I Feel Cleanse-duh… “Possibly-Related Posts”?
May 7, 2008
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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com Seriously, I noticed those “possibly related posts” the other day, and immediately thought, “Icky.” I wouldn’t mind if it was just linked to my other posts — and that they actually were related. Not a post about healthy breasts linked to one on peace and creativity *eyes rolling* Although, now that I think about it, those two could be a good match :) But all of these outside links to clearly unrelated stuff, and articles that I don’t necessarily align with, or very much don’t…well, that spurred a queasy feeling and thoughts of deleting my whole blog if I couldn’t find the remedy…
But, yay, thankfully no need for that. I just found the buttons to delete those most unwelcome links. Click, click, off they go, and now I’m doin’ the happy dance that they’re gone, lol Yep, I feel cleanse-duh ;) I mean, it’s like having someone sling chocolate syrup on your new party dress, heh – sure, more people will notice you, lol, but is that the kind of attention ya’ really want?
So for those who want to tidy-up their own blog in this way, here are the easy steps to the happy dance:
Go to the “Design” button. Click… “Extras“ Click… Check the box that does the deal, while carefully sidestepping their sly and oh-so-subtle nudge toward keeping the syrup on your dress and the supposed benefits therein. “Save“ Then let the happy dance commence.
Empowerin’, ain’t it? ;)
Peace,
Dove
Bill Gates
February 3, 2008
By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com I just came upon this pic of Bill Gates (scroll down) and…I had the eeriest thought that we’re all in this fantasy reality that Bill Gates has cut-and-pasted himself into, lol! I mean really, look at this picture (and others). It’s freaky… He so doesn’t look like a mega wealthy, brilliant and powerful person. He looks like an overgrown geeky kid that has this wild imagination and has pasted himself into our reality and made it all so :) LOL…
So if you’re waiting for some pearls of wisdom here, I got nothin’ (lol), it’s just that picture totally cracked me up — and so goaded me to share my thoughts here, heh
Uh, okay, just in case Bill is reading this, I’m just kidding!!! And if you’re looking for someone worthy to give lotsa money to, that would be me, I’ll do all kindsa good with it, promise *Bambi eyes batting and a sweet lil smile* lol ;)
:)
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My List of Them There Book Thingees :)
January 6, 2008
Also, with regard to reading books, my interest is primarily in the area of physical fitness, health and most especially metaphysics. I have lotsa books on those topics. I don’t so much read them as I read “at” them, bit and pieces, here and there. But I have many books, mostly metaphysical, that are so filled with underlining, notes and dog-ears, that it’s clear I’ve read them through many times :) And it also intrigues me that the woman who opened the door for me with all this “awakening” stuff, a psychic/teacher, told me during a potent reading and pivotal moment in my life, that I wouldn’t need to read books, that I would get what I needed “directly,” … an intuition kinda thing ;) And it is interesting, the things that “come” to me, I often later see them in a book or see that others are talking about and embracing the very thing that I had gotten “directly.”
Anyway, after all that rambling, here we go…
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01. One book that changed your life
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Now I haven’t actually completed this book, lol, but the primary concept grabbed me, and has never let go. And that is, that our emotions are potent, and that we create it all. That’s pretty much the gist of the book. Joy, use it for creating good things in your life :) and stop creating the icky stuff with all that fear.
“Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting” by Lynn Grabhorn
(subtitle: ”The astonishing power of feelings”)
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And also this book, because even after I’d pushed through my fear and purchased a deck of Tarot cards, I let it sit by my bed for about six months, still afraid of it (per religious teachings)…until I came upon this book, and it gave me the courage to go further. It made all the difference, the interpretations of the cards were much more positive than what I’d seen at that point…and I liked that a woman with a doctorate wrote it :)
“The Tarot Handbook” by Angeles Arrien
(subtitle: ”Practical Applications of Ancient Visual Symbols” … “Tarot symbols from a psychological, mythological and cross-cultural perspective’)
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Oh, I’m remembering some now :)
This one was very significant to my life. I remember, OMG, it was such a joy to read. It was like reading stuff I already knew… I sooo loved this book. It was the first “opening” for me.
“The Celestine Prophecy” by James Redfield
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And..
“The Language of Letting Go” by Melody Beattie
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02. One book that you’ve read more than once
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I’ve never understood why people do this, lol… I don’t, not intentionally anyway. Again, piecemeal is how I often read books. In fact, I’ll often just pick up a book and ask it what I most need to learn from it in that moment, open it randomly and then drink in all the wisdom of it :) I’m sure I’ve read most of my Tarot books several times, and counting. I open them (and read! lol) daily. I have several and I also regularly study the Tarot online, but I most often reach for these two Tarot books…
“Tarot, Plain and Simple” by Anthony Louis
“The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals” by Mary K. Greer
(also upright interpretations)
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03. One book you’d want on a desert island
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Hmm, at first glance, that’s a toughie, but then on second thought, it would have to be..
Tarot :) … Yes, the Tarot is a book, the amazingly complex and often beautiful images speak volumes and it has no limitation from being bound ;) I’d choose this “book” in a heartbeat, both for the entertainment of it as well as an incomparable tool for survival.
