Sorry to repeat myself here, but the blog I posted through my keitai with phoos showed up in the photo section, not the blog section. Well! Now I know if I want to post a BLOG from my keitai, NOT to add photos!
So here it is once again in case you missed it or care to read it again, in slightly larger font.
It was a good "timing experience". This took exactly the length of time from my station to Shinjuku station, or 35 minutes of continual thumbing. Now I know how much longer it takes to write blogs of substance on my keitai! Thanks, Universe!!
And yes, I love you! - Cam
P.S. Hi Abby! You kinda inspired me with your comment to me in your blog...
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I'm on the train to Shinjuku early today to meet Mayu for coffee before heading to Kobuchizawa.
Yesterday was a great day. Why? Because it WAS. A continuous string of NOW moments that were enjoyable, Fun, challenging, chilly, hot, tasty, delightful, thought provoking, educational, and full of love, appreciation and gratitude for my friends, my family, my loves, my surroundings, the weather, and especially The Universe!
Valentine's Day doesnt have to be one of "those days" where we look upon it as a marketer's dream/ploy but a person's nightmare (overexaggeration but we all know what I mean). It can be a day like any other day in which we greet life with our arms spread wide in love and appreciation of everything around us. It can be what we make it to be. It can be fun whether single, or involved with someone, whether childless or blessed with progeny, whether with or without our pets, whether busy or bored, whether harried or relaxed, whether "in love" or not.
As I always try to do, the day can be as wonderful or as miseable or as ordinary as we choose to make it.
.... as WE CHOOSE to make it.
Just like every other day.
Yesterday I spent a great day wit Masami, but not because it was VDay. It was great because I was loving and enjoying every NOW moment (even when I bit my tongue and made it bleed then laughed at my lack of dexterity).
We choose.
WE.
Choose.
But still... even if we forget the marketing day as I did (I didnt evev think about VDay until I got home and Masami kmailed me to thank me for a great Valentine's Day!!!) we can still use this day as a MARKER, a physical reminder in our busy, hectic life, a day that is written on calendars, in our journals, blogged about, talked about, cherished and reviled... we can mrk this day as a day to offer immense amounts of love, appreciation, thanks and Gratitude to The Universe. For the Universe, unlike a cup of coffee, will never let us down, will never be watered down, will always be hot&spicy, forever a surprise and most of all a delicious learning experience. The Coffee depends upon the "barista", an outside, uncontrollable, external source of pleasure or disappointment, but The Universe depends ONLY upon us.
The Universe depends upon us.
Us...
So... if we want to hav that perfect "cuppa Universe" it is within our power to make it so.
Every single time.
Want to have a lousy cuppa U? Wish it so.
Want to have the most delicious cuppa U you've ever had? Make it so!
You control the taste.
You control it all.
All.
You.
You.
Now get out there and give the best Barista in the Multiverse the most love, appreciation and gratitude you possibly can for giving you EXACTLY what you ask for.
Every,
Single,
Time.
It'that easy.
You choose.
YOU.
Nobody else.
YOU!
I love you!
Cam
Good stuff indeed.
ReplyDeleteLove you, Mou!
And with that... i'm off!
In my awesome new boots!
Byeee...
LOL Wel..... I am a DAMN good Barista.. so my cuppa cafe is always consistent and always delicious, and is kissing my lips this morning...
ReplyDeleteBut this can also be because I am positive I am the only one who can make a cup of coffee for me...
Well except the happy little people at Dutch Brothers they do as well but maybe its because they are always happy listening to their own music dressing as they wish. Because of this positive state they make a great cup, only second best to my own.
Yea... I am certain I am responsible for my own happy bliss... be it a perfect coffee, or otherwise. Its all in perspective and how you view your circumstance.
Great blog Cam!
xo
it was worth repeating :-)
ReplyDeleteIm going to marry Paula
ReplyDeletethen smother her in cafe and make luv to her
I just like coffee...
ReplyDeleteIt's ALLL good.
See... i'm not picky. The Universe loves me best cuz i'm easy... hee...
OK! Sounds like a splendid deal!
ReplyDeleteMy now moments have been quite intense as of late. Some moments I wish to wipe off the charts, others I cherish. My now moments seem to be full of anxiety and confusion but yet...
ReplyDeleteI am trusting in the Universe and know everything will be ok.
Thanks and here's to more for your cuppa. ;-)
SOMETIMES: It is not always easy to remain so positive.
ReplyDeleteWings - Staying in the NOW moment, even in times of hardship allows you to RELEASE the bad things once they have become a past event and not dragging them into the future only to prolong misery that has already passed. And yet far too many people do this for far too long. When grief comes live it in the moment. Then release it (through a way that works for self). I love you!
ReplyDeleteI can attest that it is not easy at all, trust me I have had a multitude of really crummy stuff happen over the past few years. And the funny thing is this, I used to dwell on it, running it over and over in my mind. The moment or experience of it long gone and out of my control. But instead of just dealing with what was in my life at that moment that I could control and handle I allowed it all to create a big soup. It got to the point where I broke down from it all.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing I already KNEW most of this, I was just not listening to myself. Great at giving others advice, not so great at following it. LOL
Not long ago I was able to read a few MORE books, and a few again and maybe my mind was just at the right place, or maybe my spirit somehow kicked in and kicked my mortal butt...but it clicked!
Now I still have stuff that happens that is as we perceive as unpleasant, or bad. BUT I take it day by day, and also I view it from a different angle. Instead of being "why is this always happening" I think instead, "OK What can I learn, how do I move past this". It works, trust me.
I do the same for pain, I try to tell my mind to see it differently, instead of seeing it as "pain" I tell it to see it as a sensation of something interesting my body is telling me. Asking me to take some extra tlc or what not.
Its not something that happens over night, but it can happen.
When I allow myself to focus on whats bad, I then don't allow myself to see whats good or beneficial going on around me. In short .. if you dwell you miss a lot of GREAT MOMENTS.
So try it... something simple, say a blister on your heel. If you focus on it, you cant focus on anything else, but if you say to yourself "this is an interesting sensation but not pain" you mind can be powerful.... its practice, simple practice.
Another example I have an EX now like many of us do...LOL YAY!!!Whooopie! That can be a point of ... um... well negative vibes. BUT I do not feel them towards him, I released them. I can't control him or how he feels, BUT I can control if I associate with him or not. And I have made it very clear that unless he can speak calmly, and respectfully with me I will not allow him, (or anyone) to treat me any other way. I can't control or change him or his anger, but I can control if I speak to him, make sense?
The only thing we can somewhat control is our self, nothing else. But the natural laws as they are what you put out you get back so if you put out positive its drawn to you, if you put out negative... you will get more of the same.
So in the end, yes its that simple. ;-) LOL