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April 1st, 2010 | Author: moriggert

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California Gold Rush of 1849

March 31st, 2010 | Author: moriggert

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Members of the Arkansas Emigrating Company were making ready for departure from Fayetteville on April 17, 1849. In the pre-dawn light, clouds hanging low and the air heavy laden with moisture left little doubt that Spring rains would soon arrive in Arkansas. Finally the call rang out “California Ho!” Oxen and horses strained in their harness and the wagons loaded with men, supplies and equipment rolled west. Some who had no wagons had bartered for space on the wagons of others who had a little space to spare. Livestock and horse riders fell in behind the wagons. Excitement was evident in their eyes although few words were spoken amongst the men. They had dreams of the gold they hoped to bring back to Arkansas.

Rains soon came and the 85 mile trip to their rendezvous with the Cherokee Company at Grand Saline was accomplished under muddy conditions. The men didn’t complain.

The Company left Grand Saline and headed for California on April 24, 1849. The Arkansas Emigrating Company after joining with the Cherokees, consisted of 130 people, 40 wagons, 304 oxen, 41 mules, 65 horses and 31 cows, making in all 441 head of livestock. They recorded the miles traveled daily which averaged 5-20 miles. Mileage was calculated using a device designed by John Rankin Pyeatte which measured distance by counting the revolutions of the wagon wheel.

Other companies were plagued by sickness and disease but Captain Evans Company didn’t seem to suffer much sickness. Cholera was rampant among other emigrating companies. That scourge didn’t infiltrate our Arkansas Emigrating Company. They actually had few casualties. An August 16, 1849 letter from James Crawford to his wife, Harriett, reported that Mr. Tharpe died with what the doctors called diabetes. Mr. Garvin, one of the pack company, was drowned while attempting to cross Green River on a raft or skin boat. Aaron Tyner, Hiram Shores and others narrowly escaped drowning. They did lose their baggage and their money.

About ten days behind the Evans party, was another emigrating company led by Dr. Jeter L. Thompson, composed almost entirely of Cherokees. Cholera overtook that company at the Platte River crossing below North Platte, Nebraska and devastated it. John Lynch Adair and his brother, two adventurous young Cherokees, were with that party. Adair wrote in his diary: “Both sides of the river was a solid mass of wagons, men digging graves on each side of the river, men dying in their wagons, hallowing and crying and cramping with cholera, women screaming and praying. Oh, my God, if there were ever two boys that wanted to get back to their mothers, we did.”

One letter to home offered the following explanation for the good health of the Arkansans: “Nothing else could be expected from men who cook their food with buffalo chips, snuff the pure bland breezes of the boundless plains and braced up with a ‘lively hope’ that all the wildest dreams e’er wove in fancy’s loom of ‘ingots of gold and bags of dollars,’ will be realized beyond the Cordilietas”

They did, however, suffer many inconveniences if nothing else. Their diaries tell of horses stolen by Indians and oxen lost. It seems some of the oxen rebelled and turned back home without the consent of their owners. Letters exchanged between James Crawford with other relations back home continued to mention “Old Tuck,” who must have been a favored ox. So far as is recorded Old Tuck never made it back home to Cane Hill, although another team of oxen still yoked together, did come home. So often was he mentioned that one must wonder about the fate of “Old Tuck.”

Many references were made to Indians stealing horses. One particular incident referred to a mule. As a group of men set out to recover the stolen horses, they met a group of Indians returning the mule they had inadvertently taken along with the horses. Having a bit of experience with mules myself, I wonder if the Indians found the personality of the mule frightening and perhaps they felt it was filled with evil spirits.

While most of the Indian tribes encountered appeared quite friendly, anxious to trade and hopeful of receiving gifts, the most problematic were the Diggers. They were a nomadic tribe of Indians who lived in the desert. Their bows were not strong enough to kill an ox, but could wound one to the extent that it had to be left behind. Very little historically is known about them. They lived in burrows and obtained a miserable existence by digging roots and insects for food. They harassed almost every wagon train which crossed the desert such that subsequent emigrating parties shot them on sight. Whatever became of these miserable people has not been recorded. Hubert Howe Bancroft, the noted historian, said in his massive treatise on Native American people, “Anything that crawled, flew, or walked was food to them. They are naturally pusillanimous, weak in development, sunk below the common baser passions of the savage, more improvident than birds, more beastly than beasts. It may be possible to conceive of a lower phase of humanity, but I confess my inability to do so.”

