My time rolls on. Since I have been moved to Brazil I felt that I had to take the time to learn the city of Salvador. That being my first order of business, I went about it and feel I have accomplished it. With Christmas approaching, it is getting hot. Summer is peaking and it will soon come to full force. I now think about how I have not been through a Salvador summer since before I moved to America more then eighteen years ago. Since the summer in America is winter here, and that is the only time I had the chance to come and visit, I missed out on the experience. I feel prepared for it and cant wait. Carnival is coming soon as well, and it is a huge street party here in Salvador and many say a whole lot better then in Rio, there it is more of a parade. In Salvador it is millions of people hitting the streets for a few days and getting crazy.
Before Carnival their is a more of a religious festival called Lavagem do Bonfim (Washing of Bonfim church) Second Thursday in January. A Candomblé festival culminating in the ritual cleansing of Bonfim church in Salvador, Bahia. This year it falls on the 14th of January, I had not heard much about this festival but from what I am told that people walk from a point to a Bonfim Church for the cleansing ritual. But afterwords there is also a great party that takes place and I am told it is a fun as Carnival. Candomblé is a religion with its origins in Catholicism and old traditional African religions, so it should be great. I am looking very foreword to it because it should be a great opportunity to take great photos.
(Picture of the Bonfin Festival. Link to Photo http://media.photobucket.com/image/Salvador%20Brazil%20January%2014th%20Lavagem%20do%20Bonfim/cacau18/lavagem.jpg)
I had surgery a bit ago, and can finally say that i am recovering well, the problem was not the pain of anything, what occurred was I came down with Anemia. So my skin and eyes turned yellow. So I had to fight that for some time. The only thing that sticks in cause of the scars on the arm and chest I am not able to go to the beach for some time, well I am to avoid the sun. I feel a bit cheated at this cause I had started to really understand surfing and how to do it, I got a second hand surfboard and everything. The only good thing about the surgery is it gives one time without the burden of pressure to be productive, I can sit here and just read, and write, and draw, think.
I did some good thinking, one of the things I kept coming came back to is loss, and how much lost a person goes through to get to the place where they are now. I have lost plenty, friends, loved ones, ideas, and countless others things that I have yet to realize I have lost. I know that I still have yet to loose, but I think that is fine cause to me how you deal with the loose is the measure of what kind of person you are. Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most. I think about the one that got away and how I lost her. I looked for perfection and in your eyes I found better, but I could not hold on to it.
I share the books that I feel need to read by everyone, and had a chance to do so while stuck in bed, some where rereads, others first time here the list.
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
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Beautiful Loser – Leanord Cohan
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Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
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Ender’s Saga – Orson Scott Card
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World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War – Max Brooks
Etiquette is a code of behavior for social interaction. It is usually developed through years of interaction and formality a way to treat people well without going out of the way of insulting them. Etiquette is something adaptive to culture and location it forms independently, from house to house, situation to situation, state to state and country to country. Business Etiquette seems to be much more of a universal entity throughout the world but social etiquette is something that can be different from place to place, something you thought was OK may not be. I am not saying we must fallow these things such as laws cause if we do a people can become prisoners to their systems and unadaptive to change, and without change and growth comes death. I mention this cause I had and interesting experience that made me think about an aspect of my move to Brasil (Brazil: for those who will say I spelled it wrong.) and that is the etiquette rules here. My Portuguese lesson was wrapping up and I let my teacher open the door to my apartment, she told me that when you let a guest open the door it means you don’t want to come back, I found this interesting and it right away started to get me thinking, cause the opposite is what I am used too, when you “show someone the door” it means you want them to leave, but if you let them open it to leave it means that you let them decide when to part from you place cause you have enjoyed their company, I honestly think the American way makes a bit more sense to me cause “showing someone the door” is just saying get out we are done here, but if I am insulting here it is good to know and easy to do. This got me to ask Cristiana my teacher to tell me some more practical etiquette rules that one would find insulting if I mistakenly carry out.
I have gotten into a good grove here I have been running (on a treadmill) and have started my P90X routine over again. I have not found a place to go and do Yoga but have been doing it at home. Also have not yet joined a gym which is something that I would like to do so I can cover some weight work that P90X does not do, only cause I use bands for the P90x routine due to that I do not have enough room for free weights or desire to spend the crazy amount of money a good free weight set costs with no practical place to put it. But with a gym I can use free weights and much more, hopefully like a sauna. I want to add if you have not tried P90X, I recommend trying it, this will be my third time doing the three month program and I have to say it works very well and does transform the body it did wonder for me.
