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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Thursday, September 29, 2005

There are some things that I wanted to contemplate here today but I am feeling especially tired this evening. So I will quietly sip my cup o' chai tea and share some girly-nonsense and perhaps tomorrow I will have the energy to sit and contemplate.

I am publically admitting my gigantoid crush on David Blaine (the magician). He had a new show on last night. I was affected so much last night just watching him that I eventually had to turn off the television. I don't know what it was. But it was mighty powerful.

Yana asked me a few weeks back if I was open to exploring dating. I told her it had crossed my mind, as I've met someone who has sparked some interest in that area. Considering the situation I'm currently in (though he is aware) I felt it was best first to deal with some of the 'undone' issues I have. I don't know though, as I spend more time with this individual, I am becoming more interested in maybe taking it to the next level.

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