Archive for May, 2009

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook you will have seen me mention these recently.

Darren Rush’s blog entry on achieving goals creating better online passwords combines creating strong internet passwords (containing seemingly random letters and numbers but which are easy to remember), with affirming positive life goals every time you use them. One example is Practice a Random Act of Kindness, which becomes p1RAOK. Practical and inspirational – genius!

This underwater sculpture park has been created by UK artist Jason Taylor off the shores of Grenada, and can be viewed by diving or snorkeling in the area. Dreamy… I love it when people do something different and turn the world on its head. It made me smile.

Finally – Google Wave.  How DO they DO it??! Google Search engine is already super mega fast. Like, really. Like, if it were a living organism then yes I would understand the beautiful magical ability to process so much information and create interactions so quickly. But – with computers? I’m sure there are some geeks (in the nicest possible acceptance of the word – I like geeks – they make sense of complicated things in the world for me!) out there who can explain it to me. In the meantime, I like to believe that the guys at Google are actually wizards. And now they’re busy creating Google Wave,  which will be like Facebook and IM and Twitter and UTube and email and everything else you can think of rolled into one. Except more magic. Check out this link at Mashable for a basic outline of what it will be – you can subscribe so that they let you know when GW is up and running. So I did. The form also gives you a space for a little message to the Google guys. So I told them that I reckon they’re actually wizards.

‘Nuff for now. I’m off into the sunshine…

I was pondering on the cycle home today – there are things I own that I am very glad that I own. I guess that makes me materialistic… Maybe a bit. They make me smile or make my life more joyful in some way. I have painted wooden eggs for the light pulls in the bathroom. I have a bamboo towel that is fluffy and a funky shade of green and SO soft. I have a pair of purple high heel shoes even though I don’t own any purple clothes, and I feel like a diva when I wear them. I have a stamp carved out of wood in the shape of an Indian (henna-style) flower. I can’t say that any of the above are indispensable. I could dry myself just as well with a cotton towel. (Weeeeeell… my new towel *is* very absorbent though! ;-p) Most of them I shelled out for, more than I would normally want to spend – except in all these cases, I did it gladly because they would make me a little bit happier in little daily ways. Aaaah! I can only conclude that things make me happy!

Hmmm. Some things do. I don’t wish to live an austere monastic life – I don’t believe in deprivation, it doesn’t make me a better person! On the other hand, I don’t value those objects because of what they cost, but because of how I feel when I use them. Actually, I also want to retract the “things make me happy” statement – I choose to be happy, things don’t have that power. So… I choose to be happy when I use my new towel because I enjoy the feel of it and because I am happy that I love myself enough to have treated myself to it.

That’s a bit more accurate – also probably waaaay overanalysed. I know, I know – I have a tendency to do that. It’s interesting though isn’t it? I could go on about how I define myself (I want to be a non materialistic person because I define it as “bad” in my head!) and about attaching value to things we pay for. Food for thought on another cycle ride I think! Right now I’m going to go to my Nia dance class.

I made a new friend recently. I was sitting on a bench in the garden at some friends’ house party, and someone sat down next to me and said “so how’s your week been?”. I answered with something along the lines of “pretty good, I’ve been sitting in the sun, doing healing, and helping people feel magic”, which started a facinating 4-hour conversation about magic(k), the nature of space and time, retrocausality, and much more. Somewhat antisocially, I didn’t talk to anyone else all evening

So – how’s *your* week been?