They met with many challenges along the way. The Arkansans weren’t particularly happy with their travel across the desert lands. They described it as “the most miserable, poor, sandy, dusty, and hateful country (with a few exceptions) that any white man ever saw, or ever will see till he comes and sees this sand and dust.” They reported an astronomical number of dead animals every few hundred yards along with graves of prior unfortunate emigrants. The stench of rotting flesh was never far from their nostrils. The mountainous regions presented an equal challenge. Many of the Arkansas emigrants elected to abandon their wagons and pack what they could across the mountains. At one point there was such a strong wind they were forced to crawl to keep from being blown away.

Apparently one reason Captain L. Evans trail is so often mentioned in subsequent diaries is that when he led his company from Washington County and the Cherokee Nation west in 1849 he took the time to carve on stones the fact that he passed a certain point. For example, at the fork with the Santa Fe Trail Captain Evans set up a stone marked “To Fayettville, Ark, 300 miles–Capt. Evans’ Com’y, May 12, 1849.”

The Company reached the Sacramento Valley, the village of Webbersville, October 20, 1849. Part of the group immediately left for Sacramento City to replenish supplies. Others proceeded to erect winter shelter as best they could. At this point it seems that disappointment and discouragement took over. Yet they accepted the fact that they would have to winter in California so as is common with Arkansans, they made the best of it.

Judging by letters written to his sons, nephews and friends, W. D. Crawford wasn’t too keen on the expedition in the first place and took every opportunity to remind them of the morals which they took with them from Arkansas. His first letter included the following statement: “Oh! the infatuation, boys, take care you do not get your fingers burned and your morals corrupted. No doubt if you have the good fortune to reach your place of destination, you will be in the foulest crowd ever assembled on this earth at any one time or place.” Subsequent letters gave even more stern admonitions. His dire warnings proved to be prophetic as stealing, lying, swearing, drinking, gambling and murders were rampant around the gold fields. It seems that every outlaw from every corner of the earth had converged upon the hapless miners and perpetrated every crime and illegal activity that could be imagined.

The discovery of gold drove up prices for everything. While the average worker might make $6 to $10 per day, food and supplies could cost much more than they earned. Many people had spent 6 months earnings, or more, getting to California.

John H. Miller, writing to the “St. Joseph Valley Register,” October 6, 1849, gives the following prices at Webberville, 60 miles from Sacramento:

Wagons …………………………………. $40 to $80.00

Oxen, per yoke …………………………. 50 to 150.00

Mules, each …………………………….. 90 to 150.00

Board, per meal, $1.50, or per week … 21.00

Beef, per pound ………………………… 40 cents to .75

Salt Pork, per pound …………………… 40 cents to .75

Flour, per pound ……………………….. 25 cents to .30

Sugar, per pound ………………………. 30 cents to .50

Molasses, per gallon …………………… $2 to 4.00

Mining Cradles ………………………….. $20 to 60.00

Mining Pans …………………………….. $4 to 8.00

Obvious from letters written to home, the gold in California was pretty much a disappointment as there were thousands of gold seekers and while some did acquire a fortune, most did not. According to diaries and letters the Divins, Edmistons, Eperson and J. Wham found a somewhat more lucrative mine but nothing is written about what, if anything, they brought back to Arkansas. As the family story goes, The Divins and Edmistons, from whom I descend, were an impatient lot and when they were ready to return to Arkansas they saddled their horses and struck off cross-country alone. (Perhaps I inherit my impatience from them). It is said that they would not even make fires lest they attract the unwanted attention of Indians.

A sad finale to this story is that of James Sawyer Crawford. He elected to return to Arkansas via ship. He reached the Port of Arkansas on October 31, 1850, about 12 miles below Pine Bluff. From this point James Sawyer Crawford made his way across country to Fayetteville. He died somewhere in the few miles between Fayetteville and his home at Cane Hill. He is buried in the Crawford Cemetery north of Lincoln.

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The Truth of God and the Purpose of Religion

March 24th, 2010 | Author: moriggert

Often, we are puzzled by the curiosity of the man to know the unknown. Why should scientists bother to know how big is the universe? Does it really matter if it is 28 billion light years wide or may be just one light year? Why should we care if the universe is 14 billion years old or less when our own life is less than hundred years. Why should the scientists waste their time and public money on such quest of knowledge?

