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Thursday Seeds | Give to the Fake
The object of artifice? It’s to sell something with a frame or narrative. It’s not a lie exactly, it’s the truth cloaked. It’s usually for a purpose and the best artifice is fiction story. You can tell the truth, the naked truth in fiction and folks will be ok with it. The naked truth as truth, it’s not well received. The fake news and who will believe it? Are you a consumer? (We all are to some degree) But do you only take it in and never use it for benefit? Is it something you gossip about? Well meaning of course. What if it’s about you? And you KNOW it’s…
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11-10 sketch
Inspiration from my own camera shot in the garden last month and a class on Sat that coveted the many varieties of golden rod and endangered bumblebees. Procreate layers and layers 🐝 The photo…
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Thursday Seeds | Chat bots and your privacy
It only takes one share of your cellphone number… There are folks out there you have to be careful of. They have basic names and they wish you to remember – Things that never happened. Time to block. Do you recognize the phone no? Did you google the area code? What about the full number? Sometimes they are reported as spammers. NEVER give out your personal info. In this message, no confirmation of name is given on my part. Should I have even responded? Maybe not. This could have been someone contacting for a legitimate reason. I chose to engage. No one should have these, but here we are, the…
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Nov 5 Irish Sessions
Irish Sessions every Tuesday Night. I was snapping and videoing last night. Here’s what I have. If you scroll to the bottom, there are videos of the beautiful music and the dancers! Slainte! Dulcimer Beginnings. Marie has a new instrument! Johnny Jump up – Jack Dancers on the Sessions Stage – Gearing up for Irish Fest! Irishfestatlanta.org Irish Dance instructor on the Sessions stage Irish Dancers on the tile Lisa McCann – Irish singing a cappella with lilting Lisa McCann – Song 2
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Thursday Seeds | Candy
10-30-24 Candy. I’ll need it for tomorrow And Honoring loved ones that have gone before. Even if they are all on the other side, they still help you with what they have gone through. Even if you don’t even know what their stories were. Maybe you know the location or the year of birth and marriage. But the day to day could be hidden in the details and get so very similar to your own. Some rail against life being so similar. There are some of us that think that life should be evolving, changing into something better at each iteration or generation. And are we? If we measure history,…
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Thursday Seeds | Remember the Schedule
Meditation practice is about refraining from the monkey mind thoughts, that sometimes are not even your own, to come back to what is called the present moment. They could be things that you should be doing, the things that you did that you could have done better, the cat in the other room that needs to stop clawing up the couch, etc. The idea is to let go of all the other things, concentrate on what is right here, right now. This moment only. In keeping a schedule, it is a similar practice though not exactly the same. There are time points in the day, we call them appointments, that…
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Thursday Seeds | Find Your Marigold
The subject of marigolds lends the question of are you a gardener. In the gardening world, Marigolds are just that, gold. They help in the garden immensely in specific ways. There are specific bugs and creatures that are repelled and attracted to this plant. The “bad” bugs are attracted to it so it saves other plants from infestation. Squirrels like to eat it. I’ve watched squirrels pull the blooms off in their hands and eat them like they were a delicacy and not the prevalent flower in the garden that they are. And as fond as they are of them, deer don’t care for them. If you are looking to…
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Thursday Seeds | Lighten the Load
Remember the old adage, keep it simple? It helps with the idea of lightening the load. How much work do you actually have to do? Maybe if you make the goals simple, you would then realize that your time estimate is off by half because you have time to spare. Or if you don’t have time to spare, you could be doing three steps that aren’t needed. Would you be willing to change? So that your load was lighter, your time estimate more valid? These things seem simple in general terms. When you are in the midst of project tangles, sometimes it is hard to see the forest for the…
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Thursday Seeds | Rise up and over, light softly on top
The cure for a sliding pitch is to rise up and over, and then light softly on top of the pitch. You’ll nail the note for sure and bring confidence to the performance and joy to the song because you did it, you didn’t slide down into the dumps of off key or off pitch. Every good high soprano needs this skill. The reach required at the top of a voice range takes good energy without straining. No one likes to hear a straining soprano high note. It’s funny because many folks will call those sliding notes “off key” when in fact, it’s really just a note below which is…
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Thursday Seeds | Goose is good
Duck, duck, duck,…………GOOSE!!! Did you play it as a kid? Did you play it with your kids? The goose is good. It means there is a chase! There is movement and the anticipation is over. There is even the potential for another round if the game AND another goose! The goose doesn’t get cooked in this game. The goose does get some exercise. This goose loves water. Good food lives on the water and so does goosey type friends. And while air is important for wing stretching, all the other elements are needed too. The golden goose loves the sun but also understands the need for rainy days and cloudy…
