love thursday 10.20.11 ~ kindness never goes out of date

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love…
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

Laozi 570-490 BCE

what's the point?

I can't slow down. If we're not raising new generations to be better stewards of the environment, what's the point?

Jane Goodall

'tis the season

I don't quite have the macro figured out on my phone's camera, but you get the drift.

Plenty of Halloween decorations around here.

51%

shredded shredder

I've been on a tear around here trying to get rid of stuff. I'm back on my "throw, sell, or give away at least one thing a day" path. It feels good. I am clearing out and paring down. You'd never believe it if you saw my office and my closet--heck...the whole house. But, hey--progress is progress.

That's the good news.

As I was shredding receipts and papers from 2000, the paper shredder crapped out. No other words work.

I figured that since it no longer ingested what I was feeding, I might as well take it apart. If I could fix it--great! If I couldn't or couldn't get it put back together (since that is usual for me), nothing was lost. It doesn't work anyway.

So I dug in. I unscrewed the cover. Taking it apart was easy. Putting it back together was easy. However, the gear teeth that made the paper feed through broke off the wheel. Completely disassociated. How do metal teeth break off a wheel like that?

Toast.

Sigh. Another business write-off.

what if that were a spaceship...would you feel fear?

(and for bonus points, tell me in the
comments what you think it is)

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I am gaining strength, courage, and confidence daily, apparently. If my experience of the 7th Day so far is what we have to look forward to, I think we are in for some deep shit.

So, my friends, tell me of the lightness of your 7th Day experience. Let's lift our hope together.

it is time

(i didn't take this pic. i don't know who did or i would give credit.)

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Ewart Gladstone

love thursday 10.13.11 ~ no reason at all

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

What a sweet little girl!

random thoughts from the first day of the seventh day

1. "For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs" (I Timothy 6:10 NAS). It pisses me off when people misquote that verse. Money isn't the issue--greed is.

2. If corporations are people, they are sociopaths who should be locked up and have the key thrown away so they can't continue to harm real people. They are amoral at best, but give the immoral greedy a convenient facade to hide behind.

3. If the financial collapse is part of the new beginning, I hope either (a) I get my financial data back from the computer guy before it happens, or (b) the collapse happens in such a way that I no longer need it.

4. On the first night of the first day of the 7th Day of the Mayan calendar, the full moon is in Aries--new fiery beginnings.

5. I am getting my workout at loving for no reason at all. I hope I get this down pat soon so new opportunities don't have to keep presenting themselves.

6. Unity consciousness--within and without. I saw a picture on Facebook of two men in love; under that a picture of a man and a woman in love; under that a picture of two women in love. The caption read, "I don't see a difference." Part of the issue is owning the masculine and feminine in each of us and in ourselves. We are all one.

7. How can someone be "pro-life" (anti-abortion) and for war and capital punishment?

8. How can someone be pro-life and anti-education, health care, and social services?

9. In my efforts to take the high road and rise above pettiness, I refrain from slinging hurtful words to those who sling them at me. I expand. I rise above--even when I am blamed for "making them feel" whatever is causing them to lash out. The tip of my tongue hangs by a flap of skin. May they be blessed--and me, too.

10. But God...really? Do I have to be one with the assholes?

blackbird at night

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

Meister Eckhart

Welcome to the first day of the 7th Day of the Mayan calendar:

The dawn of a new time will rise up through all consciousness as we birth a world that can only survive in complete truth, sacredness, peace, love, harmony, respect and humility.

Tree of Life Celebration

No one knows what happens next. I'm hoping they're right.

blackbird in the rain

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Thomas Moore

what do you mean i'm not supposed to sit here? it has my name on it.

We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves?

Richard Foster

the sky today from where i sit

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

David Carradine

is it friday yet?

Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.

Rumi

I have no words of my own for you today. Be thankful and visit the Beloved. Perhaps I'll see you there.

love thursday 10.06.11 ~ i love this rug

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, "Put this design in your carpet!"

Jalaludin Rumi

...and that boy. (But you knew that part.)

new heaven and new earth

I add my breath to your breath
that our days be long on the Earth,
that the days of our people may be long,
that we shall be as one person,
that we may finish our road together.

Laguna Pueblo Prayer

my favorite rainy day activity is...

_______________________________________.
[Please fill in the blank.]

sympathy for delicious

Delicious movie. Two thumbs up.

the lion sleeps tonight

They disabled video embedding on this, but it is worth clicking the link.

Made me smile. Hope you do, too.

liberal and conservative morality