Adomas from Fratmen: 041916
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Beauty: 041916
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MUSIC: "Good Times" by Edie Brickell
Feelin' Good
You might remember this one
from the Windows 95 installation CD
Edie Brickell
"Good Times"
You might remember this one
from the Windows 95 installation CD
Edie Brickell
"Good Times"
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AOM Meditations: 041916
by Charles-François Daubigny
(1817 - 1878)
Thanks to our Friend for sending us this beautiful art
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(1817 - 1878)
Thanks to our Friend for sending us this beautiful art
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What is the tide? It isn't an object in itself. Give it a name: Tide, and it becomes distinct due to the name. The tide is not a thing. The tide is an effect: felt but when grasped only the water touches us back. The true nature of a tide isn't the water, it’s a mixture of processes related within a dance. It's the moon and earth swinging. It's the sun adding tempo with storms and wind. The water merely flows with the pulling and pushing of gravity, piling up in the beat of what we call the "Tide". The Tao is a tide of tides. Harmony with the Tao means flowing with all the various forces connecting everything seemingly invisible yet still measurable in relative effects.
~Casey Kochmer
A Personal Tao
A Personal Tao
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Hey Sweetie! 041916
Jeremy Tang
Hey Sweetie,
Happy Tuesday!!!
I'm so glad you are here
I hope you will enjoy your visit
I wish you a most beautiful day
Peace and Love,
AOM
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I invite you to join me now in this short Metta Prayer
Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings
Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind
And focus on the here and now
This present moment
Now
Breathe in
Filling your being with peace and love
As you begin each line, breathe out slowly
Breathing these thought into the world
Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love
Sending them from your heart
Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings
Breathe in and repeat the process for each line
"The Spirit within me salutes the Spirit in you"
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Parting Shot: 042016
Ahhhhhhhhhhh
Normal and Natural
Beautiful and Good
Have a Self-Loving Day!
((((HUGS))))
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Booty Time Outside! 042016
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Naturists: 042016
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MUSIC: "Morning Has Broken" by Cat Stevens
A lovely song to start the day
Cat Stevens
"Morning Has Broken"
Cat Stevens
"Morning Has Broken"
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AOM Meditations: 042016
On Clothes
by Kahlil Gibran
And the weaver said, "Speak to us of Clothes."
And he answered:
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty,
by Kahlil Gibran
And the weaver said, "Speak to us of Clothes."
And he answered:
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty,
yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy
you may find in them a harness and a chain.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind
with more of your skin and less of your raiment,
For the breath of life is in the sunlight
For the breath of life is in the sunlight
and the hand of life is in the wind.
Some of you say,
Some of you say,
"It is the north wind who has woven the clothes to wear."
But shame was his loom,
But shame was his loom,
and the softening of the sinews was his thread.
And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield
And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield
against the eye of the unclean.
And when the unclean shall be no more,
And when the unclean shall be no more,
what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
And forget not that the earth delights
And forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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Hey Sweetie! 042016
Hey Sweetie,
Happy Hump Day!!!!
Happy Hump Day!!!!
It's a "Let's Get Naked and Go Outdoors" day
The weather is just about right
And I am chomping at the bit
To enjoy nature naked - naturally!
If people were suppose to be naked
They'd be born that way
: )
I wish you a wonderful naked day!
Peace and Love,
AOM
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I invite you to join me now in this short Metta Prayer
Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings
Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind
And focus on the here and now
This present moment
Now
Breathe in
Filling your being with peace and love
As you begin each line, breathe out slowly
Breathing these thought into the world
Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love
Sending them from your heart
Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings
Breathe in and repeat the process for each line
Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings
Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind
And focus on the here and now
This present moment
Now
Breathe in
Filling your being with peace and love
As you begin each line, breathe out slowly
Breathing these thought into the world
Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love
Sending them from your heart
Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings
Breathe in and repeat the process for each line
Namaste
"The Spirit within me salutes the Spirit in you"
"The Spirit within me salutes the Spirit in you"
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Parting Shot: 042116
Mmmmmmmm
Tasty!
Have a Jizz-a-Licious Day!
((((HUGS))))
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Booty Time! 042116
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Michel Armand from Bel Ami: 042116
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Beauty: 042116
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MUSIC: "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell
Memorable Song - Great Message from the 70s
Mitchell said this about writing the song to journalist Alan McDougall in the early 1970s:
"I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart...this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song."
"The song is known for its environmental concern -- "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot" and "Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT now" -- and sentimental sound. The line "They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum / And charged all the people a dollar and a half(twenty five bucks) just to see 'em." refers to Foster Botanical Garden in downtown Honolulu, which is a living museum of tropical plants, some rare and endangered.
