A friend sent this to me, and I'm sending it out on my profiles. This has to do with regulating natural/organic food.

The bad news:
We have lost in the House over the "Food Safety" act since it was rammed down everyone's throat via a suspension of rules after not being ratified with a super majority.

The good news:
Ron Paul has introduced two new health freedom bills:

Dr. Ron Paul, health freedom’s friend in Congress, introduced two important bills yesterday that, if passed, would rein in the excessive interference in advanced health products by the FDA and FTC.

You can support these bills here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27732

Please go here to read the description of these bills:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3226

Thanks

     This week already has been both a very busty week as well as productive. I Re did my MySpace Profile yet again. Added the start of a on-line Store. Updated my Events on my websites and MySpace Profile. Facebook reactivated my Profile. Ed helped me set up the Pay Pal to have people start getting X Bash Tickets on-line.      This Past Weekend Emily, Grant, Art and I all went Canoeing. Here is a Few of the Pix from one Camera. I will upload the rest tomorrow and add them to this blog. We got to swim with a Manatee and its pup. They where so cute, I wanted to hug them!

      I am still working on this painting. I have done more since this photograph and will be painting more today as soon as I post this blog. ;) This Painting will be for sale $1000 or Prints if you are interested.      I was part of the La De Da Art show it the Ritz in Ybor 5/30/09. Here are a few pix from that.

It has been a while since I have made the time to write a blog. I uploaded these photos a while ago, just never got around to putting them up here. I also soon will be responding to ALL unread blog comments. Just every year just before X Bash I become a mad woman! LOL. it is July 17-19th. I put the banner along with the code to the banner on my profile. Please if you are in the Tampa area, Please do help us promote! That would be super swell!
      I will be leaving on the 1st to go to the Rainbow Gathering Nationals in new Mexico. I just got a new Blackberry Curve, so I will be checking my mail as often as I desire it there. However I do need the time off, so don't think I died. LOL..  I fly from New Mexico on the 6th to Chicago to act in a movie. The people that are making the movie I am acting on made this movie - The Art of Pain: Trailer - I saw there film at the film festival here and kept in touch. I have 3 days of shooting and they fly me home. I will be back for the foam party on the 10th.
      Our last Foam Party was a Blast! I have taken a ton of Photos and Video, just have not had the time to edit them. Its been a crazy last few weeks. The weeks I have been pulling 12-20 hr days, and the weekends I have been taking off to not go insane. Been spending the weekends with the man I started seeing a month ago. Its been pleasant. Being that this is the 3rd time since my 3 years abstinent, I think I am getting the hang of this Dating thing. My first was very hard on me, The second, well I knew it was coming. With this one, I am trying to not think about it and just enjoy myself and him.
     I just today updated the Events pages on my website. Check them out and let me know what ya think! Also updated all the X Bash Pages. Dj Hellroy is doing all the booking for X Bash this year, However I still need Artists and Vendors! If you are in the area and would like to get involved please call-text me! 720 339 7502.
      In the last 2 months, I have spent a whole lot of time rediscovering myself and how this last year has changed me. I have been coming to terms with parts of me, my choices, outcome and path. I have gotten on a yoga, breathing and health food kick, but become lax at times. I started reading again and once again, I am at the library often. I about 2 weeks ago put all my past blog and journal entries together in the form to be printed and binded. This is a good closure for me. This is the first blog I have written since the closure of the last chapter of my life. Ed, Will, Jessica, Brian and I all cleaned the Office last week. That was great. It really needed to be done. Tanya has been databaseing all our past contacts from our forms people sign at our events. Not sure how far she got, but this will help both her gallery and I. We have been having community dinners again. This is important to the family we are building here at the resort. It has been great. Many of the seeds that we planted months ago are now fruiting. We built a tower by the pool. May put up 2 more soon. Life is good, even with the bumps, for only with the times of being down, can we truly appreciate the times of uplifting.

             

   I really want to thank anyone that takes the time to read and comment on my blogs. It means a whole lot to me to see who actually cares enough to take the time out of there busy life to read and comment. I put a lot of me into my blogs, and although I may not get to responses right away, I always to, and love your comments. I look forward to them more then anything else on the internet. Thank you again for taking the time to learn who I really am.

