Turn off the lights so you can see the stars shine!  It's 'dark week' and the idea is your turn off the lights in the evening so we can all see the stars more clearly!! It also helps with bird migration - although  birds still fly into  buildings for several reasons - city lights only confuse birds,  it's one if the reasons those giant lights were banned - like that light to search for batman - remember them?  I live outside of the city in the suburbs so I do see the stars a little brighter most nights especially  in the summer... I can walk to a field and they seem even brighter - if you have the opportunity to travel up north with even less humans the nigh sky is even more spectacular.   Who better to see it than a Chimp in space. Have you seen Rocket man? It's a good movie to watch with kids...  Harland & I went to Sheridan at the same time - he is a funny man.

I was watching Gaia yesterday  I really like Regina Meredith - if I could choose my woman friends- she would be one - I watched an old episode yesterday and I bet this guy is feeling mighty good about his little Facebook clip he made- it has turned out to become 100% accurate. Watch and see.  Jon   ​ on Secret SocietiesOpen Minds  from an episode in 2012.
Gaia is my favourite to listen & watch  as I paint.

Did I get you thinking about women being C*nts yesterday- good- because the truth is- some of these women - you should be most grateful for  - they teach us the best. I'm serious, 
and the things is.. I think these women have become Supreme bitches (meant in a positive light ) for a reason...  Experience.  There is a fantastic show on netflix - I highly recommend for women in particular- although Storm has found it equally as fascinating:  

                         The Ascent of Woman.         What an eye opener..
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Many women in history portrayed as evil witches & bitches were no more than excuses to exterminate and degrade the other 1/2 of the planet. Do you know 80% of the witch trials- were women- legal ways to murder women, they even wrote a pamphlet to help easily expose such vial women.  Who was usually the first to hang? Outspoken, smart and  courageous women- healers- women who could help with herbs - teachers, educators... let's not forget if a husband wanted a new wife-  all he has to do was inform others  his wife was a witch, problem solved.

The thing is, I have young women friends- and they need to understand the struggles they have - I've had and continue to do so, struggles with others opinions, jealousy & competitiveness - even if YOU are not competitive- most others are.. this  'We all should get along'- is BULLSHIT-  it's just not how it is... we are not here to all get along - we are all here to teach each other.
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Not everyone is going to like us- the sooner we understand and accept the sooner you learn to say: Phhhhhhhbt.   If everyone liked me - life would be  boring...  Do I 'hate' any of these women - no.  I admire them in the sense they keep going after what they want - an usually succeed.  Many display traits men have and are admired for, look into every 'nasty' woman and theres a bit of a story on how she became that way.. there are far more - staggering differences between the amounts  alone of 'evil men compared to 'evil women.  I know a few women I consider 'Tuff'  - C*nts even..  they come by it honestly & have some of my respect - even if I do not "like them".    

Facebook already makes it appear - life is 'honkey dorey'- only share the good.. all appear to play nicely - it's just an act. We don't - it's not real life - so learn... BE real with your kids- teach them about the good the bad and the ugly-  Ugly on the inside - I see no "Ugly' humans" only ugly intentions.  Each time I feel I've been HURT' - it's an opportunity to think, reflect and decide - how will I react? Make no mistakes- why let people away with crap, if you do they have a tendency to repeat- if your going to treat me poorly I will give the 'Heads up' to others-   I heard  a podcast -a woman shared - another woman said to her "I'd stay away from him if i were you" but the one woman thought the other was just being a jealous bitch and ignored the warning- only to be brutally raped by the person the other had warned about..   We have to listen to each other - even if we don't like each other.
We should protect each other- even IF we don't "like" each other.  
I share in hopes some might be educated- not feel so alone and  might even avoid some of the same  not so pleasant life experiences.
I'm not proud of my first reactions in many cases - but I am proud- in time - once I have time to think and process - I usually conclude  - how can we hate anyone who is just trying to do the best they think they can?  How can I hate anyone I don't KNOW.  
I can't.

