HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Slowly and Deeply, I Inhale a Calming Breath.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie



GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE!!!

Instead of listing 10 things I'm grateful for, today I thought I'd put up this list about being human. I've adopted them for myself, and try to live by them. I am very grateful to be able to post these rules... may you learn from them, as I have, and continue to.

The Rules For Being Human

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works”.

4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. Then you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. “There” is no better than “here”. When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that again, looks better than “here”.

7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need; what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. The answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.



The Parable of the Coffee

A young girl comes to the father and says: – Father, I’m tired, I had such a hard life, so many difficulties and problems, I always swim against the tide, I have no more power … What should I do? The father, instead of answering set on fire three identical pots with water. He threw a carrot in one, an egg in another, and third sprinkled chopped coffee beans. After a while he pulled out of the water the carrots and eggs and poured a cup of coffee. – What has changed? – He asked his daughter. – Carrot and egg got cooked, and coffee beans were dissolved in water. – She replied. – No, my daughter, this is only a superficial view of things. Look hard carrots, having been in boiling water, become soft and pliable. Fragile and liquid egg became hard. Outwardly, they have not changed. They just changed their structure under the influence of the same adversity – boiling water. So people – strong externally can paste up and become weaklings where fragile and delicate people get harden and stronger… – And coffee? – She asked. – Oh! This is the fun part! Coffee beans is completely dissolved in the new hostile environment and changed it – transformed into a magnificent flavored drink. There are special people that do not change because of the circumstances – they change the very circumstances and turn them into something new and wonderful, and benefiting from the knowledge of the situation.



Now as I said last Monday, in celebration of Danni El's return to L.A., all this week, I gonna be posting videos of Danni performing her songs.

Today's video is actually 2 videos. In both videos, Danni is performing her song, "Little Heart", a song she wrote for her son.

The first video is actually a little promo for the Downtown L.A. Artwalk. I actually learned of this artwalk because Danni had announced on her facebook page that she was performing there. In fact, the day they took that video of her, I was there. I gave her a cheap little bracelet as a gift, and I met Christopher Bear, who was her percussionist that day.

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The second video was actually a week before the Artwalk, when Danni and Chris had performed at the Mezz Bar in Downtown L.A. In the video, they were rehearsing, getting ready for the show.

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If you want to know more about Danni El or her music, you can look in the sidebar in the music section. Or, you can just click here:
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DANNI EL ON TWITTER





God is here. God is living inside you as life, as love, but you have to see that truth, or there is nothing.
~don Miguel Ruiz