Fall 2007
I am contemplating my navel.
It is warm and dark and damp in there.
When I do come up for air, there is soup to be made, loved ones to nurture, a garden to cultivate and fall air to breathe.
But for now, i'm real into hanging out with my bellybutton.
It is warm and dark and damp in there.
Some inspiration and images from my wall of happy for you:
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent
persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of
honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to
appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self;
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a
garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and
laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even
one life has breathed easier because you have lived -
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reverse Your Biological Age by:
1. Changing your perceptions.
2. Deep rest, restful awareness, and restful sleep.
3. Lovingly nurturing you body through healthy food.
4. Using nutritional complements wisely.
5. Mind/body exercises for enhancing integration.
6. Exercise: strength and aerobic conditioning.
7. Eliminating toxins from you life.
8. Cultivating flexibility and creativity in consciousness.
9. Love and loving relationships.
10. Maintaining a youthful mind.
- Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon, M.D.. Grow Younger, Live Longer:
Ten Steps to Reverse Aging. New York , Harmony Books, 2001. ISBN: 0609600796.
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop," the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young, that is all you can afford. When they are in college, that is all you can afford. When you are on retirement, that is all you can afford.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so much that you can be tracked in the store by your distinctive laughter.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is
ourselves. Be alive while you are alive, don't put out a mailbox on the highway of death and just wait in residence for your mail.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next county, a foreign country, but not to guilt country.
- "Quote of the Week" from the CS Dept Friday Memo, 1/25/2002
Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness
and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before
awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is
to be fully born, to develop one’s awareness, one’s reason, one’s capacity
to love to such a point that one transcends one’s own egocentric involvement,
and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.
- Erich Fromm
1. A partnership between patient and practitioner in the healing process.
2. Appropriate use of conventional and alternative methods to facilitate the body’s innate
healing response.
3. Consideration of all factors that influence health, wellness and disease, including mind,
spirit and community as well as body. A philosophy that neither rejects conventional medicine
nor accepts alternative therapies uncritically.
4. Recognition that good medicine should be based in good science, be inquiry driven, and be
open to new paradigms.
5. Use of natural, effective, less-invasive interventions whenever possible.
6. Use of the broader concepts of promotion of health and the prevention of illness as well
as the treatment of disease.
7. Training of practitioners to be models of health and healing, committed to the process
of self-exploration and self-development.
- Andrew Weil, M.D.. Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well Being.
New York , Knopf, 2005.
Four rules of life:
Show up,
Pay attention,
Tell the truth,
Don't be attached to the results.
- Angeles Arrien
Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate
boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and
lots of walking brings us close to the actual existing world
and its wholeness.
- Gary Snyder
I will walk easy on the earth. Plant trees. Kill no living things.
Live in harmony with all creatures. I will restore the earth
where I am. Use no more of its resources than I need.
And listen, listen to what it is telling me.
- M.J. Slim Hooey
"I have done my best."
That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
- Lin Yutang
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take
nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind
that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you
is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the
good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off
the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
- Albert Schweitzer
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
- Mary Oliver
The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.
- Michel Montaigne
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness.
Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn.
Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Hershey
Contemplate the workings of this world, listen to the words of the
wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base,
open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right
before you. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly
and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and
wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants,
and trees - should be your teacher.
- Morihei Ueshiba
Joyful is the accumulation of good work.
- Buddha
This is the joy of life
Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one
Being a force of nature
Instead of a ferverish, selfish, little clod of ailments and grievances
Complaining that the world will not devote itself
To making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community
And as long as I live, it is my privilege
To do for it what ever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die
For the harder I work, the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me,
It is a sort of splendid torch
Which I've got a hold of for a moment.
And I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on
To future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
love kat
October 2008
Open Studios Announcement
10 Practical Tips for Not Losing Your Shit When Faced with Republicans, the Undecided and/or Apathetic
And other stuff
July 2008
Farting Around
Humpbacks
Dancing Men
Wishlist
Book Advice
May 2008
Birthday excitement
I come out of the closet as a church person
Tiger, elephant and monkey pictures
February 2008
Breathing is good stuff
etc.
Fall 2007
Please stand by while I contemplate my navel
Meanwhile, here are some words and images from the wall of happy to keep you entertained.
All Growed Up
Identical Twin Dentists
Whale Pictures
Readings
Birthday Expeditions
Birthday 2006
Tulips
Best Birthday Cake Ever
Spring Fever
The K List:
Dolphins
Interconnectedness of Everything
Joseph's Ear
Beer at McDonald's in Paris
Earthlights from outer space
Snail Porn
Lumina Maria
Becky's Bunnymen
Tinguely
3rd world dogs
Pageboy haircuts in the jungle
Flamingos
Square Watermelons
Dirty friends
Purple dogs
Prego Brides
Holding beating fish hearts
Wheatpaste art