For even as the Rose wilts and the earth receives it back to whence it comes IT is not lost.
For the time that it was here the Bees caressed and we enjoyed it’s with our eyes and nose.
Yet it was just a Rose.
A Rose.
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Handbook for Life… 2011
Handbook for Life… 2011
Cross Posted (& Edited) from Linda’s Yoga Journey
HEALTH:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is
manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy.
5. Make time to meditate.
6. Breathe
7. Read more books than you did in 2010.
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 10-30 minute walk daily. And while you walk, smile.
PERSONALITY:
11. Comparing our lives to others is fruitless. We have no idea what their journey is about.
12. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones especially about things out of our control. Invest energy in the positive present moment.
13. Try not to over do. Understand limits.
14. Why take ourselves so seriously. No one else does.
15. Gossip drains precious energy.
16. Dream more while we are awake.
17. Envy is a waste of time. We already have all we need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Let go of our partners mistakes of the past. Focus on our present/future happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
20. Make peace with our past so it won’t spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of our happiness except us.
22. Realize that life is a school and we are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons we learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. We don’t have to win arguments. It’s ok to agree to disagree.
SOCIETY:
25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is insignificant compared to what you think of yourself.
31. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends & family will. Stay in touch.
LIFE:
32. Do the right thing!
33. Keep only things that are useful, beautiful or joyful.
34. Higher powers heal everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
36. No matter how we feel, get up, dress up, and show up.
37. The best is yet to come.
38. When we awake alive in the morning, be thankful.
39. Our Inner most is always happy. Release your “Inner Happy” on the world every day!
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Keeping thoughts flowing and knowledge growing
Laying low but not on the down low.
Keeping thoughts flowing and knowledge growing.
Having a time trying to fellowship with ‘trifling’ people.
So spending time alone and yet keeping His light to right though even though no one is left.
Taking this ship on lifetime cruise and I cannot afford to lose my way.
Though the grave seems like as a good a place to rest but I have work to do.
For a long as there is life there is decay.
Lets lower our heads and pray for the morals that have fallen on a bed of disrespect.
A moment of silence for the expectations that lay on the floor.
I am asked often why I am not in church.
Because my soul does not rest and my nerves vibrate.
The only time they speak to me is to judge about one Sunday but not to say how are you today.
I smile and deflect for the darkest of all space is behind this face.
My words fermenting in the corners of my mind waiting for one more insipid pious word from them and I’ll wipe that look of your face so fast you will need intercessory prayers just to stand up.
They bring ‘others’ to speak and spew and expect me to sit there like a fool.
I wait but the weight is too much and like a leaf in Autumn I fall by the wayside.
Sometimes on stony ground until the winds of change move me or just the stain of who I was remains on the concrete.
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Knowledge is like the air that we breathe
Knowledge is like the air that we breathe but for our brains.
I prefer wide open spaces and various scents in the air.
Some subscribe to the “Western Classics” and other to “eastern Knowledge” base.
I take in knowledge like the air that breathe and the basis to my words.
Before I speak I take a breathe of air and form the words to convey my thoughts that were shaped by the knowledge that my eyes, ears and Soul have retained.
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Break Up
I did not know about the break up, sorry.
I know that the ratio of Love to heartache is true.
I remember getting ready to break up because I felt we were no longer on the same page.
We were suppose to write our own story but somehow grew apart.
I held that book close to my heart and it would echo my heartbeat but in reality it was OUR heartbeats.
When I could only hear my own heartbeat I wanted to put the book on the shelf.
Through it all I told her that I Loved her and would forever and a day or maybe just one more day.
But I didn’t say that I liked her or I felt I was treated.
I stayed away from the dreaded “YOU”
You know the ‘you make me feel this way when YOU and YOU always say this to and YOU do that You are a _____
You makes the person defensive and Why can create anxiety.
I feel this way when this happens or if something is done or not done.
The you can be there BUT the ‘I’ means this is about YOU and your feeling/needs are not being met…remember that when a BUT is thrown in there the opposite of was to left is to the right.
Cry and hold yourself tight and whisper softly.
Do not point a finger at anyone for there are three pointing back and one thumb.
A season, a reason but not a lifetime.
It happened for a reason and lasted more than a season.
You now know what you are capable of and what you will not tolerate.
Have you ever read Reading Without Reflecting is like Eating Without Digesting?
Well lets throw in the Living Without Introspection. Now child you have to look within, not always pretty. Look at what you attracted and or deflected. Complimenting is better than complicating.
