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Today’s Blog Post
First Christmas About to Begin
Today we begin our Christmas celebration with our first Family Christmas. Next week we will have our second Family Christmas. I love Christmas!
The Turkey just went in and the smell coming from the kitchen is unbelievable. We will dine big time tonight.
Then next week the same thing a few more times.
It seems that the most important part is watching what you eat not just between Christmas and New Years – but between New Years and Christmas. Then the short week between the big holidays won’t matter so much.
But how I love Egg Nog and Short Bread Cookies! And Christmas Cake and Sweet Potatoes with brown sugar on top and turnips with butter and brown sugar and mashed potatoes with parmesan cheese worked into them… and…
Just now I watched the chef on TV make a Shrimp slightly salted and drizzled with Dark Chocolate sauce. Oh Boy!
Presents are wrapped and now we are waiting on our kids to come. What a blessing this is!
May God bless you with a rich anointing of his love this season!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Zafra's Shrimp and Plantains with Chipotle-Chocolate Sauce
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MMM! Mmm!
Peel and de-vein the shrimp leaving on the tails, and set aside.
Cut the vanilla beans into 1-inch pieces with a knife, and then chop to a fine bread crumb texture in a small food processor or spice grinder, about 1 tablespoon.
Set aside.Cut off the brown ends of the plantains and slit the skin lengthwise from end to end along its ridges, preferably with a table knife.
With your fingertips, work off the skin.
Slice crosswise into 1/4-inch rounds or at an angle.
Heat the vegetable oil over moderate heat in a medium-sized, heavy-bottomed saucepan or deep skillet until barely rippling (about 350 degrees).
Fry the plantain rounds until golden, for about 1 to 2 minutes.
Remove from the skillet and place on paper towels to drain.
Keep in a warm place.
Place the tomatoes and chiles in a blender or food processor and process to a fine puree.
Heat the olive oil in a 9-inch skillet or medium saucepan over medium heat until it ripples.
Stir in the puree and salt.
Saute stirring occasionally for approximately 20 minutes or until the sauce thickens and the oil starts to separate from the solids and begins to fry again.
Stir in the onions, the ground vanilla, the vanilla extract, the optional sugar, and the dark chocolate, and cook until the chocolate dissolves, about 3 minutes, while stirring.
Add the shrimp and the plantains and cook for 3 more minutes.
Serve immediately with white rice or Moors and Christians rice.
This recipe yields 6 to 8 servings.
Source:
http://www.yum-recipes.com/Recipe/Uncategorized/280172_Zafras_Shrimp_And_Plantains_With_ChipotleChocolate_Sauce.html
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Even Our Polar Bears are Shivering
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Today’s Blog Post
Even Our Polar Bears are Shivering
I have watched this Summit on Climate Change taking place in Copenhagen – what a joke! It is one big circus of wannabe environmentalist that try hard to get their two minutes of fame.
The biggest joke is that they are trying to guilt Canadians to death. Pointing at us and saying that we are at fault and that our Alberta Tar Sands oil extraction is at fault. The Second Biggest joke being told around the world is that we should do something about it or else the world will tip over and we all will die.
This conference is doing many things that we cannot see.
In the shots you will see crowds of people milling around outside of venues. You will see the TV cameras shooting scenes of angry protestors in the streets of Copenhagen – doing what protestors do best – get their photos taken…mess with police and try to act like idiots.
In Canada in the middle of the almost coldest winter that is recorded – try to tell good Canadians that there is climate change happening. We all know that it is a lie from the stupid people of the world that claim to know everything.
Canadians already have all that Copenhagen has happening now. We have a weekly dose of TV Cameras catching fights regularly on our TV sets. It is called HOCKEY… and there are lots of fights… the whole action takes place on ice. And at this time in our calendar year we can freeze our behinds off when we travel from hockey rink to the car on a cold night.
Some people mill around the venues outside as well because they are hanging around for a smoke – more than 27 meters from the entrance. The “smoking” that they do is called a “health break” at our Government Conferences – the ones that I attend at least. The fact that they exhale a substantial volume of smoke with one small cigarette is of little concern. For Canadians that don’t smoke it is a relief to see smoke coming from these addicted ones… it means that no one around them will have to perform CPR – they haven’t frozen to death!
Now to a delicate subject that will possibly bring down the wrath of animal lovers and tree huggers that will flame this Blog… the Polar Bears. Those poor darling Polar Bears that adorn our Twoonie ($2 Coin) in Canada.
As the Copenhagen conference opened a film about the Poor Polar Bears was released showing the poor thing floating on an ice pan… stranded miles from a shore and the safety of a Zoo. OMG the whole world gasped at the fate the poor little fella… all alone without a mommy to tuck him into bed… and the inference was that there was no supper for the loveable creature.
You dirty rotten Canadians are killing your northern pets!
Some dumb film maker didn’t tell the whole truth. The Polar Bear is covered with a hair that no other bear has. Each shaft of hair is hollow and is filled with air. The bear is covered with his own floatation device that will keep him floating forever… and the silly thing is warm – no matter how cold it is. EVERY CANADIAN KNOWS THAT! SHEESH!
But what about the ice flow and the Polar Bear being all alone?
DUH. Every Canadian knows that if you don’t want a Polar Bear in your camp sight you throw out some meat somewhere else to get him to go there. The camera man was guided there by some good old Canadian that knows about Bears and they put the meat down for the Polar Bear to climb up on the ice flow. The bear needed to eat… in fact he never stops eating… and was probably ready to eat the stupid environmentalist if the good old boy hadn’t lead the Polar Bear out to the ice flow.
And it was probably a Newfoundlander that was the good old boy that knew about the Bears and their habits. The stupid environmentalist had killed their sealing industry – now they came to do the same to the Polar Bears.
The Newfie was laughing on the inside actually. He knows that the Seal won’t eat an environmentalist… but a Polar Bear loves the fat of these city dudes.
Do you think that the poor old Polar Bear is basking on that Ice Flow now? NO DUMMY it is winter time! And when you show this Poor Old Bear film in the cold winter time… Canadians know you are nuts – and must be lying!
Now I am a Canadian that has traveled a fair bit. I am from Saskatchewan and like old Saskatchewanians we do one of two things when it is cold... we stay inside – or go to some where it is warm! DUH!
(It is too cold there to go outside and when environmentalists come along we give them a camera and let the idiot try to find a shivering Polar Bear – outside!)
In Kenya in 2007 I nearly died from a lack of oxygen. It seems that the Doctor that saw me gasping for breath in his office that one fateful day thought I might have COPD. For nearly two weeks I had traveled with the local people, walked their streets in Nairobi and did things that they do. Along with that I had breathed all their richly soaked in diesel fumes air. We couldn’t read the license plates on the vehicles in front of us because of the crap that was coming out of the exhaust pipes. 99% of the cars were polluting the air with filthy fumes!
I lived in Hong Kong for five years and breathed all that diesel laden air 24 hours a day. I was a human air filter as their “no standard” air control was in full affect – just like Kenya!
But you don’t dare pick on these ‘developing countries’ – where would you go for a holiday!!?
It makes more sense to pick on Canada and its lack of care for its poor old Polar Bears.
The real problem with air quality is the Spanish people in North America… with the volume of beans that they eat.. their gaseous output is voluminous! Every Saskatchewanian knows that – we have gone to Mexico and eaten beans!
“Come on… Murray… aren’t you a little concerned about environmental things? What about your great grandkids and what they will breath?”
Yep I am concerned just like everyone else. But I am also just plain frustrated when idiots blame us for what we haven’t done.
I want the truth to come out – not the Bull that helps raise more money for Crowds to fly to Copenhagen… and pay them all the time they are there! I MEAN I COULDN’T Pay for a ticket and don’t get paid to mill around and get in trouble with the Police of Denmark.
When you add up the fuel that was burned to get all those people milling around in Copenhagen – THEY ARE THE POLUTERS! NOT CANADIANS. We knew enough to stay inside and keep warm.
