DayDreamer37

I’ve been working on this goal since March!

But do your thing and I shall know you.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 21 minutes ago

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

- Ellen Parr 26 minutes ago

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds… and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

- Patanjali, physician and “founder” of yoga 28 minutes ago

“No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life.”

- Samuel Goldwyn 31 minutes ago

“Our theories determine what we measure.”

- Albert Einstein 33 minutes ago

“The music I have written is as nothing compared with the music I have heard.”

- Ludwig von Beethoven 35 minutes ago

“It is never too late to be what you could have been.”

- George Eliot 36 minutes ago

“If you would take, you first must give.”

- Lao-tzu 38 minutes ago

“Passion is about allowing yourself to get lost in something.”

- Gail Sheehy 39 minutes ago

“The actual is limited, the possible immense.”

- LaMartine 41 minutes ago

“Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.”

- Italian proverb 45 minutes ago

“We work to become, not to acquire.”

- Elbert Hubbard 46 minutes ago

...like Sade in the King of Sorrow video…there’s a scene where she runs across the street holding up a dress she had to keep nice all day, while running around, changing diapers, cooking, mopping floors etc. She get’s on stage wearing the dress looking like a million bucks! Ohhh I wish I had this visual 11 years ago, but better late than never…

I’m crying everyone’s tears…
all of these remnants of joy and disaster
what am I supposed to do…
I want to cook you a soup that warms your soul
but nothing would change, nothing would change at all
It’s just a day that brings it all about
it’s just another day, nothings any good
the DJ’s playing the same song
I have so much to do, I have to carry on
I wonder if this grief will ever let me go
I feel like I am the King of Sorrow…

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.”

- Anne Frank 1 hour ago

and make the best of what I might see as a less than ideal situation, like in the movie “Outsourced” 11 hours ago

...like Arsinée Khanjian in “Sabah,” a Canadian film. It was so rainy and green…just a dreamy environment… 23 hours ago

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”

- David Starr Jordan 2 days ago

“Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.”

- Bernado Houssay, Nobel Laureate in Medicine 2 days ago

“Mistakes are the price we pay for a full life.”

- Sophia Loren 2 days ago

“Do the little things well now. In time, great things will be presented to you.”

- Persian proverb 2 days ago

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

- E.C. McKenzie 2 days ago

“Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.”

- Mark Twain 2 days ago

“To find our mission in the world, to arrive at that place where our lives make sense as part of an elegant pattern of purpose, is probably the underlying quest of all human endeavor.”

- Pythia Peay 2 days ago

“It is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes 2 days ago

“A man is only as good as what he loves.”

- Saul Bellow 2 days ago

“Life is a negotiation.”

- Wendy Wasserstein 2 days ago

“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.”

- Wallace Stevens 2 days ago

Memory

Two weeks ago I’m sitting with my class during a break. J is to my left, D to my right and JT is across from me and we’re all in the lobby studying for a test that turned out to be SO easy. I think the weather was cool and rather dreary. the water cooler is to the far left. B comes over and pours himself a cup, but doesn’t sit down.

Visualization

I’m in my dream kitchen high on a stool peeling vegetables for the nights dinner. Nearby is my writing nook where I go to add posts here on 43things, to work on an article or a story. I’m also running around doing other things to get to bed by 10 pm. I have a full and wonderful life! 2 days ago

One of the things I’ve often read in self help literature is that if you want to know what you should be doing now, go back and reflect on what you wanted to do as a kid.

I know it’s probably hard to believe, but as a kid I had no dreams, no aspirations other than to do well with what was before me right then and there…I guess I was the personification of the Biblical verse: “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might…” and I wanted to leave the town where I grew up, other than that I had no vision.

Now, after knowing how important having a vision is, I’m working hard to really develop them. Pictures and movies have helped me tremendously. I think the reason I didn’t have images in my head is because I was word focused I was from 1978 when I started to read as my main form of entertainment until we purchased a DVR and I started watching more movies in 2004.

All of that work prior to 2004, all of that back breaking work I did but could never be proud of or feel good about because I was not sure if it was either what I wanted to do or had to do as part of my overall vision and purpose. I felt like all I did always went right down the drain. I can take credit for it now on 43Ts which is a good thing.

So now I’ve had close to 10 years of practice. I’m ready to Rock N’ Roll

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”

Pearl S. Buck

“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”

- Helen Keller 2 days ago

“What I do best is share my enthusiasm.”

- Bill Gates 2 days ago

“It’s only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

- The Little Prince 2 days ago