moving is always cathartic don't you think?
you shift everything....everything gets reorganized or cleaned or both
there is an unsettling someone kicked up all the dust around you energy but still you sit somehow...calm...in the middle of the storm
forseeing how it will look in a month rather than the chaos you observe

ever have the feeling like you're totally throwing all the eggs into one basket? that's not totally sturdy or watertight?

yeah...that's me at the moment
i believe in this house...and the lineup of events that had to happen in order for me to achieve it
but still i feel a flux in the works
something i don't yet see.....


wonder what it is

i posted a self portrait this week on etsy.........tired momma
the quote said (and is the basis for my belief system, even if i can't always undertand it)....
change is the only constant

my added thoughts?
receive it and let it go

ah if only it was that simple
my mind swarms with a million new paths..new possiblities...new futures...a better understanding of what's to come....

it's like i get that i was supposed to create people like i am to walk the planet...but my time for myself is coming again in the next few years and i can feel my spirit gearing up for it already

anyone else ever experience this?

be well wanderers

raven xxx

a new day

so it's arrived

barack obama is president of the united states....hope has returned to the downtrodden and struggling

even the rich and solid i think felt a wave of patriotism today...of a common bond and love between the people of OUR nation. all of us as one force.....looking out for and helping one another

it was something else to watch that sea of people waving...rising ....pulling...the energy of their moving arms and smiling faces and voices raised in joy and praise and love for america...and what barack has seemingly brought to us

not only us, i thought, as i watched this. for across the world....there were people watching. governments, hospitals, military, people, poor and rich alike.....watching america re-evolve

that had to have been hard for bush to watch...........knowing that barack will succeed where he failed. in being a people's president. that he is already, less than an hour on the official job..more loved that he may have been his whole presidency

bush was not my favorite person during the last eight years....but he did what he could. and what he thought was right.
anyway i think he meant well overall....so to hear everyone booing and singing hey hey hey...good bye...as he walked out kind of sucked

i winced for him and even in my frustration with him i felt for him and was proud of his ability to walk out upon that crowd of tens of thousands of people with pride and hold his head high

what i took with me....more than anything and for the first time
is a better feeling for the stuff we are made of and why people choose america...as obama put it

But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old.

HARD WORK
HONESTY
COURAGE
FAIRPLAY
TOLERANCE
CURIOSITY
LOYALTY
PATRIOTISM

these things i will post on my wall to remind me
to remind and teach my children

this is why i call myself an american
and why we will survive

because not only are we built of the best stuff...but we are the best stuff from all over the world

we combine our uniqueness and our talents and knowledge and wisdom ...HERE..in this melting pot

our diversity only makes us stronger and that much more able to affect the world

so good luck to us all

and i close with love to my countrymen and the world and our new president

be well nomads
to yourself and others..

blackbird xxxx

sign of the times...focus on what's right, instead of what's wrong

hello to anyone lurking around today

i am posting today a message i just put in the forums in my beloved site that began as a discussion about the government and how much everyone is struggling financially and what the stress is doing to all of us

do you all see......can you feel it
the tension in the air...the sense that something might snap at any second
whether it's you or the post office guy or your mom?

we're tearing each other apart and we need to stop...and look at it from another angle. we need to look at each other and say..here, this is what i have, this is what i can do...what can i do for you to help you today?

i have a friend who is a goddess of giving. when she is in her worst places...where you feel like you've no choice and no power...
she looks around and finds one thing she CAN do.

she has no money coming in, no work, but by god she can get her house immaculately clean and give me 3 hours to myself without my smallest member of my herd.


do THAT. today. make it a point. begin this weekend with something you can do. ok...i can't do this.....but i CAN do this.

and read what i wrote in the thread about loving each other
it's important whether you think it's lame or not.

************

oh you guys..this thread is so packed full of emotion and pain. i'm not a group hugger type o gal but i was just overwhelmed by the feeling as i read all of these pages that i wish i could just wrap my arms around all of us

let's not turn on each other in all of this

i just realized...my friends and i have been joking that everyone..from work to family to message boards to the world...seems to be pms'ing …and we’ve been musing about what the hell is going on with people...
this is it!! *seems like a stupid aha moment…but has anyone else been going …DAMN why’s everybody so snarky lately?* the tension from this whole situation and it's world wide trickle down has the vibe of the planet all wacked out

and here we all are...scared, frustrated, angry, struggling, trying to put on a positive face but just under the surface we're raw and ready to scrap and yell and not listen..or hear each other

fow is right...the gov't and the banks and the bigshots got us in this place. now we're all screwed up and it's literally affected the whole planet's economy and energy and they are (many of them) still sitting pretty while we scramble

we need to love each other and lock arms and get ourselves outta this mess because they sure as hell aren't going to. And remember it’s not just the Americans ---I have friends in Holland and the uk watching and experiencing the same.

now i understand...what my friend was saying how by 2010 we will need to be able to relearn how to be self sufficient and be able to survive in a 10 - 20 mile radius off of our own resources. we will have to all help each other get by. it's already starting

love each other *hears kum baya in the background* we the people, the human race, need to actually look out for each other for real for awhile…go easy on each other. Speak more gently…see with kinder eyes

i just had to get help from the govt. this week...but i look forward to my lease being up in a couple of months...downsizing my rent and living space and making serious vegetable garden. think about getting a chicken or two. talk to the dude up the road that sells meat. two of my friends and i talked about a large property here in town with 5 small old cabins on it and how communal living maybe isn't so far fetched. we've both been laid off in the last month and we have 4 kids, one of them hasn't been able to find work for 3 months and the other just had her work reduced to 3 days a week.

