Reminder

Go back to curiosity, go back to love, go back to joy. . . 

Re-Genius Fiona Apple Quotes from The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do

Fiona Apple is a Regin-ius, Regina-us, re-genius...
She is a wordsmith, she forges words into poems that cut into your senses and make you taste, smell, feel and see them as she craftily delivers them into your ears.



The rib is the shell and the heart is a yolk
I just made a meal for us both to choke on

 I could liken you to a werewolf
The way you left me for dead
But I admit that I provided a full moon

I made it to a dinner date
My teardrops seasoned every plate

'Cause in the end I'm a sensible girl
I know the fiction of the fix

He excites me
Must be like a genesis of rhythm
 

permission to remember

I keep forgetting, and then remember from the rockbottom . . . that it is all about permission, especially the permission to be yourself, or at least the permission to remember to be on the quest to find out what/who that is. Seek it and find it and share it so that others have that permission as well.

but:
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. ― Walker Percy

That "everydayness" gets me every time, unless I am not in the time/space of the everydayness and then, the magic flows - over under around and through - me . . .

and:
Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it. ―Franz Kafka


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in searching for the Kafka quote above, I found these sites and had to post these gems for reference (they are prayers):
Kanned Kafka quotes
http://www.kafka-online.info/franz-kafka-quotes.htm
Canned Camus quotes
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_camus.html

Dance of the Demons

When two people allow their demons to intersect, they dance the dance of disaster.

Maya Angelou quotes . . .

A friend read this to me:

“Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.”

― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now 

!!!!!!

Which made me look up more quotes, and I came upon this amazing one below. I especially love the part about the rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas lights! So simple and so enlightening. I must read more of this wonderful human's thoughts!

“I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

and also:
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

art

art is the metaphorical manifestation of real life.

art is the poetic expression of real life.

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Saturday Thoughts - A Wish

In the off time when I find myself again slowly, timidly coming out of the cave that my soul gets banished into every week until Friday . . . I found myself on my yoga mat gtting out the cracks in my back. A thought comes to the forefront of my mind: that it is a full time job in itself to fully take care of the body - to FULLY take care of yourself well and to know how to do it - to have time to do it fully, complete, well. (I understand this well when I am at Bates. Taking care of yourself there (and anywhere) is a fragile balancing act because squeezed out by the end of the day and you have to understand how to maximize yourself to optimal functioning for each of your responsibilities). Then I got a flash of hospitals and how many people go there to get treatment - for some reason I saw Cook County in my mind. The thought about so many people getting treatment while still trying to breathe on my yoga mat - made me have a revelation:

...what if we taught preventative care of the mind body and soul starting from early childhood, as part of the curriculum, as contextualized in the curriculum, as THE curriculum?...

What if people learned to be better, smarter, kinder to themselves at an early age?
Why does this not happen enough?

Also: what would the world look like if we were not self-conscious.