Showing posts with label Inspiring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inspiring. Show all posts
22 January 2013
20 January 2013
Janis Joplin
One of the most powerful, electrifying, flamboyant, and talented female rockstars was born today.
Her name was Janis Joplin.
She didn’t take the “well-trodden” path in life, instead decided to not conform to society, and that was a huge deal back in the 60’s, especially for women. She set her own social standards, and urged young men and women to do the same.
Janis was always true to herself, and that’s something we should all try to accomplish.
17 January 2013
The Advantage Of Being In Transition
If you're in transition right now, remain open to new opportunities for personal growth and to experience things outside your comfort zone... seek paths for creating the life experience you want but perhaps never knew how to make happen.
The advantage of being in transition is you're out of the daily grind (or rut).
You're free to go anywhere from here. Courage and faith will be your greatest allies now.
Fear and a tendency to shrink back, worry or step into the safe shadows of your comfort zone will not be serving.
Embrace growth. Quicken your pace toward clarity of what you really want.
Seize this opportunity to live new.
The advantage of being in transition is you're out of the daily grind (or rut).
You're free to go anywhere from here. Courage and faith will be your greatest allies now.
Fear and a tendency to shrink back, worry or step into the safe shadows of your comfort zone will not be serving.
Embrace growth. Quicken your pace toward clarity of what you really want.
Seize this opportunity to live new.
15 January 2013
10 January 2013
Where She Went By
Every morning I wake up and tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through.
I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk-or why.
But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to assure myself that I got through yesterday,
I'll get through today.
I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk-or why.
But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to assure myself that I got through yesterday,
I'll get through today.
Gonzo Fist
The "Gonzo fist," characterized by two thumbs and four fingers holding a peyote button, was originally used in Hunter S. Thompson's 1970 campaign for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado.
It has become a symbol of Thompson and gonzo journalism as a whole.
09 January 2013
Yet To Discover The Author
I am not a graceful person. I am not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset.
I am a Tuesday 2 a.m., am gunshots muffled by a few city blocks, I am a broken window during February. My bones crack on a nightly basis.
I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness.
I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen. The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm.
You don’t see the lightning, but you hear the echoes.
To understand metaphor within imagery you have to imagine the picture the author of this piece is trying to create.
For instance, when you think of a Sunday morning you may think of a relaxed day.
A Friday Sunset (night) you might think of having a fun evening with your friends.
The author is saying he/she is neither of these simple, or relaxed things.
Then the poet gives examples of what they identify with:
A Tuesday 2am
Gunshot
Broken window during February
Notice that the author uses the same number of examples for both.
Dig deep on the imagery to understand the meaning behind each of these pictures.
What do you think of when you imagine Tuesday at 2am, a gunshot, or a broken window in February? None of these images are comforting or calm, leading us to believe that the author feels disruptive, dangerous, and useless.
Then the author uses further metaphor to describe the outcome.
Their bones feel week.
They feel disconnected from other's
The line: "The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm." Refers to the happy things and sad things in their life mixing inside making them feel complex and misunderstood.
"You don't see the lightning, but you hear the echoes." is in reference to people close to them being unable to see the author's complex feelings, but able to see that the author is unhappy.
10 October 2010
02 October 2010
Greater By Ralph Marston
Even when the pain is great, the goodness in your life is greater. Feel that goodness, wrap your awareness around it, and act on it.
You have always known what joy feels like, and you can always allow that joy to flow out through your life. Each joy lives again, even more intensely, every time it is recalled.
You have always known what joy feels like, and you can always allow that joy to flow out through your life. Each joy lives again, even more intensely, every time it is recalled.