Similar is the quest of knowledge about God. Why must we bother about God? God is believed in virtually every society of the world. There are hundreds of religions and faiths and most have a different description of God. Which one should one believe? More than that why should one bothers to know God? After all can we not live without the knowledge of God? Many successful people in this world had no faith on God. Yet they achieved success and lead a happy and successful in life. There are people who do just the opposite of what is written in the scriptures yet lead a happy life. Why God does not punish them? Knowing the God seems as impossible for man as knowing the universe seems to be impossible for the scientists.

God is perhaps the most controversial creation of human imagination. If the God of Judaism is jealous God who threaten to kill His people if they worship other Gods and ask them to follow the policy of “an eye for an eye”, the God of Christianity in “New Testament” is a kind God who forgives even the greatest sins of its people and asks the people to offer the other cheek, if you are slapped on one cheek. If animal sacrifice is the only legitimate method to atone one’s sin in Judaism, Jainism prohibits even killing of insects. If Islam and Judaism prohibits the representation of God in any form, Hindus worship God in every form. If Judaism and Islam believe in One God, Christianity believes in Trinity and for Hindus there are 330 millions God.

It is, therefore, an irony that even today, when science has changed the face of the world with its knowledge and inventions, people still believe in God. Even in America, the land of most of the scientific inventions of the world, more than 95 percent people believe in God. It is extremely difficult to understand and explain the human psyche in respect of God as none in the world has ever seen God.

It seems that no amount and rational thinking and scientific knowledge could change the illusion of man about God. Galileo Galilei, who is considered to be the father of science, too believed in God as he stated “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.” Even Albert Einstein, considered to be the greatest scientist ever emphatically stated, “A legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

Many scientists are, therefore, aghast by the stupidity of human mind to believe God and practice the “mindless” rituals of the religion without any evidence or reason. Scientists are also frustrated because all their achievements and logic could not convince men to lose faith in God and start thinking rationally. Steven Weinberg, an American physicist and Noble laureate echoed this sentiment when he said,

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion”

Is it not wise for man to spend their time and energy in knowing the people of the world, whom they deal every day? The life could be much better, if we can know human beings rather than God. Scientists and rationalists, therefore, focus all their attentions in knowing the people and nature rather then knowing the unknown called God.

Understanding the Thoughts of Man: The Toughest Science or The Easiest Art

Imagine somehow, you could know the thoughts of other people. You can surely rule the world. Even scientists like Einstein said, “I just want to know the thoughts of God. The rest are details.” He surely could know some thoughts of God and became the most respected scientist of history.

All braches of knowledge seems to revolve around knowing the secrets of man and nature. Medical sciences, history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, philosophy are all related to the study of the people and nature in different forms. All these branches of knowledge attempts to know the man and nature so that their behaviour can be known and predicted. However, understanding the people seems to be the most difficult task in this world from the books. Even if one has mastered all books of all branches of knowledge, he may still not be able to understand the people. Even Einstein admitted, “I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.”

Understanding the mind of man is the most difficult science but the easiest art. It is so simple that even an illiterate person can understand the thoughts of other men easily. The understanding of man seems to come automatically in all human beings or even animals without any effort merely by dealing with different types of people. All artists, painter, musician, poets seems to have much better understanding of the mind of the people than the scholars. Leaders and business too know the pulse (mind) of the people much better than the scholars. Knowing the people is the key ingredient for making advertisements, creating innovations or launching a new product. It can be said that one who knows the men truly rules the world. Such people make history and change history.

Why all knowledge of the world can’t enable a man to understand the mind of the people? The reason seems simple and logical. We can easily visualize that the world is continuously evolving and changing every moment. For example, if any one try to become a great leader following the foot step of Stalin. Hitler, Mao, Roosevelt, Gandhi or Churchill, he is bound to fail as the world has changed and so has the requirement of the people of the world. The leader of twenty-first century has to be different than those of the last century or ever existed in past. Yet, there is no “rational and logical” method to know what is there in the mind of modern world and how to influence the thoughts of others to achieve a desired goal.

Knowing God

When you want to know people logically, you are confused as you find every person as different and unpredictable. If you treat other people like you, you fail miserably as no person like you had ever born in this world in past nor would ever take birth in future. Every person is unique in this world. However, deeper study reveals that such differences are only superficial. When you interact with many people, a pattern starts emerging in your mind that reveals what is common in all people. You start noticing that despite of the differences, there are many characteristics that are common in all people.

