Please Join Awakened Consciousness Tribe!!

Just puttin' a shout out for my girl Treesa's new tribe, Awakened Consciousness (tribes.tribe.net/awakenedconsciousness). Please join it and add your enlightened input - I know of no better group than y'all to help her out!!
Cheers tribey lovelies!!

911 - Loose Change

If you haven't already seen it, you must check out this documentary about 911. Very well-done, disturbing, and thought provoking. I highly recommend it - you can watch it right on line or download it to your computer. Link to it here:

video.google.com/videoplay

Cheers.

Darling,

embrace the Love of the ages.
IT is much greater than all of this.
You are the Child of the Universe.
You are Loved beyond Infinity.

the most amusing

broken hearts are funny.

falling in love is stupid, but fun.

it's a good reminder - to stay tough. to remember you're the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. to remember to love yourself more than anyone or anything in the world. to be true and honest and real.

one-sided relationships are not relationships.

unrequited love is the biggest joke on earth. the gods are laughing... i'm joining in - why should they have all the fun??

experience the joy of malicious thoughts, and the haughtiness of knowing you are too good a person to follow through. then laugh at how retarded you are for being so haughty in the first place.

go out on a limb. say how you feel. be responsible for your words as they exit. accept your greatness and his (or hers) as well. remember we are all just trying to make sense of it all.

remember that you are gorgeous and loved. that you are the most fabulous thing that ever existed. that every challenge leads to infinite growth - be excited to meet whom you will become. welcome cynicism with a smile, and keep an open heart.

rejoice in the universe's malicious humour. the joke's on you, so why not laugh, flip the bird at the stars, and remember you will be there someday, when you'll finally totally get it.

Viv needs...

I jumped on this one a little late, but my first need is classic....


Vivian Needs Some Jesus. Vivian realizes she should have given her children some religion a long time ago.

Vivian needs another financial angel.

Naturally, Vivian's needs came last. And it was beginning to show.

Vivian needs to return to Australia

She's finally making friends and is living a somewhat normal life, but does that satisfy everything the werewolf in Vivian needs?

Vivian needs to repeat the jet-photon analysis for p14 reco'd data.

1.Vivian needs to be aware. 2.Vivian needs the bird back to inherit millions from her father-in-law. 3.Vivian needs to maintain a high calorie level ...

So, when Vivian needs a couple more samples, in different colors, MAC can make them as needed.

Desperate, Vivian needs help of a very deadly kind. She needs a ruthless killer.

what Vivian needs is the love of another woman.

What Vivian needs is some female influence.

Vivian needs injections.

Such a turning to the business of preparation for death is precisely what Vivian needs.

This guy [Vivian] needs help.

well said...

The Hardest Lesson

I am new to birth. As a student midwife, this is exciting, strangely familiar, wildly unfamiliar, and, since wednesday, extremely scary. Low-risk pregnancies are safe. Low-risk labours with no complications result in healthy babies and happy parents. I know this with all my heart, and so it's very hard to accept that there can be one out of thousands of babies born who can die, even when everything goes absolutely perfectly. I was unfortunate to witness the birth of that one baby - the only baby who didn't make it in the 55 years of midwifery practice that my mentors collectively share. That one baby out of thousands. Because of an unavoidable freak accident. Because of the universe's undetectable, unavoidable design. That one beautiful little baby, with strong, loving parents who watched, calmly terrified, as the firemen and medics tried to resuscitate. We were so ready to meet him. That one beautiful baby boy, who will live forever in my heart, one of the greatest teachers i will ever know. It was my 3rd birth. I pray that it will be the one loss I witness out of thousands of births to come. I thank the spirits for giving me this lesson as a student, and not as a legally responsible practitioner. I send out infinite love and support to our preceptor midwife, who will have to deal with mandatory investigations, even though it has been established that noone was at fault. I hold little baby S's spirit close to my heart, and wish him happiness and enlightenment on this next leg of his journey. I send blessings of love and strength to his parents - may they feel his presence always.

To all the midwives out there, may your careers be free from grief, and filled with happy, healthy babies, and proud, beaming parents.

I need election advice!!

i just heard there's a federal election coming up. as a displaced and admittedly politically ignorant great white northerner, i need some help... i heard the conservatives are leading in the polls and that scares the shit out of me... so i'm facing my normal dilemma: vote liberal in the hopes the conservatives will be defeated, or vote green or libertarian or ndp because i believe more in their platforms... i usually go for the former, cus i think the evils of the conservatives outweighs the good of the others these days...
any thoughts?? i'd love to hear anything that anyone has heard about party platforms, candidates, controversies, etc...
thanks, y'all.

open heart surgery

snorting concoctions of strong tears
my heart lies open, bleeding
frozen from northern marine winds
i wait
for it to warm again
repetitive sutures hold temporarily
double mattress stitched
one two three
pounding hard it bursts relentlessly
trying to make up
for what it no longer has

birth warrior

selena had her baby! i was there for the whole thing. totally surreal - very familiar, like i had seen a million births before. whoa. i'm sleepy. went to sleep at 6am and went to class for 8. so amazing how instincts just kick in. womanly sisterhood plus loving husbandhood (that be charlie's part) made for a very calm and caring atmosphere. textbook perfekt birth. selena was a fuckin warrior goddess and little emlin is the most beautiful thing i've ever seen. oh, now the tears start to flow! still in pleasant shock, but i guess it's starting to wear off. sigh... birth is fuckin beautiful...

kidults unite!!

i have been inspired by johanna to post a blog about the greatness of kidults. coined by my good friend janet and a good friend of hers, "kidult" refers to those of us who are of adult age, yet still feel and act like kids at heart. we do silly things like bustin out new moves whilst walking down the street, beatboxing with water bottles and forks as instruments in the hallways at school, giggling incessantly for little reason... we like hangin out with kids (if we're lucky enough to know any). we're responsible, empathic, loving, smart and fun. we don't want to grow up, and we don't have to, damn it! we say what we think, and do our best to be true to ourselves. we're everywhere, and we make great friends!!!

KIDULTS KICK ASS!!!! tickle one today!!!
:)