Vision Boards

Macy making her vision board and below is her vision board.



Marko's vision board

my vision board


We watched the secret last week as a family.....it had been a long time since we watched it.
Macy wanted to make vision boards(putting what you want to bring into your life on a board) after watching it
again......so, we made some vision boards on Sunday.....Marko wants to put his on his ceiling so he can see it first thing in the morning.
Hope you like the quote below.
Namaste,
Michele


Life is a vast and intricate conspiracy designed to keep you well-supplied with blessings. What kind of blessings? Ten million dollars, a gorgeous physique, a perfect marriage, a luxurious home, and high status? Maybe.
But just as likely: interesting surprises, dizzying adventures, gifts you hardly know what to do with, and conundrums that dare you to get smarter and wilder and kinder and trickier.
- quote from *PRONOIA* by Rob Brezsny

''''the restless soul"

I found this picture on the wall at Root Middle School, but did not see the author. I thought it looked really cool.......and I loved the words below.
Have a great day!!!
Namaste,
Michele

Before she died at the age of 101,
photographer Ruth Bernhard attributed her longeity
to her restlessness.
"Never get used to anything," she advised.
-Rob Brezsny

Can you come out and play???

Mira took this picture:)

Everything in the universe is alive
with playful intelligence and wants to
improvise with us.  
-Rob Brezsny

Love all, Serve all

Above are pictures from the Obama rally in downtown Cleveland yesterday.
We had so much fun. Bruce Springstein played a beautiful concert.
It was very uplifting for me. Below is a note from Rob Brezsny that I have been holding close to my heart. It is a good reminder for me. I like it because it honors all people and all opinions.
I am learning to not to have to change others opinions that are different from me.
I respect the way others feel and realize that there is no way that I can know the whole truth about anything in this physical form. So, I will stick with my motto "love all, serve all" and will do the best that I can to live it:)
Namaste,
Michele



"There's another factor that makes me cautious about getting embroiled in
partisan politics and the narrow-minded hostility that fuels it. One of my
main goals in life is to love everyone with passionate intensity -- no
exceptions. Not just the people I find beautiful and helpful and interesting
and attractive. But also the people I don't like and the people who don't
like me and the people I disagree with and the people who can't or won't
do anything for me.

In order to become the gorgeous genius I aspire to be, in order to fulfill
the unique destiny I came to Earth to embody, I have to hold EVERYONE
in my heart with compassion and empathy. As I contemplate how every
single part of creation is interconnected, I've got to be aware that the
creatures I'm allergic to and inclined to feel alienated from are also part of
the great web of life.

That's my spiritual goal; it's essential to awakening my best self and
cultivating an intimate connection to Spirit. It's also my selfish goal; it's
critical to my physical and mental health. Hatred always sickens me. Love
always invigorates me."
-Rob Brezsny

You are what you feed upon.......feed yourself healthy words and thoughts!!

If you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it’s impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. -Rob Brezsny

Love this!!!

"Life is a vast and intricate conspiracy designed to keep us well supplied with blessings. What kind of blessings? Palatial homes, attractive lovers, lottery winnings, career success? Maybe. But just as likely: interesting surprises, unexpected challenges, gifts we hardly know what to do with, conundrums that force us to get smarter. "


-Rob Brezsny

Did you Know....

Elephants from my parents trip to Africa.....I guess one of their travel mates had an elephant stick his trunk in their hut......
Some bizarre facts from one of my favorites.....Rob Brezsny....
did you know that:

In the next 24 hours, 200 million people will make love
on this planet, as
they do every day of every year.

*Wired* magazine reports that vast supplies
of frozen natural gas lie
beneath the oceans, harboring more potential
energy than all of the
world's oil reserves.

China and India, which comprise one-third of
the earth's population, have
more than twice the wealth they had in 1989.

Rising rates of intermarriage are helping
to dissipate ethnic and religious
strife worldwide.

Death rates from cancer are shrinking.

Acreage devoted to organic farming is increasing rapidly.

Levels of literacy and education and political
freedom are steadily growing
all over the world.

If forced to decide between having a bigger
penis and living in a world
where there was no war, 90 percent of all men
would pick universal
peace.

With every dawn, when first light penetrates
the sea, many seahorse
colonies perform a dance to the sun.

An average cloud is the same weight as 100 elephants.

There are always so many fragments of spider
legs floating in the air that
you are constantly inhaling them wherever you go.

A river requires a million years to move
a grain of sand 100 miles.

Diamonds rain from the skies on the planets
Uranus and Neptune.

The five most beautiful words in the English
language are luminous,
crucible, melody, undulates, and gratitude.

http://FreeWillAstrology.com

Who believes in you??????

above picture by Drew in Columbus, Ohio......http://tinyurl.com/2jlx4e

The Velveteen Hot Dog
by Rob Brezsny

The scene: a mother and eight-year-old daughter at a restaurant. Peering earnestly at the waitress, the girl says, "I want a hot dog, french fries, and Coke."

