Natural Beauty

Turmeric a great spice that is not just for you food.
Turmeric has antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and bacteria killing properties. Turmeric combined with chickpea flour, and almond oil is an excellent exfoliant and moisture absorber, it should be made and applied a day before any big event. Consistency of the application should be a paste, 20 minutes on the face, remove with warm water, then splash with a cooling astringent, and follow with a light moisturizer. 

Avocado is nutritious, delicious and good for your skin.
Avocado is both high in good fat content and Vitamin E. The Combination of Avocado and Honey, which has it's own good for you properties, especially as an anti-inflammatory; this combo is great for problem skin, and those needing a hydration boost. Combine these two ingredients for a face mask, consistency of a very thick cream, remove after 10 minutes with warm water, apply an astringent, you may not need a moisturizer after this treatment. (I have an oily T-zone, and I never need a moisterizer after this mask).

Camellia Nut Oil is high in Viatmin E, antioxidants and oleic acid.
Camellia Oil can be used as an all over body moisturizer used alone or combined with any lotion or cream. All the properties in Camellia Nut oil nourish your skin, it has been used to treat burns, and stretch marks, it is a top ingriedient for high dollar nail strenthners.

One of my favorite moisturizing oils to use alone is Monoi oil.
Monoi Oil is an infusion of Tahitian Gardenias and Coconut oil, as you can guess this oil smells awesome. Coconut oil has many wonderful properties for our skin and body, it soothes and protects our skin from harsh environmental factors, it also reduces loss of protein in hair folicles. It is full of antioxidants, Viatmin E, Viatmin K, and iron, it is antibacterial, and antifungal. Coconut has linoleic and oleic acid, which are the main components in fighting viruses and bacteria. Wow, I know! 

ok last one...

Shea Butter consists of many essential fatty acids, Vitamin A and Vitamin E.
Shea Butter is from the Karite Nut Tree in Africa, it can take up to 50 years for a tree to mature, and they can live 300 years, how awesome is that. In some areas the trees are protected by law, and they only grow in th wild.
Shea Butter is a moisturizer, a conditioner, and has healing properties, it helps skin retain its moisture and provides skin its elasticity. It can effectivley heal eczema and dermatitis, Shea Butter helps to reduce the pain and duration of bruises, and stretch marks, it is also effective with psoriasis, dandruff and scars due to its properties with help new skin cell turnover. It has cinnamic acid which is used in UV protection methods, along with protection of environmental and free-radical damages.
People with a nut or latex allergies should be cautious when using shea butter.

Lets Talk Supplements: Vitamins Most of Us are Missing from our Daily Intake

Chromium: Key to the proper metabolism of sugars and fats; essential to optimal brain function.

Vitamin C: Boosts immune system function; improves wound healing, strengthens collagen and connective tissue; helps remove cancer-causing cells from the body; helps remove toxins from the liver, and much more.

Vitamin B6: Contributes to the making of serotonin (the brain chemical that calms nervous down), improves immune system function; breaks down carbohydrates; regulates estrogen & progesterone; helps reduce the risk of heart disease.

Fiber: Removes excess fats from the digestive tract, prevents constipation and hemorrhoids; assists in weight control; helps prevent heart disease, cancer, diabetes, diverticular disease, gallstones, and kidney stones.

Folate: Prevents birth defects, formation of red and white blood cells, maintains and repairs cell; removes homocysteine from blood, lowering the risk of heart disease. Important for women of Birth Bearing Years.

Potassium: Reduces blood pressure;lowers risk of a heart attack and stroke; relieves anxiety, irritability and stress, also helps relieve fatigue.

Manganese: Aids in the formation of bones, connective tissue, blood clotting factors, and sex hormones; plays a role in calcium absorption, blood sugar metabolism, and fat & carbohydrate metabolism.

Copper: Promotes proper bone growth;  essential for energy production, red blood cell formation; reduction of cholesterol; helps regulate heart rhythm; contributes to wound healing connective tissue, eye and hair health.

Calcium D3: essential to maintaining total body health; to keep bones and teeth strong; proper function of nerves and muscles; blood clotting factors. Important for post-menopausal women.

Tryptophan: natural antidepressant; lowers blood pressure; reduces hyperactivity in children; relieves restless leg syndrome.  (Isn’t this the stuff in Turkey!)

Note: Smoking will cause leaching of vitamins from your body.

