Rock My Rebel Soul

12/01/2025

Raise of hands. ✋ How many women have been denied a restraining order because they couldn’t afford the $300 Fee?

25/12/2024

Just for my Purest Vinyl Record Musique purest’s, we found this stand of Artisan crafted Vinyl Records! So cool!

12/12/2024

Pure Etiquette

04/12/2024

Holiday art and Cards

Holiday Candle Digital Art by Michele Gandee

28/11/2024

26/11/2024

Christopher Columbus was neither white nor did he ever make it to the United States in any his 4 discovery voyages. He was Spanish and Portuguese, he only went as close as the Bahamas. Go ahead and enjoy your meals this week. You are allowed. Redirect that anger at the pilgrims from Plymouth Rock, England.

17/11/2024

Rainbow Ammonite Fossil

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/rainbow-ammonite-fossil-michele-gandee.html

Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations.

Before we understood what they were, one of the explanations for ammonites was that they were coiled-up snakes that had been turned to stone, earning them the nickname 'snakestones'. But ammonites weren't reptiles: they were ocean-dwelling molluscs, specifically cephalopods.

Ammonite shells are a naturally occurring example of the Fibonacci sequence. If you draw a quarter circle in each Fibonacci square, they connect to form an ever increasing spiral.

It's no surprise that ammonites, with their spiral shape, are symbols of change and positive motion. The spiral draws in negative energy, filtering it through the chambers and releasing fresh, positive energy. For this reason I have been known to wear an ammonite as an amulet, but currently my chain is in need of repair.

13/11/2024

Pretty in Pink Rose and White Peony
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pretty-in-pink-rose-and-white-peony-michele-gandee.html
Artist: Michele Gandee
Medium - Digital Mixed Media From Photograph, Papercraft

Originally a photograph of a beautiful, exotic bouquet of flowers that my boyfriend had sent to me last year for my birthday. I turned this bouquet into so many mixed media and digital art pieces and continued even after the flowers were hug upside down and dried. Unfortunately I was unable to bring them with me in my move overseas, but I still am happy to look back on all the beautiful art that I was able to create from one bouquet.

07/11/2024

A Very Handy Doorknob
Found this very handy doorknob handle while hunting doorknobs in the backstreets of Montpellier, France.
By Michele Gandee

07/11/2024

Colorful Back Streets of the Ecusson, Montpellier, France.

This is just one of the many back streets in the heart of Montpellier, France, called L’Écusson is home to the popular Arc de Triomphe and the Musée Fabre. People flock to the serene Promenade du Peyrou, along with the quaint sidewalk cafes and street artist performances along the vast Place de la Comédie. There are also parks with tree-lined paths and gardens, plus the 12th-century Babote Tower, the Aqueduc Saint-Clément and the landmark 16th-century Montpellier Cathedral.
Herault Department
Occitanie Region

Photograph in Color
By Michele Gandee

03/11/2024

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29/10/2024

My modified letter was emailed and I am sharing here and on my personal profile as a public statement as proof of receipt and to ensure that this time my letters will be acknowledged. If anyone would like to copy my letter to modify as their own or to improve to fit in a more legal sense, please feel free.
Thank you.

« Osage Minerals Council,

I, Michele Gandee, fully support all efforts to demand that the law blocking the rightful return of headrights to the Osage Minerals Estate be modified to exclude and block any Non-Osage by either non enrolled membership or non blood quantum to hold any headrights.

This includes my personal request to block and remove all non-Osage spouses, divorcees and adoptees from collecting any current and future inheritances from any and all Osage Controlled mineral payments and benefits that are meant for certified Osage Tribal Citizens by bloodline only.

I do not believe that any Osage member has the right to pass Osage Controlled benefits or unpaid payments paid made to mineral shareholders from the mineral council after their death to any non-Osage benificieries.

In the case where a mineral headrights shareholder has no benificieries of certified Osage descent, the headrights should be returned to the Osage Mineral Council to redistribute headrights to certified Osage Citizens by a lottery.

I am then asking the Osage Minerals Council for the redistribution of any unclaimed shares of headrights, to Osage Citizens by using random lottery to choose new Osage benificieries, this would be in order to prevent and detour any future predators from tracking and targeting true Osage Tribal Members or their mineral HeadRights.

All Non-Osage headrights should immediately be returned and controlled by the Osage Minerals Council, which the Osage shareholders elect to make decisions for their interests.

Mailing Address:
Osage Minerals Council
P.O. Box 807
Pawhuska, OK 74056
Email: [email protected]

Signed
Michele Gandee
Tribal Enrollment # ++++++
Aka Rebel Soul Angel Muse »

KOTFM | It's been a year since the release of "Killers of the Flower Moon," an Osage story of trust and betrayal as told by Martin Scorsese. In the film, you witness the devastating effects of dehumanization and greed. Despite some of the law's more evil provisions being tempered, the urgency of the issue remains: Over 25% of Osage headrights are controlled by non-Osage individuals or entities and cannot, by law, be returned. The law, originally written to allow the transfer of headrights, does not provide for their return. It's a one-way street, and we must demand this law be modified to allow for their rightful return.

We must all—Osage and our allies—stand in unwavering support of the Osage Minerals Council. You can do this by writing a letter expressing your support and letting them know you stand behind them. Our people are where our strength lies, and this is what we've been advocating for. The Executive Branch of the Osage Nation stands behind the Minerals Council and is ready to lend our resources in this critical action, led by the Osage Minerals Council, to get this done.

Geoffrey Standing Bear, Principal Chief of the Osage Nation

*See sample letter in comments.

25/10/2024

House Right Opera Comedy Balcony Seats 🎭

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/house-right-opera-comedy-balcony-seats-michele-gandee.html

The Opera Comédie, located in Montpellier, France at the end of the Place de la Comédie, is a real Italian-style theater with gilding and draperies built in the 18th century but damaged several times by fires; it took on its definitive appearance at the end of the 19th century. Excluding Parisian establishments, it is the largest Italian-style theater in France after the one in Bordeaux.

Throughout the 19th century, improvements were made and repairs made to the interior. In 1822, Fovis, assistant architect of civil buildings, proposed to redevelop the spaces. In particular, he plans to transform the concert hall into a large foyer, in order to create a space suitable for welcoming large audiences.

Herault Department
Occitanie Region

©️Image by Rebel Soul Angel Muse ( Michele Gandee )

22/10/2024

Teddy Bears Eat Free 🧸
by Michele Gandee https://fineartamerica.com/featured/teddy-bears-eat-free-michele-gandee.html

A French Cafe but all the customers inside are Teddy Bears. They must have had some kind of special discount for the Bears that night because there were bears at every table and maybe a few drink specials too, I noticed a couple bears acting disorderly by wearing baskets as hats.
I WONDER WHAT THEY PUT IN THOSE DRINKS?

Taken in Montpellier, France on a summer night in July. Herault department Occitanie Region.

20/10/2024

😊 I just won my first image contest on Fine Art America with this piece called Ray’s Secret Chateau! The Crepscular Rays Contest https://fineartamerica.com/contests/crepuscular-rays-.html?tab=leaderboard
Prints available https://fineartamerica.com/featured/rays-secret-chateau-michele-gandee.html

18/10/2024

Pink Polk Salad just became my most favorited Art Print on Fine Art America today and I realized I forgot to share it here! https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pink-polk-salad-michele-gandee.html