Happy New Year all! I hope this new year, and new decade, will prove to be better, different and much more balanced than the last.

The "7 Steps to Relive you of your Thoughts" although tongue-in-cheek is probably how most people maintain ignorance.

I watched a documentary (shocked?) on how our culture can be the most intelligent with information at our finger tips. It appears they works very hard to achieve ignorance and appease their minds w/reality TV or shopping or mindless activities. Very few will allow themselves to show their intelligence for fear of making another appear person stupid. As if that were possible! The documentary, as it were, asked the question: “What does stupid mean?”

Many columnist are told to write to a 8th grade reading level or their audience is that of a 10 year old or some formula to appeal to the lowest common denominator; casting the widest net to have the largest reading (or in TV’s case view) audience. COMMON! As in COMMON sense?

I want what is rare, curious, intriguing... Did you know that the Phoenix Lights was the largest (according to the documentary, “The Phoenix Lights”) mass UFO sighting in history? These “experts” also estimated the craft was a mile wide and traveled down I17 from North to South and across controlled air space of the Phoenix airport. I did not hear much about those lights in the way of facts from the local media. WHAT IS MEDIA FOR? What are the newspapers for? Were they afraid of an 8th graders reaction to an Unidentified Flying Object? Approximately 10,000 people witnessed the craft, that hovered over the city the night of Hale Bop. Curious it would appear that night... Something to ponder, if you are inclined to thinking.

I have gone off on a tangent, as I do. Thanks for following along.

Back to the subject - anyone that knows me, knows I think. I think, use my mind, figure things out, observe and occasionally get caught up in a tangle when emotions come into play. I have also been ACCUSED of over analyzing. If that was ever possible! I make my OWN observations based on the available facts and then judge the situation. I admit, I do judge. Everyone one does, some of us own our judgments. Some act as if they are above judgement. How do you judge distances you non-judgmental people? Curious.

Since I’ve brought this topic up, re: thinking. I want to thank every one of you who have helped me untangle my emotions from my thoughts, stood by while I grew out of my marriage, my old job and my previous way of life. Even learned how to be the artist I know to be, not the one I thought I had to be. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for all your support, time spent listening, and words of encouragement. Here’s to a new point of view, a new way to look at the world in the new year! HAPPY NEW YEAR!