tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7633554188628407082024-03-13T09:59:56.033-04:00365 ~ Trees PleaseOne tree. Every day. For one year. This is an homage. This is a celebration. This is a hope<br>
for raising awareness, and reverence. Symbiotic: to our very roots, and our branches ~Mishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758902060937156702noreply@blogger.comBlogger382125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-763355418862840708.post-12636937515502021192016-01-20T16:42:00.000-05:002016-01-20T18:28:27.676-05:00At Long LastHappy New Year!<br />
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Hope you are all well and that you are keeping on with your creative endeavors. I haven't done a whole lot in the past couple of years due to the undertaking of a new and demanding day job. (This is not something I recommend, by the way.)<br />
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While there's nothing wrong with day jobs, allowing them to overtake the balance in your life leaves much to be desired. You know things are out of whack when you start actively missing yourself.<br />
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One thing that I learned from this 365 project is that small daily actions can really add up. With this in mind, I started wondering if the same thing would work for cultivating more happiness in my life. Of course, it's pretty much a no-brainer. Many books have been written on exactly this, but there is a difference between knowing something intellectually and valuing it enough to make it a part of your experience.<br />
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After watching a particularly inspiring video, I made a little plan for myself. I dubbed it, "The Happiness Project." It contains all kinds of little things I can do each day to improve the balance in my life and to increase my daily dose of the happy.<br />
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One of the items on the list is to gradually post my work on pixels.com, which is part of Fine Art American, one of the largest print-on-demand sites utilized by artists. But, because I am stubborn and am often tired after a long day, I really drug my feet on this particular part of the project. Instead of making a single post each day, I put it off long enough that I finally got motivated to just do it all at once.<br />
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I still have quite a few pieces to post, but a good portion of my best work is now there. I'm so happy, I had to share!<br />
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If you are interested in checking it out, feel free to browse and/or shop here: <a href="http://misha-bean.pixels.com/">http://misha-bean.pixels.com/</a><br />
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<img alt="Art Prints" src="http://fineartamerica.com/Blank.jpg" id="faaslideshowimage[41980366301]" onclick="javascript: mouseclick41980366301(event);" onmouseout="javascript: mouseout41980366301();" onmouseover="javascript: mouseover41980366301();" style="border: 1px solid #666666; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 400px;" title="Art Prints" /></center>
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If you have any feedback, I'd love to hear it.<br />
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What have you been up to creatively?<br />
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peace,<br />
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mish Mishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758902060937156702noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-763355418862840708.post-78928301478911418532015-11-01T20:09:00.000-05:002015-11-01T20:09:05.264-05:00How tsu doin'?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Have
you heard of this new social network? I just learned about it last weekend when
a friend of mine shared an article about it that just ran on Huffington Post.
After reading that the site has only been public for one year, already has over
4 million users, and is being seen by Facebook as a competitor to be taken
seriously (to the extent that they have been deleting posts containing the word
“tsu”), I was intrigued to learn more.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps
the most interesting bit of all is that tsu has a completely different approach
to how they do business by allowing their users maintain ownership of the original
content they post and they pay their users for this content and for bringing
new users to the platform. Pretty radically different, yes?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve
been on the site for a week and have already over 2,000 views of my work. (What
I really need to do now is get a website up and running to sell my prints!) It
is such a pleasure to have a new platform for sharing. I don’t know if you were
on MySpace during its heyday, but nothing since has compared when it comes to
what I and my artist friends had there together. I miss it.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
next best artist group experience I’ve had was here with all of you 365’ers. I
miss you too!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
far, I like what I’ve seen on tsu. Sure the site is still working out some
kinks, but it is early days and it looks like it may just be the next big
thing. It may turn out to be quite a show to watch it grow from the inside.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If
you do decide to check it out, you will need an invitation, also known as a
shortcode. You can use this <a href="http://www.tsu.co/MishaBean" target="_blank">one</a>. (<a href="http://www.tsu.co/MishaBean">www.tsu.co/MishaBean</a>) Once you get set up, be sure to check out the
groups. Groups are still BETA, but the fun part is that the field is still
pretty wide open and you can create your own. I’ve been enjoying the
photography, wildlife, and art groups. I also have a couple of ideas for groups
I might create…</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Already
on tsu? Please leave a comment with your user name so that I can find you
there. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wherever
you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you are well and happy.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Peace,</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Misha
</span></div>
Mishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758902060937156702noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-763355418862840708.post-46148941044228864452014-01-04T11:08:00.001-05:002014-01-04T11:08:08.383-05:00Sacred Breath<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Several
moons ago, way back in 1998 or 1999, I was talking with a friend of mine about
fear and love. Specifically, we were talking about the choices we make in our
actions and feelings, which led us to musing about whether or not which path we
choose to walk matters when we express ourselves creatively. I’m sure you won’t
be surprised to learn that I felt that it does matter, as I’m assuming that at
least somewhere during this year long project I mentioned my heartfelt stance
that the surest way for me, for us, to make this world a better place it to “let
there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me”. Nowadays, this idea has
been more readily embraced as “be the change you wish to see in the world”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While
we were talking, my friend said that he had a CD that he thought I might like.
