Author: Aaron

Chevrolet Chevelle SS Convertible

1968 Chevy Chevelle

The Car calendar on my wall in my office is showing a 1966 Chevelle convertible in blue, with a 396. The car in the photo (below) is a 1968 from Montreal, Quebec but I couldn’t find the blue beauty from my calendar.

As a teenager the first muscle car I went for rides in was this Chevy with a 396 four speed. I smile just thinking about it and can almost smell the burning rubber, as it’s owner liked to light up his tires for any reason.

Swing low, sweet chariot.

This carriage later became the famous Monte Carlo and Malibu, as the body style changed several times over the decades. The Chevelles of the 60’s were really nice cars, I enjoyed a cruise to Seattle once, following the Okanogan river and across the border at Orville, Washington, then on down the valley and then over the Cascade Range. It was August and we had the top down the entire way, in the convertible model, yellow with white leather seats.

My friends muscle car was a 1970 coupe, as pictured

Bull-Doser – Top photo above 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle SS photographed in Laval, Quebec, Canada at Les chauds vendredis. Coupe from Bull-Doser – Own work Chevrolet Chevelle photographed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at Gibeau Orange Julep.

The Chevrolet Chevelle is a mid-sized automobile which was produced by Chevrolet in three generations for the 1964 through 1977 model years. Part of the General Motors (GM) A-Body platform, the Chevelle was one of Chevrolet’s most successful nameplates. Body styles include coupes, sedans, convertibles and station wagons. Super Sport versions were produced through the 1973 model year, and Lagunas from 1973 through 1976. After a four-year absence, the El Camino was reintroduced as part of the new Chevelle lineup in 1964. The Chevelle also provided the platform for the Monte Carlo introduced in 1970. The Malibu, the top of the line model through 1972, completely replaced the Chevelle nameplate for the redesigned, downsized 1978 model year.

Chevelle Photo credit: KayVee.INC on Visual Hunt / CC BY-NC-SA Photo credit: Chad Horwedel on Visual Hunt / CC BY-NC-ND

September 2, 2019
Pleiadian Starseed and the Intergalactic Federation of Sovereign Planets
From the very first time I heard of either a Pleiadian Starseed or the Intergalactic Federation of Sovereign Planets, I knew it was real. My instincts are sharpened by decades of consuming information, I knew that there had to be more advanced being than us, and they just observe.

Possibly the greatest impediment that each and every one us suffers from, is our own ability to think outside of the boundaries of what we’ve been taught. It’s our arrogance in our beliefs that encumber us.

Even small details, by being constantly reinforced by science and what we are told to be experts, some thing as simple as space, can be explained in a way that makes everything else false in a small way. The end result is to be boxed into a framework of understand that’s inadequate to describe reality.

Cosmic Agency is a Youtube Channel that begins to change our understanding of just one of the many groups from the Intergalactic Federation of Sovereign Planets. Representatives from Taygetean, which is a planet system inside the Pleiadian Galaxy, are known as. Pleiadian Starseed beings and as many as 1,000 of them are on earth.

The Pleiades
- “The Pleiades group is an open star cluster in the constellation of Taurus, existing approximately [400 to] 500 light years from Earth. There are 250-500 stars within the cluster, although only nine have been named. Most ancient cultures claim seven stars.
- These include China, who called them ‘The Seven sisters of Industry,’ and Greece, who referred to them as the ‘seven daughters of Atlas.’
- More than any other star system, the Pleiades has captured the attention of both ancient and modern civilization.”
The names of the main stars are:
1. Alcyone
2. Celaeano
3. Electra
4. Atlas
5. Merope
6. Sterope I & II
7. Taygeta
8. Maia
9. Pleione
- According to the Maya, our solar system rotates around Alcyone, the central star of the Pleiades, in a 26,000 year period; (Note that this last part, about our solar system rotating around Alcyone has been proven incorrect).
- Taygeta supposedly is the sun of the planet ‘Erra’ where Billy Meier‘s contacts Semjase & co. came from.
The Pleiades group is the home of a humanoid species. The Pleiadians are most similar to Earth humans. Earth humans supposedly were created by using mainly Pleiadian DNA.

Pleiadian Starseed Photo credit: h.koppdelaney on VisualHunt.com / CC BY-ND
September 1, 2019
Peace Revolution of Love

A Course in Miracles has had such a profound effect on me that I decided to create my own ministry. I want everyone to learn about the Foundation for Inner Peace and how life-altering it is to know about Miracles.

