The GLOBAL GAG RULE... people are actually dying because of this, the POOR, struggling, women, sick,  & FACT: MORE UNWANTED CHILDREN WILL BE BORN TO STARVE.
​Donald Trump & his groupies are a bunch of compassionate less, women degrading, racist. (sorry Chuck) Every time I read about this man - I shake my head and feel sorry for my American friends...  women especially.
​  
-With this GlobalGAGRULE he has tied the hands of women all around the world from being in control of their own bodies, no longer able to access information and help.
-With this GlobalGAGRULE TRUMP gags women all around the world from asking of help- GAGS Dr.s and aid from speaking about abortion- forcing women once again  to choose unsafe alternatives.

Do you understand what the Global Gag Rule is?
Please Educate yourself on - Google:  Global GAG RULE.
If you think it does not effect us ALL, you are mistaken.  IT HURTS ALL WOMEN.
​We all live on the planet together.

​EVEN IF you are against abortion (not your body - none of your business)
- tThe Global GAG RULE has an impact of much more - PLEASE READ to understand and then  SPEAK UP!!! ANYWAY you can think of to educate about this  GLOBAL problem which will have epic consequences.
GLOBAL GAG RULE:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/canada-gives-20-million-to-replace-trumps-contraception-cuts/article34187584/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2017/01/25/trump-is-hell-bent-on-punishing-women-with-yuge-global-gag-rule/#1eab847f1c75

www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2016/10/09/elections-matter-why-pence-is-a-scary-option-for-women-and-public-health/#7741e1156aaa

-With this Global GAG RULE - he is forcing women to have babies they do not want!! 
- With this Global Gag Rule- we will take world hunger to epic proportions of suffering.

                      Does this cartoon offend you? or Does the  GlobalGAGRule offend you?   
​                                                                     Choose wisely.

Have Faith 
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xox
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Are you Marching today!? www.womensmarch.com
Please Do if you are able!!
If not please help make others aware of the issues women are marching for today! 
I JUST read of some Canadian women denied entry into the USA because they said they were going to the MARCH! WTF?
www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/20/womens-march-canada-protesters-denied-entry-us
Have Faith
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xox

Tomorrow is the Women's World wide march!!!  I can't wait. I will not attend in body - but I am there already in spirit and art!


One in five women will be raped in her lifetime. 
By a spouse, relative, co-worker, classmate, friend or stranger. 
1 in 4 college students in the USA! wow...  I would make sure my daughter was home schooled or knew karate and carried pedlar spray during her school years.
Did I forget anyone?
& then- most will be humiliated - IF they report it. Simple & disgusting facts.
IF they find the courage to report it- they will be judged on such things like their outfit, time, place, alcohol factors, “was she asking for it’, & more…  
The rapist will not be asked “what were you wearing, was it provocative?” 
Rarely by any judge will the rapist simply be addressed as what he is,  a rapist.  The rapist IS THE ONLY PERSON  with the PROBLEM. 
THEY LOSE CONTROL. THEY ARE the criminals. 
Baby girls, old women and every woman in between.
Women, the main CARE providers of the world -1 in 5 will be used as a object against their wishes.  Some gang raped and left to die:
http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/raped-shot-and-left-to-die-13-year-old-survives-to-fight-back-1263969
UGLY, TRUTHFUL FACTS.  https://www.rainn.org/about-sexual-assault


1 in 5.  
This could be your mother, sister, daughter, wife, cousin, granddaughter, school mate, co workers & friends.  please join the Womens march TOMORROW in a city near you! Go hear to learn more:  #whywemarch  #womensmarchs
 I can’t be there in body, so I drew about in hopes of educating a few. 
The only one with the problem regarding RAPE is the RAPIST. 
Not the woman, not the outfit, not the alcohol. 


A man who forces himself on a woman without her consent or knowledge 
is the one with the problem.  ALWAYS.


The only way this planet will ever work is when women can walk down the streets and not fear being attacked or worse not being able to feel safe in their own homes, with their own families.


