PLEASE look up "James and Daddy" on MySpace. James is a very sick little boy whose father wants to get him 1 million friends on MySpace asap.This is NOT a hoax, please find their site, ask for an add, and tell your friends.
This is my daughter Sara with her best friend, Willem, He died on March 28, 2007 of the "choking game." He was 17 years old, had recently returned with her from the school spring break trip to France, and was looking forward to going to senior prom with her, their high school graduation, and starting college in the fall.
Please go to this petition site and sign the petition to have D.A.R.E. include information about this deadly "game" in their presentations. Every year hundreds of children are known to die playing this "game", and many more do who are mistakenly labeled as intentional suicides, due to the ignorance of parents, emergency medical personnel and law enforcement. I myself did an asphyxiation game in middle school at a slumber party; when I woke up everyone was freaking out, and they told me I had had a seizure.
Even if you wake up and feel fine, the act of depriving the brain of oxygen to the point of passing out means there is some kind of IRREVERSIBLE BRAIN DAMAGE. The "high" you get is from your brain cells seizing up and DYING. EVEN IF IT DOESN'T KILL YOU DIRECTLY, THERE IS NO SAFE WAY TO PLAY THIS GAME.
For more information, here are some other links: deadly games children play, Nick Serna's site, Dylan's site, MSNBC news article, The Choking Game, A teenage survivor's story, David Carl Bay's page.
♥ JOY
♥ LOVE
♥ PEACE
♥ Movies
♥ Singing
♥ Reading
♥ MySpace
♥ Lightwork
♥ Runescape
♥ Gardening
♥ Meditation
♥ Mindfulness
♥ Metaphysics
♥ Ostomy support
♥ Conscious Creation
♥ New Thought Ideas
♥ Landmark Education
♥ Unity Spiritual Center
♥ the Law of Attraction
♥ Karma and reincarnation
♥ doing things with my kids
♥ Travel at home and abroad
♥ Making new, interesting friends
♥ Scrapbooking and rubber stamping
♥ Photography, especially during travel
♥ Asperger's syndrome issues and support
♥ Spending time with my family and friends
♥ books and ideas by Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks
♥ Reiki and other alternative healing modalities
♥ Almost anything or anyone French or East Indian
♥ Making delicious chocolate candies (including truffles!)
♥ Creating extraordinary relationships, especially with William
♥ Having deeply personal, authentic, spiritual, intellectual conversations with people
Places I’ve Visited
INDIA
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I've been to all but three states in the US (Alaska, and North and South Dakota), and to...
Antarctica
Antigua
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Bali
Barbados
Belgium
Canada
Curacao
Denmark
Ecuador
England
France
the Galapagos
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
India
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
(South) Korea
Martinique
Melanesia
Mexico
Micronesia
Monaco
the Netherlands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Peru
St. Lucia
St. Maarten
St. Thomas
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Tortola
and Yugoslavia (former).
In the spring of 2002 I traveled to the western South Pacific in the spring with my mother, on a 2 1/2 week trip to mostly remote areas of Melanesia and Micronesia. Highlights included participating in a Sing-Sing in a village in New Britain, snorkeling daily, and doing a drift snorkel with 4.5 million "virtually" non-stinging jellyfish in Palau.
In late December of that same year, I went to Antarctica with my family. Highlights of that trip included seeing humpback whales, playing with a leopard seal that swam around our zodiac for about 30 minutes, body-sledding (twice!) down a steep cliff on the continent of Antarctica, seeing the amazing variety of iceburgs, and spending an hour and a half singing in a run-down storage tank at an old whaling station. It was incredible, the acoustics made it seem like singing to God...
