Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...

https://beherenownetwork.com/be-here-now/

and Then he wrote a Dozen MORE Books and Gave Many Lectures... ALL WORTHY... I Especially Love "Still Here" because I'm 67 Years Old and The Question of My Own Death is Important To Me... Now... 

https://www.amazon.com/Still-Here-Embracing-Aging-Changing/dp/1573228710

It's Important to remember that Kermit Michael Riggs Taught Dr. Richard Alpert to BE HERE NOW. He was a Laguna Beach, CA Surfer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavan_Das_(yogi)





and Then After Listening to The Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe Show...

I Had a Dream: We were walking towards the Entrance of the Los Gatos Library and there was a Thin Old Man dressed in a Small Bathing Suit ahead of Us. He pulled on the entrance to the Children's room and It was Locked... Disappointed, he turned around and I asked: "Are You Looking for the Man Who Works There?" He Said: "NO" and I Motioned towards the Main Entrance. We all Entered. He seemed lost so I asked: "Do you Need Help?" as I would ask any Lost Old Man... He Said: "NO" and then I asked again: "Can I Help You?" He said: "No. I'm Fine." and then we went on Our Own Ways. By That time it was Obvious to Me That he was Ram Dass and That it was a Rather "Heavy" encounter to Ask Ram Dass If I Could Help Him... a Meaningful Event... and I was Shaking... So we went downstairs and I went searching for a Book that I Has Started reading before (about Philosophy) - and on the same shelf was a large picture book of the Grateful Dead's Fare Ye Well Tour with four CDs (that were missing) and My friend asked me why I would want to check out that book and I said: "Too Look for Pictures of Myself." and then I woke up and Typed this Document... It's Best to Type it Up before I forget it... For Certain, I would have tried to help any Lost Old Man but It seems Important that I Offered Ram Dass Help in my dream. That's One Of His Main Teachings...

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and then... Someone Posted in the Ram Dass Facebook Group:

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Hello everyone, curious to know where you came across Ram Dass, I found him on Gaia...

and I Replied: TV News was Talking about Dr. Timothy Leary and He was a Part of that scene... Dr. Richard Alpert... and then Later he Wrote The Book: Remember, Be Here Now... and THAT Got My Attention because of the ART! Here are Two of about a Hundred Drawings in that book...






In the Ram Dass Facebook Group SD Posted: Philosophically speaking... Does life fundamentally suck?

SC Said: That’s what the Buddha says! But the good news is that we can rest deeply in that eternal place in our being where it doesn’t suck. The way out is in!


I Replied: MY Life Does Not Suck... Actually, I've always been confused by the Buddhist Teaching that all life is suffering... For Example: Eat a Hamburger with French Fries and a Beer and Tell me THAT'S Suffering... NO, It's Not! Maybe IN INDIA "all life is suffering" but here in the USA... Things are Pretty Great... Hey, I ate LSD and Danced at a Grateful Dead Concert... Does THAT Suck? No... That's Excellent Entertainment! BIG FUN!



Environments Record Album
Human "BE IN" In Central Park NYC


Here is Another Basically False Belief... In Buddhism, desire lies at the root of suffering. By desire, Buddhists refer to craving pleasure, material goods... all of which are wants that can never be satisfied. As a result, desiring them can only bring suffering. I Disagree... UNSATISFIED DESIRE Causes Suffering But Completely Satisfied Desire is GREAT! For Example: I Desired a Hamburger, and then I Ate That Hamburger with French Fries and a Beer... WONDERFUL! Maybe What the Buddha was Referring to is The QUALITY OF LIFE IN INDIA where things Generally SUCK... After All... If Prayer and Meditation ACTUALLY WORKED They Wouldn't Be Dying of Coronavirus... BUT In REALITY... VACCINES WORK.

Q: Why do so many people avoid silence?

I love Silence... Especially Outdoors in the Garden... Because Then I Can Hear all those REALLY QUIET Sounds... Little Birdies Chirping, Bees Buzzing, Th Sound of a Harley Davidson Driving away in the Distance...



