ILLUSTRATED THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

I have paired this quote from Socrates with a new hedgehog cactus star.

Tibetan Mountains Video

This is awe inspiring. It will make you feel small. What a wonderful planet we live on.

Preview of Interview with Rick Hanson

This is a short interview with Rick Hanson, who wrote the Buddha's Brain. The central them is that our brains exhibit neural plasticity. New science is showing that our brains are not unalterably hard wired. We can change the wiring in our brain. Dr Hanson has some very good videos on You Tube.

ILLUSTRATED THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

I have started a new department on Zazzle for St Patrick's Day. This is one of 5 Irish blessings included in the collection.

ILLUSTRATED THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

This week, I have combined two kinds of flowers to create the star. This is a combination of yellow prickly pear and cholla cacti. Forgiveness and patience are two of life's toughest,but most rewarding challenges.
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Have a good week!

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I use yellow prickly pear stars and mandala to illustrate this Arthur Young quote. Have a good week.

Animal Friendship with Hound & Orangutan

Animal Friendships

Dr Mercola posted this today on his health site. Darwin gave us a slanted picture of evolution. By design, this world is a lot more about cooperation than competition. It is our belief that life has to be a struggle that makes it so.

ILLUSTRATED THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

This is my yellow prickly pear cactus array with a Norman Vincent Peale quote. I am a big fan of Peale's Power of Postive Thinking.

ILLUSTRATED THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

How about a ring of cheer to start the new year?

ILLUSTRATED THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

Back in March of 2010, I posted a Ring of Joy made with a rainbow mandala. I call this a Ring of Peace and it is made with yellow prickly pear cactus flowers. Occasionally, I will be adding to these to make a ring series.

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This is a star element that went into my new saguaro cactus array. It is made with photos of the saguaro flowers. I like this quote of the Buddha. Have a good week.

ILLUSTRATED THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

I've been listening Folk Alley out of Kent State, and they played a song by Pierce Pettis called: God Believes in You. What an encouraging thought. His lyrics are great as well.

ILLUSTRATED THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

Here is today's illustrated thought of the week. Have a good week. Next year, I plan to do a series of Christmas carols this way.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This was posted by Dr Mercola.

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This is my new barrel cactus array along with an inspirational quote fom WB Yeats. Have a good week.

Zazzle Teaming Up With North Pole Productions

Zazzle and Santa Claus Partner to Make Custom Gifts for Christmas
Posted: 13 Dec 2010 10:05 AM PST
On the eve of Christmas we’re pleased to announce our partnership with Santa to supply custom gifts for Christmas! Below is our official press statement.
In a groundbreaking new deal, Zazzle, the world’s leading platform for quality custom products, and Santa Claus, the world’s foremost gift giver and CEO of Christmas, today announced that the Zazzle custom products factory in San Jose, California will serve as an official “Auxiliary Santa’s Workshop” throughout the 2010 Christmas season. All requests for custom gifts sent to the North Pole this year will be rerouted to Zazzle’s factory, where the custom gifts will be made by Zazzle employees. The arrangement marks the first time in history that Santa’s Workshop has diverted a portion of its volume to a partner company for fulfillment.
The deal is expected to fill a major hole in Santa’s Christmas operations. Santa’s main factory in the North Pole was designed several hundred years ago to manufacture mass quantities of popular gifts. But in recent years, more and more children send letters to Santa requesting custom gifts which cannot be manufactured by Santa’s traditional Elfish workforce without causing major disruptions to efficiency. Zazzle, however, has made it their mission to offer all of the world’s custom products on their platform, and their unique focus since 2005 has been to make extremely high quality custom gifts for children and adults all over the world.
Santa also took a tour of our production facility, which we recorded for all those non-believers out there (Santa is real!).

ILLUSTRATED THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

This is today's thought of the week. Have a good one.

Skateboard Prodigy

This kid defines the word prodigy.

Peace Pilgrim

I just learned about the Peace Pilgrim form Joseph Chilton Peare's book, the biology of transcendence. This is a video clip of an interview with her.

ILLUSTRATED THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

I try to live by this motto. It is important in my communications with our residents in the home. They are great teachers. Have a good week.

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I am going away for Thanksgiving, so I am posting this early. It will be the first time in my 26 years here at the boarding home, that I have not been here for every major holiday; so I have extra reason to be thankful this year.

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This is our Thanksgiving week entry. Have a great Thanksgiving, eveyone.

Joseph Chiltern Pearce

Joe's books the Crack in the Cosmic Egg and The Magical Child were very influential on my development many years ago. I was delighted to see that he is still at it.

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Getting close to Thanksgiving, I offer this Estonian Proverb on gratitude. I am getting my Thanksgiving designs together just in time for next year.