The Most Beautiful Artistic Cakes!!! WOW

JollyBe Bakery is a small-scale bakery making original and delicious special-occasion cakes. JollyBe is located in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and serves the greater New York area. Take a look...



Wedding cakes, and more...


Jollybe Bakery New York

The ingredients are as yummy sounding as the cakes are beautiful.
I have never had a wedding, but if I had one, I would want one of her beautiful cakes made just for me....
I wonder if she needs an apprentice..,,,I' an artist, too!

Umm, I'm hungry for cake!!!

Lower Cholesterol using Red Yeast Rice, other healthy stuff...

Just found this blog, and thought I might direct you to it if you're looking for ways to lower that cholesterol..
Yoga, Herbs, Holistics, & You


"A friend of mine purchased O'Choli in Taiwan a few years ago. His cholesterol had gone to the 240 range after a consistent diet of street vendor food in Singapore. Within a few months of taking O'Choli, his cholesterol level dropped to the 120 range.

The active ingredient in O'Choli is Monacolin K which is a key element of red yeast rice." for more go to above blog link...


I use Source Naturals sublingual melatonin, and it helps me sleep better, and dream!!!

Also, Debbie mailed me this today:

Facts on honey and cinnamon

It is found that a mixture of Honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of
the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a "Ram Ban" (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.

Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients.
Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada, on its issue dated 17 January, 1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by Honey and Cinnamon as researched by western scientists:

HEART DISEASES:
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack.
Also those who already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack.
Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and
strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.

ARTHRITIS:
Arthritis patients may take daily, morning and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured.

In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally
relieved of pain and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:
Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.

TOOTHACHE:
Make a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five
teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be applied 3 times a day till the tooth stops aching.

CHOLESTEROL:
Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon
Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10% within 2 hours.
As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken 3 times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.

COLDS:
Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for 3 days.
This process will cure most chronic cough, cold and clear the sinuses.

UPSET STOMACH:
Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and
also clears stomach ulcers from the root.

GAS:
According to the studies done in India & Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the
immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks.
Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.

INDIGESTION:
Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food, relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

INFLUENZA:
A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural
ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

LONGEVITY:
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take 4 spoons of honey, 1 spoon of cinnamon powder and 3 cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, 3 to 4 times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increases and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.

PIMPLES:
Three tablespoons of Honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS:
Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the
affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.

WEIGHT LOSS:
Daily in the morning 1/2 hour before breakfast on an empty
stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one-cup water. If taken regularly it reduces the weight of even the most obese person.
Also, drinking of this mixture regularly does not allow the
fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat
a high calorie diet.

CANCER:
Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month 3 times a day.

FATIGUE:
Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is
more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body.
Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon power in equal parts, are more alert and flexible.
Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 p.m. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.

BAD BREATH:
People of South America, first thing in the morning gargle
with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS:
Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in
equal parts restore hearing

Lets all make a solitary fantasy of peace reigning...

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy
can totally transform one million realities.
- Maya Angelou -

Lets all make a solitary fantasy of peace reigning...



Begin with hearts melting, memories fading, forgetting why they want to cause pain, forgetting their own pain, let it be gone, in every soul, let the pain go, let it be gone, it is done..

Continue with greed ending, the fear that creates from greed, it is dissolving, it is turning from greed into love as we speak, People experience it, but don't know why, but are grateful...glad, have waited so long for it to encompass them, to fill them , and to return it to others...



Those with more suddenly shun having so much, and their hearts are moved to share, and to dispense love is all they want, it's all they know, The mind shuts down, the great mind of the collective pain of mankind, and supreme love flows, now is flowing, into every heart, like a river so strong it can't be stopped, Like a hurricane of love, that drowns out every fear, and every disease, every parched and broken heart.



The world is transforming as we speak, it is morphing into pure love that flows, flows and flows, we don't have to will it, it carries us, because in every heart is is already desired, known, craved, it has just been misplaced by fear of not having it.
Let is move, let it recreate, let it be, let it be..



IT IS DONE
(c) 2006 Jerez

There are Moments

There are moments when I must embrace myself, forgetting words others speak of their search, experience, or truth.

These are the times I fall upon my knees in tears, and let them wash me clean of expectations and the words of others struggles that may benefit them for a week, a day or a year, only to fall away as a husk of a nutmeat left upon the ground to ruin.

These husks are often what I have sought as my truth, leaving me empty, and unloved, a beggar gathering husks upon the ground.

