The Process of Re-inventing Myself: All My Favo(u)rite Things

Friday, October 26, 2012

All My Favo(u)rite Things

Close of business on a dreary and cold (finally!) Friday...and all I can think about is "My Favorite Things" from the musical, Sound of Music, by Rogers & Hammerstein. Here's the reprise version, the reunion with the children:

The run up to my big "round number" birthday is all about my favorite things. It's going to be a lovely next 7-8 days filled with Snoopy & the Great Pumpkin, The Sound of Music, Bruce Springsteen (of course!), our cats, James, yummy favorite foods....

Stressy weeks require extra de-stressing too! Someone recently wrote: "Always affirm the outcome you want!" Positive affirmations are definitely much more helpful than worrying about a nasty surprise. You can reap what you sow, and even if you don't, the ride is much more pleasant if you stay positive. Enjoy it, why put up with pain if you don't have to?

A friend of mine in Basel had a baby yesterday. I went to the hospital today and she let me hold him, oh my God! Just a day old! Amazing little thing he is! So strong already, the kicks in the womb must of been helping him strengthen those legs. The father is so wonderful and I am so happy for both of them. They are so blessed.

Really, all I want is to be able to testify. To be a testament to those who want to listen. To say something about my life, my universe, my everything. To give thanks to the universe for this beautiful life and the privilege to work with Love.

I miss my mother, I miss my father, and I miss my brother. I miss my bunny and niece and nephew. I miss my sister-in-law. I miss my "scuzzy roommates". I miss my Italian-American and French-American "mothers". I miss redwire and 53Esquire, skyjocky, PrettyRedRose, misadventure, nikita, and sixtyninechevy. I miss the Big Man. I miss N, J, T, G and PPP, A, E, J, and the Australian mötley crew.

So, I simply remember my favorite things....

Who Am I?

You're Catch-22!
by Joseph Heller
Incredibly witty and funny, you have a taste for irony in all that you see. It seems that life has put you in perpetually untenable situations, and your sense of humor is all that gets you through them. These experiences have also made you an ardent pacifist, though you present your message with tongue sewn into cheek. You could coin a phrase that replaces the word "paradox" for millions of people.
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

You're an Eagle!
Sharp-witted and high-flying, you seem to radiate honor and a sense of pride. You'd make a very good lawyer with your keen eye for details. When up in that rare air, however, make sure to remember to look down to keep your bearings. You never know when it might be important for you to have landed. If you're bald, you love the United States of America, but if you have hair, you feel more ambivalent about it.
Take the Animal Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Favorite Quotes

"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write."

~ Sinclair Lewis

“That’s what building a body of work is all about: it’s about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime, to a lasting legacy.” -- President Barack Obama

"Don't try to be a great man, just be a man. And let history make its own judgments." -- Zefram Cochrane

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
Sophocles

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. "
William Osler

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. "
William Osler

"If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing."
~ Pearl S. Buck

“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”
- Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 - 1592)

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale, US clergyman (1898 - 1993)

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
- Jean Kerr

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." - Dorothy Parker

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Friday, October 26, 2012

All My Favo(u)rite Things

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