Etsy

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 13, 2005

Sleep didn't come til about 3:00 in the morning. Even still, I was woken up at 4 and 5:30 and then 8:00 as well.

While I was laying in bed, hoping my friend the sandman would pay me a visit, I felt heat in the bottom of my right foot. It almost felt as though someone had a lighter near it.

I had another creepy dream. I can't remember all of it and must put my journal by my bed .. but most of the time I only remember bits and pieces anyways when I wake up.

The dream had a dark feel to it. The background .. the sky, the buildings, the ground were all dark blue. The last part of the dream I was in an apartment or condo with this girl. There was a huge window that covered the entire wall and we were sititng on the couch. I didn't know her, yet it felt comfortable to be sitting there with her. She was very pretty. She was slender with milky skin, short chocolate brown hair, a nose ring and a tattoo that looked like an OM symbol somewhere on her back. It was like we were waiting for something. This glossy pamphlet flew through the air and I grabbed it. We both opened it up to look at it. It was a biography of [...] done by [...]. But it was of all his ex partners. The pages, just like the background in the dream, were all dark. Dark browns and blues. I kept turning the pages until I got to mine. No picture of me. Just an empty bed on a hardwood floor. On the bottom were some words written but I couldn't read them because the page was too dark. The first few words were readable but then it started to blend into the page. I felt really upset that I couldnt see what he wrote about me. Then I flipped really quickly to his current interest. No picture either and I didn't read what was on the page. But it did say August 2005 - current. I saw a name but didn't think anything of it. I'm sure it was a female name. But then as we were leafing through the rest of the book, I said, "Hold on .. that name was Nathan. That's not a female name!" And she said, "Yup, that's right". Then there was the girl I was sitting with. On the top of the page in fancy gold letters it said Yuanita. 1996-current. I said, Current? She said, Yup, that's right. There were pictures of her in the book. Very pretty pictures. Then she starts laughing and says, "But god, he's so {....}!". We both started laughing hysterically. Then I woke up.

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