Your Body is Your Paintbrush. Love yourself.

Sacred Dreams added a new photo to the album: Inspirations~.

“Your body is not your masterpiece — your life is.

It is suggested to us a million times a day that our BODIES are PROJECTS. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is.

Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, and perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched-up paintbrush is completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that YOU HAVE A PAINTBRUSH which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life — where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.

Your body is not your offering. It’s just a really amazing instrument that you can use to create your offering each day. Don’t curse your paintbrush. Don’t sit in a corner wishing you had a different paintbrush. You’re wasting time. You’ve got the one you got. Be grateful, because without it you’d have nothing with which to paint your life’s work. Your life’s work is the love you give and receive — and your body is the instrument you use to accept and offer love on your soul’s behalf. It’s a system.

We are encouraged to obsess over our instrument’s SHAPE — but our body’s shape has no effect on its ability to accept and offer love for us. Just none. Maybe we continue to obsess because as long we keep wringing our hands about our paintbrush shape, we don’t have to get to work painting our lives. Stop fretting. The truth is that all paintbrush shapes work just fine — and anybody who tells you differently is trying to sell you something. Don’t buy. Just paint.

No wait — first, stop what you are doing and say THANK YOU to your body — right now. Say THANK YOU to your eyes for taking in the beauty of sunsets and storms and children blowing out birthday candles and say THANK YOU to your hands for writing love letters and opening doors and stirring soup and waving to strangers and say THANK YOU to your legs for walking you from danger to safety and climbing so many mountains for you.

Then pick up your instrument and start painting this day beautiful and bold and wild and free and YOU. Paint this day beautiful, bold, wild & free.”~

~Glenan Doyle, Momastary

art: Francien Krieg

A Gentle Man with a Gentle Horse on a Sunny afternoon

A folk song about a tree sitter on Saginaw Mt

Read about Ukraine’s history with Russia occupation and their fight for democracy.

The Stone Horse & Droshki novel by Ken De Villers

The Memoirs of Colonel General Yuri D. Danilov by Ken De Villers

The main character: Yuri Danilov A.K.A. Joseph M. Little Wolf, one man-two lives. Born in 1931 in Kiev, the Ukraine, Mother, Anna Danilov- an assistant professor at Kiev University. Anna and her brother Ivan Danilov were close friends to Nikita Khrushchev and his family.

Dennis Little Wolf- Father of Yuri. Dennis was raised on the White Earth Indian Reservation on the North West edge of Minnesota.  He grew up working as a chore boy on a Sugar Beet farm near Fargo, North Dakota.  Educated as a design engineer and an outspoken Communist. He worked for the Soviet government in the Heavy Industry Bureau designing trucks and new battle Tanks.  In 1941 Dennis died when his cargo ship, carrying land lease Tanks to the Soviets was torpedoed.

Anna and Yuri, age 10 were in Minnesota at the Reservation visiting the Little Wolfe family at the time.  Anna was hoping to find a way back to the Soviet Union. Anna was also a communist.

Ivan Danilov- a Soviet commander from the days of the civil war and then a General during the Patriotic War (World War II.  Ivan by Ukraine tradition assumed the role of Father to Yuri.

Takeaway value” My favorite reading has been “Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown, which tells the story of Chief Red Cloud of the Oglala Sioux band and how the US slowly destroyed the Indian Tribes in North America.

My Historical Novel is set in many of the places where the author was stationed while in the Air Force, namely:

Lakeland AFB Texas

Kunsan, South Korea

Misawa, Japan

Langley AFB VA

Edwards AFB CA

Some of the events were real:     The 1963 Cuban Crisis

                                                           The downing of Gary Powers U-2 plane in 1980

                                                           The shooting down of Korean Airlines in 1983

                                                           The Vietnam Conflict

                                                           The Soviet-Afghan Invasion

For an early history of Ukraine read “The Stone Horse & Droshki” by Ken De Villers

   IVAN DANILOV…Serves in the Tsar’s Imperial Army on the Eastern Front during World War One and later deserts his unit to join the Bolshevik cause prior to the 1917 October Revolution.  During the bloody Civil War, which follows, Ivan commands a Red Guard Detachment fighting the White Loyalist forces in Eastern Siberia.  Later in the Great Patriotic War, Ivan Danilov is one of the Soviet hero’s during the Battle of Stalingrad.  After his friend Nikita Khrushchev assumes the leadership of the USSR, Marshal Danilov is named Soviet Defense Minister.

   YURI DANILOV…Born in 1931 in Kiev, the Ukraine, the son of Anna Danilov and Dennis Little Wolf, a full blood Oglala Sioux Indian.  Little Wolf, an American Engineer and ardent Communist, helps design a new Soviet tractor factory and later the famous Soviet T-34 battle tank.  In 1941, while visiting the Little Wolf relatives in America.  Yuri and his mother are stranded in Minnesota after Hitler’s forces invaded the USSR.  Yuri spends his teen years on the White Earth Indian Reservation, now known under the name of Joseph Little Wolf.

   After high school graduation he enlists in the US Air Force and is trained as an aircraft mechanic. In 1950 he qualifies for flight school.  In 1952 he flies combat missions in Korea.  Shot down over North Korean waters, he is rescued by a Soviet patrol boat and the next day has a bittersweet reunion with Ivan Danilov.  Yielding to political pressure from the Soviet Intelligence Service, he agrees to return to his American airbase and spy for his boyhood motherland.  During the next decade he is the MVD’s, later the KGB’s, top spy in the US military.  In 1960 he aids the Soviets in shooting down a CIA U-2 Spy plane as it flies over Soviet military sites.  In May 1962 when the CIA starts to scrutinize his past history the KGB spirits him back to the USSR.  With the approval of Khrushchev, Yuri is allowed to serve in the Soviet Air Army.