WOMEN need to help & support each other any chance we get, above all else we should try to make each other feel SAFE. Heard. Understood and loved- for those who have survived.


I am dreading today for the USA (my personal opinion),  I pray there is no violence and President Trump starts off on the right foot - by not putting it in his mouth. 

Instead I wish to focus on tomorrows WOMENS MARCH!!!  
Loud & proud!!! Many PINK touques! The women pink pussy March

1 in 5?  WTF.
How about  1 in 100,000. that would be a start.
Will you be a victim?

I Am woman... hear me roar.

Researching violence against women.
Rape Culture. Research is difficult.
Research can be heart wrenching.
Knowledge is power.. Ignorance is bliss.
Fuck Bliss.
Bliss helps no one.

Have Faith
xox
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This year I did not intentionally  celebrate 'happy international women's day'.  I am happy to be a women but not  thrilled about a lot of whats going on.. STILL.
All above is true, I started with the HOMEMAKER who does it all, raises kids, cleans, cooks, gardens, shops, looks after pets (in most cases) etc.. and gets nothing, not even a thank you from society let alone most husbands. Many women do this as well as hold down jobs.
There is still a misconception that men come home and can rest up, put your dirty shoes up and take a fucken break. When does a 'housewifes' day end?
Long after the kids are cleaned up and in bed.  
This article covers it.. some:     
http://www.marieclaire.com/politics/news/a15652/gender-inequality-stats/
How about the fact that we send our girls to school and they are getting abused by fellow students who don't seem to have any serious repercussions for their actions? 
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/brock-allen-turner-stanford-rapist-6-months-race

​ Canada is doing  better now with having more women in political power, thank you Justin.

So No, I'm not 'celebrating'.. don't wish me a 'Happy International women's day!'
Instead JUST recognize the problems still existing and change them.  
I have young women I worry about!!  

Don't celebrate them please..  recognize them for what & who they are and the shit they constantly have to deal with... Then HELP.  ONE way- Don't contribute to it! THINK.

Ending on a positive note.. our son made a delicious pizza on the BBQ last night for all of us, Including getting all the fresh ingredients... I appreciate not having to cook - all the time, but a meal made by our son is always most appreciated and  loved.


Have Faith
XOX *** I send out these 'kisses and Hug' for anyone who things they need them! Free! 
<><      I have faith in Jesus.. my own little way to say ' Thank you'.
It's o.k. if you don't.  Do what ever helps your heart. 
Follow anyone who inspires positive change. 

Im feeling angry, yes probably about Jim, how fucking unfair this life can seem some days,
good people go and 'scum' remain to torment and torture. Last night we watched netflix- a crime FBI show..  more or less to pass a bit of time as we unwind, usually the 3 of us watch TV together - since we do so little - and we vote, we all must agree or we do not watch.  I will say I've gone 'off' of horror and violent movies and  Norm and Storm are going along with, thank God.  During the episode the police officer said over 600 women are dumped along the highway every year in Texas alone. WTF?  Can this be true?? So I did a tiny bit of research .. it's true and worse.  It's terrible. 

