“the more relaxed you are,
the better you are at everything—
the better you are with your loved ones,
the better you are with your enemies,
the better you are at your job,
the better you are with yourself.”
-bill murray
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image credit: tumblr
Jun16
Category Archives: Life
Jun15
help.
the big one helps the little one.
—
“our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
and if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
-dalai lama
Jun14
eat your words.
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credits: getty images, mentalfloss.com
Jun13
blind.
“an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
– mahatma gandhi
—
for orlando
Jun12
dark shadows.
i woke up in the middle of the night
to loud screaming
coming from
glen frey the cat not the rocker
who was downstairs
in my living room
shrieking
not like
a cat
but like a rocker
being attacked by something
i
carefully
crept
down
the
stairs
tiptoeing
expecting to find him
in a death match
with a
massive rabid opossum
or
grizzly bear
or?
as i got closer
i saw who he was
running from
and
terrified of
and
his enemy
was his own shadow.
running and running and running
in a circle
it was
chasing him
nonstop
he was terrified
running for his own survival
i shut off the lights
called his name
pet him
talked to him
after a while
he calmed down
finally
he laid down
exhausted
heart pounding
i thought about
the many things
that he might have
had to endure
before he was rescued
and
understood
that it all felt very real to him
as if those things were happening to him all over again
but now
he was home
and
he was safe once more.
—
“everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.”
– martin luther king, jr.
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credits: universal pictures, google images
Jun11
peekaboo.
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credits: image – googleimages, quote -lawrence j. cohen
Jun10
magic.
“books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
-plato
—
i stopped over to surprise
little grandie b
on her birthday
brought my gift
gave her a flower
shared a hug
then
she asked
if she could read to me
i had ‘read’ with her
just months before
when she pretended to read
a chapter book
imitating readers
she had seen and heard
excited to be like one of them
but today
she opened a book
read me every word
her little brother
said
“i don’t know how it happened.
but she can just read now.”
i told him
” it is magic.”
i was in awe of her
and
this surprise gift of magic
that she gave to me on her sixth birthday.
—
“once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
– frederick douglass
Jun9
last day.
the kinders enjoy their last day all together
—
“the last day is way shorter than counting to ten.”
― leena ahmad almashat – Harmony Letters
Jun8
soul music.
we stopped to listen to an ensemble of young girls
playing lovely music at the weekend farmer’s market.
their teacher said they were in the 8th grade
where everyone is asked
to contribute something to the community.
these girls chose to offer what they had to give –
their natural gift of music.
they had to organize the day
by asking permission to play somewhere
finding transportation
planning what to wear
being on time
introducing themselves
and
remembering their music and instruments.
all of the money they earned
from passers-by
went to a local charity.
it was a beautiful lesson.
—
“music is the movement of sound
to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
– plato
Jun7
opportunity.
“all of us might wish at times
that we lived in a more tranquil world,
but we don’t.
and if our times are difficult and perplexing,
so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”
—
—robert f. kennedy, who died on this day in 1968
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credits: purpleclover
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