This is not my stove, nor chalkboard. I did not write these words but I’m taking them as my own.
(photo via here)
THERE’S SO MUCH
TRAVEL YET.
O TEACH ME HOW TO WORK
AND KEEP ME KIND
things come in 3’s
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Swans – “A Little God in My Hands”
photo by José De Almeida
I heard this song last week on All Songs Considered, my favorite source for new music. I’m generally offended by loud, sudden noises so it came as a real surprise how much I really dig this song. It makes me wish I was dressed as Thelma or Louise speeding down a dusty road (perhaps like the one above, shot in Portugal. I’d love to go there someday). Anyway, the song gets real loud and irritating; you’ve been warned.
Coast to Coast
At home yoga in front of heater
F: Did you receive the Valley Cruise Press zine? Show me a picture of your favorite page.
L: Our little brother recently started Valley Cruise Press with a friend of all of ours. I just received my copy of the latest zine, Flower Arrangements vol. 1, which is all of Teddy’s art work. It is gorgeous! I really love the outside and inside cover as well as this page:
F: Does it feel like Spring yet there? Have you done anything Spring related?
L: We had one day that felt like Spring but then it went back down to the 30s. I don’t think I have done anything Spring related. Perhaps I’ll go to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens when it gets warmer; I haven’t been in a few years.
F: I know I always ask this, but what are you reading lately?
L: I’m in a real reading slump. It feels like when you know you should get back to working out and still don’t do it. I need that one book to get me back into the swing.
F: What is one thing that you have continued to do since completing the Clean Cleanse?
L: Hmmm…mostly I’d say I continue to think about the cleanse. I feel much more aware of how it feels to really healthy in my own body. Actively maintaining that feeling is a whole other topic.
F: Do you have a favorite picture of me and you?
L: I have lots of pictures of us that I really like but here’s an old one that I think is so sweet.
With a Vengeance
(image via here)
I was at a yoga class last week and the teacher made a comment about this spring coming on “with a vengeance.” Today’s temperature doesn’t quite match the statement, but I’ll take it anyway! C’mon springtime; show us whatcha got! In the meantime, I grant unto you, a playlist:
Straight to the Heart
have you ever breathed deep
expanding your belly
but focusing on your heart?
to the place where I sense a pain,
then a fear, an internal tension
living amongst openness
and expansion
where i’d have to face a series of unknowns
and possibly spend a good deal of time
wandering,
or worse yet: staying still
and only nothing, or hardship
would follow.
have you ever started breathing
into your heart?
while writing words
that named your fears
(then posted it on the internet because you’re a blogger)
Big Screen, Little Screen
(via here)
I’ve been watching more than my regular share of movies lately, both at home and in the theater. Scenes from each of them, and the impressions they’ve left behind, stick with me. It is both what makes a great move, and what can leave me feeling a bit heavy after taking in too many stories.
The Talented Mr. Ripley – I had never seen this movie before. Its all star cast, which also includes Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cate Blanchett, and stunning visuals alone make this movie quite pleasant to watch. It was much more intense than I expected, being a psychological thriller and all, but I really liked it. Gotta love a good Netflix Watch Instantly selection.
Blue Is the Warmest Color – This film won a number of awards at last year’s Cannes Festival and I completely understand why. I didn’t know much about it before watching it, other than having heard some buzz around the full on sex scenes. The story spans several formative years of its main character, Adele, and her personal development relating to relationships, sexuality and career. I thought it was very tender and powerful.
Somewhere – Dakota Fanning plays an 11-year old girl who spends an unexpectedly lengthy amount of time with her California actor dad. The movie, directed by Sofia Coppola, is similar to some of her other work in its feel (i.e. slow moving, melancholy characters in high-end settings). Despite there being things about the film that might be easy to hate on, I enjoyed it and thought Fanning really made the movie.
The Dance of Reality – I wasn’t familiar with filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky before seeing this but a friend of mine sent a link to a screening of The Dance of Reality at MoMA and it seemed like a fun thing to go to. The film is about Jodorowsky’s childhood. His real life grandson plays him as a child; his real life son plays his father. Jodorowsky was at the screening and spoke after the film, which definitely upped my appreciation for the whole thing. He talked about how he used the film to recreate much of his life, and the lives of his parents, as he’d want them to be and as a way to heal actual realities. It was interesting.
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums is quite possibly my favorite movie so I’m always up to see the films he makes. If you’ve seen more than one of his films, you know that he has a very particular style with many repeating themes and similarities. Visually, I love what he does. Sometimes I find the quirkiness fantastic and other times trite. I liked The Grand Budapest Hotel more than his last full-length movie, Moonrise Kingdom, but still prefer The Royal Tenenbaums to anything else of his that I’ve seen. And for better or for worse, that’s always the lenses from which I watch Wes Anderson movies.
OM
“The name OM can be split into three letters: A, U, and M…So the creation is A, the preservation is U and the culmination is M. So A-U-M includes the entire process of sound, and all other sounds are contained in it. Thus, OM, is the origin, or seed, from which all other sounds and words come…After the verbal sound ends there is still a vibration…There is always a sound vibration in you that can never be destroyed…That is why OM represents God in the fullest sense. It has the power to create everything.”A Handy Tip For the Easily Distracted
Willingness to Learn
Sometimes when I’m so inclined I turn to greatday.com for its daily message. I read this one yesterday and particularly liked it, so much so that it was still on my mind when I woke up this morning. Hope you like it too.
Willingness to Learn
Look back at everything you did yesterday and ask yourself this simple but powerful question. What worked, and what didn’t?
The way to improve and to become more effective is to learn. The way to learn is to take the time to look at what actually happened.
You don’t need some celebrated guru to reveal to you how to improve your work. You just need the willingness to learn from what you’ve done.
Instead of getting angry or frustrated about your failures, choose to learn from them. Instead of getting boastful or complacent about your successes, make the choice to learn from them.
Learn what helps you, what holds you back, what makes you more effective and what slows you down. Learn from your encounters, your experiences, your joys, your setbacks and from the surprising twists that life often takes.
In everything is the valuable opportunity to learn if you’ll simply decide to do so. Learn from it all, and make each day better than the one before.
-Ralph Marston
Coast to Coast
First I tripped, then I dropped it
F: How are you feeling post cleanse?
L: I feel like I’m slowly going back to all my old ways, which is a bummer, but I think about how good I felt on the cleanse pretty much everyday. I’m not eating enough vegetables and I know it.
F: Do you have anything special going on this month?
L: I think I have a pretty exciting trip to South America in the works!
F: Have you been to the New Museum lately? What’s showing?
L: I haven’t – well actually, that’s not true. A few weekends ago I went out to get coffee and ended up wandering around for awhile. I stopped into the New Museum’s book store and hung out there for a bit. It was selling a pair of those kaleidoscope glasses. Have you seen them?
Brent Paul Pearson creator of Future Eyes
F: Any new all natural products that you are using that I would be interested in?
L: Man, I don’t think so. I still love my Essential Oxygen Brushing Rinse.
F: Do you ever think about teaching yoga again?
L: I do & I think I would like to. It also kind of scares me.
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