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"Follow your bliss! All other routes lead to the abyss." Craig Louis Stehr Email: craiglouisstehr@gmail.com 16.XII.'23

Navratri 2023 Day 6: Maa Katyayani Puja | Navratri Special - Durga Mantra| Sarva Mangala Mangalye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMDrhMI9Z80

PENOBSCOT BAY WATCH

People who care about Maine's biggest Bay

Step Down Chair Lessard!
For immediate release November 27, 2023

Contact Penobscot Bay Watch 207-691-4634   coastwatch@gmail.com

Longtime Maine Board of Environmental Protection leader  needs to step down. 

By Ron Huber

Fallout over powerful Board Chair's September 28th appearance at Dragon Cement meeting with town and other officials - as - (wink wink) solely Sue Lessard Bucksport town manager.

THOMASTON. Susan Lessard is partway though her third 8 year term on the Board of Environmental Protection (most of those years as BEP chair.) She has had a profound influence on this administrative entity that, in the right hands, ensures public satisifaction with the major development issues of the day.

But many worry that Lessard's hands have increasingly moved the Board to the beat of a different drummer: Big industry.

Her September appearance at a meeting with Thomaston officials and others on a major cleanup issue - but feigning merely being there as a private citizen not BEP Chair - while tipping them DEP secrets - suggests it is time for her to move on.

For since her first appearance on the BEP in the Baldacci administration, many have noted a seachange in the venerable Board that was created in the mid 1970s.

The quarter century long "Lessard Board" has rejected nearly every public effort to make Maine DEP follow the law, when industry applicants refuse to meet the state's environment standards but demand to be approved anyway

BEP has reversed course and methodically begun to reject citizen and NGO appeals of DEP decisions. It has sneered at Maine Supreme Judicial Court rulings directed to it. It has tightened Board legal standing requirements for appellants while loosening pollution standards for applicants!

It has become a sad poster child exemplifying "industry capture" of a "People's Board".

The Lessard Board has concocted ridiculous rationales for refusing to require that applicants prove they can meet the state's required pollution standards before approval. A monstrous rubber stamp - as long as the polluter wannabees promise to someday, some way, follow the law...but in the meantime...pollute away!

The once functional  Board that historically has given all citizens s rights to have their voices heard and natures needs respected, is, thanks to Lessard's careful mismanagement, no longer capable of doing so. 

This is evident when it enthuses over grandiose, improbable plans brought forward by absentee investors with political connections but no facts  that coyly hint at millions of dollars flowing into certain Maine pockets.. When the BEP  spurns legal decisions they dont like - even from the Supreme Judical Court they reject them  forcing the appellants to expensively start its appeal over at a lower court.    And  the board chuckles at its new found cruelty and disservice to nature 

Maine needs to craft a replacement ,Sooner. Not later.  One that is sensibly biocentric toward all species not just Homo sapiens and our food and fun species

I recall a BEP hearing about oil tanker safety where an industrial lobbyist challengedmy right as a citizen activist to speak. "We need MORE Ron Hubers!" t he BEP Chair admonished him.

We also need less Lessards.

Let's make the Board of Environmental Protection actually protect the environment.

 If it can't? Replace it with something that does.


Ron Huber is presently a resident of Belfast and has been Penobscot Bay Watch since 1992.
info: www.penbay.org *** www.penobscotbay.blogspot.com
Tel 207-691-4634 E: coastwatch@gmail.comn
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Hare Krishna Maha Mantra Kirtan - Srila Prabhupada (43 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvpzOMZd1bM

Indian Chill Music | Sapphire Dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbd8m5toD_M The very warmest spiritual greetings, Just sitting here at the Ukiah Public Library on computer #5 tap, tap tapping away. Indian Chill Music flows into the brain through the ear buds. Slight smile on a relaxed face. Social security money is in. Food stamps received today. Bliss divine right here in the center of Ukiah, California. Talk to me...what would you like to do in this floating world? I'm ready. You ready? 😊 Craig Louis Stehr c/o Building Bridges Homeless Resource Center 1045 South State Street, Ukiah, CA 95482 Telephone Messages: (707) 234-3270 Email: craiglouisstehr@gmail.com 4.X.'23

Death - Nisargadatta Maharaj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sjadebaIK8

