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Category Archives: Play
If at first an idea is not absurd…
“If at first an idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.”- Albert Einstein
Ideas! I’ve had millions. So have you. And I hope we have millions more. There are too many to act on, so why not go with the ones that have the most life, the most energy to them?
One good test of [...]
Also posted in Passion Tagged Albert Einstein, All truth passes through three stages. First, Arthur Schopenhauer, Craziness must have more companions than wisdom, Don Quixote, If at first an idea is not absurd, it is accepted as being self-evident., it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, there is no hope for it 2 Comments
Plork! Combine work and play (a Quix Tip)
Select a small work task that has low stakes
Take a few minutes before starting the task to brainstorm how you could bring play into completing it.
Complete the task while focusing exclusively on finding intrinsic joy in the way you complete the task.
Give yourself a high-five, regardless of the outcome!
Repeat, rinse well.
Oh, the places you’ll go! (a Doctor Seuss Pocket Poem)
“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
Any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And
you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”
“You’ll get mixed up,
of course, as you
already know.
You’ll get mixed up
with many strange birds
as you go.
So be sure when you step.
Step with [...]
Also posted in Pocket Poems Tagged as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that... ...Life’s A Great Balancing Act." "And will you, Doctor Seuss, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.) KID, of course, Oh the Places you'll go poem, Pocket Poem, You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself Any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to g, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS! Comments closed
Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Six) What You Really Want
You’ll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is love’s confusing joy. – Rumi
For the last post in this series I come back to what I mentioned before – how as humans we live in both worlds – the butterfly and the caterpillar, the glorious dream and the messy reality, the play and the [...]
Also posted in Passion, Put It Together Tagged Rumi, You’ll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love’s confusing joy Comments closed
Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Five) – Work is Love Made Visible
but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is love’s confusing joy. – Rumi
When I first read his poem fifteen years ago, I thought Rumi meant romantic love. I now know that definition of love is way too narrow. Love’s confusing joy can encompass any passion in life, any connection with what we [...]
Also posted in Passion, Put It Together Tagged but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love’s confusing joy, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, work is love made visible Comments closed
Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Four)
If you want what visible reality can give,
you’re an employee.
If you want the unseen world,
you’re not living your truth.
Both wishes are foolish – Rumi
Both wishes – just wanting what visible reality has to offer or just wanting what the unseen world provides – are foolish on their own. It’s the combining of the two [...]
Also posted in Music, Passion, Put It Together Tagged butterfly, caterpillar, If you want what visible reality can give, Love's Confusing Joy, Rumi, you’re an employee. If you want the unseen world, you’re not living your truth. Both wishes are foolish Comments closed
Is April the cruelest month?
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
T.S. Eliot, from The Wasteland
April IS the cruelest month, if we want to stay asleep. Winter, as much as we may get sick [...]
Also posted in Passion Tagged April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, covering Earth in forgetful snow, don’t go back to sleep, feeding A little life with dried tubers. T.S. Eliot, from The Wasteland, mixing Memory and desire, Robert Johnson, Rumi, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, stones in my pathway, the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you Comments closed
Confessions From Santa Monica’s Muscle Beach