[Faith.Hope.Love]'s diary
Profound message from Rich Patt. <3
Wounded Healers
| They are not born and they are not made... They create themselves through conquering adversity, trial and error and extreme pain and suffering. They conquer fear and find a way to speak their truth even when they are afraid. In doing so they shine light for others who are lost and feeling alone, and in return their inner light ignites with renewed purpose. A purpose greater than they ever could have imagined. |
"They conquer fear and find a way to speak their truth even when they are afraid."
Right! Even though I am often afraid to speak the truth, I do so anyway, even when I know I will face ridi-cule and punishment for this choice I make. I am banned from Elftown, NOT for lying as I'm accused, but for....
telling THE TRUTH!!!
...and for...the LIES OF OTHERS!!!
...and because...I won't give up a best friend
...and for a man who can't even crawl out of the shadows to say what's in his heart.So THIS makes ME the one with courage, integrity, and virtue ...and the one doing the punishing, a pathetic loser who doesn't have the guts to stand up and TELL THE TRUTH!!!
I do "photo 'enhancement' editing". This photo was taken by a friend, Rich Patt. It's of his dog, Buddie.
I removed the background and VERY carefully around Buddie and so I would save the "fur" outline as much as possible. Preserving the "fur" outline is very important and I will explain why a bit farther in this writing.
But it's not a process that you can rush through IF you want to preserve the furry outline. It's very time consuming and it requires a lot of patience, which many digital artists aren't all that willing to put into some-
thing like this. They think if something takes them a couple of hours, this is a lot of time. Well, a couple/few hours is nothing compared to the amount of time I've put into a piece of work. I have pieces of work that
have taken me days, weeks, even months to complete.
After erasing the background around Buddie, I then had to "replace" some of the "fur ends" in his outline.
Then I removed the "jpg-ness" in Buddie's image, which is basically smoothing out the pixels, because JPGs are harsh. JPGs also blend adjacent pixels. PNGs preserve an image as is almost if not entirely 100%. This
is another process that takes a considerable amount of time.
Since I didn't want to leave the chain collar on Buddie, I removed it. This process again, took a lot of time. Then I worked with contrast, and other image tools until I was happy with Buddie's appearance. Then I
added framing, texts, his name and in the first version, a plain black background. In the second version, I added a different background photo. It is in the second version especially where it's so important for the
"furry outline" to be preserved. Saving the furry outline makes all the difference between whether Buddie would look like he was part of the background image or look like he was "pasted in". The latter being what
you don't want.
Version #1:
Version #2:
The photo I used for the new background in version #2 is a photo my daughter took at the college campus. Here's the original:
...And what made this all so worthwhile doing was when Rich received it and he was so happy with it. The act of doing something just for the sheer intent to do something special for someone, to make them happy,
is worth EVERYTHING. On the other hand, when you do something special for someone to make them happy and they tell you they didn't appreciate it all that much, well, THIS is heartless and cruel I think because
such shatters your heart into a billion pieces. Only one person has ever been this cruel and he knows who he is. But... there is never anything possibly wrong in giving. If the receiver is ungrateful and hurtful, the
wrong lies with the receiver, NOT the giver. ..And as much as this same person would like to destroy me and my integrity, the truth is in fact, he is destroying his own. I gave to him in many ways and from my heart.
All he has ever done in return is take and steal from me, use and abuse me. So who exactly is he destroying?
#Poetry #Quotes #PoeticQuotes
"Gifts"
| When blessed with gifts, We are blessed to share, To touch hearts and souls To show we care, For a gift unshared Is a gift that's wasted, It's sweetness unknown Til others have tasted. |
Written by Artsieladie, aka Sharon Donnelly ©2013-12-18 08:05:00 (EST)
Inspirational credit: Thanks to Paul C Schickler ♥
#Poetry
"Reflection"
| When in others goodness we see, We can then know the same can be, Within ourselves if we so choose To allow the good, the bad to lose, For what in others we've recognised, We've then unveiled, undisguised, A true reflection of both dark and light, What is wrong and what's right is right. We see in others our own reflection, Which then affects our own projection. |
Written by Artsieladie, aka Sharon Donnelly
©2013-12-18 05:32:00 (EST)
Inspirational credit: Thank you Qazi Qamaruddin <3 </center>
Following a tradition of mine, every Christmas I create new art to honour "Lilo".
