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“When the world tells you to shrink, expand.”

- Elaine Welteroth

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“Being humane means looking beyond the mere expense of allowing refugees in, while being mindful about the greater good that generosity and forbearance eventually generate. Richard Wagamese, author of Indian Horse, wrote: "When humans get into trouble, Great Spirit does not send more money but more people instead."

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FORGIVENESS

by Maria Popova

May the tide

never tire of its tender toil

how over and over

it forgives the Moon

the daily exile

and returns to turn

mountains into sand

as if to say,

you too can have

this homecoming

you too possess

this elemental power

of turning

the stone in the heart

into golden dust.

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Sewell Collins illustration ~ Une Nouvelle Constellation 1910

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Today's beautiful and inspiring creation and story catching for me is the work of artist Michael Billie 🙂 ❤

“An additional blessing for me was Michael sharing the story behind his creations:

"The idea to include bundles in my work came during a moment I had while

teaching a workshop on eco-printing at fellow Weyrich artist Harriette

Tsosie’s studio in Albuquerque. We were wrapping silk, plant material, and

rusty bits in tight bundles to extract the pigments out of the items and

imprint them into the silk. This is done by steaming the bundles. After

steaming a batch, we set them on a big white canvas so they could cool

down before we unwrapped them. Viewing the dark bundles with the white

background was so striking to me: They were like a newborn bundled up in a

blanket; a gift waiting to be revealed; a medicine bag and a secret never

to be exposed. It was a powerful moment of inspiration that I’ll never

forget.

A year or so later, the bundles had become a big part of my compositions.

At this point, I met a woman who visited my booth at an art fair. She had

come to the Four Corners area to do some social work on the reservation on

healing and mending broken families. She was drawn to my work, not knowing

why until I told her the story behind the bundles. Later she told me about

an old story between the Navajos and the Hopi that involved two sacred

bundles: The Navajos had given two sacred bundles to the Hopi in exchange

for help in obtaining freedom from being imprisoned at Fort Sumner. The

event happened in 1868. According to the story, the two bundles are still

being housed by two Hopi families. She and I have started researching

which Hopi families might be holding these treasures. We're slowly making

connections, not yet knowing where the journey is going to take us.

The use of bundles have also opened more connections in my life, which in

turn have further influenced my work. It keep evolving into something

bigger that it reminds me how much power art can have.”

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Elsie de Wolfe interior design for a sitting room in the house Marlene Dietrich owned in Hollywood in the 1930s.

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"Nature is a great counsel, especially when we need a pattern interrupt, something to break us free from the lie we are living. Just like the canyon echoes back our voice, similarly every single thought, sigh, and complain gets reflected back to us as if our reality was a giant house of mirrors not missing a beat. The world, and our immediate experience of it, is our clearest mirror, the inside spilled outside."

~ Riikka Rajamaki

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"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."

— Carlos Santana

Artwork: 'Women Medicine' by Caroline Manière.

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So to summarise the situation for poor Ukraine:

(1) The USA was behind much of the political upheaval that toppled the democratically elected (and pro-Russian) government of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.

(2) The U.S. supplied arms to the fascist pro-nationalist militias that were attacking Russian speaking minorities and businesses in the Donbas

(3) The U.S. obstructed efforts by Zelenskyy to end the conflict in the Donbas (part of the ticket upon which he was elected)

(4) The U.S. encouraged Zelenskyy to talk darkly about Ukraine having its own nuclear weapons and drew Ukrainian army units into NATO exercises.

(5) The U.S. encouraged (well insisted) that Ukraine renege on all agreements made with Russia.

(6) Back in 2022, just a few weeks after the Russian invasion a peace deal was ready to be signed - but the U.S. blocked the deal.

(7) Despite the advice of Ukrainian military officers on the ground, the USA forced Ukraine to plan and execute grand offensive attacks for the sake of domestic U.S. opinion - the offensives were all disasters and contributed directly to the defeat we now see.

( 8 ) NATO has known for at least 18 months (and probably longer) that the war was a lost cause for Ukraine but kept pushing Ukraine to commit more and more troops to the front, displaying a depth of callous cynicism and disregard for life that almost defies belief.

(9) NATO has consistently failed to supply UKraine with the shells and ammunition it needed - and knew full well that it would be unable to do so throughout.

(10) Once it became clear that the war was lost the USA engaged in ridiculous 'peace talks' in Saudi Arabia that excluded the winning Russian side.

(11) With the election of Trump - the USA has thrown Ukraine aside like a spent crisp packet, demanding a losers reparations in the form of mineral assets that are now under Russian control.

(12) In a final ignominy, Trump now blames Ukraine for the war with Russia saying that they could have made a deal to stop it all - which is true but the USA blocked peace oft and over!

(13) Trump is now concluding the terms of Ukraine's defeat in secret talks with Russia that neither Ukraine nor Europe are invited to!

Ukraine's economy is wrecked, its infrastructure destroyed, huge swathes of territory are lost, an entire generation of fathers and sons have laid down their lives for nothing.

Let this be a lesson to you kids - this is what happens when you fight for the Western mafia - when they are through with you they toss you into the garbage and move on to the next place.

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It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

Aldous Huxley, Island

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Weird: Old English wyrd ‘destiny’, of Germanic origin.

The adjective (late Middle English) originally meant ‘having the power to control destiny’

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WOW! This is a painting❣️😲

Snowdrops by Gelena Pavlenko

Ukrainian painter b.1969

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"The Magic Crystal," By Frank Dicksee, 1894

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be content...

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We are all wanderers on this earth ~ our hearts are full of wonder and our souls are deep with dreams.

Artwork: 'Zigeunerin' by Emil Teschendorff (Stettin 1833-1894 Berlin)