Someone started my morning off in a very blessed way today by purchasing ‘Love Never Dies’ card!!! Thank you so very much…I so apprec…
Someone started my morning off in a very blessed way today by purchasing ‘Love Never Dies’ card!!! Thank you so very much…I so appreciate it and send with it many blessings to you….. peace, / jan
I am so elated that i just sold my very first print on redbubble!!! :-) (Divine Messenger) Sincere thanks to you, Jaybe…..you hav…
I am so elated that i just sold my very first print on redbubble!!! :-) (Divine Messenger) Sincere thanks to you, Jaybe…..you have made my day…..again….I hope you enjoy the print….. Many blessings to you, / jan
I received this in email today and my heart wants to share it with whomever chooses to take a few minutes to read it. It touched my very…
I received this in email today and my heart wants to share it with whomever chooses to take a few minutes to read it. It touched my very soul…. ‘It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth. It was a dry season that would bankrupt several farmers before it was through. Every day, my husband and his brothers would go about the arduous process of trying to get water to the fields. Lately this process had involved taking a truck to the local water rendering plant and filling it up with water. But severe rationing had cut everyone off. If we didn’t see some rain soon…we would lose everything. It was on this day that I learned the true lesson of sharing and witnessed the only miracle I have seen with my own eyes. I was in the kitchen making lunch for my husband and his brothers when I saw my / Six-year-old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. He wasn’t walking with the usual carefree abandon of a youth but with a serious purpose. I could only see his back. He was obviously walking with a great effort … trying to be as still as possible. Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house. I went back to making sandwiches; thinking that whatever task he had been doing was completed. Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purposeful stride toward the woods. This activity went on for an hour: walking carefully to the woods, running back to the house. Finally I couldn’t take it any longer and I crept out of the house and followed him on his journey (being very careful not to be seen…as he was obviously doing important work and didn’t need his Mommy checking up on him). He was cupping both hands in front of him as he walked, being very careful not to spill the water he held in them … maybe two or three tablespoons were held in his tiny hands. I sneaked close as he went into the woods. Branches and thorns slapped his little face, but he did not try to avoid them. He had a much higher purpose. As I leaned in to spy on him, I saw the most amazing site. Several large deer loomed in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. I almost screamed for him to get away. A huge buck with elaborate antlers was dangerously close. But the buck did not threaten him…he didn’t even move as Billy knelt down. And I saw a tiny fawn lying on the ground; obviously suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion, lift its head with great effort to lap up the water cupped in my beautiful boy’s hand. When the water was gone, Billy jumped up to run back to the house and I hid behind a tree. I followed him back to the house to a spigot to which we had shut off the water. Billy opened it all the way up and a small trickle began to creep out. He knelt there, letting the drip, drip slowly fill up his makeshift “cup,” as the sun beat down on his little back. And it came clear to me: The trouble he had gotten into for playing with the hose the week before. The lecture he had received about the importance of not wasting water. The reason he didn’t ask me to help him. It took almost twenty minutes for the drops to fill his hands. When he stood up and began the trek back, I was there in front of him. His little eyes just filled with tears. “I’m not wasting,” was all he said. As he began his walk, I joined him…with a small pot of water from the kitchen. I let him tend to the fawn. I stayed away. It was his job. I stood on the edge of the woods watching the most beautiful heart I have ever known working so hard to save another life. As the tears that rolled down my face began to hit the ground, other drops…and more drops…and more suddenly joined them. I looked up at the sky. It was as if God, himself, was weeping with pride. Some will probably say that this was all just a huge coincidence. Those miracles don’t really exist. That it was bound to rain sometime. And I can’t argue with that… I’m not going to try. All I can say is that the rain that came that day saved our farm…just like the actions of one little boy saved another. I don’t know if anyone will read this…but I had to send it out. To honor the memory of my beautiful Billy, who was taken from me much too soon… But not before showing me the true face of God, in a little, sunburned body.’ Thank you to passionup.com
A great big Thank You to the buyer of my card, ‘Flying Again’!!! I so appreciate it and hope you are very happy with it!!! I apologize …
