Thoughts and Words

Perhaps there are too many words for too little thoughts.
Or perhaps, too many thoughts and not enough words.
Whatever the predicament, there is some sort of gaping hole.
The dark hole is yearning to be filled. It needs light.
The kind of light that is made of people, and love, and moments.
Not the kind of light that comes from the material world.

Words and thoughts, thoughts and words.
They are all we have, but neither are enough.

Faith, Success, Love, Destiny

A young girl followed a broken path;
and, along the way she made three friends:
Faith, Success, and Love.
Each of these friends gave the girl gifts that she would need on her journey.
The first of the three, Faith, met the girl at a young age.
Faith gave her the power of belief.
Belief in herself, and in God, enabled her to be brave in the face of failure.
This would come in handy when the girl was to meet Success.
This new friend would come and go, and was difficult to hold on to.
But once Success was around to stay, she gave the girl the gift of humility.
Humility was a spectacular thing, for it enabled the girl to understand people with empathy.
With belief from Faith and humility from Success,
the girl would be prepared to meet her next friend: Love.
Love brought with her something special, a partner.
The girl bravely faced her new partner and empathized with this person's own story.
Love merged the girl's path with that of this new partner's, and there at the intersection
She found her Destiny.

DANCE PARTY!

2012 has been great to me, but alas the new year is on its way. Let's celebrate 2013 with some good music, good friends, and good times!!! Here's a mix of some Top 40 and House beats. Enjoy :) 

Rihanna - Pour it Up

Flo Rida - I Cry

Bruno Mars - Locked out of Heaven

Calvin Harris and Florence Welch - Sweet Nothing

Deadmau5 - Strobe (Club Edit)

Kaskade - Don't Stop Dancing

Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You

Eric Turner vs. Avicii - Dancing in my Head

Paul van Dyk - I Don't Deserve You (Seven Lions Remix)

Swedish House Mafia - Don't you Worry Child

Balance.

One.
Two.
Three.

She counts.
Recounts.
Each ounce.

Massing.
Amassing.
Each blessing.

Lifts.
Uplifts.
Each gift.

Four.
Five.
Six.

All.
She recalls,
Each of the falls.

She sows.
In rows,
Each of life's blows.

They stack.
In racks,
Each white and each black.

Anticipated Ends and Fixed Means

Past. Present. Future.

Present:
We all have some notion of who we are. In any fixed moment in life, we think we've figured it out.

Past:
However, looking back we'll often see that we've changed so many times and our opinions on different aspects of life have also changed.

Future:
More than likely, as time goes on we will continue to change who we are and our beliefs.

Our past and future are therefore bound by impermanence and flexibility, while our present is static. As we live in the now, we tend to make decisions so intrinsically tied to a permanent notion of who we are. The actions we take in the present are the only true things we can control.We cannot act in the anticipation of an end, with a notion of who we want to be or who we want another person to be.

However, we already know that the future is bound by flexibility and the past is proof that change is inevitable. Thus, we can enable our presents to also be flexible and ever-changing, in an effort to avoid making immediate life decisions that contain in them the pungent taste of misjudgment and haste, or even hesitation and fear.

This becomes significant when making bonds with new people and new friends - accepting them as fluid beings, not stuck in categories defined by stereotypical images confirmed by society. The same is true for ourselves. Giving ourselves the room to be free, the room to make mistakes, and to not set unrealistic expectations of ourselves.

Therefore, transforming a path of fixed means into  something that is more flexible removes stress and pressure - allowing mistakes to be part and parcel of the human experience.

In these little moments...

Lay Your Cards Out by Polica

Enjoy these mellow beats! 

Felling any foe with my gaze.

Brooklyn based band, Blue Foundation, released the single Eyes on Fire in 2009. Enjoy.