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Re: What are you trying to achieve?

Pema — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:42:37 -0000

Is personal peace an "achievement"? I would like to be peaceful in my daily achievements, and remain peaceful knowing that my longer term goals are being achieved with each daily one.

Re: Urban Hiking: A Woman’s Essentials for a Day in the Metropolis

Pema — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:00:26 -0000

thanks lewis! your products are fab! especially the olive oil soap. my favorite! i'm telling all my friends about your generous 30% off. thanks again.

Re: What are you sensitive to?

Pema — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:58:22 -0000

Kindness, realness, a Cuban beat, flay-va, subtlety.

Re: Keeping In Touch: How to Create Your Circle Journal

Pema — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:57:43 -0000

Maybe one other guideline: a time limit, within which to send your completed entry. My girlfriends and I shared a journal when we moved to different cities. We were very excited about it; I think it started as a Christmas gift. But then it got stuck in one girlfriend's hands, who found herself too busy to write, and too guilty to send it back into the circle without her entry. Would love to start this again, though.

...Might be interesting to do it with folks we have met online...could be a really beautiful way to have a tangible experience of each other in our virtual world....Wow, that could be fun! ...Any takers? (Click on my handle on this comment to see my blog, and see me at the C&D Contributors page, to see if you'd want to circle journal with me. We could keep track of where the journal is online. Post a little map perhaps.)

Re: The First Time

Pema — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:27:33 -0000

We're all just big babies after all. :-)
Teach us, feed us, love us.
Great article, Lucy.

Re: How to Trust Your Intuition

Pema — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:06:25 -0000

Hi Pearl! For me the feeling is a knowing. Somehow, when the feeling sneaks in, I know what to do next if I listen. If I try to go against that "direction," the feeling gets so strong, it is almost as if I am being scolded. You wouldn't use salt if a recipe called for sugar instead. The knowing seems that obvious. I have talked myself out of intuition enough times to realize it knows better than I after all. Wherever it comes from, it is always right! So I don't argue anymore. :-)

Re: Who has been of service in your life, and how do you remember them?

Pema — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:22:55 -0000

My step mom. It's her birthday today. We rarely got along, and still have fewer moments of peace together than unrest. But the fact is she raised me when my own mother would not. She loved me alongside 5 other kids in a suddenly-super-sized step-family. And she took care of everyone else's kids too, in at-home daycare to bring in a little money. She taught me charity, one of the profoundest things in my life. I think of her when I am inspired to give.

Re: This Weekend, How Are You Going to Play?

Pema — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:51:44 -0000

Volunteering at Portland's WORDSTOCK FESTIVAL! http://www.wordstockfestiva...
I start tonight by picking up Stefan Fatsis at the airport.

Re: How do you define your self worth?

Pema — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:29:36 -0000

sorry for the repeat, folks, can't get my post to reply to traci's.

Re: How do you define your self worth?

Pema — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:27:51 -0000

Hear hear, Traci!
Remember Neil Armstrong's statement, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"? Kind of feels like that kind of day today.

Re: How do you define your self worth?

Pema — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:26:32 -0000

Hear hear, Traci!
Remember Neil Armstrong's statement, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"? Kind of feels like that kind of day today.

Re: How do you define your self worth?

Pema — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:58:04 -0000

My worth is strongest as part of a teeming community of do-gooders, peace-bringers, and sea-changers: O b a m a !

Re: Lucia Frangione asks: What glass ceiling do you want to shatter?

Pema — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:29:24 -0000

Lucia, can you imagine the way that would change our culture? Wow! If "You are what you eat" translates into "You are the entertainment you consume" then we are a standard framework of physical conflict, opposition, territory battles, and taking sides. The modern plot structure has served us for a while, but I'm gonna imagine with you that YOU ARE A SUCCESS, writing, teaching and watching surface in the world of film a plot construct that grips the viewer in deeper, broader, real-er, and more imaginative experience. And your inimitable humor!

Re: What legacy do you want to leave?

Pema — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:15:59 -0000

woo hoo! is that sexual expression without the guilt?
or.... is it a refurbished morality code?

Re: What legacy do you want to leave?

Pema — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:15:07 -0000

i want to be a part of the revolution of personal accountability: thinking, growing, planning for oneself in a bigger, sustainable whole... local farms and perma-culture, instead of agri-biz, non-genetically manipulated nutrients, rather than frankenfood, self-care and intuitive wellness, rather than stepford-like dependence on a drug-induced medical system, the collective wealth that community health generates.

Re: Jonathan Mead asks: What’s right with your life?

Pema — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:08:36 -0000

Thanks Jonathan. Great interview and blog.
As for the thought congestion, let intuition slice through it.
Now, let's see if I can take my own advice. :-)

Re: Jonathan Mead asks: What’s right with your life?

Pema — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:53:43 -0000

I am living my dream! One of them, at least, there are so many. But I've been chasing THIS one a long time...I am writing full time, freelance and personal projects, a new play, a novel, all getting fair attention from my pen. Yesterday I exhausted myself in the office...only to realize at the end of the day, I didn't have to go home and get some writing done...because the writing was my work! Hallelujah for what's right with life.

Re: What do you secretly desire?

Pema — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:18:21 -0000

To be a jazz diva!

To secretly give women windfalls of cash, with a note that says, "Give this away. There's more where that came from!"

Re: In this very moment, what are you grateful for? (In no particular order of thanks…)

Pema — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:49:15 -0000

My warm covers. The sound of my dear friends downstairs.
Muneca the dog, who won over my heart and kept me safe when I was alone.
The moment when pain or fear ceases.
That we're all in it together.
That we really can make our experience whatever we want it to be.
I am especially grateful to have read all these wonderful things people are grateful for.

Re: What kind of award would you like to win?

Pema — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:27:07 -0000

I broke down my life-long Oscar fantasy, and realized the only things missing in my life were a fabulous evening gown and the permission to say thanks: http://parkbenchdaily.blogs...

But if you run across one of these with my name on it, call me:
MacArthur Genius Award (www.macfound.org/fellows)

Re: Street Hello Love: Please, Join Me In a Revolution People!

Pema — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:52:20 -0000

I LOVE Hello!!
When I'm quieted by the shyer moments of my nature, there's nothing like a few hello's to roust me out and get me giving the love right back.

Re: What do you love about men? (or, why is it so great being a man?)

Pema — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:16:03 -0000

I love that men think past "no." When men get stopped by something, they are eager for the challenge to make it a "yes," to get past the obstacle and get to the goal. Men create amazing possibilities this way, and remind me to keep going when I get stopped.