Light Pink Rose in the Garden -
Central Valley California - gvan42

A Housemate of Mine was Watching the TV Show "Coach" - Where People were Arguing and Arguing and Arguing... Why Would Anyone Voluntarily Watch That? We Have a Hundred Channels... Many Have ZERO Arguments... and Then There were Many "Jokes" about Athletes being Stupid... I Don't Find THAT Funny... Those Jokes are Just a Variation on Racist Stereotypes... The Underlying Basis is that Anyone Who Plays Football Has to Be an Idiot because of All The Pain... and a Lifetime of Painful Back Problems... Sure, I Played Football for 3 Days Before I Quit the Team... It HURT! But That's NOT a Funny Joke...



Same Grape Plant as The One Over the Gate above.

Now It's Creeping up a Tree


Intentionally Seek Beauty... I Walk Around with my Camera/Phone and Search for Wonderful Things to Photograph... It's The SEARCHING FOR BEAUTY that is Really Fun... That Practice Makes Me More Observant...




If You are Having Trouble with Your Religion, Simply Fire your God and Find One that Works. Why Not Awaken? Why Not Shop Around and Select One That's Better for Your Own Lifestyle? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/07/if-you-are-having-trouble-with-your.html

Don't let other people ruin your life by filling your head with absurd concepts that benefit Them, not You... I Wrote this Because I Spent Many Hours Listening to Christians Complain about Their Religion in Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings... SAD... Trapped in a Make Believe Cannibal/Vampire Cult... Yep, Those People Pretend to Drink the Blood of Christ and Eat His Body... OOOH! CREEPY! ESCAPE NOW!



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and NOW, Here are some Blog Posts

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Contact Your California State Representative and Tell 'em to DECRIMINALIZE PSYCHEDELICS... If signed into law, possession of LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, DMT and MDMA would be decriminalized. .

LINK TO FIND YOUR REP...

http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

My Experience: I took LSD and Visited the National Art Gallery in Washington DC... Surprisingly, Picasso "The Tragedy" was My Favorite Painting... I FELT COLD in my Body just looking at the Painting...

Warhol and Lichtenstein all seemed silly and trivial! That Night we all went to the Tangerine Dream Concert... at the Elegant Warner Theater... I was Concerned During the Show About the CO2 Fog that Spilled off the Stage and out into the Audience... Seemed Dangerous to Me... But We All Survived...




Evil Lawmakers Made LSD Illegal. (Donald L. Grunsky & Edmund G "Pat" Brown) Bribed Politicians. Puppets of Big Pharma. However, There is an Unstoppable Movement of Citizen Patriots In Favor of Magic Mushroom Legalization. and Then ALL The Other Psychedelics...

Throw all the Corrupt Weasels OUT of Office...

Be Sure to Contact Your Elected Representatives and Tell them to LEGALIZE MEDICINAL PSYCHEDELICS... Let Doctors and Patients Decide for themselves What the Best Medicine is... Get The "Nanny State" OUT of the Doctor's Office...

HEADLINE:
Brown Signs LSD Bill To Head Off Threat' - 30 May 1966

SACRAMENTO (UPI)- Gov. Edmund G. Brown today signed Into law a bill making it a crime to manufacture, sell, possess or use the dream drug LSD. Brown said the new law would head off "a growing threat to society, particularly to young thrill-seekers unaware of the damage it (LSD) can do.” The bill, by Sen, Donald L. Grunsky, R-Watsonville, outlaws the promiscuous use of the drug which backers of the legislation say is reaching epidemic proportions on college campuses. But it permits LSD to be used in research projects conducted by recognized hospitals and clinics.

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19660530.2.85&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

The Man Who Made LSD Illegal... Thankfully He is Dead... and CANNOT DO any more Evil. Donald L. Grunsky; Longtime State Legislator... https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-18-mn-55108-story.html
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 is a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drugs such as amphetamine-type stimulants, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and psychedelics signed in Vienna, Austria on 21 February 1971. The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 did not ban the many newly discovered psychotropics,[1] since its scope was limited to drugs with cannabis, coca, and opium-like effects.

