What is the medicine of  our ancestors trying to tell us?  Don't worry.. be happy.

This weather has me wandering the Mexican desert if only in my mind and - it's fascinating!! Really - ground squirrels are adorable, the Mexican Bluejay is  stunning, mushrooms healing, cactus also helpful ​- nature & it's healing properties are everywhere.

This was a challenge, the background was to light at first and had to be completely darkened, so the items would not fade... at one point I really thought i was going to put it aside & I did to start painting a mermaid in the moonlite  then got right back to it.  
I've included a few reference images.  Are you grateful for the gift of the internet, to be able to sit in our office and  explore the Mexican desert one moment and off to the caves of France the next.  Wow.  

There is such BEAUTY on this planet  and love, appreciation when we can step away from  all the fear, anger & hatred. With every 'new' shooting or running over humans with transportation, talks of nuclear missiles and missing woman I can feel a ball of anger build - 
​worse when I read of children being tortured in Canada - not somewhere "else", not California... a friend just reminded me  during our phone conversation - it's everywhere and at every level, look at religious society still who have women locked up now'.  

We turn our conversation to Birds.. and what we might do to help them because we are both at a loss at how to help humans.  

Yesterday, I admitted to another - I struggle with hatred, especially for people who are intentionally cruel to other humans who have not harmed them, children born to monsters  and are abused from the start..  angry - yes angry when we focus on things like punishing people over plants. When we  pay to help victims instead of  education to avoid  becoming victim.  He reminded me  `not to ignore it but NOT to focus on it.. focus instead on how to help any situation & sent me the best reminder this morning, hee hee hee

"In regards to your anger….a quote from master Yoda from Star Wars:

“Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.” 

He knows I am a fan of the little green being.

Peyote is a plant medicine which helps some overcome fears, understand concerns and help with enlightenment.  I've never tried Peyote and might never- (not fond of the vomiting part some experience) but it is another plant we should not be judging people over.  Plant.
Get over it and focus on what matters. 

I'm ready to consume some plant medicine, first  we had spinach, raspberry, pineapple, pear smoothies for breakfast, now some cannabis provided by my son grown with TLC.  
I believe the Universal message the plants want & have been trying to teach us since they were first discovered  is what we need to learn most:     

                                                                   I  Love  You.
Focus on that.

Made with TLC
Georgia
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What would Jesus do?  Really?  You have to ask?
Would he punish people over plants? Never.
Not for growing or selling.  
We turn each other into criminals. 

I was going to bed, I had a headache.. as I reached to turn off the desk lamp I looked at the 
black illustration board  empty & dark.  Picked up my pencil started to sketch, sat down... 3 hours later Jesus was on my desk in the garden.  ;)  
I felt better & then went to bed - headache free.  I've been wanting to paint Jesus but could not think of the proper...  stance, outfit, props - perhaps I was over thinking it.  
I have a tendency to do that.  Clearly, I was over thinking it!
The tattoo made me smile - the entire painting had me smiling.
Feeling good,  feeling God.

Do you think Jesus would choose a job in  a cubicle?  
His expression  said to me: Really?  lol
Jesus has quite the sense of humour, he understands we need it after all, the host of a game show is the president. He is not he only corrupt politician but he is sure the poster boy'. 
Hawaii - Oh my Gosh, I read of a woman who woke her daughter at the false alarm and her daughter LOST it and started to freak out crying & screaming.. THINK about that for a second. Imagine telling your child,  we are on EMERGENCY ALERT a nuclear bomb should be here in 10 minutes?  Holy.  

What would Jesus do?
​Maybe that false alarm was what many needed to realize what a reality it could very well be.
Focus on helping, healing & love...
that is what Jesus would do in my garden, on my desk & in my mind.  

​It's much better imagining him than it is wondering what Trump is up to now.

I'd like to take this opportunity to tell everyone, I love you.
I'm sorry if I've offended you, I hope you forgive me.  
I forgive you.

with TLC & THC
Georgia
xox

​Buddha needs to be painting a garden soon.. 

