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• Tigers 4 Tigers ~ I am very proud of this!
  by Mundy Hackett

  I am going to take a moment to toot my own horn, not something I do on a regular basis. I have just received the final pdf proof for a p…

  I am going to take a moment to toot my own horn, not something I do on a regular basis. I have just received the final pdf proof for a promotional calendar for 2008 that will be distributed at the University of Missouri and throughout the world to faculty, friends, alumni, and students to increase awareness for wild tiger conservation! The calendar features only photography of yours truly throughout, and so in a sense it is like having a solo gallery show! As many conservation saavy individuals might already know, the tiger in the wild is one of the iconic symbols of endangered species worldwide, numerous organizations have been created to focus on increasing awareness on all of the tiger species worldwide and their precipitous decline towards extinction. All tiger species in the wild are endangered, some more severely than others. Several sub-species have already been lost. You can read more about the first of it’s kind “Tigers 4 Tigers” program started at the University of MIssouri by going here MizzouT4T The two images I I have posted in this message are the opening page of the inside of the calendar as well as the back page of the calendar that talks about me personally and my work. I ask that when you have time you visit the T4T page and read about the program, and if you feel so inclined offer a donation to either T4T, or any other conservation effort, globally or locally, because there is always more that needs to be done to preserve the beauty that exists in the world! Thank you all for listening to me, it is truly an honor to have been a part of this worthy project, and it is exactly the type of conservation effort that weds real on the ground work with the beauty of art that can help stem the tide of the rapid decline of magnificent creatures like the tiger in the wild! Mundy

• The Book of Spam
  by Mel Brackstone

  Ok…..I finally bit the bullet and went to lulu.com to publish my Book of Spam Feel free to v…

  Ok…..I finally bit the bullet and went to lulu.com to publish my Book of Spam Feel free to visit the site and have a look around, this is my first attempt at putting one of these together…...I’ve used shots you’ll all recognise from my Spam photos. I’ve only made it a 20 pager, so there’s a good chance a second edition will be forthcoming :) Ideal Christmas present, everyone!!!! hehe

• "emma" featured!
  by kellyjomitchell

  I am so excited that my portrait “emma” was just featured in the Portraits in Natural Light group! YIPPEE!!!!!!!! / Missing everyone…......

  I am so excited that my portrait “emma” was just featured in the Portraits in Natural Light group! YIPPEE!!!!!!!! / Missing everyone…...vacation is great but also looking forward to more time on RB!

• Lake
  by Vonnie Murfin

  !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/backgroundcolor:ffffff/framecolor:walnut/framestyle:box20/mattecolor:black/product:framed-print/si…

  Some of my friends and family like this picture. I am trying to decide which frame would look good with this picture. What do you think? I am just playing around with ideas. I don’t know yet if I am going with the frame or with something else. Just some ideas.

• Karin's Weekly~ISSUE TWO~
  by Karin Taylor

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  Sales This Week I have made a record 14 sales this week!! / Normally I would be very happy to make one or two, but i have been overwhelmed by the wonderful response to my art of late…. Thanks so much to the mystery buyers, Katja Klages, Janette Piggott and Helen Morovic for the following purchases! 1. Asia Blue TShirt / 2. Little Angel Tshirt / 3. Shy Kokeshi Doll TShirt / 4. Kokeshi Family TShirt / 5. Kokeshi Doll Autumn TShirt 6. Asia Blue Card / 7. Geisha GirlCard / 8. Lady of Asia Card / 9. Ladies of Asia Card / 10. Skater Girl Card / 11. Beach Bum Card / 12. Bosom Buddy Card / 13. Dving Divas / 14. Nancy, Patsy, Ellen & Red Dog Card The above sales are represented by the clickable thumbnails below: / / / / Featured Work This Week 1. Little Green Teapot in Art & Stories Made for Children from Karin Taylor Gallery / 2. Pinata Ponies TShirt in Art & Stories Made for Children from Migaloomagic Gallery / 3. Baby Blue Bird Club in Art & Stories Made for Children from Migaloomagic Gallery The above features are represented by the clickable thumbnails below: Shoes @ Zazzle Many of you are already as excited as I am about the new range of shoes at zazzle, i will also do another journal to showcase my shoes…as i’ve been very busy created over at zazzle! :D

• Parenthood
  by tuffcookie

  Is endurance, love, and loads of patience / sleepless nights, warm hugs, snuggles, exhaustion, and pure love ! :)

  Is endurance, love, and loads of patience / sleepless nights, warm hugs, snuggles, exhaustion, and pure love ! :)

• Fleas in the Basement
  by musicaficta

  And Other Renters’ Horrors Before I begin my piece, I want everyone to understand that out of the three dogs my family has owned in …

