My beautiful twin sister, and sweet nephew!! I love ya'll!!

My beautiful twin sister, and sweet nephew!! I love ya'll!!
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Peace, Love, Happiness

"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another". Tenzin Gvatson the 14th Dalai Lama.
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MOXIE: Pride and Prejudice Rain

Best conflict in a movie..........and piece of literature...........ever.

"And those are the words of a gentleman? From the moment I met you your arrogance and conceit and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others made me realize that you are the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry."

Protagonist..........Antagonist.............Hero.............Antihero..........Drama.............Conflict.........Struggle........

Which are you in this life?

Would you rather risk being uncomfortable, and initiate change? To try to initiate improvement by standing your ground? Speaking your mind? Challenging something you were not in agreement with?

Or would you avoid conflict? Remain reticent? Embrace passivity and complacency..........all for the sake of avoiding conflict?

No life story is complete without drama.......without the struggle between the hero and the antihero.

The Protagonist represents our Initiative, the motivation to change the status quo. To force improvements. To initiate change for the better.

The Antagonist embodies our Reticence to change the status quo.

These are perhaps our two most obvious human traits - the drive to alter our environment and the drive to keep things the way they are.

That is likely why the Archetypes that represent them are usually the two most visible in a story.

The book is the crucible, and the story is the chemical reaction between the characters.

Would life be interesting without the archetypal conflicts? Without the drama? Would you enjoy bliss and pleasure without the struggles and pain? Would sweet taste sweet if you didn't know bitter?

A lovely quote

""The people who make my life the most joyful are the ones I am able to lean on because of my own humanness."  Shania Twain


Hello, 2011.  

Pug Love Club

I WROTE MY OWN LYRICS............

Never Good At Goodbyes
By Ashley Epes
6/6/10

Melancholia
Deep in her eyes
Her gut detects lies
Carbon ink clouds stain the skies

Disguised as a friend
Sweet promises to never go away
Crossed fingers behind your back
Guileless dawn corrupted by light of day

Melancholia
Deep in her eyes
Her gut detects lies
I was never good at goodbyes

Detect the hopelessness in her face
Her family finds her a disgrace
She hides under the blanket of shame
The scapegoat always shoulders the blame

Melancholia
Deep in her eyes
Her gut detects lies
Unconditional love your heart denies

Run away from everything now
Forget all your earlier vows
You sold me on your story
I lay here paralyzed with despair and worry

Melancholia
Deep in her eyes
Her gut detects lies
A civilization on the brink of demise.

Someday I shall rise from the dead
Skies turn indigo blue from gray lead
The sun rises and illuminates over my head
Another lover will find his way to my bed

Melancholia
Deep in her eyes
Her gut detects lies
A baptizing rain graces us from the skies…

What pets can teach us about love and marriage...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/what-pets-can-teach-us-about-marriage/?src=me&ref=homepage

Today's Required Reading

I especially like the quote at the end of the article:   'Love is not an emotion but a drive, and that what we experience as love triggers the brain’s reward system in much the same way cocaine does. In the search for a desirable partner, it seems, we can’t rely on any one factor alone.....there’s no special formula that can help us find the person who will give us that perfect buzz.'




http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/05/seeking-arrangement-201005?currentPage=2