Octopus-Inspired Designs

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I want one of each of these. Octopus are creatures of such strength, moral fiber, and mystery that these would be fun to decorate with. I’m sure I can’t afford them, but what great ideas.

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Did you know that October 8 was International Octopus Day? Oct. 8, get it? Personally, I think we should also celebrate the other cephalopods: squid, cuttlefish (especially LITTLE RED CUTTLEFISH), and nautiluses. From the mad geniuses at Bored Panda.

“Octopuses are exceptionally intelligent and creative creatures, and have been able to solve most of the puzzles and challenges that scientists put before them in laboratories. This, coupled with their unique and fearsome appearance, makes them the perfect inspiration for stories about terrors from the deep!”

#1 Octopus Chandelier

Octopus Chandelier

#2 Octopus Umbrella

Octopus Umbrella

 #3 Octopus Door Handle

Octopus Door Handle

#4 Octopus Watch

Octopus Watch

#5 Octopus Cup

Octopus Cup

#6 Octopus Hoodie

Octopus Hoodie

#7 Octopus Wood Iphone

Octopus Wood Iphone

#8 Octopus Ear Cuff

Octopus Ear Cuff

#9 Octopus Gate

Octopus Gate

#10 Octopus Table

Octopus Table

#11 Octopus Wine Glass

Octopus Wine Glass

#12 Octopus Duvet Cover And Pillow Cases

Octopus Duvet Cover And Pillow Cases

#13 Octopus Candelabra

Octopus Candelabra 

#14 Octopus Chair

Octopus Chair

#15 Octopus Hook

Octopus Hook

#16 Octopus Cellphone Holder

Octopus Cellphone Holder

#17 Octopus Collar Clip

Octopus Collar Clip

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Caucasian? White? To Blame?

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If you are Caucasian, they
don’t give you the right to color.
You are branded by incandescent
Light bulbs which bleach and leach the
Color out of your existence.
“Be remorseful, for this is your done deed.”
But I’m not remorseful, no, not me.
I’m not a defiler, derider, denier.
I am the daughter of the 60s, born in the 50s,
Sent into the future, now past, to be.
Yes, to be liberal, caring, sharing.
Don’t blame my color for the criminal’s
Crime. I fought for us, the social bottom.
Where my eyes have always been open,
My family fought to insure their message would survive.
I’m not to blame for other handheld knives
In throats blameless and innocent.
There is a knife in my throat, exposing me
As red blooded human in the act of surviving.

Cee’s Oddball Challenges:Looking for a Hard Day’s Knight And Ann’s an Oddball

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It’s been a hard day’s night, and I’ve been sleeping like a log. Yes, I’m borrowing these words. After the week we’ve all had, a Knight is what we need to save the spirit, the body, the soul and to snare the sneaking dragons hiding in our cardboard boxes.

It hasn’t been easy, but the spirit of the fight is still in me. Mother dragons are like that. We always find a way to come back from the outside. Since yesterday I didn’t know where I was or when I was, I’ve come a long long way. I picked out a car that I will buy so I can go to therapy, it’s lovely. A 2017 Mint colored spark with a black interior, back up cameras and has been crashed tested by my mother so it’s safe. I’ve read all of the new material on nutrition that they gave me at the hospital. I’ve worked on healing the bruises that the hospital put on ever spot on my body and I’m looking a bit like the dragon below. I’m just a little more scaly and blinking in the bright light. Sleep all day and feel almost normal. Tomorrow is the calling of the dragons, I mean doctors, for new appointments.

I don’t think I will ever go back to an emergency room no matter what the docs recommend. The Techs were great, the nurses swarmed around non-stop, but the docs in this particular employment situation called hospitalers didn’t have the experience with me as an individual and didn’t make contact with my regular doctors. There was only one who interacted with me as if I were important enough to actually meet, the rest blew me off. “You want to go home, don’t you?” Yeah, but I’d also like to know who I am, why I’m there and what is going on. Yesterday morning I didn’t know any of that. I thought I was part of the Mars Exhibition. Either that or I was back in the US Army, or was that band camp. Never went to band camp, but it would have fit the picture. SO here’s my photo. I’m the oddball and off into a new week we go.