Projection

In my life I have projected many things that have manifested to reality. However many things still seem for ever out of my reach. They will remain there until I except that I will get them, disserve them and appreciate them. I am mainly an optimist; however life has created an underlining pessimism and acceptance of loss into my soul. I will not be a completely awake until I knock down my own walls. Finally, stop pitying myself and finish playing the victim of circumstance and start actively manifesting my reality and truly appreciating all that I have learned and memories I have accumulated.
I have manifested several amazing instances in my life which prove to me that this is possible.
(Not in any order of importance or time)
1. I said I was going to Monchu Petchu Peru this year – My Friend Darin Came to me wanting me to be first camera for a documentary that he is shooting out there the month of November.
2. I very much wanted to be in contact with a mentor of mine, “Jeffery Felcon” The writer, Director, Star of the Movie Six String Samurai. I searched all around looking to find a way to contact him, with no avail. Then on MySpace I put his name in the “Who I would like to meet” Section. I got an email from his personal trainer out in LA. He gave me Jeff’s e-mail in China and we corresponded.
3. I wanted to meet an artist that inspired me, “Boyd Rice” I put that energy out there and there was a kid that came to my art nights in Ft Collins, Colorado. He was close friends with Boyd. Boyd lived in Denver, Colorado and I did not even know it. He put me in contact with Boyd and he came to one of my art shows.
4. I wanted to be tattooed up and really did not want to pay for any of it, my friends whom where tattoo artists worked on me, and now I forever sport there art.
5. I wanted to own my own art gallery and live in artist community. After a year of putting that out there I owned a 10,000sf gallery in downtown Denver with houses in the back where we all lived and more….

Like most, I have tasted the bitter bite of life, but more so of love. I have become so bitter and ready for pain disguised as love, that perhaps I am projecting pain and bitterness Thus, receiving what I project. Heart Break!
I have sat on the edge of success; yet have never achieved it. I have much out there on the wind, many baited lines just waiting for a bite. The question I ask myself is, “Have I truly baited those lines with conscious honest projections? The answer is no, I have not. No matter how much more enlightened I get, I never truly seem to get every detail of the bigger picture. It is because I lack self discipline. I am such a “partner” or “tribe” oriented person that I have had a big problem with maintaining the ability of spending time alone. I suppose I have never learned to truly love myself. And until I learn to love myself, I can not find love. Until I project love in all that I do, I will not receive love in all that I do.
It is time for an honest heart to heart, not just in words but actually put these ideas in all my actions and intentions.
I am going to become a better me for my friends and family but more so, for me. I am going to set my living situation up to fit my view of my life. I am going to only put into my body what is worthy of my intake. I will exercise, breathe and meditate about life, love, the earth and peace.
I will start with what I am thankful for off the top of my head. (no order)
1. My health
2. My friends
3. I own my own home.
4. I own my favorite Car.
5. I am taking over my father’s resort.
6. My father believes in my abilities.
7. My Events are successful.
8. People always come to me when I need them.
9. I am dating someone whom is artistic, caring, unselfish, willing to communicate and experience.
10. I have a full photo/video studio.
11. My friend’s Venues in Ybor.
12. The Gardens in my yard.
13. My moms love.
14. People that have furthered me on my path.
15. I am going to act in a movie by a director I appreciate in the next month.
16. I have friends that live in my yard and the boy I am seeing that want to do these things with me. And more…
FEAR – The only thing that truly scares me, is the idea of “Life Partner”. All the rest of my life seems to fall into place, but that is because I allow it to and do not fear the outcome. I have caused my own failures in this way, and by excepting them as a part of life, I have set myself up to do it over and over again.

I have been noticing a pattern when looking at my past writings. I am forever striving to better myself followed by a slump and then off to bettering myself again. Each time I do further myself, but with each slump, each willing depression in self pity, I am not who I could be. Knowing this and actually gearing your life for a change are two different things. It is time for a change. I am truly ready to make this change. I am willing to keep my Ego in check, smile with my eyes to the light and open my heart to the world and all that it has to offer. I will take the good with the bad and understand all doors and paths are placed before me for reasons not always clear to me. I will live by the four agreements, learn to not live in the future or the past, where I now reside, and truly understand for the first time, The Power Of NOW. I will not try to do these things. I will do these things. My spelling will get better as well as my memory. My life and love will become what I truly desire.

And Now… My Future Manifest

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June 6th (Saturday)

     10am-?: Ybor City Art Walk - FREE

     Noon-1pm: NETWORKING MEETING - FREE

     4pm-7pm: Open Mic, Poetry, Music Jam and Arts n; Crafts. FREE

@ Roosevelt - 1812 N 15th St. Tampa, Fl. 33660

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June 7th (Sunday)

     3pm-7pm: Arts on Treasure Island - FREE

     7pm-10pm: Treasure Island Drum Circle - FREE - WEBSITE

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June 12th (Friday)