  And Other Renters’ Horrors Before I begin my piece, I want everyone to understand that out of the three dogs my family has owned in 26 years, not one of them has ever had fleas. Or ticks. Or worms. Or any other parasites. However, this really isn’t about dogs at all. That may be in another bit of writing. First, dearest reader, you need a bit of background. My family is renting a house for the summer while we are having a house built. We were fortunate that a co-worker (of sorts) of my mother’s decided that she wanted us to be tenants as she and her family were moving to Alabama. Her husband has not been terrifically pleased with the situation, because in the meantime they have been attempting to sell their house. To really get a good picture, the asking price $450,000 US. At the time I’m writing this that converts to: 49,313,249.59 Japanese yen, 494, 831.68 Australian dollars, 230,895.01 British pounds, 291,800.26 Euros, or 471,015 Canadian dollars, according to Yahoo’s currency converter. Personally, I think they are charging for the piece of property itself, because this two-decade house could never sell for that amount. Ok, ok the house itself isn’t really a bad house. I take that back. We’ll start with a tour from the basement up. As you may have gleaned, the basement has fleas. It is the only floor in the place with carpeting, so fortunately, they stay down there. Unfortunately, the main computer was “required” to be placed down there. I’m not entirely sure why; something about the cable network or whatnot. The basement also smells a bit and has really bad lighting. Obviously, the homeowners allowed their dogs to run rampant down there and judging by the stains on the carpet, well… Let’s move on to the kitchen. We had to scrub most of the cabinets and drawers when we moved in because no one had ever done it in the past. Actually, no one had ever cleaned anywhere in the past. You know what? Skip the pretenses of this being a “house tour,” it is time for a rant. The appliances are almost all the originals – we have to wash the dishes before putting them into the dishwasher. There are stains in the microwave that are never coming out. Heck, there are stains on the fairly new hard wood floors that are never coming out (we tried, trust me). The refrigerator was making odd noises and running constantly, so my father pulled it out to shop-vac behind it. The dust bunnies were more like the man-eating rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. And don’t even get me started on the water and plumbing. Too late! I have had well water that is actually very good, where I couldn’t even tell the difference between that and city water. Actually, that was during an Environmental Studies class where our teacher was having us taste-test water. We don’t even let our dog drink the tap water here. Coming out of the “filtered” fridge, it still tastes sulfuric. My bathroom smells like sulfur and rotting tobacco. After taking a shower, we can here the water in the pipes for a good 20 minutes or more. And the pipes and drains – we have had at least two drain back-ups from hair (not ours) and food (again, not ours). I don’t really know if Drain-O is septic tank friendly, but if it wasn’t, it is now. It really wouldn’t surprise me to walk outside one day and find the septic overflowed and busted. So what is my point? I just can’t imagine how people live like this especially when the price tag on the house is $450K! I admit to being an extremely messy person, but messy is one thing, filthy is quite another. It’s almost like the sort of thing you see on Cops. One thing is for certain: if the house is sold, these people have my family to thank for it.

• Back In Cali...
  by shannondonovan

  Back in Cali… Jet lag. It seems the older I get, the more pronounced that lovely little gift of travel gets. I am rather trounced to…

  Back in Cali… Jet lag. It seems the older I get, the more pronounced that lovely little gift of travel gets. I am rather trounced today to be honest. And the level of, or lack there of as it were, customer service in the airline industry, does not leave much to the imagination. Got in last night around 3:00 P.M…cough..cough..into Southern California, and was immediately astounded, while looking out the plane window, the layer of haze/pollution that laid over the valley. Not a pretty sight for sure. My trip home to Michigan was nothing less than miraculous. I had such a sweet and wonderful time with my family, and had the single most awesome photo shoot with Karl Denton. We worked on a few projects together and just had the best time together. I thank you my dear for breathing more memories into an already wonderful experience for me this year. And kjgordon, I really look forward to our collaboration too, with At The Feet Of Your Beaches! Should be a really wonderful experience that I will long remember as well. I also have lots and lots of personal photographs to share, as well as a few surprises in the days to come on here at RB. I promise to respond to all of your Bubblemails, comments, etc., in the days to come. For today, however, I’ve got kids (another new wee one on the way that I just I found out about over vacation…:-p), housework, unpacking, grocery shopping, furfaces, and all the other little nuances of my life to get caught up on. Me thinks I may take a nap or two as well.. Take care dear friends…talk soon. / Shannon / Um..you ever wake up in the middle of the night with a cramp in your foot?..just curious…

• Beautiful Poem by Sally Omar
  by amarica

  For those of you who love poetry, I would like to point you to Sally Omar’s latest poem she wrote “in These Arms.” She was inspired by…

  For those of you who love poetry, I would like to point you to Sally Omar’s latest poem she wrote “in These Arms.” She was inspired by one of my works called “With These Arms.” It is a beautiful poem and I think you will love it. By Sally Omar In These Arms

• New Zealand Calendars by Cathleen Tarawhiti
  by Cathleen Tarawhiti

  Updated with December/January 08 shots. This is for sale at AUS$30. !http://images-2.redbubble.com/img/calendars/page:0/product:calend…

  Updated with December/January 08 shots. This is for sale at AUS$30. /

• Another day, Another month, Another year!!
  by dairygirl08

  Well another year has flown passed, where has it gone, every year it seems to go quicker and quicker and so much is constantly changing a…

  Well another year has flown passed, where has it gone, every year it seems to go quicker and quicker and so much is constantly changing around me, and the world. / I am another year older today as some of you all ready know, / 31 years younger, so far it has been a lovely day with breakfast in bed with a lovely cuppa, lots of hugs and kisses and the wonderful pressie’s which my 4 year old nikkita insist she open for me. / I plan to relax today, have a lovely roast lamb dinner with all the family and catch up on RB. / gosh time flys, well here’s to a new beginning of another event full year of my life, oh well like they say life begins at 40, I wonder how true that is, another 9 years and I guess I will find out lol. A very big thank you to all of my RB friends that has wished me a happy birthday on jase8812’s journal that he put up at midnight for me. / hugs to you all

• magic & pickles
  by shawhouse

  When the holidays swing back into focus, they somehow miraculously manage to revive thoughts of peace, healing and miracles, and to unlea…

