Awww Poor Bruce Jenner

I am disappointed in Bruce Jenner. Especially after all the shit he gave to Kris Jenner for not being good enough, for not allowing him to be in control... probably he blames her for his not coming out to, well, himself... After all, SHE was in control.

Right? Bullshit. HE was lying to SHIMSELF, therefore, their whole marriage was a lie or a s-ham, so Bruce, sorry but you don’t get the pity vote as far as I am concerned.

 

And BTW, this has nothing to do with LGBT (am I missing one.. if so, sorry to anyone who was left out of the rainbow!) issues, Hey, I am all about my peeps; but this man went on tv and persecuted her, for all his problems, to the point where he even had his sons feeling sorry for him. Wow, and just a few (single and ready to mingle) months later, Bruce is out and telling the world that HE is really SHE inside while he remains staunch in saying that Kris is such a blah-blah-blah... it was all HER, The Bitch! Well, that part might be true...

It was all about HER. But the way I see it is the Bitch is Bruce, not Kris. Now that Bruce is finally admitting to himself and the rest of the world who S-HE really is, He is ready to hang up his jock strap for a over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder, which is probably stole from Kris, er, at least from her checkbook anyway.

So what are we calling HER these days? Is it Bertha or Berniece, trying to stay close to the root of what his mother gave s-him the day she popped him out with a pecker, as we get ready for the impending day where s-he goes in for the ol' wax n tug, and s-he emerges... a SHE once and for all...

Maybe we should keep it Hollywood style... call her Brenner… That's me Call'n em how I'm see'n it?

Judge Much?

How unprofessional can you get…?

http://news.yahoo.com/bill-clinton-portrait-monica-lewinsky-shadow-191836348.html?bcmt=comments-postbox

I don’t like that the artist painted the infamous Lewinsky blue dress into Bill Clinton's Presidential painting... it’s basically putting his subjective opinion for the whole world to have to choke down. Did he happen to paint a shadow of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Bush's mantel? Or the mountain of debt in the fireplace he left America to deal with? Besides, what Clinton did was personal, not professional, and it certainly did NOT affect the entire world. Seriously?

I wish you would have just kept your political opinions to yourself. This was completely unprofessional.  So really, who is the liar? I am here to tell you… they ALL are. But it speaks volumes about your character, and your beliefs.  If you are going to do this for one President, who was a great President, that left the country in a surplus while doctoring in many beneficial programs, by the way… then I hope you are not going to be a hypocrite and only paint your honesty like you did for Clinton but for every Presidential painting you do.  I mean, come on… Bush flat out lied to this country in order to go to war with Hussein on a completely false premise all for his families personal gain… can you say Oil? Lest not forget to mention that many people (both thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi soldiers and civilians) were killed by Bush’s lie. In the lie meter, my vote says Bush clearly takes the cake!

By the way… Did you do the same for the Bush painting?  My guess is no… You don’t have the balls for that.  Personally, I think Shanks was a childish for painting the dress on the sly. Have some balls and at least say what you did upfront so we can all be in on the joke! Waiting years afterwards to drop your dirty little secret doesn’t say much for your character professionally or personally; Shanks should be fired from all other future artistic endeavors on professionalism alone. You were paid for a job and you failed. And out of respect for a man who did many good things serving YOUR country, out of respect for his hard work and dedication, you owe it to him to repaint the Clinton portrait, sans the scandal. I can only imagine what the portrait for Obama is going to look like.

Here is what I say… Let’s see your own painting, shadows and all! Matthew 7:2-3: For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Someone give me an axe. I am about to chop down a fucking tree.

The story for future reference…

The artist who painted the official White House portrait of President Bill Clinton says he quietly included a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal — and the infamous blue dress — in his painting.

“If you look at the left-hand side of it, there’s a mantel in the Oval Office,” Nelson Shanks told the Philadelphia Daily News. “I put a shadow coming into the painting, and it does two things. It actually literally represents a shadow from a blue dress I had on a mannequin, that I had there while I was painting it, but not when he was there. It is also a bit of a metaphor in that it represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him.”

The revelation of Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky, a White House intern, created a firestorm in American politics and led to the president’s impeachment in 1998.

The 77-year-old Shanks, who has painted everyone from Princess Diana to Pope John Paul II, said Clinton was the hardest.

“The reality is he’s probably the most famous liar of all time,” Shanks said. “He and his administration did some very good things, of course, but I could never get this Monica thing completely out of my mind, and it is subtly incorporated in the painting.”

The 2001 portrait is part of the National Portrait Gallery’s collection, though Shanks says the 42nd president would like it removed.

“The Clintons hate the portrait,” he continued. “They want it removed from the National Portrait Gallery. They’re putting a lot of pressure on them.”

But a museum spokesperson told ABC News that they have not received any requests from the Clintons to remove the portrait.

The shadow is not the only controversial part of the painting. When the portrait was unveiled in 2006, it caused a minor stir because Shanks left out Clinton's wedding ring.

According to Shanks, Clinton personally chose him to paint his official portrait. And in a 2001 interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Shanks insisted he was taking the assignment seriously.

“There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting,” Shanks said. “But I think this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I’ll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.”

