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saw this at homeland, in long beach where ILOVE dancing.

Sketchbook Project 2011 - dbrownart's posterous

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My friend and team mate from college....

The greatest mistake...

Bruce's Expectation

Just Chill. or deal with it. lol.

We never get what we want

From my mom....

We never get what we want,We never want what we get,We never have what we like,We never like what we have.And still we live & love.That's life...

Don't go for looks; they can deceive.
 Don't go for wealth; even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile,Because it takes only a smile toMake a dark day seems bright.

Find the one that makes your heart smile!

The best kind of friends,Is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with,Never say a word,And then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

It's true that we don't knowWhat we've got until it's gone,But it's also true that we don't knowWhat we've been missing until it arrives..

May you haveEnough happiness to make you sweet,Enough trials to make you strong,Enough sorrow to keep you human,And enough hope to make you happy.

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back!Don't expect love in return;Just wait for it to grow in their heart,But if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.

Always put yourself in others' shoes.If you feel that it hurts you,It probably hurts the other person, too.

The happiest of peopleDon't necessarily have the best of everything;They just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Happiness lies forThose who cry,Those who hurt,Those who have searched,And those who have tried,For only they can appreciate the importance of peopleWho have touched their lives.

My dad posted this in his log last year I just found it!

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolls over to 50 this week, so here's an update:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.
18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.
38. Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
42. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
44. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
45. The best is yet to come.
46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
48. If you don't ask, you don't get.
49. Yield.
50. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

To reach this Plain Dealer columnist: rbrett@plaind.com, 216-999-6328

My Good Friend and one of my favorite dancers of al time, BOOGIE FRANTICK will be released from federal prison.

He has been in Federal Prison for 5 Months, thank to his family member, his facebook has been updated and many of his emails are being posted for us all to be inspired by.

Here's his post update:


         As I begin this letter, I sigh with relief. The outcome of my sentencing continually shows me how blessed I really am. A "slap on the wrist" they call it, but I on the other hand define it as: Love. As in the show of love the judge gave me when he decided on my fate. That right there I do believe. During these past 7 months spent here at MDC I faced many faces, many names, and many trials. I have come to a conclusion that this was meant to happen. There was no escaping the manifestations of the mind from the past. The ability to think is a powerful mechanism, act, happening, and event. But I have to thank the ones around me and myself for making the changes I have made mentally. I transformed from merely living in fear to doing my best to live in the present. My mind faced many variations through the past 29 years. I am for sure not going to break it all down in just one letter of course. LOL I have just came to the realization of it all though.
          We have the power to make our own fate, to live a destination unknown but reflected upon some how because of our own imagination. For many years living with so much fear, hate, pain, anger - One would never assume the light would some how brighten the darkness. But it has and I've seen it - As Will Farrell stated in the movie "Old School" while imagining seeing the character whose name is "Blue": He looks glorious. HAHAHA! (love that movie) - Where was I? Oh yeah - A life in which changed from negative to positive even within living in chaos. I see the light and yeah it looks glorious LOL...
          So I say this with humbleness for those too hard headed to realize. Do not mistake this type of kindness for weakness, I just carry a way to share positivity and one could only hope I still face the tests of the unknown. You cannot rain or storm on an invincible parade no further than you can try to understand why or how I see the light within the people around me. From human to human you the one ignoring this, the one appreciating this, the one hating this, the one who is reading this, the one who is loving this, the "one" as in everyone - I appreciate you!.....

 From an ethereal being…


Mister Boogie
FRANTICK

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."   - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, is a best-selling author and motivational speaker. 

Let the best times of this year be the worst times of tomorrow

It just keeps getting better

Accept me for who I am

Love does not ask us to change, but meets us exactly where we are.

Be love

Don’t convince yourself that you don’t want love just because you don’t have it at the moment! Love is always looking for you, but are you open to it? So many times people go out looking for love and it eludes them. Then they give up and say they don’t need love only because they couldn’t obtain it. They tell themselves love is for suckers and that they can do better all alone.

 Subconsciously they begin to push people away and run from the love that is now chasing them, only to end up lonely and unhappy. Instead of running, rest. Don’t chase love. Become love and love will chase you. Respect yourself, dress up, smile at everyone, laugh with everyone and help everyone.

That is LOVE! When you become love, you will attract love. If you happen to attract lust, don’t fall for it. Don’t compromise your self-respect; love wouldn’t do that. Open up and say yes to love! And remember: if you go searching for love it will elude you, but if you become love it will surround you!

 Love, Tony Gaskins Jr. Life & Relationship Coach 

“Love School” begins Aug 31st!!
 www.TonyGaskins.com/forthelove

Community is everything.

If you want to see a preview of your future, look to who you are hanging out with. This isn't some moral statement about your peer group, it's more of a vibrational or elevational statement.


You see, we live in a literal Uni-verse. That means that we become what we think and what we think is greatly determined by who we spend the most amount of time with.


