Brother Blue

[via popple]

“Stop asking god to bless what you are doing. Get involved in what he is doing – it is already blessed.”
- Bono

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
- Sir Winston Churchill

“You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
-Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994), From “Betting on the Muse”

“Let there be peace on earth
and let it begin with me.”
We can not find, expect, or create peace in the world unless we first find it in ourselves.
Our job is to recognize the peace that already lives within us, which we are not seeing.
When we experience a lack of peace in the world or our would, the first questions should be,
“Where am I not at peace?”
“Why am I not at peace?”
“What lie am I telling myself about myself?”

I live 1600 miles from my parents. This year I am lucky enough to go to mass in the morning and have dinner with my mother on Mothers Day.
That’s not the best part of the day. The best part is what she is doing with her afternoon.
She is such a rock star. I am so proud!

“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.”
- Michael Pritchard

True joy is simple (not easy, but simple):
* Make no judgments.
* Have no expectations.
* Give up on needing to know why things happen like they do.

I am slowly getting settled in my new space. I haven’t had a living room/kitchen of my own in over 6 years. So I have been slowly gathering furniture.
First it was a small kitchen table. (It is not fun eating dinner at my desk even when it cleared off).
Today I bought a new bed.
It is getting home-y-er and home-y-er each day.
The best way to describe the shift in home decorations is a moving from “early serial killer” to “permanent graduate student.”