The Best Dozen to Buy Organic

Peaches

Apples

Pears

Grapes

Cherries

Strawberries

Nectarines

Bell Peppers

Celery

Kale

Lettuce

Carrots

Coffee (because coffee beans are among the most pesticide-laden crops in the world)

Super Foods for Immunity

Boost Your Body’s Defenses with these foods. You will be able to get all these at your local grocery store or farmers market. Have fun shopping! Don’t forget to combine some of these foods together for  great and healthy satisfying meals.

Kale

Collard Greens

Mustard Greens

Arugula

Watercress

Cabbage

Broccoli

Brussel Sprouts

Carrots

Tomatoes

Bell Pepper

Onions

Garlic

Mushrooms

Pomegranates

Persimmons

Berries

Flax Seeds

Chia Seeds

Sesame Seeds

Sunflower Seeds

Steel Cut Oats

4 Ways To Use Essential Oils

Sniff Smell
Inhale directly from the bottle or put a few drops of essential oil on a tissue, cotton pad, or cotton wick from a nasal inhaler and sniff. Almost every essential oil will have some effect when used in this manner.

A Diffuser
Diffusers range from simple evaporation devices (water evaporation, cotton pads, electrical, or lit fire from a candle) to sophisticated (more money) nebulizers that infuse the air with microscopic droplets of pure essential oil.

Tub Bath
Make this a warm bath because you want the oils to soak into your skin, not sweat out. Add 6 - 12 drops of essential oil to a filled tub and move/stir the water and oil around so it is evenly dispersed. Now for those of us who take Showers more often than baths, you can make yourself a sachet of dried herbs and or pellets and add your essential oil drops. Tie the sachet under the running water (make sure the water is fairly warm so the oils can catch), you may want to leave the sachet for the entirety of the shower but it's not necessary.

 Make A Compress
Add 4 - 15 drops of oil to 1 quart of water. Warm for arthritis, cramps, muscle pain. Cold for tension, bruises, headaches. Mix than soak a washcloth. Wring out excess water and apply to affected area.


4 Additional Ways to Use Oils

Spray Mist
With a small clean and dry spray bottle, fill it with distilled water, add 5-10 drops of your chosen essential oil. Spritz away, this can be used on body, hair, clothes, bed linen, and as a room fragrance. (in the summer put the bottle in the fridge for a cool & refreshing spritz)

Foot Massage
Add 15 drops of oil or blend with 1 teaspoon of Jojoba (carrier oil). Massage/rub onto the bottom of your feet, let the oils soak in for about 10 minutes, wipe off with towel. (be careful when you stand, slippery)

Area Massage
Add 12 drops of chosen essential oil to 1 oz. of massage or carrier oil to small bottle. Shake by rotating your wrist, side to side. Do Not shake vigorously, this will destroy the balance.
(if you don't have a bottle with a lid, you can use a small bowl and stir gently). For an intensive therapy, for specific areas of the body use 18 drops of essential oil to 1 oz.

Inhalation
With a large glass bowl or pot, add 1 quart of hot water then add 6-10 drops of chosen essential oil. Cover your head and the bowl with a towel and breathe in deeply. (this process is great for colds, sinusitis, and headaches-p.s. for headaches you can follow with a cold compress: see above )

What Are Your Hot Buttons in Relationships?

 

I will share mine with you. These for me bring light to where I am in Self-Love and Acceptance in my life. I was relieved to know and feel in my soul, how much I have matured in Christ and where I am going. Halleluiah.

Hot Buttons

Invalidation

Feeling Unwanted

Instability

Embarrassment

Control Issues

 

“It Doesn’t Have To Be Pretty, But It Does Have To Be Truthfully”

“Bring Every Bit Of Passion And Truth Of How You Are Into The World, And The Rest Will Follow”

 

How About Some of My Personal Truths

To Resist Translation.

A Refusal to Be Classified or Categorized by Anyone Not of Themselves.

Discovery is Exhausting, Thrilling, Challenging, and Rewarding.

Compassionate Note To Self, Is Head To Toe Acceptance.

God Sees Our Possibilities, Not Our Limits.

Essential Oils

What are essential oils?
They are extracts from various parts of plants, trees, herbs, and shrubs that capture a plants therapeutic and aromatic properties. Unlike dried or fresh herbs, essential oils are up to 100 times more concentrated and powerful than the original plant.

How do essential oils work?
Essential oils work in two ways.
When inhaled they act on the olfactory nerves which connect directly to the emotional part of our brain. This causes us to respond strongly to aromas often before we can even identify exactly what they are.
When applied topically, they can pass through the skin and into the bloodstream. This can have a profound affect that is familiar to many pharmaceuticals.

