If you ask a Balinese what he does, he will proudly answer, I am a Baris dancer, or I am a mask maker. If you persist and ask again, No I mean how do you get your rice? He loses interest, his voice drops, he may turn away, deciding this is a pretty boring conversation. Oh that, he will say. ~ Learning by Heart (Corita Kent and Jan Steward)

What do you do?

email fairy's friday words of wisdom

the email fairy's friday words of wisdom: be a weeble.

why? (altogether now!) "because weebles wobble but they don't fall down!"

happy friday!

1/26/06

La facon de donner vaut mieux que ce qu'on donne (The way of giving is better than what one gives). ~ Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur

this term - finally! - we are taking a fun class: multimedia. photoshop and flash...oh yeah! we post our assignments online so if you can see what i am doing if you like. this is a work in progress - you might catch me uploading images or see a half finished page, you might see things change or disappear. the final project will integrate all the different assignments. i have grand ideas for that - we will have to see if i have enough time for them all!
http://nwrain.net/~tersiisky/cs541/assignments.html

1/25/06

If there were four more hours in the day, how would you spend them? ~ Patricia Ryan Madson, Improv Wisdom

1/24/06

We must rediscover that reality from which we became separated as the formal knowledge we substitute for it grows in thickness and imperviousness – that reality which there is a grave danger we may die without having known, which is simply our life. ~ Marcel Proust

1/23/06

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. ~ Steve Jobs

1/20/06

If we begin with certainties we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient with them, we shall end in certainties. ~ Francis Bacon

1/19/09

…what we pay attention to is no trivial matter; we are what we attend to. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Evolving Self

1/16/06

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~ Art Linkletter

1/14/06

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. ~ C.S. Lewis

1/13/06

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it. ~ Bill Viola

1/11/06

On the day [Walt Disney World] opened, someone commented to Mike Vance, Creative Director of Walt Disney Studios, “Isn’t it too bad Walt Disney didn’t live to see this?”
“He did see it,” replied Vance simply. “That’s why it’s here.”
~ Go for the Magic

1/10/06

For all my dreams, I am what I do. ~ David K. Reynolds

1/9/06

Pessimists see the glass as half empty.
Optimists see the glass as half full.
Idealists see the glass as half empty, but can imagine it full.
Minimalists see that you have twice as much glass as you need.
Creatives ask, “Does it have to be a glass?"
Realists see you sitting around pondering your glass and ask, “Are you going to drink that?” (thanks to Sue)

Got any more?

ponderings on 3 things

1) I went to a memorial service yesterday for a man who died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 53. One of the things that struck me most during the service was a comment made by his cousin; she spoke of how it saddened her that his special magic was no longer in the world. I thought how sad it is when anyone’s special magic is not in the world, whether due to an untimely death or by the inability or refusal to share it.

2) I came across this website yesterday and was amazed at the joy and hope on the faces of children who, considering their circumstances, should have neither. The reason why did not escape me either. http://www.kids-with-cameras.org/home/

3) In my reading, this line (from The Imagineering Way) stood out: “Everything begins somewhere.”

It wasn’t too hard to do the math.

gifts

Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose of existence on this planet Earth. You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden and somebody brings you gorgeous food on a silver platter. But you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses and still don't put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or a punishment, but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

I have always believed that everything has a gift for us, just as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross describes. When something happens that I would rather not have had happen, I ask myself, “What is the gift here?” I always find an answer, although it may not be immediately. Is there something in your life that you would rather not be there right now? Ask, “What is the gift here?” If you ask – and if you listen – you will find the answer. The gift is always there.

1/3/05

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something’s not to your liking, change your liking. ~ Rick Steves

1/2/05

Everything we do (or refrain from doing) matters. ~ Patricia Ryan Madson, Improv Wisdom