     Noon-6pm: Community arts and Crafts - FREE - WEBSITE

     5pm: Open Mic, Music Jam and Poetry - FREE - WEBSITE

     7pm: Pot Luck Dinner - (Bring a dish to be involved) - WEBSITE

     7pm-Midnight - FOAM PARTY - (2 Live Bands, 2 Djs) - $10 - WEBSITE

@ RBC "The Natural Meeting Place" (Just N of Tampa) - 6901 Caliente Blvd, Land O' Lakes, Florida, 34637. WEBSITE

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June 13th (Saturday)

     3pm-8pm: Photographers and Modeling Event - WEBSITE

     9pm-3am: Recycle Arts and Music - $10

@ Roosevelt - 1812 N 15th St. Tampa, Fl. 33660

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June 14th (Sunday)

     7pm-?: Urban Beatz TV Show Fund Raiser. (Live Bands, Djs, Artists, Food and More.) "I host this TV Show" - $10 - WEBSITE

@ Arts on 9th - 1513 E 9th Ave. Tampa, Fl. 33660 - WEBSITE

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June 19th (Friday)

     9pm-?: Battered Woman Benefit Show. (Live Bands, Artists and More) - $10

@ To Be Announced

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July 4th (Saturday)

     10am-?: Ybor City Art Walk - FREE

     Noon-1pm: NETWORKING MEETING - FREE

     4pm-7pm: Open Mic, Poetry, Music Jam and Arts n; Crafts. FREE

@ Roosevelt - 1812 N 15th St. Tampa, Fl. 33660

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July 5th (Sunday)

     3pm-7pm: Arts on Treasure Island - FREE

     7pm-10pm: Treasure Island Drum Circle - FREE - WEBSITE

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July 10th (Friday)

     Noon-6pm: Community arts and Crafts - FREE - WEBSITE

     5pm: Open Mic, Music Jam and Poetry - FREE - WEBSITE

     7pm: Pot Luck Dinner - (Bring a dish to be involved) - WEBSITE

     7pm-Midnight - FOAM PARTY - (2 Live Bands, 2 Djs) - $10 - WEBSITE

@ RBC "The Natural Meeting Place" (Just N of Tampa) - 6901 Caliente Blvd, Land O' Lakes, Florida, 34637. WEBSITE

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July 11th (Saturday)

     3pm-8pm: Photographers and Modeling Event - WEBSITE

@ Roosevelt - 1812 N 15th St. Tampa, Fl. 33660

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July 17th-19th (Friday-Sunday)

     Noon-?: X Bash 9 "Arts and Music Festival" (7 Bands, 6 Djs, Artists, Foam Party, Pool, Hot Tub, Camping and More!) - WEBSITE

@ RBC "The Natural Meeting Place" (Just N of Tampa) - 6901 Caliente Blvd, Land O' Lakes, Florida, 34637. WEBSITE

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July 24 (Friday)

     9pm: Hysteria (Arts and Music Fest) - $10

@ Roosevelt - 1812 N 15th St. Tampa, Fl. 33660

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I put a Spell on you, but I spelled it wrong…

So it did not work..

 

     So I guess that being a witch is out.. LOL.. I have friends constantly telling me that I need spell check, but you should see it before I run it through Microsoft word! Lol.. and many people send me very rude letters saying how ignorant I come off because of my spelling. It really sucks. I have too many thoughts to run past a proof reader. They are to much, to often, to fast flowing. This could be a full time job! LOL.. Perhaps I do need someone.. hmm.. any of you volunteer? I really do not want to come of ignorant, that is not my intention at all. My excuse is that I was mainly homeless with my mom till age 11. No time for school. I have spent the years after playing catch-up.

Green Lights and Red Flags

I am at a new part of my life. I truly feel the edge of the cliff of my old life at my heels as I free fall into my new one. I am now beginning to see all my hard work and effort begin to pay off. I can now see my life as chapters.

Chapter 1 – (Birth – 11) “Childhood” - Living with my mom, traveling all over the country.

Chapter 2 – (11 – 15) “Becoming” - Living with my father, finding who I am.

Chapter 3 – (16 – 19) “Discovery / Depression” - Finding love, Dating, Growing into my own. Understanding people and there actions and reactions for the first time. Loosing myself in my thoughts and not knowing how to control the depth of which I go.

Chapter 4 – (19 – 22) “Weakness / Freedom” – Understanding my needs and desires while still a victim to my weaknesses. Becoming the public identity of (XZanthia).

Chapter 5 – (22 – 27) “Structure / Stability” – Living in Denver, Building the art community and gallery. Pulling together what it is that makes me tick. Seeing my path more clearly.

Chapter 6 – (27 – 29) “Separation / Solitude” – Denying my human desires for fear of the heart. Hurt by people I retreated into my own world.