I'm suffering from PTSD (thank God for Cannabis) - First I'd would like the opportunity for a class acton law suit against Stephen Harper next  I wish women everywhere would start a class action lawsuits against the judges that let  ANY violent attacker against women OFF & then  'JUDGES' the women- how they dress, text messages, - WERE they there? DOES any  old man understand texting? Pressure and  being  woman.   Being a woman is not easy.
Do you know out of EVERY 100 attacks only 6  'SIX' are reported.
​Why - because women once attacked are never the same. FEAR has enterer their life forever.  I was 'date raped' with a drink - I knew the person - we worked at a car dealership together, he convinced me to have a drink with him  - 'put our differences aside', I was NOT fond of him to say the least - he was everything I did not like in a man, winey, huge ego, pretty boy, mindless jock - I woke up in his bed the next day and remembered NOTHING after I had that fucking drink. ONE DRINK.   I woke up and answered 'his phone' a couple of times - thinking the caller had the wrong number.. because I THOUGHT I was at home in my own bed alone- very hung over. When  I rolled over and saw him I was sick to my stomach.  I was NOT a slut, I was out to have a nice evening. I was  abused by a cock who lost control and a SNEAKY one at that. 
I've blogged about it before. I met him years later! - I had Storming his carriage- do you know what he said to me: "Hey, I still have one of your earrings!!".  
Years later & the disgust returned, the GUT feeling that told me he was  a SHIT person and I was right. How many more women did he do that to?  MamaBear kicked in and I told him - 'keep it - I certainly don't need the reminder of the biggest mistake of my life"  and walked away. I never called him on it. I should look him up today and fucking say 'hello' - I'm not who I was thats for sure. It' in the past.  He can no longer hurt me, I understand what HE did...
HE lost control.  
HE is the one with the problem.  He is the bad example of a human being.
He needed to control his cock. 

If a cock was in the city and it lost control and did what ever it wanted. It would quickly become soup. A bird. YET we have  humans that have such little respect for others- they drug, beat, rape and abuse and kill women as if they were no more than an object to use and discard. It must stop.
That was just one  attack in my lifetime - I had another , and many tiny ones, comments, remarks from former bosses- it was NEVER ending... because I was born with boobs.
Do you have a daughter? Sister.. wife? Mother, grandmother?
They are all candidates for rape, for COCKS who can not control themselves.
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Belive
xox 
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A little lighter topic tomorrow - Gifts!  Gifts of love and art and more..

F*cking Cowards.    opps sorry... 'One word' : COWARD.
This drawing on my desk before my son/sun was even up.
I read something was happening on isntagram and have watched the death tolls steadily climb all morning. COWARDS.
Storm reminds me 'These are people who have grown up seeing bombs drop their entire life and have seen family & friends killed countlessly. They are confused & have nothing to lose... raised to believe in a hateful, hurtful religion and education has been suppressed.' 
I love my son, still  he agrees 'cowards might be the right word'
Mentally ill, but not enough to know what they are doing.  COWARDS.
​I asked on FB here are some words people suggested:
​Lost, Vile, Evil, Cowards, Soulless, Devastation, Ungrateful, Homicide, Dedicated,  Brainwashed, Fooled, Deranged, Desperate, Islam, Mislead
& A  couple of more than two words (always happens):
"One Word : Coward = my definition : A lost soul that can't confront their own demons and instead go for false prophecy of something they can never obtain" 
 "A very desperate person who has absolutely nothing to lose, driven by vengeance, hate, ideology and/or religion, and most likely someone who seen their loved ones killed from war. If you lived in a war torn country (probably caused by the USA) then you would see how someone can be driven to that point"
^^^
To the last I say: BULLSHIT.
I watched a clip the other day where a  woman was commenting  'stop blaming the West, we have been  slaughtering each other for before the United States even existed.  She also comments on how bad treatment is  to have your hand cut off, stoned in the streets, don't get me started on how they treat women. Not sure if link will work but this is it:
https://www.facebook.com/KenWebsterJr/videos/1913266932232481/?pnref=story
Yes, no wonder they do not have any respect or value for human lives. To witness this 'as a common 'way to treat each other, can only cause people to grow up ANGRY.
I truly do feel sorry for them.  I have researched this topic for cartoons I draw- they do have it terrible - BUT look at the numbers- and do NOT blame a race, culture, religion, country for the acts of a FEW  NASTY COWARDS.
Sick Cowards who want to hurt innocent people. 

Another thing, I know thoughts of suicide... MILLIONS have committed and will still & think about suicide daily, YET NEVER do they think of harming others.
JUST like every person who owns a gun does not go on a shooting rampage.

