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NEWSLETTER
FROM JO' S DESK, Northern California
March, 2010

































































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On the Right
CHRISTINE MAHREE HIER
FOWLER
THE CREATIVE EPIPHANY,
CHAPTER 4
TITLED  "I AM THE APPLAUSE"

ART REP, EXPERT ON AFRICAN
ART & ARTIFACTS

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COMING EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
FEBRUARY, 2010

On the Left
CAPTAIN FRED ROSSITER
THE CREATIVE EPIPHANY,
CHAPTER 7 TITLED,
"THE JOURNEY"
www.fredrossiter.com
www.captainfredrossiter.com

Capt. Fred Rossiter reports bubble rings!

When I am on the water, I see dolphin everywhere.  They have
learned to mooch fish from fishermen.  We'll catch some fish
and release them back into the water.  Pretty soon, the dolphin
zero in on those boats catching fish and then they come over to
mooch a free meal.  When the exhausted fish is returned to the
water, the dolphin are waiting.  Wham!  They take the fish.  I saw
a dolphin take a fish in mid air as it jumped out of the water to
escape the dolphin.  

We don't like having our prized game fish eaten by the dolphin
so we try to fool them or we move the boat to a different
location.  On two of these occasions, with the dolphin right next
to the boat, I witnessed a dolphin make a bubble ring.  If I hadn't
already seen the You Tube videos, I probably would not have
recognized it for what it was.  But, clearly, wild dolphin know
how to make bubble rings .... at least in my local waters.

Bubble Rings:

http://c
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMCf7SNUb-Q

http://www.cyoutube.com/watch?v=eXqjMvGcrns

http://www.cyoutube.com/watch?v=quiDUHNsq2E
KELLY K. HEAPY
OUR BOOK COVER DESIGNER
FOR BOTH BOOKS
AND CONTRIBUTING WRITER FOR
"EPIPHANY AND HER FRIENDS"
( Chapter 5 titled Wanderlust )
Has been promoted to
CREATIVE DIRECTOR AND
INTERNET MARKETING MANAGER
AT MARTIS CAMP
in the Tahoe area.
For more info visit
www.martiscamp.com

OUR THIRD MONTH OF 2010
HAS ARRIVED!

At this writing
the lovely people of Chile are
facing an earthquake, larger
than Haiti. Is it my imagination or
are these cataclysmic events
happening more often and
with greater furor?

It seems that Mother Earth
is shifting restlessly in her position -
Do you believe in the
Hypothesis of Gaia?

Google the word Gaia and you will find
the excerpt below and a link to
the complete article.
It is a fascinating theory
and one that is
especially relevant now
when it seems as though the
world has lost its mind and its
equilibrium.

Food for Thought:
If indeed Mother Earth is a living breathing
organism, is she alive and well?
Or just barely alive?

THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS
FROM HERE.
HANG IN THERE.
JO

Jo Ann Brown-Scott
is proud to announce that
a portion of the 2009 book royalties
from our book
EPIPHANY AND HER FRIENDS
has been donated to the
survivors of the
Haitian earthquake.
We feel honored
to have been in a position
to be of some help.
Every artist dips his brush in his
own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
THE CREATIVE EPIPHANY AWARDED THE
HONOR OF BEING A FINALIST IN THE 2009
USA BEST BOOK AWARDS
In the category of non-fiction narrative
www.USABookNews.com
IN LATE DECEMBER, 2009,
SHANNON PAIGE SCHNEIDER,
AUTHOR OF
CHAPER 13 TITLED "THE LUCKY"
IN OUR BOOK "THE CREATIVE EPIPHANY"
ENJOYED THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME WITH HER
HUSBAND JOE, TO INDIA!
FRED ROSSITER GAVE THIS
CALUSA WARRIOR TO HIS WIFE
FOR CHRISTMMAS -
IT WILL WARD OFF RECESSION
AND BAD LUCK IN 2010 -
WANT ONE FOR YOURSELF?

Lt. Colonel Joe Milner is back from his tour of duty in Iraq,
(Chapter 9 titled MY RIGHT BRAIN )
and writes:
I have been selected for a National Defense
Fellowship and will spend a year (starting in July 2010) in Wash DC at
the Institute for Defense Analysis.  It is a think tank where they plan
and analyze a wide variety of defense issues both internal to the US,
but also how other nation's actions affect us as well.  Should be a good
time and a great opportunity to use the creative side again!