During the 1960s such drugs became widely available, and government authorities opposed this for numerous reasons, arguing that along with negative health effects, drug use led to lowered moral standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Psychotropic_Substances


In 1961, a conference of plenipotentiaries (Definition: a person, especially a diplomat, invested with the full power of independent action on behalf of their government, typically in a foreign country.) in New York adopted the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which consolidated the existing drug control treaties into one document and added Cannabis to the list of prohibited plants. In order to appease the pharmaceutical interests, the Single Convention's scope was sharply limited to the list of drugs enumerated in the Schedules annexed to the treaty and to those drugs determined to have similar effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_Drugs

Psilocybin prohibition, however, wasn’t seriously enforced until the passage of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in 1971, which marked the beginning of America’s disastrous War on Drugs. Under the CSA, psilocybin and psilocin are listed alongside heroin as Schedule I drugs, meaning that they have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use—at least, according to the federal government.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/opinion/476968-why-the-war-on-drugs-must-end
Plato's Story "The Cave" is so very Meaningful to me... When I Heard it on the FM Radio in the Late sixties I Said: Hey, That's What Happened to ME!
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/07/platos-story-cave-is-so-very-meaningful.html


A Friend Just Announced that She's Going to Disney World!

Excellent! I spent 5 Days at EPCOT and Still Didn't See It All. The First Day I Took LSD and Rode Space Mountain! Hint: Go Early in the Morning, Go Back to the Motel Room and Take a Nap During the Heat of the Day, then Go Back at Night...



Remember when Vice President Pence Held a Prayer Meeting in the White House to "Cure" Covid-19? A Total Failure... He Did That Instead of ACTUALLY TAKING ACTION... and Half a Million People Died...



Prayer is a Way of Fooling Yourself... It's a Really Handy Excuse for NOT TAKING ACTION... For Example: After ANOTHER Gun Massacre People Send Thoughts and Prayers INSTEAD OF OUTLAWING GUNS.


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Before Columbus "Discovered" America...
The People Who Lived here Had a Massive Civilization.
Pottery Cups found in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico have Chocolate in them... and Chocolate Was Grown a Thousand Miles South by the Mayans... But... They LOVED That Chocolate! and Were Willing to Pay Someone to Import It!
So there were Roads that Ran Over a Thousand Miles!
https://nhmu.utah.edu/blog/2016/08/04/cacao-chaco-canyon
and The South American Roads Built by the Incas
are Still there Today and Still Work!

https://www.facebook.com/seva.foundation

A clown, a guru, and a doctor walk into a cabin. The clown says, “What I have in mind is eye care for 400,000.” The guru says “See here now.” The doctor says, “Brilliant. We can do that.” What actually transpired in 1978 was the start of Seva led by Dr. Brilliant with an eclectic group including Ram Dass, Wavy Gravy, Dr. "V", and Dr. Nicole Grasset. What came next was the landmark Nepal Blindness Survey using an Apple 2+ computer donated by Steve Jobs and a helicopter funded by a Grateful Dead concert. The story of Seva’s beginning is colorful and quirky, but the results are miraculous. Science, art, and spirituality are a potent blend that can transform lives! Witness for yourself the promise of ending avoidable blindness in Nepal and around the world.

Will the Corrupt Supreme Court Rule that CRIME IS LEGAL for Trump? Question: Would Total Presidential Immunity Allow Biden to Murder Trump LEGALLY?

Remember: The Reason Ford Pardoned Nixon was to Prevent Nixon's Arrest for Crimes Committed While President. 

READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2024/02/trump-lock-him-up-outlaw-crime.html

Backstory (~);-} The Origin of Grateful Dead Artwork, Logo, Icons - Skull and Roses, Dancing Bears, Steal Your Face, AoxoMoxoA... Mouse, Kelley, Owsley, Bob Thomas, Rick Griffin, Wes Wilson, Victor Moscone, Bob Seidemann

Stanley "Mouse" Miller said: We [Miller and collaborator Alton Kelley] would go to the San Francisco library and peruse the books on poster art. They had a back room full of books you couldn’t take out with great references. We were just going through that and looking for something. And found this thing and thought, “This says Grateful Dead all over it.” I hate to say this, but Kelley cut it out with a pen knife. I always say that we Xeroxed it, but there weren’t Xerox machines then. I finally found it about two years ago, the actual cut-out piece, and I went, “Oh, my God.” It’s from the book of poems “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” The edition was done by an artist called Edmund Sullivan. And the poem that goes with this illustration is fantastic. It’s short and sweet and had to do with wine, women and song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Sullivan

Skull and Roses Album Cover - Grateful Dead Record Cover

Oh, come with old Khayyam. and leave the wise to talk;

one thing is certain, that life flies;

One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;

The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead_(album)

Steal Your Face Logo (~);-}

Designed by Owsley and Bob Thomas

Owsley Said:  http://www.thebear.org/GDLogo.html

In 1969 the Dead were renting a warehouse in Novato, California. I was sound man for the band at the time, and lived in Oakland. Bob Thomas, an old friend of mine had just moved from LA to the Bay area and needed a place to stay, and we needed someone to look after the warehouse, which had had a problem with break-ins.

