tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80906312012-02-16T05:30:55.480-10:00Random thoughts from a random personRosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.comBlogger1841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-46773680270097443932011-09-12T14:45:00.000-10:002011-09-12T14:46:19.641-10:00Before I was a Mom I made and ate hot meals. <br />I had unstained clothing. <br />I had quiet conversations on the phone. <br /><br />Before I was a Mom I slept as late as I wanted. <br />And never worried about how late I got into bed. <br />I brushed my hair and my teeth everyday. <br /><br />Before I was Mom I cleaned my house each day. <br />I never tripped over toys or forgot words to lullabies. <br /><br />Before I was a Mom I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous. <br />I never thought about immunizations. <br /><br />Before I was a Mom I had never been puked on, pooped on, spit on, peed on, or pinched by tiny fingers. <br />Before I was a Mom I had complete control of my mind, my thoughts, my body and all my feelings. <br />I slept all night. <br /><br />Before I was a Mom I never held down a screaming child so that doctors could do tests or give shots. <br />I never looked into teary eyes and cried. <br />I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin. <br />I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.<br /><br />Before I was a Mom I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put it down. <br />I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt. <br />I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much. <br />I never knew that I could love someone so much. <br />I never knew I would love being a Mom. <br /><br />Before I was a Mom I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body. <br />I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby. <br />I didn't know that bond between a Mother and her child. <br />I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important. <br /><br />Before I was a Mom I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was OK. <br />I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache or the satisfaction of being a Mom. <br /><br />I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much......<br />......before I was a Mom.<br /><br />...Author Unknown<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-4677368027009744393?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-51972498695729871052011-06-26T08:19:00.001-10:002011-06-26T08:19:39.753-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><h2 style="text-align: center;">Mother Teresa&#39;s <i>Anyway</i> Poem </h2><div style="text-align: center;"><p /><blockquote><p /><p style="text-align: center;">People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;<br /> Forgive them anyway.</p><p /><p style="text-align: center;">If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;<br /> Be kind anyway.</p><p /><p style="text-align: center;">If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;<br /> Succeed anyway.</p><p /><p style="text-align: center;">If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;<br /> Be honest and frank anyway.</p><p /><p style="text-align: center;">What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;<br /> Build anyway.</p><p /><p style="text-align: center;">If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;<br /> Be happy anyway.</p><p /><p style="text-align: center;">The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;<br /> Do good anyway.</p><p /><p style="text-align: center;">Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;<br /> Give the world the best you&#39;ve got anyway.</p><p /><p style="text-align: center;">You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;<br /> It was never between you and them anyway.</p> </blockquote></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-5197249869572987105?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-62468994281459436442010-10-06T16:20:00.001-10:002010-10-06T16:20:30.096-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><b><i>When we say things like &quot;people don&#39;t change&quot; it drives scientist crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It&#39;s always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying. It&#39;s the way people try not to change that&#39;s unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting things be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change that&#39;s up to us. It can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment, we can be born all over again. ~GA</i></b></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-6246899428145943644?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-43397060688291607842010-09-11T04:02:00.001-10:002010-09-11T04:02:14.592-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/reqa930/tPx0eqImnB0k89i3D9qCV53hqfmiQneGq4Jxz8I8KWByR8L1lNzAHW6GveGM/911-3.jpg" width="190" height="235"/> <p><b>We shall never forget<br /> We shall keep this day,<br /> We shall keep the events and the tears<br /> In our minds, our memory and our hearts<br /> and take them with us as we carry on.</b><p /><br /></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-4339706068829160784?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-31316699868629692552010-09-10T15:25:00.001-10:002010-09-10T15:25:56.930-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'>A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE<p />                                   ...one old love<br />                                   she can imagine<br />                                 going back to...<br />                                 and one who reminds<br />                              her how far she has come...<p /><br />A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE<p /><br />                             ...enough money within her<br />                               control to move out and rent a place of her own<br />                               even if she never wants<br />                                   to or needs to...<p /><br />A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE<p /><br />                          .. something perfect to wear if<br />                         the employer or date of her dreams<br />                            wants to see her in an hour...<p /><p />A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE<p />                                .. a youth she&#39;s content<br />                                 to leave behind...<p /> <p />A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE<p />                              ...a past juicy enough that<br />                           she&#39;s looking forward to<br />                                  retelling it in her old age....<p /> <p />A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE<p />                              ...a set of screwdrivers, a<br />                             cordless drill, and a black lace bra...<p /><p />A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE<p />                              ...one friend who always makes<br />                             her laugh... and one who lets her cry...<p /><p />A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE<p />                                   ....a good piece of furniture<br />                           not previously owned by anyone<br />                                else in her family...<p /><p />A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE<p />                            ....eight matching plates, wine<br />                                  glasses with stems, and a recipe<br />                                 for a meal that will make her guests feel honored..<p /><p />A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE<p />                            ...a feeling of control over her destiny...<p /><p />EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW<p /> <br />                                      ...how to fall in  love without<p />                                      losing herself...<p /><br />EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...<p /><br />                                 ...how to quit a job,<br />                                   break up with a lover,<br />                                  and confront a friend<br />                                  without ruining the friendship...<p />                                  and how to change a tire!!!!!!!<p /> <p />EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...<p /><br />                            ....when to try harder ... and<br />                            when to walk away...<p /><p />EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...<p /><br />                             ...that she can&#39;t change the<br />                            length of her calves, the width<br />                          of her hips, or the nature of her<br />                          parents...<p /><br />EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...<p /><br />                           ......that her childhood may not<br />                          have been perfect...but its<br />                           Over...<p /><p />EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...<p /><br />                            ...what she would and wouldn&#39;t<br />                                do for love or more...<p /> <br />EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...<p /><br />                        ..how to live alone... even if<br />                        she doesn&#39;t like it...<p /><p />EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...<p /><br />                              ...whom she can trust,<br />                                   whom she can&#39;t,<br />                                and why she shouldn&#39;t<br />                                take it personally...<p /><br />EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...<p />                                 ...where to go...<br />                                   be it to her best friend&#39;s kitchen table...<br />                                  or a charming inn in the woods...<br />                                            when her soul needs soothing...<p /> <br />EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...<p /><p />                                             .. what she can and can&#39;t<br />                                            accomplish in a day...<br />                                  a month...and a year...</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-3131669986862969255?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-4799912614196296282010-09-10T08:48:00.001-10:002010-09-10T08:48:41.998-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="headerContainer"> <div class="header"> <p /> <div class="navigationContainer"> <p /> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8002.John_Grogan#"><br /></a><div class="search"><form name="headerSearchForm" method="get" action="/search/search"> </form> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p /><br class="clear" /> <p /> <p /> <div style="float: left; margin-right: 2%;"> <div class="quoteText"> <b><i>&quot;A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.&quot; <br /> — <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8002.John_Grogan" class="authorNameRegular">John Grogan</a> (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/14961" class="bookTitleRegular">Marley &amp; Me: Love and Life with the World&#39;s Worst Dog</a>) </i></b></div><b><i><br /></i></b></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-479991261419629628?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-10201299479946626612010-08-26T09:40:00.001-10:002010-08-26T09:40:12.098-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message"><span class="UIStory_Message">&quot;Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. &quot;<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></h3></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-1020129947994662661?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-41125729061297268132010-08-22T19:52:00.001-10:002010-08-22T19:52:09.103-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'>Ask most people what they want out of life and the answer is simple - to be happy. Maybe it&#39;s this expectation though of wanting to be happy that just keeps us from ever getting there. Maybe the more we try to will ourselves to state&#39;s of bliss, the more confused we get - to the point where we don&#39;t recognize ourselves. Instead we just keep smiling - trying to be the happy people we wish we were. Until it eventually hits us, it&#39;s been there all along. Not in our dreams or our hopes but in the known, the comfortable, the familiar.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-4112572906129726813?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-70994011276553368462010-08-04T15:42:00.001-10:002010-08-04T15:42:24.761-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="note_header"><div class="byline"><b>By Rocky La Liberte<p /></b></div></div> <div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"> <div>Here&#39;s just a short list of some of the bills that Republicans have blocked, or attempted to block, since Obama became President:<p /> Senator Franken’s Anti-Rape Amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill - Makes it so that women raped overseas while working for foreign contractors have the right to have their case heard in an American court instead of having their case mediated by the company they work for. Only Republican men voted against this, but it passed.<p /> Benefits for Homeless Veterans- Would have expanded benefits to homeless veterans and homeless veterans with children. Republicans blocked this.<p /> Health Care- Prevents insurance companies from discriminating against you on the basis of &quot;pre-existing conditions&quot;. Requires that insurance companies spend 85 cents of every dollar that you pay on your actual health care. Limits health insurance companies profit margins. Republicans blocked this for months before it finally passed.<p /> Health Care for the 9/11 First Responders who got sick from being at Ground Zero- Would provide billions of dollars in health care to help the 9/11 First Responders who were at Ground Zero on 9/11 and are now sick because of it. Republicans blocked this.<p /> The Jobs Bill- Offsets the payroll tax for 1 year for companies that higher new employees, or people receiving unemployment insurance. Also gives other tax incentives to companies hiring new employees. Republicans attempted to block this. <p /> Small business lending bill- would give LOCAL, community banks access to billions of dollars to loan to small businesses. Republicans blocked this. <p /> Financial reform- Puts stricter regulations on the banks, preventing them from becoming &quot;too big to fail&quot;. Curbs reckless spending practices that caused the banking crisis. Republicans attempted to block this.<p /> Stimulus Bill- Pumped billions of dollars into state and local Governments to prevent us from sinking into a second Great Depression. Republicans opposed this but now want to take credit for the parts of it that we know are successful. <p /> Oil Spill Liability- Raises the liability on what companies can be made to pay to clean up after an oil spill. Republicans blocked this.