And idea just popped into my Canadian thinking. The next Summit on Climate Change should be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the corner of “Portage and Main”; or in Wawa, White River or a remote village along the Hudson Bay in Ontario.
If they did that… I can accurately predict that NO ONE WOULD BE MILLING AROUND OUTSIDE.
How stupid do these idiots think Canadians are? We would arrange for Polar Bears to mill around outside until the FAT ENVIRONMENTALIST came out.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/12/16/f-copenhagen-summit-climate-change-parry.html
This BLOG is sponsored by “Misty Hollow Carving”. You are welcome to visit Misty Hollow and see all of my carvings.
My Web Site is a like a Gallery – please drop in for a stroll through.
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Today’s Blog Post
Even Our Polar Bears are Shivering
The biggest joke is that they are trying to guilt Canadians to death. Pointing at us and saying that we are at fault and that our Alberta Tar Sands oil extraction is at fault. The Second Biggest joke being told around the world is that we should do something about it or else the world will tip over and we all will die.
This conference is doing many things that we cannot see.
In the shots you will see crowds of people milling around outside of venues. You will see the TV cameras shooting scenes of angry protestors in the streets of Copenhagen – doing what protestors do best – get their photos taken…mess with police and try to act like idiots.
In Canada in the middle of the almost coldest winter that is recorded – try to tell good Canadians that there is climate change happening. We all know that it is a lie from the stupid people of the world that claim to know everything.
Canadians already have all that Copenhagen has happening now. We have a weekly dose of TV Cameras catching fights regularly on our TV sets. It is called HOCKEY… and there are lots of fights… the whole action takes place on ice. And at this time in our calendar year we can freeze our behinds off when we travel from hockey rink to the car on a cold night.
Some people mill around the venues outside as well because they are hanging around for a smoke – more than 27 meters from the entrance. The “smoking” that they do is called a “health break” at our Government Conferences – the ones that I attend at least. The fact that they exhale a substantial volume of smoke with one small cigarette is of little concern. For Canadians that don’t smoke it is a relief to see smoke coming from these addicted ones… it means that no one around them will have to perform CPR – they haven’t frozen to death!
Now to a delicate subject that will possibly bring down the wrath of animal lovers and tree huggers that will flame this Blog… the Polar Bears. Those poor darling Polar Bears that adorn our Twoonie ($2 Coin) in Canada.
As the Copenhagen conference opened a film about the Poor Polar Bears was released showing the poor thing floating on an ice pan… stranded miles from a shore and the safety of a Zoo. OMG the whole world gasped at the fate the poor little fella… all alone without a mommy to tuck him into bed… and the inference was that there was no supper for the loveable creature.
You dirty rotten Canadians are killing your northern pets!
Some dumb film maker didn’t tell the whole truth. The Polar Bear is covered with a hair that no other bear has. Each shaft of hair is hollow and is filled with air. The bear is covered with his own floatation device that will keep him floating forever… and the silly thing is warm – no matter how cold it is. EVERY CANADIAN KNOWS THAT! SHEESH!
But what about the ice flow and the Polar Bear being all alone?
DUH. Every Canadian knows that if you don’t want a Polar Bear in your camp sight you throw out some meat somewhere else to get him to go there. The camera man was guided there by some good old Canadian that knows about Bears and they put the meat down for the Polar Bear to climb up on the ice flow. The bear needed to eat… in fact he never stops eating… and was probably ready to eat the stupid environmentalist if the good old boy hadn’t lead the Polar Bear out to the ice flow.
And it was probably a Newfoundlander that was the good old boy that knew about the Bears and their habits. The stupid environmentalist had killed their sealing industry – now they came to do the same to the Polar Bears.
The Newfie was laughing on the inside actually. He knows that the Seal won’t eat an environmentalist… but a Polar Bear loves the fat of these city dudes.
Do you think that the poor old Polar Bear is basking on that Ice Flow now? NO DUMMY it is winter time! And when you show this Poor Old Bear film in the cold winter time… Canadians know you are nuts – and must be lying!
Now I am a Canadian that has traveled a fair bit. I am from Saskatchewan and like old Saskatchewanians we do one of two things when it is cold... we stay inside – or go to some where it is warm! DUH!
(It is too cold there to go outside and when environmentalists come along we give them a camera and let the idiot try to find a shivering Polar Bear – outside!)
In Kenya in 2007 I nearly died from a lack of oxygen. It seems that the Doctor that saw me gasping for breath in his office that one fateful day thought I might have COPD. For nearly two weeks I had traveled with the local people, walked their streets in Nairobi and did things that they do. Along with that I had breathed all their richly soaked in diesel fumes air. We couldn’t read the license plates on the vehicles in front of us because of the crap that was coming out of the exhaust pipes. 99% of the cars were polluting the air with filthy fumes!
I lived in Hong Kong for five years and breathed all that diesel laden air 24 hours a day. I was a human air filter as their “no standard” air control was in full affect – just like Kenya!
But you don’t dare pick on these ‘developing countries’ – where would you go for a holiday!!?
It makes more sense to pick on Canada and its lack of care for its poor old Polar Bears.
The real problem with air quality is the Spanish people in North America… with the volume of beans that they eat.. their gaseous output is voluminous! Every Saskatchewanian knows that – we have gone to Mexico and eaten beans!
“Come on… Murray… aren’t you a little concerned about environmental things? What about your great grandkids and what they will breath?”
Yep I am concerned just like everyone else. But I am also just plain frustrated when idiots blame us for what we haven’t done.
I want the truth to come out – not the Bull that helps raise more money for Crowds to fly to Copenhagen… and pay them all the time they are there! I MEAN I COULDN’T Pay for a ticket and don’t get paid to mill around and get in trouble with the Police of Denmark.
When you add up the fuel that was burned to get all those people milling around in Copenhagen – THEY ARE THE POLUTERS! NOT CANADIANS. We knew enough to stay inside and keep warm.
And idea just popped into my Canadian thinking. The next Summit on Climate Change should be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the corner of “Portage and Main”; or in Wawa, White River or a remote village along the Hudson Bay in Ontario.
If they did that… I can accurately predict that NO ONE WOULD BE MILLING AROUND OUTSIDE.
How stupid do these idiots think Canadians are? We would arrange for Polar Bears to mill around outside until the FAT ENVIRONMENTALIST came out.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/12/16/f-copenhagen-summit-climate-change-parry.html
Thursday, December 17, 2009
10 Ways to live I can Live Restoratively
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Today’s Blog Post
10 Ways to live I can Live Restoratively
As we approach Christmas this year and think about our gift giving to others… I stumbled across an Excellent Gift List that I post here today. It is presented by Dr. Howard Zehr and deals with Restorative Justice Issues.
It won’t cost much money – but could cost you your life!!!
As I read it over it makes so much sense to include this in my Gift Giving to Others. If I was to do these things in my life, then have an effect other people with my interaction – what a different world it would be. It is not just about Ex-offenders and Victims of Crime. It is about all of us.
10 ways to live restoratively
November 27th, 2009 – by Howard Zehr
1. Take relationships seriously, envisioning yourself in an interconnected web of people, institutions and the environment.
2. Try to be aware of the impact - potential as well as actual - of your actions on others and the environment.
3. When your actions negatively impact others, take responsibility by acknowledging and seeking to repair the harm - even when you could probably get away with avoiding or denying it.
4. Treat everyone respectfully, even those you don’t expect to encounter again, even those you feel don’t deserve it, even those who have harmed or offended you or others.
5. Involve those affected by a decision, as much as possible, in the decision-making process.
6. View the conflicts and harms in your life as opportunities.
7. Listen, deeply and compassionately, to others, seeking to understand even if you don’t agree with them. (Think about who you want to be in the latter situation rather than just being right.)
8. Engage in dialogue with others, even when what is being said is difficult, remaining open to learning from them and the encounter.
9. Be cautious about imposing your “truths” and views on other people and situations.
10. Sensitively confront everyday injustices including sexism, racism and classism.
I thought about this list and the frame work that it might be applied in. Or another way to say it – how might this be used as a guide in all areas of my life?
