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2008 brought much growth and humilty into my life... To sum up. It was an eye opening year. Without question. I celebrate and honor it. A year where I learned so much, where I discovered new ways of being, where I remembered the truth more often than the lies. A year where I practiced loving everyone. No matter how trying or troubling or whatever 2008 was... everyone I know experienced something miraculous, something amazing and something loving. That's what I'll take with me. Sayonara 2008!

There's no way to look at the radiant sun casting its glow in the brilliant leaves of the trees that guard the bottom of my road. It heartens my spirit to witness the magic of nature and it boggles my mind that technology allows me to capture it.

Wishing you the happiest of holiday seasons! I happen to love Bill Moyers, and during the year, I don't get the chance to watch his program on PBS as often as I would like. as luck would have it, enjoying a conversation at a friends house the other day, they played me a recent Moyers show featuring Mark Johnson and his documenatary -- "Playing for Change. Peace through Music." (I found the segment very moving. -- it runs about 20 minutes.) and. thought I would share as my Christmas communication.... in case you felt like catching an inspiring wave of connectedness as we ride out 2008 and head into the new year... http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/watch3.html theologian James Dunn spoke of -- the humility that befits all humanity the hurt that afflicts every heart and the hope that comes with community an old theme in American history. there is strength in the company of others from "we the people" to "we shall overcome." to quote Bill Moyers ...

Joni Mitchell rocks! poetry in motion... lyrics to Both Sides Now -- Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere, i've looked at clouds that way. But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone. So many things i would have done but clouds got in my way. I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow It's cloud illusions i recall. I really don't know clouds at all. Moons and junes and ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real; i've looked at love that way. But now it's just another show. you leave 'em laughing when you go And if you care, don't let them know, no don't give yourself away. I've looked at love from both sides now, From give and take, and still somehow It's love's illusions i recall. I really don't know love at all. Tears and fears and feeling proud to say "i love you" right out loud...

A Coca Cola classic --- 'I'd like to teach the world to sing.' The christmas version.

a sunday staple gets a new host...

The Original.... An inspired Remix (by Away Team)... Powerhouse diva.

"We're living in a time where everything is changing... where there's no use in belittling your rival or putting your head in the sand and saying 'I don't want to know.' It's much better to know." In Eleanor Roosevelt's book You Learn By Living (1960) she tackles the subject of hope and effort and belief and the power of faith. "Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, `It can't be done.'" Eleanor Roosevelt is widely regarded as one of the finest ambassadors the USA has ever put forth. Her words and wisdom resonate to this day.

A heartfelt Wynonna Judd sharing and performing a country classic in connection to the higher source that carries us through times that test our faith and trust.... "When the quiet stillness of the night comes, you ask yourself... is this what it's all about?" : Wynonna sings I Can Only Imagine: "not preachin... just teachin"

:Dinah Washington sings All of Me at the Newport Jazz Festival 1958:

Today we march on. :Boyz in da Hood Waiting for Music Class: A new song begins. Into a higher conversation. Awake and aware.

There's been a lot of talk about Abraham Lincoln and his presidency circuluating. In the air. The reasons are obvious. He was statesman. He was a leader standing on the cusp of an uncertain future. He presided after a war that pitted brother against brother. He attempted to tide the rift of a long fought battle and seemingly insurmountable differences of opinion. He delivered the United States into a new era. On this election day. I post the last paragraph of Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, delivered March 4, 1861... "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (Top T...

:Central Park's - Poet's Walk: Enjoy! WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN WAKING In that first hardly noticed moment to which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the new day which closes the moment you begin your plans. What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep. To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. You are not a troubled guest on this earth, you are not an accident amidst other accidents you were invited from another and greater night than the one from which you have just emerged. Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window toward the mountain presence of everything that can be, what urgency calls you to your one love? What shape wa...

Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go. You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street. And you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town. It's opener there in the wide open air. Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening too. OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing gr...

Denis Miller and Bill O'Reilly talk about the second Presidential debate and why no one is getting "mad as hell." check it out... The O'Reilly Factor's Miller Time with Dennis Miller from New York.

Embedded video from CNN Video America a "House Of Dreams...." Here's a man. feeling it. speaking it. living it. Embedded video from CNN Video

Christiane Amanpour sat down with five former heads of state in a CNN special -- The Next President: A World of Challenges... It's a must watch. Embedded video from CNN Video Embedded video from CNN Video Madeline Albright "most importantly we need to have a bipartisan foreign policy." Amen.

