Armenia

Be woo 'd by the Armenian duduk and enjoy the view in what is known as the first Christian land which seems to not have changed in beauty and reverence. The land bestows relics of old churches surrounded by vast beauty. The sound of the hypnotic dukuk is so pleasing to the ear and feeds the soul.
I can only think that if all the streets were filled with it, love would explode beyond the clouds higher than Mt Ararat all the way to the ears of the Angels which are probably guarding the secret of Noahs' Arc . No one is allowed up into that area and one has to wonder why?

Why does Armenia not want it found and allow tourists to come and see history as it was so long ago. I mean, Africa boasts of it being the cradle of civilization. Should we not learn while we still have things to learn from?
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On the Turkey side of Mt Ararat in 2007 Some International Scientists found something they believe to be Noahs Arc but the debate continues as they are still not sure.






As you can see, I really enjoy the duduk and the old churches and landscape of Armenia.
Mount Ararat Looks so majestic in the back ground.

With so much beauty in the world, I wonder why people look to find reasons to fight .
Love and understanding can be spread by allowing the world in, to enjoy culture, language, traditions music and landscape.
There is so much food for thought to digest and it's so much healthier to climb a mountain to see something special.
People should visit other lands to see and learn to understand for themselves
how it is somewhere else.
Then we could concentrate on saving history rather than destroying it.

Have a great Day!

duduk magic

"The Duduk (pronounced doo-dook) is considered the most "Armenian" of all folk instruments because of its Armenian origins and its ability to honestly express the emotions of the Armenian people. It has a 1500 year history and is native to Armenia although there are variants played in Turkey, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. The duduk reflects the passion, celebration, and suffering of Armenia. Aram Khatchadourian once said that the duduk is the only instrument that made him cry.

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I don't know about Aram K but I cry easily especially to violin music.
I have to admit though that
this duduk has a very beautiful sound to it.

I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did.

Have a great day!!

Magic of Turkey

I guess these magical turkeys are Canadian left overs, waiting for American Thanksgiving, dinner tables
lol


We know all about miracles so here is one that's biblical lol




Have a great day!

A teacher trying to teach good manners, asked her students the following question:

'Michael, if you were on a date having dinner with a nice young lady,
how would you tell her that you have to go to the bathroom?'

Michael said: 'Just a minute I have to go pee.'

The teacher responded by saying:

'That would be rude and impolite. What about you Sherman, how
would you say it?'

Sherman said: 'I am sorry, but I really need to goto the bathroom. I'll be right back

.'

'That's better, but it's still not very nice to say the word bathroom at the dinner table. And you, little Johnny, can you use your brain for once and show us your good manners?'

Johnny said 'I would say: Darling, may I please be excused for
a moment? I have to shake hands with a very dear friend of mine, whom I hope to introduce you to after dinner.'

My Heart in Flowers

A Birthday Celebration

A gift for my heart in flowers.

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Andrea Bocelli , a young man who went blind at 12, makes his living

enriching peoples' lives with his voice and song.

Have a Great Day!

From Wolves to Men

I love this picture of the whole family enjoying a meal with the family dog.

Having had a wolf visiting my household, I know this picture could very well replace the dog with the wolf and it would be no different. Animals today take up human characteristics and through proper breeding so could wild animals.

One day, changing wolves into men will not be a hard thing to do.

I seem to remember in the past, this is what the church was all about.

Salvation.

Saving souls.

It made it its' job, to pick up the lost, the forlorn and offer them salvation .

Criminals had a choice between going to jail or running to the Church, where they would promise to obey the rules and devote the rest of their lives, to the service of God.

And it was here, that the church turned

wolves into men.

Can anyone imagine, how humbling it must feel, for both the criminal and the worshiper

to stand before God in a confessional?

Ones hears all the sins of the so called good folk and the other

bows his/her head down, to be blessed, forgiven and penanced by a criminal

and no one knew what was happening.

Children were given blessings and taught by criminals every day and none of them hurt

one child.

What the church did, was perform a miracle and they performed many.

And then one falls.

One can't change from a wolf to a man and the media gets hold of it and tears the church down.

The media has no access to the jails to see what goes on there but they do access the church because the aim is to judge and criticize, to sell papers.

Well, I can say I bowed down to many a criminal.

I kissed hands of murderers, rapists, pedophiles and who knows who else, not ever knowing who this person was, except a man of God, blessing me and forgiving my sins, such as they were.lol

Every one of them showed nothing but goodness and kindness.

Every one of them was humbled by the very fact that a child, an innocent, a lamb, was brought up to be good enough, not to judge a man for his suffering and for the crimes he committed.

The church offered these crucified people, a chance to begin a new life.

It offered them rebirth.

Today when I look back, I am astonished,

Because the church did not just preach God but lived it too.

and no one knew.

Today, everything has changed.

Churches close their doors and fear the very people they are supposed to collect and perform their miracles on.

They want good people and they judge them.

We go to church expecting miracles but we do not go to denounce our sins,

as those priests and monks did, when they accepted God into their hearts instead of a jail full of criminals. It was a wise choice.
One could say it was a holy calling.

I find this mind blowing and thought that people would benefit to understand that in the past

this was the churches' purpose.

It was poor, humble and performed miracles every day

as Jesus did in his time and

in his name

Have great Day!!

quit eggin around

Reading young peoples blogs, I find them confusing Christianity with the world.

Many are disillusioned with God.

They say religion screws them up lol

I have to laugh because most of them do not know religion enough to make a statement like this.

Most do not realize it's not religion that screwed them up, but they themselves screwed themselves up.

Christian religion is only a guide to learn from.

Life decisions come from people.

Jesus was a shepherd and he is always pictured with lambs, who were always led astray and slaughtered.

His job was to protect and defend them by supplying them with tools of wisdom.

The tools were the scriptures he inspired the people of his time with.

A smart lamb stays in the middle of the flock for safety

The stray lamb usually finds death lurking behind it because predators are many.