My grandmother does not keep a whole lot of plants in the house, she stays here for six months of the year and travels to Spain for the rest of the year. Because of this she is not able to properly take care of plants. I myself enjoy plants and greenery around the place especially during my morning meditation. I bought some very nice plants for the place, and something that is cool here in Brasil the temperature and climate is perfect for Orchids and I have gotten three blossomed Orchids and six that are very young. Four of which should be blossoming here within six months and every six months on. The other two I was told that it will not start blossoming or flowering for three years so that is a long term commitment. I saw the flowers for the six plants I choose and they are amazing so I cant wait. I will take some pictures and post them on flickr to share. I got a bed as well, which is something that I was quite excited about. The bed is a whole lot bigger then the one that was in my room, and I actually fit on it. The other one was to short and my feet hung down which did not allow me to get good sleep at all. But I am now floating on clouds with a this new bed which is soft and called American style simply because it has a box spring, the size is a full, fits two people nicely, now I need a girlfriend. Everything else is going great and I am having fun, their is still a few things that I need to came this apartment a bit more homely for me. My grandmother keeps it sort of like a museum with a whole lot of things on the tables, such as highly decorated boxes and bowls which is cool and all but take up lots of space and serves no direct purpose and that is my only problem with it, one thing that I do like is the paintings their is a whole lot of original large paintings on the walls, which I like a lot, I am going to move one to put in a flat screen television but I am going to hang up else where. I am bit reluctant to move it cause I do enjoy the works. Original art is something that should be admired and I do, that is all but the painted bowls and boxes they take up practical space.
Little by little all things get done, it is what I practice and believe. Over time everything will come together, and hopefully everyone will stop trying to get me a job, my whole family have came out with stuff I can do for work some with my degree others not. I feel I need to do some learning and just being a little here before I am ready to work and what I want to do is teach English, but I also feel that dismissing offers is shutting doors and I hate to do that. So I will keep my eyes and ears opened and if I get offered something that seems really interesting I will hear it out. That is if I cant get my English lessons going.
Final note: The Graffiti here is amazing, true art and pure talent. I have not taken many photographs lately, but not because lack of desire. I am told that carrying a nice camera like that by myself is not a good idea so I cant walk and shoot like I like to, but once I figure a way around it I will be taking lots of photos. Salvador itself is beautiful, the beaches are amazing, the people are pretty (I think that most women here are beautiful), so their a whole lot of subjects not including the stellar graffiti.
I had a great weekend, with a lot going on. I have a very busy next few days. I also have one hundred 9mm bullets for my gun, and so when the indoor range opens today I am going to go down there and do some shooting. I really enjoy it is, very fun.
I was thinking about some truism that I believe. The thing I have found about life is how often belief changes from day to day. Well only if you are a smart critically thinking person, we have all spoken to those people who are willing to budge on something no matter how much proof given. But for the rest of us their are some things that we learn going through our days. Some of mine are.
Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours.
Anger reveals weakness of character, violence even moreso.
When people are uncomfortable with the present moment, they fidget with their hands or their minds. Watch and see.
You never have to deal with more than one moment at a time.
Those who complain the most, accomplish the least
Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier.
The most common addiction in the world is the draw of comfort. It wrecks dreams and breaks people.
Always tell people what you think of them, and never expect the answer what you want to hear from them back.
If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.
Blame is the favorite pastime of those who dislike responsibility.
Everyone you meet is better than you at something.
Proof is nothing but a collection of opinions that match one’s own.
Whoever you are, you will die. To know and understand that means you are alive. To many have a problem with this
The ability to be happy is nothing other than the ability to come to terms with how things change.
You must love yourself before you can love another, and to allow anyone else love you.
A true friend is someone who cares that you are happy, not what you have or what you can do for them.
You cant wait for something to happen, you must make it happen.
The first step is to start.
Stepping away from a problem to get a fresh perspective sometimes does great wonders.
To get a solution at times you may have solve things that don’t deal with the problem directly.
