every problem is...

pregnant with a solution....

fertile with hope of resolution....a chance to leap that obstacle...

and thus is the thought for the day.


every single problem is pregnant with a solution....I read that today and it made me think....


it is the way of the optimist.... every problem a chance to show the world what they can do about it.


and the optimist smiles as the solution is born.

she's so high....

seriously...

Where does the time go???   Here we are again, Halloween time....and I don't have much time so I want to hit the important points...

weirdly I listened to this song, She's So High, by Tal Bachman....ahhh...the 90's.  

but....I kinda just love it...especially when he mentions Aphrodite....

She's blood, flesh and bone
No tucks or silicone
She's touch, smell, sight, taste and sound

But somehow I can't believe
That anything should happen
I know where I belong
And nothing's gonna happen
Yeah, yeah

'Cause she's so high
High above me, she's so lovely
She's so high
Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite
She's so high, high above me

First class and fancy free
She's high society
She's got the best of everything

What could a guy like me
Ever really offer?
She's perfect as she can be
Why should I even bother?

'Cause she's so high
High above me, she's so lovely
She's so high
Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite
She's so high, high above me

She comes to speak to me
I freeze immediately
'Cause what she says sounds so unreal

and picking up Jude and Zoey,  just the other day at school....Jude handed me this ribbon he got at school...and we had a discussion about drugs.....they have no idea why people would take drugs...if drugs make them feel bad....so precious, beautiful....innocent....with all the hopes and dreams of the world...

and made me think....the best drug to be on is oxytocin.....or a cocktail of that and other ones that make you high...on hope and bliss and whatnot....with no dangerous side effects...well, besides thinking you can spread love to the whole world.  gasp.   the thought.   <3  If I could hand out oxytocin and dopamine....all natural like...I would.... but you gotta make your own.



also....then brought me to an interesting fact about witches and the association with brooms...and riding brooms....and rye....ergot....and hallucinations....and you know....well, look it up.  Google that.

interesting read...about this fungus...and rye bread...and "witches"..... AAANNNNNNDDDDd

anyway....

This year....I'm a cheetah....in leopard spots.  SSSHHHHHHH.  don't tell anyone.   I maintain,

that I am 100% Cheetah....

peace and love and Halloween!  Have a very safe and fun one....from my studio...to yours....



and did you know that Cheetahs are the only one of the big cats who purrrrrrrrr?

breakfast with pollack...

nothing like a shower...and coffee to start things going....and breakfast.....


the best breakfasts can involve....more than.....just....usual breakfast fare....eggs and juice.....etc.  coffee, croissants....



breaking a fast....can mean many things....breaking the fasting of what you want to do....or who you want to be...


feeding the soul.....

the soul needs some food....fuel...to keep moving forward and....really feel satisfied.


so find your food....and get moving.....

it's time to have breakfast.  


peace...and love and breaking fasts.

soul to soul...

I remember walking into a record store....when I was in high school....when visiting my Dad who lived in Washington D.C....

and hearing...

for the first time.....the music of Soul II Soul....it shaped my whole year after that... it just...was one of those albums....that you hear at the right time....and it molds you...like water over stone....and shapes your soul a little bit at a time...

it flows through you and fills the grooves of growing up and trying to figure out who you are at that awkward part in your life where....your whole life is in front of you....

and well, it just really is an awesome album.

and in high school, I painted the album cover....because I loved it so much...which brings me to another thing...

there are things that mold you so much... one being...high school.   I had an awesome high school experience....I had friends....friends who felt like family... and so that....if I took a Friday night to be a painting recluse....I knew that I'd still have friends post-creative time.  I didn't have to jump at every friend gathering to show my presence to be accepted...and there were a lot of us to hang out with....my friend pool....was big....and awesome...and supportive....and really quite remarkable and I'm blessed to have been surrounded with such awesome people.....people I still know and love today.

I left that high school situation with the confidence that I didn't need to jump at or grasp at friendships that didn't work.

you speak to the ones you speak to you.....heart to heart...and soul to soul.  :)

anima ad animam....

and that is what I carry with me....

I'm ok alone....I'm ok in groups.



Keep On Moving, Soul II Soul,

Keep on movin'
Don't stop like the hands of time
Click clock, find your own way to stay
The time will come one day

Why do people
Choose to live their lives this way?

Keep on movin', don't stop, no
Keep on movin'

Keep on movin'
Keep on movin', don't stop no
Keep on movin'

It's our time, time today
The right time is here to stay
Stay in my life, my life always
Yellow is the color of sun rays

I hide myself from no one
I know the time will surely come when
You'll be in my life, my life always
Yellow is the color of sun rays   (Soul II Soul, 1989) 

and finding people who speak to your heart...having a common language.....

is pretty spectacular.

you know who speaks my language?   Jason Mraz.   Oh...man.  Jason Mraz...if you are listening....can I come hang out with you at your Avocado farm?  OMG.  and maybe we can play guitar together?

if you are reading this.... Mr. Jason Mraz....

I can paint avocados.....

it could be like....Charlie and the Chocolate Factory..... just think about it. 

you can find me at:  16 Cheetahs Studio.....  

make love your destination...

i have no idea what to blog today....I have about 50 different ideas.....and not a one is just pouring out...but I will say this, 

while I was looking at song lyrics, I found this one, 'make love your destination'....

of course it's from a Tears for Fears song....I won't say which, it's not super important and you can google it...but...anyway....

when you make love your destination...and you work towards that....your  road leading there..your heart leading there...

the journey is incredible...the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touches...  

then you find out...that you've arrived...

on an island.....where nothing else matters....because really....nothing else does.  

it is then, when you are totally satisfied...satiated....calm in the knowing that you have everything you need.  

and when you read really....awesome quotes that get right to the heart of the matter...about life....about love....about perseverance....about faith and about hope....all these paths....lead to love.  I mean...if you want to talk in binary terms.....the really awesome ones don't talk about hate and fear as a model for an awesome life....right? 

and when you love yourself...you never have to feel lonely....because you are with someone awesome.....

you.  

because you are awesome...it is really quite simple.  happiness.  

and 

because where you are with the fullness of your own love....is.....way more fulfilling than relying on someone else to love and appreciate you....

because that's not what you want in a relationship...two people- co-dependent on each other to make each other happy.  

each must be happy standing on their own.  

and so there it is.....

you have to be a self-contained island of awesomeness and love first....sometimes it's easy to lose sight of this...

of that, simple truth.....so here....this is a reminder.  

making love your destination....and once you find that path..... so many more things will flow.  

when people love themselves.....they love.....

and fill life with a rich warmth that oozes with respect and joy.....like a gooey marshmallow.  and when two 

gooey marshmallows find themselves....melting together....

in a loving marshmallow of love....the people who love themselves can celebrate others, generously....

and ego.....egos are put aside.  

and the destination is reached.....

and seeds......seeds are sown....

......  making a bright yellow sunflower path to love...

the destination.  

peace and love...and Tears for Fears.....and the ultimate destination....best vacation place ever.  

clothed in strength...

rambling string of consciousness.....

i just sank my teeth into a bar that was a dense fudgy layer of chocolate on top...a middle of moist coconut gooeyness....sitting on a crunchy cookie.   

and it was divine.  

for some reason I've been listening to Christmas music...it just feels good sometimes.   Christmas spirit is wonderful  and I can't wait....and so I'm listening to the music...unapologetically. s

tapping into that hot chocolate-marshmallow....coziness....where you just sit back and enjoy all that is before you........throwing cares into the fire.  

when trying to get a new driver's license the other day....we stopped into a Mexican restaurant...and I went to the restroom for las damas and saw this: 

and it was bold and unavoidable....and had to be read and absorbed...

I think that is a thing to take in today....to laugh.....to let go...and not fear the future.   audentes fortuna juvat.  

go bravely forward and stop fearing....because you know what?  

Mark Twain said "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." 

which I think.....or rather 'feel'....you know...I'm mostly a 'feely' type of person.....and that is why I think....

I can have strength and hope and faith....because....I let my ego step aside with thoughts of doubts. 

call upon the hurricane and let it gain power....

it starts with a few little leaves blowing around in your head....about what you want to happen.....

and then......the wind starts to blow them around and around.....around your head and heart and start to pick up speed....

and you do what feeds the hurricane.....you throw thoughts and love and momentum into it....

and before you know it...you have a full on weather cell blowing your wishes out into the universe...taking shape.....changing your path.....changing those around you.....creating love....and hope...and faith...and generosity.....

oh, yeah...hurricanes can also be destructive....throw some crap in there...doubt....what-ifs, fear...and you'll have a good-sized horrible hurricane.....of crap.  crap that nobody needs....a whole crap hurricane full of.....

anyway....

love hurricane......creativity hurricane.....I'm good at starting those....mostly because I never let 'what-ifs' derail me....

the leaves are blowing in circles....picking up speed....and getting ready to take action......

touching lives to encourage others to listen to their own hurricanes......

there is nothing to stop you from doing what you want.....all of those things you think are stopping you are invisible chains.....worrying about invisible chains.....is what keeps you up at night.....self-defeating....and disenchanting....

sleep peacefully knowing that you will do something......something that will flip your world around 

and 

change your path.  

