no more dick moves people, please.
being a dick is not nice.
being a dick can piss people off.
and pissing people off, is not nice!
no more dick moves.
according to an interview with Jill Bolte Taylor at Vision.org
"From a physiological perspective it only takes 90 seconds for that set of triggers—stimulus, awareness, emotional connection, and anxiety rush inside of you—to run its course and be flushed away."
we all know what a dick move is too...
feel one coming on? stop... breathe, 90 seconds later you'll be able to choose which emotion you want to feel.
no more dick moves...
no more dick moves...
this is my new mantra
no more dick moves...
my hubby whispered something here................
;-).....no more dick moves...
My Stroke of Insight Jill Bolte Taylor Great book!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
i feel
a little like an oak
a swirl of you dance around me in a blustery whorl
i see you there
frantic for fear of falling
yet
falling nonetheless
my long barren arms shiver in the wind
a bit
then i settle my roots for a long cold night
as you
delight in being the visual representation of chaos
i am so weary from your constant motion
you never take time to
b
r
e
a
t
h
e
~
a little like an oak
a swirl of you dance around me in a blustery whorl
i see you there
frantic for fear of falling
yet
falling nonetheless
my long barren arms shiver in the wind
a bit
then i settle my roots for a long cold night
as you
delight in being the visual representation of chaos
i am so weary from your constant motion
you never take time to
b
r
e
a
t
h
e
~
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Society
I despise this society we've created.
The hated and fear and filth and chaos that surrounds me on a daily basis fills me with such profound sadness. I don't think we're going to make it, and there won't be anyone left to record the day the human race went extinct. How did we get here?
Most of the people throughout history that have ruled over their respective empires have been people who sought out that power, and they overwhelming did so to also attain as much personal wealth as could be had - and their personal interests always superceded what was best for humanity as a whole. And they've fucked it up.
I don't view myself as an individual really, and I believe that most people who think like me don't either. Whether through a near-death experience, intuition or some other profound event in our lives - we 'know' (though it's difficult to explain) how we fit into the larger scheme of things. This knowing lies in a non verbal part of our brains, and you cannot put it into words that make any sense to someone who doesn't feel this way. There is such peace with this knowing - such love. My being is at peace with the world, but my human part has to live in it.
I seek wisdom and beauty and love and peace and I cannot understand why everyone doesn't feel like that. We won't survive as a species (in my humble opinion) unless we all become human-beings, the being within can find that peace, but the human aspect of ourselves fights it tooth and nail - why??
It's so heartbreaking for me to look around at what we've become, and we've been on this self-destructive path since the beginning of civilization. We build it up, and smash it down... over and over and over again. But this time we're bound and determined to make sure that we obliterate every other life form along with us, and perhaps even the entire planet itself. I'm glad we weren't able to move on and destoy another one too. But those of us who care about such things are typically not the ones who seek power or personal riches and we're completely powerless now.
It's too late, we're too detructive, our weapons and chemicals are capable of annihilating - everything. And I'm watching this madness unfold before my eyes, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. No one can. Those in power clearly can't or won't or simply don't want to.
And most will go out never having had a clue as to why they were here in the first place.
The hated and fear and filth and chaos that surrounds me on a daily basis fills me with such profound sadness. I don't think we're going to make it, and there won't be anyone left to record the day the human race went extinct. How did we get here?
Most of the people throughout history that have ruled over their respective empires have been people who sought out that power, and they overwhelming did so to also attain as much personal wealth as could be had - and their personal interests always superceded what was best for humanity as a whole. And they've fucked it up.
I don't view myself as an individual really, and I believe that most people who think like me don't either. Whether through a near-death experience, intuition or some other profound event in our lives - we 'know' (though it's difficult to explain) how we fit into the larger scheme of things. This knowing lies in a non verbal part of our brains, and you cannot put it into words that make any sense to someone who doesn't feel this way. There is such peace with this knowing - such love. My being is at peace with the world, but my human part has to live in it.
I seek wisdom and beauty and love and peace and I cannot understand why everyone doesn't feel like that. We won't survive as a species (in my humble opinion) unless we all become human-beings, the being within can find that peace, but the human aspect of ourselves fights it tooth and nail - why??
It's so heartbreaking for me to look around at what we've become, and we've been on this self-destructive path since the beginning of civilization. We build it up, and smash it down... over and over and over again. But this time we're bound and determined to make sure that we obliterate every other life form along with us, and perhaps even the entire planet itself. I'm glad we weren't able to move on and destoy another one too. But those of us who care about such things are typically not the ones who seek power or personal riches and we're completely powerless now.
It's too late, we're too detructive, our weapons and chemicals are capable of annihilating - everything. And I'm watching this madness unfold before my eyes, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. No one can. Those in power clearly can't or won't or simply don't want to.
And most will go out never having had a clue as to why they were here in the first place.
Population
World population projected to reach 7 billion next year -source CNN
Individual families need to be responsible about how many people they are adding! 1 or 2 kids... 3's pushing it... 5 or 6? no. Octomom & those like her having "litters" of humans... who can condone that?
The point I want to make here is that at some point we all have to stop and think - are our individual 'wants' good for humanity as a whole?
Human population grew to 3 billion by around 1960, we doubled that in just 40 years, and projections say 9 billion by 2050. We've already depleted the best quality and easiest to reach resouces the planet has to offer. What remains is lower quality and harder to extract, so we're using MORE resources to find LESS. We're on a downward slope with available resources while our population continues to grow exponentially. Knowing this, is it responsible to purposely have more than 2 or 3 children per family? Is what we want more important than what's right?
Native American philosophy states that each generation has a responsibility to ensure the survival of the seventh. Yet our current way of life, Consume and Toss, is not sustainable and will have dire consequences. IS having dire consequences! We can't even ensure our own survival any longer, much less the seventh?
The status quo isn't working... life as we knew it is gone. We have to adapt or die... we have to start thinking differently about ourselves and each other. I don't have any answers, but I feel very strongly that we all have the potential to be part of the solution, each one of us being a piece of the puzzle... but the pieces must all come together before we see the big picture. I do sense that our collective consciousness is beginning to move in the right direction, but I fear we'll fit that last piece into place only to realize that we figured it out much too late.
Individual families need to be responsible about how many people they are adding! 1 or 2 kids... 3's pushing it... 5 or 6? no. Octomom & those like her having "litters" of humans... who can condone that?
The point I want to make here is that at some point we all have to stop and think - are our individual 'wants' good for humanity as a whole?
Human population grew to 3 billion by around 1960, we doubled that in just 40 years, and projections say 9 billion by 2050. We've already depleted the best quality and easiest to reach resouces the planet has to offer. What remains is lower quality and harder to extract, so we're using MORE resources to find LESS. We're on a downward slope with available resources while our population continues to grow exponentially. Knowing this, is it responsible to purposely have more than 2 or 3 children per family? Is what we want more important than what's right?
Native American philosophy states that each generation has a responsibility to ensure the survival of the seventh. Yet our current way of life, Consume and Toss, is not sustainable and will have dire consequences. IS having dire consequences! We can't even ensure our own survival any longer, much less the seventh?
The status quo isn't working... life as we knew it is gone. We have to adapt or die... we have to start thinking differently about ourselves and each other. I don't have any answers, but I feel very strongly that we all have the potential to be part of the solution, each one of us being a piece of the puzzle... but the pieces must all come together before we see the big picture. I do sense that our collective consciousness is beginning to move in the right direction, but I fear we'll fit that last piece into place only to realize that we figured it out much too late.
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