A great big Thank You to the buyer of my card, ‘Flying Again’!!! I so appreciate it and hope you are very happy with it!!! I apologize for the delay in posting this, as I was gone from my computer all day yesterday…..thank you for honoring my art this way….. Many Blessings to You, / Jan
A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to the buyer of my ‘Leading With Your Heart’ card!!! I am honored that you chose this one and thank you from the b…
A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to the buyer of my ‘Leading With Your Heart’ card!!! I am honored that you chose this one and thank you from the bottom of my heart! I am in Texas at the moment on vacation, but just checked in for a minute this morning and this news made my day!!! Many Blessings to you, / Jan
Thanks so much to the Extremely Positive Group for featuring my ‘Joy! Tee’!!!! What a nice surprise to check in from my vacation and see…
Thanks so much to the Extremely Positive Group for featuring my ‘Joy! Tee’!!!! What a nice surprise to check in from my vacation and see this!!! I am very grateful and especially happy about this, as this group is very dear to me! Many thanks, Chris & Keeli!!! Blessings, / Jan
Many Thanks to my friend Mar Silva / who purchased my ‘Dare’ card….. Thank you from th…
Many Thanks to my friend Mar Silva / who purchased my ‘Dare’ card….. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Mar…..you are a true friend and always so supportive of my art. I appreciate that more than words can say…. May you be blessed by this card, my friend…..and may all your dreams come true!!! Namaste, / Jan
I got on here this morning to see that I have sold a ‘Live and Help Live’ tee to my friend, Shilohlin...
I got on here this morning to see that I have sold a ‘Live and Help Live’ tee to my friend, Shilohlin!!! What a wonderful surprise, as I just created that design a couple of days ago!!! Thank you, dear friend…..may you enjoy this tee and spread the message wherever you go! I appreciate you!!! Namaste, / Jan
Wow!!! While I slept, some wonderful unknown buyer purchased 6 of my cards!!! Whoever you may be, just know that you have blessed me in…
Wow!!! While I slept, some wonderful unknown buyer purchased 6 of my cards!!! Whoever you may be, just know that you have blessed me in a huge way…..just to know that you enjoy my art this much means more than words can say….what a way to start my day!!! Thank you from my heart…. May you be Blessed, / Jan I sold 1 of these: / 3 of these: / 1 of these: / and 1 of these: /
Many thanks to the Stillness Speaks Group’ for featuring ‘My Vision’!!!...
Many thanks to the Stillness Speaks Group’ for featuring ‘My Vision’!!! This one is very dear to me, so I am truly honored that you chose it as a featured piece….. In gratitude, / Jan
I have been honored by coppertrees as she has chosen one of my recent photos to paint in Ch…
I have been honored by coppertrees as she has chosen one of my recent photos to paint in Chinese wrinkle art style….. It is awesome to see this amazing work-check it out-and see her other fantastic art! Up There? Thank you so very much, coppertrees….you have uplifted my spirit today! Blessings, / Jan
hello, my friends and rb family….. / just checking in to let you know why i have not been around much and you haven’t seen many comments…
hello, my friends and rb family….. / just checking in to let you know why i have not been around much and you haven’t seen many comments from me in the last few days….. i am in the process of setting up a gallery at zazzle…..branching out…..it is a work in progress and i am still learning about it all….i have only just begun there to upload designs and to get a feel for it….it is quite time consuming and has most of my time & attention at present…. so….please know that i am with you in spirit and will return…..just trying my hand at new doors out there….. my zazzle blessings to you all, / jan
At some point while I was away from the computer, some kind soul has blessed me with a purchase of ‘Happy Hiking Tee’!!! What a beautifu…
At some point while I was away from the computer, some kind soul has blessed me with a purchase of ‘Happy Hiking Tee’!!! What a beautiful way to begin my day…..thank you so very much, whoever you may be…..you have made my day! I am honored that you chose one of my tees out of all the amazing ones here on RB!!! Blessings, / Jan
I am so blessed to have Spiritinme as my friend…. Cynthia…...I did this piece with th…
I am so blessed to have Spiritinme as my friend…. Cynthia…...I did this piece with the intention of cheering you up, and I feel so honored that you liked it enough to buy it! May you be always blessed by its presence and its message, my friend. It was created with much love…..thank you from the heart….. Namaste, my friend, / Jan
I have been away from the computer much of this week, and when I check in this morning, I see that I sold 2 ‘HeartLights’ cards yesterda…
I have been away from the computer much of this week, and when I check in this morning, I see that I sold 2 ‘HeartLights’ cards yesterday! What a wonderful surprise to start this day!!! I am truly honored and so very grateful for this sale…..Many thanks to the buyer, whoever you may be…..may you be blessed and may you enjoy the cards to the max! Blessings, / Jan
What a nice surprise this morning to find that my ‘Help Yourself Tee’ is being featured by the Fabulous T’s Group....
