I'd rather envision and encourage positive outcomes, vigor, vitality, wholeness and health instead of the elephant in the corner or the 800 lb. gorilla.
When we name a dysfunction, or negative aspect, the mind goes to that place and brings up the litanies, histories and anecdotes.
The older we get the more case histories we know. We are pretty sure what's wrong and how to fix it. We may even have free advice to give.
I'd like prayers for so and so. She has _______. He is _______.
The aspirin doesn't care if you have a toothache or a sore back. And the healing spirit will find the spot to heal.
Let's leave room for miracles. Let's add to those stories as well.
From candle to candle - let's add more light.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Friday and New Gloves
Yesterday I received a wonderful and practical blessing to start the day. It was about 37 degrees outside. Pat gave me a new pair of driving gloves.
I have approximately 3 pair of driving gloves each with a single finger of one glove with some sort of hole in it. You'd think I could make a decent pair out of three pair. I have not yet found the combination.
Very grateful and warmer; off I went.
At the 9 o'clock hour on WHAD radio Veronica Rueckert hosted a special broadcast live from the Wisconsin Book Festival at the Overture Center in Madison - the first hour of which featured the poetry slam, hip hop poets.
I was on the bypass returning from the lakeside wiping tears from my eyes. The wordsongs were so vivid. It was another recent instance of me coming home.
I called in to the radio program and got on, said my piece and brought a little tear to the program. The three young poets have gotten polished and somewhat removed from the power they bring. I was able to bring them back for a moment.
The schedule for lunch was looking a little slim and I decided not to come home. Pat though that was fine because she was winging through her list and slowing down would have meant ... slowing down.
I went to a NameBrandFastFood place and headed to the library afterward. I paged though a landscaping magazine featuring ornamental grasses and shot a few fantastic recipe pics out of the Food Network monthly magazine. Tasty looking stuff and new ideas; yum. Glad I had already eaten something.
I might spend more of my lunch times at the library.
After work at 4 pm I headed to Hartson Funeral Home right around the corner. Pat's long-time friend Donna's mother had passed. Pat would be coming on her own. We stayed through the service at 6 pm and headed, with the funeral troupe, to Meyers Restaurant for family-style fish and fried chicken. We got back home after 9 pm.
There have been too many funerals lately and it was a very long day Friday.
It's Saturday morning early as I make these notes. I wanted to look up the MP3 of the poetry slam broadcast and that poetry search led me to another radio program talking about ... well ...
Here's the FB post from Veronica Rueckert Show.
** How can changing your personal narratives change your life? World-renowned psychologist Timothy Wilson tells us after 9:00 this Friday. He says the approach he writes about in "Redirect" can make you happier, reduce racial prejudice and even turn you into a better parent. Malcolm Gladwell called the book "a masterpiece." **
I ordered the Wilson book online from the library and decided to read the reader reviews at Amazon.
I really like when Wilson talks about rewriting the story in order to improve one's own life.
One reviewer was disappointed. He bought the book because of the marketing hype. While it is a fine read for social purposes it does not delve into personal change - which is what he took the hype to mean. He would not have bought the book had he peeked into it first.
But, he wrote: consider instead Martin Seligman's "Learned Optimism" or "Authentic Happiness", or Michigan State University's Gershen Kaufman's books on building self-esteem and 'personal power.'
So I ordered up some Seligman from the library as well. That is one reason I like the reader reviews on Amazon so much.
So here's the links for now. I'm going back to bed before breakfast.
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Friday 10/21/2011 9:00 AM - Veronica Rueckert - 111021D
http://wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=rkt
My call in is approximately 43 minutes into the broadcast.
Wilson Amazon Redirect
http://www.amazon.com/Redirect-Surprising-Science-Psychological-Change/product-reviews/0316051888/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
I have approximately 3 pair of driving gloves each with a single finger of one glove with some sort of hole in it. You'd think I could make a decent pair out of three pair. I have not yet found the combination.
Very grateful and warmer; off I went.
At the 9 o'clock hour on WHAD radio Veronica Rueckert hosted a special broadcast live from the Wisconsin Book Festival at the Overture Center in Madison - the first hour of which featured the poetry slam, hip hop poets.
