Category: Inspiration

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Anger- Internal or External?

Someone on Facbook asked about anger, whether it releases negative energy externally or internally.
I replied:
Suppressing one’s emotions is not good.
People who do eventually explode.
So NEVER little small things go uncommunicated until they build up within one.
You cannot feel anger without having a diminished level of responsibility.
One cannot be the adverse effect of an area of life without oneself first having done something similar to that area.
Feeling anger is taking on an opposition to that which one is angry. It is not senior to the situation so is therefore a weaker position.
Part of responsibility is the ability to withhold.
When one is angry is the worst time to communicate.
You can almost never trust and angry man to speak the truth.
So if one is feeling angry, one remedy is to spot times in one’s past when one has done similar things to the same or similar area or persons towards which one feels angry.
When one does, the anger subsides.
But it takes courage and strength to do that.
And most people would much prefer to blame someone else.
So I am not addressing most people.
I am addressing those who would like to grow and see things improve and have sufficient courage to move outside what is comfortable and step into the area where growth occurs.

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Progress on Saving the Bees

Thought you’d like to hear what’s going on with the project to save the bees. I received this from SumOfUs.org:
Dear friends,
I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Chicago, where beekeepers from across the US were speaking out about the danger of bee-killing pesticides on behalf of thousands of SumOfUs supporters. And here’s what I learned: the pesticide industry really, really doesn’t want people to hear our message.
I went to Chicago to attend a massive commercial gardening convention, where the beekeepers (who call themselves ‘beeks’) and I were delivering the voices of over 140,000 SumOfUs supporters. Our message: stop selling the pesticides that are killing the bees! It wasn’t a message that Bayer and the pesticide giants wanted the world to hear. I was barely off the plane in Chicago when I learned that the industry-sponsored convention organizers had threatened SumOfUs with a lawsuit if we took our message inside the convention grounds!
But we had come prepared (thanks to thousands of donations from SumOfUs supporters!) — and we didn’t leave until the beekeepers had reached out to thousands of commercial garden center owners and the national media about the dangers of these bee-killing pesticides. Here’s the most remarkable thing: many of the garden center owners signed on in support as soon as they heard our message — exactly why Big Pesticide is scared of our campaign to save the bees.
Big Pesticide is determined to silence us, but we’re not going to let them — and we won’t back down to legal intimidation. Our colorful bus ads blanketed Chicago during the conference, and were featured on morning TV news across the US — and now, thanks to you, we’re taking the message straight to garden center owners themselves with ads in the biggest commercial garden publications. With your support, we’re going to keep fighting until these pesticides are banned around the world and the bees — and our food supply — are safe.
Click here to see more photos of the beekeepers delivering our message in Chicago, and to share the campaign with your friends to keep building the opposition to bee-killing pesticides.
The threat of a lawsuit wasn’t the only tactic they used to silence us in Chicago. They rolled out a full campaign of intimidation, including:
telling hotels across the city not to book rooms to our beekeepers, and not to allow us to screen a documentary about bees;
ordering security guards to prevent our accredited beekeepers and two human-size bees (okay, our friendly volunteers in bee costumes!) from entering the conference;
and even stopping an 85 year-old local beekeeper from delivering 140,000 signatures from SumOfUs members to Bayer, one of the largest manufacturers of bee-killing pesticides!
Meanwhile, Bayer spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on huge ads all over the convention center and a booth advocating their “bee care” program, all the while selling the pesticides that are killing them at the convention!
But despite these dirty tactics, we got our message out loud and clear. Our beekeeper friends had hundreds of one-on-one conversations with convention attendees, handed out thousands of flyers about the deadly effects of ‘neonics’, the pesticides that are killing the bees, plastered the city’s buses with our ads, and took the city by swarm.
Bayer’s reaction shows one thing — it’s scared. Europe has already banned these killer chemicals, so now the industry is fighting with all they’ve got to dump the neonics on North America. Just last week, Time Magazine wrote about the global bee die-off and neonic bee killers in its cover story, and this week, the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordering an immediate reduction in the use of these pesticides, and admitted that the chemical is partly responsible for the disappearance of honey bees. Big Pesticide is terrified that its profits will take a hit if we win in the US as well.
Thanks to your support, we’re going to keep up the fight. First up, we’re planning hard-hitting ads in gardening industry publications next month, to make sure the garden center owners get this vital information. And we’ve got more ideas in the works — but after the legal threats in Chicago, we’re keeping them under wraps to stop the industry from trying to block us again.
Together, we can save the bees. We hope you’ll stay with us until we win this fight.
On behalf of all of us,
Angus and the beekeepers (Terry, Reba, Sam, Amy, and Edie)

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THERE ONCE WAS A DUCK II by Tom Fair