This is just a fact of life.

No mystery or threat there.

Jesus was about family and this week end being Thanks giving in Canada

is a good week end to discuss what family is.

Kids often ask, if we are Christian, are we separated from the world?

The world is sinful.

The world is lost.

The world lacks guidance.

The world lacks leaders.

The world rejects God.

Yes, all of the above is true.

A Christian, is very much a part of the world because it is Christs' wisdom they

impart to it.

But it takes time to develop a Christian.

It takes time to raise a Christian through love.

Jesus taught about love of family.

For what is more sacred than the love between a Mother a Father and a child?

Family is sacred.

Before throwing your family away, one has to understand

by doing this, you throw yourself away.

You take yourself out of the circle of safety promise and love and become a stray.

It's an old story but it never changes

Can a lamb survive amongst wolves?

No

He needs a hand of God to save him by pulling him away.

A Christian is this hand of God working towards a better good.

A Christian tries to empower another with words of his wisdom.

What the other does with this wisdom

is up to him.

But he has a chance to reflect before leaving and straying again.

This is what parents do.

They become the arch enemy because they say the word no.

But if they didn't care, why would they bother?

Parents are not perfect but they do care and they always want their kids to be better.

So they work harder to try to make it so.

And if one day the lambs make it to educated maturity

they will realize why they made it.

They made it because a Mother and Father gave up their freedom for them.

They struggled to raise a family

And when the world showed up at their door to tell them to

stop eggin around.....

They said

NO.

Happy Thanks Giving!

Have a Blessed Day Canada.

just onions.

As we walk through life, we are surrounded by people.
We believe all these people to be like ourselves.
and yet.........
upon closer examination, we see that we may be the same on the outside,
but on the inside, we really do not know or understand each other.

We can blame culture, religion, language and experience, education,genetics.
etc.... there are a lot of places where blame can be laid, as to why this is.
But life is about learning.
Every day is meant to learn something new, so you grow as a person.

I remember my first boy.
I sat with him every day doing homework to make sure he learned and I thought he was brilliant. He knew his American history better than most kids his age did.
He read well, he could write well, he could spell,he used to love making cartoons with his own stories in them. I thought he was a great kid but at school he did not show his teachers, what I saw at home. No one could figure it out.

Well after he graduated elementary school I asked him why he always writes about dogs. All 7 years, all he did at school was write about dogs where as at home, he wrote about many things in his play journals.
He told me he wrote about dogs because he did not want to lie.We had dogs and what he wrote about them was the truth. In other words he felt safe writing about dogs. lol
(I always taught him not to lie.)
So for 7 years he thought writing stories at school, which could be make believe, would be telling his teacher a lie and he did not want her to find out and think he was a liar.lol

Another thing. He read very well, so one day I asked him do you understand what you are reading?
He answered........you told me to read. I didn't know I had to understand what I was reading too lol
(shock ...shock...shock) Finally I understood the problem.The school pushed speed reading, so the children grew up not liking books or reading.
So again I had to explain to him well son, don't listen to the teachers. Books are meant to be read slow and enjoyed and understood because the author who wrote the book, did it slowly as well because he had a story to tell.He wants his book enjoyed read and reread.

Now I wonder, how many school councillors would have been able to find out these truths from a child, but they write many things in their little files. He told them he had problems remembering which sent them into a tizzy which was nothing closer to the truth. I had to laugh when they told me my son had problems remembering. I told them you do not demand the best out of kids so you don't get it. If a kid writes sloppy you tell them it's ok. My teachers never did and we all had neat notebooks we could read. We took pride in our work as opposed to today when kids take things for granted and use machines instead of developing their own personal skills.

My second son, born much later, was lucky because he had a school with old teachers who developed a love of books in children. So he enjoyed his books.We sat and read hundreds of them and he was engrossed in them because they opened a world for him.

So I felt my first son was robbed by a system who used kids to be experimented on.
Speed reading doesn't promote anything good.

Now these experiences related to children but then we come to adults.

I was talking to one Dad once.
He was a huge muscular good lookin dude.
We were discussing kids and he told me a story about when he was growing up.

He said My Dad told us kids not to smoke.
So we never smoked in front of him.
This was respect.

My reply to him was no, this was not respect.
His eyebrows lifted.

I told him respect, is when your Dad tells you not to smoke, you don't smoke.

What you did, was disrespect your Dad, by lying to him and doing things behind his back.

As I said this to him I saw something like a veil lift from his eyes and for the first time in his life, it's like he understood something.
I don't think he ever had anyone say anything like this to him before.

We talked about many things that day and I saw he enjoyed all of it.
He shook my hand and thanked me and said I was a very nice person.

Through out life, I met many strangers who I had quality converstations with and they would always say, you know, you are special. Not many would sit down like this with a stranger and talk this way.

I always found this strange because I saw myself as a normal person doing normal things. I did find out however that there are a lot of lonely, lost people out there but to look at them, you would never know.

I found out that people have goodness in them but it takes a special person to walk into their lives to bring it out through a learning experience.

When a person understands something, a light can definitely be seen behind their eyes and you know,understand, that you got through to this person. He will never be the same again as a result.

So I put a picture above of two different onions.
We are all like these onions and so is life.

Life and people may be the same but also very different.
It takes time, patience, understanding and love to be able to sit down and be open enough to hear, listen and learn.

As I grew older and the stresses in my own life became harder to bear, taking care of family and my own parkinson/alzheimer Mom, I didn't have the time I needed to pay attention to people and things I did before, which made me that special person.

My job was about serving my family the best way I knew how and it left little time for me, reflection,and relationships.lol
I barely had sleep time and life can run you ragged.

I was lucky to have a supportive family who suffered along side me.

They also stuck by me and hopefully learned some good things.

But life always changes. It's always the same but it's always different because its all about learning and growing.

Life often gives you pitfalls to fall into, especially these days lol but I always say, don't complain, because
people had it rougher.

My parents had it rougher.

