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Re: What are you trying to achieve?

pemsical — 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

pemsical — 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?

pemsical — 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

pearl_mattenson — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:47:58 -0000

Count me in for the cirlce journal too. Sounds like a wonderful idea.

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

LTanya — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:15:48 -0000

Pema, you're right. Setting a time limit is critical. I've read where some groups give each person a month to complete a page before they have to send it along.

I love your idea of using a circle journal to mesh the virtual and real worlds. I'm definitely interested in joining you.

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

pemsical — 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

pemsical — 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

pemsical — 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?

pemsical — 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?

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

Volunteering at Portland's WORDSTOCK FESTIVAL! http://www.wordstockfestival.com/#/page_id=111&...
I start tonight by picking up Stefan Fatsis at the airport.

Re: How do you define your self worth?

pemsical — 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?

pemsical — 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?

pemsical — 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?

DanielleLaPorte — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:35:11 -0000

Yes! Congratulations! O B A M A. His speech last night was one of the most powerful oratories I've ever heard. The man know his self worth and is calling everyone to take responsibility for theirs!

Re: How do you define your self worth?

pemsical — 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?

pemsical — 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?

lotusleenie — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:58:34 -0000

Check out Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society by Matthew Fox "In our times a new creation story and a new cosmology have vastly expanded the meaning of flesh..." This book presents a new theology that re-evaluates fundamental Christian methods of perceiving spirit and flesh by denying any hard and fast distinction between the two. Even more radically, Fox denies that goodness and sinfulness can be cleanly distinguished. Following to its logical conclusion Thomas Aquinas's belief that sin is misdirected love, Fox describes parallels between the Seven Deadly Sins of Christianity and the seven chakras of Eastern traditions--how, for example, even the ugliest expressions of lust are, at their root, corrupt expressions of a God-given desire for union with another. In this regard, Fox quotes the German mystic Meister Eckhart: "Everything praises God. Darkness, privations, defects, and evil praise God and bless God." Sins of the Spirit is so complex and ambitious that its structure and language often become knotty and abstruse; however, Fox always returns to his central goal, "to ground our sense of sinfulness--and of awe--in the body." For this reason, Sins of the Spirit is a landmark of popular contemporary writing about Christian theology. It points the way to a time when we might learn to live out our confession that God's incarnation is the reason for our faith. --Michael Joseph Gross -- Culled from Amazon.com

Re: What legacy do you want to leave?

Storyteller — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:57:47 -0000

Both, Pema, well put! I could write a few novels about this subject, Linda and Weezie and welcome your views...I find in my experience: sex is both under rated and over rated in our society. I think Christianity could be very healing and informing for those suffering from unhealthy sexuality - the Bible is ripe with excellent advice and examples of loving sexuality - take Song Of Solomon for starters - but instead, in my experience, the Christian culture is rather "mum" about sensuality and short on celebrating healthy expressions of sexuality. It's a real shame.

Re: What legacy do you want to leave?

pemsical — 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?

pemsical — 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?

pemsical — 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?

Jonathan Mead — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:12:59 -0000

Pema,

That is really awesome, congratulations to you. I hope that someday my pen will feed me. Sometimes my pens refuses to ink (thought congestion) and I lose my patience with it. But I always seem to come crawling back.

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

pemsical — 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?

pemsical — 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…)

invisible.bees — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:05:13 -0000

"That we're all in it together. That we really can make our experience whatever we want it to be." What a marvel it is when we realize these things our true (at least in our culture), and what a blessing when we activate that knowledge. Well said, Pema.