As a respite from wars, rumours of wars and the incessant chatter of busy lives, here is something to immerse ourselves in and take a breath.
Art is how we express ourselves, it is how we communicate to each other and the world where we see our place in that world and in the Universe. Art speaks of the human spirit and how, we all strive to find the divine within and without.
I hope you love this Deanne as much as I do. ❤
This is where we began our love of art. These beautiful paintings are an estimated 20,000 years old.
From cave paintings to digital interactive art. Art and Science Combined.
https://borderless.teamlab.art/
Behind the scenes with Team Lab.
Forest of Resonating Lamps
The Way of the Sea in the Crystal World.
Flowers and People. Giant Lattice Mass.
The Haze
Memory of Topography
Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers
Harmony
From Larenzos’ point of view.
Regardless of what is happening “out there ” we can still take time to “stand and stare ” and reflect on how extraordinary we are, and can continue to be.
Love Kitty ❤❤❤
Kitty, thank you so much this is beautiful, there is so much we can be proud of.
As you just celebrated Thanksgiving JD, I thought I would explore the deeper meaning of our relationship with food and how by growing the food we can change our individual small corners into a paradise.
Pam Warhurst founder of Incredible Edible Ted Talk
When we invite anyone into our home to eat we are asking them to enter our most sacred space: our home. We drop all barriers.
We are making a covenant of reconciliation, and thankfulness not just between each other but with God and Nature itself.
In the food we eat, made with love, we are literally sharing love, filling the spaces between us with that love.
Food is Love and Medicine for all.
Kitty ❤❤❤
Kitty Links! 🐱👤🐱👤🐱👤🐱👤
These are fantastic links you put together, when we work together we can do great things together, and one of those things is to plant a garden. As the man said, if we grow it, they will eat it.
It doesn’t matter where you live or what kind of soil you have, and you can grow it. The soil is pretty crappy here, and my idea was to plant in a pots that palms come in; they are huge. I have to find a volunteer to dig it into the soil. That way, I can fill it full of excellent soil and make Jersey tomatoes cause they are lousy here.
Food has always been such an important thing we take for granted; it brings back old memories of how mom or grandma used to make it. Mine is how my father used to bring the bulldozer home and tear down the forest in our back yard to make 1/2 acre garden. It gave him much joy to hand bushels of crops to neighbors. It’s now part of a shopping center.
There nothing like freshly grown food to bring the family together, I know that some dread the holidays coming up, but think if you lost that someone how it would affect you? Relish in the joy that you have a family to go home too. My family is 898 miles away. Yesterday, on Thanksgiving, we put together a smoker grill combo and smoke three racks ribs. It would have been better with family.
Thank you, kitty, for all the beautiful things you have done to make our website more delightful! 🌸🥰💋JD
I saw this JD and decided to send it to you before I sent you anything else.
The videos and links remind us that even in the midst of darkness and despair, there is still absolute beauty and truths to be found.
Nature has a remarkable way of showing us we are connected to each other, to our God, the Universe, this is how we are truly connected and this connection can never be taken from us . ..
We can be totally in the world, but absolutely not of it, we can still see and be part of the miracle of life even when all we see and feel in the darkness.
We are all connected to each other, biologically.
To the Earth, chemically.
To the rest of the universe atomically.
We are not figuratively, but literally, stardust.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
This is the most beautiful post ever. Unplug, realize the world around you. Put this post in your favorites when life’s got you down. Let the anxiety and stress melt away.
Mario Lopez did nothing wrong, and he can’t understand how parents let their children as young as three years old determine they want to be the opposite sex. Are children that aware? It’s nonsense! Here we go with the leftist socialist speak!
Kids should be playing with toys, not ruining their lives for attention-seeking adults. Kids will change their minds a million times! Let kids be kids.
Extra is owned by NBC Universal that backs the George Soros and Hillary narrative of gender-bending, limiting free speech and freedom of thought, calling people racist so you’ll fall in line. You know the Meghan Markle narrative to shame people. Don’t fall for it; resist this narrative!
Personally, I have no problem with LGBTQ, they are adults, and they made decisions. I would love to hear from trans people and tell me when they knew they were trans? Maybe I’m missing something here because I can’t believe a three-year-old is thinking about their sexuality at that age. I was a tomboy, and my mother used to say I should have named you Donald, I’m straight. Do you see what’s happening?
The globalist wants to reduce the population by abortion, gender-bending, racism, control the speech means controlling you. They are part of the green new deal, climate change. Only the few 1% get to indulge themselves. If they had their way you would never go anywhere and eat bean sprouts and grass all day.
Vote for Trump! Stop this insanity! Have faith in God!
Yesterday was a hectic day JD. For you, getting the truth out there, and for the readers and posters of these articles, equally exhausting but no doubt in a different way.
After reading all this information, I became both angry and deeply sad at what seems to be the human condition. Are we really so lacking in any sense of what right and wrong is , where is our moral compass and is this what we really are becoming?