My grand parents had it rougher and so many people in the world today, have it much rougher.

We do the best we can, with what we have presented to us in and by life.

But when push comes to shove, the worlds' salvation, lies in understanding

because it puts us all on the same page.

When push comes to shove, we are all just onions lol

Have a great day!

doodads and pumkins

Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin. God lifts you up,
takes you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. He opens you
up, touches you deep inside and scoops out all the yucky stuff--
including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. Then He carves
you a new smiling face and puts His light inside you to shine for
all the world to see.

Why do witches fly on brooms?

Because vacuum cleaners have short cords.

Have a great day!

Ecuminism a Heresy?

Ecuminism is a new word for me.
Means to agree, to disagree, in a polite way to work in unity towards a common cause.
Ecuminism has been a long time issue with the Christian (Orthodox) faith, because it meant accepting changes forced upon them by world religious conferences.
The story is very interesting .

I found these videos, which discuss what Ecuminism means and why it is not liked.
I think many people would benefit from listening to them, even though it consists of 15 short you tube parts to it.
So if you have the time........

I tried putting in some info as to what each part said.

part 1



They refer to questions like is there absolute truth?
How diluting truth to the point whereby people do not believe in faith anymore.
How unity in fact means diversity and compassion in fact means tolerance of difference.

If you oppose unity (ecuminism) it means you are for disunity, an Orwellian double talk.

The Churches position, is to teach certain truths, in how it is to be a Christian.
So it can't believe in difference.

The church is Christ and Christ is unity.

part 2


part 3



Orthodoxy believes God chooses man.
Man understands and believes because he is chosen
and enlightened and not coerced into believing by Theologians.

Truth doesn't change the church or the body of Christ.

Why Calvinism is wrong.
We can't prove or disprove God exists and God does not want us to.
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Two issues here :

a) one teaches there is a little bit of truth and little bit of falsity everywhere and the church is already here but we have not recognized it

b) there is a little bit of truth and a little bit of falsity but the church itself, has not been established, which is contradictory with the idea of the Apostles beginning it.

We will never agree as to what is the absolute truth.

The Ecuminist movement began in the last century, in the Protestant churches because
Social corruption divided churches, into smaller and smaller bits.

Ecuminist ideology, Deals with enlightenment and that every person can arrive at his own personal belief .
The belief is run on Pride and Ego and the inability to accept that you might be wrong.
There is an inability to accept that
there is an alternative as Russia found out does exist because of consisting of different cultural groups Russia managed to pull it together under Orthodoxy until now, when western influences entered, saying they know the only Right.

Part5


Who is the person of Christ?

His person unified the world.
His body is the church and his church should be unified.

Chaos implies a sick society.

Christ created Apostles who ordained priests and deacons and the orthodox church continued the continuity unchanged from them.

There are always differences but not about the basics.

Orthodox church consists of many races and cultures. Greek Italian French Armenian, etc.... Man is an individual with freedoms.

Orthodox believers never imposed the faith. It was always a natural order.
Go live your life, people see it's loving and free and are attracted to it, to live a life of love.

The Roman Churches' problem consisted with not accepting the freedom of the individual or group and it only speaks Latin.

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Splits also exist with the Jewish and Islam faiths because they do not come naturally.

In Catholic and Anglican religions, Lenton rules. People get penalized for not obeying.

In Orthodoxy fasting is a tool . The idea being, the more you work your garden, the more yield you will obtain.
Christ carried his own cross symbolizing that the strong should help the weak.
So nothing is enforced or punished.

Orthodoxy is not about saying we have a 2000 yr tradition filled with diversity, come join us.

The Orthodox religion begins with saying. We are sorry.

The problem with that is it's not going to examine the real bones of contention theologically.

This is not a genuine unity (ecominism) and some orthodox churches are not in communion with other Orthodox churches because you have to believe in your product, in this case following the main road from the point of origin (of the apostles).

The Calender for example, was changed to the world Gregorian calender. and many people still operate under the Julian calender.

The Pope in 1852 decided to remove a few days of the calender because the Winter and summer solstices shifted, according to an astronomer.
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This calender change was imposed by the Roman Catholic Church and it was also imposed on the Orthodox churches creating a schism.

Changes in Greece also created Schisms by introducing indoctrination of priests through schools.
etc....

The leaders of the ecuminist movement introduced the abolition of fasts, shaving of beards, civilian clothes for the clergy etc...
They created major changes to the church, making it closer to Protestantism.

The Orthodox faith argues that
You don't put man before God, if God is God.

The foreign ideas did introduce enlightenment but the job of the Orthodox faith, is to teach faith through learning what the limits are. They feel it's important to have self discipline.
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So it is seen, that Ecumunists teach disunity and divergence not tolerance and unity.

Ecuminism removes a person from the lifestyle of the church, whose job is to educate the soul and instead, educates the mind and teaches mistaken ideas.

You can't teach orthodox theology, separated from the life of the church life.

Orthodox theology was learned within the context of the full life of the family and community.

You can't bring God down to man. Man must go to God.

With Ecuminism you destroy the Church with mans' principles. It becomes a social club and removed from the active life, where the prime concern was the acquisition of the human spirit.

The Church then, is no longer a transformation club but a social club,
and the family becomes dysfunctional, which America has now become.
A land of divorce.
A land full of arrogance, elitism ,smugness, self satisfaction.

Orthodoxy promotes humbleness, forgiveness, love and always promotes self examination in how to improve oneself, one's faults.
The Saying goes : Keep your mind in hell so you remember how wonderful God is
but do not despair.
This way of thinking forces one to take responsibility for oneself.
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Ecuminism doesn't improve family, doesn't heal, but for the sake of getting along , says we shall come together and talk about the weather instead of the true things which will heal and unite. lol
funny

So you are tolerant but really intolerant, so this is hypocracy, and empty formula.

You either admit you are wrong or someone else is and that's not nice, not politically correct. lol
So with Ecuminism promoting No discipline the result produces rebellious children and that's not a way of producing a living church.