How about dealing with your spouse? Or maybe your fiancé or dating partner? How about with a teenager? And I can see it even working with children… and when children have to deal with their aging parents. And it does work in the reintegration of men and women coming back from prison.
The world that I was raised in had very little difference in color. We were pretty much the same. Other than a nasty war that had just taken place, my world was pretty safe from the kind of stuff some of the deep USA suffered from.
However we had racism as many new refugees flooded our area of Canada… they were a bunch of stupid D.P.s – a bunch of stupid “Displaced Persons” – from Hungary and the Ukraine fleeing the oppression that their country men knew… who turned out to be smarter than the rest of us – BY FAR!
And the idea of a FAG was growing as a negative. If you wanted to rile on someone that crossed you – you simple labeled him as a FAG. I had no idea what a Homosexual was at the time – but I simply knew because of the way that adults talked and used this word – we explored our nasty little world with it too.
We knew about Classism big time. We lived in a low income, DP neighbored, and “wrong side of the tracks area” of Regina, Saskatchewan. People were beaten up there, rapped, and sometimes hurt badly.
When we moved from that area of the city to a very classy area where the Doctors and Lawyers and Politicians lived – we knew we were different. It was very hard to break into the crowd of snot nosed, upper class kids at school. Most lived just a few houses south but they would not play with us much… they had their own friends.
Being caught in the middle of the community below the upper and above the lower – likely affected much that I would do later.
I wish I would have found a list like this when I was 14 years old – the magic time when much changed for me in my life.
I offer it today and point to Dr. Howard Zehr and his work with people – particularly in Restorative Justice.
Have a great day and week getting ready to enter the frenzy and fun of a short holiday that we prepare all year for…then begin paying for most of next year.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://emu.edu/blog/restorative-justice/2009/11/27/10-ways-to-live-restoratively/
This BLOG is sponsored by “Misty Hollow Carving”. You are welcome to visit Misty Hollow and see all of my carvings.
My Web Site is a like a Gallery – please drop in for a stroll through.
To help me promote my Web Site please copy this URL address and email to someone today http://www.murraylincoln.com/
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Today’s Blog Post
10 Ways to live I can Live Restoratively
As we approach Christmas this year and think about our gift giving to others… I stumbled across an Excellent Gift List that I post here today. It is presented by Dr. Howard Zehr and deals with Restorative Justice Issues.
It won’t cost much money – but could cost you your life!!!
As I read it over it makes so much sense to include this in my Gift Giving to Others. If I was to do these things in my life, then have an effect other people with my interaction – what a different world it would be. It is not just about Ex-offenders and Victims of Crime. It is about all of us.
10 ways to live restoratively
November 27th, 2009 – by Howard Zehr
1. Take relationships seriously, envisioning yourself in an interconnected web of people, institutions and the environment.
2. Try to be aware of the impact - potential as well as actual - of your actions on others and the environment.
3. When your actions negatively impact others, take responsibility by acknowledging and seeking to repair the harm - even when you could probably get away with avoiding or denying it.
4. Treat everyone respectfully, even those you don’t expect to encounter again, even those you feel don’t deserve it, even those who have harmed or offended you or others.
5. Involve those affected by a decision, as much as possible, in the decision-making process.
6. View the conflicts and harms in your life as opportunities.
7. Listen, deeply and compassionately, to others, seeking to understand even if you don’t agree with them. (Think about who you want to be in the latter situation rather than just being right.)
8. Engage in dialogue with others, even when what is being said is difficult, remaining open to learning from them and the encounter.
9. Be cautious about imposing your “truths” and views on other people and situations.
10. Sensitively confront everyday injustices including sexism, racism and classism.
I thought about this list and the frame work that it might be applied in. Or another way to say it – how might this be used as a guide in all areas of my life?
How about dealing with your spouse? Or maybe your fiancé or dating partner? How about with a teenager? And I can see it even working with children… and when children have to deal with their aging parents. And it does work in the reintegration of men and women coming back from prison.
The world that I was raised in had very little difference in color. We were pretty much the same. Other than a nasty war that had just taken place, my world was pretty safe from the kind of stuff some of the deep USA suffered from.
However we had racism as many new refugees flooded our area of Canada… they were a bunch of stupid D.P.s – a bunch of stupid “Displaced Persons” – from Hungary and the Ukraine fleeing the oppression that their country men knew… who turned out to be smarter than the rest of us – BY FAR!
And the idea of a FAG was growing as a negative. If you wanted to rile on someone that crossed you – you simple labeled him as a FAG. I had no idea what a Homosexual was at the time – but I simply knew because of the way that adults talked and used this word – we explored our nasty little world with it too.
We knew about Classism big time. We lived in a low income, DP neighbored, and “wrong side of the tracks area” of Regina, Saskatchewan. People were beaten up there, rapped, and sometimes hurt badly.
When we moved from that area of the city to a very classy area where the Doctors and Lawyers and Politicians lived – we knew we were different. It was very hard to break into the crowd of snot nosed, upper class kids at school. Most lived just a few houses south but they would not play with us much… they had their own friends.
Being caught in the middle of the community below the upper and above the lower – likely affected much that I would do later.
I wish I would have found a list like this when I was 14 years old – the magic time when much changed for me in my life.
I offer it today and point to Dr. Howard Zehr and his work with people – particularly in Restorative Justice.
Have a great day and week getting ready to enter the frenzy and fun of a short holiday that we prepare all year for…then begin paying for most of next year.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://emu.edu/blog/restorative-justice/2009/11/27/10-ways-to-live-restoratively/
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Coming Out of the Woods
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Today’s Blog Post
Coming Out of the Woods
As I have followed the events unfolding for the Tiger Woods Family in Florida and all over the USA I am amazed with what has taken place. Utterly amazed to say the least.
Since it was reported that a Black Cadillac crashed outside his home one early morning… a window was broken on the car… with his wife trying to help him get out of the car – which apparently he was trapped inside…. The story has grown more strange.
Then a few days later another TV shot was offered the ogling TV public as an ambulance raced to the Hospital from his house. Apparently it was Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law this time… she was sick. But TV Cameras were waiting for more film footage to tantalize the public with…just outside his home again.
Stop for a minute and think – someone was waiting for something bad or controversial to happen. They were like vultures that were hanging on every word or possible miss deed.
They are waiting for the man and his family to fall. It is a must.
On the other side the huge companies that have contributed Millions of Dollars to his coffers each year – are now backing off. Apparently there is concern about a possible backlash with the “family value/image” that Mr. Woods has had.
Now that he is messing around – or was – the good companies have backed away from this hot potato.
Has any one stopped to think how many golfers have had affairs or are experiencing difficult times in their marriages?
Has anyone thought that maybe with as many people that have problems and play Golf… Tiger might now be identified with more people and it will become more lucrative for the Tiger Woods name than ever before.
What is the problem? And… I know asking that question will likely disturb some of my fine ‘family value’ friends that wish to make their points. Go for it!
The problem is our desire to see some one become a hero. WE MUST HAVE SOME ONE BE LOOKED UP TO – or we are not complete. Our society as a whole created the Tiger Brand… and when someone doesn’t live up to our expectations we are crushed. It as if we have done this to ourselves. WOW – and we have.
Why do people need a hero like this? And when we make him a hero he becomes huge in our minds. Infallible!
Tiger Woods is just like every other man alive… and so is his family…except maybe for the money factor which now is over One Billion recorded earnings in his life time.
People like to think that maybe just maybe they can live out their dreams through some one like him… be a good golfer… me a dad … be a husband… etc.
I was thinking on this yesterday and today as the companies started coming forward to announce that they were pulling back their support.
I wondered how many of the companies had men and women getting divorces now, have had divorces or were possibly considering it?
Should that fact alone make us then back off the possible involvement with their product? Like, “I will never shave with Gillette again if I find out one of their executives or even an employee has had an affair!”
That is so stupid.