They need to be 'GLORIFIED' as what they truly are.
COWARDS.   Not felt sorry for or as 'victims'.
Not what they 'think' they are - or what other 'like them' think they are - they are nothing more than Puppet Cowards.  They have no respect for anyone or anything on the planet.
That terrorist in Russia who cut off that babies head a couple of weeks ago -  I wish she committed suicide before she killed that poor baby.
She is nothing more than a SICK coward who is using life as an excuse for being miserable, who takes it out on poor innocent victims. Coward waited until the parents left. Coward. Coward walks down the street blaming others for her act of hatred.  

Educate others on what they are. 
Do not blame the masses for the occasional murdering madman/woman.
Forgive me for my judgement today. I AM ONLY HUMAN.
One that does not believe in slaughtering other humans... I am not one to pass judgement or try to understand why..  but boy oh boy it's hard to see/hear & ignore.

Please send some loving, healing prayers and good vibes to Brussels.

Believe
xox <><

Art in the garden!  Every year my friends and I go to craft sales and events. I asked them to join me this mothers day for an 'art show' our own little display.  LOL - Who needs an excuse to hang out with friends and look at art!  
I don't get around like I use to  so why not! 
Everyone seemed keen - even Norm! I'm sure you'll be able to view a coffin in our garden. 
I'll try to make them cheery! lol
Its not about purchasing really - I sit here and panic for a second thinking what have I got to sell -  I will have some mini paintings, a few garden signs, I might part with a Laughing Buddha or two, who knows! - I want to have a great weekend in the garden! What better way to start then with a couple of good friends!  If you are around I hope you will consider joining us for peek! Of course we have an area for kids to color and an assistant to help! 

Ellen is big on butterflies and plans on educating us all a little.. Linda knows the newest knots in beadwork - I look at it and am amazed at her detail and I am encouraging all our local Bees to come out and join us this beautiful day!!  Come say hello! if you can! 
OH- I'm also making - with he help of my handy dandy hubby - a new 'Best Blooms'  Photos Op. display - JUST for Mothers day! Bring your cameras! It's one of the 'poke your head' through the hole thing! ;)  
Pets too are welcome as long as they stay on the leash and away from the Pool! Scruffy will be upset! * it will be blocked off ;) 
We have poop bags and they are free to those that need, Also a drinking area for dogs. ;) 
Come take your photo with mom! Enter the free draw and more!! 
Wait and see! Invite a bee!!! ;) 

Sunday we had a trip to the city planned, visit a few stores and see a couple of friends.
I had it in my mind how the day would go.  It went another way.
Storm and I had a good day and did see some people we have not seen in a while,  & it was great to say Hello and catch up a bit.
But the day had an event that really stuck in my head. Enough to draw it.

I suggested to Storm that we find an outdoor patio so that I could medicate. Which was badly needed. Young st. was busy - what else is knew... the level of poor was new, to me anyhow. Everything you see in the cartoon is TRUE and more.  It was a visual smorgasbord!   

The color, the people, the noise were slightly overwhelming as it is but when we finally found an empty patio and had just ordered a coffee, was about to medicate, I heard this strange beeping...  you know s sound you know but are not sure where....

I turned to see a woman in a hospital gown, no shoes on her feet... walking towards us - with an IV pole - she was hooked up. The blood backed up into the line connecting to her arm.  The machine on the IV pole beeping! 

I instantly thought of TIFF and thought it might be some stunt.. 
She walked right where we were sitting, when an EMT worker pulled up beside her and started to question her. We were sitting right beside her.

He was nice and asked her where she was going, he said she had walked 5 km from a hospital?!  5 km and no one stopped her? No one asked her where she was going or what she was doing. ;(  The conversation continued and he expressed concern about the IV Pole  stating a few times “it’s worth about $3,000...  “  I was thinking - buddy - she is in her hospital gown in the middle of young street attached to an IV POLE do you think she was thinking about the cost?