Last year, Lewinsky wrote publicly about the affair for the first time.

“It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress,” Lewinsky wrote in an essay for Vanity Fair. “I am determined to have a different ending to my story.

“I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton,” she continued. “Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.”

Bitch PULease BLOCK MY ASS...

Ok so check this out... I just got this post of some chick doing selfies of herself naked. So I posted like EWWWW have some class PULease block me cuz she called me a hater.

LOL then I went to my other page which wasnt blocked only to find these very disturbing things.

She is a license foster parent and has that on her facebook page.

The content of her is ALL is lingerie and other scantily dressed GARBAGE so she has a hot body but the face... RUFF...

She uses facebook and has to take selfies cuz aint no one else steppin up to do anything but look at her naked ass (and probably think wow as they look her all up her vagina and then Wow again as they see her dog-like features)

She must think she is all that and a dried up bags o chips

and aint NO ONE looking over the bra so you hafta make that shit Naykee

God dont let my maturing son sees this cuz he may be scarred for life...

 

Bitch PULease BLOCK MY ASS...

But let me show all of my fans what she said I was a hater of and (since I was a so called actor (did I like EVER say that to ANY OF YOU???)) which I am not sure where she got that from cuz I do not proclaim to or need to say I am anything to be BUT) the lovely soul I am... lol

ok... I am digressing... what do YOU all think of this woman... 

Scary shit people and... and think I have my next post on the Opinion8d1.com page

SHAME on you Mattel! Do We Need a Plus Size Barbie?

We ask…  Do We Need a Plus Size Barbie?                                        

My answer… if this is all you got, the answer Mattel... is Hell NO! http://uk.news.yahoo.com/plus-size-barbie-doll-triggers-facebook-debate-anorexia-115211809.html#9N8OIJN

Let me start my rant with this statement…  I am all for a plus-size Barbie, in fact, I would welcome it for any girl of any size, I mean we have plus sized models heralding plus size clothing lines worn by beautiful plus-size women everywhere… clothes that guaranty to make a women feel beautiful and sexy,  professional, refined, classy, with a hint of MEOW! I don't think that image made the mark at all! It seems like Mattel forced the caricatured extreme onto this beauty of a doll. (who represents a larger percentage of  real women, btw)  If you are going to do plus-size model, then by George, make her life like! 

First I should off by explaining what my issue is… it’s that chin. Honestly I think the doll itself is proportioned nicely. I think she looks beautiful!  Maybe the skirt is a tad too short because one bend over or a brisk wind and it would be labeled Indecent Exposure. Yes, the original Barbie also has a shorter skirt but let’s do the math people… the larger Barbie is going to have a much shorter path in finding reach the gold in them their hills… It wasn’t her body proportions that have me peeved… it was that CHIN!  Not all women who are heavy have triple chins, let alone double chins, and I have seen plenty of average women who have a little extra padding because of this little thing we have on this planet pushing everything down to our toes.. maybe you have heard of it... it’s called gravity?

Now let me be clear in saying that “I am NOT saying it is bad to make this size of Barbie at all” but WHOA, doesn’t anyone else see that the measurements of her chin are waaaay off?  I know a lot of women who sport a bit of a chin and I know women have a chin and a half PLUS… 

It’s a friggen’ doll people!!  So why wouldn’t  you glamourize it up a bit more, you know, how you obviously did for the original Barbie…?  That original Barbie which certainly isn't all that life-like in her size -2, which includes her BMI number of 7. So why not go with the same ‘doll enhancements’ for the plus-size doll to emphasis her beauty?

The tone of this doll screams that if you are rather curvy, then you will be sporting pelican-like features that drape from your mouth like you are packing a giant dukie inside of the diaper-ish draping from the bottom of your nose. 

Plus, come on folks ... it's a doll - not real. Look at the example we got with the original Barbie.  Since you went to the extreme of ultra-skinny size negative -2 that you chiseled out for the original Barbie, it does make sense that the more "extreme image of the plus-size doll’s chin went from supposed-to-be-double/but-went-triple-plus” chin would be right along the lines of your past faux pas...  Ask poor Ken. Boys are still crying in their sleep after that CASTRAT-ophy…  Who is running the store over there? Do you need some help? Perhaps you need to hire some consultants that live on Main Street for advice- not at the Beverly Hills Chop, Tan, Sculpt, and Botox shop.

Needless to say…  I am not happy about this feeble( and thoughtless) attempt at a plus-size Barbie doll. Maybe I just  don’t get it!  I don’t get why the beauty image for any size woman be such a difficult thing for these corporate white-breds to get right? Then again, what am I expecting really because in reality, in the plus-size scheme of things... every pun intended of course… neither of these Barbie’s are anatomically correct...

So if I am to understand this correctly, is this what a plus-size woman looks like glamourized… says the idiots at Mattel’s corporate round table, along with their staff, marketing team, and probably a few  lawyers I would imagine… That is what they came up with?!?   WOW! I am surprised you didn’t add a touch of dumpling on the back of her ass just for the reality of it all… which by the way Mattel...  cottage cheese thighs affect every woman no matter what size that they are-- Idiots!

