Do you like Walrus?

The Beatles - I Am the Walrus

This is the best quality of the song I found and it coincidentally was part of the Magical Mystery Tour remastered full album.  You can forward to 6. I Am the Walrus - 14:28.  This song struck me with its effervescent playfulness and lovely nonsense.  Absolutely brilliant!  My advice: enjoy the rest of the album as well.

Because two is better than one,

Jim Croce - I Got a Name

I always play this song over and over again.  It always puts me in my place and uplifts my spirit with its grandiose melody.  A great feel good song by the legendary Jim Croce.

The reason Croce chose to record the song, according to Norman Gimbel was due to the fact that "Jim liked it because his father had a dream for him but had died before his son's first success."

I try to live out my dream every day.  It also helps to be a future-oriented person.  As Roy Goodman puts it, "Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."  Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself. 

An interpretation of this song is about the narrator's pride for his family name and how he will use it to live his dreams and be free.  He will live each day to the fullest by "Moving ahead so life won't pass me by."

"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

Where I Wanna Be

I want to grow through life, not go through it.  Pause and take deep breaths.  We can sometimes get caught up in the grind of life struggles and obstacles and not take the time to  nurture ourselves.  We need to take the time to create moments of peace in our day especially when things are frightful. 

In a meditative state.  

Friday, September 21, 2012 

Breeze.  White sand.  Crystal blue water.  On the shoreline looking out onto the sunset on the horizon.  Me in solitude.  My personal rebuilding, recharging of batteries – escaping the rain and pain.  My fortress of solitude, unfortunately this is not a reality for me now, I belong in the mad concrete jungle.  Little to no movement, just pondering the mysteries of life.  The only place where I can find peace in solidarity.  No one, nothing, no noises, for miles – only the sound of the ocean breeze and serenity.  Body on floor, crouched sitting, then sitting on back, my legs relaxed.  I am at myself and awe with nature and God, enlightened.

Energy in Motion

Enjoy this time, every moment is precious in life. 

"If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place" − Nora Roberts 

Around this time last year, I forced myself to have a conversation with Mr. Fillmore, my design instructor at the time in his office.  I was pressed with so many huge decisions and I didn't know what direction to take.  This was regarding my commitment if I was to be part of an internship program that lasted the whole year.  The decision was mine.  One of the drawbacks was meeting every Saturday from 9-4 pm at Cal State L.A.  With this as one of the handicaps, I was turned off.  Then Mr. Fillmore told me about inertia.

Inertia:

Newton's first law of motion states that "An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force." Objects tend to "keep on doing what they're doing."

He told me to not think of it as a sixth day of the school week.  "Think of it as something you do on the weekends" - a different insightful perspective.   I committed and finished this program last calendar year.  I gained content from having completed it, as it was even more monumental in a pivotal time in my life. 

If you stay at rest, you will stay at rest.  If you are in constant motion, you will stay in motion.  You won't stumble upon something if you are sitting down.  Food for thought.

strut your stuff

strut [struht] verb. To behave in a confident or expressive way.

A blog about growing through life in an expressive manner.  An adolescent trying to eMANcipate myself.  Trying to free my mind.  Opening my mind to the puzzle of the universe.  Trying to understand the way of the world.  Beautiful somewhat random, but organized thoughts that pop up in my head.  Overflowing with thoughts, ideas and emotions.  Hoping to someday scream and shout on top of a mountain summit.  Jump up and kick and punch the sky at the same damn time.