Do you spend time with people who are constantly trashing your dreams? If so, then after time, you begin to believe their doubt and their fear; not because their doubt and fear are true, but because we are creatures of habit and our subconscious mind begins to absorb what we hear, especially the feedback from people we love and spend a lot of time with. And if you start to believe their doubt, then soon you will begin to take action from that belief in doubt and BAM - the manifestation of the belief of doubt becomes real. Not because it's true, but because the belief of doubt became your dominant thought pattern and that thought pattern influenced your actions and your actions produced the outcome.

The outcome of our lives begins within us. If we water our dreams with doubt, then we think doubtful thoughts; take doubtful action and our lives become a living testament and proof of our belief. Then, what many people do is take this "proof" and use it to further justify their initial belief. But you see, what they're missing this whole time is the fact that their initial thoughts of doubt is what created the outcome of doubt. They unknowingly participate in their own demise.

But, this can be prevented by hanging with the proper community of people. Let us hang with people who uplift us, who encourage us towards our dreams and who challenge our thought patterns. Let us not surround ourselves with people who always agree with us, but rather people who support our growth by challenging our beliefs and helping us break through to new mental and spiritual ground so that our lives may be enriched as a by-product.

Look around. Who are you spending time with? And more importantly, who are you believing? If you have a dream, do you believe people who are living their dreams and thus know the TRUTH about what's possible, or do you take advice from people who aren't living their dreams and thus will tell you it's not possible.

Who you spend time with and who you believe is a major factor that will determine whether you are successful or not.

Our aim should be to hang with people who are loving, who believe in us, who challenge us to go to the next level and who inspire us. Life is far too short to hang with people who are always negative and who want you to stay bitter and pissed off like them. It takes a lot of humility to admit when we're wrong and to grow past our limiting beliefs.

Let's surround ourselves with people who support our growth, not necessarily the way we want, but most certainly the way we need.

Bboying, Where Sexy Happens | STRIFE.TV INspiration for all of you who think you can't break because of what size you are!

'Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.'

The Bible

by Genesis Lung on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 2:48pm
In the same vein of thought of the great nihilist and skeptic philosophers, there is nothing in our universe that compels us to find a purpose. We can sit through our lives and never choose to devote ourselves to a religion or cause, die, and it will never matter. But every one of these skeptics and nihilists were great artists, and the greater half were dancers. As an unknown author recalled, "Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected."

We gravitate towards beauty. We see beauty in design, in music, in motion. It is not the purpose of life to create beauty, but we have a natural inclination to the arrival at the arts. Visual design sparks our curiousity. Music causes our hearts to beat to a rhythm, and we are inclined to create motions to it, motions with design, with the purpose to express. It is when we dance that our bodies are truly on fire and at times we begin to feel as if we have found a purpose in this world that offers none. All the other arts revolve around dance. Much of the time for visual design artists, it's not the finished work that they enjoy the most, but the act of creation, the dance of the brush. For writer is is the dance of the pen, and for musicians the dance of the bow or the fingers. Nietzche had it right when he claimed that "dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"

Music's effect on us strips our skeptic minds and our logic to our animalistic, bestial cores. We stop analyzing and simply respond to our surroundings. Our senses are overwhelmed by the music, colors become more vivid, and our kinesthesis is enhanced. With a steady, repetitious beat and melody we instinctively anticipate the arrival of the next note, and feel safe in our knowledge and power, because we can act on it by moving to the next sound. Dancing can induce such feelings of passion that we lose track of time, lose our fatigue, and fall in love in the span of a four minute song (DJ Got Us Falling In Love, anyone?). Without dance, music has no feeling. "Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music," remarks William Stafford. And it is true: "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance," furthers Ezra Pound.

Dance is something that is nonsensical. We don't understand why we are compelled to do it, but we love and enjoy it, because it carries a magical, almost spiritual experience. As Edwin Denby confessed, "there is a little bit of insanity in dancing that does everyone a great deal of good." Even the Japanese have a proverb that says "we're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." Dance is one of the most powerful drugs which is almost a disease. Eddie Uehara calls his talent an "infection", because it is unstoppable. We simply cannot bear not to dance. Dance is ecstacy, the only thing that will always bring happiness. "Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." - Unknown

"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul," said Ruth St. Denis, "to express what is too deep to find for words." "Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!" Shouts Constanze. It feels as if the heavens open up, and we have become one with our world, developing a synergy of sorts. We are literally laid open like a book, establishing an unspoken trust to the people we dance with. Agnes de Mille writes that "the truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music.  Bodies never lie," supported by Martha Graham, who continues, saying that "movement never lies.  It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it." "We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos," ends D.H. Lawrence.

"I would only believe in a God who knows how to dance," sums up Nietzche. "I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal."

I truly believe the only philosophy in this world worth my time to follow is dance.
Now it's time to stop writing and just DANCE MY HEART OUT!

Form causes a gut reaction, instinctive appreciation for form.