Free Book!

Remember a couple of months ago I posted a rave review of Travis Erwin's very funny book, The Feedstore Chronicles? (click here)

Well, for this weekend only, you can download a FREE copy of it via Amazon for your Kindle. And if you don't have a Kindle, you can also get a free Kindle app for your smart phone or computer.

What a deal!

Click here to go to Travis's blog One Word, One Rung, One Day where all the necessary links are found!

Happy International Women's Day!

Every year on this blog, I like to celebrate International Women's Day by posting a video of some wonderful KICK-ASS women who live their lives OUT LOUD. They are great role models for the rest of us, showing us how to be brave and be ourselves!

So this year may I present . . . the Advanced Style Ladies of New York! To paraphrase some of their words of wisdom:

Dress up for the theatre of your life every day.

You don't want to look crazy, but look as chic as you can.

Before 80, you lie about your age. After 80, you brag about it.

This video is a trailer for the full-length documentary which is coming out in the summer of 2012. There will be a book too. And there's a blog called Advanced Style where all this madness started.

Thanks to Suzy8-Track of I got stuff on my mind for introducing me to this great video!

St. John's Keokea Labyrinth, Part 2

St. John's Keokea church was built in 1907 to serve the Chinese farming community of Kula, Maui. The inscription over the front door says "St. John Prayer House" in Chinese.

There's some beautiful stained glass windows inside the small church.

A stylized rainbow is featured in this window. One of Hawaii's unofficial state symbols is the rainbow. It currently appears on all their licence plates.

The front doors have a beautiful geometric design cut into them. Here it is from the inside of the church . . .

. . . and from the outside. Isn't it lovely?

Kula is located "upcountry" near the cattle-and-cowboy towns of Makawao and Olinda. Wouldn't this local art on the side of the church hall be right at home in Alberta's ranch lands near Calgary? Yee haw.

St. John's Keokea Labyrinth, Part 1

Maui's first labyrinth was installed in 1997 at St. John's Keokea Episcopal Church which is located halfway up the side of Haleakala volcano.

No need to wander around the grounds looking for this labyrinth -- it's painted right on the parking lot! It's the first time we ever drove a labyrinth, LOL!

The labyrinth has kind of a crazy tilt to it because the parking lot slopes downward for drainage purposes. Sometimes I felt a bit tipsy walking part of the perimeter. Whoa!

It was a cool, overcast day when we visited. The air was full of birdsong as we walked the ancient Chartres path, enjoying the lush greenery of rural Maui all around us.

A small donation box is located beside the labyrinth, protected from the elements by a cute shrine-like structure painted in the same colour scheme as the church.

Tomorrow: a tour of the church.

[All photos by Debra She Who Seeks]

Glow, Little Buddha, Glimmer, Glimmer

Turquoisemoon over at Daily Om made this beautiful terrarium with a lovely Buddha statue in it. There's a battery-operated tea light in Buddha's begging bowl. Neat, eh?

This made me think of MY illuminated Buddha which is plugged into the cigarette lighter of my car. He glows with a serene blue light and keeps my vehicle safe. But this photo doesn't really do him justice cuz he's kinda hard to see, due to the glowing and all.

There . . . is that better?

[Top photo by turquoisemoon. Other photos by Debra She Who Seeks]

Movie Meme

The last movie I watched was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

So if that movie is now my life story, how fucked am I? Pretty much! I must live in a world of deception and betrayal, silence and lies, violent collateral damage and ugly Cold War architecture.

But on the bright side, Colin Firth is there! And you know how I loves me some Colin Firth.

So how about you -- care to answer the meme? Spill yer guts in the comments! (not literally, of course).

Lion, Lamb, Ramsay

If March comes in like a lion . . .

. . . Ramsay can roar louder!

If March comes in like a lamb . . .

. . . run, little one, run!

Too late!