Live Journal is a great place to put to paper the lectures you rattle through your brain that you prep for yourself and your Mirror Time.   I am working on my art again, elevating my perception of my place as an Artist and it's value.  So a quick click on the tags on the side of my own journal and Voila.  My own lectures to the past and future ( Read more... )

Day 2: The Happiness Contract
As a child, you experience happiness as being natural and easy. Happiness is your original energy. Playfulness is your true nature. Joy is your spiritual DNA. In the years that follow, your personality creates a Happiness Contract that is full of learned ideas and false beliefs that limit your daily allowance of joy. ( Read more... )

I sat down this morning with the mission of writing ONE email.  Now, I know it wasn't going to be a short email but ... seriously...  It's one email.  I brewed myself a coffee and sat down.  I didn't open facebook ( IT"S A TRAP) , I didn't turn on music ( sorting itunes is also a trap), I didn't do ANYTHING that would distract me.  Oh waiiiittttt ( Read more... )

So I am considering the option of a foreign exchange student for the September to July school year.  There have already been concerns raised about my stress levels and fear of burnout for me. Valid considerations and I do not wish to discredit or ignore any concerns in this rather medium sized decision to commit for 11 months.

Can it Physically be ( Read more... )

Had my first massage today in years.  It makes me laugh how they under estimate the tension in my back.

" ya ya ya... tight." insert eye roll.  
        Then they get started.. " wow.. there is some tension knots here...."  
             then progresses into.. " You ARE a tension knot"...
                                and the session usually closes ( Read more... )

I stopped. I stopped taking pictures. I stopped writing blog entries. I stopped writing in my journal. I stopped writing letters. I stopped so many things. I just did ( Read more... )

To do lists stack up in my head. I use them like a cruel jockey with a narrow riding crop on my stubborn mare motivation. Needless to say, there is a lot of bucking ( Read more... )

Today's Experiences:

Never before have I been able to use the term " heady" to describe the smell of flowers.  Towering magnolias, cereal bowl roses, and vaulting honey suckles.  Promptly followed by the cat urine smell of junipers.

Being able to relate to "5 miles uphill... both ways"

The smells of thousands of cooking suppers pouring from thousands ( Read more... )

Report card day sucked as a kid ( Read more... )

 End of the day...  should be going to bed... bla bla bla.  You know the drill ( Read more... )