Thank them! Thank them for the lesson- You know who you are- you beautiful bitches-  Calculating C*nts!...  lol    Thank you!
You teach me who I do not want to be and what I would like to aspire to instead, you are some of my greatest teachers.

Still cold, ice & snow.. good day to paint!  

With TLC & THC
Georgia

Don't teach them to post nasty remarks on strangers pages... I read how young girls are becoming meaner at younger ages - in nursery school.  Where the heck do you think they learn it?  Are they listening to mean moms? Watching mean moms sitting beside mom - watching some HorribleHousewife show?  In nursery school?!
Why would anyone watch these  shows where women backstab, fight, argue, alienate other women? Who wants to aspire to this?  What do you take away from that sort of TV? 
Mean baby girls learn from BIG mean Girls.    
I know when I pay attention to mean women, I can start to feel a little mean myself...
I'd rather paint.  

Mean girls/women don't have to say anything- some are incredibly manipulative - they  do it other ways..  I know a few, we all do.  I just listened to a pod cast- the 'new thing' is  to 'alienate people online' - TRY to embarrass them on social media -  try to remember it all stems from fear, hate & jealousy.  
This morning I was reminded how serious it all can be when I read this story:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/jeremy-quaile-knightley-dog-death-calgary-1.4602948   It's sad all around.. there is a common demonator- ALCOHOL. 

Trolls alienate with little words here and there, spread hate & lies...  just like in grade school - if you don't belong to their 'little Clique', follow their rules, kiss their ass =  you are worthless - little spoiled brats turn into middle school bitches who grow up to be first class c*nts.    Everyone talks about 'how bad men are' - women can be equals in every way.

Imagine how hard it is for little girls NOW...  as much as I as 'an adult' try to ignore and keep positive....  stuff still gets to me sometimes.  It hurts at ANY age.    Men & women.
What do you do?   Start to agree with what you don't agree with?  Feel sorry for yourself?  Hash it out with them on Facebook- for many to watch with few understanding.  
Teach your little girls:
Turn off  the petty bullshit &  turn in and turn on your talents!   

When they can't hurt them with words they try to alienate &  'Black list' ... Brendan Frazer experienced the same ordeal,  first sexually abused then black listed. I HOPE more men talk about #metoo.  A tag team black listed me - an American & Canadian - 2 Cannabis (self proclaimed) Queens.   At first I was confused & hurt.. why?   Now..   who cares?  Phhhbbt.  Frankly after watching  these women the past 7 years & hearing from many about their behind the scenes antics - they are the last people I would want to socialize with or be associated with in real life.  I see them no longer as they represent themselves to others -  NOW, I see them how they truly appear & have presented themselves to me.

DELETE negative comments on your social media page. DELET/BLOCK nasty people.
I don't get many negative comments thankfully,  but I've seen many on friends pages- from strangers who don't even know them. Delete them. Quick, press a button gone. Just like they should be - why give them any satisfaction of spreading anger & hate with nothing better to do in this life - they are truly the saddest & angriest. 

Please take the time to comment something truly positive & nice today on social media,
I look for other artist - I know a little encouragement goes a long way. It's easy.
Focus on your gift  & keep improving, be in your bliss, enjoy your day.
Let nasty continue to Focus on nasty=  mean gets nastier, uglier,  two in particular have gone down hill the past few years...  who do they have to blame? Themselves.
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I don't know how I would handle  if I had a little girl who related feeling like this so early - I would teller to get use to it because it'g going to happen to her, her entire life & then I'd teach her to paint or garden, sew...

I'm painting some POSITIVE, beautiful women- women who raise up and encourage on this planet - who help each other & help the planet. Actually, today I'm painting a monkey in space - to promote  DARK week.  :) 

I just found out this amazing  ICON, this incredible woman is in Toronto - 'sold out'.. I wish I could see her so much.. instead I'll  honour & thank her with a painting.

