Seals and Croft....

"I may never pass this way again,
I want to laugh while ghe laughing is easy,
I want to cry if it makes it worthwhile,
We may never pass this way again..."

KEY TOLOVE AND FEAR

"You hold the key to love and fear,
All in your trembling hand.
Just one key unlocks them both,
It's there at your command."

Get Together
Th Youngbloods

Shame

"For a time I'd thought of that part of my life as wrong. But our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just preconstruction, that's all. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place."

~ Sue Monk Kidd

"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."

~ George Bernard Shaw



"What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid."

~ Robin G. Collingwood

"I
woman give birth:
and this time to
myself."

 -- Alma Villanueva

Wild Woman

Being squelched for loving beauty is possibly the worst thing you can do to a woman. It is not possible for her to have a full life if that is done to her, at her, for her.

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Responsibility

“Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.”

• National Treasure
• 2004
• Nicolas Cage

Perspective

“You need to stop your worrying and start believing in yourself.”

• The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• 2010
• Nicolas Cage

To Live

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

Nicholas Cage

Passion

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.
Nicolas Cage

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/nicolas_cage.html#iC0JtAOYRkmKj4OS.99

Aromatic Indoor Gardens

June 26  

"Gardening really has no beginning and no end.  In particular, pleasures of the sense of smell really know no seasons,"  Tovah Martin encourages us. "Bottled under glass, blooming at your elbow, the indoor garden has an immediacy that gardens outside cannot match. The aromas impart an intensity that will not be ignored....Deliciously distilled, delectably varied - that is the essence of paradise." 

Excerpt from Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy 

by Sarah Ban Breathnach 

Fremont Farmer's Market

Just got home from shopping the Fremont Farmer's Market!  http://www.downtownfremontohio.org/
It has grown so much! Shopped at some awesome stores - some new some old friends.

Boyer Farms - "my"  farmer family who I get great garden fresh things to can and eat! Bought more herbs to plant.  I will try and not kill the basil...but don't bet on it...lol!

Bella Cuisine - yummy treats to eat - breads, spreads, and more!  Bought the Blood Orange and Fennel Jelly.  So hard to choose!  They have really expanded their line!  They also have cooking classes too!  So going to go this year to at least one!  bellacuisine@hughes.net

Not Just Soap - http://www.notjustsoapcompany.com local to Fremont - bought some yummy smelling soaps!

J and A Alpines - more yummy soap - goat's milk trying the lemon poppy seed this time plus some beautiful greens to eat - beets and tops, spinach, kale, basil and swiss chard.  They even has some edible plants we call weeds...didn't try this time...maybe next. jandaalpine@yahoo.com or 419-992-4652

They had a wonderful band...never did catch their name...Lots more to see but I needed out of the sun...next time....

Downtown Fremont, Inc. is sponsoring the 7th annual Fremont Farmer’s Market. We are inviting area farmers/growers, greenhouses, orchards and niche market vendors to come downtown and take advantage of a wonderful sales and advertising opportunity on the following dates. In addition to the market, we will also be sponsoring special events to coincide with the hours of the market.
June 16, 2012 Farmer’s Market featuring a Car Show
July 21, 2012 Farmer’s Market featuring an Art and Music Festival
August 4, 2012 Farmer’s Market featuring The Front Street Relay
August 18, 2012 Farmer’s Market featuring The Dog Days of Summer
September 15, 2012 Farmer’s Market featuring The Service Club Olympics
October 6, 2012 Farmer’s Market featuring a Kid’s Market
October 20, 2012 Farmer’s Market featuring a Scarecrow Decorating Contest
The market will be open-air sales on the streets of Downtown Fremont where participants can benefit from the atmosphere and our loyal customers. All types of businesses and vendors are encouraged. Please see the complete list of Rules and Regulations that are enclosed with this letter. This is a rain or shine event and will run from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Pied Beauty

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918.

Pied Beauty

GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;	5
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:	10
Praise him.

Song of the Summer King

You are a Dragon of the SunlandI must live with every breath.