  When the holidays swing back into focus, they somehow miraculously manage to revive thoughts of peace, healing and miracles, and to unleash a host of comfy, demented annual rituals. Somewhere amid all that, I usually manage my own miracle, by carving out one splendid evening when the clamor has abated, the tootsies are warmed by dying embers in the fireplace and the insides warmed by a bottomless cup of nog – okay, glass of wine. That’s when old memories drop by without knocking, pull up a chair and get reacquainted. First among equals is a little miracle I witnessed as a kid, an annual rite of my childhood that featured a little lady, a little magic and a lot of pickles. Once upon a time, my mother’s kosher dills were, in short, renowned and coveted throughout the land. As an uncle used to say, these were not pickles, they were “something something.” They also were a nexus of mystery, an enigma wrapped in a pickle jar. They had a Secret Ingredient known only to my mother. And she wasn’t talking. They were deep, dark green and if you snapped one in half, it would crack like a bullwhip. My mother would “put up a lug” aka jam two or three boxes of cukes, plus pepper, plus spices, plus water, plus…...her Secret Ingredient into jars and seal them up. And everyone would wait. The longest three weeks on record. Not just the family – neighbors we never talked to the rest of the year, checking in,sucking up, “Hi, how ya doing….been so long. You don’t age!” Far flung relatives would make travel plans around pickle season – I swear – they’d make a pass through town for a jar – that is, to see my family… I learned years later that, long after I’d grown up, moved out, fled to LA, childhood friends of mine continued the annual pilgrimage to Mrs. Althouse’s dill pickle shrine. “Hi, how you doing? You’re looking sharp, Mrs. Althouse. Wow, those fingernail sure are red…..” Mind you, these were people who had stopped having any use for me years before. I couldn’t have picked them out of a lineup. My old man used to drink the brine. Wonder if that had something to do with the two heart attacks? When I was a kid I loved to get lost staring into the jars, watching them bubble. Not fizz, that meant a bad jar, a stinker. The occasional blump, blump, like an untended fishtank, meant something mysterious was going on in there, and it was good…. Come the big day, a small, anxious mob of insiders would gather in our kitchen, my mother would shake a few jars, hold them up to a window and give them the hairy eyeball test, for color and milkiness of the brine, I think. The old man always unscrewed the first jar. It took muscles, and a little body english, but after a few caustic grunts and sometimes well-placed whacks around the lid with the handle of a butter knife, we’d hear the familiar, ffff-wupp! Psssssssss, as the seal gave way, everyone exhaled and our entire kitchen filled with the singular bouquet of virgin kosher dills. My father dislodged the first pickle and took a bite, the vultures descended and two or three jars were empty in the blink of an eye. Needless to say, the great unwashed were already queuing up out front with freshly scrubbed faces and their hair in a curl, hoping for “just one jar.” “Hi, how ya doing, Mrs. A, I baked these and, naturally, thought of you, you look fabulous…..” I don’t think I ever saw my mother eat a pickle. She shared the Secret Ingredient only with my sister and my wife, and not until many years had passed since she’d put up her last lug and retired from the game. She seemed to enjoy the limelight and the compliments, but mostly she enjoyed keeping the Secret from my aunt, who also put up pickles. My aunt’s a perfectly nice lady, but there was an ongoing competition between those two. In the cutthroat pickling venue, at least, she wasn’t a sister-in-law, she was The Competition. My mother was Coke, My aunt, Pepsi. And to be perfectly honest, my aunt’s were lesser pickles. That’s about it – oh, the Secret Ingredient. Cocaine. Just kidding. Anything I wrote would be an anticlimax and it is, so here goes – sea salt. Sea salt? Sea salt…..at least that’s what my mother said. I think it was magic.

• ~*~read, think, decide and share~*~
  by midnightdreamer

  MWM: This long letter to humanity appeared with no apparent return address. It is being posted here and there. This is another Internet p…