Most of the public are the biggest bunch of hypocrites! Can you imagine? They can do it – but Tiger can’t – because they made him their hero. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.
I would appeal to the press and the world to simply leave them alone. They have enough to deal with now. They will live through their own hell… just like our people do in daily living.
Today I have prayed for Tiger Woods and his family. May God be there to help them work it through.
And maybe he will put away his clubs and live comfortably forever… and not let you ever see him play again. Won’t the public be jilted if that takes place.
How long will it take to spend One Billion Plus Dollars? A Lifetime?
But we need him… and stories about him.
Please come out of the Woods?!?! Leave them alone.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
This BLOG is sponsored by “Misty Hollow Carving”. You are welcome to visit Misty Hollow and see all of my carvings.
My Web Site is a like a Gallery – please drop in for a stroll through.
To help me promote my Web Site please copy this URL address and email to someone today http://www.murraylincoln.com/
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Today’s Blog Post
Coming Out of the Woods
Since it was reported that a Black Cadillac crashed outside his home one early morning… a window was broken on the car… with his wife trying to help him get out of the car – which apparently he was trapped inside…. The story has grown more strange.
Then a few days later another TV shot was offered the ogling TV public as an ambulance raced to the Hospital from his house. Apparently it was Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law this time… she was sick. But TV Cameras were waiting for more film footage to tantalize the public with…just outside his home again.
Stop for a minute and think – someone was waiting for something bad or controversial to happen. They were like vultures that were hanging on every word or possible miss deed.
They are waiting for the man and his family to fall. It is a must.
On the other side the huge companies that have contributed Millions of Dollars to his coffers each year – are now backing off. Apparently there is concern about a possible backlash with the “family value/image” that Mr. Woods has had.
Now that he is messing around – or was – the good companies have backed away from this hot potato.
Has any one stopped to think how many golfers have had affairs or are experiencing difficult times in their marriages?
Has anyone thought that maybe with as many people that have problems and play Golf… Tiger might now be identified with more people and it will become more lucrative for the Tiger Woods name than ever before.
What is the problem? And… I know asking that question will likely disturb some of my fine ‘family value’ friends that wish to make their points. Go for it!
The problem is our desire to see some one become a hero. WE MUST HAVE SOME ONE BE LOOKED UP TO – or we are not complete. Our society as a whole created the Tiger Brand… and when someone doesn’t live up to our expectations we are crushed. It as if we have done this to ourselves. WOW – and we have.
Why do people need a hero like this? And when we make him a hero he becomes huge in our minds. Infallible!
Tiger Woods is just like every other man alive… and so is his family…except maybe for the money factor which now is over One Billion recorded earnings in his life time.
People like to think that maybe just maybe they can live out their dreams through some one like him… be a good golfer… me a dad … be a husband… etc.
I was thinking on this yesterday and today as the companies started coming forward to announce that they were pulling back their support.
I wondered how many of the companies had men and women getting divorces now, have had divorces or were possibly considering it?
Should that fact alone make us then back off the possible involvement with their product? Like, “I will never shave with Gillette again if I find out one of their executives or even an employee has had an affair!”
That is so stupid.
Most of the public are the biggest bunch of hypocrites! Can you imagine? They can do it – but Tiger can’t – because they made him their hero. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.
I would appeal to the press and the world to simply leave them alone. They have enough to deal with now. They will live through their own hell… just like our people do in daily living.
Today I have prayed for Tiger Woods and his family. May God be there to help them work it through.
And maybe he will put away his clubs and live comfortably forever… and not let you ever see him play again. Won’t the public be jilted if that takes place.
How long will it take to spend One Billion Plus Dollars? A Lifetime?
But we need him… and stories about him.
Please come out of the Woods?!?! Leave them alone.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Unfriend – Toward – Towards – Flammable – Inflammable – Duh!
Misty Hollow Carving
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Today’s Blog Post
Unfriend – Toward – Towards – Flammable – Inflammable – Duh!
At one point in my life I had the joy of leading “Conversational English Classes” while living in Hong Kong. It was one of the most delightful times in my stay in that beautiful part of the country. It was also the most fun as we tried to relate to the folk the wonders of our weird English Language.
The fun of English is that it is always changing with new additions and constructions that come from seemingly no where.
Cantonese as a language has no written language – making it a challenge to learn. English on the other hand has a written language but is easily added to each year….making it a challenge to learn.
In my life in the past two years I have added “Facebook”, Blogspot, Blogs, Twitter, and Goggle… but that was added to eMail, and Snailmail and VLoging and YouTube and WinZip and AVG and Norton AV and motherboard and video card and RAM and USB and Port and mouse pad…
Recently the new non-word that is now a popular word growing each day… “unfriend”. When I heard it first and then listened to its usage – I needed this word a long time ago. I was doing it and not knowing what to call it accurately.
I was using the word “nuke” or “nuking” or “nuked” in place of it. But “unfriend” is definitely more 2009 – not so 1945 through to the 1960s when “nuking” someone was more fun… or more common.
Nuke, Nuking, and Nuked is a horrible way that got some nasty friends in Japan – attention. Two huge bombs were dropped on two places in Japan and that got their attention. We “unfriended” them quickly.
To “unfriend” some one happens first on Facebook. You simply nuke them from your list of friends. I have done it a few times with some idiots that post really stupid things without any thought about who might read it, thinking it was funny – but rather it was just plain stupid.
At the base of this Blog people will write comments for others to read – making points about what I post. In the last few days I have had to “unfriend” some “Call Girls” that were selling their stuff…by reading what I said… then commenting on it – with a Link to their Porn Sites. Oh Boy – would my “righteous ninnies” love that one.
I have “unfriended” some others that have acted like anything but a friend. So with one little click – I “unfriended” them to Unfriend Land – where all the people that are unfriendly live.
But our language didn’t stop there. When we give directions the word pops up that gives me some small concern… which is right? And why is it that way.
“If you want to get to that Mall you drive towards the west side of the city. Once you get closer to the large park you drive toward the large tower and the street that is near its base. Then turn right.”
Now why do I use two words that make perfect sense – yet are different. “Toward” and “Towards”…? Isn’t it the same? Consider my poor Chinese students that are struggling to get it right. Yikes!
Now if I look at the label on the red canister it plainly states that the content is “Inflammable” – in my mind meaning that it will be guaranteed not to burn. But it actually means the extreme opposite.
Now add some more words that are used like… tags such as “innit”, “right”, “yeah”, “okay” and “you know”.
Or you can look at "blah, blah, blah,'' which used to mean
"etc., etc.'' or "duh,'' which used to mean "You can't think I'm THAT stupid!
But you can add another to the list that simple says it all “DOH!” Which is something that I say when I drop something valuable or drop my glove in the slushy and dirty snow….
Yadda, Yadda, Yadda… you get the drift… right? Come on baby – get with the flow dude… do you have gear stripped? Or is it just a lose nut or a broken circuit daddy-oh?
I have had years of experiencing new lingo and then new stuff starts to flood the arena of my mind. Ouch!
Try…
"totally", "so totally", "Totes" – all meaning “very”
Why not try…
"She was like 'oh my gawd you have to see this', but I was like, 'shut up! you're kidding!'"
Or simply put “OMG!” when you are texting… on your Cell Phone!
Or…
"Oh, why, that came out of nowhere!"
"Haven't I heard that before?" "Duh, it's like a famous quote!"
"You are wrong", "It's not going to happen", "You wish"
"You expect me to wear that? As if!"
"What-ever!"
"You're, like, so totally out of nail polish? What-EVER!"
"Worst (something) ever!"
"Worst. Movie. Ever (sometimes written as "evar")!"
"so", "like", "OK", "you know", "or something"
"So OK, I was totally like, you know, 'I have no idea' or something!"
“He goes… ‘Like Right’ She goes… ‘Whatever!’ He goes… ‘Or something!”
"Barf me out!" ("That's disgusting.")
"Fer sure." ("Definitely.")
"Totally." ("Yes." or "Definitely." or "Very much.")
