Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Sunday, April 20, 2008

I like it hot.














Now I don't own a TV, but while visiting friends I do catch some good shows. Often the Food Network is great because the food is always so worked out. A real gem was Down Home with the Neely's when they did their fast foods special. Wings are always great, right? Here is the recipe. And as Gina would say, you can add as much hot and spice as you want because she tasted them before and "They weren't hot enough to slap my mama!"

Thursday, April 17, 2008

NYC

New York New York, big city of dreams and everything in New York ain't always what it seems. Thanks, Epiphany! Peace. Love. Unity. Respect.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

There is no one right way for people to live.










The revolution won't take place all at once.
It will be achieved incrementally, by people working off each other's ideas.
It will be led by no one.
It will not be the initiative of any political, governmental, or religious body.
It has no targeted end point.
It will proceed according to no plan.
It will reward those who further the revolution with the coin of the revolution.

Friday, April 11, 2008

4 Minutes

So you've only got four minutes to save the world. You've seen the video and heard the single. Madonna is on top of her world and has obviously worked to use her fame and money to make a positive difference in the world. I get that a standard music video will run about four minutes, so she has that amount of time to get her message across...we have to change if we are going to survive. My problem is that she doesn't really say anything...she is just dancing saying she only has four minutes? She should have gone at least one step further...

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Alone...



















Please don't come near
my heart is breaking
It is a place I need to be
alone...
Do not worry, do not fret
I will come back to you
But for now, this place
is for me alone.

Reflection...



















Reflect upon the choice
-Accept yourself...
As I accept you in life
for I am grateful,
you exist...in here & now,
& forever in my thoughts
forever in my heart.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Lost and Found

You wake up one day and look in the mirror. You are a visitor in your own face. Perceptions reflect reality and the rays of light radiate. You trip and fall losing all sense of sense blinded by the light. Really, what does make sense? I know I have 5, all of which register the pain and suffering of falling. Scrapes and bruises inside and out. That's what I see in the mirror. It is an all out war. Luckily I've come out fighting. In the darkest, deepest days you can have light if you remember to turn it on. Switch. No one said life was easy. No one said life was fair. In fact, as much as one may not say about life, there is much to be said. Contradiction. Change. Cheese. Now take one step forward, even if it means taking two steps back. Go back to before you thought you knew. What do you really know? Who do you really know?

Salaryman












It started as a joke about my volatile working conditions and the amount of work I was doing compared to my peers, yet I still managed to get the short straw: "Salaryman does your work while you're at the water cooler." I wear him (me) on a chain around my neck to keep it real. No joke. I will do your work for you, right Titicaca?

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Bad Dreams












I'm in a cab with 4 other people plus the driver...all friends. We are on a long cab ride down an interstate from like Florida to NYC. The cab driver keeps getting pulled over for speeding. Part way through our trip we stop at hotel. We go to a Rite Aide. All I remember about the hotel room was the shower. It was a large white room with a glass door and several overhead spouts. I take a shower after everyone else has gone to bed. In morning I walk down the street into a really complex parking lot following signs for C. After seeing long lines for the one entrance, we found out that we could go to a different area to meet my brother. It seemed to be for some kind of outdoor festival. It was a beachy parking lot and extended as far as I could see. By the time we got to him it was time to go as it was getting dark. There were hordes of people leaving I got in a SUV with 3 other people and I remember we had to leave someone behind. I knew these people, but didn't actually know them. So we are finding way out of the crazy parking lot and a truck is coming at us in a 1 lane road the wrong way. The lady driving SUV I'm in is maybe 50's but grey she freaks out and starts twisting the wheel back and forth rapidly. She won't slow down and the truck isn't either, so just before we crash head-on she swerves right rapidly and goes up over a sort of planter about 2ft high and framed out with wood filled will small shrubs. Obviously SUV makes it over eventually but it is really rough. As soon as we are over it all the wheels fall off, doors fall off and we have to jump out. When I look back the SUV is just a frame and oil/gas spilling out everywhere tires rolled off to side still. So I walk away as they freak out and try to find my parents again so I can leave. Meanwhile I'm freaking cause I lost my camera and can't find it. I walk a long time in parking lot again and finally find my parents. We call hotel and they are checking if I lost my camera there. I get in the back seat and my dad starts to tell me what a huge failure I am. He says he can't depend on me and I've just fucked my life up beyond repair. I am crying and my mum just stays out of it. We have to circle through a lot of parking lot still to get out. We cross the bridge that only 1 of the 4 lanes is completed. Not all of pylons are done either. I think they may be making a 2nd story to the bridge. We drive really fast and there are cones to keep us in our lane. We are headed to open beach. Someone is parked right in our path and when we go to go right to get around there are a bunch of police blocking the way. 2 sports cars race around either side of us in front and slam on brakes. We do too to keep from pushing them into police barricade. Finally we get around and I get my little dog out waiting to walk up onto the beach. I'm told I can't stand there for a minute longer with him or I'll be arrested...and I have to pick him up and carry him. He is a puppy and wiggling a lot so I have a hard time picking him up. I get lots of compliments on the dog. So I walk out to the last dune and stand overlooking the beach. There is a helicopter rescue in place. The man that was drowning is close enough to shore I can't figure out why a life guard didn't just swim out. He is hanging onto the string and being brought up into the helicopter. He's not in a basket or anything. About 50ft up he drops suddenly into the water like the wench gave out because the string went down with him. The helicopter keeps trying to pick him up for like 10 minutes but keeps dropping him. It is like dumping him. Then the helicopter crashes into the water a few hundred feet away from the shore. I can see two people swimming away from it. The first guy is still struggling. It looks like as helicopter sinks it will pull him further out and under water. The helicopter doesn't sink though and the blade is still spinning just under the surface of the water. I wake up.