While making pasta salad last night, I cut my thumb. Today in my inbox was a link to a video on how to cut veggies WITHOUT cutting your fingers. Thought you might enjoy!

Rainbow's End

A few weeks ago, after a severe thunderstorm, I saw the most incredible sight from my front porch. I don't think I have ever seen a double rainbow before.

I stitched two pictures together to get the full rainbow.

Choking on a Plate of Good Intentions

Once again (my life in a nutshell) I have over extended myself. My eyes are definitely larger than my stomach. I constantly go through the smorgasbord of life filling my plate to the brim with all the delectable things I see. However, when it comes to actually eating the fare, I find my capacity is considerably smaller than my heaping plate. This week I did nibble at a couple of my tasty treats. Here is my report.

Humanities - English, Art and History just didn't happen except for writing my morning pages 5 of 7 times.

Science - I am reading "Heal Thyself" by Edward Bach, MD. I have an assignment to give a presentation on chapter 4 this coming week at my Energy Medicine class. He basically says we need to:

"... seek out any faults in our constitution and wash them out by developing the opposing virtue, thus removing from our nature the cause of the conflict between Soul and personality, which is the primary basic cause of disease."

I agree with this basic statement. However, he also says"

"The ultimate conquest of all will be through love and gentleness and when we have sufficiently developed these two qualities nothing will be able to assail us, since we shall ever have compassion and not offer resistance; for again by the same law of cause and effect it is resistance which damages.

I absolutely do NOT agree with this statement. Resistance, or in other words, opposition, builds strength and character. Opposition (resistance) is a true principle as found in 2 Nephi 2:11, 15 :

"For it must needs be, that there is an ^aopposition in all things. If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be broughtto pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.

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15 And to bring about his eternal ^apurposes in the end of man, after he had ^bcreated our first parents, and the beasts of the field and the ^cfowls of the air, and in fine, all things which are created, it must needs be that there was an opposition; even the ^dforbidden ^efruit in ^fopposition to the ^gtree of life; the one being sweet and the other bitter.

For my presentation I need a list of characterfaults and the opposing virtues which eradicate the faults. Any ideas?

Foreign Language - I did go to study group and my class but I really NEED to actually study. I am working on verb tenses and vocabulary.

Religion - I am working through chapter 5 of Isaiah. I am finding this study to be fascinating. I begin class in a couple of weeks. Also, I am reading in 3 Nephi about our Savior's visit to the Americas.

Computer Tech - I completed my advanced Word class. Also, I PLAYED with my Wacom tablet and pen tool in Photoshop. This is SO MUCH FUN. Anyone want a lesson??? And last but not least, I helped Alex with his Word assignment.

Home Economics - I did the normal everyday stuff that DOES NOT count. This is one tasty treat I need to indulge in more.

Music - Another tasty treat that I have yet to enjoy.

Well, now that I have reported I see that I did better than I thought. However, there is definitely room to improve. This week I will be spending 4 days at my Energy Medicine class. We are studying homeopathy.

Oh, just to make the post intersting, I thought I would post some pictures I took this week. Enjoy!

Tiedyn had fun picking these summer squash out of our garden.

Addison is officially an adult. Top, left to right Amberlyn, Paige (Addison's girlfriend), Addison and Matt.

Alex and Watson on guard duty.