On the way in today, I decided to ask my neighbor if I could decorate the tree that is in front of and between our houses. I think shiny ball ornaments would look great on it’s bare branches.
I also saw my bridge squirrel buddies. They were taking turns running across the bridge railing and up into a tree at the other end. Sadly neither paused long enough for me to get a picture.
I saw one of the ubiquitous ground squirrels (though a cute small young one) when I was taking pictures of the leaf ripples made by the ART 154 class.
And once heading into campus I saw one squirrel under a tree nibbling on something, and two trees down another was up rustling in the bare branches.
This “zero grav” chair by Stoke looks awesome!
And these whirl bowls are gorgeous (they make me think of my spiral motif).
This sofa in blue velvet…. drool.
And not that I will need one for a VERY long time… but dang this is an awesome stroller (Stoke Xplory)!
And I like the idea of star shaped felt coasters – they’d be easy to make my own. The ones in the picture are actually black cork.And love again broken down into 3 (the magic number!) main aspects:
http://www.nakedrelationships.com/columns/cols/2006-12-01column.html
Excerpt:
A Native American grandfather was teaching his grandson about life – and he said to the boy there is a fight going on inside me, and it is between two wolves. The same fight goes on inside you and inside every other human being.
One wolf is good. He is love, compassion, truth, faith, meaning, justice, peace and joy.
The other wolf is evil. He is hatred, anger, lies, blame, fear, ego, greed and regret.
-Which wolf will win?- said the boy.
-The one you feed,- said the grandfather.
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You continually choose between the good wolf and the evil wolf, and when you choose the good wolf, you choose love. You grow love. You practice love.
And you know you are getting good at it when you demonstrate care, respect, responsibility and knowledge well. They are the four elements common to all types of love – including self-love – according to Erich Fromm, author of -The Art of Loving.-
Care – active concern or nurturing
Respect – ability to see a person as he is, concern that he unfold as he is (not as somebody else would have him be)
Knowledge – knowing that penetrates to the core
It is easy to see how knowledge guides care, responsibility and respect. When you love somebody, you don’t try to bypass the time it takes to know them, to understand how to best care for them. You want to take the time!
All four elements are demonstrated unconditionally, without demanding reciprocation or a payoff. Love cannot be reduced to a barter – I’ll give you this if you give me that.
-Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other,- says the Dalai Lama.
Don’t mistake your efforts to get somebody else to meet your needs as love. You have needs that nobody else can meet – and trying to get somebody to meet them interferes with your ability to love and be loved.
You cannot respect somebody while you are busy cutting away the pieces that don’t fit into the role you wrote for a lover long before you knew him – or yourself.
You will not take the time to know her if you have not taken the time to know yourself. You cannot know and love her any better than you know and love yourself, because pure love is an attitude of the heart that you have for everybody or nobody.
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