TREES

by: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

            I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

 

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

 

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

 

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

 

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

 

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

Contributed by Red >^.^< Kitten

Buy energy-saving appliances.
Look for the “ENERGY STAR” label when you shop. Visit www.energystar.gov for more information.

Install efficient shower heads.
Or at least clean your older shower head to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions and water use.

Lower the temperature in your hot water tank to 120 degrees.

Insulate your home, hot water heater, and all water pipes.

Recycle cans, bottles, paper, plastic, and newspapers to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. If your community doesn’t offer recycling services, request them.

Buy products that are made of recycled materials.
Including recycled paper for your printer.

Keep car tires inflated.
This cuts down on fuel costs, unnecessary emissions, and lengthens the life of your tires.

If buying a new car, invest in a hybrid.
If you live in a city and do a lot of stop-and-go driving, the new hybrids are a great way to help cut back on emissions.

Plant deciduous trees around your home to increase shade and lower carbon amounts. Reforestation – even in your own back yard – is one of the best ways to balance your personal emissions.

Invest in “Green Power” for electricity in your home.
See www.epa.gov/greenpower for more information.

Go to http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ActionsIndividual.html for more information about what individuals can do to make a difference in the environment.

Contributed by Red >^.^< Kitten

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Welcome To The Flying Monkeys Home For The Future

Thank you Karen for a shot in the arm.  http://abnorms.spaces.live.com 

Thank all of you for being.   I have been away from the Flying Monkeys because of ills and bills and tedious day to day stuff.  Nothing worthy of note.  I am calling on the Flying Monkeys to fire up this space.  We did it once and we can do it again.  Out of the ash and into the light as it were.  Rather like a flow that evolves for the betterment.     

 

As ever be well.  Thank you!  With love,  Stephen Craig Rowe

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FLYING MONKEYS BELOW ZERO NO LIMIT

INTRODUCTION AND ON THE WING!

Please forgive my absence the world took some of the air out of my wings.  When Flying Monkeys was deleted.....I fell for a bit in wonder of why because it hurt.  Not me, mind you.  It hurt the world.  Well, the Flying Monkeys are back!  Sub zero here at the moment but in your world I pray that you and yours are safe and warm, well fed and in good spirits and good health.  I am ok for an old baldy dork with a dream.  Smile.

 

All you valentines and valentinos I wish the very best! 

Welcome back to the Brave New World Old West.....As Bob Dylan once wrote. 

" My love she speaks like silence,
Without ideals or violence,
She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
People carry roses,
Make promises by the hours,
My love she laughs like the flowers,
Valentines can't buy her." Written by Bob Dylan Love Minus Zero No Limit.

As ever be well.   With love,  Stephen Craig Rowe

A Valentine with out a heart is like a smile with out a face.  Pray for all those in harms way.

 

There is a new post on Madeline's space:

http://madeleinemccann.spaces.live.com/

 

Do what you can do, and do it well.

 My best wishes for Christmas and forever.
I wish you and your family a very merry christmas

Fénix (María José)

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Help for neglected Serbians?


Nov. 19: In Belgrade, Monday, members of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture arrived to assess the problem of abuse in mental institutions in Serbia. Ann Curry has the latest.

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Organic seal may soon mean ‘clone-free,’ too - Diet & Nutrition - MSNBC.com

If you are one of those people who don't think that going organic is much of a big deal, or worth the cost, I suggest you to read this link as above. Would you want your own children to drink milk that is not of a real natural born animal? It shows you how scary with the way things are going now in our own world, and the fact that FDA no longer cares about our well being nor our Earth but their own greed gain in profits that they are going to be making off us people who are still in the dark about what's really going on in the background.

There are already many signs that indicates that our Earth is in serious trouble with the global warming. Of course, there are going to be people that work within government systems telling you lies and that it does not exist, but it does. Did you know that by buying conventional food, you are helping in killing our Earth and its natural products with all kinds of chemicals? What people are not aware of is that the global warming is the real reason for our destruction by the pesticides, fumes, and all kinds of toxics.

