Awaiting Your Directions...

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So, I don't know about you, but I've been hanging on by threads lately... The corporate fascist bullshit in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio have me furious. (If you hadn't guessed.)

And this past weekend, I learned of an old childhood friend's death. He was 47. He died of diabetes and complications with his pancreas. He was a truly, truly kind person... When he asked how you were, he waited for the reply. And in place of flowers, he requested that all donations go to a local animal shelter... He was crazy about life and died way too young...

This combined with the tsunami and its horrible aftermath, and subsequent disaster of the nuclear power plants is enough to crumple me. Humanity is ROYALLY fucking up. And for what? Energy. As though that makes us happier. People move a hell of a lot faster these days and we still have NO IDEA where we're going in such a hurry...

I could just curl up in a ball and go back to bed for the next ten years.

But, of course, that wouldn't do any good...

Can you imagine the bed-head and my BREATH???

That shit would be stank, gurl...

Life is messy. Extremely so. It's death. And it's birth. And it's suffering. And laughter and tears and greed and delusion and joy and kindness and strength and it's AALLLL kinds of crazy shizzle wrapped into one big fucking muy caliente burrito.

Change.

It's the only thing that remains the same... The only constant.

I try to remind myself in times like these of the immense metamorphosis of life and existence. I try to remind myself how very fortunate I am RIGHT NOW for this very moment. Because it's the only thing that's real...

And in light of how temporary it all is, we should live, exactly how we wish to...

It's an open road, bishes...

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

~ Steve Jobs

Live like you mean it.

********************* (source of photos) (And thank you for the Steve Jobs quote, Deb!) ************************************