“Don’t give your mind permission to get disturbed. A disturbed mind is easily influenced. This will cost you your peace. Learn to maintain your peace by freeing yourself from attachments. Competing or comparing yourself with others will not allow you to focus inwards. An inner focus allows you to keep your eye on your higher self. Remember your ( Read more... )

Boheme Tribal Belly Dance of Kalamazoo presents


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Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Mom I'll be there
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
Or decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
Look in their eyes Mom you'll see

"Perhaps we don’t like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size, our dimples, our knuckles too big, our eating habits, our disposition. We have disclosed these things in secret, likes and dislikes, behind doors with locks, our lonely rooms, our messy desks, our empty hearts, our sudden bursts of energy, our sudden bouts of depression ( Read more... )

i do my best to not support corporations when possible, especially when we have so many really good independent coffee shops in the kzoo area. but, in the fall, i *really* crave starbucks' pumpkin spice latte.

here is, what is purported to be, a close rendition to make at home. Leave a comment

wishing our car was in better shape. the alternator belt squeals anytime we have to use any electronic device (headlights, a/c, windshield wipers). i've been wanting to take a drive up the coast before summer is over. before fall sets in. because i'd like to take another then too. if erik were to go with me, it wouldn't be a big deal. but i'm kind ( Read more... )

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things are calming down a bit now that NOD is over. still haven't posted about that... i probably should soon, before i forget. i never did post about tribal rev either ( Read more... )

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wow. what a weekend. despite the weather, Land of Nod fucking rocked. i'll write a separate post about it later ( Read more... )