one love

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
--Joan Baez

check out the link below!...how beautiful!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqH4a9fp7kU

On Being an Artist

I love the above picture that Macy made. She loves doing artwork. I see her struggle in art at school sometimes. She came home in the second grade and said her art teacher told her that her trees did not look like trees and told her to draw here trees shaped like a "y". Macy was really put out about that. She told me that she liked the way her trees looked and did not like the way her art teacher told her to make trees.
Have a great day.
hope you like the quote below.
Love,
Michele



When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at a college -- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
--Howard Ikemoto

The Compliment Man

Rob Brezny wrote this:
Washington, D.C.'s most renowned vagrant 
never begs for money.
Instead, he hangs around the streets all day and 
doles out praise and flattery to passers-by.
He calls himself Compliment 
Man. "Those are beautiful shoes you're wearing,"
he may say as you walk by, or
"The two of you look great together"
if you're with a friend.

Kinda cool!!!!....ehhhh?read below also.  Love, Michele

When my daughter was in Washington DC doing her residency at Georgetown we me an incredible icon of DC known as “Compliment Man.” He is an infamous character who lives on the streets of DC and is known for complimenting every person who walks by. He finds something nice to say to every human that walks by. I wonder what the world would be like if we all took a lesson from Compliment Man. He is not rich or powerful in the usual ways we Americans think about “rich and powerful,” but he is rich and very powerful in his rich message he brings to all of us. No matter what life throws at you, respond with a positive message. Send love and possibility into the world instead of fear and separation. I was walking into Starbucks the other day having a rough morning of things going sideways. I just knew a venti latte would restore the balance to my day. As I got out of the car I dropped my keys and other events led me to another stage of frustration. As I was heading for the front door in a flurry, I heard a gentle voice say, “You are looking nice today mam, I hope you are having a blessed day. I am having a magnificent day of blessings, just one right after another.” This man was sitting in a Dartmouth sweatshirt, teeth missing and disheveled. He had a smile as big as Montana on his precious face and reminded me of Compliment Man. He got me smiling and in a flash, I was feeling blessed by him and the world. I have seen him at Starbucks several times since then and I now look for him every time. I look forward to the kind motivating words that emerge from his gentle heart. Thanks Dartmouth Man. You are one of my blessings in this dynamic life.

POSTED BY Kathleen
link: http://tinyurl.com/37y73c


Nice article about him Here: http://tinyurl.com/3ah3ez

On Connectedness

Loneliness
Is
An island
In
The middle
Of
A sea of people
--R.R. (age 11)


Health Through Friendship:
According to research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.,
having close friends you can count on has far-reaching benefits
for your physical and mental health.
A strong social network can be critical to helping you through
the stress of tough times, whether you've
had a bad day at work or a year filled with loss or chronic illness.
Dr. Edward T. Creagan is a cancer specialist at the Mayo Clinic
and the author of "How Not to Be My Patient:
A Physician’s Secrets for Staying Healthy and Surviving any Diagnosis."
He says a prescription of friendship can go a long way toward a healthy future.
“Mounting evidence from sociologists, psychologists
and medical researchers suggests that strong social support
-- I like the term 'connectedness' -- can help a person live longer,” he said.
click on the link below to read more!!!
http://tinyurl.com/359svz

On Being Alive

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. --Joseph Campbell

Do You Realize?

http://www.gretchenmusic.com/dyr/index.html
click on link above

Do You Realize?:
"Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face? That we're floating in space? That happiness makes you cry?" So begins an unusual music video, shot with $3000, a plastic crown, a used video camera and a diverse handful of Los Angelans. Do You Realize? was released with no art work, no band, and no press release. Singer Gretchen Lieberum created this hauntingly beautiful, thought-provoking cover of a song.

My Religion

Things that make me smile :)

The Last Lecture

Pausch, an active member of the community, co-founded the university's Entertainment Technology Center and directed the development of Alice, free software that teaches high school and college students about computer programming. He was diagnosed last year with pancreatic cancer, giving him an average five-year survival rate of just 4 percent.

At the time, his wife, Jai, was caring for their infant daughter, Chloe, who is now 1 year old. They have two sons, Logan and Dylan, ages 3 and 5.

Doctors removed Pausch's gallbladder, portions of his stomach and pancreas and several feet of his small intestine to increase his survival odds to 15 percent. He enrolled in an experimental treatment offered in Houston that combined chemotherapy with radiation, boosting the five-year odds to 45 percent.

He developed a Web site to inform people about his progress, and on Aug. 26 posted a bittersweet message: Although he felt the best he had in months and was able to play rigorously with his children, the grueling treatments didn't kill the cancer. Doctors believe he has three to six months to live.

"We cried for a few minutes, then said, 'OK, what's the best game plan from here?' " Pausch said.

His wife's family lives in Norfolk, Va., so they spent the past several weeks moving there. Dylan recently started kindergarten.


Beloved Professor delivers "Last Lecture" http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=5788




They had come to see him give what was billed as his "last lecture." This is a common title for talks on college campuses today. Schools such as Stanford and the University of Alabama have mounted "Last Lecture Series," in which top professors are asked to think deeply about what matters to them and to give hypothetical final talks. For the audience, the question to be mulled is this: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance?

--
At Carnegie Mellon, however, Dr. Pausch's speech was more than just an academic exercise. The 46-year-old father of three has pancreatic cancer and expects to live for just a few months. His lecture, using images on a giant screen, turned out to be a rollicking and riveting journey through the lessons of his life.

He began by showing his CT scans, revealing 10 tumors on his liver. But after that, he talked about living. If anyone expected him to be morose, he said, "I'm sorry to disappoint you." He then dropped to the floor and did one-handed push ups.

Some of his advice:

"Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things."
He encouraged us to be patient with others. "Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you." After showing photos of his childhood bedroom, decorated with mathematical notations he'd drawn on the walls, he said: "If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it."
--

Dr. Pausch's speech was taped so his children, ages 5, 2 and 1, can watch it when they're older. His last words in his last lecture were simple: "This was for my kids." Then those of us in the audience rose for one last standing ovation

He is concentrating now on creating videos for his children. With his oldest son, 5-year-old Dylan, Dr. Pausch went on a recent trip to Disney World and to swim with dolphins, thinking Dylan may be the only child who will have strong direct memories of him.

His wife and children, he said, "mean everything to me. They give a purpose to life and a depth of joy that no job [and I've had some of the most awesome jobs in the world] can begin to provide.

"I hope my wife is able to remarry down the line. And I hope they will remember me as a man who loved them, and did everything he could for them."

To see some of his speech, click below...or just cut and paste it. Jim Kelly sent me this link...it is really good!!

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=5788

THE JOY OF KINDNESS

The Connection Between Kindness and Power

Understanding kindness means accepting our personal power.
If you see your place in the universe, really see it, you will not
be struck by your insignificance. Rather, you will be awed
by your…power to build and contribute.

--ROBERT J. FUREY, THE JOY OF KINDNESS

Broken open

Macy drew this picture of a dragon fly...and I love it.- Michele


The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. --Ernest Hemingway

Illumination

My parents took a picture of this guy when they were in Africa...
I think he has a blue butt?
......neon blue!!! Hope you like the quote below!

love, Michele


It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations.
If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light,
it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week,
or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated.
Once we control our capacity for love and happiness,
the light has been turned on.

--Sharon Salzberg