"Gag me with a spoon"
I hope you have a totally awesome day!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://nadaword.blogspot.com/2009/11/unfriend.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valspeak
This BLOG is sponsored by “Misty Hollow Carving”. You are welcome to visit Misty Hollow and see all of my carvings.
My Web Site is a like a Gallery – please drop in for a stroll through.
To help me promote my Web Site please copy this URL address and email to someone today http://www.murraylincoln.com/
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Today’s Blog Post
Unfriend – Toward – Towards – Flammable – Inflammable – Duh!
The fun of English is that it is always changing with new additions and constructions that come from seemingly no where.
Cantonese as a language has no written language – making it a challenge to learn. English on the other hand has a written language but is easily added to each year….making it a challenge to learn.
In my life in the past two years I have added “Facebook”, Blogspot, Blogs, Twitter, and Goggle… but that was added to eMail, and Snailmail and VLoging and YouTube and WinZip and AVG and Norton AV and motherboard and video card and RAM and USB and Port and mouse pad…
Recently the new non-word that is now a popular word growing each day… “unfriend”. When I heard it first and then listened to its usage – I needed this word a long time ago. I was doing it and not knowing what to call it accurately.
I was using the word “nuke” or “nuking” or “nuked” in place of it. But “unfriend” is definitely more 2009 – not so 1945 through to the 1960s when “nuking” someone was more fun… or more common.
Nuke, Nuking, and Nuked is a horrible way that got some nasty friends in Japan – attention. Two huge bombs were dropped on two places in Japan and that got their attention. We “unfriended” them quickly.
To “unfriend” some one happens first on Facebook. You simply nuke them from your list of friends. I have done it a few times with some idiots that post really stupid things without any thought about who might read it, thinking it was funny – but rather it was just plain stupid.
At the base of this Blog people will write comments for others to read – making points about what I post. In the last few days I have had to “unfriend” some “Call Girls” that were selling their stuff…by reading what I said… then commenting on it – with a Link to their Porn Sites. Oh Boy – would my “righteous ninnies” love that one.
I have “unfriended” some others that have acted like anything but a friend. So with one little click – I “unfriended” them to Unfriend Land – where all the people that are unfriendly live.
But our language didn’t stop there. When we give directions the word pops up that gives me some small concern… which is right? And why is it that way.
“If you want to get to that Mall you drive towards the west side of the city. Once you get closer to the large park you drive toward the large tower and the street that is near its base. Then turn right.”
Now why do I use two words that make perfect sense – yet are different. “Toward” and “Towards”…? Isn’t it the same? Consider my poor Chinese students that are struggling to get it right. Yikes!
Now if I look at the label on the red canister it plainly states that the content is “Inflammable” – in my mind meaning that it will be guaranteed not to burn. But it actually means the extreme opposite.
Now add some more words that are used like… tags such as “innit”, “right”, “yeah”, “okay” and “you know”.
Or you can look at "blah, blah, blah,'' which used to mean
"etc., etc.'' or "duh,'' which used to mean "You can't think I'm THAT stupid!
But you can add another to the list that simple says it all “DOH!” Which is something that I say when I drop something valuable or drop my glove in the slushy and dirty snow….
Yadda, Yadda, Yadda… you get the drift… right? Come on baby – get with the flow dude… do you have gear stripped? Or is it just a lose nut or a broken circuit daddy-oh?
I have had years of experiencing new lingo and then new stuff starts to flood the arena of my mind. Ouch!
Try…
"totally", "so totally", "Totes" – all meaning “very”
Why not try…
"She was like 'oh my gawd you have to see this', but I was like, 'shut up! you're kidding!'"
Or simply put “OMG!” when you are texting… on your Cell Phone!
Or…
"Oh, why, that came out of nowhere!"
"Haven't I heard that before?" "Duh, it's like a famous quote!"
"You are wrong", "It's not going to happen", "You wish"
"You expect me to wear that? As if!"
"What-ever!"
"You're, like, so totally out of nail polish? What-EVER!"
"Worst (something) ever!"
"Worst. Movie. Ever (sometimes written as "evar")!"
"so", "like", "OK", "you know", "or something"
"So OK, I was totally like, you know, 'I have no idea' or something!"
“He goes… ‘Like Right’ She goes… ‘Whatever!’ He goes… ‘Or something!”
"Barf me out!" ("That's disgusting.")
"Fer sure." ("Definitely.")
"Totally." ("Yes." or "Definitely." or "Very much.")
"Gag me with a spoon"
I hope you have a totally awesome day!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://nadaword.blogspot.com/2009/11/unfriend.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valspeak
Sunday, December 13, 2009
"Life is short. Have an affair."
Misty Hollow Carving
This BLOG is sponsored by “Misty Hollow Carving”. You are welcome to visit Misty Hollow and see all of my carvings.
My Web Site is a like a Gallery – please drop in for a stroll through.
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Today’s Blog Post
Life is short. Have an affair.
Now I know the Title of today’s Blog will have stopped most of my readers. They have either dropped their coffee cups – or choked on something!
“How could a Minister even place that as a title to something he has written?!?! I cannot believe it! What will people think?!!!!”
Well in our area of Canada ‘Ashley Madison’ was coming to town. She/they had the intention of renting a large space on the side of the TTC Street Cars/Buses with that statement written on it… soliciting potential business in the Toronto and surrounding area.
Business? What business? Well for all you good ‘church goers and people of extreme refinement’ – the business is one of hooking up your spouse with some that he or she can have an affair with. That’s it – plain and simple.
Knowing that most church goers would never in a million years even look at this kind of signage… ‘Ashley Madison’ decided to place it at strategic places on the TTC – where thousands of Torontonians travel each Sunday to church thereby giving them something to think about.
Now I live in Peterborough which is a wee bit out of Toronto but still close enough to often go there for business or pleasure. I ride the TTC from time to time. I look at 90% of what is advertised. AND I WILL DEFINITELY READ THIS KIND OF OFFER! Ashley was counting on that!
Now before you have a fit knowing that this was about to take place… the TTC DECLINED THE BUSINESS. BUT with the decline and the proper amount of Media Hype over the “Puritanical Mindset of the TTC” – the media covered the refusal and ‘Ashley Madison’ got to strut her stuff to about 3 Million People for free.
So I looked at the web sites and the places that wrote stuff on the web about ‘Ashley’s’ business. WOW what a lot there is… and what a wide range.
Most of what is written seems to target the Male population with the visuals… but not entirely all of it. It also brings out the temptation in a well balanced way… making sure the potential Female clients are not left out.
But as I researched this piece I spotted the Christian Counter Part to ‘Ashley Madison’. The one that I checked out was entitled “ChristianMingle”. They are not promoting an affair from what I see.
To try to check it out I entered their site as “Widower” giving my personal information… right up to entering a password… and ready to shoot out my particulars to a waiting and lovelorn world of other widows – or singles that may not care that I have a load of Grandkids and Two Overly Bright Daughters that would kill me for picking a new mate (Specially with their Mother still alive and living with me…!!!!)
The word “deception” crossed my mind as I entered the information in the appropriate boxes. The idea of being just a little bit dishonest – in a Christian way – when it asked about my body type… the selection being from “washboard… to needing to lose a few pounds”. IF I WAS DESPERATE – what would I tell the potential person? The assumption is of course that I would be honest.
Now I want to push this idea just a little further… and act as if I was REALLY GOING TO DO THIS. I will have to enter a photo to let my ‘potential date’ know me…. AND OF COURSE I would like to look like a hunk… but may not. (In my case I AM NOT! And KNOW IT!!!)
So whether “Ashley M” or the “ChristianMingle” – what do I offer?
Hey you know I have a great big imagination that often gets me into problems… so here goes.
I am offering you a slate of photos that I might pick to show you. And I am offering a true slate of the real guys behind the Photos. And then as you look them over keep the ‘Ashley Madison’ slogan front and center… “Life is short. Have an affair”.
The "Offer Guys"… and The "Real Guys"… All kind of Hunks
It seems to me that without saying too much more… this is a perfectly DUMB IDEA.
