It's Easter weekend!  I love Holidays but I love Easter  more than Christmas.  I believe it is in part because of SPRING! All the flowers starting, bunnies, eggs, comfort food, family and of course for those of us who believe  HOPE!  Good Friday - never really think of it as good. A day to be reminded that He died for our sins. Good in the fact that that It is a reminder,  so many children only think of Easter as chocolate and eggs and fun - with marketing the way it is - it's hard not to - I myself am on my way out to get my 19 year old a choc. egg or two ;-))  He is aware of what Easter stands for. I'd like to add Storm and I do not agree on religion. We have different opinions. THIS is o.k.  Why, because we have a mutual respect and LOVE for each other.  What ever it takes to make you happy and keep you a good person,  whatever you believe - who can argue with that - or WHY ? Yesterday I blocked someone. I think I've done that only 2 times.  I posted a quote about Jesus and someone commented  a nasty comment. It was simply RUDE.  I sent him a message telling him it was rude and again his reply was just negative. I don't get it. 
I would NEVER condemn anyone for what they believe in if it is helping them survive this life and is Not hurting anyone.  I thought after I should not have blocked but I just did not have the energy to deal with such a negative person first thing in the a.m.,  but really - why would I want to surround myself with people like that? - Believe in what you want but ignorance is not having an open mind to let others have this right also.  What angered me most is that person really has no idea of what my God is to me.  
He's not up there in a throne throwing bolts of lightening.. (in my cartoonist mind perhaps- some times) God is good.  Good in humans who help each other, encourage, support, lift, love and TRY to make a positive difference. 
God is everything I see.  ALL the beauty that is EVERYWHERE!  Now with the internet we get to see beauty from all over the world! Share dreams and hopes and encourage and inspire.  Yet, others given the same chance and all they can do is comment negative.
 No thanks. 
He questioned my faith. I question his lack of compassion/respect for others. 
If you have no faith you have no hope.  
Time to go get a special bunny for my boy and my honey. A few tulips and that's all! 
Easter will be our time spent chatting, laughing, meals and family time.  A time to celebrate LOVE., New LIFE (all around us now!) & HOPE. The bunnies are just a bonus ;-)   xoxx

What ever it takes. I read, meditate, chant, sing pray - of course DRAW, what ever it takes when my mind tries to take over an I am reminded of a not so perfect life.  I am reading this great book - in my opinion: living buddha, living christ  by Thich Nhat Hanh  - a Monk.
I'm very curious about Buddha. I like good. 
Buddha was good, Jesus was good, there are many GOOD people in the world.  Ghandi, Martin Luther King. Jr, Dalai Lama, Albert Einstein. People who try to make changes in positive, PEACEFUL ways.  People who practiced one love. People who have Faith, Hope and Love.  This book is about comparing the two. Much the same.  
One the son of God. The other a child of God. We are all children of God. 
I was inspired to draw this, very special to me it also of course has the two friends I lost this past year. A year this month. As I drew it I finally felt myself let go and how could I not -Hunny resting in Buddhas lap? Under the Bodhi tree.  
It makes me smile. Drawing and painting it made me feel at peace. 
The entire time thinking happy thoughts. Having Hope. I choose to be inspired instead of  consumed. When I use to watch the news  3 times a day- I would get consumed. Never mind confused!  So remember most important to do what ever it takes - Buddha, Jesus, Jehovah - Ghandi, martin Luther Knd Jr. - Feel better. Be inspired.  Be better. xox <:'><    

I've reached my limit on FB 5000!  I have had very little time to friend anyone - most people have sent me a request  because they have seen my cartoons on someone's page.  That is pretty amazing!  In a year - it just kinda hit me and YES
 I have a HUGE SMILE ON my face!!!
I checked out my friends list I have friends from Newmarket! LOL
I have friends in: Colombia - funny - had to start with that one, Florida, Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Michigan, Rio de janerio, Greece, France, Norway, B.C! (go figure), Domenican, Peru, Nigeria, Guatemala, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Italy, illinois, Guadalajara, U.K., Pakistan, N.Y, Egypt, Jordan, Argentine, Texas, Thailand, Germany, Indai, Indonesia, Spain, Chili, Australia, NewZealand, California, South Korea, Brazil, Turkey, Singapore, Saudia Aribia, - o.k.! All through out Canada and the USA.  HOW COOL IS THAT!?  I think it is cooler than a Hallmark card ;-D 
I have to say it . THANK you!!! Planting the seed of cannabis education. 
I have also been blessed to hear from so many around the world who have shared some of the facts about Cannabis, easy to read - harder to digest when you get an e mail from someone who's family member is being put to death because of a plant!  Mostly,  I hear from people who use cannabis to ease their pain. Body and Mind.  I believe them - you now why? LIVING PROOF!  I shall take this as a wonderful sign to keep doing what I am doing.
It started with the love for my son - and always will be about that but it has grown into much more.
The love for each other. ONE LOVE   
End this insanity  - 
Seed MADE by GOD. I believe he is the true patent holder. ;-) 
Seed  provided by God for all to enjoy - along with everything else.
                                          We all deserve to be healthy and happy.
WOW! More places that I have ever been or will probably ever be but perhaps my toon is cut out and put on someone fridge! No longer on just my own.  Time to go celebrate by cooking diner! ;-) I am thankful, truly. XOX <><