You are created to create!
Let the haters hate.

With TLC & THC
Georgia

Weeeeee!   Who's excited about all the Gnome Grown Goodness coming to Canada this summer??  Me! Know why??      ...Because more people will get high!  
No, actually that is not the first reason for my excitement - it is because more people will Grow this Plant!  Some will grow one in a planted for the patio- just for fun & why not?
Geez - Calling all gardeners!!!  I know.. I've seen it grow and it is awesome- you know that feeling when you walk out in the morning sunshine and look at those tomatoes on the vine- - this is the same  and just and LOVELY- Oh and guess what - Birders!!!
HUMMING birds love it! Yeeeeee! Back to nature I'll be with this 'plant' and then - THEN 
The sigma will end.  The truth will be come common and cannabis will be added to salads and juiced too! Just like every God given herb on this planet- only this one will cost you.
So be it- if you wan the Variety- yes - I have been blessed - I have tried Cannabis from all around the world even  a few cannabis cup winners', above all else I am surrounded in this life by talented, passionate, hard working - GARDENERS.    

Me 53, cartooning Canadian - just like you in many ways.. not some swinging of the chandelier- running naked thought the snowy fields HIGH  ?  ALL this silliness will be put to an end.  

About the bat wielding lawyer... (still grindingly gears)  It's not that I don't have compassion for mental illness- ha- you know I do. I struggle with it myself  - who does not?  Really - maybe not now but usually everyone struggles for some reason or another at some point  during their lifetime.  Even after considered the bat kneecap thought- too many godfather movies growing up..  only days (hee hee - not hours) later, did I start to feel worse - worse because 'I' let 'some others' bad behaviour get to ME.. we all do. How many  take a bat & walk up to strangers and start to beat?  Cannabis or NOT - this person absolutely has a problem - more serious than cannabis - and now it's all anyone focuses on - THAT is the problem.    This judge has set the stage for a can of worms  - it's obvious.

So yes, I am truly excited for the 'normalization' of cannabis & I do not feel it will 'harm' the 'industry' in any way at all - if anything people will try home grown and then wish to explore with more. We can't grow in' the winter as easily here..  I doubt very many people will have elaborate home grows - not when they realize the amount of work and other costs.

Are you going to try to grow?  
Storm snapped the photo below of me the other day- this is a real plant.
It smells fruity, is lush - as big as my arm..  was so sticky , when he remove did my eyelashes and lips were stuck together.  Storm is passionate & has worked very hard to grow quality medicine (a decade already) especially now, he sees what's going on here, he understands how difficult this can be some days as well as his own  issues, tell me why I should NOT be proud -  MY son GROWS me/us the best medicine he possibly can..
​If you find any fault in the above  sentence in anyway, the problem is with you.
​Everything for a reason.. I've no doubts God has him on his path to do exactly what he does.

Michelle Rainey wanted Change... can you see her smiling?   I can.

It is a plant, it makes most of the world for a few centuries (at least)  feel good, intoxicated.. relaxed, happy, elated, enjoyable, rested... for ANYONE who has never tied- take it slow- no hurry.. it won't be going anywhere - if you think it might cause you to pick up a bat and go beat someone  -  seek professional help.     Here we grow....  

Have a good weekend! Some sunshine would be nice. 

With THC & TLC
​Georgia

April 2nd and today I'm thinking ahead- June as a matter of fact.
In my search to own the perfect mushroom calendar (and not finding one) I have created one! 2019 will be a year for Magnificent Mushrooms!  
As you are aware - I love mushrooms  - eat, medicate and research!
& I happen to 'love' the current Foray Director of the MST .. hee hee hee  
It was when we started to attend Forays began my Amour Adventure'  (practicing for France) with fungi seeing the living bodies - all different, colorful, alien in appearance, frightening when understand a tiny nibble of one type can kill you  yet the thought of the enoki in my fridge frying has me drooling..  I flip through my sons magazines and books and   easily become fascinated - Have you seen Blood Tooth Fungi?  I can guarantee you if walking in the woods and you spied it out of the corner of your eye- you would walk over and bend down and think "Is that alive? Is that dead?  Is that Blood? Is it alien!?"  lol
If you had no clue that it was just  one of the countless captivating samples of mushroom strangeness' out there, that is.

