THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006
SIMPLY WAIT
Patry published this and I want to remember it
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
10 WAYS BLOGGING WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE and a quote about ice-cream
1. You will know yourself more deeply than you ever did before. No matter how old you are, or how much time you spent on your analyst’s couch, blogging will teach you something about yourself that you never knew. And it will do so on a daily basis.
2. You will meet amazing people who live in wonderful places; and you will grow hungry for travel. You will want to see faces, and hear voices,
and sit across tables. But even if you never do, you will see and hear and know these people in a particularly meaningful way anyway.
3. You will try new things. You may find yourself writing poetry in previously unknown forms, or make collages, entering contests, or hosting festivals. You may even go outside and conduct science experiments in your back yard.
4. You will be challenged by people who don’t agree with you.
5. You will thank those who challenge you for making you think more deeply, and consider another point of view–even if you still don’t agree with them.
6. Your friends and family may grow envious; the word “blog” may sound like an accusation in their mouths, ie, “What are you thinking about? Your BLOG?” “No, honestly I was thinking of you, dear,” you’ll reply. And you’ll be lying.
7. You may experience a burst of “blog ambition,” in which you grow greedy for hits, links, and other ephemeral data that indicate your worth in the world. The first sign you have a problem? Checking your site meter more than eleven times a day.
8. Eventually, you will realize that you’re not getting paid by the head–or by any other measure, and you will return to your original reason for blogging: for the joy of it.
9. You will spend too much time at it; you will want to quit, or take a sabbatical. You may even do it. But if you’re anything like my blog friends and me, you will be back sooner than you expected.
10. If you use photographs on your blog, you will start to see “pictures”
everywhere. Amazing pictures. Miraculous pictures. Pictures in startling colors, pictures in black and white with a splash of red (Thanks to Sara for noticing).
And incredibly, the world will grow more alive to you. All because you have a blog.
Source: SIMPLY WAITPOSTED BY UNKNOWN AT 12:52 PMNO COMMENTS: LABELS: WHY BLOG?
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2006
Oldwoman
The more I read , the more I like these sentences written by Hemingway:
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar- words. I know them allright. But there are older and simpler and better words and those are the ones I use.”
Who am I to judge English speaking litterature? just a reader…The same applies to French litterature…I like simple words…they may be strong, made just for the sentence, invented, but they must not be “fussy” ,not made to be pretty, made to be beautiful, powerful…
A friend who speaks what I call a beautiful language , gave me this title:
“Slow road home: a blueridge book of days” by Fred First…
The website looks like the man, the house he lives in too…simple, deep…
Read it…
Source: OldwomanPOSTED BY UNKNOWN AT 7:06 AMNO COMMENTS: LABELS: REVIEWS, WRITING
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2006
Lama Surya Das
This man seems worth checking in on for a while…
People often ask me how to get started on the spiritual path. It would be easy just advise them to learn to meditate, do yoga, pray, and/or read wise words. But in public I often hear myself saying to those who seem almost like rank beginners simply to try connecting with nature. Take a walk outside every day. Nature is the original goddess and first form of spirit common to humankind. Thoreau said that he grew rusty if he didn’t walk outside for hours every day! Whenever I see bodies of water, I feel as if I’m meditating. Nature is what we are already part and parcel of, inseparable from, one with.
Think globally and act locally, beginning with each other and ourselves. Why not make practical steps like picking up litter and recycling, striving to find a more balanced and healthy personal lifestyle, and clean up our own act– while talking about world hunger, pollution, and Aids in Africa? Love is not found outside, but through loving. Wisdom is as wisdom does. To save one soul is to save the whole world, as the sages say. Let’s love our way all the way to enlightenment together. Let’s practice relational mindfulness as well as introspective awareness, inquiry, and attentive presence of mind. Every step of the way is the great Way. Don_t be distracted.
Source: Lama Surya DasPOSTED BY UNKNOWN AT 3:05 PMNO COMMENTS: LABELS: LIFE 2.0
Lifescapes
Susan is always good for a quotable quote
You write a book and it’s like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don’t know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.–Isabelle Allende
Solitude can teaach you your dependencies as well as your capacity to be independent.–Paul Gruchow, The Necessity of Empty Places
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2006
An Englishman (Samuel Johnson) said that people more often need to be reminded than informed. Sometimes Americans need a sympathetic foreigner, such as Hodgson, to remind them of the dignity of what they are doing, on this day and all others.
georgewill@washpost.com
Source: George F. Will – Thankful From the Beginning – washingtonpost.comPOSTED BY UNKNOWN AT 7:36 AMNO COMMENTS: LABELS: QUOTES
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2006
Genius
Every act of genius, Carl Jung said, is an act contra naturam: against nature. Indeed, every effort to achieve psychological integration and union with the divine requires a knack for working against the grain. The 18th-century mystic Jacob Boehme recommended the same technique. The great secret to becoming enlightened, he said, is “to walk in all things contrary to the world.” Qabalist teacher Paul Foster Case agreed: “The basis of the spiritual approach to life, the foundation of the everyday practice of a person who lives the life of obedience to esoteric law, is the reversal of the more usual ways of thinking, speaking and doing.”POSTED BY UNKNOWN AT 8:35 AMNO COMMENTS: LABELS: GENIUS