BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Wednesday 8/30/06

From the Zaadz collection

"Soul Operation'

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BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote (s) for the Day:

"The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized.

Anyone can criticize.

It takes a true believer to be compassionate.

No greater burden can be born by an individual

than to know no one cares or understands."

Arthur H. Stainback

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"How is one to live a moral and compassionate

existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror

inherent in life, when one finds darkness

not only in one's culture but within oneself?

If there is a stage at which an individual

life becomes truly adult,

it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding

and accepts responsibility for a life lived

in the midst of such paradox.

One must live in the middle of contradiction,

because if all contradiction were eliminated

at once life would collapse.

There are simply no answers to some of

the great pressing questions.

You continue to live them out,

making your life a

worthy expression

of leaning into the light. "

Barry Lopez

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"Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal

and can have no value,

that neither love nor fame nor cash

is a value if obtained by fraud

- that an attempt to gain a value by deceiving the

mind of others is an act of raising your victims

to a position higher than reality,

where you become a pawn of their blindness,

a slave of their non-thinking

and their evasions,

while their intelligence,

their rationality,

their perceptiveness become the enemies

you have to dread and flee

- that you do not care to live as a dependent,

least of all a dependent on the stupidity of others,

or as a fool whose source of values

is the fools he succeeds in fooling

- that honesty is not a social duty,

not a sacrifice for the sake of others,

but the most profoundly

selfish virtue man can practice:

his refusal to sacrifice

the reality of his own existence

to the deluded consciousness of others. "

Ayn Rand

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Working hard to accept my set of circumstances,

say "yes" to my today,

and continue to

"work for it, don't wish for it"

May the world be yours today,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.hjempowerment.com

www.sybilanntellsall.com

I am asking for a sale today,

yes I am asking for a sale...

I need to re-coup my relocation costs, and pay the rent,

so I am asking for what I need,

I need a sale today to make some things in my life

work better.

Money isn't an issue until you have not

enough to cover your families basic needs.

I need those needs met, and so I will do as I always do...

ask for my needs to be met, with out pretense or lies.

I live a transparent life, I don't lie to gain,

and I appreciate the open hearts of those

who understand this ideal.

I am asking for the sale,

go see if there is a way you

can help support this living artist.

Open your minds, hearts and souls,

and then consider what I have to offer in return,

myself, true and whole...and full of Soul.

RAW, Radient & Unafraid...

Heather

BAD! Kitty Art Studio~ Artist Blog~ Tuesday 8/28/06

http://mscaprikell.zaadz.com/blog/2006/7/body_mind

_and_spirit_zaangha_retreat

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the Day:

"Thankfulness is measured by the number of words;

gratitude is measured by the nature of our actions."

David McKay

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I am in a place of gratitude today...

because a dear friend of mine is organizing the retreat above...

and I offered to provide some of my

A.I.M. Series magnets to her event

for doorprizes and she said "yes, please!'

Her event will be based on mindfulness, and so I will create

a special series just for her on that topic.

I am full of gratefulness for the opportunity

to be in some way involved in this enlightening

experience and that my work is being

recognized by someone I respect deeply as a Human being

& I get to help benefit her cause/dream.

I am excited to get to work on the new series,

which I will not offer to the general public,

but will be made only for her and her wonderful event.

Please check out her event plans, and join in if you can, it's sure to be a life changer, and a mind opener.

Ms. Kelly is a wonderful Ordained Spiritual Oracle and Teacher,

and even better yet she is a wonderful true Human being, heart and soul.

Here's another link to more info about her event, for your ease.

http://mscaprikell.zaadz.com/blog/2006/7/body_mind_and

_spirit_zaangha_retreat

May the world be a pleasant place for you to reside in today,

and yeah! For my work getting seen!

Yippee!

Heather

*who is now doing the happy dance*

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.hjempowerment.com

www.sybilanntellsall.com

PS. Go buy some of my Art, please, with sugar on top!

Support living artists, if not me then one that resonates with you.

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Monday and it begins again...

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the Day:

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear.

It is just like the days.

An old day passes, a new day arrives.

The important thing is to make it meaningful:

a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. "

Dalai Lama

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Monday again, and I begin again to act to conquer my own world, inner not outer.

