tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84930601782820608832024-02-07T03:33:01.518-04:00Living in the Moment..."Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy."
~Sarah Ban BreathnachAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.comBlogger467125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-58140610925995483642018-07-25T14:24:00.005-04:002018-07-25T14:27:17.625-04:00Growing: having or showing life<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><i>"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."</i> ~<i><b>Swami Vivekananda</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">I'm going to be joining a writing club and as a part of that process I have to submit a piece of writing. What have I written though? I came here, to the blog, that's been neglected for so long and found this quote above, waiting in draft form. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Why did I stop writing? How has life become so busy that I haven't been able to share in a few words, a few moments of my life?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Why am I starting again? Starting anew? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">This life is a funny thing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">peace,</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Ren</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-14206748336431502762016-04-09T23:33:00.001-04:002016-04-09T23:33:10.634-04:00I now have an herb garden.<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">"<i>To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves</i>." ~<i><b>Mahatma Gandhi</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">There is much to worry about in our country - <a href="http://chamber.org.tt/articles/feeding-trinidad-tobago/" target="_blank">food security</a> being one of them. I've found myself thinking more about planting food instead of just buying local. I already buy a lot of local produce - have been thinking it's time to move a step further and start producing my own. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">This is not as easy as it sounds because plants do not grow well with me. I have tried planting things before (remember <a href="http://www.quiettrini.com/2011/07/flowers-make-me-happy.html" target="_blank">my flower garden of 2011</a>?) but sadly, I've never really succeeded. My parent on the other hand has a green hand (more than a green thumb) so I'm hoping he takes an interest in the plants I want and not just the ones he wants.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">He wants to plant <a href="http://www.simplytrinicooking.com/rice-and-curry-seim-hyacinth-bean/" target="_blank">seim</a> and <a href="http://caribbeanpot.com/how-to-cook-fry-bodi/" target="_blank">bodi</a> which I understand as he eats a lot of them but... I do not like seim (I can manage bodi). Seim vines produce a lot so I know there's going to be a lot of seim in my future. I'd just like for there to be other things as well. I'm planning ochro (we've grown some one year) and bhaigan and tomatoes. They will grow in our yard this year. I will make it happen. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">I decided before doing that though that I should have seasoning. Herbs. Should be easy enough to manage? In the one day and night since making that decision, I stopped by an agricentre and ended up coming home with not one or two but eight (yes, 8) different herbs. They're already planted in troughs and pots so all I have to do is water them and let them grow... I'm hoping they survive. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Please send growing thoughts. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">peace,</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Ren</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-64775501675103141722016-04-07T00:14:00.001-04:002016-04-07T00:14:32.616-04:00Thoughts on travelling<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”</i> ~<b><i>Ray Bradbury </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I got my new passport today. My old one expired in January and, because I do like going places, I went to get it renewed. It took 3 months but today I have my new passport and it's valid for 10 years. Yay!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've been very busy these past few days (and months and maybe the past year or two). On Sunday I spent the morning at the Blue Star and in the evening we held a session at studio sharing about death and dying. I think it was an awesome way to remember my mom and her own journeys. On Monday my brother and I had a meeting to attend in town to begin planning for the 2nd International Yoga day. We decided to make most of the day an adventure because when else would we be going up to town? Our days are usually filled with classes or people and so it takes a bit to step away from that for other things. On Tuesday I had class and then the cute guy and I went to see Batman vs Superman before heading back to our studio to talk and meet with someone about signage for our space. Today I spent time getting my passport and then had to head up to town again before stopping in by my brother for a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Busyness. It's become a part of my life. Today I've been thinking about how I want to travel to different places. I find myself thinking that each day we travel - through time and space and experiences. Each day is an opportunity and, though I hope to be able to visit somewhere else soon, I'm going to work at being open to when and how things may happen. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are adventures ahead but also day-to-day adventures to enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">peace,</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ren </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-22397947414396417492016-04-05T23:20:00.001-04:002016-04-05T23:20:40.644-04:00Working with a writing prompt today - because why not?<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">"<i>At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.</i>" ~ <b><i>Alan Alda</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">You keep speaking to me but I'm not sure that I know how to listen. I am still working on believing in myself - in my strength and my vulnerability. I am still working on trust and faith and many things that sometimes seem to be too much to number. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">You keep speaking to me but maybe I'm just not ready to listen. What will happen if I listen to the quiet inside? Is the world ready for that? Am I ready for that?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">You keep speaking to me through my body - each pulse, each breath, each shiver down my spine. Feelings that come up in my gut, my heart or my head. Throbbing between my eyebrows and tingling along my fingertips. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 26px;">You keep speaking to me - whispering on the wind, floating in the clouds, through the warmth of the sun on my skin and the feel of the ground beneath. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">You keep speaking to me from the pages of books, from music and song, from cards - I got this one last week: </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">"My intuitive senses are opening more and more each and every day. Trust your intuitive wisdom. If your mind is closed, how can you learn anything new?" ~Brian Weiss</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">Dear Intuition, you keep speaking to me and one day soon I'll know how to open to you, how to listen and how to share. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">peace,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of my mom's passing. My thoughts are all wrapped up in that. It comes and goes, moving between my thoughts of everyday life and my explorations of what I need to do for my growth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">We are having a free session at our studio - to talk about death and dying... I think there is not enough talk about that, not enough sharing of our experiences and thoughts. This is to start to fill that space. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">This came across my timeline (click on the image to follow the link): </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">It's appropriate and is now leading me off down the rabbit hole of writings on death, grief and mourning. Three years have passed and there is still grief. As much as there is happiness that she is no longer physically suffering, that her spirit is not free... there is also sorrow that she is not physically here with me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Especially in this month as I get ready to celebrate my birthday and especially now as I'm thinking about marriage and what that looks like. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Today is day 2 of the #100HappyDays project and I've already posted. Our days are filled with so many moments painted in shades of thoughts and feelings.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Ren </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-5748680275212270822016-04-01T22:30:00.000-04:002016-04-01T22:30:29.040-04:00Things I'll be writing about this month:<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><i>"The intuitive mind will tell the thinking mind where to look next." <b>~Jonas Salk</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">It's the first of April and I'm going to try very hard to write each day. Every day. A post a day! What will I be writing on? Anything that strikes my fancy. This will include:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">OMG the cute guy and I got engaged! Now we have to get married! And all the drama that happens when <strike>planning</strike> trying to plan <strike>a reception</strike> whether you want to have a reception or not. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">#100HappyDays - I'm participating in the <a href="https://100happydays.com/" target="_blank">100 happy days challenge</a> with a group of friends and also people I don't know. I realise today that this will be deeper and more involved than I expected as I had to google what "happy" meant before deciding on my first post.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Death, dying and my thoughts - Sunday 3rd will be 3 years since my mom's passing. We're having a free session at the studio talking about the yogic view of death and have invited someone to talk about palliative care. Death is so much a part of life that I think society needs to think about and talk about it more.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Yoga and being a business person. Do they go hand-in-hand? As much as any other occupation I suppose.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">My CatChile & my parent - they are the two males I currently live with and thus I have many stories about the two.</span></li>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-33719040721112577092016-03-31T09:38:00.000-04:002016-03-31T09:38:54.163-04:00Starting again (and again... and again).<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><i>"Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping." ~ <b>Julia Margaret Cameron</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">I took a look back at 2015 and realised there were just two posts. This makes me sad - that I didn't take the time to write and record what was going on, that I wrote about starting back writing and I didn't and, that now I don't have the words to look back on from all the little moments. Ah well. I start again.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">It's the last day of March and, as is usual for this time of year, I am contemplative. Reflecting on how the past year has been and preparing for my upcoming birthday and the new year to follow. A bit of recapping of 2015 is called for as I did not write at the time. There were miserable moments and happy moments - all learning experiences. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">In February 2015 we got robbed. The cute guy and I were out adventuring - cocoa night at Mariposa Gardens which was awesome and delicious and beautiful - and then we got robbed on our return to our car. Note to self: when parking in the daytime try to figure out what the place will look like when it's dark. It was our first experience being robbed and really not as bad as it could have been. We were healthy and whole and eventually (after a week or two) our things were returned to us. It does make me wonder about our society and our police force - I'm sure people knew who was responsible but no one was actually held. I wonder if people don't usually report that they've been robbed and so incidences like that just fade away. A year later and our crime situation is much more worse than it was. