Just Plain Jean

Snowy

Jean — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:41:39 +0000

I wrote this to a friend, but thought I should post it for other friends as well.

This is so hard for me to say, but our cat, Snowy died this morning just after 3 am.

We found her in the back yard close to the shed, lying on the ground. Her pupils were dilated, and her hind quarters were cold. Her front paws were getting cold. She was still breathing, but barely. As we spoke, she responded by moving her front paws a bit.

Feeling that death was immanent, I expressed my love for her and called her my term of endearment “My little pussycat” - she blinked slowly, as if to respond that she understood, felt comfort and appreciated the statement. Other than that and one other blink when Jim was caring for her, she was completely unresponsive in her senses.

My hubby and I sat with her for a while outside on our lawn chairs but it was becoming quite chilly. I called my aunt, my mom and the vets (left a message with one) and got a 24hr hotline with the other and they suggested that we wrap her in a blanket and and the hot water bottle and just try to keep her comfortable as she dies. We decided to go into the breeze way to help make her comfortable for her passing and allow us to stay with her.

On and off, I spoke to her and told her that I love her and that it’s ok for her to die, and pass on. I told her she has been such a wonderful kitty and that we appreciated that we could share in her life. I said that her body served her well up to this point but that she didn’t need this crummy body any more and that her spirit was free to go. Hubby was also was able to express his love for her. I meditated and directed her to the light and hoped that she knew it would be alright for her to go. Any time I drew energy from above and handed it to her as courage and strength to go to the light, her body contorted and I hoped that it was a good sign. I’m not experienced with this and just wanted to help her along and hope that what energy I passed to her didn’t prolong the process for her, but helped her with her transition.

She took her last breath right after I told her that I would leave her body alone for a long while after she passed to allow her spirit to separate from her body and that it would be ok, we wouldn’t do anything with her body until we were certain that she was away from it.

After she died, Jim and I slept in the breeze way with her body and allowed time for her spirit to make the transition.

This morning at 6, we buried her in the back corner of the yard, near the shed that she enjoyed hanging out around. We marked the site with a large rock and a smaller white rock we found close to the site.

It’s crazy how attached we become to these wonderful little loving creatures.

Take care and thanks for reading.

Another Prema Medation

Jean — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:03:27 +0000

I must admit, I’ve not been very good at writing down my experiences, but when I do, I’m glad to be able to remember them for a longer period of time, and much more vividly than if I do not write anything down.

In a previous meditation, Norm had asked us to go to the center of source and experience it. What I experienced was a very white ball of light energy, but not so bright that I couldn’t make out the structure of it. It had many long “fingers” going out to lesser light energies, of many different colors. I understood those lights to be us humans.

While in source, I could see the giving of energy down these fingers into the less bright lights and each growing and giving back energy to the source, and in turn, growing lighter and larger. It was like breathing.

The meditation this evening, I viewed the same scene but from my human perspective. I recalled from the last experience that we are not static, but ever-moving. I had the sensation of a lifetime elapsing in just a few seconds - but with all of our moving, I noticed that each connection to source was not like a marionette’s strings getting all tangled up, but each one gracefully passed through each others. A small part of my light connection rubbed off on many others, and many others have rubbed off on mine.

It felt like a beautiful dance.

I’m not one for dancing, but absolutely appreciated experiencing this meditative dance.

Einstein Thoughts

Jean — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:54:17 +0000

I have been learning more about Einstein and will share thoughts that I find to be profound. (Mostly so I don’t forget them!) I hope that you enjoy them as much as I am. It is amazing the difference one person can make to this world.

If anyone understood the propagation of sound waves, it was Einstein. When asked the question “What is the speed of sound?” from the “Edison test”. Einstein admitted that he “did not carry such information in my mind, since it is readily available in books“.

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.”

So refreshing to hear this from someone so intelligent!

