Some serious TLC for me. So, I painted Bears.

Bears in the Garden of love under an Aurora Borealis Sky - Having a terrific time.  
Bears 'Friend' is talented as you can see... he's carved a bong from a tree!  
I'm not sure what to name my bears... In my Binder of bears (I have a few now)  a story on each page & the bears are named. I've been thinking a lot about Gene Jelly so I might call him 'Broadway'.  From MY favourite movie &  'painting soon..
I've seen a hand caved wooden bong & met an artist from Japan, he gifted me a carved pendant.  Bears are ready for an evening of giggling, conversation surrounded by Cannabis and a  Supremely Spectacular Sky - who needs anything more?  LOOK at them!
Don't they look like they are ready for a jolly good time?  I know they are. 

On the original - I'm not sure how I did it but the sky looks like Northern lights!  
I'm starting a large Painting on Canvas.   Bear on Canvas -it should take me about 3 weeks of solid painting well into every  evening.  It will be cheerful and loving and full of flowers, fox, fungi, love, laughter, wolf, birds,  joy, butterflies and yes #cannabis of course.
I'll wake up every day and see it and Thank God for another day
& will continue to dare to dream!

Thank God. 
Less T.V for me.  Painting, Reading & Praying...  
with a bit of adventure here and there.
I am currently working on a smaller bear inspired by Charles Schulz Quote...  it's a bit frustrated and down at heart... that is life sometimes right?  Bear can't always be frolicking. 
It's a great way to 'paint it out' as well.. daily data processing. 

Spring is here.
My evenings are spent painting & imagining a relationship that is full of frolic, laughter & a bit of love thrown in..  I'm known for my persistence (smile), who knows?
NOW,  I'll keep painting & enjoy my bears with every stroke of my brush.  
Bear & Broadway make me smile.  Dare to Dream of better times.

* I gifted my BIG Purple GANESH Elephant -  to a friend of my sons since they were little, I use to teach him crafts he really liked it, I could see this... & I want to wish him LUCK & love. I just felt it was 'NOW' meant to go to  him.  He has a good heart this young man, I've always felt that about him.  :)  One Canvas leaves - another appears (I hope! lol) waiting for Bears!  

Painting, reading, praying.  

With Love
g

The USA is experiencing a drought, California the worst hit & I can not imagine it will improve any this summer...   Do you know how many WATER PARKS California has?   lol  Is it just me? Is it not common sense- to not WASTE WATER when you don't have it to waste to begin with?   Water..  if some have it their way - we will have to pay for every drop we drink and use. 
Moreover, under NAFTA, Canada is also precluded from denying US investors and service providers the same access to Canadian water it allows Canadian companies, communities, and residents.

• In a draft letter to Congress, the U.S. administration has outlined more than 40 goals for NAFTA, including the right to impose tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports; removing barriers to U.S. agricultural exports, which could endanger Canadian supply management; and changing the dispute-resolution rules.

The world is running out of accessible water.
The UN reports that demand for water will increase by 55% over the next 15 years.
By that time, global water resources will meet only 60% of the world’s demand.
This is a recipe for disaster.
The water crisis could affect as many as 7 billion people by 2075.
Africa, India, the Middle East, and Australia are in crisis but so are “water rich” countries.
In China, since 1990, over half the rivers have disappeared.
In Brazil, there is terrible drought in Sao Paulo due to the destruction of the Amazon and the disruption of the mighty “flying rivers” that carry massive volumes of water vapours released by the rainforest on air currents to the South.
Parts of North America are also in crisis, including many US states. The Ogallala aquifer is being depleted. A major international study on groundwater mining says that the Great Lakes could actually disappear in 80 years.
If you think this impossible, consider the once mighty Aral Sea, the fourth largest lake in the world, now all but gone from over- extraction.

• NOW you know.. research
  The next time you are thirsty LOOK at your gass of water & thank God for it.
  It is our greatest lurury afforded by fewer & fewer daily.. 

