onewind In reply to Shadow-Hat [2011-06-16 21:12:34 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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onewind In reply to FamiliarOddlings [2011-02-08 18:49:30 +0000 UTC]

Hi! Thanks for the message ~ That's my warm fuzzie for the day.
Good to hear from you, and I'd be glad to join the new Baha'i group. I clicked on the "join our group" button, and got a message saying membership is closed, so I sent a message to the group to ask permission to join. I'm glad that when others go to sleep, someone starts new ones...

I just logged on today for the first time in a month or more, to upload a new drawing, so if it's been that long since you posted this message, I apologize for the late reply.

The drawing I'm uploading is my first that I officially consider a "prayer" drawing ~ A dear friend was having a frightening personal / interpersonal crisis, so I said the Long Healing Prayer, the Bab's prayer for protection, and "Refresh and Gladden My Spirit," and started drawing, thinking about my friend and the prayers the whole time. It's a drawing I actually started months ago, but finished it dedicated to him. It's got a lot of power and healing symbols in it, from a few religions, including of course Baha'i.

I'll try to get on here more often...

Thanks again for keeping in touch

Karla

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onewind In reply to HGAStudios [2010-08-09 15:57:58 +0000 UTC]

I just checked out your gallery ~ impressive detail on the characters' armor and on the creatures.

Thank you for adding me to your watch list.

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onewind In reply to BloodyWildChild [2010-02-22 16:26:37 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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onewind In reply to FamiliarOddlings [2009-08-05 16:36:53 +0000 UTC]

Hi there! Thanks for dropping a note. I haven't been on here much lately ~ I've got to go through my inbox one of these days...
I'll be back on soon...

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onewind In reply to a-katebah [2009-08-05 16:42:23 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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onewind In reply to Bw-Photo [2009-04-07 01:05:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Sheldon ~ I'll check that out this week. My semester is over in two weeks, and I intend to brainstorm that letter we spoke of late April or early May...
Talk to you soon
Your friend,
Karla

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onewind In reply to oh-no-heather-jo [2009-04-07 00:55:31 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome, & thank you.

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onewind In reply to Anisahoni [2009-04-14 16:18:07 +0000 UTC]

Your Web site is phenomenal! My reading over the past couple years echoes much of what you said ~ It was either in Kiss Sleeping Beauty Goodbye (by Madonna Kolbenschlag) or The Myth of Women's Masochism (by Paula Caplan) that stated "mental illness" is not something to be treated as a clinical malady, but a person's reaction to the chaos, iniquity, etc. around them, and such people should be nurtured through the course of their experience, and it should be understood in context. In my Language and Culture class this semester, we talked a lot about concrete words versus context ~ Anglo America is among the lowest-context nations, whereas Asian and other cultures (probably including Native Americans) that see the larger scheme of things, have a more "holistic" approach to health, are high-context, and "get it" a lot more than Anglo culture does when it comes to understanding the true causes and effects of aberrant developments in humans and / or their environment. The whole matter of trying to find physical biological causes for everything behavioral, even recently including homosexuality (though I imagine in some cases there are hormonal issues), in misguided attempts to "understand" these issues, meanwhile the pathological society around the people who come up with odd behaviors and opinions and whatnot is completely ignored. And we call these people masters of their profession, scientists, the people who are supposedly doing the work and making the innovations that make us "healthier" (I guess in their definition, healthy means drug-addicted). Author and physician Christiane Northrup, whose book Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom I just read, refers to America's medical system (including psychiatric) as the "Addictive System." I'm glad that there are others besides the three feminist writers I mentioned above who are acknowledging the fallacies in our health care *industry*'s judgements and teaching about all-important *context*. Keep up the good work, and if you'd still like to discuss cover art (or anything else), I can be reached at onewind_kjh@yahoo.com

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onewind In reply to Anisahoni [2009-04-07 01:03:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for your interest ~ I will check out your link. I'm definitely interested in discussing the possibility of CD cover art with you. My email address is onewind_kjh@yahoo. (Sorry I didn't respond to this sooner; I haven't been on here in about a week.)
Karla

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onewind In reply to shadedmirrors [2009-03-10 15:30:00 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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onewind In reply to 42nato [2009-03-05 20:32:56 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome, & thank you for the faves!

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onewind In reply to Tellaine [2009-03-04 20:55:21 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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onewind In reply to Bw-Photo [2009-02-11 22:16:27 +0000 UTC]

I know which one you're talking about. I'm sorry to hear that's the first one you saw - I almost cried when I saw it. I sent a "potential covenant-breaker alert" email to National (then noticed the person is listed as being in Canada, so I'm not sure what to do ~ my roommate has Baha'i friends in Canada, so maybe I can get the contact info for their National Assembly...)
It's called Baha'i Art I think.
Be comforted however that there are two real Baha'i pages - one which was just started within the past couple years, & the person who started it even found my stuff browsing & invited me to have my Baha'i-themed items featured there. They are [link] and [link] . In the latter's favorites I noticed [link] , though haven't checked it out yet myself.
There is a block feature ~ I blocked one goofball who said I was some kind of posseur for mixing Native American imagery with Celtic and Egyptian, & sounded drunk or high when he posted his disparaging comments to me.
To block it, click on "More" in the option bar toward the top of your main page. In the drop-down, click "edit settings." At the very bottom of the page that comes up is the option to "block users". Just type in "BahaiArt" or whatever the user name for the nasty one is.
Karla

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Bw-Photo In reply to onewind [2009-02-12 04:25:27 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot, at least it will block it from me. I'll check out the links.
ttyl, Sheldon

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onewind In reply to Bw-Photo [2009-02-12 17:32:48 +0000 UTC]

Hmm... I didn't even think of that, asking DeviantArt if they can block something like that: I've heard that people who try to defame the Baha'i Faith or make ludicrous claims to be "orthodox Baha'is" or "fundamentalist Baha'is" lose if sued in court, because the Will & Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha is a binding legal contract that impostors can't challenge. I'll write to DeviantArt about this & hope they don't pull the "freedom of speech" card. I hate it when people pull that ~ the right should only be protected if the expression is not at other people's expense. That just reminds me, last year there were a series of blogs on here about putting the clamp on people posting Nazi & other hate stuff on their pages, & the argument was a stalemate I think, because even people that didn't believe in hate propaganda said the rights of people to post it should be protected! That's sick. I'll see what happens...

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