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A Tasty Way to Remove Heavy Metals From Your Body!


How much cadmium from pastels do we artists absorb?
Given how we all live in a world that's pretty polluted with heavy metals and much more, this tasty chelation recipe is really worth trying, and using on a regular basis. [...]
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How to Kick the Plastic Habit


Eco-Friendly Grocery shopping
Are you old enough, like me, to remember life before plastic grocery bags? (1977). I think I also remember when there weren't foam coffee cups, plastic drinking bottles everywhere, and all the rest, and yes, somehow we did manage... [...]
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Southwest Gardening


Our Southwest Garden, late March
"Recently I learned some very useful things on a local garden tour that are worth sharing, especially for other with sandy dry soils such as we have here in Arizona." [...]
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Into The Sky


Into The Sky, 9x12 pastel, S Pitcairn
I love clouds of all kinds, especially when there is light somewhere! They suggest a spiritual quality to me.  Recently this piece, "Into The Sky" (9x12 pastel) spoke the same way to a visitor to my studio, who bought this for her aging mother.    She also purchased several of my poetry books and read poems to her mother, which brought tears to her eyes. This is what makes it all worth while for me, when my art and words touch people's hearts.   This is the poem I've written that goes with "Into The Sky," "To Befriend Eternity," "Spacious," and "The Vast Center," all pieces  that [...]
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Voting for the Highest Good of All


Guest blogger Dr. Richard Pitcairn
I don't want to decide who to favor and who should have less. It doesn't speak to my heart and it is my heart that votes. [...]
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Cell Tower In Your Pocket, Anyone?


Smart? Not if you value health....
They're bad enough as they are, but soon Smart Phones are also going to be turned into wifi hot spots for others, active even if you have your phone "off." [...]
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The Time is Now: Lessons of Tragedy


Leon
Like all dramas, the clues were there, perhaps to be foreseen by the astute, but they were few [...]
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Russian Scientists Warn World About EMFs

"Man conquered the Black Plague, but he has created new problems - EMF pollution" Professor Yury Grigoriev shares 50 years of closely guarded Russian research. [...]
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When Galleries Close: And What Is Ever Here


Windrush Gallery (no more)
With little or no notice in the past month (July 2012), two flagship Sedona galleries that have inspired and served artists and art lovers for over 35 years each have closed their doors and emptied their walls almost overnight. What is there that is forever here? [...]
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Yes We Will: Creating a New World


"New World, Jerome," 24x30 Colored Pencil Fantasy
Art is not just about creating beauty. Sometimes it is in the service of creating visions that enable us to clearly see the world that wants to be born. [...]
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