Chapter 7 – (29 - ?) “Apprehension / Self Awareness” – wounds not healed, however willing to go back in the battle field believing I can win this war. Dating again. Loosing myself in relationships and rediscovering what I already knew. Becoming more productive and getting a better grasp on my passions.

Chapter 7 (Continued) “Organization / Understanding” – Where I am at now is that I am starting to embrace who I am and what I am truly looking for. Understanding the act of will is only as strong as ones true desire. Living in the “Now”. Learning to let go, move forward, truly learn and better myself and better structure my future.

Chapter 8 – (30s) “Converging” – I will hope to ether find my life partner or except that my life, like my parents will be full of 3 year relationships. Either way I would love to travel, study, be self sustaining and have a child.

Chapter 9 – (40s) “Family / Adulthood” – What ever that is, LOL…

I can feel that this is going to be a long blog. I have had a whole lot on my mind in the last week. It is as I think several thoughts at any given moment. Only when I show my mind enough to form them into constructive sentences to be translated by the public can I begin to understand what I am truly thinking.

Writing this way is a powerful way to know ones self, as well as having others understand you. And in there comments, you can understand them. But that is simply there public comments. Being that I choose to live my life in the open, I am vulnerable to much public criticism. Oh and I do get it. I am just as human as the next person, and I am judged for it; behind my back. This is life and just the way people are. I accept this. There is a part of me, with every action, feel the paparazzi at my door. I can now read the headlines. I understood this when I was becoming a public Icon and I embrace the positive and negative sides. I am human and just want friends, want to understand and be understood, love and be loved. I need to be allowed to change and shift gears. I need to be understood as a true artist, and only then can I not let anyone down.

In my time I have gathered many great friends on many different levels. Some breeze in and out with the passing wind, others stay by my side for years and others still come and go, but we never loose our connection. Forever connected. I feel forever bonded to everyone that touches my life in any kind of a substantial way. What I mean by this, anyone who takes the time to know me. It seems to start there. Then I reciprocate.

With this I have had numerous men use “work” as a way to get close to me, becoming angry if I don’t choose them romantically. This hurts and angers me. They become harsh in words and actions, letters and blogs when I put my attention on anyone but them. Be it male or female, romantically or otherwise. This obsession is one of the big reasons why I stopped dating/seeing people all together. It least if I was abstinent it was not “them”. But now this year since I have been having the desire to feel love again, I am being punished by these men who have posed as my friends, just waiting for there chance with me. This bothers me a great deal, and I wish it not to be so. It does not matter that I do not flirt, speak openly on my level of interest on them or even if I digress from intense interaction friendship for fear of leading them on.

Since I have been back in Florida I have been rediscovering who I am and what it is that I am looking for in this life. I have almost become 14 years old again, fearful of the fall but wanting to fly. I am sure that all of life is this way, this forever morphing orb of emotion and actions. Doors will forever be opened and closed, if we want them to or not. We will always have times of greatness and times of squallier. Acts of will are only as strong as ones true desire. Denying ones true desire for fear is not a action of will. Fear is there as a guideline, not a wall, life is a river with many twists and turns and although a 30 foot water fall could be just around the bend, it does not matter now, for we are enjoying the ride. And once you fall, there will always be calm waters ahead. Yes we know this, we are intellectual beings, but more then this we are emotional beings chemically addicted to sensation, be it positive or negative.

Living in the eye, and being recognized is a lesser level to getting my work out there and being known as my name is beginning to carry weight. Having the look that I do publicly it attracts much attention, some desired, some not. However it all levels out. I understand that sex sells and if it weren’t for my looks it would be harder to get to where I am in my career. However it does come with its downfalls. This is why I have “Married” on my profile. As well as the constant statement of not being interested in romantic involvement. That is why I often find it strange when a couple put on there profile that they are single, it’s that they are keeping there options open. People believe that I am silly for using myspace stats to understand people and there intentions. But it is there public skin. It shows there true level of contentment. That is why even when single, I never put single on my profile. I do not want to be put on the market, even if I am truly on the market. I am not up for the highest bidder. I am not an item, a trophy or a notch on a belt. I am a emotionally passionate person who’s driving force is love of all that this life has to offer without hurting those around me or myself. . I am only interested in a life partner, but how can I get one if I am afraid of dating. It like I want to become a fish but I am scared of the water. Well, my ruling planet is Venus. So I am ruled my love. My love for art, community, people and family as well as our earth and knowledge. I am immensely passionate and communicative. Powerful and intimidating. I am aware of who I am and my projected persona. I live in my head so much it is sometimes hard to understand those around me from who they really are and not the idea of them I made up to comfort me. Only with open communication, “no holds bar” without feeling or making others feel interrogated, can this come to a full and true understanding. Only when you totally understand a situation can you embrace it. I mean this in all of life. I feel it with the resort, My art, Career, Desires, Self awareness and love.

