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a friend sent me this email forward. it came prefaced with threats of bad luck if I didn't forward it on, and followed by promises f good things if I sent it on.

I don't like threatening emails, or falsely promising email bribery.

but apart from that, I find Chain mail emails very entertaining. this one was a list of "good advice"; some of it WAS good advice, and some of it not so wise. I have made my reply here to each item of advice.

feel free to give your reaction to the ones which interest you.

or rant about why you hate chain mail


----Jadis


ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

I say---That’s good, if their expectations are appropriate. some people expect too much. and it's better to give less than they expect.Give people something better than they expect; if they expect something wrong, don’t give it to them, give them something good instead. For example, if a drunk asks you for money to buy a drink, take him to an AA meeting.

TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

I say---Marry one who likes to listen, if you like to talk, cause if you like to talk, but they don’t like to listen it creates conflict. Marry one who likes to talk if you like to listen. Marry one you have good conversations with if you like to do both.

THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

I say--Most things should be done in moderation, these are good examples.

FOUR. When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.

I say--and know what it means, and act on it.

FIVE. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.

I say ---and mean what you say, and learn from your mistakes.

SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

I say—and stay single for at least a year after the end of a serious relationship.

SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.

I say—believe even more in the love that grows over time.

EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

I say—unless they want to be a comedian, then laughing would be the perfect reaction

NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
I say---but do it with respect, consideration for the feelings of others, responsibility and morality.

TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

I say---In disagreements, don’t fight against each other, fight together to come to a common understanding.

ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.

I say—Love people, don’t judge people. Judge behavior by the basic gospel principle “love God and love your neighbor as yourself” lovingly help others to learn how to live up to that if their behavior doesn’t pass that judgment.

TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.

I say--Talk efficiently, clearly, concisely and think through what you say completely before you say it. Except when passionate expression of feelings is called for, then honestly express what you truly feel and don’t over-think it.

THIRTEEN! . When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'

I say –and then ask yourself “why don’t I want to answer? And Is that really a righteous reason?”

FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

I say—stupidity and self indulgence involve greater risks

FIFTEEN. Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.

I say—hand them a tissue, it’s much more helpful.

SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

I say—or your temper or your perspective.

SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.

I say—those are good… I think Righteousness and Repentance would be two more good ones.

EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

I say-- don’t let a little dispute ruin anything and don’t let anything ruin a great friendship.

NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

I say—that is very important.

TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

I say—unless you are really upset, because it is not always good to hide your feelings sometimes. Sometimes we need to express them honestly, and resolve them, not bottle them up inside

TWENTY- ONE. Spend some time alone.

I say—and some time alone with God. And with your family, especially the family members you have a hard time getting along with.


twenty-two A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

I say—A true friend tells a friend honestly if they see them doing something wrong, and helps them learn to do better. A true friend never helps a friend do something harmful.

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I now have the full ten volunteers. if you still want to be featured, feel free to volunteer, but be warned it may be a few months till I get you on.



10*naddykoo
9~kilby64
8 ~artist-without-cause
7~alex-sukehiro
6 ~raemanzu
5=avancna(done)
4*1footonthedawn (done)
3*Saskuto (done)
2~Glinadaro (done)
1~DawningDevil (done)



Volunteer feature # 5 =avancna

You know how I randomly wander around DA clicking on anything which interests me? Many months ago when I had just started on this feature journal, I saw a feature in someone’s journal and found a picture in the favs of the person featured which had a link to something which somehow lead me to this amazing artist.

I am really impressed with his gallery because he has so much art and it is of such good quality and so creative and unique.

However he really hasn’t gotten that much attention. I think his art really deserves to be seen. So I asked him to volunteer to be featured on my journal, and he generously agreed.

His art is a combination of realistic drawings of prehistoric creatures and amazing fantasy creatures influenced by his study of real creatures.

Here are three examples:


I chose this one to feature because I thought it was a nice example of this type of art, showing several different creatures, nicely drawn and colored, and in context.


This, apart from just being a very awesome creature is a nice example of taking reality and making something new and amazing from it


And this is to show what he is capable of in terms of something pretty much completely different for the other animal-based pictures, a little farther from reality, but still with great anatomy and creativity, drawn and colored with great skill and perception.