| Yes, Merry "Christ"mas! I think if people are going to celebrate Christmas, partake in all it entails, the festivities, the gift exchanging, etc., then they should at the very least believe in "why" we have and celebrate Christmas. If you don't believe, then IMO, you shouldn't celebrate a day that you don't believe in why while those of us do, do. It's hypocrisy! |
New Christmas Graphics by yours truly. --> Christmas_Graphics-By-Artsieladie
"Lilo"
Christmas Ornaments, "Lilo":
Christmas Medallions, "Lilo":
Christmas Medallions (Waving Snowman):
Waving Snowmen:
Waving Snowmen (reversed):
Candy Cane dividers:
Elfpack's "start page" (Mainstuff) has gone down in its Google Pagerank. It was at 2 but now it is down to 1. :(
The Facebook "like" button has changed I see. It's a bit more noticeable than the previous one. Perhaps, so people will be more inclined to use it? I'd use it a LOT more, if:
- Things were worked out between Hedda and myself amicably and mutually beneficial, so...
- My privacy wasn't being invaded.
- My name wasn't being slandered all across the Web.
- My thousands of pieces of written and art work wasn't being kept from me and thus, being stolen.
- I was given a 'written' guarantee that I wouldn't yet again, be used as scapegoat as I'm being used now, for which I then get punished for the wrongdoings of others and/or punished because of an endearing and complimentary comment made towards me in my website's guestbook from a very dear and close, male friend of mine.
Of course, none of this will be admitted because no one involved is a big enough person to stand up and say so.
When someone uses your generous and giving nature and then they choose to abuse you besides, this is not conducive for that generous person to do anything more supportive in the future for the user and abuser nor would one even want to. One can turn things around if they are willing to acknowledge their mistakes, but one who is guilty of wrongdoing can't expect exoneration and a chance to start over if they aren't willing to acknowledge what brought them to the place they are at in the first place. Mistakes are made by everyone, myself included. They are learning tools but one can't learn from mistakes made unless the mistakes are acknowledged first.
This has been a very long haul, a very long drawn out process/situat
I'm a firm believer that wrongs can be fixed and mistakes can be rectified, but the longer the wrongs are left unfixed and the mistakes unrectified, and measures taken to hamper this process, the more devastating the revelation of the truth will be. Mistakes can't be rectified or fixed however, IF one of the parties involved isn't willing to take part in a reconciliation and if a party isn't willing to, then the fault for the continuing situation being left unresolved lies completely with the unwilling party. Since Hedda is unwilling, then this situation remaining as is, is HIS fault and HIS fault alone, regardless of what he does and or says.
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My friend Adam Jones is such a corker! ROFLMAO
How many times have you heard someone say, "I love so and so 'because'..."? But in my opinion, love is not about "becauses". Love needs NO "because". If love needed "becauses", then when or if the "because" disappears, then so would love? Hence...
"Love without 'becauses' and you will love truly." ~ Artsieladie #Quotes
Umm... what kind of deadline date is this?
Deadline:
The deadline of this competition is 13/01/14 <-- ???On:
http://elftown
http://elftown
http://elftown
And the theme, stated by this comment:
"2013-12-04 [iippo]: Sorry for delay in starting these, we are figuring out moderators.
The theme will be generic "Christmas" so you can start work on your entries already :)"
Ummm... but under theme, it says:
Theme:
It's a Christmas competition! The theme is Christmas, duh!" <-- NO mention of "generic" here!
..And why, "up-to-date" banners, too! ..on http://elftown
..And what are the added links doing on the bottom of the entry pages? [Hedda] got on my case about MY Elftown Dreamers' Contest and one of the ways he did, was he told me that there wasn't supposed to BE links or anything on the bottom of entry pages. But then, when other crew members complained about his search box feature, it was okay. But when I stated that I didn't care for it, [Hedda] then said to me, and 'me only', that it was so nice of me to complain along with everyone else. In other words it was perfectly alright for others to complain about something, including some crew members, but when I did, well then I was singled out and called out on it.