It is strange how people react and how you react to them. It is strange how your narcissism can be your defeat. Your ego your downfall. Only when you submit yourself to the situation and become vulnerable, can you truly understand it for what it is, but when you show a hungry wolf your throat don’t be surprised if it takes the opportunity, it’s simply in the creatures nature. We must except this and still offer our selves to the pack in all our weakness, if they do not devour you, you become one of them and can run with the pack.

When I, like so many bloggers, write, I can not be to personally directed towards any one subject or person. I must be vague but direct, not condescending but understood and in the same breath, I can more parse any one person or situation for the feelings of others as well as the change that could occur and most often will throughout life which makes one who writes passing thoughts and feelings seem like they are going back on there word. Emotions will blind us into submission. We will give in if we are not strong to understand and move through wide eyed and bushy tailed.

Life is so beautiful, at ones the greatest gift and curse is our consciousness. Some of us are more awake to them selves as well as those around us. Others choose to live in a type of a fog, and kudos to them, I can’t do it, it does not desire me to do so. There is too much that this life has to offer to loose myself in drugs, emotion, happenstance and other people’s desires.

Love life, live in the moment, live for the future, don’t let people brake you, forever move forward, learn not from only your mistakes but from the mistakes of others and don’t loose yourself in day-to-day bullshit that does not matter in the grand scheme of things. Be selfish, but in a freely open and giving way to all that touch you. We are born alone, and we die alone. We walk by the side of others during different times of our life, but perhaps we can never truly embrace someone, engulf them, become one in unity. We are forever two separate bodies and souls. Only connected by that which we desire to be connected on the level of our choosing. Only with communication and vibration can we ever hope to grasp what we truly desire. Be that on any level of love, life and happiness. One thing to say / read the words, another to embrace and follow. I am still working on convincing myself.

"RAINDANCE"

A event we had at our Clothing-Optional, Live-In Artist Community Just North of Tampa this Past Weekend!

We hold all kinds of events very often. Please CLICK HERE, text me - 720 339 7502 or go to www.NaturallyNude.com for our next events!

   

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

Art Day @ our Resort

     This past weekend has been a eventful weekend. More Photos soon. My Friends Mike and Angela got married, We had RainDance event at my resort, Art and I went canoeing, We all painted and much more. I have a lot of Video as well. Just have yet to put it all together. ;)

Going with the flow

May 22, 2009

     It can be difficult to go with the flow, and not wish to fight the current, for you may fear the jagged rocks that may lay ahead, we all dream of calmer water, but life is a river, not a lake, and perhaps calmness is a dream to forever be unrealized. We are along with the ride if we like it or not, so we might as well enjoy it.

     I can start to feel myself getting back in gear, back in the groove, back in the needed pattern of things. It is the simple things that hold your life together and have it make sense. For me it’s eating consciously, exercising and doing yoga, being in and working with nature, having the time and ability to detail my body every morning. Studying and writing journal entries and Poetry. Doing art and having time to my self as well as time with people I care about.

     The last 2 weeks to a month has been a eye opening experience. As soon as you understand the path, there is a unexpected fork in the road. Cautiously we can choose to take this fork being fully aware of the positive and negative twists and turns it could hold. But being just as unsure of the path that you are on, and the silent promises of the unknown path beckon.

     I wish I had more discipline for my art. I really wish to complete more of it. However promotion of my resort and the events to bring artists out here seem to over power my time, as it is more of an addiction then a need. And I will defend it.

     The last week I have had my friend Alex here, he has been crashing in my office on the futon, so that has been keeping me from going in there every morning and starting on the internet, therefore sucking in my entire day. That has been a nice and needed change from what I have been at for the last week. I was on here every day from day brake till past midnight. Just getting through my comments can take all day. But I do not mind, as long as people do not become upset if it takes me days or weeks to get back to them. I hate to loose my life to the cyber world.

     Loving life, and longing for love, leaving loneliness, limiting lust and lighting the way to let in liberating living.