He walked next door to his apartment and brought back “There’s No Place Like Om”,
the first CD by Troubadours of Divine Bliss. I listened and listened again, and
fell in love. These ladies were singing my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Life
being as it is, my husband and I moved in the fall of 1999, and quickly became
pregnant with our son. Three years later, our daughter arrived. The CD sat
nestled in with all of the others in the living room, forgotten. Temporarily. My
life morphed and changed as I made my way through the early days of motherhood.
Expressing myself creatively became all about my babies, in the songs I sang
and the stories I told, and about building my eBay toy business so that I could
work from home. Many aspects of who I am seemed to be set aside, like the CD in
the drawer. Temporarily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
2007, my daughter began full day preschool. My plan was to spend that extra
free time building my eBay business into something that could really help with
the family finances. After having been featured in “Parents Magazine” and the
local Fox morning show the previous May, this seemed a realistic goal. However,
I ran into a compatibility issue when eBay updated their Turbo Lister software,
and before we could replace my old desktop with a laptop that fall, I had
already fallen headlong into creative expression. The silence of those days I
was home and alone was a golden gift. Another friend of mine told me about
MySpace, so I opened an account and I got a new camera. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the beginning, I primarily shared my writing, both poetry and prose ~
meanderings of the mind, silly and serious. Later, I began posting images as
well: photos, drawings, and later still, digital creations. Somewhere along the
way, I began setting the posts to music. During the creation of one of my
posts, I wrote “there’s no place like om”. It felt right and true, but had a
vaguely familiar ring to it, as if I had heard that line before. Thinking on
it, I could picture the purple CD jacket in my mind and went in search of the
CD. We have a lot of CDs, and despite their being in alphabetical order, it
didn’t do me any good because I couldn’t remember the band’s name. I called my
friend. It took him awhile to work through what possible CD he may have given me
8 or 9 years earlier. I reminded him of our conversation about fear and love.