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Also in February 2015 my parent got mad and told me to leave the house. I did (for a few days) - I don't think he expected that I'd actually go anywhere. Since my mom's passing we've all been working on how to relate to each other (consciously and unconsciously). It's a work-in-progress as, I think, life is. The more I work on myself - on figuring out what emotions I hold and hide, the judgements I make of myself and others, the thoughts that come and go - the more my relationships and my ability to relate to others have improved.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">For my birthday last year the cute guy and I took four days off and went to Tobago. Such beauty in our country! Had birthday dinner at <a href="http://www.tablefortwomadeforyou.com/" target="_blank">Table for Two</a> and then got cake from my friend Herschel (we stayed by her)! We visited the <a href="http://www.tobagococoa.com/" target="_blank">Tobago Cocoa Estate</a> and the <a href="http://goatdairy-tobago.com/" target="_blank">Orange Hill Goat Dairy Farm</a>. We drove all over the island! We ate lots of food! We checked out the pool and the bay at the <a href="http://www.bacoletbeachclub.com/" target="_blank">Bacolet Beach Club</a>! I think we all need time away from our everyday life both to appreciate what else is out there and, on our return, to appreciate what we already have. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">We were in Tobago again at year end - shooting a wedding on Old Year's Night. Have I ever mentioned that the cute guy is a photographer? He's an awesome one and I've started shooting alongside. No pressure on me as he takes all the shots that need to be taken and I get to experiment and work on improving my photo-taking skills. I think I see how there are lots of couples in the photography business. I've also learnt over the past year that I like culling photos - something he doesn't like (or takes forever to do) - so this works out well for us. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">The rest of the year, all of the days in-between, has been spent on yoga and running a yoga business. I have been thinking of writing a book: the yoga of running a yoga business. For me it's been about building a community - I find it hard to charge people for things I would willingly share. This is where the difficulty of business lies - must charge to be able to share. It is very fulfilling to be able to share and through working with others I've been working on myself. Growth. It's happening. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Tomorrow is the first of April - I'll start writing about 2016 then :) It's been fabulous thus far! Hope yours is as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">peace,</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Ren </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-59740771162766057582015-09-10T13:19:00.000-04:002015-09-10T13:19:11.415-04:00Impetus<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">"<i>Our work is less about changing people than about designing environments that rouse the healing and creative impulses latent in each of us and in the group</i>." ~<b>Alan Briskin</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Hello again world. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">I've been thinking about writing here for quite some time. There's been lots of different nudges - circumstances that have me thinking about sharing and composing bits of blog posts in my head. Today I'm here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">The mother of a friend who comes to my classes has passed and today is her funeral. It's being held in the same place that we held my mom's. The cute guy and I will be attending because it's support yes? Holding space for others. Keeping everything from boiling up and over just by being there. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">I've been thinking a lot about how lucky I've been in terms of family and relationships and circumstances. I didn't realise I was thinking it was lucky till I just wrote that. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">I've been thinking a lot about the situations I've been through, lessons learned and support that I have. I'm trying to figure out how to share it all with the world.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">This morning I reread the posts I wrote during the month of my mom's passing and I'm strongly reminded that I'd like to write a book about her. I have to start it soon. It's been on my mind the past few weeks with certain family situations that have been popping up. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">I feel like writing. Maybe I start here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">peace,</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Ren</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-6852760264852623932015-02-19T23:22:00.000-04:002015-02-19T23:22:11.796-04:00Happy New Year!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>Face new challenges, seize new opportunities, test your resources against the unknown and in the process, discover your own unique potential</i>". ~ <b>John Amatt</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's the Chinese New Year today and I thought since I haven't written at all for this year that it's a good time to do so. How are you world? What's happening? I hope the good outweighs the bad. Positive over negative. The wheel of time turns - what goes up must come down so I know that everything has a cycle, an upturn and a downturn. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If life is good right now then take a moment to appreciate it. If it isn't then wait a moment - good things are coming. I'm being patient - taking the time to appreciate the good things in my life and preparing to receive what may come next. I'll be checking in here from time to time so look out for me!