 

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    The Nebra sky disk is a bronze disk of around 30 cm diameter, patinated blue-green and inlaid with gold symbols. These are interpreted generally as a sun or full moon, a
lunar crescent, and stars (including a cluster interpreted as the Pleiades). Two golden arcs along the sides, marking the angle between the solstices, were added later. A final addition was another arc at the bottom surrounded with multiple strokes (of uncertain meaning, variously interpreted as a Solar Barge with numerous oars, as the Milky Way or as a rainbow.  
     The disk is attributed to a site near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, and associatively dated to c. 1600 BC. It has been associated with the Bronze Age Unetice culture. The disk is unlike any known artistic style from the period, and had initially been suspected of being a forgery, but is now widely accepted as authentic.   History      The disk as preserved was developed in four stages (Meller 2004):Initially the disk had thirty-two small round gold circles, a large circular plate, and a large crescent-shaped plate attached. The circular plate is interpreted as either the Sun or the full Moon, the crescent shape as the crescent Moon (or either the Sun or the Moon undergoing eclipse), and the dots as stars, with the cluster of seven dots likely representing the Pleiades.      At some later date, two arcs (constructed from gold of a different origin, as shown by its chemical impurities) were added at opposite edges of the disk. To make space for these arcs, one small circle was moved from the left side toward the center of the disk and two of the circles on the right were covered over, so that thirty remain visible. The two arcs span an angle of 82°, correctly indicating the angle between the positions of sunset at summer and winter solstice at the latitude of the Mittelberg (51° N). Given that the arcs relate to solar phenomena, it is likely the circular plate represents the Sun not the Moon.      The final addition was another arc at the bottom, the "sun boat", again made of gold from a different origin.      By the time the disk was buried it also had thirty-nine or forty holes punched out around its perimeter, each approximately 3 mm in diameter.

1) On the left the full moon, on the right the waxing moon, and between and above, the Pleiades. 2) Arcs are added on the horizon for the zones of the rising and setting sun. Individual stars were shifted and/or covered. 3) Addition of the "sun boat". 4) Diagram of the disk in its current condition (a star and a part of the sun -- or full moon -- were restored).   Discovery      The disk appeared as if from nowhere on the international antiquities market in 2001. Its seller claimed that it had been looted by illegal treasure hunters with a metal detector in 1999. Archaeological artifacts are the property of the state in Saxony-Anhalt and following a police sting operation in Basel, Switzerland, the disk was acquired by the state archaeologist, Dr Harald Meller.^[1] As part of a plea bargain, the illicit owners led police and archaeologists to the site where they had found it together with other remains (two bronze swords, two hatchets, a chisel and fragments of spiral bracelets). Though no witnesses were present at the first discovery, archaeologists have opened a dig at the site and have uncovered evidence that support the looters' claim (in the form of traces of bronze artifacts in the ground, as well as matching earth samples found sticking to the artifacts). The disk and its accompanying finds are now in Halle in the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte (State Museum for Prehistory) of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The two looters received a four months and a ten months sentence by a Naumburg court in September 2003. An appeal court raised these to six and twelve months, respectively. The discovery site identified by the arrested metal detectorists is a prehistoric enclosure encircling the top of a 252 m elevation in the Ziegelroda Forest, known as Mittelberg ("central hill"), some 60 km west of Leipzig. The surrounding area is known to have been settled since the Neolithic, and Ziegelroda Forest is said to contain around 1,000 barrows. The enclosure is oriented in such a way that the sun seems to set every solstice behind the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz mountains, some 80 km to the northwest. It was claimed by the treasure-hunters that the artifacts were discovered within a pit inside the bank-and-ditch enclosure.
  Dating     The swords found with the disk.      Other associated finds: chisel, axe heads, bracelets.       The more precise dating of the Nebra skydisk, however, depended upon the dating of a number of Bronze Age weapons which were offered for sale with the disk and said to be from the same site. These axes and swords can be typologically dated to the mid 2nd millennium BC (Unetice culture). Radiocarbon dating of a birch bark particle found on one of the swords to between 1600 and 1560 BC confirmed this estimate. This corresponds to the date of burial, at which time the disk had likely been in existence for several generations. According to an analysis of trace elements by x-ray fluorescence by E. Pernicka, University of Freiberg, the copper originated at the Mitterberg in Austria, while the gold is from the Carpathian Mountains. Copper from Bottendorf in the immediate vicinity of Nebra has definitely not been used. But few copper objects are found where they were originally smelted.^[2]   Significance      Possibly an astronomical instrument as well as an item of religious significance, the disk is a beautiful object; the blue-green patina of the bronze may have been an intentional part of the original artifact.^[3] If authentic, the find reconfirms that the astronomical knowledge and abilities of the people of the European Bronze Age included close observation of the yearly course of the Sun, and the angle between its rising and setting points at summer and winter solstice. While Stonehenge and the Neolithic "circular ditches" such as the 5th millennium BC Goseck circle were used to mark the solstices, the disk is the oldest known "portable" instrument to allow such measurements. Another view is that the Nebra disk can be linked to the solar calendar reconstructed by Alexander Thom from his analysis of standing stone alignments in Britain.^[4] MacKie^[5] has argued that several aspects of the disk support this view, following up the work of Prof. Wolfhard Schlosser.^[6] The first is that the Mittelberg – the hill on which the disk is supposed to have been found – is so situated that when the sun sets at two distant mountain peaks in the north-west, both midsummer and May Day are accurately marked (and therefore also the old Celtic harvest festival on Aug. 2nd); these are three important dates in the 16 'month' Thom solar calendar. The second feature is the two golden arcs on either side of the disk which subtend angles of about 82 degrees; this is the angular distance between sunrise and sunset at midsummer and midwinter at the latitude of Mittelberg. This surely implies a detailed knowledge of the yearly solar cycle on the part of the disk's designer. The third feature is the 32 golden 'star spots' on the disk. Although Thom found really clear evidence for only sixteen subdivisions of the solar year (of 21 or 22 days) in the standing stone alignments, there were some indications of a further subdivision into 32 parts of 10 or 11 days.
  Authenticity      There were initial suspicions that the disk might be an archaeological forgery. Peter Schauer of the University of Regensburg, Germany, argues that the Nebra disk is a fake. He is quoted as saying:^{[citation needed]}
     "If you urinate on a piece of bronze and then hide it in the ground for a few weeks you can produce the same patina as on the disk." Richard Harrison, professor of European prehistory at the University of Bristol and an expert on the Beaker people allowed his initial reaction to be quoted in a BBC documentary:^[7]
     "When I first heard about the Nebra Disc I thought it was a joke, indeed I thought it was a forgery. Because it’s such an extraordinary piece that it wouldn’t surprise any of us that a clever forger had cooked this up in a backroom and sold it for a lot of money."