See me at the EXPO and mention this post.xox

God gave us ALL this gift. This seed.  A TINY little seed.  NOW hear this:***For a United States patent the invention must never have been made public in any way, anywhere in the world, a year before the date on which an application for a patent is filed.
LOL!! Read on and you will understand my reason for LOL
I don’t understand how anyone can patent a plant that has been on this earth by our creator and used since (first documented) 2727 BC *** I’d say thats a little longer than a year - that’ Cannabis has been made public. 
A plant that God placed on this earth for all to use.  Page ONE of the bible 11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
 I can understand placing a patent on an invention, of course but the invention here again was made by GOD. I mean come on! What next patent air - so with each breath we will owe someone $? Do you KNOW it is ILLEGAL in some places to collect RAIN WATER!?  RAIN water! It puts my stomach into knots. If you know and don’t care you should be ashamed.  You don’t care because it is not affecting you... but it affecting someone, someone who is thirsty and does not have the simple luxury of water! Water, plants - what next?
I shake my head when someone informed me - in a simple e mail I got  Google:6630507

Guess what comes up: the US Patent office. Guess who has a patent on Cannabis?  The U.S government. Don’t believe me GOOGLE:  6630507
 I shake my head because not too long ago The U.S government tried to say Cannabis has no medicinal value. Here is what is listed below:
Inventors:  Hampson; Aidan J. (Irvine, CA), Axelrod; Julius (Rockville, MD), Grimaldi; Maurizio (Bethesda, MD)  THEY forgot to mention GOD. A country that claims “In God we Trust.”  Clearly they don’t trust him enough to give him credit for his plant!!
 Assignee:The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC) 
Appl. No.:09/674,028   Filed:February 2, 2001  PCT Filed:April 21, 1999  
PCT No.:PCT/US99/08769   PCT Pub. No.:WO99/53917  PCT Pub. Date:October 28, 1999    Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants Abstract
 Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH.sub.3, and COCH.sub.3. ##STR1##

So you don’t think it is about money? Think again. 

Breath just Breath - while it’s still free.....

Ahhh.. coffee and my morning paper in bed (thank you Norman) Only to be shocked into reality this early Sunday morning.  I just read NEWT Gingrich  is a president hopeful
 - PAY attention people - you who will vote for your next president!
***In 1996 He introduced a bill calling  for  life sentence for anyone who imports 2 (TWO) ounces of marijuana into the U.S.A.   AND  the DEATH Penalty for repeat offenders.   Are you paying attention?  EVEN if you do not use cannabis - imagine how this could effect you - someone you love. 
I believe in God.  Apparently so do many Americans - to the point where they just passed in a bill that they keep the saying "In God we trust..."  
http://www.georgiatoons.com/1/previous/3.html
   O.k. tell me - how do you think God is going to feel knowing that people are put to DEATH over a PLANT that he put here for all of us to use!??   SERIOUSLY, think about that.   If you do not believe in God  ~ to be put to death over a plant!?  THINK about that!  Death - Not for murder, rape, child abuse, human traffiking - I wonder, will people be given a life sentence for importing humans for slave labour in the the United states??  Will they be given the death sentence for repeat offense?  I can only believe if this was his stand in 1996 - that with that kind of a mind - his intentions will only be worse now.  
So keep an eye on Newt.  Or be prepared to watch loved ones die. 
Over a plant.  xox <><
Just read this on Newt.. a few days after this post: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/163854/newt-gingrich-medical-marijuana-is-a-convenience-that-must-be-stopped/    How can this man even be a serious consideration?