I really think the art of =avancna is something unique which deserves to be seen and appreciated by more people. So go have a look through his gallery and leave a few comments or favs

Thank you for sharing something really original and different here on DA, =avancna


Volunteer feature #4 *1footonthedawn

If I could only keep one of all the people I have ever met through DA, Sheri would be the one (fortunately I don’t have to choose, because I want to keep all the rest of you too…I love you all)

We don’t actually interact through DA much anymore, but we met on my LDS group here. In real life we have tons of things in common: we live in a similar part of the country, have kids similar age, belong to the same religion, are close to the same age, have similar sorts of disability issues in our families and I love to chat with her on Yahoo every chance I get, which isn’t as often as we’d both like because we are both busy with families and disabilities and whatnot.

She has various medical problems which often leave her too week or painful to type comments or replies, or to make new art, or to make wonderful features, but when she is up to it she is AWESOME!!! One of these days I will do a bigger feature of her because it’s so hard to pick only three from the wide variety of interesting stuff in her gallery.

You should all go look at her wonderful gallery, but be understanding that although she may not be able to reply to your comments at any given time, she still reads and appreciates all of them even if she can’t respond.

She does photos, fractals, photomanip, animation and 3-d, and combines all those into all sorts of wonderful creations, most of which are very conceptual, so sometimes the description is even better than the awesome picture.

her highness

This is a sample of her photo manipulation. I love how well she puts images together, to capture the spirit of one of the simple but wonderful events of our lives

customer service

This little animation, well…this is not a typical sample of her artwork, but it’s just so funny I had to include it here…. …she has an interesting sense of humor, which I enjoy

here comes the sun

And this, a fractal with animation, I hope you download to see the moving version or at lease full view to see the amazing fractal details. It’s an awesome layers like onions and ogres and hailstones and jawbreakers sort of thing.

These three fall far short of representing the amazing variety of images in her gallery, so please do go look.

I LOVE YOU SHERI!!! I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!!!

(oh… PS… and she was the one who gave me this lovely blue background for my journal thanks for that too  )



Feature volunteer #3; Saskuto

As most who read this already know, I am interested in everything and anyone, I wander around DA randomly greeting anyone and commenting on anything. If you have a cute avatar or leave an interesting comment for someone else, I come and see you, randomly. If you leave a comment or fav for me, I come see who you are.

Last fall, I met Luka *Dentednotbroken when he left a comment on one of my poems, and I was immediately impressed with his writing. But since then, I have been even more impressed with his friends. He has a real talent for making friends with wonderful people, probably just because he himself is such a wonderful person.

That’s how I met *Saskuto . She is one of Lukas’s many wonderful friends. She is a very wonderful beautiful person, and very active on DA posting many journals and a variety of deviations, including writing, coloring, photo manipulation, photography, etc.

As always, it’s hard for me to picked only three, and I haven’t time to even read or look at everything in her gallery, so you should go see for yourself,



A recent coloring. full view please, as the darkness of his clothing makes it look just dark in the smaller view, but in the large view the colors of his clothing look awesome As with anything, a big part of the art of coloring is choosing the subject, and then it is a matter of showing that subject to best advantage. She’s done a great job of choosing colors and applying them here, plus adding details like the energy ball, and that background is great too.


This poem is beautiful to me because it shows the sensual appeal of smoking, while still framing it as the Self-destructive practice which it is. Very well done I hope you take the time to read it and leave a comment, since written works on DA often don’t get the attention they deserve.


I love self-portraits, and I always says having a beautiful modal makes it so much easier to get a great photo, but apart from all that, this is just a great photo.

Oh oops…I just remembered another picture I really wanted to share, a photo manipulation… but I promised to limit these features to only 3 thumbs, I can’t cheat on my rules, so you’ll have to go look in her gallery now

Keep sharing good stuff *Saskuto .

****Second Vollunteer*****
~Glinadaro


*******first volunteer***
~DawningDevil

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my summer school class ended today. I'm at the university library, I'm gonna go see if they have the dark tower series, which I had to stop reading for summer school,If they have it I'm gonna get the last three and read them all before school starts. that's my plan I have several people telling me it is impossible, cause they are all very fat books.

we'll see

other than that I'm gonna take my kids to the zoo, learn how to use the fancy camera I borrowed from my Dad that I haven't even tried yet, and try to get some of my texts for next semester so I can read ahead if I finish the Dark Tower before summer is over.

and maybe I'll write some poetry or something, and read some more Shakespeare, and finish my features on my journal

gather driftwood when the floods recede

clean house for the first time in a month

and look at my garden for the first time in a month.