963 Hz Frequency of God, Return to Oneness, Spiritual Connection, Crown Chakra, Meditation Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-7S5ZuNGQ Warmest spiritual greetings, As the American government shutdown looms 'round midnight, and we rejoice in the certainty that Social Security, Medicare, and Food Stamps will not be affected in the foreseeable future, that there are available beds in homeless shelters, and that the weather is going to be relatively mild this autumn, just kick back, and using your own innate will power, anchor your mind at its Divine Absolute source. OM Shanthi Craig Louis Stehr c/o Building Bridges Homeless Resource Center 1045 South State Street, Ukiah, CA 95482 Telephone Messages: (707) 234-3270 Email: craiglouisstehr@gmail.com September 29, 2023 Anno Domini

Srila Prabhupada ORIGINAL - Hare Krishna MahaMantra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIVoZqEpJZ0

Yogananda Chants OM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14flP2qYmYw

Indian Chill Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nALr-mxMnkg

Pandit Nikhil Banerjee - Into the infinite Beyond

https://youtu.be/XrrogF-lLTA

Bhaja Govindam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxXrLNiPvNo

Complete Vedas With English Meanings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf5HH-KFpSk Warmest spiritual greetings, Following my final appointment with a cardiologist at Adventist Health-Ukiah yesterday, in which I am "good to go", with only general routine testing recommended in September, most prescriptions are now cancelled being no longer needed, and I am free to go where I need to go and do what I need to do on the planet earth.. Contact me if you are serious about doing anything crucial. [Eager to move on from the homeless shelter, and be engaged in spiritually focused direct action.] As ever, not identified with the body and not identified with the mind, Immortal Self I am. OM OM OM Craig Louis Stehr 1045 South State Street, Ukiah, CA 95482 Telephone Messages: (707) 234-3270 Email: craiglouisstehr@gmail.com July 21st @ 2:29PM Pacific Time

Rudram Namakam With Lyrics | Powerful Lord Shiva Stotras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIG6-HG5VX4

Hare Krsna Mantra The Radha Krsna Temple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PMGeQCr-aU

Glimpses of Narasimha Chaturdashi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MPtu6Id2VU

Saraswati's Sitar Symphony: Relaxing Music for Concentration and Focus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyHxgK16nmM

OM Chanting - 136.1 Hz - The Sound of Creation | Healing Meditation Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex-B0PH4q5M

Kali Puja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQJHNmsBZtQ

মাকালীর ১০৮নাম শ্রবণে সকল বাধা নিমেষে দূর হয়ে যায়।Maakali 108 names.কালী শতনাম।

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZs21LkQys

Goddess Kali Mantra Meditation with 528hz/Om Kreem Kalikayai Namah 108 Repetitions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svDHf5Axs-U

Best Prabhupada Kirtan Hare Krishna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQgOLDXeRw

Jai Jai Tulsi Mata Aarti ॐ जय तुलसी माता आरती

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AqKLzLhttE

Devi Suktam | Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshu | with Sanskrit lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw0neisiXk4

Vedic Chants | Sanskrit Juke Box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LKJEW_Ylro

HARE KRISHNA | FAKIRA | SRI CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU | BHABA PAGLA | NAROTTAM DAS THAKUR | BENGALI FOLK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA0fzrnKmCs

Extraordinary Needlework (Sanatana Dharma)

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/DwXhOot_9blXLQ?&utm_medium=email&utm_source=GACNewsletter&utm_campaign=artwork-15

THE ULTIMATE HEALER: Shiva Dhyana Mantra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5G0VQ9_S_Y

This Is the One Instruction that Is Critical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI-Ab02uElc

Pandit Jasraj - Mandukya Upanishad - A Musical Experience of OM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91R5RIayjdM

When Mind Storm Comes, Welcome and Transcend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEO1hYlCMFg

Aham Brahmasmi

Awoke early at the Building Bridges Homeless Resource Center in Ukiah, California, and following morning ablutions, walked to Plowshares Peace and Justice Center for a sumptuous, free meal served by those dedicated Catholic Workers. Took an MTA bus to the library, and am presently on computer #5 tap, tap, tapping away. Identified with the Immortal Atman (Pure Spirit) and not the body and not the mind. Here. Now. Every morning taking the blood pressure and hypertension pills which the cardiovascular department of Adventist Health prescribed. The heart monitor is on for two weeks, which will be mailed in to the lab soon. The pulmonary situation is much better; am presently sucking on a Mucinex cough drop. I would like to leave Mendocino county and go forth to engage in spiritually based direct action, for the purpose of destroying the demonic, particularly from the view of radical environmentalism and attenuating peace & justice. I am seeking others to team up with on the planet earth. Please comprehend that I am indeed grateful for the past year of relative ease and survivability here in northern California. Many afternoons have been spent just sitting on a bench doing absolutely nothing, watching the passing show. I'm not sure what the value is of becoming adept at doing nothing; maybe the zen buddhists can explain it, but I am ready to move on. It is time for all of us to intervene in history. Here. Now. Aham Brahmasmi >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbL7M6fzXl4 Craig Louis Stehr 1045 S. State Street, Ukiah, CA 95482 Telephone Messages: (707) 234-3270 Email: craiglouisstehr@gmail.com March 14, 2023 Anno Domini

Deep OM Mantra Sleep Music & Rain | 963Hz Singing Bowl | Third Eye Opening & Pineal Gland Activation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZvM-qjT5i8

Jagjit Singh | Hare Krishna Hare Rama | Keshwa Madhwa | Om Namo Bhagavate | Shri Krishna / Ram Dhun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpiqtZSLB3w

Om Namo Narayanaya Mantra Jaap || Lord Vishnu's Prayar Mantra - Sanjay Vidyarthi #Ambey Bhakti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k4LS_ed9Jg

Krishna das Live @ Matrimandir Amphitheater, Auroville, South India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJxfgRNHhFE

Kali Mantram Recited by Pandit Somnath Sharma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9jvQ1GQfG4

Haiku Poem (penned during the Ukiah, CA haiku poetry walk, Grace Hudson Museum gardens)

Native grasses Spikey and low Unflowering Craig Louis Stehr 4.II.'23

Dao De Jing (Verse 16)

致虛極. 守靜篤. 萬物並作. 吾以觀復. 夫物芸芸, 各復歸其根. 歸根曰靜. 是謂復命. 復命曰常. 知常曰明. 不知常, 妄作凶知常容. 容乃公. 公乃王. 王乃天. 天乃道. 道乃久. 沒身不殆. - Chinese characters, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 16 zhi xu ji. shou jing du. wan wu bing zuo. wu yi guan fu. fu wu yun yun, ge fu gui qi gen. gui gen yue jing. shi yue fu ming. fu ming yue chang. zhi chang yue ming. bu zhi chang, wang zuo xiong zhi chang rong. rong nai gong. gong nai quan. quan nai tian. tian nai dao. dao nai jiu. mo shen bu dai. - Pinyin translation, Daodejing, Chapter 16 http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?m=NOzh&no=16&l=Daodejing Craig Louis Stehr Residential Address: 1045 S. State Street, Ukiah, CA 95482 Telephone Messages: (707) 234-3270 Email Address: craiglouisstehr@gmail.com Share Money Here: Paypal.me/craiglouisstehr Blog: http://craiglstehr.blogspot.com February 3, 2023 Anno Domini

Crucial Henry Miller Quotation

"Suddenly, I felt so god-damned happy I wanted to stand up and sing. But all I could think of was "bon voyage." What a phrase, that. All our lives we're knocking about mumbling that phrase which the French have given us, but do we ever take the bon voyage? Do we realize that even when we walk to the bistro, or to the corner grocer, that it's a voyage from which we may never return? If we keenly felt that, that each time we sailed out of the house we were embarking on a voyage, would it make our lives a little different? While we make the little trip to the corner, or to Dieppe, or to Newhaven, or wherever it may be, the earth too is making her little trip, where nobody knows, not even the astronomers. But all of us, whether we move from here to the corner or from here to China, are making a voyage with our mother the earth, and the earth is moving with the sun and with the sun the other planets too are moving...the whole firmament is moving and with it, if you listen closely, you will hear "Bon Voyage! Bon Voyage!" And if you get still as a needle and don't ask a lot of foolish questions, you will realize that to "make a voyage" is only an idea, that there is nothing in life but voyage, voyage within voyage, and that death is not the last voyage but the beginning of a new voyage and nobody knows why or whither, but "bon voyage" just the same! I wanted to stand up and sing that in the key of Ut-Mineur. I saw the whole universe like a network of tracks, some deep and invisible like the planetary grooves, and in this vast misty slithering to and fro, in the ghost-like passage from one realm to another, I saw all things animate and inanimate waving to one another, the cockroaches to the cockroaches, the stars to the stars, man to man, and God to God. All aboard for the big trek to nowhere, but "Bon Voyage" just the same! From osmosis to cataclysm, all a vast, silent, and perpetual movement!. To stand still within the big crazy movement, to move with the earth however she wobbles, to join up with the cockroaches and the stars and the gods and men, that's voyaging!" ~Henry Miller~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Miller