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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/dNDXrjhIkOI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://meanderon.blogspot.com/2012/04/no-matter-mess-god-works-for-good.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>What the locusts ate...</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/u-pkNJQqz7w/what-locusts-ate.html</link><category>stolen</category><category>locusts</category><category>restoration</category><category>lost</category><category>God</category><category>spirituality</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (bhojman)</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:28:01 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22477816.post-5112454461447425190</guid><description>A thought from a friend:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten….” Joel 2:25 NIV&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; For everything you’ve loved or lost, God has something else. For  everything that’s been stolen from you, God has something else. The  situation you are in right now is not the end of the story; God wants to  write a new chapter. – He’s not through with you!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22477816-5112454461447425190?l=meanderon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/u-pkNJQqz7w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><georss:featurename xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss">Majors Creek NSW 2622, Australia</georss:featurename><georss:point xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss">-35.5672145 149.7434649</georss:point><georss:box xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss">-35.6188795 149.66450089999998 -35.5155495 149.8224289</georss:box><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://meanderon.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-locusts-ate.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Artwork for Sale #2</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/CXthbeT6nxs/artwork-for-sale-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bhojman)</author><pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:16:27 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22477816.post-2748639171258081946</guid><description>Slideshow of my artwork available on Fine Art America. Go check it out. ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script src="http://fineartamerica.com/slideshowmouseover.php?id=10295923807&amp;amp;memberidtype=artistid&amp;amp;memberid=102959&amp;amp;width=400px&amp;amp;height=400px" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="Art Prints" id="faaslideshowimage[10295923807]" onclick="javascript: mouseclick10295923807(event);" onmouseout="javascript: mouseout10295923807();" onmouseover="javascript: mouseover10295923807();" src="http://fineartamerica.com/Blank.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #666666; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 400px;" title="Art Prints" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22477816-2748639171258081946?l=meanderon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/CXthbeT6nxs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://meanderon.blogspot.com/2012/03/artwork-for-sale-2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Artwork for Sale</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/da3PRtQmPNw/artwork-for-sale.html</link><category>Greeting card</category><category>Fine art</category><category>Gifts</category><category>Stationery</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (bhojman)</author><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:36:02 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22477816.post-9013061811360994296</guid><description>Needing unique greeting cards? Do check out my photo art greeting cards for sale at the following link:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;a data-mce-href="http://fran-woods.artistwebsites.com/art/all/photo+art+cards/all" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://fran-woods.artistwebsites.com/art/all/photo+art+cards/all" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Fran Woods - PhotoArt Greeting Cards"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a data-mce-href="http://fran-woods.artistwebsites.com/art/all/photo+art+cards/all" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://fran-woods.artistwebsites.com/art/all/photo+art+cards/all" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="Fran Woods - PhotoArt Greeting Cards"&gt;Greeting Cards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-mce-style="width: 260px;" id="attachment_144" style="width: 260px;"&gt;&lt;dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a data-mce-href="http://fran-woods.artistwebsites.com/art/all/photo+art+cards/all" href="http://fran-woods.artistwebsites.com/art/all/photo+art+cards/all" target="_blank" title="Fran Woods - PhotoArt Greeting Cards"&gt;&lt;img alt="Coolac" class=" wp-image-144" data-mce-src="http://healingprayer.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/coolac13oct10-01-akvisoilexpressive5x3s.jpg" height="175" src="http://healingprayer.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/coolac13oct10-01-akvisoilexpressive5x3s.jpg" title="Coolac, NSW (Oil Expressive)" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd class="wp-caption-dd"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Coolac, NSW (Oil Expressive)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also have unique photos and digital art for sale at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a data-mce-href="http://fran-woods.artistwebsites.com/?tab=artworkgalleries" href="http://fran-woods.artistwebsites.com/?tab=artworkgalleries" target="_blank" title="Fran Woods Artist Website"&gt;Fran Woods Fine Art Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;dl class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-mce-style="width: 310px;" id="attachment_145" style="width: 310px;"&gt;&lt;dt class="wp-caption-dt"&gt;&lt;a data-mce-href="http://fran-woods.artistwebsites.com/?tab=artworkgalleries" href="http://fran-woods.artistwebsites.com/?tab=artworkgalleries" target="_blank" title="Fran Woods Artist Website"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-145" data-mce-src="http://healingprayer.