Summer, Where Have You Gone?

Live Like Your Last

"The Buddha said that every time you go to bed you should consider that you won’t wake up. That way, when you wake up you will be especially grateful for the day you have ahead of you. Instead of seeing the day as a burden that you have to 'get through' you will see it as an opportunity to do something meaningful and beneficial.

Why? Because you could die tonight."

~a friend Chenay Gladstone

Framed

Pleasantly chilled....

Full Moon

Full moon tonight

 

Say the words you've been holding back, do the things you've been waiting to do, focus on the things that the world prevents you from thinking about, but most importantly- love the people that mean the most to you. In the end, doing that will free your heart to doing everything else.

Google's Growing Up So Fast!

Google's 14th birthday!! Wow! For me, Google is my Bible so this is a pretty big deal... Happy B-Day Google (she says as she wipes a tear from her cheek)

Inspiration

Specificism

General note to creatives:

Never go into anything looking for something specific- you'll end up skipping out on all the brilliantly unspecific things along the way.

The Summoning

 

 

 

With a crystalline finger, she painted the sky.

streaking the platinum canvas in a line of sheer, smokey white

smudging the sky as her finger challenged the wind.

A copper penny arose from the bobbing tides and silk horizon
 

                                                                                                         she pushed

                                                                                                         d o w n .
 

and summoned stars.

Dippers and Orion's sparked each nail

As she traced the planets and moons against the indigo sky.

 

                                                                                            h . e . a . r . t . b . e . a . t . s
 

highlight the waves,

ricocheting off the inflated moon.

Moonlit paths glaze the canvas.

Ocean breezes accent

the whispers of dawn.

A crystalline finger surrenders

Relinquishing to the

                                                                                                          w i  n d  .

 

 

 by Alexis Szoke.



 



Blogoogling

blogoogling 
        n. blogging and googling

Camera

Interesting Fact:

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.



On a Hopeful Note....

It's Saturday night and My Mama Says....


"Everything will be alright in the end, so if it's not alright, then it's not the end."


Simple as that.

Excellence

We are what we repeatedly do, therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle

Eyes.

Imagine if we could all hold each other as babies. Imagine the love and connection we would feel as we gazed into our friend's, our co worker's, our rival's eyes. Without attachment to earthly titles or past wrong doings- just love. Just eyes.

Those eyes are just enough to through away resentments and grievances and just accept the person not for what their bodies have done, but for what their soul is.

You.

Dear Peanut Gallery

Dear Peanut Gallery,

Though your witty comments and unsolicited advice on last nights Keeping Up With The Kardashians on E! episode was so ho-ho, haha (not) funny, and totally needed to be said (to make yourself feel better), I, on behalf of the rest of America would thoroughly appreciate a little hush hush from you these days. Because, frankly, I've just about heard enough. Now don't get me wrong, there are plenty of formulated remarks stewing around in all of our heads when it comes to the subject of tonights reality TV lineup, but for your own dignity, put a lid on it. I don't really need to hear how you were totally like "what" and "omg, lol, did she seriously just say that?" because yeah, she did and she will continue to keep saying it becasue she's a Kardashian. And "she" is a Snooki, and a "Lady Sitter," and a Bachelorette, and a person. Just because you type it into a chat box, it doesn't discount the fact that these are all people and the very fact that you are one too. Show some respect and start acting like it.

Kind Regards,
Daily Dose

Silence is Golden

Today My Mama Says...

 

"Silence is golden,

But duct tape is silver."

How to Get-'er-DONE!

Personally, I think the best way to get things done is not by

A) setting a goal and then revolving yourself around that one goal until you finally achieve it, (though productive for some)

We want it so much, we get too controlled on trying to make it happen so badly, that we don't recognize the ways the universe tries to make it easier.

neither is it by

B) just saying you want something so bad and whining every second of the day about how you don't have it, (though extremely fun for others)

We aren't willing to put in the effort for things that we say we want, but are willing to put the effort into saying how much we don't have it. We are pretty much telling the universe that it's okay to prolong it out and to give us more of the not having it.

but by simply putting your intentions on it, accepting it as something you want and something you intend on attracting, then letting it be.

Seriously, I need to learn how to make things happen without the extremes. I've got better things to do like getting those things done.

Free

by Alexis Szoke


I am here.

I am free


From all people who construed me.

From all judgements that consume me.

From all lies that have restrained me.

And the thoughts I will contain.


From all darkness that surrounds me.

And the shackles that confound me.

From all the shadows that will haunt me.

And all the burns that stain my heart.


All the pasts that once lead me.

All judgments that have fed me.

All mirrors that do not reflect me.

The things that I have left behind.


I am free from restrictions that control me.

The people that had hold on me.

The ceilings that have kept me.

Today I am free.



Clean eyes that have seen me

Visions of what I will be

But will not be of me truly

I see now that I am free.

Defeat

by Alexis Szoke


I am defeated.
Defeated is to be overcome.
Overcome, or come over?
What have I come over?

Over, over there?
Not there, here.
Here and
now. Now I am afraid.