My question is this… CEO's… are you THAT OUT OF TOUCH? Like have you not had a real date in a while… ? Or are you that friggen’ rich you bought  your arm candy from straight off of the Playboy Mansion lot?  If so, you people need serious help.

Go ahead… Ask a woman… ANY WOMAN. She doesn’t even have to be plus size; in fact, for grins and giggles, let’s just go average, make it a size 12/14. NOT size 18 body with a size GINORMOUS chin… and for Pete’s Sake, put a dress on her… a real woman doesn’t need to dress like a Ho-bag needing to get noticed. She will be plenty noticed by the woman she is; and that part of her body has nothing to do with what you created. So do yourselves a favor and take your Barbie back to the drawing board… Do woman all over the world some justice by showing off the beauty that lies within and without each and every one of us… just as we are!

I just got one thing left to say… in the spirit of good fun… Chin Up! 

MR (with a chin or two standing PROUD in behalf of beautiful women everywhere)

Hold Your Heart Tenderly so You Can Love Those Around You With Tenderness!

Message For a Friend... You are a vessel my friend; you are a receptacle for your feelings. That means that as much anger, disgust, resentment, rage, sadness, sense of betrayal, defeat... etc. you are feeling. YOU are the person that is holding onto these feelings.

I get that you have this stuff happening but unfortunately, the other people in our lives are not capable of understanding what we are feeling.

They may know how history but no one person could possibly fathom the extent of how we feeling, and the filters that it went through, nor the trauma that came in the form of habits and denials that we also experience because of those feelings.

And like unrequited love, no other person could possibly feel anything close to what we are feeling so no matter how MAD you get, how much ANGER boiling through your veins, it is ONLY YOU that has to deal with the fallout of all of that energy.

Others around you will 'experience' their own blueprint of the situation but their experience is no way near anything that yours can be because we are so unique in ALL ways. 

Like in unrequited love, that other person may not know us but not how we feel, nor to what extent, but that doesn’t make what WE are feeling within ourselves in any LESS THAN if the person in front of us was our partner for 2 days, two years, or twenty... we still experience our own deeply profound, unique, experience when its good, bad, on the rocks, or sublime… it’s OUR experience, not theirs.

And because of that, I am concerned for YOU. Because you have been talking about your feelings, which A)… is great because I know you and a little of your experience… and is good because you are moving these feelings but I would like to see you try to release them. Forgiveness isn’t really about someone else. It’s all you baby… "I release the part of me that ANGERS me when I think of you… I release the part of me that RAGES in me when I think of you. Get it?" You can insert any word in between to get the jist. It will never change. The only change will be... change. But it can only come from you.

I want to see you healthy and happy and obviously life circumstances are challenging you at home but all this energy is going to take you out, not make her feel ONE IOTA LESS OR DIFFERENT than how they feel because their experience, the good, bad, ugly, betraying part of them is a completely different experience that they have from yours. Everything from their upbringing, filters, past betrayals and other relationships all make up a part of the person who stands before you… 

If you both wrote a book, what would each of yours say? Two completely different takes because it comes from two entirely different sources, even if we have lived together for twenty years, those partners are having a very different reality than your understanding of it. So whatever you have to do to release all that toxicity from with you has to be done. You have to make the choices to walk away from the toxicity or it will take you out.

FOR YOUR CHILDREN, you need to be in touch and loving the parts of you that are healthy and happy and sometimes, it takes walking away from the craziness (NO MATTER WHAT AND FOR GOD’S SAKE DON’T LOOK BACK!) for YOU. Which really means for your children who love and adore and desperately you to show them EXACTLY HOW TO WALK THE WALK.

Everything you do, they see. They learn, and then grow into their own experiences that will go like this... either they hate you for what you did and choose to be completely the opposite or they learn the dysfunctional manner that your own story was staged upon. Or they choose to see a happy parent, full of love. Not Bitterness. Don’t you see how much they want your happiness? Need it actually!
YOU, KIMOSABE… are the teacher here. It won’t be an easy journey but it will bring you ultimately what you really do want in life, and what you deserve. A new beginning, a closed door, and hope.

Remember to hold your heart gently. It's fragile... but generous with love for those around you.

CARMA… Drive… with Care Please Hot Doggie!

The other day, my son and I were coming home from karate. It seemed like every idiot was out there, driving with us. On the way to karate, we had a lady cut us off, almost hitting the front left side of my car, but on the way home, we met a real winner. Or should I say WIENER.

So this guy comes out from behind us, totally speeding until he got stuck behind some mini-van (better him than me, so I sped up (so he couldn't zoom passed me either)as I moved into the Left turn lane.

Unbeknownst to me…  he finagled his way from behind me, to next to me.

I am in Left turn lane #2, he was in Left turn lane #1. As the light turned, I started my turn. Two seconds later, the A-hole next to me is cutting me off to get into my lane so he can make the next Right… as were we.

So we are driving and I tell my son, see, this is what scares me about you being on a bike, or out walking… If these people can cut me off and I am in a two-ton car, then imagine what that would do to motorcycle or a little kid like you?

Just then, we pulled up to the light together.  I rolled down my window. (yes you had to know something like this was gonna happen) and I say to the guys, HEY, ASSHOLE… (yes, I have taught my children how to cuss by merely sitting in the back seat of my car although the first time my daughter said SHIT, was the last time I said that word or any word close to it in my car again… but I digress so moving on…) I have kids in my car. Do you mind driving like a normal person?

