I always wanted a happy ending ... now I’ve learned the hard way that some poems don’t’ rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next … delicious ambiguity.Gilda Radner ( Read more... )

On NPR this morning it was mentioned that today was Martin Luther King's birthday. In that spot it spoke of his speech against the Vietnam war and that a nation that spends more on war than social projects is one that is a spiritual wasteland ( Read more... )

My horrorscope today asked me to write a poem about my dream. Odd, but since I had a dream I figured I would. Here it is.

Peace in every step.
The sun shines through the sky lights.
Are we here with God?

I dreamt that my employer had provided expertise in the building of a retreat center/temple. My co-worker (CM) and I were visiting it - we walked into the main audience room/auditorium. It was light, peaceful and calm. The ceiling was many feet in the air and along one end (where two sides met) going up were apartments. The interesting thing ( Read more... )

I am at work and getting things done. I am also being plagued by some type of allergic rash. It started yesterday afternoon and got really intense by the end of the evening. It itched and covered me pretty much from head to toe ( Read more... )

For later reference. He is so wise and wonderful.

http://www.oprah.com/oprahs-lifeclass/Poet-David-Whytes-Questions-That-Have-No-Right-to-Go-Away_1

I wanted to sleep in this morning. Nothing like a 6:00 am wake up by a cat throwing up on your pillow. Now I sit in the quiet house thinking how hungry I am for hard crunchy food.

It might be a crabby day today!

I am at my goal weight of 145. Today I am wearing a turquoise linen dress that I have been unable to comfortably wear in some large number of years, but I held onto it because I loved it. Yeah me ( Read more... )

There are a pair of raptors that live somewhere on my building. Today, they are circling and making angry bird noises; the type of rapter noises that you hear in the movies ( Read more... )

Here is my daily message from Pema:

Always maintain a joyful mind
Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude toward everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.
(from The Pocket Pema Chodron)Today, being awake is in conflict with ( Read more... )