I cannot emphasize the importance in supporting our local farmers who try to do the organic way, producing natural foods without pesticides, hormones, insectides, and all kinds of chemicals. If you were to buy organic products, you will be helping us getting our voices to be heard. If more people would start buying organic products, it will let the government know that we are not going to put up with their deceptions, and lies any longer.

Some people are afraid that if they eat organic, we are likely to get E coli, and all kinds of bacterias, I don't believe it to be true, because conventional foods are full of poison than organic foods. Organic foods are without additives, preservatives, and any kinds of chemicals. Of course the organic products have low shelf life, that's to be expected because it has no preservatives or chemicals to keep them fresh longer like conventional foods. Think about it. I mean how did the MAD COW DIEASE exist in the first place? Didn't it occur to you that our real wild life animals do not ever get sick until they were captured and caged, shot up with all kinds of antibotics. I strongly believe that cows that are not fed antibotics and hormones, etc. are much healthier, and not to mention happier than the ones that are being rounded up with other animals with no room for them to roam freely, and they also die the harsh way. Animals should be eating the way the nature intended for them to eat, not eating off other animals' feces, decaying guts lying around. Did you know that farmers that do not support organic way tend to feed the meat that they couldn't market to its own animals? Chickens, and its family should be eating corn, horses should be eating hay, cows should be eating grass like the way nature intended them to be.

If that is not a good enough reason for you to go organic, then consider the fact that our young girls of today's society are growing faster, and they grow big chest. It has to do with the hormones from the animals that we eat, and the milk that we drink that are full of all chemicals. The real reason why they use hormones, and antibotics, not for "health sake" but to speed up the production. Not only that, but the sad truth is that FDA and its government DO NOT WANT YOU to know the truth that they are in to MAKE MONEY off us by making us sick, and make us pay more money in medical care. My family have noticed the difference in me, I used to be so tired and never have enough energy, until I went organic. Unlike conventional fruits, you miss out on a lot of nutrients that can only be found in organic foods. If you don't believe me or don't know what I am talking about, then I suggest you to go to your store, and see about organic fruits such as apples. Ask your grocer if they have organic apples, and then compare an organic apple and conventional apple to see for yourself. You will notice a big difference, as the conventional apple is pretty and shiny while an organic apple is not shiny, and it might have some discoloration, but that is the way the nature had intended it to be. Conventional apple is full of toxicity, and it has a gunk of wax on it. Yuck! My only regret is that I did not learn about this long time ago, but at least, I am educating myself now. Better late than never, right? So it is never too late for you to change your conventional eating lifestyle to organic eating lifestyle! Smile.

Even the people that show some sensibility toward the environment , that want to protect the biodiversity …sometimes we are being tremendously unjust by ignorance.

I am going to explain:  I go shopping... and if I find something that I like or something that need, I buy it ... I don't think anything

BUT…Cosmetic companies usually do not have scruples. The product that they sell  has glamour, is beautiful and well presented and many times it is very expensive… that it be expensive is not sign that it be insurance, at times the frivolity can cost us very expensive in our health.

Besides of the possible secondary effects (for example: lipsticks with lead in their composition) we should value the BEFORE… the majority of the cosmetic companies and of cleaning of the home test their products in animals before putting them to sale.

Why?  When I buy a shampoo for my dog, it cannot be a shampoo for people, the hair of a dog has nothing to do with ours. If  the cosmetics are for humans, the logical thing is that the tests be carried out in humans… I looking for information for this post I have found unlimited barbarities, authentic atrocities that  I didn't know and that have left my soul shrunk and with a sensation of infinite sadness.

I have proposed me to be an INTELLIGENT BUYER,  report me before and when really I need a product, to be sure that has not been tested on animals (at times is difficult  to know it, the businesses try to hide it, is damaging for the sales).

