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“APPLE iPRAY APP” TRENDS

On the blog today, “Apple iPray” is a very popular search request.

The technology world’s version of an iPray app, can be seen here.

Keep on praying, in the spirit, with all kinds of prayer,” are the words of Paul The Apostle, once a ruthless military butcher of Rome, who became a man of Peace.

Whoever, sent the iPray app this way… thanks for the reminder. :)

~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 21.6.12~

 


HAIKU PSALMS IN CHINESE FOR JAPAN VIA HOLLYWOOD – 3.12.11

( 大 卫 的 诗 , 交 与 伶 长 。 调 用 百 合 花 。 )   神 啊 , 求 你 救 我 ! 因 为 众 水 要 淹 没 我 。

我 陷 在 深 淤 泥 中 , 没 有 立 脚 之 地 ; 我 到 了 深 水 中 , 大 水 漫 过 我 身 。

求 你 不 容 大 水 漫 过 我 , 不 容 深 渊 吞 灭 我 , 不 容 坑 坎 在 我 以 上 合 口 。

耶 和 华 啊 , 求 你 应 允 我 ! 因 为 你 的 慈 爱 本 为 美 好 ; 求 你 按 你 丰 盛 的 慈 悲 回 转 眷 顾 我 !

Psalm 69 for Japan. Artwork, Tiger Rain by Utagawa Hiroshige, woodcut print – LACMA, Los Angeles, photographed by Horiwood. Accompanying music, Gräfenberg, Johann Crüger, Praxis Pietatis Melica, 1647.

Go here to make a difference.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.12.11~


PETRA NEMCOVA’S LIFE EXPERIENCES INSPIRE TODAY – 3.12.11

“[Simon Atlee's] favorite saying was, ‘The day without laughter is a day wasted,’ ” she said. “He was so kind and so respectful for people. He loved people. He loved life… Just water rolling and rolling, and when you close your eyes, just water…People were running away and screaming…It was just so … surrealistic… Then the water flooded the bungalow and pulled us outside in seconds… Simon was just saying, ‘Petra, Petra, what’s going on?’… I was was swept into a current of debris… In that moment, the power of the water was bringing all the fallen trees, all the broken buildings and all the wood. It was such a strong current, you couldn’t do anything. You just had to go with it”–says Petra Nemcova, a Tsunami survivor who lived by clinging to a palm tree for eight hours and praying for others. Sadly her boyfriend Simon Atlee did not survive the Tsuami.

To read Petra’s story, check out her words at ABC.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.12.11~


THE HOBBIT FILMING IS DELAYED DUE TO EARTHQUAKE

If you bow, let it be to a lofty mountain–Maori Proverb. Um, or to an earthquake causing production delays too.

The Hobbit Movie.Com Blog reports – Sir Peter Jackson and ‘Hobbit’ production staff have offered their assistance to those affected by the Christchurch earthquake and have been in touch with Civil Defense and Emergency Management to provide help.

Jackson told The Hollywood Reporter: “everyone involved in the production of The Hobbit is shocked and saddened by the earthquake and it’s devastating aftermath.” Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Christchurch and all those affected by this terrible tragedy,” he said.

Very sweet community words. Filming of The Hobbit will be further delayed due to the disaster.

The shoot was set for March 21 at Stone Street studios in Wellington and on location around the country.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.27.11~


CHRISTCHURCH CITY – OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU – MAYOR LEN BROWN’S WORDS VIA HOLLYWOOD – 2.22.11

Whakina o koutou he tetahi ki tetahi, me inoi ano koutou tetahi mo tetahi, kia ora ai o koutou mate. Nui atu te mana o te inoi kaha a te tangata tika.

The effective fervent prayers of good people, avail muchJames.

“We all have friends and family in Canterbury and we feel for you at this time,” he said in a message to Christchurch mayor Bob Parker.