We notice that just like the body of all human beings have similarity as they have same body parts, same is true with the thoughts of the people. People have common thoughts and believes. When we learn further, we notice that even the body parts of human beings are not very different than that of the animals like monkeys, gorillas etc. Even the body of rat has great similarity with man. It is for this reason that most of the medical experiments are first conducted on rats and monkeys before they are tested on human beings. If the medicine works or rat or monkey, it is found to work well for man as well.

When we, expand our quest even further, we find many common features that we share with even plants. Most of the food that builds our bones, cells, blood etc is from plant world. A petrol engine can run only with petrol and can’t function, if we fill it with diesel or any other fuel. Yet a man can virtually eat any plant or meat and the body converts it to flesh, blood, bones and energy. Even animal meat, that a man consumes, comes from plant life as the animals consume plant. Thus every part of the body of man is made from plant.

Then when we go even further, we wonder, how the plants are made? We find that earth, water, sunlight (energy), air are as essentials for the plant as for man. It is for his reason that all creations of the world are described to be made from five basic ingredients i.e. earth, water, air, fire and sky (pure energy). No plant life can sustain without sunlight. Thus we feel connected with the solar system too. Then what is left in the universe? We find ourselves related to everything else in the universe.

Thus, we can intuitively feel that there has to be something that is common in all different realities of the world, that which created and sustained everything, that which is present in everything and that which connects everything. We call this common force, the common Truth, the common energy in all creations as “God”.

Thus the quest of God starts from the quest of man. While man may not have any interest in knowing God, he surely has every reason to know man and everything in the world that affects a man. However, this quest of knowledge leads us to the knowledge of God. Hence often it is said that “God is not a person but a process”. Once we understand God, we understand the world. The people who know God are the people who actually know the core of human beings. They are the people who had understood the mind of the people of all the past, present and future generations. That is why these people had millions or even billions of people following them and their thoughts even thousands of years after their death. When you search the essence of humanity or world, what you essentially find is God which alone satisfy such quest.

What is a Religion?

There is no common definition of religion. Wikipedia defines religion as, “A religion is a set of beliefs and practices generally organized around supernatural and moral claims, and often codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law.”

Thus even scientist are religious to an extent as they too believe in certain beliefs and practices. Even the modern concepts like democracy, socialism, humanism can be said to be religion to some extent, even if they do not have the concept of God. After all religions like Buddhism too does not believe in God and advocates the use of commonsense to decide the truth as Buddha said

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own commonsense”.

Religion is often used interchangeably with “faith” which also means “believe”. Thus if you believe in anything, you can be called religious by some definition. Even if you don’t believe and use your commonsense to decide everything, yet you may not be an atheist as Buddha himself said so. Since no man and no civilization can exist without a common believe hence there would hardly be an individual who can’t be said to be religious.

Religion: The Simplified Truth for Common Man

The major difficulty faced by an scientist or a philosopher is to explain their theories to a common man. Einstein was world famous for his “theory of relativity” which revolutionized physics and gave birth to modern or quantum physics. Yet the theory is so difficult to comprehend that even this scientists took more than 15 years to understand this theory. Even the greatest physicist found the theory absurd due to its incomprehensibility to the commonsense. However, when it was proven right be experiments, Einstein became the most famous scientist the world. Every person wanted to know, the theory of relativity, in simple word. This is how, Einstein explained to the common man the concept of the theory of relativity

“When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”

The physics knows that this explanation of relativity is not correct. Yet they also know that this may perhaps the simplest method to explain the theory of relativity. However, Einstein perhaps used this explanation for the boys and man. If he has to explain the same theory before girls, children, student of physics or scientist, he would have explained the theory different which could be comprehended to the recipient. Every person, who have understood the theory of relativity would use different method and analogy to explain this to a common man. Hence there has to be many manifestations for the common Truth, when it is explained to a layman. Hence all religions seem different in words, yet to a spiritually evolved person, they all represent the same Truth. Upanishads had rightly said, “Truth is one but the wise man say it differently.”

The wise man like Buddha, Christ or Nanak discovered the God or Truth only after years of spiritual growth and self-development. You require same level of spiritual evolution to decode these theories. The most difficult problem, they faced is to explain the concept of God to the ordinary man who is far less spiritually evolved. The whole knowledge has to be simplified to such an extend that even the most common man can understand God and follow the path of spiritual growth leading to true happiness and bliss. The explanation of the mysterious and incomprehensible knowledge of God in simple words is called “Religion”. Therefore, Jesus simplified his wisdom so much that it can be stated only in few pages of New Testament. The entire Koran can be stated in few hundred pages.

