Be yourself...

What if we all stopped listening to the little voices in our heads telling us what we "should" do and lived our lives in truth, honesty, and integrity? Truth and honesty - to our true selves. What if we allowed our creative impulses to blossom and flourish in this environment of truth?

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change peoples minds.

~ Frank Zappa

Work in progress... reminds me to be grateful every day that I'm not in the shark's belly.

“In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it.”

William Saroyan

Thanks to Jane Cartwright for these photos!

Lines drawn in the sand - seems the wind just blows them away before we can get behind them. 

I'm begging for mercy Monday!  Time changes are evil and must be destroyed... Even Snap still has on her jammies.

Today I'm thinking about surrender...  Meaningful surrender to the phantoms we fight (like Monday mornings).  Meaningful surrender to bigger phantoms like fear and conditions we can't control.  Funny how I tend to think of surrender as throwing up my hands and quitting - it's really a choice, an action in itself.  Meaningful surrender - step back, quiet my mind, stop struggling.  Open myself to new possibilities within current conditions...

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
~ Carl Sagan

Snap knows about surrender.  She knows when she can't control the crazy humans - when she's going to wear ridiculous footie pajamas no matter how much she struggles.  But still there is peace in her eyes - because deep inside she knows...  I have to sleep sometimes.  Mwahahahahahaha!

Ok people...  Who felt like this when you went outside this morning - cold, outraged to be up so early, not nearly enough coffee - you know the drill!  Then while walking the dogs you stepped in, well, you know that drill too.

There's only one solution.  The only thing that can make you feel better is some "classical music".  A little Hoyt Axton to finish off the week!

See the rain comin' down and the roof won't hold 'er
Lost my job and I feel a little older
Car won't run and our love's grown colder
But maybe things'll get a little better, in the mornin'
Maybe things'll get a little better.

Oh! the clothes need washin' and the fire won't start
Kids all cryin' and you're breakin' my heart
Whole darn place is fallin' apart
Maybe things'll get a little better, in the mornin'
Maybe things'll get a little better.
 
Work your fingers to the bone - whadda ya get?
( Whoo-whoo ) Boney Fingers - Boney Fing-gers.

Yea! I've been broke as long as I remember
Get a little money and I gotta run and spend 'er
When I try to save it, pretty woman come and take it
Sayin' maybe things'll get a little better, in the mornin'
Maybe things'll get a little better.

Work your fingers to the bone - whadda ya get?
( Whoo-whoo ) Boney Fingers - Boney Fing-gers.

Yea! the grass won't grow and the sun's too hot
The whole darn world is goin' to pot
Might as well like it 'cause you're all that I've got
But, maybe things'll get a little better, in the mornin'
Maybe things'll get a little better.

Work your fingers to the bone - whadda ya get?
( Whoo-whoo ) Boney Fingers - Boney Fing-gers.

Texture, shapes, "shades" of white...

This says "Surrender Dorothy" if anything ever did.