Earth is so pretty

She wants us to see

How beautiful life here can be

Nature shines in front of our eyes

A vision to behold

Entertaining children, middle-aged and the old

Love the Earth with all your heart

and never feel guilty if you cut a fart!

    

 "Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge.  It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it"

  Albert Einstein

 

 

      I can't says I  knows much about Astrology.  I do know if you read the newspaper's daily horoscopes for your sun sign, please do not take it to heart.  Why?  It does not take into account your Moon, Ascending sign, and time of birth, unique to each individual. 

     Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, an Aquarian (me too), consulted astrologers for almost everything he did. His astrologer would know his complete 'chart', and his exact time of birth.  Only after all of this information is compiled, does one get an accurate reading.

     Georgia Nicols is 'Canada's most read Astrologer', says Sun media.   She is the horoscope guru for the London Free Press, National Post and all Sun newspapers across Canada.  I Googled and Yahooed (a search for web pages) Georgia Nicols, astonishingly coming up with nary a photo of her, or biography about who she is.  Maybe you'll have better luck if you try.

     Here are snippets of her horoscopes published in the London Free Press yesterday:

 

Aries: Hold the phone.  Tread carefully today.

Taurus:  Avoid important discussions with partners and close friends.

Gemini: Quit trying to get your way at work today.

Cancer: Accidents and misunderstandings can easily occur today.

Leo: Matters are painfully confusing at home today.

Virgo: You will be caught up in misinformation, lies and confusion.

Libra : Hide your credit cards at the bottom of the ice cube tray in your freezer.

Scorpio:  Your thinking process is off today.

Sagittarius: Something sly and sneaky is going on.

Capricorn: Trust no one today- even you.

Aquarius: Trust not your boss today, or any other authority figure.  

Pisces: People are shooting wildly from the hip.  Duck.  

         

     Georgia Nicols's horoscopes are almost always negative, everyday, for each sign.  Do what you want to, you are going to anyways. I just wanted to give you a friendly 'heads-up'. 

     I have been meditating upon the undeniable cultural impact of the Spice Girls lately.  I know you have been as well.  The philosophy was 'Girl Power'. The Spice Girls were full-grown women, clearly.  

     In the end, that old saying: "Absolute power corrupts, absolutely" meant a meteoric rise and fall for The Spice Girls.  Big stilletoes to fill, Pussycat Dolls.

 

Here's a Spice Girl Mega-Mixx of their most popular compositions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqhhKsKYL0&mode=related&search=

     My favourite fruit juice is Grape, with no sugar, fructose or sucrose added.  It's already sweet enough.  Pure grape juice, preferably purple, but white is all-right!

 

 

 

 

 

Tears Of A Clown-  Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 1970

 

Now if there's a smile on my face
It's only there trying to fool the public
But when it comes down to fooling you
Now honey that's quite a different subject

But don't let my glad expression
Give you the wrong impression
'Cause really I'm sad, Oh I'm sadder than sad
Well I'm hurt and I want you so bad
Like a clown I appear to be glad ooh yeah

[Chorus:]
Well there's some sad things known to man
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown when there's no one around
Oh yeah, baby baby, oh yeah baby baby

Now if I appear to be carefree
It's only to camouflage my sadness
And honey to shield my pride I try
To cover this hurt with a show of gladness
But don't let my show convince you
That I've been happy since you 
Decided to go, oh I need you so
Look I'm hurt and I want you to know
For others I put on a show ...

[Chorus]

Just like Pagliacci did
I try to keep my sadness hid
Smiling in the crowd I try
But in a lonely room I cry
The tears of a clown
When there's no one around, oh yeah, baby baby
Now if there's a smile on my face
Don't let my glad expression
Give you the wrong impression
Don't let this smile I wear
Make you think that I don't care

Woman, 95, prepares for final exams at university

2006/11/21 

Like most students at Fort Hays State University, Nola Ochs plans to spend some time reading and studying during this week's fall break. But she'll take time out on Wednesday to celebrate her 95th birthday.