The path to true enlightenment is broken and is not true salvation and does not improve mankind.


Ecuminism created schisms like the
Movement away from Christianity into Roman Catholicism.

Ecuminism means, a created world, the man made organization of the created world.

Orthodoxy is not a religion.

It's a therapeutic system, the means by which the soul is cleansed, where we ensue communion, to again envision God.
To do this, it has to be agreed as to who Christ was.

Ecuministic, Humanistic, presuposition of humans on their own, without the holy spirit, says either the church hasn't existed cause there has not been unity or the church will exist or it's a superficial entity where it can encompass all kind of doctrine contradictions.

Everything is reduced to human opinion, a piece of the truth, which contradicts who Christ was who came to reveal the full truth.

Draw a circle showing the boundaries of who God is.
To understand everything inside the circle, is to understand God.
This is the problem. They believed the human mind could understand everything in the circle about God. but how much you understand about God has to do with how close you come to the center of the circle where God is.

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Stepping outside the circle boundary into diversity, which is what Ecuminism is doing, results in confusion and then they come to the conclusion that they will agree to disagree because they do not understand who Christ is and who God is.
So every one has little truths outside the circle
and real truth be damned.
Anglicans today especially have problems in their faith because of ecuminism.

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Churches cannot be a part of the mainstream and be true to themselves.

So the calendar changes from Julian to Gregorian caused a lot of turmoil because people lost days and didn't even know when their birthday was, for one thing.

The Russian church is still under the old calender as opposed to Ecuminism which creates chaos, disorder and schism.

Unity for the church deals with spiritual, liturgical, doctrinal and true unity.
Truth, was violated to keep up with the west under ecuminism.
This is what happens when people step out of the circle.
The church is left with teaching half truths with ecunimism
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Ecuminism = infection = disease.

In the 20th C
fasts, changes in liturgy, etc occurred to bring the Greek church closer to the west,
on the basis of humanism.
ex : pedophilias are being dealt with as a psychological disorder, instead of a spiritual problem
as it was before.
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Orthodox churches try to make statements in conferences dealing with the Ecuminical movement in world counsel of churches.
Father George Florovsky said unity was never lost.
It is still found in the orthodox church in the original faith.
but He himself floundered between ecuminism and the original Orthodox faith.

Orthodox churches does not say all Christians have to become Orthodox.
When you get to the point of atheism, where do you draw the line with Ecuminism?

The Thiatera Confession - recognizes the priesthoods and church branches of the one church.

Muslims deny the divinity of Christ but not the one God.

Orthodoxy does not say if you are outside the church circle you are lost in darkness.

This is left to the mercy of God.
But if you stay within the circle and pray with close friends of God, in the center of that circle, is God himself and we will be closer to him.

Inner enlightenment is attaining the image of Christ in your heart and soul. By means of his truth , you begin to understand the doctrines and why they are the way they are and why Christ said what he said.
It's not a mystery because you see more and more of that circle.

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and as a result a light comes on and you begin to live according to it and given salvation,
theosis and divinization.

Christ never operated through force and threats. He operated through voluntary free will.
Orthodox church never said there was a special way to approach Christ.

However, you can't erase the hard drive of the church if you are to understand who God truly is.

Agreement to disagree promotes decay, violence, promotes the lowest aspects of man. enhances depravity, and promotes humanity going astray.

You need morality, self discipline, etc...
You need to see where the church is, use it as an anchor to focus on, within the boundaries of the circle.

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Well I enjoyed listening to this program.
Learning about Ecuminism is something we should all know and understand I think, because it applies to what's happening in todays' world.
I also found it interesting that unlike Islam and Judaism, Orthodoxy is not a religion. It's just a way of life.

Little bits of truths from a big picture.

Have a great day!!

Who Is This Saint?

My husband went to get gas and what should he find lying beside the gas pump?

This Icon which was turned into a clip on.

I spent the whole day trying to find out who this Saint is to have some meaning

as to why it came to my husband.

It has cyrillic lettering on it on the top right hand corner.

The rest is difficult to see.

The monk on it means it must have been painted a long time ago before the 17th C

The way he holds his hands is before the time of Nikon when he changed

crossing oneself from two fingers, keeping the thumb with the ring and baby finger,

into a triad of three fingers together.

hands are often shown giving a blessing: the last two fingers touching thumb (two fingers raised) symbolizes the two natures of Christ; ring finger touching thumb (three fingers raised) symbolizes the Trinity.

Hands are also shown with with the forefinger extended straight; the middle finger curved slightly; the thumb and the ring finger crossed; and the little finger curved slightly. This gesture forms the letters "IC XC" (Greek letters for "Jesus Christ") -- the first finger making the I, the curved middle finger forming the C, the crossed ring finger and thumb forming the X, and the pinky finger forming the second C.

There is one Icon with
Peter and Paul
holding a church which means they want church unity.

Evangelists	wear tunics, carry a book
Bishops	wear vestments, carry a book or scroll
Monks	wear habits, stand very erect

Tracing Icons back to their origin is indeed a fascinating journey.

I learned that all men need to wear beards cause Jesus did lol
Also that because man was created in God's image, we carry him within and people see him through who we are as people
So people can see God in the eyes of good people who live life doing good things.

This particular Icon seems familiar to me but I have no idea where I saw it.

Would be nice if someone knew this Saint/monk just for the heck of it.

Have a great day!

New Zealand Maori Customs

The Maori history in New Zealand is interesting.
Legend has it they came from around the "Hawaiian Islands, home to the Rock
and genocided the Moriori in New Zealand , who were pacifists and therefore unable to defend themselves
from any warring tribe.
The Maori kept the Moriori prisoner and they intermarried but the Moriori were not allowed to marry each other.
Then the white people arrived and things changed for the Maori.
The white people brought sheep and other animals to graze on the beautiful landscape and they ate all the Maori crops.This left the Maori with little to make a living off of.