He remembered. I found the CD under “T”. I listened to it again. And again. “Be
Brave” became my personal theme song. Many of my digital creations were made
listening to these beautiful, powerful songs, and were posted with the music
playing in the background. Morcheeba’s “Fear and Love” was also popular around
my place, as was Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">All
this backstory will hopefully allow you to share more fully in my excitement
today, another seven years hence! The short(er) version of the passing of those
years is: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eventually
MySpace died for artists of my ilk, but not before my friends there encouraged
me to get my work out in the 3D world. This coincided with a seldom seen
neighbor of mine showing up on my porch asking me if I wanted to showcase my
art at a benefit show. (She had remembered a conversation we had at her yard
sale about my MySpace expressions.) Taken aback by the timing being so
completely in sync with the encouragement I was receiving on-line, I agreed and
scrambled to prepare for the November 2009 benefit. The show was incredible. It
was the first time I was treated to seeing the looks on peoples’ faces when
they viewed my work. On MySpace, I had received many words of encouragement,
but never had I gotten to watch or hear the reactions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Three
months later, in February 2010, I was shopping for a “magical” birthday gift
for a dear MySpace friend of mine. I stumbled upon a shop not far from where I
live and discovered that they are an artist’s co-op, as well. I laughed at the
beauty of the unfolding. A week later, on my birthday, the owner contacted me
and said that they would be interested in selling my work there. Seventh Street
Gifts became my first retailer, but even more importantly the owners, their
children and parents have become dear, sweet friends of mine and my children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two
years later, through another serendipitous unfolding (this time on Facebook), I
got to know Aim Me and Renee, those soulful Troubadours of Divine Bliss. I was
blessed to show my work at their Mighty Kindness Hootenanny, an incredible
event they have built with their own two loving hearts and the help of many in
Louisville, KY. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just
this week, my friend, the owner of Seventh Street Gifts asked me if I would
like to hold a reception for my work on Valentine’s Day weekend. Given that my
days are no longer gifted with that golden silence and that I find myself with
more responsibility than I’ve ever juggled before, my initial reaction was that
there was no way I would have the time. However, the idea of holding a
reception for Trees Please prints (that I finally put into print last
September) wouldn’t stop tickling me. I started thinking about how I could
dedicate the day to the loving memory of my step-dad, Rory, who continued on
with his Great Journey last February…of how wonderful it would be to gather the
people I love best under one roof…of what a sweet birthday treat it would be
for me, and how lovely the timing was considering that it would also be my four
year anniversary of having my work in the shop…so, of course, I started
thinking that such a beautiful day deserves the music and kindness of the
ladies who have inspired me so much…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After
reading all of this, I suppose it isn’t surprising to hear that it has all come
together, though it is so very exciting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On
Sunday, February 16<sup>th</sup> from 1:00 – 4:00 PM, a reception will be held
at Seventh Street Gifts, dedicated to our dear, Rory Kiefer, whom we miss so
much. Trees Please prints will be featured with partial proceeds being donated
to The Nature Conservancy’s “Plant A Billion” campaign. Musical entertainment
and soulful inspiration will be provided by the honeyed voices of Troubadours
of Divine Bliss. Loving friends and family will gather for an afternoon of
celebrating “Sacred Breath”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Please
join us, in person or in spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">m~ </span></div>
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Mishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758902060937156702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-763355418862840708.post-11788752539250047642013-09-02T19:42:00.000-04:002013-09-02T19:42:26.785-04:00Almost exactly 18 months after the completion of this project......Trees Please prints will debut!<br />
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Because of how extra busy I have been this year, my plan was to not do any shows. However, when my hometown sent a second email asking me to please apply for their 12th Annual Art in the Park, I thought to myself that it could prove very good for my soul to do <i>just this one</i> show and that it would be fun go out with an all new offering. <br />
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To be honest, I have had more than a couple of moments wondering just what the heck I was thinking undertaking such a job in the midst of already having a few too many balls in the air, but I'm glad I decided to toss this one in there too. In addition to further honing my juggling skills, I have had a great time seeing the trees in print!<br />
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Here's a sneak peek of what will be at the show... (please excuse all of the terrible glares)<br />
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Of course, partial proceeds from the print sales will go to plant trees in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, via The Nature Conservancy's "Plant a Billion" campaign. (2 trees per 5x7 purchase, 5 per 8x8 & 8x10 purchases, 30 trees per 16x20 purchase). I look forward to offering these for all the rest of my days. Thinking about all that tree potential makes me smile.<br />
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Mishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758902060937156702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-763355418862840708.post-75746398879112727112013-01-05T10:29:00.000-05:002013-01-05T10:29:01.070-05:00on the fence...Unbelievably enough, I am considering something I didn't think I would...another 365 project.<br />
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However, for a wide variety of reasons, I am still firmly seated on the fence. For one, I found the last project to be more than a little daunting and a great relief to have accomplished. For two, I haven't even managed to do all I want to do with Trees Please yet. While the necklaces have been a big hit and I smile widely over the joy they bring, I've only managed to prepare some of the pieces for prints and haven't brought a single one into the 3D realm...yet. <br />