  MWM: This long letter to humanity appeared with no apparent return address. It is being posted here and there. This is another Internet piece for which I cannot assess the validity. All I CAN say is that it sounds like a good idea, is coherent, and is written skillfully at a level of intelligence and maturity with I would associate with a serious, non-technical, matter-of-fact level of discourse. It is not ethnically loaded and the writer has a very good understanding of language and human psychology, though there are a few moments where the grammar is different than we are accustomed to and there are a couple of language errors. Most importantly, it makes no reference to impossible constructs, faux-tech, nor any type of religious or New Age buzzwords. This is as clean a straight-shooting letter, as you will find. Accordingly I am sending it to you to “vet” it and see what our Phoenix Five brain trust surmises about it. I am also sending it to you because it might be real. The main assertion in the letter is that human civilization is now in an uncontrollable free-fall implosion which cannot be “fixed” from within existing social systems. The implosion is causing, will cause a major rupture in all human orders. There is a dark road down toward the use of technology to rapidly enslave human populations in a badly degraded and unhealthy environment. Those who are defining this path, many of them unintentionally, have the greater advantage of power over resources and may gain the upper hand during the coming rupture. There are many who would take a liberating path, they could gain the upper hand if they UNDERSTAND THE CHOICE and can lose their fear, sense of isolation, and ignorance about the true state of affairs. The main proposition in the letter is that the mass appearance of ET in the skies now could help humanity clear away the veils of illusion and deceits, help settle many existential issues and dilemmas, and provide an “attractor” to help pull positive mentalities out of the social death-vortex and enable them to refocus the next stage in evolution. The main question in the letter is whether you want ET to thus show UP. ET suggests that direct contact and some cultural assistance would provide the means to overcome the major blocks in human social and cultural evolution. ET argues that the mental/emotional ground needs to be prepared for such contact. Consent and expectation for such contact needs to be created around the world, less humans react in mass with fear and become manipulated by reactive power elites. ET suggests that a focused telepathic answer from each reader will be sufficient to assist ET is reaching a conclusion about what it should or should not do. Even as the internet is achieving universal penetration during this time, ET requests that this letter, its first mass communication, be universally translated and transmitted throughout the world. ET also suggests that this should be done by people to people, forget the mass media. Here is the letter. Here it is unaltered by me. Decide for yourself. Mwm CHANGE THE WORLD! “DECIDE WHETHER WE SHOULD SHOW UP!” Whoever transmitted this translated message to you is irrelevant, and should remain anonymous in your mind. It is what you will do with this message which matters ! > Each one of you wishes to exercise her/his free will and experience happiness. These are attributes that were shown to us and to which we now have access. Your free will depends upon the knowledge you have of your own power. Your happiness depends upon the love that you give and receive. Like all conscious races at this stage of progress, you may feel isolated on your planet. This impression makes you sure of your destiny. Yet, you are at the brink of big upheavals that only a minority is aware of. It is not our responsibility to modify your future without you choosing it. Consider this message as a worldwide referendum! And your answer as a ballot! Who are we ? Neither your scientists nor your religious representatives speak unanimously about the unexplained celestial events that mankind has witnessed for thousands of years. To know the truth, one must face it without the filter of one´s beliefs, however respectable they may be. A growing number of anonymous researchers of yours are exploring new knowledge paths and are getting very close to reality. Today, your civilisation is flooded with an ocean of information of which only a tiny part, the less upsetting one, is notably diffused. What in your history seemed ridiculous or improbable has often become possible, then realised, in particular in the last fifty years. Be aware that the future will be even more surprising. You will discover the worst as well as the best. Like billions others in this galaxy, we are conscious creatures that some name “extra-terrestrials”, even though reality is subtler. There is no fundamental difference between you and us, save for the experience of certain stages of evolution. Like in any other organized structure, hierarchy exists in our internal relationships. Ours is based upon the wisdom of several races. It is with the approval of this hierarchy that we turn to you. Like most of you, we are in the quest of the Supreme Being. Therefore we are not gods or lesser gods but virtually your equals in the Cosmic Brotherhood. Physically, we are somewhat different from you but for most of us humanoid-shaped. Our existence is a reality but the majority of you does not perceive it yet. We are not mere observations, we are consciences just like you. You fail to apprehend us because we remain invisible to your senses and measure instruments most of the time. We wish to fill this void at this moment in your history. We made this collective decision but this is not enough. We need yours. Through this message, you become the decision-makers ! You personally. We have no human representative on Earth who could guide your decision. Why aren´t we visible? At certain stages of evolution, cosmic “humanities” discover new forms of science beyond the apparent control of matter. Structured dematerialisation and materialisation are part of them. This is what your humanity has reached in a few laboratories, in close collaboration with other extra-terrestrial creatures at the cost of hazardous compromises that remain purposely hidden from you by some of your representatives. Apart from the aerial or spatial objects or phenomena known about by your scientific community, that you call ´UFOs, there are essentially multidimensional manufactured spaceships that apply these capacities. Many human beings have been in visual, auditory, tactile or psychic contact with such ships, some of which are under occult powers that govern you. The scarcity of your observations is due to the outstanding advantages provided by the dematerialised state of these ships. By not witnessing them by yourself, you cannot believe in their existence. We fully understand this. The majority of these observations are made on an individual basis so as to touch the soul and not to modify any organised system. This is deliberate from the races that surround you but for very different reasons and results. For negative multidimensional beings that play a part in the exercise of power in the shadow of human oligarchy, discretion is motivated by their will to keep their existence and seizure unknown. For us, discretion is motivated by the respect of the human free will that people can exercise to manage their own affairs so that they can reach technical and spiritual maturity on their own. Humankind´s entrance into the family of galactic civilisations is greatly expected. We can appear in broad daylight and help you attain this union. We haven´t done it so far, as too few of you have genuinely desired it, because of ignorance, indifference or fear, and because the emergency of the situation did not justify it. Many of those who study our appearances count the lights in the night without lighting the way. Often they think in terms of objects when it is all about conscious beings. Who are you ? You are the offspring of many traditions that throughout time have been mutually enriched by each others´ contributions. The same applies to the races at the surface of the Earth. Your goal is to unite in the respect of these roots to accomplish a common project. The appearance of your cultures seems to keep you separated because you substitute it to your deeper being. Shape is now more important than the essence of your subtle nature. For the powers in place, this prevalence of the shape constitutes the ramparts against any form of jeopardy. You are being called on to overcome shape while still respecting it for its richness and beauty. Understanding the conscience of shape makes us love men in their diversity. Peace does not mean not making war, it consists in becoming what you are in reality: a same Fraternity. To understand this, the number of solutions within your reach are decreasing. One of them consists in contact with another race that would reflect the image of what you are in reality. What is your situation ? Except for rare occasions, our interventions always had very little incidence on your capacity to make collective and individual decisions about your own future. This is motivated by our knowledge of your deep psychological mechanisms. We reached the conclusion that freedom is built every day as a being becomes aware of himself and of his environment, getting progressively rid of constraints and inertias, whatever they may be. Despite the numerous, brave and willing human consciences, those inertias are artificially maintained for the profit of a growing centralising power Until recently, mankind lived a satisfying control of its decisions. But it is losing more and more the control of its own fate because of the growing use of advanced technologies, which lethal consequences on the earthly and human ecosystems become irreversible. You are slowly but surely losing your extraordinary capacity to make life desirable. Your resilience will artificially decrease, independently of your own will. Such technologies exist that affect your body as well as your mind. Such plans are on their way. This can change as long as you keep this creative power in you, even if it cohabits with the dark intentions of your potential lords. This is the reason why we remain invisible. This individual power is doomed to vanish should a collective reaction of great magnitude not happen. The period to come is that of rupture, whichever it may be. But should you wait for the last moment to find solutions? Should you anticipate or undergo pain ? Your history has never ceased to be marked by encounters between peoples who had to discover one another in conditions that were often conflictual. Conquests almost always happened to the detriment of others. Earth has now become a village where everyone knows everyone else but still conflicts persist and threats of all kinds get worse in duration and intensity. Although a Human being as an individual, yet having many potential capacities, cannot exercise them with dignity. This is the case for the biggest majority of you for reasons that are essentially geopolitical. There are several billion of you. The education of your children and your living conditions, as well as the conditions of numerous animals and much plant life are nevertheless under the thumb of a small number of your political, financial, military and religious representatives. Your thoughts and beliefs are modelled after partisan interests to turn you into slaves while at the same time giving you the feeling that you are in total control of your destiny, which in essence is the reality. But there is a long way between a wish and a fact when the true rules of the game at hand are unknown. This time, you are not the conqueror. Biasing information is a millenary strategy for human beings. Inducting thoughts, emotions or organisms that do not belong to you via ad hoc technologies is an even older a strategy. Wonderful opportunities of progress stand close to big subdual and destruction threats. These dangers and opportunities exist now. However, you can only perceive what is being shown to you. The end of natural resources is programmed whereas no long-term collective project has been launched. Ecosystem exhaustion mechanisms have exceeded irreversible limits. The scarcity of resources and their unfair distribution – resources which entry price will rise day after day – will bring about fratricide fights at a large scale, but also at the very heart of your cities and countrysides. Hatred grows bigger but so does love. That is what keeps you confident in your ability to find solutions. But the critical mass is insufficient and a sabotage work is cleverly being carried out. Human behaviours, formed from past habits and trainings, have such an inertia that this perspective leads you to a dead end. You entrust these problems to representatives, whose conscience of common well-being slowly fades away in front of corporatist interests, with those difficulties. They are always debating on the form but rarely on the content. Just at the moment of action, delays will accumulate to the point when you have to submit rather than choose. This is the reason why, more than ever in your history, your decisions of today will directly and significantly impact your survival of tomorrow. What event could radically modify this inertia that is typical of any civilisation? Where will a collective and unifying awareness come from, that will stop this blind rushing ahead? Tribes, populations and human nations have always