i'm looking at evidence i was just as contemplative and mischievous at age 6~ a pic forced gleefully upon mitch by my parents over mom's day visit
At his bequest (traitor! wait till Your mom drags out the photoalbum)
 there it sits on My desk mind you...like some strange artifact of another time.
it taunts me with momories of a childhood lost, yet the ( Read more... )

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

-Euripides

so here i am, in quite a dilemma...the corner house, the impossible thing of an aforrdable pad with boi.hmmmm. could we not throttle each other if we each had our space>? yet be in the same place?
& do i gamble the whole ball of wax, knowing we have to co-exist in the ( Read more... )

so is the fact that i'm a james thurber fan doomed me to a life of satire? haha, gentle readers it gets so thick sometimes for us all, no?...i had to converse with my partner about setting goals to pursue dreams without waiting for the ship and the engraved invite, and there it was, in his horoscope from yesterday, just what i'd tried to say about ( Read more... )

5 realizations in wonderland ( Read more... )

ah, the circumstance of this closeness, that is the fabric of suffocation.

the situation that made us step so quickly into concrete shoes, the damnation of seduction's time....
no time like now now no time to turn back? now time to lose?

my heart at the bottom of the hourglass, buried alive
~mr 4/3/07

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

-Mahatma Gandhi
5 groovay things today~

1-planted flower seeds with frankie my niece who lives in an apartment & hadn't ever seen sunflower seeds before....
2-invite from a dear friend to partayyyyyy jus when i'd thought hey, i wanna partayyy
3-5tracks away from all ( Read more... )

my kitten the killer laying in a basket like innocence

the light was golden and the temperature majestic
all afternoon while i pondered
on why i don't know how to contain our human meltdowns.

hope lays heavy like pollen

i found truth in my archives, a wise man gently reminded

we only need food & beauty

these ruts of distraction so familiar
i focus on ( Read more... )

Brief time have sons of men on earth to live.
Let the good man herein much trouble take.
Acting as were his turban all a-blaze.
There is no man to whom death cometh not.

-Samyutta Nikâya
From "365 Buddha: Daily Meditations," edited by Jeff Schmidt

hmmm. i mean there's always someway to ignite desire, no? boi is definitely entwirned me into some kind of ( Read more... )

He who knows that all things are his mind,
That all with which he meets are friendly,
Is ever joyful.

-Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
From "365 Buddha: Daily Meditations," edited by Jeff Schmidt

so we're tracking jt and having success, albeit at a snails pace...computer trouble but the vibe is mellow, and thank goddess i didn't choke the producer ( Read more... )

All the faults of our mind - our selfishness, ignorance, anger, attachment, guilt, and other disturbing thoughts - are temporary, not permanent and everlasting. And since the cause of our suffering - our disturbing thoughts and obscurations - is temporary, our suffering is also temporary.

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche, "Ultimate Healing:
Copyright Wisdom ( Read more... )