Hi, Olga, I don't mind shopping, but it's the crazy L.A. traffic that tries one's patience. And, it's chilly all around Los Angeles. Keep up the inspiring work!

Deb, don't let the snow get you down, at least you'll have a "White Christmas"! Get out that old Bing Crosby rendition of the classic yuletide diddy.

Joe, I don't drink a lot of coffee, mostly iced green tea most of the day. If I do, I like to "doctor" it up with a sweetener and some flavored cream. What's your favorite coffee brand? Give it an endorsement here, maybe they'll pay you as few extra bucks! lol 

Christian, I'm with you, my life is clicking now, too. You're right, 2012 won't be the "gloom and doom" so many are predicting. I think we can "dodge" any crisis by staying focused and positive on our goals. As I've said before, fear and doubt are our real enemies.

Off to Sacramento in moments ... yet another stop on this year's exposition circuit.  I'm starting off with a Starbuck's stop ... to set the tone.

Hello All!

Today is a rain and snow storm in Southern CA. Its normal for Los Angeles area at winter time. Good to enjoy be warm, stay at home with a Christmas tree and a purring cat. Some days just meat to be lazy. Lately I've been working on something always, non-stop. Now is time to recharge the batteries. Wish everybody Wonderful Holiday Cheers!  

Yesterday was a busy day for me, and today appears to be shaping up similarly.  I'm headed off in a bit for a hair cut.   

things are looking pretty nice around here (this site) ... all decked out for the holidays.  nice job.

I have been doing online study on personal spiritual growth. Activating Light body, connecting within. In everyday life this is very important for me to stay focus, so the other people negativity wont suppress my thoughts. Metaphysically speaking our thoughts reflecting on bio-magnetic fields on the Earth. Each thought counts towards our future.  

Hello All!

This is really cool snowflakes on homepage. It is bring the Holiday Spirit. Thank you!

Season Greetings to everybody! :)

I am looking at things upside down (see facebook page) and as a result, I conceptualized a rewrite of the three objects in a way that the first could become the third (I'm presenting the idea and not the exact wording).

1. Conduct investigations into hidden laws of nature and powers latent in man and see the resulting discoveries through to the publication stage, working to ground our labors by incorporating them into the world's literature with a special emphasis on the literature found in religion, science, and philosophy.

2. Use both ancient and modern literature, (religion, philosophy, and science foremost) in ways that will result in peaceful resolution of differences among peoples and nations on earth.

3. To become the human being that can best express the outpicturing of the girasas kingdom through our human forms, encouraging a brotherhood between humans and girasas.

Weather gray outside. Candles  and incense held bring the right atmosphere for the meditation. 

Wish everyone to have a blessed day! :) + -

Happy Holidays!

Lately I am tending to spend more time meditating.that ever before. Feels like my mind and body need it. Dreams giving some clues and answers, help  untangle puzzle , puzzles of my life. It is very interesting , get to know own consciousness..

Visit my website: www.zhibit.org/grafixgirlive for a new art gallery and article "Ancient Lands. Ural." I start that subject "Ansient Lands
 and planning to continute this story about a lands, less known to the world places, but not less precious and iconic. 

Thank you :)

Cookin' & listenin' to "White Christmas Radio" on Pandora.   Wishing everyone here the Joy of the Season, and a very Merry Yule, and Happy Christmas!

hahahaha I'm feeling happier every day hahahaha meditation is blissful :-)  the BiG Hug Day is comin' hahahaha

Drinking coffee out of my halloween mug and eating christmas sugar cookies shaped like stars and stockings for breakfast. Finishing up a 9 hour lecture by manly hall about astrotheology. wishing i had super-cool magic powers like in the movies.

Hey, Wadjet, that sounds fun!  Also sounds like my post-holiday breakfasts!  LOL  Is the Hall lecture on Youtube? 

oh doodoo!- i missed you.  yep< only an hour and a half left to go!

I have been phoned by a speaker to give a talk on "The Key to the Mysteries" 

I have just received a CD from Ted Capstick on the Seventh Ray

I got a book for Christmas - Married to Bhutan and I spent a large portion of yesterday and last night reading it and thoroughly enjoying it.  It's written by a woman who is originally from Nashville, TN, but who traveled there and just fell in love with the place.  She returned there to teach English, and eventually married a Bhutanese man. 

Beyond that, the sun is out, it's not bitterly cold today, so I will try to spend some time outside today.

Religion in Crisis?

http://religionincrisis.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/is-religion-a-huma...

Dont panic 2012 is not the end!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080941/Mayan-calendar-Dece...

Hello Everyone. Happy New Year!

Wishes of Peace, Love and Light.

Hi Jon!

Here is a picture for our site collage. December 2010. Moment Awakening.

I've been serving the one true master today, my computer.  It's fascinating how many hoops it can make me jump through.

Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano. Tongariro National Park - NewZealand

Restaurant on a cliff on the east coast of Zanzibar. Depending on the tide the restaurant can be reached both on foot and by boat.

Office of Selgas Cano in Madrid

Desert with Phacelia (Scorpion Weed). Flowering once in several years.

Balloons in Cappadocia.

Dubai. The view from the skyscraper BurjKhalifa. The height of buildings is 828 m (163 floors).

These trees grow in the forest near Gryfino, Poland. The cause of the curvature is unknown

In the resort town of Skagen you can watch an amazing natural phenomenon. This city is the northernmost point of Denmark, where the Baltic and North Seas meet. The two opposing tides inthis place can not merge because they have different densities.

In the Chinese province of Shandong is a bridge across the Gulf of Jiaozhou. The bridge length over 36 km is calculated for eight car lanes, and is the longest sea bridge in the world.

This statue, created by Bruno Catalano, is located in France

This is a unique geological phenomenon known as Danxia landform. These phenomena can be observed in several places in China. This example is located in Zhangye, Province of Gansu. The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.

ps:  looks like you've found the perfect cream shade to match the blue.  Your site is looking very inviting.

Those are some AWESOME pictures!  Really nice.

Interesting website done by one of our members http://frateraiu.weebly.com/

Art , Hermetic , Kabalah

Here is a pic I photoshoped of me with blonde hair a couple of years ago..

Here is a pic a took of my lake and yard..and photoshopped it..

Wow!  That's really beautiful and magical looking.  Very neat!

Lazy rainy Sunday here.  Shared a nice bottle of wine and a pizza and watched a movie from the mid-90s last night, Then and Now, with my son's girlfriend at our "girls' night in", and talked about God, religion, psychology and counseling, and Esoterics.  Very enjoyable evening. 

So, Joe, was your co-worker interested in Theosophy? 

I heard about the remembrance celebration for her on the radio.  I'm so glad that she has been able to recover as well as she has.  I know that her road has not been an easy one.

Well hello y'all!
I have been sitting out in my garage all day..I have it set up like a living room in the winter,because I am a smoker..and I don't smoke in my house..I have carpet,comfy chairs,a couple of electric heaters to keep it warm out here..I've been messing around on my computer..chatting with Deb..messing around with photos,seeing what kind of goody's I can come up with while photoshopping. Of course I have also been playing with my dog Fez..making him do tricks for treats..lol! ;) Its been a good day so far..I have about gotten over my stomach icky stuff...Mc Donalds and Ice Cream do not mix well with me..I hate that too..cause I love m some Ice Cream!! now..if my TMJ would just go away..I'd be perfect! or as good as I need to be anyway..I'm not really complaining though..I have a good life that I am happy to have...I hope all is well with all of you fine people! :)
PS..get well soon Joe!

Namaste!  I have an alarm set for 07:30 every day as "Time to get up and celebrate the day!"  Sometimes I get up sooner, then, or later.  This morning I got up about 06:10.  Last night I had set out all the ingredients to make tapioca pudding, devil's food cupcakes and divinity frosting.  First I made Scottish Oatmeal and coffee with turmeric and a dash of white pepper.  Then I brewed a quart of Symfre tea I had ordered to cure a lingering cold.  I took my blood pressure medicines at noon.  I take an assortment of nutritional supplements four times a day and eat good healthful food constantly all day.  All that  took up my whole day with a TV news channel in the background and an occasional show chosen by the man I rent from when he got home from work.  I am retired.  It's his TV, kitchen and home and mostly my equipment and groceries.  I went outside only to empty a kitchen trash can.  I made Scottish Oatmeal and coffee for tomorrow morning.  Then I cleaned up everything. Now it is 22:30.  I am in bed for the night, on the computer, reading and listening to recordings.  I night get up to move stuff around or look for something until time to celebrate tomorrow.  There will still be cupcakes and tapioca.

Hmmm....  coffee with tumeric and a dash of white pepper ...  ?!?!?!?!  Sounds very interesting!  Not something I would have thought of off the top of my head, but then I'm a purist mostly when it comes to coffee.  Black, no sugar, no cream, no favorings.  But now I will have to try this!

