MORE TO LIFE
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO LEAVE?
So many women choose to stay in abusive relationships and many of us wonder why
READ THE BLOG ENTITLED (i.e. click the link) Fear: Into the World of Domestic Abuse For some insight on this disheartening phenomenon if you're an outsider looking in OR if you're on the inside hoping to get out.
We are limitless. In truth we are Wife and we are Mother. We are Lover, Daughter, Warrior, Teacher, Sister, Healer, each one at a time and in essence all of these all the time to lesser and greater degrees.
The Buddha taught lay people the virtue of making the "seven offerings that cost nothing": . . . a compassionate eye, a smiling face, loving words, physical service, a warm heart, a seat, and lodging.
--Jiko Kohno in Right View, Right Life
I'd like to meet:
Willie Nelson
Dolly Parton
DaVinci
My Religion is Very Simple, My Religion is Kindness. - His Holiness Dalai Lama
BOOKS
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
-- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
~ "I saw an act of Faith today -
a man was on his knees;
Not in a pew or in a church,
but in a garden planting seeds."
-anonymous- ~
"Rest your head down on me," crones Grandmother
Growth. "For this moment, rest in me. Let the energy
of the earth infuse you. Let my energy carry you. Let
yourself be enough. Let go."
On Prayer:
To pray is to dream in league with God.
Music:
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Music
Movies:
The Notebook -
Every person should watch this movie, then watch it again - learn from it and strive for a love like that of Allie and Noah.
Be merciful and gracious
Be slow to anger
Abound in steadfast love and faithfulness
Keep steadfast love for thousands
Forgive iniquity and transgression and sin
Television:
Look past the surface of people and help them be the best person they can be and find contentment with who they truly are.
Books:
"From the library...where the books live" Willowl-Buffy Season 1
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." Cicero
Books I Think Everyone Should Read
The Tao Te Ching
The Bible
The Koran
The Art of War
Seventh Son - Orson Scott Card
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas-James Patterson
Twilight - Stephanie Meyers
I'm a book crosser!
I MOVE TO ALIEN BEATS
Heroes:
My mother - For giving me life, putting up with me in life and for making my life better.
Those who chose to live their lives and not let their lives live for them
OGP - for listening, learning, advising and challenging.
Kent - For turning me Indigo, making me smile, reminding me to breathe and dance, and for being an alien right along with me.
Strong Women
The One - who will truly love me in spite of and because of my crazy head
Brenin - for reminding me what life is all about
Reni-Lou - For being Reni-Lou
Auntie - even though she says I need an exorcism
Brooke - she's what I want to be when I grow up
Holly Golightly - 'nuf said
