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August 14, 2008

Bigger isn't always better...

The most beautiful moments in life are the small ones.

They're the one's we're least likely to notice. We get so caught up in our :

√  daily schedules,

√  our endless slew of errands,

√  our heads,

that we're always entangled in a mash of thoughts & concerns & stresses. We're so focused on striving ahead that we forget that there's a now and this now is breathing with life: real, beautiful, tangible, temporal life. Notice it. 
 

 

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August 13, 2008

Ode to PB&J

This morning before I began my arduous commute, a smell filled my Brooklyn apartment. When I peered into the kitchen, my roommate had created a sandwich that brought my olfactory senses back to my youth and all those years spent playing it-tag, riding bikes, and most importantly, discovering the comforts in all American classic foods. Yes, people, my roommate had made a peanut butter & jelly sandwich.

It has long been known that peanut butter & jelly are the perfect marriage of flavors...the sweet & salty mingling, intertwining, dancing along the taste buds of your tongue. Pure heaven. Just when the peanut butter gets paste-like, the jelly's smooth consistency swoops in and counterbalances it. Perhaps humans should take a lesson from these two on how opposites can and should attract and how balancing your talents off of one another can create the perfect union.

The interesting thought in all this is that while PB&J's are arguably one of the most delectable American snacks, they are largely reserved for children. Grown-ups get lost in all the meat and mayonnaise and tend to forget about this ever-important sandwich. I mean how many people do you see at work, sitting at their cubicles during lunch, pulling out PB&J's with the crust cut off? Aside from my roommate, not many.

So please, join me in revisiting this concoction of salted crushed peanuts, fluffy bread and jellied berries...toast the bread, cut off the crust, opt for the natural version if you're of the healthy nature, but whatever you do, savor it and let it serve as a lesson for you that we all have a peanut butter (or jelly) waiting out there in the world, ready to mix with us in perfect oppositional harmony.

 

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August 12, 2008

Lethargic Brains and Free Cups of Coffee...

Tip of the day: Do a headstand!

A little while ago my brain was feeling lethargic so I challenged myself to a headstand. I fell over several times, got the wind knocked out of me, landed on my roommate's shoe, and pulled out a few strands of hair... then all those years of kinder-gymnastic came rushing back and I had my moment of glory, feet high and wavering in the air.

So everyone, challenge yourself to a headstand today, they are commonly practiced as a Yoga technique that allows blood flow to
re-energize the brain.  Think of it as a free cup of joe...

 

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August 11, 2008

Survey: to vomit or not to vomit?

I'd like to put forth a survey on behalf of my friend.
In the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a date is defined as,

date: (noun) 1. a social engagement between two persons that often has a romantic character 2. the time at which an event occurs

Interesting that according to the dictionary a date is both a social engagement and/or a specific time that an event occurs. I take this to mean that a date is 1.) an experience and 2.) an event. How true it is...dates are never just experiences, no, they always,always contain some specific event in them that can either:
a.) make or
b.) break them. Take for instance my friend...

The story: My friend called me up for advice on a first date. She calls me her 'dating guru'. I have gone out on more dates than I'd like to admit. But 'guru'...I'm not so sure. I've had my fair share of never-should-have-gotten-dressed-for-this dates but that doesn't mean I've learned much from them. In any case, I told her to down a glass of wine beforehand so she'd be relaxed and cool as a cucumber when her date arrived. I also told her-- No more than three drinks while out.

Hmmmm...advice given is not always heeded and she, in the midst of her social engagement (which was going quite well by the way) downed one Jack & Coke too many until her eyes resembled little half moons. They laughed, they flirted, they walked to her door, they conversed, they kissed, and then...she burped/threw up and he left. Oops. There was her date within the date (her event within the experience). Please allow me to illustrate: 

They laughed, they flirted, they walked to her door,
they conversed, they kissed,                         (← experience/social engagement)

and then...

she burped/threw up                                       (← the make or break event)

Which brings me to my overarching question... Is it a deal breaker to throw-up on a first date? What if it's a little harmless throw-up burp that doesn't get on anybody? How can one small event within an entire night-long experience qualify as reason to not continue future social engagements with the person?

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August 11, 2008

Welcome...and thoughts of square pegs and round holes...

Welcome: let me introduce you to my blog. I've a million thoughts on a million things and they never stop coming. These thoughts I share with friends and family. Then I thought: why not share these thoughts with anyone who wants to read them? Why not see if my own crazy points of view can connect with someone else? For one of the most beautiful things in life, I think, is human connection. To be able to relate to someone else, to make collaborative sense or come to agreed upon 'loose truths', makes me feel that I am not alone in this crazy experience we so unthinkingly call life.

As time passes, it becomes more and more clear to me that people struggle often and over the same ordeals. Writing this blog is my way to tap in to the collective issues, thoughts, beauty, that pervades us all. It's my way to connect to others who are as utterly dazed as I am as they try and make their way through the human experience. 

I've no set ideas laid out, rather, the posts will be a random hodge-podge of stuff that I am thinking about or discovering on any given day. The beauty in life lies in the unexpected, the discovery, the ability to give up trying to force things (after all, you can't fit a square peg into a round hole) and relax into the flow of life. I'm open to letting this web page fill itself with whatever insane or mundane ramblings it sees fit...  

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