I had to get help for Christmas dinner…is it hard to post this? You bet your ass. I’m proud and tough and I work hard. But you know what I did? I stayed there for hours and unloaded and loaded cars for other people needing help. I watched teachers and parents dropping off food and gifts…watched the 6 women buzz around that community cupboard and move and shake our little worlds….(I love you cindy) and a friend and I offered to drive boxes of food to the elderly if they didn’t have enough people to drive.
I helped as I needed help and they balanced each other. I loved the people there and they loved me…the positive energy in there was amazing…not guilt..not shame….just…let’s help each other get through this

Damn
I’ve gone on long enough. Sorry to have been so long winded
If I offended someone somehow with this post I didn’t mean to
I was just overwhelmed with emotion and wanted to make some sort of plea
Even it’s it’s cheese ball sounding

Thanks for reading though
I’m gonna go shower now and try, again, to shake it off and restart. To make somebody laugh. To create something…to tell people I love them
Go have a great day…

(((((Hugs))))

************

be well wanderers

raven xxx

hmm that was almost a week

well well well
i managed to make it back this way within a week
amazing

3 short musings as i must work
*here at home, of course, in my pj's*

one..what's up with the new revival of pasties? and who knew they'd actually be kinda hot? not that i'd wear them. *ahem* perhaps after some more time to work off the children...but really..

do chicks really buy these and what...walk around the house in them? swing their boobs around and see if they can get them in sync? i mean..they DO look sexy. don't get me wrong. i think they are actually an enhancement for the lovely ladies not quite so ...robustly endowed as others
but aren't they a little like those elephant underwear for guys...more of a gag gift thing?

i wonder. poll please MEN
would pasties actually be a hot turnon?
or more something to laugh about?

now this site...graciously shown to me by the freakin awesome people at etsy after dark...is sexy as hell
the pics are awesome
the girls are hot and totally amazing and don't even look real
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5160005

but..come on
she's got a crazy headpiece
and is in a tree.

seriously?
wwywd & wibhisdi lmao
(what would your woman do)(and would it be hot if she did it)

ok musing 2
i'm totally lost
i was just on a page and at the bottom i saw links to twiter, delicious, stumbleupon, facebook....there's myspace and flckr and who knows what all else is out there

i'm not old. i'm 37 years young. and i'm pretty frisky...AND i've always been good at the net and boards and so on. so WHY does all of this seem so daunting? will someone give me some info please. what the hell is stumbleupon and delicious GOOD FOR? what is the point. yes. i've read about them and visited the sites. i've looked at twitter

i just
don't
get it

how can everybody spend all this time all the time on this stuff? somedays i feel like my brain is going to explode and it's all i can do to manage my online store
( http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5846638 ) and blog here every once in awhile

sign o' the times i guess
enough bitching woman sheesh

musing 3

*drum roll*

i'm going to change the freaking awesome artist of the week. maybe tonight. probably tomorrow

so gaze, while you can...on my evil crow gatekeeper and go visit
gothiccrow on etsy.com whenever you please. i'll be keeping my crow around for a bit methinks...but i'll let him wander somwhere else in the nest

*side note* i think it's actually so odd and funny (read below somwhere and you will understand why) that i am actually writing as if anyone READS it.
that's allright. there's an audience in my head and they LOVE me.
standing ovation going on in there on most occasions *grins*

be well nomads

raven

freakin awesome artist of the week

hm
i may try this weekly
i may not
either way the days i DO do it will be great, indeed

the very first freakin awesome artist of the day is
(drum roll)

Gothic Images by gothiccrow on etsy.com
and out of New York

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5151388

you'd have to be into this sort of image i suppose
but even if you're not they will stir a reaction in you...promise.
and if you know crows and ravens - if you've ever found them haunting and eerily powerful- you will be amazed at the photos and images this artist has captured

they almost seem posed...some are so perfect for the meaning and moment. but you can't pose crows
laughs
that rhymed!
and ravens only do what they want
they do seem to beckon though don't they

her artwork also has a special feeling/appearance to it because of THIS:
PAPER DESCRIPTIONS:
The Metallic paper uses a patented combination of film and laminate layers that result in striking, high gloss, three-dimensional, images on an ultra-bright background.

The Kodak Endura paper has accurate color, excellent neutral flesh reproduction with brighter blues, cyans, purples, and reds with a satin appearance and feel.

The canvas sheets are textured giving the appearance of textured art"

cool eh?
"

because she is freaking awesome,
she's also told me i can use one of her pics on my blog here because i adore it and he seems to me to be a brooding gatekeeper

watch your step
*chuckles*

great prices, priceless images
check her out

new freakin awesome person next week
if you're lucky

hasta pasta
raven x