Type A? Positive?

“I’d like you to take a deep breath right now and ask yourself this question: ‘Would it be all right with me if life got easier?'”

~Maria Nemeth, from The Energy of Money

Body vs. Taste Buds

Ingredients in my current smoothie/health shake:

1. Water
2. Soy Milk
3. Ice
4. Banana
5. Protein Powder (pea)
6. Wheat germ
7. Vanilla extract
8. Cinnamon
9. Turmeric
10. Moringa powder

Things it doesn’t taste as good as:

1. Cupcake
2. Toasted bagel with cream cheese
3. Bacon

See Hamilton

Just wow.

Since last I saw you

Things that have changed:

1. I drink coffee.
2. Dr. Sarno cured my headaches.
3. I’m getting grey hairs.

Things that haven’t:

1. I think of you
2. I root for you
3. I love you.

Only a bully beats himself up

“Were we to meet this figure socially, as it were, this accusatory character, this internal critic, we would think there was something wrong with him. He would just be boring and cruel. We might think that something terrible had happened to him. That he was living in the aftermath, in the fallout of some catastrophe. And we would be right.”

~Adam Phillips on the internal self-critic, from “Against Self-Criticism” in Unforbidden Pleasures

Personal Cloud Atlas (Winter Version)

“Don’t walk away from pancakes”

Plitvice National Park, Croatia

Be weird.

Paint Night

What you can do in a one-night paint class when a good instructor demonstrates how to do it step by step. Cheating? Maybe. I’m okay with it. In the spirit of historically prosaic titles for great works of fine art, I call it “Red Fox and Birches”.

“If you awaken from this illusion…”

“So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality,
the deep down basic whatever there is—and you are all that.
Only you’re pretending you’re not.”
~Alan Watts