Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change you want to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Writing again
I’ve been contemplating a lot recently why I stopped writing. It made me feel better, it helped me express myself, and here I am typing away trying to *think* the way I used to back then … when?
So this is the beginning of a beautiful journey. So much has happened, so much is going to happen and ther eis so much to look forward to :-)
Keep yourself tuned in for many more adventure filled stories …
Happy Holidays!
Seems like these days, good days are hard to come by. Waking up in a different world each day it’s hard not to lose perspective on life. No matter how hard it may seem, this year, this life, this moment, the holidays always make up for it.
This wonderful, treacherous year is coming to an end, finally. 2007 certainly brings more hope and more life into this black and white world of ours. I long for those days again where not everything was 1 to 10, or A to Z. I want the grey area, the ability to think, the ability to solve, dissolve and recreate, the ability to focus and make a difference.
This is it. It comes at me hard and strong. Zooming at me, I can’t help but get caught up and move with it. So much to look forward to, so much to do, so much to live for, bring it on 2007!
Blogging for health
Isn’t it amazing when you’re down, depressed and feel like the only person you really want to be around is yourself but really you want the attention. You crave it. Having someone there to listen to your rants and complaints. Having someone there to just plain stare at you while you “get it all out”. It helps so much.
Todays illnesses are directly related to the persons state of mind. Obviously that is MY opinion but I do belive this is true in my case as well. See, the more tension you carry, the more stress you have weighing you down, doesn’t that factor into how you feel physically? Call me old-fashioned but I do believe this.
So, here we are, get it all out! Blog for health I say … write like you’re talking to someone and let that face stare back at you like they actually care about what you’re saying.
Recently feelings
Never explain yourself to anyone.
Because the person who likes you doesn’t need it,
and the person who dislikes you won’t believe it.
Starting over
I have not written for a very long time. Probably because of all the new and exciting things that have been happening in my life since the beginning of this year. Or maybe not? Was it a way for me to just shut the whole world out and focus on myself for once? Problem is, I really didn’t get a chance to focus on myself. Yeah, granted, I got married, and all that, and it has been bliss since the day I said the two words “I do”, but when do I get to start over?
A new life, a new beginning, a new era.
Astrology
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
In 2000, I logged 34,000 miles during my travels across America to meet my readers. During a three-year stretch earlier in my life, I was a homeless gypsy, sponging off friends and staying in hostels from Vermont to South Carolina, from Italy to Greece. But in recent years I’ve gone on extensive pilgrimages of another kind, carried out through imaginal exercises, lucid dreams, and shamanic meditations. According to my reading of the omens, Aquarius, you can generate rich blessings for yourself by getting away from it all in either of these two directions. What’s better, to head out into far-flung places in the outer world or the inner world? It doesn’t matter.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
One historian has figured out that during the last three and a half millennia, humans have been at peace throughout the world for only 230 years–less than seven percent of the time. How would you rate your own personal proportions of war and peace, Pisces? I certainly hope you’re serene, centered, and secure far more than seven percent of your life. But whether or not you are, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to boost your average dramatically. The actions you take and the attitudes you adjust could set in motion changes that will make peace a more common everyday experience. How hard you willing to work to establish a Pax Pisces?
Astrology
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Last May, workers cleaning up garbage on Britain’s highest mountain made a startling find. There at the top of Mt. Ben Nevis was a piano. How did it get there? Three years earlier, hikers in Indiana’s Yellowwood State Forest stumbled upon an equally inexplicable anomaly: a massive boulder lodged in the topmost branches of an 80-foot-tall chestnut tree. These are your metaphors of the week, Aquarius. I bet that you too will find seemingly out-of-place things in high places. Don’t dismiss them with a flick of your rational mind. Give them a chance to change your thinking about the nature of reality.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Millard Fillmore was President of the United States from 1850 to 1853. He was the last holder of that office who was neither a Democrat nor Republican. Let’s make him a symbol of freedom from the rigged con game that is America’s two-party political system, as well as an inspiring image for those of you who aspire to rise above *every* either-or dichotomy. Fillmore will be your mascot as you declare your independence from the dualistic ways of thinking that threaten to
ensnare you. He’ll be an emblem that rouses you to transcend the simplistic arguments spewed by fanatical devotees of the Us Versus Them racket. Escape the vise, Pisces.
Astrology
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
You don’t need any special climbing skills to reach the top of Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro. It’s the highest walkable mountain in the world. That doesn’t mean it’s an easy conquest. You’ve got to be in good physical shape. To avoid altitude sickness, you must ascend gradually enough to acclimatize yourself to steadily decreasing levels of oxygen. This happens to be an apt metaphor for the current state of your fate, Aquarius. You have a chance to begin a project that could lead you to a summit with inspiring vistas. You don’t need to master any exotic new skills to do it, and can pull it off as long as you’re patient, take good care of yourself, and are willing to both respect your limits and push yourself harder than usual.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
“There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept,” said photographer Ansel Adams. That advice should be uppermost in your mind as you follow your bliss to the next fork in the road. Although you’ve got good intuitions about the hopeful scenario that’s fueling you, the fantasy still needs to be fleshed out a lot more. Unless you make it more specific and detailed, it will eventually fizzle. Here’s your assignment: By the equinox, create a vivid image of a well- crafted, intricately imagined goal.
Astrology
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
“Why just ask the donkey in me to speak to the donkey in you when I have so many other beautiful animals and brilliant colored birds inside that are all longing to say something wonderful and exciting to your heart?” That’s the question Daniel Ladinsky asks in his translation of a poem by the Persian mystic poet Hafiz. (It’s in the book *The Gift: Poems of Hafiz* at http://tinyurl.com/jpfc4.) I’d like you to ponder it, Aquarius. You’re in a phase when you have an exceptional ability to bring out the best and brightest in your allies. Uncoincidentally, doing that will result in your allies having a magical ability to bring out the best and brightest in you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
If you’re alert, people whose magic you had become deadened to will reveal stirring secrets. Places you’ve visited a thousand times may seem to have undergone an overnight transformation, exposing you to a series of mini-awakenings that ultimately add up to a full-blown *aha.* You may find yourself penetrating to the heart of mysteries that you previously didn’t even realize were mysteries. By week’s end, if you’re brave enough to keep welcoming the surprises, you will be ripped free from an especially sneaky illusion and reunited with a lost fragment of your soul.