StumbleUpon | LionInSunHeart's comments & reviews

Nature and Wildlife Photography by Ilia Shalamaev - Landscapes Gallery

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:23:53 -0700

Interesting photos of Israel

http://LionInSunHeart.stumbleupon.com/review/34887712/

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:01:47 -0700

Change you can freak out about
Or: How parkland pot, flying cars and
John Cusack will save the world

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, July 31, 2009

This is the amazing thing about rabid global economic recessions combined with volatile environmental collapses combined with a tasty national identity crisis combined with a truly historic, revolutionary president combined with a gnawing sense that our species might not be long for this world after all combined with the overwhelming sense that something, somewhere, something big and meaty and interesting and maybe even profoundly and butt-shakingly unexpected, has got to give.

This is the feeling: anything can happen. Nearly every day in this New Millennium Wonderland, we are swarmed by distressing, heartbreaking tales of woe and hardship and layoff, only to spin right around and read about something positive and uplifting and innovative emerging from it all, some unanticipated, rise-from-the-ashes kind of thing that whipsaws your perspective and pinches the nipples of your worldview.

Upshot: within a few meager minutes soaking in the media whirlpool, you can travel all the way from defeatist, punch-you-in-the-face, we're-all-effing-doomed misery right on over to "hey, you know what? Maybe all is not lost and we might just survive to blow ourselves to smithereens another day." It's exactly like riding a rickety old rollercoaster in hell, but with better drinks.

Here's the really delightful part: Between those two extremes lies an even more intriguing and juicy category, stories and ideas that fall somewhere in between heartbreaking and hopeful, tales we can't quite categorize or define as good or bad, right or wrong, liberal or conservative, hard or soft, sweet or sour, sacred or profane, spit or swallow just yet.

And why? Well, partly because the ideas they contain have yet to fully sort themselves out, but mostly it's because, by and large, we as a culture have never really been here before, never in this exact spot in time and circumstance, with this particular set of traumas and dramas and apocalypse and opportunity, and therefore have no idea what many these grand social notions -- economy, health, gender, God, capitalism -- all really mean anymore.

(Not that we ever really did, I realize, but our massive, bloated, BS-happy Greatest Generation ego sure led us to believe we did. How cute we were!)

Truly, these are my favorite kinds of stories of all, so fraught with mystery and confusion and what-the-hell-does-it-all-mean. I love them not only because they serve to remind us that we can, if we so desire, rearrange ourselves and our identity far more fluidly and interestingly than we might believe, but also that we have far less control over the gyrations and contractions of the swirling hissing pulsing universe than we like to imagine. Ain't it grand?

A tiny example, signifying nothing: California state parks. They say our new, brutally slashed budget means that upwards of 100 of our beloved public pastures will just up and close. No hiking, no camping, no poison oak, no pissing in the wind. They say, furthermore, that Mexican pot cartels are already gleefully swooping into these selfsame parks and cranking up pot production to "epidemic" proportions, simply because the government can no longer afford to monitor and police them, and it's prime growin' land and, well, why the hell not?

What does this mean? Does it mean we are doomed to be flooded with crime and land abuse and skanky Mexican weed for years to come? Does it mean state lawmakers will quickly snap to attention and realize that pot is everywhere so we might as

http://LionInSunHeart.stumbleupon.com/review/34709914/

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:51:26 -0700

How can one say anything but
..............."YES!"
"Yes!" to this
this buried mystery
this sacred seed
this upward pushing
this urgent invitation
to create
what has always been possible.

And yet,
On arrival, should we still humbly console our
weary Soul before the first stroke of our brush?

-LionHeart in 'Hermitage'-

http://seamist.deviantart.com/art/Curious-69614658

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:54:47 -0800

Phoenix! fly through wild borealis
circumnavigate in time
and come
with welcome
when mortals
poised in
solstice
commemoration
myrhh and frankincense
you
from there to here

Fantasy Art and Erotic Fantasy Bookstore

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:34:50 -0800

I Love all of my Stumbler Friends-and I miss you terribly..I have been traveling and working on my web design customers' sites. I have been reduced to DIAL-UP so I'm not able to have a toolbar on a Camino Browser..the quickest browser I have. But I do have an ongoing MYSpace Blog: http://myspace.com/lioninsunheart .
I'll be back with you when I get High-Speed back again..
Love
LionInSunHeart

http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i206/LionInSunHeart?action=view¤t=FaeryGoldfish_Lillia5.jpg

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:13:11 -0700

'The Life Of Your Dreams'
Waking Up

Many of us are familiar with the experience of waking up to the fact that our lives are no longer working the way we have set them up. Sometimes this is due to a shift occurring inside ourselves over time, and sometimes it is part of the larger shift that is currently affecting all humanity. Change is happening at such an increased rate that it is difficult to predict what the future holds. As a result, many of the old ways of planning out a life are no longer applicable, and if we cling to them we feel strangely out of tune with reality. If we are in tune with the energies around us, we will begin to question ideas that just a few years ago seemed sensible.

In the simplest terms, the shift we are undergoing right now has to do with recognizing ourselves as being more than human, remembering that our earthly aspects are a very small part of who we are. In truth, we are multidimensional beings. When we begin to realize this, the life we planned for a limited conception of ourselves no longer fits. We must meet the needs and qualifications not only of our bodies but also of our souls. This realization dawns slowly for some and with the suddenness of a bolt of lightning for others, and we all must find the way that works for us to integrate this new and larger sense of self into our life plan.

Sometimes a drastic change feels totally right, and overnight we might decide to sell our home and move to another country or quit our job and begin a second career. Other times, we allow the changes to proceed slowly, beginning perhaps with allowing ourselves to dream of a new life or just to ask the deeper questions that encourage us to discover our true purpose in life. Either way, know that this process is a natural sign of the growth we are all going through, and trust it to guide you to the life of your dreams. (D-O - Waysharer)

"Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk."
-Leo Buscaglia-

Flickr: Please wait...

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:18:03 -0700

"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction.
Love is therefore the only law of life.
He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying.
Therefore love for love's sake,
because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.

- Swami Vivekananda -

Set Up Your Free Access to deviantART

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:30:29 -0700

'The Sunset'
A Lakota Vision

Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy...

But anywhere is the center of the world.

hhjs favorites - StumbleUpon

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:12:33 -0700

A very nice Sunday afternoon 'stumble'..
your music player and the gallery on the first page
--was very calming..always has been...
Thanks HHJ
Donna Summer? WOW!