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Goldenrod's thoughts: December 2009
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Sunday, December 27, 2009. Is it Christmas yet? Early Wednesday evening I posted Mannheim Steamroller's "Silent Night" as my introduction to this year's favorite Christmas music. Nothing since. What happened? To be checked in were more proof positive that traveling during the holidays is perilous and fraught with risk and made me shake my head at their frustration and concern at the distinct possibility of not being able to get to their destinations on time. Initially, however, I didn't realize that fact...
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New Peace Symbol
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The image above was developed from the well-known peace symbol created by Gerald Holtom in 1958. I call this new creation the "Whole Peace Symbol". Holtom's design was based on the semaphore signs for "N" and "D"—an abbreviation for "Nuclear Disarmament". In any case, Holtom's peace symbol is a very attractive emblem. When I see it today, I have an immediate, automatic recognition and response. When I see his design, I think "Peace"—Peace with a capital "P". This sense of wholeness, I hope, will create a...
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Bio
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I grew up in Northwest Arkansas and have lived and worked all over the United States—my career has been a patch-work quilt. An early fascination with the paranormal developed into an interest in metaphysics, which in turn, led to working with dreams and the use of mythological archetypes in my fiction and poetry. My first novel,. I have a strong belief in the power of working with dreams. I've written numerous articles on dreamwork, maintained the Dream Steps blog. The Myth Steps blog. Refers to rising u...
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Poetry from Sky Rope (subterranean rappel)
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I'm currently renovating my poetry selections pages. In the interim, you can visit my sky rope poetry blog or. You can click here to find these poetry collections on amazon.com:. Open All Night: poems of our dream life. Butterfly Soul: poems of death / grief / joy. Myth Steps: searching for the new mythology. Glorious Tedious Transformation: poems of change. Common Courage: poems of our story. Listening to Silence: poems of meditation. Survival: documenting the fight. My War for Peace.
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Cartoons
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Once in awhile, I take time away from being so seriously studious to draw a little cartoon. CLICK ON PICTURES TO ENLARGE IMAGE. Sky rope poetry blog. The raven's way: a novel. Dreamsteps: working with dreams.
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Soultime 1
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Is two million years of human development compressed into a single lifetime. The idea came to me after I read that Neantherthals apparently had a type of burial ceremony. But how had they developed the idea of an afterlife? Well, perhaps their ancestors had visited them in their dreams. Incorporates Native American myths and folktales,. Uses mythological motifs found in cultures all over the world. One click. Takes you to the beginning. Sky rope: poetry selections. Sky rope poetry blog.
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Dream Steps 1
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I developed this problem-solving technique of working on dreams because I often lost the dream's key message when I tried to interpret each and every symbol. And yet, by trying solve the problem in a dream, I can end up uncovering layers of meaning in a symbol. So this simple approach can actually take me deeper into the dream. I'll try to explain all this in detail in the. Book In the meantime, you can click here. For a brief description of what I do. Sky rope: poetry selections. Sky rope poetry blog.
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The Raven's Way 1
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Though the cover of this novel may be bland. The pages within contain mayhem, harmony, death, birth, rebirth, destruction, desolation, destitution, desire, union, love, separation, confusion, frustration, transformation, and the occasional epipany. To read a little, click here. Sky rope: poetry selections. Sky rope poetry blog. Dreamsteps: working with dreams. Is a "shamanic journey through Native American folklore". Click here to read the customer reviews on.