Mmmm... that's good truth

What you’re chewing on’s the truth and that’s the hardest thing to wash down with a glass of lemonade – XTC, The Ugly Underneath

 

It's Spring Again...

If spring sends the message of rebirth...the month of March exists to remind us that birth, by its nature, is messy. - Tricia Ware, Editor, NM magazine

 

Biz Markie - Spring  Again
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Keep on keepin' on

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. ~ Unknown

 

What is running inside of you?

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

- Rwandan Proverb

James - Pressure's On

We truck in the real

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed. - Edward St. John Gorey

 

 

 

It's Alive!!

When you feel most alive, find out why. This is one guest you won't greet twice. - Kabir

Hammock - Breathturn from David Altobelli on Vimeo.

Wanted: a few more smart people

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. - H. L. Mencken

 

Box office

Although Pearl Harbor cost approximately US$132 million to film and promote, it grossed a relatively modest US$200 million at the domestic box office, but it soon earned a respectable US$450 million worldwide.^[2] The film was ranked the seventh highest-earning picture of 2001.

Open, open, open

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved. – Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga

Tiny Steps

Even a little progress is freedom from fear. – Bhagavad Gita

 

And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring...
And love is not the easy thing...
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind

And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight...

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom

Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't deny it
Can't sell it or buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Home...hard to know what it is if you never had one
Home...I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home
That's where the heart is

I know it aches
How your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on

Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme... 

Happiness is all in your mind

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

It's Your Choice

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same. - don Juan Matus, as quoted by Carlos Castaneda

I could listen to all my friends

and go out again

and pretend it's enough

or I could make a career of being blue

I could dress in black and read Camus

smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth

Create your life

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. – Geri Weitzman

 

That's so...... boring!

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Sir Cecil Beaton

Fernand Leger - Ballet mecanique (1924)

Ballet Mecanique - George Antheil

Once You've Got it, Don't Let It Go

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. - Anonymous

 

McVie/Buckingham Wisdom

Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow

Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here

It’ll be, better than before

Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone. 

– Fleetwood Mac

Move Right Along

How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown. - Elizabeth Kubler Ross

 

For every thing...

So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables me to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. – Ben Franklin

Theirs is to win, if it kills them/ they're just humans with wives and children
Race for the Prize - Flaming Lips

Practice compassion

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – H.H. The Dalai Lama

Revolution!! (against yourself)

If ever I would stop thinking about music and politics
I would tell you that the personal revolution
is far more difficult
and the first step in any revolution – Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

Don't let your days go by

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...

- David Byrne, Talking Heads

 
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
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Try a little tenderness

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution. - Kahlil Gibran

Sad Songs Really Do Say So Much

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else. – Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips)

Your Own Private Quietude

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius

Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno (excerpt)

Open Your Heart, Free Your Soul

The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightning and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not. - The Upanishads

On waking after the accident

I was presented with the "whole picture"

as they say, magnificently detailed,

a child's diorama of what life appears to be:

staring at the picture I became drowsy

with relief when I noticed a yellow

dot of light in the lower right-hand corner.
I unhooked the machines and tubes and crawled

to the picture, with an eyeball to the dot

of light which turned out to be a miniature

tunnel at the end of which I could see

mountains and stars whirling and tumbling,

sheets of emotions, vertical rivers, upside

down lakes, herds of unknown mammals, burds

shedding feathers and regrowing them instantly,

snakes with feathered heads eating their own

shed skins, fish swimming straight up,

the bottom of Isaiah's robe, live whales

on dry ground, lions drinking from a golden

bowl of milk, the rush of night,

and somewhere in this the murmur of gods--

a tree-rubbing-tree music, a sweet howl

of water and rock-grating-rock, fire

hissing from fissures, the moon settled

comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll.

-- Jim Harrison, from The Theory and Practice of Rivers

Easier said than done, but worth every effort

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Love lie outside the confines of the turmoil in your head

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
-- Leo Buscaglia

 

You can control your reactions to other people

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

Forgiveness: It's what for life

To be able to move on, one has to learn to forgive not only the person (or people) who have done one wrong but also oneself  - Eugenia Tripputi

She's An Angel - TMBG

Thinking? Who needs that?

The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. - Albert Einstein