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I now have the full ten volunteers. if you still want to be featured, feel free to volunteer, but be warned it may be a few months till I get you on.



10*naddykoo
9~kilby64
8 ~artist-without-cause
7~alex-sukehiro
6 ~raemanzu
5=avancna(done)
4*1footonthedawn (done)
3*Saskuto (done)
2~Glinadaro (done)
1~DawningDevil (done)




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Volunteer feature # 5 =avancna

You know how I randomly wander around DA clicking on anything which interests me? Many months ago when I had just started on this feature journal, I saw a feature in someone’s journal and found a picture in the favs of the person featured which had a link to something which somehow lead me to this amazing artist.

I am really impressed with his gallery because he has so much art and it is of such good quality and so creative and unique.

However he really hasn’t gotten that much attention. I think his art really deserves to be seen. So I asked him to volunteer to be featured on my journal, and he generously agreed.

His art is a combination of realistic drawings of prehistoric creatures and amazing fantasy creatures influenced by his study of real creatures.

Here are three examples:


I chose this one to feature because I thought it was a nice example of this type of art, showing several different creatures, nicely drawn and colored, and in context.


This, apart from just being a very awesome creature is a nice example of taking reality and making something new and amazing from it


And this is to show what he is capable of in terms of something pretty much completely different for the other animal-based pictures, a little farther from reality, but still with great anatomy and creativity, drawn and colored with great skill and perception.

I really think the art of =avancna is something unique which deserves to be seen and appreciated by more people. So go have a look through his gallery and leave a few comments or favs

Thank you for sharing something really original and different here on DA, =avancna


Volunteer feature #4 *1footonthedawn

If I could only keep one of all the people I have ever met through DA, Sheri would be the one (fortunately I don’t have to choose, because I want to keep all the rest of you too…I love you all)

We don’t actually interact through DA much anymore, but we met on my LDS group here. In real life we have tons of things in common: we live in a similar part of the country, have kids similar age, belong to the same religion, are close to the same age, have similar sorts of disability issues in our families and I love to chat with her on Yahoo every chance I get, which isn’t as often as we’d both like because we are both busy with families and disabilities and whatnot.

She has various medical problems which often leave her too week or painful to type comments or replies, or to make new art, or to make wonderful features, but when she is up to it she is AWESOME!!! One of these days I will do a bigger feature of her because it’s so hard to pick only three from the wide variety of interesting stuff in her gallery.

You should all go look at her wonderful gallery, but be understanding that although she may not be able to reply to your comments at any given time, she still reads and appreciates all of them even if she can’t respond.

She does photos, fractals, photomanip, animation and 3-d, and combines all those into all sorts of wonderful creations, most of which are very conceptual, so sometimes the description is even better than the awesome picture.

her highness

This is a sample of her photo manipulation. I love how well she puts images together, to capture the spirit of one of the simple but wonderful events of our lives

customer service

This little animation, well…this is not a typical sample of her artwork, but it’s just so funny I had to include it here…. …she has an interesting sense of humor, which I enjoy

here comes the sun

And this, a fractal with animation, I hope you download to see the moving version or at lease full view to see the amazing fractal details. It’s an awesome layers like onions and ogres and hailstones and jawbreakers sort of thing.

These three fall far short of representing the amazing variety of images in her gallery, so please do go look.

I LOVE YOU SHERI!!! I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!!!

(oh… PS… and she was the one who gave me this lovely blue background for my journal thanks for that too  )



Feature volunteer #3; Saskuto

As most who read this already know, I am interested in everything and anyone, I wander around DA randomly greeting anyone and commenting on anything. If you have a cute avatar or leave an interesting comment for someone else, I come and see you, randomly. If you leave a comment or fav for me, I come see who you are.

Last fall, I met Luka *Dentednotbroken when he left a comment on one of my poems, and I was immediately impressed with his writing. But since then, I have been even more impressed with his friends. He has a real talent for making friends with wonderful people, probably just because he himself is such a wonderful person.

That’s how I met *Saskuto . She is one of Lukas’s many wonderful friends. She is a very wonderful beautiful person, and very active on DA posting many journals and a variety of deviations, including writing, coloring, photo manipulation, photography, etc.

