From Where I Sit

My daughter, the Creative Genius, is busy "creating" (go figure). We have partnered to promote and sell her artwork via Etsy. Some of the descriptions of her pieces are an art form in themselves. I encourage you to visit her (our) shop and look around. Who knows, you may want to buy something...! Enjoy!

1st collector for Write, Right, Write!!! Follow my videos on vodpod An innovative approach to teaching how to write well in English.

1st collector for One Day on Earth Video Map Trailer Follow my videos on vodpod One Day on Earth Project. Check out this video of the coolest project ever! Won't you join?

- By Alicia C. The successful completion of a stained glass table - I designed the tabletop (as far back as 2009 it was finished) and the commissioning owners hired a talented furniture artist to build the table around it. I think it looks great, but it'd be easier to tell that this was the case if I were looking at it. Unfortunately, Cincinnatti is somewhat far away. I would love to have another commission like this. However, just the tabletop part takes something like 40 hours. Food for thought re. pricing possibilities.

St. James said:” ...if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, 'Have a seat here, please,' while to the one who is poor you say, 'Stand there,' or 'Sit at my feet,' have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?...Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the Kingdom that He has promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor... Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court? ...judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy... ” (James 2:2-7). Those who are vying for the elimination of funding for programs that benefit the poorest and less fortunate among us (repealing health care reform, defunding Planned Parenthood, silencing NPR, slashing public education, even cutting a

I saw this article today and wanted to post it here, because it touches on an issue that is very close to my heart. It is not my original work, but why reinvent the wheel if Mr. Cummins says so well? Please read and "digest" (pun intended). The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now? By Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, Jan 27, 2011 Straight to the Source “ The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must .” – Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011. In the wake of a 12-year battle to keep Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation’s 25,000 organic farms and ranches, America’s organic consumers and producers are facing betrayal. A self-appointed cabal of the Organic Elite, spearheaded by Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, has decided it’s time to surrender to Monsanto. Top executives from these companies have publicly admitte

This sounds like a worthy project: the 11/11/11 alignment seems like a good time to raise consciousness and create something. People are invited to partake in the biggest creative undertaking in humanity. cell phone, video project, music, poetry, anything is possible. I like the way the web collectivizes all endeavours, and I will see about participating.