I think it's time to pick up speed and try spinning something around for a while...

don't pass as a cat....when you're a lion...and be happy you're a lion....wear it.  Not everyone is going to see you as a lion...you can't make people see something they can't.      

peace and love and hurricanes......

hello, you beautiful thing....

listen,

don't be an asshole....who wants to hang out with an asshole all day?  do you?   I don't.  

there...that feels better.

so many random things I want to type.....mostly, I remember a post I had a long time ago about gratitude.....

and although it may seem so very superficial....the things I appreciate today.....believe me... they mean more than what they may seem to mean on the surface.....


today:  I am grateful for....a song by Jason Mraz, called, Hello, You Beautiful thing....it is the perfect morning song that warms me like coffee....and makes me feel happy....


that dude, Jason Mraz...I'm grateful for him.....


honey crisp apples....especially the ones as big as your head.

chocolate, always....


clouds

people who care about me <3  the ones who appreciate what I bring to the table.....

music.....all music....music as a mood altering drug......

claritin and sudafed....and I'm not even going to hate on ragweed today, I'm sure it has a purpose.

things that are green and good for you...

3M and post-it notes 

Texas.....I'm grateful for Texas....and being in an awesome place.....


lime flavored freeze pops

Sunflowers....and VWs and sunny warm days.



I'm grateful for having a place to come and write all that I am grateful for....and having people read it and discuss things with.....


and peace.....

and community.


"this is what I've been waiting for.....and I know it's gonna be a good day, hello...you beautiful thing."


peace and love and gratitude.....

eres mi única esperanza...

"help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" -Leia

hope.....


is the most powerful thing....well, that and love....


and - you know.....they say, 'love conquers all'...

which is totally true.  sometimes people forget how strong love and hope...together....are


unstoppable.

when I see people react out of fear....well, that's another post...because today's post is all about hope...


and it doesn't take a genius to realize...that hope....and love....the opposite of fear and doubt.....


can kick your ass in all the right ways...

when you are full of love...and hope.....hope for something awesome to happen...

and have the belief that it will....and even just.... *know* it will.....


releases something magical.....a nice little dose of oxytocin....

your breathing evens out....you function better...you think better, you create.....you flow....

optimism....

is love and hope.....


when you find yourself doubting things.....stop.

when you find yourself fearing things....stop.

these things will get you no-place good.  


but it takes practice....but hey......people are willing to practice other things....they do things good for them....take vitamins....exercise.....

but what about making a practice to thinking better?

it's probably worth it to practice some optimistic positive hope-filled-gooey love thinking.  right?





i think so.  

sometimes people need to be reminded about how to hope...hope is what can get your motor going.

the perfect renewable sustainable fuel.


"only hope was left in her unbreakable house." - Works and Days, Hesiod


so, here's to peace and love and hope.....unstoppable, unbreakable....hope.

irrigation...roots, etc.

I have internet!

and as we try to settle into a new house....I decided I wanted to blog about this little tidbit from my Dad.

This place has some crazy systems...one, being the sprinkler system.  Back at the other house...the sprinkler was hooked up to the hose...and this happened maybe a few times a year....


at this house....the sprinkler system is a fully automated, programmable system, hooked up to the well...

this sprinkler system....has 13 zones....all of them, my Dad programmed because before we arrived, the temps were around 100...and well, things were dying.


My Dad and I were discussing a new program as things were cooling down, and he mentioned to me something important about plants and roots...

he said, "You want to make sure they get a good drink....even if you drop back the number of days you water....if you give them little drinks...but more frequent...the roots will be short....they won't go deeper to get the water."

kind of like Love, I thought...  if you don't really pour out the love...and you only give a tiny bit, even if that tiny bit is more frequent than a deep soak....

the roots are short...shallow....and when a tree's roots are short....shallow....they can't handle a storm....the tree falls over.....

my guess is....you'd want some deep roots, with love....with water...with plants...with people...


just saying....

and I am suffering today....from ragweed allergies!   I never had allergies in Canada!


peace...love....and proper irrigation....