This song is the fantasy I hold in my head about the man who loves me. Does this kind of love even exist–or is it simply fantasy? By clinging to this ideal, do I set myself up for repetitive disappointment?
I am such a damn romantic. I melt EVERY time I hear this song. It speaks to me, for me, about me. Oh, I pray that someday, this kind of love will be mine.
Excerpted From Yahoo! Shine By Elise Solé, Shine Staff | Healthy Living
Northwestern college sophomore Amanda Peyton wanted to decorate her dorm room wall in 2003. Peyton. . . recalled how she had been browsing a British website when she found a cool print of a girl hugging a bomb. Impulsively, she purchased it for around $100, the most she had ever spent on a wall decoration. When the print arrived in a poster tube, it was signed and hand-numbered by an artist named Banksy.
. . .Though Peyton still asks around, she says she’s not really interested in selling the piece anymore. “It seems like me and Bomb Hugger are going to be together for life and I am pretty happy about it,” she writes, adding that if nothing else, the print is a reminder that some of the best things in life are just dumb luck.
Yahoo! Shine asked the Winston Art Group, the largest independent art advisory and appraisal firm in the U.S. to weigh in on the print. According to an email sent by Kimball Higgs, Director of Art Advisory, based solely on the image provided and not having examined the work in person, the retail value would be around $10,000 to $15,000, maybe higher, depending on the print’s condition. The sale value: Most likely in the $5,000-$7,000 range.
For inspiration and an art education, read the complete article here: http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/-woman-bought-a–100-print-in-2003-that-turned-out-to-be-a-banksy—185705348.html
The larder raid yielded three random ingredients: crunchy peanut butter, dehydrated onion flakes and sushi soy sauce. What on earth am I going to make with these? I’ll find out soon enough.
My food adventure of taking three random selections from my pantry and searching on-line for a recipe that uses the ingredients has been so much fun, I don’t know if I will give it up at month’s end. I am eating better than ever, as far as savory meals and variety are concerned. And I never have to worry about what’s for dinner.
So, what recipe did I find?
Satay sauce! Really? Yes! And a very easy satay sauce to boot! I substituted my dehydrated onion flakes for grated onion, wondering if the flavors would be okay. The answer is yes; the sauce was mild and tasty. I had a liquid hot sauce in the refrigerator. My suggestion to those who like things hot and spicy would be skip the red pepper flakes and substitute liquid hot sauce instead.
I refrigerated the leftover sauce to use again. My guess is the flavors from the pepper flakes will permeate the sauce and spice it up on its second go round. I am thinking of baking chicken over rice and vegetables, then pouring the remaining satay sauce over the combo. Not a bad “second meal.”
Do you have another use for satay sauce? If so, please share. I may go with your suggestion for the “second meal.”
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Satay-Sauce/Detail.aspx?prop31=10
Food fuels all the other fineries of life. Wouldn’t you agree? If you eat well, you live well.
A blog by that name caught my attention recently. I enjoyed looking over the articles about edible items growing in the wild all around us.
Later, I was looking over the hay-making equipment. I’d placed tarps over the machinery as part of its winter storage. Since the weatherman was predicting strong winds, I wanted to be sure the tarps were secure.
Next to the baler, there were two robust dandelions pushing new leaves and yellow blooms skyward. I thought, “Here’s food under foot.”
Satisfied the equipment was fine, I turned back to the dandelions. Picking two handfuls of tender leaves, I carried the harvest to the kitchen, where I rinsed the leaves in salt water to remove insects and debris.
I’ve never eaten dandelion greens. I placed a large portion of cleaned, fresh leaves into the bottom of a CorningWare casserole. In the freezer, I had a portion of a beef roast left over from a recent meal. I pulled it out, unwrapped it, and plunked the the frozen meat onto the bed of leaves in the roasting dish. A few carrots and peppers were frozen to the edges of the roast, residue from the previous baking. I covered the pan and placed it into the oven for an hour. Once reheated, the roast was sliced and plated. The dandelion greens were scooped out, cooked from the heated juices of the meat, and placed on the plate beside the sliced beef. The accents of orange and red from the carrot and red pepper remnants added visual interest, as well as flavor.
That simple meal, which cost me nothing extra, was amazing! The greens tended to the bitter side by themselves, but, paired with the flavorful meat, were yummy.
Now I intend to harvest more greens from the yard to steam and freeze for future use. One caveat: know the source of your dandelions. You do not want to eat greens that have grown in a yard with a history of toxic sprays. The tap root of the dandelion plant grows deep, pulling nutrients from earth where years of rain and worm-action have carried substances placed on the surface long ago.
“The Paris-based International Energy Agency is predicting that the U.S. will assume world fuel production supremacy by 2020; it’s eminently possible that our country will become the de facto Saudi Arabia of the next decade,” says The Motley Fool.
I’ve heard that prediction before from Lindsey Williams, a former chaplain to oil executives and oil field workers, who maintains contact with several wealthy oil men who feed him information about future economic plans.
If true, it certainly will be a welcome change to the economic morass in which we currently find ourselves. It is a ray of hope for our nation’s future well-being.
