Criminals… WATCH OUT !!!

According to an old tip by President Teddy Roosevelt: “Speak gently and carry a big stick”

It is time for the revenge of the Old Folks ! 
The Associated Press today announced that fights with a cane are becoming increasingly popular here in America!!!

The students, mostly older people, learn how to use a cane for self defense, hooking, hitting, poking, knocking and other ‘inconveniences’ to the aggressor. Yes !!

It’s called “CANE FU.”

Be sure to watch the video of the class below.

I did classes on self defense, and was shocked last year, how much I had to learn, just using my hands.
Give me a cane and you’ll see!
By the way, the canes specially made for this are not easily breakable.

(the old lady struggling, looks like me in an encounter with some aggressor :-))

Totally changing the subject: a while ago, I caught a bit of Oprah, and I love that doctor, and also her favorite Dr.Mehmed Oz MD, (author of YOU; On a Diet), was saying “if you are hungry before bedtime, eat yogurt with cinnamon. “ Hmm … I like the two separate but together?

It never crossed my mind !
I tried it and to my utter surprise I… loved it!
And best of all: IT WORKS!
I discovered later that: “Cinnamon stimulates the satiety center of your brain, as well as reduces sugar and blood cholesterol. Just a half teaspoon per day makes a difference.” Dr. Oz

Pass on the tips! Many many thanks ! ♥♥♥

A brilliant idea which has EVERYTHING to do with me…

Also something old, Brazilian, used, protected a lot of things, many people and many animals (and still doing it)…

It enjoys being outdoors and even seems to be…

Indestructible !

They are tarps used on Brazilian trucks…

Transformed…

Into…

So, if the hat fits…

That’s right! Beautiful and super durable hats!

As well as bags, backpacks and other things that never wear out.

Some even come with words or sayings in Portuguese, because they are made in Brazil. Both the tarps and the bags etc.

That is what I call a strong fashion.

And that shoulder bag there, I want one!

This one to carry the laptop comes with padding is only $ 20 !

I love the slogan: “DON’T TAKE CARE OF ME I TAKE CARE OF YOU.”

No, they’re not paying me anything to talk about them.

I really like stuff like this, like wearing jeans and a white blouse.

I LOVE IT! ♥♥♥  www.realdealbrazil.com

Cats love fish.

Dogs have the idea they have to ‘perfume’ themselves with it and roll on top of one.

Yaakks!

The ants eat them when the tide is low, and the same happens when the tide is high…

Some people make a fish face to make others laugh.

Kurt Cobain said that it’s ok to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Really?

My dentist answered one of my ever so many questions, saying that the reason they have aquariums in waiting rooms, is because patients watching them get the benefit of reducing anxiety, and blood pressure goes down 15 points!

Thousands of fishermen around here are unanimous: fishing is relaxing and relieves stress…

I’m not a fisher or a hunter, but…

I’ve tried watching them in an aquarium for a few minutes and felt like I was meditating… it left me in almost in a hypnotic state, and it even seems to give my brain a time out, taking away my worries.

And I thought no human, rich or powerful, has been as free as a fish. (except when they are hiding and fleeing from predators)

Today is Sunday! Watch a few fish now.

At www.FishCam.com www.LSSU.edu/arl/fishcam or www.MontereyBayAquarium.org to see them swimming in America.

The photos below are from my birthday yesterday.

Scenes like these have the amazing ability to change the circuits of my brain, elevate my mood and make me feel more energetic.

After living them I believe that I can make better decisions.

I chose to spend that day there, and I am deeply grateful that the place is so close to home, but even if those scenes, were just on my computer screen.

Looking at autumn leaves, a flower garden, a sunset or a place covered with snow gives me the feeling I’m somewhere else — even though I had never been there.

A wise american proverb says:

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrowed it from our children.”

And the truth is that even though there is not one passenger on the “spaceship earth’, we are all members…

We abuse the land thinking it belongs to us.

But seeing it like this as a community (as this park that ‘belongs to us’), we may begin to use it with more love and respect.

For that reason parks are sooo important…

Good job God!

But I’ll be here hoping that these trees never become comic books or packs of cigarettes.

A Virgo in a ‘virgin jungle’, an album I made in my FB. Should have been: “a VERY HAPPY virgo is always in a forest, virgin or not.”

Mr.Slipper Man Socks, also was so happy!

As contemplative Toby…

And to the joy of my heart, they were was still there…

Those who release in me, a lot of seratonin, and a feeling of well being, to be loved and safe.

The animals.

We were not there to hunt. Nor do I think ‘hunting’ is some kind of sport. If it were even, both sides would be in the game.

I can’t stand life just between walls and brick, walking on asphalt ground, breathing smoke from oil, petroleum and all smelly.

But it’s even worse, when you have to fight the government to save the environment.

The water is dark, but it’s dyed by the leaves.

All together, we could save this earth! But we are so selfish…

And nothing in it is safe from stupid man’s passing marks.

Did you realize that the laws of nature affirm, but do not forbid anything…?

But at the same time, when we violate, we end up being the same: our own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury and executioner.

“Do not take anything but photos. Do not allow anything that is not your own fingerprints.” (?)