encountered and interacted with one another. Faced with the threats weighing upon the human family, it is perhaps time that a greater interaction occurred. A great roller wave is on the verge of emerging. It mixes very positive but also very negative aspects. Who are the “third party”? There are two ways to establish a cosmic contact with another civilisation: via its standing representatives or directly with individuals without distinction. The first way entails fights of interests, the second way brings awareness. The first way was chosen by a group of races motivated by keeping mankind in slavery, thereby controlling Earth resources, the gene pool and human emotional energy. The second way was chosen by a group of races allied with the cause of the Spirit of service. We have, at our end, subscribed to this disinterested cause and introduced ourselves a few years ago to representatives of the human power who refused our outstretched hand on the pretext of incompatible interests with their strategic vision. That is why today individuals are to make this choice by themselves without any representative interfering. What we proposed in the past to those whom we believed were in a capacity to contribute to your happiness, we propose it now to … you! Most of you ignore that non-human creatures took part in the exercise of those centralising powers without them being neither suspected nor accessible to your senses. This is so true that they have almost very subtly taken control. They do not necessarily stand on your material plan, and that is precisely what could make them extremely efficient and frightening in the near future. However, be aware that a large number of your representatives are fighting this danger ! Be aware that not all abductions are made against you. It is difficult to recognize the truth ! How could you under such conditions exercise your free will when it is so much manipulated ? What are you really free of ? Peace and reunification of your peoples would be a first step toward the harmony with civilisations other than yours. That is precisely what those who manipulate you behind the scenes want to avoid at all cost because, by dividing, they reign! They also reign over those who govern you. Their strength comes from their capacity to distillate mistrust and fear into you. This considerably harms your very cosmic nature. This message would be of no interest if these manipulators´ tutorate did not reach its peak and if their misleading and murderous plans did not materialise in a few years from now. Their deadlines are close and mankind will undergo unprecedented torments for the next ten cycles. To defend yourselves against this aggression that bears no face, you need at least to have enough information that leads to the solution. As is also the case with humans, resistance exists amongst those dominant races. Here again, appearance will not be enough to tell the dominator from the ally. At your current state of psychism, it is extremely difficult for you to distinguish between them. In addition to your intuition, training will be necessary when the time has come. Being aware of the priceless value of free will, we are inviting you to an alternative. What can we offer ? We can offer you a more holistic vision of the universe and of life, constructive interactions, the experience of fair and fraternal relationships, liberating technical knowledge, eradiction of suffering, controlled exercise of individual powers, the access to new forms of energy and, finally, a better comprehension of consciousness. We cannot help you overcome your individual and collective fears, or bring you laws that you would not have chosen, work on your own selves, individual and collective effort to build the world you desire, the spirit of quest to new skies. What would we receive? Should you decide that such a contact takes place, we would rejoice over the safeguarding of fraternal equilibrium in this region of the universe, fruitful diplomatic exchanges, and the intense Joy of knowing that you are united to accomplish what you are capable of. The feeling of Joy is strongly sought in the universe for its energy is divine. What is the question we ask you “DO YOU WISH THAT WE SHOW UP?” How to can you answer this question? The truth of soul can be read by telepathy. You only need to clearly ask yourself this question and give your answer as clearly, on your own or in a group, as you wish. Being in the heart of a city or in the middle of a desert does not impact the efficiency of your answer, YES or NO, IMMEDIATELY AFTER ASKING THE QUESTION! Just do it as if you were speaking to yourself but thinking about the message. This is a universal question and these mere few words, put in their context, have a powerful meaning. You should not let hesitation in the way. This is why you should calmly think about it, in all conscience. In order to perfectly associate your answer with the question, it is recommended that you answer right after another reading of this message. Do not rush to answer. Breathe and let all the power of your own free will penetrate you. Be proud of what you are! The problems that you may have weaken you. Forget about them for a few minutes to be yourselves. Feel the force that springs up in you. You are in control of yourselves! A single thought, a single answer can drastically change your near future, in one way as in another. Your individual decision of asking in your inner self that we show up on your material plan and in broad daylight is precious and essential to us. Even though you can choose the way that best suits you, rituals are essentially useless. A sincere request made with your heart and your own will will always be perceived by those of us whom it is sent to. In your own private polling booth of your secret will, you will determine the future. What is the lever effect ? This decision should be made by the greatest number among you, even though it might seem like a minority. It is recommended to spread this message, in all envisageable fashions, in as many languages as possible, to those around you, whether or not they seem receptive to this new vision of the future. Do it using in a humorous tone or derision if that can help you. You can even openly and publicly make fun of it if it makes you feel more comfortable but do not be indifferent for at least you will have exercised your free will. Forget about the false prophets and the beliefs that have been transmitted to you about us. This request is one of the most intimate that can be asked to you. Making a decision by yourself, as an individual, is your right as well as your responsibility ! Passivity only leads to the absence of freedom. Similarly, indecision is never efficient. If you really want to cling to your beliefs, which is something that we understand, then say NO. If you do not know what to choose, do not say YES because of mere curiosity. This is not a show, this is real daily life, WE ARE ALIVE ! And living ! Your history has plenty of episodes when determined men and women were able to influence the thread of events in spite of their small number. Just like a small number is enough to take temporal power on Earth and influence the future of the majority, a small number of you can radically change your fate as an answer to the impotence in face of so much inertia and hurdles ! You can ease the mankind´s birth to Brotherhood. One of your thinkers once said: “Give me a hand-hold and I´ll raise the Earth”. Spreading this message will then be the hand-hold to strengthen, we will be the light-years long lever, you will be the craftsmen to … raise the Earth as a consequence of our appearance. What would be the consequences of a positive decision ? For us, the immediate consequence of a collective favourable decision would be the materialisation of many ships, in your sky and on Earth. For you, the direct effect would be the rapid abandoning of many certitudes and beliefs. A simple conclusive visual contact would have huge repercussions on your future. Much knowledge would be modified forever. The organisation of your societies would be deeply upheaved for ever, in all fields of activity. Power would become individual because you would see for yourself that we are living. Concretely, you would change the scale of your values! The most important thing for us is that humankind would form a single family in front of this “unknown” we would represent ! Danger would slowly melt away from your homes because you would indirectly force the undesirable ones, those we name the “third party”, to show up and vanish. You would all bear the same name and share the same roots: Mankind ! Later on, peaceful and respectful exchanges would be thus possible if such is your wish. For now, he who is hungry cannot smile, he who is fearful cannot welcome us. We are sad to see men, women and children suffering to such a degree in their flesh and in their hearts when they bear such an inner light. This light can be your future. Our relationships could be progressive. Several stages of several years or decades would occur: demonstrative appearance of our ships, physical appearance beside human beings, collaboration in your technical and spiritual evolution, discovery of parts of the galaxy. Every time, new choices would be offered to you. You would then decide by yourself to cross new stages if you think it necessary to your external and inner well-being. No interference would be decided upon unilaterally. We would leave as soon as you would collectively wish that we do. Depending upon the speed to spread the message across the world, several weeks, or even several months will be necessary before our “great appearance”, if such is the decision made by the majority of those who will have used their capacity to choose, and if this message receives the necessary support. The main difference between your daily prayers to entities of a strictly spiritual nature and your current decision is extremely simple : we are technically equipped to materialise! Why such a historical dilemma ? We know that “foreigners” are considered as enemies as long as they embody the “unknown”. In a first stage, the emotion that our appearance will generate will strengthen your relationships on a worldwide scale. How could you know whether our arrival is the consequence of your collective choice ? For the simple reason that we would have otherwise been already there for a long time at your level of existence! If we are not there yet, it is because you have not made such a decision explicitly. Some among you might think that we would make you believe in a deliberate choice of yours so as to legitimate our arrival, though this would not be true. What interest would we have to openly offer you what you haven´t got any access to yet, for the benefit of the greatest number of you? How could you be certain that this is not yet another subtle manoeuvre of the “third party” to better enslave you ? Because one always more efficiently fights something that is identified than the contrary. Isn´t the terrorism that corrodes you a blatant example ? Whatever, you are the sole judge in your own heart and soul ! Whatever your choice, it would be respectable and respected! In the absence of human representatives who could potentially seduce into error you ignore everything about us as well as from about those who manipulate you without your consent. In your situation, the precationary principle that consists in not trying to discover us does no longer prevail. You are already in the Pandora´s box that the “third party” has created around you. Whatever your decision may be you will have to get out of it. In the face of such a dilemma, one ignorance against another, you need to ask your intuition. Do you want to see us with your own eyes, or simply believe what your thinkers say ? That is the real question! After thousands of years, one day, this choice was going to be inevitable: choosing between two unknowns. Why spread such a message among yourselves? Translate and spread this message widely. This action will affect your future in an irreversible and historical way at the scale of milleniums, otherwise, it will postpone a new opportunity to choose to several years later, at least one generation, if it can survive. Not choosing stands for undergoing other people´s choice. Not informing others stands for running the risk of obtaining a result that is contrary to one´s expectations. Remaining indifferent means giving up one´s free will. It is all about your future. It is all about your evolution. It is possible that this invitation does not receive your collective assent and that, because of a lack of information, it will be disregarded. Nevertheless no individual desire goes unheeded in the universe. Imagine our arrival tomorrow. Thousands of ships. A unique cultural shock in today´s mankind´s history. It will then be too late to regret about not making a choice and spreading the message because this discovery will be irreversible. We do insist that you do not rush into it, but do think about it ! And decide ! The big medias will not be necessarily interested in spreading this message. It is therefore your task, as an anonymous yet an extraordinary thinking and loving being, to transmit it. You are still the architects of your own fate… “DO YOU WISH THAT WE SHOW UP?” MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH AND IN SPACE I made my decision, make yours…even if you think this is the stupidest thing you have ever read, send it off as a joke….I dont care, just share it….. source~ / http://raenergy.igc.org/ETtoEarth.html

