Mastering Life in Maine

I like to do photo manipulations. The worse the picture the more fun I have finding something attractive I can do with it. I have a great 'photoshop' program which allows me to make many minute adjustments and has great templates/filters I use as starting points. Example. I started with this: A great place to start, and many thanks to my daughter for letting me use her pictures here. This is what I did with it: It is a big file. Open it in another window and take a good look :))

Sorry about the bare bottom.  This is a video I made ages ago, but (lol)  I still love this song,  and the singer even commented on it. If the Video doesn't work Click Here :)

Last night I was explaining to someone how loyalty was fine, but it was wise to remember that we all have feet of clay, so to speak. That no human is wholly good or bad, and that polarity is like a swinging pendulum. Especially when we live unconsciously. We all know politics swings left and right. We all know we have light and darkness within. We have all had successes and failures - fortune too swings. Or you might say it balances. In my life I have often experienced high moments of recognition. Moments when I am praised and feel very pleased with myself. But they were all followed by miserable moments of failure. Times when I just wanted to disappear, when I was filled with shame. That's the balance I am talking about. Positive and negative, success and failure, pleasure and hurt... the tally at the end of your life is apt to be 50 - 50, Unless... And this was my epiphany... You consciously, or unconsciously, swing the balance more toward one or the other. We all know

You and I are narrators of our own story. We are the end result of our dreams, our beliefs. In a very real way we are the ultimate gods of our own reality.  Powerful people know these things. The ARE black magi. Witches, not of the Harry Potter world, not the kind lady Wiccan, but practitioners of the darkest arts.  One of their greatest weapons is to craft our stories for us. To make us dupes in our own enslavement.  They already pay for their evil with our tax-dollars.  And they always tell us, in ways we usually dismiss, just what their plans for us are.   For all of my life these people have owned and controlled the big media outlets. And they have lied to us. It is becoming more and more obvious.  Perhaps you have heard of the terrible crimes your white ancestors committed against your native ancestors - most Americans have both. We all hear of the evil done by Germans and Japanese in WWII, but no one would condone hate against their modern descendants. Why then are Am

The Terraces of Purgatory First Terrace: Pride. Carrying a heavy weight on the back. The wearer is unable to stand up straight. This teaches that pride puts weight on the soul and it is better to throw it off. Second Terrace: Envy. Having one's eyes blinded, and wearing clothing that makes the soul indistinguishable from the ground. Third Terrace: Wrath. Walking around in acrid smoke. Souls correct themselves by learning how wrath has blinded their vision, and impeded their judgment. Fourth Terrace: Sloth. To continually run. Those who were slothful in life can only purge sloth by being zealous in their desire for penance. Fifth Terrace: Avarice. Excessive concern for earthly goods - whether in the form of greed or extravagance. This is mended by lying face-down on the ground, unable to move. In other words one has become excessively earthy and has denied the spiritual. Sixth Terrace: Gluttony. Food of the body does not feed the spirit. On this terrace the person fasts until hi

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."