Only the 10% of the 85000 cosmetic products  have been analyzed to control the possible adverse effects that can cause in our health… The frivolity is being very expensive for us...  really we do not know what we are using, although before we have tested it in animals.

For example: If the cosmetic is a foam to shave ¿why they put it to presion to an animal in his stomach?... If it is a tooth-paste ¿why  rabbits, rats and guinea pigs are forced to swallow it? …

Why animals have to suffer for that we be more good-looking?

 Numbers are scandalous... more than 400 million animals die yearly in the world on account of the experimentation, 60 million  are dead by cosmetic tests.

Really I believe that we have to change our  priorities, changing our scale of values and trying to meet again the equilibrium with the environment, that is the way, protecting  the biodiversity and the different habitats, acting as "the absolute owners of the world" only will carry us to a announced disaster

More information:

ANIMAL AID

ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP

PETA

GRINNING PLANET

 COMPANIES THAT TEST ON ANIMALS

 COMPANIES THAT DON'T TEST ON ANIMALS

It will be ideal to find  products hypoallergenics, free of pesticides, hormones and antibiotics  … and the products that are not tested in animals usually are cheaper

the following logos  indicate that a product has not been tested in animal

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SAUDADE PAGE FOUR OR FIVE

SAUDADE,

A poem in my own words inspired by JouElam+SophiE  http://Eloha.spaces.live.com

 

INTRODUCTION:  SAUDADE is a Portugese word that was given

to me in love and friendship.  I can not translate this word, I

can only write what I feel.

 

Saudade

 

Echo in the valley

Cry in the night

Free and alone

Trickle in the

moon lit streams

That flow from

My eyes

onto the windows

In the keypad

That scratches

Only a high held note

The Violin

Trembles

Splashing wine

On streets that shine

With tears soaked in

Memory

Of those near and dear.

Of those that have ever been and ever shall be.

Of those that have risen'

Of those that sing

Of those that are

Of the Light and Spirit.

Of the woods, rain, forests, grasses, trees, limbs and

Leaf sparkle

Dew drip dawning

Rainbow brow smile

Reflect the night Sky

Stars

Dance in

The glistening drop

Waving at the shore

Foaming and breaking on the rocks

Receed, Smile at the Moon.

Reflect in the pond

Skipping stones

and remember.

SAUDADE,

Home is where the

Art is, forever home

Or away

Within the All.

 

 

SAUDADE!  As ever be well.  With love,  Stephen Craig Rowe

 

 

Saudade

 

Ecoa no vale

pranto na noite

livre e abandonada

lua de fluxos brilhantes

iluminando os minúsculos córregos

que escorrem debruçados

nas janelas dos meus olhos

apenas a tecla em arrepios

tremúlos

é o sustenido

o violino

segurando uma nota altíssima

derramando o vinho do nosso copo

nas ruas encharcadas

pelo cintilar

da memória das lágrimas

de todos os que nos são intímos e queridos.

de todos aqueles que sempre foram,estiveram

são, estão, serão e estarão connosco

todos aqueles

que cantam

todos aqueles que são

luz do espírito

dos bosques, das florestas , das chuvas , da relva , das arvores , dos troncos , das folhas

faísca

gota d' orvalho amanhecendo

sorriso na sobrancelha do arco-íris

estrelas

reflectidas no Céu noturno

 

A Stephen Craig Rowe Poem

Translation And Adaptation By JouElam 

A very touched thank you to our Dear Friend Stephen

Author's note:  It is I who thank you.  You are in my thoughts and prayers.  As ever be well.  With love.  Stephen Craig Rowe

I am not going to speak of large campaigns... I want to speak of the day by day, with small acts ,we can achieve a great change... 

Who says to making changes is an easy task?  We are used to a "culture of well-being", to the "I want something, and I want it now"... and then, I already do not want it and throw it away, because the most comfortable and cheaper thing to do is to replace it with a newer one instead of re-using it.