My voice alone to me is to be heard. Comfort in acceptance from another is well received, but how to be myself is never to be heard through another’s voice, we each have our own to speak, and to experience.

How many different times do I hear, "“get it together?"”

When all any of us need to hear is;

"l love you, you are perfect just as you are?"”

Jerez (c) 2006

A Never Ending Sea of Love

I intend to be free, I am freer today than I was yesterday, and freer that day than a year or two before.

Learning the dark is not so frightening is something I thought I had learned long ago, yet there are different forms of darkness.

Learning to grieve didn't come naturally to me, suppressing it was acceptable, my pain was not.

A woman is not encouraged to cry anymore, yet men have an open invitation.

When many were striving to learn to unstuff, I had to learn to stuff. Where was the mercy when I thought I needed it?

Dark nights are also of yearning souls, and I have been that one, unyielding in that I should have only light projected for others from the Holy source I'd met. My love I deemed inferior.


But yield I have finally done, become willing to learn from whatever is. Light or dark, infusion or hollow fear, It is all God.

I am relearning to pray. I am seeing my prayers are answered for a part of me I may never see.



I had thought that I was, me, so small, and only now am I truly seeing the whole truth, glimpsed once again, of an expanded being as large as life.

The mind, so dedicated to doubting has been shifted by a spark of wisdom, a small leak of information it cannot take apart; that my prayers are said for all of us as ONE, this night, and answered somewhere in a never ending sea of love.

Jerez 2006 (C) Thanks to you Inky for introducing me to hooponopono

Ho Oponopono

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Someone on Daily Om posted an article about Ho Oponopono yesterday, and I am quite taken with it.

I am Ho’oponopono. I am an ancient Hawaiian problem
solving process updated for today’s use by Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona,
Kahuna Lapa’au, recognized as a Living Treasure of Hawaii in 1983.
I am composed of three elements: repentance, forgiveness and transmutation.
I am a petition initiated by the Conscious Mind to Divine Intelligence to void
memories to re- establish Self Identity. I begin in the Conscious Mind."

Science says that DNA is responsible for all our ills, but Ho Oponopono says it is ever reocurring memories of all that is in the collective sub conscious since time began.

My first visit to Mrs. Willoughby (A Christian Sceince practicioner) in the early 1970's comes to mind when I read about Ho Oponopono. I wonder if Mrs Willoughby was a Kahuna, too.

After I left her, I had much success in letting go of memories. It just seems like we need a lot of help to do this.

I know these memories are destructive,and can't be allowed to exist even on a lower conscious level, but must be completely dissolved by the divine itself, back into the void. Once we dissolve some, we need to be ever mindful of others, because it happens everyday, so we forgive and love to send all memories that back to the void, allowing the creative nature to come forth.

The theory goes that when someone comes to us for any problem, we must take complete responsibility for that problem by loving and being thankful. By doing this self work, we heal others. In other words, we tkae complete responsibility for all problems, yes all! ( In other words, by simply saying I love you, and thank you, rather than indulging in various thinking, memories are transmuted to the void, and inspiration wil be imparted.
We alone (individually) have the key to the sub conscious, we co create what is, so we are responsible.

Therapist have done zilch to remedy any problem I have ever had. So if Ho oponopono is correct, the therapist is not taking responsibility for our problems,if they were, how could they charge us to work on them? I cause your problem, so I am going to charge you to fix you? No! If we all must take responsibility for creating whatever comes into our lives, we can't be charging others to fix what we create.
This type of faith could heal the world. Let it happen soon. If I learn Ho Opono pono, I will heal for others, for my world to be made better.

I have no trouble with the concept at all, I believe Christ has certainly taught this type of forgiveness,and A Course IN Miracles rings true along these same lines.
Science hasn't done much towards healing. DNA is their culprit, but according to ho oponopono, it is DNA has nothing to do with disease.

Looks like we can create peace by taking responsibility for George Bush by saying, "I love you, I forgive you' Of ourselves. Forgive ourselves for creating this mess, Let's all give it a try with George in mind, and terrorists, and our relationships, and all plagues, and diseases, lets love ourselves and see if that works. It certainly is worth a try! For some reason, I think it hasn't been tried much before!


Ho Oponopono
Please visit this site to read more about this healing.