I offer the following as quotes from people that got caught into the stupidity. It is a little like showing you a fish that has great regrets after he snapped at the very nice looking fish hook…
Quotes that show the Pros and Cons of having an affair…How dumb can people be? Pretty dumb actually – you be the judge!
The Pros Of Having an Affair
Of course, there have to be positive points to having an affair or nobody would be doing it. It is often to fill voids that their current relationship doesn’t fill; boredom; loneliness; naturally wondering eyes; and many other reasons. When someone feels something missing in their relationship, albeit emotionally or physically, they will often want to complete the circle, make themselves feel fully satisfied with another person. It can maintain being just self esteem boosting or sexual relief, or it can grow into a valued, caring relationship that continues for many years.
From SallyM, 38: “My husband only thinks about himself when it comes to sex. We have done it probably twice in the last year, both times disappointing for me but fine for him. My lover cares about my sexual needs and we can even talk for hours about anything. He has become both a friend and a lover. It’s fantastic! We’re both happy staying in each other’s side lives too – no complications, no arguments and over ten years now.”
From Tamika, 46: “After years of having next to no companionship, it’s great to have met Gary. He’s sweet, loving and we both feel so connected to each other. I find it amazing that I could click so easily with someone. I still go home to my partner, but it’s nice to feel I have support from my lover when things get down at home.”
From Cam, 27: “My husband’s barely ever home. He is always on business trips or down at the bar with his mates. My lover makes me feel like I’m in a real relationship, without having to deal with the bills, fights or my bad moods. I couldn’t be in my marriage without him and he says the same about me. We’re basically each other’s backbone.”
The Cons Of Having an Affair
Affairs aren’t always fun, loving and risk-free. While there are great reasons to have an affair and many to stay in one, there are also things that make you feel you’re doing the wrong thing and you feel guilt, you have a fight with your lover, or worst case you get caught! One of the primary cons about having an extramarital affair is the risk of pain it would put on the people in the families involved. It may seem fun, exciting and you may have developed no guilt but things can go wrong, conversations may leak out, conflicts might start and the general eventual feeling that you know you’re not the main part in your lover’s life can take its toll.
From Brent, 52: “My wife found out I’ve been having an affair with a woman at work through one of my work colleagues. I didn’t even know they knew about it! The woman I was with didn’t want anything more than casual sex on the side of her own marriage. I’ve now lost my wife, my three kids and am left with no home. My lover doesn’t want to risk being with a single person so I’m practically left alone… not to mention the financial strains from all of this. I wish I could turn back time.”
From Rebecca, 25: “I fell pregnant while having an affair and didn’t know who the father was. With extreme racial differences, I HAD to find out who the father was. My husband left me when he found out the baby may not be his. My lover didn’t want it and it was too late to stop it. I’m now a single mother living with my parents.”
From Tess, 37: “I’ve always found it hard having an affair. I am attached to a married man other than my husband and desperately want to share it with someone but have to keep it to myself. I can’t kiss him in public, can’t talk to him on the weekends on the phone from home nor call to ask if everything’s ok when I haven’t heard from him in over a week. I have to be very careful if I try to email him or talk online to ensure my partner doesn’t find out. Secrecy really eats away sometimes.”
From Martin, 45: “I’ve always been safe when I had sex with other women other than my wife, but I went bareback one night with a girl I thought I could trust and had been with for several months. She gave me an STD. It was next to impossible to make an excuse to my wife on the spot why I didn’t want to have unprotected sex with her. It puts yet another strain on our marriage!”
Every relationship is different and every affair is unique. Everybody has different needs they want fulfilled when it comes to affairs and in the end you need to weigh up the pros and cons of your own situation to decide on whether it’s worth taking the step into having an extramarital relationship. You’re the only person who has the final say on how far the temptations go. Not every person in the same situation will have the same outcome so remember you need to be the one to judge what you want to do. End quote…
How dumb can someone be!?
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gcP7bm4253MUQ9X4yg6_c9P4wBkw
http://www.christianmingle.com/frsplash.html
This BLOG is sponsored by “Misty Hollow Carving”. You are welcome to visit Misty Hollow and see all of my carvings.
My Web Site is a like a Gallery – please drop in for a stroll through.
To help me promote my Web Site please copy this URL address and email to someone today http://www.murraylincoln.com/
* * * * * * * * *
Today’s Blog Post
Life is short. Have an affair.
Now I know the Title of today’s Blog will have stopped most of my readers. They have either dropped their coffee cups – or choked on something!
“How could a Minister even place that as a title to something he has written?!?! I cannot believe it! What will people think?!!!!”
Well in our area of Canada ‘Ashley Madison’ was coming to town. She/they had the intention of renting a large space on the side of the TTC Street Cars/Buses with that statement written on it… soliciting potential business in the Toronto and surrounding area.
Business? What business? Well for all you good ‘church goers and people of extreme refinement’ – the business is one of hooking up your spouse with some that he or she can have an affair with. That’s it – plain and simple.
Knowing that most church goers would never in a million years even look at this kind of signage… ‘Ashley Madison’ decided to place it at strategic places on the TTC – where thousands of Torontonians travel each Sunday to church thereby giving them something to think about.
Now I live in Peterborough which is a wee bit out of Toronto but still close enough to often go there for business or pleasure. I ride the TTC from time to time. I look at 90% of what is advertised. AND I WILL DEFINITELY READ THIS KIND OF OFFER! Ashley was counting on that!
Now before you have a fit knowing that this was about to take place… the TTC DECLINED THE BUSINESS. BUT with the decline and the proper amount of Media Hype over the “Puritanical Mindset of the TTC” – the media covered the refusal and ‘Ashley Madison’ got to strut her stuff to about 3 Million People for free.
So I looked at the web sites and the places that wrote stuff on the web about ‘Ashley’s’ business. WOW what a lot there is… and what a wide range.
Most of what is written seems to target the Male population with the visuals… but not entirely all of it. It also brings out the temptation in a well balanced way… making sure the potential Female clients are not left out.
But as I researched this piece I spotted the Christian Counter Part to ‘Ashley Madison’. The one that I checked out was entitled “ChristianMingle”. They are not promoting an affair from what I see.
To try to check it out I entered their site as “Widower” giving my personal information… right up to entering a password… and ready to shoot out my particulars to a waiting and lovelorn world of other widows – or singles that may not care that I have a load of Grandkids and Two Overly Bright Daughters that would kill me for picking a new mate (Specially with their Mother still alive and living with me…!!!!)
The word “deception” crossed my mind as I entered the information in the appropriate boxes. The idea of being just a little bit dishonest – in a Christian way – when it asked about my body type… the selection being from “washboard… to needing to lose a few pounds”. IF I WAS DESPERATE – what would I tell the potential person? The assumption is of course that I would be honest.
Now I want to push this idea just a little further… and act as if I was REALLY GOING TO DO THIS. I will have to enter a photo to let my ‘potential date’ know me…. AND OF COURSE I would like to look like a hunk… but may not. (In my case I AM NOT! And KNOW IT!!!)
So whether “Ashley M” or the “ChristianMingle” – what do I offer?
Hey you know I have a great big imagination that often gets me into problems… so here goes.
I am offering you a slate of photos that I might pick to show you. And I am offering a true slate of the real guys behind the Photos. And then as you look them over keep the ‘Ashley Madison’ slogan front and center… “Life is short. Have an affair”.
The "Offer Guys"… and The "Real Guys"… All kind of Hunks
It seems to me that without saying too much more… this is a perfectly DUMB IDEA.
I offer the following as quotes from people that got caught into the stupidity. It is a little like showing you a fish that has great regrets after he snapped at the very nice looking fish hook…
Quotes that show the Pros and Cons of having an affair…How dumb can people be? Pretty dumb actually – you be the judge!