In the song's final verse, the political gives way to the personal. Mitchell recounts the departure of her "old man" in the titular "big yellow taxi", which may refer to the old Metro Toronto Police patrol cars that until 1986 were painted yellow. In many covers the departed one may be interpreted as variously a boyfriend, a husband, or a father. The literal interpretation is that he is walking out on the singer by taking a taxi; otherwise it is assumed he is being taken away by the authorities." (Source)
"I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart...this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song."
"The song is known for its environmental concern -- "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot" and "Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT now" -- and sentimental sound. The line "They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum / And charged all the people a dollar and a half(twenty five bucks) just to see 'em." refers to Foster Botanical Garden in downtown Honolulu, which is a living museum of tropical plants, some rare and endangered.
In the song's final verse, the political gives way to the personal. Mitchell recounts the departure of her "old man" in the titular "big yellow taxi", which may refer to the old Metro Toronto Police patrol cars that until 1986 were painted yellow. In many covers the departed one may be interpreted as variously a boyfriend, a husband, or a father. The literal interpretation is that he is walking out on the singer by taking a taxi; otherwise it is assumed he is being taken away by the authorities." (Source)
Joni Mitchell
"Big Yellow Taxi"
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AOM Meditations: 042116
Japanese Woodblock Print
Thanks to our Friend for sending us this beautiful art
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“Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
~Rumi
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Nature's harmony
is around us and within us at all times.
Perceiving it is an occasion for great happiness;
but it is often only appreciated
in retrospector in its absence.
If all is going well in the body,
it tends to go unnoticed.
Your lack of a headache
is not front-page news for your cerebral cortex.
Abilities such as walking, seeing,
thinking, and peeing take care of themselves,
and so blend into the landscape
of automaticity and unawareness.
Only pain or fear or loss
wake us and bring things into focus.
But by then harmony is harder to see,
and we find ourselves caught up
in turbulence, itself containing,
like rapids and waterfalls, order of a more difficult
and subtle level within the river of life.
As Joni Mitchell sings,
"You don't know what you've got till it's gone. . ."
~Jon Kabat-Zinn
(Wherever You Go, There You Are)
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Be grateful for what you have
Be grateful for what you don't have
Thanks to our Friend for sending us this beautiful art
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“Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
~Rumi
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Nature's harmony
is around us and within us at all times.
Perceiving it is an occasion for great happiness;
but it is often only appreciated
in retrospector in its absence.
If all is going well in the body,
it tends to go unnoticed.
Your lack of a headache
is not front-page news for your cerebral cortex.
Abilities such as walking, seeing,
thinking, and peeing take care of themselves,
and so blend into the landscape
of automaticity and unawareness.
Only pain or fear or loss
wake us and bring things into focus.
But by then harmony is harder to see,
and we find ourselves caught up
in turbulence, itself containing,
like rapids and waterfalls, order of a more difficult
and subtle level within the river of life.
As Joni Mitchell sings,
"You don't know what you've got till it's gone. . ."
~Jon Kabat-Zinn
(Wherever You Go, There You Are)
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Be grateful for what you have
Be grateful for what you don't have
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AOM TV: "The Hidden Meanings of Yin and Yang" by John Bellaimey
Understanding Yin and Yang
by John Bellaimey
animation by TED-Ed
by John Bellaimey
animation by TED-Ed
The ubiquitous yin-yang symbol holds its roots in Taoism/Daoism, a Chinese religion and philosophy. The yin, the dark swirl, is associated with shadows, femininity, and the trough of a wave; the yang, the light swirl, represents brightness, passion and growth. John Bellaimey explains why we all contain the spirit of yin and of yang -- and how we can achieve a balance of both in our lives.
The Hidden Meanings of Yin and Yang
by John Bellaimey
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Hey Sweetie! 042116
Nikita Gutsu
Hey Sweetie,
Happy Thor's Day!!!
I'm so glad you are here with me
I hope you will enjoy your visit
Thanks for your comments and E-mails
I really appreciate your Love and Support
I wish you a Peaceful, Loving-Kindness Day
Peace and Love,
AOM
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I invite you to join me now in this short Metta Prayer
Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings
Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind
And focus on the here and now
This present moment
Now
Breathe in
Filling your being with peace and love
As you begin each line, breathe out slowly
Breathing these thoughts into the world
Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love
Sending them from your heart
Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings
Breathe in and repeat the process for each line
Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings
Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind
And focus on the here and now
This present moment
Now
Breathe in
Filling your being with peace and love
As you begin each line, breathe out slowly
Breathing these thoughts into the world
Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love
Sending them from your heart
Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings
Breathe in and repeat the process for each line
Namaste
"The Spirit within me salutes the Spirit in you"
"The Spirit within me salutes the Spirit in you"
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Parting Shot: 042216
Ohhhhhh, Yeahhhh
Give me some of that!
Have a Nipple-licious Weekend!
((((HUGS))))
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