Like the dragons of the mysterious, arctic Sunland, you are too aware of how short and precious life is. You try not to fight, you would rather understand, seek balance, friendships and knowledge on your journey. You are truly a bright and amazing soul, rare in this world, who seeks always to do what is right and kind for all.

Good Enough To Be True

a message from Alan Cohen

Sunday, 1 April, 2012  (posted 11 May, 2012)

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When I began to teach classes on spiritual principles, I devoted some time at the end of each class meeting to pray for students and their loved ones. One woman asked the group to pray for the continued health of her sister, who had had cancer, but the disease was now in remission. At that time I had not heard the term “in remission, so I asked her what it meant.

“It means that the disease went away for now, but it might come back,” she explained.

The explanation made no sense to me then, and it makes even less sense to me now. The idea is that the disease is here and real, a prevalent condition, but it has temporarily gone behind a curtain and may pop out again. The notion was jarring to me because my understanding is that health is our prevalent condition and our natural state. When a disease occurs, our health is temporarily in remission, and will return when the temporary condition of the disease has been alleviated.

Modern medicine, for all its wonders and benefits, subscribes to many beliefs that are upside down and inside out. Disease, for one thing, is not a thing. It does not have a life of its own. Disease, as illuminated by the ancient science of Chinese medicine, represents a blockage of the natural life flow, or chi, that moves through the body and keeps it alive and healthy. If the chi is blocked consistently at the same point, and reinforced with life-denying thoughts, emotions, attitudes, habits, and lifestyle, the organ will manifest what we call a disease. Yet the disease has no life or power in and of itself; it is simply a sign of where life has momentarily not been allowed to flow. When you invite and allow the life force to flow once again, through methods such as acupuncture, massage, exercise, herbs, diet, attitude upgrade, or cessation of the thoughts, feelings, and habits that created the blockage, healing occurs naturally. There is no disease that has not been cured through restoring life force. Therefore no disease is incurable.

The word “disease” contains a clue as to how to heal it. “Dis-ease” indicates that ease, or well-being, is our natural state, and for the moment we have “dissed” ease with some form of stress or resistance. The answer to disease, then, is to return to our natural state of ease. No dis-ease can live in the presence of ease, so restoring ease is the optimal route to healing.

To heal our lives we need to do a radical figure-ground shift on our understanding of how life works. We need to recognize that health, prosperity, rewarding relationships, and the other conditions we value and seek are our natural state, and everything else is the exception. Just as a cloud passing before the sun does not mean the sun has gone away, a momentary condition of disease does not mean that health has gone away. The health is temporarily in remission. It can return as surely as the sun will return when the cloud has passed.

A seminar participant reported, “I have had a long string of failed relationships over many years. Now I have been dating a guy for six months and everything is going great. This seems too good to be true.”

I told her, “It’s not too good to be true. It’s good enough to be true.” If you have a history of pain or loss, you may come to believe that suffering is your natural state. I assure you it is not. Well-being is far closer to your nature and destiny than the dismal conditions you and I have been taught to accept.

Around the same time I first heard about remission, my mother asked me to go to the supermarket to pick up some applesauce on sale. When I reached the applesauce aisle, I saw a big sign: “Applesauce — 89 cents — natural or regular.” I read the label on the “regular” jar. The contents included sugar, food coloring, and preservatives. The “natural” jar contained only apples and water.

What is regular is not always natural. We have become so accustomed to things that are regular that we have forgotten what is natural. Health and well-being are at the top of the list of the inherently natural contents of life. To define health as the temporary absence of disease is insane. That would be like defining light as the temporary absence of darkness. The opposite is true: Light has substance; darkness does not. Health has substance; disease is void of substance. Life is made of substance, not its absence.

Tom Stoppard declared, “It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong!” If you are happy and healthy and your life is functioning beautifully, you are proceeding from your natural state. If you are ill, struggling, or unhappy, you have subscribed to or inherited beliefs that are out of alignment with how life actually works. If you want to get to the bottom of “remission,” remember your mission in life – to live happily and authentically, and re-store your mission. Then your life will be in permanent remission, and you will return to the ease in which you were born to live.

