Thanks for indulging my fancy here...

My midnight walk alone in the snow, and finding two sledders out , like souls.. what a pleasure..













a night in the snow.. a holy night..

Gift Ideas....for me!

Wiinblad any day!















Lomonosov anyday...



Arabia anyday..

and Iittala anyday, but I'll have to take photos.
Actually I have the serpentine cups of Lomonosov, and I have the Wiinblad cups with a nose and other stuff, but I had to picture it here, it is so beautiful...

I would love to have this Samovar
samovar for me...

Ducks and deer in snow..Hi everybody, Merry Christmas!

Deer in Snow
Ducks in snow

The Scent Of Green Papaya

One of my favorite movies ever:


also

Rejoice Rejoice, Obama Won!

We are moving forwards, not backwards. The light shown tonight, the dark receded..

Hoorah!!! Long Live President Elect Barack Obama!

Free at Last, we are free at last!

Hey, I got my birthday present today!! My birthday is Jan 20th...Inaugration Day!!!

Obama, enlightened being?

"Is Obama an enlightened being?
Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain't no ordinary politician. You buying it?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, June 6, 2008

I find I'm having this discussion, this weird little debate, more and more, with colleagues, with readers, with liberals and moderates and miserable, deeply depressed Republicans and spiritually amped persons of all shapes and stripes and I'm having it in particular with those who seem confused, angry, unsure, thoroughly nonplussed, as they all ask me the same thing: What the hell's the big deal about Obama?

MARK MORFORD

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I, of course, have an answer. Sort of.

Warning: If you are a rigid pragmatist/literalist, itchingly evangelical, a scowler, a doubter, a burned-out former '60s radical with no hope left, or are otherwise unable or unwilling to parse alternative New Age speak, click away right now, because you ain't gonna like this one little bit.

Ready? It goes likes this:

Barack Obama isn't really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.

This is what I find myself offering up more and more in response to the whiners and the frowners and to those with broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae - or no antennae at all - to all those who just don't understand and maybe even actively recoil against all this chatter about Obama's aura and feel and MLK/JFK-like vibe.

To them I say, all right, you want to know what it is? The appeal, the pull, the ethereal and magical thing that seems to enthrall millions of people from all over the world, that keeps opening up and firing into new channels of the culture normally completely unaffected by politics?

No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn't have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.

Dismiss it all you like, but I've heard from far too many enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who've been intuitively blown away by Obama's presence - not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence - to say it's just a clever marketing ploy, a slick gambit carefully orchestrated by hotshot campaign organizers who, once Obama gets into office, will suddenly turn from perky optimists to vile soul-sucking lobbyist whores, with Obama as their suddenly evil, cackling overlord.

Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.

The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history.

Are you rolling your eyes and scoffing? Fine by me. But you gotta wonder, why has, say, the JFK legacy lasted so long, is so vital to our national identity? Yes, the assassination canonized his legend. The Kennedy family is our version of royalty. But there's something more. Those attuned to energies beyond the literal meanings of things, these people say JFK wasn't assassinated for any typical reason you can name. It's because he was just this kind of high-vibration being, a peacemaker, at odds with the war machine, the CIA, the dark side. And it killed him.

Now, Obama. The next step. Another try. And perhaps, as Bush laid waste to the land and embarrassed the country and pummeled our national spirit into disenchanted pulp and yet ironically, in so doing has helped set the stage for an even larger and more fascinating evolutionary burp, we are finally truly ready for another Lightworker to step up.

Let me be completely clear: I'm not arguing some sort of utopian revolution, a big global group hug with Obama as some sort of happy hippie camp counselor. I'm not saying the man's going to swoop in like a superhero messiah and stop all wars and make the flowers grow and birds sing and solve world hunger and bring puppies to schoolchildren.

Please. I'm also certainly not saying he's perfect, that his presidency will be free of compromise, or slimy insiders, or great heaps of politics-as-usual. While Obama's certainly an entire universe away from George W. Bush in terms of quality, integrity, intelligence and overall inspirational energy, well, so is your dog. Hell, it isn't hard to stand far above and beyond the worst president in American history.

But there simply is no denying that extra kick. As one reader put it to me, in a way, it's not even about Obama, per se. There's a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that's been held back by the armies of BushCo darkness, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod, is now effortlessly self-organizing around Obama's candidacy. People and emotions and ideas of high and positive vibration are automatically drawn to him. It's exactly like how Bush was a magnet for the low vibrational energies of fear and war and oppression and aggression, but, you know, completely reversed. And different. And far, far better.