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/foggymornvidlen-16jul07-14-lgt-6s.jpg?w=300" height="201" src="http://healingprayer.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/foggymornvidlen-16jul07-14-lgt-6s.jpg?w=300" title="Trees in the winter fog" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd class="wp-caption-dd"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Trees in the winter fog (sepia toned)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="center"&gt;Do consider buying.&lt;/div&gt;Enjoy!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" data-mce-style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" data-mce-href="http://www.zemanta.com/" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" data-mce-src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=d33b9006-fc4a-4359-bf71-fecb685c70f2" data-mce-style="float: right;" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=d33b9006-fc4a-4359-bf71-fecb685c70f2" style="float: right;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22477816-9013061811360994296?l=meanderon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/da3PRtQmPNw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://meanderon.blogspot.com/2012/03/artwork-for-sale.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>God’s good in life’s experiences</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/QpcV4Qek-T0/gods-good-in-lifes-experiences.html</link><category>Christ</category><category>life experiences</category><category>Jesus</category><category>Jesus Christ</category><category>God</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (bhojman)</author><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:41:57 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22477816.post-7896113347614007323</guid><description>&lt;i&gt;"And we know that all things work together for good to those who  love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." Romans  8:28 NIV&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we consider wasted experiences can become  experiences in wisdom - when we decide to learn from them! God in His  wisdom knows that we need the challenge of certain situations to mature  and stretch us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[from a friend]  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=46c1caa0-0c21-4781-9eff-ae9356a1372e" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22477816-7896113347614007323?l=meanderon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/QpcV4Qek-T0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://meanderon.blogspot.com/2012/03/gods-good-in-lifes-experiences.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Known by name!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/s5Nk0ZJ-kGo/known-by-name.html</link><category>Jesus</category><category>God</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (bhojman)</author><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:42:05 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22477816.post-2678773329658575440</guid><description>&lt;i&gt;"I know you by name and you have found favour with Me." Exodus 33:12 NIV&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't be jealous or intimidated by anybody else no matter how talented they are. In God's eyes there are no other contenders; you're it! You're the only one who can fulfil your role on planet earth because He created it with you in mind.&lt;br /&gt;[from a friend] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=becce0a5-8251-4831-89b6-d329cb62bf53" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22477816-2678773329658575440?l=meanderon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/s5Nk0ZJ-kGo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://meanderon.blogspot.com/2012/03/known-by-name.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek [Flickr]</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/76NXkuAMEGc/</link><category>sunset</category><category>clouds</category><category>hdr</category><category>picturenaut</category><category>majorscreek</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">bhojman</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:04:47 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:flickr.com,2005:/photo/6624315887</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/bhojman/"&gt;bhojman&lt;/a&gt; posted a photo:&lt;/p&gt;
	
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/6624315887/" title="Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6624315887_cbb7a65e4a_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A HDRI using Picturenaut to combine 3 exposures, using JPGs as originals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/76NXkuAMEGc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><enclosure url="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6624315887_cbb7a65e4a_b.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><dc:date.Taken xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2012-01-02T19:48:48-08:00</dc:date.Taken><feedburner:origLink>http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/6624315887/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek [Flickr]</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/qlfqxuYI1AE/</link><category>sunset</category><category>clouds</category><category>hdr</category><category>picturenaut</category><category>majorscreek</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">bhojman</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:04:42 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:flickr.com,2005:/photo/6624315279</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/bhojman/"&gt;bhojman&lt;/a&gt; posted a photo:&lt;/p&gt;
	
