Michael Jackson didn't really impact my life anymore than it did in anyone else who didn't live in a cave during the 80's. So, like everyone else, I hate to admit that I love to Dance (if even in a somewhat mocking manner) to his Music. He was pretty much everywhere for at least a decade. I always thought it was unfortunate that the media ( ( Read more... )

One of the things I love--in particular--about "techno" music is that if a song has lyrics, they tend to be repetitive. This makes many songs easy for me to hone in just on a few words, which I connect to the rest of the song, in a manner very much like a Mantra. This Song is one such example, from a DJ that was quite popular back in the day. ( Read more... )

I've been musically reminiscing lately for several reasons, not the least of which is to activate the Neuro-Associations I have to certain songs, particularly from around 1999-2001ish. Those were the best years of Trance IMHO, and this was enhanced by the fact that Satan & I used to go to one of the best clubs on the West Coast, the Panorama in ( Read more... )

Some BBold Quotes that I keep meaning to post to myself:

"Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I've always loved this one.

"Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."~Samuel Johnson ( Read more... )

I almost forgot, I wanted to repost a Mantra I yoinked from tao_ov_dreaming, originally yoinked from Dune, IIRC:

I must not fear ( Read more... )

As I was driving to my Corvallis Home yesterday, I was struck by how much wee humans will use phrases akin to "I Deserve".* Actually, the formula often goes:

"I Deserve (something unHealthy) because I did (something Healthy)."

The fact of the matter is that we all Deserve a hell of a lot more in Life than we probably get. This is one of the ( Read more... )

"There is Serenity in Chaos. Seek ye the I of the Hurricane."

"I am the I."

Whatever it is that you wish you would "have time" to do, stop reading this, and do it for 60 seconds.

NOW!!!
(I'll wait)Then tomorrow, do it again, only committing to 60 seconds of your day. If you wanna do it longer, congratulate yourself on tripling or even septupling your Goal! But your only Goal is to do it every day. For 60 seconds ( Read more... )

People left and right,
trying to disturb my Calm.
I take a deep Breath,
Exhale, and move on.

This post, which we've been meaning to wRite-up for a while now, was reMinded us by veleda. Throughout our Lives, we have been constantly reMinded that the biggest difference betwixt Succeeding and Failing is the ability to
Keep on
Keepin' on

What follows are a few of our Reflections on this that we've Learned over the yeras:

"If not NOW... When ( Read more... )