I am a dreamer woman we always have to dream, always…. Always..
Then I don't waste time, today night , after reading and playing for a while with Cosme my cat, well sometimes I call him Mimi, especially when I feel affectionate with him.
I also have a stage that I like to make others happy, as you say very good for my psyche. With Emilio, my friend of a year and a half, He usually said me Ana come, come and we start walk through the park and he greets everyone sitting on a bench. If they are older people I usually stop on purpose for Emilio to say hello to them and we can have a moment to chat. Emilio manages to get a spontaneous smile out of them. These are moments of happiness for all. He also greets the pretty girls, another added pleasure for me. Jiji
JW, thanks. I don't know how, but it feels like you knew what I was thinking about! Maybe lots of people are thinking about first thoughts and the language we let in today.
This morning, I was singing the elbow lyric in the shower 'the way the day begins, decides the shade of everything'.
Since reading 12 Bytes I've been writing so much and looking for good stories about the future. I keep finding horrible ones in films (I watched Blade Runner and then a film called Mute, both horribly sexist) and it's affected me. So I am going to watch Celine Siamma and read Ali Smith later tonight. They are storytellers I trust to guide my dreams and provide the higher narrative. As are you. X
The kitchen is the true soul of a house. Not the living-room. People gather more often in the kitchen for talks, confidences. Perhaps because food is prepared there, it has a nurturing quality that atracts us to be there, even if just with the company of a book, listening to music or simply sitting there by ourselves quietly (...eventually writing too.) Many years ago, I had one of my favourite poems by Rainer Maria Rilke ("I live my life in growing orbits, which move out over the things of this world...") hung there above the kitchen counter, because I wanted to learn it in its original language. I decided to create a little walz tune for it, so I could 'sing' it anywhere. I still do it - it makes my heart dance. Often it is in the kitchen that I get my best reflections and inspirations.
Your hidden yoga practice is revealed again! Reading to “settle the mind” sounds a lot like the yogi’s practice of quieting the mind. Finding one sentence or word to alight into sleep sounds a lot like dream yoga. Personally, my practice is balancing a light novel on my head while in a pretzel pose ;) No, it’s reading a verse each night from Loren Roche’s translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra text “The Radiance Sutras”. I find it lives up to it’s subtitle “112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight”. Yes, you can have your yoga and read it too :)
looking in the mirror and really staring at ourselves helps us to know ourselves, I think. Also, like ourselves again, a renewal. a new start. Always a new start every day. We can do this
I am a dreamer woman we always have to dream, always…. Always..
Then I don't waste time, today night , after reading and playing for a while with Cosme my cat, well sometimes I call him Mimi, especially when I feel affectionate with him.
I also have a stage that I like to make others happy, as you say very good for my psyche. With Emilio, my friend of a year and a half, He usually said me Ana come, come and we start walk through the park and he greets everyone sitting on a bench. If they are older people I usually stop on purpose for Emilio to say hello to them and we can have a moment to chat. Emilio manages to get a spontaneous smile out of them. These are moments of happiness for all. He also greets the pretty girls, another added pleasure for me. Jiji
JW, thanks. I don't know how, but it feels like you knew what I was thinking about! Maybe lots of people are thinking about first thoughts and the language we let in today.
This morning, I was singing the elbow lyric in the shower 'the way the day begins, decides the shade of everything'.
Since reading 12 Bytes I've been writing so much and looking for good stories about the future. I keep finding horrible ones in films (I watched Blade Runner and then a film called Mute, both horribly sexist) and it's affected me. So I am going to watch Celine Siamma and read Ali Smith later tonight. They are storytellers I trust to guide my dreams and provide the higher narrative. As are you. X
He was sitting in the lounge of the Empire Hotel
He was drinking for diversion
He was thinking for himself
A little money riding on the Maple Leafs
Along comes a lady in lacy sleeves
She says let me sit down
You know, drinkin' alone's a shame (It's a shame it's a crying shame)
Look at those jokers
Glued to that damn hockey game
Hey honey-you've got lots of cash
Bring us round a bottle
And we'll have some laughs
Gin's what I'm drinking
I was raised on robbery
I'm a pretty good cook
Sitting on my groceries
Come up to my kitchen
I'll show you my best recipe
I try and I try but I can't save a cent
I'm up after midnight, cooking
Trying to make my rent
I'm rough but I'm pleasin'
I was raised on robbery
We had a little money once
They were pushing through a four lane highway
Government gave us three thousand dollars
You should have seen it fly away
First he bought a '57 Biscayne
He put it in the ditch
He drunk up all the rest
That son of a bitch
His blood's bad whiskey
I was raised on robbery
You know you ain't bad looking
I like the way you hold your drinks
Come home with me, honey
I ain't asking for no full length mink
Hey, where you going
Don't go yet
Your glass ain't empty and we just met
You're mean when your loaded
I was raised on robbery
-Joni Mitchell
Oh, that was so good, especially about talking and distractions. Where can I read your book?
Just discovered your wise words here Jeanette. Thank you - I'll keep looking for them!
The kitchen is the true soul of a house. Not the living-room. People gather more often in the kitchen for talks, confidences. Perhaps because food is prepared there, it has a nurturing quality that atracts us to be there, even if just with the company of a book, listening to music or simply sitting there by ourselves quietly (...eventually writing too.) Many years ago, I had one of my favourite poems by Rainer Maria Rilke ("I live my life in growing orbits, which move out over the things of this world...") hung there above the kitchen counter, because I wanted to learn it in its original language. I decided to create a little walz tune for it, so I could 'sing' it anywhere. I still do it - it makes my heart dance. Often it is in the kitchen that I get my best reflections and inspirations.
Thank you for your words.
I read your books every year for I love the language so
Your hidden yoga practice is revealed again! Reading to “settle the mind” sounds a lot like the yogi’s practice of quieting the mind. Finding one sentence or word to alight into sleep sounds a lot like dream yoga. Personally, my practice is balancing a light novel on my head while in a pretzel pose ;) No, it’s reading a verse each night from Loren Roche’s translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra text “The Radiance Sutras”. I find it lives up to it’s subtitle “112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight”. Yes, you can have your yoga and read it too :)
I'll be thinking about this every day. Thank you.
I read a lot more poetry because even if I'm tired I can read a couple poems in the morning or before sleeping.
Profound. Thank you JW.
...actually, I think I prefer ' a smile and a quick hello' in the mirror in the morning to staring. Better.
Thank you
Funny, I was thinking of 'ladies of the canyon' today
looking in the mirror and really staring at ourselves helps us to know ourselves, I think. Also, like ourselves again, a renewal. a new start. Always a new start every day. We can do this