day 325: dearest mother nature, please add some more snow to the 30" we have already. sincerely, bonkosi.
09 February 2010
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day 323: the snow makes things so beautiful.
(the last couple days make up for any days i've missed along the way...which has only been one!)
i l o v e .
'life can be very easy when love is your way of life...you may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy. love in action only prod
uces happiness. love will give you inner peace. it will change your perception of everything.'
- don miguel ruiz, the 4 agreements
i love.
*today, after this blog was posted, i was presented with two unexpected but welcomed surprises on my walk to work.
06 February 2010
yesterday, i encountered a beautiful, radiant middle-aged woman who made a commitment 8 months ago. a commitment to stop complaining. why? because it doesn't get her anywhere. it doesn't put her above anyone else, it doesn't solve her problems and it forces her to think about the miniscule bad and forget about the immense, triumphant good. she said to me, 'all of the bad things i have are in this tiny little pile and all of the good things just keep building up, so count your blessings.'
the good almost always amounts to more than the bad, but we choose to focus on something so small that we forget about all of the things we should be grateful for. so i quit. i can only do my best, but i'm committing to counting my blessings instead of complaining.
happy birthday, robert nesta.
today is the legend's birthday. we should all be grateful that his legend lives on.
365(322) cont'd
day 322: otherwise car-busy streets were occupied by mobs of pedestrians and pandas somehow escaped the zoo.
05 February 2010
ron clark academy
i was introduced to the ron clark academy today...and was screaming with pure excitement about the idea of education that looks like this. if you haven't been exposed, please check it out.
it's pretty amazing how articulate these kids are and how successful this style of teaching is.
it's pretty amazing how articulate these kids are and how successful this style of teaching is.
04 February 2010
'my space'
'we are obsessed with people getting to know us, assuming they'll keep it at a distance...and this is our problem: we can't deal with the face-to-face, so we let technology replace the space that people are supposed to feel...let's face it, we are internally afraid of what's real.'
i've always been a fan of russell simmons presents def poetry jam, so i decided to add it to my my netflix queue. spoken word poetry is incredibly powerful to me and something always resonates with me when i listen. and while this post goes against the message, it's something to think about. something, at least, that i've been thinking about in the last few weeks that i've taken a social-networking break...and substituting it for real, face-to-face, human interaction. it's sort of like a breath of fresh air.
03 February 2010
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