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/6624315279/" title="Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6624315279_0abe001baf_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A HDRI using Picturenaut to combine 3 exposures, using JPGs as originals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/qlfqxuYI1AE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><enclosure url="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6624315279_0abe001baf_b.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><dc:date.Taken xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2012-01-02T19:46:46-08:00</dc:date.Taken><feedburner:origLink>http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/6624315279/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek - Version #2 [Flickr]</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/0jctZp2IvdQ/</link><category>sunset</category><category>clouds</category><category>hdr</category><category>picturenaut</category><category>majorscreek</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">bhojman</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:04:36 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:flickr.com,2005:/photo/6624314559</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/bhojman/"&gt;bhojman&lt;/a&gt; posted a photo:&lt;/p&gt;
	
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/6624314559/" title="Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek - Version #2"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6624314559_0fc431c36e_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek - Version #2" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A HDRI using Picturenaut to combine 3 exposures, using the same JPGs as originals as for Version #1.&lt;br /&gt;
If you like details: &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/6624313931/" title="Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek - Version #1"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6624313931_83991e91e3_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="Evening Clouds @ Majors Creek - Version #1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A HDRI using Picturenaut to combine 3 exposures, using the same JPGs as originals as for Version #2.&lt;br /&gt;
If you like details: &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/6599217553/" title="Burma Views - Roadside shop - Apr1978"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6599217553_77dcf82b33_m.jpg" width="240" height="177" alt="Burma Views - Roadside shop - Apr1978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A little roadside shop in Rangoon... probably looks just the same!&lt;br /&gt;
I've been scanning slides I took back in 1978. Slide scanning is a challenge! I must say that Kodachrome slides have lasted the best and are the easiest to scan.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/G7A3KE4BLqM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><enclosure url="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6599217553_77dcf82b33_b.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><dc:date.Taken xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2011-12-30T19:46:11-08:00</dc:date.Taken><feedburner:origLink>http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/6599217553/</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Rubber bands!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/5gVFckgbVAE/rubber-bands.html</link><category>life</category><category>Christianity</category><category>Rubber band</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (bhojman)</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:00:27 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22477816.post-1701950256235082559</guid><description>&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize." Philippians 3:13-14 NIV&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;All rubber bands work on the same principle - they must be stretched to be effective!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;This came my way... and it's so very true. An unused un-stretched rubber band soon perishes... I know, I recently found some in a box that had been safely and conveniently stored for 20 years and all were useless, perished, and fell apart... maybe that's what happens to us if we seek to be simply safe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=92524999-9339-4739-a8ae-53fd70d5a4f7" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22477816-1701950256235082559?l=meanderon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/5gVFckgbVAE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://meanderon.blogspot.com/2011/11/rubber-bands.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Seen in blogsphere... an anti-bullying message</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/qi6c770sG3c/seen-in-blogsphere-anti-bullying.html</link><category>Bullying</category><category>Violence and Abuse</category><category>Youth</category><category>Suicide</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (bhojman)</author><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:12:51 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22477816.post-2429078655425211859</guid><description>One of the awful things a child (and, even an adult) has to bear is being bullied. Whether it's physical or othewise, or name calling, the effect on a person's spirit is the same ... crushing, just crushing. How often hope is lost and the person being bullied decides that the only relief is to die. God be merciful. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mark Daniels reports: &lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://markdaniels.blogspot.com/2011/09/do-unto-others-as-you-would-have-them.html?spref=bl"&gt;"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you...