BOYCOTT Nestle - listen to Rick Mercer Canadians- trillions of litres of water every day- they TAKE.    We may be a FREE country - OUR WATER IS NOT!!

With LOTs of LOVE   -as I drink my glass of water. Thank God.
Georgia 

P.S

Luckily, I DID not look at one photo of Trump - thankfully I was able to create this from my imagination, reading a current article in the Globe and noticed they don't call him President Trump...  'Mr. Trump.  I made his hands too big.. next time.
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New Bear Tomorrow.

It's been a difficult week, it's not that I'm having an artist block - I can't seem to stop the ideas,  I'm just not in the mood.  Storm appeared at my studio door -  as long as I'm not 'sketching/thinking' you can speak to me - - - lol.   Visibly upset he reported the new 'proposed (from what I understand they are not set in stone YET) regulations around legalization. Under the new law if you give cannabis to a minor  you could go to jail as a major offence.  Storm remarked: 

"Mom, that means if it was 'now' - YOU would be doing more JAIL time  for introducing  me to cannabis than a pedophile parent who SEXUALLY abuses their kid." 

 I was speechless. Mouth ajar,  it took a moment to register ...   what?  
What did he just say?
Are you f*&%$#@ kidding me?  Is this the USA he is thinking about? 
Storm then turned and left.   

​This is terrible.  Cananbis has never killed anyone - offering a kid cannabis - is not the same as sexually abusing them and messing them up mentally for life!  
*** I AM NOT encouraging kids to use cannabis if they do NOT feel they need it.  Kids today are NOT stupid and I would rather they try IT first before they use pharmaceuticals which ARE proven to alter the brain and even encourage/cause suicide.  
I strongly believe there are many children/teens out there who could benefit from Cannabis.  
***IF ANY ADULT offers a child cannabis or ANY substance with the wrong intentions...
well they are just Nasty SCUM anyhow - there is NOT much anyone can do about it - WELL we could stop focusing on something that does not  physically HURT & focus on pedophiles - that would be a FANTASTIC start.  So many offer kids alcohol  to get them to PASS OUT.   A Strong cannabis edible would also make a kid pass out perhaps, I've never seen it.  Scum is scum.  EDUCATE your kids on SCUM before  cannabis.

Adults (mostly men) who have sex with children are mentally ill. 
Child abuse and child trafficking are on the increase. YOU have more danger today from your child being exposed to a pedophile on-line than you have to worry about cannabis.

Sending someone to jail for offering a minor cananbis - when a child RAPIST  gets less of a sentence is SHAMEFUL & FEAR mongering continued.  WHO made these rules?  More money and resources STILL wasted.  IF it is a NON VIOLENT CRIME
If it is scum offering kids cannabis with evil intentions- sure, give them what they deserve.


​You all realize...  I would be facing a major sentance.
I could be in jail for trying to HELP my son- longer than a parent who sexually abused their child.  There is something wrong with that- and it has nothing to do with cannabis    
PLEASE speak up and out and against this NEW regulation.  
No one deserve their lives ruined over a plant.  NO ONE!
That is WRONG.  Am I wrong?  
Focus.  We asked them to Focus, F-O-C-U-S and NOT fuck us.
Enough is enough. 

With Love
g

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Time for me to Focus. 
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 NAFTA tomorrow- We need to be watching closely!!!
OUR WATER IS AT STAKE.

At last my love has come along! The only love I need.. Cannabis
It's perfect for long walks - on the beach or in the woods.  
It makes me feel better when blue..
It inspires creativity!  Help ease my physical & mental pain...

Rose colored glasses? No thanks, I'll take green.

Just a little painting/glitter fun- Editorial tomorrow Regarding 
our new Cannabis Regulations in Canada... are you F*cing kidding me?
Sounds like an American politician made some of these rules. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTYzrMPgYVn/?taken-by=georgia.toons
^^^ For a  little video of this piece  & NOTE  > Listen to 'Bird' in the background!
LOL he loves this song me too.  

