He Enlightened My Soul

Enlightenment

TRUTH IS MY SWORD

JUSTICE IS MY STRENGTH

ENLIGHTENED IS MY SOUL

 God Speaks (Ditat Deus).............................

Genesis Chapter 14

 23.That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe - latchet. The Hebrews have an elliptical form of making oath, in which the imprecation of punishment is understood. In some places, the full expression of it occurs in the Scriptures, “The Lord do so to me and more also,” (1 Samuel 14:44.) Since however, it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, in order that the obligation of oaths may be the more binding, this abrupt form of speech admonishes men to reflect on what they are doing; for it is just as if they should put a restraint upon themselves, and should stop suddenly in the midst of their discourse. This indeed is most certain, that men never rashly swear, but they provoke the vengeance of God against them, and make Him their adversary. Lest thou shouldst say. Although these words seem to denote a mind elated, and too much addicted to fame, yet since Abram is on this point commended by the Spirit, we conclude that this was a truly holy magnanimity. But an exception is added namely that he will not allow his own liberality to be injurious to his allies, nor make them subject to his laws. For this also is not the least part of virtue, to act rightly, yet in such a manner, that we do not bind others to our example, as to a rule. Let every one therefore regard what his own vocation demands, and what pertains to his own duty, in order that men may not prejudge one another according to their own will. For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.

(And now repeated from one of my first posts beginning this blog December 2010)

Mega Truths....Latin phrase Ditat Deus translates in English to God Enriches the motto of the State of Arizona.

• Truth has many faces, see its soul.
• If truth can be told, it must be told.
• If there is a better truth, progress finds it.
• Truths like time, expire. 
• What is true today, may not be true tomorrow.
• Let go of old truths accepting new truths with all related changes.
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• Truths have limits of accuracy.
• If truth's valid domain enlarges or shrinks reevaluate validity.
• Truths create sane social systems, destroys those not.
• Truth reigns supreme.
• Truth surpasses corruption and confusion.
• Truth has value and integrity.
• Truth today creates a better tomorrow.

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Cleaning up the messy consequences of dishonesty and incompetency is costly but necessary for everyone's sense and sanity.

LIFE

Life has its ups and downs, 

Its tragedies, and its clowns.... 

We come and we go, 

 

And make the most with what we know.

 

It could have been better,

Loving words, maybe a letter!?

It could have been worse.

Life goes on, we never rehearse.
 

(by Yolanda Martin 9/11/2013) poem for daughter, Rhonda.

DEATH

Oh...he, your chi pet, were both you and your daughter's life long beloved pet for entire 19 years of his chi life...oh my... (sigh)...

You need to meet and be strong about the cycle of life ending and then follows a new beginning and you proactively define as much as you can the new beginning according to your  life's pursuit of happiness and reality constraints of time and other factors.

You must not indulge in wasteful emotional  negativity creating costly liabilites ill affordable but be positive and know nature's laws prevail despite our best attempts to control otherwise.

Death is consequence of life and both are inextricably coupled. I have tried to deal with death and snatched away from the grim reaper many times even my corporeal self from his greedy grasp: born puppies, puppies laid on and actually dead resuscitating them, etc, and know sometimes you can restore and renew life but never avoid concluding the cycle of life ending finally at some point when life is not compatable with physical or mental demands of continuation of living.

I too have lost loved ones and remember the sorrow and suffering of being alive after being aware of death's extraction either unexpectedly and sudden or delayed and lingering helpless to alter or prevent what I had in my life and loved and left only with memories of what once had been.

Life is never a given only a precious blessing and never lasts before leaving us at a time we always lament and grieve trying to heal the vacancy in our world death created.

WEIGHT MATTERS!

WEIGHTY MATTERS!

Today
is yesterday's tomorrow,
Today
is tomorrow's yesterday,
Tomorrow
is time forward and borrow,
Yesterday
is time backward must repay....

When is tomorrow?

?

When is yesterday?

?

When there's just  TODAY....

!

