Visioning the Future

I've added a How To on the Vison Board page. Clink (click link - see how reductively creative we can be?) at the top of this page to view. While working on that, I realized how incredibly important whole brain thinking is to our future as a society.

We need to activate the artist/creators within and blend them with our go-to-business brains. Rodan had it right - The Thinker is cross meridien whole brain. 

I'm currently reading Urgent Message from Mother; Gather the Women, Save the World by Jean Shinoda Bolen.  I am very clear that there was a matriarchal society prior to the patriarchal we've all just lived through - and neither was ideal. It's going to take more than "women" it's going to take whole brain "people." We need to let the pendulum land in a balanced place.

It is critical to the planet and our human evolution that we move into whole brain - into balance, into kindness, into peace, into tolerance, into joy, into creative wonderment.

Photos of Fruit Stands

I wish I had a knack for reading manuals - I don't. I'm an ENFP and I feel my way through things, kinesthetically, visually having to intuit it myself. We are all so wired differently - but that's the joy - knowing someone else can do something you can't! I wish he was here to help me figure this out ~ where, oh where, art thou?

Since he's not arrived yet—the man of my dreams—I've been challenged to learn even more about this blog site on my own...how it works, looks, does my bidding ... I only wish all it took was a wiggle of my nose.  Look to top of the page, and you'll see Photos (a better description is snapshots I've taken). Once you are there, you click on the Gallery photo, and click once again and it will take you to a deep black background to show you actual size photos - not just the square thumbnail (which didn't work on a couple - so I still am challenged). Follow the arrows! Click once to get out again. 

I'm beginning to load fruit stands, starting with Egypt shots, only because they are still in iPhoto. I have many more in archives - Cambodia, Colombia, Mexico, local. Check it out and let me know if you want to see more!

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.  ~Eudora Welty

Tribute to Friend & Family

My brother-in-law, Robert Stanley Barton (Feb. 13, 1925—Jan. 28, 2009), had a great life - visionary in the purest sense of imagineering with conscience (he disliked the word visionary as described in dictionary), computer scientist, engineering genius/inventor, and model to many in the computer industry. He was a wanderer who pared his life down to little or no belongings (I'm not counting his offspring as belongings) — intelligence was foremost. He'd get an idea in his head and it would become a monologue. I remember telling him one time that he should write a book. His response was, "People who get tired of my monologues say that to me." The greatest love of his life was my sister and even though they divorced 8 years ago, she brought him to a safe haven, seeing him lovingly through this transition. 

This photo of Bob, taken by my cousin, Barb, is what inspired my fruit-stand-photos collection from around the world. 

Photo, Papaya For Sale, ©1982, by B.A. Schaefer

The other tribute I want to pay is to my friend, harpist Hilary Stagg. We met years ago in Sacramento, both of us labeled "new-age," and judged by many (including our best friends) for following our passions. He was just beginning to play the harp, to record in the mid 80's. He'd been to the Monroe institute where he simply learned to channel his heart's impulses. His legacy is a body of soothing and uplifting music (see Links to music) that is loved by people around the world. He died in 1999 - an earlier time of transition for many of us — some off the planet (Hilary) and others to new cities, new careers, new focus. 

They each made a lasting and positive impact on the quality of life on this planet, and I am grateful to have had my life enhanced and expanded by their presence (presents - one of which is my niece).

Old Blue Eyes as Inspiration

I got up early to cook for a surprise pot luck luncheon, checked Facebook and found a link to Frank Sinatra singing That's Life on YouTube- and what a perfect message for the times. Then I found Sunny! The message and man! I feel in love all over again today. They won't allow embedding on these so click the links and take yourself into the"good times."  

Jerry, thanks for the comment - after listening to Frank, it triggered an idea!!! I LOVE COMMENTS - they spark ideas! The thought I had about a positive collective artist's thought is to start a viral email (certainly not a new idea, but it's been proven to be effective! It's the pyramid effect - start small and send to friends, who send to friends - a real grass roots happy note! I'm not sure how that might look - your happy uplifting paintings in a power point with a friend's soothing/happy music and each of the artists contribute some great uplifting quotes/art/photos? It might make a really fun contest - there should be no end to the positive thoughts we could send out to the world? Just the energy and intention would shift everyone around us. Let's gather a group and do a YouTube event!

"Yesterday, my life was filled with rain. You smiled at me and really eased the pain. Oh, the dark days are done, and the bright days are here..." ~ Lyrics in Sunny

Inspiration

I get daily notes (my fingers actually typed "bites" instead of "notes") from The Universe (a fun guy-TUT). He sends daily reminders of life's magic and your divinity. Here are the last few:

When in doubt, Laura Lee, show up early. Think less. Feel more. Ask once. Give thanks often. Expect the best. Appreciate everything. Never give up. Make it fun. Lead. Invent. Regroup. Wink. Chill. Smile. And live as if your success was inevitable, and so it shall be.

Thoughts become Things.

It is easy. Just once a day, imagine the life you dream of. Believe that it can be yours in this world of magic and miracles. Choose to live as if you know of its inevitable manifestation. Don't compromise. Don't worry. Don't look for results. And as surely as spirit crafts one moment after another, so too will it fuse together the life you now lead with the life of your dreams as if they were two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, destined to become one. This alone determines what's "meant to be."

Baby steps spark miracles. ~The Universe