This is gold!
Tom Fair writes:
Because I work largely with children between the ages of five and twelve, I am sometimes labelled as a “children’s performer,” and my literary/song material “children’s” repertoire. I personally see it from a quite different perspective. To me, childhood is not the first stage of a rocket that is to be jettisoned during the next stage of life; it is the seed from which the mature plant grows – the acorn that is parent to the mighty oak. Childhood is close to the core of a being, and woe to him who cannot communicate with his core.
THERE ONCE WAS A DUCK II
by Tom Fair © 24 June 2010
There once was a duck who thought he was a bear
He didn’t have paws and he didn’t have hair
His mama tried to tell him, but he didn’t really care.
“Quack, quack, quack!” he said. “I’m a bear!”
There once was a duck who thought he was a cow
He tried to say “moo” but he didn’t know how
He thought he was a cat, but he couldn’t meow.
“Quack, quack, quack!” he said. “I’m a cow!”
There once was a duck who thought he was a lion
The duck couldn’t roar but he just kept tryin’
All night long, you could hear him cryin’
“Quack, quack! Quack, quack! I’m a lion!”
All the other animals thought he was a silly goat,
The dog and the pig and the frog and the billy goat.
“Sorry, little fella, you’re simply outta luck;
You’ll never be nothin’ but a crazy little duck!”
The poor little duck, he sat down and cried.
His heart was broken and his dreams had died.
He’d lost his courage and he’d lost his pride,
The fun was gone… he just couldn’t go on…
But the wise old owl who was sittin’ in a tree
Said “Listen, little duck, just listen to me!
You can be anything you really wanna be:
A bear or a lion or an owl like me;
A butterfly, a pony, a banana or a bee;
A river or a mountain or the deep blue sea.”
The duck jumped up as high as he could,
And he looked down over the neighborhood.
His heart did a dance, he was filled with elation
At the endless joy of his imagination!
“Thank you, Mister Owl,” he said with a smile.
Now, I think I’ll be a duck for just a little while.”

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Dannys Heirloom Seeds

This is for my US buddies.
For my mates, I am checking out if you can import them.
My daughter Teal gets some heirloom seeds from here in Oz.
Teal will undoubtedly post a link when she sees this.
Then she will give me a call and ask me why I am not in the kitchen hard at work mixing her new Pre-Conception and Pregnancy Nutri-Blast nutrition powder.
OK, back to work!
HEIRLOOM SEED PACKAGE–Non GMO–55 Varieties–23,000 Seeds–Price is $50
We hand package our Heirloom Seeds in 2 x 3 and 2.5 x 3 thick see thru ziplocks. All 55 packets are then put in a large 10 x 14 silver mylar bag. If you seal in mylar bag provided, the Seeds will last 4 years at room temperature, 5-7 years in the ice box, and 10 years in the freezer. They are Open Pollinated Heirloom Seeds, and will grow vegetables that will give you new seeds every year.
All Heirloom Seed is fresh from the 2013 season. You can see the picture of some of the Vegetables coming in from harvest. They are organic; as no pesticide or chemicals were used on the vegetables or seed. The seed is fresh and viable, and has been tested at 90 – 93% germination. Included is 4 pages of Planting/Growing/Seed Saving info.
We care about you and your family, want you to become more self-reliant, and so we offer our Seed Packages at a reasonable price so more families can take advantage of them.
IT’S ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE A SUSTAINABLE SOURCE OF FOOD; ESPECIALLY WHEN FOOD PRICES CONTINUE TO CLIMB AND CLIMB.
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SEEDS IN THE PACKAGE:
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2) HONEY DEW GREEN MELON
3) FLORENCE FENNEL
4) SUGAR BABY WATERMELON
5) EARLY JALAPENO PEPPER
6) SWEET BANANA PEPPER
7) BEEFSTEAK TOMATO
8) ACE 55 TOMATO
9) LARGE RED CHERRY TOMATO
10) GOLDEN BANTAM SWEET CORN
11) BLACK TURTLE BEANS
12) MISSOURI WONDER POLE BEANS
13) PROVIDER BUSH BEANS
14) DWARF SUGAR POD PEAS
15) MARY WASHINGTON ASPARAGUS
16) CALIBRESE BROCCOLI
17) SNOWBALL CAULIFLOWER
18) LONG ISLAND BRUSSEL SPROUTS
19) BLACK BEAUTY EGGPLANT
20) RED ROMAINE LETTUCE
21) FRENCH BREAKFAST RADISH
22) DETROIT DARK RED BEETS
23) CHANTENEY RED CORE CARROT
24) SCARLET NANTES CARROT
25) KALE VATES BLUE SCOTCH
26) CAL WONDER BELL PEPPER
27) GOURMET LEAF LETTUCE BLEND
28) CLEMSON SPINELESS OKRA
29) BUSH MEXICAN PINTO BEANS
30) TALL UTAH CELERY
31) FLORIDA BROADLEAF MUSTARD
32) ITALIAN LARGE LEAF BASIL
33) DARK GREEN ZUCCHINI SQUASH
34) EARLY STRAIGHT NECK SQUASH
35) PURPLE TOP WHITE GLOBE TURNIP
36) RED ACRE CABBAGE
37) ASHLEY ORGANIC CUCUMBER
38) BOSTON PICKLING CUCUMBER
39) BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON LETTUCE
40) FLORIDA MARKET EGGPLANT
41) RED BURGUNDY ONIONS
42) PURPLE VIENNA KOHLRABI
43) MORRIS HEADING COLLARDS
44) CERTIFIED ORGANIC ALFALFA
45) BLOOMSDALE SPINACH
46) MOSS CURLED PARSLEY
47) RED BURGUNDY OKRA
48) LITTLE MARVEL PEAS
49) AMERICAN PURPLE TOP RUTABAGA
50) WHITE SWEET SPANISH ONIONS
51) CHERRY BELLE RADISH
52) SHOGOIN TURNIP
53) SIBERIAN DWARF KALE
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