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Please be advised this song is not for the weak of heart or anyone under 21

insert the song

Evil Scotsman here

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(I'd insert the actual Youtube but if my dad were to come here and see it. Whoo boy. Better not)

.Besides. I'm actually a very nice person.

And I don't nor never have had a "third leg".

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Happy birthday Freddy Mercury.


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I know that it might seem a blantant plea for relationship advice but actually it's alittle different.

It's a happy birthday wish to Freddy Mercury.

And

It's also a kind wish to some folks who are helping kids find a home and showing them a bit of the world at the same time.

Hugs a kid.

Even better if you can?

Give them a home.

Cause everybody can use a place to be.

Hugs ya'll

Power has been out once already, wind is picking up, and I'm told that it's supposed to get worse between now and Thursday.


Hope your day is NOT bad.


Ann

PS And I guess I wouldn't mind having  a place to be too.


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My Brother The Deer Hunting Enviromentalist.

by Author Ann


My brother has been shooting at animals since he was 11 and skinning fish since he was 4.

His house? It looks like a natural history museum for deer parts.

He tells folks that he only shoots for for the table. Even donates deer meet to folks down on their luck.


This hunting for necessity doesn't explain the two huge bear pelts from an organized bear hunt.

His oldest child is the same.


Talks about hunting all the time. Goes all over on hunts with his dad.


Someone even wanted to pay for them to go on a safari to Africa.

Together they father and child bond while looking for signs of horney deer.


And people here say, "What a wonderful thing!" 

(They're talking about bonding over hunting and shooting animals.)

Have you ever looked at a life white tail in the eyes?

I have.

Then there's his youngest child.

This child is amazing.

He told his dad that he didn't want to hunt. Wasn't his thing his little kid voice said.

But they pestered until one day

He went with them to deer hunt and he shot a 10 point.

First and only deer hunt he ever went on.

First and only deer he ever shot.

That deer was a beast. Huge.


The oldest couldn't believe the younger's luck.

But the youngest said, " That's enough and maybe even too much for me.."

Afterwards he told them that would be the end of hunting for him. He'd rather ride is dirt bike.

To my knowledge? He's never gone back.



If you talk to my brother, he'll tell you all about how he cares for those deer who's heads are on his wall. He'll tell you that he takes care of the environment and how shooting those deer are important to the "circle of life". He'll tell you about how Bambi is some character in a kids movie.

But if you ask his youngest? He'll tell you that Bambi is a metaphor for all living things and how we should care for them by being kind.

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Dogs barking. We're told that we have coyote problem. We're also told that we have a mountain lion problem.

I'm told that if  that mountain lion attacks my dogs and I shoot it? I can get arrested for harming a protected species.

I'm also told that if I shoot a coyote that's attacking my dogs?, I'm fine to do so because it's considered a danger to my pets..

Me? I'm just hoping that we all survive.

This is one crazy world.

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"...been to the desert on a horse with no name it felt good to get out of the rain..."

Sons and Daughters of Panarchy

Unicorn pandemic and tales of panarchy?
Flame throwing tanks and nekkid peace nicks?
All ending up around a pheonix fire?
Tales of paying forward and random kindness.
All for tickets that cost more -
More than rent.
More than a weeks groceries.
More wear and tear and cost of fuel to get there only to find that the only cars allowed are in the art work.
All on a piece of land with the same name as a security contractor in Iraq.

c anne ford  8-29-11,  from Sons and Daughters of Panarchy. A Collection of  Stories and Poems the New Millenium



It's the first night of Burning Man,

No, I'm not there. This was written at home.

I'm actually at home reading about how the Food Bank is planning for the increased need for their services.  I read that Burning Man has been a for profit festival that charged from 200 to 300 dollars a ticket to get in. Once in you are asked to "pay it forward" by being helpful to one another.  While I'm reading this I'm thinking how with one dollar Food Bank can buy groceries. Imagine what they could do with the price of a ticket and the cost of fuel to get there and how folks are flying in airplanes and then taking the pledge not to use fossil fuels while there. I'm reading that people attending Burning Man are asked to do acts of kindness. Then I read that theres been a 30 percent increase this year in the number of people using Food Bank.

I think about the folks who lost everything in last spring's tornado and how Food Bank helped.

And how politicos and capitalist flew private jets to a conference about solving environmental crisis world wide.

Decided to have my own party in my heart. Cost of a ticket?  A hug.



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Hugs and kisses,

Auntie Slacker ...

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Hugs, Got stuff to do.

New Yorkers?




Give them a hurricane and they'll make it a party.


Ya' gotta love 'em.


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I read the Vogue for the articles.

I really do.