Then I realized... I Love painting mushroom (almost as much as cannanbis) and just LOOKING at them, to paint you have to study - the more I study the more I want to see - taaaaadaaaaa  my calendar is being created.  :)  I have shown very few, but it is a definite hit!  Each illustration has taken me 2 days for not very large originals.  First, I  choose the month (face down) the mushroom found me...   : )   Set up each page and I really weighed IF I should use 'type font or paint the actually Month and numbers - Freehand was the final decision.. 

None of us is perfect - yet each one was created perfect in Gods  Endless Universe!
My numbers are  perfect -  as they are only enhanced by the nature of their surroundings.

:) Thank you, Fungi Friends.
I woke today and could not wait to sit here.. after bird duty *please WELCOME back some of our Feathered Friends!  I have chosen the name for the calendar-  presented when complete... still a few steps, printing, packaging  & off they go.  200.
One on my wall in my office, Storm has asked ordered one - 199, 198, 197...

If you are interested- I highly recommend you stay tooned, I'm working and several different projects and will share them here when ready.
I can't wait to finish JUNE! Storm took one look this a.m. and went:  
"Whhaaaaattt?! Your adding one of them? Wow...." 
:) I love the Foray Director.  hee hee hee

BYT- I cheated with decorating the cake (below) - much my amusement it made everyone laugh and He really looked  cute.  The message he was sending was  "I love you, This Much!"
Is there any other message needed?

Happy Easter Monday, just thinking about Jesus calms my  heart & mind.
He restores my soul.

With TLC & THC 
Georgia 

As I read, I truly thank God I am not someone relying on cannabis advertising work in order to survive.  To all the creative beings - keep going! Times will change.. very soon.

In a few months when everyone realizes how harmful prescribed medications are for our children,  knowing we have been misled - lied to- by those in power - by people we trust, people we have elected..  yet Cananbis has again been represented as a 'deadly drug' needing the strictest of rules - WHAT ABOUT ALCOHOL?  Take a look at booze today.  NOW.

Hypocrites. 
Do you think  they will care how you decorate your cannabis plant medicine packages?   Here Canadians are still being FORCED to continue the  negative STIGMA
(incorrect)  by associating  cannabis to the same regulations as Cancer Proven killing  cigarettes -   It  will be the least of their concerns... there is going to come a time when politicians will be held accountable.  

Packaging in  cannabis in Canada..   for now.
http://business.financialpost.com/cannabis/health-canada-unveils-strict-rules-surrounding-pot-packaging-small-cannabis-growers
​Pay attention, why give any reasons for arrest so early in the "learning period".
I hope some challenge this 'lack of advertising" right off the start - someone big like Tweed!  
Because big or small this is just bullshit.

All this being said  this logo (below) I understand, like and is well achieved.
It's clean and to the point :     Stop.. there is THC in this product. Be warned.
& with the leaf! Bonus.
Well done.

I'm sure this doesn't mean your 'Store'- business can't be creative! 
Just keep product packaging simple...  for now.
I don't know anyone in the industry who wants 'to give cananbis to kids'.. they want to offer a superior product to adults - which helps many even 'feel better' .   Without a hangover...

Parents- educate your children before ANYONE else does.
Drugs are not encouraged for children unless they are ill..  
Drugs are not encourages for all adults.  

​It should be about an educated choice. 

Exciting times for sure.

G - I'm back to an exciting peaceful painting....

Did you hear? A self driving car has taken it's first 'official victim' in Arizona. 
Hmmmmmmm...   perhpas we need  not  be so    "self serving.. so soon.