• I'M BACK!!
  by Steven Novak

  Holy moley green guacamole things have been busy lately! Lots of work and lots of family stuff has made it a wee bit difficult to get …

  Holy moley green guacamole things have been busy lately! Lots of work and lots of family stuff has made it a wee bit difficult to get around to putting up any work or commenting on anyones work, or even singing into Redbubble lately. Add all of that to the fact that I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping and you’ve got a recipe for disaster more annoying than a weekend long marathon of Ben Affleck movies. (Which, as you might imagine is AMAZINGLY annoying!) Anyway, hopefully I’m entering a bit of a downspell and hopefully that’ll mean throwing something up on here more often. Hopefully. I don’t like making promises, so we’ll just stick with hopefully. Hopefully is good. Hopefully leaves the door open for failure, and since failure is a very real possibility at this point I think I’m making the right choice in leaving it open. While I was away I sold a couple shirts (many thanks to whomever bought those) and fellow Bubbler ROBIN MONROE who is a beck of a talented painter, bought a card featuring my SAILING THROUGH HOKUSAI art. Thanks Robin and I hope you like it. Before I wrap this up, my wife has been snapping some pictures of me early in the morning and we think that we’ve discovered the reason I’m not getting any sleep. The stupid cats seem to think my head is their bed. (Don’t give me any guff on the black and white stripped quilt. I’ve had it since I was a kid, it’s ugly as sin, it needs to be thrown away, I’ve heard it all from my wife more than once. I’ll tell you the same thing I tell her…it’s not going anywhere. That’s right, I’m a thirty year old Linus. Deal with it.) Steve! /