 Afternoon Delight.  Wow... I needed that.
This painting was waiting to emerge, more than I realized.
hee hee, I'd say that sky WAS a little boring ..before.
It started with one of my bigger brushes and I threw the paint on -  base color on a white canvas, sketching my bear with a brush instead of a pencil- "just paint!" I remember thinking.  The rest of the days were spent with much smaller brush - as small as a '0' most of the time.
As a matter of fact- it's how the fur was painted as well as the grass. TLC in every stroke.
THC too.   I'm learning to recognize my calmer moments (twitch-less) when I can work on more detailed areas like the face. I enjoyed painting this you have no idea & clarity in severals issues flowed to me like paint off my brush.
F*ck off.   LOL.  
Who needs this negative drama? Not me.  
Frig, Im tired- I think a lot lately- i just want to paint.
Focus on what you love Georgia..  enjoy your time doing what you enjoy most.. whispered my canvas.  

I am tired - I've been waking up every few hours for weeks, I went to the Dr. Monday and he felt what I also discovered recently, a big lump in my arm pit.  It's been causing me pain but I thought it was just stress from a few others things I was trying to sort out'.  Thursday I was already having a mammogram & ultrasound.  The mammogram was not bad at all, btw. 
I've felt worse.
Then I had the ultrasound and I could see what she could see and suddenly there was a big black ball. "Is THAT it??" I asked
...  "Yep, that's it."  
Yikes. That is... disturbing- seeing big black ball inside your body. 
It would take 5 days possibly with the long weekend for results I was told.
It was called already it is a very swollen Lymphnode which I will have to have checked again soon.  I'm told to relax, destress & enjoy. Ha! You don't have to tell me twice.
Before I got the FANTASTIC news I had already resolved that morning (after that great walk I had with my son) - I will rise above! I started my day with CoconutCream home made - bakery cake, fresh pineapple  (the bakery is in Newmarket - I highly recommend, as does Storm & now Norm) & coffee... then I got the call.  I'm Smiling!
YES I AM.  & know to keep on going the direction I am ..rise above with love.
Anger, hate, revenge- I've no time for. 

Who does? it's bad for the body, it's bad for your heart & mind. 
Not to mention -it makes it difficult for me to paint. ;) Truly - I was so tired that after I got the news I slept! lol ;) the body saying RELAX. I JUST finished this bear at 6 this a.m. 

I plan on doing just that. There is nothing like a serious cancer scare to help re align your life.  What matters? Hate begets hate. I can't paint if I feel hate, I physically can't & won't do it to myself.  Think about cancer seriously in your own body and you realize how trivial  so much of 'it' is.  
Thank You God.
I needed that.

Natural medicine is on my mind. The last Mapping of the Minds event educated me further and arrgavated me fruther- one more F*&^%$$$ lie it appears. Mushrooms are on the bottom of the list when it comes to dangerous 'drugs' (on the top was alcohol) or common recreational drugs... even after cannabis! I resent calling them drugs.  I had no idea.  Why are we being lied to? Why are people going to jail over such insanity!  
NATURE.
God put all plants here for all man- OUR CREATOR knew when these plants were placed here- they would HELP US.  *Mushroom are dangerous- IF YOU PICK the wrong ones YOU can die. KNOW your mushrooms- ALL of them. They are also healthy, beneficial and medicinal.  Bear is contemplating life,  Nature & Medicine.

I've included a Star mushroom- puffball', I met a very smart young man on one of our last forays with a cool name who educated me on them and where to find them.. the others are imagined or real- I'm not sure I've seen so many. My Bear Afternoon Delight is out and on my wall, Norm said "Wow, it's like 3D with those dots!" Storm too has commented on the detail several times.  I JUST want to PAINT it does the heart & art Good.

With it- thought, prayers and resolution- it always happens when I paint.
GIVE Thanks! I've already started another canvas! 
YOU know I'm (WE are ALL) celebrating this Thanks Giving!!

I'm still experiencing pain- I shall increase my medicine intake- amen.
& enjoy every second of it.