We sometime attract people who complement our strengths and others that shore our weaknesses.
The resurrection of taught or fraught.
Remember what you taught by this person, let the lesson not be lost.
If not your next relationship will be fraught with similar issues.
Taught also means tight and you most remain loose.
The strongest steel is a cable(d) that gives way without breaking.
Allow yourself to be held by friends/family and her your own words out load BUT stand proud.
Yesterday is downstream and tomorrow is just a vision BUT you are here today.
You survived and will continue because you Loved and are capable of loving…Child that is a beautiful thing.
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Fotoshop
I thought I would share with my photographer friends.
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In the darkest corners of my mind are things
Every Marathon runner/x-country runner took a first step.
The progression and application of knowledge/technique and the innate will are what leads us to succeed/excel or be our personal best. Trying is denying defeat what it spurns.
Not trying is laying future success at your feet to present inertia.
My son is x-country runner and does 45-55 miles a week.
The ex was a 10K runner, I walk to the car 
.
Funny I had a chat with my Princess and I mentioned how I no longer covet her ‘toys’ (full frame/L lens)
My 50D and 50mm filed an order of separation based lack of intimacy as a precursor to a divorce.
I should shoot for me but I have about 10,000 that will never see print.
They are my stillborn projections of captured light and reflected memories.
I had a friend come over and look at some images on the computer.
I was showing her my flora and fauna but she wanted to see humans, I have an abundant dearth of those.
I asked to her photo and she protested but appeased me in the end.
I lightly processed them them because I bounced the flash off the wall and want to save her skin tone (pseudo alabaster) I did not get enough light into her eyes.
I wanted to avoid pin lights and have some specular highlights.
She mentioned how serious I was adjust my camera and flash head.
I showed her the images days later and she did not like how she looked and wanted me to delete them.
Do you ask a painter to erase his brush marks?
They are physical representation of his passion.
I said this why I do have many images of humans.
If I ‘vamp’ them at a parade or church maybe.
Light defines shapes but it is not a/the shape.
In the darkest corners of my mind are things that I stumble over but cannot see yet they have shaped the person I everyone else can see.
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Marc and Angel Hack Life – Practical Tips for Productive Living
Marc and Angel Hack
Life Practical Tips for Productive Living blog archive about rss thought questions makes me think
30 Things to Start Doing for Yourself Remember today, for it is the beginning. Today marks the start of a brave new future.Our previous article, 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself, was well received by most of our readers, but several of you suggested that we follow it up with a list of things to start doing. In one reader’s words, “I would love to see you revisit each of these 30 principles, but instead of presenting us with a ‘to-don’t’ list, present us with a ‘to-do’ list that we all can start working on today, together.” Some folks, such as readers Danny Head and Satori Agape, actually took it one step further and emailed us their own revised ‘to-do’ versions of the list.So I sat down last night with our original article and the two reader’s revisions as a guide, and a couple of hours later finalized a new list of 30 things; which ended up being, I think, a perfect complement to the original.Here it is, a positive ‘to-do’ list for the upcoming year – 30 things to start doing for yourself: Start spending time with the right people. – These are the people you enjoy, who love and appreciate you, and who encourage you to improve in healthy and exciting ways. They are the ones who make you feel more alive, and not only embrace who you are now, but also embrace and embody who you want to be, unconditionally.
via Marc and Angel Hack Life – Practical Tips for Productive Living.
Sipping On Spit
Sipping on Spit and Chewing on cables life turned to strife not close to a Fairy Tale or a Fable.
My Hopes falling through the cracks on the floor that mirror my heart.
I await death but it teases me, you see.
It comes and holds me in it’s cold embrace and then walks away laughing at my disgrace.
But held I was awaiting the disentanglement as my body sputters and my Spirit seeks to be rid of the carnal clutter.
Sitting in the glow of an 11-year-old computer screen swallowing coffee hard to wash down the screams that are the echos to the tears that stream…and caress an old man’s face. Hoping the coffee will speed up my heart so that I know that it is there and not subjugated like a silent tectonic plate with despair.
I have kissed many a tear from a woman’s cheeks but nary a one is here near my seat.
My whole being falling into a hole being that it has collapse and my life is a seen as a retrospective time lapse video.
Holding your face in my arms with you head canted looking radiant and enchanted.
Lips slightly parted as my hands caress your face and I bring my lips to your blossom of a mouth and kiss you gently.
Lightly biting that lower lip and pulling it forward until I hear an inspiration.
Then we begin the dance of silent lengua franca.
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