Surfing with Wind

[RunningDeer]

Signs of Fall

• pack up summer shorts
• unpack winter gear
• coats and hoodies
• tailgate picnics and parties
• mismatched colored mittens
• two left mittens

• pine cones carpet the ground
• leaves dance and twirl one last hurrah
• leaf blowers, rakes, and pumpkin face plastic bags
• leaf piles, little legs, mittened hands
• burning leaves, smoke-snap-crackle-pop

• burnt roasted pumpkin seeds
• barn fires on the beach
• dust off ice fishing gear
• squirt guns go on strike
• kite battles in the skies

• swap out baseball cleats for soccer cleats
• check welly boots for spiders and mice
• strategically placed pamphlets for Caribbean Cruise
• bird feeders at the ready for winter residents
• hot chocolate, marshmallows and s’mores

• Hibachi grills cool their jets
• squirrels stash the cache
• squirts of DW2 on tricycle bells
• knit beanies and Fedoras fashion show parade

• chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese sandwiches
• chicken noodle soup and saltine crackers
• family night, micro-wave pop corn and movies
• strategically placed pamphlets for Disneyland and Disney World
• pumpkin and apple picking

.........

• pumpkin carving
• gourd and corn stalk decorations
• Google gourd - fruit or vegetable?
• banana bug (the stink bug) invasion
• fall wardrobe smells of cedar trees

• trees pack-up their summer wardrobe
• trees dress in colorful formal wear
• bi-planes give fly-by to trees in formal wear
• trees express joy at highway onlookers

• replace summer screens for winter windows
• ladybugs come in to hibernate
• beach balls deflate
• sand pails and shovels fade in color
• folded up lawn chairs with matching umbrella and table
• folded up beach chairs in lopsided piles

• pumpkin and spice muffins and pies
• apple and spice muffins and pies
• baby's plastic pool filled with beer and soda pop
• hot dogs and hamburgers still on the grill
• marshmallows in an open flame pit

[O Donna]

What's your price for flight? - Night Ranger

La Petite Mort

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o_QTaUuU8F4

Broke an early promise
Put trust in an unknown
Fell headlong into the arms
Of the first that stirred me
Unsteadied a steady heart
And took me to a place I've never been

When life gets too overwhelming just look up at the night and lose yourself for a while.

- Deborah Ten Brink

What's your price for flight?
In finding Mister Right
You'll be alright tonight

- Night Ranger

[Wind]

Just a bedtime story.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=v1QSB31sO7Y

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LcyqLGmztCc

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8al5cSQNmME

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yt49DsfKDMc

Don't let the reality hypnotizers have you... 🎵

[O Donna]

Is there a choice what bees get in the bonnet?



Bees and bonnets: Neti-Neti

Without either, however, the post would not find the light of day.

Such is the play/ the dance between light and shadow.

[Wind]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TOi-Hpw0Ymg

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bmmshqLq6nQ

[justntime2learn]

I've missed this thread ❤️

It's so easy for me to love all of you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[O Donna]

Bees, always with the buzz.





Pleasantville (1998)

TV REPAIRMAN

Say--why don't you take this remote instead. It's got a
little more "Ooomph" in it.

DAVID
Oomph?

TV REPAIRMAN

Sure. Big beautiful set like this--you want something
that'll put you right in the show.

Oomph?

Every remote/ device, an expression of power in its own way.






Prologue:

Oh, don’t worry about it. As soon as you step outside that door, you’ll start feeling better. You’ll remember you don’t believe in any of this fate crap. You’re in control of your own life, remember? - Oracle

Remotes are funny that way.

[Kryztian]

[O Donna]

Posted by Kryztian (here)

Somebody gave a sh*t to make the meme and the theory. To create or not to create, that's the question.

If daily perception doesn't see irony every step of the way, the blinders are working.

[O Donna]

Heard this on a show called Bed Monkey (for reference):

You can't move forward till you're where you're supposed to be.

Unsolicited interpretation:

If you are not here, how could you ever leave?

An existential version:

We are not on this earth
long enough to be living unhappy.

If you’re not happy
where you are in life..
change something.

Quit your job. Leave your
unhappy relationship.
Move. Take a course.
Learn. Grow. Develop. Invest in that dreams of yours. Buy that property. Travel.
That is if., per chance, a path of happiness be your/ the guide.

Beyond all guides:

[RunningDeer]

[O Donna]

What are we doing here when ALL is said and done?

What we do seems to change with the rhythm of time/space.

If so, maybe its time for a change:

“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.”
— E. Merrill Root

[O Donna]

SpaceX arms catch Starship rocket booster

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nVNIoQUcFI4

“Even in this day and age, what we just saw is magic,” added company spokesman Dan Huot from near the launch and landing site. “I am shaking right now.”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5EqKCbGVTwU

Aladdin (1992):

Is it safe?
Sure.
Do you trust me?
What?
Do you trust me?
Yes.

[O Donna]

Reference: Exploding Kittens S01E01

Moment of transcript:

"He was the greatest Satan ever. The man who designed the Trader Joe's parking lot."

Never been to Trader Joe's so curious about the joke's connection between Satan and the man who designed the Trader Joe's parking lot.

So looked it up. A plausible answer: Trader Joe's parking lots are small per internet. Guessing when customer's go there wanting to rush in and rush out, the tight/ full parking lot and has them thinking "what the bloody hell (is this)!"

What can I say? The mind has a wild streaming side.




Everything is art if one chooses to see.

“Your life is your art. When you make tough choices in favor of your Soul, you’re making a masterpiece out of your existence.”
— Danielle LaPorte

[RunningDeer]

[O Donna]

“You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”
— C. S. Lewis

And finally, the irony:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zKCl54lMz8M

[Wind]

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep." ~ Rumi

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mhzc14mVl7M

[RunningDeer]

[O Donna]

Yes, reason for season








Matrix: Forgetting and remembering. Head and tail. Past and present. Shedding, cover to cover, ad infinitum.

Matrix: Movement, Journey


Dog and butterfly

See the dog and butterfly
Up in the air he likes to fly
Dog and butterfly
Below she had to try
She roll back down to the warm soft ground, laughing
She don't know why, she don't know why

- Ann Wilson / Nancy Wilson / Susan Ennis

When you realize how perfect everything is...

[O Donna]

The Past Is History. The Future Is a Mystery. Today Is a Gift - there are multiple versions of this quote

Gifts from the Universe:

No matter what you did yesterday, a gift
What you do today, no matter what it is, a gift
Whatever the future holds, a gift

“How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again?”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer