Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Can't Sleep.
Can't sleep
cuz I have two much information running through my mind.
Can't sleep
cuz I'm inspired by a movie....Milk and Eight Mile High
Can't Sleep
cuz my stomachs growling like a cat in heat
Can't sleep
cuz I await tuesday fervently
Can't Sleep
cuz ideas are flowing trough my mind like a hot bath
Can't Sleep
cuz I want to live rather than sleep
Sunday, March 15, 2009
this is slightly disturbing...
"Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people." -Henry Kissinger, 1970
(NaturalNews) The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund recently reported the unveiling of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (H.R. 875) on Feb. 4, 2009, by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), to both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture. Cosponsored by 36 other Congressmen, all Democrats, H.R. 875 would essentially transfer all state control over food regulation to the Food Safety Administration (FSA), a newly-established federal bureaucracy to be created within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Its implications point to the elimination of all independent, family farms as well as all organic farming operations due to overbearing federal regulations subjectively determined by FSA in favor of corporate factory farms.
Some of the requirements set forth within H.R. 875 include:
- Designating FSA as sole regulator of food safety rather than the individual states, including granting FSA the power to implement and administer a "national system for regular unannounced inspection of food establishments" under its own terms.
- Reclassifying all farms as "food production facilities", ensuring they come under the regulatory and inspection protocols of FSA as well as enforcing compliance with whatever FSA deems as appropriate food safety requirements.
- Requiring farmers to comply with FSA-established "minimum standards" for farming practices, including requiring them to establish Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans and other written documentation as determined and mandated by FSA.
- Granting FSA the power to arrogate "preventative process controls to reduce adulteration of food" as it deems fit.
- Instituting FSA as food safety law enforcement, allowing it to assess civil penalties and fines for violation of any and all FSA safety laws up to $1 million for each violation. Collected fines would become unappropriated slush funds to be used however FSA deems fit in order to "carry out enforcement activities under the food safety law".
While many of these provisions may appear benign due to language emphasizing safety and to standardized regulations, the implications are far more mischievous. While stripping states of what little tenth amendment powers remain, H.R. 875 would establish a central regulatory body with even more unaccountable authority than that of the FDA. Similar to the provisions contained in the Obama "stimulus" package and the Bush "bailout" before it, H.R. 875 would bolster the ever-burgeoning federal empire in eliminating state sovereignty and individual freedom, particularly in relation to food.
The legality of any type of raw milk distribution across the country is also in jeopardy as H.R. 875 would grant FSA the statutory authority to impose a ban on its sale and distribution, period. If, for example, FSA determines that pasteurization is a necessary "preventative process" for safe milk production, it could override any current state provisions permitting intrastate raw milk sales, an area where even the overbearing FDA does not have legitimate jurisdiction. This limit would not apply to FSA, however, which would be granted unlimited jurisdictional power over all decisions concerning food safety, despite the unconstitutionality of such authority.
Additionally, the bill contains language that would expand the definition of the word "contaminant" for purposes of widening the scope of what constitutes "adulterated food". In other words, the vague, open-ended language would grant seemingly unlimited authority to FSA to arbitrarily levy fines whenever and to whomever it deems fit for breaching its subjective food safety rules.
The full text of H.R. 875 can be found here as well as committee contacts and a listing of the bill`s cosponsors. It is important to keep in mind that Rep. DeLauro`s husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for biotechnology giant Monsanto, the multi-national corporation responsible for the creation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) in cows, the perpetuation of "Round-Up Ready" sugar and soy products hidden in conventional foods, and the instigation of lawsuits against farmers whose fields were contaminated by Monsanto`s patented seeds. H.R. 875 provides the means by which corporations like Monsanto can seize control of the last-remaining independent farming operations in the United States.
H.R. 875 is still being reviewed by the committees with no official date set for a vote. Now is the time to contact both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture to express opposition to this federal takeover of the food supply. Also, be sure to contact your representatives to express opposition as well.
(vianaturalnews)
(NaturalNews) The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund recently reported the unveiling of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (H.R. 875) on Feb. 4, 2009, by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), to both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture. Cosponsored by 36 other Congressmen, all Democrats, H.R. 875 would essentially transfer all state control over food regulation to the Food Safety Administration (FSA), a newly-established federal bureaucracy to be created within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Its implications point to the elimination of all independent, family farms as well as all organic farming operations due to overbearing federal regulations subjectively determined by FSA in favor of corporate factory farms.
Some of the requirements set forth within H.R. 875 include:
- Designating FSA as sole regulator of food safety rather than the individual states, including granting FSA the power to implement and administer a "national system for regular unannounced inspection of food establishments" under its own terms.
- Reclassifying all farms as "food production facilities", ensuring they come under the regulatory and inspection protocols of FSA as well as enforcing compliance with whatever FSA deems as appropriate food safety requirements.
- Requiring farmers to comply with FSA-established "minimum standards" for farming practices, including requiring them to establish Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans and other written documentation as determined and mandated by FSA.
- Granting FSA the power to arrogate "preventative process controls to reduce adulteration of food" as it deems fit.
- Instituting FSA as food safety law enforcement, allowing it to assess civil penalties and fines for violation of any and all FSA safety laws up to $1 million for each violation. Collected fines would become unappropriated slush funds to be used however FSA deems fit in order to "carry out enforcement activities under the food safety law".
While many of these provisions may appear benign due to language emphasizing safety and to standardized regulations, the implications are far more mischievous. While stripping states of what little tenth amendment powers remain, H.R. 875 would establish a central regulatory body with even more unaccountable authority than that of the FDA. Similar to the provisions contained in the Obama "stimulus" package and the Bush "bailout" before it, H.R. 875 would bolster the ever-burgeoning federal empire in eliminating state sovereignty and individual freedom, particularly in relation to food.
The legality of any type of raw milk distribution across the country is also in jeopardy as H.R. 875 would grant FSA the statutory authority to impose a ban on its sale and distribution, period. If, for example, FSA determines that pasteurization is a necessary "preventative process" for safe milk production, it could override any current state provisions permitting intrastate raw milk sales, an area where even the overbearing FDA does not have legitimate jurisdiction. This limit would not apply to FSA, however, which would be granted unlimited jurisdictional power over all decisions concerning food safety, despite the unconstitutionality of such authority.
Additionally, the bill contains language that would expand the definition of the word "contaminant" for purposes of widening the scope of what constitutes "adulterated food". In other words, the vague, open-ended language would grant seemingly unlimited authority to FSA to arbitrarily levy fines whenever and to whomever it deems fit for breaching its subjective food safety rules.
The full text of H.R. 875 can be found here as well as committee contacts and a listing of the bill`s cosponsors. It is important to keep in mind that Rep. DeLauro`s husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for biotechnology giant Monsanto, the multi-national corporation responsible for the creation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) in cows, the perpetuation of "Round-Up Ready" sugar and soy products hidden in conventional foods, and the instigation of lawsuits against farmers whose fields were contaminated by Monsanto`s patented seeds. H.R. 875 provides the means by which corporations like Monsanto can seize control of the last-remaining independent farming operations in the United States.
H.R. 875 is still being reviewed by the committees with no official date set for a vote. Now is the time to contact both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture to express opposition to this federal takeover of the food supply. Also, be sure to contact your representatives to express opposition as well.
(vianaturalnews)
With all that said. GO HERE to tell your congress(wo)man
to NOT pass this bill, and why.
Remember to write in your own text, and not agree with what's
written in the box.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
30 and just beginning.
“ There’s an old Hindu saying that comes into my mind occasionally: “For the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.” As I’m going to be 30 in February, the thought has crossed my mind. Steve Jobs, in a Playboy Magazine Interview from 1985
(viaNotestoSelf)
(viaNotestoSelf)
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Steiner
Rudolf Steiner described what are often called the “six supplemental exercises,” about which I have written in more detail in relation to parenting here. In brief, the exercises are:
concentration, in which we focus our attention on a common, otherwise uninteresting object for five minutes each day,
initiative, in which we do an otherwise unnecessary action each day at a predetermined time,
equanimity, in which we hold back the expression of our feelings (though not suppressing the feelings themselves) for a short time at an appropriate moment,
positivity, in which we try to find something positive in every situation or thing,
open-heartedness, in which we attempt to look at every new thing without prejudice,
and persistence, in which we create harmony by willfully repeating the previous five exercises.
❖❖❖❖❖❖
Relating through my daughters school, I have begun to dig deeper into the philosophy
behind the programs, and schooling. After reading more about this book from the anthromama blog,
I am beginning to see the meat and potatoes behind what it is that I feel about the school,
and through the school.
There's so much intention behind the curriculum that is put forth, and now
it's like seeing what is behind the curtains.
It's making the ordinary extraordinary, yet keeping it still very ordinary.
concentration, in which we focus our attention on a common, otherwise uninteresting object for five minutes each day,
initiative, in which we do an otherwise unnecessary action each day at a predetermined time,
equanimity, in which we hold back the expression of our feelings (though not suppressing the feelings themselves) for a short time at an appropriate moment,
positivity, in which we try to find something positive in every situation or thing,
open-heartedness, in which we attempt to look at every new thing without prejudice,
and persistence, in which we create harmony by willfully repeating the previous five exercises.
❖❖❖❖❖❖
Relating through my daughters school, I have begun to dig deeper into the philosophy
behind the programs, and schooling. After reading more about this book from the anthromama blog,
I am beginning to see the meat and potatoes behind what it is that I feel about the school,
and through the school.
There's so much intention behind the curriculum that is put forth, and now
it's like seeing what is behind the curtains.
It's making the ordinary extraordinary, yet keeping it still very ordinary.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Grand Central Station.
Life is a bit like grand central station.
It's been busy busy busy, for me anyhow.
I feel like I've been expanding, in myself, and opening.
While at the same time, I feel the contracting of life as we
know it, from the economy and all the changes that it's
bringing to us.
I noticed myself wanting to curl up, subtly, when I feel and
hear about the changes going on.
while everything in life is showing me the opposite, I will
do my best to stay open. Stay open to exactly where I need
to be, and bring myself to the task of my life and my purpose.
When I think about contraction, I realize that I have grown greatly
through pressure and contraction. It's like the coal turning
into a diamond. Billy Jean King wrote a book called Pressure is
a Privilege. The title alone say it all. I haven't read the book, but
I'd like to. I saw her talk at the Women's conference last year, and
she was a total inspiration and a great speaker. Pressure is a good thing.
It seems that most great people have it in them or around them. There's
always something lurking within or without that causes us to change,
that causes us to perform at a maximum performance.
I also found this writing on expanding and contracting.
Hidden Message: As we encounter new experience, we find disorganization expands as we encounter the unknown. If we decide to leave,
our activities contract back to a more comfortable organized state. This is the division between our quest for self-transforming experience
and our need for equilibrium. We are forever torn between living both contraction and expansion simultaneously. need for equilibrium
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Little Joy
Little Joy has crept into my life.
I look for the small moments in time
to find them.
They are in the crevices, crooks and cranny's.
They are not always eventful, just monumental
in their own right.
For me, little joy is found in the ordinary.
for Mike...
Sunday, February 22, 2009
I had a dream...
today was like moving through a jungle
a very thick jungle
but not physically - mentally and emotionally
When life throws us a curve ball or a limitation.
It gives us the grit to grind us into the fine diamonds
that we are - and that we're meant to be.
I found by moving, and keeping up with my daughter
that I was able to see a way through.
'Keep on Keepin On' is worthy and valuable words.
It means Don't Stop living because of your setbacks, and
limitations.
It means to keep moving through all the mental obstructions
that we create for ourselves, and sometimes by others.
I can't quite see beyond this jungle form but I do feel
the freedom it is giving me. And that more than anything
is the sweet life I wish to live.
a very thick jungle
but not physically - mentally and emotionally
When life throws us a curve ball or a limitation.
It gives us the grit to grind us into the fine diamonds
that we are - and that we're meant to be.
I found by moving, and keeping up with my daughter
that I was able to see a way through.
'Keep on Keepin On' is worthy and valuable words.
It means Don't Stop living because of your setbacks, and
limitations.
It means to keep moving through all the mental obstructions
that we create for ourselves, and sometimes by others.
I can't quite see beyond this jungle form but I do feel
the freedom it is giving me. And that more than anything
is the sweet life I wish to live.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
"Accept the children with reverence,
educate them with love,
send them forth in freedom."
-Rudolf Steiner
This morning Im contemplating my choices, and agreements.
Often agreements are unspoken, and must be brought to the surface for review.
I'm grateful that i can dig within myself like this and keep finding what's necessary
and what is not. At times it's uncomfortable as well, I have to be sure not to project,
and conjure up what isn't really there. Most of all, I feel the connection to myself
through it and that is what I am always after.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
for your astrological eyes...
We measure our global sense of both space (latitude and longitude) and time (universal time - UT or GMT) from the prime meridian located at Greenwich, England. So, we can perceive the collective influence of this momentous astrological event by looking at the alignment from this globally 'centered' perspective.
At dawn on 14th February the day dedicated to St Valentine, the patron saint of Love, the Moon in Libra enters the seventh house of relationships. And Jupiter and Mars are aligned in Aquarius in the twelfth house of spiritual transformation.
Forty years ago, the intuitive words of a song called Aquarius, brought the dawning of the new age into our collective awareness:
'When the Moon is in the seventh house
and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
Then love will rule the planets
and peace will steer the stars'
At dawn on 14th February the Cosmos actually embodies this perfect alignment to support our collective manifestation of love and peace and dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
The Aquarian chart of 14th February reveals an incredible concentration of cosmic influences blending with the energies of Aquarius in the twelfth house. Expansive Jupiter and energetic Mars are aligned with the higher purpose of the North Node. The presence of Chiron the wounded healer offers us the opportunity to heal the schisms that have separated us for so long. Neptune emphasizes collective humanitarian movements and the co-creation of social justice. And the presence of the radiant Sun enlightens the entire alignment.
Mercury also in the twelfth house but just beyond the cusp in Capricorn, allies with transformational Pluto to communicate and anchor the Shift throughout our global structures and institutions.
The Moon in Libra in the seventh house emphasizes harmonious real -ationships.
Venus in Aries in the first house energizes and empowers dynamic co-creativity.
And while Saturn- the great task master, is in opposition to Uranus- the unexpected awakener, this suggests an ongoing confrontation as the dregs of the unsustainable old paradigm reluctantly give way to the untested hope of the new. Their placements in Virgo and Pisces bring practical altruism and visionary inspiration to the transition.
At 7.25 a.m. on 14th February - and for the 18 minutes of the alignment, I invite you, in the universal heart, to add your own intention for love and peace and to co-create the dawning of the Age of Aquarius to that of the Cosmos. In whatever way feels appropriate for you, you may choose to align with 7.25 a.m. (UT) energizing a wave of intention that will surge around the Earth.
With love, joy and gratitude in the universal heart,
Jude Currivan PhD
www.judecurrivan.com
Time to fall in love all over again!
MAY EACH OF US HAS OUR HEART'S DESIRES FULFILLED!