With Love 
​G
'Afternoon Delight' 
24 x 36 Acrylic on Canvas    Celebrating Natural medicine & Life.

Hashish to Ashes and Buds to Dust..    From the earth & back to the earth again.
This was said to me by my friend Sean ' I liked it.
Often I hear things from friends, simple remarks - bit of cannabis creativity!  
I do have friends in high places.. this is well known by now. My friend are intelligent, educated on cannabis and have much to say- if only people would listen.
My website starts at 13,ooo & usually gets to  to 28,ooo by the end of each week- more with negative drama-  BUT even more when I offer a FREE print out or show some new art on IG or FB- so that is what I'll focus on!  I have things to share'...   lessons I've learned.
My friend just learnt a lesson.

I'm having difficulty with the mail still - is this why?  ;(  There is no point going to the post office, as I never know where to start- who's end' is responsible.. I like to surprise people and send them gifts- originals in many case. I sent a painted turtle for example - to a turtle lover - but I know she did not get it or she would have thanked me ;( it was months ago. Now, I don't want to tell her because it will upset her.  

Before I left for California a friend kept calling me- "Did you get the art I sent you?"
I'll call him William', I like William- he's 'out there' in some ways and can be not the most 'approachable' guy... William KNOWS his stuff, especially about Canadian politicians and he is not afraid to contact them and call them on remarks they make.  I wish we all did.  
He said to me on our last phone call:
"Did you know the man Kathleen Wynn hired (he named him) to design our sex education program - a university professor - was a Diddler?"   A Diddler? It made me smile- I've not heard that since my grandma.  Apparently  he claims the fellow sexually abused women, encouraged others to tie up our daughters and etc and went to jail for it- BUT we never bothered to change the program. Is this true? 
Our sex education program designed by a sexual predator. wow.
I'd bet it is true, If I know William.. I've not bothered to research, yet.
Is it?

I sent William a gift- very special ART. He loved it and wanted to thank me.  He sent me a gift!  He sent me a painting - art he made when little- BUT William also included  some  (he thinks 'possibly some bud - he is like me  and can't remember) and some seeds.  

                        Williams package  to ME was seized by the
             POST OFFICE & POLICE. 

​He was worried and I left instruction to call me in CA if he was arrested and I'd be there! & I would have.  GEEZE people- FIRST let me say - as I said to WILLIAM before he sent me anything:
 PLEASE NEVER SEND ME ANYTHING THAT IS ILLEGAL! 
My mail has been f*cked with for years now I've blogged about it several times.
Worse after the letters to our homes stating we were medical cannabis patients (*thanks to that F*ck up Health Canada). This is for YOUR sake more than mine- because I don't send stuff in the mail - ONLY ART.
 I'm very thankful that you have wanted to share your home grown goodness, baked goods etc. with me- I feel loved but I would feel like shit if any of you got into trouble for wanting to show me some love.

My son looks after me, better than anyone would. ..  I'm good. ;)  
Anyway, sure enough he was contacted after trying to find out what happened to the package.  The police sent him letter telling him he was a very  bad boy. No charges were laid - more or less  a message "we got it and we are keeping an eye on you.'  I thanked him but reminded him- I told him long ago -  don't send anything.  How terrible though- how many drugs that kill are flying around the world via the post office right NOW,  yet, they took my friends art, and SEEDS  and will not return them to him. Why?  
Would they have killed me? NO
He was sending me a gift from his garden. FACT.
​Please, think of it that way - was because that is ALL it IS.  
               Gifts from the Garden.

Well done post office  &  police...
You stopped a 'mega criminal' in his tracks - what a joke, How much did that cost? Thousands, probably.  I wonder how many illegal drugs actually went through the same post office that day - capable of killing.  
So just so you know>>> It does happen and they are watching specific people.

​From the EARTH we came and from the Earth we will return, it would be nice if we were not persecuted for trying to be healthy & happy while here.
Hashish to Ashes.. Buds to Dust.

