What It Takes to Stay I’ve been thinking lately about how there is a lot of interest in “finding” in our culture: finding the right mate, finding the right job, finding the right pair of shoes. There are endless articles, techniques, and ideas about how to find that right thing. Much less attention is paid to staying, how to sustain the goodness of what you’ve found. Staying with lots of resentments, with the feeling that you’ve settled, with a litany of complaints…all of that is easy, and it’s common. Staying with continued feelings of gratitude and joy, navigating challenges in a way that creates even more love for what you’ve chosen; that takes serious strength and skill. Don’t get me wrong—I’m not an absolutist about staying. Here’s what I think it takes to stay with a good relationship—whether that relationship is with a workplace, a friend, or a life partner: 1. 2. Some days you are going to be dancing over moonbeams with joy about your relationship. 3. 4. 5. 6. Photo by Sean McGrath
The Top 8 Free Online Image Editors Taking photos or making beautiful digital artwork is activities most people enjoy doing. Most people have heard of, and might be familiar with, Adobe Photoshop. It’s arguably the most popular image manipulation app around, especially for professionals. However, most people’s image editing needs would be met by apps available right in their browser. While you won’t have the extensive capabilities Photoshop has, this list of the top eight image editing web apps will likely offer more features than necessary for most people in most instances. 1. Photoshop.com Photoshop.com is the lightweight version of the behemoth desktop app, Photoshop. Requirements: Flash 10+Developer: Adobe 2. Splashup Splashup is quite similar to Photoshop in respect to its interface, while offering a strong selection of tools and a few more than basic image editing capabilities. Requirements: FlashDeveloper: Faux Labs 3. Aviary Aviary offers everything from image editing to vector and audio editing. 4. picnik Picnik flauntR
The Age of Innocence You are visiting www.rawfoodinfo.com A kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they drew. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's artwork. The teacher paused and said, "but no one knows what God looks like." Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing the girl replied, "They will in a minute." An honest 7-year-old admitted calmly to her parents that Billy Brown had kissed her after class. "How did that happen? "It wasn't easy," admitted the young lady, "but three girls helped me catch him." A 3-year-old went with his dad to see a litter of kittens. "How did you know?" "Daddy picked them up and looked underneath," he replied. The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say: "There's Jennifer; she's a lawyer, or that's Michael; he's a doctor." Back to Articles/A Little Humor. . .
31 Days Of Nail Polish Ideas, Courtesy Of Beauty Blogger The Nailasaurus: Girls in the Beauty Department: Beauty Today marks the completion of beauty blogger The Nailasaurus's "31 day challenge", which leaves us with a host of fab nail polish ideas to draw from for the rest of the season. Come check out some of our favorites from her just-for-fun beauty series. Along with some other chic bloggers, Sammy from The Nailasaurus challenged herself to come up with a new manicure idea, every day for 31 days. She created a preset list which started out kind of basic ("Day 6: Violet Nails") and gradually became more complex ("Day 27: Inspired by Artwork"). Here's a peek at nail polish ideas 1 through 20, which shows the progression, And here's my favorite from the 31 day challenge. Sammy used W7 (a British nail polish brand) in black and finished with GOSH topcoat, placing the gold bullion on each nail before it dried. Are in love with this nail polish idea like I am? Be sure to check out all 31 ideas on The Nailasaurus and tell us which one you're dying to recreate! Photos: Courtesy of The Nailasaurus
What music is by *miaboas on deviantART Flame Painter | free online paint program Flame Painter Gallery Flame Painter is a unique paint program, it belongs to my 'I am an Artist' experimental project. I think with tools which inspires you, everyone can be an artist. Tools: Click here for Flame Help in German . COLOR - brush color SATURATION - brush saturation OPACITY - brush opacity C - color cycling [ on | off ] P - color per pixel [ on | off ] FADE - fade in/out [ on | off ] SIZE - brush size SOFT - brush softness CENTER - global forces FOCUS - local forces CHAOS - very chaotic parameter NOISE - crazy noise parameter ERASER - eraser tool SAVE - opens painting in a new popup window for saving (press Right Button > Save Picture As...) Keyboard Shortcuts: [ spacebar ] - clear screen [ Z ] - undo / redo last step Flame Painter Online License Agreement: Flame Painter Online is a free application, which can be used for personal, non-commercial or non-profit activities. Save Picture: Saving pictures takes a while, depends on internet speed. Troubleshoot Help: 2CheckOut.com Inc.
Vintage Weight Gain Ads Image 6 scanned by Jacque Nodell (Sequential Crush) Scholarships - Talent Showcase Wanna see the type of talent you're up against? Click the thumbnails below to view some of the best entries from previous talent showcase scholarships! Video: Meth: NotEven OncePainting: In My Skin Video: Cake ArtDrawing: Squirt Music Vid:YatzvitablePainting: 4 Styles Complete the entry form to the right and post your most creative works to the "Media" section of your Zinch profile.