'Course, there are NO TITLES on the top of the new pages, either, which [Hedda] asked to be done a number of times and when I was doing "as he had asked to be done in regards to the page titles", particularly on the MCV page, I was accused of "playing games" and acting with "childish behaviour" by a crew member, both on the page where it took place (in comments which she deleted but I saved) and then she sent me a private message (I saved) with some more of her harassment. Oh but, everything is me, everything is my fault. ..And afterwards, [Hedda] himself went to the MC page and stated that he wanted titles on the pages, but he never once mentioned, especially to the crew member who had reamed me out, that "I" was only doing "as he had asked to BE done".
If one were to go back through the page versions, one will see that it is "I" who placed the title on the top of the main pages:
http://elftown
http://elftown
http://elftown
Note: On the main Poetry page, on version #72 2013-12-09 16:24:52 Version author: SilverFire, SilverFire REMOVED the title from the page. I guess she knows more about SEO than [Hedda] does!
http://elftown
Please also note how the winners are placed on the main pages (Art and Photo) as well. That's because [Hedda] asked that this be done. Not one other crew member volunteered to do it, because it was a big undertaking, even though he asked a few times, but "I" offered to and told him I would do it and I had gotten to almost every official contest and placed the winning entries on the main pages. I guess it doesn't pay to do as the site owner asks though. It must be better to ignore the site owner. I should have I guess as sunrose had told me to do.
THIS was the episode that finally made me decide that maybe it was best if I just left the site. But out of respect for [Hedda], I didn't think it would be right of me to just leave without letting [Hedda] know that I was considering leaving Elftown. So this is when I emailed him and THIS is what preempted my first banning by [Hedda]. So not only did I get reamed out by a crew member for doing as [Hedda] had asked, but then when I elected to be respectful towards [Hedda], he then banned me. When I told [Hedda] what Lothuriel had done, he simply said that 'she' was confused, but yet, he wasted no time going to the MC page and stating he wanted titles on the tops of the official wiki-pages and of course, NEVER mentioned that "I" was doing 'as he had asked'. Oh but, "I" am accused of harassing 'other members'!
I guess THIS is all the reason why sunrose suggested we take our conversations off of Elftown over to MSN, so she could tell me that [Hedda] was snooping through my private stuff, that I shouldn't please him or agree with him, should walk away from his ECM project (that at the time I was the only one keeping it going, hence his compliment and an ending to a relation with her "by her" within 15 minutes of said compliment), that he was only interested in things that served his purpose, and the biggy, that he and I would not go well together AND when she told me all this, she KNEW that [Hedda] WAS interested in me, which I was to have the proof of this provided to me about 2 and a half years ago (her own words) and along with other info that she was trying to get me removed from Elftown (her words in conversation material beginning of 2007 and a whole year BEFORE the MSN episode, for which I was blamed for saying bad things about her). She was only plotting to get rid of me so why on earth would I think or say anything bad or against her!? Why, it's not normal to think badly of a person plotting to get you removed AND all because of another's interest in me, which apparently 'she' didn't "approve" of. When she became his keeper of his personal affairs is unclear. I guess she expected me to be a fool like so many others are, but no can do because I am no fool. I guess when I began putting the pieces together and therefore, getting her number/agenda, I was then the bad person. ..And I guess that's why our MSN conversation got hacked into for the purpose of trying to do damage control (with me) and counteract through contradicting the things she was telling me AGAINST him. I suppose a person who was able to catch another person, supposedly a friend, blackballing them, especially to a person they were interested in, that the blackballer KNEW, it's understandable that this person being betrayed and stabbed in the back would want to do something to make that so-called friend regret what they did and so, sending a bad file to that betraying person's contacts, would certainly make sense. Not that it's right, but it is understandable
Anyway... such "efficiency"!! 'Course no calendar notice about it either. This helps to keep the contest at a minimal mention! Bravo! *applause* lol
Some powerful thoughts to share with this powerful message post shared by Naomi...
