Sunday, April 29, 2007

Volume 5 Issue 5: May Issue

Greetings!
Have you felt the 'quickening' all around you? It seems everywhere I look people, animals and birds are busy in the frantic pace the comes with spring.

Well, the Farmer's Almanac resource for lunar astrology appears to be no longer available.

The Full Moon for May is: May 2nd at 6:09 am and is called the Full Flower Moon. The reason it is called the Full Flower moon is because May in most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.

This months article is from Steve Rother and the Group from Lightworker. I always enjoy the time I spend reading their channel. I hope you enjoy it as well.
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In this Issue:
Article: The Rewire of Humanity from Steve Rother and the Group
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Greetings from Home

The space you have created here on this beautiful planet is growing more like home every day. When seen from our side of the veil, your game of spirits pretending to be human is creating quite a commotion. All eyes are upon you as you walk through your daily life. The love and energy of Home is the wind at your back and it is with you every day.

The Rewire of Humanity
We have spoken about the rewire that all of humanity is now experiencing. This event is much larger than you may at first imagine. The human animal is evolving and that evolution will allow you to carry more of your spirit within the framework of your physical bubble of biology. This day we will elaborate a bit more on this so you will be able to see where this is going.

Dear ones, if you could see what we see when we look at you and say, “Greetings from Home,” you would understand your own magnificence. You would understand why you have come in to play the Game with the veil firmly in place, keeping you from seeing who you really are. You look at yourselves sometimes and judge yourselves and think, “I must be stupid if I play the same patterns over and over again.” We applaud you, for we do know who you are and we will hold that vision until you can see yourselves as we do.

God Incarnate
On a very deep level you know that you are playing a Game of not being able to re-member who you are; you understand you are playing a wonderful, beautiful game in order to see God. We tell you, that is the simplicity of it. The reality of it is that you are the whole of God. You are an integral part of God—not simply a piece of God such as the arm, the leg, or the fingernail. Instead, each one of you carries the entire essence and all the abilities of God within you. Every one of you carries the Light within every cell of your being. Finding that light and shining it brightly so that it can be seen by others is what you came here to do. That is the Game you are playing. It is God, hiding from himself, searching for herself. Balancing that male/female energy becomes one of the biggest pieces of the Game. Today, we will show you another viewpoint that will help you to see yourself from a different perspective. Re-member, this is not a right perspective, nor a wrong perspective, not a good perspective nor a bad perspective; opposites do not exist the way you think they do. Opposites are merely pieces of the same part viewed from a different perspective.

The Drama of the Game
We are going to start with a single word to show you this new viewpoint. Many of you will recoil from this word when you hear it, because it has mostly a negative meaning. The word is “drama.” Oh, you really do not want dramas in your life. If there is a drama in your life, you say, “Do not get that drama near me. I do not want any part of it!” But the reality is that humans are playing a grand drama. That is what you do. You are attracted to dramas. You are inexorably drawn to dramas. That is why you love to watch television and movies. It is very refreshing to watch dramas played out in the lives of people to which you have no attachment. That is why you are so excited to go see a play where someone is playing a role. Now take that actor for a moment and place yourself in his/her shoes... what is happening to the actor on the stage? The actor is thinking, “Ahh, the audience is crying, so I am doing a good job.” Your greatest desire as an actor is to lead the audience from tears to laughter as they follow the entire drama of the character you are representing. Like that actor on stage, you are expressing a drama in your own life. You are expressing an idea, a message and a story line much the same way as that actor on the stage. You are a spirit acting out the difficult drama of pretending to be a human. Like all actors you studied your lines well and prepared for the play before the curtain went up. You even scripted the lines of the play in the planning stage of your life before you were born. The only difference is that you are playing out this drama on the stage of free choice so you are not restricted to stay within the script that you wrote. The entire play can be impromptu. Yet even when you do exercise your ability to improvise, you always wonder if you are really “on your path” or “on your script”. You are naturally drawn to return to the script you wrote for yourself. You are all actors. You are all playing an individual drama. So let us remove some of the negative ideas around the word “drama’ and look at its positive effect.

