Thursday, January 7, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Family
Equals Crazy. Disagree? Come on, let me hear it.. I'm listening. I'm positive that my state of sanity can be challenged, and I'm a part of a family. Don't get me wrong, I love my family, but there hasn't been a dull moment in the thirty something years that I've been a part of it. I've developed phone anxiety, hives.. aversions to The Land of Ten Thousands Lakes, all due to my role in the 'unit of family'.
Today, amidst possibly the craziest act in my family's manuscript, I had a moment of clarity.
Fine Print:If you continue to read this entry, please keep your mind open to that fact that whether or not we choose to admit it, many of us have learned our highest held virtues from nursery rhymes.
So here we go.
Ganesh, who simply put, is a Hindu God, that happens to be an elephant and symbolizes the remover of obstacles and the retainer of success. The thing that I have never understood is that while being an elephant, he rides on the back of a mouse. Why? I ask. And here is my 'Ah Ha' moment: a mouse is skilled at creeping around, it can go pretty much anywhere unseen, but with an elephant on it's back it becomes an obstacle. SO.. the remover of obstacles is himself an obstacle! Ganesha's riding the rodent indicates the need to keep baser aspects of our character under control lest they cause havoc in our quest
Dude, don't be your own obstacle.
I'll say no more. Take it for what you feel it's worth. For me, it's worth is equal to about five sessions of therapy at eighty bucks a piece.
Today, amidst possibly the craziest act in my family's manuscript, I had a moment of clarity.
Fine Print:If you continue to read this entry, please keep your mind open to that fact that whether or not we choose to admit it, many of us have learned our highest held virtues from nursery rhymes.
So here we go.
Ganesh, who simply put, is a Hindu God, that happens to be an elephant and symbolizes the remover of obstacles and the retainer of success. The thing that I have never understood is that while being an elephant, he rides on the back of a mouse. Why? I ask. And here is my 'Ah Ha' moment: a mouse is skilled at creeping around, it can go pretty much anywhere unseen, but with an elephant on it's back it becomes an obstacle. SO.. the remover of obstacles is himself an obstacle! Ganesha's riding the rodent indicates the need to keep baser aspects of our character under control lest they cause havoc in our quest
Dude, don't be your own obstacle.
I'll say no more. Take it for what you feel it's worth. For me, it's worth is equal to about five sessions of therapy at eighty bucks a piece.
Monday, January 4, 2010
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