"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in
yoursel.f"
I’ve only got two friends on Mindbloom. I’m not sure why Mindbloom
awarded me a trophy for having more than that, but I can assure you that
I’ve only got two, and that’s the most I have ever had there.
I wonder if there are invisible friends, unseen in the shadows. Maybe
every time something miraculously unexpected happens, that’s our
invisible friends at work. And not only that, but maybe they are the
ones who pull our butts out of the quagmire when we’ve rendered
ourselves invisible by ceasing to believe.
Tinker Bell almost died because she thought no one believed. Just
sayin’… in which case, one really does need to be one’s own invisible
friend, and be the strongest believer in one’s self.
If you count ME, then there ARE three trees in my forest.
Ah…. !!!
I’ve seen this one before – probably been a year or more. I will have to check out what’s on the Smithsonian Channel page on Facebook that makes this significant….
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I’ve been using Thankful For at least for a year now, but it only just occurred to me to see if "there’s an app for that". This is the splash screen I got the first time I opened the app.
I would love to be able to see the charming gardener in each and every person I encounter. Even the ones that piss me off, for if I could see the charming gardener, I would probably never get to pissed off.
Can you imagine someone cutting you off on traffic, but you just smile serenely and think, "Why, what a charming gardener!"
Yeah, me neither. I guess that’s why ol’ Marcel comments only upon those who make us happy.
I don’t know anything about how to do this, transform a person who is pissing me off into a person who makes me happy, or at least abandon my own negative perceptions long enough to successfully excavate and uncover the charming gardener.
Anyone? Buehler?
In the China pavilion at Disney’s EPCOT, there is a semi-open air space between buildings in which merchandise is hawked. These banners are available there, and as you can see, bear the mark of my keyword. I decided to snap some photos of the ones that “spoke” to me for later rumination.
I noticed that Rumi says it’s the BEAUTY of what you love – not what you love itself – that should be what you do. I am not sure I understand this, as the BEAUTY of it is frequently intangible, an ideal, whereas DOING involves action. The BEAUTY of what we love often lies in how it makes us feel. In the case of producing art, it is also about how it makes others feel, what the product of all that DOING evokes not only in ourselves as the creators but in the spectators, observers, WITNESSES as they experience our creations.
I am guessing that this is something I already knew, just phrased differently. it’s about the response evoked, in ourselves and in others. If it makes me happy and if it makes others happy, then it’s the right thing to DO.
OK. Got it.
Yes I am at Disney again; don’t judge me, the place is inspiring ! I was thinking I should cut my stroll short and beat it over to EPCOT to get a present for my niece, before they run out of her size. And I was stressing about it but then I spied the anteater’s sign. BONUS – he’s actually visible today!
No, I am not trying to sing a parody of "It’s A Small World After All" (which has now injected itself into your brain and is playing in a continuous loop – you’re welcome).
I am just maybe suspecting that someone actually reads here.
I mean, since there are no coincidences, and all 
