It's a sad thing when you are not worth the call or email anymore. When major events in people's lives happen and you hear it second hand months later. It's bound to happen. There is a time for everything and nothing lasts forever ( Read more... )

Someone close to me wrote something in his journal. My spouse told me about it and I read it. The realization for me was that there are some things that I still need to get onto LJ to read now and then. The person needs to be able to write it down, get it out in front of themselves and have it out before others in order to work on the issues at ( Read more... )

I wrote this to a coworker and wanted to keep it so I would remember my recognition of this issue within myself. This is not a big declaration to the world. If it an awareness. A process ( Read more... )

Constantly be aware,
Without stopping.
When the aware mind is present,
It senses the formlessness of things.
Constantly see your body as empty
And quiet, inside and outside
Communing in sameness.
Plunge the body into the realm
Of reality, where there has
Never been any obstruction.
- Tao-hsin (580-651)

I am finding it interesting to be working in a group that is primarily female again. It is much different than the primarily male companionship that I had at the Alaska Way Viaduct and I find myself trying to find ways to fit in. The group is far more focused on what I am wearing to work, the little details that show I am conforming like what ( Read more... )

I have been away for quite some time living life and learning many things. It has been a difficult time with many changes and I hope to catch up those who wish to know what is happening to me ( Read more... )

1. Gaining my boss' trust after several months of hard effort ( Read more... )

1. Being able to be part of the charity drive at work even though I couldn't donate much money I could donate time and effort ( Read more... )

1. That my Lyon always knows what to give me to eat when I am just too tired and hungry to decide.
2. My black sweater with the bunny fur trim
3. Getting a ride into work in order to get 30 minutes extra sleep.
4. Email greeting card from a friend when i least expected it
5. Getting my first rank off the battlegrounds in WoW.

A reminder came to me that I wasn't doing my five things in the form of a commuter sitting near me saying how rotten life was for them. They had on a warm raincoat, were dressed in new clean seemingly expensive clothes and looked healthy ( Read more... )