Yes!

45 Life Lessons, written by a 90 year old

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short not to enjoy it.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.
5. Don’t buy stuff you don’t need.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for things that matter.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye… But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It’s never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words, ‘In five years, will this matter?’
27. Always choose Life.
28. Forgive but don’t forget.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give Time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you think you need.
42. The best is yet to come…
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.

CONSELHOS DE UM VELHO APAIXONADO

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Quando encontrar alguém e esse alguém fizer
seu coração parar de funcionar por alguns segundos,
preste atenção: pode ser a pessoa
mais importante da sua vida.

Se os olhares se cruzarem e, neste momento,
houver o mesmo brilho intenso entre eles,
fique alerta: pode ser a pessoa que você está
esperando desde o dia em que nasceu.

Se o toque dos lábios for intenso, se o beijo
for apaixonante, e os olhos se encherem
d'água neste momento, perceba:
existe algo mágico entre vocês.

Se o primeiro e o último pensamento do seu dia
for essa pessoa, se a vontade de ficar
juntos chegar a apertar o coração, agradeça:
Algo do céu te mandou
um presente divino: O AMOR.

Se um dia tiverem que pedir perdão um
ao outro por algum motivo e, em troca,
receber um abraço, um sorriso, um afago nos cabelos
e os gestos valerem mais que mil palavras,
entregue-se: vocês foram feitos um para o outro.

Se por algum motivo você estiver triste,
se a vida te deu uma rasteira e a outra pessoa
sofrer o seu sofrimento, chorar as suas
lágrimas e enxugá-las com ternura, que
coisa maravilhosa: você poderá contar
com ela em qualquer momento de sua vida.

Se você conseguir, em pensamento, sentir
o cheiro da pessoa como
se ela estivesse ali do seu lado...

Se você achar a pessoa maravilhosamente linda,
mesmo ela estando de pijamas velhos,
chinelos de dedo e cabelos emaranhados...

Se você não consegue trabalhar direito o dia todo,
ansioso pelo encontro que está marcado para a noite...
Se você não consegue imaginar, de maneira
nenhuma, um futuro sem a pessoa ao seu lado...

Se você tiver a certeza que vai ver a outra
envelhecendo e, mesmo assim, tiver a convicção
que vai continuar sendo louco por ela...

Se você preferir fechar os olhos, antes de ver
a outra partindo: é o amor que chegou na sua vida.
Muitas pessoas apaixonam-se muitas vezes
na vida, poucas amam ou encontram um amor verdadeiro.

Às vezes encontram e, por não prestarem atenção
nesses sinais, deixam o amor passar,
sem deixá-lo acontecer verdadeiramente.

É o livre-arbítrio. Por isso, preste atenção nos sinais.
Não deixe que as loucuras do dia-a-dia o deixem
cego para a melhor coisa da vida: o AMOR!!!

De regreso

Llevo sentada un buen rato frente a mi computadora sin poder escribir una palabra. El cursor aparece y desaparece amenazante mientras ‘Wild horses’ sale de mis audífonos.

Después de una tarde en familia, plática de celular con una amiga y un intercambio corto de mensajes subidos de tono con quien próximamente estará en la ciudad, me dispongo a empezar uno de los libros que mi jefe me ha pedido que lea. Empiezo a hojear y recuerdo haber leído alguno de sus capítulos en la universidad, y sin embargo hay algo que hace que no cierre el libro y piense en alguna excusa para devolverlo el Lunes, creo que es el Inglés. Tomo apuntes.

Es curioso como una persona puede darte tanta inspiración, como para empezar un blog y tomar la fotografía como un hobby serio, y sin embargo, que esa misma persona haga que (in)conscientemente lo dejes todo, sin abrir el blog, sin escribir las anécdotas vividas y guardar la cámara en lo más alto del armario para no verla y no tener uno de esos deja vú que te hacen perder el equilibrio mientras se encoge el corazón.

Es obvio que no se puede evitar lo que creemos y pretendemos hacer inevitable. Es solo una evasión temporal, porque tarde o temprano hay que enfrentar lo que tenemos frente a nosotros para poder seguir adelante. Es el mismo efecto del cerebro y la nariz – nuestros ojos ven nuestra nariz todo el tiempo, pero el cerebro decide ‘esconderla’ de nuestro campo de visión. La diferencia es que en este caso tenemos no 2, sino 3 objetos que quieren dominar: los recuerdos, el cerebro y el corazón. ¿Hay alguna teoría para eso? Creo que no, y si la hubiera el resultado no sería un nuevo amor, y si el tiempo.

Tiempo para recobrar las fuerzas, la energía, para enfriar la cabeza y poder pensar con claridad, hacer nuevos planes que ahora incluyen sólo a una persona, para demostrarme y demostrarle al mundo que estoy bien y que estaré mejor. Creo que éste último punto, es el más sorprendente, cuando volteas y ves lo superado, lo alcanzado y lo bien que uno esta consigo mismo.

Hace casi un año que no pongo ojo por aquí, y creo que es hora de hacerlo de nuevo, regresar a vaciar la mente de los pensamientos del día a día. A lo mejor, la inspiración no es la de antes, a lo mejor esa inspiración se fue con él, a lo mejor no… prefiero pensar qué cambio, maduró (quiero pensar que no sólo la inspiración) y que lo que se viene de ahora en adelante será mejor, como lo ha sido este año.

