OK - repost from www.kerrikellyyoga.com

quote-of-the-day :: we are all just walking each other home. --ram dass

quote-of-the-day :: we are all just walking each other home. --ram dass

(sometimes this is a tough one!)

QOTD :: A human being should be...

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects".

-- Robert Heinlein (this may be a repost, though I am feeling it, today:))

today :: to reflect on one's tide going out, and in again...

moonbeams within

from free will astrology:

Rumi and Coleman Barks say:

There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of
spirit on the body. Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.
And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling! At
night, I open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its
face against mine. Breathe into
me. Close the language-door and
open the love window. The moon
won’t use the door, only the window.

c'est tout

QOTD: two days

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” --mark twain

QOTD: 2 months

"I can live for two months on a good compliment". --mark twain

Heart space

"Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you’d be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don’t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don’t want to become." --Commander Chris Hadfield, from space

musings...

“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” 
― Wendell Berry

Because you had to give names to everything you found, and make logos for bad ideas, and change your car every two years and wake up early for conference calls, and it turned out to be no progress at all / just a shadow festival / because of that you will have to learn to look at the sky again, you will have to learn to eat food that grows where you live again, you will have to learn to touch what you make
 -robert montgomery

(get to it!:)

amen.

Not the intense moment (from The Four Quartets) By T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)   Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment And not the lifetime of one man only But of old stones that cannot be deciphered. There is a time for the evening under starlight, A time for the evening under lamplight (The evening with the photograph album). Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning. -- from Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot

word-of-the-day: arpeggi / arpeggio

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ar·peg·gio

noun \är-ˈpe-jē-ˌō, -ˈpe-jō\ plural ar·peg·gios

Definition of ARPEGGIO

1: production of the tones of a chord in succession and not simultaneously

2: a chord played in arpeggio

Examples of ARPEGGIO

1. The guitarist warmed up with a few simple arpeggios.

Origin of ARPEGGIO

Italian, from arpeggiare to play on the harp, from arpa harp, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German harpha harp

First Known Use: circa 1724

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Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence

The break is over....thoughts / quote / poem for the day:  

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann:

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.

---Max Ehrmann, 1927

quote-of-the-day ::: "People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in such chaos today, is because things are being loved, and people are being used." via Jeff Cope

"People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in such chaos today, is because things are being loved, and people are being used."

100 Acorns - Yoko Ono

love this - 100 days of conceptual instructions by Yoko Ono - http://100acorns.blogspot.com/

100 Acorns

It's been 44 years since my book of conceptual instructions, GRAPEFRUIT was first published in 1964.

On 15 June 1968, John Lennon & I planted two acorns for peace at Coventry Cathedral. It was the first of our many Peace 'Events'.

In the summer of 1996, I picked up from where I left off, and wrote 100 ACORNS.

Starting on the 40th anniversary of the Acorn Peace Event on 15 June 2008, I will publish here an 'Acorn' every day for 100 days.

After each day of sharing the instructions, you should feel free to question, discuss, and/or report what your mind tells you.

I'm just planting the seeds.

Have fun.
Love, yoko
June 2008

What's Next

from

Mona Grayson's Blog

Choosing love and making good memories. Questioning the mind.

Will you join me in this simple little activity using a pen?

by Mona on May 15, 2011

When’s the last time you sent someone a handwritten thank you note?
A real pen meets paper thank you note that maybe — just maybe — you even mailed via snail mail?
And when’s the last time you received a handwritten thank you note from someone?
With texts, emails, and phones…we all know that handwriting is losing popularity…
But does heartfelt gratitude have to leave with it?

One man’s attempt to turn his life around with gratitude…

I started reading a book today…
It’s a book that my dear friend Jaclyn got for me on my Kindle because she said, “It’s so Mona.”
She knows me pretty darn well, so I was really excited when I finally got to sit down and get into it.
It’s called 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life

quote-of-the-day :: Live as if you were already dead. (Zen admonition)

Live as if you were already dead.
                          (Zen admonition)

quote-of-the-day ::: there is no good or bad – just better. -markultra

there is no good or bad – just better. -markultra

poem-of-the-day :: Please Call Me by My True Names -Thich Nhat Hanh

Please Call Me by My True Names
Don't say that I will depart tomorrow -- even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive. I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river. And I am the bird that swoops down to swallow the mayfly. I am the frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond. And I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog. I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks. And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda. I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate. And I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving. I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands. And I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to my people dying slowly in a forced-labor camp. My joy is like Spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth. My pain is like a river of tears, so vast it fills the four oceans. Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one. Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion. 1989

-Thich Nhat Hanh

word-of-the-day :: savvy

Main Entry: ¹sav·vy
Pronunciation: 'sa-vE
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): sav·vied; sav·vy·ing
Etymology: alteration of sabi know (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese sabe he knows, from saber to know, from Latin sapere to be wise -- more at SAGE
Date: 1785
:UNDERSTAND

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