes for sale at various arte shops and galleries and perhaps lease it to an art gallery or at different galleries in turn. Use it to make money over time as once you sell it, then it's all over and it's gone forever. Your grandparent could have done that and you would have gotten nothing. It is a gamble our elders, our ancestors take in bequeathing things of value to them, for us...%)
We have no need to be so disgusting and personal.I posted nothing personal, to you or anyone else; have a bad day..forgot your medication...make more of an effort to control personal attacks. There was absolutely no need for that insulting, disgusting remark. For shame.
The age of a woman in terms of giving birth has a lot do do with her diet history as well as her health in general and of course the genetic background fro parents, etc. Even geography seems to now hold a peculiar set of patterns...such as there seem to be 2 places in the world, where women, on average give births between 30 and 60's with no problems whatever, either the mothers or the infants; their diets are also a bit "peculiar" in comparison the most: in the Caucasus area their diets are mostly dairy products such as yogurts, rye breads, both dark and light, beers and wines from local hops and grapes, meats mainly of goat and pig; all unprocessed foods; the other is the Vilcabamba area around Peru/Brazil. Diets are mostly the same with not as much yogurts but of other dairy products, meats are basically the same, but a large amout of fruits and fermented wines from them. All their foods are also unprocessed...nothing artificial, totally unlike here, where even baby foods have been found with cancer causing contaminents...not to mention the air and water....the studies have been on-going now for over 20 years.And our respective health experts say all is fine here.....ummmmmmmm
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RE: love- how do we find true love again
If trying to match previous levels of feelings, are you not automatically setting yourself up for disappointment? Each "Love" that we are fortunate to have in Life, is a totally unique, not to be repeated experience...that will match any previous levels of emotions/feelings, thoughts, inspirations, depth, what have you. Years ago I met a writer in Paris, and one piece of advice he passed on was "Love as you find"...all-in-all, quite sensible as everyone is not and cannot be the same so neither can be any "Love of my Life". You can only turn on or off any of your "receptors" and only you can control the number of "Loves" that are allowed to enter your life.To experience Love, both to give and receive is probably the greatest experiences we can have as humans, or so I think...%)