As always, it’s hard for me to picked only three, and I haven’t time to even read or look at everything in her gallery, so you should go see for yourself,



A recent coloring. full view please, as the darkness of his clothing makes it look just dark in the smaller view, but in the large view the colors of his clothing look awesome As with anything, a big part of the art of coloring is choosing the subject, and then it is a matter of showing that subject to best advantage. She’s done a great job of choosing colors and applying them here, plus adding details like the energy ball, and that background is great too.


This poem is beautiful to me because it shows the sensual appeal of smoking, while still framing it as the Self-destructive practice which it is. Very well done I hope you take the time to read it and leave a comment, since written works on DA often don’t get the attention they deserve.


I love self-portraits, and I always says having a beautiful modal makes it so much easier to get a great photo, but apart from all that, this is just a great photo.

Oh oops…I just remembered another picture I really wanted to share, a photo manipulation… but I promised to limit these features to only 3 thumbs, I can’t cheat on my rules, so you’ll have to go look in her gallery now

Keep sharing good stuff *Saskuto .

****Second Vollunteer*****
~Glinadaro


*******first volunteer***
~DawningDevil

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I'd like to preface the following statement by saying I am in a really good mood today and very optimistic. I am about to comment on some of the trials I am facing, and something I notice which I would like to correct. However I feel very hopeful that my awareness give me the ability to overcome these weaknesses, and I am facing the trials with good faith and enjoying my life.

Life is good, things are getting better, I am on a good path, all is well


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It's sick and crazy that, emotionally, I judge myself by my grades; just as sick and crazy as worrying about my grades because someone who obviously didn't understand what I was talking about had a bad reaction when I said I was going back to school, and implied that I don't have what it takes to succeed at this.

SOOOOOO.....

.... I got 95% on the test which I really thought I had answered poorly on (I could have given better answers, I'm sure)

seeing this grade on my paper, I grin uncontrollably, exceedingly, insanely thinking "see, I do have what it takes, I'm doing well at this, I told you so"

I fear that my insanity will make me fail, and the "voice of reason" saying I don't have what it takes comes truly from my fears, not from the friend who in ignorance voiced that opinion.



MEANWHILE in the past week.
two of our hamsters have died, a bird who has been part of our family for several years has died and a fish who was a part of my life for several years whom I was really attached to has dies

poor stupid little hamsters I miss you. and I'm sorry...I wish I knew what happened, I did the best I could and it wasn't enough

Poor noisy Solar I miss you, I wish I knew what happened, I did the best I could and it wasn't enough. your cage still sits empty and silent in the living room, a constant reminder that you are gone.

poor Feather I will miss you the most I think, even though you were just a fish and had a long life for what you are. I know what happened, I wish I could have done more, done better.
even though I gave you a second chance, you died the same way at the end, I only put it off a few years.

but I never took the photos I was planning, or drew that picture of you.

everything dies...fish...dreams...hopes and plans...friendships...parts of myself.

it's only part of life.

in the end, we must all die to be born again, give up what we have become to become what we truly are.

I will go forward with joy, and still celebrate sadness.


Good-bye to friends, both human and animal...

and thanks to other friends, both new and old, human and animal, who are still there for me no matter what.

I sit here reading what I have written ant the tears roll down my cheeks
better to foolishly feel something real, than to be numb and feel nothing in the lies and deceptions of pretended sanity.

...and then I gather myself and go on living...

"...just a very small part of my life...."





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I now have the full ten volunteers. if you still want to be featured, feel free to volunteer, but be warned it may be a few months till I get you on.



10=naddykoo
9~kilby64
8 ~artist-without-cause
7~alex-sukehiro
6 ~raemanzu
5=avancna(done)
4*1footonthedawn (done)
3*Saskuto (done)
2~Glinadaro (done)
1~DawningDevil (done)




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Volunteer feature # 5 =avancna

You know how I randomly wander around DA clicking on anything which interests me? Many months ago when I had just started on this feature journal, I saw a feature in someone’s journal and found a picture in the favs of the person featured which had a link to something which somehow lead me to this amazing artist.

I am really impressed with his gallery because he has so much art and it is of such good quality and so creative and unique.

However he really hasn’t gotten that much attention. I think his art really deserves to be seen. So I asked him to volunteer to be featured on my journal, and he generously agreed.

