"Never underestimate the power of doing nothing."

 -Winnie the Pooh

For fast acting relief from stress - try ...s l o w i n g ...down.  -Lily Tomlin

PPP's

Considering a new career?

How bout being a porta potty painter?

Wouldn't it be fun if all those nasty looking (and smelling) porta potties had cool and beauty-full art on them both inside and out?

I'm thinkin' niche market right there!

So Long, Swami

Well, tomorrow Swami G goes to another new, possibly temporary, home.

I am so incredibly grateful we got to be in each others lives this last 6 months. He's an amazing light: radiant, loving and warm. While I will miss his Presence very, very much, I like knowing there will be others with whom he will share his beauty-full Self...and that they, too, will be blessed. I anticipate that the overnight change of worlds will be hard for him...perhaps heart breaking. How can a one year old grok anything like that? And I also know that in his short little life he's had some very hard things happen and that he came through those experiences still radiating love and joy. While it will be difficult for him in some ways, I trust his resilience will help him thrive.

Say a prayer for the little butterball if you would.

Puppy Pile!

This is a happy story. The mama to these chubsters is named Jasmine. She was in a shelter about to be euthanized when, at the 11th hour, someone saved her. She's being fostered in an excellent home...the one in which she gave birth to 6 puppies. The almost 4 week old pups are all thriving. I went to visit today to help with one of their feedings. Their mama is kinda petite and can't quite keep up with their big appetites so they are receiving supplemental food about 3 times per day. It was so sweet to hold them and try to get them to slurp up some of their food. It's kinda a messy endeavor! And then to watch them pass out one by one in a pile...well you know what that does to a person!!!

"I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I found it too confining."

"See, the human mind is kind of like . . .

a piñata. When it breaks open, there’s a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience."*

* From The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner. Reprinted with permission.

Normal?

Probably most of us think of our lives as fairly normal, no?
Well, the other evening I was taking a shower and perched just at eye level on the top of the shower stall facing me was a banana slug. As I've written, I have a BS infatuation going on so when I saw it I immediately smiled and started talking to her. Now I may have been making this up but I swear she was responding to me. No joke. Like she was listening or something...I kept up my end of the conversation with words but she kept hers up in BS language which I am new to learning! Anyways, I kept splashing water on her and she seemed to like that and even turned her body as if to say; "this spot...get this spot." I know, I know!
Then today as I was thinking about how normal that seemed to me I started laughing at what a relative term that is.