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04. Two books that made you laugh
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I must say, I’ve always been very strict with myself, in that I don’t generally buy books for pleasure so much as for the betterment of myself, and for the acquisition of knowledge that I deem worthy. I’ve never really entertained the idea of taking the time with books for just the purpose of, well, entertainment. It always seemed like a waste of time to me in the past, but I would now if I felt drawn to do so…I just haven’t so far, lol ;) BUT, I do have this one book that I’ve read “at” over the years and it’s pretty funny — as well as informative, heh And it is…
“How to Shit in the Woods” by Kathleen Meyer (lol … it is funny)
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I don’t have another, but here’s one that I have very much enjoyed reading “at” over the years. The stories of real-life soulmate connections are awesome. Amazing, truly amazing, synchronicities as to how many of these couples met and all. Now I have read several of these stories more than once. Fun stuff :) (The author is Debbie Ford’s sister. Debbie wrote a book I did read all the way through a bunch of years ago, called “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers” — featured on Oprah, as I recall. I’d say that book had a significant impact on me, and the “Universe” gives it a big thumbs up.) But here’s the more fun book.
“Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Lover” by Arielle Ford
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05. One book that made you cry
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“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou
Omg, I do love her writing. Her, I would read for joy :) if I could just get myself to sit down and read more. But the moment in this book that has stayed with me is the part where, as a young girl, she’s working for this woman who decides she doesn’t like Maya’s name, so the woman starts calling her by a different name, one the woman likes better. Gawd, that got me, treating her like she was a dog or something. I wanted to rip that woman’s head off… I allowed myself to feel Maya’s pain in that moment, yeah, it brought tears.
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06. One book that you wish had been written
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How ’bout two…
“How Men Can Overcome Their Fear of Women…and True Love”
“What the Bible is Really Trying to Teach Us”
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07. One book that you wish had never been written
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The person I copied this list from, put “The Bible” here and that’s a good choice, but even though those fearful interpretations have almost destroyed us, our world, there is truth in it, symbolic truth… Even so, I can’t think of any other book that has been more damaging to us, so I’m going to put that as well.
The Bible
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08. Two books you’re currently reading
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Well, sort of…here and there :)
“On Writing Well” by William Zinsser
(subtitle: “The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction”)
“Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma” by Peter A. Levine
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09. One book you’ve been meaning to read
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Too many to list, but here’s a few that sit waiting for me in my bedroom…
“Painting from the Source” by Aviva Gold
(subtitle: “Awakening the Artist’s Soul in Everyone”)
“The Feeling Soul” by Mark Linden O’Meara
(subtitle: A Roadmap to Healing and Living”)
“Energy Medicine” by Donna Eden
“Witch Crafting” by Phyllis Curott
(subtitle: “A spiritual guide to making magic”)
I’ve read her “Book of Shadows,” which I loved and have been meaning to read this one for a while now. She’s an uptown New York City attorney, and voted one of the “Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year” in 1999 by Jane Magazine and was a finalist for the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award in 2000. I think she’s awesome, and I love the way she writes.
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10. Okay, I’m gonna try this taggin thing, but since I’ve been getting the number 3, I’ll do 3 :)
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According to Jim
December 5, 2007
LOL! I’m sitting here laughing out the wazoo – I can’t stop laughing! Ya’ know how something hits ya’ and it’s so dang funny… and you keep thinking about it and it keeps crackin’ ya’ up. And the thing is, others might not find it that funny at all, but you don’t care, ’cause it’s so funny to you — ya’ can’t stop laughing — and that’s a good thing! *truly laughing out loud*
I don’t watch TV that often, but I’ve seen this “According to Jim” show a few times, and honestly I don’t like it that much — but the short, blonde, heavy guy, he’s Jim’s wifes’s brother. He’s the only one on there that is reeeally funny. He kinda reminds me of the SNL guy, Chris Farley, who always cracked me up as well.
Anyway, I’m still laughing at something he said on this episode I just watched. He was in charge of bringing the minister to the other sister’s wedding. And, of course, with Jim’s help, he screwed that up. They get another minister at the last minute, and (of course) they don’t check him out or anything. So the funny blonde guy saunters up to this new minister with the wedding in full swing, thinking everything is gonna be fine now. Then the minister starts relaying that he was kicked out of his church and he’d started his own religion…and that said religion was spurred by his “sitting naked in the woods meditating…and an angel appeared to him disguised as a bear.” LOL, hilarious look on the blonde guy’s face. The funniest line was when he ran to tell Jim that they’d screwed up again. He was freakin’ out and said, “This guy is talkin’ to bears, man!” Jim casually said something like, “Can he get us tickets?” heh And then the funniest line, the blonde guy shoots back, “No, you don’t get it, this guy’s seein’ visions, bay-bee!” LOL! I think it’s a combination of the look on his face, with the mega emphasis he put on ”visions” and ”bay-bee!” that I can’t shake — especially right after Jim had told him not to call him “baby” at the construction site, LOL! Oh-muh-gawd, so funny! :)
The way he looked, the way he said that, my eyes are watering as I’m laughing and typing this. I dunno, sometimes things just hit ya’ like that — and ya’ can’t stop laughing!! lol Okay, I’ve totally lost it! LOL!
What’s with that? ;) I dunno, but it feels good — so I guess TV isn’t totally “bad” if it can spark such things in us on occasion, eh? :) Okay, yeah, it pretty much sucks in general, but every once in a while there’s a healthy tidbit of a treasure there. So ya’ just never know ;)
Okay now for something compleet-uh-ly different, haha! ;) Yeah, I used to love Monty Python, SNL, Friday’s… Man, what happened to TV, it used to be highly treasured up with shows like those. Hmm, I think the more our freedom goes, the more our creativity goes… Hey, there’s a poem/song in there somewhere ;)
Dove