How MUCH do you WEIGH?.?

DO PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD

DO PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD! 
With app My Fitness Pal play with it before you eat it, learn all you can about it, and how it enhances your total daily food selections. 
The more you play with selected nutrient views of your planned meals for the day, the more nutritional value you add to your diet while controlling limited calories and portions allowed for the day balanced with exercise you should add also. 
With this app, the many different views of a food or entire days food educates your mind to appreciate what you choose to eat more than by just satisfying your hunger or taste adding abstractly the intellectual appreciation of the unique beauty of certain foods thereby increasing your health and beauty, playing as an art form with foods' balance, composition, combinations, variety, and values. 
Go ahead and play with your food before you commit to eating it and later regret it... 
The more you play with the food using My Fitness Pal you will actually sublimate your hunger into sensible and pleasurable satisfaction knowing you are no longer mindlessly eating. 
You are making the most of your daily diet living healthier and gaining a greater appreciation of all culinary arts!

Yolanda 03/12/2016 windows 10 Logitech Webcam Photo

Harry an Impressionism Portrait Android App Photo Painter Painting Framed

Created this impressionism portrait today of Pekingese from one of my 2015 litters now owned by Lisa Maldonado that she named Harry .... used android app called Photo Painter using photo of this puppy....

Self Portrait Yolanda Martin

Digital Painting using FotoSketcher installed in Windows 10 computer and a web cam photo as underpainting. 

Yolanda Martin Self Portrait Digital Painting

Insane Owls

.... The co-dependent owl says... You, You, You...
the bipolar owl says ... Up, Down, Up.....
the anti- social owl says nothing but acts menacing....
 the megalomaniac owl?...says nothing expects submission, subservient offerings, and is named Trump.
And the passive aggressive owl says 'see what you made me do.'...also Trump...
in fact all the owls are Trump, and insanely wealthy.
Disassociative identity disorder owl says ...Me, the other me, any another me...Trump 1, Trump 2, Trump 3, all Republicans!!!
If elected President, he will be the most insane and most wealthy ever I win that prestigious privileged paycheck for life but also most likely to be assassinated in office by one of his many enemies of his making during the campaign.

My Daily Physical Exercise Regimen

When asked my personal goal and why I am attending the LA Fitness Gym, my reply is "So I can out run and overtake Old Age who is running extremely fast just ahead of me!" ..... For that reason and many others, I am motivated to continue my http://blog.lafitness.com/tag/how-to-use-exercise-equipment/  : 
I start by working out on my favorite exercise equipment, ending with the treadmill where I can monitor the time, distance, and my heart rate then I shower to go relax in the Jacuzzi, swim in the spacious, uncrowded pool , participate in the aquatics class, and lastly, I shower again to remove the chlorine from skin and suit, dry off in the sauna (180 degrees F) dress in street clothes and am now  ready to go home to fix my breakfast which I can enjoy knowing I have completed another day's fitness regimen.
There are many at the gym who are beautifully fit, in their prime zone of good health, but there are also others who need to self improve like myself because they are overweight, lacking muscle tone, elderly or needing physical rehabilitation,but all are there to improve their physical self and wellness.  Each day I go, I try to do a little more, and also I am feeling more comfortable with myself in-this-out-of-my-comfort-zone-environment.  With all the mirrors on the wall, I can face reality seeing my before and imagining my ideal self after image, both motivating me to keep exercising.  I am actually enjoying my daily workout!  I also have an online LA Fitness account logging in with my member id which enables me to check the weekly schedules, log my workouts, and track my time of attendance.  Watch out Old Age because you are being challenged as I work to take my life towards improved physical well being (the mental health benefits from the physical workout as well as the self esteem and the peace of my soul). 

https://youtu.be/98wt4PBdxvk

Made this video using LG Ultimate 2 Android Phone camera and video functions then used Windws 8.1 Movie Maker to combine the 2 videos and 19 photos into one video uploaded to YouTube for sharing.