<p /> Political Ad disclosure bill- Would have required all donors to political campaigns to reveal themselves. Republicans blocked this.<p /> Immigration- Republican suggested comprehensive immigration reform until Obama supported it. Now they&#39;re rapidly opposed to it and even voted against their own legislation. Republicans blocked this.<p /> Unemployment Extension- Would provide additional aid to the millions of Americans still on unemployment who are just trying to support themselves and their familes. Republicans blocked this bill for 8 weeks before it finally passed. Republicans blocked this for 8 weeks before it finally passed.<p /> Fair Pay Act of 2009- Also called the Lily Ledbetter bill. Requires that women receive equal compensation to men for doing the same work. Republicans attempted to block this.<p /> The next time someone tells you that the Republicans care about the American people just give them this list of all the bill Republicans wanted to fail.</div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-7099401127655336846?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-82428687058736168112010-07-16T03:48:00.001-10:002010-07-16T03:48:58.665-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message"><span class="UIIntentionalStory_Names"> </span><span class="UIStory_Message">If you have a wonderful man, who works hard to take care of you, would do anything for you, who makes you laugh, is your best friend, who wants to grow old with you, will always pick you up when you&#39;re down, who is your world and someone that you&#39;re thankful for, then post this to your status and give the good men the <span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">recognition they deserve, because great men are few and far between, and I have one ♥</span></span></h3> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/23119764">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-8242868705873616811?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-38087593622530119602010-06-20T10:18:00.001-10:002010-06-20T10:18:30.110-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'> <p align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;">Scars</p> <p align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;"> </p> <p style="line-height: 150%;">Scars, whether internal or external, are a permanent reminder of a memory.<span style="">  </span>They are a mark of something ugly or painful that has happened in your life.<span style="">  </span>During Easter, one of my youngest cousins was asking how old I really was and Cris had answered, “just count the scars that she has and you will probably be close to her real age.”<span style="">  </span>He was kidding but he made me think about the amount<span style="">  </span>of scars I do have and he’s probably right that it’s close to the amount of years I have had on this earth so far.<span style="">  </span>I have always been accident prone and a klutz and unfortunately I have the battle wounds to show for all my mishaps.<span style="">  </span>But the more I started thinking about my scars, I started realizing that each one had a story behind it and I can remember what I was doing and where I was and how old I was when I earned them. </p> <p style="line-height: 150%;">I have a pretty nasty scar on my right knee that I earned when I was about 5 years old and living in Brooklyn.<span style="">  </span>I was running up and down my grandparents metal cellar door when I tripped on it and sliced my knee.<span style="">  </span>I was trying to hide it from them because I was<span style="">  </span>told time and time again not to run on it or else I would get hurt.<span style="">  </span>Well, they were right but I had to go and find out the hard way.<span style="">  </span>So that has been the same for almost 3o years and counting now…</p> <p style="line-height: 150%;">I have scars on my knees and elbows from being a tomboy in the concrete jungle.<span style="">  </span>I learned to ride a bike real quick when my other options were falling into parked cars, metal grates surrounding lonely trees on the sidewalk, cement, or brick stoops.<span style="">  </span>I either had band-aids all over me or the remnant sticky outlines of band-aids that have fallen off.<span style="">  </span>My pain tolerance was high as a child obviously.</p> <p style="line-height: 150%;">I have a slight very faded scar of ‘BRIAN’ that I etched into my left forearm with a point of a safety pin while in school during my 8^th grade year.<span style="">  </span>I was bored and I had such a crush on some guy named Brian so I thought it would be a romantic thing to do for him.<span style="">  </span>Well, another not so intelligent idea but so very symbolic of my pre-teen years.<span style="">  </span>The sad thing is that I don’t even remember who he is now but at that time I thought he was the only boy I was ever going to love.<span style="">  </span>Ahhh…pre-teen years, such a painful time for most girls.<span style="">  </span>Everything was SOOO end of the world type of drama then.</p> <p style="line-height: 150%;">But I survived my pre-teen years with a lot less physical scars but the beginnings of the internal scars.<span style="">  </span>So onto my teen years…at this point of my life I had outgrown my tomboy phase and also my tomboyish body.<span style="">  </span>I grew up and out and quickly.<span style="">  </span>My hips still have <span style=""> </span>marks from my too rapid growth.<span style="">  </span>Running was different and my balance was much more off kilter because of the weight that I had gained in the breast area so gym now was just an accident zone for me.<span style="">  </span>One major sprained ankle because of my total lack of adapting to my body changes and trying jump over a hurdle.<span style="">  </span>Let’s also not forget that I was also of age to start wearing heels.<span style="">  </span>Yep, that was definitely not a fun learning curve then. A few more bumps and sprains were added to the teen years scar card.</p> <p style="line-height: 150%;">Unfortunately, during these years began my understandings of heartbreak and how that brought about emotional scarring.<span style="">  </span>So now into my 20s….not as much with physical scars during this decade but plenty of emotional scars.<span style="">  </span>Heartbreak, grief and mourning of the deaths of loved ones, disappointment, deep sadness, and yada yada, etc.<span style="">  </span>The emotional scar tissue became quite thick and numbed me from the inside out.</p> <p style="line-height: 150%;">But as time heals all wounds, it also thins and fades out scars.<span style="">  </span>Scars will fade with time but they will always be with you.<span style="">  </span>My 30s so far have made me look at my scars, internal and external, and see them in a different perspective.<span style="">  </span>They are my own personal reminders of what I have been through to be the person that I am today.<span style="">  </span>A stronger person because of them.<span style="">  </span>I wear my scars with pride.<span style="">  </span>Can you say the same?</p> <p style="line-height: 150%;"> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/scars-29">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-3808759362253011960?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-2350267968773002172010-05-24T07:10:00.001-10:002010-05-24T07:10:00.809-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'>When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides <br />Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/from-gift-from-the-sea-by-anne-morrow-lindber-0">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-235026796877300217?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-19219272147438939312010-05-17T06:58:00.001-10:002010-05-17T06:58:23.722-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message"><span class="UIStory_Message">While you SCREAM at your woman, there's a man wishing he could talk softly to her ear... While you HUMILIATE, OFFEND and INSULT her, there's a man flirting with her and reminding her how wonderful she is. While you HURT your woman, there's a man wishing he could make love to her. While you make your women CRY there's a<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> man stealing smiles from her... Post this on your wall if you're against Domestic Violence</span></span></h3> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/18818618">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-1921927214743893931?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-90815176963482363792010-04-24T10:50:00.001-10:002010-04-24T10:50:12.929-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/reqa930/ZIz8qW6mWee0fGKmXUIrkLECssctd7UMXTi2BrjKJWuQLmcJwatf1RGu3gRM/IMG00003.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/reqa930/1UNb85D7p4im3KQ9niVZ928c2PIa0vC0HzabCGSrLOXISXAvkQ0pQfx4akK7/IMG00003.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <p>Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/waiting-for-the-day-that-smudge-realizes-hes">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-9081517696348236379?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-90251715080329268722010-04-24T09:16:00.001-10:002010-04-24T09:16:50.643-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'>Sometimes the past is something you just can&#39;t let go of. And sometimes the past is something we&#39;ll do anything to forget. And sometimes we learn something new about the past that changes everything we know about the present. <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/the-past-127">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-9025171508032926872?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-4331610530175666722010-04-23T18:30:00.001-10:002010-04-23T18:30:39.958-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/reqa930/bO5g4M1L7ewPSBBR1WKHEO5nFLfdwldE5nDscC0XGmlgtc8OLdeqjNLpqwnm/cid_453.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/reqa930/epCgHdLBTsZNiYXSajRmNjHOKG64TKhLUHZtmE2Y64Jw1k3IFQUmnQ6iekiQ/cid_453.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <p>Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/bffs-23">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-433161053017566672?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-57377553530159790032010-04-23T16:09:00.001-10:002010-04-23T16:09:17.899-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/reqa930/dkHrnr3KcCsRKzgcv7zX7j3DJTqP9OnFhNihjmCD9APEFeMGky91dG5pEYec/IMG00001.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/reqa930/qXVUYFK6tYDfSwtus7IujzHQyib31Qpb77jcu45DwfInK7G53iEv8JmtQ3BL/IMG00001.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> <p>Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/img00001jpg-10">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-5737755353015979003?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-27051649466521189522010-03-28T19:57:00.001-10:002010-03-28T19:57:07.548-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'>"The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life."--Sir Hugh Walpole <br />Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/14785833">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-2705164946652118952?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-71723195091386081002010-03-11T03:11:00.001-10:002010-03-11T03:12:00.114-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><strong>&quot;Dare to be yourself in the face of adversity.  Choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience...these are the choices that measure your life.  Travel the path of integrity...for there is never the wrong time to do the right thing.&quot;</strong> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/13195230">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-7172319509138608100?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-20617661255905898532010-02-01T19:50:00.001-10:002010-02-01T19:50:36.664-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7TTKlJ3H4PQ&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7TTKlJ3H4PQ&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TTKlJ3H4PQ&amp;feature=related">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/glitter-in-the-air">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-2061766125590589853?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-13065132487019206692010-01-22T16:19:00.001-10:002010-01-22T16:19:30.172-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8X5_XsFtXtw&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8X5_XsFtXtw&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X5_XsFtXtw&amp;feature=related">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/lean-on-meone-of-my-all-time-favorite-songs">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-1306513248701920669?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-90489670120565804322010-01-18T18:47:00.001-10:002010-01-18T18:47:23.867-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to Target.  Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunate, my wife is like most women - she loves to browse.  Yesterday my<br /> dear wife received the following letter from the local Target.<p />Dear Mrs. Samuel,<p /> Over the past six months, your husband has caused quite a commotion in our store.  We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store.  Our complaints against your husband, Mr. Samuel, are listed below and are documented by our video surveillance cameras.<p /> 1.June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in other people&#39;s carts when they weren&#39;t looking.<p />2.July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.<p />3.July 7: He made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women&#39;s restroom.<p /> 4.July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, &#39;Code 3 in Housewares.  Get on it right away&#39;.  This caused the employee to leave her assigned station and receive a reprimand from her Supervisor that in turn resulted with a union grievance, causing management to lose time and costing the company money..<p /> 5.August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&amp;Ms on layaway.<p />6.August 14: Moved a &#39;CAUTION - WET FLOOR&#39; sign to a carpeted area.<p />7.August 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told the children shoppers he&#39;d invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department to which twenty children obliged..<p /> 8.August 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, &#39;Why can&#39;t you people just leave me alone?&#39;  EMTs were called.<p />9.September 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose.<p /> 10.September 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were.<p />11.October 3: Darted around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the &#39;Mission Impossible&#39; theme.<p /> 12.October 6: In the auto department, he practiced his &#39;Madonna look&#39; by using different sizes of funnels.<p />13.October 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled &#39;PICK ME! PICK ME!&#39;<p /> 14.October 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal position and screamed &#39;OH NO! IT&#39;S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!&#39;<p />And last, but certainly not least:<p />15.October 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, &#39;Hey! There&#39;s no toilet paper in here.&#39;  One of the clerks passed out..