23 June 2008

Sh*t


George Carlin died yesterday. He was only 71; had a history of heart disease. It finally got him. Shit.

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits!

If I do say so myself...

7 more words: Good bye, we will miss you George.

08 June 2008

Head Stories

Over vegan French toast a friend of mine reminded me about some valuable information today. It changed the tenor of my day, immediately.

It’s the idea of “head stories.” Stories we tell ourselves about things that we need/want to do, or situations we may find ourselves in.

What is a head story?

Like this: Oh, god, I don’t want to call Suzanne because she always keeps me on the phone too long and I end up getting resentful. I know if I call her I’ll be on the phone at least an hour.

How do you know? You don’t know that.

Yes, yes I do know. She always does it.

But you can’t know that she’ll keep you on the phone.

Oh, yes, believe me. I know.

You might believe she will, or you might be afraid she will or you might remember that she has in the past, but you can not know she will keep you on the phone for at least on hour this time.

So, dreading it, I call Suzanne.

We talk for 8 minutes. A sweet connection.

Head stories. I wrecked at least an hour of my day telling myself stories and believing they were true. They were not investigative, journalistic reporting.

They were damn convincing fiction.

Get back...

I want to get back in the habit of writing here. So, as part of an exercise here is some writing: I am going to meet a friend for breakfast this morning.

Slim was outside for no more than 5 minutes and caught a Meadow Vole. She had it for breakfast. I took up her food bowl.

Oh, there was no Triple Crown winner, again.

31 March 2008

Raw Raw Sis Koombah!

I did a 7 day raw food cleanse a couple of weeks ago. After finishing it I decided to sign on to a 30 day life transforming program called The Body Enlightenment System. I was skeptical. Internet rip-offs abound.

I seem to have stumbled on to a group of women working together to help each other feel better, get free of that which is holding us back, i.e. clutter of matter (messy, depressing house), clutter of mind (negative voices), clutter of body (unhealthy weight: too much/not enough), and grow.

So far I have had a wonderful, live (phone) consultation with Tera, one of the co-founders, I have received a bunch of material from ways to chart progress, to assisting in self exploration. It is not only well written but well designed, (save for a few annoying typos, but then I annoy at such details. Not that I am above typos, lord-ess knows.)

I have also met several warm, funny women who are all challenging themselves to feel better, think better, be better. I have just finished day 2. A long way to go. We'll see what I write when I have gotten farther into the process.

Wish me luck on my journey!