It's Raining and with rain come mushrooms!
Todays warm up is an accidental octopus mycologist. 
Octopus are a great mental workout for me & challenge as I like to include all 8 legs.
Warm up the brain, the hands and the gouache paint.

I can't even begin to explain how I feel about the most recent school shooting in the USA
it's as if 'it's no big news thing' any longer. Expected even.  

Next weekend is the LIFT expo in Toronto, I've been contacted by a few to see if I'm attending so 'I might.  It's always a wonderful opportunity to see a few faces I don't regularly get to see... a friend mentioned  some 'activists'  are saying  'if you attend you're considered a traitor' which made me LOL  - Traitor?  Staying educated  is more the direction I was going.  Cannabis will be legal very soon and many large LPS will be opening their doors. - it's part of the process...  isn't this what everyone wanted only 10, 5 years ago. Legalization. Will you enter one of the gov. pot shops? I will to SEE. BUT not to buy.  I'll stick with my current grower - he is producing superior product.  What will happen if someone wants to return product?  My friend said he's going to buy it'  just to return it. hee hee hee.

I have had a 'bad bottle' of wine before... I have friends who wok at he LCBO and they told me people return wine.. that tastes off'. How will they handle this? I think it's sad we won't get to experience Cannabis as I did in California for example..  we won't get to see  it up close or smell from my understanding-  time will tell and it won't be long NOW.
Many will buy from them - just out of novelty.   Interesting times for sure!

It is a long weekend here in Ontario & it's overcast, drizzle and cool- who cares it's just nice to get out and putter.  Time to get out in the garden, plant & paint.

With TLC & THC
Georgia
​

​Creatively 
g

You should see this beast in real life.. 15 inches of green goodness!!
Where does he begin? Bong or blunt? Roll me another you handy fellow!
8 legs, count em - all busy .

He will hang in my office for a while...   until the next octopus emerges and I've already one on my mind.

He was very enjoyable, lost in legs was I.
I think he might make a fun postcard what do you think?

With Love
g
<><
​

This octopus is a work in progress- just like me. Us. 
His tangled legs force me to focus as they twist and get lost in each other..
You will like him- He is very cannabis friendly.

 I've discovered,  I paint octopus when I'm dealing with something I really need to process.

On my mind..   California.  
I KNOW why I was to go.  A test to myself. 
Sitting on the beach, long walks with Poppy & a lot of alone time.
Painting time. I felt physically better. It was not just the weather. 
It was many things, I didn't do much or  go many places.  My friend was a vegetarian so in many cases that's what I had also & have to say I've not had meat since. Really! I've no desire for it.  As you might imagine I'm cooking without it - so all around everyone is eating less meat or they don't eat- or get takeout.  Not my problem.  Less Pig  for sure.
I'm looking after myself  and cook what I feel is best for this bod & mind. 
I am not saying I won't eat meat again, I will saver the experience' and not just eat it to eat it
-  a beast had to die for it.
 
A new CALM appears to have kicked in..  thank you California.
I'm giving all I have to think about to what I do want.  Calm, Love, Peace.
​I know exactly what I need.  I've thought about it for  years.
Bring it on!   I work for it...   isn't anything worth having even better if you work for it?

                  My body is a temple.. not suitable for poison in any form.
                                               Plant, animal, chemical or human.  

Since home & medicating properly I'm noticing a huge improvement again back to focusing and painting. I have had much time to process my  California experience.  It appears my friend I visited is no longer communicating with me.. he was disappointed and verbally expressed this to me a couple of days after my arrival - it wasn't going as he expected.  Too bad. Even though honourable intentions were expressed before the vacation things changed, so did the dynamics of my vacation- but this was o.k.- it forced me and Poppy to have a lot of alone time - thinking and crab watching.
I was upset at the time but later I laughed with Storm and said "what can I say -Your  Mama is just too damn desirable!!"  

Boundaries were made clear before I even left. It went as I expected. I had no misconceptions of what my vacation was going to be - a vacation.  Cest la vie- I've made several attempts to continue our friendship.  Do I feel bad - no.   I've done nothing wrong.  I'm not making any apologies for others behaviours any longer.
It's sad though.. a friend lost- why- a hurt EGO.  Men.  
Arrrrrgh. What ever, I walk away - held held HIGH. 

My body is a temple, I have no intentions/need of  being  'intimate' just for the sake of a F*ck.  At the age of 53 - it's nice to be strong enough not to cave to OTHERS desires if I'm not feeling them myself.  How many times do women in particular do this?  Too many.
​
The dogs missed me & Bird had me concerned... he really missed me.  
Next vacation I might smuggle him with me!  lol  Joking. 
Next vacation - I am going  alone... I made up my mind.
Not one single  thing to worry about but me... up in the mountains on a peaceful county side.  

From this day forward Everything  that goes into this body will be deserving.
Just as I AM.  

What will you place in your body today?  Is it good For YOU? Mentally & physically?
Will it nourish or just fill you up with junk that will only make you ill in the long run.
Think about it - with every nibble.


With Love
​g

​Back to this tangled green Cananbis love.