He had to know that when I rolled my window down that I was about to exchange some not so niceties with him because obviously, this was the type of loser who got yelled at often because he was ready to sling the insults the second he saw my car window move.

He was armed, ready to give me a ration …  he started to scream,  saying that I needed to be careful, and then he yelled at me to, “Pay attention to the road, Lady!”

This also says to me that this isn’t his first drive-like-you-are-riding-a-bull Rodeo. In fact, I imagine by the way he was swerving in and out of traffic and cutting me off that this guy is always called out on his driving …  In fact, I am willing to bet that he sees people going for their windows quite often on a daily basis!

For me, it was a teachable moment… especially as he went to make a Left and wasn’t quite paying attention cuz he focus was still on me that he made a Right turn right into the back of a white Honda. OOPS!! My son and I got a great laugh about that… hahaha idiot was driving bad, trying to blame us and he hit some car.. hahahahaha… I have to say that we got a great laugh out of it.

In fact, my son turns around and looks at me and says, “Mom, that guy got his karma by hitting that other car!! Get it Mom, CARma!

You had to be there!

Faith~ by Morgana Reeves



unknown photographer but Thank You~

Faith~

A little Faith, even the size of a tiny mustard seed, can bring infinite change.

 

Faith brings growth, from the old, decaying, and dying… 

Faith offers us new life, filled with love, prosperity, peace, and joy. 

Faith cannot prevent difficult things from happening to us...  

But there is no light at the end of the tunnel without Faith, only a path that seems endless, and often daunting… 

Faith makes going through these times bearable!  

With Faith, acceptance is possible and forgiveness is probable. 

Faith is what makes our dreams become part of our everyday reality, as reality sprouts from the seeds of those dreams.  

Faith… a little goes a long way, lighting the darkness, as it becomes the foundation of everything we hold possible, and dear to us.  

Faith is cherishing what is sacred, while believing in the unseen.

Even though we can’t see Faith, Faith is an eternal compass that maps out our direction, so we are never lost.

With Faith, we are never alone, as we are held by the tender loving arms of our angels. 

Faith is the only thing that even when lost, is still firmly nestled in the hearts of others… whose Faith can hold us up, even when we are unable to.

When we are lost or found, up or down, happy, or full of remorse, or regret… Faith will and always be, as tiny as a mustard, and as big as the heart that believes.

                  Happy Holidays~

 

                  xoxo Morgana Reeves

 

copyrights © 12/24/2012

 

Have Ache Will Travel... The $29 Bliss or Miss?

Groupon is the best thing EVER!! I got a deal on a massage (or so I thought...) for $29, I got an hour massage. I am thinking, wow, this is great. My back has been bothering me with all of this rain, so a nice, relaxing message would feel great. (ahem, NO, I am NOT soliciting massage therapists!) And for $29 bucks... even better. Cuz it's not like you can ruin a massage right?

Well, WRONG, you can. I was telling the girl about one of my first massages, done at the YMCA from a dude who looked like Jesus. It was so weird, I had a hard time relaxing with the Son of God’s hands all over. Anyhoo, I’m digressing a bit. I do that sometimes. Sorry. It's a slippery slope in the inner workings of my brain. 

Still on the digression progression, let me get back to my story. Massage, Jesus, Guilt, all things considered it was a memorable massage and not just because of being rubbed down by a holy-man-look-a-like, he went so deep that my massage threw my back out. I woke up the next day in pain and could hardly move. Maybe God was punishing me, not because he was really JC but because thinking of something makes it just as sinful as doing it... then again, I guess I kinda was doing it huh? Hmmm, Lets just move on to THIS massage. 

I was talking to this massage therapist about the Jesus Massage in the context that I just wanted a nice and relaxing massage. I didn’t really want something to deep, I was really just looking for to having a nice break from life for an hour.  

But that didn't happen. The conversation started with no deep tissue massage, moving onto the Jesus dude, and then onto onto her recent move from Oregon, or was it Wisconsin and then Oregon? Then onto her being a 1099 employee (which BTW by IRS regulations, she ISN'T) to moving, different types of Crocs, the Croc store at The Block, the new styles and the non-slip surface on the soles of Croc’s and then we got on the subject of taxes and jobs... She mentioned something about all Chiropractors are paying by doing the 1099 thing and then she moved on to how bigger companies are not paying health insurance benefits by making full-time employees into part-time employees, which brought us to Obamacare: YES!! The O Word!

As a 1099 Consultant, she cannot qualify for Obamacare and she makes too much to qualify for State Aid so she has no choices available to her. Then the topic sort of found its way to corporations paying benefits (rather NOT paying them, in lieu of making everyone part-time) and ended up how Obamacare is driving small businesses out of the small label, moving into obsolete... please... woman...

a) I wanted a relaxing massage. Do you seriously think this is relaxing?

b) It’s OK not to talk while doing massages... really it is. I mean, she had more of an issue with the uncomfortable silence, which btw, I had NO problem what-so-ever with that part, in fact, I kept not answering in the hopes that she would get the hint. Finally, I just gave and schooled her for a bit on how people pay taxes vs. how corporations pay taxes. 

