My Little Journal of Positivity

Have you heard of "conjugating adjectives" in English?

I'm thrifty; you're frugal; he's cheap.
I'm assertive; you're aggressive; she's pushy.

This postholder is possibly about declining nouns.

One person's rescue is another person's escape.
Someone's dream job may be someone else's nightmare.

Sometimes, you do the right thing -- and it doesn't work.
From a particular reference point, looking up may only mean
straight ahead, but it's still a change in point of view.

Trying to reframe this... but it's not easy.

Don't take it personally. Try giving it away instead.

Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man's war

I dreamed last night. Then I woke up and remembered it.

Ah, sometimes Tir'na Na Nog'th is a pattern you can walk.
But first you have to find your feet. Then you have to move.

Poor little dreamer
Stand inside the door
You can't find the easy rhymes
Of times you had before--
-Heart, "Cry to Me"

Danced with the right people last night
at contra, even the ones I didn't know.
The ones I did? Thank you -- bless you.

I dreamed last night I was the last
passenger on a jet plane with 16 cabins
which varied wildly in accommodation.

Fourteen passengers were already on board.
split evenly between friends and allies
and so there were only two cabins left
for me to choose from.

One was the smallest, just a white closet.

The other was the largest, with controls,
monitors, and a VHS deck containing a tape
labeled "Safety Procedures for This Flight".

Ah, sometimes Tir'na Na Nog'th is a subconscious.
And sometimes, just a hard slap in the face.

The glass is empty and the wine
Is bitter on your tongue
People don't seen wild and fine
Like when you were young--

In other news, I forgot how warm snowboard socks are.
But how I hate cold and dark months ending in -ember?
That part, full well I remember.

But I also remembered to take my vitamins this morning.

Dancing encourages hyperventilation, increases the
production of adrenaline, and causes a sharp decrease in
levels of blood glucose. These physiological responses
stimulate the brain to release endorphins...
-Barbara Tedlock, _The Woman in the Shaman's Body_

[Part of this was originally posted private on 9/30/2008.
Updated 12/1/2009 as closure for Black November 2009.]

The message for me in what you've said is that
ACTION is always better than inaction, a lesson that
for some reason I have had to relearn again and again.

It goes like this: You must take a step in the direction
that you think is right, because you will otherwise never
know what that step might reveal. Whether that step reveals
the error in your thinking, the missing enabler, the proof
you've sought, the beauty or ugliness you never imagined,
the nature of resistance, or nothing particularly meaningful,
it is worth the effort to pull back the curtain, because
it will expand your knowledge and guide you.
Linda from Deerfield

Step, step, step.

If your foot lands in mud, pull it up, shake it off.
Go on.

If your other foot lands in shit, pull it up, shake it off.
Go on.

Take the first step in faith.
You don’t have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step.
–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.