I miss the company of friends, and feel the pain of that truth,

and sometimes fear that I should not always speak in truth, so as to not have that knowledge used against me later, to cause me pain, for the other humans control or pleasure, passive or ignorant...

It still amounts to pain for me, as a human, not an ego.

When I speak truth to someone, and say to them

" I have experienced this in my past, and I wish to not repeat it, please don't do this to me and all will be well."

I always am doing so with the hope that I have not just passed a poisoned dagger to someone who will later use that information about my past pain to repeat it again in my present.

It is so hard to fully trust without any ego, without expectation, without need.

I am learning to live in solitude, and that may be what my inner needs are right now, but I can't help fighting my human desires for true and lasting friendships, family, and love.

I am working on my thinking today,

I will work with my coaching clients with this in my mind today,

knowing that in order to be the best at what I do, I must do it without any expectation of a return for myself, for my ego. I must just simply love each moment, and work within that moment, to see to it's truth,

that I am truly living and loving

in freedom.

It's not easy being human, it's not easy being alone, it's not easy to ask for nothing, to expect nothing, and still give of yourself fully, not for the self, but selflessly giving

from a true place of love and tolerance.

Such responsibility those words hold, and

such freedom, transcendence from the

simple Human needs; a willingness not sacrifice the self, but to enliven

the soul with the act of saying "yes" to my now,

my set of circumstances, my today.

Living in this moment, learning what I need, asking for what I want,

being open, being quiet, not reacting to the world,

but interacting with all of the world as it is today.

My goal for the day,

stay here, play with, love and learn

this now...And make it something that I can feel good about

inside my soul, not my ego...

when I lay my weary head on my pillow tonight,

and count another day done.

Yours in truth,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.hjempowerment.com

www.sybilanntellsall.com

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Sunday's Inspiration~ 8/27/06

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote of the Day:

"Thought is the seed of action;

but action is as much its second

form as thought is its first.

It rises in thought, to the end that

it may be uttered and acted.

Always in proportion to the depth

of its sense does it knock importunately

at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My thought's

my seeds

my actions

reveal my

willingness to

forget my own

needs

wants

desires

and embrace the

truth

of being

willing

to live

to die

in every moment

for everything

and everyone.

My soul speaks

in dreams

my actions

my thoughts are not

entirily

my own,

but divine inner

directive

to becoming

whole

with all that is

humanity,

the beauty of a smile shared,

the simple pleasure of a child's smell,

the kind moments

of solitude where

the gift of

less time for my

self-conversations

and more listening

to the sounds of

humanity

in need

of

Love.

I am open in

this adventure

to go beyond

fragmented ego

into the field

of understanding

I am

and you

are too,

which bonds us

together

beyond

likes or loyalties

and transcends

rights and wrongs

to become a life that sees

through the

clear

vision

of the

Human Condition

we all share;

A Soul Vision.

HuMBle ~ 8/27/69

Yours in Truth, passion,

and soul-Full-ness,

Have a wonderful Sunday all.

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.sybilanntellsall.com

www.hjempowerment.com

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Saturday's Thinking ~

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the Day:

" There are two freedoms - the false where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought. "

Charles Kingsley

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"Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked. "

Muhammad Ali

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" The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for - and dying for, if need be - is the opportunity of making someone else more happy and more useful. "

Booker T. Washington

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As my feet

touch

earth

and wings unfold

into the void

filling with quietness

of inner

freedom,

I pass from

being

Human

to then be

more.

Mystic wonders

spotlights

on the face of

God

I weep

my tears

fall on hard

earth

salt licked

wounds

sprout

new growth.

Taking flight

the world sings

it's

silent

songs

of

come back.

Freedom defined by

willingness

to transcend

into the nothingness

that is

full of everything...

we are but an

idea

riding on the

back of

the great

sea turtle.

An act of kindness

that we cannot

earn,

we can only

be thankful

for the rest.

The soul

needs no light,

no food,

and no

chain

made by Man

can hold

back the waters

of Truth.

HuMBle~8/25/06

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May the World be yours today,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.hjempowerment.com

www.sybilanntellsall.com

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Fun Friday!