We all ask,” but what can I do”? ” I am just one small person in a huge world, nothing I can do will make a difference ”
As ever, the answer is simple, it’s always about the one, about you, and if there are many “ones” we, can all be instrumental in changing the world one step at a time. alone, but together.
We can move from victim to creator by practicing loving-kindness. Even when feeling anger we can immerse ourselves in the oasis of kindness.
In a single act of kindness we can create something wonderful, and like ripples on a pond a small seemingly insignificant gesture can bring joy and love to many.
Our reward? Who knows? But that feeling of joy and love is in itself the reward and the sense of inner peace is indescribably beautiful.
Jewish wisdom reminds us :
“It is not for you to complete the work, but it is up to you to begin it”.
This is who we are :
This video shows how those ripples on the pond work
Slowly, gently this man is planting the seeds of loving-kindness.
In the end, the garden made from kindness he has so lovingly watered blooms beautifully.
This is how we really are and what we were created to do.
Einstein said :
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Wise words.
This last video is from a series of videos narrated by Thich Nhat Hanh. It can be used during meditation or a quiet time.
It speaks of our suffering and how we can, even in our most dreadful of times find inner peace.
The child at the end of the video is even in the midst of chaos navigating away towards inner peace and tranquillity. Slowly, one step at a time. Which is how we can find our way back to our true selves.
Slowly, one step at a time with loving-kindness.
Three extraordinary videos JD filmed in over 60 countries over a period of 2years. These videos record and chart us as Human Beings,” Being Human.”
The people interviewed in the videos are all different, they come from different cultures, have different belief systems, both religious and political. They have different skin tones, speak different languages,
And yet, in all their diversity their stories, are all the same. They speak of loss, of love, of war, peace, pain, joy, children, aging, fear. In all this, the one thing that unites them unites us is the desire and need to be loved and to love unconditionally.
Love fills the spaces between us and makes us truly Human.
Love . Simple . Pure . Unconditional .
This is what ironically we are fighting for, for the freedom to express ourselves “in ” love not fear …
The following video is from Charlie Chaplin’s film parody and satire, The Great Dictator.It is as relevant today as it was then.
The first paragraph of this article applies as much in Britain today as it does in America.
We, in Britain, are a country torn apart by intolerance, fear, and often hatred.
Change is always a painful process, it creates conflict, confusion and always fears.
We must always keep in mind our common humanity, I hope these videos help to remind us of this and why we choose to stand against everything that diminishes that which makes us Human.
We all seek love, and we run from terror. We hold dear our traditions we learned as a child.
We all must know that pushing millions of people towards another continent is doomed for failure, especially when these people are lied to by groups funded from billionaires with agenda.
Although I was flooded with tears watching these videos and found truth in Charlie Chaplin’s Dictator, I can’t agree with blaming everything on Trump!
I was moved by your post because that is what I want the world to be, we can do it, just not all at once. Like Queen Elizabeth says, slow down, change is gradual.
We, the people, have been stifled for eight long depressing years under Obama. The progressive left has doubled down on the narrative of hate all things legal, accusations of racism when little existed, gender-bending as fade in the elite HW crowd, infanticide, making abortion the normal and not the rare, taking the wealth of others who worked their asses off because they feel entitled to take. Socialism was a complete and total failure in the Latino community, why would the left ever think these hard working people would vote for that?
The right way to immigrate is a process not to overload the existing system all at once. I do feel for these people but implore them to do immigration reasonably and be ready to simulate into the newly adopted country.
What is wrong with a flood of millions of people is thousands are criminals ready to continue to victimize these people all over again. As you have experienced in your own country with acid attacks, grooming gangs, knife attacks, I can see why people have fear against these new strange people that differ from them even though the majority are peaceful people. Again simulation is paramount in your newly adopted country, and everyone must work to contribute to society.
Accusations that President Trump is a warmonger, yet he reached out to what many believe is our enemy. It reminds of a song from a distance
From a distance the world looks blue and green
And the snow capped mountains white
From a distance the ocean meets the stream
And the eagle takes to flight
From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It’s the voice of hope
It’s the voice of peace
It’s the voice of every man
From a distance we all have enough
And no one is in need
And there are no guns, no bombs and no disease
No hungry mouths to feed
From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common band
Playing songs of hope
Playing songs of peace
They are the songs of every man
God is watching us
God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance
From a distance you look like my friend
Even though we are at war
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
What all this fightings for
From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
And it’s the hope of hopes
It’s the love of loves
It’s the heart of every man
It’s the hope of hopes
It’s the love of loves
This is the song for every man
God is watching us
God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance
God is watching us
God is watching
God is watching us from a distance
Trump was chosen to run, and he isn’t corruptable like the swamp, nobody wants war, he wants harmony through negotiations, making the world great instead of using rockets to kill, putting troops on the ground to be traumatized and broken relieving what God told us not to do, Thou shalt not kill. It’s hard to kill someone you shake hands with and look them in the eye.
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