Today New Zealand is seen as a new countrywith lots of potential.
It is a very beautiful place to visit.
The Morori are allowed to rebuild their culture and the Maori have lots to show the world about their ways, of which they are very proud of. Their masks are incredible.
Many of the youth , like our Aboriginals here in Canada, have fallen into the gansta mentality.
But the society is determined to turn things around with time.

I really liked these videos.




Scary!

Tāwhirimātea	God of the wind and storms
Tāne Māhuta	God of the forest and all that dwell therein, especially the birds
Papatūānuku	Mother Earth
Ranginui	Father sky
Tangaroa	God of the sea, rivers, lakes and all that live within them
Tūmatauenga	God of war
Rongo	God of peace
Rūaumoko	God of earthquakes and volcanoes
Rongo mā Tāne	God of kumara and all cultivated foods
Haumia-tiketike	Guardian spirit of wild food
Whiro	God of evil

With this weapon the Maori could chop off the top of a persons' head or worse.
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One opinion as to why the Maori stuck their tongues out

When the Maori stick their tongue out it is part of one of the many haka dances. Different kinds of hakas were performed for different occasions; to greet visitors, for amusement, to acknowledge an important event or achievement, and some were preformed before going into battle.
War hakas (peruperu) were performed by warriors before a battle, to declaire their strength and prowess in order to intimidate their enemies. By displaying fierce facial expressions and grimaces, waving weapons, poking out the tongue, bulging and showing the whites of the eyes, and uttering grunts and cries, the Maori hoped to invoke the war God and frighten their opponents.
So I think that the tongue sticking out was just a part of this greater display of fierceness: to intimidate, frighten, and shock their war enemies.

Source(s):

I grew up in Hawaii and was exposed to all peoples of Polynesia. I had a few Maori friends :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori_people

Hope you enjoy

Have a great day!
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A wife says to her husband you're always pushing me around and talking
behind my back. He says what do you expect? You're in a wheel chair.



The wife has been missing a week now. Police said to prepare for the worst.
So, I have been to the thrift shop to get all of her clothes back.
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copyright

These are a few more souvenirs I have.

the carved horn is something I treasure.

The boomerang is an interesting tool once used by the aboriginals

and the third item is what Crocodile Dundee used, a bull roarer.

It is attached by a string and swung around creating a noise so animals go where you want them to go.

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The new copyright law changes in Canada, will affect young people more so than older people.
Young people have no jobs so who is supposed to pay the fines?

Old people have no use for the new kind of music and in fact, would rather it not be played at all.

lol

So to add insult, to going so far as to be accused of injuring these new artists' financial gain, is obsurd.

Copy right infringes.

If something is on tv, it has been already purchased to publicize and to record.

If something is for sale on the net, they should not have to put locks on it.
Just put the title and say it's for sale.
If you have to put locks, it means you want and expect to be broken in.

It's like lending money to a person.
I was always taught, when you lend money, say good bye to it and be pleased if the person you lent it to, is honorable enough to return it to you.

It's a thing called a gentlemans' agreement.
Other wise you will be like the Mafia, forced to break legs and this is what these artists are doing.
They are finding ways to break legs through legal means by fining.

If something is on the radio it is already purchased to air.

Someone ALREADY PURCHASED RIGHTS.

And requiring cable today to watch and listen, to just about anything,

also means the networks and the people paid for the rights to watch and listen and to rewatch and relisten.

How many times do you have to pay and re pay for something?

These actors, how much money exactly, do they want to make.?
Even Bill Gates has to change his products to continue to make money.

This is a cash cow and should be illegal to fine people for using what is forced on them to watch and listen to already.

We can't stop garbage entering our homes and to our childrens' ears and now we have to pay for it, if it gets copied by people who can't afford it anyway.
They put things out there to fabricate criminals.
They may as well take a society of people and put them all in jail, so Angelina Jolie and Brad can adopt another kid to drag around behind them and smoke pot and another
Charlie Sheen to show people how vice pays and rappers to buy more guns for gang
war fare. The list is long.

If they don't want people to listen and copy, they should
DO EVERY ONE A FAVOR
and just keep it to themselves.

They already made money on it and enough is enough.

A normal guy , should make so much money at work doing it the hard way, to feed his family

and now he has to pay for these spoiled rotten artists for products he doesn't want his kids listening to or watching.

Well I'm complaining lol

Have a great day!

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At Penn State University , there were four sophomores taking chemistry and
all of them had an 'A' so far. These four friends were so confident that,
the weekend before finals, they decided to visit some friends and have a
big party. They had a great time but, after all the hearty partying, they
slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Penn State until early
Monday morning.

Rather than taking the final then, they decided that after the final they
would explain to their professor why they missed it. They said that they
visited friends but on the way back they had a flat tire. As a result, they
missed the final. The professor agreed they could make up the final the next
day.

The guys were excited and relieved. They studied that night for the exam.
The next day the Professor placed them in separate rooms and gave them a
test booklet. They quickly answered the first problem worth 5 points. Cool,
they thought!

Each one in separate rooms, thinking this was going to
be easy....then they turned the page. On the second page was written....

For 95 points: Which tire? _________

calabresi tarantella

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcjK_2-HWHk&feature=related



I had to watch this video lol and I wish I understood the beautiful song about "chuchu" the donkey. ( any Italians out there)

I remember the Italians in my neighborhood used to call each other chuch lol.
Well
I found out about the famous Italian volcano and a little about the tarantella dance ( which I used to play on my piano)
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The Tarantella is about a girl who got bitten by a tarantula. She does a dance to sweat out the venom. The dance is called the Tarantella because it is fast and makes you sweat, like the girl who got bitten.
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The Legend of the Tarantella

by Anthony Parente

No Italian wedding or celebration would be complete without the rhythmic song and dance of the tarantella. It is the most popular of all the Italian songs and it is even considered by many as the song of Italy. The song is both lively and graceful and the dance is one of light and quick steps mixed with passionate gestures. Its origin dates back to the Middles Ages and traces of a similar song can even be found in Magna Graecia.