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ren</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-80640202025949147432014-12-31T19:11:00.003-04:002014-12-31T19:11:55.033-04:00Goodbye 2014!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instil in us</i>." ~<b>Hal Borland</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's the end of the year and I haven't been on here as much as I would have liked. I've been busy with yoga business. I tell people right now it's a lot more work doing the business side than the yoga - everyone seems to be, 'oh it must be tiring doing all that yoga!'. It's the business side of it that is most tiring, that requires a lot of mental power. Perhaps one day I shall write about the yoga of business. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's been a happy year - a year of figuring out what I can do, how I can improve, what I can contribute to the world at large. It's been a stressful year - figuring out finances and trying to manifest abundance. It's been a really good year with the cute guy. It's been an up and down year with the parent. It's been about the same with my brother. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Lots to look forward to in 2015. I've got lots of plans - just need to figure out how to bring them into being. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Wish you all the best for 2015! May it be a year of growth and abundance, of love and family. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">peace,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ren</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-49530364637257798032014-11-09T15:58:00.001-04:002014-11-09T15:58:57.778-04:00When opportunity knocks...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">"<i>Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond</i>." ~<b>Rumi</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">This week I'll be attending a four-day Mediation Skills Training Workshop. I'm not yet sure why. I'm sure at some point in the future I'll figure it out. For now, I have the opportunity to do it and why waste an opportunity?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">I am excited - because I like learning new things. Nervous - because I do not like being in front of people. Optimistic - because surely this can only lead to positive things. Anxious - because I will not be home for four days; hopefully the brother, parent and Cat Chile get along well. Aggravated - because I had to find four outfits of a business-suit nature and after just over a year of not wearing such it's a bit frustrating. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">peace,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Ren</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-78391548615007173352014-11-01T23:44:00.000-04:002014-11-01T23:44:10.544-04:00November 1st<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance</i>." ~<b>Alan Watts</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">November and I find myself thinking that it's been just over a year since I left my job. It's been just over a year and a half since my mom passed away. Nine months since I've started my own business. Time passes so quickly and we don't even realise that it is doing so. We are caught up in living and I think that maybe that is a good way for time to pass. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What is time passing? Moments that flow from one to the other. Seconds into minutes into days into months into a year and more. I am different now than I was before. You are a different person than the one you were when you opened up this site and started to read. I think it is interesting how we choose to spend our time. What do we give our attention to? Who do we stay with? What do we want to do most? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I think there aren't enough people in my country thinking about what to give their attention to. Not enough people thinking about what is important for our country - if we were to still be around twenty years from now, what kind of world will we be living in?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps there are people, perhaps not. This month I think about me - who I am, what I'm doing, where I want to go. It's important I think.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">peace,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ren</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-4041274048811470332014-08-06T23:37:00.001-04:002014-08-06T23:37:18.068-04:00Reflecting<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more</i>." ~<b>Naomi Judd</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A lot has happened in the time that I have not written here. Lots to figure out and work through. I'm 31 now and it is a strange thing to hear myself say. Adulthood is strange. Owning a business is strange. Wondering about</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">the meanings and origins of words as I write them is strange. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I feel introspective and perhaps this is why I'm returning to the blog. Need some space in which to work out my thoughts. What am I thinking? I'm thinking that I need to make time to do more reading relevant to life and living. That the physical body has built-in phases of life... I'm currently thinking about the possibility of marriage and kids and it's freaking me out a bit as I know that not so long ago the thoughts of such would not have occurred to me at all or would not have lingered as long. Are we hard-wired to start thinking about such things? There are those who don't so I don't think we are but... it's a bit of a possibility.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've been thinking that owning a business is fun and interesting and scary all at the same time. That I'm not sure I'm entrepreneurial at all or that I'm in any way interested in 'business' - somehow I've decided to do my own thing and am now where I am. I've been thinking that hopefully at some point all of the education I've had will resolve into knowing how to market this business and do my accounts properly, figure out what people want and be able to provide for them and myself. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've been thinking that money is an annoying thing to think about so I'm now thinking in terms of prosperity and abundance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've been thinking that there are a lot of people moving through their lives without giving thought to how they've come to be here or where they're going. Been thinking about relationships and interactions - about give and take and emotional investment. Have been thinking about past relationships and what they've taught me. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What have you been thinking? Any thoughts on what I'm thinking? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">peace,</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-12555744496833360672014-08-04T12:13:00.000-04:002014-08-04T12:13:01.507-04:00Moving forward<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping</i>." ~<b>Julia Margaret Cameron</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Once more, writing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've been busy since my last post and I've been mostly staying off my computer. Staying away from writing anything in any form or fashion. Over the past week or two though I've been thinking about this blog, about things that I could write, about things that are interesting. I've been thinking about future writings - I'm planning out a book in my head and feel that sometime soon I'll be sitting down to start working on that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Once more I am writing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hello world, how have you been?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">peace,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ren</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-26681936514452366862014-04-22T22:30:00.000-04:002014-04-23T00:14:21.284-04:00A post about not being able to post...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.</i>" ~<b>Václav Havel</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes I sit to write a post and words flow from my fingers. Sometimes I go through a day with thoughts and bits of phrases floating through my head that I know will eventually end up here on the blog as some sort of post and in some sort of comprehensive fashion. Sometimes I begin writing and am interrupted so many times that it's hard to figure out how to weave the words together. Sometimes I just stare at a blank screen because there's so much that I want to write that I don't know where to start. Sometimes I stare at a blank screen with a mind that is completely blank and then some minutes later I find myself wondering what I'm supposed to be doing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most times the words are within reach... but, sometimes they're not, and that's when it's hardest to post. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">peace,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ren</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-4132043964971032532014-04-21T20:30:00.000-04:002014-04-23T00:01:02.737-04:00A complaint...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>All you need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.</i>" ~<b>Charles M. Schulz</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's Easter Monday and I haven't had any sort of chocolate. Something is not quite right here. Yes, I did go looking for chocolate eggs very late this year (as in yesterday) and so perhaps all the Easter chocolate is sold out? Or something? I've had very excellent cheesecake, and ice cream with chocolate in it, but no specifically Easter chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I feel a bit grumpy about this. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ah well. Happy Easter Monday!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">peace,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ren</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-85626011237041645552014-04-20T22:30:00.000-04:002014-04-22T23:52:08.882-04:00Reading, reading and more reading...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>Books are a uniquely portable magic</i>." ~<b>Stephen King</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Long weekend here in Trinidad and I've spent most of it with my Kindle. Sometimes one just needs to get lost in a book... or three. That's the number for this weekend - three books. Read and done... though I may reread again and again as I tend to do. Two of them I've read to know what they're about - my younger cousin was gifted with a Kindle and in trying to find books for her I just added these two as they were on the Young Adult's Best Seller's list. One I read as I discovered it on my Kindle... I'm sure I put it there - I'm just not sure when. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The first: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Peregrine's_Home_for_Peculiar_Children" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e69138;">Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children</span></a><span style="color: #274e13;"> by Ransom Riggs. It's listed as fantasy and that's always been one of my favourite genres. There's a hero's journey, a search into the past and family, the discovery of secrets which aren't secrets and photographs which were collected by the author and apparently inspired the book. It's a really good read.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The second: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fault_in_Our_Stars" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e69138;">The Fault in Our Stars</span></a><span style="color: #274e13;"> by John Green. I cried through most of this book. I may need to reread perhaps a few years from now. It's about a teenager who has cancer and a who-knows-how-long life expectancy who meets and falls in love with a boy. I'm not going to write spoilers. The details in the novel are very well-written - the cancer patients, their parents and the world around them. It's a beautiful book but perhaps I need time and space before trying to reread.