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Witches & Witchcraft...

The question I pose is...

                 

                              Is it all poppycock?   

                                                                     

  I've seen things in my life that would say not....

Witchcraft: In historical, anthropological religious, and mythological contexts, is the use of alleged supernatural or magical powers or spells.

Witch: A practitioner of witchcraft...

Deeds: The measure Of A Person's Character

Deeds are the measure of a persons soul and character...They will always matter....They will always be remembered....

Ancient Sanskrit Wisdom

#1~ You will receive a body. You may like it or not, but it will be yours for the entire period round.

Beauty is just genetics...Character is everything...

Beautiful people do not always get what they want. It is much harder being beautiful that you may think; the idea that beauty means perfection is false. Beauty does not automatically mean that a person is shallow, anymore than ugly means that a person has depth; shallowness & depth are both a sign of character. Physical beauty is nothing more than genetics. Character is a quality based on personal choices....

Renunciation

According to Tibetan Buddhism, in order to reach liberation, one must renunciate samsara, or those attachments to the material world. However, renunciation has a different connotation than what we might have in the western world. It really does not mean that we should do without pleasures, it is actually based more upon perspective; in other words, the extreme mind, which is what we deal with most of the time, is a grasping mind, it is a craving mind, and it places an overestimated value on objects and people, which would have nothing to do with the reality of the object or the person. That is a definition of renunciation that I can live with.

7 FACTS ABOUT CRYING & TEARS :

 7 FACTS ABOUT CRYING & TEARS : 

Crying is an emotional release and if you feel the need to cry you should let it out. Here are a few facts about the act of crying. I thought they were interesting, so of course I wanted to share.

1) Emotional tears have a different chemical composition than tears caused by irritants, such as onions.

2) Crying in public was considered normal until the Industrial Revolution, when diligent unemotional workers were needed to operate machinery.

3) Men’s tear ducts are smaller than women’s tear ducts.

4) One major stress hormone released from the body via tears, prolactin, is found in much higher concentration in women's bodies than in men's. (This makes sense when you consider that the hormone is also implicated in the synthesis of breast milk).

5) Babies cry but they don't produce tears until one to three months after birth.

6) When a person cries and the first drop of tears comes from the right eye.

7) In Japan, crying for emotional release is all the rage, or so reports the Independent. The Japanese call it the "crying boom" - everyone wants a bit of sadness in their lives. Instead of going to a karaoke bar after work to wind down, businesspeople watch weepy films (called "tear films") at these crying clubs. There is also a huge demand for sad TV dramas and books, each graded by its ability to induce tears.

(Courtesy of Did You Know?)

Screaming at an anthropomorphic god for natural disasters, disease, & death is an insane rant. Asking how can such a god can exist is just as insane, for such a god does not exist. This is it, simple enough, the universe is alive; therefore, natural disasters will occur here on planet earth just as they do in outer space. The human body gets sick, thus disease is a natural occurrence. People God did not put us here, we did. Life and death are the only true realities...

My Young Man, Laurance...

He's my special boy, and he's getting so big...he's worth changing for...

Transcendent Love...

I believe in the power of love...but not the fleeting romantic kind...but rather that type of love that we are all born with....we can see it in infants before they know right from wrong...yes from no...that time when there is only life, and death does not exist...there is no fear...that perfect love that we are all born with...that is always there but ends up forgotten...lost in a sea of fear...an unreal fear...because in truth, love is all there is...

~~~Catch The Wind~~~Donovan~~~

In the chilly hours and minutes of uncertainty, I long to be in the warm hold of your love and
mind.

To feel you all around and to take your hand along the sand, I may as well try and catch the wind.

When sun down pales the sky, I wanna hide away behind your smile.
Everywhere I look, your eyes I'd find.

For me to love you now, would be the sweetest thing.
Would make me sing.
But I may as well try and catch the wind.



When rain has hung the leaves with tears, I want you here to kill my fears.
To help me leave all my blues behind.

For standing in your heart, it's where I wanna be, and I'll long to be.
But I may as well try and catch the wind.

(Lyrics courtesy of AZLYRICS.COM)

~~~The Moody Blues~~~Nights In White Satin

Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters I've written,
Never meaning to send.



Beauty I'd always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore.

'Cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.

Gazing at people,
Some hand in hand,
Just what I'm going thru
They can understand.

Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end,

And I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters I've written,
Never meaning to send.

Beauty I'd always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore.

'Cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

'Cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.




