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Three novels about what I've been up to since I moved west to Oregon all those years ago 

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Joni Mitchell in London

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If you ever have problems falling asleep try these techniques

How to Get to Sleep Fast: Expert Tips for Falling Asleep and Staying Asleep (realsimple.com)

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Your Body is Your Paintbrush. Love yourself.

Sacred Dreams added a new photo to the album: Inspirations~. “Your body is not your masterpiece — your life is. It is suggested to us a million times a day that our BODIES are PROJECTS. T…

great about being kind to our older self, the pic is not me

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Sweet Article about Thankfulness

Karen 'Girl' Friday8 Ingredients for a Thankful Heart - Karen 'Girl' Friday (karengirlfriday.com)

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Floating Solar Panels In Bodies of Water, Brilliant Portugal!

Floating Solar Farms Are a Game Changer

A lack of available land is the biggest obstacle to solar power's expansion -- or maybe it isn't.

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The Search for the Invisible Piper

Everything is determined by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust—we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. - Albert Einstein

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Do you have problems with your sleep cycle? Great guide spelling out the possibilities.

Sleep Disorders – Common Types, Symptoms, Treatments | Sleep Foundation

Visit the pages below to learn about different types of sleep disorders and their symptoms, how they're diagnosed and treated, and more.

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(via Your Body is Your Paintbrush. Love yourself.)

Sacred Dreams added a new photo to the album: Inspirations  · “Your body is not your masterpiece — your life is.It is suggested to us a million times a day that our BODIES are PROJECTS. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is.Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that YOU HAVE A PAINTBRUSH which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life — where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.Your body is not your offering. It’s just a really amazing instrument which you can use to create your offering each day. Don’t curse your paintbrush. Don’t sit in a corner wishing you had a different paintbrush. You’re wasting time. You’ve got the one you got. Be grateful, because without it you’d have nothing with which to paint your life’s work. Your life’s work is the love you give and receive — and your body is the instrument you use to accept and offer love on your soul’s behalf. It’s a system.We are encouraged to obsess over our instrument’s SHAPE — but our body’s shape has no effect on it’s ability to accept and offer love for us. Just none. Maybe we continue to obsess because as long we keep wringing our hands about our paintbrush shape, we don’t have to get to work painting our lives. Stop fretting. The truth is that all paintbrush shapes work just fine — and anybody who tells you different is trying to sell you something. Don’t buy. Just paint.No wait — first, stop what you are doing and say THANK YOU to your body — right now. Say THANK YOU to your eyes for taking in the beauty of sunsets and storms and children blowing out birthday candles and say THANK YOU to your hands for writing love letters and opening doors and stirring soup and waving to strangers and say THANK YOU to your legs for walking you from danger to safety and climbing so many mountains for you.Then pick up your instrument and start painting this day beautiful and bold and wild and free and YOU. Paint this day beautiful, bold, wild & free."~~Glenan Doyle, Momastaryart: Francien Krieg

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Your Body is Your Paintbrush. Love yourself.

Your Body is Your Paintbrush. Love yourself.

Sacred Dreams added a new photo to the album: Inspirations~. “Your body is not your masterpiece — your life is. It is suggested to us a million times a day that our BODIES are PROJECTS. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is. Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not…

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Joni Mitchells first concert in 22 years, Precious!!!

Joni Mitchell Performs at Length for First Time in 22 Years at Surprise Newport Folk Festival Appearance

Some of the celebrity guests at Joni Mitchell’s private hootenannies have sworn that she has been an enthusiastic participant in the living

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Tree-sitter protesting timber sale on Saginaw Mountain

A folk song about a tree sitter on Saginaw Mt

Folk song by Diane DeVillers    A folk song by a musician in Eugene Oregon who wrote a song about a local tree sitter protesting the logging

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Save Oregon's Old Growth

By oregonwild.org Did you know that the Willamette Forest has the highest carbon rich forests in the US?

Last week, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced a set of policy recommendations that the Forest Service will be pursuing in response to President Biden’s executive order calling for the protection of mature and old-growth forests. Vilsack’s policy guidance boils down to one thing: more logging. Rather than protecting our forests that store massive amounts of carbon and provide critical habitat for endangered wildlife, Vilsack is making excuses to cut them down at an even faster rate.

The Forest Service’s Secretarial Memorandum claims that a majority of our mature and old-growth forests on federal lands are already in a protected status, but this is demonstrably false. Oregon Wild and our allies across the country in the Climate Forests campaign can point to thousands of acres at risk right now of being logged. In fact, just last week I toured the Flat Country logging sale right here in Oregon where I saw acres of mature trees over a century old. These forests are on the verge of becoming old-growth, and projects like Flat country would mean that they are reduced to stumps. 

Secretary Vilsack’s memo hides behind bad science and places the blame for our rapidly-vanishing mature and old-growth forests on climate-driven wildfire without first recognizing that the Forest Service logging methods are truly the #1 threat to our forests.

President Biden’s Executive Order should have signaled an end to “business as usual” logging of mature and old-growth forests on federal lands, but it’s clear that we, and the Biden administration, cannot trust the Forest Service to steer this ship.

Tell the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management that they must act now to protect our forests on federal lands and allow for a meaningful public engagement process. 

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Oregon Lawmaker has our back: Tina Kotek's words to Women

Diane, I'm horrified by what happened today. With callous disregard for the majority of Americans who believe that the right to an abortion is a personal choice and not one for the government to decide, the Supreme Court has stripped away an essential right and sent our country back 50 years.

This news is devastating, and I know I'm not alone in this feeling. Millions of people in Oregon and around the country are shattered by this ruling.

But the fight is far from over. I have always said that no matter what happens at the Supreme Court, reproductive rights will be protected in Oregon. As Governor, I will keep that promise. My focus will be on upholding the landmark legislation that I already passed – making sure that no matter what happens on the national stage, Oregonians have the right to choose for themselves.

There's a lot at stake this November – and even more so now with this definitive ruling from the Supreme Court that overturns access to legal, safe abortion.