<br /> </span> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/funniest-target-story-ive-heard">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-9048967012056580432?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-43757920018752357132010-01-18T11:45:00.001-10:002010-01-18T11:45:46.233-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">Martin Luther King, Jr.</p> <p align="center"><b><i>&quot;I Have a Dream&quot;</i></b></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.</p> <p align="center"> <img src="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/images/mlkihaveadreamgogo.jpeg" border="0" height="444" width="300" /></p> <p align="center"> <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/weEb9S6YyQs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param></param></param></object> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="http://www.evgondemand.com/ppv_ar.html"> Video Purchase</a></p> <p> <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/MLKDream/MLKDream_64kb.mp3"> Audio mp3 of Address</a></p> <p> </p><p align="center"> </p><div></div> <p> </p><p> <object height="43" classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="211"> <param name="URL" value="http://www.archive.org/download/MLKDream/MLKDream_64kb.mp3" /> <param name="rate" value="1" /> <param name="balance" value="0" /> <param name="currentPosition" value="0" /> <param name="defaultFrame" value="" /> <param name="playCount" value="1" /> <param name="autoStart" value="0" /> <param name="currentMarker" value="0" /> <param name="invokeURLs" value="0" /> <param name="baseURL" value="" /> <param name="volume" value="50" /> <param name="mute" value="0" /> <param name="uiMode" value="full" /> <param name="stretchToFit" value="0" /> <param name="windowlessVideo" value="-1" /> <param name="enabled" value="-1" /> <param name="enableContextMenu" value="-1" /> <param name="fullScreen" value="0" /> <param name="SAMIStyle" value="" /> <param name="SAMILang" value="" /> <param name="SAMIFilename" value="" /> <param name="captioningID" value="" /> <param name="enableErrorDialogs" value="-1" /> </param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></object> </p><p> </p><p align="left"> [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio. (2)]</p> <p align="left">I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.</p> <p align="left">Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.</p> <p align="left">But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we&#39;ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.</p> <p align="left">In a sense we&#39;ve come to our nation&#39;s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the &quot;unalienable Rights&quot; of &quot;Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.&quot; It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked &quot;insufficient funds.&quot;</p> <p align="left">But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we&#39;ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.</p> <p align="left">We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God&#39;s children.</p> <p align="left">It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro&#39;s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.</p> <p align="left">But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.</p> <p align="left">The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. </p> <p align="left">We cannot walk alone.</p> <p align="left">And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.</p> <p align="left">We cannot turn back.</p> <p align="left">There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, &quot;When will you be satisfied?&quot; We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro&#39;s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: &quot;For Whites Only.&quot; We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until &quot;justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.&quot;¹</p> <p align="left">I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. </p> <p align="left">Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.</p> <p align="left">And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.</p> <p align="left">I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: &quot;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.&quot;</p> <p align="left">I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.</p> <p align="left">I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.</p> <p align="left">I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. </p> <p align="left">I have a <em>dream</em> today!</p> <p align="left">I have a dream that one day, <em style="font-style: normal;">d</em><span style="font-style: normal;"><em style="font-style: normal;">o</em></span>wn in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of &quot;interposition&quot; and &quot;nullification&quot; -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.</p> <p align="left">I have a <em>dream</em> today!</p> <p align="left">I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; &quot;and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.&quot;²</p> <p align="left">This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.</p> <p align="left">With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.</p> <p align="left">And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God&#39;s children will be able to sing with new meaning:</p> <blockquote> <p align="left"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;">My country &#39;tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. </span></p> <p align="left"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;">Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim&#39;s pride, </span></p> <p align="left"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;">From every mountainside, let freedom ring! </span></p> </blockquote> <p align="left">And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.</p> <p align="left">And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.</p> <blockquote> <p align="left">Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.</p> <p align="left">Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. </p> <p align="left">Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.</p> <p align="left">Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.</p> </blockquote> <p align="left">But not only that:</p> <blockquote> <p align="left">Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.</p> <p align="left">Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.</p> <p align="left">Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.</p> <p align="left">From every mountainside, let freedom ring.</p> </blockquote> <p align="left">And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when <em>all</em> of God&#39;s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:</p> <p align="left">                <i>Free at last! Free at last!</i></p> <p align="left"><i>                Thank </i><em>God</em><i> Almighty, we are free at last!</i>^{<span style="font-family: Arial;">3</span>}</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/martin-luther-king-jr-i-have-a-dream-speech">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-4375792001875235713?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-86665189747860498392010-01-17T04:06:00.001-10:002010-01-17T04:06:04.575-10:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/reqa930/af0PWG6SUCI3FPwARBZSkztwEtHwtXDypVHoLVd0Lir8OZpiAY3Dfxyw0hCw/7921_1145320235758_1310076445_.jpg" width="453" height="604"/> <p>Now this is what I call Classy Trashy and she&#39;s available guys ; - )<p /><br /></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/for-all-the-available-single-men-in-southwest">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-8666518974786049839?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-78291965628057121392009-12-30T17:10:00.001-10:002009-12-30T17:10:43.967-10:00<i>On December 31, 2009, we have a Blue Moon Lunar Eclipse. This is the most important New Years Eve we have ever been gifted in a long time. It asks us to ‘flash forward’ into the next 2 years to see what we can see. No matter how much you do not believe prophecy from time and earth, it will still affect your energy field and your choices. <p />This New Years Eve 2009 create an ‘I AM TEMPLATE’, an energetic road map into the next 2 years. Command the energies into a direction that serves the better good on all levels of your life. Ask the Light/Angels/God/ to release what still pushes your buttons and pulls your strings. Release the pettiness between you and others, the green-eyed energy that sucks your light. Release the anger that drains you of your strength, just keeping it alive. Release the expectations you have of others, as they ride their own horse of a different color.<p />The I AM TEMPLATE consists of an eternal circle. First, draw the large circle repeating the words I LIVE IN A PLACE OF PLENTY. 2ND On the inside of the circle place everything you plan on creating in the next 2 yrs. ALL OF YOUR DREAMS ASPIRATIONS, WANTS, NEEDS, AS WELL AS WHAT YOU WANT FOR THE PLANET. On the outside of the Circle write everything you are CHOOSING to RELEASE. Release all that does not serve your highest good any longer. Be specific in those releases. Then on New Years Eve bless the ‘I AM TEMPLATE’ and then burn it, releasing its ashes like a sacred prayer on smoke.<p />Dec 31, 2009: Partial Lunar Eclipse is numerically a 7/11 (#9) vibration<p />Cosmic and personal completion! Entering the next level of love of heart, of soul and service to the planetary evolution through healing self. Free-falling from the height of the nine into the next level of Light. Entry and exits all in the same breath. A quantum leap into unknown gifts comes through the nine. Are you ready to see and be more than you are at this minute of time? Nine is the photo finish on the heavenly line of multiple choices. If you believe you have won, you have. Your New Years resolutions on 12/31/2009 will be more powerful than a super nova. Their vibration will surpass space and time and land at the feet of God. Be careful what you pray for, as it will come to past.</i> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/happy-blue-moon-lunar-eclipse-new-year">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-7829196562805712139?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-67654649039810431182009-12-13T20:32:00.001-10:002009-12-13T20:32:33.766-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SUFSB2plwzM&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SUFSB2plwzM&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUFSB2plwzM">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/amber-is-the-color-of-your-energy">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-6765464903981043118?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-79773438538271361962009-12-01T00:12:00.001-10:002009-12-01T00:12:09.886-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wzrN7zJHFNI&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wzrN7zJHFNI&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrN7zJHFNI">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/give-it-up-to-me">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-7977343853827136196?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-70178083977134057082009-12-01T00:09:00.001-10:002009-12-01T00:09:52.703-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <embed name="movie_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/watch-vfl135124.swf" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="status=fail&amp;el=profilepage&amp;showinfo=0&amp;ss=1&amp;video_id=W2ktaFohbKQ&amp;sk=6vMOT2iInenJxUgHhiSs5O8oiZxfWlabR&amp;iurl=http%3A//i4.ytimg.com/vi/W2ktaFohbKQ/default.jpg&amp;reason=This+is+a+private+video.+If+you+have+been+sent+this+video%2C+please+make+sure+you+accept+the+sender%27s+friend+request.&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;keywords=shakira%2Clil%2Cwayne%2Cgive%2Cit%2Cup%2Cto%2Cme%2CGIUTM%2Cshe%2Cwolf%2Csophie%2Cmuller&amp;errorcode=150&amp;showsearch=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;eurl=http://www.youtube.com/user/shakira&amp;playnext=0&amp;ad_eurl=http://www.youtube.com/user/shakira&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;jsapicallback=onChannelPlayerReady" allowscriptaccess="always" height="300" wmode="opaque" quality="high" width="500" style="" /><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/shakira#p/a/f/0/wWp436JqB6c">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></embed></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/give-it-up-to-me">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-7017808397713405708?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-80941202387104916992009-11-29T15:30:00.001-10:002009-11-29T15:30:30.117-10:00<i><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I rescued a human today.</span><p /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Her eyes met mine as she walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her need instantly and knew I had to help her. I wagged my tail, not too exuberantly, so she wouldn&#39;t be afraid.</span><p /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">As she stopped at my kennel I blocked her view from a little accident I had in the back of my cage. I didn&#39;t want her to know that I hadn&#39;t been walked today. Sometimes the shelter keepers get too busy and I didn&#39;t want her to think poorly of them.</span><p /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">As she read my kennel card I hoped that she wouldn&#39;t feel sad about my past. I only have the future to look forward to and want to make a difference in someone&#39;s life. She got down on her knees and made little kissy sounds at me.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I shoved my shoulder and side of my head up against the bars to comfort her.</span><p /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Gentle fingertips caressed my neck; she was desperate for companionship. A tear fell down her cheek and I raised my paw to assure her that all would be well.</span><p /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Soon my kennel door opened and her smile was so bright that I instantly jumped into her arms. I would promise to keep her safe. I would promise to always be by her side. I would promise to do everything I could to see that radiant smile and sparkle in her eyes. I was so fortunate that she came down my corridor. So many more are out there who haven&#39;t walked the corridors. So many more to be saved. At least I could save one.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;" /> </i><br />I rescued a human today. <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/i-rescued-a-human-today-0">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-8094120238710491699?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-91853824933065800972009-11-26T08:55:00.001-10:002009-11-26T08:55:52.592-10:00<table border="0" width="525"><tr><td align="center"><strong>Reverend</strong><br /> <strong>Rosalinda Quinn-Arreza</strong><br /> <strong>Thursday the 26th of November 2009</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img height="15" width="525" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="525"> <span><strong>NOTE: PLEASE READ AND RETAIN THIS DOCUMENT FOR YOUR RECORDS.