Art and reality

I have been looking forward to taking a drawing class for years and this year it fit into my schedule. Unfortunately this class wasn't it. It was not the instructor but the combination of other people in the class. I think I am sensitive to needing to hang out with people my own age verses having to turn the other cheek because of how our young people spend their lives. So I have dropped the class. :-(

Interesting marketing concept

Yesterday one of my co-workers sent out this link:Pomegranate Phone. It is interesting to see our expectations from a single device. I hope you enjoy. Now on to traveling...

Eroica

This movie was amazing. It showed a moment in time in which classical music changed. Symphony No. 3 or "Eroica" as it is know is one of my favorites. The second movement alone moves me from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other. This production brings everything alive. The DVD says it is 2 hrs and 9 min. but actually running time is shorter. Speechless....

The Joy Luck Club

Tonight my Chinese teacher showed the Joy Luck Club as part of the international movies that are shown each semester. There is a saying at the top of the movie poster that "Between every mother and daughter there is a story that must be told". I think often many stories are not passed down from one to another for many reasons. The sad part is that if it is not pasted on, there is an emptiness that remains. Every relationship between mother and daughter had a component that I could relate to my own life. Not so much with just my mother but with my overall relationship with my close and extended families. Each relationship explored during the movie has brought me to a point in which I am at that fork in the road again. Stay to the right and keep going and doing as I am or hang a left and become the person I want to be and get from this life what I want. I know I am worthy...I am taking the left.

Aspiratons and Reminiscences

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
-- Saki

Well?

Maybe today was just like any day and maybe tomorrow will be just like every tomorrow. But would happen if you stopped thinking like that? I bet a novel concept. So think that tomorrow will be different and not the same. Strange things happen that way. Like maybe you will like your job better or the commute will be different or you will just see things different. Doing that every day will helps not just you but those around you and the best part is the drudgery goes away.

Warmth and reflection

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
-- Ricther

Warmth of the sun

Weeks of cold have sunk into my bones. So last night I headed south to hang out with my mom. I has been fun today...shopping...lunch...shopping...dinner...warmth.

:-)

Thought manifests

The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love,
Born out of concern for all beings,
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.
-- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), Dhammapada

Is it me?

My lunch time schedule is usually fairly booked, sometimes weeks in advance. This week was no different. Everyday I had my lunch scheduled. My standing Monday lunch was same as usual but the Tuesday, Wednesday and today lunches all canceled on me. The interesting part was they all canceled on me about the same time on all three days.

Hmmm. I am not quite sure how to take this. Maybe it means I need to get out of my comfort zone and move on.

Redundancy...

Bridges...

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
-- Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

It's official...

Those without experience know better than those who do. Time to get out the polish.

A million things...

...happen each day if you add it up. From the time we start until the time we end, we just do. For many reasons we don't do or say what we really want to say and often it is the best. We also tend not to remember everyone like we should...you know spend that 10 seconds to think and smile. But really it is our conscious self that is not remembering. The unconscious mind and the universe does and they find ways to have you stop and think for those 10 seconds. Because if we don't then you may forget to smile.

Black ...day

Still not my favorite day for many reasons.

My day was good.

A great day

Today is Friday the 13th. We will actually get another one in a month. Many people do not like the number 13 and are superstitious of it. Western cultures have long held beliefs that the number 13 is unlucky while the Chinese have found it to be a lucky number. You need to decide for yourself. As for me, it is a good number.

Light at the end...

There is always light at the end of the tunnel. Whether or not you like the outcome of that light, it is still there. We always see dark instead of light when things are not going well. So maybe we should try to be more positive and optimistic instead of the opposite. Things may not look so bleak.

Do you ever...

...look at your hands and wonder when did they get so old? I was busy typing away today when the light hit my hands just right. They don't look like the rest of me. The rest of me looks younger than my age..other than my increasing gray hair (hooray for hair color). They look tired and wrinkly. Lots of little sections and segments cross my hands. They have gotten me where I am now and where I am headed. So maybe they aren't old...just experienced.

and we get...

Two feet of snow and an early day from work yesterday and off today. I think it is time to polish up the resume and find some place warm to live and work...

It starts with one of these...

Huh??

Strange thing happened tonight while talking to my mom. She had to get off the phone because one of her favorite shows was on. When I heard this I figured it was something like the Bachelor or American Idol. But actually...it was Star Wars Clone Wars. Yes, you read that correctly, the animated show and my mom. I think the planets have shifted their alignments or something...my mom and Clone Wars. Hmmm...

Northanger Abbey

Tonight my Jane Austen friends and I saw Northanger Abbey. It is not my favorite story and truth be told it took me over 2 years to read the 275+ pages. It was dark and basically just odd. But this version that I show to the left was the best we have seen. Some of it made the story make a heck of a lot more sense. But the cheesecake for dessert did help. :-)

Getting there

One must know that one is not in order to be able to understand that we are.
-- Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei

Cool...keep going.

Down 3...new goal...Life is good!

Looming in the dark

Tonight leaving class I saw the "french fries" sculpture lit from below. It almost looks like something lurking a the bottom of the ocean. Then again it could be the parallel paths in life.


Now to figure out how to draw this for class.

My day..

Can best be described as....

Balancing life on a pin head.

It's a Monday

That pretty much sums it up.

It's Number 6!