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 We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn in your favor... To Love means loving the unlovable. To Forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.....

 Good evening my lovely creatures. No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. So back up your words and make your ideas a reality. Nobody can stop you. Not even yourself with a little motivation. Go get it.....

 Good evening and Happy Memorial Day, my lovely creatures and beautiful band of miscreants! Be safe, enjoy this gorgeous day, and if you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the Universe. Do that and all will be right again. Now get out there and show them what you can do..... 5/29/23

 The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie... When we forgive, we don't alter the past, we change the future.....

 To My Beautiful Monsters... You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may throw me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated in the world today. Instead, it is twisted and distorted. As if to make me a sociopath. A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree. A lot of what I say is lost in translation. Maybe I do have sociopathic tendencies. Maybe I am chaos. I accept chaos. I'm not sure wether it accepts me. When you create chaos and anarchy, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way. There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. This is a necessary darkness for me that is needed to create. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means ma

 We are our own vehicle. We set our own path, we set our own speed.....

  WHAT THE HELL IS POWER METAL? Before I get started in showing some of my favorite power metal album covers, I guess I should probably explain what power metal exactly is to those that haven't a clue.  You have genres and you have sub-genres.  Power Metal is a sub-genre of Heavy Metal.  Coming from a 15 year music industry career, with ten of them being at one of the bigger names of record labels of metal music, Earache Records , I've learned not just about metal in general, but also about the sub-genres that exist within the music genre itself.  Every music genre now, has sub-genres, where you can have elements of certain styles while creating a new sub-genre as well. First off, heavy metal...some of you probably heard of the genre because of Eddie Munson from Stranger Things and now all of a sudden you guys think you like Metallica (they used to be thrash , then commercial heavy metal, and now...I don't even know what to call them anymore.  Anyway).  Heavy metal is not

  ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPHER:  ANNA AVERIANOVA I'm a member of the photography site, 500px , and today I came across an amazing photographer by the name of Anna Averianova , from Montenegro , a city in Bosnia .  I was so amazed by this photographer's work, that I had to share some of my favorite pieces by the talented photographer.  I have always had a huge respect for people that are animal photographers, especially dog photographers ; how they can get them to stay in poses and sit and capture stunning works of art.  It's definitely a skill and this photographer's work is just beautiful. Please join in me and marvel in Anna's work... WHAT DID YOU THINK OF TODAY'S FINDS? I think Anna has an amazing talent and I highly recommend for anyone that enjoyed these photos, to follow Anna on their website and their social media accounts that will be listed below.  Be sure to share this blog article and support the arts! ANNA AVERIANOVA'S LINKS 500px Instagram Facebook Websi