</strong></span> <p><br /> Congratulations! You are now a legally ordained minister for life, though you may relinquish your credentials at any time. AS OF Thursday the 26th of November 2009 YOU HAVE BECOME A MEMBER OF THE PRESTIGIOUS CLERGY. You have earned a title worthy of admiration and respect.</p> <p><em>Let it be known on this date that in accordance with the laws of the Universal Life Church Monastery, as ordaining officer, I, Brother Martin, do ordain you into our ministry. From this day forward, you are entitled to all of the rights of an ordained minister. You have the authority to perform marriages, baptisms, and all other ceremonies of the church. You are an independent minister of this church. This is a position that carries with it a burden of responsibility; please respect others and comply with the laws of the land.</em></p></td></tr></table> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/im-an-ordained-minister-just-call-me-reverend">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-9185382493306580097?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-82637936471722916832009-11-24T20:11:00.001-10:002009-11-24T20:11:01.760-10:00<div class="quotecontent" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"><b><i>They say patience is a virtue and like most virtues we never know if we posses it until it’s been tested. If we’re lucky we have someone to take that test with us. And if we can pass that test, if we can wait long enough we might just find the reward greater than we ever expected. The funny thing about waiting is it always seems the more we want something, the longer we have to wait for it. Deciding to wait out the long haul shouldn’t be taken lightly but it’s an easier decision to live with than others.</i></b></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/patience-84">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-8263793647172291683?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-60734705240267252112009-11-23T11:31:00.001-10:002009-11-23T11:31:35.230-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/clq01TXQR0s&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/clq01TXQR0s&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clq01TXQR0s">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/johnny-cash-hurt-original-done-by-trent-rezno">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-6073470524026725211?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-87711292588552505972009-11-21T22:11:00.001-10:002009-11-21T22:11:42.225-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hVZaA2s7xYI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hVZaA2s7xYI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500" /></embed></param></param></param></param></object><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZaA2s7xYI">youtube.com</a></div> This is dedicated to SJW and SWD. I wish you happiness. <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/already-gone">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-8771129258855250597?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-57625959635643009582009-11-16T19:38:00.001-10:002009-11-16T19:38:03.500-10:00Sometimes when we’re quiet the answers we’ve been waiting for find their way to us. We can’t always use words to find our way through the darkness. Sometime all you can hope for is some good conversation while you are figuring it all out. And maybe when you have no words left at all, you’re right where you need to be. Because sometimes, it’s not until you stop talking that things really start.  A.H. <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/words-375">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-5762595963564300958?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-26247052636878929712009-11-06T08:05:00.001-10:002009-11-06T08:05:43.766-10:00&quot;Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being &quot;in love&quot; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.&quot; <br /><i>-St. Augustine</i> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/what-is-love-16">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-2624705263687892971?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-49816030579660515732009-10-27T18:13:00.001-10:002009-10-27T18:13:40.907-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/muP9eH2p2PI&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param 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href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/lucky-jason-mraz-featuring-colbie-caillat-off">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-4508545847305716206?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-45322662536468018812009-10-19T19:16:00.001-10:002009-10-19T19:16:24.613-10:00Michael almost got me a little teary eyed over this card he gave me...almost :- )   <p /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">&quot;In a world that does its best </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">to make us a little fuzzy </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">around the edges,</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">some people still manage</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">to have bold outlines.</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">They know who they are,</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">what they&#39;re about,</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">what they alone can give.</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">And just like them,</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">the gifts they share are bold,</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">bright, beautiful.</span></b></div> <p /> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">You&#39;re someone who doesn&#39;t compromise</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">on being the person only you can be,</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">someone who doesn&#39;t hold back</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">on sharing the gifts only you can give.</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">And especially today,</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I, for one, just want to say</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">thank you, thank you, thank you...</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I&#39;m thankful for the gift of you.&quot;</span></b></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/and-this-is-why-i-love-my-michael">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-4532266253646801881?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-11804594960020040402009-10-15T19:20:00.001-10:002009-10-15T19:20:58.785-10:00<h4>My Organic Chemistry professor made an intriguing comment tonight in class about The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism while we were talking about pKa&#39;s, electrophiles, and nucleophiles.  Well, it intrigued me enough to google it and read a little more about these Noble Truths he was talking about.  So I figured I would share what I found out about The Four Noble Truths through Wikipedia.</h4> (sidenote: how did I survive before Google and Wikipedia?! ha ha)<p /><h4><span class="mw-headline">The Four Noble Truths</span></h4> <div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths" title="Four Noble Truths">Four Noble Truths</a></div> <p>According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Tipitaka" class="mw-redirect" title="Pali Tipitaka">Pali Tipitaka</a>, the Four Noble Truths were the first teaching of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" title="Gautama Buddha">Gautama Buddha</a> after attaining Nirvana.<sup class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#cite_note-30"><span>[</span>31<span>]</span></a></sup> They are sometimes considered as containing the essence of the Buddha&#39;s teachings and are presented in the manner of a medical diagnosis and remedial prescription – a style common at that time:</p> <ol><li>Life as we know it ultimately is or leads to suffering/uneasiness (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukkha" title="Dukkha">dukkha</a>) in one way or another.</li><li>Suffering is caused by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanha" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanha">craving</a> or attachments to worldly pleasures of all kinds. This is often expressed as a deluded clinging to a certain sense of existence, to selfhood, or to the things or phenomena that we consider the cause of happiness or unhappiness.</li><li>Suffering ends when craving ends, when one is freed from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_%28philosophy%29" title="Desire (philosophy)">desire</a>. This is achieved by eliminating all delusion, thereby reaching a liberated state of Enlightenment (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi" title="Bodhi">bodhi</a>);</li> <li>Reaching this liberated state is achieved by following the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noble_Eightfold_Path" class="mw-redirect" title="The Noble Eightfold Path">path</a> laid out by the Buddha.</li></ol> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/the-four-noble-truths">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-1180459496002004040?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-49836370764135589662009-10-10T22:18:00.001-10:002009-10-10T22:18:38.502-10:00<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><div style="height: 1870px;"><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">Please Hear What I&#39;m Not Saying<br /> </div></div><p /><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               Don&#39;t be fooled by me.<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               Don&#39;t be fooled by the face I wear<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               for I wear a mask, a thousand masks,<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               masks that I&#39;m afraid to take off,<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               and none of them is me.<br /> </div></div><p /><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               Pretending is an art that&#39;s second nature with me,<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               but don&#39;t be fooled,<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               for God&#39;s sake don&#39;t be fooled.<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               I give you the impression that I&#39;m secure,<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               that all is sunny and unruffled with me, within as well<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">                    as without,<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               that confidence is my name and coolness my game,<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               that the water&#39;s calm and I&#39;m in command<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               and that I need no one,<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               but don&#39;t believe me.<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               My surface may seem smooth but my surface is my mask,<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><div style="font-size: small;">               ever-varying and ever-concealing.<br /> </div></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               Beneath lies no complacence.<br /> </span></div></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               Beneath lies confusion, and fear, and aloneness.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               But I hide this.  I don&#39;t want anybody to know it.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I panic at the thought of my weakness exposed.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               That&#39;s why I frantically create a mask to hide behind,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               a nonchalant sophisticated facade,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               to help me pretend,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               to shield me from the glance that knows.<br /> </span></div><p /><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               But such a glance is precisely my salvation, my only hope,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               and I know it.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               That is, if it&#39;s followed by acceptance,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               if it&#39;s followed by love.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               It&#39;s the only thing that can liberate me from myself,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               from my own self-built prison walls,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               from the barriers I so painstakingly erect.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               It&#39;s the only thing that will assure me<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               of what I can&#39;t assure myself,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               that I&#39;m really worth something.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               But I don&#39;t tell you this.  I don&#39;t dare to, I&#39;m afraid to.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I&#39;m afraid your glance will not be followed by acceptance,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               will not be followed by love.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I&#39;m afraid you&#39;ll think less of me,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               that you&#39;ll laugh, and your laugh would kill me.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I&#39;m afraid that deep-down I&#39;m nothing<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               and that you will see this and reject me.<br /> </span></div><p /><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               So I play my game, my desperate pretending game,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               with a facade of assurance without<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               and a trembling child within.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               So begins the glittering but empty parade of masks,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               and my life becomes a front.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><img class="lpxtab" src="http://www.poetrybycharlescfinn.com/tp.gif" border="0" height="13" alt="" style="height: 1em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial;" width="30" /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><img class="lpxtab" src="http://www.poetrybycharlescfinn.com/tp.gif" border="0" height="13" alt="" style="height: 1em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial;" width="30" /> I idly chatter to you in the suave tones of surface talk.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I tell you everything that&#39;s really nothing,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               and nothing of what&#39;s everything,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               of what&#39;s crying within me.