If Truth is not simplified, it loses its popularity. For example, the Hindus philosophy of Vedas, Upanishads and Gita are so complex and incomprehensible that it may require even the most intelligent man to spend his entire life to understand it. Therefore, some great philosophers and poets like Tulasidas and Vyas summarized the whole wisdom in the form of stories of Ram and Krisha that were so simple that every person could understood it. Mahayana Budhism too made Buddhism simple and comprehensible to a common man that made Buddhism popular in the world.

The Spirit of Religion

Religion is the process by which a man can discover his Higher Self or Soul and evolve spiritually. Even though, all religions are different yet the spirit of all religion is same. All religions seek its followers to rise above the level of senses and observe the common truth that is present in all beings which is imperceptible to senses. The Truth is often named as God or Spirit. In order to invoke the presence of a supernatural reality that is beyond the conception of mind and senses, the method of prayers have been prescribed in all religion. By preying to the unknown and unseen entity, a man actually invokes the unseen and unknown Self that is present in him. This elevates the spiritual growth of the person.

Thus the rituals and prayers are the basic tools of the religion for the discipline of the mind and body. Once the body and senses are reined, the person’s spiritual growth automatically starts. The methods may be different but the objective and the goal of all religions is the same. Only by the spiritual growth, a person can relate himself with the rest of the world and lead the life of happiness, contentment and peace. However, this discovery has to be performed only by self as spiritual knowledge can never be stated in words. Vedas said it rightly,

“Those who know It speak of It not, who speak of It know It not.”

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Good Death

March 22nd, 2010 | Author: moriggert

Besides sexuality death is the most inscrutable of experiences; as it says in the Talmud-Book of Law: nothing speaks before death. The foundation (sexuality) and the demise(death) represents the two boundaries of life from the beginning conception until the last breath; within Jewish Law which devises laws for every human act there are no laws for how to be sexual or how to die-these are moments between the person and the Creator.

Death like sex should be embraced. Much of what ails the human being comes from our innate animal fear of death. The Talmud states there are sixty types of death ranging from the easiest pictured by a hair being taken out of milk and the most severe likened to thorns being removed from the fur of the lamb requiring ripping of the skin. Just as the trauma of birth ends in the relentless cry of life so too does the pangs of death relinquish life with the last breath.

The Church profited from the innate animal fear of death by inventing Hell-a place of eternal punishment. In Jewish and other ancient texts spread throughout the world is a preponderance of proof through the common acknowledgment of reincarnation that Hell is absurd. Hell, besides having a dipterous effect on the human psyche making the populous easier to control is also an economic ploy. While the church indoctrinates the ideas of Hell the medical industry uses this fear to keep people alive, at any cost.

The Talmud-Book of Law states that we are forced to live, meaning the soul does not want to leave heaven and come to the earth, and we are forced to die, meaning the body made of inanimate matter wants to keep living. These two dichotomies account for the difficulty of birth and death which is hard enough without the added dogma that makes people extend the years of their life at any cost. It is as if life has become a race of who can live the longest.

As the reality of death has been skewed, so too has the purpose of life taken on a different meaning, longevity is reason to live-simple survival. Freedom has been redefined as the pursuit of wealth; medicine has been relegated to experimentation on disease for the sake of the wealthy; the common people with their fear of death make willing subjects for health care. True health care would tell us when we have contracted a deadly disease and keep us out of pain while the process proceeds.

Death should be honored, not feared. Unquestionably the next world is much kinder than this world, but it is through our actions and deeds that determine how long we remain in the spirit world before returning back to the earth. Information about life and death is not rendered to the human being until later when as an elder he can become an example to the youth about the human metaphor in the cycle of life.

Through seeing the world in the eyes of the metaphor allows a new light to enter in. Rebbe Nachman of Breslev said about his own teachings that they would be the last light until Moshiach-he was famous for his stories and his metaphors. In the story of creation God calls each day “Good” but at the end of the Sixth Day of Creation God says Tov Moed/Very Good. The Talmud-Book of Law says the word Moed/Very” denotes the creation of Death.

