Carved Stone Enigma Solved?

Crop-Circle-RockBreaking News! For those of you that have been following Replicating the Roswell Rock, we may have a possible end to the Roswell Rock mystery… it appears a man came forward yesterday (8/27/14) with a pretty solid explanation on the probable origin, and possibly who made it. Apparently this is about two stones that were purchased in 1998, in Roswell, at the “Alien Encounter 98″ festival.

Image Credit: John Russell, and posted at cropcirclesresearchfoundation.org

An additional image has now gone up at Crop Circles Research Foundation, also coming from John Russell which appears to bear a carved-in version of what we see on the original Roswell Rock. In my opinion they seem to share the same what I would call design flaws and differences from the original field version.

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On Second Thought…

DAY 4 ~ Observation: A factor has shown up that affects the idea in the previous post. I find that right away in the morning I am in no way able to comply to an evenly spaced schedule. This is of course normal, being that after getting depleted of nicotine during sleep we smokers tend to smoke more in the morning to “catch up”. Being behind all day today has resulted in a feeling of frustration – even though, because I smoke less in the evening, I WOULD catch up eventually, but I felt guilty at each break anyway. Of necessity to remedy the feeling, I accessed the editing option and easily moved the dots to positions where they made more sense.

Immediately I felt the benefit in doing this – it put my mind into the conscious work of strategizing the remaining smokes of the day. This was a very good thing! After all, raising awareness is one of the main objectives in the app.

As far as what was said in the previous post, we will each find the best ways to strengthen ourselves, and there are an infinite number of ways to do that. The great thing about the app is that it sets us on the path of discovery of the things that will get the best results… and so smoking less in the morning can become a thing to work towards – and I can do that by scooting the dots a little at a time toward that goal.

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Etched Glass

Birch trees etched by Ron Branch For Rich Lamothe at Glass strategies in Portland OregonThese birch trees are an example of a style I am developing that is a combination of carving and shading. The idea is to have the design hold up in any lighting conditions.

Often the details of an etching which is just shading are only effective in front of a dark background. I’m trying to combat this by including carved elements in a strategically balanced way.

Birch trees etched by Ron Branch For Rich Lamothe at Glass strategies

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Scheduled Smoking

DAY 1 ~ Although custom scheduling “flexibility” is an app feature that has been painstakingly programed in, the general recommendation will be to stick to the regular, evenly spaced smoke times. This is an effective way to begin learning how to be a non smoker. It is the quickest way to begin to differentiate between the two facets of addiction… one is mental, and the other is physical. The latter is managed directly with the regularity of the smoke times and weaning schedule, (like a dose of medicine). But for the former, sticking to specific smoke times provides the opportunity to more easily identify the components of the mental facet… which are the ways smoking is interwoven and associated with every part of all that you do. These ties will have to become severed, and so it is useful to know what and where they are, and how they work.

In simpler terms; the irregular aspects of your cravings will become apparent. Questioning why, what, and how certain parts of your life are associated with your habit will make it much easier to then gradually “unassociate” those things.

LATER: So after writing the above, it didn’t take long to identify one very problematic smoke trigger I have… that is when answering a cell call, I am automatically out the back door and lighting up – typically there is no awareness of this as an established behavior pattern.

The good news was that I caught it, and it was no big deal to not smoke.

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