Snowball Effect.....

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894





"happy place, happy place, find your happy place"

Walking the Line...Again

I've been slacking....it could probably be called an EPIC FAIL. Facebook. Classes. Work. It's all been so crazy since the semester started. BUT I am determined to break this Facebook addiction. No more this week...and I'm starting off with a new post for this blog.

The place where you are right now
God circled on a map for you.
Wherever your eyes and arms and heart can move
against the earth and sky,
the Beloved has bowed there.
Our Beloved has bowed there knowing
you were coming.
I could tell you a priceless secret about
your real worth dear pilgrim.
But any unkindness to yourself,
any confusion about others,
will keep one
from accepting the grace, the love.
-sufi poem

Busy As A Badger.....

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon

Rollin Around Like A Big Rubber Ball

"Nothings sacred, still waitin' on that explanation"
-Shiver Me Timber, Cage the Elephant

Getting Down to Business

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
-Lao Tzu

Way Up There

“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”
Jacques Deval

TeaTotalin'

You will feel fulfilled when you do the impossible for someone else.
-Yogi (teabag)

Thought. There is a reason it is called a "process"

I would rather sink to the bottom of the sea for endless eons than seek liberation through all the saints of the universe. Shih-t'ou

No Looking Back

"Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts across the floating mist, cutting off sunshine and chilling the remembrance of happier times. There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell; and with these in mind I say: Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are not without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end".
-Edward Whymper

Days Like This Should Happen Only Once In A Lifetime

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Joy With A Hint of Mello Yello

One day some people came to the master
and asked: How can you be happy
in a world of such impermanence,
where you cannot protect your loved ones
from harm, illness or death?
The master held up a glass and said:
Someone gave me this glass;
It holds my water admirably
and it glistens in the sunlight.
I touch it and it rings!
One day the wind
may blow it off the shelf,
or my elbow
may knock it from the table.
I know this glass is already broken,
so I enjoy it -- incredibly.

Achaan Chah Subato

The Lit'le Train That Could Or However It Goes

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
-Calvin Colidge

You Know.....that thing called "Family"

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
-- Francis Bacon

Laughing. Loving. Living.

"The earth laughs in flowers."
e.e. cummings

Wishing For Spring In A Not Hopeful Kind of Way

"The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends"
-Persian Proverb

Time To Get A Move On

"No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?"
-Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts"

Chaos With Some Dip, Please

“Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.”
-Tom Barrett

Its Just One of Those Days

“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
-Mark Twain

I've Got Me Some Sunshine On a Cloudy Day

“But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine”
-Thomas Jefferson

Thoughts Are Thought And Thats All That Needs to Be Thunk

"I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all," Teddy said. "It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean. ~J.D. Salinger, "Teddy," 1954

New Year, Old Fun

Happy New Year! I promise my photos won't be black and white for the rest of the year. But I loves me some sunshine and snow.