FROM ZEROHEDGE.COMSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 04/13/2013 – 11:49
The idea of IRS agents poking through your email account might sound at the very least creepy, and maybe unconstitutional. But the IRS does have a legal leg to stand on: the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 allows government agencies to in many cases obtain emails older than 180 days without a warrant. In 1986 they decided this? Who used email in 1986? That’s why an internal 2009 IRS document claimed that “the government may obtain the contents of electronic communication that has been in storage for more than 180 days” without a warrant. Another 2009 file, the IRS Criminal Tax Division’s “Search Warrant Handbook,” showed that the division’s general counsel believed “the Fourth Amendment does not protect communications held in electronic storage, such as email messages stored on a server, because internet users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.”
It’s spring here in my country home. A friend was telling me about the Sarvis tree, also called Service Berry tree. It is one of the first woodland bloomers in the Spring. The tree also produces a fruit, which is edible and normally made into a pretty pink jelly with a tart apple-like flavor.
An old issue of Smoky Mountain News says:
I am asking a friend who has Sarvis trees around his home to mark them with a ribbon now while the trees are in bloom. I’d like to gather the ripe berries later and try my hand at making Sarvis jelly.
The University of Connecticut tells the following about the Sarvis tree:
Fruit
Flowers
from Daisy Luther:
Disassociate yourself completely with “the system” that is making Western civilization broke, overweight and unhealthy. Starve the Beast by taking as many of these steps as possible…
While doing research for a novel, I came across an interesting statement. In some countries, the nation’s indebtedness would turn to a surplus if every citizen paid the taxes due on their wealth.
Of course this opens up a whole other discourse about the competency and ethical service of government, and why people hide their wealth in the first place.
That aside, it is an amazing thought to think much of the world’s economic difficulties would be resolved if everybody paid their taxes. Older persons could retire in peace. Savers could put money in the bank without fear the government will take part of the sum to pay its bills. Businesses could plan for future expansion. If everybody paid, the world truly could be a better place.
From Wikipedia:
Conservatively, it estimated that a fortune of $21 trillion is stashed away in off-shore accounts, $9.8 trillion alone by the top tier, – less than 100,000 people who each own financial assets of $30 million or more. The report indicated that this hidden money results in a “huge” lost tax revenue – a “black hole” in the economy -, and many countries would become creditors instead of being debtors if the money of their tax evaders would be taxed.[25][26][27]
Further, this system of tax evasion is “basically designed and operated” by a group of highly paid specialists from the world’s largest private banks (led by UBS, Credit Suisse, and Goldman Sachs), law offices, and accounting firms and tolerated by international organizations such as Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the OECD, and the G20. The amount of money hidden away has significantly increased since 2005, sharpening the divide between the superrich and the rest of the world.[
Most Americans don’t yet realize that President Obama has already signed an executive order declaring government ownership and control over all farms, food, livestock, seeds, farm equipment and more. I’ve covered that news in full detail here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/035301_Obama_executive_orders_food_supply….
The executive order is published at WhiteHouse.gov:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order…
Government
A network of hundreds of cameras inside and outside Anne Arundel County public buildings in Maryland, unbeknown to the local authorities and county officials, was shut down earlier this week. Now officials are trying to find out more about the extensive operation.
The system of more than 500 cameras, the Baltimore Sun reported, was discovered by County Executive Laura Neuman, who just recently was sworn into the position. The Sun describes the room where the surveillance operation was conducted as small, unmarked and unknown to many until now.
Neuman launched an investigation into the system, but the Sun reports that the former county executive John Leopold, who resigned when found guilty of misconduct, was a point person for the camera system.
Of the cameras that have been found, none were in improper places, the Sun reported. The cameras themselves are still running, but system to monitor the feed was shut down.
FAY’S NOTE: Why are the cameras still running? If the whole operation was covert, don’t you think another system to monitor the feed likely exists? Why not shut the damn things off?
Thank you, LadyRomp, for bringing these tidbits to my attention:
Human breasts are different from all the other breasts on the planet.
Humans are the only mammals to have breasts that develop in puberty and then remain permanently enlarged, says Florence Williams, the author of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History. Other female primates have them when necessary (i.e., their mammary glands grow during lactation and deflate after weaning). Ours, fleshy and fatty, “stick around regardless of our reproductive status,” she says.
Human breast milk starts out as nature’s perfect food, says Williams, chock-full of not only the vitamins, minerals, proteins and fat a baby needs to grow but also immunity-boosting antibodies, probiotics and other substances that can protect against salmonella and E. coli, as well as diabetes and cancer. It also contains endocannabinoids similar to those found in marijuana, which may help infants chill out and avoid overeating.
(Fay’s note: is this why men get high, high, high off the female breast form? Are they having flashbacks to the “chill” days of life on endocannabinoids?)
from Zerohedge.com
Fukushima has spewed much more radioactive cesium and iodine than Chernobyl. The amount of radioactive cesium released by Fukushima was some 20-30 times higher than initially admitted. Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to 93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium into the ocean each day. And the cesium levels hitting the west coast of North America will keep increasing for several years. Fukushima is still spewing radiation into the environment, and the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl.
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