Ah the days, I like most of the week. It started with me with my ex- girlfriend Bethany during high school, she lived close to me and in the mornings I would get up and walk over to her house and we would hang out do a whole lot of nothing while listening to Jazz on the radio and smoking weed all day. But as I got older, the love Sundays kept strong and to this day I still pretty much keep the same schedule. It seems the best day to chill out cause while I have never had a office job so this does not pertain to me but after a weekend of activity taking some time to get your mind right is always good. Speaking of cooperate or office jobs I have been rereading a few of the books I really like and have to leave due to not having enough space, one of them is The Alphabet Of Manliness by Maddox. If you don’t know Maddox he runs and is the creator of a great and funny website called The Best Page In The Universe. The book and site is a super male chovanist oriented type of work, I have to say he not only is a good author but super funny, and not to be taken seriously, so if you read his site don’t get angry, I mean what is the point really. But in the book in the Z section is for Zombies, and not the mutant sort, but the lifeless corporate drones type.
Maddox writes:
The Office Zombie
The North American Office zombie’s life begins at the early age of five. At five years old, the zombie still a child is sent to an entry -level brainwashing institution called “kindergarten.” It is in kindergarten that the child is first told that everything he does-every stroke of crayon outside the line, every malformed finger painting, and every piece of construction paper glued to a Popsicle stick-would directly determine his or her social status and financial success. This is done at an early age to create the notion of an absolute authority that wields the power to deny the child his future happiness and to sustain a constant state of failure.
The child is then “graduated” through different grades, each with a minor distinction, to give the child the illusion of progress. It is during this period that the child first esperiences isolation and hostility from other zombie children. An artificial social hierarchy will be created based on a child’s perceived popularity and economic standing, which will be strictly enforced by the more popular zombies, and even the authority figures, throughout the subject’s entire childhood.
At the age of twelve, the child is ripped from the womb of this institution and thrown into another called “junior high.” The child feels rejected and out of place as hid body experiences growth in this foreign environment. All the people around him are uncaring and unsympathetic, which makes him feel vulnerable and desperate, causing him to rebel against authority. This rebellion is short lived though, as authority figures swiftly quash the insurgency with prejudice to prevent the other zombies from having their own thoughts of independence.
The frustration of the junior high experience culminates with yet another institution called “high school.” where the social hierarchies created in the child’s youth are reinforced and the divides are deepened. Any child not yet belonging to a social group is ridiculed until he succumbs to the pressure to conform and joins a group that will accept him, only to be further mocked for joining an unpopular group. After high school, the child having spent the first part of his life completing menial tasks for the meager approval of arbitrary figureheads, will finally be prepared to enter the workplace to spend the rest of his life completing menial tasks for the meager approval of arbitrary figureheads. But on the bright side, there are casual Fridays.
While most of the students will be ready for their new homes in the office after high school, some of the zombies are coaxed into taking four more years of indoctrination in a place called “college” with promises of getting even more money in the workplace, and by extension, the highest level of happiness.
This is such a well written piece to me, I think Maddox does a great job with his writings I guess that is why I keep re-reading his book and reading his site.
Doubt, Uncertainty and Religion (a few words from Richard Feynman):
Now I have a have a video of Richard Feynman. I first heard of Richard Feynman through a book that was recommend to me by a Physics professor called Feynman’s Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinow. It is an amazing work about the author starting out in the Physics game and he looks for advice from his mentor Richard Feynman, who gives him sage like practical advice that can relate to anyone really, but what really intrigued me about the book was that the whole time Mlodinow was searching for a problem. That is as a young physicist he wanted to find a problem he could make his name. But I think that is so cool, cause you know no one looks for a problem we all want solutions. But to get to work Mlodinow need a problem that he wanted to solve, that is neat to me. But is it is an amazing heart felt and passionate work. After finish this book I wanted to know more about Richard Feynman so I read Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character), by Richard Feynman. This book is a chronicle of his life and if such a well written quick fun book, I recommend both book very much so.
Finally here is the video:
I wanna talk about some music!
This is a cool video from Bobby McFerrin (His wiki: Bobby McFerrin) during The World Science Festival 2009. If you don’t know much about this great musician besides his hit from the 90’s “Don’t Worry be Happy” you should really check out his work he is an amazmin musician I enjoy his music quite a bit, he is an awesome Jazz musician.