Bob was a superb graphic artist whose work is now familiar to most Deadheads in the form of the Live Dead album cover and the Bear's Choice cover, on which the popular Dancing Bears appeared.

The Dead in those days had to play in a lot of festival style shows where the equipment would all wind up at the back of the stage in a muddle. Since every band used pretty much the same type of gear it all looked alike. We would spend a fair amount of time moving the pieces around so that we could read the name on the boxes. I decided that we needed some sort of marking that we could identify from a distance.

I was in the habit of driving from Oakland to Novato in a little MGTF which had plastic side curtains, which were not very transparent, due to aging of the plastic. One day in the rain, I looked out the side and saw a sign along the freeway which was a circle with a white bar across it, the top of the circle was orange and the bottom blue. I couldn't read the name of the firm, and so was just looking at the shape. A thought occurred to me: if the orange were red and the bar across were a lightning bolt cutting across at an angle, then we would have a very nice, unique and highly identifiable mark to put on the equipment.

At the warehouse I told Bob the idea that I had, and he made a quick sketch. A mutual friend, Ernie Fischbach, who was visiting with Bob, said "Give it to me, I'll show you an easy way to put it on the boxes." 

Whereupon he proceeded to cut holes in a couple of pieces of stencil paper. One was a circular hole, about 5 1/2 inches in diameter, and the other was a part of a circle 5 inches in diameter. But it was a half circle with a jagged edge. Then he held the stencil to an amp and sprayed a circle of white paint. Then with one side up, the red half circle went on top of the dried white paint and after wiping off the red and turning the stencil over, the blue was applied. This was the first version, and we put it on to all our gear. It helped make it easier to find our stuff in the crunch. I still have an old toolbox with one of the stencils on it.

A few days later I was talking to Bob and suggested that perhaps the words "Grateful dead" could be placed under the circle, using a style of lettering that would appear to be a skull if you saw it from a distance (I guess I was influenced by too many posters of the time). Any way a few hours later he came down from the loft with the design we know and love.

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The Song "He's Gone," as originally written, referred to the disappearance of Mickey Hart's father, Lenny Hart, who was acting as the band's manager, with a good deal of money. 

The first verse has a line... Steal Your Face Right off you Head...

This line was lifted out as the title of the ill-fated album issued under duress. The Song "He's Gone" Does not appear on the Steal Your Face Album... What!

Since the cover of the album featured the logo designed by Stanley Owsley with the grinning skull and lightning bolt inside the circle, that logo has since been identified primarily as the "steal your face" logo, perhaps incorrectly.

 

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/gone.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_Your_Face

The album was recorded October 17–20, 1974, at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom... The Same Concerts were Filmed for The Grateful Dead Movie.

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Back when Newspapers were made using Moveable Type... If a Printer wanted a Bear... this was part of the set of Icons... 

or is it part of the Travel Lodge Motel Logo? 

https://extrachill.com/2020/11/dancing-grateful-dead-bears-meaning.html

Whether or not you consider yourself a Deadhead, you’ve certainly seen the iconic Grateful Dead “dancing bears” a time or two. Initially designed by artist Bob Thomas to appear on the back cover of the band’s 1973 release, The History of the Grateful Dead, Volume 1 (Bear’s Choice), the bears have become deeply ingrained in the culture surrounding the Grateful Dead, and have taken on layers of symbolic meaning over the years.

Before you understand the full meaning behind the Grateful Dead bears, you have to look at the man who they were designed for: Owsley “Bear” Stanley. In addition to being the band’s sound engineer in the early days, Stanley was also the chemist behind the creation and distribution of a large portion of the LSD that was being consumed in the United States in the 1960s and beyond.

