The Peace Sign Symbolizes Destruction

My sister Kaisu was working on a school paper last weekend. She chose to study the symbolism in Finno-Ugric clothing and came up with an interesting discovery. Personally, I never thought or heard of this before. But the peace sign actually symbolizes destruction because it has the tree of life upside down. This is not just northern symbolism from runes, but is there in many cultures around the world.

The plain circle symbolizes earth, and if the tree was up, it would really symbolize peace and life. Upside down, it means death and destruction. In the sixties, some students started using the peace sign as we know it for protesting nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons obviously bring death to Earth, so the sign was appropriate. But now the sign is understood to mean peace, love and unity when the symbolism really means the opposite.

Of course, socially, the upside down tree of life symbol has now a total connotation of positivity and peace. But this would still be more accurate:

Pretty interesting wouldn't you say!

How to Find Unusual Bohemian Wallpapers?

It's easy! Just come to Omwoods. LOL! These are my recent favorites:

Couldn't help but add those fairyish ladies although the last one looks creepy especially the breast area. Anyhow, hope you can utilize some of this!

I'm off to Indiana and back to North Carolina the next day (about 13 hours there and 13 hours back). We're picking up a roof for our van to replace the one we have on it now. The new roof will give us SPACE and I'll be able to STAND UP in my van-house :D Philip is still going to be too tall to stand up all the way but this will make our lives a bit more...hedonistic? Haha! So I'll see you all when our intense trip is done.

Please take a few seconds to send out some good vibes and prayers so our engine doesn't break on the way, it broke like three times past 5 days. Ok, I gotta go to sleep to get ready to drive all rest of the day/night. Remember folks, we drive on waste vegetable oil so it's practically zero harmful emissions! :)

Talk to Strangers - The Peaceful Program for Overcoming Paranoia

I sat down on a bench in front of the library. A girl was sitting next to me. She was wearing a black coat, blue jeans and reading a book. She put the book down on top of a few other books to answer a phone call. I looked at the book, it was titled 'Pill Head'. Interesting. I wanted to ask her about the book but didn't feel confident to speak to her. I was afraid of her response. Maybe she would feel awkward. Or didn't want anything to do with me. She was finished with her phone call and started to pack the books into her bag.

I remembered the quote from Walt Whitman I put on my latest hoop video: 

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? 

I figured, I can't be a hypocrite - suggest to others to do something I won't. I decided to open up and in the process, become vulnerable, not knowing how she'll react. "What's that book about?" I asked. She looked at me. She had strong black eyeliner. Like, super strong. She explained what the book was about and we started talking about movies, we had similar taste. I recommended a book to her, and she was glad to hear about it. She was really sweet and our exchange was natural.

There's this whole big 'War on Terror' campaign going on. How about a 'Peaceful Program for Overcoming Paranoia', starting with talking to strangers, for example. So many times I've had the police or security called on me when I've parked somewhere with our house-mobile. How about coming over and asking what's up instead.

At least I can do this. A personal, peaceful program for connecting with others, giving (even if it's a little bit of good energy) and learning. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam there's a story of a sage who accepted so many gurus. Some of his teachers were examples to him of how not to do things. You can learn something from anyone. It's ok to be vulnerable. There's this strength about it.