Intro but no spection?

So I started this blog with the full intention of posting regularly, but that hasn't happened. During a conversation, a co-worker made the observation that I often had deep and profound things to say. Go figure. Little ol' me. So I figured I might as well join the rest of the world and start blogging. Coincidental to the starting of this blog, however, all deep and profound thoughts seemed to completely disappear from my head. Ironic you might think, but that sort of thing happens to me all the time.

I still don't feel like I have anything immensely profound to say, but figured I would just start talking and maybe something interesting would reveal itself. I guess with the new year coming and it generally being the time for resolutions and changes in one's life, that it would be a good time to take stock of where I am , where I am going and where I want to be. What I do know is that I really want things in my life to slow down enough for me to get organized and get a handle on things. Work has been so insanely busy that the stress and chaos of it just follows me home. I find that I am disorganized and just ineffective in my use of time. So I guess that's one New Year's Resolution for me.

New Year's Resolution 2 would be to focus more on my meditations and spiritual studies. I read a blog recently which talked about using daily visualizations, affirmations, and meditations to manifest happiness in your life, among other things. There wasn't any new insights in this blog that I haven't already heard or read before. But for whatever reason, this was the right time for me to really hear it and take it to heart. Ever since then I have been attempting to incorporate positive thinking and positive affirmations in my life every day. With amazing results I must say. I have been happier and less stressed these past three weeks than I have been all year. Armed with this new "ability," I am motivated to continue and increase my efforts at inner peace and stress reduction in my life.

I Believe

The following was forwarded to me via email. I loved it so much I thought I would share.

Credo

I believe in the cave paintings at Lascaux, the beauty of the clavicle, the journey of the salmon.

I believe in all the Gods - I just don't like some of them.

I believe the war is always against the imagination, is recurring, repetitive, and relentless.

I believe in fairies, elves, angels and Boddhisatvas, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.

I believe Raven invented the Earth and so did Coyote. In archeology lie the clues. The threshold is numinous and the way in is the way out.

I believe in the alphabets, all of them, and the stories seeping from between their letters.

I believe in dance as prayer, that the heartbeat invented rhythm and chant -- or is it the other way around?

I believe in the wisdom of the body.

I believe that art saves lives and love makes it worth living them. And that could be the other way around, too.

- Judith Roche

Inspirational Song of the Day

I don’t know, yesterday was a pretty damn good day. But this song came up on my iTunes this morning and struck me as just a great inspirational tune for the day. I hope it moves others the way it moved me.

"Better Day"
Saving Jane
http://www.savingjane.com/

I have been asleep so long now
All locked up without a key
I have tapped my feet impatient
For a change to come to me
I've been hanging my hair
Outside this tower
Waiting for a savior
When all along I had the power to save myself
And I can tell

It's gonna be a better day
I think I'm gonna be okay
Got a little air to breathe
It's alright with me
I got a little light to shine
You can't take what's mine
I've been down so low
Nowhere but up to go
So go ahead, bring on the rain
It's gonna be a better day

Every princess has a castle
Some kind of honor to defend
I would rather fight my battles
Than hide behind a thousand men
I've been hanging my hair
Outside of this tower
Waiting for a savior
When all along I had the power to save myself
And I can tell

It's gonna be a better day
I think I'm gonna be okay
Got a little air to breathe
It's alright with me
I got a little light to shine
You can't take what's mine
I've been down so low
Nowhere but up to go
So go ahead, bring on the rain
It's gonna be a better day

I gotta make my own luck
I gotta find my own way
I gotta see that there is more to life than just existing
I wanna be living

It's gonna be a better day
I think I'm gonna be okay
Got a little air to breathe
It's alright with me
I got a little light to shine
You can't take what's mine
I've been down so low
Nowhere but up to go
So go ahead, bring on the rain
It's gonna be a better day

Soulmates . . . or something like it

(Introductory Note: I decided to start this blog as a place for my random thoughts, musings and 'profound' moments. Perhaps people will stumble across this blog and have a good laugh at something random I say. Perhaps others will take solace in finding someone that agrees with their line of thinking. Perhaps no one will ever read this but me. And that's all fine with me. Sometimes I think of things and just feel the need to get them written down. So this is what I intend to do with this first post and future posts.)


I have a friend who is my soulmate. Not in a lesbian, sexual sort of way. Although, I must admit that she cannot refuse, when the timing is just right, to shock someone with a lesbian innuendo comment or two. The concurrent look of certainty and uncertainty together on the other person’s face is, to be honest, almost more than I can bear without breaking into uncontrolled hysterical laughter. You know they desperately want to assume you ARE lesbian, but they aren’t 100% sure and they realize it just wouldn’t be PC to outright ask you. So they pause just a moment and desperately hope you will clarify the situation. We don’t. She loves to mess with people in this way and she’s very good at it. I love to laugh when she does so. She’s very perceptive of others and always manages to say the thing that everyone is thinking and no one wants to say. And she manages it with such straightforwardness and humor that it is truly impressive. There are many things in life that make me happy, but only a precious few that truly make my soul happy. This friend is one of the latter.

Having someone in my life who I know is my soulmate in what I think is a non-traditional sense made me ponder the whole concept of ‘soulmates.’ I believe soulmates are not what we tend to think they are. My understanding of the traditional concept of a soulmate is that there is a person in everyone’s life who is their one true soulmate, partner and lover. I could be wrong on this general understanding, but it’s late and I’m not inclined to do the research tonite (although this decision goes against my very nature and I'm fighting the urge to do a Google search and spend another hour researching it). However, I am not convinced that we each only get one soulmate and that they are necessarily our lovers or partners. No, I think there maybe there are degrees or levels of soulmates and even different types of soulmates for every person. This is my personal experience, otherwise I could not explain those numerous people in my life with whom I feel this connection. The friend I mention above is one of them. She has others in her life that are also soulmates, as do I. It’s my personal experience that leads me to my understanding of the term ‘soulmates.’ I expect that there are many who don’t believe in soulmates, many who will agree with my belief of soulmates, and many whose experiences will lead them to a completely different belief of soulmates.

The beauty of it is that we are all right.