Drama Rules
We tell you that there are no rules to the drama of life. Even so, there are ideas and concepts that can help you to understand the way it really works. In effect, this is like pulling the veil aside to show you what is behind the curtain of the stage upon which you are playing. We now pull the curtain aside to show you some simple ideas that may help you with gaining this new perspective. The first idea is so simple that most humans have difficulty accepting it, yet it is the single most fundamental guideline of the play of life. “Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Now to truly understand and embrace that statement, one must assume a huge amount of responsibility. The truth is that most humans are not generally ready to accept that much responsibility. Instead, they accept the idea that there are outside influences that control the drama of life. “I was born with this. This is my destiny. This is what I must deal with. This is not my fault.” But, if life is truly a self-fulfilling prophecy—which it is—you have choice in every second of every day. Every second of every day provides you with an opportunity to change your life…not necessarily toward the good or toward the bad, but to simply change.

Now we give you another concept that will help you on the stage of your drama: “Every change in life leads to something better.” The play would be very boring if nothing in the scene ever changed. In fact, the entire script depends on constant change; it is change that makes the drama interesting. Of course, it doesn’t always appear that way when you have just lost your job, when a relationship breaks up, when you are depressed or looking inward and you cannot seem to find yourself. Even so, we tell you one thing is constant in the long term—every change leads to something better. When you are able to recognize that you do have choices and that every change leads to something better, you can then understand ways of directing your drama.

Flipping through the Channels
As you click your TV remote control flipping through the television stations, you will see both dramas that resonate with you and ones that do not. Some television shows are boring and some are very exciting, while some educate and still others will make you cry. As a viewer you flip through channels to find the ones that resonate with you. It is important to understand that the separate channels are meant to attract different viewers. That is the reason there are so many of them. We hope you always choose a channel that empowers you the viewer. Now put yourself on the other side of the remote control and understand that you are the actor playing out the part; you have the choice of changing that script in any moment. You have the opportunity of viewing that drama from a different perspective if you so choose.

The empowered humans that now inhabit planet Earth will watch different channels than humans of earlier times. Humanity is evolving at an astounding rate at this very moment. It is now possible to walk in full power through daily life. With that power comes a huge amount of responsibility. The reason most humans still do not walk in their full power is that they resist taking the responsibility needed to balance that power. Take the responsibility and you will have the power. Responsibility is the balance to power, so grasp the responsibility in whatever area that you wish to change and it will be so. Even if it is only a concept, even if it is only the responsibility of acknowledging that you are an actor on a stage accepting that you have control over your life.

Attachment to DramaNow let us address the negative aspects of drama. What about the person who says, “I do not want to have any drama in my life at all”? They run the opposite way and do everything to avoid drama in their lives. Imagine if you were watching a channel where the leading man comes home to find that his wife has left him suddenly. If you see his tears, anger and hurt, it is a real human experience and an interesting drama; you can relate to him and feel his pain. If he turns to the camera and says:

“I don’t mind, something better must be coming my way.”

B-O-R-I-N-G. In that instant your clicker has just changed the channel. Trust us when we tell you that you are working with a script that easily plays out through drama. You will have your ups and downs. Most strive to have only ups with out any downs. The idea here is to love both your ups and your downs as a beautiful human experience of the soul. That is the script of the drama you have written. Those are the human experiences that you have asked to play. Do not consider yourself negative when you go into drama. Simply release yourself from the attachment to the drama, because that is where the problem comes in. That is where the difficulty sets into your life. You are spirits pretending to be humans on a stage, and as such you will always play out dramas. That is your nature. The challenge comes when you become attached to the drama, when you become attached to the script, and when you become attached to the role you think you are playing. This attachment effectively stops the changes that are needed in your life. Attachment places you in an endless loop of the same drama playing over and over again. Releasing attachment to an outcome will release attachment to drama in your life. That is where the freedom of change comes in and that is how you step into your full empowerment, when you have the ability to change every aspect of yourself and even your own script without attachment.

Deadly Inertia
Humans are creatures of habit. If you take an action and consider it a success then you will repeat it to recreate that success. It is a normal human condition. When you repeat that action again and again, most of the time the success you expect is removed for the element of change is gone. Yet you continue in the same pattern because it is familiar and the fear of the unknown is much stronger than unsuccessful repetition. That familiar action creates inertia. Inertia is the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest, or of a body in a straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force. You often see inertia as a steady force helping you to stay on a course you have chosen. We now tell you that the force of inertia in your life drama has killed more humans than you could possibly imagine. It has stifled the forward movement in the life drama of many souls. The slow death of living a life of inertia has killed many humans.

Having the courage to change inertia is a huge step in empowerment and very scary for most. Scripting your own play can be accomplished by being willing to step out of inertia. Of course your humanness wants to say, “Which way is the best way? Which way is the fastest path? Which way is the best possible script?” We tell you, there are no wrong turns. That is difficult for humans to understand. Because even if you take the long way around to reach your destination it will be because you will learn something that you would have missed if your path had been direct. All change leads to something better, so the experience of the soul may even favor the person who had to go through all these difficult situations.