How long do oils last?
5 - 10 years if properly stored. Many oils actually improve with age. Keep bottles tightly closed and store in cool, dark areas. Also try using dark amber bottles or cobalt blue bottles, the dark bottles help keep light and sun from getting to the oils. Citrus oils will last 2 - 3 years if refrigerated otherwise unrefrigerated only 4- 6 months.

Are essential oils safe to use?
Very safe if used with common sense. They should always be diluted before applying to skin.
Care should be taken with the very young and very old. In Europe many medicinal herbs are taken internally, this is not recommended without proper doctor advice.

Stressed OUT

Whether it is a rocky relationship, pressure at work or any other stressor that’s got you on edge. Here are some natural helpful tips.

 

Lavender

Tossing and Turning at night? Sleep deprived? Try Lavender aromatherapy to help your mind turn off. Lavender is recognized for helping stress-related sleep disorders, and relieves headache suffers. The flowering plant is native to the Mediterranean and has been shown to treat mild insomnia. Lavender oil can be used to treat skin inflammations, insect bites, and reduce pain and swelling.

 

Chamomile

When we can not shut down the body for sleep, this plant can help. The Chamomile plant is native to Asia and Europe. It is most easily used as tea, and has anti-inflammatory properties. Consumed as tea it can suppress muscle spasms, arthritic joints, and inflamed tendons. As aromatherapy it has a calming fragrance, that can be useful to soothe PMS symptoms, depression and irritable anxiety.

Note: If pregnant or allergic to hay or ragweed, proceed with extreme caution.

 

St. John’s Wort

This herb is known around the world as the breakup remedy. St. John’s Wort has been studied to treat mild depression temporarily (it is not advised to take this herb for a long period of time). The herb grows wild, and is harvested and consumed as tea or an herbal supplement in pill or liquid form. It can help reduce dandruff and an oily scalp. Since medieval times it has been used to treat wounds, and burns, as it is an astringent and analgesic.

Note: This herb may and can interact negatively with other medications, food and supplements, check with your doctor before adding this to your routine.  

 

Passionflower

Can help treat your edgy nature, anxiety issue and nervous stressful situations. It can help lower blood pressure, alleviate nausea, improve blood circulation, toothaches, and some pain relief.

This flowering, creeping vine is native to southeastern United States. The Passionflower was an approved over-the-counter sedative and sleep aid until 1978, but has been in medicinal use for over 200 years.

 

Valerian Root

This herb has been used as far back as ancient Greece. It can be found in approximately 60 different forms (tablets, juice, tea, tinctures, liquid drops, infusions, diffuser)Valerian is cultivated in Europe, Japan, and the United States, as an effective sedative. Used to settle nervous tension, restlessness, insomnia and migraines.

Note: Check with your doctor before use, be cautious to sensitivity, and interaction with other medications and foods. Although not a pleasant smelling oil, it is quite effective when used in a diffuser.

 

Chocolate

I so wanted to add this section to my list:Dark Chocolate can lower the stress hormone in the body, it is rich in antioxidant flavonoids. It can help reduce anxiety, may lower blood pressure, decrease LDL(bad cholesterol) oxidation, help with chronic fatigue, and improve arterial blood flow. Dark Chocolate triggers the release of endorphins in your brain, which offers immediate relief. Not only does the tangible food itself help, but the pure smell of chocolate can have some of the same effects. Many natural health companies are making chocolate oils for aromatherapy purposes.

 

As with all medicinal herbs, pregnant and nursing women should not take any herbal supplements without talking with your doctor first.

Seven Things That Can Steal Your Joy

1. Unforgiveness
2. Not Knowing Who You Are In Christ
3. Your Emotions - Anger
4. When Evil Lies To You - Condemnation
5. Allowing Others To Define You
6. Believing That You Should Know or Understand Everything
7. Having Stinking Thinking

Life You Create Together

Full on Emotion, Sexual, Spiritual, the power of Engaging Deeply, my Heart, my Lover's Heart.

Fluidity in Passion and Friendship.

Agreement, Distance, Always coming back to Each Other, to Self, to Commitment -Together.

List of Power Thoughts

Courtesy of Joyce Meyer

I can do whatever I need to do in life through Christ.

God loves me unconditionally!

I will not live in fear.

I am difficult to offend.

I love people and I enjoy helping them.

I trust God completely; there is no need to worry!

I am content and emotionally stable.