At dawn on 14th February the day dedicated to St Valentine, the patron saint of Love, the Moon in Libra enters the seventh house of relationships. And Jupiter and Mars are aligned in Aquarius in the twelfth house of spiritual transformation.
Forty years ago, the intuitive words of a song called Aquarius, brought the dawning of the new age into our collective awareness:
'When the Moon is in the seventh house
and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
Then love will rule the planets
and peace will steer the stars'
At dawn on 14th February the Cosmos actually embodies this perfect alignment to support our collective manifestation of love and peace and dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
The Aquarian chart of 14th February reveals an incredible concentration of cosmic influences blending with the energies of Aquarius in the twelfth house. Expansive Jupiter and energetic Mars are aligned with the higher purpose of the North Node. The presence of Chiron the wounded healer offers us the opportunity to heal the schisms that have separated us for so long. Neptune emphasizes collective humanitarian movements and the co-creation of social justice. And the presence of the radiant Sun enlightens the entire alignment.
Mercury also in the twelfth house but just beyond the cusp in Capricorn, allies with transformational Pluto to communicate and anchor the Shift throughout our global structures and institutions.
The Moon in Libra in the seventh house emphasizes harmonious real -ationships.
Venus in Aries in the first house energizes and empowers dynamic co-creativity.
And while Saturn- the great task master, is in opposition to Uranus- the unexpected awakener, this suggests an ongoing confrontation as the dregs of the unsustainable old paradigm reluctantly give way to the untested hope of the new. Their placements in Virgo and Pisces bring practical altruism and visionary inspiration to the transition.
At 7.25 a.m. on 14th February - and for the 18 minutes of the alignment, I invite you, in the universal heart, to add your own intention for love and peace and to co-create the dawning of the Age of Aquarius to that of the Cosmos. In whatever way feels appropriate for you, you may choose to align with 7.25 a.m. (UT) energizing a wave of intention that will surge around the Earth.
With love, joy and gratitude in the universal heart,
Jude Currivan PhD
www.judecurrivan.com
Time to fall in love all over again!
MAY EACH OF US HAS OUR HEART'S DESIRES FULFILLED!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
smitten for you!
This is so rad.
I love the craft with a twist.
This is where my head has been, yarns, knitting, making raw foods,
and with Leeloo Love.
ox
(found here)
Thursday, February 5, 2009
a lot of Little Joy!
a Lot of Little Joy!
Today.
Was like a dream...first the beautiful sun out shining.
Then, Three friends in my life, I love and appreciate, came to my relief.
Not because I was in danger, it was a weaving of understanding,
awareness, letting go, and consciousness. I was feeling out of my body
a bit the past few days...it happens. And they brought me back, not only
brought me back but came back better than ever! That happens too!
Then the rain. When it rains here in SoCal, it's always a dream. A good dream,
I love the rain, I love the change in scenery, its must needed for all life and
nourishment.
As the day winds up, and I look back into the day, it feels and felt, like a dream.
A dream that is neither here or there.
Today.
Was like a dream...first the beautiful sun out shining.
Then, Three friends in my life, I love and appreciate, came to my relief.
Not because I was in danger, it was a weaving of understanding,
awareness, letting go, and consciousness. I was feeling out of my body
a bit the past few days...it happens. And they brought me back, not only
brought me back but came back better than ever! That happens too!
Then the rain. When it rains here in SoCal, it's always a dream. A good dream,
I love the rain, I love the change in scenery, its must needed for all life and
nourishment.
As the day winds up, and I look back into the day, it feels and felt, like a dream.
A dream that is neither here or there.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
on my Best Behavior.
If I was designing clothing...it might look a little like this. (drool)
Best Behavior
It's not to far off..I'll be starting sewing classes to brush up
on my former skills (date back to high school).
Leeloo has tons of dresses and skirts for me to make, and for myself
as well!
shits and giggles.
I love this album.
I love this show.
What would life be without these lovely kiwis?
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