The Sky Disc Visitors' Center near Nebra

     Though Harrison had not seen the skydisk when he was interviewed, it was a reasonable skepticism at that point, but the disk is now widely accepted as authentic and dated to roughly 1600 BC on grounds of typological classification of the associated finds. As the item was not excavated using archaeological methods, even its claimed provenance may be made up, hence authenticating it has depended on microphotography of the corrosion crystals (see link), which produced images that could not be reproduced by a faker.
     Dr Harald Meller, lecturing to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in April 2008, gave a list of reasons for the authenticity of the disc and for its find spot being on the Mittelberg. The most persuasive of the latter was the discovery by the archaeologists – in the pit in which the looters said they had found the metalwork – of a fragment of gold leaf which exactly fits the gap which existed in the gold leaf covering on the 'sun' symbol when it was originally recovered.

Life… Don’t tell Me about Life…

 

     That was to quote the depressed robot from "Hitch Hikers Guide From the Galaxy." Not that I am at all depressed, but I understand how he feels. A depressed robot, a mass intellect that just can’t get past the way he was programmed. This is a very complex thought and statement. Ponder that for a while.

     I have been very busy this week on the internet. I have been building Profiles to promote the community I am building as well as my own talents. I have not been spending much time checking Emails or Comments. I will get on that after this weekend. However I really want to continue painting more often. Today I made 3 more larger board box frames to paint new pieces. These are the largest that I have ever gone. It is time for me to take the next step. What is life without personal evolution?

     I have been a constant flow of poetic interruption. More thoughts then I even have the desire or time to stop and put to paper. I just write a poem about one recent / fleeting thought that I did have time to put down. “A Playful Distraction” – (WordPress) (Blogger). I am just now starting to understand how those two sites work. People are telling me that with the amount that I blog I should be on a Blogging Site. But with all the tings that I do I do not know if another Profile is what I need. LOL.. Looks like you cant even put a link or HTML in Blogger. WordPress looks cool. I will continue messing with both. I really like how you can categorize everything in WordPress. And people just hop around both those sites to read blogs. I like that. Get my insanity out to more people. ;)

     Before blogging or LiveJournal or any of that, I was an avid writer of my thoughts. I never went public, however I had considered publishing them. I am not a secretive or personal person. Most anything that I hold back is for the sake of other people. I don’t want to hurt anyone that reads my blogs by my actions or reactions in writing. The complexity of my thoughts only make sense when I stop and write them down. So this is mainly for me, however I do love that now because of the internet others can read and comment. This also gives those who care, some insight into who I am. More then the persona that they project on me from my image. The complexity of human emotion and thoughts is hard to confined in a mere article. For we are forever changing and different with every individual that we interact with. Well I know I am. Sometimes I am all wall, and sometimes all arms, but sometimes, a wall with arms.