Keep Creative & KNOW your rights.
Georgia 

Strictly a bit on imaginative fun...  as summer comes to a close it has me strolling the garden glad the leaves have yet to change color. We are having an indian summer in Ontario 
today will be another balmy 75F..  thats a HOT 23C  for us. lol  I like telling Americans it's 23 today!  hee hee hee

There are many women growers in the industry.  Officially & un officially - I say this because anyone who know- and lives with a ' male grower - realizes they too become growers- know why?  It's hard work.  Women/wives/partners/friends help and learn along the way.   Women are also rising above and growing from the start and doing a fantastic job!  Ladies showing ladies some love. Cannabis is for all and can be grown and cared for by all.   Its a fact plants react.  They react to sound, touch and vibrations - a womans touch in the garden is NEEDED on all levels. Your plants will thank you for a women's presence & gentle touch.

Do I consider myself a 'female grower - no..
I understand the work, the process and have witnessed it many times over on several scales- I've got friends in high places  :)  I could not do it, it's too difficult for me- I know I've screwed up a few times. I cant' wait for all the seed to be planted next summer in gardens across Canada! Still if you want the best - you must go to someone who knows what they are doing- know  how- EXPERIENCE. 

When I say 'Rich Assholes' don't belong- I have nothing against 'rich- lol   It's the people who think just because they have $ they will take over- they have no knowledge or experience with the plants, no growing experience themselves, they do not care about people, patients  or the PLANTs.
GREED & $$$.  &  it will show.  Like the Canadian company now run by an American, the former creator of OXY.  What does it matter you ask?

It's all energy.   What energy do you want to surround you?
Which energy do you choose to support? Which energy goes into your body?
Compassion or greed?   I will say I'm sure there are good people  working for these companies who need jobs.  I wish them well  & success. 

I know others  very wealthy - are also opening LPs in Canada..  You have to be for an LP but  they ALSO have EXPERIENCE, they have been doing this all their lives, they care about the PLANT first and then people, they have true passion- this is who should be supported.   Male & female.  I heard Jodie Emery mention this in the cannabis commitee talks - and it's the truth. We need and want experience'. Americans now are trying to come up and open shop - all GREED?
Not only do they not care about the plant - they could care less about Canadians.
RESEARCH.. who ARE you getting your medicine from.
I watched an interview of some "Medical' dispensary in the states, when the owner of the co.  reaches for cannabis -  "Smell that? That smells like MONEY!"  he remarks.  Wow.  
That said it all.  There's  just one example...    
Smells like medicine, smells like nature healing, smells like life support, smells like life.
Smells like money?  Yuk.  

BUY Canadian, Support Canadians.  Encourage Canadian.
Keep our own economy GROWING. 
 
I've met a dog or two.. I wouldn't smoke thier medicine if you paid me- they are nasty and it makes me feel their medicine is probably nothing by pumped up junk- all about profit.
NO thanks.  This is my temple I smoke only the best grown with TLC & THC.
I know my cannabis  is grown with passion & love and it shows & feels fantastic.

Do you want to use something created in LOVE or GREED?
It matters.
You matter.

No go out to the garden & enjoy some healing herb... that's what I'm about to do... NOW.

Please continue to SOPPORT the smaller dispensaries if you are visiting one!
There is MORE than enough room in Canada for all businesses to try to succeed.
Those that are Professional,  provide quality medicine are cost efficient  & treat Canadians right, will do well.

With TLC & THC
G

Some  loving  bud tending happening in the garden.
I like playing with the 'Open Bud idea & light.

Who is loving this late Canadian summer weather besides this bear..  we are.
We have a new hammock stand  on wheels.. I move it so it follows the sun.
It's no beach in France.. that will wait.  :)  
Bird reminds me freedom is a state of mind.
Buddha too.

I have mail going out...  I was holding off on this terrible weather & I've a pkg. going to Florida,  I've been told it's now safe to send!  
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Amen.