Wow! Looks like I missed yesterday here altogether.  I did chat with Capt. Anand Kumar and I posted on Reading Lists.  I did make tapioca and cupcakes with divinity icing--- enough for tomorrow too. I never heard of anyone else adding turmeric and white pepper to coffee.  That's my idea.  I suggested it to my cousin.  It surprised me when she wrote that she actually tried it.  She said it was a bit grainy toward the bottom of the cup, but good.  I must write her that I add the spices to the ground coffee in the filter.  I did know someone who added cayenne to coffee in the cup.  I do that too sometimes.  Turmeric is said to prevent and even cure Alzheimer's disease.  Pepper is added to turmeric in some supplements to help release the active factor.  Black pepper or cayenne would probably be as good or better than white pepper. I had white pepper handy the first time I added turmeric to coffee.  I liked it so I use it about every day now with about 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric..  The cupcakes were pretty dry and stiff.  I will add baking powder next time.  The recipe called for soda instead... mighta baked them too long...will try again.  The divinity frosting was a little thin at first.  It's OK now.  I want a cupcake right now, but it's 3:30 in the morning.  I will wait until I get up.  I'm not going to church today. I have a lingering cold.  Last time I went to church I walked home two miles in a light rain . . . shoulda called a neighbor for a ride. . . will next time.  There is coffee at church.  Suffis too.  Muslims might be banned from alcohol but I have had some strong Yeni Raki, one of the most loved and consumed beverages of Turkey, with Moslem friends.  Everyone is banned from barbiturates with alcohol.  That could kill ya.  Turkish coffee is made with cardamon in small long handled pots.  I had Armenian Coffee in Los Angeles that was served with abour 1/3 cup of ground coffee.  A spoon would literally stand straight up in it. . . took me three days to finish it.  Woah!  it's 4 AM now.  I'm gonna sleep a while...

I'm taking down the Christmas tree today, putting away the ornaments.  Yes, I know what you're thinking....   So sue me!  LOL   We just like the way it looks are are loathe to take it down, so we are always mid-January getting it down and put away. 

Interesting tidbits about coffee.  Thanks for the clarification on the tumeric, etc.  I have added cinnamon and fresh orange peel to the grounds, then later added milk and sugar to the whole pot and served it that way.  I got the recipe out of a Bed and Breakfast cookbook I have.  It's called Viennese Orange coffee.  It also calls for brandy extract, but I didn't have any at the time so I left it out.  Was good and everybody loved it, even us black coffee drinkers.  Makes a nice change once in a while, especially in cold weather and as an alternative to hot chocolate.  The trick is to make the coffee really strong to hold up to the milk.

I like tumeric and often just add it, along with cayenne pepper, to a lot of stuff I cook, vegetables, and rice dishes, especially.  Every year I put up several quart jars of hot pepper sauce (cayennes & vinegar) and I always add tumeric to that, along with the salt.  And black pepper, well....  what can I say?!   This is the South, and black pepper is de rigueur for Southern cooking.  We are almost religious about it.  That's probably why I prefer it to white pepper.  but both are good.  I got over my snobbishness about black pepper when I was in Ireland.  lol  They tend to use white pepper there, or at least that was my experience.

Happy Happy Joy Joy!  This day is almost over.  It's 22:49 here in California . . . 35F with rain in Eureka. "Sunny California" is hundreds of miles south of here.   I slept most of the day nursing the last vestiges of a cold, sipping Symfre tea all day.  Then I spent a couple of hours reading posts here on Sanskrit. . . mighta learned a few words, terms and names of books.  Somehow, Shankara had mastered Sanskrit by the time he was seven or eight.  A good teacher can convey knowledge.  I wonder what Shankara would think about what I read tonight.  I would bet that he learned Sanskrit some other way, like immersion in a culture that spoke it. not endless grammatical terms.  I was delighted to find so much Sanskrit info on YouTube and the Net.   There was no Internet when I began studying Sanskrit.  There was not a lot of time for me to study either.  I was working 60-80 hours a week.  Now I am retired, 64 and pretty beat-up and diseased.  I am still quite interested. I could fall asleep from boredom watching football, as I did today and yesterday; but I can stay awake all night studying Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, or Chinese and reading the Great Scriptures.  I just finished an onion and poppy seed bagel with sesame oil and balsamic vinegar.  I like Chinkiang  vinegar more than any balsamic  I have ever tasted.  You might be glad to find that variety . . . not just black rice vinegar, but Chinkiang specifically.  I am going to order some online.  I like to sip an ounce of vinegar and honey in a glass of water with breakfast; and dip some kind of bread in oil and vinegar.  Hazelnut oil, hemp oil, olive oil, etc can be good.  I might be up all night  after sleeping most of the day..  Y'all have a good time, sweet dreams, good health, happiness; live long and prosper!

I spent a lot of time today cleaning the kitchen, watching TV, shopping online, looking at e-mail and Facebook, etc.  It seems to have snowed just a dusting here last night.. Now it is 23:40.  It was a nice quiet day. I am happy. The temperature outside just got down to 31F.  I had to unplug the outdoor thermometer or it would alarm until the temperature gets back up to 32F.  I want to live out the rest of my life in a place that never gets this cold and never gets too hot...but stays pretty much just right as the baby bear says...

In my work-a-day world, today is hump day - Wednesday - which means that I have two more days to get though until the weekend!  Yippee!  It's rainy today, but thankfully not too cold.  Worked through the first batch of ILL requests today, sipping on coffee and taking a short break from that so I can look around the site here.  I've also got my headphones on listening to tunes from my college days.