   Shortly after arriving in Moscow he is assigned to serve as an interpreter at a secret Mexico meeting between Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and US Attorney General Robert Kennedy.  The meeting results in an agreement settling the Cuban Missile Crises.  After political and military training, he is sent to command an Interceptor Air Regiment in Eastern Siberia.  In 1965 he flies combat missions against the American’s in the skies of North Vietnam.  In 1979, General Yuri Danilov commands the Soviet air units during their Afghanistan intervention, a war which after nearly ten years of fighting the USSR decides to abandon.  Badly wounded in Afghanistan in 1983 he is sent back to Moscow to recover.  Several months later he is dispatched to Khabarovsk, Siberia to investigate an International incident brought about by the Soviet downing of Korean Airlines Flight 007.

   Yuri Danilov has a lifelong friendship with Sergei Khrushchev, son of the Soviet Chairman. During his military career he meets Chuck Yeager, Francis Gary Powers, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.  Through the eyes of Ivan and Yuri Danilov we are witness to Kremlin political upheavals and the many International crises of the times.  The story relates Yuri’s progressive loss of faith and trust in the communist system and its doctrines.  THE STONE HORSE AND DROSHKI spans his forty-five years of military aviation while piloting some of the worlds latest and hottest aircraft.

   THE STONE HORSE AND DROSHKI is also about the tender love and devotion between Yuri and the beautiful Japanese-Russian Eiko Hiraoka.

   My personal background includes seven years of US Air Force service and a lifelong interest in American and Soviet/Russian military aviation. 

For my father, Ken De Villers

Sincerely,

On the anniversary of Roe vs Wade Kamala Harris defends a woman’s right to choose.

On the anniversary of Roe vs Wade, Kamala Harris stands for women having the right to choose.

https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a38833731/kamala-harris-roe-v-wade-anniversary-scotus-case/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_elm&utm_medium=email&date=012122&utm_campaign=nl26419684&utm_term=AAA%20–%20High%20Minus%20Dormant%20and%2090%20Day%20Non%20Openers

Don’ t let old white dudes in Congress weaken our right to choose. Only the GOP would want to force a woman to have a baby she doesn’t want. Stand with women all over the world. It’s in our Constitution.

One in three women around you have made the choice to not have a child. Most of them won’t tell you but that’s a fact. They are your sisters, nieces, mothers, it’s between them and their doctors.

Supreme court will decide if Roe vs Wade gets weakened. We won’t go back.

89 year old father and 65 year old daughter both publish books

My father of 89 years and I of 65 years both published our books that are very different in subject matter. His book “The Stone Horse & Droshki by Ken De Villers, is a historical novel about the Korean and Afghanistan War, highly researched and reads like a Tom Clancy novel.

My book “The Eve Chronicles” by Diane DeVillers is a contemporary fictionalized memoir about when I first moved to Oregon and lived in the Wallowa Mountain working as a timber cruiser for the Forest Service.

“The Stone Horse & Droshki” by Ken De Villers is also a story of enduring love. It’s an adventure historical novel, the memoirs of Colonel General Yuri Danilov, the son of an American Sioux Indian and a Ukrainian Mother. Master spy for the Soviet KGB. Top Gun fighter pilot in the Korean, Vietnam and the Soviet Afghanistan wars. Privy to the internal workings of the Soviet Union’s Politburo. Also, a story of love and devotion between Yuri and the beautiful Japanese-Russian Eiko Haraoka.

My book is called “The Eve Chronicles” by Diane DeVillers:

The paperback book is three novellas, inspired by the author’s own journals about her relationships, life, and work in the forests of Oregon, comprise “The Eve Chronicles”.

The first book is called “From the Waters of Coyote Springs “is about Eve searching for meaning to her life while working in the forest of the Wallowa Mountains in Oregon. Living in her tent she spends the day doing timber inventory for the Forest Service. Five other mismatched foresters live in the camp with her.

The second book in the paperback book is “Felix and Eve”. Felix, a cantankerous elderly man who needs round-the-clock nursing care. Felix hires Eve as a live-in caregiver. She’s a live-in-the-moment type of person. Once Felix accepts her, he tells of his relationship with the notorious gangster, Al Capone in Chicago during the 1930s.

The third book in “The Eve Chronicles is “The Arrangement” Each year, under a special arrangement, Eve spends the summer on Catalina Island with Sid, a retired college Professor, and Eve’s former lover, who has a debilitating type of Multiple Sclerosis. An irony is that the author, having left the forests to work with people as a caregiver, was later diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. This afforded her the opportunity to retire early and focus on writing.

The three eBooks are available at Smashwords.com or Amazon.com or any other site that sells eBooks. The paperback book is available on Amazon and books stores that can access the Ingram Catalog.

Bristol Bay on the Oregon coast gets EPA protection and saves Salmon runs

https://wildsalmoncenter.org/2021/09/09/epa-to-restart-bristol-bay-clean-water-act-protection-process/?emci=4b20c5fc-0e17-ec11-981f-501ac57ba3ed&emdi=bc6170eb-1717-ec11-981f-501ac57ba3ed&ceid=4170782 Bristol Bay on the Oregon coast the salmon will be protected

Like natural Oregon stories? Check out my author page for “The Eve Chronicles” Wallowa Mts location, Gold Beach and Eugene. https://www.amazon.com/Diane-DeVillers/e/B00BWY3Q9K

A short film by Alexandar Tomov about lost love reuniting

Short Film about past love and reconnecting

Short film by Alexandar Tomov he describes it as : An old but not forgotten love story reconnects, in an absurd way, 2 people who were in separate for a long time.

Their last refugees in reality are memories and nostalgia. The real relationships is subjective and eternal for a man

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