His art is a combination of realistic drawings of prehistoric creatures and amazing fantasy creatures influenced by his study of real creatures.

Here are three examples:


I chose this one to feature because I thought it was a nice example of this type of art, showing several different creatures, nicely drawn and colored, and in context.


This, apart from just being a very awesome creature is a nice example of taking reality and making something new and amazing from it


And this is to show what he is capable of in terms of something pretty much completely different for the other animal-based pictures, a little farther from reality, but still with great anatomy and creativity, drawn and colored with great skill and perception.

I really think the art of =avancna is something unique which deserves to be seen and appreciated by more people. So go have a look through his gallery and leave a few comments or favs

Thank you for sharing something really original and different here on DA, =avancna


Volunteer feature #4 *1footonthedawn

If I could only keep one of all the people I have ever met through DA, Sheri would be the one (fortunately I don’t have to choose, because I want to keep all the rest of you too…I love you all)

We don’t actually interact through DA much anymore, but we met on my LDS group here. In real life we have tons of things in common: we live in a similar part of the country, have kids similar age, belong to the same religion, are close to the same age, have similar sorts of disability issues in our families and I love to chat with her on Yahoo every chance I get, which isn’t as often as we’d both like because we are both busy with families and disabilities and whatnot.

She has various medical problems which often leave her too week or painful to type comments or replies, or to make new art, or to make wonderful features, but when she is up to it she is AWESOME!!! One of these days I will do a bigger feature of her because it’s so hard to pick only three from the wide variety of interesting stuff in her gallery.

You should all go look at her wonderful gallery, but be understanding that although she may not be able to reply to your comments at any given time, she still reads and appreciates all of them even if she can’t respond.

She does photos, fractals, photomanip, animation and 3-d, and combines all those into all sorts of wonderful creations, most of which are very conceptual, so sometimes the description is even better than the awesome picture.

her highness

This is a sample of her photo manipulation. I love how well she puts images together, to capture the spirit of one of the simple but wonderful events of our lives

customer service

This little animation, well…this is not a typical sample of her artwork, but it’s just so funny I had to include it here…. …she has an interesting sense of humor, which I enjoy

here comes the sun

And this, a fractal with animation, I hope you download to see the moving version or at lease full view to see the amazing fractal details. It’s an awesome layers like onions and ogres and hailstones and jawbreakers sort of thing.

These three fall far short of representing the amazing variety of images in her gallery, so please do go look.

I LOVE YOU SHERI!!! I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!!!

(oh… PS… and she was the one who gave me this lovely blue background for my journal thanks for that too  )



Feature volunteer #3; Saskuto

As most who read this already know, I am interested in everything and anyone, I wander around DA randomly greeting anyone and commenting on anything. If you have a cute avatar or leave an interesting comment for someone else, I come and see you, randomly. If you leave a comment or fav for me, I come see who you are.

Last fall, I met Luka *Dentednotbroken when he left a comment on one of my poems, and I was immediately impressed with his writing. But since then, I have been even more impressed with his friends. He has a real talent for making friends with wonderful people, probably just because he himself is such a wonderful person.

That’s how I met *Saskuto . She is one of Lukas’s many wonderful friends. She is a very wonderful beautiful person, and very active on DA posting many journals and a variety of deviations, including writing, coloring, photo manipulation, photography, etc.

As always, it’s hard for me to picked only three, and I haven’t time to even read or look at everything in her gallery, so you should go see for yourself,



A recent coloring. full view please, as the darkness of his clothing makes it look just dark in the smaller view, but in the large view the colors of his clothing look awesome As with anything, a big part of the art of coloring is choosing the subject, and then it is a matter of showing that subject to best advantage. She’s done a great job of choosing colors and applying them here, plus adding details like the energy ball, and that background is great too.


This poem is beautiful to me because it shows the sensual appeal of smoking, while still framing it as the Self-destructive practice which it is. Very well done I hope you take the time to read it and leave a comment, since written works on DA often don’t get the attention they deserve.


I love self-portraits, and I always says having a beautiful modal makes it so much easier to get a great photo, but apart from all that, this is just a great photo.

Oh oops…I just remembered another picture I really wanted to share, a photo manipulation… but I promised to limit these features to only 3 thumbs, I can’t cheat on my rules, so you’ll have to go look in her gallery now

Keep sharing good stuff *Saskuto .