At last.
With Love
g


Editorial cartoon regarding New Canadian Cannabis  regulations Tomorrow.

Only the best bud for my little bud.  
Hand picked, dried & trimmed  with TLC & THC.

Imagine the education kids will get when parents can grow a plant and teach them all about it, taste it fresh - toss a bit in a salad!  Will children like the taste of fresh cannabis bud?
It won't kill them to eat it  & they won't get high.   Hmmmphh. 
Maybe they won't like it- it's kinda 'peppery tasting imo'  and just like broccoli - will they avoid it when ever they can - until they become adults and understand broccoli is good for us & quite tasty.

Time will tell.

with Love
​Georgia 

Please Read.
It's good for your brain & you learn something every time, your vocabulary increases and YOUR imagination takes charge! Unlike Television your OWN mind creates the visions in our brains and it is a WORK OUT. USE it or LOSE it. I'm going to encourage reading.  I'll admit- my imagination did visualize parts of this book which were... incredibly SAD.  
At the end of the world.  By Lawrence Millman

Storm picked up this book at one of the Mycological Society meetings, the Author was there- I wished I had gone! I glanced at the book on his desk read the inside jacket and thought .. hmmm - this sounds really interesting- wow & realized it is a true story- as it implies on the cover Georgia.. duh.

I could NOT put this short, informative book down- I loved everything about it - including the style! I've already said to Storm - I'm getting another of his books! If you want to read a really - simple, gripping, hard to believe story-  over  feathering religion -how interesting - why do we allow each other do what we do?  The Author writes it  at the same time 9/11 happens - it is easy to understand why even at this TIME - the Inuit people struggle with what happened with the REST of the world.
 
What Canadian youngster - does NOT remember Nonook of the North? It was mandatory for every grade school class at one point- lol - I still can hear the narrators voice in my head.. Nanook (you'll learn few things * TRUE Inuit words!) Mushrooms & MURDER..  one of the first ever 'documentaries'.   This was IMO a terrific book full of facts, trivia and relatable events NOW, one moment I'd be snickering at  relatable google frustrations, the next in shock at what I learned, in particular with our own Canadian Government. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4kOIzMqso0  :   Watch Nanook of the North on YOU TUBE

A book a month - I'll read & share!  
What are you reading? Use it or  Lose it.

With love
​G

AS you know I like to make cards.
I thought of this one listening to the radio...  lol 
How true..  All I need is a Miracle - All I need is you.

All we need is someone who believes in us and likes/loves us for who we are, makes us smile..  someone who inspires.   Laughter is the best medicine followed with some TLC.

All I need is a miracle.
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Who shall I send it to??

With Love
Georgia

Next=   #cannabisofcourse! 

Remember mans best friend I drew for a friend?  Below.  I mailed it off. 
Well, I thought - 'Hey!! What about MY BEST FRIEND?    lol 
And so she appeared, I threw on the red glitter collar -  just because.
Poppy needs a 'Red glitter' or red sequins vest..lol    
I drew this as she sat on my lap - out back, in the sunshine, listening to birds.
Heaven on earth... a terrific way to spend 'Earth day'.
Every day is earth day & animal day, plant day.

With Love
Georgia
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Break day... or two...

Bear is back in the cave.    Sculpting- to put it nicely.
My last Dr.s visit I was told: I can't help you anymore. 
Brain surgery, radiation, botox injections, opiates... not guaranteed to work- any of it.
"Life has no Guarantees.."  
"no, but it's my life and with no guarantees, I'm the one going through it all, and it's NO piece of cake. I still do not feel 'right' since the last, can you guarantee it won't make me worse?"
"no.." 

The rest is not important...   stuff I will deal with  & rise above. 

The main thing I deal with DAILY is being zapped - countless times-  GO AHEAD even try to judge me...  Until you live this life OR anyones life first hand-  think what you want but you can not KNOW unless you live it.  Having 'others struggle' with it - has become a JOKE!  What a life lesson, I AM surrounded by cowards.    
People who pretend to care but show you the opposite with their constant repeated actions. Simple.  

