Hello. I Love You.

A new understanding of what "focus" means showed itself to me last night. It happens when I clear out all of the noise and completely commit to whatever it is I've chosen to do in the moment. Not looking away or thinking away for a second. I think it only happens when I'm doing something that completely resonates with me. When dissociative thoughts appeared, I let them go and re-focused. It was a lesson on how to be in the world -- complete with a clear voice guiding me.

I want to take this new awareness and do everything from this place, in every moment. Maybe that's what people mean when they say, "the eternal moment."

What If

What if we can create this? I think it's possible.

"So if we were to give you advice that will hold true for the entire year, it would be to become a powerful visionary. Energy follows thought."

Thanks, Rox.

Carrot Cuddle

Opening To Love

When I open to love, I am awake, lucid dreaming. I get the feeling that I could do anything I can do in my dreams in the waking world if I would only open wide enough. In the moment, I tell my brain not to worry, not to fear beauty. I have to do this a few times. Time is gone and never existed. So many things never existed and what a joke that was.

I Love You Too Much To Let You Act Like A Brat!

Aw, thanks.

Found In A Box Of Children's Valentine Cards. Eek.

My five-year old son exclaimed, "the dinosaur is eating a kid!" and his older brother said, "No, look at the ribs with the blood -- it's another dinosaur." Just the kind of conversation I want my boys to have about love and affection. Sigh.

Michael Franti Says Hey (I Love You)

"When I first wrote that song I had a very complicated chorus for it. I was in the streets of Brazil and I was singing the song for people with my guitar. I realized the only part they understood was the 'I Love You' part. So I ended up just repeating [sings] 'I love you, I love you, I love you.' That melody really caught on and soon kids were dancing and singing. So we ended up going back to Brazil to make the video in the same way that I had written the song on the streets of Rio de Janeiro." - Michael Franti

Think you can't dance? Set your brain aside, open your heart, crank this song, and let your body do the rest. Voila! You're dancing.

Wonderful new friend Loren Grebanier sent the tune, adding, "Michael projects the love in a way where his genuineness is not a question (at least for me -- note: he sings/speaks of love in much of his music). I have a huge music collection and was a DJ for years, yet when he comes out with a new record, most times I feel as if I have been given a gift." Thank you so much for sharing, Loren, and for lending me Micheal Franti's Stay Human ("Exhale from the heart, not from the lungs / Speak from the heart, not from the tongue"), which is quickly becoming one of my favourite albums.

ILY pop trivia: The Dandy Warhols perform a song called "I Love You," which repeats those three little words fifty-six times in 4:12. The "Say Hey (I Love You)" video, at 3:48, packs in thirty-four. But the more I attempt to put my feelings about "Say Hey," into words, the further I get away from it. Maybe because dancing, not writing, is the best response. Or maybe because:

The more I see
the less I know
But I know one thing
That I love you

I Love You But Read The Fine Print

Maybe this T-shirt's message which reads, "I Love You: Just Not Enough To Ruin My Life," is a response to the ideas conveyed by the long sleeve shirt featured in last Saturday's post?