Today is Ghandi's birthday... and in his honor it's also the International Day of Non-Violence. A day to be. Peaceful. Ghandi was influenced by Thoreau, Martin Luther King was influenced by Ghandi. Each to his own. illuminated by universal truths. Ghandi often said "the ends are inherent in the means" Let's make our means peace-filled. Today. And. Everyday.

Nothing bugs me. :Big Gay Al sings I'm Super from South Park's Bigger, Longer, and Uncut: Marc Shaiman and Trey Parker's lyrics resonate.... Bombs are flying People are dying Children are crying Politicians are lying too. Cancer is killing Texaco's spilling The whole world's gone to hell But how are you? I'm super Thanks for asking All things considered I couldn't be better I must say

:The Tree and The Red Fence - Snapped Today Near My House: Here's to feeling high and holy as often as possible! All the best wishes for peace and prosperity. And.... "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year."

Every once in awhile I get nostalgic and revisit defining moments. Moments where an artist and their work merge with the truth. Falling In Love Again sung by the incomparable Marlene Dietrich composed by Frederick Hollander as "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt."

Remember the schoolhouse rock cartoon classics... When legislation still made sense.

"Do not go gentle into that goodnight" was written by a son to his dying father, to convince him to fight against imminent death. I take a tiny liberty with Dylan Thomas' words. Don't go blindly into that good night. Do not go disconnected into that good night. Don't think you are shut off. Don't think you can do nothing. Don't think that's the way it is. Don't think. Get down with being. Human. I reprint the entire poem written by Dylan Thomas. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go...

Be that leader. We are witnessing a great struggle. A struggle in differences. A struggle in divergence. A struggle that is externalizing all of our inner struggles. A struggle over whether we will be loving or whether we will be fearful. A struggle over whether we will know peace or suffer needlessly. I'm opting out of the struggle. I always go back to paraphrasing a country song "all the reason's I'm here, I know by heart." You can live in the fiction of the struggle. Or you can revel in the truth. The truth exactly as it is. No fooling. No despair. No hope. Just a knowing that everything is what it is. "safety lies in truth and not in lies." "we create what we defend against." "we're going to get there. one way of the other. It's just whether we are we going to get there through pain or through joy." Let's get there compassionately. It's time to let go of the wants. and. stay in the truth of what's needed. it...

Back and Bigger Than Ever. Give me a Fozzy Bear and a Gonzo for president. I couldn't be happier. Film - Disney Prepares to Use Its Marketing Magic to Bring Back the Muppets - NYTimes.com

A disciple asked Confucius about government. Confucius said. “See to it that there is enough food, enough arms, and the trust of people in the government.” The disciple asked. “if one of the remaining two unavoidably had to be omitted, which of the three would be first?” Confucius said “omit arms.” The disciple asked “if one of the remaining two unavoidably had to be omitted, which would be first?” Confucius said “omit food. Since ancient times people have died, but nothing can be established without the trust of the people.” (12:7) Enough said. "The knowing are not confused; the humane are not worried; the brave are not afraid." Confucius (9:30) Confucius' philosophy deals with "personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity." "Cultivated people reach upward; petty people reach downward." (14:24)

I Love Barbara. The hills were buzzing last night in and around the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, as Streisand headlined a Democratic fundraiser.

One Day More.... gotta love the use of the musical version of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. See more funny videos at Funny or Die Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, and Alain Boublil Go young people!

There was a visitor on my evening hike. It stared me down like De Niro on a bender -- "are you looking at me?" I don't know a lot about owls but this one wanted to be friends. It had something it wanted to share. Someday I'll learn to talk owl.

I was feeling optimistic about the Eagles chances this season. And. They lost. To the Cowboys. It was a shootout, back and forth. but. a loss is a loss. Everytime I show a glimpse of caring about the Eagles. My hopes are dashed. Oh well.

Cowboys, Eagles plan to seize NFL spotlight - NFL- nbcsports.msnbc.com “This is like the Monday night game of the 2008 season,” Eagles’ guard Shawn Andrews said last week. “I can’t wait until after we get that ‘W’ to go home and watch it again. I’m going to act as if I was not at the game, and I’m going to watch it with my turkey burger and my chips and my water.” Go Eagles!

:Pope Benedict XVI gestures to well-wishers as he arrives at the College des Bernardins in Paris to deliver a speech on faith and culture: This Pope has been called a staunch "defender of traditional Catholic values." I've always believed we create what we defend against. Pope condemns love of money, power - The Vatican- msnbc.com To sum up his talk -- Love of money is the root of all evil. And. It's time to stop creating "idols" and praying to them. I take exception with the use of the word condemns. In any capacity. As a leader of one of the largest faithful organizations in existence today, I think the Pope is missing the mark. He should be focusing on extending love, not condemnation to those who feel they need to find it in money and things. Ciao bella!

What do you get when you put together two Martina's and a Wynonna? :For These Times - Martina McBride: :Come Some Rainy Day - Wynonna Judd: :There You Are - Martina McBride: A whole lot of good times.

Obama's woes have nothing to do with 'lipstick' - Decision '08- msnbc.com The hysteria is palpable. The rush to fearful and divisive thinking is understandable, but not acceptable. Democrats have not known who they are or how to govern. The party does not have the commitment to its own ideals. At the end of the day billions of dollars will have been spent, piles of animosity will have been stirred, and deep wounds will have been peppered with salty festering nastiness, all in the hopes of "electing" a leader. The lengthy campaign for the next president of these united states (and I'm using united sarcastically) has showcased everything we need to see. I hold in my heart that the solutions to all our opportunities are within reach. And it is most certainly a much more pleasant space than the illusion that we are currently battling over. Maureen Dowd, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times, claims Palin's "explosion onto the scene made Obama seem...

A new book on the movement we need to support -- Energy Technology -- is out. And. It is a must read. Pulitzer Prize Winner Thomas Friedman talks passionately on Meet The Press about his new book "Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America." Check it out! Green is the new red, white and blue....

Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno is a Latin phrase that means "One for all, all for one" "Green is the new red, white and blue." Let's pull the country together on things we can all agree on!

:Cartman Designs His Faith +1 Album Cover: Catch a classic episode of South Park commenting on the state of faith and consumerism in this country from two of our most genius satirists Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Comedy Central is now offering full episodes online -- Christian Rock Hard (Faith plus One) "I love Jesus" Replace Darling & Baby with Jesus - Clips - South Park Studios Makes me laugh every time I think about it. cheerio.

Looks can be deceiving. Beliefs are not. :Frances McDormand in Fargo - Sarah Palin in Vogue:

We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Palin wouldn't be were she is. without HRC. without Obama. without McCain. without Bush. We're all a collection of each other. "I want to go to heaven. But I don't want to go tonight." Joe Diffie wrote in his country classic "Prop me Up beside the jukebox if I die." Let's get to the voting booth and move on. together. "I held on. because I was already gone" Sugarland's Already Gone. It's hard not to point fingers, to worry. about everything. but. come on. we're all people with faults and issues and hopes and dreams. and. just because you don't choose to follow someone. just because you voted for someone who didn't win. doesn't mean it's hopeless. This is a country of the people, by the people, for the people. No matter what divides us... We must remain united. With respect for our differences and find the common humanity. SO I say let's practice humanity....

Primum non nocere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As we achieve a collective gridlock in beliefs, ideologies, passions, fundamentals. As we witness our neighbors staking claim and taking a position. As we see that the 'voting' system breaking down because we're middling. 50 percent of people are inherently going to disagree with our fundamental beliefs. The stalemate has evened out. The only choice left is to go to the deeper levels, the deeper levels where we are all connected, and live in that common ground. And the great news. that common ground is easy. it's love based. it's compassion filled and it's everywhere. Everything is getting a voice. We're getting to see clearly what it means to have feelings that have never been given light, through stuttered and incoherent eruptions and name calling. And as we stutter through them, and they are given voice. It's becoming obvious that it's all ridiculous frustrations that are getting released. It fe...

:Roses Bloom - Fall In California: It's a day to remember it's a wonderful life. Have a great one.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo . We all need to stand together. And. While we're doing it. Why not dance. Bravo Matthew!

John McCain boldly picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate. A Personal Moment with VP Nominee Sarah Palin | Newsweek Politics: Conventions | Newsweek.com Palin said, "To have been chosen brings a great challenge. I know that it will demand the best that I have to give and I promise nothing less." She has a firm belief in "not allowing excessive partisanship to dictate." Go girl!

Consciousness needs you. Pick a higher thought pattern. Access a deeper level of truth. Grab an accountability (or two.) And start bustin out the prayer. Here's a good one to get us going. "Dear Lord, We pray for the leaders of this country and every other. May they not be swayed by false politics but listen instead to the spirit of truth. May they not harken to the false and bitter voices of a frightened world, but instead hear the angels who minister unto them." from Marianne Williamson's Illuminata.

