Say Mama, what's happenin'?

words from my lips

words and pictures

stuff from my sketch book

To Justify Existence

The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. 
 -- Eric Hoffer

Be Fully Born

Living is the process of continuous rebirth.  The tragedy in the life of most of us is that we die before we are fully born.  -- Eric Fromm

Begin It!

Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it -- for action has magic, grace, and power in it.  -- Goethe

Works in Progress

We are all works in progress.  We are all rough drafts.  None of us is finished, final, "done."--Julia Cameron

Becoming Whole

Too often, racing through life, we become the "hole," not the "whole."  -- Julia Cameron

Taming the Mind

Just as harshness doesn't work to tame a wild animal, it also doesn't work to tame the wildness of our minds. . . use gentleness to train the mind.  -- Pema Chodron

Life Is Like

Life is like getting into a boat that's just about to sail out to sea and sink.  --Shungyu Suzuki Roshi

Be Bewildered

Sell your cleaverness 

and buy bewilderment.  -- Rumi

Monsters of our mind

We can spend our whole life escaping from the monsters 

of our mind.  -- Pema Chodron

Iris Power