Cranberry Sauce
We ask you, what do you want in your life? What are you willing to accept? Are you willing to create the path just before your feet hit the ground? What is that going to take? That is going to take your willingness, asking yourself what you can do to step out of the play—to step behind the remote control and press the pause button while you evaluate all the parts of your own drama. We have spoken of drama before. There was a time we likened drama to the great smorgasbord of Earth. When humans go through the buffet line, they take a little bit of passion and a portion of love, and they love love, so they put huge helpings of love on their plate. Then they put a little bit of fear on their plate, too, because without fear you could not really taste the love, so you go through the whole thing and finally you come to the cranberry sauce. The cranberry sauce is what we liken to drama because it is wonderful and adds flavor to everything, but if you put too much on, it takes over your whole plate. Many of you have asked how to increase your longevity so that you can live forever. We hope you do not do that. We hope that by the time you hand in that body it is well used, bruised, and you have big smiles on your face as a result of the wonderful use you have received from that body. That body is to be enjoyed, not prolonged. Enjoy the spices of life. Enjoy the dramas. Let yourself look at your own dramas objectively and then you can release the attachment to them. Then you can say, “This is simply a drama that is playing out. Is it not fun? Maybe I am not enjoying this drama any more so I will change the drama.” Allow yourself to play.

Setting Your Tone
We offer you one other suggestion. You set a vibrational tone which begins the drama of your life. That is your vibration. Your vibration is simply a tone. It is not right and it is not wrong. It is not better than another one. It is not higher or lower, it is simply your tone. It is your unique harmonic vibration of God. It is your own individual piece that gives you an energy that can be seen throughout all that is. We ask you to learn that tone and use it freely and often. This tone is what lines up the universal energy to naturally attract like vibrations into your life. As you grow you will add to that tone by taking harmonies from those around you. That may be a course, a book, or simply a person you admire that you wish to emulate. These elements can add harmonic overtones to your own tone. What you can do is to add harmonies to your tone to evolve and sharpen your own vibration. As your tone evolves, so does your drama of life. Allow yourself to adapt energy from others to transform your own. Allow yourselves to look through all of the channels on the television before you choose the pieces that you wish to incorporate into your drama. Pick up those pieces that you love, that add to your vibration, and that strengthen your empowerment. Add those tones to yours and call them your own.

Everyone learns the first steps to their own dance from someone else. Everyone learns how to take this foot and put it here and put it here, then put it here. Soon they feel the music and they will choose to add their own movements and before long they are teaching their own unique dance. It is your natural adaptation of energy, your adaptation of light and vibration that will create your dramas. Find those things that add to you, bring them to you and call them your own.

Dear ones, we come to honor you. We come to sit at your feet. We come to hold the mirror in front of your face many times so that you will re-member who you really are. We hope you understand that you are the chosen ones. You are the part of us that has chosen to place this veil on your face so that you could see God.

You have abilities that even we in heaven do not have. You can touch each other. You can see God from afar. You can see things, you can play dramas, you can enjoy life, and you can even have tears. Dear ones, you are the expression of divinity in human form and we hope you have a wonderful human experience. We hope you play the drama to its fullest and when you are done, you will hand in your script and say, “I did it well. I had a wonderful human experience.”

Dear ones, it has been such a joy to be with you. These times together are very unique for us, because they allow us to come through and share with you. The Keeper is getting very good at allowing us to come through and blend with his personality, for we have been working with him for 12.5 years in this lifetime and 12 lifetimes before. Each and every one of you has the same connection. Learn to trust it. Learn to bring it through. You have a special vibration of this life that is yours, entrusted to you—given to you from the very beginning of your incarnation here. Find a way to amplify that. Find a way to bring that out and harmonize with it. Find a way to let that shine through your smile and your eyes and you will see God in everyone you encounter.
We leave you with three simple reminders: treat each other with the greatest of respect for you are looking in the eyes of God. Nurture one another at every opportunity for when you empower each other, you raise the vibration of all. Re-member it is a beautiful Game and play well together.

Espavo

The group

Excerpt from As You Like It
Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages…

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Links

A really interesting page I stumbled upon: Kakostuff. You can make your own ringtones for your cell phone, send a singing message, find out what songs were popular on your birthday. I thought it was loads of fun!

