Thursday, February 26, 2009

We've got a job to do, and this is it

Today I realized, most people - even when they've seemed to hit rock bottom - continue to spend more time trying to solve everyone else's problems than really taking a minute to realize what a huge mess they're sitting in. Why do we all try to run away from the problems we can solve for ourselves and try to play heroin to someone else's story? Because the truth is, the only mess we can clean is our own.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Voyage Insondable

Sailing away,
deserting our dwellings
Our friends
Our family
Our enemies
Our lovers, too
Entrons ici en territoire inconnu

Plummeting
towards the abyss
Discouraged
Abandoned
Nostalgic for comforts,
for stable ground.

Winds propel
Waters agitate
Dampening our spirits
Hardening pieces
of our souls

Falling
Tumbling
Plummeting
An insignificant spec
on the horizon

Paralyzed beneath veils
A silent cry
like a darkening crescendo
Locked on the line
time draws neatly for us
Entrons ici en territoire inconnu

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Fred Baby

Sometimes, I just miss having a best friend...
someone to laugh with,
someone to dance with.







"I'm like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other. "



Where's my "Fred Baby?"


Sunday, February 22, 2009

And I'm dancing as if I were in the woods with you

I'm back to reading "The New Earth" [by. Eckhartt Tolle]. I had to take a little break from it and start living in my state of awareness, Here's a little juicy morsel to kick your morning off that I found pretty powerful...

"The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace IS now. Or maybe it does know, and it is afraid that you may find this out. Peace, after all, is the end of the ego. How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life but life lives you. LIFE IS THE DANCE, AND YOU ARE THE DANCER."

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Sunday, February 1, 2009

High, neighbor!

Dom: "I'm so proud of you Ali!"

Phil: "Why are you proud of Ali?"

Dom: "Well look at her!"

Phil stops and looks me up and down with his stoned eyes...
"Why because she's sober?"