Find the stride

knowing is half the battle.    sometimes i consciously or subconsciously create stories and make grand plans that i then live around.

it is tough for me to be that 'floater in the water' heh... to just accept what comes in each day.   To live in the moment.   sigh, to just be.   Just be.   Then one lives (they say).    It is like running... which I have recently come to enjoy again....    I can be out on a several mile (or km, as they say here) run....    but isn't it funny how it is kinda a known runner's thing (even på norskman!) that the 1st 10 minutes you are 'fighting thru hell' just to keep going.   But if you can make it thru that usually you can settle in and really enjoy the experience.   I have definitely found this to be true --- but perhaps also because I like to start my runs on a slight uphill gradient for some reason....    in any case, back to my point.. I've found on these runs that I can only 'find my stride' where I'm not seeking to adjust or knowing I'm struggling  for short bursts, maybe 20 paces or so, lil more if I'm lucky.   Just so strange --maybe to a perfectionist-- that one can't RUN RIGHT straight outta the box, and every stride.  Every stride, why isn't your form on.   Not that I have that kinda voice, I really enjoy just being outdoors.... but just intriguing to me how difficult in life it is to 'live' (in the moment), as well as on runs, find the stride.

And back to why I even started to write.... it was about heh, forgetting the big master plans that you have consciously or subconsciously set up for yourself, and instead just living today, in the now, as in minute to minute, just being, enjoying, sharing your love with the world.   Smile.

numbers....

if this is true, .. so comical!   phew...   and I wouldn't feel so silly for not knowing mine after 3 yrs.

 "Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds to ever live, chose purposefully not to even memorize his own telephone number. He obviously had enough brain capacity to memorize a short series of numbers, but still, he chose not to. He viewed memorizing these digits as a waste of precious life energy.  Instead, he used this energy to memorize more important things, which lead to revolutionary accomplishments in the field of Physics."

The rest of the post had some good tips to live by, ... Saving Energy for things that Really Matter

can't wait

Time for Madonna -- Die another day

loca - shakira

it's not that serious... thank good no one gets out of here alive

helping others

I really like this post... Elevate Self, Serve Others  and especially the part about helping others.....  it has been hard to offer that while living abroad... but maybe when I get back home, I can do more of this.  I hope.

but, sadly, what has happened instead the last 2 weeks

just be cool, girl....  everything will get done.... just chill and keep working Today, E. Badu

C'mon Baby, just....

Go, go, Go, go....  Common go!

and then summer rewards... lofoten, portugal (sintra, lisboa), cliffs of moher?, croatia?, france?

Dig deep II

You can do it!   How to stay M O T I V A T E D    even when it is nice and sunny outside........      Just a little bit longer....

soothe me Questlove

Goodbye Issac - Questlove

and the Roots how i got over

Valuing, Protecting and Moving Forward with your Dreams

Nice articles on dealing with adversity, being passionate and pursuing your dreams.  Your Nuclear Dreams, by Dominic Soh

Maybe one day I can help with this fight..... so sad to see in 2011 politicians attacking science......  just makes me sick to my stomach.   What purpose does it serve to cut our children off from knowledge?   Science is all about learning about how to understand how things work.   To pluck this from the educational curriculum is completely senseless to me.

Love this..... I come in waves by Ryan Crosby

Prayer flags

Another neat find by my dear friend.  Some locals installing Prayer Flags.   Although I saw many of these strung in the mountains along passes or bridges or precipices, ... I never saw one being installed.  

And, right on, Russell Simmons!   C'mon America, Barack Obama, we can do this!

Yeah....

Madonna, Give it to me feat Pharrell

self discipline, will power, it's time to up our game

do not let your energy be exhausted by negative thoughts.

focus on the pure, the good, kindness, loving, serving others.   be disciplined.   have will power.   be still.    

what you focus on comes to fruition.     every cell in the body aligns......

pluck what is not love, good, unity, strength and let it go from your mind.   do not let anything but positive and love entertain your heart.

step up your discipline.     choose to turn, and turn, and turn, and turn back to the actions and thoughts that you know are good.     take care of yourself and eachother.   let good be enough.


PS: if your current friends do not align, it may be time to make new connections.  support others who are kind and loving toward you.  affirm the good, look for the truth,   choose health, love, good, helping others.

experimenting........

Someone said doing the same thing repeatedly, but expecting different results is insanity.      Or is it human nature?   For whatever reason,  many of us repeat the same silly destructive patterns and yet are totally "surprised" when our expected results do not occur, but instead totally opposite of expected/hoped results......   Oh the wild web we weave.   For me, nothing salacious of course. .....just a recommitment or affirmation again that gee whiz eating healthy, exercising, sleeping and getting work done makes me feel better than the opposite of those actions.

Let me be gentle, I know.....   so I'll end on a favorite or attempt to help spread positivity......    someday I'd like to volunteer to help with sea turtle conservation.

seaturtle.org job board