The World Is In Pencil
by Todd Boss
—not pen. It’s got
that same silken
dust about it, doesn’t it,
that same sense of
having been roughed
onto paper even
as it was planned.
It had to be a labor
of love. It must’ve
taken its author some
time, some shove.
I’ll bet it felt good
in the hand—the o
of the ocean, and
the and and the and
of the land.
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I just arrived home late last night from Boulder, Denver and Vail. I had such a wonderful time with all of my friends. Colorado is such a beautiful place and I have met so many amazing people from there.
Just wanted to share a quick picture from the beautiful wedding on Saturday in Evergreen.
Once I get settled, I will share more from this weekend.
Happy Hump Day!
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I have a real tendency to over-think things and last week I let that inclination go into overdrive. The results were not pretty. To say nothing of overcoming internal resistance to changing our minds, it amazes me what a fresh perspective can bring to your daily experience. Along those lines, did you know:
-It has been shown that stress is bad for you if you believe it is:
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-What you believe about the food you eat affects the way your body metabolizes it:
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-Anger is the body’s emotional & protective response to a perceived threat. It matters not whether the threat is real or imagined. “To effectively reduce or eliminate the anger in your life, change the core beliefs, assumptions, and interpretations of the mind.”
via Pathway to Happiness: Understanding Anger
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Hey everyone! We hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend full of gifts from the Easter Bunny. Here are this weeks pictures:
Farrell – Evergreen/Vail – Colorado
Beautiful barn wedding
The lovely couple
Evergreen friends
Put a ring on it
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Lauren – New York, New York
Salt crystal sculpture
Hitting up the ice cream truck
Farrell’s Bar & Grill!
Grocery shopping in the flower aisle
Web series are all over the place (meaning the internet) these days. Here are some that have really kept my interest.
High Maintenance
I love this series and how they show a different person every time. It makes for a perfect web series.
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Be Here Nowish
It is funny and real and weird
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Tangents and the Times
Not only because Monster Rally is all over this series, but because I like it and don’t like it at the same time.
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Though it snowed yesterday here in New York, I’ve got summer on my mind. I’m envisioning long, sunny days that flow almost unnoticeably from one to the next and a lot of reading. (Think that time I lived in India and had nothing but time to read and read and read).
I currently have four nonfiction books that I’m somewhere in the middle of but can’t seem to get through; I started three of them months ago. I’m thinking I need a story that is completely captivating – another world to carry with me and sink into a couple times every day. Do you have any recommendations (fiction or non)? I’m ready to get going.
Remember back in the day when MTV did different unplugged shows? Well, this isn’t what this post is about. I found out about this new meditation place in Santa Monica called Unplug Meditation. I was drawn to their look and aesthetic at first and thought the idea could be very interesting. The first week of their opening is free and so I thought I would head on over.
For me, it was a great reminder to get out in the world and try new things and also to keep up with my mediation.
I am not sure how much I will frequent Unplug, but I really like the idea and wanted to pass it on.
(Image via here)
ten minutes every day to close my eyes & see what i feel. to try to disconnect the feeling from the story and simply allow the feeling to be felt. to recognize the tendency to suppress discomfort and to let it be, without needing to know why it’s there. to remind myself, again and again, of how i want to live. of my sole ability & responsibility to experience that life. right now. and to keep creating the time and space to be present and move myself forward.
Happy Monday! Here is this weeks pictures:
Farrell – Los Angeles, CA
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Clean Team celebrating my birth!
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Slowly moving into our new place
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CB2
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Got to hear new music from Monster Rally. So psyched on his new EP.
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Lauren – New York, NY
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Warm weather and rooftop bbqs have finally arrived!
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Sunset over Manhattan
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Checking out the final works of the trifold body drawing game. Hilariously rewarding.
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