This is way too cool! What happened on August 5th, 2004 at noon? Lots of interesting things. Mosaic

Now this will give you pause for thought! Mr. Fieggen illustrates many ways to tie your shoelaces!Shoelace Knots

TV scripts! TV scripts

And now, some blatant, slapstick, with no apologies. Blunders.
These extremely helpful video skits teach men
exactly what blunders to avoid on a date with a
young lady. Some of these made me laugh till I cried, others made me go into sensory overload and stare in disbelief. (In other words not all of these are that funny.)

Ah, teach someone how to use photoshop and ...well, you get the idea. But give them a theme such as evolutionary mistakes and you've got something there! Genetic Imagineering!
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May the Creator hold you in the palm of His hand; and may you float as a feather upon the Breath of the Creator.
Until next time…keep smilin’.
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Sunday, April 1, 2007

Volume 5 Issue 4: April Issue

Greetings!
The old saying about March proved untrue this year in northeastern Wisconsin. March came in like a lion and went out like a lion with rain storms passing through. May they just jumped too quickly to prove, "April showers bring May flowers." *Shrug*


Full Moon Times and Dates:
~April - The Fourth Month
Venus continues its ascent and is now 30 degrees above the horizon about one-half hour after sunset. It spends the first week in Aries and the rest of the month in Taurus, and is near the famous Pleiades star cluster from the 10th to the 12th.


Saturn is prominent and at its highest point between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. all month. The predawn scene starts to get lively, with Jupiter at its highest point each night before daybreak.



The Moon meets Mars during the early morning hours on the 14th. The close conjunction of reddish Mars and faint-green Uranus on the 30th is a unique sight, best seen with binoculars. They will be six degrees above the horizon one hour before dawn. Moon phase times are based on Eastern Time.


Full Moon: 2nd day, 13th hour, 15th minute
Last Quarter: 10th day, 14th hour, 4th minute
New Moon: 17th day, 7th hour, 36th minute
First Quarter: 24th day, 2nd hour, 36th minute
Full Moon Names for April: Full Pink Moon; Full Sprouting Grass Moon; Full Egg Moon; Full Fish Moon.
~May - The Fifth Month
Mercury passes very near the thin crescent Moon on the 17th and is easy to see in fading western twilight during the last half of the month. Venus rises higher and becomes more dazzling in the western sky as it crosses from Taurus into Gemini. It has its own striking meeting with the Moon on the 19th, with Mercury a great distance below the pair.
Saturn, sinking a bit lower, is still nicely visible in the southwest during the early evening hours. Jupiter, rising two hours earlier each month, pops up above the southeastern horizon by 11:00 p.m. at midmonth. The Moon hovers below it on the 31st. Moon phase times are based on Eastern Time.
Full Moon: 2nd day, 6th hour, 9th minute
Last Quarter: 10th day, 0 hour, 27th minute
New Moon: 16th day, 15th hour, 27th minute
First Quarter: 23rd day, 17th hour, 3rd minute
Full Moon: 31st day, 21st hour, 4th minute
Full Moon Names for May: Full Flower Moon; Full Corn Planting Moon; Full Milk Moon.

Special thanks to The Old Farmers Almanac


In This Issue:
Article: "4 Simple Steps to Manifesting What You Want" by Joann Ang
Links:
Turtle's Meanderings
4 Simple Steps to Manifesting What You Want
By Joann Ang
Published 03/22/2007
Consciously direct your thoughts towards your desires. Manifesting is the process by which your thought becomes things in your reality. Whether it is something you really, really want or something you really, really fear, manifesting, through the law of attraction will work. Events will unfold so that it will lead the way to the materialization of the object of your attention.
Be mindful of the things in your mind for your thoughts can work for you or against you. Deliberately create your present and your future by consciously directing your thoughts towards your desires. Here are some simple steps to manifesting what you want.

1. Know what you truly want. If you know what you truly want, your heart, mind and soul are one with your desire. You can give your undivided attention to this particular goal.

2. Keep the end in mind. Have a very clear vision of the end result of your desire. Make it as vivid as if it is really there with you. See it, hear it, feel it, smell it or taste it. It is not your job how it will be manifested; your job is to envision what will be manifested.

3. Cooperate. Make your actions congruent with your desires. Recognize opportunities and grab them.

4. Pretend you have it and give thanks. Play the game of pretend. Give thanks like you already have what you want and it will indeed come to you. Remember to let go of all control once you have done your job. Know that one way or another, sooner or later, you will receive what you have asked. Frustrations and negative attitudes will just delay the manifestations of your desire, so relax and trust that it is coming.

