My good friend of forever has the most charming and lovely 5 month old son who is the most amazing baby I have ever met. I always want to steal him when I go over. If I did, I think he might start missing his parents, but he is just toooooo cute not to steal.

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." —Albert Einstein

I started humming the song that was playing in my head during finals today. I didn't even realize until someone stared at me.

For those of you wondering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnDXRJ7btE

Accounting? Seriously?

3am can't sleep because of Accounting...

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
~Hafiz

Understand the nature of life and act wisely without falling apart when obstacles arise or getting too overjoyed in favorable circumstances.

Doesn't know, doesn't know, doesn't know, doesn't know.

You are God's own child. God would never close all the doors around you. They may look as if they are closed, but they have in fact, been left slightly ajar. Just a mild knock and they'll give way. My child, never lose courage, never lose faith in your God.

~Amma

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Cry out for God.
Only by crying for Him will your mind
become one-pointed.”   
— Amma

"Laugh at your own weaknesses; laugh at your won stupidities. This is far better than laughing at someone else." ~ Amma

Today:
Alice In Wonderland

Thai Food!!

Friends, too much laughter and the TEN YEAR CARD GAME.

Yoga!

On the BART on the way home I saw two things that made me happy...the first was this woman who was wearing this magnificent hat to keep the rain off of her head:


Note my most excellent and subtle photo taking abilities.

The other was a father and son, when they stood to exit the train, the father reached over and put his arm around his son's shoulders, this made me think of the story Amma tells about the business man who never spends any time with his son. When its his son's birthday he asks the boy what he would like, and his son replies he would like to go to the circus together. When they are there, it starts snowing and the father realizes that his son must be cold. Putting his jacket around the boy, he wraps his arms around him, pulling him close for warmth. After the circus the boy comments that his favorite part of the show was when his father held him close.

ammasvidya108: LAST day of no school for a WHILE so i'm trying to enjoyi y enjoy it*
me: but then you have the weekend
yay!
go for a walk
omg
yoga!
Go yoga!
ammasvidya108: go to yoga or go yoga in general
lol
me: go to yoga
im using yoga as a noun here
or something
like go run
ammasvidya108: ahahhaha
me: not GO RUNNING!!!
but like
Go yoga
ammasvidya108: i get it
like a verb kind of
me: yeah
but i dont think its a verb
i think the verb of the sentence is go
ammasvidya108: its an imperative
me: LOL
ammasvidya108: ahhahahahaahah
me: substantivo
....
ammasvidya108: aight you lost me now...
me: I think this might be blog worthy

My dad unplugs the internet whenever he is done using it, without checking to see if anyone else is using it.

Sometimes I wonder why I ever moved home, and then I remember what it was like NOT to live with them and I am just grateful that they let me move back in.

Complain, who me? Nope.

"We should never forget that after every night, there is dawn. We should never loose optimistic faith"
-Amma

An email from 2008

here is a prayer I came across on our retreat at the Mercy Center. I scribbled it down and it's been lying here waiting to be put somewhere, and that somewhere is here. It is by Thomas Merton, one of my favorite writers (a rarity, I know):

"My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the night road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I fear not, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone."

ammasvidya108: HAHLFAJDLKFAJLDKFAJLDKJFAD
me: you are such a poet
ammasvidya108: i try
to be like you
and your blog
me: lol
my blog rocks
ammasvidya108: it does

Rediscovered some photos on my computer.

These were taken UNBEKNOWNST to me in Boston Summer 2009.

Some people that I love and miss (although technically Shakti is in town so missing seems too strong a word. But still most of the time she is not and I can say that without hesitation.)

Today was a good news type of day:

1. Figured out how to fix my car so my car no longer floods when it rains.

2. Weighed myself, I've lost 3 pounds!

3. My parents signed a contract to buy the house 2 doors down

4. Found Skinny Moo dippers at the discount store (does it really count as low calorie when you eat 3?)


Finals this week and next, pray for me!

Sometimes life is stressful, and sometimes you get to spend the morning with a dog cuddled next to you with her nose tucked under your leg.

Motivation

Motivation.

1.

the act or an instance of motivating.

2.

the state or condition of being motivated.

3.

something that motivates; inducement; incentive.

Procrastination.

–verb (used without object)

1.

to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.

–verb (used with object)

2.

to put off till another day or time; defer; delay.

Softly the rain falls
Washing away the memories from the night, the month, the year before.

How beautiful the music of the world,
the caresses of the sun and the wind.

All that is left is hope.