The experiment that he does using Pentatonic scale, and the power of music reminds me of another study on the power of music as tool to relate around the study. A group of people found very remote tribes who have never heard western structured music and played for the classical pieces that are considered shocking, playful, happy, and sad. This was done to see if the music could insight the same emotion even if the programming of hearing is not structured in the western form. This is if certain notes don’t translate the same emotion to western ears as the tribesman. In every case the tribesman picked right or actually as the study pointed out their is technically no right but what we associate as emotional response. I think this is just a fancy proof to the old saying music is universal the universal language of the heart. But watch the Bobby McFerrin video it is so cool.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley
Play some mind games with yourself.
This is an article about mind tricks and how what intake from the world around comes together in our brains to make what we experience: Mind Tricks: Six Ways to Explore Your Mind.
The idea is wonderful, inspiring and new. The idea is to record musicians from around the world playing the a different part in the same song and then putting it together, this is the simple explanation from me, check out their website Playing For Change for more information on the whole project. I have been lazy about sharing about this and I am sorry for that, but their is no time like the present. I highly recommend their CD and it is a charity so you will be helping out. But if you want to hear before you get it, check out this rendition of Stand By Me, it is very good. Peace Through Music.
The way to behave among others is a greatly talked about thing, not just these days but for what I can only assume all throughout history. General ideas of what one has to act like is very prominent in cultural, not just for men but for women also. I think that interaction with others the best one can do is be themselves while not insulting the company they are with.
Their is this site that I really like The Art of Manliness, I think it is amazing and I read an article that I think is very good it is called “Command a Room Like a Man”. The article is about things one can do to command a room, and not get intimidated by the surroundings, this is a problem I had when I was younger but I feel I am good at now, but this article gave some great tips. Also if your a woman I still say check it out, their is no reason that what applies to men can apply to women as well.
Realistic.
I had a conversation when I was in middle school, with my stepbrother about how real can computer graphics become. We both enjoy working with graphics and creating it. After some discussion we decided that computer generated images would be to the point of being more real then real. But also first what would come is objects looking real, and then people. What I mean by real is that to the eye a difference cannot be seen. Objects are a bit easier, then people but I don’t want to give any impression that creation a CGI is easy it takes many hours, by good artists, working with lots of precision. I mention this cause I saw an image that today impressed me very much.
This is a very well done picture, the artist Dimitri Dilmann lighting was great even to the point of the reflection of the background on the car, and through the window.
Now I am waiting for the time when I see people looking real, and I know we are not that far off, it is just the face and body on a person has so much light differences and subtle tone shifts and wrinkles that it is hard to reproduce.
Hello to you all on a wonderful Sunday morning. The weather is nice here with a nice 79°F and sunny. Not much going on for me today, their is a few soccer games going on that I would like to watch so that should be good. But it will be a nice at home day.
But I was watching Food Network, yesterday and saw this women, who I think is amazing, she is very hot. Her name is Claire Robinson, she is the the host of 5 Ingredient Fix.
Here is a picture of her, looking awesome. She is a good host, on her she uses five ingredients to make all her dishes and her food looks good as well. I just have a problem with her limiting herself to five ingredients, but she seems to work it well.
But speaking on her hotness she to me looks amazing the perfect women in my eyes when it comes to look and from the little one can see of her personality on television seems cool, but she has nice eyes, long brown/ black hair, great cheeks, and smile. But at last she lives in New York and is married, but one can still ogle.
(Our minds create our experience by interpreting the objects we perceive. How we interpret something determines how we experience it. Although we generally assume we accurately perceive what is “out there,” our experiences are in fact colored by our interpretations and projections.
For example, when two people meet Joe, one likes him while the other doesn’t. One see Joe as considerate Joe as considerate and intelligent, someone with a good sense of humor. The other perceives Joe as a person who makes fun of others and is competitive and insensitive to their feelings. Both assume they perceive Joe as he is. However, if that were true, they would perceive him the same way, and they clearly don’t.
Both people hear the same words and voice when Joe speaks, yet they interpret what is said differently. Their minds move very quickly from perception- the sounds and sights they perceive through their senses- to conclusion- the meaning placed on the sense data.
Thus, one person experiences Joe’s jokes as humorous and good-natured and thinks, “Joe is a nice person. I enjoy being with him.” Thereafter, whenever he meets Joe, he sees a friend and expects to have a good time. The other interprets Joe’s words as sarcastic and thinks, “Joe is egotistical. I don’t like him.” Later, when she meets him, she sees a disagreeable person and feels aversion.