Creatively 
g

xox
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Soon it will be my sons birthday!  He never wants anything - so I paint. lol
Storm is also the Foray Director with he MST and since he is, my knowledge of mushrooms has  grown increasingly the past few years!  As an artist- let me tell you there is hardly such a variety you can find in nature - like a MUSHROOM  Foray! 
Every shape, color, size & smell imaginable, gills, pores and brackets - found on the ground and high up on a tree - Want to paint an alien creature- FUNGI is it! This past week my favourite new find was a star shaped base of a puffball - it's got the star name in it somewhere. 
The mushrooms also wanted to offer a bit of wisdom as well-  some fungi fun:

-Start from the ground up!                       What better way to learn it all?
-Stay well rounded!              Try to get along with everyone and see other opinions.
-Be a Fungi!                                                               That's a given.
-Have Good Morels.              You can't go wrong when you know what way is right.
-Hang out with Friends.                    Socialize with like minded peeps & chill.
-Be Different!                                           Stand out in a crowd- be unique.
​-Love Mush!                                             Keep trying, love mush & love often.

3 days of TLC was spent painting this with my son in mind, actually with many little ones in mind. I think this would be a great poster for kids rooms. Educate & amuse and even teach which are edible - The MOREL! Nom nom...  
When I started this peice- I went on a Foray and was approached by someone who appreciates my art (seen on Instagram) and knows of my interest for mushrooms- and I have been invited to this years 9/20 event!!  Mapping the Mind with Mushrooms - we attended this event a few years ago and it was incredibly informative - You should go!  Mushrooms are being studied as medicine and more. Much like cannabis for centuries many have used mushrooms as  helping experiences, some use as end of life treatments because of the peace of mind that can sometimes accompany a psychedelic mushroom experience. I was particularly interested in the discussions regarding  mushrooms and "microdosing' which many are trying for depression & PTSD.  

I AM no expert! It is why I like to attend such events! - I still won't be an expert - hee hee but I will have more knowledge at the end of the day then when I start. 
I been told I could sell some original ART (perhaps even this piece)  I've acquired quite the mushrooms portfolio' - some pieces I do sell OFF of Instagram, people send me a message and ask- and sometimes I do part with originals.
My son will be at the www.mycognosis.com/40th-annual-mycological-society-toronto-2017-cain-foray/ 40th Cain Foray in Muskoka - I know it will be an amazing time! & I will be at the mushroom event in the city with my friends Abby and Justin. Abby is also an artist and will have some of her work with mine.  This piece is too big for my scanner - so I have to show you in parts - or come to the show and see it in 'realife and learn a thing or two! 

Creatively 
​g

Sunshine Leo! I started him then had to take a break....  then when I started again,  he took a direction of his own! That is a joy of painting , suddenly you forget where you are you're looking at the texture, the paint, nothing matters.. I do it for myself no one else.
It's de-stressing - without narcotics, have you been reading about this opiate epidemic.  
I don't even want to consider them, I feel it's a slippery slope and we will all eventually have to learn with some pain. Some much sooner than others.
We can have pain in our bodies - accept it-  and keep moving forward- keep being nice, keep trying.  Or we can have pain and be nasty, cruel.. this only turns your own pain into sickness faster.  The choice is ours. 

Science & medicine clearly are advancing. Stay hopeful... unless your intentionally nasty...
KARMA is advancing as well.  

I was thinking of my friend who is an artist & a business man Jerry Kelly.  He is nice. NICE is a good thing.  Like My friend Ezra! have you watched this feel good vid?  It makes me feel good. I watch it quite a bit.... about cannabis of course. Jerry is a family man with an incredibly talented little girl & wife! All in the glass business! Thats how it is to be in my opinion! Wow, imagine the passion in that home when it comes to glass.
Jerry is always busy & keeps moving forward.  The Kelly Glass Family.  How terrific is this?
​I do think  Jerry will be my next visit to the USA 

Jerry inspires me.  I'm happy to call him friend.
Purple -royal - business man and a huge  Tie Dye T  a touch of Jerry Garcia.  ;)
The Jerry in the field' Leo was created. ;) 
I still feel it needs something int he sky..  perhaps I'll add it - just so Jerry & his family can enjoy it. ;) Our little secret.

Thankful for creative, Inspiring, kind people.