I looked up & realized I have forgotten to share  Kermit & Mrs. Piggy!!!
I say 'looked up' because it hangs above my desk & every time I look into Kermit's  face - his smile- I smile back or Mrs Piggy's look of complete contentment..  entertains me.
Ahhh.. when was the last time you felt like this?  
I can't remember... no wonder I paint.  lol

Embrace.
This painting was simply inspired by that glass rose you see covering Mrs.Piggy's nipple, it was sitting on my desk and I liked to pick it up and hold it - Jerry Kelly - who also made my Laughing Buddha made the rose. Amazing these 'glass masters'  and the art they accomplish.   The glass talent you see on Instagram is stunning - so many hard working & creative beings.    

She is a classy Pig, I don't think she wants the nipple displayed, besides it's nice to leave something to the imagination sometimes...
Jerry has also created the Muppets in Glass, I've been a Kermit fan for as long as I can remember I'm not sure if he has completed Mrs Piggy but I know he's made a few- like Animal!  ;D 

That green soothing voice we heard every morning as kids, always so loving, kind & positive
 (I wonder if we could choose 'Alexa to sound like Kermit- how would that be? Hee Hee) Thank you Jim Henson, it NOW hangs above my desk framed perfectly by Kat- who even made sure she chose a green suede matt -lol,  and roses in the frame itself.   It's the perfect 'boudoir for these two with a guild gold 'bed frame. Let your imagination fun free - this is about as wild as these two 'did get' in my imagination.  Thankfully.

Life is a bed of roses... watch out for the pricks/thorns.  
​If you find your 'Kermie' hold tight.... you don't find gold green like that every day.

With TLC & THC 
Georgia  & Jerry  ;) For the inspiring rose.  
& Jim Henson for the inspiriting love.. & Kat for the fantastic framing. 

 I'm full blown Easter mindset - Spring excitement? Possibly.
This was very enjoyable to paint, incredibly relaxing, each tiny brushstroke representing a word in a prayer.   It took 2 days. 
The wise bunny paints the realistic universe on each egg as the imagined 'painted sky' swirls above.  Covered with tiny dots of gold detail this bunny sparkles  above my desk at least until Easter has passed.  Now I've got 'chicks' on my mind.  

With TLC & THC
Georgia
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By the way I was gifted the  loveliest pencils to draw with - no excuses!
3 boxes, erasers & sharpener!  
​Time to Get busy.      

Books find me.  Want to read a new book... there only a million to choose from, by the time you find one after reading through all the selections - so I let books find me.
People gift me books so theres no lack of any selection. Usually there are 3 books (at least) 'on the Go'  - Fact, Fiction and Inspirational. 

This last book I watched Oprah mention on isntagram and I had just been thinking, Im ready for a new book. Talk about a book finding me.  I knew only what Oprah said, not one thing more- I asked to have it picked up that day from Costco.  If not having to break for painting, dogs, dinner - the book would have been completed in a weekend I enjoyed it that much.  Not only is the main character an artist- she makes dolls her name is Celestial but her husband calls her Georgia. Roy starts letter to celestial- asking 'can I still call you Georgia?'.  

It was an awakening. I know about incarceration in the USA and how unfair it is to black Americans,  I've read statistics but this book  helped me understand on a completely different level.  Filled with emotion, it's about determination and the promise of love and marriage, An American Marriage - it all sound like it's 'too familiar'  - and it is for these people intros book.  Here sits a white middle class woman who will never experience what they have., yet each taught me what it is like.  It is wrong, to have to life your life with the constant 'fear  your life could change in an instant- many lives effected and for what- wrongful imprisonment because of the color of ones  skin.  Will this ever change?
I hope so.

I found myself constantly thinking what's she going to do now?
I'm grateful for the new perspective - it found me.  How it ends, how she feels are exactly how I'm feeling at this stage.   I would recommend this book and I will look into others by the author Tayari Jones, the book flowed effortlessly. I also am a snail mail fan - so  I loved the idea most of the book is in form of letters.