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Still in the Hospital

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Well, yes, here I sit pondering what to write and I want to write so much. Photography has been easier for me to do, writing harder. My heart monitor bangs against the touch plate of my MacBook Pro, causes the curser to jump all over the place making writing things most interesting.

Here’s the update:
*Been here since Wednesday, earliest possible escape will be tonight. The longer it keeps the doc from arriving to check on me, the longer it will be, adding days, months, weeks years…
*Starting to be given fewer steroids.
*Sugar levels are still really high.
*Still on stroke protocol, MS Exacerbation protocol, T2D protocol
*Still fatiguing, lassitude
*Physical Therapy is going well.
*Avoiding as much stress as possible and avoiding politics
*Family is being really supportive(including all of my extended non-blood related family and friends)
*Fever down, BP down, Oxygen levels up.

Loving the July 2017 summer movies coming up, especially Valerian, and the City of 1,000 Planets. My niece Julie looks like the heroine, strong, intelligent, beautiful and passionate. The link to the preview is

http://io9.gizmodo.com/luc-bessons-valerian-looks-like-all-your-scifi-dreams-c-1788781880?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

I love science fiction. The director is the gentleman who did The Fifth Element.

A Gift in Words for Friends

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I met a friend in a photo, dear,
She didn’t know I was a friend.
I walked in her woods, saw her build smiles
From smiles over hill and dale. She held a bridge
Out to me when I was drowning.
I will build a bridge for her
To travel to and fro where the leaves
Still stand red in amazement,
Where a giant crawls from the Earth
In a great awakening.
The business men who fail to look up
Or down or around while they text,
Should look behind. For great art gives
A great gift and beauty is planted
As the winds grow cold, and winter comes.
I’ll share a moon with you to brighten your way,
Perhaps a rainbow to connect the world again
Where peace is a flower, a snowflake, a smile.

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Autumn on the Danube
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The River Danube
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Fall along the Danube
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Wine Country, Germany

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Norma’s Birds

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The Fear

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As all of us who believe that every life matters and that LGBT lives, Black lives, and native lives have been undervalued by the conservative party. Women are undervalued. Those of us with auto immune diseases are considered disposable, lazy, unworthy. We fought for this country, served this country, taught the children of this country and tried to give hope as a right instead of an accident. I’m broken, but I’m with you all here in a dark night.

An Open Letter to America

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This says so well what I need to say. The stress of the election sent me to the hospital where I am now, not because I am a whiner or weakling, but because I suffer from MS. Stress is a killer. The brain decides to attack itself and it’s not something that you can turn on or off. I worry about medical care for those who need. No one can say what will happen now but with no real checks and balances available with all three branches in the same hands, the prognosis is not good.

I have always been a patriot to the US and won’t run away now. I served in the US Army, overcame discrimination because I’m a woman, taught in the public schools, transitioned to Private schools for two years to learn first hand the differences in expectations and transitioned back into public school teaching. Yeah, and I but US made trade goods, cars, etc.

MS stole my career. It stole all of our savings, leaving me with no pension. I paid into Social Security and Medicare and don’t regret that expense. I never thought I would need to use it. We live on my husband’s salary and disability. I gave up $55,000 dollars a year in 2004 for $16,000 dollars a year. Like all people on Medicare, I pay for that insurance. There is a quick fix that will keep that system operational, and I hope it is realized. If we all contributed taxes to it up to $200,000 dollars a year, it would be flush and able to help all of us.

I believe in inclusion because we do live in the same areas, have the same families, and are dealing with similar situations.

I believe in freedom of religion and speech. I don’t believe in hate speech. I don’t believe seditious speech should be allowed.

I believe in respect and am disappointed that our current president who doesn’t have so much as a speeding ticket isn’t accorded the respect of the office. I believe your skin color means less than you think as our DNA is showing with the ability to see racial tendencies from different places in the world.

I believe that knowledge is a good thing, and if you are willing to accept that your values may be different and good for you, but not for others, we’ll all get along better. I believe in Science and that we are just at the beginning of understanding illnesses, nutrition, development of human behaviors, and so much more.

I don’t believe that religion belongs in our government. Many of the loudest supporters of religion in government have not studied the US Constitution or have taken Civics. You can worship as you believe, but please don’t try to enforce it elsewhere. We’re great being a people of diversity, even if a climate of fear has been created by certain parties.