From the web site of Ho Oponopono:
Below I have listed part of a glossery of their terms for your beginning understanding:


I got the idea a few months back of a talking glossary of the essential “characters”
in Self Identity Ho’oponopono. You can get acquainted with each of them at your leisure.

"1. Self Identity: I am Self Identity. I am composed of four elements: Divine
Intelligence, Super Conscious Mind, Conscious Mind and Subconscious Mind.
My foundation, Void and Infinite, is an exact replication of Divine Intelligence.

2. Divine Intelligence: I am Divine Intelligence. I am the Infinite. I create Self
Identities and Inspirations. I transmute memories to void.

3. Super Conscious Mind: I am Super Conscious Mind. I oversee the Conscious
and Subconscious Minds. I review and make appropriate changes in the
Ho’oponopono petition to Divine Intelligence initiated by the Conscious Mind.
I am unaffected by memories replaying in the Subconscious Mind. I am
always one with Divine Creator.

4. Conscious Mind: I am Conscious Mind. I have the gift of choice. I can allow
incessant memories to dictate experience for the Subconscious Mind and me
or I can initiate the release of them through incessant Ho’oponopono. I can
petition for directions from Divine Intelligence.

5. Subconscious Mind: I am Subconscious Mind. I am the storehouse for all of the accumulate memories from the beginning of creation. I am the place
where experiences are experienced as memories replaying or as
Inspirations.
I am the place where the body and the world reside as memories replaying and
as Inspirations. I am the place where problems live as memories reacting.

6. Void: I am Void. I am the foundation of Self Identity and the Cosmos. I am
where Inspirations spring forth from Divine Intelligence, the Infinite.
Memories replaying in the Subconscious Mind displace me but not destroy
me, precluding the inflow of Inspirations from Divine Intelligence.

7. Infinite: I am Infinite, Divine Intelligence. Inspirations flow like fragile roses from me into the Void of Self Identity, easily displaced by the thorns of
memories.

8. Inspiration: I am Inspiration. I am a creation of the Infinite, of Divine
Intelligence. I manifest from the Void into the Subconscious Mind. I am
experienced as a brand new occurrence.

9. Memory: I am memory. I am a record in the Subconscious Mind of a past
experience. When triggered, I replay past experiences.

10. Problem: I am problem. I am a memory replaying a past experience again in
the Subconscious Mind.
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11. Experience: I am experience. I am the effect of memories replaying or
Inspirations in the Subconscious Mind.

12. Operating System: I am the Operating System. I operate Self Identity with
Void, Inspiration and Memory.

13. Ho’oponopono: I am Ho’oponopono. I am an ancient Hawaiian problem
solving process updated for today’s use by Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona,
Kahuna Lapa’au, recognized as a Living Treasure of Hawaii in 1983. I am
composed of three elements: repentance, forgiveness and transmutation. I am
a petition initiated by the Conscious Mind to Divine Intelligence to void
memories to re- establish Self Identity. I begin in the Conscious Mind.

14. Repentance: I am repentance. I am the beginning of the Ho’oponopono
process initiated by the Conscious Mind as a petition to Divine Intelligence
to transmute memories to void. With me, the Conscious Mind acknowledges its
responsibility for the memories replaying problems in its Subconscious Mind,
having created,accepted and accumulated them.

15. Forgiveness: I am Forgiveness. Along with Repentance, I am a petition from
the Conscious Mind to Divine Creator to transform memories in the
Subconscious Mind to void. Not only is the Conscious Mind sorrowful, it is
also asking Divine Intelligence for forgiveness.

16.Transmutation: I am Transmutation. Divine Intelligence uses me to neutralize
and to release memories to Void in the Subconscious Mind. I am available for
use only by Divine Intelligence.


17. Wealth: I am Wealth. I am Self Identity.

18. Poverty: I am Poverty. I am memories replaying. I displace Self Identity,
precluding the infusion of Inspirations from Divine Intelligence into the
Subconscious Mind!

Before bringing this visit with you to an end, I would like to mention that reading this article satisfies the prerequisite of attending a Friday lecture if you are considering taking a Self Identity Ho’oponopono weekend class."


I wish you Peace beyond all understanding.

O Ka Maluhia no me oe.

Peace be with you,

Ihaleakala Hew Len, Ph.D.
Chairman Emeritus
The Foundation of I, Inc. Freedom of the Cosmos

Trillium photo by Kim Carney (c)

This Midsummer Night's stream of Consciousness

Darkness does that...


It is dark now, after a long day of light darkness comes now , finally, after 10 pm.
The woven woods are raised, but darkness seeps through the cracks.

Darkness does that. It is always seeping through the cracks in my life where I try to plug it up, wanting only light.... diffused, thank you.

Isn't it evident that darkness is just part of the cycle of light? Yet darkness is resisted by everyone. Oh, it's ok when it is dark with a full moon combined with romance, or a starry night, but what about the darkness inside each of us that stirs us , making us want to resist it?

The dark signifies psychological darkness; the enigmatic, the dark nights of the soul, sadness, failure, defeat, loneliness, despair, grief, broken hearts, fear, broken dreams, confusion, dreams, process.
View From Mt Adams at dawn (C) Sherry Stewart 2004



The dawn and dusk are also points on the continuum of that cycle that includes, light, dark... the seed growing, the life forming, signify the unknown, and unseen, the mysterious, as much the life force as light; sun, the fruit of labor, the wine, the birth, the flower, the success, and joys.. We celebrate all that is seen and unseen when we embrace the whole of life, it's bright and dark sides, just significant parts of the same whole, a space along a continuum of forever.

Why is it dark and light are always revealed at separate times? Light during day, dark at night, inside our homes we cry hiding our tears falling onto our pillows. A kind of shame, tears and fears are.

We're not supposed to be afraid, but we all are. Sadness is rejected, but it is the other side of joy. It's ok for joy to creep in, in fact, we're supposed to be joyful, happy, but sadness, uh oh..now there is problem!! We stay busy to keep the dark at abeyance. Not supposed to be afraid, we burn wicks in the dark to fend off the spirits of the dark, as if it were evil.

The dark is the female energy; the Mother, or "Holy Spirit," the miracle in secret, rich composted earth, the caves and streams, blood and musky scents, everything is born of her, a flower springs from her dark secrets, the tiny seed buried in her bosom..what ever takes place unseen, unborn, to come to life. To venture out into the light of day, the blue sky, the sunshine. Water, surely water is the One that creates all life, never judges, just recycles from life to death to life again, through clouds, and rivers, streams, and oceans, from bodies of the dead moisture is reclaimed, us included, decaying in the earth, what is decay but a recycling of water...releasing that life once again to create another life.

What then is water? That non judgmental life force, giving and receiving life to all. It plummets with bodies into graves, takes back it's moisture to replenish it on a new leaf, bud, and infant.. evaporating from life, into life? From earth it soars into the skies, at night and at day.

Water is the creator and sustainer of life here on earth, it is both male and female, it travels between the worlds of light and dark..It is whole and eternal, what we hope we are, and must be, for we are made of that precious beautiful life giving liquid.

Storm at Ivars in Mukilteo (c) Sherry Stewart
That watery world, how she balances, and creates, and destroys, builds and rebuilds. How she embraces us all, and lets us return to her again and again. Oh beautiful liquid life force. I sit by this river you are, under the cloud you are, myself , "is you"...you are of earth and sky...I see your completeness, and expansive beauty that is everywhere, and I am not separate from you, them, life or process.


Everything I read speaks of how we aren't supposed to be afraid, and of what fear creates, but fear is as viable as force for creation of good as any force is. From anxiety, and depression we change direction. From too much light and joy unbalanced with knowledge of our own darkness, we sink into a kind of decadence, unable to understand those in pain; we teach, preach, and tell them what to do instead of lovng them. We aren't here to save anyone, just to love ourselves and others. Nothing is good or bad, except we make it so.

My midnight musings...

Gives new meaning to custom design!

Snoqualmie Falls last Sunday

My friend, "The Cook," in the kitchen.

Fountain in back of home


I visited a friend at this home
Wow, gives new meaning to custom design!

Mt Shuksan Sunday

Salt Lake City, Utah

My latest trip was to Salt Lake City a week ago.
I am very impressed with Salt Lake, what a clean, spacious, and well organized city, with a low crime rate which speaks for it's workable values.

I had excellent tour guides, Pamela, and Dee, and the enjoyable company of Rachel, my friend from San Diego.

For now I am just posting these photos and links, and hope to return to write more later on. Oh, and yes, I want to go to salt Lake when it is snowing, I prefer the cold weather, and love beautiful snow.

These photos were taken atop the new library building built 3 years ago.








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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Events This is an absolute "must see" in Salt Lake City...