awesomeness;)

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Listening

listening reveals a delicate, softer, malleable, yet solid, dazzling, and stronger being who is fully capable of discerning giving and creating love. It is beautiful.

The Sun Never Says

Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,

"You owe
Me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.

~Hafiz

In remembrance of...

I held my breath. Love is often heavier than we're comfortable with so we choose not to go deeper, farther. Fear, laziness, and comfortability seem light enough for us to carry.

This life is too short not to love each other deeply. It is we who so easily let go of things so beautiful and powerful, not by choice, but by not wanting to make a choice. we so often forget that love is what we've always known best, just like the rhythm of our heart and so many rhythms around us that make up this life.

Rilke

The Panther

His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.

As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.

Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

a year

I feel like a good year is coming made of changes I have been afraid to consider or procrastinated in making. Life is raw, soft, scabby, and absolutely marvelous. Amazing how much we can learn in a lifetime.

Team Work

What does team work mean to you?

I realized recently that the term "team work" only becomes relevant and important when the other members of the team's input and work is USEFUL to your own productivity, effectiveness, accomplishments and goals, or else there's not much need or desire to complain about the lack of "team work".

Oh, the selfish gene!

I was elated about a colleague of mine who got elected as a parks board representative today I didn't give a shit that she hasn't been doing her job at all lately because of the campaign. Mostly, it is because her department doesn't affect mine much. I felt extremely happy for her and bathed myself in her positive energy and excitement. But I wonder what I would feel like if my daily work is co-dependent on hers.

change

I have always been somewhat of a wanderlust, believing firmly that we are meant to see as much of this world as we possibly can in our lifetime, and at different phases and stages of life so that we can comprehend how subjective change really is. And perhaps more honestly, it is because I crave new understanding of myself and perceive that I can reinvent myself more easily and freely when I am transient. This perception is not true in reality of course.

I am intrigued to find out what makes me afraid to reinvent myself now.