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               So when I&#39;m going through my routine<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               do not be fooled by what I&#39;m saying.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               Please listen carefully and try to hear what I&#39;m not saying,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               what I&#39;d like to be able to say,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               what for survival I need to say,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               but what I can&#39;t say.<br /> </span></div><p /><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I don&#39;t like hiding.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I don&#39;t like playing superficial phony games.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I want to stop playing them.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I want to be genuine and spontaneous and me<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               but you&#39;ve got to help me.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               You&#39;ve got to hold out your hand<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               even when that&#39;s the last thing I seem to want.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               Only you can wipe away from my eyes<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               the blank stare of the breathing dead.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               Only you can call me into aliveness.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               Each time you&#39;re kind, and gentle, and encouraging,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               each time you try to understand because you really care,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               my heart begins to grow wings--<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               very small wings,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               very feeble wings,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               but wings!<br /> </span></div><p /><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               With your power to touch me into feeling<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               you can breathe life into me.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I want you to know that.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I want you to know how important you are to me,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               how you can be a creator--an honest-to-God creator--<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               of the person that is me<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               if you choose to.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               You alone can break down the wall behind which I tremble,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               you alone can remove my mask,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               you alone can release me from my shadow-world of panic,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               from my lonely prison,<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               if you choose to.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               Please choose to.<br /> </span></div><p /><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               Do not pass me by.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               It will not be easy for you.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               A long conviction of worthlessness builds strong walls.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               The nearer you approach to me<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               the blinder I may strike back.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               It&#39;s irrational, but despite what the books say about man<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               often I am irrational.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I fight against the very thing I cry out for.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               But I am told that love is stronger than strong walls<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               and in this lies my hope.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               Please try to beat down those walls<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               with firm hands but with gentle hands<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               for a child is very sensitive.<br /> </span></div><p /><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               Who am I, you may wonder?<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               I am someone you know very well.<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               For I am every man you meet<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">               and I am every woman you meet.<br /> </span></div><p /><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">                                                                     Charles C. Finn<br /> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;">                                                      </span><span style="font-size: small;"><img class="lpxtab" src="http://www.poetrybycharlescfinn.com/tp.gif" border="0" height="13" alt="" style="height: 1em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial;" width="30" /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><img class="lpxtab" src="http://www.poetrybycharlescfinn.com/tp.gif" border="0" height="13" alt="" style="height: 1em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial;" width="30" />September 1966</span></div> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/please-hear-what-im-not-saying">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div 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href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/its-time-to-turn-off-the-lightgnight-and-swee">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-5216810992386588627?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-58352474273179921502009-09-15T18:20:00.001-10:002009-09-15T18:20:47.753-10:00When I was in elementary school, I had to memorize this poem. And after more than 2 decades later, it is still my favorite.... The Road not Taken Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood <br />and sorry I could not travel both <br />And be one traveler, long I stood <br />and looked down one as far as I could <br />to where it bent in the under growth; Then took the other, as just as fair, <br />and having perhaps the better claim <br />because it was grassy and wanted wear; <br />though as for that, the passing there <br />had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally laying leaves no feet had trodden black. <br />Oh, I kept the first for another day! <br />Yet knowing how way leads on to way, <br />I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh <br />Somewhere ages and ages hence: <br />Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,and that has made all the difference. <br />Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/my-favorite-poem-1">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-5835247427317992150?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-73147686885566317052009-09-12T20:20:00.001-10:002009-09-12T20:20:53.037-10:00"We all remember the bed time stories of our childhood. The shoe fit Cinderella, the frog was turned into a prince, sleeping beauty was awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales. The stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories. The ones that start in dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. The nightmares always seem to become the reality" <br />Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/fairy-tale-reality">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-7314768688556631705?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-3377079931252845852009-09-09T17:43:00.001-10:002009-09-09T17:43:22.646-10:00I woke up this morning not feeling right in the world. It's a feeling I always try to run and hide from. I am usually successful most days but today it caught me off guard. It hit me at my most vulnerable time of the day. It's that time when my brain hasn't started processing busy thoughts yet to sidetrack any emotions that I have had kept hidden all these years. This morning my brain just wasn't fast enough to do it's job as gate keeper. As I got flooded with past regrets, painful memories, and heartbreaking sadness, I tried to take a deep breathe which turned into a heart wrenching sob. Finally my brain started fighting back with logical and rational thoughts. It did win the battle for today but there will be another weak moment of the gate keeper and I will get attacked again. And maybe that next time my brain won't win the battle against my heart. Would my life be better served if my heart became the gate keeper of my thoughts instead of my brain? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/gate-keeper-0">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-337707993125284585?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-66958780211815039032009-09-07T18:49:00.001-10:002009-09-07T18:49:24.146-10:00"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime." -Dale Carnegie. (thanks @THEezrunner) <br />Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/3617417">life as i see it and then some</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-6695878021181503903?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-83147277166296875502009-08-11T12:31:00.001-10:002009-08-11T12:31:01.251-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">“<a href="/quotation/i-am-me-in-all-the-world-there-is-no-one-else/349826.html" class="sqq">I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and <b>loving</b> to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.</a>”</blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/loving/3.html">thinkexist.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/i-am-me-5">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-8314727716629687550?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-46365271347468912322009-08-10T09:07:00.001-10:002009-08-10T09:07:14.590-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dRBHBJlVijQ&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dRBHBJlVijQ&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRBHBJlVijQ">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/blessed-union-of-souls-i-believe">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-4636527134746891232?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-71376395381477710472009-08-07T19:03:00.001-10:002009-08-07T19:04:00.005-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fgWFxFg7-GU&hl=en&fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fgWFxFg7-GU&hl=en&fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgWFxFg7-GU">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/playing-for-changesong-around-the-world">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-7137639538147771047?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-47843368081330270172009-08-07T06:16:00.001-10:002009-08-07T06:16:09.695-10:00<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1px;"><table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(43, 46, 53); padding-top: 5px;"> <span style="font-size: 13px;">Dear Rosalinda,</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Here is your horoscope for</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Friday, August 7:</span></td></tr><tr><td style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-top: 20px;"> Try to just kick back and enjoy the smaller, sweeter aspects of life today -- there&#39;s no need to panic over the big picture! It&#39;s a good idea for you to blow off any major appointments for a few days. </td></tr></table> </span> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/sounds-like-a-great-idea">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-4784336808133027017?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-1059642974797877932009-08-05T19:03:00.001-10:002009-08-05T19:03:20.761-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><tr><td class="sqtdq">“A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.”</td></tr><tr><td><span class="sqc" style="float: right;"><img src="/i/sq/c1.gif" height="15" alt="" width="13" />&nbsp;<a href="/quotes/sent-by/firefly047724/" class="sqc">firefly047724</a></span><p style="padding-top: 3px;"></p></td></tr></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotes/meredith_grey/2.html">thinkexist.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/fear-102">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-105964297479787793?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' 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A highly attractive personality and the need to be in the limelight but yet are not overly social and the need to spend time alone. You have perfectionist tendencies which show in every area of your life. You have extremely high standards for yourself and those around you. Sometimes your need for perfection can lead you to become obsessive compulsive. You are an over achiever due to your insecurities and viewed as highly successful. You have an intense personality capable of great achievements but are very indecisive and can take years to make a decision. You are emotionally complex, a cool exterior that masks your inner turmoil. You have a biting sense of humor and wry wit that you express in irony and sarcasm. You are sexually intense but have a hard time sharing your feelings at a deep level. Strengths: Attractive – Exacting – Cool Weaknesses: Indecisive – Scathing – Repressed</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/whatdoesthewdgumzh/quiz/results">apps.facebook.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/what-does-the-week-you-were-born-say-about-yo">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-1266057295056802617?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-23655820492973918462009-08-02T08:10:00.001-10:002009-08-02T08:10:07.971-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f6pvm9Dcjzo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f6pvm9Dcjzo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6pvm9Dcjzo">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/let-me-be-myself">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-2365582049297391846?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-4297232655858547122009-07-31T07:15:00.001-10:002009-07-31T07:15:57.717-10:00<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">&quot;I will be helped by the Spirit in consciously controlling my strong independent streak, so that my unconventionality will always manifest as ingenuity in thought and action, rather than reckless or self-righteous behavior. I will slow down my pace so that I may allow myself sufficient time to reflect and receive guidance of the most suitable direction for me to take at a given time.