We all know that the substancial changes are executed from above: from the political power of every country... we are also aware that we are the ones who select the politicians.

How are citizens supposed to collaborate, so that things are change? How can we contribute in the protection of the biodiversity and of the environment?

It is kind of complicated. First, we have to fight against ourselves; we are constantly looking for comfort, getting sluggish, using things and then thowing them away, and looking for instant self-satisfaction (otherwise we get frustrated)... We have to stop acting childish; we are not children anymore; so, there is no excuse. It is time for us to act as mature adults.

Examples:  -It is easier to use paper napkins rather than cloth ones.

                   - It is more comfortable for us to let the supermarket provide us with bags than taking our own ones.

                   - Why setting the heater to a high temperature and then having to open the windows?

We have to seriously ask ourselves what benefits we are getting in the long run. It es much easier to throw away all the garbage without separating the different components; it is simpler to throw away rather than to re-use... But to recycle in the long rus is cheaper for all of us because the recycled product reduce the need to cut trees, of using oil or another type of energy and water an air will be less contaminated. We will definitely improve the environment and feel much better...

What's better than to put into practice the Law or 3 R: To reduce, To re-use an To recycle

TO REDUCE the consumption of energy and of all kinds of polluting products, to reduce the quantity of garbage that we generate by buying in the corret form ( avoiding unnecessary packing)

TO RE-USE: use bags several times before throwing them away, using boxes again (for keeping things) instead of buying new ones; to re-use paper, crystal bottles; use canisters to keep the pencils...

TO RECYCLE: separate plastic, paper, aluminum or glass in the designated containers... It is possible to recover up to 40% of the paper and cardboard helping keep more trees intact.

I do not say that it is an easy and comfortable task, we are used to wasting. Wd do not have much time left; the no return point is closer than what we think. Not only we have to meke changes ourselves, but also we have to teach our children to live in tune with the environment as well: taking care of the biodiversity, loving the other living things with which we share habitat; after all, we are closely attached since we depend from one another. If we finish with the environment, we are unleashing our own end.

Ways in which we can collaborate:

 - Choosing recycling products and recyclables.

 - Buying organic products in which chemicals or pesticides have not been used.

 - Distributing the garbage at home selectively.

 - Using recycled paper... using glass instead of plastic.

 - Not using products that damage the ozone layer.

 - Buying cosmetic products that have not been animal tested.

 - Turning off those lights that we do not need.

Still is not to late to make changes... Let's remember: Whoever wants to make a change, can do it... and whoever can do it, must do it.

(by Fénix)       

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Painting Studio and Flying Monkeys Online International New World News

The PAINTING STUDIO and FLYING MONKEYS MSN WINDOWS LIVE SPACES NEW WORLD NEWS.

In one of my wilder dreams while recovering from surgery a few years ago I created FLYING MONKEYS as an international collaboration of friends.  Who became Contributing Editors, Roving Reporters or whatever.  As founder and managing editor, I remained in the background and let the FLYING MONKEYS Space evlove on it's own.   The works and words contributed were beyond my concept and a great beauty and peace prevailed with the efforts of my friends.  Without guide lines, rules, or a plan....everyone contributed for the betterment. 

     On Friday October 12 of this year I received an urgent message that Flying Monkeys had been deleted.  For a moment my heart quit beating and the dream became WTF?   I was like all that fine work is cactus ( as in cactus fuktus ).  My Dear Friend Sassene was quick enough to pick up some of the pieces and bring the FLYING MONKEYS back to life.  She worked late in the night for the banner and headline.  We will not change that out of love and respect.   Other than that, there are no rules only conscience, respect, quality and desire for the betterment.  This is not about me or my dream.  I am only a simple painter and sometimes bad poet.  Who needs the world and the space between the words, and the Light.

As ever be well.  With love, Stephen Craig Rowe