God meets all my needs abundantly.

I pursue peace with God, myself, and others.

I live in the present and enjoy each moment.

I put God first in my life.

Tumeric-It's Health Benefits

Herb to Know: Turmeric 

By Gina DeBacker
Turmeric
• Genus: Curcuma longa
• Also known as the golden spice or Indian saffron
• Zones 7 to 10
• Try These: Treat Arthritis With These Products
Many Indian brides anoint their skin with a sacred golden spice the night before their wedding to capture a natural glow. This treasured spice is the herbaceous turmeric, well-known for its vibrant color and abundant healing powers.
Turmeric (Curcuma longa), a member of the gingerroot, or Zingiberaceae, family, thrives in hot, moist climates such as China, South Africa and India, and grows 3 to 5 feet high. It’s a perennial plant with orange-red blossoms resembling lilies.
Although its flowers are stunning, its rhizome, or underground stem, is what attracts the most attention. When dried and ground, its rhizome yields a sharp yellow powder known for its anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and astringent properties. It is also used in an array of Indian dishes, curry being the most popular. It is not as pungent as ginger but emits a sweet aromatic note.

History and Lore

Turmeric has been in use for thousands of years. In its earliest reference, it was prescribed to charm away jaundice. It was used to worship the sun in ancient India—its golden color most likely the inspiration—and was also worn to ward off evil. Buddhist monks even dyed robes with it.
Historians believe that traders introduced turmeric to the western world during the medieval period, where it was known as “Indian saffron.” Today, it is still considered sacred and used in various rituals. Hawaiian Kahuna and traditional Vedic homes sprinkle turmeric mixed with seawater to purify the earth around them.

Health Benefits

Call turmeric a jack-of-all-trades—it’s one of the most versatile of all herbal healers. “It’s my favorite herb,” says K.P. Khalsa, the formulating herbalist for Yogi Tea. Khalsa describes it as a medium-strength herb with virtually no side effects. It is a popular stomach soother; an excellent skin food, treating myriad skin conditions, such as acne, dermatitis and psoriasis; tames oxidation; and relieves pain. In fact, as little as 1/4 teaspoon a day has measurable healing effects. Just be cautious that it doesn’t stain your hands yellow with its strong dyeing effects.
Many herbal experts consider turmeric to be the most useful herb in the world, according to Prashanti de Jager, author of Turmeric: The Ayurvedic Spice of Life (Pioneer Imprints, 2010). Although it is most commonly used in Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, modern research is fascinated with its healing properties. A search for turmeric on PubMed, the database of the National Institutes of Health, produces 1,755 studies.
Most recently, researchers have been analyzing its anti-cancer effects. Results are still early, but evidence suggests that curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, may help prevent, control or kill several types of cancer, including breast, colon, prostate and skin. One 2009 study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, showed that curcumin starts to kill esophageal cancer cells within only 24 hours of treatment.
Curcumin may also prevent the onset of dementia. Studies suggest that people who eat curry two to three times a week have a lower risk. It may protect the brain against beta-amyloid, a protein that is toxic to brain cells. Clinical trials are still underway, so be on the lookout for more information.
To benefit from turmeric’s healing effects, incorporate this aromatic spice in your cooking; use 1 gram per day in capsule form; or try a standardized extract. Talk to your health-care provider before taking any herbs or supplements.

Try This!

Treat arthritis with this traditional Ayurvedic drink known as Golden Milk. Mix 1⁄4 cup turmeric powder with 1⁄2 cup water in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook until a thick paste is formed, then store in the refrigerator. To make the drink, mix 1 cup milk with 1 teaspoon almond oil, 1⁄2 teaspoon turmeric paste and honey to taste. Stir on low heat and bring just to a boil. Blend to make a foamy beverage.

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Gina DeBacker is assistant editor at The Herb Companion. No hands were stained in the making of this article.

Read more: http://www.herbcompanion.com/print-article.aspx?id=2147489369#ixzz1N1M2YFFT

Information Toolbox- continued

• Set a Direction
• $$$ Have Cash Flow- and know how to manage it
• ASK - ask questions
• Get a Mentor
• Learn from Others Mistakes
• Do your Research
• Have a Positive Attitude
• Look for Opportunity/Take Action with those Opportunities
• $$$ Start Up Capitol - Have Enough Back Up
• Reward yourself for meeting your Goals (don't over indulge)
• Have & Set Rules for Yourself and Your Company
• Have Good People Around You

           ~ Use Them and Value Them
           Use their strengths, let them do what they are good at & remember that without their skills 
           you would not be able to do what you do best.
           ~ Interview people you need for the success of your company. Look for Aptitude not Attitude.
              Now a good and positive attitude is important but not if they have no skill set.
              You might want to have a two week policy or a 90 day policy.

