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Mamá Ávila

¿causalidad o casualidad?

About Me

There is value in following dreams. Let your heart lead and your perceptions will follow, even until changing every fundamental belief previously held, yet at the same time feeling as if it's always been that way.

My Interests


liberty and imagination

I'd like to meet:

anyone with a good story

Music:


i am music

Movies:


action, cartoons, comedies

Books:


The Alchemist, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Cryptonomicon, Pattern Recognition, Parable of the Sower

My Blog

the core of my desire ... motivation

I posted this on the forum, but it is appropriate for a blog as well.Joulz Il wrote a blog about motivation. What is your underlying motivation? What makes you get up in the morning? When I first read...
Posted by ser de agua on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:15:00 PST

this work has surely changed me

Or, really, has it? All I am now, and all I am headed for, is the dream I have always had but never took the time to get it previously. I am developing as a teacher, as a woman, as a human being. I am...
Posted by ser de agua on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:26:00 PST

these are the fortunes

I keep two cookie fortunes in my wallet. They are as follows:"Life is a series of choices. Today yours are good ones.""Act always in a way to do good."I got a feeling yesterday while driving down 75 w...
Posted by ser de agua on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:52:00 PST

eleven.

11 years ago today the only thing in the world I wanted was for everything to be back to normal.I'm still waiting.
Posted by ser de agua on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:13:00 PST

on accommodation

Today was the first day that I felt like I had really given something up in my decision to develop along a differently directed path. The places and the things and the people, sometimes it does not se...
Posted by ser de agua on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:16:00 PST

much work

I looked at the proposed schedule for next month and I was scheduled to work every schedule except the morning ones, which I never work for my day job. That would be every day of the next four weeks I...
Posted by ser de agua on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:31:00 PST

tiny interesting choices

I like the sentiment expressed here in this xkcd comic ...
Posted by ser de agua on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:05:00 PST

let's talk about water

When I think about water I think of the quote from Bruce Lee:Empty your mind.Be formless, shapelessLike water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.You put water into a bottle, it becomes ...
Posted by ser de agua on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:01:00 PST

trying to improve my skills

I have felt like the world's worst teacher this weekend. At 10 this morning I really considered quitting and never coming back after this month. That won't happen, of course, because I do love my job,...
Posted by ser de agua on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:07:00 PST

focusing, directing, giving me ideas

I took a much needed day off from my first job yesterday. I spent it enjoying simple things. A park with squirrels, and watching other people's kids play in the mud. Eggs, beans, corn tortillas, and f...
Posted by ser de agua on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:07:00 PST