****Second Vollunteer*****
~Glinadaro


*******first volunteer***
~DawningDevil

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Volunteer feature # 5 =avancna

You know how I randomly wander around DA clicking on anything which interests me? Many months ago when I had just started on this feature journal, I saw a feature in someone’s journal and found a picture in the favs of the person featured which had a link to something which somehow lead me to this amazing artist.

I am really impressed with his gallery because he has so much art and it is of such good quality and so creative and unique.

However he really hasn’t gotten that much attention. I think his art really deserves to be seen. So I asked him to volunteer to be featured on my journal, and he generously agreed.

His art is a combination of realistic drawings of prehistoric creatures and amazing fantasy creatures influenced by his study of real creatures.

Here are three examples:


I chose this one to feature because I thought it was a nice example of this type of art, showing several different creatures, nicely drawn and colored, and in context.


This, apart from just being a very awesome creature is a nice example of taking reality and making something new and amazing from it


And this is to show what he is capable of in terms of something pretty much completely different for the other animal-based pictures, a little farther from reality, but still with great anatomy and creativity, drawn and colored with great skill and perception.

I really think the art of =avancna is something unique which deserves to be seen and appreciated by more people. So go have a look through his gallery and leave a few comments or favs

Thank you for sharing something really original and different here on DA, =avancna

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I now have the full ten volunteers. if you still want to be featured, feel free to volunteer, but be warned it may be a few months till I get you on.



10=naddykoo
9*kilby64
8 ~artist-without-cause
7~alex-sukehiro
6 ~raemanzu
5=avancna
4*1footonthedawn (done)
3*Saskuto (done)
2~Glinadaro (done)
1~DawningDevil (done)




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Volunteer feature #4 *1footonthedawn

If I could only keep one of all the people I have ever met through DA, Sheri would be the one (fortunately I don’t have to choose, because I want to keep all the rest of you too…I love you all)

We don’t actually interact through DA much anymore, but we met on my LDS group here. In real life we have tons of things in common: we live in a similar part of the country, have kids similar age, belong to the same religion, are close to the same age, have similar sorts of disability issues in our families and I love to chat with her on Yahoo every chance I get, which isn’t as often as we’d both like because we are both busy with families and disabilities and whatnot.

She has various medical problems which often leave her too week or painful to type comments or replies, or to make new art, or to make wonderful features, but when she is up to it she is AWESOME!!! One of these days I will do a bigger feature of her because it’s so hard to pick only three from the wide variety of interesting stuff in her gallery.

You should all go look at her wonderful gallery, but be understanding that although she may not be able to reply to your comments at any given time, she still reads and appreciates all of them even if she can’t respond.

She does photos, fractals, photomanip, animation and 3-d, and combines all those into all sorts of wonderful creations, most of which are very conceptual, so sometimes the description is even better than the awesome picture.

her highness

This is a sample of her photo manipulation. I love how well she puts images together, to capture the spirit of one of the simple but wonderful events of our lives

customer service

This little animation, well…this is not a typical sample of her artwork, but it’s just so funny I had to include it here…. …she has an interesting sense of humor, which I enjoy

here comes the sun

And this, a fractal with animation, I hope you download to see the moving version or at lease full view to see the amazing fractal details. It’s an awesome layers like onions and ogres and hailstones and jawbreakers sort of thing.

These three fall far short of representing the amazing variety of images in her gallery, so please do go look.

I LOVE YOU SHERI!!! I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!!!

(oh… PS… and she was the one who gave me this lovely blue background for my journal thanks for that too  )



Feature volunteer #3; Saskuto

As most who read this already know, I am interested in everything and anyone, I wander around DA randomly greeting anyone and commenting on anything. If you have a cute avatar or leave an interesting comment for someone else, I come and see you, randomly. If you leave a comment or fav for me, I come see who you are.

Last fall, I met Luka *Dentednotbroken when he left a comment on one of my poems, and I was immediately impressed with his writing. But since then, I have been even more impressed with his friends. He has a real talent for making friends with wonderful people, probably just because he himself is such a wonderful person.

That’s how I met *Saskuto . She is one of Lukas’s many wonderful friends. She is a very wonderful beautiful person, and very active on DA posting many journals and a variety of deviations, including writing, coloring, photo manipulation, photography, etc.

