What's It All About?


"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates

While you’re here, in this time and in this space, you are beautiful and you are perfect.

You are right where you need to be to get to where you want to go, so start asking yourself where you want to go.

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase." MLK

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Misc. brilliance

I just had to copy/paste my horoscope(s) this week from Seattle Weekly. Really dig 'em this week (some weeks they just don't speak to me as well as others)

Check out yours at
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-05-27/diversions/sign-language/

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Cancer (June 21–July 22)

Realism and hope aren't necessarily happy bedfellows. In some people's lives, they never even cross paths. Yet I contend that if you can sit the two perspectives down together in a room long enough for them to find some common ground (in many cases this might be quite a long time indeed), they eventually could form the most rock-solid, unshakeable, and productive marriage imaginable. It's a matter of letting the two ideas hash it out and work out their differences once and for all; once they do, they'll be able to live pretty much happily every after. Give them that chance. Once they're working together inside your head, you'll be virtually unstoppable.

Leo (July 23–Aug. 22)

One isn't the loneliest number, not by a country mile. For some people the loneliest number is three, or 12, or 50. It's far worse to feel isolated or left out when you're surrounded by people than it is when you're actually alone. That kind of loneliness has a much greater weight and impact than the deserted-island kind. Stranded on a beach by yourself, you can make friends with a coconut head or a hermit crab. But stranded at a party, things are not so simple. You know exactly what I'm talking about, don't you? That's why if you're given the chance to keep someone else from feeling that way this week, I know you'll go out on a limb and take it.

Noire

Noire
She'll be 2 years in 2 months! Time flies!

Things I'm grateful for everyday....

- My family
- My friends, old and new.
- A roof over my head.
- My computer & internet access
- Being employed (even if I don't always like things about my job)
- The public library and the joy of borrowing books with/on/for my Kindle
- That I can walk on two legs, use 2 arms/hands, have ten fingers/toes, can see and hear, etc. (uh, no offense to anyone who is physically challenged)
- Other people's creativity and efforts
- The love of a good man (he IS good)

Current Favorite Quotes

“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” - Lao Tzu
"The privilege of a lifetime is to be who you are." ~ Joseph Campbell
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~ Charles Dickens
"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." -Carlos CastaƱeda
"..there’s something lovely about knowing that when it’s right, you really know it’s right because you’ve already been through all the wrong." ~ Sade
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." —Mark Twain

(This bit not so much as a quote but somethings I wrote down that I want to keep and this looks like a good place to do it)

7-25-07

1. Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
2. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
3. Leap and the net will appear.

Facts of Life (per Sonya Friedman)

  • 1. No one can bring your life to you
  • 2. No matter what you do, someone important isn't going to like it
  • 3. Though painful, rejection won't kill you - it may even lead to growth
  • 4. Every choice means giving up something different
  • 5. Some people aren't capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them
  • 6. The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others
  • 7. There are no quick fixes that can permanently change your life
  • 8. Life is on a rheostat, not an on/off switch
  • 9. Some problems cannot be solved - but you can make peace with them