Legend states that between the 15th and 17th centuries an epidemic of tarantism swept through the town of Taranto in southern Italy. This was as a result of being bit by the poisonous tarantula spider. The victim, which is referred to as the tarantata, was almost always a woman but never a high ranking lady or one of an aristocratic upbringing. Once bitten the tarantata would fall into a trance that could only be cured by frenzied dancing. People would surround the victim while musicians would play mandolins, guitars and tambourines in search of the correct rhythm. Each beat would have a different effect on the tarantata causing various movements and gestures. Once the correct rhythm was found it was almost certain that the tarantata was cured.

As legends have it there always seems to be more than one version. Another version states that a woman who was depressed and frustrated from the subordinate lifestyle would fall into a trance that could only be cured by music and dance. This normally lasted three days and during that time the tarantata would be the center of attention, which in turn would cure them of their frustrations and depressions.

Of these two variations that most popular is the one in which the victim is bitten by the poisonous tarantula. This is why the tarantella is sometimes referred to as the dance of the spider.

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La Calabria is one of Italy's seven ihmeestä.Stromboli which is known as one of the world's most active volcanoes. This volcano, you can see a very Tropesta when the sun goes down.
Tarantella is a genuine Southern Italian folk music. And in Calabria is a lot of great churches, as well as the beautiful medieval castles, which were Calabrialaisille noblemen.

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http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3tartla.htm
://www.sicilianculture.com/folklore/tarantella.htm
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-tarantella.htm

Hope you have a great day!

P.S. By the way, here is the modern version of the dance



This must be where calabresi salami comes from too:
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recipe:
5lbs meduim ground pork butt
4 Tbsp Salt
2 tsp Fennel
1 Tbsp white pepper
3 Tbsp crushed hot red pepper
1/2 cup sweet vermouth
1/2 cup brandy
6 cloves of pressed garlic

Combine all ingredients, mix well and refrigerate for 48 hours.
Stuff into large hog casings, tie off in 8" links and dry for 10-12 weeks
;)
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birth and rebirth of our world

It is always a beautiful site to watch something develop and grow.
If you ever talked to plants, you would see they love the attention.
They grow better, root better, have colors which seem more vibrant and live longer knowing they are loved.

I would have never believed it if it didn't happen to me at work when
I decided one day, to root some cuttings and then plant them on my window sill.
I have never been able to grow plants that well and that quick since I stopped talking to them
and giving them the attention they yearn for and deserve.

People called me a girl with a green thumb back then but I know better. :)



Everything benefits from attention and love.
Flowers, people, paintings, oceans ...............

So remember to open your heart and eyes and love everything you see and do each day.
The world you create as a result. will be wonderful.
It's your world. :)

Have a great day!!!

water bridge

This is amazing. I wonder how long this bridge will last but it is a very good idea.

I wonder where the boats go once they have crossed the bridge..... into another canal?

nope.

It's a whole water road.

Have a great day!

I Open the Door to My Love

Dalida, femme fatale .

An Egyptian star of Italian origin, who hypnotized her audience with elegance, grace and song.

In as much as the world loved her, she was not lucky in love and her life ended in tragedy.

She was a beautiful flower born to serve, as a Queen of hearts, leaving a quiet legacy of songs , love and her smiles.

She will live eternally in the memories of those who met her, knew and loved her, and those who have yet to discover her.
A treasured icon , in a foreign world, we have yet to understand.

Chaque Nuit
Quand l'oiseau de Paradis fait sa ronde
J'ouvre la porte à mon amour
Et tous les deux nous voyageons loin du monde
En attendant le retour
Des premiers rayons du soleil et de l'ombre
Dans la chambre nue
Où tous nos gestes sont un monde inconnu
Every night when the bird of paradise make its rounds
I open the door to my love and we travel far away from the world
and awaiting our return are the first rays of the sun and shade
where naked in our room our gestures and sentiments are unknown to the world.

Chaque nuit
Nous échangeons des colliers de promesses
Nous échangeons des anneaux d'or
Des rivières et des diamants de jeunesse
Et puis nous quittons le port
Comme des rois sur des bateaux de tendresse
Pour mille pays
Que tu fais naître de ma main chaque nuit
every night we exchange necklasses of promises
we exchange golden rings, rivers and diamonds of our youth
and then we leave the port
like kings, on boats of tenderness, for 1000 lands
you give birth from my hand each night

Et nos yeux
ne trouvent pas le sommeil
Comment s'endormir quand l'arbre est en feu
Devant le soleil
Dieu,
Que je t'aime chaque nuit
Que tu m'aimes chaque nuit
Que la route est belle chaque nuit
and our eyes do not find sleep
how do you sleep when the tree is on fire
in front of the sun, God,
That I love you each night
That you love me each night
That the road is good every night

Mon amour
Je ne veux plus jamais voir le jour

my love I never want to see day again
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Such passion from a single woman, is bound to raise a fire in many hearts.
lol

Have a great day!

Maybe someday you'll come
To the village I'm from
Right by the bay of beautiful Napoli
Where each Saturday night
As the vino takes flight
We sing and dance and love of life is free
Giorgio plays the guitar
Sandro the mandolin
And me I dance and bang on the tambourine
But when Gigi appears
The hurrahs and the cheers
Come from the crowd as he begins to sing

And in between each song
They shout and sing out strong

We love you
Gigi l'Amoroso
The greatest Italian lover since man discovered fire
Gigi l'Amoroso
If you only knew what you make us do
With your songs of desire
For each and every one his favourite song
Volare, Come Prima, Ö Sole Mio

Everyone loved Gigi,
the baker's wife would leave her shop just to hear him sing,
the notary's wife who was a saint blessed him and made the sign of the cross every time
he opened his mouth, and the widow, the young one,
tore her wigs to shreds and put on fancy lace,
and on and on, everyone loved Gigi,
even me, even me, but…