• Balance your definition of Quality of Life

Plato

No human thing is of serious importance.

Elbert Hubbard 1856

Never Explain!
Your friends don't need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

Color Coordinating Personality

Black- Power & Elegance; Anchor
White- Purity & Freshness; New Beginnings
Yellow- Happy, Encouragement, & Energy
Orange- Confidence & Fun, Warm
Red- Lively & Confident, Energy; Passion
Blue- Calming & Comfort, Harmony; Peaceful
Purple- Soothing & Creative; Spiritual
Pink- Easygoing & Playful; Heartfelt
Green- Nurturing & Appreciation; Harmony

Love! How about it!

Fall in Love.
You are as Loved for your Fears as you are for your Courage.
Take it to the Next Step and Love Boldly.
You can not fail. Even when you have fallen apart, you can be mended with God's Love.
You can not fail, because God has Loved you since before the beginning.
You can not fail, because your Heart Allowed Love in and Love out, and it was a gift both ways.
Fall in Love.
Fearless and Confident is the Love you share.
Luck you don't need, Love you have!

Bullets from the WE Inspire Conference

• Change the World One Venture at a Time
• Start your Own Path (you do not need to wait, when and then-do it now, start something now)
• Let your Website and the Internet work for you. Put effort into making it great.
• Social Media -it works!
• Be Fearless
• There are many sources out there to help Women Entrepreneurs
• Be a Creative Thinker (even if you think you are not one, you will be surprised with the ideas you can bring to the table, just start thinking with no limits)
• Start your own Information ToolBox (more to come on this)
• Think Sales. Be Positive. Know your Numbers (what's coming in, what's going out, what number you need to make a profit). Take a class on selling (yep they have those).
• Live Your Dream
• In Ten Years what will your life look like? What will you see that changed your perspective? What would you have done differently?
• Mistakes, what are they for! 

WE Inspire

Women Entrepreneurs-
Women changing the world, changing the economy of Oklahoma and the globe. Women's business brings in 8.1million dollars to Oklahoma anually. Now is that not helping out our economy. I have seen many smart and creative women this past week at the conference. Nothing is stopping you from achieving what God has in store for you. Trust Him, Lean on Him, for all things are possible through and because of God.
More to come...

Karen’s 15 Books that had a great influence on her life.

Karen Sharp was a good friend of mine who passed away and this list she sent me gives me a boost. I have been thinking about her lately and I wanted to share a little bit of her. See, she was a good mentor to me, and I am continually working on my 15.

15 books that influenced my life-Karen Sharp

Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 9:20am

Rules: (Really!) Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you.

1. Louisa May Alcott's books
It was her world more than Father Knows Best that I wanted to inhabit. Massachusetts and Rhode Island family & living some years in New England gave me my best ever memories. There really were attics that took up a whole floor (houses built in 1700s and 1800s) with sea captain's chests of treasures from 18th & 19th century and earlier China. Dress forms from unknown ancestors, trunks and trunks of treasures from baubles, clothing of bygone eras, beads, cast off furniture, bolts of fabric, letters, books (some of the best I've ever read.) My appreciation of history burst into life long bloom with that first attic visit. Yep, I was born in the wrong time. Of course I wouldn't be alive at this age had my life been then....(A friend calls me the Southern Yankee.)
2.Mythology. Great Grandfather in that New England family got me started reading (and reporting on) mythology when I was a very young girl. Read everything in the Providence library had on mythology by time I was in 6th grade. I have no doubt it influenced me in ways I cannot imagine.
3. Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene-
To this day I love female mystery series (me too -I'm quoting Faith)
4. Childhood reading biographies of independent and high minded people who made a difference like Clara Barton, Florence Nightingale, Will & Charlie Mayo, St Francis, —continues to this day, although now I read mostly bios and auto bios of writers and artists. Led to going back for another degree in history when I was 50.
5. The Search for Meaning in Life, Victor Frankel- read when I was 22. Have reread several times. His concentration camp experiences—how someone can live through horrors beyond imagination and stay sane and part of the solution.
6. The Paintings of Henry Miller: Paint as you like and die happy, Henry Miller. Title says it all.
7. Learning How to Learn: Psychology & Spirituality in the Sufi Way, Indries Shah. Wonderful teaching stories.
8. The Bible. Wish I had read it cover to cover at a much younger age—it might not have taken me to late middle age to understand a lot more about people. I had the compassion down pat, but cover to cover bible got rid of delusions about always looking for the good in people. Sometimes seeing that above all else is a killer.
9. Brave New World and Animal World...and here we are...
10. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Learning to laugh at self, with others, absurdity of life in so many layered ways
11. 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
12. Graham Greens' books – made me think a lot more about relationship to God and nature of my own beliefs than the hundreds of books on spirituality I acquired and read over the decades.
13.Lady, Thomas Tryon. A wonderful writer able to tell a story with moral and human messages without being at all pedantic. Makes you think when you close the book for the last time.
14.Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights by Bronte sisters. Wish I had never read them at a far too young age. I think they inspired a very unhealthy attraction (no longer there thank God) to Byronic emotionally (and otherwise) unavailable dark and brooding men.
15.I go back to books by Isabel Allende over and over. And, especially book and articles written about her and her latest memoir The Sum of Our Days. Her life has been no ordinary: out of the box, out of the cultural expectations/breaking the rules whether by choice or DNA or fate or whatever – and, therefore, she comforts and inspires me.