The Pros Of Having an Affair
Of course, there have to be positive points to having an affair or nobody would be doing it. It is often to fill voids that their current relationship doesn’t fill; boredom; loneliness; naturally wondering eyes; and many other reasons. When someone feels something missing in their relationship, albeit emotionally or physically, they will often want to complete the circle, make themselves feel fully satisfied with another person. It can maintain being just self esteem boosting or sexual relief, or it can grow into a valued, caring relationship that continues for many years.
From SallyM, 38: “My husband only thinks about himself when it comes to sex. We have done it probably twice in the last year, both times disappointing for me but fine for him. My lover cares about my sexual needs and we can even talk for hours about anything. He has become both a friend and a lover. It’s fantastic! We’re both happy staying in each other’s side lives too – no complications, no arguments and over ten years now.”
From Tamika, 46: “After years of having next to no companionship, it’s great to have met Gary. He’s sweet, loving and we both feel so connected to each other. I find it amazing that I could click so easily with someone. I still go home to my partner, but it’s nice to feel I have support from my lover when things get down at home.”
From Cam, 27: “My husband’s barely ever home. He is always on business trips or down at the bar with his mates. My lover makes me feel like I’m in a real relationship, without having to deal with the bills, fights or my bad moods. I couldn’t be in my marriage without him and he says the same about me. We’re basically each other’s backbone.”
The Cons Of Having an Affair
Affairs aren’t always fun, loving and risk-free. While there are great reasons to have an affair and many to stay in one, there are also things that make you feel you’re doing the wrong thing and you feel guilt, you have a fight with your lover, or worst case you get caught! One of the primary cons about having an extramarital affair is the risk of pain it would put on the people in the families involved. It may seem fun, exciting and you may have developed no guilt but things can go wrong, conversations may leak out, conflicts might start and the general eventual feeling that you know you’re not the main part in your lover’s life can take its toll.
From Brent, 52: “My wife found out I’ve been having an affair with a woman at work through one of my work colleagues. I didn’t even know they knew about it! The woman I was with didn’t want anything more than casual sex on the side of her own marriage. I’ve now lost my wife, my three kids and am left with no home. My lover doesn’t want to risk being with a single person so I’m practically left alone… not to mention the financial strains from all of this. I wish I could turn back time.”
From Rebecca, 25: “I fell pregnant while having an affair and didn’t know who the father was. With extreme racial differences, I HAD to find out who the father was. My husband left me when he found out the baby may not be his. My lover didn’t want it and it was too late to stop it. I’m now a single mother living with my parents.”
From Tess, 37: “I’ve always found it hard having an affair. I am attached to a married man other than my husband and desperately want to share it with someone but have to keep it to myself. I can’t kiss him in public, can’t talk to him on the weekends on the phone from home nor call to ask if everything’s ok when I haven’t heard from him in over a week. I have to be very careful if I try to email him or talk online to ensure my partner doesn’t find out. Secrecy really eats away sometimes.”
From Martin, 45: “I’ve always been safe when I had sex with other women other than my wife, but I went bareback one night with a girl I thought I could trust and had been with for several months. She gave me an STD. It was next to impossible to make an excuse to my wife on the spot why I didn’t want to have unprotected sex with her. It puts yet another strain on our marriage!”
Every relationship is different and every affair is unique. Everybody has different needs they want fulfilled when it comes to affairs and in the end you need to weigh up the pros and cons of your own situation to decide on whether it’s worth taking the step into having an extramarital relationship. You’re the only person who has the final say on how far the temptations go. Not every person in the same situation will have the same outcome so remember you need to be the one to judge what you want to do. End quote…
How dumb can someone be!?
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gcP7bm4253MUQ9X4yg6_c9P4wBkw
http://www.christianmingle.com/frsplash.html
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Willard Wigan – the Ultimate Miniature Artist
Misty Hollow Carving
This BLOG is sponsored by “Misty Hollow Carving”. You are welcome to visit Misty Hollow and see all of my carvings.
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Willard Wigan – the Ultimate Miniature Artist
Willard’s story may be one of the most inspiring stories that I have encountered for a long time. As an artist he appears to be all alone in what he creates. And things he creates are almost impossible – at least for other people. You will not find many artists rushing to copy what he does.
Willard creates miniature art pieces, that usually tell a story, in one of two general places from what I have found. Either it is done on the head of a pin or in the tip of a pencil… or inside the eye of a needle.
To see what he creates one must look through a microscope to provide the enlargement needed to see the detail that he has been able to accomplish.
His tiny sculptures are painted using the hair off a house fly. Did you get that? One single hair mounted on the end of tool that he has to fashion small enough to see around. The sharp end of the ordinary pin would be far too big to actually come close to the item he is creating.
Now the sculptures are carved. Where in the world would one get small enough tools to carve with? Well from what I read Willard creates his own tools by attaching small pieces of diamond to the end of the holding device that he has created – likely a sharpened/reduced point of a pin. The diamond shard will be one of the finest and sharpest tools that any one could ever imagine.
As an artist that also does some fine work – i.e. my hand carved leaves, I can completely understand the dilemma that Willard faces. Tools are the number one problem, and the number two problem is your own body actions.
My tools MUST BE SHARP and the ACTIONS of my HANDS, ARMS, SHOULDERS and BODY are concentrated in such a fashion that at times I am holding my breath even making one cut. Most of all I must KNOW MY MEDIUM, know the wood right down to the very last wood fiber.
Recently someone asked me how long it takes me to carve a leaf. I blinked and thought… I had no idea. It is as if I travel to another place in time or the universe to make one. Each one is totally unique from the other… a master’s piece created by hand.
But when I found Willard and have looked closely at what he does… I am absolutely stunned by what I see. What this man accomplishes is away past amazing.
Willard charges a good dollar(actually British Pounds) for what he creates. The demand for the master pieces that he puts out is very high. From what I read so far he does a large amount of commissions for many famous people. What he makes is one of kind gifts that no one in the world will ever have.
His prices are around £40,000 to £60,000…but that is not much for 18 hours a day for 8 weeks…that is 1008 hours of steady work.
Some of what he shared was that he actually goes into a kind of meditative state to complete each piece. As I listened I can tell you he does a lot of holding his breath.
But something else I can tell you is… there is no one more satisfied about what he creates than he is. The release and completion that he experiences each time will be amazing. I don’t know a word that describes what he must feel. I feel it each time I complete something that I have made.
One of the notable things that caught my thinking was Willard’s disability. He cannot read or write like other people. He has a major learning disability… that has stretched over his entire lifetime.
I quote from one article I read…
"As a child, he was poor, dyslexic and barely literate and was branded "a stupid insignificant nothing" by his teachers, and so he started to work on a scale too small to criticize, but which would show "how significant nothing could be".
And more…
"He grew up in a Birmingham council house, the third of seven children to a father who worked in a steel foundry and a mother who toiled on a production line. "We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own," he says.
"My first creation was a house for ants, when I was five. I took wood splinters and shaped a crude bungalow and some tiny furniture. Then I invited the ant in with honey and soon," he laughs, "I was a landlord of a colony."
At school, though, Wigan struggled. He was dyslexic and in the Sixties the condition was not recognized so he was branded a dunce. "My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
"Because I felt ashamed, my head was always down and I began to notice things that everybody else ignored - like particles of dust and red mites crawling on the pavement. At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape."
It didn't help that Wigan and his father didn't get on. "Dad insisted I follow him into the foundry, which I did briefly when I left school at 15, but that year I bought my first microscope for £4 from a second-hand shop and began to make little wood sculptures." End quote.
When I read the words that he felt ashamed and his head was down… I gulped. I remember that feeling of worthlessness. I remember failing some super important exams and being told that perhaps this “wasn’t the kind of course” that I should be in… in fact I remember looking down a lot… and wishing that I was as smart as other kids in the class… and sometimes wishing I was DEAD – instead of failing – again and again and again…
Two of my grandsons were told some pretty stupid things recently by some REALLY STUPID TEACHERS. This GRANDPA wanted to go down to their school and scream at the REALLY DUMB TEACHERS… but I didn’t. The boys are way too much like me… and I went into a FUNK just thinking of the up hill battle that they are going to face for years to come!!!