I know what you're thinking.  You're thinking, "I don't care what you read and what tha heck does that video have to do with reading Vogue?"  Then you delete and perhaps delist me on Twitter.. As you're doing so you may  also   be thinking that I read Vogue like you might read Playboy."

To you I say?

"Nothing"

The video has absolutely nothing to do with reading Vogue other than I got side tracked AND I couldn't find a good copy of  Angel is a Centerfold by J Geils Band.  I could, however, find a perfectly excellent video of The Three Stooges' dancing to Whammer Jammer. I thought that it was actually a song about the Crimson Tide (Univ of Alabama)'s foot ball cheer. It was not but  the J Girls Band did record  both the Angel IS a Centerfold and Wammer Jammer so I posted it.

Hope you don't have power loss.

Any typos are due to I haven't gone to sleep and I'm too tired to bother with it.

Going to sleep now.

Hugs,

Author Ann


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Sigh.



To note. This isn't a slam against folks who've actually been through a big storm.

To them?

Hugs.

Having been through one (lol several including a catagory 5?  I get that it's a scary thing.


And remember.

If you ever are in the path of one of a storm and can't get out?

Don't forget to fill up the bathubs with water.

No, not for drinking.

For flushing.


Just saying.

Carry on and keep calm!


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Meanwhile in NYC there are folks proving the point that NewYorkers can take just about anything but a canceled show.



Woooooooohhheeeeee.

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Dear Irene,

I know that you have your heart set on "visiting" the Eastern Seaboard but come on wouldn't you rather take that Atlantic cruise you've always talked about?

You got me walking the floor...






Love,




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Steve Jobs announces his retirement.

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Guess who's back?


Hint. He's back from France where the nekkid laddies dance.

And?

He's got a robot sidekick named Kristen and another named Geoff Peterson.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l28JEwJb9Po


LOL

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Who says.



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All together now.


Welcome to 12dots and a blot.

This is a writer's blog.

Fact and fiction co-exist here.

If you don't know which is which?

Don't ASSume.

Ask.


For a very long time I was tethered to a place and time. It was a pretty bumpy ride but I did it for love and for my son.

Now, I'm not to keen on being to tethered to much of anything new.

Not saying that I won't ever again but just not right now.

For someone who loves to travel and see new things to be in one place is a great big effort. When they find a place or time to jump into the new or look at the old a new way? Well- if it's legal, moral, and doesn't harm the ones you love or yourself?

Maybe that's a good time to jump a bit.

Dance a little.

eh?


I don't want to grow old with no sailing stories of my own to tell.

So I've lately been looking at folks who say they have a purchase on what I do and say. It's been an interesting experience.

I'm taking a bit of time for me.

Be happy.

Be kind.

Be free.


Hugs,

Author Ann




Note to readers and to Blogspot. If I don't write on this blog for a bit?
This blog is active not abandoned. Might be back today? Might not be back for days?

Who knows?

If something comes up and I feel the need to write about it?


I'll write about it here. :D


Now then, I have things to tend to.

Hugs and love. .




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Be. Here. Now

In this moment.

Not in the future time.

Or in the past.

But now.

Right now.

No. I don't care if it sounds willful.

i only care that it sounds.

That it makes the sounds that you will understand the urgency of the message.

Be

here

now.

I can hardly see the words on the page and even the subconscious in my fingertips  is trying to shout the words.

I'm tired of  "maybe's" and "some days".

NOW.

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."...I have to do this now.

Now before I get to old.

Now.

Before years of self doubt coil around my heart like some evil primordial snake. It squeezes the last bit of self and breath I have left. I'm here in the dark. In my bed with the sound of someone next to me. Snoring. Why I'm here I don't know. He's nice enough. He doesn't beat me and if I'm sick or hungry or both he'll at least notice if I'm alive. But that life he recognizes, the one where I'm breathing in the biological sense? At this moment  it doesn't feel very much like being alive does. If I don't get up out of this bed and do something quick my body might be alive but my spirit ,maybe lost...."

From Life a Work in Progress by c anne ford

all rights reserved by the author.

"... The air here is so hot and muggy that you drink it.  Nothing is moving but the cars that go one by one  through the gate and out of the cemetery. It was the last funeral she'd go to. She'd promised  herself that. There's be no more death that she'd recognize...."

From Life a Work in Progress by c anne ford

"...

In 30 years there are

--- days

--- seconds.

On day 4000, she'd eaten a baloney sandwich and drunk 2 bottles of pop.
By day 4500, she'd drunk another 200 bottles of pop and a bottle or two of tequila.
By day 5000, she'd drunk enough to convince herself that jumping off Chimney Rock was a good life decision.