Both people assume their perception of Joe is correct. But in fact, both relate to Joe through the veils of their own preconceptions. Joe’s qualities of being friendly or obnoxious are created by the projections of the people perceiving him. In an of himself, Joe is neither.
How we interpret our environment and the people in it depends on the purity of our minds. Just as the image reflected in a dirty mirror is unattractive and obscured, so too is the appearance of an object to a mind sullied by afflictions and negative karmic imprints. The same object reflected in a spotless mirror is clear and beautiful. Likewise, whatever is perceived by a pure mind is lovely.)
—-This is a very important principle in Buddhism to me it is one I wrestle with. Not because of lack of understanding but in application. In the way that the author illustrated his example, it is best most ratable explanation of the principle of the Buddhist believes of mind as creator of experience I have seen. How hard is it to see someone as they truly are? I think it almost impossible there is fear on both sides, it takes a lot of risk to show another who you are, and it takes a lot commitment to try and want to see, what if you don’t relate? Another problem I come to in my mind is that in the past a person has been told certain things about themselves by others: let me stick to the example and try and explain “wow Joe you are funny”, and so from past events where others have thought specific trains of Joe’s thoughts where funny when verbalized them; Joe would not want to take the risk again stick to what he knows that others in the past have liked. But then I come to, is that Joe being himself or going with what he beliefs will make him more ratable? This thought in my mind has always made me questions people more. I tend to not make judgments, but that becomes hard as you think you start knowing another person more and more. So my struggle with this principle is like most in Buddhism what is the middle path in knowing another? Is it complete trust that they are being honest with you? Is it not caring whether you know it or not? I have problem with this when it comes to love. I tend to think that we the potential to love, accept and know another fully, with our perceptions getting in the way. How do we drop our perceptions? I think a good start is to understand why we believe what we believe.
But remember this in knowing that you don’t know a person who you think you know but that you only know them through your preconceptions allows us to forgive people fully, right? .
Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.
“It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” I agree with that sentiment but I also think that we all must make our attempt to share how we see this things. I have been having a scatter of ideas recently and am going to try to share the ones that have been coming to the forefront of my mind most. I most likely will repeat myself from other post, but this whole process is a expanding and ever building process.
Went to the Louisville Science Center yesterday and toured the center and watched an IMAX film. The IMAX was called Grand Canyon Adventure, it was about a tour down the Colorado River. But to be honest this film helped me to think about something. More then just a kayak tour down a beautiful river, it was a conservation film. But the film really talked about the threat to the Colorado River, and the threat to the river is guess what US. Yes we vile nasty uncaring, people. OK my problem with science and religion is that they both have the same message and for some reason both philosophises try to first scare you into believing their way, this done through using whatever thought logic is most convincing in getting a person to believe that they are the problem but if you come to thinking their way, we got the answers, and you will feel good about yourself. AHH I don’t have to come with an answer myself you will tell me, great sing me up. After you believe enough that you are the problem, then comes the world ending events, this is where science is a little more loose then religion a bit more ha ha, because they don’t limit themselves to one Earth ending event, we got asteroids, global warming, mega quake, and many more but I don’t want to stop my train of thought to come with more ha ha sorry. But in religion they got one, which in honesty help solidify the juxtaposition of the idea because it will go for one making it seem that it is tapping into a outside source. If you believe in an existence of infinite possibilities betting on one is just as good having tons of options such as science. Last thing to further drive the point I guess, both have answers for what we are, what created what we are sitting in, what happens to us when we die, what will end the world, and our purpose. Don’t ever trust anyone who says they have an answer for you.
The reason we currently trust science more is that it is able to make more predictions of reactions to the causes we can make, so this convinces people that it is solid. One last thing on it in being an opened thing as apposed to religion as science is any new thing that comes up after science will now be part of if, it makes shit bland and strips the magic from this reality, and we will never get it back. As apposed to religion where it is all magic.
(Picture Break, ha longish post I guess.)
After that intermission we all know, that everyone is trying to sell us something. This is my sale , drop both and find the middle path. How to get the magic back is to realize that it is all trying to explain shit we don’t understand even if science can predict a reaction in the future, it does not mean it can know what allowed the reaction to happen. Both are to concerned with cause and effect, this is the wrong thought. I don’t have what is the right way cause I guess that is what I am trying to find on my middle path.