As always, it’s hard for me to picked only three, and I haven’t time to even read or look at everything in her gallery, so you should go see for yourself,



A recent coloring. full view please, as the darkness of his clothing makes it look just dark in the smaller view, but in the large view the colors of his clothing look awesome As with anything, a big part of the art of coloring is choosing the subject, and then it is a matter of showing that subject to best advantage. She’s done a great job of choosing colors and applying them here, plus adding details like the energy ball, and that background is great too.


This poem is beautiful to me because it shows the sensual appeal of smoking, while still framing it as the Self-destructive practice which it is. Very well done I hope you take the time to read it and leave a comment, since written works on DA often don’t get the attention they deserve.


I love self-portraits, and I always says having a beautiful modal makes it so much easier to get a great photo, but apart from all that, this is just a great photo.

Oh oops…I just remembered another picture I really wanted to share, a photo manipulation… but I promised to limit these features to only 3 thumbs, I can’t cheat on my rules, so you’ll have to go look in her gallery now

Keep sharing good stuff *Saskuto .



Second Vollunteer

~Glinadaro

We have been DA friends for a little over a year. I’m not really sure how we met, but I’m glad we did. Her paintings make me want to paint, her photos make me want to make costumes and pose people in them and take photos. The hard things about doing these features Is picking only three things to show off here. I like many different things in her gallery. So go look for yourselves.

She is also a very nice person, leaves me comments and even helps me find typos in my writing I love when people do that for me

Thanks, ~Glinadaro ! and thanks for volunteering to be featured here.

This is a beautiful drawing:

I haven’t yet read the book it is about, but I have been wanting to and seeing illustrations like this makes me want to even more. Those wolves look so lifelike. I know they are trying to kill him, but they just look so soft I want to pet them.


This is a cool painting and it has a story/poem to go with it, so to fully appreciate this you have to go read the poem, not just look at the painting, but isn’t that dead horse rising out of the ground just so cool? (I love bones)and the Moonlight looks so...um...moonlightish

I also love that she always gives links to reference pictures used for her paintings. It’s always fun and inspiring for me to see how artists use reference images for their creations


Ok it was a hard choice because there are so many other great drawings and paintings in her gallery, but just for variety, here’s a great photo. So pretty, I love candle light, and that’s such a wonderful outfit






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~DawningDevil

In real life Erica has lived down the street from me and been one of my daughter's best freinds for about 10 years. Actually it's the other way: I moved here 10 years ago; she has lived there all her life, her family has been here for generations, she is a part of the heart and soul of the small town of St George, Kansas.(whereas I am maybe an infected toenail or a mole on the nose or something...lol)

On DA, Erica leaves great comments, and responds to almost every comment and almost everything posted by her DA freinds. SHe has beeen an awesome freind to me here, she has even read most of my stories, in fact she is the only person in the world who has read most of my stories, and I really really really really appriciate that.

Erica, you are so Awesome!! everyone in the world should have a DA friend like you!!!



the above image is a photo of my Daughter Aubyn in Blackjack creek in St George Kansas. this Summer me and Erica had fun taking pictures of the same subjects, on a differant day, at the creek, and then comparing. usually hers were better than mine, tho I did get some good ones she has several good creek photos in her gallery. Be sure to read the description. Ericas pictures are always even better if you have read the description

I like the bucket in the foreground on this shot, it gives it the hunting for treasures feeling that is one of the fun things of creek exploration.

yummy macro, must full veiw
I love this cause it looks so yummy, and has great macro details. it makes me want home grown strawberries. I wonder if any of my strawberry plants will have lived through this winter.


this one I like cause I just like pictures of old junk, and this just has the perfect feeling for walking arround in St George looking at old junk in people's yards. lots of us have old junk here

but also.....
these last two go together. I didn't know until after I read the description, but this one shows where the strawberry came from. full veiw to see the little vollunteer strawberry plants growing under the washtub planter.