“Auckland Council will do everything it can to help as the people of Christchurch pick up the pieces. In the meantime, our thoughts and our prayers are with you,” said Auckland City’s new mayor, Len Brown. Via New Zealand Herald. Photograph Greg Bowker.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.22.11~

 


FOREIGN PRESS ARE NOT SAFE IN EGYPT DURING A BLACKOUT

These headlines from The Huffington Post today have us praying for Egypt’s welfare:

Video From Tahrir Square Goes Dark.. Journalists Detained, Beaten.. Swedish Reporter Stabbed.. ABC Producer Threatened With Beheading

If you know how to pray – then Pray for the Peace of Egypt, Israel and The Middle East.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.3.11~


BORN THIS WAY TO DRINK CLEAN WATER – WATER ROYALTY RIGHTS FOR ALL CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

Born this way – I believe that all children of the world were born to have access to clean drinking water whenever they need it.

BTW: At the moment 1 billion people don’t. 2 million children die through not having access to clean drinking water each year.

Born this way to drink clean water – is these kids and their parents’ dream day. We can make it a dream day everyday for them. Let’s make it happen fun people, by clicking on UNICEF’S TAP PROJECT link. Let’s FLOW! Thanks groovy people.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.29.10~


A FLORENCE + THE MACHINE CHRISTMAS CAROL, 2010

Here as I blog in West Hollywood this Christmas I am thankful that we have freedom of expression and freedom of speech in America.

Finally, I have recovered from a dirty martini hang over from two nights ago at a Hollywood Hills Christmas party. I like olives, so always get it wrong when I see them in a festive glass. I only had two martinis, but they were good ones! The relief of not having a Bellevedere voddie headache today is awesome, yet the respite is short lived when today I look at the news and I see that people are being persecuted in Iran for being different.

People are not allowed to have a Christmas this year. Those who want to are detained, some are behind bars, some will be martyred for their Christian faith in 2010!!! That’s insanity.  (more…)


26 CONSONANTS AS SYMBOLS THAT DEFINE MEANING, AND GOOGLE’S POWER OBSESSION TO OWN THE WAY THEY ARE USED

A consonant’s single power to define, reorder meaning in a collective of consonants–and who owns their arrangement in “words” that form “meaning” to create “laws” that protect and privilege certain people over others, in “books” or corporate or government “notes” and leaked “documents”– is the top trend in the world today–this week. It’s all about information sharing of consonants and written symbols today as collected via computer technology–and who has a right to “distribute” these consonants arrangement on a data file or printed page (being digitalized) to fellow human beings, supposedly deeply affected by these “words” and “consonants” arrangement and ordering of expression.

Are letters (written consonants/ symbols of a few people) more important than the lives of the majority of people?

Do we worship the iconography of our own words and their protection more so than lives being lost every second?

Do consonants really determine Freedom? Or, is freedom shared in the spirit of brotherhood worldwide — bigger and more spiritual than written consonants alone devoid of human bodies, flesh, blood, melanin and bone and breath–transcending the limitations of just the letter of the law? I think the true essence and meaning of Liberty is. Living words are always so much more what we all serve. Or should. Not death words or death systems words for the majority of people on the planet.

Which is why I think a war of data distribution “ownership” and “protection of certain peoples words over another’s” or “exclusion of some peoples words from finding other peoples eyes and ears too” is a little silly.

It reeks of entitlement of a few–and that’s an archaic model that isn’t serving the majority of peoples interests in the world today in many political systems. The world is changing –keep UP!

I was thinking that with the Wikileaks scandal, with Google’s scanning of every Victorian book ever printed in the 19th Century, and also every book ever printed–that the world is getting a little bit obsessed about owning the 26 consonants of the English language, how they have been used in history, how they are being arranged today–and what meaning these 26 letters can create.