Ochs is living at Wooster Hall on campus while pursuing her general studies degree at the university. She has about 15 hours to take next semester to get her degree.

If she does it, Ochs will be the Guinness Book of World Records' oldest college graduate.

But it will also be the culmination of a lifetime of learning. She started at Fort Hays in 1930, when it was known as Kansas State Teacher's College.

Then in the 1970s, in her 60s, she took classes part time at Dodge City Community College, and eventually St. Mary of the Plains in Dodge City. She took some virtual classes earlier at Fort Hays before deciding to attend classes this semester.

On Friday, the last day before fall break, her family and fellow classmates threw her an impromptu birthday party during her Biblical Studies class. Her son, Alan Ochs, flew in from Jetmore for the occasion. Her granddaughter, Alexandra Ochs, didn't have to travel as far — she's in the same class as her grandmother.

After the party, Alan Ochs took his mother home for Thanksgiving break.

"We're happy to get her back home for a while," Alan Ochs said. "We missed having her out there, especially through the fall harvest."

Though Nola is amused by her potential status as the world's oldest graduate, she said she's more excited about getting to walk at the graduation ceremony with her granddaughter.

Asked for some words of wisdom, Ochs simply said, "I give thanks to the Lord and try to live day by day. I try to do whatever is pleasing to Him. That's what I want to do."

Source: AP

http://funreports.com/fun/21-11-2006/1435-funny_lady-0

 

      Wowie!  Pure, uncut, unadulterated sunlight still exists!  Newsflash:  "Sun IS good for you. Our expert re-searchers made an erroneous error" .  Get your Vitamin D on.  After enduring two months of un-ending rain and clouds here, we've been treated to a near- cloudless week.  The farmers have been scrambling to take their half-harvested crops off because it had been too wet to finish.  The side-road rumour was they were prepared to wait until the snow flied to do this, but now they can 'git r dun'.

     My friend Annette (her real name) gave me some Pistachio nuts she didn't want .  I realized why she didn't want them...Whose numb-skull, hair-brained, good-for-no-thing idea is it to put red spray paint on Pistachio nuts one buys in the little bags?  Fully opening the half-opened shells stained my fingers red for days.  The dye seeped into the pores of the countertop too. Will I succumb to caustic chemical application?

     Notice how you do not see/hear about the Bush twins?  Chelsea Clinton was always on TV/ tabloids.

     I forgot to tell you about how big the potatoes and carrots were they were plucking from the fields.  Frankenstein food for sure.  Since I didn't take pictures, you might not believe me if I told you.

     On London's and Strathroy's newest paved streets, 'they' put the man-hole exactly where your driver's side tires ride.  Ba-bump, ba-bump.   Older streets are wise and caring. Their man-holes lie where you  don't always run over them.  

 

P.S.  Did anyone else hear/read about the 'low-level, nuclear radiation release' in New Mexico?  I heard it on a single CNN Radio news update last weekend.  The story wasn't repeated the next hour.   

          

    

 

From The Secret Teachings Of All Ages, Manly P. Hall 1928

 

     "The Bacchic Rite centers around the allegory of the youthful Bacchus (Dionysos or Zagreus) being torn to pieces by the Titans.  These giants accomplished the destruction of Bacchus by causing him to become fascinated by his own image in a mirror.  After dismembering him, the Titans first boiled the pieces in water and afterwards roasted them.  Pallas rescued the heart of the murdered god, and by this precaution Bacchus (Dionysos) was enabled to spring forth again in all his former glory.  Jupiter, the Demiurgus, beholding the crime of the Titans, hurled thunderbolts and slew them, burning their bodies to ashes with heavenly fire.  Out of the ashes of the Titans- which also contained a portion of the flesh of Bacchus, whose body they had partly devoured- the human race was created.  Thus the mundane life of every human was said to contain a portion of the Bacchic life.

