I remember Christmas once..
Its like a mystical dream of significance..
ending well with Christmas lunch.

My family was my kids ..
I never had any other..
and now there is emptiness,
And I do miss them.. but I'm hearing you...
You would all do this better than me as well!
I'm good at sleeplessness and the tickle back caress.
I don't wanna look back on the twisted mess
And today, I get even less address,
Just like any other day y'all try to placate n say!
But heckers..
Lets see you do this play and hold the leading role...
Pull it off the same
...... and hang on to your precious soul.

This is my my three children I grew in my belly and this image was back at Christmas 2004.  
This is just before the world started to go and finally went completely crazy. 
Matilda Sunshine (13) is on the left
Montana Star (8)  is on Santa's Lap
My son Jesse David (16) on Santa's right.  
My Christmas wish for this year is simply to have "Understanding".

Montana's Christmas wish was slightly more creative: 

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Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more." ,,,,,, Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)

Christmas 2011

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Image - A Christmas window in Jersey.  Via Facebook.

Throw your arms open wide and imagine all the sweet honey of the Universe dripping all over you. Bask in the love.

Me feeling the love in my own lounge room with Montana happily snapping away with the camera.

Image by Montana.- Mary

Who is this that appears like the dawn ... It is the full moon sitting on top of the humble hills hoist.

Who is this that appears like the dawn, 

fair as the moon, 

bright as the sun, 

majestic as the stars in procession?       

Song of Solomon 6:10 NIV 

The full moon Approach to the Hierarchy: 

"He who faces the light and stands within its radiance is blinded to the issues of the world of men; he passes on the Lighted Way to the great Center of Absorption. But he who feels the urge to pass that way, yet loves his brother on the darkened path, revolves upon the pedestal of light and turns the other way.

"He faces towards the dark, and then the seven points of light within himself transmit the outward streaming light, and lo! the face of those upon the darkened way receives that light. For them the way is not so dark. Behind the warriors--twixt the light and dark--blazes the light of Hierarchy."

Image by MezzA - Cloths Line in the moon

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”

~ Dolores Ibarruri ~

My Portuguese National Camouflage Pants compliments of the Chan's

Go outside with bare feet on grass or dirt. Breathe in the fecundity of the Earth and feel your connection to this planet. Let the energy fill you. Ground out.  Take in the charge from the Earth.

Image by Mezza - My feet getting connected on the beach.

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. . . . Norman Cook

A magpie will only defend its nest within a ‘defense zone’. For pedestrians, this is usually an area within 100 meters of the nest but can be much larger for cyclists.
Almost all swoops on people are carried out by male magpies defending their eggs and chicks, which are in the nest for about six weeks from mid-August to the end of September.
Funny how Magpies are like people.
Image by Mezza ... Magpie at Hungry Head

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?” - Marceline Desbordes

A picture collage of the Brennan's and Company.

Heading off on a road trip with Dom last weekend was nothing short of an amazing surprise.  I turned up in Mt Druitt and right next to the suburb Brice my partners big brother and his family all live. I met Brice's brother and his wife Karen and all of the kids.  That is most certainly the way to do things.  Jump straight in.  You see it must have meant to be as we were staying at Dom's sister's house and I did not know which suburb this was. No one was more surprised than I was.  What a lovely road trip that was.

Images by Kel and Karen's children mainly

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. - E E Cummings 1955

I am so proud of you .. .. You are your 'own person' fully.  Keep on fighting the good fight, always... and never stop believing in yourself.  I believe in you.  I know what its like first hand to have no-one believe in  you.  It is a dark place and leaves a person scarred and embattled.   You have your own ten foot angels on either side of you too.  I had forgotten about mine until I was so beautifully reminded of their presence again yesterday by an Earth angel.  Talk to your angels as I will talk to mine.  The battle is spiritual.  I am fully aware of it as well.    I love you always Montana-Star. xx  love mumma

Image edited by Mezza - Montana 2012

Eminem is Eminem. NWA is NWA. There's two different things there. For example, let's take the first track on Em's album, "I'll Kill You": that's custom made for him. It wouldn't work for Snoop. These two things don't mesh at all. Niggaz Wit' Attitudes could not have Eminem in the group. The Public would fking lose it.

Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on the 17th October 1972, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Son of a fifteen-year-old mother at the time of his birth and a father who left six month later never to return, Marshall spent his early childhood being shoved back and forth from Kansas City and Detroit. He settled on the Eastside of Detroit when he was 12. Switching schools every two to three months made it difficult to make friends, graduate and to stay out of trouble.
Being a rap fan for most of his life, Marshall began rapping at the early age of 4. Rhyming words together, battling schoolmates in the lunchroom brought joy to what was otherwise a painful existence. At the age of 14, he began to get very serious about his rapping but it wasn't until he was 17 that he actually made a name for himself, becoming M& M, which he would later respell as "Eminem".
Being rejected by most fellow rappers because of his race, Marshall grew an anger that flows through his music to this day. After failing the 9th grade for three times in a row, he quit school, but remarks that he doesn't consider himself stupid and doesn't advise that people should follow his example. He says that it just wasn't for him. Forcing himself on radio shows, freestyle battles, Marshall threw himself head first into the rap game, where he was swallowed up most of the time.
His very first album was titled "Infinite" and, while the album sold less than a thousand copies, it was the gearing up stages for the rapper who became a millionaire. It was then that his daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, was born on December 25th of 1995 with long time girlfriend Kim Scott.
Having nothing to lose at all, flat broke and not knowing where he would be living the next week, Marshall set out to rant about life in general, the set quickly caught the ear of hip-hop's difficult-to-please underground. What came out of this was the Slim Shady EP, the early work for the later Dr. Dre revised Slim Shady LP.
Down to nearly his last dime, he went into the 1997 Rap Olympics in Los Angeles, basically hoping to win the $1,500 cash price which he badly needed. After battling for an hour and throwing back every race diss thrown at him, Marshall made it to second place losing in a slip up. Furious that he had lost, Marshall didn't even notice that he had been spotted.
In the crowd were a few producers from Interscope, and they were handed a copy of the "Infinite" tape by way of a demo. Dr. Dre got to hear it and eventually tracked him down. The two instantly hit it off, recording four songs in the their first six hours of working - three which made it to his first LP. 
After the album was finished, Dr. Dre asked Marshall to come work with him on his new album. He helped produce several tracks and was on the best songs of the album. Now officially making it, Marshall and Dre set to make his second LP. The album became the Marshall Mathers LP and won 3 Grammies and was the first rap album ever to be nominated "Album of the Year", selling more than 8 million records in the United States alone.
He also stunned critics when he shot down all homophobic remarks by performing "Stan" with Elton John. Currently working on his third LP, Em has made a movie, 8 Mile (2002), and has gone back and brought his friend with him; D-12. Though 2001 was a rough year for the rapper, being charged with weapon offenses, divorcing his wife, and almost going to prison, Marshall explains his life today in one word....  Better!

You should never buy a lottery ticket without an aventurine in your left pocket. Lady Luck will be in your left pocket. This is the stone of opportunity.

My Green Rock.

It has long been said that the universe provides perfectly and once again when I was in need of help outside of man and was asking God for help, just look at what he sent me this rock.  A rock to heal the heart.  Thank you for this gift from the universe once again.

Aventurine Healing Properties

♥ Creativity ♥ Imagination ♥ Independence ♥ Prosperity ♥ Calmness ♥ Career success ♥ Balance ♥ Heals circulation ♥ Heals congestion

Aventurine is a form of Quartz.
Chakras - Heart Chakra
Zodiac - Aries, Leo
Typical colours - Green, but may also be orange, brown, yellow, blue or grey
Aventurine is a stone of prosperity.  It reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness.  Promotes compassion and empathy.  Encourages perseverance.  Aventurine relieves stammers and severe neuroses.  It stabilises one’s state of mind, stimulates perception and enhances creativity.  Aids in seeing alternatives and possibilities.  Calms anger and irritation.  Promotes feelings of well-being.  Aventurine balances male-female energy.  It encourages regeneration of the heart.  Protects against environmental pollution.
Aventurine benefits the thymus gland and nervous system.  It balances blood pressure and stimulates the metabolism, lowering cholesterol.  Aventurine has an anti-inflammatory effect and eases skin eruptions, allergies, migraines, and soothes the eyes.  It heals lungs, sinuses, heart, muscular and urogenital systems.
In addition to the generic healing properties of Aventurine, specific colours have additional attributes:
Green Aventurine
Chakras - Heart Chakra
Typical colours - Green
Green Aventurine is a comforter and heart healer.  It neutralises all sources of electromagnetic pollution, blocking out emanations from computers, television and other electronic equipment.  Green Aventurine settles nausea and dissolves negative emotions and thoughts.  It brings well-being and emotional calm.  A good all-round healer.

Image - My Adventurine huge rock.

A love wish ...

What a glow, Oh, what a glow.  What a hue, what a brilliance like no other. Breath taking!
Image - Low Tide at Urunga at Dawn 2011