AoxoMoxoA - Rick Griffin 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/grateful-dead-folklore

grateful dead, in folktales of many cultures, the spirit of a deceased person who bestows benefits on the one responsible for his burial. In the prototypical story, the protagonist is a traveler who encounters the corpse of a debtor, to whom the honour of proper burial has been denied. After the traveler satisfies the debt, or, in some versions, pays for the burial, he goes on his way. In another version of the story, burial is prescribed for religious reasons but prohibited by civil authorities. It is this version that forms the theme of the apocryphal Book of Tobit in the Old Testament.

The hero is soon joined by another traveler (sometimes in the form of an animal, or, in the story of Tobit, an angel), who helps him in a dramatic way. In some stories the companion saves the hero’s life; in others he helps him gain a prize. In many versions, the companion offers to aid the hero, but only on condition that they divide the prize. Then, as the hero is about to comply, the companion reveals himself as the grateful spirit of the deceased whom the hero helped to bury.

http://linesandcolors.com/2007/10/02/rick-griffin/

As I mentioned in my article about Peter Max, there were several less widely known artists who were actually much more instrumental in the creation of that unique blend of Op, Pop, Surrealism, Dada and Art Nouveau that came to be known as Psychedelic Art in the 1960’s.

Rick Griffin was one of the major contributors to this style, and is considered one of the “big five” along with Alton Kelley, Stanley “Mouse” Miller, Wes Wilson and Victor Moscoso.

Wes Wilson - Psychedelic Lettering

Victor Moscoso - Master of Putting Extremely different colors next to each other so the image VIBRATES - especially under Blacklight... 

The canvases of the psychedelic artists were concert posters, record album covers and comix (underground comics). Griffin was a standout in all three areas.

Griffin came out of the California surfer culture and created an influential comic strip character called Murphy, whose adventures he chronicled in Surfer magazine.

In Los Angeles he fell in with a group of artists and musicians called the Jook Savages, and was a participant in the legendary Watts Acid Test held by writer and psychedelic pioneer Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.

At the time LSD was legal, and the influence of psychedelic (meaning “mind manifesting”) drugs was integral to the explosion of artistic and musical experimentation and creativity that marked the era. (To separate the impact of consciousness altering chemicals on creative individuals from the anti-drug hysteria that followed, see Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception.)

There are a Number of Horrible "Jokes" 

Explaining the Meaning of the Ice Cream Kid... 

I will not repeat them here... 

Not That Funny 50 Years Later. 

Europe '72 Triple Live Album... Three LP Records!

Wes Wilson Poster

https://www.bobseidemann.com/

This photo was made by having five people 

behind the camera hold mirrors pointed at the faces... 

Note the Shadows on the Road... 

"Little Boxes" type Houses in South San Francisco

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The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/gdhome.html

By David Dodd,

1997-98 Research Associate, Music Dept., 

Univ. of Calif. at Santa Cruz

Dark Star Orchestra -
Surfing Bear with a Rick Griffin
Flying Eyeball and Roses... 

Ancestral Memory, It's Real by Sonya Sophia EFT

Insight I Gained from a Sonya Sophia 

Guided Meditation...

Suppose that the Wisdom/Knowledge of My Ancestors was passed on to me in my DNA... 

ABSURD! But Let's just take that as a Possibility... as if we were Doing a Mathematical Proof and that's an Assumption... 

I was doing the tap "Ancestral Memory - It's Real" and... 

I Had to think of what fear my ancestors worried about... and the fear that was passed on to me in my DNA... Well, My Ancestors Feared Starving to Death in the Winter. We Lived in Holland, Scotland and British Columbia... a Very Valid Fear back then... However... 

That's no longer a Valid fear because NOW we have technology to help us... Refrigerators, Central heating systems with a thermostat, grocery stores... ETC... 

 My ancestral fear manifested itself in Always Eating All The Food on my plate... Hundreds of years ago no one knew if they were going to get their next meal... 

 I realized that at dinner, it's OK to simply NOT Eat Everything on the Plate... It's Really Likely that We Will Have Food Tomorrow... Don't worry about it! It's even OK to Throw Away Food into the Garbage Can... 

 The danger of Obesity is a greater threat to me than the Danger of Starvation... 