I told her that I have not paid taxes in years... if ever. I think I did one year and perhaps, that was the impetus for me never to do it again. 

What's your secret, do you ask? Well I might as well tell you, as I did her, during this hour-long session. You start up your own business... but wait, she is a 1099 employee. So I went down the check list for her on what the IRS standards on the interpretation of "What makes a 1099 Contractor?" 

By this point, she had done my back and flipped me over and started to work on my neck and shoulders. But I had her thinking with all of my brilliance, so she kept asking me questions. The only problem was HELLO, YOU ARE DOING MY MASSAGE, REMEMBER? I had to have her move or to stop in certain places because the 1 inch square of neck between my collar bone and the base of my neck has been massaged now enough to last me a lifetime... ok, so I over-exaggerate, but not by much. I tried to hint a couple of time by moving, telling her my neck hurts, getting up and cracking my neck and by golly if she didn’t just go right back to the same exact spot... OUCH already! 

I wish I could have said, hey finish my … (arms, face, neck and hands...) but at this point, I was ready to get this $29 massage experience over with. 

Look, she was a nice girl, but I didn’t pay to chat for an hour... no wait, to give free financial advice, while she got paid; She pretty much gained the pleasure from this visit… me? No.

The cherry...  this was a Groupon for Chiropractors... Twins, Daniel and David, or something like that. She wanted to grab one of them to come in so they could give me the shpiel... Chiropractic... Good... Blah... Blah...

They pushed their services, (or was I just converted?)) asking to complete forms, talk about back problems/pain, past Chiropractic… they even asked for my insurance card. (Um, no) I am seeking a massage.  Oh and, thanks for the great $29 for one hour of bliss … but no thanks.

What is Love? The Intimate View

A long time ago, I wrote a column called Up Close and Personal: the Intimate View. Someone recently asked me to answer the question, What is Love?

He came from a more technical perspective in his definition. But we all know that there is no place for thinking when it comes to love, right? Well is also made me remember how much I enjoyed writing that column... so if anyone has a question you would like me to answer or address, Bring It!

And for now, site back and enjoy this little ditty about Love... specifically, What Is Love?

xoxo Morgana

What Is Love

John wrote:
Morgana, you had written "real love is to have absolute concern for others... so anyone we have concern for, we love. It is so simple but we make it so complex with our attachments to the fears saying I don't love, because love is only this... or that... we have a lot of ways of expressing love. It's all good!" I've done plenty of thinking about what "real love" is. I have a few disagreements with your definition. I don't mean to put your opinion down or to say you are wrong. I just see a few things in the above paragraph that concern me.

I should begin by telling you that I have a BS degree in chemistry and I'm very analytical in my thinking. I tend to nitpick at theories and try to see the flaws in them. I tend to ask for proof and if none is present, I say "well then we aren't sure, now are we"? I think you know what I mean.

My understanding of "real love". First, I don't think you can say "absolute concern". The term implies a level not obtainable. If I have absolute concern for my wife, I cannot have absolute concern for my children, my dad, mom, and so on. "Absolute" leaves room for nothing else. For example, consider the known temperature "absolute zero." I think it's -459 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the temperature in which all atomic motion ceases. That is, all atoms come to a complete stop. They can't get any colder. So, when I hear/read "absolute" I think highest, most, the top, pinnacle, can't go any higher, any more, you see?

Love (toward another human) is an intense desire to see that person continue throughout their lifetime to grow spiritually (not necessarily religiously), but to find spiritual growth and enhancement. It is selfless (not selfish). Love MAY also be that feeling you get when you are very close to the higher power of the universe. Love might be God and God might be love. I can't prove it though.

Thanks for putting up with me. These have been the thoughts I have when I consider the definition of "love".

Morgana replied:

You spoke of love in the absolute or what I call a "black and white" terms. I see the meaning of absolute entirely different; I don't see "absolute" as final, although it can be one of its definitions. Love is not final by any means; it is the foundation and part of a continual process. Although there are many definitions of "absolute," here are the first five according to www.dictionary.com.

abásoálute 1.Perfect in quality or nature; complete.
2.Not mixed; pure. See Synonyms of pure.
3. a. Not limited by restrictions or exceptions; unconditional: absolute trust. b. Unqualified in extent or degree; total: absolute silence. See Usage Note at infinite. 4.Unconstrained by constitutional or other provisions: an absolute ruler.
5.Not to be doubted or questioned; positive: absolute proof. Absolute Philosophy. a. Something regarded as the ultimate basis of all thought and being. b. Something regarded as independent of and unrelated to anything else.

Do you have more than one child? If so, do you not have absolute, complete love for each of them? You mentioned your parents; don't you feel love for each of them? Let's look at this from another perspective, Are you creative AND intellectual; or only creative or intellectual? Can you be both and still able to continue to grow in each aspect?

Love and relationships teach us lessons towards self-actualization and growth; you may finish one phase, like graduating from high school; you go on to college, graduate from college but you can still get your masters, doctorate, even two, or as many as possible. Love is an education; there is never a limit on what we can learn. There is a infinite depth of understanding we can obtain with the lessons of the heart.