This is the vision. And. Here's how we're going to get there. I don't need to hear anymore, how everything is broken. I need to see an innovative plan with far reaching foundational structure that can combat the complexities of our crumbling infrastructures. :Let's Get The Show On The Road Pandabulously:

Hillary Rodham Clinton offers tremendous insight into the uniquely American creation. A powerhouse woman in all her blazing glory. She kicks ass. Takes numbers. And. With a silvery smile on her face she gets knocked down and she keeps going. This question comes up for me everytime I think about the divisiveness of Mrs. Clinton... Is it a cautionary tale or a hero's journey? People respect her, admire her tenacity. But. They are either lovers (and fanatical lovers) or they are haters. James Carville said it best... "this is a bad night for Hillary haters." There's something that connects for me with Hillary Clinton, I can't put it into words. I can't even explain it to myself. Some intangible unconscious unnameable feeling. A feeling that tugs at me. A feeling that echoed in her speech tonight. "America's greatness is bound up in its people." Whenever I step out of my house. I see the greatness in everyone that I meet. This is a great place to liv...

"You speak of love when its too late... help should come to people when they need it." "our consciousness is the bulb..." :Katharine Hepburn in Stage Door: Meditation expert Sharon Salzberg says "the most rebellious act is to stand in compassion." Spend a little time getting rebellious!

Their coach gave them the mantra: Battling Breathing Believing And. Volley Ball players May - Walsh brought it home in a rain soaked final match against the Chinese. :May -- Walsh talk about winning the gold:

Danes win sailing gold with a little help from their -- croatian buddies. Watch the magic of sportsmanship. The Olympic spirit will not be denied!

:Usain Bolt Wins Gold in 100m Dash With World Record Time: When asked about Usain Bolt's speedster performance in the 100m dash, Walter Dix, who captured the bronze, looked unfazed, and said the only thing you can say... "That man is Fast." It was the most amazing display of personal speed this chick has ever seen. Bolt blew to victory in a showboating fashion unheard of in speed sports. NBCOlympics.com - Lightning-fast Bolt wins Olympic 100m#beijing+blur+bolt+blazes+100m+record#beijing+blur+bolt+blazes+100m+record#beijing+blur+bolt+blazes+100m+record

:Nastia Liukin On Way To Winning the Gold: What a beautiful, acrobatic, expression. "Standing on the podium and hearing `Olympic champion' next to my name was a dream come true," Liukin said. "Everything pays off at this very moment." Great time for it all to come together. The US Women went 1-2... Nastia Liukin won gold, Shawn Johnson won silver. Both women were amazing. Kudos! NBCOlympics.com - Close to flawless, Liukin wins all-around gold#liukin+grabs+gold#liukin+grabs+gold#liukin+grabs+gold

The Pill makes women pick bad mates - Women's health- msnbc.com "The pill puts a woman's body into a post-mating state, even though she might be still in the game." ”The pill is in effect mirroring a natural shift but at an inappropriate time,” Roberts told LiveScience. Beware and be warned.

"It is only after perfect balance has been achieved that any misstep brings imbalance"

:Beverly Hills Chihuahuas: The tiny dogs are a relief from the post apocalyptic death and destruction and dark view of life presented in many productions. We'll take what we can get.

As Bush so rightly put it... "Wall Street got drunk and now it has a hangover. The question is when will it sober up...." :Bush Jokes Off Camera About the State of the Economy: Some things are funny. This most certainly is not. I'm tired of hearing jokes accompanying massive bail outs of businesses that exercised poor personal judgement stemming from a super helping of greed. We are living in an era where systematic synergistic corruption has been tolerated, accepted, and applauded. Statements like things are "too complicated" and the American people have "more important" concerns than to be bothered with sorting through policy issues has to stop. The means are inherent in the ends and in our means we need to steer our own ship into the deeper conversation. The conversation that uncovers the truth. And when we uncover that truth, we need to face it. As Carl Jung said "our biggest problems can't be solved. they can only be outgrown." We w...