Carmi-White County high school-1965

University of Michigan-1970

SIU Carbondale 1978

Kent State 1983

UCO 2000

Amena’s Totem

I found this on a How To website, crafts for kids. Quite  interesting.

How to Draw Animals on Totem Poles

Totem poles are intricately decorated spiritual symbols of the northwestern Native American tribes. Drawing a totem pole can seem daunting at first, but if you use a basic frame made of simple geometric shapes, drawing a totem pole can be done with relative ease.

Things You'll Need:

• Paper
• Pencil
• Black ink pen
• Kneaded eraser

Instructions

1. Step 1

Draw a vertical line down the center of the page. Add two curved horizontal lines to the side of the vertical line.

1. Step 2

Draw an oval with a flat top and the start of the vertical line. Draw two parallel lines around the vertical guideline. Add wings with curved lines under the curved horizontal lines.

1. Step 3

Draw the details on the bird section of the totem pole. Add a beak with a rectangle on the top oval. Add the eyebrows with two rectangles on each side of the top of the oval. Add the eyes with two ovals. Create the eye mask on the bird with rectangle that is curved on the bottom edges.

1. Add a curved line inside each wing. Create the legs of the bird with two oblong ovals. Add the feet with three small oblong, thin ovals for the claws.
2. Step 5

Draw the bear section of the totem pole under the bird. Draw the eyes and eye mask as you did before with the bird. Add nostrils with curved teardrop shapes. Draw the lips with two sets of horizontal parallel lines. Add the middle teeth of the bear with four small rectangles in between the teeth.

1. Step 6

Add the fangs with triangles. Add the side teeth with two rectangles on each side of the mouth. Draw the hands with two parallel lines that tilt up diagonally. Add three circular lumps for fingers on the end of the hands.

1. Step 7

Detail the totem poles with decorative designs. Add small ovals with circles inside them to the upper wings. Create the feathers on the bird by drawing vertical lines extending down from the middle curved line in the wings. Draw two crescent shapes on each side of the bird's chest. Add scales to the claws with six curved U-shaped lines on each foot. Add ears to the bear with two diagonal rectangles coming out from the top sides of the bear's head. Add two small circles to each cheek of the bear.

1. Step 8

Ink the entire drawing. Let the ink dry and erase all of the pencil. Darken in the eye on the bird and the bear. Add two horizontal ovals to the belly of the bird. Round off the feathers on the birds wings by making the rectangles come to a point.

7:38 PM

Wolf

Loyalty, family, intelligence, and leadership.

Raven

Magic, creation, knowledge - Raven is the protector of light

Frog

Represents health, wealth, energy, medicine, and cleansing

Deer

Compassion, peace, kindness, and gentleness

Thunderbird

Represents power and mystery; the leader.

Life Lived

Note: I don’t think I like the word use microcosm

A Sort of Microcosm (small scale version) of life lived

Experience – challenging , thrilling , demanding, to put time into it, not give up on you and where you are going with this, the focus, rewarding, finality, accomplishment, answers, exhausting, the discovery

The finished objective is as much a question as an answer

It resists translation or paraphrase(to be a rephrased version)-to refuse to be subsumed by anything not itself:

A refusal to be categorized or classified by anything not of itself.

I really like the definition for it.