Willard’s story is way too personal and has gripped me way too deep… and will not let go. I have had a few days to think about this inspiration and have committed myself to carve more leaves… than any one else has ever carved and making them thinner and finer and better and more beautiful than anyone can ever imagine. I will hold my breath more and become the best at what I do.
Willard will never know how powerful his story has been to some us.
A new idea has been developing too. I am meeting a whole bunch of guys that are coming out of prison. They are broken men that look down a lot. They have been looking down for a long time and have seen a lot that no one else has seen. They don’t believe in what they can do. Like Willard, they have been told many times that “your brain is the size of a pea…”
They cannot get jobs because they are still hated and always will be…because of what they have done. But if they were to carve leaves with me… and I took responsibility for what they carved… showing it… selling it… and never having them have to stand in front of critical teachers again… Maybe they could be another Willard Wigan.
Today Willard is worth somewhere around £11,000,000 – yes you read that right… that is almost $20,000,000 USD – not bad for a dummy who can’t do what you do with your degrees and powerful position. WOW!
This is fair notice to you dear reader… The price of my Hand Carved Leaves is going up soon… a way, way, way up. If you want one now… you better get in line at today’s prices. Last week they sold for $100 each…next week or so… they will be more.
Thanks Willard Wigan… for your life and story!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Wigan
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23782805-the-man-who-makes-millions-from-miniature-art.do
http://www.willard-wigan.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
http://www.willard-wigan.com/gallery.aspx
http://paintalicious.org/2007/04/25/willard-wigans-micro-miniaturists-sculptures/
http://images.google.ca/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLJ_en___CA251&q=willard+wigan's+miniature+art&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=EYAiS6ruKs3PlAfUpYz-CQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCAQsAQwAw
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(Snow White and Seven Dwarfs - the Wigan Way)
Today’s Blog Post
Willard Wigan – the Ultimate Miniature Artist
Willard’s story may be one of the most inspiring stories that I have encountered for a long time. As an artist he appears to be all alone in what he creates. And things he creates are almost impossible – at least for other people. You will not find many artists rushing to copy what he does.
Willard creates miniature art pieces, that usually tell a story, in one of two general places from what I have found. Either it is done on the head of a pin or in the tip of a pencil… or inside the eye of a needle.
To see what he creates one must look through a microscope to provide the enlargement needed to see the detail that he has been able to accomplish.
His tiny sculptures are painted using the hair off a house fly. Did you get that? One single hair mounted on the end of tool that he has to fashion small enough to see around. The sharp end of the ordinary pin would be far too big to actually come close to the item he is creating.
Now the sculptures are carved. Where in the world would one get small enough tools to carve with? Well from what I read Willard creates his own tools by attaching small pieces of diamond to the end of the holding device that he has created – likely a sharpened/reduced point of a pin. The diamond shard will be one of the finest and sharpest tools that any one could ever imagine.
As an artist that also does some fine work – i.e. my hand carved leaves, I can completely understand the dilemma that Willard faces. Tools are the number one problem, and the number two problem is your own body actions.
My tools MUST BE SHARP and the ACTIONS of my HANDS, ARMS, SHOULDERS and BODY are concentrated in such a fashion that at times I am holding my breath even making one cut. Most of all I must KNOW MY MEDIUM, know the wood right down to the very last wood fiber.
Recently someone asked me how long it takes me to carve a leaf. I blinked and thought… I had no idea. It is as if I travel to another place in time or the universe to make one. Each one is totally unique from the other… a master’s piece created by hand.
But when I found Willard and have looked closely at what he does… I am absolutely stunned by what I see. What this man accomplishes is away past amazing.
Willard charges a good dollar(actually British Pounds) for what he creates. The demand for the master pieces that he puts out is very high. From what I read so far he does a large amount of commissions for many famous people. What he makes is one of kind gifts that no one in the world will ever have.
His prices are around £40,000 to £60,000…but that is not much for 18 hours a day for 8 weeks…that is 1008 hours of steady work.
Some of what he shared was that he actually goes into a kind of meditative state to complete each piece. As I listened I can tell you he does a lot of holding his breath.
But something else I can tell you is… there is no one more satisfied about what he creates than he is. The release and completion that he experiences each time will be amazing. I don’t know a word that describes what he must feel. I feel it each time I complete something that I have made.
One of the notable things that caught my thinking was Willard’s disability. He cannot read or write like other people. He has a major learning disability… that has stretched over his entire lifetime.
I quote from one article I read…
"As a child, he was poor, dyslexic and barely literate and was branded "a stupid insignificant nothing" by his teachers, and so he started to work on a scale too small to criticize, but which would show "how significant nothing could be".
And more…
"He grew up in a Birmingham council house, the third of seven children to a father who worked in a steel foundry and a mother who toiled on a production line. "We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own," he says.
"My first creation was a house for ants, when I was five. I took wood splinters and shaped a crude bungalow and some tiny furniture. Then I invited the ant in with honey and soon," he laughs, "I was a landlord of a colony."
At school, though, Wigan struggled. He was dyslexic and in the Sixties the condition was not recognized so he was branded a dunce. "My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
"Because I felt ashamed, my head was always down and I began to notice things that everybody else ignored - like particles of dust and red mites crawling on the pavement. At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape."
It didn't help that Wigan and his father didn't get on. "Dad insisted I follow him into the foundry, which I did briefly when I left school at 15, but that year I bought my first microscope for £4 from a second-hand shop and began to make little wood sculptures." End quote.
When I read the words that he felt ashamed and his head was down… I gulped. I remember that feeling of worthlessness. I remember failing some super important exams and being told that perhaps this “wasn’t the kind of course” that I should be in… in fact I remember looking down a lot… and wishing that I was as smart as other kids in the class… and sometimes wishing I was DEAD – instead of failing – again and again and again…
Two of my grandsons were told some pretty stupid things recently by some REALLY STUPID TEACHERS. This GRANDPA wanted to go down to their school and scream at the REALLY DUMB TEACHERS… but I didn’t. The boys are way too much like me… and I went into a FUNK just thinking of the up hill battle that they are going to face for years to come!!!
Willard’s story is way too personal and has gripped me way too deep… and will not let go. I have had a few days to think about this inspiration and have committed myself to carve more leaves… than any one else has ever carved and making them thinner and finer and better and more beautiful than anyone can ever imagine. I will hold my breath more and become the best at what I do.
Willard will never know how powerful his story has been to some us.
A new idea has been developing too. I am meeting a whole bunch of guys that are coming out of prison. They are broken men that look down a lot. They have been looking down for a long time and have seen a lot that no one else has seen. They don’t believe in what they can do. Like Willard, they have been told many times that “your brain is the size of a pea…”
They cannot get jobs because they are still hated and always will be…because of what they have done. But if they were to carve leaves with me… and I took responsibility for what they carved… showing it… selling it… and never having them have to stand in front of critical teachers again… Maybe they could be another Willard Wigan.
Today Willard is worth somewhere around £11,000,000 – yes you read that right… that is almost $20,000,000 USD – not bad for a dummy who can’t do what you do with your degrees and powerful position. WOW!
This is fair notice to you dear reader… The price of my Hand Carved Leaves is going up soon… a way, way, way up. If you want one now… you better get in line at today’s prices. Last week they sold for $100 each…next week or so… they will be more.
Thanks Willard Wigan… for your life and story!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
www.murraylincoln.com/
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Wigan
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23782805-the-man-who-makes-millions-from-miniature-art.do
http://www.willard-wigan.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
http://www.willard-wigan.com/gallery.aspx
http://paintalicious.org/2007/04/25/willard-wigans-micro-miniaturists-sculptures/
http://images.google.ca/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLJ_en___CA251&q=willard+wigan's+miniature+art&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=EYAiS6ruKs3PlAfUpYz-CQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCAQsAQwAw
Titanic on the head of a Pin
Santa in the Eye of a Needle
An Owl in the Eye of a Needle
Adam and Eve carved in the lead tip of a Pencil
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