Consciously choose the path you wish to take. Deliberately create your experiences. Once in a while, life may throw something bitter at you, but stop for a moment before you react. Ask yourself, “Is this really as bitter as it looks, or does it hide something better?”

About the Author: She is a traveler in this mysterious and abundant universe. She owns the website Manifesting: Life Magick http://www.lifemagick.net/ which is a journal of how she has used the art of manifesting in her life. She has found that the tremendous power to enjoy the abundance of this world lies within oneself. Through this website, she hopes to share her experience with conscious creation.

Links:
A field ion microscope (FIM) image of a very sharp tungsten needle. The small round features are individual atoms. The lighter colored elongated features are traces captured as atoms moved during the imaging process (approximately 1 second). Sharpest Manmade Thing


A really fun website that I found while surfing...thanks to television, Become An M&M


I thought this web jukebox was just awesome! (It is a bit on the slow side but imho, well worth the wait.) Web Jukebox.


Ah, the basics of punctuation! Do you know where to put your commas and colons?
Punctuate this!


For you frustrated wanna-be artists out there, (I am one!) Here's a pretty cool site! Witty Comics. I goofed around a little here and thought it was pretty cool!


Turtle's Meanderings

In a couple of days there will be at least one new article up in the Spiritual Pool.


That's all for this time. Keep Smilin'. Until next time, May the Creator hold you in the palm of His hand. And may you float as a feather upon the breath of the Creator.

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Volume 5 Issue 3: March 2007 Issue

Greetings!

March came to the North Central U.S. with the force of a lion so we shall wait and see if the old adage is true: In like a lion, out like a lamb. We are currently experiencing the winter storm "Edward". He could be nasty as he is bringing ice with him.

~March 2007 - The Third Month ~

The nearly full Moon floats alongside Saturn on the 1st, as both rise at nightfall. (The pair will meet again on the 28th.) On the 3rd, a total lunar eclipse is visible throughout the continental United States and Canada, except in the westernmost regions. As the Moon rises at sunset, the eclipse is already under way, offering a potentially photogenic event. Venus, crossing from Pisces into Aries at midmonth, is now much higher and continues to brighten in the west after sunset. Brilliant Jupiter is up by 1:00 a.m. at month's end. Mars is still dull and remains a predawn object. Spring begins with the vernal equinox on the 20th, at 8:07 p.m. Moon phase times are based on Eastern Time.


Full Moon: 3rd day, 18th hour, 17th minute

Last Quarter: 11th day, 23rd hour, 54th minute

New Moon: 18th day, 22nd hour, 43rd minute

First Quarter: 25th day, 14th hour, 16th minute

The names of March's Full Moon: Full Worm Moon; Full Crow Moon; Full Crust Moon; Full Sugar Moon; Full Sap Moon

~April 2007 - The Fourth Month ~

Venus continues its ascent and is now 30 degrees above the horizon about one-half hour after sunset. It spends the first week in Aries and the rest of the month in Taurus, and is near the famous Pleiades star cluster from the 10th to the 12th. Saturn is prominent and at its highest point between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. all month. The predawn scene starts to get lively, with Jupiter at its highest point each night before daybreak. The Moon meets Mars during the early morning hours on the 14th. The close conjunction of reddish Mars and faint-green Uranus on the 30th is a unique sight, best seen with binoculars. They will be six degrees above the horizon one hour before dawn. Moon phase times are based on Eastern Time.

Full Moon: 2nd day, 13th hour, 15th minute

Last Quarter: 10th day, 14th hour, 4th minute

New Moon: 17th day, 7th hour, 36th minute

First Quarter: 24th day, 2nd hour, 36th minute

Other names for April's Full Moon: Full Pink Moon; Full Sprouting Grass Moon; Full Egg Moon; Full Fish Moon

Special Thanks to: The Old Farmers Almanac

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In This Issue:

Article: A Small Piece of Carpet: an article about developing the identity of self love and appreciation

Links

Turtle's Meanderings (formerly "This 'N That")

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A Small Piece of Carpet

Have you ever noticed how the way you feel about yourself sometimes depends on whether or not you get confirmation of your value from others? When you enter into challenging situations with a positive self identity you will discover that you are living your life with a greater sense of enjoyment and fulfillment.

I have learned a lot about nurturing a positive identity of love and appreciation from the man who taught me to train dogs. Dogs and humans both have a "self identity" that determines perception of the world, behavior, and one's sense of self worth. Let me explain how my teacher nurtured a positive self identity in the dogs he trained.