• Just A Quick hello!
  by dairygirl08

  Just wanted to say to you all I am sorry about not being on as late and will catch up with all of your new works, art, writing as soon as…

  Just wanted to say to you all I am sorry about not being on as late and will catch up with all of your new works, art, writing as soon as I can but it may take a bit as I am so far behind with it and still not 100% with my chest infection. / all the kids are much better and are doing fine, my eldest had her 13th birthday last week and in 3 weeks it is my 3 year old 4th birthday, lol, never ending. / I am very happy to say my business RYOP IMAGES now has a website, not the best but a it is a website and it is a start to let people know about us, there is a map on it to show where we are and I have linked my photography business with other business, such as live bands, recording studios, wedding and party planners and lots, more, I have another photographer on the cost and also these businesses are linked with not only businesses in NSW but in Qld as well so we are slowly expanding Any way thank you all for your well wishes and lovely kind thoughts and words they are much appreciate, I hope you and your family’s are all well. / as soon as I am much better I will be adding my new work also my website is now linked to Rb as well so when my customers look at my work they will hopefully take a browse through and check out your amazing work as well. / hugs / Anne-Marie

• Limiting!!
  by Darren Sharp

  Hi guys and gals well yep i’m back but i’m limiting my time on the bubble as i have been way to absorbed in it over the past 6 mths so ap…

  Hi guys and gals well yep i’m back but i’m limiting my time on the bubble as i have been way to absorbed in it over the past 6 mths so apologies in advance if i miss your work. / As alot of you know i have a young family and i need to spend more quality time with them instead of getting square eyes and sitting on my arse. / I will still be here but probably only a couple of hours a day ok!!!

• New Arrival!
  by Maria Dryfhout

  The world stopped spinning this morning at 9:28AM, and my new grandson got on. He weighed in at 7lbs 13oz….Caleb Wade! This is my f…

  The world stopped spinning this morning at 9:28AM, and my new grandson got on. He weighed in at 7lbs 13oz….Caleb Wade! This is my first grandson. I am thrilled for my daughter and husband as well as the rest of our family! I just needed to share my joyful news with you…

• The Loss of a Friend
  by Patricia L. Ballard

  My best non-human friend died yesterday. In his youth, Toto was 10lbs of little black energy. He was our magic dog. One of the cutest dog…

  My best non-human friend died yesterday. In his youth, Toto was 10lbs of little black energy. He was our magic dog. One of the cutest dogs to ever live. He looked like Gizmo the gremlin had married Yoda and produced offspring. What breeds were in Toto’s genetics became a party game at our house for years. The closest we could get was Papillion/Poodle cross. Not your usual stray in Albuquerque, but his ears were so large that he looked like he could hang glide on a windy day. His groomers would always say that if they knew what he was, they could sell 100 of him everyday. We had just moved into our new house in Albuquerque about 3 months before he showed up. Having promised our 3 year old daughter a dog after the move, we were dragging out feet about dog hunting. She was holding out for a black lab. Great dogs, but not what we wanted for our first dip into dog ownership. Very early one morning my husband heard a noise in our back yard. Being a bit groggy, he said “I think there’s a big black rat in the backyard!” Later as he left for work (I was still asleep. He goes to work really early.), he said “There’s the cutest little black dog in the yard. If you see him, you’re going to want to keep him.” It was love at first site. He was a matted, shaggy, dirty mess. We looked for his owners for about 1 day. We were all in love by then, even our daughter. She took one look at him and said, “I want this dog. He’s better.” There was a bit of a skirmish over the name. Leslie wanted to call him Rachel. I wanted James as a tribute to James Herriott. My husband suggested Toto as a compromise. Not much of one since I’m from Kansas, and “The Wizard of Oz” is my favorite book. We’ve added and lost other dogs and a few cats over the years, but Toto endured. We would have had him 19 years this April. He was living with us in our home longer than our daughter did. She can barely remember a time before Toto. I know that he wasn’t exactly cut down in his prime, but the loss is devastating. We’re not exactly out of pets either as we still have 2 other dogs and 3 cats at home, but Toto was one of a kind. I called my daughter yesterday morning and left a message on her cell phone. She knew it was important as I rarely call her during the day. She checked the message in French class and burst into tears. Her French teacher and the girl who sits next to her in class both asked at once if she was canceling class and work to be at home with us. Not necessary, but I bless both of those people for their sensitivity.

• My Life
  by dairygirl08

  Well just wanted to update people and share some good news for me. / The person whom beat me and caused me to be in a wheelchair is finall…

  Well just wanted to update people and share some good news for me. / The person whom beat me and caused me to be in a wheelchair is finally getting charged for what he done, not just charged for one thing but the police women said for a long list of things which are all to do with what he did to me, how he attacked me. / I am happy about that, a bit relieved but it does not make what this man did to me go away or the bad dreams that come with it!!. / soon he will have to go to court, there once more I will have to face this man but will be protected by the Police, I can not wait till this night mare is over, we go to the doctors tomorrow for an update on how I am going with things and healing. / Thank goodness that I have such wonderful supportive family and friends, my photography and oh yes lets not forget all you wonderful kind hearted and very talented people on Rb that have been there for me as well. I will keep you posted on the out come of all of this and keep using Rb and my photography for my therapy because it is helping so much to not think about it. Hugs to you all and Take care. / Dairygirl

• Batch 02, March 2008
  by Stephen Mitchell

  ^Made available for the benefit of friends and family who always want to know what’s available, without going through the box’s! _This ba…

  Made available for the benefit of friends and family who always want to know what’s available, without going through the box’s! This batch should arrive around March 30 . CARDS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , PRE-ORDERS , , , , / All artwork is copyright© to Stephen Mitchell, All Rights Reserved. / You may not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify this image without my express consent.

• want to share my joy!
  by trickyruby

  wanted to share something that has made me so happy this week! / A best friend i was with at school had to move for personal family reason…

  wanted to share something that has made me so happy this week! / A best friend i was with at school had to move for personal family reasons when i was 16 – im 31 now, i missed her like crazy but couldnt get in touch as i didnt know where she had moved to (because of the family problems). As the years went by i often thought of her and wondered where she was but gave up hope of ever seeing her again. / well this week we found each other on myspace!! how brilliant after 17 years apart we finally are in touch again. We have spoke every day and i cant wait to go and visit her, we have a lot of catching up to do. / I found out she had tried to get in touch with me too over the years but as i have moved a lot she didnt know where i was either. / A happy ending and lots of exciting future to look forward too.

