Special Delivery: A Minimalist Approach August 26, 2010
Posted by nrhatch in Happiness, Humor, People, Word Play.10 comments
As perfectly luscious examples of Less is More, I recommend the following blog posts from around the world.
Best of all: No Shipping or Handling Charges Apply!
Enjoy!
Six Word Memoirs (Turtle Memoirs)
My fave: 10. Worst mistake ~ Believing someone else’s version of me.
SIX WORD MEMOIRS (The Only Cin)
My fave: 9. Revenge is sweet ~ I saw on Facebook he’s bald. ; )
6 Word Memoir (View From The Side’s Blog)
My fave: 1. Best advice ~ Be yourself, everyone else is taken
Memoirs in Six Words (Bandsmoke’s Blog)
My fave: 1. Best advice – Trust your heart, not your head.
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Can you create effective imagery for the following prompts in 6 words?
1. Best advice
Moments of freedom must be taken.
2. Milestone birthday
I can’t believe they forgot . . . . SURPRISE!!!
3. Holiday traditions
Slamming doors. Shattered Nerves. Saying Grace.
4. Memorable meal
Big Mac, French fries, Champagne toast!
5. Siblings
When you least expect it: agreement.
6. Cheating death
Drunk driving into oncoming traffic. Whee!!!
7. Trip that changed life
Cramped Cabin Blues sailing Penobscot Bay
8. What a child taught me
Enjoy this moment. It won’t last.
8a. Most beautiful words of a child
Again. Again. Tell it again, P~L~E~A~S~E.
9. Revenge is sweet
The “in-crowd” morphed into aging behemoths.
10. Worst mistake
Not realizing there are no mistakes.
If you give it a go . . . let us know!
Just Curious August 26, 2010
Posted by nrhatch in Happiness, Humor, People.7 comments
I visited avatarist.com yesterday and found this delightful avatar of Winnie-The-Pooh.
Being a fan of all things Milne, I wanted to weave a post around it.
Here it is:
Have you ever met someone who is their own worst enemy?
Someone who seems to go out of their way to be negative and nasty for no reason at all?
I have.
And I am always tempted to ask:
Just curious . . . do you find it hard to be so thoroughly disagreeable, or does it come naturally?
Related posts: Police Guard Home of Woman Who Put Cat In Bin (Books Photographs And Artwork) * The Most Miserable Person In The World (T4D: Thought for Day) * Quickly Quotable: A.A.Milne (My Literary Quest)
It’s Just Your Imagination August 26, 2010
Posted by nrhatch in Happiness, Life Balance, Mindfulness, Music & Dance.7 comments
Continued from: Hang On, The Future Is Next.
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We need our imaginations to Dream, Conceive, Believe, and Achieve.
Problems arise only when we let our imaginations run wild, endlessly circulating toxic, negative, or non-productive thoughts . . . like worrying, fussing, and fretting about nothing.
What do I mean by nothing?
All the things we waste time analyzing, labeling, or worrying about, that won’t matter a week, month, or year from now ~ things like anger at perceived slights, envy of the hard-won (or overnight) successes of others, sorrow which lingers too long, self-pity and/or regret over things outside our control, greed-based desires, arrogance, guilt, resentment, inferiority, and any other ego-concerns that prevent us from living fully in this moment.
When we choose to let go of endlessly circulating and percolating toxic, negative, and/or non-productive thoughts, we free up time and energy to enjoy the here and now ~ a good strategy to follow, since most of what we worry, fuss, and fret about, never happens/happened anyway.
Next time you’re upset, saddened, angry, unhappy, take a moment to examine the thoughts running through your mind, and consider:
Maybe it’s just my imagination, once again, running away with me.
Quote: The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav’n of Hell, or a Hell of Heav’n. ~ John Milton
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Tomorrow: Stay Focused On The Journey
Related posts: How To Be Happy NOW * My Top 5 Musical Stress Busters (Footprints in the Sand)
That’s Gonna Leave A Mark August 26, 2010
Posted by nrhatch in Humor, Joke, Word Play.5 comments
Lexophiles love words, especially a good play on words (or even a bad play on words).
Most of these puns came from e-mails I’ve saved over the years. A few are of more recent vintage.
All of them are gonna leave a mark:
1. Why did the dentist and manicurist divorce?
They kept fighting tooth and nail.
2. What happened when the butcher backed into the meat grinder?
He got a little behind in his work.
3. What happened to the guy whose left side was cut off?
Oh, he’s all right now.
4. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you . . .
A-flat miner.
5. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer . . .
The agony of de feet.
6. How’s the guy who fell onto the upholstery machine?
Oh, he’s fully recovered.
7. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger.
Then it hit me.
8. What about the soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray?
He’s now a seasoned veteran.
Stay tuned.
More Fun with Puns tomorrow.
Can’t wait?
Visit PUNS ~ A Play On Words
What Have You Been Told? August 26, 2010
Posted by nrhatch in Happiness, Humor, People, Sustainable Living.11 comments
I’m a fan of the new Audi commercials with the taglines, Break the Spell and Break the Cycle:
They capture perfectly the brainwashing (and manipulation) of the masses by the media moguls.
Of course, the irony behind the ads . . . Audi is doing it too:
Must . . . Buy . . . An . . . Audi.
What have you been told?