America is great and I love it. I respect it cause so many revolutions have taken place on the battle ground of the United States. The one I give all my love to is the mental revolution of the sixties. A peaceful revolution takes time. In Buddhism the message has never been spread with death as in such other so called religions. During the 60’s a shift in mind and thought occurred here in America and in my opinion was a good thing, but I have spoken to people I respect who lived it and in their opinion it happened to quick and it put a lot of people off, and so the message could not spread cause it was to much to fast for those who where are too far behind, I disagree people need to be shocked. But the thing is to me the great gift of the sixties was the spread of the true path, cause all these people who did these substances and explored their minds came back with a glimpse of what was possible but wanted to know how to reach higher worlds without the substances that in all honesty is outside the self, how it be done within the self, and so the exploration being and fortunately a few of them reached to the old world where the sun rises and found Buddhism and so spread it here, before the sixties there where few Americans spreading Buddhism(I understand that in the 50’s there are great American scholars that wrote many good books on Buddhism such as from the father of Buddhism in America Alan Watts and his great book “The Way of Zen”-1957, and the only other of his works I have read “Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion” but I still consider that as part of the movement.). I do not count myself independent from this movement, I came here from a different country and did benefit much from those who originally explored their minds, and spread the word and I was lucky to find ti, and because I love and cherish the word so much I long ago vowed to spread it myself in a way that others will understand that the path is no path, its a balance of all, we are all connected all the time, come together to form the original you see as we spread out the further and further away we get away from the source. Imagine a small puddle, then something heavy is dropped on the puddle thus creating a splash, sending water away from the original splash. I do not know what force or cause created our universes splash or vibration, but I know that we have to try to come back together. The idea of the sixties worked it is just slow, we see how much part of the world culture the ideas of the sixties have left on the world, but imagine another peace movement that started a long time ago and just like the world itself it works in shifts or waves it has ages of large spread and of small spread, but the message wont die, it is just repackaged and sold to people in the different words of the time, as it need to happen for people to understand .
I will conclude by saying this, these are my reasoning and thoughts for believing what I do, If anyone find it interesting please take the step yourself, cause trust me if you come to the conclusion for your answers yourself it is so much more solid, and you will always be happy with it, cause it comes with unshakable belief, and is that not what we all want the solidity of being right. It is a sad fact, but right is different to us all and in Buddhism it helps find what is right for you.
Don’t forget this has been a sale of pitch of sort, we are sold things all the time and not for the exchange of money, but for space in your mind.
Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.
Today Is Earth Day and I hope that all of you do some good for Mother Earth, any small thing you can spare time to do I am sure that she will appreciate it more then we can know.
First a little practical advice from a video I saw on YouTube. It is a series of wrist exercises that will help with the pain, well that is if your wrist hurts, my do at times, being on the computer and exercises such as push-ups and things can wear down those wrists so I myself need to protect them. I am sure some others would like help to know how to do the same. OH I should mention I have tried these and been doing them for about a week and have to say thank you to the creator of the video http://www.framedrums.net/. The exercises really work and for me especially the first one.
Watching yourself run in a mirror can make a treadmill workout go by faster and feel easier.
Using a food diary can double a person’s weight-loss efforts. Your food diary makes you accountable to yourself and provides you with clues on where the extra calories are sneaking in.
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I want to talk about some life simply pleasures, there are so many to count and I could never list them all but I did start thinking about some. Here is my very short list I want to share.
Staying in bed listening to Jazz, smoking weed all day on Sunday.
Falling asleep in the backseat of a car during a long trip and waking up and you are there.
Watching something download fast.
Gym pain, from a hard satisfying workout.
The smell of your home, when you come a home from a long day.
New socks.
The smell of diner cooking.
Saying the same thing a sports commentator says just before they say it.
Helping someone.
Getting a letter, or a package.
Playing card or board games.
A good morning stretch.
Absolute perfect silence.
Using Rock-Paper-Scissors to settle anything.
cuddling with someone.
Finding money you didn’t even know you lost.
Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.
(Picture of the Bonfin Festival. Link to Photo http://media.photobucket.com/image/Salvador%20Brazil%20January%2014th%20Lavagem%20do%20Bonfim/cacau18/lavagem.jpg)
This is a very well done picture, the artist Dimitri Dilmann lighting was great even to the point of the reflection of the background on the car, and through the window.
(Picture Break, ha longish post I guess.)
