LOVE ANGELES

Rebirth

You know how much I love to hike and run around LA. Running up a ridge just below the beloved Hollywood Sign before sunset this afternoon, I noticed a lizard's newly shed skin on the path - of course I instantly reflected upon the symbolism - the shedding of outmoded skins. Enjoying the walk back down, my attention was focused on the welcoming trees and sky around me when I came within inches of stepping on a friendly rattler. The serpent was peacefully crossing the path when I leapt up and over it, just in time. Naturally, I came home and opened Animal Speak by Ted Andrews to decipher the message being delivered to me:

Because it shed its skin, the snake has long been a symbol of death and rebirth. It sheds its skin as it outgrows the old. This death and rebirth cycle is part of what snake represents. It has ties and significance to the ancient alchemists and their symbolic transmutation of lead into gold. This is associated with higher wisdom that comes with the passing of time...

Malibu Whale Rider

Family of Whales migrating offshore of Point Dume, Malibu CA.

The Best of You

"In a universe constantly seeking to deliver the best of Itself through the best of each one of us, 'settling' falls far short of receiving. Rather than to settle for anything less than we can envision, we constantly dedicate ourselves to Becoming what we wish to experience (more of) in our lives." Forrest Kolb

Oh yea, here is my newest best friend Schummi, just brought him back home from Mexico!

Radiohead Surprise (Video)

Source: NYTimes - On Valentine’s Day the band announced that its first album since 2007, “The King of Limbs,” would be released digitally five days later, on Saturday, with a retail CD arriving March 28 and an elaborate package, including vinyl discs, billed as the “Newspaper Album,” on May 9. Unlike the pay-what-you-will policy for the “In Rainbows” album online in 2007, the band set prices: $9 for MP3 files and $14 for CD-quality WAV files. Then, keeping listeners off-balance, it suddenly released the album Friday instead.
Since, by my guess, about 99.8 percent of Radiohead fans are online, there was a tsunami of Internet buzz and instant reactions, like this one, to an album that is likely to reveal itself far more gradually. Near the end of “Separator,” the album’s finale, an echoey Thom Yorke croons, “If you think this is everything, you’re wrong.”

“The King of Limbs,” named after a gnarled ancient tree in a Wiltshire forest, holds eight songs in just under 38 minutes. The sonic abstractions that have fascinated Radiohead since “Kid A,” back in 2000, are essential to “The King of Limbs,” and the band’s new songs use them brilliantly. Most of the new album is so vertiginously layered that it’s plausible the band spent nearly four years in the studio making it.

I LOVE NZ

 

Via Good.com -  When dozens of pilot whales got stranded on a beach in New Zealand last week, "droves" of volunteers and professionals from the Department of Conservation 

up to help move the animals back into the ocean. But just days later, 65 of the whales had again beached themselves. This time, not only did hundreds more volunteers show up, they stayed with the whales, hydrating them for hours until the tide rose and the whales could move themselves back to sea. Eventually, all 65 whales survived and made it back to the ocean.