Anna Maria Island, Florida August 2009Have you ever stopped and watched the happenings in the small pools around the sandbars at low tide? These are called shoals according to my research and they are teeming with life at low tide.
Come and let us philosophize.
Welcome to the new home of my collective musings on the world around us. I am thankful that I am able to experience all that this ife has to offer and glad that you have stopped by to share my tiny reflections. Please enjoy and let me know how you feel about my writing. I welcome your feedback always. Namaste.
There have been moments in my life where I felt like humanity was lost on human life. Recently I have experienced things that inspire me to rethink that mode of thought. The pattern began when I began to smother parts of who I was to satisfy obligations to family and career. For years I was caught up in satisfying those obligations to maintain a stable life within a nutshell that I now realize was a shell of obligations that I imposed upon myself. While choking the life out of my own dreams, it was difficult to see that other people could do good for others because that was in their heart and not because they were obligated to perform a duty.
This journey I have been on in recovering from a “mild” traumatic brain injury has taught me so much about my Self, relationships, obligations, hopes, balance, our social conditioning and my place within this life. Read the rest of this entry »
I had a nice talk with an old friend today and he gave me a new perspective on my current situation. We talked about acceptance and what that means versus liking what the situation is about. I learned that even though you can present someone with what your purpose is and they may not like what that means to them, if you let them know what your purpose is they will have a hard time not accepting your purpose. Your job is to be prepared for what their reaction is to your action. And you have to evaluate what those reactions could be, being prepared of course for the wild card, and reconcile that with the importance of your purpose. Is taking ation toward your purpose is worth what could possibly happen if you do not take action? I would like to think that those around me will accept my purpose and the action I am taking to fulfill that purpose, whether or not they are happy with it and the implications it has on them personally. I certainly hope that those closest to me will accept it, be happy for me, support me on my journey and be here for me when I return fulfilled.
The downfall of not being able to verbalize my thoughts is that I am stuck with them all day. One thought that keeps returning to my forethought is that of the human condition and how the human condition bares us on our course. Having been exposed to many challenges, thoughts and experiences in the last few months, I have had to reflect much over my true self and direction.
After the accident last year, I took a little time off because I couldn’t walk or talk. Once I was able to form a complete sentence, I begged my independence behind the steering wheel and pretty much went back full throttle. My livelihood depended on that independence. It seems there is a little hump of wellness that I just have not been able to get over. In the last month it became clearly evident that I must heed the advice of physicians and take a break. The stars aligned and I took a trip to see my uncle in California. I didn’t realize that the trip would include further alignment of stars and extreme moments of clarity. Read the rest of this entry »
If the opposite of Pro is Con; it stands to reason that the opposite of Progress is _______.
Have you ever really thought about this English language conundrum? It is the forefront of my mind these days with all of the goings on in politics. I knew if the the administration that got elected did so, there would be some drastic changes that would not bode well with the middle-class everyday American public. I had no idea that it would be this bad.
Every day I hear something else that just simply shocks me. Being a marketing person, I respect the administration for being a marketing powerhouse. Quite honestly, I am in awe of their muscle. As an honest tax-paying, American car driving, Coca-Cola drinking, worried-how-to-make-ends-meet American, I am scared to death of the effect on our culture.
This brings me to the dilemma of the day. Do I support the machine because of their awesome weilding of demographic data and techno-advanced marketing tactic? Or do I stand in defiance and say, “Cut the bullshit and the tactic, give me something real!”? I am leaning toward the latter. I have not been a very active politico until as of late. I have just been incensed what with bowing to the Prince of Saudi Arabia, touching The Queen, a portuguese water dog and KUMAR as a liaison to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders?
Come on, cut the crap. When are we going to wake up and see that The White House is now a farce with the blind leading the blind. The government is now the largest marketing firm in the US, hell the world. And we keep getting suckered by the ads. They’ve got our number, for sure.
I remember a story where a government gave people numbers; they tattooed them on their arms. Is this where we are headed? I think I’ll try to escape before the Nazis start coming for me.
I have never been an uber-religious person. For good reason (or at least from my perspective and I do not feel the need to explain). My sister Debbie and my friend Christy have been telling me lately to “LIGMO” (Let it Go – Move On ~ Debbie) and that God will only give me as much I am capable of handling (that’s Christy ~ ever the ray of sunshine in my life no matter how gloomy the clouds in either of our lives are at the time). On Thursday, January 15, I was quickly approaching a brick wall with failing brakes (in the form of PC failures, unmet deadlines and being the captain of a seemingly unmanned ship) so I pulled the emergency brake to check out for a little bit before I snapped. Something was bothering me and I couldn’t put my finger on what it was so I needed to just take a mental break. Read the rest of this entry »
When was the last time you actually read the Declaration of Independence? Including the FIRST paragraph? Do you know the document does not begin with, “We hold these truths to be self evident…”? There is a preceding paragraph without which the document losing significant meaning.
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Natures God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Read the paragraph one more time and think reflectively after each beat. It is very deep and very relevant to the current status of our government. During the elections it became quite clear to me that the outcome of the election was of little consequence. Read the rest of this entry »