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For three, my life is even busier than it was two years ago when Trees Please was born, and I remember very clearly how difficult it was to fit this project in on a daily basis. Much to my delight, I am now teaching art to 4th - 7th grade students at our small Montessori school, and am working in the office three days a week. This is all in addition to what I was previously managing. <br />
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Have you seen "Happy"? It's a documentary currently available on Netflix instant. I discovered it a couple of months ago and have watched it twice already. If you haven't yet watched it, please do. I cannot recommend it highly enough.<br />
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During the film, the term "flow" is discussed. I'm not even sure how to describe it, and am feeling too lazy to go look up an easily relate-able definition. We've all experienced flow, so I'm just going to continue on with the assumption that you know what I'm talking about.<br />
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Flow is one of my favorite places to be. This morning I was thinking how much I miss flow and that maybe I could do a project somehow encompassing this theme. I was browsing around the Internet and happened upon the term twice! It seemed like a nudge from the Universe, but I am still sitting on that proverbial fence.<br />
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It did prompt further musings about another project, however...possible projects on painting...color...or even "by hand". I'm leaning towards the latter, but may need a ladder to leave my preferred perch here in the I-don't-know...<br />
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Trees planted to date is now up to 247!<br />
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Just a quick note to thank you for supporting Trees Please and to let you know that the number of trees planted to date has been updated. We are now up to 197 trees planted in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil!<br />
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Check out this fantastic Facebook fan page for trees!
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This is the page created by TreeStory - A Feature Documentary. Here's a preview:<br />
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I'm lovin' it. Thought you might too.<br />
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PS: While we're talking about beauty, here's the latest from Troubadours of Divine Bliss ~ simply lush and so very gorgeously true. Am really looking forward to meeting these talented ladies on Earth Day at The Mighty Kindness Hootenanny! I have loved their music for many years. They make the world a sweeter place.<br />
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So while this shot is still rather meh, I am very pleased with how the piece turned out. Live and in person, it is vibrant and fun. Up close, you can count each of the 365 seed beads on the tips of the branches. (Though, I'm guessing you'd opt to just take my word for it.) Mostly, I am excited that it represents the big TA DA of this often daunting project.<br />
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That strange land’s light was still its own;
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The word that witched the woods and hills
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Not Nature’s hand had ever curved
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While I was creating today's tree, one of my aunt's sent that first photo to me. That's me and my young dad in 1968.<br />
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This is part of one side of a ceramic vase I painted years and years and years ago (1989, I think). As I was cleaning my bedroom today, I paused and remembered those days so long ago...a friend had explained dry brush painting to me and I used my Christmas break from my corporate job to spend 27 hours (yes, I counted. I was corporate then, of course I counted) loving up this process and this piece. While it took me a long while to fully assimilate my need to wax creative with my daily must do's, this project has always stuck with me for how brightly it lit me up inside. During the intervening years, I held it dear. And, it held me.<br />
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here's to our roots, and our clumsiest dances <br />
here's to our bridges, to our falling on knees<br />
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"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. It goes up and down and
round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly
coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have
been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this
real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they
come back to us, they say, "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever,
because, this is just a ride..." But we always kill those good guys who
try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok.
Jesus - murdered; Martin Luther King - murdered; Malcolm X - murdered;
Gandhi - murdered; John Lennon - murdered; Reagan... wounded. But it
doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime
we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and
money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want
you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off.
The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do
to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money
that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it
feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would
many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore
space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."<br />
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This lovely dream I've frozen,<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">remembering dreams ~ misha</span>Mishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758902060937156702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-763355418862840708.post-14043703059196954802011-12-26T10:04:00.000-05:002011-12-26T10:04:10.451-05:00day 350 ~ entryway<div style="color: black;">
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<span class="body">"Travelers repose and dream among my leaves."</span></div>
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<span class="body">~ William Blake </span></div>
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