I asked my 17 year-old daughter, "What is love?" Her answer was, "Feelings, very strong feelings. They make me feel good and bad. Love is pain, like Ja Rule says in a song." So I asked, how is love painful? She answered, "Because the pain comes when the heart hurts." So I ask, "When does the heart hurt?" She said, "It depends. I love someone but I cannot be with him." So, Des... the heart hurts because you love, or because you cannot express, give, and receive the love you feel?

Everything we do is based on two things: love and what isn't. The essence of love is sharing, to be received, as well as given. The opposite of love is not hate, it is apathy... the lack of feeling at all or feelings denied. Denial does not mean it isn't real, only we choose not to acknowledge something's presence in our life.

Love is much more than a concept. Love is a verb, an energy, just like money, we earn it and spend it; its power moves through us, affecting decisions, stirring emotions, changing our reality. Love is not elation itself, but can offer a sense of exhilaration. You cannot hold it, see it, although we can see and hold someone or something; this is where the attachment to love gets defined as a noun. We may "like" ice cream, but the ice cream is not the "like" only the meaning the ice cream holds in our beliefs.

Individually, we possess feelings just as we own the choice to love. Unrequited love is a perfect example; the other person may not know of the feelings, or may not feel the same way; however, what is felt is very real indeed. In this case, love is not given, nor is it received; simply love is....

I enjoyed reading your ideal of love. Often, love gets misunderstand if there is a greater threat or fear of loss; many can feel threatened if a partner goes through changes or growth, fearing the partner will leave. In this co-dependent relationship, love defined as an object, rather than the expression of feelings. The ownership of feeling is transferred to another person, making us dependent on that person as the source.

When someone feels anger or jealousy, there is love present, and a fear of loss that is stronger, which is why we see possessiveness in relationships; when the fear of losing someone is stronger than self-love, love is tied in as an object, often using control as a means to keep the love there.

As far as my credentials, I have degrees in Psychology, Reiki, and Metaphysics. What has taught me the most is been my continuous education in life school. I have learned more through my relationships and the many lessons offered by my children, family, partnerships, and friends. I have undoubtedly learned the most through my mistakes! Where else in life can getting an "F" teach us so much?

Maybe through the process of learning what love isn't, that is where we find the true definition of what love is?

 

The View through Gold Colored Lens'

The Republicans are feeling Shellshocked because Mitt Romney lost as the Republican Candidate in the 2012 Presidential Election? WOW... Did you actually think you were going to win? Seriously?

You all don't get it. It’s not what you did, or didn’t do for that matter.  The fact that Romney didn't prepare anything other than his Victory speech spoke volumes, altho it more like arrogance to me.

You certainly had no intention of creating a major storm which gave the American people a chance to think... Hmmm, how would the responses have differed between the two separate candidates...?  I mean that’s an easy one seeing as Republicans aren’t all that generous with funds over mushy stuff, like the environment. It’s in his Fiscal Plan, Romney wants to cut FEMA. He seems detached and aloof. He won’t answer questions, even to Fox News so how do I come up with any conclusion on who Romney is, and what he plans for the America People. Notice I didn’t just say the power hungry corporate fat cats, I said, the whole body of the American People…   I could see Romney do a drive by from Air Force One, like Bush did over Katrina... 

I mean, he isn't the warmest of the bunch and we know it’s all about cutting programs, except of course, defense... seeing as we are pissing people off so we gotta beef that puppy up.  

Peeps… here is the secret. As I stated earlier, it isn’t about what he did or didn’t do. It’s about who he is. After the 2008 Election, the Republicans had this same line of questioning last time when you thought for sure you had the dream team of McCain and the Pig in Lipstick herself, Sarah Palin.  When you fell hard… all the old, white-bred fingers were out there gawkin’ and a pointin’ Then they blamed Palin, and then McCain’s age, and Bush even... of course for leaving things in such a mess. Now, Romney, Quadrillionaire Business Mogul and his Tea Bagger fella, Paul (who should be tried for Treason over his 1/20/2009 Senate antics to stale-mate all of Obama’s measures) Ryan… everyone hoped that this dream team was it. All day I watched ol’ slick Romney’s confidence show off his $50k in dental work… all the way to his utter disappointment?  

Have you noticed that the Republican Party has a hard time finding candidates? At least candidates without… baggage?  Just when they think they have the perfect mixture of puppet and poster boy, BLAMMO, some hooker comes out of the woodwork carrying her 1/2 Asian plus 1/4 Creole love child, with the rest as Native American!  

You picked this dynamic duo of Mogul Quadrillionaire, I mean, Mitt,(because not only does he know business but he is one of us.. he ‘get us) and Paul (hoping to re-unite the Republican party from the split-off ends of the Baggers!) which has now brought the Republican Party at 2 and 0, Democrats, and for added measure, the American people took back the Senate, since obviously a bunch of grown man just couldn’t do the job right.  

Then again, they say that the anti-Christ will rise and bring the world back together… which means it definitely ain’t Obama but whose to say that the Anti-Christ is gonna be a man… After all, Anti Man is in fact, the women. We all know when you want a job to be done right, you need to send in the menstruating women. Then all will be right in the world.  