Well a couple of police cars later... she had slid down the railing where we were sitting almost within touching distance.. she did turn and say “sorry”

I told her she had no need to apologize.  I felt bad for her. She was here from Alberta, no family, at a shelter and sick., She had a bad infection and was in the hospital to get better. It is great in this country she can be treated!  I get it bout the IV Pole.. but really? What has played on my mind is the fact that he got so far. How sad. :( So many people just ignoring everything. stepping over the poor liek they re trash on the street. 

I bet people looked at her  when she was not looking and they thought she must be crazy. Who is cray? THOSE who see and do NOTHING are the closest to mad there is. No compassion.

I did not leave, We sat there. I at one point thought the conversation might have gone differently if she were alone. The other officer made a point about asking her is she had been in trouble and  also the cost of the Pole.
Then they talked about how they needed bigger cars. 

An ambulance finally arrived and she had to go back. Back to where she was so very tired of.  I don’t have the answers. Better security at the hospitals?

This cartoon is full of mental illness. Alcohol abuse. Sexual obsession,  Shopaholics. The rich and the poor. People together but a great percentage alone.  Many on phones. Obese people getting more obese on the takeout  Blvd. as they stroll past a woman begging for food. 

Everyone in their own world. 
NOT.   

WE ARE here TOGETHER!  One day that might be you! 

What is happening to you Toronto? Not the city I know and loved. 
That could easily be someone's sister or mother. 
I talked it over with a friend who work in the city and she said “you see so much so often you just learn to turn your head.”

I don’t think that is what Jesus meant when he said ‘Turn the other cheek’.
Forgive us, for we know squat.  ;( .
xox <>< 

There is a sign of hope in the cartoon. Can you find it?

If loving you is wrong I don’t want to be right...
I thought of love while working on this one. 

I thought of all the bullshit we are dealing with and how much a plant has come to mean to us.  It changed our lives.  It eases our son’s pain. It eases the suffering and pain of thousands, millions world wide.  It has helped us plant the seed and spread love with drawings worldwide, inspired by it's healing every day.

It helps tame my mind, Physically and mentally.
I love it. I love the sight, smell, taste & of course smoke and peace it provides me.
I love it and the fact that it is female!  LOL 
I get buy with a few of my friends especially my girlfriends! Us ladies must stick together! 

Today, I went to pick up the drawing to present to Jamie on 4/20. 
My long  time girlfriend Kat - LONG TIME. In our early 20’s we even went to Mexico together - tee hee hee  Pre kids, pre hubby! Pre wrinkles, brain surgery and in her case pace maker. ❤

Kat owns and operates her own Gallery and has forever. I helped her open her very first store! She is a hard working woman, I have reminded her over the years of how few people, let alone women - can say they have successfully run their own business for over 25 years!? It is her art, talent, eye for art that has kept her there in my opinion.
Making ART look spectacular is her job.  

For me, she is another level of awesome. I ‘trust’ her with my own work so much, I take it and say:  “Go, have fun and call me when done.”  That is what she does! I am so excited for this show 4/20! *I would like to add at this time, as soon as Kat learned what I was dong for seriously ill children using Cannabis, she offered to frame the them for free!!!  I am very grateful for her donation of time, talent, supplies and TLC. It means the world to me, it also means I get to draw for some great little heros & say thank you to them from ALL of us. I hope to complete one a month. ;)

We are blessed and we know it. Kat has 3 handsome, smart sons of her own.
No matter how many times we  “piss each other off” over the years, Kat and I need to except the fact we will be friends until we are old and grey,  probably hugging each other one day and giving each other a kick in the ass with our canes the next. After all,  I guess that is what true friends are all about.  ;)
I look forward to it. 

So if you have the chance please visit Kat’s Gallery, she frames like no one else I know, and now her store has expanded to carry gifts for EVERY occasion and EVERYONE!
Every time I go in I  see something else I’d like to get for someone! Kat is also on FaceBook 

***One more special lady I’d like to thank this week is LadyBud, an online magazine with the tagline - 'Classin up the joint.'  I LOVE IT! AMEN! I loved it the first time I saw it, I think I e mailed them but it as pre-surgery days and I have given up trying to keep track. 