Un resumen de lo que ha pasado desde ese inigualable Septiembre:

-          Adiós al compromiso, planes de boda y adiós a él.

-          Nuevo trabajo.

-          Año nuevo (2012)

-          Cambio de puesto.

-          Una buena bronca laboral.

-          Aumento de salario.

-          Promoción laboral.

-          1° aniversario laboral.

-          Visitas a/de amigos del intercambio.

-          Más estrés y caída de cabello.

-          Dieta (que hasta la fecha ha resultado en la pérdida de unos 15 kilos, aproximadamente).

-          Bodas, hijos y reuniones de amigos de universidad.

-          Un español con un acento irresistible.

-          Un excéntrico personaje de ojos claros, que camina por mi escritorio varias veces por día, mientras yo simulo no ver.

-          Caer en la cuenta de varias cosas, tratando de no despegar los pies del suelo.

El amor es la arrogancia de aferrarse a lo imposible. Es buscar en otra parte lo que no encuentras en tí...

A la próxima, pronto…

Just a thought

"I don't want a perfect person
I just want someone to act silly with,
someone who treats me well,
and loves being with me
more than everything."

Beautiful Men

DEAR BEAUTIFUL MEN:
If you want to change the world… Love a woman - really Love her. Find the one who calls to your soul, who doesn’t make sense.

Throw away your check list and put your ear to her heart and listen.Hear the names, the prayers, the songs of every living thing-every winged one, every furry and scaled one,every underground and underwater one, every green and flowering one,every not... yet born and dying one…

Hear their melancholy praises back to the One who gave them life.If you haven’t heard your own name yet, you haven’t listened long enough.

If your eyes aren’t filled with tears, if you aren’t bowing at her feet, you haven’t ever grieved having almost lost her.If you want to change the world…

Love a woman - one womanbeyond yourself, beyond desire and reason,beyond your male preferences for youth, beauty and varietyand all your superficial concepts of freedom.

We have given ourselves so many choices we have forgotten that true liberation comes from standing in the middle of the soul’s fire and burning through our resistance to Love.

There is one Goddess in every woman. Look into Her eyes and see-really see if she is the one to bring the axe to your head. If not, walk away. Right now. Don’t waste time “trying.”

Know that your decision has nothing to do with her because ultimately it’s not with who, but when we choose to surrender.

If you want to change the world… Love a woman. Love her for life - beyond your fear of death,beyond your fear of being manipulated by the Mother inside your head.

Don’t tell her you’re willing to die for her. Say you’re willing to LIVE with her, plant trees with her and watch them grow.

Be her hero by telling her how beautiful she is in her vulnerable majesty, by helping her to remember every day that she IS Goddess through your adoration and devotion.

If you want to change the world… Love a woman in all her faces, through all her seasons and she will heal you of your schizophrenia-your double-mindedness and half-heartedness which keeps your Spirit and body separate-which keeps you alone and always looking outside your Selffor something to make your life worth living.

There will always be another woman. Soon the new shiny one will become the old dull one and you’ll grow restless again, trading in women like cars, trading in the Goddess for the latest object of your desire.

Man doesn’t need any more choices. What man needs is a Woman, the Way of the Feminine, of Patience and Compassion, non-seeking, non-doing, of breathing in one place and sinking deep intertwining roots strong enough to hold the Earth together while she shakes off the cement and steel from her skin.

If you want to change the world… Love a woman, just one woman. Love and protect her as if she is the last holy vessel.

Love her through her fear of abandonment which she has been holding for all of humanity.

No, the wound is not hers to heal alone. No, she is not weak in her co-dependence. If you want to change the world…

Love a woman all the way through until she believes you,until her instincts, her visions, her voice, her art, her passion, her wildness have returned to her ...

... until she is a force of Love more powerful than all the political media demons who seek to devalue and destroy her.

If you want to change the world, lay down your causes, your guns and protest signs.

Lay down your inner war, righteous anger and Love a woman…beyond all of your striving for greatness, beyond your tenacious quest for enlightenment.

The holy grail stands before you if you would only take her in your arms and let go of searching for something beyond this intimacy.

What if peace is a dream which can only be re-memberedthrough the heart of the feminine, in man or woman?

What if a man’s Love for Woman, the Way of the Feminine is the key to opening Her (and His) heart?

If you want to change the world…Love a woman to the depths of your shadow, to the highest reaches of your Being,back to the Garden where you first met her,to the gateway of the rainbow realmwhere you walk through together as Light as One,to the point of no return,to the ends and the beginning of a new Earth..."


To be a man and love a woman like this, she must be the kind of woman that *could* be loved like this.

♥ A woman leading her body, her life with trust, compassion and willingness. A woman that values, honors and allows her vulnerability to be witnessed, plunged into, ravished ... A woman who communicates, stands in her center and opens herself wider, and wider ... and wider, again. She sings her song and dances her dance in full confident feminine expression - And she honors him, his dance, his direction - yet ONLY because she honors her feminine and His masculine purpose NATURALLY fulfills her... "Here" - she knows she is home...♥ ♥