&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;One of my nieces posted this on Facebook recently and I re-posted it. It contains a great anti-bullying message and apparently was circulated in connection with suicide prevention: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The girl you just called fat? She is overdosing on diet pills. &lt;br /&gt;The girl you just called ugly? She spends hours putting makeup on hoping people will like her. &lt;br /&gt;The boy you just tripped? He is abused enough at home. &lt;br /&gt;See that man with the ugly scars? He fought for our country. &lt;br /&gt;That guy you just made fun of… for crying? His mother is dying&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-related"&gt;&lt;h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Related articles&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul class="zemanta-article-ul"&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www10.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/why-cyberbullying-rhetoric-misses-the-mark.html?_r=5"&gt;Op-Ed Contributors: Why Cyberbullying Rhetoric Misses the Mark&lt;/a&gt; (nytimes.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/09/23/the-unintended-consequences-of-cyberbullying-rhetoric.html"&gt;The Unintended Consequences of Cyberbullying Rhetoric&lt;/a&gt; (zephoria.org)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lukewilliamss.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/facebook-teams-up-with-time-warner-for-new-anti-bullying-app/"&gt;Facebook Teams Up With Time Warner For New Anti-Bullying App!&lt;/a&gt; (lukewilliamss.wordpress.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=9ea431a2-77b1-47d8-92a9-2c52f4bfac77" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22477816-2429078655425211859?l=meanderon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/qi6c770sG3c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://meanderon.blogspot.com/2011/09/seen-in-blogsphere-anti-bullying.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Longing for God</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/2V4sNg8QsVg/longing-for-god.html</link><category>As the Deer</category><category>reflection</category><category>Bible</category><category>Religion and Spirituality</category><category>God</category><category>Christianity</category><category>longing</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (bhojman)</author><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:00:16 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22477816.post-957604725738162800</guid><description>Some years ago I wrote a reflection on 'longing for God'. As I read  it again now I find that it's still just as relevant for me now as then.  As you read this be encouraged... God is no stranger to our  unsettlednesses, our longings, our questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Psalm  42: 1-3: “As the deer pants for streams of water, so I long for you, O  God. I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and stand before  him? Day and night, I have only tears for food, while my enemies  continually taunt me, saying, “Where is this God of yours?” ”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There  are times when I am fully aware of my longing for God. It is so strong  that my heart aches inside. At other times I have no awareness and am  busy thinking and doing other things yet have felt so restless and  unsettled. No matter what I put my hand to or think about in my mind it  does not settle the unsettledness. What I believe is happening is that  my deep longing for God is causing the unsettledness; I am dissatisfied  with everything else. My deep being is crying out with longing for God.  My outside being (my conscious self) is distracted with many things;  some of these distractions may be my efforts to escape from my longing  for God.&lt;br /&gt;Then, too, there are my enemies who seems to whisper  forever, “Where is this God of yours?” The demons are ever ready to  throw this question at me when God seems not to be near, or seems not be  hearing or paying attention.&lt;br /&gt;My longing for God gets attacked by  myself (the sinful self who is so full of self and does not want a  competitor) or by the demons who do not want me to draw close to God in  any way.&lt;br /&gt;God knows this. He knows how to deliver me from the  taunting demons. And, He knows how to work in my heart so my  dissatisfaction deepens until I do turn to Him and am willing for Him to  bring about the needed heart changes.&lt;br /&gt;He has made clear in  Scripture that He loves us and desires to fellowship with us. He has  planted within us this deep longing for fellowship with Him, as well.&lt;br /&gt;Copyright © 2003 Fran Woods&lt;/blockquote&gt;originally published at &lt;a data-mce-href="http://www.bhojli.com/Musings/longing_for_god.htm" href="http://www.bhojli.com/Musings/longing_for_god.htm" target="_blank" title="longing for God"&gt;Bhojli Reflections&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=ab9fbbcf-1660-4072-acf6-631858c52ef5" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22477816-957604725738162800?l=meanderon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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And, as a result, this  part of the world holds a very special place in my heart.&amp;nbsp; It is  heartwarming to&amp;nbsp; read something positive from the area... instead of the  heartbreaking and awful news of all the unrest that's been there for so  many years because of the Maoist insurgents. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ramchandra  Baghel was the son of a poor farmer from a small village in the  infamous Bastar area. Given to the vice of alcohol addiction, the father  had leased his farmlands. The habit resulted in the family losing their  own lands and Baghel's father was forced to work as a daily wager on  his own land. Today, Ramchandra has been able to buy back his  forefathers' land. He also supplements his earnings by working as a  driver, ferrying school children in his run-down jeep.&lt;br /&gt;The  youngster who could have been held in the shackles of poverty rose to  attain a respectable position in society instead. This would not have  been possible without the support of his beloved Dadaji and Dadiji. This  old couple, not his biological grandparents, happens to play a similar  role in the lives of around 4000 children in the tribal areas of &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhattisgarh" rel="wikipedia" title="Chhattisgarh"&gt;Chhattisgarh&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Jayant  and Jayshree Kothe, more famously Dadaji and Dadiji, belong to Nagpur,  but decided to help those who really needed it after attaining the age  of retirement. This took them to the notorious Abujhmar plateau in 1998.  "The place has such a difficult terrain that it was impossible to work  there," says Jayashree. This led to a detailed study of the needs of the  various people around the region. And, finally they decided to make  Dantewada and Bastar areas of Chhattisgarh their base. Later, they  formed Bhartiya Kushta Nivarak Sangh, an NGO that has its presence in  over 80 villages.&lt;br /&gt;"An abandoned police station in Halbaras village in the &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naxalite" rel="wikipedia" title="Naxalite"&gt;Naxal&lt;/a&gt;-infested  area was turned into our home. Today, the building also houses an  ashram, a school and a laboratory equipped to screen people for &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease" rel="wikipedia" title="Sickle-cell disease"&gt;sickle cell disease&lt;/a&gt;,  a condition very common among the tribals of the area," informed  Jayant. The ashram also provides shelter to more than 25 needy children,  whom the elderly couple has accepted as a part of their family.&lt;br /&gt;The  goodness of the couple also benefits the other children in the  villages. More than 200 kids are fed with nourishing khichdi, consisting  of pulses like tur, moong, masoor, groundnuts and grams. The improved  nutritional profile of the children has meant that malnourishment has  been practically eradicated in the village. Those who did not attend  school were told to come to the ashram for a couple of hours to study.&lt;br /&gt;The  decade long efforts of the Kothe's have finally borne fruit with the  villagers as well as the government supporting their activities. The  fallow land near the ashram would soon be turned into a park with  financial aid from the villagers. Identifying the need for it, the  government has assigned the couple with the task of screening more than  25,000 tribal children for sickle cell disease.&lt;br /&gt;They have started  spreading their aid to the villages in Maharashtra as well. Already  started operations in Melghat, they would also be providing support to  villages like Deori, Istari and Yedmagondi in their home state.&lt;br /&gt;All  sorts of recognition and achievements fall short for the couple as the  highest reward for them is having thousands of children to call their  own. The couple is in the city with some of the children from the ashram  for an exhibition of handicrafts made by tribal people from Bastar  ranging from bell metal, wrought iron, wood work to the famous Chapa  Kosa sarees and dress materials. The money earned through sale of these  items would go the BKNS's Halbaras ashram.&lt;/blockquote&gt;From: &lt;a data-mce-href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Giving-em-a-new-lease-of-life/articleshow/9673450.cms" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Giving-em-a-new-lease-of-life/articleshow/9673450.cms"&gt;Giving 'em a new lease of life - The Times of India&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=5bc00305-83ac-4f6d-a113-3076c2351fb8" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22477816-6310211070370249009?l=meanderon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~4/dUp2lDlE5eU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://meanderon.blogspot.com/2011/07/john-stott-has-died.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Old cottage @ Jembaicumbene, NSW - photo art</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/meanderon/~3/ojH5rMszhqg/old-cottage-jembaicumbene-nsw-photo-art.html</link><category>Dynamic Auto Painter</category><category>Cottage</category><category>Flickr</category><category>DAP</category><category>Jembaicumbene</category><category>photo art</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (bhojman)</author><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:41:51 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22477816.post-9114491534936505070</guid><description>&lt;div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px; padding: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/5899350259/" title="Old cottage @ Jembaicumbene, NSW - photo art"&gt;&lt;img alt="Old cottage @ Jembaicumbene, NSW - photo art by bhojman" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5316/5899350259_6bdfc33985.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/5899350259/"&gt;Old cottage @ Jembaicumbene, NSW - photo art&lt;/a&gt;, a photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhojman/"&gt;bhojman&lt;/a&gt; on Flickr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I pass this old cottage each time I go into &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-35.4333333333,149.8&amp;amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;amp;q=-35.4333333333,149.8%20%28Braidwood%2C%20New%20South%20Wales%29&amp;amp;t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Braidwood, New South Wales"&gt;Braidwood&lt;/a&gt; to check my mail or to shop. It's old and it's abandoned yet there's something very appealing about it. I often wonder about the people who used to live there and the stories they could tell., &lt;br /&gt;I've stopped to photograph it many times. Lately I've been experimenting on my photos using some of my computer art programs, especially one called Dynamic Auto Painter (DAP). The computer is my canvas and this is something I like to do. I quite like this particular result.&lt;br /&gt;Recently someone has begun a restoration project on the cottage. I hope they retain something of the its character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=50fb7a0d-1b9c-4d91-91b7-30ae4ce79971" style="border: medium none; float: right;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/22477816-9114491534936505070?l=meanderon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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