- Marilyn Monroe (on being in front of the lens)
Recently i've been getting interested in how people create their own mythology, thanks to the World's Most Photographed book i got recently, and i just thought that Marilyn Monroe quote was interesting. I also liked this one:
- JFK
A horse walks into a bar, he sits down and the bartender asks him, "Why the long face?"
Then a second horse walks in with jumper cables attached to it's head, he sits down, and the bartender says, "I don't mind the long face, but don't you go and try to start anything!"
So my good friend and neighbor Scott has started a new blog called There's Treasure Everywhere. It's a place where multiple contributors post about hints of beauty and spirituality that we find in everyday things like music, movies, books, poetry, etc.
So, today I wrote my first post over there. It's about a children's record I used to listen to when I was a kid, and the new meaning it has for me now as an adult. Check it out.
:)
Under most circumstances, i'm not a teeny-bopper. I can generally keep my excitement under control, or at least feign compusre until i get in my car and start squealing. Generally I can, that is, except when it comes to Gilmore Girls; when the most eotionally literate, humrous and good-hearted coffee addicts come into it, i just can't help myself.. I deserve pom-poms, dammit.
i love kirk, not sure why, i just do.
"Blessed are the souls that solve
The paradox of Pain,
And find the path that, piercing it,
Leads through to Peace again."
-My Peace I Give Unto You, Studdert-Kennedy
- Socrates
Here's a graffito (singular form, yo?) i saw while in Wales recently. Initially i took an interest in it because i thought it was quite funny, and had pause to hope that i had found undeniable proof that somewhere out there, my long-lost twin might just be doing all the things that i wish i could do. After getting the evidence home however i began to re-evaluate my stance on the issue. I took stock of the facts and it suddenly seemed unlikely that there was a material manifestation of all of my hopes and dreams just wandering the streets of Aberystwyth. With this somewhat regrettable realisation came the rather wonderous thought that instead, someone must have risked a fairly large fine - and perhaps, if they were re-offending, a potentially life-altering spell in some sort of reform centre - just to write 'fart' on a piece of public property.
My faith in humanity being completely restored, i would just like to take this moment to thank whomever it was that made this work of art with such disregard for his or her own safety, not to mention the owner of the wall's rights.
Snatched from Sujatin's blog yet again:
[W]hen we realize that we are forced to change positions because of pain, we should question further to find out if there are other reasons. If the answer is that we change because we want to be comfortable, this is incorrect. It is incorrect because it is a distortion of happiness. The correct answer is that we change in order to "cure" the pain. We do not change to acquire happiness. The wrong answer comes from misunderstanding, and if we do not have the right comprehension when we change positions, defilements can and will spring up. Changing positions to "cure" pain indicates that we have to remedy the situation at all times. We should not misjudge and think that the reason is to attain happiness, since the curing of pain all the time is the same as having to take medicines constantly. It is like nursing a continuous sickness. Thus, we should not look upon nursing sickness and curing pain as being happiness at all.
~ Achaan Naeb, in Jack Kornfield's Living Dharma
- Diane Arbus