Finally my much awaited test results today. MRI looks o.k.    I breath a sigh of relief.  Unfortunately I am no closer to knowing what is going on.  I admit my Dr. appeared just as confused and frustrated as I am. I felt bad for him.  I like him. Even though he does not know what is wrong with me. LOL   I think this is part of the battle.. liking your Dr. feeling like you an actually talk to them. "A strange case"  I'm too tired to think about that. The twitch continues with MEGA twitch making an appearance from time to time so I know I'll be thinking about it from time to time. 
I came home to a clean house! Mom's are you with me!? My FLoORS WASHED! Bed made, bathroom cleaned! The entire time I was away my amazing son cleaned our house. I am still speechless. I got a big hug and I love you when we talked about the Dr.s.  He made my day.
We cheered with apple juice.      I love my son.  
SO .. F%$#! TWITCH!!!  You steal too much fun from me as it is.  No tumor! AMEN!
You know when I was in my car I was thanking God over and over and over. I hope he heard me ;-)

I am drawing and cleaning my studio, going to chant a little Om Mani padme hum and later tonight sneak in some time with my Giant Laughing BUDDHA!!  I can not wait till he is on my wall Glowing... with LOVE. At first I was going to sell him outright..  No way. I'm enjoying the time I spend with him in painting meditation. He makes me smile think and  remember all things good and that how lucky I am to be able to be here yet another day;-))
It goes without saying I got a great toon idea from the Dr.s office.. be drawing too.

11/11/11  Miss you big time pop. Love George. & Don. xox

I have great friends.  FB has me thinking - how fast the friend list has grown .. it takes me  too long to accept friend requests but I don't care. I thank every person who friend me and I like to check out profile photos, I see just how much we have in common, too many times I see cute little dogs that  look like hunny.  I found it interesting the other day I had a friend request from someone in Japan - so it said, and I was the only friend request. Hmmmm..  interesting..    People are paying attention and I thank God for it. IF I at LEAST get a conversation started I am doing what I am meant to be doing.   Profile photos - I am reminded constantly - not to judge  for example you will see all these 'bad ass biker' photos for this guy and thinks "yikes"  wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley (or bright), scroll a little further and you see him with his pet kittie that goes everywhere with him on his shoulder, him an his grandmother, at a family reunion - -  - we are all the same. We ARE all connected - like it or not!  We all have feelings..  O.k. there are exceptions, going on FB profiles I have declined a couple of people. Not for tattoos, cannabis, opinions, class... but I delete them If I see they post nasty things. Life can be nasty enough. Or if they just make fun of others..   I am determined NOT to judge  by physical appearances.  I have been fat, I have dressed like a slob, I have dressed like a 'slut'.. long hair, short hair, purple hair.  We all go through our own stages for many different reasons. I want to try to see the person. 
Anyhow- LOL - I have asked a friend to help with FB; she goes by I Believe.. And I believe she is a nice person, she has always be with me. She is interesting (as is her best bud), friendly and positive and BELIEVES in something. It is hard for me to ask for help.
I am glad I did and she said SURE!  
I have such good real life friends, they remind me daily I am loved. 
Who could ask for anything more.  
Time to toon!  MUST DRAW!!  It is all I seem to want to do lately.  IT is the only thing that I really enjoy doing,  that and spending time with my family.  Not that I've had an invite from Jeremy to go fishing, or with Brad to visit the New New Orleans...  But right now I'm pretty content.     I am exactly where he wants me to be. ;-)

In God we trust, that is something that I feel if you believe in God - you do NOT NEED someone to remind you of this.  In God I trust. Thy will be done...  when I woke this a.m. to read that Congress passed a bill to confirm that 'In God we trust'   is still the American motto...  O.k., had they NOT passed that bill do they think  true believers would have changed their minds? I thought it was a joke,  NOPE it was true.. never mind focusing on the other problems going on.  LIKE passing the BILL to Legalize Cannabis!?
I read    ***The House voted 396 to 9 to confirm that the phrase, which was first passed as the national motto in the 1950s, was still the motto.  According the bill sponsor, Republican Congressman Randy Forbes, the vote was necessary to “firmly declare our trust in God, believing that it will sustain us for generations to come.”  
WELL GUESS what- you firmly declare your trust in GOD than it is in all things GOD. 
 Genesis 1:11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Still I shake my head. I do not think the AMERICAN people needed Congress to remind them to trust in God.  They have life to do that. The money wasted. That is a CRIME.
If you ask me Cannabis should now be considered legal. 
God put it here.  
TRUST IN GOD!