:Opening Ceremony of the Summer Olympics: Once every four years the humans on the planet get to come together in the brotherhood of athletic competition. "The ceremony is unfolding as a grand mixture of Chinese culture and technology, a spectacle of artistry and invention, delivered by waves of performers and punctuated by bursts of fireworks." The New York Times Games in Beijing Open With a Lavish Ceremony - NYTimes.com It's a time of celebration of all that we can be. Taking from the classic Eastern text -- Power best expresses itself in gentleness. -- I Ching Lets take this time of the Olympic calender to walk in gentleness.

:Ingrid Betancourt with Her Children After Rescue: Early in her capture Ingrid Betancourt decided that whatever happened she would "hold in her heart that there can be rehabilitation... that she "wouldn't take out of the jungle any kind of bitterness or any kind of eagerness to seek for revenge..." After surviving 6+ years, freed by a daring rescue, former hostage Ingrid Betancourt discusses the elasticity of the human heart... "I realized how cruel people can be to each other... but. I decided to hold in my heart that no matter what there can be rehabilitation." Former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt on Larry King. “I think the time has come to change the language of radicalism, extremism and hatred, the very strong words that cause deep hurt to a human being,” she said, adding that tolerance and respect were needed. “...one has to agree to talk to the people you hate”. And live in forgiveness. Ms. Betancourt's freedom provides the first flames of hope...

:Max on the Mat: "We are born to our own true selves and we will never settle ever again for being less than we truly are." Sometimes baby photos seem to reveal everything about the little one... the wisdom the courage, the openness. The mystery seems to be how we lose that revelation as we grow older.

:Can't Keep A Panda Down:

"We are led to those who help us most to grow." Keep your eyes open. :The Monk Speaks about Dying Daily: "At the moment of commitment the universe will conspire to assist you." Commit to love. Now. See what develops.

:Huntington Gardens Walkway : photo by Louise Lutz: The Journey written by Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do-- determined to save the only life you could save.

It doesn't take 40 days wandering around the desert to prove a point. Anything that is amazing can happen over a steak dinner. Can happen in a moment of quiet grace. Can happen in a flash of intention. Can happen in a blink of an eye. Don't miss it. Please enjoy our midnight number... :Ella Fitzgerald sings For Once In My Life - Berlin 1968:

Who else is tired of the thinking on this planet? Bush sidesteps court ruling on warming - Climate Change- msnbc.com "The Bush administration rejected regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, saying it would cause too many job losses." So, let me get this right. By enforcing a greenhouse gas emission plan.... we're causing jobs to be lost. Because..... corporate profits are more important than..... the environment. It's like sorry. We can either afford to keep you working or we can stop polluting the environment. We can't figure out a way to do both. Did I say. I'm sorry. I really mean it. Whew... it's even hard to type. How could taking care of our future responsibly cause harm. Our current governmental efforts are falling so far short that to them ignoring the regulations seems like the only solution. All I can say is. This thinking is unacceptable. Gandhi often said "the end is inherent in the means." Our means need to be infused...

"I challenge our nation to comit to producing 100% of our electricty from renewable energy and truly clean carbon clean sources within 10 years." Al Gore July 17, 2008. AMEN. "We can't drill our way out of this." T. Boone Pickens. It's a shift. Dramatic. Driven. and Determined. Responsibility is in action. Let's join in the deeper conversation. :Al Gore on Meet The Press: All the cries.... about devastation. disaster. hide the voice of reality. Something needs to be done. Quit whining. Stand up. Make change a priority. I'm IN. for the strategic investment. for renewable energy. Forces are joining. Spirit is building and a resolution will emerge. Don't hold onto the past. Now is the time. Watch the speech. We Can Solve It Spread the word. Make the shift. Join the force.

Does anyone else crave the Red Lobster? Is it the butter. Is it the succulent shrimp. They have a passion for the sea. Who am I to disagree. Red Lobster Seafood Restaurants - Recipes and Live Lobster Delivery

I never stopped the tomato love. FDA declares it’s OK to eat tomatoes again - Infectious diseases- msnbc.com Full and complete exoneration.... Viva la Tomato!

Listen. I don't know a whole lot. But. I know when someone kicks an ass in their chosen profession... Taylor Swift has it all. This young lady rocks it out. In her work. In her performance. In her commitment. Her live performances are already legendary.

Why did the Caterpillar cross the road?

With a vengeance.