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The third: </span><a href="http://www.katemorton.com/the-secret-keeper/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #f1c232;">The Secret Keeper</span></a><span style="color: #274e13;"> by Kate Morton. At first I wasn't sure why I was reading this, then I found that I couldn't put it down, then I was sad that it was over. I would recommend to anyone. Plot twists and mysteries abound. It's also about a daughter searching into her mother's past... Perhaps there's been a trend all along with these books. History and parents and understanding of a sort. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-68627708096860923462014-04-19T08:00:00.000-04:002014-04-19T08:00:05.098-04:00Remembering<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream</i>." ~<b>Kahlil Gibran</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's Easter weekend and although the dates are not the same as last year I keep thinking of how the weekend before my mom's passing was Easter weekend. There are special times of the year I believe. Days that are good for coming into and leaving this world. Days for growing and harvesting. Days that have their own energy depending on where the stars are in the sky and how the people are on this Earth. I'm sure there are other factors. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last year when my mom was definitely coming towards her end I had thought that Easter was a good time to move on. It's a time of new beginnings... I've always thought that death is not the end of us. Just a phase. Transition. It's a good transition period. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Yesterday I did the </span><a href="http://www.quiettrini.com/2010/04/manifest.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e69138;">egg white in the glass thing</span></a><span style="color: #274e13;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My brother does not know of this tradition which I found somewhat strange... but then I have no memory of him doing it with us. Just mom and I in the early morning before the sun came up, setting up to see our future. We have different memories of our parents; different amounts of time spent with them and different ways of relating to them. I'm only just realising this though I've known intellectually that this was so. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-57013622654662276212014-04-18T22:00:00.000-04:002014-04-19T00:31:36.023-04:00Good Friday / The Wedding pt 2<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterwards</i>." ~<b>Spanish Proverb</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's been a very lazy day for me. I've rested and napped and overall did not do all that many productive things. Sometimes I think the best thing one can do is nothing. Or something that does not take much effort or is enjoyable or is unrelated to whatever you've been working on for some time. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I did go with my aunt by her seamstress who will be sewing the slip and blouse and pleats of our saris for The Wedding. I'm fairly pleased that I won't have to think about clothes coming up to The Wedding because they would already be ready. It's interesting that now we've moved into a time where instead of wrapping our own saris and making our own blouses/slips we can pass that on to a seamstress who will do just as good a job... and who will sew the saris such that they are easy to put on and wrap. The seamstress seems to have her own specific ideas of how our saris should be and I'm fine letting her figure it out - I just want to be comfortable wearing it when I have to. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's been a good day... restful - which is definitely something I needed. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-83386505690201804692014-04-17T13:25:00.002-04:002014-04-17T13:25:44.998-04:00So so sleepy... <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>We are such stuff that dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.</i>" ~William Shakespeare</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Once upon a time, not many years ago, I could fall asleep anywhere, any time of day and be fully functional always. Now it seems as though I need definite periods of sleep. Now I can't fall asleep the moment I close my eyes. Now I find myself short of rest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Was awakened this morning by parent moving around - this is normal, I've always been somewhat of a light sleeper. What is not normal, or is becoming the new normal, is that I couldn't fall back asleep. Then parent wanted me to do stuff with him. Parent always wants me to be far more involved with his activities than I want to be... or that I have time for... or etc. I tell myself that one day parent will no longer be here and I will regret time not spent helping or being with him but... there must be balance. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-50828554044719955142014-04-16T22:30:00.000-04:002014-04-17T13:07:51.415-04:00Be curious. <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.</i>" ~<b>Albert Einstein</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes I share things I see on Facebook without first fact checking simply because I'm curious about it or interested in what it says or that it makes me think. I consider my Facebook timeline to be something of a bookmark/note-taker... when I see stuff others have shared that I want to check up on I share it to my timeline. I really need to stop doing this... or find a better way of saving such things.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I didn't say anything about it which I realised I should have done after people started commenting on it. I had previously read about Ishtar and have my own thoughts about her. I'd also recently read American Gods by Neil Gaiman in which he makes mention of Easter and the forgotten goddess behind the holiday. I thought it interesting that this then showed up on my timeline and so I shared it. I think when people see something they should be curious about it... whether it's true or not or feels right for them. Be curious. Explore. Discover. There's so much we don't know or do know but have yet to realise. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tonight, I did some card readings... it's something I like doing around the full moon and today still falls in that full moon bracket. I shuffled and shuffled and drew this card from my deck of Goddess cards:</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-12218297794578987902014-04-15T22:30:00.000-04:002014-04-17T12:08:40.824-04:00Finding the photo<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>At any moment you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.</i>" ~Thich Nhat Hanh</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's the fifteenth week of 2014 and I know this because today I've posted my fifteenth photo for my project 52. Some weeks I know just what I want to post and I work towards getting a photo of that. Some weeks I have no idea till I see something that I immediately think would be perfect for my project. I'm not sure that the project is working out as I'd hoped - where I steadily improve on different aspects of photo-taking but I'm enjoying taking photos... as I always do. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This week's photo is of Sri Ganesh and was taken after tea with some friends. Ganesh is honoured as the remover of obstacles, the Lord of letters and learning and the Lord of new beginnings. I feel that perhaps I need to give some time to honouring those principles. I've been seeing so many elephant related items that I feel the universe has been trying to tell me something. Sometimes there are so many signs nudging us along if we just take the moment to see them.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-71413640013574473312014-04-14T13:03:00.002-04:002014-04-14T13:03:40.424-04:00Sequencing the moon<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator</i>." ~<b>Mahatma Gandhi</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There's a full moon in the sky tonight and so I'm teaching chandra namaskars (moon salutations) in class this evening. I'm currently taking a few moments away from reading up on the postures and planning the sequence that I'll do to write this post. There's a full moon in the sky tonight and a lunar eclipse tomorrow. Take a moment to look at it, revel in the beauty of it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There's something about full moons that I've always loved. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-64560142347544670422014-04-13T22:30:00.000-04:002014-04-14T12:50:32.906-04:00Things to do in Trinidad.<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun</i>." ~<b>Katherine Hepburn</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">It always ticks me off, just a little bit, when I hear people say that there's nothing to do in Trinidad (and Tobago). I've said before that I don't understand the '</span><a href="http://www.quiettrini.com/2011/07/i-dont-understand-concept-of-boredom.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e69138;">boredom</span></a><span style="color: #274e13;">' any more and so in a similar fashion - I don't understand 'there's nothing to do'. There is always something to do. This weekend I had to remind myself that I can only do a certain number of things, that I can't be everywhere. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">I missed Comicfest yesterday, as well as the Mad Hatter's Tea Party event held on San Fernando Hill... I had a meeting with a guy then went to the opening of a </span><a href="http://www.shambalatt.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e69138;">new store</span></a><span style="color: #274e13;">, had lunch with my brother, went out to see Captain America with the cute guy. Today I attended the reopening of RCOTT's off road track...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">...and then went to </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/runwayshift" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e69138;">Runway Shift</span></a><span style="color: #274e13;"> 2014 as the assistant to the cute guy (he was hired to do event coverage).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">There's always something to do if you just open yourself up to experiences. There's lots to see and do here. Lots of festivals, lots of holidays, lots of people with different interests... and if you don't want to do anything... there's lots of places to just be. To relax and lime. To have fun in whatever way you please.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05637092691706639572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493060178282060883.post-52205142448924108652014-04-12T22:30:00.000-04:002014-04-14T12:10:02.636-04:00Stories... <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"<i>This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.</i>" ~<b>Joseph Campbell</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Every so often I ask the cute guy to tell me a story, a true story about something that has happened to him or that he has done. We take turns, so sometimes I tell my own stories. It's a good way to find out about each other and the bits and pieces that make up who we are. Sometime in the future I will start asking him to make up stories; spin a tale, weave a yarn. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've always been interested in stories and perhaps this is why I'm so much of a bookworm. Books provide never-ending access to all manner of stories. Ideas, thoughts, facts and culture... all these are passed on through story. From parent to child, family to family and onward. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today I'm going to see Captain America with the cute guy and his family. I think movies are an interesting way to tell stories - it's different from sinking into a book but just as easy to have one's imagination captured by what unfolds on screen. Then too, some people find it easier to relate to images and sounds than to words. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I'm thinking about how I can share my own story. This blog is part of it... writing the moments as they come... there is more to be done though and I've been thinking of how to bring it into being. Perhaps not now, perhaps in the future, perhaps as I've been doing - bits and pieces as I go along.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tell me a story?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">peace,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ren</span></div>
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