     This next week I will try to go through all the mail that I can in my different profiles. I am trying to redirect most “useful” mail to my XZanthia@Gmail.com account and the “comments” to the comments on my page. I get so many.. well just men hitting on me. Which I am not interested and only makes me want to dig the hole that I crawled in a bit deeper. Once I get through all my mail, I then want to learn how to use Gmial more effectively as well as Googles other features. In the middle of all this I want to paint! I really need to paint! Aaa! But this computer is like crack! And I use it for my dose of human interaction being that I do not go out that often. A part of me would like to change that, then the other part is like.. why?

     Just today I received a shipment from a acquaintance in Denver of DVDs Documentary’s, like the ones that I have up on my MySpace Blog. I will be having LOTS OF Movie Nights at my resort coming up!

     Now off to another page of a internal rant. Crushes suck. I don’t like to have them, and I do not like it when my friends have them on me. I seem to crush on men that are wayyy intimidated by me, so they run. They may never known that I was interested, because I will not allow anything to manifest for a year or more of friendship. So time, I have time. But it seems that they don’t even want to make the time to get to know me. I am not saying that this happens often, cause really it doesn’t. Its not like I am always crushing on some dork, but it happens enough that it has been on my mind. My friends that crush on me, well I really try to let them down with honesty and kindness. If that does not work I become cold and hard. Often it seems as men never get the paint. Perhaps it is that same way in woman. But once one of my “dorks” show me that they are not interested, I move on. This has only ever happened 3 times by the way. I normally am to busy for crushes. LOL. I know I am a lot to handle, and the type of guy that I desire can not handle me, so it seems as I get with these, “player” type guys. Now I know that several of my X’s read this and I am sure I will get several Texts. So I put in this disclaimer so that perhaps I will not. I do not mean “Player” in a cold, mean sense of the word. Just can’t think of a better word for it. Someone that is more into self gratitude and the excitement of new things. This is not at all a bad thing. It just needs to be addressed and understood within the individuals and partnership.

     I have had several enlighten occurrences this past month that has made me a little more aware of myself, my feelings, my actions and reactions as well as my future. My father is showing me support as an artist and as part owner of the resort for the first time in my life. My father has always been hard on me. Using harsh words to brake me. Not being supportive and even not calling me for months-years when I was living in Denver. But now he is buying me art supplies, promoting and helping me. He believes in me. It is a strange feeling to have when being denied of it for so long.

     My X, whom I am still very good friends with, just got married. I was suppose to go to the wedding and I felt so bad that I was in Cali. They are in Mexico for there honeymoon and with this whole swine flue thing, I am worried. Ari getting marryed only truly hit me on any kind of emotional level when I was on my FaceBook posting to my friends when I clicked on his Wife’s profile. I have written her in the past week congratulating her. However this time her main photo was them kissing at the wedding. I am happy for him, I am happy he found love. I am happy he has moved on from me and cut his hair. I will always love him, just don’t feel the desire to be in a relationship with him. He has come to me several times asking. I have distanced myself from him to not mislead or hurt him. He is a great man, and will make her a great husband. With our connection I never figured out why I did not feel the desire to stay. It was my choice, and I am happy that he has moved on. But at the same time it hurts. He is my first X that has tied the knot. And he is one that I will forever be soul connected.

     I am desiring to write more often. I feel the need to create poetry, art and music. However I am feeling the desire to focus more then ever. I am almost 30 years old and in a kind of unfocused panic of desire to live up to my potential. So my father and I have been working on my goals. Placing them in order. Soon I will be putting all my progress in this up on my Blogs not only for me, but to help others better focus there life if they desire it to be so.

     Two of my female friends contacted me within four hours of each other upset that I was commenting there boyfriends on MySpace. They both wanted me to delete there boyfriends. Nether was being rude to me, or saying that I had intentions. One said that he was talking to me so that he can spy on her or get her mad, the other did not like seeing me on her mans profile with my modeling pix. I 100% would delete them if I could. But after 600,000 friends, I can no longer search people by there name or the first letter.

     I have felt lust. Nothing big, just enough to now know that I am single and a woman. Not sure if I would like to do anything about it, being that I know how my heart is connected to my intermit encounters. However I at times am bothered with this and I wish that I could enjoy life and another’s body without getting attached. This is very personal, however, if someone reads this long into a blog they deserve to know a bit more. ;) if you read all of this please write "i love icecream" in your comment. lol.. 

     Well with that being said, and now I’m on the 3^rd page on the Word Document that I created to bleed my thoughts to you, I feel as I will end with this…

 

                                                      Life… Don’t tell Me about Life…

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Here are 5 films that I have Some parts in that are not really linked to any of my other sites.

Reel-Illusionary Zone
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