Awkward silence after last post. I admit sometimes I get a little intense. For the record, that happened July 2009. While there is the occasional trigger, I am good. I am happy. Just occasionally going back for posterity. Or, I read comments from one of you who is right there...and it just takes me back...and I want to post stuff I would have wanted to read.
So, pardon my erratic mind that doesn't always think systematically.
Cliff jumping update...attended a marathon training group, though I've not yet signed up for marathon. If I do, I'll likely start with the half. Anyway, training group was a blast. Like, 4th grade gym class. Grown men and women skipping and galloping from one end of the gym to the other. Seriously. I had to try not to laugh a couple of times. It was so much of a blast that I opted out of tonight's class for pizza and red wine. Not cool.
What is cool, however, is Ellen's Dance Dare. I think I'm going to enter. I feel it is a responsibility.
I watched this tonight and couldn't stop laughing.
I'm happy to report I am up to 37 twitter followers. I know. And, tonight, get ready for this, I was retweeted. By Rex Pickett.
Sometimes, I get all serious and tell my girls I have to talk to them about something important. They get all worried and then I do this little routine and tell them I have another twitter follower.
I watched The Contender this week. Total ugly cry as the movie ended with the words "For our Daughters" . Go rent it if you haven't seen it. It's about a smart, strong woman and her struggle for vice presidency. I seriously dried my eyes and was ready to enter my name on some ballot.
Can't get enough of these quotes today:
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Einstein
And, then this:
"You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn’t nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.” Anne Lamott
And, finally, this from Rex Pickett,
"What do I believe in? I believe in trailblazing the singular path to one's unique destination through perseverance & humility."
So, here's to intuition. To trailblazing the singular path to your unique destination, despite being squeezed by the rational squares of this world. Because, really, whether single or in a relationship, we're really all on our own journey. Let's persevere and blaze the hell out of it.
Cheers.
(make that 41 followers)
Thursday, February 09, 2012
[attempted] comedic relief.
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Sister, I WILL FOLLOW YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK. And help blaze your trails! (especially if on horseback) Ive listened to my intuitive mind so much that I forget my rational one exists...until I need to go grocery shoping again. Or put gas in the car. Im out to shape young artists...you are gonna write your way into the future. You are amazing, my friend. XOXO!!!!!!
Love Ellen's Dance Dare. You could totally do it. I hadn't hear of it yet....good laughs.
You're girls are blessed to have you as their mom - I can picture you giving them the serious talk, then busting out with that SNL routine.
Great to laugh this morning!
Cheers!
"...we're really all on our own journey." I agree. It's all good: the past, the present, the future. I feel that when we talk to others about the things we have wanted to know when we were younger, we are talking to our younger selves at the same time. And, like you said "it is redemptive and somehow gives the mess some order."
Intuition, laughter and music are very good friends...Love Einstein, Lamott and Pickett's beautiful quotes. :)))
More on Intuition:
"But he was excited at his intuitive understanding of the camel driver's comment: maybe he was also learning the universal language that deals with the past and the present of all people. 'Hunches,' his mother used to call them. The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there." ~Paulo Coelho
Really??? The dance vid made ya laugh?? I thought he was fantastic. I'm packing my bags for Ottawa :)
Elliot.
Elliot. How could you not laugh? Yes. He was fantastic. But, it was funny. You seriously didn't laugh?
No no, I totally laughed my ass off! That comment was my attempt at humor. I failed. It happens :)
Elliot.
I am gullible.
I also know nothing about epically failing at attempted humor.
Glad you laughed.
KC...love the intuition elaboration. Love.
Rex Pickett re-tweeted you?! I'm SO JEALOUS. In the best possible way. Comedic relief attempted & successfully executed. I love that I can always count on you to make me laugh. Or to think. Or to feel.
So I will drink with you to perservernce. And blazing the hell out of - everything.
I have been quietly reading for awhile now... but I have to tell you - I laughed out loud at the first line. Ok, first sentence. Awkward silence. Hahaha. For dramatic effect? Because that last post was so well written and raw and real, that I thought for sure it had like, JUST happened.
Not sure if that was the part that was meant to be funny, but I really did laugh. Lovin your regular posting! Love your writing style!
u should cont
to write raw
it's u
and the u
i love
miss u c
xoxo rosa
I am one of those followers :)
"What do I believe in? I believe in trailblazing the singular path to one's unique destination through perseverance & humility."
. . . WOW.
I needed that.
can i just say i love how much you are blogging lately. it has been such a treat to miss a few days and have enough to read that i enjoy my entire cup of coffee while here.
you see...the twitter thing is funny to me. about 12 hours before you posted this i retweeted a badass quote that you posted. and i stopped before i did it, because i don't want to be that crazy stalker that doesn't really know you but reads your blog, follows you on instagram, and follows (AND retweets) you on twitter. (wow that sounds bad.)
i am not a stalker, promise. in fact, i am not a mother, i am not from Michigan, i am not divorced, and i am not yet into my thirties. but there is something about your words that speak to me and i therefore deem them retweetable. i am no rex pickett, but i will continue to retweet your badass tweets.
(hope i am using all of the correct forms of "tweet".... still don't get that either)
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