So for all of the power freaks in the world, who want to own all words ever written and printed (with 26 letters of the English alphabet), want to control their distribution, and definitive ‘scientific’ arrangement and meaning–my suggestion is, that perhaps: a) you dropped out of school too young, b) you always wanted to be a writer but never had the talent c) your sibling got more alphabet soup in their plate than you did–because this ‘control obsession’ with data ownership based on ownership of words and symbols of letters is getting a bit ridiculous.

You see, true creativity is a symbol of endless power that is not stuck, static or frozen. Meaning is created by such people that is relevant in any era we all live in.

True creative people create new words all the time, that can never be controlled. Once upon a time, Beyonce in the group Destiny’s Child coined the term “bootylicious” to express an African American form of sexiness in order to bring awareness to her difference and to create space for her peoples’ unique representation in the world. It was a ridiculous word, yet the people decided it wasn’t. The word became a no. 1 hit pop song and is now entered into and included into the English dictionary of globally understood meaning.

[Images from Google Books, home page today, top banner visuals as at 12.5.10]. FYI, I haven’t read one of these books and never once felt the need to. We have amazing authors in New Zealand like Janet Frame and Patricia Grace–all of whose books I haven’t read yet–before these lads writing books would get a look in, to my reading glasses. However, this is who google touts what we should all be reading today. Wow!]

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ONE FOR MY ATHEIST MATTY B!

Here in California I have an adopted family member called Matty B. Matty B is both a muzo and an atheist. He studied music at UCLA and is a darn fine musical score composer.

So in the humorous spirit of Cali family, here’s some Matty B Jr. (7) doing some Justin Bieber–with an original version of the song, Pray.

Kids say the darndest things, right? :)

[Video discovery via Mario Lavandeira]

Writes MattyB Jr. on his YouTube:

I dedicate this song and video to all my “B Girls” and “B Boys” out there! Thank you all so much for all your support and motivation to keep making music! I love you guys!!

(Here’s the lyrics so you can rap and sing along with me!)
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OLD SCHOOL SAMBUSIK RECIPES – REMEMBERING AUNT FRIEDA, AN ESTEEMED SYRIAN COOK OF LOS ANGELES

OLD SCHOOL SAMBUSIK RECIPES – REMEMBERING AUNT FRIEDA, AN ESTEEMED SYRIAN COOK OF LOS ANGELES.


PRAY – JUSTIN BIEBER MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE

He Waiata Karakia Mo Te Ao a Justin Bieber

Baruch atah adonai eloheinu melech ha’olam she’asah
nisim la’avoteinu bayamim haheim baz’man hazeh.

Click on image to watch JB’s world premiere of Pray Music Video.

“Wrote this song thinking of Michael Jackson‘s Man in the Mirror and we are donating a portion of the proceeds from every album sold to CHILDREN’s MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS.”

Justin Bieber premieres his new music video for the timely song, Pray. This performance from the American Music Awards recently here in California.

[Image: Candles of remembrance burning brightly at The Holy Trinity Anglican Church at Greymouth, New Zealand after a service remembering the 29 lost miners and providing solace for grieving precious families and friends of these lost lads. Photo Mark Mitchell].

Lyrics:

Ohh Ohh Ohh .. and I pray
I just cant sleep tonight
Knowing that things ain’t right
Its in the papers, its on the tv, its everywhere that I go
Children are crying
Soldiers are dying
Some people don’t have a home
But I know there’s sunshine behind that rain
I know there’s good times behind that pain, hey
Can you tell me how I can make a change
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray

I lose my appetite, knowing kids starve tonight
Am I a sinner, cause my dinner is still on my plate
Ooo I got a vision, to make a difference
And its starting today

Cause I know there’s sunshine behind that rain
I know there’s good times behind that pain, hey

Heaven tell me how I can make a change
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day

I close my eyes and pray
For the broken-hearted
I pray for the life not started
I pray for all the ones not breathing
I pray for all the souls in need.
I pray. Can you give em one today.
I just cant sleep tonight
Can someone tell how to make a change?

I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and pray
I close my eyes and I can see a better day
I close my eyes and I pray

I pray …

I close my eyes and pray

ENDS.

Baruch atah adonai eloheinu melech ha’olam asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu l’hadlik neir shel Chanukah.

[This image: Chanukah "Festival of Lights" ornaments and Christmas season lighting, Little Russia - West Hollywood California USA. Photographed 2 minutes ago from my place].

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.27.10~


THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – SUNDAY 11.21.10

[Image courtesy of Greymouth, New Zealand]

Alright it’s late but here it is. Ten top rated posts on Horiwood.Com and your top ten entertainment and celebrity voted news posts for Sunday 11.21.10. Thanks team. Enjoy.

1. A trapped coal miners rescue mission in Atarauona, New Zealand

2. TatauDwayne Johnson - The Rock of Samoa & Grey Lynn, Hollywood

3. Cowboy Hat by Matthew McConaughey filming New Orleans

4. Amber Portwood is a teen parent mom, making mistakes & growing

5. Aussie Angel Miranda Kerr

6. Emma Watson‘s naked pic “not her”

7. Kate Middleton

8. Rugby footballer Sonny Bill Williams & Nesian Mystik music

9.  SNLFlorence + The Machine & Anne Hathaway

10. Kim Kardashian – reality TV star, cover girl, fashion style-merchant of America

For more information on Grey Lynn the city where both Russell Crowe & Dwayne Johnson grew up as kids, go here.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.21.10~


JOBLESSNESS IN HOLLYWOOD – 9.21.10

Today, on my way to blog, I noticed four times the amount of people walking the streets of Hollywood today. Many of these people held folders (presumably with resumes) in their hands. The majority of these people are in their early to mid fourties. They look like they are on the frontlines of war.

The number of people on the streets, felt like a weekend day, but clearly all these people are out of work. We need to all pray for America I think. If we’ve forgotten how to do that ourselves, perhaps we need to relearn that skill and art, for this nation’s well being.

The look on these peoples faces is one of “utter shattered shell shockedness.” It’s not pretty, especially that it’s not even halloween yet, but a scared spooked look hovers over peoples eyes.

Alright – that was reality today. Let’s get back to Hollywood topics that are a little bit more interesting and fun.

~This one going out to my prayer warriors worldwide from The City of Angels. You know what to do. Thank you. Posted by Horiwood.Com,  Hollywood California USA. 9.21.10~


MAORI ROSE OF SHARON for AUNT ELVIRA’S LIFE AND MOM IS CURRENTLY IN ISRAEL

This just in via two emails from my sister in New Zealand, Sharon (The ‘Mother Teresa’ Rose of Maoridom):

Kia ora scrumtious muffins, It’s very sad when someone beautiful leaves this world….you realise how precious and necessary they were to your life, the life of others, the fabulousness of the world…..every life has a testimony…we often don’t see this until after people have left us…watch, wait and see what Aunty Elvira’s legacy will be…what life and beauty did she leave behind.”

And…Maoris and Kiwis in Israel News: “Caught up with Mum last night.  She is flying on Korean airlines to Israel at 9:10am.  She was extremely excited.  This trip to the holy land is most definitley one of her dreams that I remember as a child.  I remember when Louis Henry Davis [her hubby] went to Israel and he talked to me about being in the garden of Gethsemene (where he picked me leaves from the olive tree and snuck them to NZ… my family are a little bit rebel!) and being on a boat on the sea of Galillee when the wind picked up, visiting the home of Simon the tanner, standing in the tomb where they think Jesus was laid, doing karakia [Maori prayers] at the wailing wall in Jerusalem and being baptised in the river Jordan….and the meaningfulness of those stories…..Mum is just gonna love it…remember to pray for her safety and well being.”

Okay then! This blog post is my ‘prayer.’ Love you mom. :)

[Special shout out to Kirsty and Simon in Israel too. Image: Peace Rose living Art, by Miss Elliette. Music by Destiny's Child].

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 7.16.2010. My sister Sharon is now reading the first three chapters of this novel.It is set in the Rose of Sharon Municipal Hospital in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Go sweetheart! xox~


TAKE THE TIME

to pray.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 7.4.2010~


EARTH POETRY: Q’ORIANKA KILCHER AND JOSH BROLIN

When the Earth speaks, the people listen. 

I can hear you rain, making holes in the silence.

“Indigenous Peoples are at the front lines of global climate change”

Where the bee sucks, there suck I;

In a cowslip’s bell I lie;

There I couch when owls do cry.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now

Under the blossom that hangs on an Amazon’s bough.

Where owls do cry, when els do cry, where el doth cry

The Earth stops and listens, when El doth cry.

Willow weep for me, cries the Earth

Exhausted from our lust for ‘worth.’

Suspend my disbelief, through the proscenium arch

of an elevated-g’arden Shakespeare play,

like a Plentitude piece set on Eden’s stage,

spilled from Elisha’s twilit weary soul. 

“Indigenous Peoples are at the front lines of global climate change”

Che Guevara heal this yearning milk of earth. Laboring in black blood, giving birth

to children of the New World. They near closer, when owls do cry, 

when els do cry, when the El doth cry, so do i. 

Our black tears are mingled salty prayers, imploring as the column

of burning incense ascending, with one ask:

Of what compassionate World, will our enlightened spirits leave them?

[Poetry threads of inspiration: courtesy of Alex MrazQ'orianka Kilcher, Taylor LautnerJanet Frame, Sito KanimWilliam Shakespeare, Aunt Elvira, Ralph Hotere, Hone Tuwhare, Miss Tessa, Emile Kanim, Matthew Bryan, Merata Mita, Andrew Winters, Lea Kanim, Beyonce Robert Redford, Dustin Lance Black, Mark Mingle, Barry Barclay, Paula of Minnesota, Jacob Hausman, Lee Bryan, Joseph, Miley Cyrus, Angelina Jolie, Mother Theresa, Stephenie Meyer, Queen Noor, Miss Elliette, Robert Ellis, Rahm Immanuel, America]. 

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 6.29.2010. Image courtesy of Zimbio~


SENATOR ROBERT ADLEY CALLS FOR A STATE WIDE DAY OF PRAYER FOR GULF OIL CRISES

 

Pipes like spaghetti are found everywhere near Louisiana, in an effort to pump out oil from estuaries of this state. The oil crises weighs heavily upon the hearts and minds of all of those living in the US regions near the gulf of Mexico.

A statewide Day of Prayer has been called in Louisiana as divine intervention is deemed the most logical option now, to stop the 250 million estimated gallons of oil pouring from the earth’s crust into the sea each day.

CNN Reports: “”Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail,” state Sen. Robert Adley said in a statement. “It is clearly time for a miracle for us.”

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CUTE PIC: PUPPY PRAYMANTIX

Adorable! The animal and insect kingdoms, remind us today, that no matter who we are, we can still learn from others who are diverse in worldviews to ourselves.

I love this picture for that message. Nature is such a good teacher. Look at these two! Too cute. And for daring to be a teacher in the first place, that’s one very brave prey mantis.  ;)

[Image via random pictues]

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 4.27.2010~


FASTING & PRAYER for HAITI by PRESIDENT PREVAL

“If my people who are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray… then I will heal their land.”

This account of a President calling his nation to a time of prayer and fasting–really moved my heart today. It’s like… wow! That’s different. Asking people to not eat and pray instead, when they are already devastated is kind of radical leadership.

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WORLD PEACE

~Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.16.09~


iPRAY ON iTUNES: SEND A PRAYER LAUNCHES AN iPHONE APP

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Now, prayers can be sent by email via Send A Prayer to a rabbi in Jerusalem, who will print your prayer out and put it on the Wailing wall.

The 99 cent-app for the service is available on i Tunes. It was made by Chapad.Org and developed by Munera.

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