What a nice surprise this morning to find that my ‘Help Yourself Tee’ is being featured by the Fabulous T’s Group I feel blessed to be a part of this awesome group, as I have always been a t-shirt fan, and it is soooo cool to be featured among the many wonderful t-shirt artists in the group! A big ‘thank you’ to the group hosts for this!!! Blessings, / Jan
I got on here a few minutes ago to see that my friend, Susan Bergstrom has purchased my …
I got on here a few minutes ago to see that my friend, Susan Bergstrom has purchased my ‘Blessed Holidays’ card which i posted yesterday….I consider this quite an honor, since I have such high regard for Susan as an artist and human being. Thank you from my heart for this, Susan….and may your holidays and all your days be blessed….. Namaste, / Jan
I have just joined a fun new group, Just Rainbows and they have chosen ‘Rainbow Dreams’ ...
I have just joined a fun new group, Just Rainbows and they have chosen ‘Rainbow Dreams’ as a feature! How cool is that? I love the idea of this group, as I love color so much and now will be inspired to do more art with rainbows!!! :-) Thank You so much to the group hosts for featuring my art!!! I truly appreciate it!!! Blessings, / Jan /
Many Thanks to my friend mikrin for purchasing ‘Take My Breath Away’!!! Mike is such an amazing…
Many Thanks to my friend mikrin for purchasing ‘Take My Breath Away’!!! Mike is such an amazing photographer, so to have him purchase one of my photos means so much… I am truly honored, Mike, and so grateful. May you be blessed always….. WIth much gratitude, / Jan
Thank you from my heart to the group hosts of the Spirit of the Native American Group...
Thank you from my heart to the group hosts of the Spirit of the Native American Group for featuring ‘Autumn Miracle’!!! It is a special piece for me, honoring my elk friends here in Colorado, and such an honor to have it featured in this awesome group!!! I deeply appreciate it…. / Jan
I am so honored to have ‘Dohiyi’ featured by the Spirit of the Native American Group...
I am so honored to have ‘Dohiyi’ featured by the Spirit of the Native American Group This piece was created to honor the Cherokee Nation and to inspire Peace among all nations, as we are really ALL ONE nation! Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the group hosts for the feature and for honoring and remembering the Trail of Tears. I am proud to be part of this group. DOHIYI, / Jan
i showed my art this past sunday at a community open house for my friend’s massage therapy business….it was an interesting day…i conn…
i showed my art this past sunday at a community open house for my friend’s massage therapy business….it was an interesting day…i connected with several new people and made some real heart connections….and…i heard some amazing life stories….one in particular has stuck with me and it feels like it is meant to be shared….i will tell it as best i can in my own words to honor the persons involved…. a woman shared with me that she is a breast cancer survivor…when she was sick, her mother was 92 and not doing that well, so she never told her about the cancer. one day her mother asked her, ‘do you think there is really a heaven?’....the woman replied, ‘yes i do….you have been teaching me that all my life!!!’ (apparently the mother was very religious) the woman then said to her mother….’why don’t you just come back and tell me when you get there?’ and the mother asked her, ‘do you really think i can do that?’ ‘yes i do’, was the woman’s reply. on the day the woman went in to have her mastectomy, her mother was not doing well at all, but nothing was said to the woman about it. when she came out of surgery and woke up, her husband was white as a sheet, and told her, ‘your mother died.’ she smiled and said, ‘i already know that.’ while in surgery, she had seen her mother dancing with her father, who had passed in the 70’s, and her mother had said to her….’there is a heaven, it’s wonderful over here, and you will be just fine, little one’......(the woman was the youngest of 5 children). and later, a family member told the woman that on the day her mother died, as she was in and out of consciousness, she rubbed her left breast and tears streamed down her face…..it was the daughter’s left breast that was cancerous…... the woman told me that this whole situation was the greatest gift of her life….. how many of us would say that about having breast cancer & going through chemo and mastectomy surgery? it was such a heartwarming story and another reminder to me that in this life, we always have a choice as to how we see the journey and the so-called ‘obstacles’ we encounter…..we can choose to see ourselves as victims…..or, like this woman, we can see the bigger picture and know that all is well, everything is for a purpose, and know that all of life is a gift and a blessing….. thank you so very much to this beautiful woman, whose name i do not even know, for touching my life in such a profound way and for expanding my awareness that perception really is everything.
