Paintings, photography, aesthetic objects, beautiful communication, and anything I consider to be art, artful, artistic, artsy or whatever.
Art is subjective. It is a quality of communication can be contributed to by the viewer through empathy or agreement with its creator.
“Where upon Olympus stand the gods who once ruled over Man? Fallen from the Lofty Land to dwell on Earth as mortal men?
Who remembers how to fly as freeborn spirits through the sky? What powers can be exercised while trapped within a mortal guise?
The gods once caused themselves to bring The Breath of Life itself to being. Their very thoughts made every thing: the sea, a sigh, the sky, the spring!
The Gods of Old, like you & me, created everything we see. Have they lost causality? Abandoned their abilities?
Where are the gods of history? What happened to their memory? If we are them and they are we, who will cause our destiny?
Merchant Lords now rule the fold. They want us all to fit their mold: “Be a Man! Do as you’re told! The only god there is, is gold!”
How did we ever sink so low, pretending we don’t really know that we’re the spark that makes life grow, like springtime flowers through the snow?
Infinity is passing by, but time is really just a lie. Are we immortal, you and I? A question states its own reply…
We never really know we’re blind until we search around to find a simple way to leave behind the suffering that is Mankind.
Can godly powers be regained, like oceans fall to Earth as rain? Can we go back from whence we came, to greater heights and bigger games?
Lead us homeward once again, to realms beyond the dreams of men. We’ve gone astray, we’ve lost our ken*. We need your help, Immortal Friends!”
— Lawrence R. Spencer
*ken = perception; understanding, range of vision, view; sight.
I’m sick. I’m sick because I’m drowning in a toxic environment OF money motivated CORPORATION BULLSHIT in the U.S.!
The 6 hour Ken Burns documentary film about cancer aired on PBS at the end of March. It was sponsored by many of the major cancer “research” companies, pharmaceuticals, health insurance, and fake-food mega-corporation who profit from the rampant grown of cancer in the cells of human beings. Essentially, it’s message is this: “there is no cure for cancer. there never will be a cure.”
There will never be a “cure” brought to market because there just isn’t enough profit in eradicating the disease entirely. There will never be a governing body that protects consumers from being subjected to known carcinogens, because that too, will stop the cash from rolling in. A great deal of research is covered up and many potential cures are ignored and discredited because there is far more money in perpetuating illness than in curing it. In 2012, the reported spending on cancer treatment was 124.6 billion dollars. Blood money.
One of the biggest sponsors of the PBS film, along with the usual “vested interests”, is Seimens Medical (Globally the company has 49,000 employees, most of them in Germany (comparing to 46,000 at GE Healthcare and 33,000 at Philips Healthcare) and 17.2 billion US-$ sales in 2007 (16.997 billion US-$ for GE). They earn their living from the cancer industry.
It’s ALL about the money, and nothing but the money…..
Here is a website that reveals the actual Statistics behind the increase in cancer, and why there will never be “cure” in the United States.
Nearly half of all Americans will develop cancer in their lifetime. (source) Quick math tells us that is an astonishing 157 million victims.
Over half a million people in America died of cancer in 2012. (source)
In 2011, cancer was the #1 cause of death in the Western world, and #2 in developing countries. (source)
Cancer is the #1 cause of childhood death in the United States. (source)
This is a fairly recent increase. A hundred years ago, the number was far different. At that time, 1 in 33 people was stricken with the disease. And despite billions of dollars being spent to find “the cure”, the World Health Organization predicts that deaths from cancer will DOUBLE by the year 2030.
It’s being normalized. The news is full of photos of babies who are missing an eye, of beautiful bald children who have lost their hair to chemo, and of people who have had to have body parts removed in order to survive a few more years. But cancer is NOT normal. It isn’t something that “just happens”. Researchers know the things that cause cancer. Government protection agencies do too, but they do nothing to limit these toxins in the marketplace. Why?
Because, cancer is big business and those who are profiting have great financial interest in seeing the deadly trend continue to increase. So what has changed? How did we go from a 3% chance of contracting cancer to a 41% chance?
It’s the advent of Big Pharma, Big Agri and Big Business. They are getting rich off of poisoning Americans through the manufacture of toxic elements that we are exposed to on a daily basis. Unless you live in a bubble and have no contact with manufactured items, outside air, or the sun, you are exposed to a staggering number of known and suspected carcinogens every day. (Check out THIS LIST to see the known and suspected carcinogens that are readily available in the United States.)
The statistics support that the cumulative build up of all these different toxins in the human body eventually results in cancer in many people. First, the manufacturers and the “food” producers profit when we buy their poisoned goods.
Then the medical system and pharmaceutical companies profit when we become ill and must fight cancer. The drugs alone can cost over $100,000 per year, and that is on top of exorbitant costs for radiation, chemotherapy, and physician’s bills. In the United States, cancer is the #1 most expensive “per person” illness to treat. (source)
Why would those who profit want to prevent cancer when 95.5 BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR is spent on treating it? There is a vested interest in this increase in illness and the people benefiting from it have no intention of reducing the cases of cancer.
Of course he was not paid to include any data about dozens of people who actually developed cures for cancer in the past 100 years who were assassinated, imprisoned, discredited or forced to leave the country by the AMA. However, it is easy enough to “follow the golden brick road” to see where it leads.
On the other hand, here is a video on YouTube that got NO FINANCIAL support from ANY corporation. It reveals an entirely different approach to diseases which produces uniformly successful results with cancer and most other diseases. This is an interview on German TV by Jo Conrad with Harald Baumann about the causes of every disease and healing processes. Understanding these basic laws can release every fear of getting a disease, including cancer.
If you are a fan of the greatest cartoon series every created, “CALVIN and HOBBES”, you will enjoy this great tool! You can search the entire database of Calvin and Hobbes cartoon by Key Word. Thanks to Bill Watterson for the amazing cartoons, and to Michael Yingling for the search engine!
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip that was written and illustrated by American cartoonist Bill Watterson, and syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher.At the height of its popularity, Calvin and Hobbes was featured in over 2,400 newspapers worldwide. Nearly 45 million copies of the 18 Calvin and Hobbes books have been sold.Calvin and Hobbes is set in the contemporary United States in an unspecified suburban area. The strip depicts Calvin’s flights of fantasy and his friendship with Hobbes, and also examines Calvin’s relationships with family and classmates. Hobbes’ dual nature is a defining motif for the strip: To Calvin, Hobbes is a live anthropomorphic tiger; all the other characters see him as an inanimate stuffed toy.
I have a life-long fascination with glass blowing and glass art. Glass blowing is a trade and art form that is rapidly disappearing from the world. Fortunately, I had the privilege of touring the Satava artistic glass studio today. The studio is located in the quiet village of Chico, CA. Each hand-blown work of art glass is designed by Satava himself who supervises a veteran crew of 4 or 5 master glass blowers. Visit the website for a complete list of galleries who feature these extraordinary master works of glass art.
Satava Hand-Blown Glass Vases
Satava hand-blow glass vases are each entirely original works of glass art. One can only really appreciate the stunning colors and unique design by seeing them in person.
Satava Hand-blown glass paper weights
Satava Hand-blown glass “jellyfish” globes are astonishingly beautiful in person. Each glass globe takes a team of 4 or 5 glass artists more than 2 hours to produce.