     For this reason the Greek Mysteries warned against suicide.  He who attempts to destroy himself raises his hand against the nature of Bacchus within him, since man's body is indirectly the tomb of this god and consequently must be preserved with the greatest care."

 

     My nephew Cooper was at home with his parents one night, and orchestrated music was playing.  Suddenly, the 18 month old began to conduct an imaginary orchestra, putting up both hands and waving them as if he was the conductor.  The befuddled parents looked at each other in amazement.  "How does he know how to do this?  He's never seen a conductor conducting 'in his life'. 

     When I was in parochial school, I had vivid fantasies of England, obsessed for a spell I was, but it soon passed.  Then it was life as a Viking.   Then as a Native in Southern Ontario, replete with mocassins.  Later, it was life in Southern California during the silent film era.  Ok, ok you get the point.

 

     Maybe you have experienced similar neuroses, ahem, I mean, feelings of having been here before?

    

     Buddhists and Hindus totally believe in reincarnation.  Falun Gong as well.  Pythagoras, father of Western astronomy, music, and mathematics, taught the idea of Transmigration of The Soul.  He said a human's soul never dies and even travels life to life!  

     Modern science states energy cannot be created or destroyed.

     The Old Testament reads: "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise" (Exodus 21:24-25).  Certain theologians believe this may relate to reincarnation, meaning if you do something bad to somebody, that bad action will be done to you, either in this life or the next.  True or not, try to be nice anyways, please.  I have bad nerves.

     The Book of Job, the oldest story in the bible, has Job, a man who had it all, lost it all, and then got it all back.  He queried during a low point: "If a person dies, will he live again?  All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come"(Job 14:14). 

     The New Testament tale of a rich Pharisee, Nicodemus, has him asking Jesus how to get to heaven.  The Nazarene confidently replies: "You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again'.  The wind blows wherever it pleases.  You hear it's sound but cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.  So it is with everyone born of the Spirit" (John 3:7-8).          

     Consequently, the pre-existent and reincarnating soul was the key element of early Christians, until it was outlawed by the Roman church in 553 A.D.

     You may be blessedly in love with your boy/girlfriend, husband/wife, and feel like you've known him/her already for a million years.  What of a lover you have loved, lost, and long to love again?  Will you and him/her ever be together once more?  You may be in love right now with someone new and have a deep connection with him/her that you cannot explain. Funny thing, you just met them last night!     

      

     

  

List compiled by Dr. Nicholas Perricone

 

     Two good things happened today.  When I woke up this morning, there were blue skies for a very short time (it's been 3 weeks of wall-to-wall clouds).  Second good thing was calling back Container Design in Petrolia, who asked me to come in for a welding test. 

     Before I left for Petrolia, I checked where it was on the map, wrote down which roads to take, and started off.  Things were going good until I couldn't find Number 4 road.  It was there, but no sign.  Being male, I didn't stop to ask for directions, but its not like there's a Quiki Mart around these parts either.  I drove 20 km back to Strathroy.  I called Chris,  and he was nice enough to say it was no problem; come in an hour, he said, ask for Kevin. 

     I carefully checked the internet map of Southern Ontario.  It was a little tricky but I found the straight west, unmarked road I was looking for, reaching Petrolia in 40 minutes.  Once inside the building, my contact, Kevin,  took me to a table where a small test was prepared for me.  Finishing the test, he told me I did 'good', and I may hear from his boss anytime this week, ideally starting Monday. 

     We talked about the snow Petrolia got (Strathroy and Sarnia had no snow).  There were 19 car accidents because of it in Lambton county.  How was your day?

 

 

     Around one hour ago I was fired from Brander Steel.  I was there for three weeks, and it was a tour de force indeed.  In that time I was called 'numb nuts', 'retard' and told  'I have mental problems'.  That's not the first time I've heard that. 