&quot;<p /> <br /></span></b></i> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/my-new-affirmation">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-429723265585854712?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-88370028995699027402009-07-28T18:38:00.001-10:002009-07-28T18:38:16.801-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KQb79MkFImg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" 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/></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fjlkyd0RLwA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjlkyd0RLwA&amp;feature=related">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/johnny-utah-stars-at-home-music-video-fuss-vi">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-7339644049998623742?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-67292045651955636912009-07-23T20:14:00.001-10:002009-07-23T20:14:07.549-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><div class="title">The Illusion of the Ego </div> <div class="bodytext"> By Remez Sasson<br /> <p>Who are you? How would you describe yourself? If someone calls your name, would you turn your head to see who called you? Are you the name that was called, or is it just a way to refer to you? What if you changed your name, would you still be the same person? </p> <p>You change the clothes you wear. You change your hairdo, and may dye your hair sometimes. Does this change who you are? </p> <p>You change your job, car, house, but yet you still are the same one. These are outside changes. The "inner you" never changes. Most people consider their possessions, dress, name, job etc, as being an inseparable part of themselves. If something of theirs is broken or lost they feel as if they have lost a part of themselves. This is the ego at work.</p> <p>The ego is the erroneous identification of the limitless spirit with the physical body, the emotions and thoughts. The perfect homogenous spirit expresses itself in the world through these three, and identifies itself with them. </p> <p>The ego is not an independent entity. It is just the union of the spirit with the other three components, the body, emotions and thoughts. According to the philosophy of nonduality, these components, except the spirit, are not independent and constant, and therefore are not real. They are the products of the mind. </p> <p>The spirit infuses them with life and expresses itself through them. The identification of the spirit with this trio is so strong that hardly anyone notices this erroneous identification. The spirit is free, perfect and independent. The body, thoughts and feelings are temporary and dependent on the spirit. This mixture is the cause of fear, desire, misunderstanding, anger and conflicts in the world.</p> <p>When talking about the spirit I don't mean a particular soul, but the True Essence, the One vast and limitless Spirit, which is beyond every manifestation. </p> <p>Each ego unit considers itself as real, and desires to survive and gain power over the other egos. This leads to clashes between them. Each one is shackled to its belief system, thoughts and ideas, and will do everything to defend them.</p> <p>People also feel being a part of, and identify with the larger ego of family, workplace, neighborhood, football or basketball team, political party, city, country, religion etc. They identify with a thought, an idea or a common cause, and join together, sometimes against other groups carrying a different set of thoughts.</p> <p>Look what happens at sport contests. If you support one sport team, and your team loses you get depressed. If it wins you get happy. The same thing happens with political parties or with other kinds of groups.</p> <p>These units sometimes fight with each other, everyone believing they are right and the other party wrong. Isn't it a bit funny? If we consider that the Spirit is one, but manifests in myriads of forms, why then should we identify with one particular and temporary form? What if we become aware of this Spirit, and shift our awareness into it? Would we stay the same, or will we rise above the ego? </p> <p>The ego is dependent on the thoughts that the mind thinks. These thoughts evoke feelings and desires, which evoke action. If a desire cannot be fulfilled, anger, unhappiness or hostility arises. </p> <p>Believing we are this ego, each one of us enacts the role of a specific actor on the stage of life. This ego is the mask hiding the real Spirit that we are. Identification with the role we play makes us forget who we really are, and go on thinking we are this or that.</p> <p>Forgetting our true essence is due to seeing through the eyes of the ego. This is the reason for suffering, unhappiness, depression, anger, conflicts, lack of satisfaction and every other negative feeling. But these negative feelings and situations are sometime the reason for the awakening of the desire to find who we really are, to come home and to return to what we really are - The Pure Spirit.</p> </div> <p /><p /></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000088.htm">successconsciousness.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/the-illusion-of-the-ego">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-6729204565195563691?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-14542803381141835992009-07-23T14:13:00.001-10:002009-07-23T14:13:03.232-10:00It is a universal phenomenon that something that brings about randomness is more likely to occur than something that brings about order.... <br />Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/thermodynamics">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-1454280338114183599?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-4931433220253085602009-07-22T19:59:00.001-10:002009-07-22T19:59:56.381-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bqsioVya8xE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bqsioVya8xE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&amp;v=bqsioVya8xE&amp;ytsession=nH74tCQq7L_r92UWhB_fywtc7q_v_rm4M01NpC5KSeMPJkgqG8UhF6hsv2wtnqFvzI0ApM1Vl7B1JWEA6dnrjWyiAV17IWR0-CCM_tRWNCBXujuWUZxwiLb4s_d8MhvJwPTF5vadbkMZ20vVuKFbjizDprwKNfuJcAi9BLzr5zayNE3bgzhFgafmHN2h50y0ki4lAfDMwOOlTGEg8hG_vWQOwgyEd0Xy_bBRmSvLGV9mvvXY3_ybRrmQuLlRqLpsRhXHnA5KA1-A6ElS3uJX20035v3mL0g2qftydV73iRHAzNCTHKrJqb99emVqcaFl7iDDW38XW4V-C7UVu0ujZbBei1xrO5UJyHM-MDR2BMU">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/dedicated-to-all-my-loved-ones-that-i-have-lo">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-493143322025308560?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-66676907349008584602009-07-22T08:19:00.003-10:002009-07-22T08:19:59.969-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2vEk_Ra_Clc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2vEk_Ra_Clc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vEk_Ra_Clc">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/i-always-liked-this-songinteresting-with-beyo-0">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-6667690734900858460?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-2558522065601267232009-07-20T20:52:00.001-10:002009-07-20T20:52:33.865-10:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(20, 28, 41);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for </i></b></span><span class="IL_SPAN"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>the future</i></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>, trying to predict </i></b></span><span class="IL_SPAN"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>the future</i></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But </i></b></span><span class="IL_SPAN"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>the future</i></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i> is always changing. </i></b></span><span class="IL_SPAN"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The future</i></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i> is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. </i></b></span><span class="IL_SPAN"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The future</i></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i> is never the way we imagined it.</i></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /> GA<br /></i></b></span> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/future-199">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-255852206560126723?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-56942438788263100262009-07-20T20:28:00.001-10:002009-07-20T20:28:06.049-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> 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href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/seether-broken-feat-amy-lee-official-video">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-2392266306186796392?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-69572272515562530792009-07-19T18:30:00.001-10:002009-07-19T18:30:47.183-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><h2 class="dialog_title"><span>You are Blue! </span></h2><div class="dialog_content"><div class="dialog_body"> <div class="result"> <div class="image"><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/quizmonster_production/icons/6282565/DP27_BlueOcean_HalfMoonBay_profile.jpg" height="100" alt="Dp27_blueocean_halfmoonbay_profile" width="133" /></div> <p class="large"> You are blue! You are a deep, sensitive dreamer. You are usually laid back and calm, though, like an ocean, you can kick up a good storm, too! You are probably a daydreamer, who has his/her head in the clouds. You love spending time with your friends, and probably just go with whatever they want to do (you're a go with the flow type of person, just like water!). You are emotionally inclined - unlike reds, who feel passionately and intensely, you feel things deeply and strongly. You are extremely loyal, and your friends can always count on you to be there for them. Blues are almost always very intelligent, and they strive for perfection in many areas. You may tend to beat yourself up for your imperfections. Other people admire you and strive to be like you, but you probably have a hard time understanding why. You can be light and fun at times, and other times deep and introverted. It just depends on your mood. Sometimes you throw people off with your random changes in disposition, but your friends love you anyways. You can be a very wise, intellectual person, but you have to pull yourself up out of your own thoughts first! You, in a nutshell: Deep, emotional, wise, loyal, slightly moody, feeling, sensitive, supportive, intelligent. BLUE!</p></div></div></div></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/whichcolorbefyzxtk/quiz/results">apps.facebook.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/which-color-best-suits-your-personality-on-fa">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-6957227251556253079?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-91185399657979602032009-07-19T16:34:00.001-10:002009-07-19T16:34:26.127-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><h1>America's Top 10 Alcohol-Drinking Cities—and 10 Most Sober Cities, Too</h1> <div>By <a href="http://www.usnews.com/Topics/tag/Author/j/johnson_megan/index.html"> Megan Johnson</a> </div> <div>Posted December 17, 2008</div> <div class="body"> <p>With Christmas and New Year's almost upon us, you may be raising your glass and downing the spirits more than you're used to—along with many others. According to a nationwide poll released this year, most adults who attended work holiday parties said drunken bad behavior can often result. And insulting the boss is the least of it; nearly 60 percent of the surveyed partygoers saw a coworker drive while drunk.</p> <div> <a href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/12/17/americas-top-10-alcohol-drinking-cities--and-10-most-sober-cities-too/photos/#1" title=" (Jupiterimages)"><img title="(Jupiterimages)" src="http://www.usnews.com/pubdbimages/image/11471/FE_PR_081217health_drinkingcities185x123.jpg" height="123" alt=" " width="185" /></a><div class="photo-caption"> </div> </div> <div> <div class="loomia_recommendations loomia_pub_2533"> <div class="loomia_chunk loomia_similaritems"> <div class="loomia_heading">People Who Read This Also Read</div> <ul> <li class="first odd"> <div class="loomia_itemtitle"><a href="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/11/18/health-buzz-americas-unhealthiest-cities-and-other-news.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a41:g2:r13:c0.108359:b20293547:z0&amp;s_cid=loomia:americas-top-10-alcohol-drinking-cities--and-10-most-sober-cities-too">Health Buzz: America’s Unhealthiest Cities and Other News</a> <span class="loomia_itemid" style="display: none;">20209387</span> </div> <div class="loomia_summary" style="display: none;"></div> </li> <li class=""> <div class="loomia_itemtitle"><a href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-fitness/2008/12/15/americas-10-fittest-cities.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a41:g2:r3:c0.266551:b20293547:z0&amp;s_cid=loomia:americas-top-10-alcohol-drinking-cities--and-10-most-sober-cities-too">America's 10 Fittest Cities—and 10 Least Fit, Too</a> <span class="loomia_itemid" style="display: none;">20242011</span> </div> <div class="loomia_summary" style="display: none;"></div> </li> <li class="odd"> <div class="loomia_itemtitle"><a href="http://health.usnews.com/blogs/on-parenting/2008/10/20/early-alcohol-use-causes-big-problems-even-for-good-kids.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a41:g2:r18:c0.090372:b20293547:z0&amp;s_cid=loomia:americas-top-10-alcohol-drinking-cities--and-10-most-sober-cities-too">Early Alcohol Use Causes Big Problems, Even for "Good Kids"</a> <span class="loomia_itemid" style="display: none;">22885908</span> </div> <div class="loomia_summary" style="display: none;"></div> </li> <li class=""> <div class="loomia_itemtitle"><a href="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/living-well-usn/2008/12/31/americas-11-most-literate-cities.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a41:g2:r2:c0.281761:b20293547:z0&amp;s_cid=loomia:americas-top-10-alcohol-drinking-cities--and-10-most-sober-cities-too">America's 11 Most Literate Cities</a> <span class="loomia_itemid" style="display: none;">20508371</span> </div> <div class="loomia_summary" style="display: none;"></div> </li> <li class="last odd"> <div class="loomia_itemtitle"><a href="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/living-well-usn/2008/12/16/10-smokiest-us-cities--and-10-most-smoke-free-too.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a41:g2:r1:c0.287107:b20293547:z0&amp;s_cid=loomia:americas-top-10-alcohol-drinking-cities--and-10-most-sober-cities-too">10 Smokiest U.S. Cities—and 10 Most Smoke-Free, Too</a> <span class="loomia_itemid" style="display: none;">20266565</span> </div> <div class="loomia_summary" style="display: none;"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="loomia_logo"> <a href="http://www.loomia.