The mother doesn't acknowledge this declaration. "My daughter will have the bean salad, plain yogurt, and grapefruit juice," she asserts.

Turning to the girl, the waitress asks, "Do you want ketchup with it?"

The girl beams at the waitress and muses to herself, "She thinks I'm real."

The moral of the story: Make sure that you hang out as much as possible with people like the waitress.

I have a dream 2007

This is what Rob Brezsney sent out today.
I love this man.....his mind is way out there and he is very colorful....but those are the kind of problem solvers and dreamers we need to incarnate here at this time.
have a great day!!!
Love,
Michele

Now here’s my “I Have a Dream” 2007 speech.

 By Rob Brezsny

I have a dream.

I have a dream that in the New World, there will be a new Bill of Rights. The first amendment will be, “Your daily wage is directly tied to how much beauty and truth and love you provide.”

I have a dream that in the New World, childbirth will be broadcast in prime time on a major TV network every night.

I have a dream that the New World will have rapturists, and they’ll vastly outnumber the terrorists. The rapturists will be performance artists with a conscience ... charismatic improvisers who love to spring fun surprises. They’ll commit unexpected interventions and unscheduled spectacles that delight hordes of strangers.

I have a dream that in the New World, we will add an eleventh commandment to the standard ten: Thou shalt not bore God.

I have a dream of a week-long annual holiday called the Bacchanalia. Work and business will be suspended so that all adults can explore their ripe mojo with frothy erotic experiments. Tenderly orgiastic marathons will rage unabated. Reverential ecstasy and grateful generosity will rule.

I have a dream that when anchormen report tragedies on their nightly TV shows, they’ll break down and cry and let their emotions show. No more poker faces.

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In the New World, you’ll be a fascinating enigma worthy of a best-selling unauthorized biography and I’ll be an inscrutable genius whose every move is packed with symbolic meaning—and vice versa. That will be the law in the New World—far different from the Old World, where schadenfreude is epidemic and your distinctive flair is supposed to make me feel worshipful or diminished.

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I have a dream that in the New World, the word “asshole” will be a term of endearment rather than abuse. Plutocracy will be a felony. April Fool’s Day will come once a month. There’ll be scientific horoscopes and mystical logic. Every one of us will have at least one imaginary friend. Compassion will be an aphrodisiac.

In the New World, we’ll launch an affirmative action program that ultimately makes most of us celebrities. Buddhist real estate developers will build a chain of sacred shopping centers in the heartland. The CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies will be required by law to enjoy once-a-week sessions with Jungian psychotherapists. Pioneers in artificial intelligence research will develop computers that can talk to God.



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In the New World, our children will study singing and dancing and meditation and dream work with as much diligence as they now devote to math and science. They’ll learn to see with their own eyes and think with their own minds and feel with their own hearts, studying those subjects as intently as they do spelling and grammar and social studies. Beginning in seventh grade, they’ll get lessons in the art of creating successful intimate relationships. And we’ll teach them why it’s only fair that for the next 3,000 years we use “her” for the generic singular pronoun instead of “him.”

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I have a dream that in the New World, Oprah Winfrey will buy up all the Pizza Huts on the planet and convert them into a global network of menstrual huts, where for a few days each month, every one of us, men and women alike, can resign from the crazy-making 9–5—drop out and slow down, break trance and dive down into eternal time.

We will sleep eight and a half hours every night and practice our lucid dreams ... sing love songs from the future while soaking in long, hot baths ... feast on chocolate as we converse with the little voices in our heads ... research the difference between stupid suffering and wise suffering until we finally get it right . . . wear magic underwear made from eagle feathers, spider webs, and 100-year-old moss . . . and conjure up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems.

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In the New World, you’ll kick your own ass and I’ll wash my own brain. I’ll be my own parents and you’ll be your own wife. And vice versa. That’ll be normal in the New World—different from the Old World, where everyone except me is to blame for my ignorance and you call on everyone except yourself to give you what you need.

I’ll push my own buttons and right my own wrongs. You’ll wake yourself up and sing your own songs. (wake up to find out that y ou are the eyes of the world.....!!!!)

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I’m the president now . . . and so are you. I am the Supreme Commander of the United Snakes of the Blooming HaHa . . . and so are you. And what we proclaim is that in the New World, we will love our neighbors as ourselves, even if our neighbors are jerks. We will never divide the world into us against them. We will search for the divine spark even in the people we most despise, and we will never dehumanize anyone, even those who dehumanize us.

I have a dream that sooner or later every one of us will become a well-rounded, highly skilled, incredibly rich master of rowdy bliss—with lots of leisure time and an orgiastic feminist conscience.

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To buy PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia, the book from which "I Have a Dream" is excerpted, go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble.