joined on 06/11/06
last updated 05/05/08
Love is friendship caught on fire !
Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine
Buddha
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February 24, 2008
you, SWEETHEART, inspire me with your giving spirit & pure sweetness!
ThankYou for being my life & for allowing the calm spirit to guide your words to me!
PEACE.SISTA*
May 11, 2007
Although we've never met in person I know Elizabeth to be an amazing woman. She's open and accepting, inquisitive and tolerant. She's accepted my peculiar quirks, inquired about my long-stories about my divorce, listened and reserved judgement. Although I have no first hand experience of her green thumb, it's the first thumb I would turn to if I were in need of one in LA because of the beautiful person attached to it.
April 23, 2007
Elizabeth is quite the incomparably irresistable fireball! She's an unstoppable force of nature, insatiably erotic, generously empathic, nurturing and supportive, an astounding mother, an adventurously fun-craving lover, forever curious and open-minded.
Elizabeth crafts the most deliciously roasted Brussels sprouts this side of Belgium. She can turn even the dullest bachelor-neglected hand-me-down foliage into a lushly awe-inspiring botanical Eden. And she's a bottomless font of spot-on eatery hot-tips.
But a word to the wise: keep your boxes of precious-but-neglected odds and ends far out of sight ... and gulp an extra quart of Gatorade before turning down the sheets.
about me
I"m spiritual but not crazy religious, political to a point, as liberal as they come, opinionated, sweet, friendly, sexual, sane, passionate, a great friend, vegetarian, energetic beyond beilief and I always have way to many things going on.....I am constantly trying to balance my life, my children and my work. I believe that I am a work in progress and that I am constantly changing....finding new interests, new people, new thoughts......and refining who I am........I am forever grateful for who I am, the people that are in my life, and what I have learned.......
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I"m absolutely wrecked......my body is fighting this dreadful strep/bronchitis thing....and i have to STOP doing so much and take care of myself......I can no longer ignore what my body is saying which is "SLOW DOWN".......With the dreadful ever worsening/never ending audit, a huge landscaping job for less than desireable clients, parental responsibilities, a new family drama (which is too sad and lame to spill here) and so much more......I have to take a few days and
just stop
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It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl.
Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see."
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.
Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
You might want to send this message to those people who mean something to you (I JUST DID); to those who have touched your life in one way or another; to those who make you smile when you really need it; to those who make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down; to those whose friendships you appreciate; to those who are so meaningful in your life.
If you don't send it, you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten someone's day with this message!
It's easier to build a child than repair an adult. !!!!!!! This is so true.
May we all be COFFEE BEANS.
Mon
"Never try to be normal.
Always question others.
BE The unexpected in your friends lives !
Most of the time, they will be glad you were ;-)
Walk on the grass and have fun with life.
It's sure better than letting life get you down."
Peace, [Neil Colton]
Lust is like licking honey from a thorn! - GLEN ON TRIBE
Imagination is the beginning of creation -
You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine
And at last you create what you will. - ?
“All saints have a past. All sinners have a future.” - Oscar Wilde
Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful
or were her eyes so beautiful because she was loved ?
- [Anzia Yezierska]
Love is not a feeling, it's a behavior.
Never put anyone out of your heart... "
~Neem Karoli Baba
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Fate's Funny !
To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish.
[Benjamin Franklin]
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
- Judy Garland
Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate!
- Author unknown
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
- Julie Andrews
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
- Confucius (K'ung Fu-tzu)
Re: George Bush: Gets The Steam Off My P*ss!
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Its sad to say that one hopes peace between Israel and Palestine is NOT achieved before Jan. 20th.....Lets hope they (the power that BE) make sure IT happens with our next president....OR better yet! Wouldn't it be nice if someone could do someth...
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discussion post on Wed, May 14, 2008 - 5:29 PM
Re: SunShowers and Evaporation Bogs.....
(in 2008 Burning Man Virgins)
I didn't see the post about the funnel....that seems like it would do the trick if there wasn't alot of water......thanks.
discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 6:17 PM
Re: SunShowers and Evaporation Bogs.....
(in 2008 Burning Man Virgins)
this is probably a silly question, but I'm having a hard time imagining how i'm going to get the water out....i'm sure its probably obvious, is there a specific pump that might work best?
discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 6:14 PM
Re: SunShowers and Evaporation Bogs.....
(in 2008 Burning Man Virgins)
Someone mentioned to me that it was important to make sure you have enough bottles to take home all the water that has not evaporated.....do you use a pump to get the water out or does your pond completely evaporate?
discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 2:41 PM
Re: SunShowers and Evaporation Bogs.....
(in 2008 Burning Man Virgins)
Thank you that is very helpful! One more question: do you have this underneath your shower then....or should we bring the water to the pond?
discussion post on Tue, May 13, 2008 - 2:06 PM
THE TAO OF ERIC
Laugh. A lot.
Laugh big and hard, and with your whole body.
No joke is too corny or too raunchy to be repeated.
Embrace your friends and family physically and emotionally. Pick them up and swing them around, if you can.
Dance with abandon, using not just your body, but even your face.
Practice monogamy with your spouse, but be promiscuous in loving your friends.
Look at your mate with love and admiration and it will be reflected back at you.
See the best in every one.
When it comes to human injustice, practice righteous indignation.
Know the priorities of your life and live them fully.
Do everything. The only things to regret in life are the things you haven’t done.
Stand up for others, but don’t forget to stand up for yourself.
Know that you are perfect just the way you are.
Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they’re over." I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead. "I will come next Tuesday", I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.
Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn's house, I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children. I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.
"Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in this fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch!"
My daughter smiled calmly and said, "We drive in this all the time, Mother."
“ Well, you won't get me back on the road until it clears, and then I'm heading home!” I assured her.
"But first we're going to see the daffodils. It's just a few blocks," Carolyn said. "I'll drive. I'm used to this."
“ Carolyn," I said sternly, "Please turn around."
"It's all right, Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience."
After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read, "Daffodil Garden." We got out of the car, each took a child's hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious sight.
It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of liquid gold and poured it over the mountain peak and its surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swathes of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, and saffron and butter yellow. Each different-colored variety was planted in large groups so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue. There were over five acres of flowers.
"Who did this?" I asked Carolyn.
"Just one woman," Carolyn answered. "She lives on the property. That's her home." Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house, small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house.
On the patio, we saw a poster. "Answers to the Questions I know you are asking", was the headline. The first answer was a simple one. “50,000 bulbs," it read. The second answer was, "One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain." The third answer was, "Began in 1958."
For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop. Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. One day at a time, she had created something of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration. The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration.
"It makes me sad in a way," I admitted to Carolyn. "What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five or forty years ago and had worked toward it 'one bulb at a time' through all those years? Just think what I might have been able to achieve!"
My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way. "Start tomorrow," she said.
She was right. It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask, "How can I put this to use today?"
Use the Daffodil Principle. Stop waiting.....
Until your car or home is paid off
Until you get a new car or home
Until your kids leave the house
Until you go back to school
Until you finish school
Until you clean the house
Until you organize the garage
Until you clean off your desk
Until you lose 10 lbs.
Until you gain 10 lbs.
Until you get married
Until you get a divorce
Until you have kids
Until the kids go to school
Until you retire
Until summer
Until spring
Until winter
Until fall
Until you die...
There is no better time than right now to be happy. Happiness is a journey, not a destination. So work like you don't need money. Love like you've never been hurt, and, dance like no one's watchin.
Remember, you must be the change you want to see in the world...
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