Amen ;-)  xox   <><

read more:  http://www.care2.com/causes/crisis-averted-u-s-motto-still-in-god-we-trust.html

Find I'm playing that anxious waiting game again.  MRI Nov.2
I will admit today  the twitch won. It woke me up at 4 and never left my side.
My head actually, like a big old ugly hat that weighs 20 lbs. I should draw that. 

Anyhow.. Tomorrow I am looking forward to a wonderful visit from a lovely young lady.
Just the thought has a smile on my face. See, if none of this was to happen.. I would not have met so many wonderful people. Learned so much. It has taught me so much.  I want to focus on the compassionate side.  When I started this strip I had a somewhat of a stoner mentality, (F&^% the grammar I'm very tired)  and a  not even completely sure of it myself - believing all the reefer madness stuff. Then I saw Storm starting to feel good. Being able to do more and not suffer so much for it. Talk about the future ;-))) Not  hurting. Living.
And more.. so much more that I don't have the time to even put into words. 
 I thank God for Cannabis, my son and my husband every  morning. 
So twitch and all I am blessed. 
I am right where he wants me to be.

I think I need to take a break, pull back and breath.   
So sad how the world is behaving on Wall St.  I do NOT know the politics of it, I have an idea, but to see people who just want to voice their opinions and be heard -beaten, pepper sprayed...  In a country that is famous for 'We the People...' is heart breaking.  America is not looking like the land of opportunity to me tonight. I feel for my American friends.
So I need to turn off and toon in -to what is important to me.
Make myself draw A little Laughing Buddha to pull me up.  Focus on some Love.
Below A toon I drew at 6 this a.m..  because we have to remember to giggle or we will all go craz'ier'. 
Stoners just are at a different mind frame. They are not criminals for smoking pot just as a person is not a criminal when drinking - it is your actions that make you a criminal. It's not the drug it's the person. 
Sooner or later we realize are all responsible for our own lives. 
At the end of the day I have one judge .. and it's not you. ;-)
xox <><

How could I not as I sit and think about what a great weekend we had. Yesterday was the best. Storm got me up at 6 and we were fishing by 7 ;-) It started at our fishing hole but we just were not getting any bites and it was becoming a busy spot so we decided to go on an adventure. We went to this other place in Hollandlanding, a public trail along a river, near a dam. It was beautiful. It also had the bonus of dogs. ;-) Wish I had thought to bring mine.. 
Storm would fish and I walked the path saying good morning to all passers by and their pooches. I talk to everyone. 
You can go a while without seeing anyone and the freakiest thing happened RIGHT where we were fishing and I saw the whole thing. It played in my mind slow motion a few times yesterday. A kid was walking by, about 17 (looked about Storm's age) I said 'Hi' and he did too with a smile, and then -a guy on his bike (looked like he did this all the time) was riding past with his dog on the leash - a beautiful Husky -and as I looked at the dog I realized what was happening an could not get the words out soon enough! The kid was close-lined! He flew up into the air like a toon! Flat on his back OUCH!!  The guy on the bike was very, very, sorry- the obviously well trained dog was very sorry for what he done and the kid of course was up in a flash and blushing like he tripped! I asked him if he was o.k. and he said 'yes he was..' A few words passed and I told him "well not to many people can say they were close lined by a dog.."  He laughed and went on his way. The guy on the bike still shaken up sat for a few minutes more.  I just thanked God it was not the old lady I had seen earlier. OR ME! LOL   Anyhow - no fish, a few nibbles, lots of turtles and much to explore.
Home at lunch for food, a swim with dad and the dogs then we went out again. Norm not much of a fisherman and you know his mind is else where these days.....
 A friend said we could use the dock ;-)) It was so beautiful. Our catch you can see! I caught the first one and Storm was jealous- hee hee hee. We talked and laughed.  At one point I realize- Storm walking ahead of me carrying his Pole. Me carrying: My sketchbooks, munchies, beverages, my pole, my camera and the Buddha bacon bait;-) And Storms napsack, his sweater, bait box.. I just had to laugh - he did too when he realized why I was laughing. I am his fishing sherpa. Actually he said, he is Jeremy and I am his his camera guy. LOL 
Again a beautiful weekend.  Oh and  God provided the rainbow to make the day complete.