"The Year of the Cat" - Al Stewart


So soothing, the year of the cat.

And what year isn't?

I always imagined myself having cats til my dying day. Maybe that will still happen, but it's hard to imagine jumping right back into it after this particular specimen. Don't get me wrong; I love her muchly. Two things though:


  • She only has eyes for my partner
  • She has viciously attacked me on occasion
  • I'm scared of her
  • But I don't want to just 'get rid of her' where her life will surely be ended.
  • But after her.... I wonder.



The Tides on a 'Gray' Day

One perspective over many hours, but all within the same twenty-four hour period.
I love time lapse photography effects so much, I'll have to learn to do it 'someday.'
Cycles and rhythms, inhalation and exhalation.

And the darkest picture shows the culprit, so bright despite its half fullness.

"Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind."
~Alice Meynell

"Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides."
~Angela Lansbury

"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides."
~Gene Tierney

"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of parise or encouragement - and we will make the goal."
~Robert Collier

February 14, 2012


"To love is to recognize yourself in another."

        Victory Lee Schouten


"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

      Lennon/McCartney

Namaste.
Happy day recognizing love all around and inside.
May everyone be well and happy.

Musical Snow Queen

...at least I believe it's snow? I wasn't able to find out where this was taken, nor by whom. It was *originally?* posted on Facebook by Neeyum Naanum, and I found the sculpture impressive in size, detail, and grace. Looks like some other folk were stopped in their tracks as well. :)

~*~*~*~

Stream of consciousness led me to this piece of music from "The Lord of the Rings" featuring flute middle and end. I was originally thinking of the piece, 'Evenstar,' as she was a queen, but I didn't find the 'quiet' visuals I wanted to go with it. I searched, but no dice this time.

 


Downsizing in Magnetic Vancouver, B.C.

I read an article about retirement and house size recently. If we don't use our houses primarily as a storage unit (a significant issue from where I sit and look about this morning), there are many new and interesting options for downsizing to something a bit smaller and more affordable. Calculations show that it can be one of the more influential decisions to meet retirement goals. And off my mind goes, a'wanderin'.

Recently there was an article and pictures of clever 'hobbit hole' type housing, and now this one to meet the demand for influx of people to Western Canada in these and coming years. Skim the pictures or read the informative article if you have extra time. Seem doable?

Happy 021212.

http://smallhouselife.com/3412/the-laneway-small-house-phenomenon-in-vancouver

November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrants.

I found this worth the nine minutes of my day.

Peaceful, gentle feast of time-lapse reminders.

Potential mind shift, useful for coming up with notions of goodness in life.

Gratitude knows no borders.

Seventy-First Orbit of the Earth Round the Sun

Such a sweet moment in the genesis of the Lennon repertoire.
How many times I watched this clip, I could not say...
But on this day, I remember your birth and how glad of you
I am - for all of who you were and are to me and the world
You enliven still.

The duality of your nature, so honest it seems to me.
A help when I face confusion when my two sides rear up.
Thank you.

Birthday time again... poignant to acknowledge, though for you
Its beckoning memories and concepts come more often...

I imagine where you are. Imagine peace again. Now.
Well wishes always for your travels on.

Priorities, Solidarity, and Perception


Music has power.
People have power.
Step 1: Find the priority
Step 2: Find the people
Step 3: When what you hope is for the good of all,
Can be hard for say 1% to see through isolation + fear;
When it coincides with the Golden Rule;
It's time for Step 4: Stand in Solidarity with the wise
In whatever way you can.
Let them know you care as well.
Add your voice to theirs as best you can or start speaking yourself
Articulate what's most important to you.

So much is going on right now.
The see saw goes up and down.
Forces of fact, math, humanity, and mutual support
Compassion.
What is necessary is the gracious mother of ideas
And newborn or repurposed solutions.

May all be well.
May all be happy.
May all be conscious and clear,
By way of love and courage.

Occupy Wall Street.
Occupy - to fill with content and energy.
What does it mean to you?
More and more are answering that question for themselves.
Makes me proud; and then it makes me proud some more.
Cognition, critical thinking, love.
May we bring back democracy from its first moment:
The great experiment
Possibility + Passion = Potential Perspective.


The Real and the Overreaction; Properly Introduced(?)


Sad. These are real feelings. Still, I don't want to go there.

'Tis good to be aware... and find alternatives

To all the ways one might misinterpret this song with its

Story of violence engendered by fear...

Let it not be so. No 'eye for an eye til all the world is blind.'

The route to hull integrity is inscribed on on all our hearts.

If you can't spot its location; listen til you see.

No instructions given at the start.

They come as you go

On your own particular route.

Wishing everyone smooth sailing and good memory.