never forget...

i never really belonged to any religion, church, congregation, faith.... i didn't have a specific god, but i had god.... my parents took us to a spiritual "church", very open and non denominational. even in the 80's this church welcomed gay couples with open arms, and for that i respected this group of people very much, but, i can't say i really liked going in general. really, thats not the point here.

at the end of every service all of the kids would go on stage and sing and everyone in the "audience" (as i imagined it) sang along. this part, i really liked. and i always really liked the song, long before i really understood how powerful its words were. apparently it has been deemed a christmas song on google (is christmas the only time we ask for peace?) and a country song by vince gill. but to me its a pretty good sum up of my "religion". i am not wanting to offend, i have a great respect and admiration for religion and faith. i just have never been able to relate so completely to one set of beliefs that i feel i can adopt any one religion as my own. i'm a mutt. 

enough rambling. after my personal reflections on today this is what was playing in my head. and after struggling to find what might be appropriate to be the word of the day today of all days...i think i found it. 

Let there be peace on earth

And let it begin with me.

Let there be peace on earth

The peace that was meant to be.

With God as our father

Brothers all are we.

Let me walk with my brother

In perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me

Let this be the moment now.

With every step i take

Let this be my solemn vow.

To take each moment

And live each moment

With peace eternally.

Let there be peace on earth,

And let it begin with me.

Let there be peace on earth

And let it begin with me.

Let there be peace on earth

The peace that was meant to be.

With god as our father

Brothers all are we.

Let me walk with my brother

In perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me

Let this be the moment now.

With every step I take

Let this be my solemn vow.

To take each moment

And live each moment

In peace eternally.

Let there be peace on earth

And let it begin with me

synonym?

overheard: on abc 7 nightline news  - discussing preppy. yes. there was a story on preppy. and the lady who literally wrote the (a!!!!????)  book on preppy said:

"its like macaroni and cheese really, its  comforting and familiar..."

preppy

mac n cheese

the book. 

effin moody

Californication Room at the SHOwtime House in NYC.

4 months until my favorite writer (fictional as he may be) returns to tv. 4 mths from today, yes, its THAT kind of obsession. 


some favorite words from mr hank himself....


Dear Karen,
If you’re reading this, it means I actually worked up the courage to mail it so good for me.
You don’t know me very well, but if you get me started I tend to go on and on about how hard the writing is for me. This is the hardest thing I ever had to write.
There’s no easy way to say this so I’ll just say it, I met someone. It was an accident, I wasn’t looking for it, I wasn’t one the make it was a perfect storm. She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation. Now there this feeling in my gut that she might be the one. She's completely nuts in a way that makes me smile highly neurotic, a great deal of maintenance acquired. She is you Karen, that’s the good news.
The bad news is that I don’t know how to be with you right now, and that scares the shit out of me. Because if I am not with you right now I have this feeling we will get lost out there. It’s a big bad world full or twist and turns and people have a way of blinking and missing the moment. The moment that could of changed everything.
I don’t know what’s going on with us and I can’t tell you should waste a leap of faith on the likes of me. But damn you smell good, like home and you make excellent coffee that has to count for something. Call me!

Unfaithfully yours,
Hank Moody

qotd

"What is to give light must endure burning" ... Dr. Viktor E Frankl

wordle

word wordle

kinda cool. wordle.net

your word

means everything... so mean it when you give it. 

drop a love bomb!

i recently learned of this great website/blog  - drop a love bomb. i love what they're doing and the community of blogs/bloggers i've discovered through them.

   Love Bomb is a project ofItStartsWith.Us. Once a week we come together to drop hundreds of love bombs (in the form of blog comments) for those who need it most. Subscribe via email below or follow us on Tumblr, and join us in our missions. It only takes 5 minutes a week! 

example: this week's mission

Bombing Mission: Chicago Fire Department

Note: We are now partnering with bloggers for missions! This week’s partners: Lauren Nicole Love, TheBee’sKnees, HannahKaty.com, CollectionOfThings, LettersSheWrote, InspiredMess.com,TallAsGrass, Talk2TheTrees, ABCCreativity.com, AmySoto, and ProneToWander. 
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Hey Team!
This week we are doing something just a tad different.
Typically we drop a Love Bomb on one person, but this week we are dropping a Love Bomb on theentire Chicago Fire Department.
Chris Wheatley, one of their firefighters, died in the line of duty on August 9th.
Nate and I would like for this Love Bomb mission to be two-fold:
1) To encourage, support and comfort the Chicago Fire Department as they’ve lost a brother in duty.
2) To thank the Chicago Fire Department for serving their community so faithfully.
As most of you know, Nate (@ItStartsWithUs) runs our parent organization, ItStartsWith.Us - their 15 minute mission for this week is to help out a service worker. Every now and then the ItStartsWithUs team helps us drop our Love Bombs, so I thought it would be awesome if we could do our part by supporting a service worker (a lot of them!) while we drop our Love Bomb at the same time!
You can leave a comment on the Chicago Fire Department’s blog here: http://cfdblaze.com/2010/08/cffu-local-2-tom-ryan/
Lauren
P.S.  In your comment, mention where you are from. It’s always cool, and particularly awesome in this mission.