Unfortunatly that means leaving CA,
so we have been doing everything we
could to see as much as possible in our limited time left.  We went to
San Francisco for Thanskgiving and to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl
Parade and game on 1 Jan.  
They were both so much fun.  San Francisco is such a
great city and we had an really fun time there!
LOVELY RUTH,
CHAPTER 11
IN "EPIPHANY AND HER FRIENDS"
TURNED 99 IN JANUARY!!!
FRIENDS AND FAMILY GATHERED
ON A RARE SUNNY DAY
CELEBRATING RUTH
WITH MUCH LOVE AND LAUGHTER....

At Left
Laura RietmeijerTilley
Chapter 7, THE GIFT OF GIVING
in "EPIPHANY AND HER FRIENDS"
With her gorgeous daughter
Ella Christina


New Poem by Kyle Moshrefi
Chapter 6, Fireplace Meditations
in "The Creative Epiphany"

tattoo.

your heart beats breath into me
sustaining life and visions of clarity.
the severity of your touch was so much that
i had to sew your name onto my sleeve
with the strings of your heart that you left behind.
and when i was through,
only one thing rang true --
the "u" in “you” was no longer found.
i searched all over the ground.
i searched every bit but nothing fit in my
hand the way you used to…
and as this realization sunk in
my skin turned cold and blue.
i slammed the needle down,
all smiles turning to frowns as
self-loathing unloaded its
bed of bricks inside of me.
my stomach a cement mixer of
good intention gone wrong.
a sing and dance song to the
beat of your heart no longer in rhythm
with my own.
you left this home long ago.
but i can't let go of the unraveling thread
so i surrender to the smell of your skin
in our broken bed. silence echoing the four
corners of this room in place of your
laughter and it's here in the aftermath
that lessons are learned.
but lessons don’t bring back turned faces
and lessons can’t erase memories of a time
when i held your hand in mine
so i'll suffer the consequence
of time and space
and carry on with a poker face
but i'll miss you.
at least that much i know will withstand the darkness.
i miss you.
at least that much will still hold
true.

Joe Milner, Lt. Colonel, USAF - Chapter 9 in
The Creative Epiphany
recently returned from Iraq writes:
"We are staying busy  -
as we had the
Pinewood Derby races
last weekend and it was a blast!  
My son Andrew is 9,
built his first car this year and
won FIRST PLACE
for his Cub Scout den,
so he was very excited.  While I was glad he
won for his sake, I was more proud of how he
cheered for every other scout's car just as hard
as he did for his.  His sportsmanship was
awesome and
I was a proud dad...:)"
(See more news about Joe farther down the page)
What is the hypothesis of Gaia?
Stated simply, the idea is that we may have discovered a living
being bigger, more ancient, and more complex than anything
from our wildest dreams.
That being, called Gaia, is the Earth.
More precisely: that about one billion years after it's formation, our
planet was occupied by a meta-life form which began an ongoing
process of transforming this planet into its own substance. All the
life forms of the planet are part of Gaia. In a way analogous to the
myriad different cell colonies which make up our organs and
bodies, the life forms of earth in their diversity coevolve and
contribute interactively to produce and sustain the optimal
conditions for the growth and prosperity not of themselves, but of
the larger whole, Gaia. That the very makeup of the atmosphere,
seas, and terrestrial crust is the result of radical interventions
carried out by Gaia through the evolving
diversity of living creatures.
Encountering the Earth from space, a witness would know
immediately that the planet was alive. The atmosphere would
give it away. The atmospheric compositions of our sister planets,
venus and mars, are: 95-96% carbon dioxide, 3-4% nitrogen, with
traces of oxygen, argon and methane. The earth's atmosphere at
present is 79% nitrogen, 21% oxygen with traces of carbon
dioxide, methane and argon. The difference is Gaia, which
transforms the outer layer of the planet into environments
suitable to its further growth. For example, bacteria and
photosynthetic algae began some 2.8 billions of years ago
extracting the carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen into the
atmosphere, setting the stage for larger and more energetic
creatures powered by combustion,
including, ultimately, ourselves.

This will serve as an introduction to the Gaia hypothesis;
It is a review (published in 1989) of James Lovelock's
The Ages of Gaia
read more at:
erg.ucd.ie/arupa/references/gaia.html