Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence…Robert Frost
What might you learn today because you chose to listen without judgement?
This site is a fantastic resource with many guided meditations, ready for you to use.
Every person must answer to their own reflection.
“If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you’d conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.” ~Bill McCartney~ This includes the promises you make to yourself. Do you know yourself as someone who keeps their word?
The Curtoons Cartoon Company, a cartoon division and brand of Shaggy Duck™ Studios, is owned by professional cartoonist and logo designer Curtis D. Tucker (below), who has been rolling out funny cartoon characters since 1980 when he created Joe Vacation’s Family Album in Mrs. Trojan’s homeroom class.
Mr. Tucker a.k.a. Shaggy D has a Bachelors degree in Graphic Advertising Design from the University of Central Oklahoma. He began his career in the t-shirt business as a silk screen printer and eventually became the Director of Advertising for a large company in Enid, Oklahoma.
All the while, Curtis continued to create cartoon characters for clients in the evenings and built up a large customer base. He eventually quit his director’s position to devote full time to Shaggy Duck™ Studios and it’s many brands.
The first brand created was The Curtoons Cartoon Company. Curtoons went online in May 1999 and has become the premier cartoon logo design company on the Internet, creating logos for clients in almost every major country in the world.
I recently bought one of their designs and it is sent in many handy formats plus Curtis is a pleasure to do business with. A very hands on, personal experience. Thank you Curtis.
Healing is not just something that “happens” and now you are well. It is very often, perhaps usually, a journey, a process. Just as Dis-ease is a process, a result, an effect of some cause, not usually just something that “happens.” Both Healing and Dis-ease really reflect Life, which is also a process, a Journey, a Learning.
Of the two, Healing and Dis-ease, it seems that Dis-ease is the “default” mode, that which comes most easily and is most likely to occur. I am sure there are lots of reasons: sin, the Creation groaning until the Son of Man is revealed (Romans, in the Bible), selfishness, self-seeking of pleasure at multiple levels (another cookie, anyone?), genetics, toxins, trauma, etc.
Healing is, by definition, the “Recovery” Mode, usually arrived at via a reactionary process to the Dis-ease state when it is recognized.
Both Healing and Dis-ease have Acute (sudden, unexpected) phases, times when they do just seem to show up or “happen” without any obvious cause. On the Dis-ease side maybe it is the allergic response to the cat that you never knew about, or the broken arm from playing pickup football on an afternoon. On the Healing side we would call the sudden episode a “Miracle” or “spontaneous remission”. When thinking about Healing, this latter is perhaps what is most often hoped for, aimed at, defined as “Healing.”
However, it is the Chronic aspect of both Dis-ease and Healing that offer the most interesting points of discussion, and growth. Chronicity implies continued, regular activity or behavior over an extended time, producing a particular result.
Read more about this at Jon’s blog: http://goodheartgroup.blogspot.com
Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.” Roberson et al, 2002
In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.
We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.
How can you help?
We encourage you to set Blackle as your home page. This way every time you load your Internet browser you will save a little bit of energy. Remember every bit counts! You will also be reminded about the need to save energy each time you see the Blackle page load.
Help us spread the word about Blackle by telling your friends and family to set it as their home page. If you have a blog then give us a mention. Or put the following text in your email signature: “Blackle.com – Saving energy one search at a time”.
There are a lot of great web sites about saving energy and being more environmentally friendly. They are full of great tips covering the little things that we can all do to make a difference today. Try Blackling “energy saving tips” or visit treehugger.com a great blog dedicated to environmental awareness.
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