Blessed Be

Trilby · 05-20-2006, 11:48 AM

This is such a beautiful day! After near-continuous rain all month, today is sunny and cool, bright blue sky with a soft breeze, truly a miracle for May in Ohio. My roses AND my peonies are both blooming--yellows, pinks, reds. My petunias, geraniums and violets are out, my baby strawberries are lifting their heavy heads...I'm so very lucky to be witness to this. Good weather and a simmering pot of green beans. When I think to complain, I must remember this. This is happiness! This is the good life.

jinx · 05-20-2006, 12:00 PM

Irie, Bri!

richlevy · 05-20-2006, 12:28 PM

I'm glad that you're happy.

lumberjim · 05-20-2006, 04:13 PM

feelings. nothing more than feelings.

this quietude comes from within as much as without. as sight is half the seer and half the seen, so is contentment half the environment, and half the perceiver of the environ. wallow in joy as we've seen you wallow in misery, take this good, taste it, smell it, feel it. remember to remember it when it is needful.

or something

romuh doog · 05-20-2006, 08:03 PM

If you are in Ohio, then you are truly blessed. I'm from there, and miss it.

Enjoy your day!

footfootfoot · 05-21-2006, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

feelings. nothing more than feelings.

this quietude comes from within as much as without. as sight is half the seer and half the seen, so is contentment half the environment, and half the perceiver of the environ. wallow in joy as we've seen you wallow in misery, take this good, taste it, smell it, feel it. remember to remember it when it is needful.

or something

I think LJ has been doing deep prajna paramita while he's waiting for the salesmen to close the deals.

skysidhe · 05-21-2006, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

I think LJ has been doing deep prajna paramita while he's waiting for the salesmen to close the deals.

I know it was weirdly beautiful. Yesterday I was trying to , you know, merge the man with the similie. Too deep. I just went to work instead.

Nice stuff lj.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-21-2006, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by skysidhe

I know it was weirdly beautiful. Yesterday I was trying to , you know, merge the man with the similie. Too deep. I just went to work instead.

Nice stuff lj.

He's a silver tongued devil, for sure.

skysidhe · 05-21-2006, 03:04 AM

nice

skysidhe · 05-21-2006, 11:46 AM

Just as in the sky above winds of various kinds are blowing:
Coming from the east or west, blowing from the north or south,
Some carry dust and others not, cold are some and others hot,
Some are fierce and others mild — their blowing is so different.

So also in this body here, feelings of different kind arise:
The pleasant feelings and the painful and the neutral ones.
-Akasha Sutta

lumberjim · 05-21-2006, 05:50 PM

devil being the operative word.

farfromhome · 05-21-2006, 09:23 PM

Is that borrowed Jim? Or your own thoughts? Either way...food for thought.

lumberjim · 05-24-2006, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by farfromhome

Is that borrowed Jim? Or your own thoughts? Either way...food for thought.

no, no. that's all me. reminded me of this post from a couple years ago which i still reread to remind myself of this kind of feeling.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-24-2006, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

no, no. that's all me. reminded me of this post from a couple years ago which i still reread to remind myself of this kind of feeling.

Pre Cherry Hill, isn't it.

lumberjim · 05-24-2006, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Pre Cherry Hill, isn't it.

yes it was. almost exactly 2 years ago. now, my concern shifts from not having enough money, to not having enough time. The result is ultimately the same. It's not as though I had lots of free time when I worked at Family. I don't really think I'd see much more of my kids had I stayed, or taken that Lexus gig.... Still, the reminder is nice. I still feel lucky to have what I have. I'm too fat, and I need to quit smoking. I need to get my teeth fixed, and a few other things, but other than that, all's well. Roof doesn't leak, Jeep is running great, getting it regularly, so who can complain?

The point is to notice when things are good as well as when they aren't. That's all I'm sayin'

Hope all is well with you guys, too. Even Marisinkinchiko.

05-20-2006, 11:48 AM	#1
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Blessed Be This is such a beautiful day! After near-continuous rain all month, today is sunny and cool, bright blue sky with a soft breeze, truly a miracle for May in Ohio. My roses AND my peonies are both blooming--yellows, pinks, reds. My petunias, geraniums and violets are out, my baby strawberries are lifting their heavy heads...I'm so very lucky to be witness to this. Good weather and a simmering pot of green beans. When I think to complain, I must remember this. This is happiness! This is the good life. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

05-20-2006, 12:00 PM	#2
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Irie, Bri! __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

05-20-2006, 12:28 PM	#3
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I'm glad that you're happy. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

05-20-2006, 04:13 PM	#4
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	feelings. nothing more than feelings. this quietude comes from within as much as without. as sight is half the seer and half the seen, so is contentment half the environment, and half the perceiver of the environ. wallow in joy as we've seen you wallow in misery, take this good, taste it, smell it, feel it. remember to remember it when it is needful. or something __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

05-20-2006, 08:03 PM	#5
romuh doog A person with no friends is a. lonely b. friendless c.smelly Join Date: May 2006 Location: Here for now Posts: 69	If you are in Ohio, then you are truly blessed. I'm from there, and miss it. Enjoy your day! __________________ If Washington's teeth were wooden, did Martha have splinters in her...lips?

05-21-2006, 03:04 AM	#9
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	nice

05-21-2006, 11:46 AM	#10
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	Just as in the sky above winds of various kinds are blowing: Coming from the east or west, blowing from the north or south, Some carry dust and others not, cold are some and others hot, Some are fierce and others mild — their blowing is so different. So also in this body here, feelings of different kind arise: The pleasant feelings and the painful and the neutral ones. -Akasha Sutta

05-21-2006, 05:50 PM	#11
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	devil being the operative word. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

05-21-2006, 09:23 PM	#12
farfromhome Management Consultant Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Portland,OR/Conesus,NY Posts: 166	Is that borrowed Jim? Or your own thoughts? Either way...food for thought. __________________ When you ain't got nothing-you ain't got nothing to lose.

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