For Anne Gregory

'Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.'

'But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.'

'I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.'

W.B.Yeats~
Image Credit: Michael Parkes "Three Graces"

Just out of curiousity I must ask anyone who may read this..

What do you think of religious stores and shops? From the small, to the large corporations and chains.. Whatever your thoughts, do jot them down.

~The Rules for Being Human~

1- You will recieve a body. You may like it, or hate it, but it's the only thing you are sure to keep the rest of your life.

2- You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life on planet earth. Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher.

3- There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. "Failures" are as much a part of the process as a "success".

4- A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you learn it-then you can go on to the next lesson.

5- If you don't learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes. Pain is how the universe gets your attention.

6- You will know you've learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom is practice. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing.

7- "There" is not better than "here". When your "there" become a "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that again looks better than "here".

8- Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate in yourself.

9- Your life is up to you. Life provides the canvas; you do the painting. Take charge of your life-- or someone else will.

10- You always get what you want. Your subconscious rightfully determines what energies, experiences, and people you attract--therefore, the only foolproof way to know what you want is to see what you have. There are no victims, only students.

11- There is no right or wrong, but there are consequences. Moralizing doesn't help. Judgements only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best.

12- Your answers lie inside you. Children need guidance from others; as we mature, we trust our hearts, where the Laws of Spirit are written. You know more than you have heard or read or been told. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

13- You will forget all this.

14- You can remember any time you wish.

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When you were born, you didn't come with an owner's manual; These guidelines make life work better..

Dawn by Michael Parkes

My brothers just found a baby kitten. He's so adorable. When I held him yesterday, he's so small that he actually got lost in my hair. After I managed to pull him out, he settled down ontop of my chest and fell fast asleep. It just struck me that he is far smaller than the heart that was beating underneath his sleeping form.

Oh, and it's even more adorable when he tries to purr. It sounds like someone sticking a feeble plastic straw into a metal fan.

Poor kitty, he'll eventually get it down.

Tell me something about the following three things:

1) Do you find it odd when women try to feed their children live sea stars? Why?

2) Do you find it strange when people walk down the middle of a street with their children when it's blatantly obvious that a large SUV is speeding towards them? Why?

3) Do you find it ungentlemanly when you see a man driving a motorcycle with a woman clinging to his back, and he's the one wearing the helmet? Why?

So I just went downtown to have lunch with a friend, and I witnessed the following:

-A man dancing with a nude sculpture of another man in the back of a truck.

-An old woman causually walking down the middle of the street, and occasionally lifting her cane to point at people in cars and glare.

-The smallest parking lot in existence. Truly. I felt like Austin Powers while I was making a seventeen point turn to get into a spot. Don't believe me? Go to Su Casa in downtown Salt Lake City and find a spot in the Lunch rush hour. I dare you.

My friend says that these little things happen to remind each and every one of us that life is never boring if you look for something entertaining. I really must agree.. I cannot think of a single day that has been boring in my entire life.

I'm constantly stressed, so I rarely ever get a good night's rest. I have constant night terrors, mainly about my job and having people waiting in line in my room. Which is odd..

Lately I can stay asleep for a good half hour or so before having a dream so vivid that it truly seems like it's real, and I, in fact, am walking about and living the dream. I only get the chance to get back to sleep once the logic centers of my brain actually awaken and remind me that none of what I am seeing is real.

However, the other night I had a very odd dream that was unlike any other that I've ever had. I was in the midst of a dream that someone was yelling at me at work and that I was about to fall apart, when who of all people should appear..



Ferry Corsten.

Normally this wouldn't be such a huge thing, but it actually stopped the night terror. This has never happened before. I was actually able to stop, relax, and return to the sleep I was in before. Generally I remain in a state of hazy consciousness where all forms of reasoning seem to have escaped me and I'm living out a dream playing before my mind's eye. But not this time, after almost 13 years of these dreams I was able to go back to sleep before I awoke.

Like many of the other dreams I am known for amongst my friends, it was nonsensical and involved a tour of pubs throughout England with a world-renown Dutch DJ and leading an army of football hooligans to war.

Okay, maybe not all of my dreams consist of that. But still.. Startling.

Could it really be true that Ferry Corsten is the cure to all diseases, conditions, sorrows, pains, agonies, ect?



Why yes, it seems to be so.

His wife is so incredibly lucky, truly she is.

The other day I heard the strangest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.

I was exiting a room and you know that classic sound effect you hear emitted from doors in movies? You know, that particular creaking noise that just indicates to the audience that whomever is opening the door is entering a haunted/evil/old/dangerous residence? The type of house you'd expect to see someone like this on the other side:



I live in a fairly new house, and as I was opening that door that noise was clearly coming from it. Considering that it isn't a 500 year old ceader slab with iron hindges, I started moving the door back and forth to figure out why it was making that noise. Whilst doing so, I smacked my cat who was sitting on the other side who then promptly ended his obnoxiously loud meow he was bellowing out.

Apparently my cat has perfected his meow to sound like old movie sound effects.