 SO... That's a deep insight I Got from a Tapping Session... Thanks! Sonya Sophia...

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I wonder who made That Four Way Windowpane LSD We ate in the early 1970s... It was a brown square of geletin and if I cut it into four pieces, four people could trip... So... maybe 80 Micrograms times 4 = 320 Mics... That's a LOT! I figure it was Owsley or the Brotherhood of Eternal Love out of Laguna Beach... I don't know any other names at that time except SANDOZ... and I'm certain they were not selling SANDOZ to High School Kids... or maybe it was made by some unknown chemist that didn't get arrested and wasn't famous... Just a Guy who said... "Hell, I Can Make That and The Kids Will Buy it!"

often it was of very poor quality and caused body cramps... people said it was strychnine but I don't believe that... usually I cut mine into four pieces and ate one Just too see if it was any good... and then if it WAS good, I realized that I didn't want to take any more so I'd give it away... Grateful Dead at UN Reno 1974 was one of those times... The Wall of Sound was not working properly... or at all... and the concert wasn't really that fun... but exploring downtown Reno that Night was EPIC! Giant Statues of Showgirls outside in Casinos... Blinking Lights!

Relax and Enjoy... Every Grateful Dead Cover Band Has its own flavor... Even the Cover Band that employs Bob Weir and Mickey Hart... and when I go to a public park and play Grateful Dead Songs on my Acoustic Guitar... for free... I'm a Cover Band... I played the Rainbow Gathering In Idaho and Had a Great Time... Me and a Kid Played Uncle John's Band for a Couple of Hours at the "Relaxation Station" - The First Place people pass by from the Parking lot... and you COULD stop and get a Tarot Reading, or Drink Ephedrine Tea... or Just Do Nothing! Many People Had Just Driven 10 hours... so... Sit Down... We will provide all from now on! Hey You Made IT! Relax and Enjoy!

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I'm Glad I took a couple of elective ART classes at Humboldt State University... I was a Computer Science Major and as an alternative to THAT... I Took Acrylic Painting, Black and White Film Photography (darkroom, Chemicals) , Adobe Photoshop and Advertising Layout for Magazines or Book Covers... I'm Glad... We took a Field Trip where we Took Canvas, Easel, Paint and Brushes to The Marina on Humboldt Bay... and that was FUN! I'm also really Glad to meet the Women in those Classes... Organic Earth Mothers...

The Coronavirus Vaccine is Working. Get a Shot. The Life You Save May Be Your Own!

 

On a Different Subject... 

Governor Newsom is Doing a Great Job... Remember to Reject the Republicriminal Recall Effort... They are Just Sore Losers... https://news.yahoo.com/california-recall-enough-signatures-ballot-222405217.html 

Photo of Roses in My Garden - an Alternative to The Crazy Happening in Cities Far Away From Me - That's What They Publish in Newspapers and on TV News Stations... FACTS That Have No Importance to My Life... gvan42

HEADLINE: Effort To Remove Calif. Gov. Newsom Collects Enough Signatures To Force Recall Vote... The announcement kicks off a 30-business-day period in which those who signed the recall petition may withdraw their names. County election officials will then have 10 business days to report how many signatures have been withdrawn. If the threshold is still met, a recall election would take place after a budgetary review and scheduling process expected to last several months.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/991047355/effort-to-remove-calif-gov-newsom-collects-enough-signatures-to-force-recall-vot

Hate Freaks are Using "Humor" Websites to Broadcast Insane Concepts while Basking in the Protection of Plausible Deniability... Like "The Turner Diaries" are Just Fiction Not a Plan for the Overthrow of the US Government... Really... It's a Joke! Similarly, the far-right, pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is often so over the top on his InfoWars broadcasts that his own attorney likened him to a "performance artist" during a court hearing about Jones' divorce. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990274685/how-extremists-weaponize-irony-to-spread-hate

HEADLINE: 1st-Time Gun Buyers Help Push Record U.S. Gun Sales Amid String Of Mass Shootings... Setting the Stage for a Massive increase in Gun Accidents, Suicides and Family Members Shooting Each other During Arguments... 

