Apr 142010
Monkees, I think we must do what we want to do. Those who disapprove will either come around or stop coming around. Either way, lovely.
This is one of my favorite poems.
Ed
By Louis Simpson
Ed was in love with a cocktail waitress,
but Ed’s family, and his friends,
didn’t approve. So he broke it off.
He married a respectable woman
who played the piano. She played well enough.
to have been a professional.
Ed’s wife left him . . .
Years later, at a family gathering,
Ed got drunk and made a fool of himself.
He said, “I should have married Doreen.”
“Well,” they said, “why didn’t you?”
there is more room to move here.
the top of the world is calling.
I KNEW I liked that Jake. good man.
http://www.toms.com/
The tattoo is a line in his favorite Set Your Goals song. It goes like this:
Even as we get older
We can do it all over.
Make our own plans and score the music to our own lives.
Looking into the future,
There is more room to move here.
Invincible as we score the music to our own lives.
Now we gotta react, we gotta think fast.
Side bust wits leave us delirious.
Outspoken hearts, restless as sharks. My life, my pride.
Save me the daylight, Bring me home, It's OK cause
My way has only got to work for me.
I'm trying my hardest to make the most of every minute.
Time flies. And the top of the world is calling.
Time grabs me by the shoulders.
We're holding on.
ah youth.
Krystal, your husband is funny too.
What does Jake say that "my life, my pride" means to him?
What's the link to the funny shoes guy?
glennon,
Jake is still good. He's slammed with writing papers for the last month of school and just got a tattoo across his chest that says "My Life, My Pride". My husband told him that in some language "my" means "gay". (not that there's anything wrong with that). Also, he's in love with TOMS shoes. Have you heard of them? They're those shoes where if you buy a pair, the guy sends a pair to a child in need. I think they look like institution shoes but the thought is what counts, right?
Glennon, ahahahahah!!! I do that, too (sometimes)!!! I thought that was one of my deep, dark secrets; skipping pages on really looooong books when it has been one of those days.
G–
have you heard from ann lamott yet? you will tell us when you do, right?
my writing instructor loved william zinsser. he wrote him a letter, and this popular man called my instructor on the phone. several years later they now have an amazing friendship. he's going to visit him in new york next week.
have you ever written ann a handwritten note?
kate
Krystal,
I was thinking about you today.
How's our Jake? I like that guy. He's funny and Adrianne says he's amazing.
I'm off to do whatever adrianne's doing but I love you monkees and I love that poem.
SLM,
I should have clarified that I was referring to our deep heart-of-heart dreams…not desires that could hurt others. Dreams that make the world more beautiful.
Me too, kate. me too.
Adrianne- You're off to have lots of beers, aren't you?
Love you. Miss you.
chimmy, i love that lamott quote. also your sister's. how's the new place???
Lovely poem.
Now I'm off to do what I want.
G– to answer your question "Anyone have a dream we can help move along?"
A year ago someone asked me "what do you want?" the question has haunted me for a year, but yesterday at a meeting it dawned on me, maybe not the first time, but it struck differently: the dream is "to trust myself and act on that trust. to trust what is right for me in the power of sanity, faith and healing. sanity can be defined as being centered and comfortable with self."
"Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me." — that is my dream.
thank you for listening/reading,
Kate
SLM and Anonymous 12:54… true. Ugh… Did you tell your son that that is where the programming begins? I had a similar situation at Sunday School, got kicked out of class for it; Later again in bible study during confirmation; And then there were the college professors; and then now again at work; I guess I'm still learning how to color inside the lines, but I should give every one the note my Dad gave my kindergarten teacher – Please do not inhibit her creativity.
Oh, and please folks, don't get me (or SLM's son too for that matter) wrong. At least for me, I love me some St. Ghandi (was he really sainted? LOL); even if he didn't qualify the type of change through his words. I let that slip because he did so through his deeds.
Ugh… the changes people believed in that the world could have done without – Slavery, Apartheid, Jim Crow Laws, and the many other forms of Genocide and Oppression that still persist today.