Reminded of another Georgia (Willie started singing Georgia as I typed this blog) who is strong & full of love and determined to do the best she can.   Amen.
Her faith in God. Perfect.

My name has been mentioned in books, movies and documentaries so much recently- and in very meaningful ways- it made me actually feel slightly 'weirded out'... 
I asked God: Are you trying to tell me something?  Am I dying?  

Nope.

Not yet.  I just renewed my www for 2 more years!    lol
READ! Explore, learn about love & marriage & being black in America.

with TLC & THC
Georgia


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A Unicorn! ha ha ha - I am not fond of unicorns!  This unicorn craze- I don't get it as much as I do the mermaid.  Horse craze yep.. but unicorns?  A horse with a horn. 
I have a head cold, just started.. but rather than sloth around  I still wanted to paint but with a headache - it's bit more of a chore.  A blank sheet sat before me and then this unicorn appeared so I just kept going.  I find it rather amusing and of course I ended the painting by having my Unicorn exclaim "Fuck Yes!"
If your going to Believe in Unicorns then OWN it! Right? 

It's back to bed for me- its only 9.a.m.   this will be my day.
I have a new painting on my desk - I enjoyed painting Jesus in the garden so  I am doing it again.

Some might notice, I've been quiet on what's happening with cannabis in Canada -  we are reading it might not be July 1st, so what - it will be soon enough after - STOP feeding into the hype,  there's no stopping the legalization train now! Promises have been made more importantly (sadly) money is being invested. I'm not about to contribute to any fear mongering  with saying 'it might not happen'- because IT will... as for growing - that too is a HUMAN right.  Choice.  
I am paying attention, reading of all the mergers' - some I've been disappointed, some not shocked at all, some I see  & know it is only about money... It makes me feel drained for lack of a better word... no wonder I'm painting Jesus in the garden.

I have questions - I'm sure many do, stuff that  runs around my mind about these 'mega giant grows' especially in places like Arizona & California, New Mexico,  is anyone asking 'Where will they get their water for all theses giant cannabis grows?  I've been to California- it was DRY, Hmmm   IS anyone aware of Cape Town Africa? & what is happening RIGHT NOW?!   How will they water these plants- as a Canadian- It DOES worry me.  
It should worry you... your children & your childrens children will not see cannabis as important as WATER.  It does not take a genius or scientist to figure this out- read & educate yourself. 

I have some shatter'  Storm provided - it is pretty- it looks like tiny golden diamonds- I'll think of it as Unicorn dust ;)  I need my own 'dabbing Rig' I guess I'll search online today. It's helping me get though this cold a little easier - especially with the headache.  I'm thankful for natures medicine provided by my own son- as the Unicorn would say:
Fuck Yes! 

Shatter is a type of cannabis concentrate, shatter specifically refers to a texture of concentrate that breaks and shatters like glass, rather than pulling like taffy. It is created by extracting the cannabinoids, terpenes, and other chemical compounds found in the cannabis plant usually from dried cannabis.

With TLC & THC
Back to Jesus in the garden & the last valentine DIY card - & GIFT DIY.
Check back soon!
Georgia

Give thanks today for  something REALLY important- Water, with every sip- think:
​Thank You.

The Moon! It's going to be red, I hope to catch a glimpse
it was difficult painting this moon- I guess because it's red.
The moon & I are friends, the moon comforts me.
The moon can help me achieve instant PEACE simply by glancing at it. 
Does this apply to you too?

The moon effects - nothing - according to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_effect

​What do you think?
Look at it! Glance at it's big, bold, blue, blood beauty. Say it 10 times fast!  :D
It's magnificent, free to all who want to view (clouds permitting) a wonderful opportunity to introduce your children to the moon..  

Bears in the moonlight.

With LTC & THC (of course)
​Georgia

​Remember to try & check out the moon.