Came a lady one day
Rich as all USA
Who told him Hollywood wasn't very far
Oh ! he liked what he heard
And believed every word
Like Valentino he'd become a star
We were all at the boat
With a lump in our throat
To wish him well and show him how much we cared
Everyone in the crowd were all openly proud
He'd made it now beyond the village square

And when he said Goodbye
We all began to cry

We love you
Gigi l'Amoroso
The greatest Italian lover since man discovered fire
Gigi l'Amoroso
If you only knew what you make us do
With your songs of desire
Arrivederci, Gigi, much success
The tears you see are tears of happiness

Gigi...
We stayed 'till the boat was out of sight,
and we all returned to the village, but,
it wasn't the same after he left
Everything seemed different
the baker's wife refused to light the oven
the notary's wife, wouldn't even talk to her husband
she just kept counting her beads
and the widow, the young one, cried and went into mourning for a second time
And me...

Many days have gone by
Oh the years how they fly
The fountain even cried we all missed him so
Not a word, not a sign
My heart measured the time
Oh Gigi, Gigi why did you have to go ?
Our performance went on
But the spirit was gone
Each song we sang was only a memory
At the end of our show
As the silence would grow
Each night I'd hear his haunting melody

If you only knew
What you make us do
With your songs of desire
Gigi...

Gigi !?
Is that you in the shadow?
It is you Gigi
come closer!
Oh let me look at you
You are crying ? But why are you crying ?
Oh ! l'American !
Now I understand
what do they know except Rock and Roll and "Baby, Baby, Baby"
That's not for you, you are Giuseppe, Fabrizio, Luca Santini
and you are Napoletano !
Listen Gigi, listen... that's Giorgio playing
and that, that's Sandro's mandolin
wait, Gigi, wait !
I'll get my tambourine
wait, you can't leave like that !
This is your home!
Listen... you hear them Gigi ?
The whole town is coming !
They want you to sing Gigi !
To sing for them
They love you Gigi, everybody loves you
Sing Gigi ! Canta ! Bravo !!! Bravo !
Carmella, Carmella Carmella lo sai che é arrivato Gigi Cesarina,
Cesarina scendi è arrivato Gigi da Hollywood ! Ma se te lo dico io che é arrivato scendi no
Guaglione, guaglione guaglione corri va a dire a zio Gennaro Che é arrivato lo zio
Gigi dall'AmericaBravo !

To each and everyone his favourite song
Volare, Come Prima, Ô Sole Mio
We love you Gigi l'Amoroso
The greatest Italian lover since man discovered fire
Gigi l'Amoros

If you only knew what you make us do
With your songs of desire
To each and everyone his favourite song
Volare, Come Prima, Ô Sole Mio
We love you Gigi l'Amoroso...

under paris skies.

We jump to another part of the world into the realm of blue Paris skies and lights, so well known not only by the Eiffel Tower, but because this is a city of love, where lonely hearts flock to meet.

I can see how easy it is to fall in love with the beautiful people you can encounteer there and even the French accent is music to your ears.
Life in the cafes is open for 100's to see.
So like many........
"I fell in love
I was a fool
Paris can be beautifully cruel
Paris can be a gay coquette and then forget
Strangers need to beware because in Paris. there is love in the air.
Fantastique! sympatique ! magnifique !

I wasn't smart and fell in love
under Paris skies
So watch what you do
The same can happen to you."

I think with all the history found in Paris, France, this will always be a place people will want to see and experience.

It can be a cold cruel place if you let it, cause lets face it, it attracts, as many big cities do, those who use it for their personal pleasures.

But the view is spectacular! and love for loves' sake, can blossom and grow .

I can almost see Maurice Chevalier and his walking stick, smiling, tipping his hat, wooing all the young ladies walking his way. I can see lots of flowers being sold to those who have found precious love.

I can see the horse drawn chariots being pulled on a clear winters' night with white snow flakes surrounding them, and the pretty rosy cheeked girls bundled in their furs smiling at their gentlemen friends.
Visions of Paris, never to be forgotten.

Lots of foot steps walked those once cobbled streets and if one listens closely,
One will never be bored under those historical
Paris skies.

Have a great day!

Fall Rain

Music for dull weather, full of inspiration.
Great to begin your day with.


Winter is around the corner and along with it in BC, dull skies and wet weather
which we seem to have way too much of.

For the young it means cuddling up with a loved one and
for the old it means achy bones and hoping for sunnier days.

As you watch the very young at play, you remember days when you also walked in the rain, felt the wet grass between your toes, and played in puddles.You remember
skimming rocks in ponds, the sounds of little frogs and tad poles swimming between
the stones wiggling their little tails.

You remember camping days, surrounded by a forest
and from your shelter, be it a tent, RV or cabin, smelled life all around you in soft moss,
mint, and rotting wood.

The swaying of the trees in a strong breeze, made the leaves whisper their secrets, as they quietly dropped from on high, providing a soft red carpet at your feet to greet and invite you into their glorious domain.
Beyond these walls is life ever lasting, children, laughter, camaraderie,singing birds, and the perfect quiet and peace one needs to enrich the soul and especially love.

It makes one wonder why, when nature has all this to offer, man plunders and turns her into a cemented jungle, devoid of the true smells of life.

Have great day!!

Fall Inspiration

This will take your breath away. Life is like the paintbrush changing the colors of the forest and the sky. One moment you are sad, another moment, life hurls you up into breath taking sights and feelings, you never thought possible and it is all incredibly beautiful as a whole picture, because it leaves you with memories, understanding, maturity, and wisdom an inexperienced soul , who hasn't taken the journey, will never understand.

This leaves you with questions as to who should lead the world, the impulsive young or the old who tend to be more careful?
Who understands change better?
Who is uncorrupted and pure?
Should we strive towards perfection or let life slide into imperfection, saying everything is ok?

It depends in what society you live in and what it believes in.
Is it ok to force change on people and if so, then when is it ok or maybe not ok?

