yellow HUs

Here is another bitmap drawing inspired by the HU.

bitmap HUs

Continuing with the ECK theme, this is a bitmap painting just using the theme of the HU repeated. If you are not familiar with the HU, it is an ancient name for God that is frequently sung as a chant, a love song to God. There is a really cool website that has a wonderful flash animation that also includes sound; check it out:
http://www.sing-hu.org/

Sept.'06 revision (after)

I tried painting in the quote, but I didn't have the proper equipment to do it right, so I ended up just painting in the URL of the ECKANKAR website. The grid that I had drawn and a bit of the quote in marker is still slightly visible. The sun is just not as intense in Sept., although I'm sure it will fade the rest of it in time.

Reinholds at work

Artists at work

Bill Reinhold and his daughter Leanne who drove in all the way from Crystal lake to do the bulk of the painting for the mural.

The Living Water is the Holy Spirit, or the ECK

Eckankar mural in the park (before)

This is a picture of a mural that was painted in June '06 as part of the Artists of the Wall festival in Loyola park on the lakefront in Rogers Park on the NorthEast side of Chicago. Bill Reinhold and his daughter did the bulk of the work and I put in the text. Unfortunately, I used "permanent" marker which faded in the summer sun and the text virtually disappeared within a few weeks. So this would be the before shot. The Rogers Park Eckankar center sponsored this
project so we made the Eckankar presence as strong as we could. The theme of the festival this year had to do with the shoreline, so we brought that theme into our piece at least a bit.

lego boychicks

This picture of my grandsons was taken last year about this time. That
pile of black stuff in the background is some really creepy Haloween paraphernalia. I have other pics from this series where it shows up better.If you click on the pic and enlarge it you can see. But this pic stands on its own merits, me thinks.

Continuity (bitmap image)

That was so much fun I had to do it again. Some of these images look so good to me that they must have some commercial potential. I would like to figure out how to exploit that before I gave them all away!

Abstract landscape (bitmap image)

I have hundreds of these bitmap images executed with Windows paint program from the accessories file. I thought it was about time I started sharing them. I love that little program; it is fairly easy to master, he says modestly. Of course now that I think about it, I really am no where near mastering it. But I have had a lot of fun playing with it. I worked in real paint for so many years that I had to overcome a bit of prejudgment. Then I discovered the unique qualities of inner light that a watercolorist can only dream about. Each medium has its strengths and shortcomings.

the Health Ranger

Occasionally online you meet someone who really impresses you. Mike Adams is one of those guys. He is a young guy who made some bucks as a techie and then had a health crisis and discovered natural healing. He now calls himself the health ranger and has put up some amazing websites. What is most amazing about him his is conscientious integrity, very unusual.

I just got through watching a cool interview he did with a garlic expert, very instructive and entertaining, check it out and then go back and look at Mike's websites: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5311981916795011230&hl=en

http://www.newstarget.com/

http://www.healthranger.org/

Nature's Gate products

Nature's Gate products

Review of: Nature's Gate herbal hair conditoner, Other

By: Stan S. on Judy's Book

Rating: 4 stars

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I love South Pacific, it is my favorite musical. I will excuse the gender bias of the song reference. If I have needed to wash someone out of my hair, they have been women, but that's not the point of this review, now is it?

I have been using Nature's Gate shampoo and conditioner for years. You will find them in health food stores, they are normally not seen at your local supermarket unless it is Whole Foods. They have all natural, herbal ingredients and are good for you.

There is stuff in commercial shampoos and conditioners like propelene glycol, the same thing used in anti-freeze. It is absorbed through your skin and does you harm.

Nature's Gate has a large variety of flavors to suit your hair type and other preferences. Particularly special is their herbal hair conditioner. It has the most wonderful smell and leaves your hair feeling just great. Check it out.

Soup from scratch

Soup from scratch

By: Stan Schultz

Category: Opinion > Other

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I live on my soups from scratch in the cold weather. I pretty much alternate between a mushroom barley with a chicken base (Jewish penicillin), and my famous chili. I won't bore you with the receipes, but you can write me if you're interested.

I usually keep some cans of soup on hand in types that I don't usually make like clam chowder, but there is nothing like homemade soup. I never get tired of it.

Tom's toothpaste

Tom's toothpaste

Review of: Tom's of Maine Spearmint Anti-Plaque Toothpaste (6 Ounces), Bed & Bath

By: Stan S. on Judy's Book

Rating: 4 stars

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Tom's of Maine products are usually found in health food stores or the health food section of your local supermarket, if it has one.

They make high quality products with healthier ingredients and not all the bad stuff like preservatives and artificial colors.

I use several of his toothpaste's for variety. My current one is s spearmint flavor with natural antiplaque ingredients propolis & myrrh. The other one I like has a fennel flavor, which is like a mild licorice. It is actually quite nice.

"An Inconvenient Truth"

"An Inconvenient Truth"

Review of: An Inconvenient Truth, DVDs & Videos

By: Stan S. on Judy's Book

Rating: 5 stars

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I finally saw this important movie last night. A local church group sponsored it, a very cool group called "Interfaith Power and Light".

Go see this movie if you haven't already. If you can't find a showing in a theater, rent or buy the DVD. It is really the mother of all wake up calls. Most of the basics about global warming have become a part of popular culture, but seeing this presentation by Al Gore brings the message home with a real immediacy.

We all need to get off our complacent butts and start becoming more active to effect change, or things are going to be getting much worse much sooner than we think.

I am writing this on a morning when Chicago had a record snowfall, its earliest on record, Oct. 12. Although the snow was lovely, it is part of the goofy weather patterns that are a symptom of the radical changes that are happening all around us.

It is our children and grandchildren that are really going to suffer the effects of our complacency if we don't get busy. Don't leave the tragic legacy of a ruined planet because we were too busy watching the next episode of "Grey's Anatomy".