• Fa's Latest Happenings!!
  by frozenfa

  Hey everyone!! just wanna write a quick sorry notice!! i’ve been very inactive on RB for awhile eh? been inactive on Zazzle too.. eheh.. ...

  Hey everyone!! just wanna write a quick sorry notice!! i’ve been very inactive on RB for awhile eh? been inactive on Zazzle too.. eheh.. Sorry sorry.. n_n” am actually currently busy with my website, as you might have seen here ... It’s actually, sorta almost done.. just left a write up on Tim, since i do see a few people asking who’s Tim. hehe.. am also supposed to touch up the programming for the enquiry page.. and do 3 more banners.. and all must be done before 08.08.08…. YEAP!! Will officially launch my webbie on 08.08.08!!! Bwahahahaha…. You can call me a sucker for lucky number.. i can’t help it.. This is the year of the Rat, according to the lunar calendar, and yours truly, happens to be born exactly 12yrs ago, on the year of Rat.. XD the number 8 (ba) is known by the chinese as a lucky number as its pronunciation is similar to the word Fortune. fa in mandarin can mean richness.. AND guess what?! all my relatives and family calls me papa.. ehehe.. weird eh? my pet name was supposed to be fafa, but it somehow turns into papa.. so yea! i get uncles and grandaunties calling me papa… OO” papa… baba… fafa… O_o” And so i really hope to officially launch my webbie on the 8th Aug!! XD / oh shoot, that’s this friday… ARGH!!!! and can’t wait to finish my current project.. i just took up a short-deadline freelance proj, to create an interactive platform for a kiosk featuring Disney’s Wall.E!! i don’t know whether to smile or frown… i love being able to watch all the high res trailers and playing the games, but i hate actionscripting!!! OO” the project is due tomorrow, sorta.. i guess i’ll still be able to finish my webbie on time.. Oh, will take a videoclip of the platform later if possible and share with you guys!! =D Last and most importantly, so so sorry to everyone whose work i haven’t view or comment or fav!!! so so sorry.. i haven’t been able to come over to RB easily these days with this proj.. Hopefully i can be active online once again and catch up on everyone once this Wall-E proj is done and my webbie launched.. =D Hugs to everyone!! MISS YOU ALL!!! / fa

• A journey back to my homeland
  by Caroline Gorka

  Well… if anyone remembers, my Dad has been very ill…and now comes the time I have to return back to England for a visit…..where I w…

  Well… if anyone remembers, my Dad has been very ill…and now comes the time I have to return back to England for a visit…..where I was raised, and was my former home. / It is a time of mixed emotions ….it will be a time to see my family there.. but I guess, the last time I will see my Dad. I also have ‘practical’ things to sort out while there…so 2 headspaces will be needed… the emotional, and the nurse/organiser. I found out the need last night when my Mum broke down on the phone …and so I’ll be going back in about a week…the only thing stopping me is the fact I need to get my Passport. / I’m not feeling that I am going ‘home’ – home is where my heart is…and that is Melbourne …and despite it all….I know that I will be looking forward to returning back….an emotional rollercoaster I think is heading my way.

• What I Can Do To Repay Others
  by Suni Pruett

  Ok….in order to explain my reasoning…I have to give you a little bit of background info….sorry for all those of you who use metric …

  Ok….in order to explain my reasoning…I have to give you a little bit of background info….sorry for all those of you who use metric measurements etc…I am not so good at those…I am used to inches…etc… please bear with me and please dont give up reading this journal entry..I fear that it will be long..but I actually have a point with all my ramblings this time.. Well….it is getting close to The holidays and Christmas time…and along with that also comes my daughters’ birthdays.. The twins will be three this year…but it was not so very long ago that I was very worried about them…I had a hard time carrying them ..and seeing as I am five feet tall flat…I had no where left to carry two babies past a certain point….so needless to say the pregnancy was complicated. I kept trying to go into labor and it generally wasnt healthy for the babies nor myself..nor was it fun in the least ( I had contractions for approximately two weeks straight and they kept stopping my labor…but it didnt work) ... And sure enough I delivered them when they were 31 1/2 weeks gestation…which is 8 1/2 weeks early… so both girls obviously had to stay in the neonatal unit until they were stable and ready to come home… Thankfully both girls were big for their age (4 lbs 1oz and the other 4 lbs 4 ozs) and they were healthy..so they were not in critical condition. They were not dependant upon respirators, although they did need a nose tube for extra oxygen in the beginning, as well as they were in incubators for the first week they were here…and they looked so little and frail with all the wires and iv’s…And the hospital co-bedded my girls since they were identical twins..they thought that this would help the girls grow and thrive more quickly… Well it did..and sure enough…one twin was released after 9 days and the other was released after 11 days… and finally we were ready to come home… My point to this..is that during the whole time when the girls were in the hospital…I stayed at a Ronald Mc Donald House…..which is a place for families of children and loved ones in the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. The Ronald Mc Donald House gave me and my family not only a place to stay near the hospital, food, and other necessities…but they also have Thanksgiving dinners, give Christmas presents to those guests who are at the house throughout the holidays, and they had a carriage ride for the children to enjoy…... Basically it is a foundation that tries to make a what is a very stressful, terrifying, vulnerable and emotional time into a very memorable one, where you feel comfortable and loved and that you are not alone during some very difficult times. The volunteers are dedicated to help each family as much as they can. The Ronald Mc Donald houses are charity based and provide a huge service to each and every child and family that they help… And….To try to repay the help that they gave to me and my family…This year for every card or any other work that is sold until Christmas.. I will donate all the proceeds to the Ronald McDonald house..so that they can further help children and families in need.. If you would like to read about this charity… try here I hope that linked worked… Sorry this was so long!! / Suni