I still have more leo's.. I'm getting better with each!
What NEW skill are you mastering?  
How about the carrot cake!? Have you tried it?
​Nom Nom Nom! 

Have Faith 
g

You know.. some might not appreciate my illustrations suitable for children in the cannabis garden of LOVE.  If you think I've not given this serious thought, especially in light of the upcoming ridiculous expectations surrounding the "advertising of cannabis IN California or Canada next year - OR rather LACK of what you will be permitted to do or NOT do - - I've given it much contemplation.   I've been made aware I'm considered controversial'  or 'Flaky' - for encouraging my child to use 'marijuana' -  Phhhhbt - judge away.  This is not something I ever take lightly.. painting my creatures in Cannabis fields. 

Cannabis is a Medicine.  Cannabis is a medicine that can and has and will continue to help seriously ill children and I will never stop drawing about it  - with Children in mind.  
It's my purpose.  I  care more about it than a medicine for adults, although it is my medicine as well - thank God.  GOOD LUCK in the near future -not letting a parent of a seriously ill child try cannabis- especially for pain like early childhood arthritis for example - when a parent  can prove  other medications will cause their child more harm than cannabis & TRUST ME -that is not hard to prove - try- research it - Dr.s will not be able to refuse them.  It will be inhumane.  I've lost sleep thinking of the damage medications do to little bodies, the desperation parents feel when they watch their babies suffer.
I remember, I refuse to forget. 

When Doctors (two teams of Dr.s - The Hospital for Sick Kids & The Shriners Hospital for Children in Montreal) told us our son would suffer terribly and probably would not make it to his 12th birthday- I started to PRAY to GOD.  I would do what ever I thought was expected. A promise I keep - always.  I never expected this...  yet here we are.  Gratefully.

I AM more determined than ever to try to educate so NOT ONE more parent will ever see their child suffer needlessly when Cannabis can help.  Had I known sooner - our son would have been eating medicated brownies as a toddler at bed time and yes I would have done what ever it took, even IF that meant going the illegal route, which i kinda did anyway..   Thank God. 
That was just over 10 years ago. No regrets. 

IF our government thinks they will not be assisting more children or will FEAR monger with cannabis and not allow any POSITIVE Cannabis advertising - instead of more lies - I'm going to make it personal mission to do the opposite, especially when I see that lovely FRIGGING glossy L.C.B.O magazine come delivered to MY DOOR, Booze promotion - glorification  (proven deadly) - in our local newspaper- but not life saving medicine awareness - no photos of Plants? Phhhhbbbt.  

          THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST NEWS I'VE READ IN A LONG TIME:
         link>>> THE DEA in it's newest OFFICIAL report states - 'ADMITs:
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          READ it yourself- FINALLY. NO ONE HAS EVER DIED from  CANNABIS.
Proof, they have been lying for many - too many years - and how many lives do they continue to destroy  still  with arrests for something less harmful than alcohol.. -less harmful than hotdogs.  Let that sink in.    Please.
​
 ZERO DEATHS in history... 
Can you say the same for other medications suggested for Children - where cannabis is now proven to HELP?
No.

DEMAND.

One person can make a difference.
I'll continue to draw any & every way I  think might help bring awareness & education & pray instead.  It's my purpose & passion - lucky me.

Creatively Yours
g
xox
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I had lunch with some girlfriends recently and as aways the topics were interesting to say the least, one of them is raising Monarch Butterflies! She noticed something was eating the butterfly eggs - I think she said she has 14...   old school, in a bin in her living room  - she's determined to contribute to helping the disappearing monarch!  How cool is that.

One person - making a difference in the butterfly world.

I admire her for it.
I am grateful to her for it. I'd not seen a monarch - but since her visit I've seen 3!
Feeling a bit blessed with each sighting.
Thankful for the simple gifts we are provided.. when we take time to see.

What small positive contribution are you making to the human world?
I'm working on a new canvas..
Big, bold night sky and  bear giving it all up to God.  ;)
Sounds good already.

with Love
g

Wait until you see some of my new cannabis art.
...