Who Are You Not To Be Fabulous?

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond imagination. It is our light more than our darkness which scares us. We ask ourselves - who are we to be brilliant, beautiful, talented, and fabulous. But honestly, who are you to not be so?

For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others."

--Marianne Williamson

One of my very favorite quotes.

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We are travellers in a cosmic journey

We are travellers in a cosmic journey - star dust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. But the expressions of life are ephemeral, momentary, transient.

Buddha once said "This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky."

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, light heartedness and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile.
--Deepak Chopra

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You are brilliant, and the earth is hiring

YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING

Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.

This planet came with a set of operating instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, and don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food, but all that is changing.

There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING.

Read more from the Commencement Address to the Class of 2009 | University of Portland

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Al Franken

"Senator Al Franken. He's good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, he got enough votes enough to kick Norm Coleman's ass in Minnesota."
-- Steve Young

(via)

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Travelers in a cosmic journey...

We are travelers in a cosmic journey - star dust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. But the expressions of life are ephemeral, momentary, transient.

Buddha once said "This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky."

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, light heartedness and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile.

--Deepak Chopra

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Debate Quote

If your debate drinking game last night centered on the phrase "my friends," you must be hungover today.

{via: Majestika}

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Quote For Today

"We don't want too many citizens asking where the power and the money really goes. Informed by psychedelics, people might stop saluting."
--Terence McKenna

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Maureen Dowd

Today's Quote:

"The blazing hostility toward W. has faded to indifference and a sort of fatigued perplexity about how les imbeciles de regime cowboy got into office, and how America could have put the world through all this craziness."

--Maureen Dowd

link

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Fresh From The Sewer, Mike Savage

QUOTES

"You know I'm playing the Dead Kennedys not to mock Ted Kennedy. It's just appropriate, that's all."

-- Michael Savage (R-Piece of Shit) -- Link/via

What a revolting little troll.

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See how compatible you are with me

I'm an irredeemably eejitous, liberal, tight as fuck, relatively well adjusted human being!

See how compatible you are with me!

Brought to you by Rum and Monkey

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Today's Quote
I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Fuck it. Cut 'em up."
--Mitch Hedberg

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W E B T R A I L

W E B T R A I L

Prada Rehab Rock - Damien Hirst and his ex-junkie friend Antony Genn team up to rock out Fashion Week (soberly). link

Stripes, Harlequin, Rubber, Vinyl are themes of Designer Gareth Pugh. His creations are more akin to fetishwear than fashion, but that's a bad thing, why? The old guard aren't sure whether to salute him or shoot him. Fall/Winter 2007 collection hereand Spring 2007 here.

Big City Orchestrae will be heading to Europe in September for their first tour overseas in six years! Great news, Ninah Pixie! link

Dave Nitsche - Conceptual Photography link

This graying hippie makes the nightly, winding climb 18 feet to her cozy bedroom. She wakes to roosters' crows and the scents of dewy soil. Over breakfast, her view is a jungle of towering trees, no hint of hustle and bustle.

Shawnee Chasser lives in a treehouse above a secret garden in the middle of Miami. For 15 years, she has lived atop the 1.5-acre nirvana of green trees and farm animals behind a row of houses 10 minutes from downtown. And she advertises on Craigslist and rents out rooms for $380 a month. Really. link

Fuck the DNA - The evolution continues with the return of Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV link

Revenge of the Weirdos? The decidedly nonconformist Animal Collective takes New York. link

The intelligent want self-control; children want candy. --Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)

***UPDATE: Wow! I had the title (W E B TR A I L) set on font 150 instead of 150%; hope I didn't make anyone go blind.

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ADP - Bob Dylan has given the go-ahead for a big-screen movie about his life. Director Todd Haynes is searching for a black woman to play Dylan -- she will be one of seven different actors who will portray the musician during different eras of his career. Todd Haynes, the Oscar-nominated director, confirmed last week that he is searching for a woman who can do justice to the short white Jewish singer’s 'inner blackness', although the producers aren't convinced. Costing £30m, the film is due for release next year under the title, I’m Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan. [more...] (ADP-Another Dylan Post)

Get a reading from The Goddess Tarot Oracle to find what your goddess has in store for you. (via: etherealgirl)

{BlogNod}
Lauren's Feministe is a very smart and witty interactive blog. There's Open Blogging where anyone can post. Like Open Mic Night, but for blogging. And also the Random 10 on Fridays for listing random songs that are currently playing on your ipod or music device. Good content with an intelligent voice should keep you busy reading for a long time.

Asheville Full Moon Gatherings - Our next event will be Friday, March 25th to celebrate the Full Moon in Libra and the Sun in Aries.

Today's Quote
Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance, in the middle of fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you are perfectly free.
~Rumi

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In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.
But sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
--Rumi

[both picture and poem via-Psycherotica - lots of good graphics, collage portraits and more]

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Happy Valentine's Day!
Sending much love to my son and daughter today and always.

Still driving each other insane after all these years. Freshly brewed coffee, truffles, cards and flowers were waiting for me on my desk this morning. And here I thought we weren't even speaking to each other. I made him a carrot cake for his Valentine's treat. But he just gets a nibble. Of cake. [picture: capnwacky via: presurfer ]

I'd like to concur with GoFish and also celebrate the newly married folks in San Francisco. What a joyous time for you all.

{quote for today}
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. ~Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)

saturday morning me//
bed head or bird nest?/
juice/java/joint(nicotine)/
black shawl/long burgundy gown/
enjoying a roaring tv/
long stares into the frig/
another romantic Valentine's Day/
so hows about you?/


If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0.

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Good Tuesday Morning to you.