Oh and Republicans? It’s not what. It’s who. You need to find a Republican with character. Someone that the people can look up to, and trust. Good Luck with that! It might just be a cool day in hell before the devil himself will let a Republican back into office.  And every time you got your loss handed to you on a plate simply called Arrogance. You are a dying breed Mr. Elephant.

Maybe it’s the time to create a third party. Heck, name it after some militia and call it a day. The United States of the Greedy White Man.

Then at least you people will know where you stand... In the Loser’s box.  

I am just grateful that enough Americans were able to see Romney for who he is... A greedy white man. I prayed that  people were able to open their eyes to see these (fake) people (of the 53% who matter) for who they are... not just the (white) Christian, compassionate Senators who are holding your vote to preserve a fetus's right to life or to ensure that those horrible gays don't desecrate the very sanctity of marriage... (outside of their own love-less swimming in adultery and gay lovers) because Plain and Simple, A vote for the Republican Party is a Vote for Greed. That's it. The rest is the pretty colored ribbons and bows that they wrap up all their bullshit in.  

Now that the election is over and all of the hoopla is winding down, politics now will stand up and brush their clothes off after the many cat-fights; they can to lick their wounds, as they prepare to steer us from the avalanche we face since Congress FAILED to have done it's job for the past four years as they attempted to manipulate 53% of the American people (that do matter, outside of the Minorities, the baby boomers, and tea totters) to shout the loudest...to stand up in outrage declaring that we would no longer be the ones to stand up for Change in 2012... but on the perception that the American people would be able to see Obama for who he was truly was, not the sway of Hope that people voted for in 2008. This coming from the most greedy of them all... Old White Bred Millionaires who could live on the interest alone while the rest of us remain jobless and homeless.

And clearly, the American people would be begging the Republicans to regain control of things after their plan to stale-mate Congress on any matter penned by our esteemed President, to show that Obama was unable to 'work across the aisle."  We can't possibly think that the business of the American people was served better by Obama as Paul Ryan and his Republican cronies worked to ensure a stalemated Congress and their President, who was surely doomed to be one of those one-term Presidents exiting the Oval Office like a college sorority girl walking with her heels in her hands in last night clothes after a night of booze and boys... Those men who thought that this President would be leaving the White House in His own walk of shame...

Apparently God had his own plan after hearing the many prayers of people being duped by these greedy white bred men left in place to nurture and care for the people in this great nation. He decided that we needed to hold a glimmer of Hope as we move chose to move Forward as opposed to going backwards. 

And now we hear the murmurs of men who cry, what has happened to our Great Nation. The answer is very simple. God happened. He said there will be a great statue located in the harbor that opened her arms to thousands of people a month, with the blessing that said, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

This lady gave these White Bred men the same courtesy when she opened her arms to those, and she continues to do the same. And the Bible also says that it is our responsibility to care and nurture the men, women, children, those os same and different skin color, and those of same and different beliefs, even those who have same partners to wed. Would you still fight for the right of that fetus to have life if you knew that he would be gay? Or Hispanic? Or a black man who one day would be President... against all odds and trickery done by others who claim to act in God's glory yet the only glory we see gleaming is that of their own success as they control taxation and laws to benefit them.

See I took this testament to mean that anyone who wishes to have a chance of the American dream, should have one... Not have one given to them my unscrupulous bankers whose attempt is to gain more wealth as they steal the very house from underneath you, after laying you off the workers who helped to build this company from the ground up. Don't misinterpret this action to be anything other than selfish, something necessary to serve the company, and corporate greed.

Thanks to those who stood up for themselves, not just to those who weren't good enough... the 53% who absolutely DID matter because we all do. God opened his arms so that we can all prosper, to live in freedom, and to once again, find Hope, and without hope, there is no faith.

"To have great faith is to have great power because of your intent, your will is undivided when your word isn't dissipated by doubt. The power of your word becomes even stronger."  ~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

I believe that God truly did Bless America this pass Tuesday. I know there are a lot of people who don't agree and even those who feel that the that we have lost the country. These are the same people who thought all they needed was to reach the 53%... because the rest didn't matter.

There delusion was a costly mistake! It was those who didn't matter to them, that brought this Presidency home. I guess they have a right to be shell-shocked. It's like the baby kitten who has opened his eyes for the first time. But just because they can see, doesn't mean they are going to get it this time. Or the next... but at least it wasn't at MY expense!

Morgana Reeves is a Writer, Blogger and Author of Opinion8d1. She is a simple person trying to find my way in life. Sometimes I get lost... really lost, which is how this blog came about. I figured that the only way to find myself was to write about me... who I am, and what I believe in. My opinions... which makes it so easy. There are so many things in life that happen to make you scratch your head, or just shake your head in disbelief.. begging the question, "what were they thinking?!" It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it!

Addressing the State of the Union

Comment from facebook via HHD.  Matthew Mallon ~

To all those Americans who hate Obama....how weird it must be to hate a President that finally doesn't make the rest of the world hate America? Hmmmm.