Don't buy any of it? Think that's all a bunch of tofu-sucking New Agey bulls-- and Obama is really a dangerously elitist political salesman whose inexperience will lead us further into darkness because, when you're talking national politics, nothing, really, ever changes? I understand. I get it. I often believe it myself.

Not this time."


Vote Obama In the Morning!!! Who hoo!

Gooble gooble

Turkey's in LaConner

I've seen many wild turkey's lately. These were up in LaConner. I see them everytime I'm up there staying at The Planter Hotel across from the bakery in town. They arrive at the bakery early mornings as if waiting for some free stuff.. I think there are 9 of them now. Somewhere I have video of them too, So funny..

I think that with prices going up, they could become endangered nearer Thanksgiving..tho...

I haven't been blogging very much lately, sorry, I will try to get back here soon, and visit your blogs. I miss everyone..take good care.

Happy Halloween

Remember to vote!! For Obama!!

Kreative Blog Award

I am appreciative, because I recieved Kreativ Blogger Award from Nobu, please see his blog in my sidebar. Thank you Nobu @FUNABASHI DAILY CELL PHONE PHOTO
I love all Nobu's blogs! Some of the best poetry on earth is on one of his blogs, some Haiku, and some court Poetry of Japan, very touching poetry.
I have some duties which were to list 6 things that make me happy ,and 6 blogs worth of this award.

1. Family together makes me happy
2. Thanksgiving with family/friends
3. Blogger friends health, and happiness
4. My cat, The Puddha
5. Like Nobu, I like sushi, too
6. Poetry, photos, nature make me happy, too

Whoever I award to, you don't have to feel obliged to take this award.
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Palin's a role model Now???

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AKA camp robbers, video


I have to campaigne until Obama is elected. lol
An Alaska Paper embraces Obama, Not McCain /Palin, saying Palin is not ready to be VP.
McCain is too old and unhealthy, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
You all know the issues, so I don't have to go there, but please vote and vote for progress, for the environment , because with no environment, we have no need for economy! Vote for Obama.
Obama is about; values, progress, honesty, integrity, and
compassion, as well as peace and a strong economy.

McCain is about wealth, greed, power, money , and position. Old guard..

My current rant..
McCain says:
"Americans right now care about whether they're going to stay in their homes, whether they're going to have a job, whether they're going to be able to keep their health insurance, if we're going to come out of this ditch that we're in," McCain added. "They want change. They want reform. She is a role model to millions and millions and millions of Americans."

How Is Palin a role model? What eviction does she face? She is paid for being governor of Alaska and is safe to spend all her time campiagning for VP.

Wouldn't you like to look for a job, all the while getting paid for doing nothing? If you don't get the new job, you still have your old one, too.
So yeah, they all do it, so what do they know about risk?

When they retire, those republicans get social security just like a democrat that is supposed to be lazy, and wanting a hand out.
If a Republican gets a pink slip, do they turn down their unemployment?
(I have never taken a dollar from the government). And yes, I could have.

Anyway, all politicians get amazing protections.

On Palin clothes, it is suggested that it isn't important to talk about her clothes because we face so many problems.
So because we are having economical problems we should ignore integrity when we are looking to vote for a Presidential, VP candidate?

From Alaska a quote from Palin as mayor..
"I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council.

Palin Quotes.. (our heroine?) get links here:
links to videos etc.
1. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

2. "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008

3. "Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

4. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

5. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008

6. "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." –Sarah Pailn, on the Iraq war, speaking to students at the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008 (Watch video clip)

7. "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" --Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co," July 31, 2008 (Watch video clip)

8. "[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008 (Watch video clip)

9. "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it

10. "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman

What motivates your vote?

For me it's the direction I want to see the world go in.
I want poverty addressed. I want people to be able to live like humans, not mere animals.
I want education for all children, and adults. I want health care, and I want a planet that is clean, and I want to see awareness, higher consciousness. I want availability to arts for all children. They naturally gravitate to art.
Art raises the level of consciousness. Make art not bombs.

In school, art is a great back door into academia for children who aren't interested in academia the way some are, or don't learn by rote as some do.
I want governments that are built by men who are statesmen, not politicians who are ruled by old ideas of greed, power and fame, and there is a distinct difference.