First-time gun owners, young and old from across the country, are helping to push record levels of gun sales for what looks like the second year in a row. "My gun store has had a run like I've never seen before," said Todd Cotta, the owner of Kings Gun Center in Hanford, Calif., in the state's agriculturally rich Central Valley. "It was just an avalanche of new gun buyers for the first time." These buyers are white, Black, Asian and Latino and come from all political beliefs. And they're being driven by uncertainty, fear and a need to feel safe. A FALSE BELIEF - OWNING A GUN MAKES YOUR FAMILY LESS SAFE.

  https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/989699122/1st-time-gun-buyers-help-push-record-u-s-gun-sales-amid-string-of-mass-shootings

Photo of Pretty Clouds at Home

HEADLINE: White House Is Preparing To Give Back California's Smog-Busting Powers... Wonderful! We Do Need to Prevent Air Pollution... It's Causing Climate Change... and Massive Wildfires in the Western USA... and This Summer is Set to Be The Worst Yet... Thankfully, We Banished Trump to Mar-A-Loser and All his Evil Henchmen are Unemployed... That Coal Lobbyist is OUT at the EPA and Now We Can Put Some Effort into Protecting the Environment instead of Enabling Polluters... https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990939823/white-house-is-preparing-to-give-back-californias-smog-busting-powers

More Pretty Clouds at Home

HEADLINE: Ex-Trump adviser Larry Kudlow mocked for claiming Biden's Agenda is pushing ‘plant-based beer’ - Just another Example of an Idiot TrumpNik® Doing the CrazyTalk® on Fox News... Larry got a Job doing Economic Advise on TV... Only a Total Idiot Would Listen but... We Have Millions of Total Idiots Alive Today in the USA...  Remember: Mockery of Larry ALWAYS NEEDS to include an Explanation that All Beer is Plant Based... Because TrumpNiks® are Often so Freaking Stupid that They Just Wouldn't Know... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/26/trump-larry-kudlow-biden-plant-based-beer

Even More Pretty Clouds at Home

It was a Great Day for Photographing Clouds
No Rain But an Epic Sunset...
Remember: Intentionally Seek Beauty. 

420 Here is that Turtle on the
Grateful Dead Record Cover
with a Cactus - gvan42

Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free All the Cannabis Prisoners. A Dramatic Savings of Government Spending CURRENTLY WASTED On Incarceration and a MASSIVE INCREASE IN VOLUNTARY TAXES! Everybody Wins! We Could Use the Extra Money to Pay for Education and Healthcare for All.

If you don't smoke you wouldn't pay a cent. We could also cut Taxpayer expenses currently wasted on Law Enforcement. It's a Win-Win situation. More money going into the Treasury and Less going out.  In addition, states that have legal medical marijuana have fewer deaths due to opioid addiction. Some people simply choose the safer drug... DUH...

Peace and Love: 

Not Just a Good Idea but 

a Practical Way of Life...

Peace Sign Two-Tone Coffee Mug FOR SALE

by gregvan

I'm a Big Fan of the First Amendment... Free Speech, Right to Assemble... Great Ideas! Headline: Florida Passes "Anti-Riot" Law. Would This Law Have Stopped the 1/6/2021 Riot at the US Capitol? REALLY? They Didn't OBEY LAWS... Did They?

An Often Overlooked Blessing of the First Amendment is The Rainbow Gathering. Every July Fourth 10,000 Hippies Go Backpacking in a National Forest... The Locals always try to Shut Down The Gathering but they always Fail... Because the First Amendment Guarantees the Right to Assemble Peacefully... READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/10/my-journey-to-rainbow-gathering-in.html 

What IS the Rainbow Gathering? To me, it is Woodstock with amateur musicians and I’m in the band…

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Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That You are a Fan of the First Amendment... 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives

I Said: "I'm in favor of the First Amendment to The Constitution. Today in Florida They Signed a Law That Makes Assembly Illegal. I Believe that This Law is Designed to Be SELECTIVELY Enforced... PRO GOP Groups Allowed and The Rest of Us Arrested... Would This Law Have been of any Value at the RIOT on 1/6/2021 at the US Capitol? NO... Those People Didn't Obey LAWS... The Only People This Would Prevent from Assembling Would Be BLM, Peace Marchers and Anti-Gun Activists. 

Thanks for Doing Such a Great Job as President... 

DON'T LET THEM TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOM!" 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/04/im-big-fan-of-first-amendment-free.html

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