Frank had a very fascinating way of helping the guard dogs he trained, to feel respected, protected and loved, regardless of the situation/context they were in. Here is how he accomplished this. First of course, he started out by treating his dogs with love and respect, and by showing them an infinite amount of patience as they were learning. This of course is crucial.

Then, the next thing he did was a true stroke of genius. He would cut a small piece of carpet for each dog he trained. He would place the carpet in the dog's sleeping area, for him to lie on each night. He would also take this carpet during the day and set it down in various locations, and sit the dog on the carpet, as he praised the dog for being good. Whenever he moved to a new location, he would have the dog stand up, and he would pick up the carpet and carry it to the new location, set it down, sit the dog down, and again, praise the dog for being a "good boy." Soon the piece of carpet took on the distinct odor of the dog, and Frank said that this led the dog to feel "at home" when sitting on the carpet.

Next, Frank would teach the dog to pick up the piece of carpet himself, and carry it to wherever they were going. The dog would then set the piece of carpet down when they stopped, and sit on top of it, with Frank all of the time praising him for being a good dog. Now Frank said, "The dog begins to feel that he truly belongs in every place that he travels to, and no matter where he goes, he receives my love and appreciation. Soon the dog takes on this love and appreciation as the primary core of his identity."

And I ask you now, if this strategy works so brilliantly with dogs, would the same basic strategy not work just as well with human beings? Ask youself, "What is the small piece of carpet you carry around with you wherever you go?" "Would your life not be very different if you changed your piece of carpet to one of self love and appreciation?"


About the author: Charlie Badenhop is the originator of Seishindo, an Aikido instructor, NLP trainer, and Ericksonian Hypnotherapist. Benefit from a new self-help Practice every two weeks, by subscribing to his complimentary newsletter "Pure heart, simple mind" at

http://www.seishindo.org/newsletter.html. Contact Charlie at seishin@seishindo.org.

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Links:

Amazing what one can find just surfing. (I love to surf just don't have enough time)

Tired of those blah cursors, but don't want adware, spyware and pop-ups from some of those programs that bring you cute little cursors? Well, I think that no matter what your taste, whether for the office or at home, you will find something to dress up your desk-top without those annoyances:

http://tech.msn.com/downloads/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3184116&GT1=9132

What does the position in which you sleep say about you? http://www.flatseats.com/General/positions.htm

Now, here is something you won't see every day....I think you will probably say, Awww, on a couple. I did! http://www.frogview.com/show.php?file=1508

Want to see how David Copperfield does his 'flying' illusion? http://tinyurl.com/2kz3dg

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Turtle's Meanderings

Last year I had announced that the ebook "As a Man Thinketh" would be available on the website. Well, it is nearly there! Keep checking it will be up in a few days. It won't be in ebook format. (Long story.) Ah, you have to admire internet marketers for seeing an opportunity.

I noticed a few days ago that the internet has saved the word "meh" (well, actually the internet's interpretation is, Awwww.) As Mr. Spock would say, 'Fascinating"....what technology is bringing and keeping.

That's all for this time. Keep Smilin'.
May the Creator hold you in the palm of His hand and may you float as a feather upon the Breath of the Creator.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Volume 5 Issue 2: February 2007 Issue

Greetings!
This month I am behind in my posting of this issue. I was considering changing the format. Hopefully this will be easier for me.

The Chinese New Year is celebrated on February 18 and ushers in the Year of the (Fire) Boar/Pig.

Full Moon Times and Dates:

~February - The Second Month~

Mercury is conspicuous in the evening twilight during the first 12 days of February, when it floats between Venus and the western horizon. The month's headliner is Saturn, which reaches opposition on the 10th, when it is brightest and at its nearest point of the year. The ringed world rises at sunset and is out all night, shining at a bright—but not dazzling—magnitude zero. Small telescopes easily show the rings, more edgewise now than in several years, a circumstance that makes Saturn appear only half as brilliant as in recent oppositions. Venus climbs higher and grows brighter as it crosses from Aquarius into Pisces at midmonth and is striking when it meets the crescent Moon on the 19th. Moon phase times are based on Eastern Time.

Full Moon:
2nd day, 0 hour, 45th minuteLast Quarter: 10th day, 4th hour, 51st minute

New Moon: 17th day, 11th hour, 14th minuteFirst Quarter: 24th day, 2nd hour, 56th minute.

Other names for the full moon in February: Full Snow Moon; Full Hunger Moon

Special Thanks to:
The Old Farmers' Almanac.