Oh...oh...I've been thinking of this for quite a while now...waiting until we lift those champagne glasses... to start my new year of promises to myself. This usually lasts about 2 weeks, but I'm trying for an all time high of 365 days...Here goes:
1) Watch your mouth...don't let any unkind things pass your lips (this is most difficult, especially when I've spent the better part of my life putting one foot in my mouth while extracting the other.)
2) DO ART!!! (this means no more procrastinating...do SOMETHING artistic every day, even if it is to cut pictures out of a magazine and put them in your art journal...SOMETHING!!!!!
3) Meditate Regularly (what happened to the Zen monk who for 30 plus years spent each day meditating for at least two hours? Wait...I just found her...hiding behind her stack of books.)
4) Watch your mouth!! especially in school where the kids push you to the limit.
5) WRITE!!! there is no excuse...just get some words on paper every day, even if they are crap!
6) Finish your book Out of the Cauldron so you can submit it for publication (sometime before 2016, I hope)
7) Watch what you say!!
8) Practice loving kindness every moment of every day!
9) See your cup half full instead of half empty!
10) WRITE Poems again!!
Well, I guess that is enough...too much and I'll forget everything before the day is out.
Happy New Year!!
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Monday, October 6, 2014
Speaking of DNA and the science of our bodies...Don't miss the latest documentary (link below) on cannabis as a basic cure-all for a plethora of dreaded diseases that humans are subject to.
This is an intelligent documentary which explains how our bodies make use of the cannabis that is already in our brains, to heal our bodies and how, due to the toxins, etc of our modern way of life, the level of natural cannabis has declined tremendously. The movie also talks to doctors and researchers who are doing incredible research in the healing effects of this natural drug and shows how pharma companies are setting up manufacturing plants (all under the radar) to grow thousands of the cannabis plants themselves, in the hope of selling it, in various forms, in the future.
Let me be clear, that I was never a druggie...always had a stigma against recreational drugs like pot...was horrified if I heard of any people in my family or friends, who used it regularly...so I was really profoundly influenced after seeing this movie. IF, the claims of scientists and doctors are true, this could be the most important medical discovery since aspirin and penicillin! And it's natural to our planet....if you get my meaning.
Link: Please Watch This: Very Important
This is an intelligent documentary which explains how our bodies make use of the cannabis that is already in our brains, to heal our bodies and how, due to the toxins, etc of our modern way of life, the level of natural cannabis has declined tremendously. The movie also talks to doctors and researchers who are doing incredible research in the healing effects of this natural drug and shows how pharma companies are setting up manufacturing plants (all under the radar) to grow thousands of the cannabis plants themselves, in the hope of selling it, in various forms, in the future.
Let me be clear, that I was never a druggie...always had a stigma against recreational drugs like pot...was horrified if I heard of any people in my family or friends, who used it regularly...so I was really profoundly influenced after seeing this movie. IF, the claims of scientists and doctors are true, this could be the most important medical discovery since aspirin and penicillin! And it's natural to our planet....if you get my meaning.
Link: Please Watch This: Very Important
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Another Romanov Tidbit
DNA Testing Lays Romanov Murder Mystery to Rest
Bodies found near rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family identified
as 2 missing children
March 11, 2009 US
WEDNESDAY,
March 11 (HealthDay News) -- An enduring mystery has been laid to rest with the
DNA identification of the bodies of two children of the last Tsar of Russia.
The
bones of the siblings, Tsarevich Alexei and a sister, were discovered in a
grave outside Yekaterinburg in 2007. The remains of their father, Tsar Nicholas
II, the Tsarina Alexandra and their three other daughters were found in 1991
about 70 meters away and were subsequently identified.
"The
DNA evidence is strong, but if you if you look at the entire evidence, it's
very convincing that this was, in fact, the Romanovs," said Michael Coble,
lead author of a study published in the March 11 online issue ofPLoS One and research section chief of the
Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory.
Other
evidence included three silver amalgam fillings on the crowns of two molars which
undoubtedly belonged to an aristocrat.
The
U.S. researchers worked with
the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian
Federation
"In
many ways, it's not unlike a lot of missing person and unidentified cases where
we have no bodies," said study co-author Anthony B. Falsetti, a forensic
anthropologist with the University of Florida in Gainesville
Over
the years, skeptics have argued that the remains had not definitively been
identified as those of the ill-fated Romanovs.
The
Tsar, his entire family and four staff members were killed by a Bolshevik
firing squad early on the morning of July 17, 1918.
Apparently,
the executioners had attempted to destroy the bodies of Alexei and his sister
(either Maria or Anastasia).
"The
historical record is that when the Bolsheviks were disposing of the bodies,
they took two of the remains and tried to cremate them to try to get rid of all
of the evidence. They did a test [on the recently discovered two bodies] to see
how it worked, and it didn't work that well. It took them all night," said
Coble. "It takes a very high temperature to cremate a body, and when
you're out in the woods, you don't necessarily get that kind of heat. The
executioner had actually brought in an expert on cremation, but apparently, the
guy broke his leg. It was a ridiculous sequence of events."
The
end result was that these two bodies were buried in one grave and the rest of
the bodies in another, a fact that had fueled speculation that two of the
children had managed to elude the bullets and escape.
Based
on DNA technology available in the 1990s, the first five bodies were positively
identified as the Tsar, the Tsarina and three of their children.
The
second set yielded 44 bone fragments and teeth which were subjected to three
types of genetic testing: mitochondrial DNA, autosomal STR and Y-STR testing.
The
mitochondrial tests (mitochondria are passed through the mother) confirmed that
the bodies were children of the Tsarina. Confirmation was done with a living
maternal relative, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
The
autosomal STR test was basically a paternity test, Coble said, revealing that
the newer remains are 4.3 trillion times more likely to be related to the Tsar
and Tsarina than two random individuals. Skeletal remains from the three
daughters found in the first grave also matched up.
"It's
as strong as evidence you're going to find as far as nuclear DNA goes,"
Coble said.
The
Y-STR testing, done only on the remains of Alexei, matched the STR profile of
the Tsar and also a living relative, Prince Andrew Romanov, a cousin of the
Tsar.
The
STR and Y-STR findings were confirmed by testing blood on a shirt that Nicholas
had worn on a trip to Japan Hermitage Museum
The
results were confirmed, reconfirmed and confirmed again by independent labs.
One
mystery remains however: the identity of the daughter found in the later grave.
Russian forensic anthropologists have insisted and continue to insist that it
is Maria. American experts assert it is Anastasia.
"For
about 80 years, no one knew the real truth of where the bodies were taken, and
you always had the romantic mythology of Anastasia, the youngest daughter, who
was beautiful and adored and able to survive, because she charmed her captors
into letting her go," said Coble. "Since 1918, over 200 different
people have claimed to be one of the children. This truly now ends the case.
You can no longer say, 'You never found the two children.' "
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