I want to see the earth respected, that is the feminine principal, Dionysian.
Technology is the male principal, Apollonian. Balance is imperative for a 'whole' world.
I want to see the feminine principal balanced with the masculine.

But when it come to voting I think one thing makes total sense, and is so easy. McCain is too old and unhealthy, and Palin is plain unqualified, simply a political move to get votes of fundamentalists. I think they are smarter than the powers that be make then seem to be.

Obama represents this change to me. I think these ideals are far over McCain or Palin's heads.
McCain is stuck in the old order, of being powerful, and leaving his mark on history, Palin is a cultish Christian, fearful of embracing a broader view of Christ and his compassionate vision of mankind.

The way issues are addressed have a lot to do with these differences in what is deemed important.
Vote Obama. Thanks.

Rainbow in the Skagit Valley

McCain hits Obama for varying World Series support..lame..

Notice what McCain is trying to pull off here with Obama and sports?

"McCain told several hundred people standing in a cavernous warehouse:

"Now, I'm not dumb enough to get mixed up in a World Series between swing states. But I think I may have detected a little pattern with Sen. Obama. It's pretty simple really. When he's campaigning in Philadelphia, he roots for the Phillies, and when he's campaigning in Tampa Bay, he `shows love' to the Rays."
As a chorus of boos built, he added:"It's kind of like the way he campaigns on tax cuts, but then votes for tax increases after he's elected. Or the way he says he backs the middle class and then goes and attacks Joe the Plumber after Sen. Obama's asked a tough question. What's that all about?"

In fact, Obama did not attack Joe the Plumber; rather he criticized McCain for suggesting that the Ohio plumber who wants to purchase the plumbing business where he works is in the same economic shape as most working class voters.
McCain's reference to Obama's comments about the two baseball teams was meant to reinforce one of his larger themes: that Obama lacks the experience and character to be president.
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McCain will stoop to anything, but I have to ask, does he think everyone in his audience has an IQ under 90?
(like his comments below might lead someone to think about him)

Ok, Ok, I am not being politically correct, but this is a war, not an election, a war from within, and one we have to win.. No Trojan Horse for America, Vote Obama!

(see post on Trojan Horse Sarah Palin below..)

I think he is insulting to his crowds. But look, he is plain insulting, period. He shows little self restraint.

10. "I was looking at the Sturgis schedule, and noticed that you had a beauty pageant, so I encouraged Cindy to compete. I told her [that] with a little luck, she could be the only woman to serve as both the First Lady and Miss Buffalo Chip." --on the annual Miss Buffalo Chip Pageant, which features topless (and occasionally bottomless) contestants, Sturgis, South Dakota, Aug. 4, 2008 (Watch video clip)

9. "I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks." --speaking at the National Small Business Summit, Washington, D.C., June 10, 2008 (Watch video clip)

8. "Across this country this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners. And the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent." --Bethlehem, Penn., Oct. 8, 2008 (Watch video clip)

7. "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book." --as quoted in the Boston Globe, Dec. 17, 2007

6. "Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong." --Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 15, 2008

5. "You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran." --breaking into song after being asked at a VFW meeting about whether it was time to send a message to Iran, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, April 18, 2007 (Watch video clip)

4. "There was an energy bill on the floor of the Senate loaded down with goodies, billions for the oil companies, and it was sponsored by Bush and Cheney. You know who voted for it? You might never know. That one." --referring to Barack Obama during the second presidential debate, Nashville, Tennessee, Oct. 7, 2008 (Watch video clip)

3. "I think -- I'll have my staff get to you. It's condominiums where -- I'll have them get to you." --after being asked how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own, interview with Politico, Las Cruces, N.M., Aug. 20, 2008 (Take a Google Earth tour of the McCain residences and watch Obama's amusing ad slamming McCain)

2. "Make it a hundred...That would be fine with me." --to a questioner who asked if he supported President Bush's vision for keeping U.S. troops in Iraq for 50 years, Derry, New Hampshire, Jan. 3, 2008

1. "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c*nt." --to his wife, Cindy, after she playfully twirled his hair and said "You're getting a little thin up there," as reported in the book The Real McCain by Cliff Schecter (Watch spoof video)

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman

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Maverick defined

An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.
One that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter.

I think the first definition fits..Ok, have a nice day..counting down now, remember this is a most important election, more than an election, our survival depends on getting Republicans out of office and staying involved in voting on every level.

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