© 2012 Alan Cohen Publications - http://www.alancohen.com - Alan Cohen is the author of many popular inspirational books, including the just-released Enough Already: The Power of Radical Contentment. For more information about Alan’s other books and free daily inspirational quotes via email, visit www.alancohen.com, email info@alancohen.com, or phone 1 808 572-0001.http://spiritlibrary.com/alan-cohen/good-enough-to-be-true

Jokes for the day

1. How Do You Catch a Unique Rabbit?
Unique Up On It.

2. How Do You Catch a Tame Rabbit?
Tame Way.

3. How Do Crazy People Go Through The Forest ?
They Take The Psychopath

4. How Do You Get Holy Water?
You Boil The Hell Out Of It

5. What Do Fish Say When They Hit a Concrete Wall?
Dam!

6. What Do Eskimos Get From Sitting On The Ice too Long?
Polaroids

7. What Do You Call a Boomerang That Doesn't work?
A Stick

8. What Do You Call Cheese That Isn't Yours?
Nacho Cheese.

9. What Do You Call Santa's Helpers?
Subordinate Clauses.

10. What Do You Call Four Bullfighters In Quicksand?
Quatro Cinco.

11. What Do You Get From a Pampered Cow?
Spoiled Milk.

12. What Do You Get When You Cross a Snowman With a Vampire?
Frostbite.

13. What Lies At The Bottom Of The Ocean And Twitches?
A Nervous Wreck.

14. What's The Difference Between Roast Beef And Pea Soup?
Anyone Can Roast Beef.

15. Where Do You Find a Dog With No Legs?
Right Where You Left Him.

16. Why Do Gorillas Have Big Nostrils?
Because They Have Big Fingers.

17. Why Don't Blind People Like To Sky Dive?
Because It Scares The Dog.

18. What Kind Of Coffee Was Served On The Titanic?
Sanka.

19. What Is The Difference Between a Harley And a Hoover ?!
The Location Of The Dirt Bag.

20. Why Did Pilgrims' Pants Always Fall Down?
Because They Wore Their Belt Buckles On Their Hats.

21. What's The Difference Between a Bad Golfer And a Bad Skydiver?
A Bad Golfer Goes, Whack, Dang!
A Bad Skydiver Goes Dang! Whack.

22. How Are a   Texas   Tornado And a Tennessee Divorce The Same?
Somebody's Gonna Lose A Trailer.

Now, admit it... at least one of these made you smile.

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Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-copy-a-path-from-illustrator-to-photoshop/

http://www.pendaflex.com/enUS/CommunityBlogs/beyondfolders/archive/2011/06/28/why-aren-t-you-using-linkedin.html

http://www.pendaflex.com/enUS/CommunityBlogs/beyondfolders/pages/the-silver-employee-keeping-your-skill-set-vital-through-the-years.html

Make today a breeze not a battle.

I can't credit the author, however, this fits well.

Make today a breeze not a  battle.


''Never fight. Nothing is worth fighting for. Wisdom never fights, it waits patiently, speaks positively, releases easily, sees benefit in everything and envisions a future of abundance...knowing that all needs will be met at the right moment, in the right way. 

If you think life is a struggle you will always be struggling, If you think life is a breeze, your attitudes and actions will convey lightness and easiness.  And that's what attracts everything you need, and much more.  Make today a breeze not a battle.''  Innerspace
 
Try not to worry.  Try to look at what you're going through as a challenge rather than an obstacle , a time to develop patience. To achieve more objectivity , detach yourself from the struggle.  Have confidence in yourself, and realize that you can change your attitude even if you can't change the circumstances.  

Look closely at your troubles.  Don't let them cause you to give up.  Befriend them and learn from them.  Feel them lose their power over you.  Allow them to teach you what you want to know and move on.  Try not to be afraid.  You're a survivor.  You're going to handle this. You're going to find strength you didn't know you had and grace to deal with what ever comes along. Pretty soon , you'll be on the other side, and it's just  a matter of time until you will look back on this time in your life and draw strength from the knowledge that even though the road was rocky, you persevered and carried on.
 


 If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward