Archive for Month: May, 2007
Artistic Impression
Yesterday I took the kids (with our home school group) to a play downtown. It was “Charlotte’s Web”, put on by The Theater of Youth. It was really cool and I’m glad we had the opportunity to go. I remember going to a T.O.Y. production of MacBeth, way back when I was a freshman in highschool. I vividly remember that play; I thought “MacBeth” was so hot.. ;)
Anyway.. we got down to the theater (which has moved since my last visit) and parked. As we were walking down, two blocks, to it we saw this art exhibit in the window of a local shop. This is what it consisted of:
Yes, yes, that is what you think it is! VAJAYJAYS! All kinds of them. The kids were trying to guess what they were. “Tacos!”, “Skulls!”, “Balloons!”, “What are those Mama?” All I could do was say that they were sculptures. Well, they weeeeeeeeeeeere!
But, the funniest thing of all was when Livey spotted one (I did not take a picture of it, but should have). She goes, “Look, Mama! That taco has boo-boos all over it. Why does it have boo-boos all over it.” I. died. inside.
Words To Live By
“Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny.” Upanishads
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment”. Buddha
“Laugh as much as you breath and love as long as you live.” Anonymous
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
“Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt you don’t even know you owe”. Mark Twain
“One of the most beautiful compensations of this life is that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention.” Anonymous
“The strength of a tree lies in it’s ability to bend.” Zen Proverb
“Fall with awareness and acceptance.” Brian Kest
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.†Jack Kornfield
“Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.” Thich Nhat Hanh
“Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.” BKS Iyengar
“Half an orange tastes as sweet as a whole one.” Chinese Proverb
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Confucius
“If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn, let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.” Tao Te Ching
“We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.” Bob Dylan
“A windmill’s true power is revealed only when it faces the wind; a person’s only when he faces diversity.” Zen Proverb
“Eat less, taste more.” Chinese Proverb
“Mind like a parachute – only function when open!” Charlie Chan
“Love what you do, do what you love.” Zen Proverb
“May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.” Buddha
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” Gandhi
“If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing.” Kenyan Proverb
“If you can breath you can do yoga.” David Beadle
“You are what you love, not what loves you.” Zen Proverb
“We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.” George Carlin
“Don’t believe everything you think.” Jenny Bogart
“Things don’t change. We change.” Henry David Thoreau
“Understanding without practice is better than practice without understanding.
Understanding with practice is better than understanding without practice.
Residing in your true nature is better than understanding or practice.” Upanishads
“Don’t push the river, it flows by itself.” Collective Wisdom
“We are often like people locked out of our house, trying to get in by storming the front door…
let us instead quietly slip in by the back door to open the front door from within.” Anonymous
“Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.” Erich Schiffmann
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“A sorrow shared is a sorrow divided. A joy shared is a joy multiplied.” Anonymous
“Let go, or be dragged.” Zen Proverb
“You can’t ‘take’ a breath, your breath is given to you.”. Shiva Rea
“Life’s a river, you gotta go where it takes you.” Shive Rea
S.A.M.’s Word of the Day
remorse [rəˈmoËs] noun
regret about something wrong or bad which one has done
To have remorse you have to have ABSOLUTE compassion rather than OBSOLETE compassion. It’s a wonder how people who don’t have remorse, look at themselves in the mirror. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone needs forgiveness at some point in life for some remorseful action, but that’s only when they can acknowledge said action and have regret for the wrongdoing. It never ceases to amaze me how pitiful and miserable so many people are. So-much-so, to the point, of self loathing and humiliation. However, these types of people usually LIE to themselves to make things “all right”. Everything’s “alllll riiiiight” if I say it is, eh? Even if everthing is so far from all right.
Having remorse is a good thing. It shows moral stability. Well, unless you’re a murder, abuser, or worse…. ;)
P-izzle J-shizzle
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
What a lovely night.
The best thing about plans not working out is that sometimes something that takes it’s place is so much better. My cousin Pauline (a/k/a PJ) had wanted to take me out for dinner, for my birthday. Before she was to come over the apartment below her experienced a leaky ceiling and her landlords had to be called over to take action. PJ was pissed, to say the least. I told her not to worry and to just come over when she could and that we’d hang out, make some coffee, have a terot card reading each, and just schmole out (chill out, that is).
The. night. was. wonderful. Pauline brings me much comfort in this time in my life and it’s awesome knowing that every step of my life, she could be there to rely on. Sometimes we go for weeks without talking or hanging out but when we do, it’s blissful, and often. It’s kind of a throw back to the summer vacations where we would spend one week at my house, one week at her house, and back and forth until the Erie County Fair came to town! How awesome were those times?!! E X T R E M E L Y A W E S O M E ! ! !
So, P…THANK YOU for being there for me and for your awesome company. I don’t know what I’d do without you in my life. And, I’m sorry that I made [bitchpigcunt] my maid-of-honor when I got married. It should have been you and I’m not just saying that. IT>>SHOULD>>HAVE>>BEEN>>YOU! I Love You, Cuz!
Iced Coffee….yummm!
There are certain things that I would not like to live without. One of them is COFFEE and now that it’s summer, ICED COFFEE RULES!
I’m particularly partial to the “place with the green straw” but that’s because it conjurs up great memories of my dearest pal, Maureen (my true friend that will never fuck me over, stab me in the back, lie to me, etc…etc…etc). Venti iced Americano with 2 raw sugars and room for cream, please!
Then we have Dunkin Donuts. I never knew that this place was born in Buffalo. It makes it even more special and I wish I would have visited the one in GA by the Walmart (we have time for this). Also, I associate Dunkin’s coffee with Pauline (my true friend that will never fuck me over, stab me in the back, lie to me, etc…etc…etc) because I remember her brewing me up some after one of our sleepovers.
The last one is McDonald’s iced coffee. Not the greatest but will do, in a pinch. You have to be careful to tell them if you don’t want it sweetened. And, why does everyone automatically think you want sweet coffee. I like flavored creamers but, straight up refined, sugar in coffee is grody to me!
My PSA for 5/19/07: GO OUT AND GET AN ICED COFFEE. Life’s too short not to!!
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