I am not sure of the spelling of this person’s name, but when Einstein worked for the Swiss Patent Office, his boss, Fredrick Holler (sp?) had this credo which was as useful for a creative and rebellious theorist as it was for a patent examiner:

“You have to remain critically vigilant. Question every premise. Challenge conventional wisdom and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views it as obvious. Resist being credulous.”

Stuff

Jean — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:31:04 +0000

Ingredient X posted this at one time, but they don’t seem to anymore. I love it, so I must post it unless they ask me to take it down!

Earring Designs

Jean — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:56:02 +0000

A new found friend has created some wonderful earring designs. I liked them so much I bought 3 pair! One for an elegant pirate friend of mine. (Hope she doesn’t see this page before I give ‘em to her!)

Click on the image to view them larger. (And to see the whole earring! The thumbnail images are cropped a little wacky.)

If you would like quality made earrings at an affordable price, visit her website: KChiki.etsy.com

Wanna metaphysically blow your mind?

Jean — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:25:27 +0000

A friend sent this link to me a year ago almost to the day. It blew my mind to try and comprehend it. Help yourself to the Tenth Dimension.

Let me know what you think. I’m very interested in hearing. Yes, that’s a comment box below. Help yourself to it! Don’t worry, you don’t have to register to make a comment…

(Does that sound too desperate?)

Ah, the Memories…

Jean — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:30:15 +0000

Don & Pam, you will appreciate this much more than anyone else I know.

» The Art Room

Helpful Job Search Sites

Jean — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:18:51 +0000

I’ve shared this list on my website before, and think that it is helpful enough to serve up again. This list has helped friends and colleagues to find their new wonderful jobs.

The links will open up in new browser windows. Feel free to email me any job search sites you’ve found to be helpful that I don’t have listed. I’d love to keep the list active. Let me know if you find a broken link along the way. I’ll try to keep it current and helpful

Great sites:

Still good sites, but they tend to not have stuff in my area:

awn.com
(animation world network - wow, they have improved their search function. Also more positions are showing up in CT, and don’t be fooled, it’s not just animation jobs that are posted there, also graphic design, so check ‘em out!)
Creative Hotlist
hotjobs.com
net-temps.com

An employment search resource site that I have not fully explored, but have similar links:

roundtable.org

Helpful when looking for a job, but not job search sites:

Newly added

Not very good sites at the time I checked, but check anyway! They may have added since.

Welcome to DataFrenzy

jobs.internet.com

thingamajob.com

creativecentral.com/central.htm

I’m lopsided! My earrings give me away!

Jean — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:20:47 +0000

This was taken after I had all my mercury fillings replaced with Cerec brand ceramic inlays. Good stuff. Not much “exciting” stuff to write about a dental x-ray, but neat to look at just the same.

And yes, my ears are lopsided! They’re off by a lot! Click on the picture if you want to see it larger.

UPDATE: I realized why I’m lopsided. I never liked my hair parting in the middle, so I tend to style it with a part on the right side. Subliminally, I was tilting my head to keep my part! Gheesh! How vain of me! I’ll just have to deal with a part in the middle of my head if it gets rid of this “TMJ”, or clicking jaw I have. I’ll post back, although I’m sure it’s not of concern to anybody but myself!

Car Sharing

Jean — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:36:42 +0000

I wrote this to a friend, and thought it would be worth posting:

As usual, it looks like Austin is ahead of the country with offering this:
www.austincarshare.org

Great concept! I wonder how it’s working? My sis had mentioned a private car share between neighbors (of a planned community). I thought it was a great idea, because car expenses shared make it easier on everyone involved! Taxes, insurance, and gas… I wonder how that works out now, return it as you got it? That would be a lot of trips to the gas station if everyone had to continually top it off. Also, I wonder how insurance would be handled with so many drivers?

It would be neat to start a non-profit like this here in CT.
(None on this list are from CT: www.carsharing.net )

Gah! I’ve stayed up all night working (I finished my project!), and now I’m looking at the fun car conversion stuff online. I’m so tired. I guess I ought to get some sleep now.

Thanks for reading! Feel free to comment