Destiny Dawn Marie

I feel down in the dumps. Looking at the calendar I can see part of the reason .. New Moon is tonight. The farm is pitch black tonight, the cold damp weather has the air feeling heavy and the wildlife bedded down. There is no movement tonight. No bats or owls, no songbirds or crickets, no peepers … it feels like winter has moved into the valley.

The New Moon is always on my low cycle. I’ve never studied biorhythms in depth but have come to learn my own body and have been aware of my mental states and there is no doubt that my highs and lows correspond with the moon phases.

The time of year don’t help matters. As we move into the cold weather the air smells more stagnant, less sunshine, and the worries of heating bills and holidays settle on our minds. Being aware of these changes is part of the battle, finding time to exorcise, enjoy mid day sun and plan the season better then last year are all on the agenda.

My optimism feels shadowed this year by self doubt and responsibilities that feel heavier on my shoulders then years past. Surviving the last two winters out here in our desolate valley was quite a challenge. And while I am proud of our success - I can’t say that I am looking forward to the torture of it again already.

With all of our lost income streams this year it looks like we may have to rent the old farm house out if we can get the water problem solved. That is a separate story for another day … I am living in the old house and really liked it down here and do not look forward to moving back up to the new house, but it may be the only chance for survival this winter with the bills as high as they are. Renting out my house …. oh I can’t imagine sharing my property with strangers.

Maybe we will find a nice couple that can enjoy this land like we do, but chances are slim that others would appreciate the beauty in the nothingness like we do. I have been house hunting incase I can’t find renters or enough supplemental income to cover the winter bills out here. The places I have looked at thus far have been very discouraging.

As the moon blossoms with reflection my attitude and outlook should brighten as well, then maybe I will see the opportunities that are hidden from me tonight.

~Shared by Pat, Minden, NV

CEO — Chief Embezzlement Officer.
CFO — Corporate Fraud Officer.
BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.
VALUE INVESTING — The art of buying low and selling lower.
P/E RATIO — The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
BROKER — What my broker has made me.
STANDARD & POOR — Your life in a nutshell.
STOCK ANALYST — Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
STOCK SPLIT — When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.
MARKET CORRECTION — The day after you buy stocks.
CASH FLOW — The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
YAHOO — What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
WINDOWS — What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR — Past year investor who’s now locked up in a nuthouse.
PROFIT — An archaic word no longer in use.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you will have $49.00 today.
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you will have $33.00 today.
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you will have $0.00 today.
But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you will have received a $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg.

Ok let me give you a little background about the bullshit this company has put me through. They just can’t leave me alone. If they did, I wouldn’t be aggravated and writing this tonight. I was threatened again tonight by FirstWebSearch for a post I made about them being a scam. Yes I called them a scam - and they just keep reminding me over and over what a scam they are… I wanted to forget this embarrassing business transaction that was played out against my emotion and desperation to start a new home business project. They can’t seem to let me forget it, so let’s reminisce shall we?

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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren’t overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem..

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms…….

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
“With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?”

F A M I L Y

I ran into a stranger as he passed by,
‘Oh excuse me please’ was my reply.
He said, ‘Please excuse me too;
I wasn’t watching for you.’
We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said goodbye.
But at home a different story is told,
How we treat our loved ones, young and old.
Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
My son stood beside me very still.
When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.
‘Move out of the way,’ I said with a frown.
He walked away, his little heart broken.
I didn’t realize how harshly I’d spoken.
While I lay awake in bed,
God’s still small voice came to me and said,
‘While dealing with a stranger,
Common courtesy you use,
But the family you love, you seem to abuse..
Go and look on the kitchen floor,
You’ll find some flowers there by the door.
Those are the flowers he brought for you.
He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.
He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
You never saw the tears that filled his little eyes .’
By this time, I felt very small,
And now my tears began to fall. .
I quietly went and knelt by his bed;
‘Wake up, little one, wake up,’ I said.
‘Are these the flowers you picked for me?’
He smiled, ‘I found ‘em, out by the tree.
I picked ‘em because they’re pretty like you.
I knew you’d like ‘em, especially the blue.’
I said, ‘Son, I’m very sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn’t have yelled at you that way.’
He said, ‘Oh, Mom, that’s okay.
I love you anyway.’
I said, ‘Son, I love you too,
And I do like the flowers, especially the blue.’

—– author unknown —-

Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.
And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than into our own family, an unwise investment indeed, don’t you think?

ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM

NOW RELEASED
10/2/08

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

What is zeitgeist the movie?

‘Zeitgeist, The Movie’ and ‘Zeitgeist: Addendum’ were created as Not-for-Profit expressions to communicate what the author felt were highly important social understandings which most humans are generally not aware of. The first film focuses on suppressed historical & modern information about currently dominant social institutions, while also exploring what could be in store for humanity if the power structures at large continue their patterns of self-interest, corruption, and consolidation.

You can find the first Zeitgeist Movie in an older post on this blog here.

The second film, Zeitgeist: Addendum, (the movie shown above) attempt to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other “establishment” notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates a new social system which is updated to present day knowledge, highly influenced by the life long work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project.

The Zeitgeist Addendum summarizes into these actions for Social Transformation

1. Expose The Fed Cartel (Boycott Citibank, JPMorgan Chase & Bank of America)
2. Boycott The News Networks (Use and Protect the Internet)
3. Boycott The Military
4. Boycott The Energy Companies (Get off the grid & make your home & car self-sustainable)
5. Reject The Political System (Focus on working to dissolve the outdated system of Politics, in favor of technological redesign)
6. Create Critical Mass (http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
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Essential Feng Shui: A Step-By-Step Guide to Enhancing Your Relationships, Health, and Prosperity: Lillian Too: Books ISBN: 0345429044 ISBN-13: 9780345429049

“Feng shui is not magic. Nor is it a spiritual practice. . . . It is an ancient Chinese method of living in tune with the energies of the living earth.”
–Lillian Too

Like other ancient Eastern practices that are adding rich new dimensions to American life, feng shui is both science and art. It is a system for arranging your living and working environment to promote the beneficial flow of chi, the dragon’s vital cosmic breath, the fundamental energy of life itself.

One of the world’s most renowned practitioners of feng shui, Lillian Too has helped thousands of people bring success and contentment into their lives. Too makes accessible a wealth of Chinese wisdom, the five elements, yin/yang theory,

• In and around your home: Interior and exterior layouts that attract chi into your entryway, living room, dining room, bedroom, and kitchen–plus structural features to avoid and the most harmonious fences and gates
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Fully illustrated, comprehensive, and packed with hundreds of practical, easy-to-follow suggestions, Lillian Too’s Essential Feng Shui gives you everything you need to know to harmonize your life with the powerful energies of the earth.

I am trying to create a small reference library of my private collection books. While posting them into a category here on the blog it seems the book listings were taking over my front page. Just like the real books are taking over my house …

So I am installing a plugin that allows me to exclude certain categories from showing up on the home page of my wordpress installation.

The plugin being used is called Simply Exclude.

To access my bookshelf  you can use the link at the top of this blog. This first page you will see is a list of my book titles. This headline listing of post titles out of a category into one page is done by another plugin called Category Page.  - Gotta love Wordpress

Clicking on any of the book titles will take you to a description of the book and a Amazon.com link to the title in case you want to read more reviews or order yourself a copy.

The books in my private library are being posted while I am in the processes of inventory management out here on the farm with the book business going back in action with the cooler weather approaching.

Now if only there was a plugin that would clean the office …

The simple yet powerful concepts contained in this revolutionary book will take you from the world of ego, superficiality, and illusion to the higher spirituality of your INFINITE SELF.