I Will Pray For You Doodle Art

The Angel will pray for you. Angels are timeless but this angel has gray hair as she grows older with you and comes to you when you need her to appear wiser. Angels help you but you have to ask them for help. She holds a lovely purple flower giving it to you from God’s purple passion garden. These are mood flowers and turn a different colour with your mood. The purple signifies serenity, just what we would expect from an Angel.

The Flowercat Zoo (c)

THE FLOWERCAT ZOO

By Gail McNaughton March 18, 2013

Zippidy, zippidy frizz and do,

Come see your friends at the Flowercat zoo.

Crickedy, crickedy crank and shank,

Remember the lake here is a big fish tank.

Flickity flakety do dum diddle,

Flora the goat squats on her hay stack to widdle.

Eli the Eagle is a road runner with wings,

He’s a colourful fanciful warrior who sings.

Vultures and prey don’t stand a chance,

For he’s out there doing his song and dance.

Blinkedy, blinkedy sang fat tea,

Ollie the Owl, Chili Chikka and me.

Laneo, laneo ba ba pooh,

Sing a song from volcanic Lava Loo.

Zema, zema zel fan choo,

Chocó-Cat says he sure loves you.

Bella, bella mago statsy,

Sing for your lunch and don’t be hasty.

Billy Buckle nozzsy barzie,

Heart Cat looks at the moon and starzy’s.

Poppy moppy pilly willy,

All these doodle characters sure are silly.

Blankedy, blankedy mush man merry,

Angelica the Angel looks for the Peri Winkle Fairy.

Penny wenny gives you a glare,

Mommy Millie Bear has fur coat hair.

Wogsy pogsy a bone that’s sour,

Trade for a hot dog and give it to Dog Flower.

Ithy pithy wamsy noodle,

Sammy The Snake is a reptile doodle.

Pee pee purr ball falsy chirp,

Moppy Floppy upchucks a burp.

Panda wanda tuna dovey,

Move over Calvin Fox, no hind legs shovey.

It’s night time and the zoo has now closed

And some of the animals have already dozed.

Tomorrow you can meet more friends at the zoo,

Some you’ve met and some are brand new.

Sally Spider has asked for some tea,

And if you oblige she’ll sneak you in free.

Bring us more peanuts and feed us your snacks,

But most of all we want you to hurry on back.

Flora The Baby Goat

Flora is a baby goat and has brothers.  Her Mother is Daisy who constantly chases her around the barn.  She goes off to play with her triplet brothers.  At a week old she is already jumping on logs in the yard, bales of straw and anything else she can find.  She will join the head of dairy goats and contribute to The Lavender Lane Farms goat milk soaps in a few years.

No Matter What Happens I Am Me

No Matter What Happens I Am Me

The doodle art of my doodle woman, by the name of Carol, shows a woman’s vulnerability so she is naked but holding a plant.  This is a very powerful plant and is called Melissa Mentor-Flower.  Melissa is routed in love in a tea cup.  Having a cup of tea with a friend is a nice way to sit and talk.  Melissa can help others see themselves and give them advice and friendship.  Sometimes women feel so alone going through these physical ordeals.  The woman has a cat on her shoulder as animals are so healing.  They will sit with you regardless if you are sick or well.  As we both know often people stay away from those who are sick as they don’t know what to say, unlike our faithful pets.  There is lots of love around us as demonstrated by the hearts – we just have to tap into it.  The circle G signs are my symbol for gratitude.  There is always a gift in what we are going through.  Even though the woman’s hair is growing in she can still look nice by wearing makeup and fancy earrings.  She has not lost who she is or her feminine self.  Melisa Mentor-Flower sprouts all kinds of flowers of encouragement and each one has a message of its own to give.  The woman wears a heart tattoo on her arm because she believes in love herself and gives herself love.  She has great faith and hopes for the very best and she can cope by having our support and love.  I think that we all want this for ourselves regardless of what we are going through.

 

Melissa Mentor-Flower is a real person.  There are lots of Melissa’s in the world if we just look around us.  They are special.  They are magical and they come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime but they are grounded in our psyche’s spiritual threads.  Some perhaps might call the Mentor-Flower an angel or perhaps even God or just a really good mentor (friend, relative, colleague, spouse, etc.)

 

International Women’s Day – Meditation Escape Mixed Media Painting

Happy International Women’s Day – March 8, 2013.  Enjoy this painting which I’ve named Meditation Escape.  When I want to get away in my thought I take myself to a place of tranquility.  You can walk and pick flowers along the shoreline or on the hills or contemplate life sitting under a tree.  Just relax with this Mixed Media art.  The symbols in the sky that look like “G’s” stand for Gratitude.

Anne Kenny To Receive Ontario Volunteer Award

Anne Kenny, along with two of her colleagues, from the Elgin -St. Thomas Community Foundation are receiving Volunteer Service Awards 2013.  The event is March 21, 2013, 7:30 P.M. at the East Elgin Community Complex.  This is a Province of Ontario Award.  Hats off to Anne on her success and her 10 + years of service contributing to the development of the Foundation.

