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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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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Moody Me

Am having a great deal of difficulty controlling my moods. It appears that I have absolutely no control over the shift in emotions that I feel. There is always an outside trigger ... and this is creating a sense of need for isolation.

Sometimes I feel the need to just disassociate myself from my surroundings. Several times today, I just wanted to walk away. Sit down and just let it all out. But the situation wouldn't allow for me to do this, and I had little choice but to hold onto the emotions I was feeling and keep them under lock and key. This, of cousre, just heightened the sensations I was feeling emotionally. And eventually they came out as a semi-temper tantrum.

I felt every emotion known to man today. This is such an overwhelming and draining experience to go through. And I am worried that during these times I am pushing those close to me further away.

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