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://static-cache.loomia.com/images/loomia-logotype-oneline.gif" height="12" alt="Recommendations by Loomia" style="border: none;" width="113" /></a> </div> </div> </div> <a name="read_more"></a> <p>The <a href="http://www.caron.org/sex-lies-and-other-alcohol-fueled-bad-behavior/" target="_new">poll</a>, by Caron Treatment Centers, a not-for-profit organization for <a href="#" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline !important;" target="undefined"><span class="kLink" style="">addiction </span><span class="kLink" style="">treatment</span></a>, helps explain some disturbing statistics reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Half of the almost 400 traffic deaths on Christmas 2006, and more than half of the 456 New Year's deaths that year, were alcohol-related.</p> <p>But don't forget, <a href="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2008/10/13/excess-drinking-shrinks-the-brain.html">the risks of heavy alcohol consumption</a> exist year-round. And heavy drinkers—classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as men who have more than two <a href="#" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline !important;" target="undefined"><span class="kLink" style="color: rgb(0, 84, 151) !important; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, fantasy; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 84, 151); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; background-color: transparent;">drinks</span><span style=""></span></a></p><div style=""><img src="http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/imgs/grey_loader.gif" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial;" /></div> a day or women who have more than one drink a day—can pose a threat to those around them. <p>The list below ranks the 10 U.S. metropolitan areas—defined as counties or groups of counties with a population of 10,000 or more—with the highest rates of heavy drinking. A second list identifies the 10 metro areas with the lowest rates. Is heavy <a href="#" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline !important;" target="undefined"><span class="kLink" style="">drinking</span></a> a problem in your community?</p> <div class="table-container" style="margin-left: 200px;"> <table> <tr> <th>Heaviest Drinking Metro Areas</th> <th>% Who Drink Heavily</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1. Reno, Nev.</td> <td class="center">9.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2. Palm Bay-Melbourne, Fla.</td> <td class="center">9.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3. Boulder, Colo.</td> <td class="center">9.0</td> </tr> <tr> <td>4. Austin</td> <td class="center">8.8</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5. Charleston, S.C.</td> <td class="center">8.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td>6. McAllen, Texas</td> <td class="center">8.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td>7. Naples-Marco Island, Fla.</td> <td class="center">8.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8. Riverside, Calif.</td> <td class="center">8.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9. Cape Coral, Fla.</td> <td class="center">8.1</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10. Barnstable Town, Mass.</td> <td class="center">8.0</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="table-container" style="margin-left: 200px;"> <table> <tr> <th>Most Sober Metro Areas</th> <th>% Who Don't Drink Heavily</th> </tr> <tr> <td>1. Provo-Orem, Utah</td> <td class="center">99.4</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2. Idaho Falls, Idaho</td> <td class="center">97.9</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3. Hickory, N.C.</td> <td class="center">97.8</td> </tr> <tr> <td>4. Ogden, Utah</td> <td class="center">97.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5. Brownsville, Texas</td> <td class="center">97.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5. Fayetteville, N.C.</td> <td class="center">97.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5. Raleigh, N.C.</td> <td class="center">97.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5. Wichita, Kan.</td> <td class="center">97.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9. Cheyenne, Wyo.</td> <td class="center">97.0</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9. Farmington, N.M.</td> <td class="center">97.0</td> </tr> </table> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em><a href="http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/BRFSS-SMART/ListMMSAQuest.asp?yr2=2007&amp;MMSA=All&amp;cat=AC&amp;qkey=4413&amp;grp=0" target="_new">Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a></em></p></div></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/12/17/americas-top-10-alcohol-drinking-cities--and-10-most-sober-cities-too.html">health.usnews.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/and-i-thought-i-picked-a-place-that-was-lowke">reqa930's 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/></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-1371967446606240932009-07-16T19:57:00.001-10:002009-07-16T19:57:34.166-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><table><tr><td><img src="http://cdn.applatform.com/img/?id=3437886&amp;h=7fd6d96d58ea292835ec46d12ee42d56eb47d452&amp;sh=1" height="200" width="140" /></td><td><div style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;">Raphael</div>"Healing power of God", "The Divine has healed", "God heals" Hebrew word rapha means "doctor" or "healer". Raphael is a powerful healer and assists with all forms of healing - humans and animals. He helps to rapidly heal body, mind and spirit. The chummiest and funniest of all Angels, Raphael is often pictured chatting merrily with mortal beings. He's very sweet, loving, kind and gentle and you know that he's around when you see sparkles or flashes of green light. Part of Raphael's healing work involves spirit releasement and space clearing. He often works with Michael to exorcise discarnate entities and escort away lower energies from people and places. As well as a healer, Raphael is known as the "Patron of Travelers" because of his help with Tobias and his travels. He assures that all your transportation, lodging and luggage details go miraculously well. Raphael also helps with inward spiritual journeys, assisting in searches for truth and guidance. Raphael is protecting and helping healers such as doctors, therapist and surgeons. Raphael not only helps you to heal from physical, emotional and mental pain, he also heals wounds from past lives. He is a Keeper of Holy Grail the highest spiritual energy of unconditional love that heals everything.</td></tr></table></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/who-is-your-g-gdjbje/?target=result&amp;h=d55979eff07a84b203540a0b62918fd5&amp;result=2958569&amp;exclude_ids=1047637290,1064497596,1357227643,1369397588,1720550188&amp;skip=1&amp;_fb_q=1">apps.facebook.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/who-is-your-guardian-angel">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-137196744660624093?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-67466093516369641812009-07-15T20:10:00.001-10:002009-07-15T20:10:31.182-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ywWmGbpUKXM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ywWmGbpUKXM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWmGbpUKXM&amp;feature=related">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/anyone-that-has-been-taught-how-to-drive-by-a">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-6746609351636964181?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-52355209344481428382009-07-15T17:53:00.001-10:002009-07-15T17:53:52.562-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><div class="UIStoryAttachment_Media UIStoryAttachment_MediaWide"><div class="UIMediaItem_ManyItems UIMediaItem"><a href="http://quiz.applatform.com/track/?i=64635&amp;o=1&amp;h=99b09ab508d8e50398a0bc9a0712ef89&amp;ref=mf" /><div class="UIMediaItem_Wrapper" style=""><img src="http://platform.ak.facebook.com/www/app_full_proxy.php?app=33545043332&amp;v=1&amp;size=b&amp;cksum=af5e7139a10b38e3c9ce5365e94ef9bd&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.applatform.com%2Fimg%2F%3Fid%3D388140%26h%3Deafe330b2e807c030e06091b9bc78069113caf21%26size%3D130%26sh%3D1" alt="" /></div></a></div><div class="UIIntentionalStory_MediaExtra UIMediaItem_ManyItems UIMediaItem"><a href="http://quiz.applatform.com/track/?i=64635&amp;o=1&amp;h=99b09ab508d8e50398a0bc9a0712ef89&amp;ref=mf" /><div class="UIMediaItem_Wrapper" style=""><img src="http://platform.ak.facebook.com/www/app_full_proxy.php?app=33545043332&amp;v=1&amp;size=b&amp;cksum=945593110d8aae68d2b112edc4e5011d&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.applatform.com%2Fimg%2Fresult.php%3Fid%3D324330%26h%3D084db3be751897d9776b24d4f2826af8%26v%3D3%261041551538" alt="" /></div></a></div></div><div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"><div class="CopyTitle">Rose took the <b><a href="http://quiz.applatform.com/track/?i=64635&amp;o=1&amp;h=99b09ab508d8e50398a0bc9a0712ef89">What does your birthday say about you?</a></b> quiz and the result is <a href="http://quiz.applatform.com/track/?i=64635&amp;o=1&amp;h=99b09ab508d8e50398a0bc9a0712ef89">September</a></div><div class="CopyBody"><br />Suave and compromising. Careful, cautious and organized. Likes to point out people's mistakes. Likes to criticize. Stubborn. Quiet but able to talk well. Calm and cool. Kind and sympathetic. Concerned and detailed. Loyal but not always honest. Does work well. Very confident. Sensitive. Thinking generous. Good memory. Clever and knowledgeable. Loves to look for information. Must control oneself when criticizing. Able to motivate oneself. Understanding. Fun to be around. Secretive. Loves sports, leisure and traveling. Hardly shows emotions. Tends to bottle up feelings. Very choosy, especially in relationships. Systematic.</div></div></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.facebook.com/reqa930?ref=profile">facebook.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/taking-a-mental-break-and-playing-on-crackboo">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-5235520934448142838?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-75042986410855799332009-07-15T10:00:00.001-10:002009-07-15T10:00:37.720-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><div class="UIIntentionalStory_Header"><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message"></h3></div><div class="UIStoryAttachment"><div class="UIStoryAttachment_Media UIStoryAttachment_MediaWide"><div class="UIMediaItem_ManyItems UIMediaItem"><a href="http://quiz.applatform.com/track/?i=787118&amp;o=1&amp;h=01864327a16827cb3f8ff7d2734e8f80&amp;ref=mf" /><div class="UIMediaItem_Wrapper" style=""><img src="http://platform.ak.facebook.com/www/app_full_proxy.php?app=84832012739&amp;v=1&amp;size=b&amp;cksum=f208b1c94c49be40ac027384d6c841b9&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.applatform.com%2Fimg%2F%3Fid%3D4228240%26h%3Df568434d302d8ab2db61ebd27a9523fa5d4aed0c%26size%3D130%26sh%3D1" alt="" /></div></a></div><div class="UIIntentionalStory_MediaExtra UIMediaItem_ManyItems UIMediaItem"><a href="http://quiz.applatform.com/track/?i=787118&amp;o=1&amp;h=01864327a16827cb3f8ff7d2734e8f80&amp;ref=mf" /><div class="UIMediaItem_Wrapper" style=""><img src="http://platform.ak.facebook.com/www/app_full_proxy.php?app=84832012739&amp;v=1&amp;size=b&amp;cksum=0f443cc66723e0f558ee48c97d906b39&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.applatform.com%2Fimg%2Fresult.php%3Fid%3D3639960%26h%3Deb3ea804833e64fc379af9b965ea4ac1%26v%3D3%261041551538" alt="" /></div></a></div></div><div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"><div class="CopyTitle">Rose took the <b><a href="http://quiz.applatform.com/track/?i=787118&amp;o=1&amp;h=01864327a16827cb3f8ff7d2734e8f80">Who is your lifetime match?</a></b> quiz and the result is <a href="http://quiz.applatform.com/track/?i=787118&amp;o=1&amp;h=01864327a16827cb3f8ff7d2734e8f80">They are born between 21st January - 19th Febuary</a></div><div class="CopyBody"><br />You frequently change your mind and you like playing with fire. After a few coy glances, you can get people to take a bite from your hook but when a more beautiful fish comes along, you usually would smile in his/her direction and jump in the water after them. This pairing brings together free thinkers that need a lot of space in relationships. A whirl of stimulating activities gets the ball rolling, since you two are curiosity seekers. Nothing is taboo for this kind of person, and you are flexible enough to try new things. This leads to lots of experimentation, on dates and in the bedroom. They are drawn to the unconventional, and accept the restless and inconsistancy in your nature. And you will be charmed by the original ideas coming forth from them. Both of you like to go your own way a lot, so neither will take it personally. They understand the need for intellectual independence, and will have lots of separate friends. This relationship has long-term potential, since there's always more to learn and talk about. This person will knows how to calm the mentally unstable... they can be soothing to your nerves.</div></div></div></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.facebook.com/reqa930?ref=profile">facebook.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/i-am-getting-stuff-done-just-multitasking-the">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-7504298641085579933?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-81270819022590261422009-07-15T07:39:00.001-10:002009-07-15T07:39:17.351-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="300" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f_qN2g-2D4E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;hd=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f_qN2g-2D4E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;hd=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="300" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_qN2g-2D4E">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/sweetbox-miss-you">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-8127081902259026142?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-5496483825575626322009-07-14T18:58:00.001-10:002009-07-14T18:58:01.154-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="430" width="480"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FONLINE_DATING_article.jpg&amp;videoid=74068&amp;title=Online+Dating+Helping+Pathetic+Women+Get+Their+Hopes+Crushed+More+Efficiently" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf" flashvars="image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FONLINE_DATING_article.jpg&amp;videoid=74068&amp;title=Online+Dating+Helping+Pathetic+Women+Get+Their+Hopes+Crushed+More+Efficiently" allowscriptaccess="always" height="430" wmode="transparent" width="480"></embed></param></param></param></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/online_dating_helping_pathetic?utm_source=a-section">theonion.com</a></div> <p>Ha ha...hysterical</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/online-dating-helping-pathetic-women-get-thei">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-549648382557562632?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-20484667705962272022009-07-14T18:35:00.001-10:002009-07-14T18:35:38.208-10:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O5X-5wSFvdY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /></param><param name="wmode" value="window" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /></param><embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O5X-5wSFvdY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"></embed></param></object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5X-5wSFvdY&amp;feature=related">youtube.