Plant A Tree As Your Gift To The World

If you plant a tree, it is a gift to yourself but as well a gift to everyone else.  It is easy to do, fun and you can watch it grow.  Do you remember when you were little and a tree was planted perhaps on the family farm or at your city home or perhaps at the cottage and when you returned for visits, yes you had grown but that tree is much larger now.  If finally reached its full potential and someday you will too!

Bald Eagle In A Tree Surrounded By Greenery & White Sweet Smelling Flowers

The Bald Headed Eagle is one of those angelic birds that we admire and we don’t see them very often.  They are so powerful and agile and soar in the sky so gracefully.  Don’t you wish you could fly too?  Don’t you wish that you had their eyesight?  This Bald Headed Eagle sits amongst sweet smelling flowers high up in the greenery of tree branches and is enchanted with the heavenly smell so much so that he is feeling intoxicated.  Hopefully he is not going to fall out of his new found nest.

Sun Worshiper

Everything seems better when the sun is shining.  I remember this in my heart on dull, cold days.  Being a “Sun Worshiper” isn’t about being a tanned golden goddess but praying for the sun to restore us on a continual basis extending to every cell in our bodies.  The sun also brings us the best show of flowers in our garden with the help of rich soil and water.  I always feel pampered by the sun and just love the feeling I get sitting somewhere, closing my eyes and relaxing.  Keeping the centre of your being, “sunshine bright” to nurture yourself, is my wish for you.

Why Doodling Is Good For You

Study: Doodling Helps You Pay Attention

By John Cloud Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009
Kelly Redinger / Design Pics / Corbis

A lot of people hate doodlers, those who idly scribble during meetings (or classes or trials or whatever). Most people also hate that other closely related species: the fidgeter, who spins pens or reorders papers or plays with his phone during meetings. (I stand guilty as charged. On occasion, I have also been known to whisper.) We doodlers, fidgeters and whisperers always get the same jokey, passive-aggressive line from the authority figure at the front of the room: “I’m sorry, are we bothering you?” How droll. But the underlying message is clear: Pay attention.

But I’ve never stopped fidgeting, and I’ve always thought I walked out of meetings remembering all the relevant parts. Now I have proof. In a delightful new study, which will be published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, psychologist Jackie Andrade of the University of Plymouth in southern England showed that doodlers actually remember more than nondoodlers when asked to retain tediously delivered information, like, say, during a boring meeting or a lecture. (See the cartoons of the week.)

In her small but rigorous study, Andrade separated 40 participants into two groups of 20. All 40 had just finished an unrelated psychological experiment, and many were thinking of going home (or to the pub). They were asked, instead, whether they wouldn’t mind spending an additional five minutes helping with research. The participants were led into a quiet room and asked to listen to a 2½-min. tape that they were told would be “rather dull.”

That’s a shocking bit of understatement. The tape — which Guantánamo officials should consider as a method of nonlethal torture — was a rambling (and fake) voice-mail message that purported to invite the listener to a 21st-birthday party. In it, the party’s host talks about someone’s sick cat; she mentions her redecorated kitchen, the weather, someone’s new house in Colchester and a vacation in Edinburgh that involved museums and rain. In all, she mentions eight place names and eight people who are definitely coming to the party. (See pictures of office cubicles around the world.)

Before the tape began, half the study participants were asked to shade in some little squares and circles on a piece of paper while they listened. They were told not to worry about being neat or quick about it. (Andrade did not instruct people explicitly to “doodle,” which might have prompted self-consciousness about what constituted an official doodle.) The other 20 didn’t doodle. All the participants were asked to write the names of those coming to the party while the tape played, which meant the doodlers switched between their doodles and their lists.

Afterward, the papers were removed and the 40 volunteers were asked to recall, orally, the place names and the names of the people coming to the party. The doodlers creamed the nondoodlers: those who doodled during the tape recalled 7.5 pieces of information (out of 16 total) on average, 29% more than the average of 5.8 recalled by the control group. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens.)

Why does doodling aid memory? Andrade offers several theories, but the most persuasive is that when you doodle, you don’t daydream. Daydreaming may seem absentminded and pointless, but it actually demands a lot of the brain’s processing power. You start daydreaming about a vacation, which leads you to think about potential destinations, how you would pay for the trip, whether you could get the flight upgraded, how you might score a bigger hotel room. These cognitions require what psychologists call “executive functioning” — for example, planning for the future and comparing costs and benefits.

Doodling, in contrast, requires very few executive resources but just enough cognitive effort to keep you from daydreaming, which — if unchecked — will jump-start activity in cortical networks that will keep you from remembering what’s going on. Doodling forces your brain to expend just enough energy to stop it from daydreaming but not so much that you don’t pay attention.

So the next time you’re doodling during a meeting — or twirling a pencil or checking the underside of the table for gum — and you hear that familiar admonition (“Are we bothering you?”), you can tell the boss with confidence that you’ve been paying attention to every word.