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BABY-SCHLAFSACK 2.5 TOG 0- 6 MONATEN ANIMAL ARK

March 18th, 2010 | Author: moriggert

BABY-SCHLAFSACK 2.5 TOG 0- 6 MONATEN ANIMAL ARK : Slumbersac baby sleeping bags Ensure a safe and comfortable sleep for your baby.
In the first few months there is often the case that babies wake up frequently at night. Research shows that babies at night, get tangled in the ceiling, or may even slip below the ceiling. Often there is no optimal indoor environment in a cot, it is either too cold or too warm. The result is that babies wake up and start screaming.
Slumbersac replaces the traditional baby blanket. With Slumbersac your baby enjoys the optimal temperature during the night. Your baby is warm, wonderful and wants to sleep when your baby sleep longer, you will also get more sleep.
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baby sleeping bags are also ideal for travel: Your baby feels at home in his Slumbersac.
Slumbersac All sleeping bags are available in three sizes: from birth (4 kilograms) up to 36 months.
The temperature of your sleeping bag is often very difficult to estimate. The ideal sleeping bag depends on the one hand from the room temperature and secondly by the clothing that carries the baby. Slumbersac used a common system in Britain, which indicates the thermal resistance of a product as “TOG”. The higher the TOG value, the more heat keeps the product back inside. The Slumbersac sleeping bags) are available in the TOG values 2.5 (year-round use) and 1 (for warm nights.
All Slumbersac sleeping bags So a free room thermometer so that the optimum temperature for your baby always control. Detailed contain Information and instructions are included.
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Wildeye.co.uk – Introduction to wildlife filmmaking weekend

March 14th, 2010 | Author: moriggert

Wildeye introduction to wildlife filmmaking weekend at the animal ark in norfolk.

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Middle Aged? Who? Me?

March 13th, 2010 | Author: moriggert

I’m turning 43 in less than a month. I need bifocals; my chest is down to my knees; my hair is mostly salt now (although I add the “pepper” back in every 4 weeks); I leak when I laugh; and my dress size seems to think it should go up every year along with my age.

I went to the grocery store the other day and was overlooked in line as the next customer by the deli man who only had eyes for the young thing behind me. So, now being middle aged means being invisible, too?

I had to purchase a key rack for the first time ever as I have grown tired of searching for my keys time and time again. It used to be I had the memory of an elephant, now I just have the legs of an elephant.

I also enjoy looking at the tabloids now because I cut out and paste the pictures of the cellulite bottomed movie stars on my bathroom mirror. Partly as a reminder to me that even the rich and famous are not perfect, but also for my hubby to see what movies stars really look like.

And speaking of that, how come a man can go gray and look great, while a woman just looks old? I see relatively young women with gray hair and think, “Gosh lady, for eight bucks and 30 minutes, that gray could be gone. Come on, get with the program.”

So this is what 40 and fabulous is all about? Hmmm, I wish my outsides could match how I feel and think on the inside now. Isn’t it funny- when we are young and foolish and not too sure about who we are, what we want, where our life is going, we look great on the outside and then when we figure it all out and know a few things and are much wiser, our body decides to be foolish? Just doesn’t seem fair to me.

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sharon easter poem 2

March 7th, 2010 | Author: moriggert

This poem was written by Sharon Reynolds for Noah’s ARC to highlight the plight of the strays in our region and their desparate need for forever homes and foster homes. Morgan Stanley International Foundation have once again agreed to match fund Sharon’s Easter Appeal in recognition of the work we do for sick and injured dogs. So for every Euro you donate to Sharon’s Appeal, they will donate another Euro up to a value of £2000. Noahs Arc (Animal Rescue Charity) has been saving the lives of hundreds of dogs for 9 years and we need your help to continue with our valuable work. Thanks to Sharon Reynolds for her enormous help in raising 8500 Euros for us last year and enormous thanks to her for writing the latest poem which is another thought provoking gem

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Pony in a Package (Animal Ark Series #27)

March 2nd, 2010 | Author: moriggert

Wanted: Home For a Pony – –
A package is shipped to animal ark. It’s a small black and white pony. It was supposed to be given to a young girl. She doesn’t want the little horse. Can Mandy convince her of how much love a pony can give?
Pony in a Package (Animal Ark Series #27): : One busy Saturday morning, the delivery man brings a big surprise to Animal Ark: the tiniest horse that Mandy has ever seen! The miniature horse was actually meant for Tania Benster, a newcomer to Welford. But Tania’s parents have just divorced and she’s too upset to care about her gift.Can Mandy show Tania how much this little horse has to offer?
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Paw Painting 2007 — Stella

February 27th, 2010 | Author: moriggert

Pawsitive Beginnings Dog Day Care: ‘Paw Print Turkey Thursday’ 2007, featuring Stella. Ark Animal Hospital, Liberty MO

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