We can all live by. ~Re-invention isn't the mother of all evils, it's the answer. ~Look beyond the fear, it's not going anywhere. ~Live in the Moment, clothing optional. ~Go for the platinum monkey, why not? ~Demand the truth, then never look back. ~The rules don't apply, create your own. ~All Truth is one, and so am I. ~Take a good look. If you don't like something. I don't care. ~Taboo is to be embraced, and if you're not afraid of needles to be tattooed. :Madonna sings Academy Award nominated Best Song Sooner or Later from the motion picture Dick Tracy written by Stephen Sondheim:

it's tricky. when you connect with everyone. it's tricky. to be open. to be loving. all the time. it's trusting. it is all okay. and. trusting has been hard. but. life isn't about one brave choice it's about living in the truth.

"What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome." For the next 100 days I'm going to look squarely at my "bad" ness and make a choice to see it in a new light. Without a word. Without a sound. The switch flipped The thought of change Never enough Never arrived Couldn’t be Because I couldn’t see. For the next 100 days... I'm going to consider the possibility that there is another way. I won't talk about war, I will feel peace. I won't talk about what isn't working. I will experience what is. I won't complain about what people don't do. I will appreciate what they do. Cura Et Labore Latin motto "with care and work" I'm going to allow myself to be uplifted. and. be willing to see change. In a new light. In what's remembered.

"work is love made visible." Kahlil Gibran.

Ben Franklin always said - "well done is better than well said." now you know. go forth and do better.

"People's eyes glaze over when I mention my Masters in the Eastern Classics. So I don't bring it up." I almost couldn't believe I heard it. This person sitting across from me spent countless hours reading, absorbing, and studying.and he chucked it under the bus at the slightest smell of a yawn. As I see it we have two problems. Those who have the information and are mocked for it and have to experience the "glaze over" when sharing their information. AND. those that care less about knowing information than knowing where to find information. Concepts and ideas have to be explored to be understood. To be known. Contribution + Appreciation = Fulfillment If you know something share it. Wholeheartedly.

From the brilliant Sunday in the Park with George -- Stop worrying where you're going- Move on If you can know where you're going You've gone Just keep moving on I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not You have to move on Look at what you want, Not at where you are, Not at what you'll be- Look at all the things you've done for me Opened up my eyes, Taught me how to see, Notice every tree- Here's Bernadette Peters singing one of her Stephen Sondheim show soul stopper. :Bernadette Peters sings Move On from Sunday In The Park With George:

Align with a power greater than any on the planet. a power of creation. get it together. today. live in love. in conviction in time for now. "recieve the light to be the light and through you darkness is cast out"

Low Level Drama is like a termite eroding the foundation of all we hold dear. Creeping in quietly and without warning. Dragging us into its corrosive energy. It can start innocuously with a question "how was the trip to visit his parents?" and spiral dangerously to "I want to stab my mother-in-law in the eye." You don't have to answer why we fall victim. But fall victim we do. I used to think it was the simple principle of gravity. the constant pull downward of our thoughts. But the more I keep my radar attune to blip an early warning sound at the onset of an LLD storm. The more I'm able to stay in love, kindness and compassion. Rising above. Living beyond the storm. And all the happier for it.

In the worlds of fashion and style. Yves Saint Laurent lived an extraordinary life. We celebrate his light. Viva la Yves!

2008 is a turning point in how we define conflicts. It's a time to create a new space of healing. Let's open our hearts and propel our actions toward peace on earth. One moment at a time.

Tinkle, tinkle, little fish. This has to be world's most atrocious aquarium — a Chinese restaurant has been criticized for keeping ornamental fish in a urinal. The restaurant in Changchun city has around 20 fancy carp in the 13-foot long trough in the men' bathroom. The Eastern Asian Economic and Trade Daily says experts have condemned the move as harmful to the fish and "disrespectful to China's fish culture". :Just In Time - Michael Buble & Tony Bennett:

Don't cry for me America. I'll be crying on and off for years to come. :Hilary Clinton delivers her conscession speech in New York: I liked what HRC had to say in her concession speech to BO... "life is too short, time is too precious and the stakes are too high." God bless us. everyone.

It used to make me laugh that I have the Pope's email. I saw it as a sure sign the Vatican was jumping wholeheartedly into the digital age. Part of an effort to get current and be in touch. Too bad. It's thinking couldn't come along for the ride. Pope thanks virgins for 'gift' to Christ - The Vatican- msnbc.com The pope said the women's vocation was deeply meaningful, even if it could be seen as "dark and useless" by some of those who do not share the Catholic faith. It is estimated there are more than 3,000 consecrated Catholic virgins worldwide. "Man of my heart I love you so".... takes on new meaning. :More Than You Know | Jane Monheit: