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An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Friday, July 15, 2005

Dreams

A few months before [....] left I had a dream that I came home one day and no one was there. I walked up to the bedroom and there on the neatly made bed was a note, resting against my pillow. Before I even went to the note I knew that it was a goodbye letter. In the dream, I didn't open the letter. Fast track, I come home June 5, 2005 and there is a letter, neatly resting against the stairs. It was a goodbye letter.

I've been having several dreams and visions of me committing suicide. This hasn't been just a part of my sleeping state, but also my waking state. I am in a very painful place right now, despite my ability to put on a show for the world. I've been increasingly scared to discuss the "politics" of whatever may or may not be left of[...] and my relationship, mostly due to the dreams and visions I've been having. In two of the very vivid dreams I've had, I have walked out into traffic and ended my life.

Today I had a session with Yanna. I didn't want to go. I wanted to go and buy supplies to make an anniversary card for [...] and perhaps make him a gift. Why, I don't know. The possibility we will be spending tomorrow (our anniversary) together hasn't really even been discussed. Yanna insisted and persisted that I attend the session. Usually, she is quite ok if I need to reschedule. I took her persistance as a sign and made the decision to go to the session.

When I was walking down Shaw Street, I began to cross the road on the street that is right next to her house. As I stepped out into the street a vehicle was driving right towards me. I didn't see him and he didn't see me. By the time I looked over my left shoulder and noticed the it, he was centimeters away from hitting me. He slammed on his brakes hard and quickly turned his steering wheel to avoid crushing me.

Strangely enough, or not, I just stopped and looked at him. I didn't jump, I didn't feel scared. I was at complete peace with the whole thing. I remember stepping out onto the street and immediately having a feeling (?) of a car coming towards me. In the first dream I had of ending my life, I walked right out of Yanna's house and right into the street - a black car was coming towards me and then the dream ended, I didn't actually dream I had been hit, but the sensation that I was going to and wanted that to happen was there. The vehicle today was black.

Happy Anniversary [...].
I love you, and I miss you so much.

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