By day 6000, the folks in rehab told her that maybe- just maybe- she'd have the use of her legs but there'd always be something wrong with her left arm.

By day 6500?
She'd decided enough was enough.

All they found at the bridge was a note and a half empty root beer.

"Sorry for the littering." she'd written, "but it just seemed trivial. I think you'll understand."

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Wal-Mart encourages managers to buy "local" and local produce.

Think global.

Act local.

Summer produce is still available and Fall apples and pumpkins will soon be here.

Anyone remember the story about old apple orchards that were being bought and relocated?

Buy local.

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This is a good idea. I for one would love to buy milk from the local dairy but can't because they've for the most part been shut down. Alot of that land is now for sale to grow houses.

Buy local?

I'm trying to.

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Quote:

"You know, it's funny hearing the head of the Chinese banking system demand America alter it's financial policies

just cause he said so.

After all, it was America who modernised (and I guess got him his job) in the first place.

Here in the South we call that one of three things.

The kindest is "uppidty".

The next kindest is "arrogant".

But?

What we're thinking is the third thing,

 "That's  just plain stupid."

Only we're not so "uppidiy" and "arrogant" to say so.

At least not to your face."

Unquote.

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Before you read the next post, please take care to read this:

For the record,


I DO NOT hate people from China. There are really nice people who are from and still live in China. They haven't had it easy. I know that.

However -

I am not too keen on their govermental policies, That's not the same as disliking people from China.

To tell the truth I'm glad that the citizens of China are finally getting a living wage after years and years of not.

Alot of that economic recovery came from American help. Seems a bit unfriendly to be demanding this and that after all that help.



Just sayin

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(Song What's Going On by Marvin Gaye)


"This is my Zen garden. All who are weary? Come for peace here." c anne ford



hmmm


I told myself, "Self, stay out of politics. It's a jungle out there. But..."


A history lesson.

Go back and read the financial news. Go back to the 70's and Richard Nixon when the first George Bush was head of (I think) the CIA. Start there and read through the following decades, yes decades, about the push to modernize China. Pay attention to the news where the US redid China's stock exchange, insurance commissions, banking commisions, and then look up civil rights violations by China before the Olympics and just in general. Pay attention to what you're reading and then ask your self about recent comments from China concerning US debt.

Then?

Go get a map.
A world map.

Look at where America is and where China is.
Good.

Then?

Look south to South and Central America.

And look at North and South America with people who could use a job. Look at Europe too. Ireland, Portugal, Greece... Look at the world and put things in to perspective. This isn't the first time the world has seen trouble. It's also not the first time that countries have worked together to handle an economic crisis.

Make no mistake here. I'm a thinking that there is some muscle flexing going on but I know that we were a nation for doing things and making things for ourselves.

Pick a paper and look at history. Look at the folks who've been watching their manufacturing jobs leave the country. We've lost textiles and steel. Now think of this, we are still a country rich in natural reasources and unlike a certain other country we've learned how to make things without poluting our environment.

There are times that call for clear thinking and taking up for yourself. It's not just our country. Hello Canada. Hello countries in Central and South America.

We can do it for ourselves.

This song says "hello" to the people of America who've manufacture things and did it well long before goods ever had the words, "Made in China".



(Incase the embed is disabled song 40 Hour Week by Alabama official vid)

Now I'm not going to suggest you throw out those things with "Made in China" on it but maybe it's time that we had a conversation with the WalMart folks and asked them to bring back the "Made in America" campaign.

And maybe the unions can help.

My grandfather raised children during the Great Depression in America. We don't want that but I think that we can get past it. From Craigs List to Ebay and yes to WalMart. The lessons of the Great Depression was about those places who survived by pulling together. They were inventive. The bartered (think Craig's List. Are you getting me? They fed people that didn't have. I hear it's a global economy now but it was then too. Time to band together.




Then?

Go look at the map and at the news and think to yourself, "Who's the country who's been fighting (and going into debt) in Afganistan and Iraq. Anyone see China?"

My heart felt prayers for the family members of the troops who died in Iraq. Hugs.

I'm sorry that my blog can seem frivolous. I've been staying away from politics because lets face it, the troubles in this world, the sorrow, can be overwhelming. Sometime you need a place of quiet.

I'm not being callous. My state like many others have had real sadness due to loss in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.




(His Eyes Are On The Sparrow cover my Marvin Gay - Incase the embed is disabled)


I hope that this comment on the current political enviroment won't get me banned but I come from the Deep South. While there are good times here? There've been bad too.

It's hear that I've learned that while there are times to be quiet? There's time you should say something too.

I am proud to be American.

Author Ann



(incase the songs are pulled Arron Tippin song You've Got To Stand For Something)


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