Miracles are everywhere and happen in ways we have no understanding of, so all we need to learn is how to make miracles happen. Who makes them, happen and why.

Peace Revolution is the co-creation with my brother Marcos, as he planted this seed in my mind many years ago and we promised each other that it would be done. Release Marcos collection called Peace Revolution.

By helping Marco we are all helping each other, since he has an enormous amount of love he needs to unleash on the world. See, Marcos is a singer, songwriter and guitar virtuoso, extraordinaire.

As for myself, I’d been seeking my own calling. Prompted by the Prayer of Jabez, which reads like this:

“And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, ‘Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain.’ So God granted him what he requested.”
Old Testament passage 1 Chronicles 4:9-10

Laughing out loud, that my territory was increased to include a Ministry. So, I began teaching A Course in Miracles to others. The extra work is done with love, as it was my inner voice that told me to get started.

Ever since the first word on PeaceRevolution.love the next just seems to follow and a voice emerges from within me. I am driven to tell others about peace and how easy it is to obtain.

If one person were to win the same level of personal contentment that I’ve been able to gain, then my Peace Revolution of Love ministry was worth the effort.

August 31, 2019
My Self-Reliance YT Channel

Canada has produced some great content creators on YouTube and one of my favourites is Shawn James and his dog Kelly, at their cabin in Northern Ontario. The Channel is called My Self-Reliance.

There’s allot to learn from this channel and it’s amazing to see so many people watch it and that Shawn has become a role model and inspiration for so many people all over the world.

Aside from sharing the tasks, tips and travails of living in the wilderness there’s much more to learn too about his consciencious lifestyle and why he decided to go off-grid and live off the land (as much as possible).

The production values are extremely high and the editing with music and intro and outro as well as the blending and merging of different shots and angles are extraordinaire. After having been a viewer for a couple of years I can see the improvement in the finished product.

Recently Shawn travelled to Alaska to stay 2 nights at his hero Richard (Dick) Proenneke the author of “Alone in the Wilderness”.

The series of Alaska wildlife on My Self-Reliance YT Channel and the commentary about living and lifestyle in the wilderness of Alaska are as good, in terms of quality of information, as you will find anywhere.

His Other Channel: Shawn James https://bit.ly/2xzZHpB

T-SHIRTS: https://teespring.com/stores/my-self-…

Watch the ENTIRE cabin and Forest Kitchen SERIES here: HOW TO BUILD A LOG CABIN: https://bit.ly/2nbof06

SEASON 2 – The Interior: https://bit.ly/2CIjPqr

SEASON 3 – The Sauna/Bathhouse: https://bit.ly/2AskJWP

THE FOREST KITCHEN, Building It: https://bit.ly/2M3syZE

SEASON 2 – Outdoor Cooking: https://bit.ly/2CFgQPQ

To see what I’m up to during the rest of the week, please follow me on my other online channels; Website: http://myselfreliance.com/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/myselfrelia…

August 30, 2019
Aweber and FormStack vs MailChimp and NinjaForms

Not so long ago it was good enough to use the “Contact form” built into WordPress since the beginning but a few instant problems arise mostly due to mailserver being separate from Apache or Linux web server software.

Sending any amount of bulk email is always going to have bounce backs, there’s a rule-of-thumb in web development to keep these server functions separate.

Using a 3rd party to manage and send bulk email is just good practice, once a list grows beyond a few hundred subscribers, it’s way better to rent the service from one of many service providers. My two top favourites are Aweber and MailChimp, each of them can connect with 3rd party form services. We are testing FormStack and NinjaForms.

Another WordPress Ap called Newsletter is very impressive for being able to prefrom everything that can be done with the above tools, just a much more bare-bones platform, so you would need design skills.

Aweber and MailChimp both have vast resources of tutorials, templates, and self-help videos, plus fabulous support and all sorts of webinars and secondary coaching and consulting. It’s truly amazing how big this market sector has become and it’s reflected in the quality of the products.

So far I’m preferring FormStack just slightly because it can connect to WebMerge, which is really cool tech that enables multiple groups to work on a the same document. In other words pass information to be completed by another authorized user, for example a bank or grocery store.

The sophistication involved Aweber and MailChimp is already amazing but when you add FormStack with Webmerge, or NinjaForms with their partners for the same systems, what you have is the capabilities of a giant institution, or tech giant, in your hands, for under $100 per month.

