Try it your way

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. - Marcus Aurelius

"I didn't do it"

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. – Voltaire

WOOHOO!
WOOHOO!
WOOHOO!
WOOHOO!

I got my head checked
By a jumbo jet
It wasn't easy
But nothing is,
No -

WOOHOO!
When I feel heavy metal WOOHOO!
And I'm pins and I'm needles WOOHOO!
Well I lie and I'm easy
All of the time but I'm never sure why I need you
Pleased to meet you!

I got my head done
When I was young
It's not my problem
It's not my - problem -

WOOHOO!
When I feel heavy metal WOOHOO!
And I'm pins and I'm needles WOOHOO!
Well I lie and I'm easy
All of the time but I'm never sure why I need you
Pleased to meet you!

Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Oh, yeah 

Before it's too late

Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's "right". - Ken Keyes

I had a dream last night
I dreamt that I was swimming
And the stars up above
Directionless and drifting
Somewhere in the dark
Were the sirens and the thunder
And around me as I swam
The drifters who'd gone under

Time love
Time love
Time love
It's only a change of time

I had a dream last night
And rusting far below me
Battered hulls and broken hardships
Leviathan and Lonely
I was thirsty so I drank
And though it was salt water
There was something 'bout the way
It tasted so familiar

The black clouds I'm hanging
This anchor I'm dragging
The sails of memory rip open in silence
We cut through the lowlands
All hands through the saltlands
The white caps of memory
Confusing and violent

I had a dream last night
And when I opened my eyes
Your shoulder blade your spine
Were shorelines in the moon light
New worlds for the weary
New lands for the living
I could make it if I tried
I closed my eyes I kept on swimming

(rough seas they carry me wherever I go)

Do it Do it Do it!

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. – Greg Anderson

The best of Lester, the worst of Lester...

You are the best. You are the worst. You are average. Your love is a part of you. You try to give it away because you cannot bear its radiance, but you cannot separate it from yourself. To understand your fellow humans, you must understand why you give them your love. You must realize that hate is but a crime-ridden subdivision of love. You must reclaim what you never lost. You must take leave of your sanity, and yet be fully responsible for your actions. - Gnarls Barkley, in a letter to the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs

Words words words ≠ Actions

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy

 





"I'd rather play than talk about it."

Regret, The Gibby Haynes Way

"Daddy?”

“Yes, son?”

“What does regret mean?”
“Well son, the funny thing about regret is it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend be sure and tell her,

SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!" – Gibson Jerome “Gibby” Haynes (Butthole Surfers), Sweat Loaf

Sand the Floor

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

- Galileo Galilei 

 

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.

Create your life

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

 

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

You are your own obstacle

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blume Industries - Key to Success

Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you. – Herman Blume, Rushmore

clip from 2:33 to 3:24

CHARGE!!!!

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. - Norman Vincent Peale

 Knock Down That Wall

We are, each of us, so much more than our pain

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. – Blaine Lee

Love rescue me
Come forth and speak to me
Raise me up and don't let me fall
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me

Many strangers have I met
On the road to my regret
Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
They ask me to reveal
The very thoughts they would conceal
Love rescue me

And the sun in the sky
Makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I'm here without a name
In the palace of my shame
Said, love rescue me

In the cold mirror of a glass
I see my reflection pass
See the dark shades of what I used to be
See the purple of her eyes
The scarlet of my lies
Love rescue me

Yeah, though I walk
In the valley of shadow
Yeah, I will fear no evil

I have cursed thy rod and staff
They no longer comfort me
Love rescue me

Sha la la...sha la la la
Sha la la la...sha la la...
Sha la la la...sha la la la
Sha la la la...sha la la
Sha la la la...sha la la la
Sha la la...

I said love, love rescue me

I said love
Climb up the mountains, said love
I said love, oh my love
On the hill of the son
I'm on the eve of a storm
And my word you must believe in
Oh, I said love, rescue me
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah...

Yeah I'm here without a name
In the palace of my shame
I said love rescue me

I've conquered my past
The future is here at last
I stand at the entrance
To a new world I can see
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me

Go discover who you really are...

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.–Mark Twain

We are history's little soldiers

I on the other hand am walking through a larch wood and every step I take is history... Perhaps I don’t do any great things, but history is made up of little anonymous gestures; I may die to-morrow even before that German, but everything I do before dying and my death too will be little parts of history, and all the thoughts I’m having now will influence my history to-morrow, tomorrow’s history of the human race.
- Italo Calvino, The Path to the Nest of Spiders

Sometimes, all you need is one word

Bang! – Karl Wallinger

Is It Like Today - World Party (oh, and Steven Wright)