How Do You Choose To Live?

Do others know about you,

or are you known?

Your reach may be wide,

but is it deep?

Are you driven

or do you drive?

Does love or ego 

choose your direction?

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Ambition is not knowing what you want and how to get it.

It's knowing what you have, and how to give it.
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How are you choosing to live?

Kindly Justice

To you the earth yields her fruit, 

and you shall not want if you but
know how to fill your hands.
It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth 

that you shall find
abundance and be satisfied.
Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, 

it will lead some to greed and others to hunger.
Kahlil Gibran

What The Hell

Ever notice that "what the hell" 

is always the right decision?

~Anonymous

Acting

Without wonder 

and insight

acting is just a trade,

with it, 

it becomes a creation.

~Bette Davis

And look how insightful and professional we are!

Donut anyone?

I love theatre!

Today was off book day.

Way. Too. Soon. 

I tell ya!

Ducks vs. Squirrels, The Battle For The Park

Pollyanna Theatre Company 

at The Long Center

July 14-17.

Come see us.

Hmmmm...

 

It is enough to make Jesus
drink gin straight out of the cat dish.

~Anne Lamott

I'm not saying just WHAT is enough,

that's for you to decide.

The garbage?

A metaphor.

;-)

What Do You Believe?

"It's not what happens to you.

It's what you believe to be true 

about what's happening to you..."
~Christy

Client of The Week

I don't have a client of the week feature,

but if I did,

Parker Westbrook would get the prize.

Trainer, Krav Maga instructor,

heart of gold,

fists of steel.

Amazing Woman.

Out of The Closet

 Oh alright, it's time to confess publicly:

I sprained my knee.

I was in a class at the fabulous

Fit and Fearless,

just over a week ago,

wrestling with an (absolutely beautiful) former lady cop

when I overextended my knee.

I think she was quite amused 

by my overzealous seriousness.

Serves me right.  

After 40 mumble something years,

I have experienced my first

sports related injury.

I barely walked for two days, 

and got lots of pampering.  

It was wonderful.

But by day five

I started to get really blue 

because I was so sedentary.

By day seven I think I was downright depressed.

Not to mention, I started to get paranoid

from all the stories I'd gotten

about people and their knees!

All the horrible things I could have done to it;

what if I tore something?

What if I needed surgery?

the loooooooooooong recovery time.

OhmyGAWD, I got so scared 

I thought I was going to have to get a desk job

for the next six months!

So after eight days of babying it,
and fearing I would hurt it again,

I took myself to the gym.

I had to.

And here's an anonymous thanks

to the linebacker looking guy

who asked me about it

and then proceeded to

devise his workout plan around mine

to make sure I was ok.

I think he's been looking for a good excuse 

to connect with me 

for awhile, anyway.

Too bad he's not my type.

;-)

I got home and felt so much better

that I decided I'd see what it would take

to do a little "work"

and document the journey.

The result is my

fresh from the gym

"Self Portrait On Crutches" series.

(And no photoshopping either. I schwear.)

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Our Doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Primary Sacred Task

 "What does it mean to heal, 

from betrayal 

by those who have often stood closest to us, 

to heal from the burdens of the past, 

to heal our insulted humanity, 

to heal from the belief 

that we are not holy 

and imbued with sacred function? 

And at what cost do we ignore 

our fatigue, 

deeply repressed angers, 

the bleeding absence of love, 

our silenced stories? 

We can and should 

talk and share and support one another, 

but the first order of business 

is relearning

how to love 

and care for 

our individual selves/our souls. 

This is our primary sacred task 

and, as well, our road to liberation."
Vincent Woodard

Blame

"There is no spiritual principle that supports blame."

Perhaps this should be etched directly

on the piece of steel 

in this photograph.

It's a detail shot from a steel beam

that was recovered from the 

World Trade Center bombing in 2001.

Perfection

To fix the world,

you must first see it as broken.

I'm not so sure I'd go there.

~The Universe