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It’s the little things…cultivating joy…

October 7th, 2008

Today, I was washing my face (with Trader Joe’s Castille Soap btw, doesn’t dry my skin out and keeps my skin vibrant, and clean  if I do say so myself!) and I looked over at the toilet to make sure the cover was down (good Feng Shui for prosperity) and it was and I was over come with excitable joy and I wanted to just scream up and down.  Which I did and then I took a moment to feel more into this spontaneous bout of joy and I understood…here I was, in my little cottage (as my friend calls it), with MY toilet and in MY bathroom, it was maaaaaaaaaaaveholous and I felt even more grateful for being able to live here once again.  Of course the morning sun was partially flooding into my bathroom and with my window open I could see the teenage Oak Tree and the Grandma-ma Oak tree whose branches reach over the roof of my little guesthouse/cottage. 

Doing little things to cultivate your happiness brings around these spontaneous fits of joy, how much fun is that? 

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New cool poster of my “Cuties” series…

June 10th, 2008

Cute girls

I’m slowly updating my store on Cafepress.com and I added this image to my series “Cuties” and made very cool posters, 20×13.1 (small) and 35×23.

I took this photo on a day trek up to Sarangkot, outside of Pohkara. I tried to take a candid picture, but they saw the camera and came running up to me.

A little bit of Sharmila Mali trivia, heh heh, my cousin is cropped out on the left, he was my pawn that I was pretending to take a picture of when I was really focused on these girls playing. But like I said, the camera was too much of hamlet opportunity for them. You can see what remains of his shoulder on the far left.

sorry Ajey…. :*

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In Loving Memory….

June 2nd, 2008

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A friend that I hadn’t known for a long time, passed away from a rare form of cancer over the weekend.

His father had called me the day before he passed and asked me about chinese doctors in Gainesville. He said he is getting weaker. It didn’t sound good and for the first time since I met B, it occurred to me that he may not live very long.

I’m shocked and sad and relieved knowing that he’s in a much better place. I also wondered about his passing and where the spirit is. I wonder if his family can be comforted in peace that he is free from that diseased-ridden body. He was only 20 and had cancer since he was 9, it went into remission, but came back.

For a young guy to be bed-ridden for what has been the last few months of his life, he was upbeat, positive and sociable. He was a bright kid, had a great sense of humor and we could talk about the most intellectual things and switch to the most mundane base humor. He was a cool kid.

His mother was his nurse, taking care of him 24 hours a day and she was also taking care of her family as well. I pray for her to see the hope in all of this and in her son, that physically she may not be with him, and that beyond this realm we all accustomed to, is something beyond our understanding…that he is no longer he, and that spirit we all loved is now everywhere, free, and she can commune with him all the time.

I am proud and grateful that I had the time with him. Much love B!

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On a lighter note…

April 17th, 2008

What is it about songs from your childhood, that just takes you right there? It’s so crazy how that works, you embody the music, and it takes you back …like for instance, I’m listening to Get Into the Groove from the film Desperately Seeking Susan, by of course, the illustrious Madonna….

What does this evoke for me, for one, I was 13, in the 7th grade, was sort of shocked that I actually liked this song because I didn’t like following fads…and how she seemed so untouchable to me, how that kind of fame just is so fantastic, it’s just unfathomable. Also, the video was in 24/7 rotation on Mtv, you know back in the day when they actually used to show videos.

It brings up the insecurities that I still possess and still deal with, Imight have been the only 13-year-old or at least I thought concerned with figuring out my life, hoping desperately for something better than life at 13 and wondering if I was ever going to be out of this body and be someone else, like in Desperately Seeking Susan…

But on a lighter note, it was also the first dance song that she had that I could dance to…and the video is forever burned into my memory, with each segment of the song, I can see the whole damn video…the weird albino chasing them at the end of the video.

I’m so glad I’m not 13, I wouldn’t trade my childhood for adulthood, never!

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“Love is what makes a family”

April 3rd, 2008

How poignant, and what a great reminder of what family is about.  Thomas, the pregnant man and his wife are challenging the ‘traditional’ family unit.  What makes a family?  Is it a man, a woman and child or children? Is it two mommies and children or a father’s roommate and their children? Read the rest of this entry »

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