Catherine Seiler:
Let us today plant the seed
That greed be replaced by need.
Our world has enough for all,
Yet every day people starve and fall.
Each person has the right to food,
That many do not is simply not good.
We cannot be an enlightened civilisation,
When there is starvation in practically every nation.
Ignoring those who hunger every day,
Will not make the problem go away.
Please use your resources and your voice,
To raise awareness for those whom hunger is not a choice.
(C) Catherine Seiler 07.12.2013
Naomi Allen: I saw a post, it said put the Christ back in Christmas but while you're at it how about putting the Christ back in Christian
Made me think......
Heather Blair: I was just thinking yesterday...Ev
Catherine Seiler: Your words ring true, are surreal,
I understand the need to reveal,
When we're moved from within our heart,
We must then allow our voices to depart,
And make a sound to resonate
So the world is awakened to help the fate
Of those forgotten, cast aside,
To make a difference and worldwide,
For those in need cannot speak,
And so the strong must help the weak.
...And yes, Heather Blair!
If we can care on just one day,
Then yes, we can care every day,
For their is a need so immense,
The caring must become as intense,
Not by one or just a few
And not on just a day or two,
But every day, a united force
Every ONE on just one course
To lift others who are in need,
True humanity, THIS is indeed!
When we help others without request,
This is humanity at its best!
Inside us all there is a voice,
Inside us all there is a choice,
To either just take or also give,
So that others too may live
Not plagued with hunger, in despair,
But too, can live with joy to spare.
Every human deserves the chance,
To have a better circumstance.
When we humans, our hearts open wide,
Allowing love to be our guide,
We then become well aware,
Blessings given are meant to share,
So that others may too rejoice,
With a joyful heart and a happy voice.
~ Artsieladie, aka Sharon Donnelly ©2013-12-08 18:12:00 (EST)
"Maintaining a sense of humour even when times get tough, will smooth the stormiest seas even when they get rough!" ~ Artsieladie #Quotes
"From The Inside Out... Love"
We search for love using our eyes,
Instead of by using our heart,
And in so doing, we ultimately miss
The most important part...
Love.
We tend to love from the outside in,
Instead of the inside out,
Leaving us wondering what
True love is really all about.
Only one's heart can truly connect,
With another heart to united, reflect...
Love.
When we love from the inside out,
The love is then surreal
And nothing from external sources
Can undermine or repeal...
Love.
Written by Artsieladie, aka Sharon Donnelly ©2013-12-07 19:22:00 (EST)
Inspirational credit: Thank you and bless you, Naomi. :) <3
#Poetry "Seeds Of Love"
Sow the Seeds Of Love in your life's garden,
And you will not be needing to beg for a pardon.
Sow the seeds of malice, harm, and discontent,
And you'll reap a garden full of bitterness and lament.
In your garden of life, when Seeds Of Love you sow,
Beautiful blooms in likeness shall then only grow.
When you hoe your garden, cultivate with care,
Nourish it with kindness, invite others in to share.
All gardens need light, delivered via smiles,
Shining from the hearts of many different styles.
But gardens also need a little bit of rain,
Remember tears can't drop without a little pain.
As you grow your garden, a beautiful affair,
Its sweet aroma shall fill, permeate the air.
While smothering weeds of hatred, hence, thereof,
As the atmosphere is bathed in the fragrance labeled love.
Sow the Seeds Of Love, tend to them with care,
And you'll reap the same in abundance of which then you can share.
Written by Artsieladie, aka Sharon Donnelly ©2013-12-08 00:40:00 (EST)
Inspirational credit: Adam... :) <3
"Two Wolves ~Cherokee Legend~ "
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy...
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil ~ he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self~pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good ~ he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you ~ and inside every other person, too...”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win..?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed...”
#GoodVersusEvi
Right. It is the part we CHOOSE to feed that ultimately is or becomes who we ARE. The CHOICE IS OURS, individually. We are not given, therefore, we're not meant to have control or dominion over others, but we are given dominion over ourselves and WHO we CHOOSE to BE! ♥