Well who would I be if I didnt have an opinion?  So here is my response. First, let me say this... Why am I posting this on my blog?...  I know I am going to get someone who is going to come back with some stupid comment that more than likely sites no specific example or fact,  only calls Obama, the Democrats, or me, all kinds of derogatory names, but that is probably based on some piece of media interpretation from a completely biased source, like Fox News...?  

This isn’t just one vote, it’s  whole states full of people. The sad thing is they are fighting for their right to judge another person based on sexual orientation, stem cell research, or the right to choose, or some other issue that frankly, is NO ONE’s business. I mean, I don’t tell you how to live, so don’t feel like you have that right either. And government (remember the one you want smaller) certainly doesn’t have the right to tell me, whether or not I can take advantage of stem cell research, or my right to make a decision based on MY choice.. I mean, I certainly don’t wanna know when you cheat, lie, and scheme, party all week and then attend church, have sex outside of marriage, or cheat on your taxes even… all that is your decision… private to you and only you. 

IMO I think your insulation into my right to choose based on your judgment is just as bad of sins as what you claim abortion or gay marriage would be. I mean, if you think it’s an abomination against God, then by all means. Let God deal with them and you stay out of it.

Oh wait... isn't judgment a sin? Hmmm, I guess we all need to get a sin meter so we can see which sins have lesser or greater value, like scheming people out of their savings, throwing bombs at an abortion clinics, or even blocking their passageway. Now we watch members of the Republican party (not all, but a nice number) destroy the US’s economic balance.

I believe it says in the Bible that you shall not judge. Shall I get you these Scriptures? OK, Luke 6:37, Do not judge lest you be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Hmm, that is an interested statement. If you do not forgive another person, then you will not be forgiven. So does that mean that even though you have accepted Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior, his dying on the cross is not yours if you judge, condemn, and not forgive others? Or do you think God means it a different way and it’s ok to judge, condemn, and not forgive others because you are saved?  I will be really curious to see how that works for you at the Pearly Gates… because I think every time you open your mouths on these issues, that’s exactly what you are doing… Who died and left you, well, God?

What’s sad to me is we are at war here in the US… a war with each other, the Republicans and the Democrats, especially right now. We started this four years ago when we elected President Obama… a black man. The war against the black man continues, as it has every day for the past three years while we have had a black man in office. Now its ok to lie, defame, denounce our President when we should be praying for him and the United States. But some feel it’s best to call him names and belittle him, and make up lies to make others believe that he is a bad man. Well he isn’t. He is a very smart man who has struggled, altho he wont admit it, to do the best that he can for the United States, even though his presidency has been likened to a salmon trying to swim up river to lay eggs.  And now the United States economic solvency is based on the account that people are bottom line, prejudice…  of the man's skin color, instead of validating his kindness and compassion, his strength and his intelligence, his basic need to do the very best job that he can… considering.

Guess what, that Black man is already leaps and bounds smarter than many of you who call him names, constantly slander him, trying to impeach him based on his birth, which was just another attempt to remove him from office.  I guess that makes them  a little nervous? LOL

So then here came the game plan that was to stop the inner workings of the oval office as Congress and the House members decided not to vote on Congressional matters sent from the White House Administration…  Honestly, I didn’t believe it until I read it, and then I started to think back over the past two years… and by golly, if I didn’t see it with my own eyes… Congress blocked eny effort to pass the bills on the floor regarding finance, Medicare and insurance, police, fire, children’s education. Everything has been blocked by members of the Republican party. (which will lovingly be known as Repube’s from here on in.)  And the Repube’s did this on the taxpayer’s dime at that...  I don’t know what country you came from but in my eyes, I believe that is called Treason, a scheming, and grand larceny, all rolled into one… and all under the eyes of the American people because the media feeds us BS and we eat it up … like friggen’ Pacman...  nyump, nyump, nyump.

 

All of these men should be fired immediately and then arrested for exactly that… Treason. That’s Treason, with a capital ‘T’ folks.  Scheming against the people so that every effort of the President would be thwarted. So that no matter what he tried to do, it was blocked. Well Treason in the United States is illegal, and punishable what I wish is Life in prison without parole but we all know IF that ever happened, it would be 3 years in a country club type of prison where they are released with a new book and an up and coming book and late night television tour, beginning with good ole Dave.

The Repube’s think that they are above the law. And they almost got away with it too. After all, Bush LIED and took this country into war that we couldn’t afford  over an issue that didn’t even involve the country who was guilty, so he could go after a country that held precious stock (and the financial future of his family and friends who were all friends of the Bin Ladens, after all George did go to college with them) but hey, they had to protect their interests in OIL, even at the risk of bankrupting this country, but hey.. no harm, no foul. Clinton has sex with an Intern, which is NOT EVEN AN OFFENSE HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH US AFFAIRS, and Repube’s called for his immediate resignation. PL-ease. I am so over this bullshit.

Wake up people. It’s time to stop living in denial.  

I guess I can’t be so general that I lump everyone in this group because I do really think that the awakening of the American people is already happening. People are starting to see that Congress did actually what they set out to do… block every one of Obama’s initiatives that went thru Congress (except Obamacare bcuz of course they needed something to hang him on) as they planned to do on January 20, 1999, at the same time Obama was being sworn into office.

BUZZZZZZZZ the alarm clock is going off. Time to wake up!