Cannabis like every other, is very much a male influenced industry. 
With publications like Ladybud -this class act bunch of hard working ladies, putting it together and promoting - well 'when inspired by LOVE we cannot fail!'  Take a look at the page & you can feel the love & more. Very professional. When my friend John asked me for an interview I was thrilled! John, being a  real friend- was like having a conversation with someone I trust. I am blessed to have someone that wants to share my passion as much as I do! The article appeared in LadyBud this week and I was blown away ;) 

I really do look at  all of this each time and think - wow! I am so blessed and grateful for people who are sharing. Thank You, to LadyBud for sharing, I’d like to think I do class up the joint! You can read the article below:

 I love my sisters! Every one! Especially the green.
xox <>< 
http://katsgallery.com/    and you can also find her on FB under Kat's Gallery 

http://www.ladybud.com/   LadyBud on Facebook 
http://www.ladybud.com/2014/03/25/georgia-toons-interview/

"Where's the scale?"  
 My son asked...  “...skelator”  as he loving calls me, reminding me I need to eat. ;-)

I threw it out... I've stressed over that piece of *&^% for far too long in this life time! Before I was always on it, and all it did was go up!  Every morning I’d get on ... weighing myself, worried about the size of ‘my ass & gutt’ both of which I hated for years. O.K., I will say looking back... I was too heavy. I was usually around 180 - 210,  I’m 5’6”.  I see photos of myself and think - OMG!? WAS I that big?  I did not think I was that big, when I was there. 

Then, I was on it all the time lately with the opposite! Every morning stressing over weight I lost!  WTF!   LOL

When I get to 115 I panic.  I know I look too thin, I’m use to voluptuous.. I had curves.  ;-) So I thought, forget this! I tossed it! “Chucked it!”  (Thank you Candice, a post she made on FB, a while back).  

All kidding aside, I hate a bony ass! Poor Santa - I get it! ;-)  I feel my bones when I sit on a hard surface. I miss my bum!  The thing is I want to get healthy. So I am eating BETTER  (JUST say NO to GMO!)  and can’t seem to gain weight but I feel better! ;-)) So today I made Kale chips - I tell you I was thinking, I’m more addicted to these kale chips than cannabis! My friend Theresa introduced them to me. I don’t have a dehydrator so I make them in the over and it is a bit of work as I have to keep going and turning them. But it is worth it in IMO.

I also have to say, I was sent a beautiful gift, more than the person realizes I bet. Honey.  Medicated honey, from a friend I don’t take medibles from people I do not know. I have the best appetite with it! So does Storm!  
You know it’s not true! You don’t always get the munchies - I think that it’s a frame of mind. If you naturally always get the munchies that will only heighten it. 

I have eaten more in the past few day in a long time and I am craving all the good stuff ;-) Like Kale chips and nuts.  
Oh, I also made - homemade ‘almond joy’ today! I saw on PIN. 
NOM NOM NOM   
Click here for recipe: 
http://vanillakitchen.blogspot.ca/2009/04/coconut-truffles.html

The Kale chip recipe, as from my friend Theresa also below.
I do them in my oven at 150 and go down every hour and turn them when they start to crisp up I eat! LOL - They have trouble making it to a bowl! Really!  TRY them!! 

Either way - Glad I chucked that metal menace! It ruled for far too long! I shall let my body be my guide and love me how I am. Every inch! I hope to get my bum back too.. well at least 1/2 of it’s former glory. LOL   <>< xox 

Today is the day to celebrate women! 
When I started this drawing last night, I drew in a baby at the boob of  one of the women and then thought NO, this is about women. ALL women not just mothers. When drawing it, completely absorbed (love it when that happens) I thought of many women in my life and women I have been inspired by. I know many women all shapes, sizes, colors and ages! I love them all... even the ones I don't like.
Each one has taught me something. Some teach me HOW not to be -  thankfully most teach me how I wish to be. Loving and compassionate. 

xox <><