I was on the bypass returning from the lakeside wiping tears from my eyes. The wordsongs were so vivid. It was another recent instance of me coming home.
I called in to the radio program and got on, said my piece and brought a little tear to the program. The three young poets have gotten polished and somewhat removed from the power they bring. I was able to bring them back for a moment.
The schedule for lunch was looking a little slim and I decided not to come home. Pat though that was fine because she was winging through her list and slowing down would have meant ... slowing down.
I went to a NameBrandFastFood place and headed to the library afterward. I paged though a landscaping magazine featuring ornamental grasses and shot a few fantastic recipe pics out of the Food Network monthly magazine. Tasty looking stuff and new ideas; yum. Glad I had already eaten something.
I might spend more of my lunch times at the library.
After work at 4 pm I headed to Hartson Funeral Home right around the corner. Pat's long-time friend Donna's mother had passed. Pat would be coming on her own. We stayed through the service at 6 pm and headed, with the funeral troupe, to Meyers Restaurant for family-style fish and fried chicken. We got back home after 9 pm.
There have been too many funerals lately and it was a very long day Friday.
It's Saturday morning early as I make these notes. I wanted to look up the MP3 of the poetry slam broadcast and that poetry search led me to another radio program talking about ... well ...
Here's the FB post from Veronica Rueckert Show.
** How can changing your personal narratives change your life? World-renowned psychologist Timothy Wilson tells us after 9:00 this Friday. He says the approach he writes about in "Redirect" can make you happier, reduce racial prejudice and even turn you into a better parent. Malcolm Gladwell called the book "a masterpiece." **
I ordered the Wilson book online from the library and decided to read the reader reviews at Amazon.
I really like when Wilson talks about rewriting the story in order to improve one's own life.
One reviewer was disappointed. He bought the book because of the marketing hype. While it is a fine read for social purposes it does not delve into personal change - which is what he took the hype to mean. He would not have bought the book had he peeked into it first.
But, he wrote: consider instead Martin Seligman's "Learned Optimism" or "Authentic Happiness", or Michigan State University's Gershen Kaufman's books on building self-esteem and 'personal power.'
So I ordered up some Seligman from the library as well. That is one reason I like the reader reviews on Amazon so much.
So here's the links for now. I'm going back to bed before breakfast.
===
Friday 10/21/2011 9:00 AM - Veronica Rueckert - 111021D
http://wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=rkt
My call in is approximately 43 minutes into the broadcast.
Wilson Amazon Redirect
http://www.amazon.com/Redirect-Surprising-Science-Psychological-Change/product-reviews/0316051888/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Monday, October 3, 2011
Super Shelby - Action Hero
When we first met in your studio on Monday Night class we were not gathering about your art. Still I was immediately taken with your vision, bold strokes and balance of light.
A couple summers later you started posting works in progress on Facebook from everywhere en plein air. It seemed like you were every jazzy where.
You were approaching rock star status in my mind and I was a teensy bit envious that you were just doing it. Why wasn't I doing it? Not the painting but the being engaged in creation; the juggling of shadow and light.
When we met for the Victorian Art tour you led at the Pfister on the Doors Open Milwaukee weekend you went from Rock Star to Action Hero for me and I saw - you showed me - strokes with the flashlight. You shined the light.
When I asked about the idea, theory, methodology behind 'under painting' specific to your thirty day challenge, and you said something like "Just start. Cover up the canvas." I knew I could begin again. Begin fresh.
Simply take the blank out of the blank page.
Thank you.
The words have been pouring out.
A couple summers later you started posting works in progress on Facebook from everywhere en plein air. It seemed like you were every jazzy where.
You were approaching rock star status in my mind and I was a teensy bit envious that you were just doing it. Why wasn't I doing it? Not the painting but the being engaged in creation; the juggling of shadow and light.
When we met for the Victorian Art tour you led at the Pfister on the Doors Open Milwaukee weekend you went from Rock Star to Action Hero for me and I saw - you showed me - strokes with the flashlight. You shined the light.
When I asked about the idea, theory, methodology behind 'under painting' specific to your thirty day challenge, and you said something like "Just start. Cover up the canvas." I knew I could begin again. Begin fresh.
Simply take the blank out of the blank page.
Thank you.
The words have been pouring out.
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