To bring in the new year, I stayed at Deer Park Monastery. I have been reading Thich Nhat Hanh and practicing peace in my life, and when I discovered this sanctuary in "the great hidden mountain," I decided I needed to go. I'm sure grateful I did. Happiness is here and now. The bell to bring us to our veg meals. I sat by the bell and sun-bathed.
The path to my tent. The labyrinth on the mountain top. Family on one of our walks.
Breathing in, Breathing out. I am a blossoming flower. I am fresh as the dew. I am solid as the mountain. I am firm as the earth. I am free. I am water reflecting what is real and true. I feel there is space deep inside of me. I am free.
This is the tree behind home. It lights up every year after Thanksgiving and stays till after the New Year. Since today is Epiphany, I imagine it is leaving again soon. Ahhh, I will miss you, friend of my childhood.
So, I've had this Ipod Touch for a while, and I just don't think it's that helpful for me. This Christmas, dad got me an Ipod speaker thing, and I just don't want it I think. Hm....I do like those Ipod commercials:
Work your thing out
Theres so many-a girls I hear you been running From the beautiful queen That you could be becoming You can look at my palm And see the storm coming Read the book of my life And see I've overcome it Just because the length of your hair ain't long And they often criticize you for your skin tone Wanna hold your head high Cause you're a pretty woman Get your runway stride home And keep going Girl live ya life
I just wanna be myself Don't sweat girl be yourself Follow me Follow me Follow me Girl be yourself That's why I be myself And I'm gonna love it
Let em get mad They gonna hate anyway Don't you get that? Doesn't matter if you're going on with their plan They'll never be happy Cause they're not happy with themselves
Na na work what you got I'm talking bout things that I know Na na work what you got It's okay show yourself some love Na na work what you got Don't worry bout who's saying what It's gonna be fine Work what you got
Feelin great because the light's on me Celebrating the things that everyone told me Would never happen but God has put his hands on me And aint a man alive could ever take it from me Working with what I got I gotta keep on Taking care of myself I wanna live long Aint never ashamed what life did to me
Wasn't afraid to change cause it was good for me I wanna...
I just wanna be myself Don't sweat girl be yourself Follow me Follow me Follow me Girl be yourself That's why I be myself And I'm gonna love it
Let em get mad They gonna hate anyway Don't you get that? Doesn't matter if you're going on with their plan They'll never be happy Cause they're not happy with themselves
Na na work what you got I'm talking bout things that I know Na na work what you got It's okay show yourself some love Na na work what you got Don't worry bout who's saying what It's gonna be fine Work what you got
The bell to bring us to our veg meals. I sat by the bell and sun-bathed.
The path to my tent.
The labyrinth on the mountain top.
Family on one of our walks.