When dealing with the UN, the idea is to help in man's humanity to man.
No matter what philosophy religion or political ideology you believe in, it must not
destroy another man woman or child in the process and if it does then, the humble and weak must be helped.
The problem is when the humble and the weak do not understand what you are doing.
It always has to get worse before it gets better.

Or so they say :)

Have a great day!

Being a Mother

Bill Burr is funny.
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FRom Snopes - this is a good article to read.
Every little bit helps.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/lemons.asp
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Remembering Mama ( tear jerker)



Mama you were right, its difficult.
All knowledge is hard to forgive
It's like freeing a bird without a wing
And I am tired of being strong

Mama do not shake your head
I don't want to love him
Mama I want to come back home to you
mama you were right
I am tired of being strong

Images of War

Images of war are not pretty pictures.

We see people dying as usual.

We see heart ache, devastation, evil as usual.

but what differentiates the wars from yesterday, from the wars of today, is that we do not know the enemy.

If we knew the enemy, we could avoid war.

No matter how I turn it in my head, I always seem to head back to the one true thing which seems to be responsible.

Financial greed.

Financial greed unites us all and so we are all a part and parcel of the enemy that causes

heart ache, devastation and evil to take place.

We say we have needs to survive.

If mans' self worth was not measured by his pocket book or the nations' pocket book or the world pocket book, we would have a better world.

However, man was not designed this way.

Man likes nice things

Man likes comfort.

Man needs toys.

As long as man requires more than just food and shelter there will always be conflict.

Conflict always results in war.

Man also wants something for nothing which also results in conflict because inequalities in effort are gross. No one wants to work double shifts to pay for a lazy guy who sits and makes babies to support and drinks beer.

This is probably why money originated.

Bankers understood this greed and were greedy themselves for easy money.

Banking was a nice way to take peoples money and use it to create more for yourself while giving people less.

I think today, instead of looking for jobs, people should open their own banks lol

This would scare the bankers who would go on spending frenzies to buy them all out for much more than interest payments, to stop competition and then ,you can always open up a new bank with the profits lol or buy out a weaker bank yourself and get into the game.

Images of war would change for a while because now the enemy is where you can see it and possibly control it or at least make it uncomfortable for them.

But little bankers have to be of pure mind to compete against the heavies they will have to face.

They always have to be one step ahead.

Images of war are ugly but it is the images we do not see, where the war is really fought.

The moment any weakness is seen, instead of helping, the vultures come in for the kill.

This is man.

This is his biggest strength and his biggest weakness.

Unless this changes.... good luck Charlie, as they say. lol
Today we see countries trying to help each other and as a result, everything is faltering.

The bankers got too greedy.

The milk is spread too thin but the top dog, is still in control.

He is the invisible enemy.

He created all this knowing the little dogs would lap everything up, leaving nothing.

When they fight to get something, they suffer and die.

Good birth control.

The enemy is not the politician, or pressure group or religion.

The images of war we see, come

Right right from your own home .
We eagerly run to the evil,

not understanding who and what it is.

Keep your money in your OWN bank.
Be your OWN banker.
LEARN TO LIVE FREE.

Have a great day!

Listless Tired with Irregularity?

This song should make you feel a lot better.
It's beautiful.


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This is so true about old people.

I never really liked the term "Old Person" but this makes me feel better about it. And if you aren't one, I bet you know one! I got this from an "Old Person" friend of mine! OLD PERSON PRIDE I'm passing this on as I did not want to be the only old person receiving it. Actually, it's not a bad thing to be called, as you will see. Old People are easy to spot at sporting events; during the playing of the National Anthem. Old People remove their caps and stand at attention and sing without embarrassment. They know the words and believe in them. Old People remember World War II, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal , Normandy , and Hitler. They remember the Atomic Age, the Korean War, The Cold War, the Jet Age and the Moon Landing. They remember the 50 plus Peace-keeping Missions from 1945 to 2005, not to mention Vietnam . If you bump into an Old Person on the sidewalk he will apologize. If you pass an Old Person on the street, he will nod or tip his cap to a lady. Old People trust strangers and are courtly to women. Old People hold the door for the next person and always, when walking, make certain the lady is on the inside for protection. Old People get embarrassed if someone curses in front of women and children and they don't like any filth or dirty language on TV or in movies. Old People have moral courage and personal integrity. They seldom brag unless it's about their children or grandchildren. It's the Old People who know our great country is protected, not by politicians, but by the young men and women in the military serving their country. This country needs Old People with their work ethic, sense of responsibility, pride in their country and decent values. We need them now more than ever. Thank God for Old People. Pass this on to all of the "Old People" you know. I was taught to respect my elders. It's just getting harder to find them.

I am not really that old but looking back you see yourself slowly losing everything meaningful, and familiar
Parents children landmarks and how many friends who passed away at 8 12 14 20 29,48
Age is never a factor when fate decides.
Strong healthy people, struck down in seconds while those who you consider ailing and withering manage to hold on till they reach ripe old ages in their 90's.
We watch them celebrate birthdays with big smiles and people ask them the secret to their longevity.
Lots of sex they tease.
Good shot of brandy before bed time.
Laughter.
Peace.
You look at these people and swear you see a halo, an aura surround them.
And then you think, well maybe they were meant to be so people could look into their beautiful old souls and be nurtured by the experience.
And as each day passes and you watch yourself getting older you can't help but ask,
will I be one of those people the young will be impressed with one day, as I am today with those born before my time?
And then you see young people with issues and drug adds helping them get over being
listless tired with irregularities and you think, where do they find time to dwell over such things when life is so full and enriching,
if only they would step outside
and take a look.

Have a great day! :)

Trivia : Bach had 2 wives and 20 children

Picasso had 4 children from three women, He had 2 legal wives and around 8 relationships.

Shakespeare had one wife, Anne Hathaway,8 children, he died at 52 years of age.

Matisse had one wife and three children.