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/sweetbox-sorry">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-2048466770596227202?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-77338616605018176922009-07-13T20:57:00.001-10:002009-07-13T20:57:29.044-10:00<p> <p>Here's the game: Grab the book nearest you. Right now.</p> <p>&bull; Turn to page 56.</p> <p>&bull; Find the fifth sentence.</p> <p>&bull; Post that sentence AS YOUR STATUS. AND POST these instructions in a comment to this status.</p> <p>&bull; Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.</p> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://reqa930.posterous.com/it-was-wide-and-deep-and-even-though-her-touc">reqa930's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-7733861660501817692?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-3997334258688123472009-07-07T09:23:00.001-10:002009-07-07T10:20:46.565-10:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. - Albert Einstein</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-399733425868812347?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-41219677082027037162009-03-10T18:47:00.004-10:002009-03-21T12:11:45.198-10:00After taking two days to clean out just ONE of my email accounts of superfluous emails, I am no longer in denial that I am in need of some very deep Grid Therapy. If you are wondering about what I mean when I say Grid, it's all the technological networks of communication entwined into a huge oversensory web. I am talking about messengers, emails, text messages, social networks, voicemails, blogs, and now even microblogs. All the different technological ways of staying in touch. And yes I do know that I am blogging about this....and that in itself should prove the need for Grid Therapy.<br />It all started innocently enough. The internet and ISP with their email accounts started my path of convenient communication. Then I started doing mass emails about me because I realized that it was taking too much of my time to tell the same "what's going on with me now" story to each individual person. And someone brilliant came up with blog sites!! Yes, I have been blogging before blogging actually became an official activity. But communication technology was not slowing down and then came instant messengers (AIM, Yahoo, and etc.). Now I could actually have an immediate virtual conversation with someone miles away through the computer. But let's not forget the cell phone communication growth...During this time, text messages were slowly coming on the scene and when it became fully integrated I was already in the audience front and center.<br />Then I moved 5K miles away...That's when I became totally devoted to the Grid. It was my way of keeping in touch and in the loop as much as I can with my loved ones. I think it was the main reason why I didn't feel so far away and it stayed any homesickness. Then Facebook and MySpace came on the scene!! Oh my... it was like blogging and messengers all wrapped up in such a fantastic convenient package. You could put pictures up and message each other and get in touch with people that you lost contact with but always wondered "where are they now?" It was great! Then of course other sites came along....classmates.com, reunion.com, bebo, etc..And yes I was either invited to join or joined because I thought it would help me connect with all those "lost" souls I had lost contact with. Yes, the internet kept my social networking life a flurry for a couple of years...<br />Then came the PDA's where I could take the internet and my social network with me everywhere I went. It started small with just the messengers at first. Then came Facebook and MySpace on mobile. And now even Skype is mobile (for my international friends and family). I can even update Twitter and Facebook all at the same time with the same update!! However, I have done some research and possibly found a site that can combine about 15 social networking sites so all of them are updated all at once!! Oh wow, wouldn't that be grand!!<br /><br />Then maybe I can find time to pay attention to the people that are physically around me and not just virtually ; - P<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-4121967708202703716?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-87754468681424990982009-03-01T08:24:00.002-10:002009-03-03T18:37:54.695-10:00<span style="font-style:italic;">"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. In our time of political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. But if thought corrupts language,language can also corrupt thought. Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,and to give appearance of solidity to pure wind. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-Deception. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.(On the manipulation of language for political ends.) We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all,it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will become a revolutionary act" George Orwell </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-8775446868142499098?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-20472249515184461482009-01-23T21:03:00.003-10:002009-01-23T21:16:23.256-10:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></span>Journey of Life<br /><br />Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others,<br />It is because we are different that each of us is special.<br />Do not set your goals by what other people deem important.<br />Only you know what is best for you.<br /><br />Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart.<br />Cling to them as you would your life,<br />For without them, life is meaningless.<br />Do not let your life slip through your fingers<br />By living in the past nor for the future.<br /><br />By living your life one day at a time,<br />You live all the days of your life.<br />Do not give up when you still have something to give.<br />Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.<br />It is a fragile thread that binds it to each other.<br /><br />Do not be afraid to encounter risks.<br />It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.<br />Do not shut out of your life by saying it is impossible to find.<br />The quickest way to receive love is to give love;<br />The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly.<br /><br />In addition, the best way to keep love is to give it wings.<br />Do not dismiss your dreams,<br />To be without dreams is to be without hope;<br />To be without hope is to be without purpose.<br /><br />Do not run through life so fast that you forget<br />Not only where you have been, but also where you are going,<br />Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-2047224951518446148?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-31767116876142634102009-01-07T16:39:00.001-10:002009-01-07T16:40:55.243-10:00<span style="font-style:italic;">“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-3176711687614263410?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-26888951322119572152008-11-07T17:32:00.001-10:002008-11-07T17:32:57.419-10:00For all of those out there that are upset and even extremely terrified that Obama won and now believe that our Country is going to hell in a handbasket, take a chill pill. I understand the psychology of losing and being defeated, noone goes into anything wanting that to be the end result. Take the time to lick your wounds, go through the healing process and/or grieving process, etc...But once you're done with that let's move on and forward. <br /><br />The amount and type of emails, instant messages, and texts I received on election night after it was clear that Obama was going to be our 44th president was alarming. Alarming in that the main context in most of them was that we are going to a very bad place because of the turn out of the election. Here are a few examples: "USA is doomed," "I'm moving to another country, Australia is sounding really good right now," "Great, I get to work hard and have some slacker reap the benefits," "We should be very, very scared for our national security....Al Qaeda are coming!!," and this one threw me for a loop "This is a sad day in American Politics." What I can say as my initial response is WOW! But my more elaborate response is that I am really very sorry that you truly feel that way. But I do want to thank my Uncle and KFV for their much more positive responses.<br /><br />However, as a Rebublican deciding to finally vote for Obama I did do my research. Both Obama and McCain are great men. Whether you picked either candidate, we can't deny that attribute in them. I was disappointed in the people that were in McCain's camp that 'boo'd" and said "no way" during McCain's speech but I applauded John McCain for telling them to stop. And I was glad to see the McCain that I had once supported show up again during his speech and that he's willing to work with Obama to bring our nation back to where it should be.<br /><br />A lot of the big issues like the Economy and Foreign Policy, I believe need to be handled in a bipartisan fashion. I don't believe that only ONE party has all the answers. Obama promises to work with the Republican party to try to collectively come up with solutions. And I want to believe in that....<br /><br />So whether your guy won or not on election night, we need to hold our new President accountable. We also need to understand that he's not coming into an easy job (honestly I felt bad for whoever was going to be our new President) and that he is asking for OUR help. Eventhough, he may not have been your candidate of choice...Obama is still going to be your president. And we need to hold ourselves accountable for knowing what's going on with our country and that our leaders that were chosen are doing their job. It's not enough nowadays to just vote and say that "my voice was heard" and the next time it is heard is 4 years from now.<br /><br />Let's show the world that THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is still a force to be reckoned with and that we are still the Greatest Nation in the World!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-2688895132211957215?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-87700564468390536682008-10-27T18:22:00.002-10:002008-10-27T19:04:51.534-10:00$6.66. This was the amount of my first purchase of today. As the young man that was my cashier registered my look of worry when he announced my total, he tells me in a bright tone "It's only a number." It's only a number to non-superstitious people and unfortunately for me I don't belong in that group. However, I try to keep positive and keep saying over and over in my head his proclamation, "it's only a number"..."it's only a number...." Trying to believe in that whole "mind over matter" mumbo jumbo.<br /><br />So I leave the store and go on with my day. Did I mention it was Monday? And did I mention that it was also the start of my midterm week? Knowing I had this already going for me, the voice in my head was practically yelling "it's only a number!!" I'm really trying to believe in the mumbo jumbo. However, my faith wears thin as the day goes on. I receive a couple of emails from different people with upsetting or bad news as the main content. Then as I am studying in the library on campus for my upcoming horrific mid term that I was going to be taking in a few hours, my face feels like I just got an instant sunburn. So I go to the bathroom to see what's going on and my face is as red as a glaring stoplight!! No rhyme or reason for it and it finally calmed down a bit on its own. <br /><br />By the way, I am still trying to voice the mantra of the day in my head....<br /><br />Then on to my mid term....remember the horrific one? Yep, it didn't disappoint me or the rest of my classmates. Hours of studying miserably to sit and take an exam for 3 hours that after the first hour I realize I will never get those hours back and I could have at least used them for happier endeavors. We are all hoping on a curve....a really big curve!!<br /><br />Finally, I think my day is over and I can just go home and have a much needed drink and unwind but noooo....that would be way too much to ask for since it is quite obvious my day was already predestined to be a bad day. I get not one but THREE phone calls from friends that I have not heard from in forever all with bad news!!<br /><br />$6.66..."it's only a number" or is it???<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-8770056446839053668?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-57026263128221033622008-06-23T22:58:00.001-10:002008-06-23T22:59:43.814-10:00<span style="font-style:italic;">“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...<br /><br /><br />...and you finish off as an orgasm.”<br /></span><br />George Carlin<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-5702626312822103362?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090631.post-65869260850992214962008-05-21T00:30:00.000-10:002008-05-21T00:32:00.631-10:00<span style="font-weight:bold;">The Invitation By Oriah Mountain Dreamer</span><br /><br />It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.<br />I want to know what you ache for,<br />and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing.<br />It doesn't interest me how old you are<br />I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,<br />for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.<br /><br />It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.<br />I want to know if you have touched the center of you own sorrow,<br />if you have been opened by life's betrayals<br />or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!<br />I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own,<br />without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.<br />I want to know if you can be with JOY, mine or your own;<br />if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of<br />your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or<br />to remember the limitations of being a human.<br /><br />It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true.<br />I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself;<br />if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.<br />I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.<br />I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day,<br />and if you can source your life from ITS presence.<br />I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine,<br />and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full<br />moon, "YES!"<br /><br />It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.<br />I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair,<br />weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.<br />It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here.<br />I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.<br />It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.<br />I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.<br />I want to know if you can be alone with yourself,<br />and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8090631-6586926085099221496?l=lifeasiseeitandthensome.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Rosebudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598200362997973385noreply@blogger.com0