Soft chemicals stirring together
Your hand in mine
Gentle love and possibilities
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Evangelist (144/365)
Don’t preach to me
It smells like fear
I’m living in peace
And that’s a choice
I drank your wine
It tasted like pride
I shed that coat
Walked a thousand miles
I listened and learned
That I can’t swallow love
When it’s wrapped in fear
Words ring hollow
From an empty soul
Misery loves company
And I’m a loner
Precious
I just watched the movie "Precious." It was the most depressing film I have ever watched. It was as if the author of the book set out to produce the most horrifying depiction of family life ever written. My heart is heavy and I am feeling like life must truly be a game. We get breathed into a body and we have to overcome its special circumstances and limitations before we can move onto the next level. I feel like I’m outside my body right now.
I thought for a minute about my "wheel of life." Remember my post from 3 years ago, when everything in my life was good except for my health? Fast forward to today and the spoke in question is no longer my health, but my finances. Would you trade money for health? I did! But I realize I am being taught lessons about money I might never have learned while flush (or those lessons may have had bigger consequences).
I also thought about my job as a coach, and how I am so eager to share my knowledge while I am probably the one who will be learning the most out of all of us.
Thinking about how the circumstnces in our lives lead us to ever higher or lower positions depending on how we do in each challenge. Knowing we all have a fatal flaw that keeps us from ever winning the gme and yet we play day after day. Whose game is it?
Expanding (143/365)
Heart open open open
Ribs are tearing apart
Chest filled with helium
Balloon growing filling
Saturn’s rings around me
Grow expand sending out
Encompass one and all with love
The one thing you can do
Distractions
A part of this bus rattles at the frequency of a cell phone ring.
You can put on a winter ski hat/skull cap with one hand by snagging it on your chin first.
Bay Area Inventions I Love Today
1. Cliff Bars
2. Craigslist
3. Yelp
4. Google
5. YouTube
6. PayPal
Long Live San Francisco!
Stress (142/365)
False starts
Why didn’t I plan ahead?
I love eating breakfast
At home
At the table
I love paying bills
On time
Knowing my balance
So why do I fail?
What circumstances
Need me to suffer?
Will it all turn out better
If my mind stays relaxed?
Or will my punishment be incomplete
Without stress?
All for Love (141/365)
Missiles and homocides
Birds of a feather
Compromise and die
Truth or a lie?
Forgive and forget
Pay your debt
Run and get caught
Live or get shot
Hope falls to deeds
Too many would kill
For love’s warm embrace
Forgetting her charity
Seeds of Change (140/365)
I’m a thief
I’m a prison guard
She’s fat
I’m not like her
Love plants seeds of change
Not hate or separateness
Which yields decay and rot
Know that a perfect person
Lives inside
And will bloom in due time
With the right care
City Peace (140/365)
If you bump into enough people
It changes you
The colors blend
The connections grow
If you looked into a thousand mirrors a day
Imagine what you might notice
If you really looked
Peace is in your reflection
If peace is what you embody