We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
~ Abraham Heshel
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
~ A.J. Muste
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.
You may say I’m a dreamer,
But I’m not the only one.
I hope someday you’ll join us,
And the world will be as one.
~ John Lennon
“No one said that a conscious path was easy. It’s easier, at least in the short term, to change channels, crack another beer, grab a slice of pizza, take the blue pill, and descend into a self-induced coma. Probably 90 percent of people do this, so it’s not as though you’ll lack for company.”
~Jack Bennett of thirty-two thousand days
No one said this life was going to be easy. My dad always warned me “Life’s tough… get used to it.” I think it may be a lot easier than we make it though. Have it be more conscious, collective, content, and creative. Not that a beer and pizza with a good movie is bad, but to be able to break out and breathe in is a good thing.
11… what does it mean?
• A rocket must travel at over 11km per second to escape the Earth’s gravity.
• The space shuttle went up on its 11th mission, weighing 11 tons and fixed an errant satellite on the 11th day of the 11th month.
• The deepest point of the ocean floor is 11km at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
• The average adult male heart weighs 11 ounces.
• The number 11 is a prime number, which cannot be divided by anything other than itself.
• World War I ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
• “Two pillars standing side by side will support far more than twice of what either pillar would individually.” ~Jerry J. Davis
Here’s 11 hints for life:
1. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
2. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.
3. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.
4. It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.
5. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
6. Don’t go for looks, they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth, even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
7. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
8. Always put yourself in the other’s shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.
9. A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may heal and bless.
10. The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
11. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you’re the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
~ Unknown
“Eleven Hints for Life” shared from Lance Ekum @ The Jungle of Life.
11 sign photo
11 painting photo
Sometimes when I blog, I feel like I’m writing to a screen that has no end. It’s open, yet it’s closed. It’s free, yet it feels somewhat caged in cyberspace. It’s a white screen with a black hole. What do the faces of the readers look like? Are there smiles? Does it go in one ear and out the other? How many thousands of other words have you been inundated with before you read this?
Where’s the connection amidst the clicks and scrolls?
Hello, is there anybody out there?
Where is the personal link behind the box?
Facebook, you knew that the mastermind behind the computer has feelings… and you capitalized on connection.
When you start a blog, there’s a rolling momentum that encourages you to forge ahead. The thrill of clicking the “Publish” button and sending a post out to elicit some sort of connection or share some tidbits of knowledge that I stumble upon. The new and exciting feel of jumping on a new bike for the first time… or maybe just a new life.
Woo hoo!! The creativity, ideas, and blog posts spew out onto the screen with ease.
Then I feel like I’m just writing on a wall. Yes, you all can see but it feels like it floats out there as cyber bits of rock among the asteroids. Everybody is blogging with gazillions of words. Blogs are tangled like snarled ponytails (ask my daughter about those). When I feel discouraged, then comes life. The idea pipeline gets clogged. Muddle in the middle. Life oozes into the cracks that allowed the expression to escape, stifling the time and energy that zaps to a halting stop. Now is where the hard part comes. Forcing posts or pushing creativity does NOT work… the flow needs to re-emerge as something new and fresh once again.
So I’m “back in the saddle” once again: Riding, writing and life. The new flow goes, the creativity re-awakened and the energy disperses more evenly to create balance. I completed my road race goal and come back to tipping the scales the other way… at least for a while.
But that’s what a scale is for, right? To hit the tipping point, then come back home to balance.
What comes with me is an understanding that there is some tidal movement: It can be a tidal wave, and then tiny lapping waves with barely a ripple. There is a time for certain moments to occur and then allowance to move on.
Thanks for hangin’ with me through Missing-in-action-May. Just know that I will always be real, and “real” is taking breaks too.
❤ ❤ ❤