BAD! Kitty Art Studio
Quote for the Day:
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. "
~George Bernard Shaw
Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893
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Circumstance by Webster's definition:

cir·cum·stance Pronunciation: 'sr-km-"stan(t)s, -stn(t)s

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin circumstantia, from circumstant-, circumstans, present participle of circumstare to stand around, from circum- + stare to stand

1 a : a condition, fact, or event accompanying, conditioning, or determining another : an essential or inevitable concomitant b : a subordinate or accessory fact or detail c : a piece of evidence that indicates the probability or improbability of an event (as a crime)

2 a : the sum of essential and environmental factors (as of an event or situation) b : state of affairs : EVENTUALITY -- often used in plural

c plural : situation with regard to wealth

3 : attendant formalities and ceremonial

4 : an event that constitutes a detail (as of a narrative or course of events)

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GO read this blog!

http://thefellclutchofcircumstance.blogspot.com/

Do yourself a favor and read at least the first couple of posts, this blog freaking A rocks! I mean ROCKS!

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And last but not least a Friday Funny!

From the lips of Mrs. Clinton herself...from a graduation speech given recently:

Funny ha-ha
"I was never very good in science. . . .

When I was a very young girl,

I wanted to be an astronaut,

so I wrote off to this new agency called NASA

and asked how a 12-year-old girl could become an astronaut.

I got an answer back saying,

"We're not accepting women into the astronaut program."

I was somewhat comforted by my mother, who told me that my eyesight was much too bad anyway.

I next decided that I wanted to be a nuclear physicist. . . .

But for me, there were a few obstacles along the way,

you know, like the periodic table and things like that.

Then I decided that I wanted to be a doctor,

and I took all of the science courses in high school,

planning to be a doctor,

until I actually had the opportunity

to shadow some doctors in our local hospital

and passed out at the first sight of sickness.

So clearly, there wasn't anything

left for me than to become a lawyer."

—AT RPI

My source for the above information:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0524,lombardi,64922,6.html

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May the world be yours today,

no matter what your life circumstances may be.

yours In truth, Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.hjempowerment.com

www.sybilanntellsall.com

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Artist Blog~ I'm BACK!

"I wanted a perfect ending.

Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme,

and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Life is about not knowing, having to change,

taking the moment and making the best of it,

without knowing what's going to happen next.

Delicious ambiguity. "

~Gilda Radner

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I am back online!

Yippee for internet access!

I have an incredibly busy day

with clients to coach and read for,

I am booked for the next two days solid, just trying to catch up.

I have NEW art work to finish and share with you.

I have a home with no furniture in it.

I have a trillion things to catch up on; *Whew!*

and I am happy to have so much to do

and not enough hours to do it in.

I am back, and nothing will stop me now.

Viva La Life!

Yours in Truth,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.hjempowerment.com

www.sybilanntellsall.com

A BAD! Kitty Note to Readers

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

A note to my Loyal Fans:

Dear Reader,

I am moving to a new place and while I transfer

everything into the new digs,

I will be down from computer access for a little while.

Maybe even a week! Maybe even more! OMG!!! No!

Gasp! I know, I am not sure I can make it...no internet?!

:)

So... While Being forced to be quiet will be good

for my works and words,

I ask that you not abandon me while

I put all my puzzle pieces together again.

I should return by the

end of next week, and I have new

ART

to share and show you all.

I just need a few days to figure everything out, and the

installer for the internet has not given me a

date for hook up yet, just a 1-5 day window...

so don't give up on me,

and I will return soon with more

great things to share, show

and tell you all about...

in about a week from today.

Be well, all of you,

and ya'll come back now ya hear!

If you have recently purchased/or are wanting to purchase a work, please understand that I can do nothing to control the world, and the workings of it, but I do care about you

& I will get back in touch with you FIRST...ASAP!

Just wanted you all to know what's happening here in the

BAD! Kitty Lands.

Much love to all,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.hjempowerment.com

www.sybilanntellsall.com

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Artist Blog~ Sunday & my world is at rest

"Every time you meet a situation,

though you think at the moment

it is an impossibility

and you go through the tortures of the damned,

once you have met it

and lived through it

you find that forever

after you are freer than you were before."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

***

Once there was a little girl,

who loved to swing on the

old oak plank rope swing in the back yard of her

grandparents ancient home

thick with the smell of the Florida Gulf waters

swimming in her lungs.

She would swing as high as she could

legs pumping like pistons,

the rope making the tree limbs

groan like a heart breaking.

She would reach the highest point she could

when the swing was so fast and strong

that her insides felt like they

were going to be outside,

then and only then

would she throw her head back

long hair flying wildly and tangling in the rope

and let the ground rush up to meet her

and watch the world from

upside down

while the swing slowly

slowed down and

came to rest.

Most times she would

continue to hang there

upside down

looking up through the paper bark

tree leaves, the sun so hot and huge in the sky

the blood would start rushing to her head.

When she sat up finally

and righted the world again, there

was always a touch of

sadness at the corners her full mouth.

Swinging was great,

it was the stopping that was hard to do.

Looking into the mirror I recognize that girl.

I still like viewing the world

upside down, with my hair in my face,

and the inside rushing

out.

I am no longer sad when I swing.

I am freer than I was then,

as a girl in the backyard of indifferent

family members.

I let those memories surface

so that I may keep that little girl around for a bit longer,

I am no longer that person,

but she was a sweet little girl once,

and I like to remember

her swinging

her head thrown back and clean

hair dragging in the dry dust at her feet.

I like to think about her hanging there,

suspended in time

looking at the world upside down

and knowing

she was right.

Be well today,

& may you have a most wonderful Sunday,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.hjempowerment.com

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Artist Blog~ Saturday's in a deep pocket

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously.

If you can control the process of choosing,

you can take control of all aspects of your life.

You can find the freedom that comes

from being in charge of yourself."

~Robert F. Bennett
***

I can think of no

better prison

than absolute freedom.

I choose and then live

with that truth daily.

Consequences served on chipped china,

lemon on the side of my disposable plastic glass.

I live Free, here on Earth.

The invisible bars inside my head,

ones that I strain my neck and eyes

to see through,

searching for the faintest glimmer

in the velvet ribbon of nights darkness

for the stars that

rest there.

I can not snatch them down

from their cold places in the Universe,

just as I can not sprout wings

to fly away from the pain

of knowing I can never un-do

my past.

Wealth rests on my shoulders,

and fear rides shotgun in my front pocket.

Virtue pokes awareness into the truth

of the risks I take,

and makes the sky

feel that much closer to

the small

hand that will never stop

reaching

snatching

grabbing

tugging

for those shiny specks

that dance overhead in the

sky of doubt and uncertainty.

Reaching for the sky,

When her hand is out

she has stars in her eyes.

This human chooses

a freedom that costs

everything,

and serves nothing.

I will go

first,

into the dark,

leaving a trail you can follow if you

are brave enough

to see by just the light of the moon,

the scent of summer grasses treaded upon,

and my shiny pebbles

scattered like so many stars

upon the land.

~HuBMle 8/12/06

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May the world be yours today.

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.hjempowerment.com

BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Artist Blog ~

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote of the day

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"The remarkable thing we have is a

choice every day regarding

the attitude we will embrace for that day.

We cannot change our past...

We cannot change the fact that people

will act in a certain way.

We cannot change the inevitable.

The only thing we can do is play on

the one string we have, and that is our attitude."

Charles Swindoll
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"The Soul is tied to no individual, no culture,

no tradition, but rises fresh in every person,

beyond every person,

and grounds itself in a truth and glory that

bows to nothing

in the world of time and place and history.

We all must be,

and can only be,

"A light unto ourselves."

~ Emerson

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Spirit

Soul

Mind

Body

circles of

being,

chains of understanding

forming the bonds

that will cross

any bridge

to arrive

at my own Door,

as my Heartfire

Lights the Way.

~ Humble 8/9/06

Be Well today,

and live like it's your last 10 seconds

so that you may not miss one

beautiful moment of the

unfolding of yourself.

Shine,

Sing,

Dance,

Create,

Lead,

Be the Light into this

world and

be

Free.

May the world be yours today,

Yours in Truth,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

www.hjempowerment.com