If you pause and reflect for a moment, there is beautiful art in the human physique, physically fit without fat (morbidly obese) or deformities and a body able to exhibit fluid motion, full mobility as seen in dancing or simply exhibiting grace in walking, sitting, and other movements such as reaching or bending to connect with objects or others, and to do tasks as needed during the day.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, enhanced by the absence of pain and poverty which detracts from our ideal selves.

Beauty is as valued as truth, talent, AND TIME needed to live a full and free life, to achieve what fulfills us and propels us, to attain better human performance, productivity, and peace to please and to feed our spiritual souls.

You may not have the time to view this video about physical exercise or you may simply think negative of it for whatever reason, but that doesn't diminish the pleasure I had in creating it. I am able to view it again and again during my exercise adjustment and derive pleasure by sharing the educational benefits healthy lifestyle choices offered by a fully equipped gym and exercise space environment gives us all collectively and individually. I think this is the one and only thing I could do to improve my chances of living a healthier and happier life. I really would not live very long if I continued with the medical establishment because it was merely adding to my health problems and not solving them.

Puppy named "Checkmate" portrait using painted carved wood plug in digital cyber studio Paint Shop Pro 9

National Be Kind To Your Doctor Day

During my annual physical exam, my Dr. said "I am going to give you 3 words "Pencil, Ball, Chair" and I want you to remember them because later I am going to ask you what were the 3 words :" .... Well we continued discussing my leukemia, my lymphoma, my Sjohrens's disease and rheumatism, and talked about the nodule in my right lung that he is sending me to a lung doctor specialist and he ordered me to take a mamogram and to have rheumatologist send me her findings and then the visit was over after doing a pain assessment .  

That night I woke up shortly after midnight and realized he never asked me what the 3 words that I was supposed to remember so I called his office and told his receptionist the words were "Pencil, Ball, Chair" and she had to write it down because she said she would never remember that. LOL

                                  (National Be Kind To Your Doctor Day......!)

Pursuit of Happiness

It is said that with friends, we divide our sorrows and multiply our happiness.....BUT .... I resolve I shall never share my sorrows with others because it will only sadden my friends and make my enemies happy! No one can avoid sorrow, but happiest are those hunting goodness, giving and sharing positives with friends.

The Perfect Ending

 Others simply don't understand until you are in an assisted living residence or dead. I simply have to accept the limitiations of physical and mental impairments. I will share this philosophical attitude about end of life.

"I wanted a perfect ending. 
Now I've learned,
the hard way,
that some poems don't rhyme,
and some stories don't have
a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Life is about not knowing,
having to change,
taking the moment and
making the best of it,
without knowing
what's going
to happen next. 

 Delicious Ambiguity."

- Gilda Radner -

ONES

Ones .....
We come into this world as ones
into waiting arms of love and attention.
We exit this world as ones,
leaving memories of love
and one's life reality
to uncertain handling
by ones
interested
or not
in one's
passing..

Pug Love Portrait

What My Pekingese Do For Me

Twitters .... American Lifestyles

I recently advertised in the Phoenix newspaper and kijiji..com and puppyfind.com to find homes for my Pekingese puppies and the responses I received are societally and culturally alarming .... here is what I replied to the twits, twerps, and those anonymously just testing or trying whatever ...

"Would you be able to come to my home in NW Phoenix to select your puppy soon? I dislike dealing with disembodied email addresses/phone number text messages and feel that is just a modern form of anonymity not at all adequate or suitable for breeder to puppy adopter discussions about the transfer of ownership (AKC) and assure the puppy's future well being. I have had text message responses that just give me a very insecure and negative feeling about someone who does not want to be a person but instead prefers numerical transient identifications. It may be ok for drug dealers and such, but is not acceptable for legitimate American citizen transactions especially where the innocent lives of puppies are in questionable status."

Warm blooded Americans? That description no longer is applicable in America's urban interpersonal interactions via the iphones and electronic handheld communications devices.

Pekingese Face Topological Hot Waxed Art Image