Thank goodness there are equal and opposite forces at work (i.e., Truth and Reconciliation, IJM, Momastery… woo hoo!)
I think Anonymous 12:54 is the voice of sanity in this. My son had to write an essay once on Gandhi's quote, "be the change you want to see in the world." My son's essay was about how selfish that COULD be if taken to its logical extension. For example (he posited), Hitler wanted to see a change in the world (i.e. no Jews) and he became the dictator in search of accomplishing that goal…
I was proud of my son for recognizing that dreams and desires, absent love for God and others, is just selfishness.
But even though every word was spelled correctly and the grammar was perfect and the essay was really very well written, he received a lower grade – I think because the teacher disagreed with his opinion. (There were no corrections on the paper) He had dared to disagree with St. Gandhi.
That was his first taste (6h grade) of how choosing to speak the truth, even in love, can be painful and costly. I reassured him that he was in good company because even Jesus was castigated, ridiculed and mocked and warned us that if we choose to follow Him, we will be too…
Unfortunately, now my son just chooses not to write for others, including his teachers, because he doesn't want them to mark him down for disagreeing with his point of view.
Dontcha just love what the culture does to our kids?
Blast it all, my still small voice is telling me to eat dark chocolate and Doritoes and lay in bed watching the Today show and ignoring all phone calls. What to do when our "voices" just tell us to laze it out?
I LOVE this poem. LOVE it. Funny though, because I think what if maybe Doreen didn't want to marry him? Pinning our wants on someone else is tricky. Or thinking that your life would have been better…different…just because of who we're with. Maybe he wasn't unhappy because he married the pianist. Maybe he was just unhappy? The cocktail waitress could have left him too…but maybe he was angry at the world, thinking life would have been perfect if he'd just had her? Just musing…I love this poem because it made me think!! Happiness, just like lifestyle changes to become healthier, etc. can only truly come from the still small voice in your own soul.
Thanks!!!
as my sister always reminds me, "You, Do You".
i have loved this week's clear message to 'go confidently, bodly in the direction of our dreams!' i am going to pick up an anne lamott
keep writing glennon! write dreams, write faith, write jesus, write love, write hope, write us in and out of this story
and as seuss would probably insist
write. write. write.
i will read.
and to all the monkee dreamers:
“hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. you wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” – anne lamott
(i am going to read her too, and buy another book shelf for the hermit crab collection)
Glennon… miss you. love you. need to see your face. will settle for hearing your voice. will probably make it with a text. will possibly survice with an email. whatever you can do will work.
Terri, love you. Thank you for always encouraging me.
Molly, I love that Dr. Seuss. Although I always skip pages of Green Eggs and Ham when reading to the kids because MAAAAN it's long.
Diane, Bubba says that, too. He's been telling me that for years.I like how they say it in Field of Dreams, too. "If you build it, they will come."
I just checked out our numbers. Since we all started showing up at Momastery, so have 100 thousand others. 200 thousand page views, my software says. I think that's a lot. People like kindness and hope.
Love the Dr. Seuss quote from Miss Molly. Very true. Live your life and blog how you feel Glennon. I'm following no matter what. You always have a good morsel of wisdom and encouragement as you travel your chosen road.
Terri
I can't stop thinking about that Woody Allen quote that Jo (and Anne Lamott) shared with us. "80% of success is just showing up."
I think the other 20% is making sure that when you show up, you're not standing in God's way.
just posted a song I think you all would like on the FB page…it's called "I just showed up for my own life"
hmmm
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind" Dr. Seuss
This hits so close to home, it's not even funny.
Thank you.
Love it! Absolutely the truth! Either way, LOVELY!
love, love, love this!
"Either Way, Lovely" — perfect
G –
I sent you a message on your FB page. Thank you, as always, for making me smile. I loved it.
Carin
We helped Joey yesterday, Monkees. She's off and away. No turning back now. Plenty of resting, but no turning back.
Anybody else have a dream we can help move along? Comment or email me. No dream too big or too small.
Love you,
G