Aweber and FormStack Photo on Visual hunt

August 29, 2019
Content Chemistry by Orbit Media

Today I attended a webinar hosted by Aweber to feature Andy Crestodina, Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer – Orbit Media and author of an incredible resource called Content Chemistry: The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing

Content Chemistry is the result of conversations with thousands of companies since 2001. These are the most important and effective marketing lessons we’ve learned.

Needless to say I’ve been doing everything wrong here on this blog, if my attention were to win traffic and attempt to convince anyone of my method of blogging, as it’s been used as a creative outlet to improve my writing, also I thought that the stories would harm my online profile.

Silicon Palms has always been more like a holding company, for developing and managing cyber estates (websites) and domains and brands. Invest Offshore has been the primary focus until recently.

Now that I have been educated about modern content marketing methods, I’m likely to make changes here one again and also improve all my content creation and continue learning Content Chemistry.

Photo credit: cenews on Visual Hunt / CC BY

August 28, 2019
Man’s Best Friend

My lovely dog Victoria is now deceased and despite knowing for months that she was suffering from chronic bronchitis and not well at all, then given a few more weeks time by modern medicine and excellent loving care. Even knowing she was going to be leaving it still didn’t prepare me for the emotions I felt when I learned that she had officially passed over.

No amount of words will ever be able to express how this little dog won my heart and mind. Of dozens of dogs I’ve loved, my little Vee just won my heart like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. I want to remember her here, since it was an auspicious beginning.

It was after dark in my Sao Paulo home when the phone rang to say that there was an abandoned puppy tied by string to the fence beside a building site in my neighbourhood. We were told that the security guard was leaving for the day and doesn’t know what to do with the dog but can’t take her.

When I found the little black puppy she was cowering with fear and dread, as the story unfolded I came to learn that she had been badly abused and was with pups, so we untied her, picker her up and carried her home asses the damage and feed and clean here. She had big brown eyes and softest demeanour I had ever seen, not even an ounce of fight in her.

We named her Victoria, for the honour of her Victory in surviving the horror of her early life experience. She was operated on by experts vets that worked in the favela and provided her surgery for a small donation, then with Frankenstein stitches across the pink belly where she had been shaved the skin, which was quite a contrast to her shiny black coat. If I had to say, she most resembled a black Cocker-spaniel, she slept for the better part of three days, after her surgery.

Victoria didn’t trust people at first, she’d been past the point of trusting anyone. Her sad face was of defeat, she didn’t know what was going to happen next. We tried to find a home for her and even had a potential new owner but that fell-through and then she started eating a little and began to respond to affection. it wasn’t more than a few days and her beautiful spirit had won everyone’s heart and it became impossible to give her away.

Victoria was sent to us, to teach us about compassion and love. We are forced to look deep inside of ourselves and ask why? How could it be…. how is it possible that an animal that can could mean this much? Who matters more to God, us or Man’s Best Friend? I already know the answer….

August 27, 2019
Mexican Cuisine and the Amazing Avocado

Chapultepec Castle on top of Chapultepec Hill

One upon a time I was in Mexico City, in and area of the city called Zona Rosa, where they wash and sweep the sidewalks in the morning and you can find the most charming boutiques, cafes, and restaurants. By asking around and getting good advice, I found an authentic and award winning establishment to enjoy one of the most fabulous meals of my life.

That day I had been visiting Chapultepec, more commonly called the “Bosque de Chapultepec” in Mexico City, is one of the largest city parks in the Western Hemisphere, measuring in total just over 686 hectares. Centered on a rock formation called Chapultepec Hill, one of the park’s main functions is an ecological space in Greater Mexico City. I was stunned and amazed by the enormous museum of anthropology, one massive exhibit for each of the ancient races of Mexico, I never forgot the place.

My choice for dinner that evening awarded me with a peak into the wonderful culture of Mexico, as the place filled up and I watched people celebrating the end of a work week and the approaching Christmas holidays. The feeling was very festive but everyone was there to eat.

In modern times the taco and burrito made Mexico famous for the wrong end of the their menu, as it’s the elaborate dishes and roasted meats that make my mouth water but we all must admit that it’s what can be done with avocado and regular simple vegetables that makes Mexican food rock, not to mention the beans, even though they themselves complain about all the beans int their diet but it’s the number of different flavours that can be baked in to beans.

My favourite thing to prepare at home is Mexican Food, especially a tasty guacamole and some spicy salsa just to get the taste-buds warmed up. To me the preparation is more about variety, having the right combination of elements to render the particular taste. Despite my deriding tacos and burrito they are the easiest thing to make that tastes authentic (for me).

How many ways are there to love the contribution this awesome culture of Mexico has given us in modern day?

Mexican Photo credit: sgrace on VisualHunt / CC BY-NC – Chapultepec Castle photo CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Castillo de Chapultepec (Museo Nacional de Historia).JPG Created: 24 July 2012 Location: 19° 25′ 14″ N, 99° 10′ 54″ W

August 26, 2019
From a tiny spark…

From tiny spark…

Today my story is all about the imagination and how to find that spark. found both of these two photos in the search term “bursting”. I’ve been so inspired lately and such incredible things have fallen into alignment, the circumstances of my life find me in the most amazing moment. Ignition!

By good old hard work and constant persistence, if one project went sour there were three more on the simmer. A few of my deals have been on the burner for years and involved expensive reconnaissance and several false-starts, as well as unplanned legal fees.

So the story begins over a year ago when I meet a man seeking half a billion dollars to build indoor vertical gardening. It seemed like a reasonable idea to me so a passed the project forward to a consultant for a China construction company, they call it ‘modern gardening’ and said yes, sure we’ll be your partners, under a few conditions. For example the labour can come from local but the engineering and procurement of steel and heavy industrial parts and power grid components must come from China.

Turns out that engineers from China have already constructed every type of vertical garden, or aquaculture farm, with luxury hotels even, build over top of protected reefs. There’s a new revolution in eco construction where the engineers are beginning to understand how to reduce impact of development and still re-claim giant swaths of land from the swamps of mangroves or even from the sea.

Finally the minds of man are catching on to how to have luxury comfort and service of urban living, while preserving the natural beauty and not destroying the environment to achieve the a mix of multi-use, multi-function and most importantly grown food and host green area in as much space as possible.

An industry blooming to refurb white-elephant shopping malls into Agriplex Gro-Malls to raise fish and grow food

The malls of the future will become hi-tech grow-ops where everything you can think of to eat will be grown under the same roof, or sourced within local proximity. The blending of hi-tech and IoT will manifest new mix of vertical-farming and consumer interaction in a new mall type of a setting. The mall of the future is happening.

it all started with a spark of an idea, added to another and then another, then refined by teams of experts in a dozen different departments of an enormous connected, hence plex, multi-functional, indoor agriculture systems embedded into the building providing interactive, personalized entertainment and social interactions. Just like the Jetson’s except no flying cars.

More to come about the spark of an idea that ignited a shift in culture and the details of the man behind it all. Stayed tuned and thanks for reading.

Photo credit: Lightastic on Visual Hunt / CC BY-NC Photo credit: TaishiMatsumoto on Visualhunt / CC BY-NC-ND

August 25, 2019
Swimming in the Stream of Consciousness

The most amazing thing has been happening to me lately, I’ve been diving into moments of synchronicity and swimming in the stream of consciousness. It’s like when you’re communicating and all of a sudden these amazing statements came out of your mouth, that sound incredibly wise and well articulated but you wonder where they came from.

Every day I riide my bicycle along the Pacific ocean and I practice breathing and intentionally defrag my mental hard-drive and clean my random memory access, often times it happens easily, especially when I see wildlife in nature, doing what wildlife tends to do, it captivates my mind and I forget about the things that were preoccupying me only moments previously.

After having practised this disciplined and regular mental CCleaner for the brain for such a long time, I’m beginning to really notice the differences in my life. Oddly enough my vision of how I wanted things to go, has started to go the way I had hoped. Nothing is ever perfect of course but the best part of my gradual improvement, in clarity of purpose, was that I occasionally find that I’m able to write entire paragraphs and realize that I wasn’t really concentrating on what I was saying, the keyboard was accepting my fingers and the words were just tumbling out on to the page in front of me.

Most of the time it’s more laborious for me, that’s because my mind is holding too many different things in the ram at the same time, whereas I need to be either completely focused on the topic, or being really immersed in the idea I’m trying to convey and if I’m informed on the topic, it’s become easier to write, plus more enjoyable, than ever before.

When I was a teenager I wanted to be a writer one day, if I’d only written more then, it’s like I’m forty years too late to catching on to the joy of writing…. oh well, this blog is much more fun than writing a book anyway and the purpose always has been to seek that Stream of Consciousness where the words come through me, rather than from me.

BTW: Thank you for reading.

August 24, 2019