I just realized that I have recently sold a matted print of ‘Divine Messenger’!!! Wow!!! Thank you so very much to the buyer, whoev…
I just realized that I have recently sold a matted print of ‘Divine Messenger’!!! Wow!!! Thank you so very much to the buyer, whoever you are…..I am honored…..I so appreciate it and apologize for being so late in expressing my gratitude…. Many Blessings, / Jan
The following article in our local paper last week exemplifies what is going on here in our town and I imagine other places as well….hu…
The following article in our local paper last week exemplifies what is going on here in our town and I imagine other places as well….humans behaving in an unconscious manner with sickening results….. / I am feeling so angry right now and so frustrated with the human race….my heart is aching and I just needed to vent and to share this, for what it’s worth…..it’s a long read, I know, but maybe some of you will take a few minutes of your time and will feel this and maybe, just maybe, it will create some further awareness…. Unchanging Human Habits Pull the Trigger on Unlucky Bear / The price of human food costly to bears / By Juley Harvey Trail-Gazette / Posted: 08/05/2009 02:19:58 PM MDT There`s a reason, it turns out, that wildlife officials tell you not to feed the bears/wildlife. It corrupts the animals, and then wildlife officers must intervene and destroy what they have signed up to protect. The chain of events leaves a lot to be desired. But it can be easily changed. / District Wildlife Manager Rick Spowart of the Colorado Division of Wildlife just came from a killing last Friday, and brought the bear carcass with him to the Trail-Gazette. It`s not a happy bearskin rug. A picture may get the grim point across, he said. There are consequences to everything—even something as simple or good-hearted as feeding the hummingbirds. When bears are about, they pay the consequences for intractable human behavior. Division of Wildlife officer Rick Spowart examines a euthanized bear on Friday. The 4-year-old female had become habituated to breaking in to homes, as well as bird feeders and garbage bins. ( Walt Hester )Spowart is not a happy camper. He had to kill (not euthanize, not put down, but kill) a healthy adult female bear that was about three to four years old, in the vicinity of the YMCA of the Rockies, for just being a bear among humans. The bear is gone forever, taking one piece of the wilderness with her. It`s simple, really—spare the bear and secure the food. Food kills. Bears are attracted by human food and garbage—humans are culpable in their death. Wildlife officials ask why not be positive, guard our garbage and keep the bears alive? Maybe you`re thinking it will never happen to you—colliding with a bear. But it will surely happen to the bear, and it won`t be a happy ending. Just listen to Spowart, he has many sad tales. A week ago, a bear broke into a cabin in which there was a two-year-old child. “The bear wasn`t looking at the child as a food item. This one was after human food, but it was a danger and the people were upset,” Spowart said. “This bear wasn`t afraid of people.” The bear had a big, white mark on its chest that made it easy to identify. Wildlife officials tried to give the bear a negative human experience, before the ultimate one. They don`t relocate bears because the bears find their way back or just cause problems in other locales once they`ve caught onto the idea of feeding from our freezers and shelves. “There`s no place to take the bears,” Spowart said. “We`ve trapped them and moved them to Wyoming. They came back to Pinewood Springs. It`s a hard sell to take them to another area…. It`s a no-win situation. If you move them, you have to tag them and try to move them as far away from town as possible, moving the problem to somebody else, where they will probably cause damage or injury. This is the end result of feeding.” There are several bears in town this year. A little gingerbread bear is now in the crosshairs. The little bear has traveled Moraine and entered houses on Aspen, by the hospital and in the general vicinity of Laura`s Fudge shop. He`s been up and down main street. Spowart has approached town officials about the problem and about providing bear-resistant garbage cans. The town needs to start cleaning up its own garbage, he said. The shop owners need to ask the town to better manage the garbage. Raccoons