All it has done is put everyone on the same level, this is a good thing. 
Powerful really.  Is there anyone out there who could make me feel differently- I doubt it.

I came home and was only able to draw the silly coconut card', I was giddy - ?  
It took bear a couple of days to  emerge. Expectantly.  Lots of painting, thinking...  How does one live like this?  Anger, frustration - it has me questioning EVERYthing and everyone.

Regrettably or reassuringly, it seems again to again pushed me to a new plateau where I care less about others and their  excuses and  uneducated opinions & lies.
I can't walk without THIS F*cking thing triggering- I can't eat, smile or have a normal conversation - SO F*CK OFF!!!   You who are having a bad hair day, or a few wrinkles, sagging boobs, 20 pounds too many, bad mood.. - please... - boo  hoo hooey.

​I had one female FRIEND (?) recently  send me an e mail
"Tomorrow- I'll come get you and well go out! "               Yippie!! 
 I got up, showered, dressed up - looking  good, excited  and waited - she never showed or called..  not even a day later-  when I contacted her, her response - "oh,  I was having a bad day"   that was it.  Done.  Over.  F*ck off ...  you,  I do NOT need friends like this in my life,  it does not make it richer - lol.   Surround yourself with those who raise you up. 

​I get up everyday paint, read, research and try to make a difference.
Do I stay in bed and cry? NO - Even though I have a good reason most days.
& STILL I am living my life for others. Staying where I do not want to BE anymore.  

Dogs can figure it out and show more love than most humans.  

​Living my life for others, what other expect of me- those days are DONE.
   Today - I will start BEARS ADVENTURE!  I'm not WAITING for ANYONE!

A friend  has invited me to see GEORGIA at the AGO !  YES!  
The exhibition opened today, we will go in a couple of weeks.
I have never seen a real Georgia painting and I am SO EXCITED!  
I might have to go alone too- just so I can sit and stare for a few hours. lol
I might try to go this night also: www.ago.net/my-faraway-one

“It takes courage to be a painter. I always felt I walked on the edge of a knife.” 
` GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Amen, I could have said it better Georgia.

This Bear is dedicated to all  who HUNT FOR SPORT...   humans and animals. 
Bears killed  for fun?  I don't understand it. 
To hunt to kill a helpless animal - NOT because you are starving makes you the inferior animal.  COWARDs with s scope.

​Human who hunt for sport  'other humans' either to feed their EGO or libido are no better, cowards with a  scope - usually called the internet.

With Love
Georgia

next.. more #cannabisofcourse 

​I love Kermit!  The Kermit memes have me cracking up...

Storm sat back in his chair - did the pose and made the remark, I laughed and knew I had to draw it.  As I was drawing it - I had the idea to add a PIPE! Hee hee hee  &  OF course it had to be a Jerry Kelly Sherlock Pipe - with a laughing Buddha in it!!!  hee hee hee  

 ALL kidding aside... It is true, and why... why can police seem to catch these Cannabis     "criminals"  - yet we continually read of Fentanyl overdoses.  Pills Kill.  

                   Enough is enough.  >>> FOCUS on what is killing Canadians. <<<

Stop arresting non violent offenders - everywhere, for cannabis a medicinal plant which has caused no deaths. By not speaking up NOW,  we are wasting tax payers money, court time, police time, public time and supporting REEFER madness against a plant proven to help ease others pain...   but that's none of my business.  

I re-did the wording for Jerry Kelly Glass Artist as seen below- he too is a Kermit fan.  Kermit would only smoke out of a Jerry Kelly Pipe' is what I was thinking of when I painted it- with Laughing Buddha in it!!  & a Kermit millie.  Jerry is my favourite glass artist- as in pipes.  :)    Have a peek at his art on his instagram account. 

Popping that pain pill at dinner with beer or glass of wine and then driving that heavy machinery around,  taking the kids to soccer practice...     but that's none of my business.

Think.  
Think before you judge.
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With Love
Georgia