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mount Fuji and big pretty waves

forest shadows
~Ah-may made that for me, isn't it pretty?

amazing photo of Kansas weather by ~ChickenScratches

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it is Friday, I had a big essay test today. I wrote stuff. I got creative, I tried to be organized, I wrote fast and sloppy, I ran out of time, I feel sorry for the man who has to grade it and hope he has mercy on me and can imagine where I was aiming to go with that. I have no Idea how I did, I didn't think it was a good essay, but based on past experience, I always do great on essay exams if I know the subject. I knew the subject.

my guess is I got 93%. I base this guess on the fact that I got exactly 93% on both homework assignments, and literature is very subjective: I figure this means he has decided I am a 93% student, so as long as I always give my best effort he will go on giving me 93% on everything.

93% is good, a low A, so I'm not secure in having an A, so I still try my hardest fearing I might mess up and my grade fall to a B, but I don't worry too much, because I can afford to fall to a B and I am fairly confident I would not fall below that.

halfway through now...it's gone fast, I wish it were longer. we could just go on and read another 6 plays in July, I would be happy with that

ah well, I have my classes next semester to look forward to.




so now I'm sitting in the library studying...

what? you say writing this journal and that poem on the library computer doesn't count as studying Shakespeare? well I say it does and I defy you to prove me wrong



I KSU

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I now have the full ten volunteers. if you still want to be featured, feel free to volunteer, but be warned it may be a few months till I get you on.

10=naddykoo
9*kilby64
8 ~artist-without-cause
7~alex-sukehiro
6 ~raemanzu
5=avancna
4*1footonthedawn (done)
3*Saskuto (done)
2~Glinadaro (done)
1~DawningDevil (done)




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Volunteer feature #4 *1footonthedawn

If I could only keep one of all the people I have ever met through DA, Sheri would be the one (fortunately I don’t have to choose, because I want to keep all the rest of you too…I love you all)

We don’t actually interact through DA much anymore, but we met on my LDS group here. In real life we have tons of things in common: we live in a similar part of the country, have kids similar age, belong to the same religion, are close to the same age, have similar sorts of disability issues in our families and I love to chat with her on Yahoo every chance I get, which isn’t as often as we’d both like because we are both busy with families and disabilities and whatnot.

She has various medical problems which often leave her too week or painful to type comments or replies, or to make new art, or to make wonderful features, but when she is up to it she is AWESOME!!! One of these days I will do a bigger feature of her because it’s so hard to pick only three from the wide variety of interesting stuff in her gallery.

You should all go look at her wonderful gallery, but be understanding that although she may not be able to reply to your comments at any given time, she still reads and appreciates all of them even if she can’t respond.

She does photos, fractals, photomanip, animation and 3-d, and combines all those into all sorts of wonderful creations, most of which are very conceptual, so sometimes the description is even better than the awesome picture.

her highness

This is a sample of her photo manipulation. I love how well she puts images together, to capture the spirit of one of the simple but wonderful events of our lives

customer service

This little animation, well…this is not a typical sample of her artwork, but it’s just so funny I had to include it here…. …she has an interesting sense of humor, which I enjoy

here comes the sun

And this, a fractal with animation, I hope you download to see the moving version or at lease full view to see the amazing fractal details. It’s an awesome layers like onions and ogres and hailstones and jawbreakers sort of thing.

These three fall far short of representing the amazing variety of images in her gallery, so please do go look.

I LOVE YOU SHERI!!! I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!!!

(oh… PS… and she was the one who gave me this lovely blue background for my journal thanks for that too  )



Feature volunteer #3; Saskuto

As most who read this already know, I am interested in everything and anyone, I wander around DA randomly greeting anyone and commenting on anything. If you have a cute avatar or leave an interesting comment for someone else, I come and see you, randomly. If you leave a comment or fav for me, I come see who you are.

Last fall, I met Luka *Dentednotbroken when he left a comment on one of my poems, and I was immediately impressed with his writing. But since then, I have been even more impressed with his friends. He has a real talent for making friends with wonderful people, probably just because he himself is such a wonderful person.

That’s how I met *Saskuto . She is one of Lukas’s many wonderful friends. She is a very wonderful beautiful person, and very active on DA posting many journals and a variety of deviations, including writing, coloring, photo manipulation, photography, etc.

As always, it’s hard for me to picked only three, and I haven’t time to even read or look at everything in her gallery, so you should go see for yourself,



A recent coloring. full view please, as the darkness of his clothing makes it look just dark in the smaller view, but in the large view the colors of his clothing look awesome As with anything, a big part of the art of coloring is choosing the subject, and then it is a matter of showing that subject to best advantage. She’s don