With Valentine's Day fast approaching I thought I'd dust off the ol' ACME Heartmaker. You can personalize a heart with two lines of text and pick your color.

The Utne Independent Press Awards 2003 Winners is worth a look see.

{quote for today}
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." (Yikes!)
~Samuel Johnson

Just making sure we are all shuffling slack jawed in the same direction.

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Just because your gift sucks, doesn't mean your wrapping paper has to. Happy Fucking Whatever! Gang-Bang Elves and more.



Click to see Gang Bang Elves picture.
[via: s*T*a*R*e*]

As gay marriage wins even more legal support, Bible-clutching homophobes recoil, violently. The gays are marching in. The end is near. Sheer unadulterated evil and scary anal sex and superlative hair products and new blasts of fresh happy love are to be unleashed anew upon the country. Horror is nigh. Everyone into the bunker.

It's a global truism: The more passionately religious you are, the more hateful and small minded you become, and the more desperate you are to convince everyone else that Satan himself is at the door, carrying nothing but a whip and a sinister grin and a big bottle of Astroglide. If we can't just all get along, can we at least subscribe to 'Live and Let Live'?
[more» sfgate]

{quote}
Alas! the forbidden fruits were eaten,
And thereby the warm life of reason congealed.
A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam,
Like as the Dragon's tail dulls the brightness of the moon.
- Rumi: Masnavi I Ma'navi

Stop Mad Cowboy Disease.

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What a great day to begin Mabon, or Autumn Equinox.

A Meeting of Minds
In the Spirit of Inquiry, The Dalai Lama Submits To an Inquiry of His Spirit

Is that a fire over there? Or just the smoke from Gray Davis' pen after his well-timed signing of so much legislation lately? For my CA friends, does it seem to you he's trying to appease everyone lately?

General Clark takes instant lead days after entering Democratic race. Just indicates to me the that the democratic nomination for President will continue to surprise us for some time to come.

Daily Rumi Quote
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. As the Prophet said, 'The faithful are mirrors to one another'.

Don't Worry. Be Nappy.

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::Does This Blog Make My Ass Look Fair And Balanced? Fox News filed suit against humorist Al Franken, and Lisa at Ruminate This decided to go with a new tagline on her website. I may change my tagline from "Does This Blog Make My Ass Look Big?" to "Does This Blog Make My Ass Look Fair And Balanced?" This exercise is reminiscent of Davezilla and a company that sent him the 'cease and desist' letter for using a picture similar to Mozilla's logo on his site. Soon blogtopia was inundated with "zillas" in his support.

::Miss Lola Belle- A blog from Beverage Manager Lola on Rocco DiSpirito's reality show, The Restaurant. Behind the scenes - Lola Style. [via: gawker]

::Antiquities Of The Iluminati - Networking the higher learning.

::Can't get your site to pull up, Theo. Yesterday OR today. Going to go investigate more...

Quote For Today
As human beings, we share what is real. Joy, sorrow, care, courage, and tenderness are real. Tears are real, and so is laughter. These are the currency of the heart. They are meant to be exchanged.

Pull up a dryer and sit a spell.

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Good Monday morning....

Say it ("piss-off") with Subversive Cross-stich.
[via iconomy]

Art For Housewives. And take a look at Cynthia's other sites; she's very talented.

I clicked on a blog a few days ago, and while I was reading on my 'sadu' (slow-ass dial-up), there were 109 items remaining or still loading. One hundred and nine more items to wait on. This wasn't one of those great sites with beautiful art work links and displays. This was content I was waiting on. Words. I've got one word for you folks... DUMBASS! ARCHIVES! Make some more pages. I suppose I could spring for a cable modem or gasp!, something faster. Our rule of thumb around here is this: the internet and it's monthly $$ amount shouldn't excede the cable tv monthly $$ amount. So help a 'sadu' blogger out, won't ya?

Daily Rumi Card.

Bush could be a one-termer. Uh, yeah. It's what gets me through the night.

Mr Bush, You Are A Liar.

Get A Clue. Dick Cheney did it in the Library with a Dagger. Or was that Colonel Mustard?

Blogging the Neighborhood
Apropos of Nothing has a good idea. Two bloggers trade weblogs for a day or for a weekend.

Theo's Journal is one year old today. Happy Blogiversary, Theo!

Meg is tweaking the Downes Referrer code and also giving it more style. Thanks, Mickey, you take good care of us.

Brendyn's moved with no forwarding URL as yet. But will notify us soon. You may as well have moved my water bowl, B.

Quote For Today
When nothing changes; nothing changes. ~Unknown

Putting the "ass" in classy.

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Good Morning!

Wanting to move closer to the city, we've put our house up for sale. I've never really liked this house much, but we got a pretty good deal and jumped on it. We're hoping to wrap it up by the end of summer in case we move in to a different school district. Even if we have to rent until our house is sold. We're taking a leap. Have you ever moved to someplace and thought, "I'm never moving again. This is my last stop."?

This morning, when I turned on my computer, the hard drive sounded tired and droopy. And the desktop was slow loading. I have defrag, and other stuff set up nightly, to insure a healthy hard drive. But it's 3 1/2 years old and it's been road hard and put up wet, as they say in the South. Beaucoup surfing and keyboarding going on. So if you don't hear from me for a couple of days, my pc's run out of steam. And I sure as hell don't have the bucks to lay down for a new pc right now.

Happy Birthday to my bestest buddy, Dena, today. Although she may never see this as she's not a web head like me.

Chickenhawk Cards look kinda fun.

Quote For Today
As human beings, we share what is real. Joy, sorrow, care, courage, and tenderness are real. Tears are real, and so is laughter. These are the currency of the heart. They are meant to be exchanged.
~Anonymous

Not even the courtesy of a reach around.

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