Some Favorite Websites
*ARTISTIC*
Imaginary Arts
Thomas Kinkade
Lovely handmade clothing
Southwest art by Tracy Turner
Angel (and other) art by Nancy Bright
A Horse of a Different Color (booking agent for some folk musicians and links to their
music)
*RELATIONSHIPS*
Radical Forgiveness
Story of the Free Hugs Campaign
Option Institute (personal growth)
Hendricks Institute (relationships/personal growth)
Attracting Genuine Love - relaxing & inspirational movie from the Hendricks
*TRAVEL*
Manta Ray Hotel/Yap
Kingdom of Biffeche
Zegrahm Expeditions (adventure/eco travel)
*SPIRITUAL*
Human Healing
Indigo Children
Recreating Eden
A forum about The Secret
AngelScribe - miracle stories
Crystal Children (post-Indigo children)
Cosmic Consciousness and stories about great mystics and saints
*MISC*
Clicker Training humane, positive training for animals
Shaz's Ostomy pages Humor, contacts, stories about ostomy life
Whatever your opinion of the war in Iraq, here is a site where you can send free messages to Americans serving there.
Free Hug coupons to print and give out
Save The World - One Click At A Time!
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Seventh Generation will donate women's hygiene products to shelters all over the country through this link:
Anyone interested in Global New
Thought, Unity Church/spiritual center, Conversations With God, the Seth books, metaphysics, the Law of Attraction, conscious creation, mindfulness, sacred sexuality, ostomy issues, *Relationship* as a sacred space for healing, being happy rather than right, Landmark Education, lightwork, Red Hat Society, The Secret, possibility, being unreasonable, being unstoppable, playing HUGE in life.
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Soft, calming, interesting, not loud or jarring, no mysoginistic rap or hard rock... and the following:
Enya
Train
Creed
Vangelis
Joan Baez
Celine Dion
Gordon Bok
Josh Groban
John Denver
Goo Goo Dolls
Jana Stanfield
Uncle Kracker
Keali'i Reichel
Martina McBride
Five for Fighting
Sarah McLachlan
Gordon Lightfoot
Debbie Friedman
John McCutcheon
Barbra Streisand
Loreena McKennitt
Karen Taylor-Good
Simon and Garfunkel
Steeleye Span (British Folk Rock)
some Christian rock (esp. Mark Schultz)
acoustic
soft rock
some Disney
some Broadway
South African
most New Age music
Silly Sisters (British Folk Rock duo)
LOCAL FAVORITES
Justin Roth
Holly Circle and Jimmy Steffen
Robin Miller (Sedona)
I LOVE movies!
One of my favorite summers was when I was home from college and got discount passes to the "artsy-fartsy" movie theater
in town (all foreign/indie stuff), 5 movies for $10, with a new movie every other night. Between those and the movies at the regular theaters, I went to the movies almost every night. I also got a job with the on-campus film society in college, so I actually *got paid* to go to the movies (after I sold tickets I got to go in and watch) - that was another 2 movies every weekend during the school year. The only time I really regretted it was after the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The movies were shown in an auditorium that was used daily as a classroom, so the place had to be totally cleaned up before we could go back to the dorm. It was NOT fun trying to scrape wet rice and pieces of soggy bread out from underneath the seats with playing cards...! :p
Here is a very partial list of favorites.
Ghost
K-Pax
Powder
Michael
Notting Hill
The Secret
Premonition
Enemy Mine
The Big Chill
Sliding Doors
Out of Africa
Love Actually
City of Angels
The Full Monty
Calendar Girls
Practical Magic
What the Bleep
The Green Mile
Groundhog Day
Sophie's Choice
Double Jeopardy
The Dark Crystal
The Butcher's Wife
Harry Potter series
The Runaway Bride
Somewhere in Time
A Fish Called Wanda
Seven Years in Tibet
What Dreams May Come
Music from Another Room
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Bridges of Madison County
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Spiritual Cinema Circle movies
anything with Helena Bonham Carter
Hardly watch, but when I do...
Monk
House
sometimes Carol Duvall's craft show
movies on TCM, WE
One
Dune
Blink
Illusions
fantasy/sci fi
Maeve Binchy
Bad Girl Creek
The Seth books
The Tipping Point
Radical Forgiveness
Harry Potter series
The Mists of Avalon
Marianne Williamson
Little Soul and the Sun
The Wizard of Earthsea
anything by Wayne Dyer
Many Lives, Many Masters
Stranger in a Strange Land
Jonathon Livingston Seagull
anything by Orin and DaBen
Conversations with God series
The Hell I Can't! by Terry McBride
Emissary of Light (James Twyman)
anything by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks
a really random mix of genres I get from my friend who owns a used book store
and/or people I really admire...