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Ok guys, I'm giving everything the haul-over.  You may temporarily not be able to access some of my stock files during this transition.  I will be reorganizing my work in to folders that are labeled for easier use.  I will also be grouping all of my older stock files into one section.  As I grow in my experience, I feel these various files are not up to my current standards, and will be replacing them with higher resolution, upgraded versions.

Thank you everyone who has used my stock in any of their creative works!

Please also keep an eye out for offerings on various online shopping sites.  I will be opening various stores to sell my goods (both digital and physical!)

So keep an eye out for my new logo, new name and new stock files! 

Thank you all!

In the process of creating a small booklet of my illustrated poem.  I'm about 1/4 of the way through, but I just thought I'd post the preview here.  Like I said, it's going to be a long, arduous process of uploading.  These are digital images and photo manipulations, but are mostly incomplete.

That being said, here's the poem:

In one area of an instance
there was nothing
no light, no dark, no in between
silence, captivating silence

Out matter stretched
across time and space
developing its sense of self
in the forms of creatures and things

The planet breathes, lives and dies
we are part of something bigger
strands of time interwoven together
in one tapestry of creation

One drop in an infinite ocean
one speck in an infinite space
by slim chance we grew
into something magnificent

We are made of our universe
of stars and earth and sky
molecules and atoms of creation
divided yet still attached

Slinging forward in this elliptical dance
constantly moving, ever changing
we keep our steady pace
towards what goal we know not

Light travels across darkness and void
to gift us her nourishing life
coddling all living matter
in her warm, inviting touch

A chance to grow, to feel, to be
do with these gifts what you will
choices are a gift of option
squander not these intimate moments    

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So, I've been doing a lot of free writing lately, and I am these passages have been the inspiration for my oracle card set.  While I am merely passing along the depths of my subconscious, I still believe that there are valid points within the ramblings.  Sharing seems like something I should do, so don't mind the flow...

EGO

The most powerful of all the visceral fates.  Tied to vanity, false success and lack of empathy, Ego is, by far the most driven aspect of the human mind.  Ego can bring even the mightiest of any to their knees.  Cold, calloused, relentless and selfish brand the ego as a mar upon the bearer.  Ego is a form of armor.  A defense between 'the world' and 'yourself'.  It is, in all mannerisms, a hindrance to progression.  The amount of disadvantages far outweigh any advantage of keeping ego as an unchecked power of the Self.  Selfishness is an act of survival to the ego and coexisting is not something to be considered.  Ego creates the false persona of "me", which is an illusion cast upon the carrier.  

Yet, we do not want to completely eliminate ego, for it is a valid and integrated part in the very human aspect of ourselves.  It must constantly be maintained, a balance kept, Ego subdued and tapped upon when survival is necessary.

VANITY

So, I'm just giving an update to my oracle card deck.  So far, we are at 9? cards I believe. 

Here is a sneak peak at the latest additions:

These are the backs of the Oracle cards.

I am also working on a deck of playing cards..

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Sitting silently, waiting, watching the world go by.  Disconnected from everything that is, just to feel that peace of solitude once again.  My own private fortress, away from the insanity of existing.  Pulled to and fro, torn asunder, drawn and quartered.  Which way to go, which way is right and where am I headed.  It feels like a curse, to possess knowledge that most don't even care to entertain.  To know with certainty (or a false sense of such) that all of this is for naught, and we will continue to do it again and again.  There is a pull to exist, a force that we cannot control, contend with, nor understand.  It is something that is beyond 'god', beyond the concept of science. You cannot explain it.  We can beat our knuckles together tirelessly and endlessly before we bloody them against the wall.  We will NEVER understand these intricate examples of fate, destiny and eternal life.  We concoct formulas, detailed equations of matter and physics.  We try to categorize EVERYTHING we observe.  We never look at the entire whole, the beauty of its design as just itself.  We splice, rip apart and study every fiber, every cell and atom until we understand how it works.  Then what?  What do we do with the knowledge that we have found?  Do we always move forward, constantly growing, expanding our scientific minds while leaving our divine bodies lost and wandering?  What happened to the balance?  The beautiful dance of mysticism and science, it has all but disappeared.  Instead, we have scrutinized, debased and degraded anything we could not explain with facts and hard evidence.  If it could not be explained with science, then it must not be valid.  And so the schism divides the dreamers and the thinkers, the Science and the Divine.  Why do we do this to ourselves?  Why do we nuture one aspect of our being, but leave dormant the complementary side?  When we start to realize that we really don't understand anything at all, it begins to make infinitely more sense.  

And back it cycles.  Thirty three years of watching the world turn, the technology advance and the people desensitize.   The free thinkers have been replaced with the mindless masses.  Abysmal hordes of the unfeeling, the uncaring, and the disconnected.  To feel that sting of reality is torture.  Why can you not look around and see that everything is interwoven?  Brought together into a beautiful tapestry of all matter.  From the smallest microbe to the largest planet in the galaxy and beyond...it is all a part of a large organism, a awe-inspiring WE of collective consciousness.  We are no longer known as "me" or "I".  When we realize the bonds, those selfish identities peel back, revealing a layer of untapped potential, of infinite power and knowledge.  You are exposing yourself to the great I AM of consciousness.  Every thought, every minute detail, everything there for you to experience.  Drowning in the knowledge.