(Lyrics courtesy of AZLYRICS.COM)

~~~Scott McKenzie~~~If You're Going To San Francisco

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there



For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

(Lyrics courtesy of jngtigmsmff, who originally posted this video on You Tube)

Life's Drama...

It's interesting to me how so many people complain about the drama in their relationships:

He doesn't understand...

She won't make up her mind...

He thinks he knows everything....

She's stringing me along...

And blobbity...blobbity...blah...

Folks...if you don't like the drama...then just get out....you know...take your exit...walk off the stage...

Clearly, if you're doing so much complaining...you're not very happy...

~~Candle In The Wind~~Elton John

"Candle In The Wind"

Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name



And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

Goodbye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something as more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe...

Lyrics courtesy of azlyrics.com.

~~Candle In The Wind~~Elton John

"Candle In The Wind"

Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name



And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

Goodbye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something as more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe...

Lyrics courtesy of azlyrics.com.

Real Women Have Curves....

When Josefina Lopez wrote the Off Broadway hit play, "Real Women Have Curves", she was trying to bring attention to the struggles of the American Latina; however, her play spoke volumes to women everywhere of all sizes and races. In the 1980's there was such an obscene struggle to be perfect created by the offensive media attacks on women who were not a size zero; this lead to a multimillion dollar a year industry geared toward creating the perfect body image, through diet, exercise, plastic surgery, cosmetics, clothing, and yes, binging and purging. Out of the ashes of "The Perfect Image Industry", as I like to call it, a swinging door to the hospital psyche ward was spawned; were young girls, and some boys were being admitted for depression, anorexia, and bulimia. So, disgusted were they with themselves that they couldn't even stand to look in the mirror at their own image, and yet they would do just that every single day, nit picking every flaw. The onslaught of body dysmorphic disorder, created such a panic amongst psychologists, that they were all baffled on how to treat it properly; so they medicated. Now, the pharmaceutical companies were profiting.

By the 1990's the psychiatric industry in both the US and abroad, began to level their frustration for the creation of this epidemic at the fashion industry and the obscene media coverage to be thin. Today, the fashion media is trying to gloss over that negative image by catering to plus size models; that is women who are between a size 6 to 14.

6 to 14!!!! Are you kidding me? No, kidding. According to Hannah Siegle of the Elephant Journal, a plus size model in today's fashion world ranges in size between 6 and 14; I for one have to agree with Hannah, that a size 14 is not a plus size; you can't even find a size 14 hanging on the plus size rack at Walmart, Target, or KMart. If a size 14 isn't considered a plus size amongst designers, then a size 6 doesn't even come close, and clearly the fashion media has learned nothing from the damages created in the 1980's.

They say that they are listening, but they are not. The facts are these, women come in all shapes and sizes, and the fashion media does not get to dictate what makes the perfect woman. Perfection, if it truly exists, does so as a state of being. That is not something that you can capture on camera to photo-shop later.

Josefina Lopez was right, real women have curves; and some times those curves will be small and petite, while others will be Rubnesque and voluptuous, but they are all beautiful.

~~~NOTE: Please take time to click on the photo of the model above and read the article by Hannah Siegle.

I invite to see the movie version of "Real Women Have Curves", you can rent it, or you can purchase it from Amazon, by clicking the photo link below.
Thank you, for taking the time to read my blog...

~~~Sweet Emotion~~~Aerosmith

"Sweet Emotion"

Talk about things and nobody cares
Wearing other things that nobody wears
Ya callin' my name, but I gotta make it clear
Can't say where I'm gonna be in a year.



Some sweat hog mama with a face like a gent
Said my get up and go musta got up & went.
You got good news but you're a real good liar
Cause backstage lover set your pants on fire.
Riff 8x, then sweet emotion [2x]
Pulled into town in a police car
Your daddy said I took you just a little too far.
Tellin' other things, but your girlfriend lied
Can't catch me cause the rabbit done died.

Standin' in front just shakin' your ass.
Take you back stage you can drink from my glass.
Talk about something you can sure understand
Cause a month on the road and i'll be eatin' from your hand.

Lyrics courtesy of azlyrics.com.

Love yourself...

Love yourself enough to enjoy your own company; for that is good company.~~~LDW

Better it is to be alone than to endure the misery of a bad relationship~~~LDW

Honesty....always...

I would rather lose with honesty, than to win lies.

Donovan~~~Season Of The Witch~~~

When I looked out my window
Many sights to see
And when I looded in my window
So many different people to be
That is strange, so strange
You got to pick out every stitch (3)
Must be the season of the witch (3)



When I looked over my shoulder
What do you think I see
Summer cat looking over
It shoulder at me
Any strange, sure is strange
You got to pick out every stitch (2)
Beat me its eye to make it rich oh no
Must be the season of the witch (3)

You got to pick out every stitch
The rabbit's running in the ditch
Beat me its eye to make it rich oh no
Must be the season of the witch (3)
When I go

When I looked out my window
What do you think I see
And when I looked in my window
So many different people to be
It's strange, sure is strange
You got to pick out every stitch (2)
The rabbit's running in the ditch oh no
Must be the season of the witch (3)
When I to, when I go

Lyrics courtesy of lyricsdepot.com.

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