     Brander Steel is owned by two brothers, Colin and Dave.  Colin hired me, and was all happy to have me working because of my ability to weld.  Dave, the other brother, liked my work and would have me instruct the co-op student too, for example. Colin, the other brother, began to hate me.  

     The lead hand Peter never liked me, and even went so far as to lie about a blueprint being available.  When I asked him for the blueprint for a Meridian project I was working on, he said there wasn't one, and that it was in his head.   Sure is buddy... I found the blueprint and finished the project regardless.

     This morning, I was on time and present as usual.  Brother Dave, who did like me, but was the meeker of the two brothers, said good morning.  I was putting the second coat of yellow paint on two steel mesh guards I fabricated for Vari-Form.  Dave asked me if  I was finishing up last night's job and I said yep, and went back to work.  TGIF.  Colin, the other brother, who couldn't wait an hour to yell at me, asked me why "the f*@k" I was doing that?  I stood there and didn't say a word.  He yelled some more, became possessed by Donald Trump and said "you're fired!".  

     My gift to me will be calling By-Law enforcement for Middlesex county.  The Brander brothers and lead-hand are chain-smokers and smoke in the building.  Highly explosive gas tanks are there, and they don't follow proper tank safety procedures to boot.  Their smoking days are over at Brander Steel; so are my working days.  

   From Folk Medicine, D.C. Jarvis M.D.  1958

 

     "Chronic headaches are blamed on the eyes, the stomach, the kidneys, the liver and the sinuses.  There are several types of chronic headache.  Some are associated with organic disease, such as kidney disease.  Some are known as psychogenic, or tension,  headaches.  For these the emotions- hate, fear, anxiety- are given the blame.  Most annoying of all to the individual is the migraine headache.  I have heard migraine headaches called "the price man pays for his ambitions".  The word migraine means "half a head".

     I have spent a great deal of time studying migraine headaches with the cooperation of individuals suffering them.  The daily intake of acid should be increased by the apple cider vinegar method, which is easy and positive.  Too many migraine headaches are prevented by the use of honey.  Two teaspoonfuls of honey taken at each meal may well prevent an attack.  The headache often will be begin to lessen by the end of a half hour."

 

 

Do you know if

I'll see my dead relatives

and friends one day?

I hope and pray I may!

Until then please don't

take anymore loved one's away

I know that's far too bold

for me to say

but I thought it might say

it out loud anyway. 

     Take a minute please and think about what life would be like here in Canada without heated homes and running hot water.  My mother's early years were on a farm outside of Strathroy, with a toilet out back in the out-house, not in the house.  That was not unusual in rural Ontario then.  They got a toilet inside when she was 7 or so, along with a television set at around the same time. 

     I think running hot water is the greatest luxury of today.  I'm voting in the next election for running hot water.  Do you ever wonder how the Iroquois lived in the longhouses during winter and wore furs and not gore-tex? 

   Around here its been going on nearly 3 months of cloudy weather, give or take some sunny days here and there.  As you know, we are heading into winter with less and less sunlight.  I have been reading about some incredible light bulbs that are called Kiva Lights.  These lights have many positive properties, but I'll just touch on how they affect moods.  They claim to help individuals with S.A.D., or Seasonal Affective Disorder.  The most common type of SAD is called winter depression. It usually begins in late fall or early winter and goes away by summer.

     After comparing a bunch of lights and their light spectrums, Kiva Lights are superior to the others.  The problem is, I have been having a hard time locating them on the internet for sale.  Here is a website that has information on Kiva Lights and they sell them too.  I do not know anything about this website or their products, and I am still looking for other Kiva Light retailers.  If you can find out more about Kiva Lights or where they are sold, it's worth the effort.  http://www.thewolfeclinic.com/kiva.html.

Life's real hard

or is it real easy

illusion of seperation

between you and me

think what you see 

or see what you see

that which is

not pretending to be

to do that

pay attention!

I say to me