have been getting into it, as well as the bears. Spowart said wildlife officials have had to shoot some raccoons with distemper. “We euthanize raccoons every week,” he said. “They get into the garbage and spread the disease, right downtown.” The town council should consider bear-resistant garbage cans. There is a regulation requiring mitigation of garbage and different options are available. “Once a bear`s had a good meal at your house, he`ll come back. Take away the attractions,” he said. He suggested using bear pepper spray and air horns to signal the bears are not welcome. “It`s in the best interest of the bear,” he said. “I`m the guy that gets stuck with pulling the trigger and killing the bears…. It made me feel terrible and frustrated. This is going on all over the state. It`s a shame. If people would do a better job of coexisting, we wouldn`t have to kill the bears. Once a bear starts down this road….” The little gingerbread bear in town is on his last legs, a “hair`s breath away” from the bad end of a gun. “I`m almost for sure going to have to trap him,” Spowart said. “We`re trying to turn around behavior, but people just are not getting it. I`m frustrated. The bears graduate from garbage to bird feeders to houses. They`re trained by people.” Leaving a bear any opportunity is dangerous. An open garage door invites him in. Spowart said he`s known bears to knock holes in garage doors, if they smell food. “It`s best to be proactive,” he said, “and not have any attractants. Don`t leave windows and doors open…. Bears are getting trained to enter houses. They`re rewarded. They become corrupt. They go house to house. You can`t expect people to live with their houses being broken into. I had no choice (but to kill this bear).... This bear would continue its behavior. “We have to educate people to coexist with bears, to manage their garbage and pet food,” he said. He told of one bear who jumped into a kennel to get pet food. Anything that smells good in a car is also at risk. Bears seem particularly attracted to vanilla air freshener in cars. They break into bathrooms because of “good-smelling toiletries,” he said. The unfortunate bear last week had broken into at least nine homes or cabins and created a mess in one place, after a dinner of pizza, watermelon and peaches. “It`s easier than foraging in the forest,” he said. However, fast food is death on a stick. Spowart said the bear killed last week could`ve been in better shape and you could feel the ribs on her. A Y employee reported the same bear broke into a house last year. She had broken into several places in recent weeks, emptying refrigerators. He and Bear Aware volunteer Jim Boyd (who works at the Y) treed the bear 50 to 60 feet up a blue spruce Friday morning. “I darted it,” Spowart said. “It fell asleep in the tree. We lowered it to the ground with ropes.” Then, he shot the bear. “I don`t feel good about it,” he said. “I didn`t sign up to kill…. You can`t blame the bear.” However, he was under pressure to remove the bear. Spowart gave the Y and Boyd credit for obtaining bear-resistant garbage cans. However, the more that people “don`t get it,” the more frustrated he becomes. “I`m the one that pulls the trigger,” he said. “They`re (people) the cause of it. Some people feed the animals intentionally, to get pictures.” He has a photo of a man with a can of pork and beans held out to a bear, who has his nose in the can. “I gave him a ticket and had to kill the bear,” Spowart said. There are at least five bears currently foraging in town. “One big male has been pushing over dumpsters,” he said. “There`s the little gingerbread bear a hair`s breath away from euthanizing, a sow and two cubs and another sow and a cub.” They have been seen from the Catholic Church to the hospital to Davis Hill. They`re spending a whole lot of time in downtown Estes, he said. “It`s a pretty bad year for bears,” Spowart said. “It`s really discouraging. We`ve had a nice, wet summer. There`s natural bear food out. I`m hopeful that when the chokecherries ripen, they`ll switch to natural food, and with negative conditioning from humans, they`ll go back to being honest bears.” Spowart also hopes to turn the people around. The same people are causing the problem repeatedly and we “need to clean up our back yard,” he said. “Wherever there are people, there are bears,” he said.
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