The Reflection of Shadows: Fantasy Land

The Reflection of Shadows

A collection of moments

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Fantasy Land
(Written to a Tune)

I count to ten on my fingers,

I’ll stop at seven for now.

I turn the corner to catch you

Now I’m facing a town.

The streets are dusty and windy,

The stores are empty and fake.

This town is haunting my senses,

I’m being shaken awake.

I’m in my PJ’s and slippers,

I’m having pancakes and tea.

You stare at me through a window,

Then dash off through the trees.

I’m in my boots and a raincoat,

The air is heavy and sweet.

I’m running fast in a forest,

I’m being slammed by the breeze.

I must be dreaming, this can’t be real.
I’ll keep on dreaming if it keeps you here.

I’m staring up at a chalkboard,

There’s ringing sharp in my ears.

A paper airplane just missed me,

Some girl just burst into tears.

I’m facing time in detention,

I feel a flick at my ear-

You’re sitting there, right behind me,

This is all so unclear.

I must be dreaming, this can’t be real.

I’ll keep on dreaming if it keeps you here.

I must be dreaming, a fantasy.

I’ll keep on dreaming of you here with me.

I’m being spun through the air,

You’re sitting right next to me.

The lights are loud and uneven,

I’m smelling cotton candy.

I’m going fast, round in circles,

I’m  dizzy, careless, and free.

You grab my hand and we’re off now

To a new fantasy.

Monday Mantra: Make Everything Beautiful

A mantra is a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that is considered capable of "creating transformation".

Every Monday I will post a new thought, idea, or focus for the week. When you need a breather from life, when you need a little inspiration, or when you're about to jump over the conference table and strangle your co-worker, remember the mantra.

Monday Mantra: Find the mission statement for your life

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Norman Duenas

When it comes to skills and marketable assets, I have some pretty good ones.

-Able to walk a giant labrador retriever (who does not know how to walk like a normal dog on a leash) and a tiny doxie (who doesn't really want to go for a walk) at the same time without anyone losing a leg, including me. (You should see us. We're a hot mess.)

 - Knowing when anything is out of place at any given time in the house and keeping a mental list of those items until they are corrected and put back WHERE THEY BELONG.

 - Flossing like a boss.

 Damn, those are good. I should really add them to my LinkedIn page.

I'm not sure I'd count this next one as a skill, but I would call it my mission statement: I want to make everything beautiful.

Companies use mission statements to describe their purpose as a business. Maybe we, as individuals, should start creating out own missions statements to help communicate to others our purpose as, well, people. Why we are who we are, do what we do, dream and live and think the way we think. Maybe, just maybe, we could more quickly get to the depths of the person in front of us.

Imagine meeting someone new for the first time. You introduce yourselves, exchange niceties, but then instead of wasting the next hour or two or three or four weeks getting to know each other, you share your mission statements. Within minutes you would know what was most important to each other. You would have more than just a glimpse of this person, you would better understand what makes them them. 

I want to make everything beautiful. Everything.

The arrangement of words. Homes. Trees and rocks and abandoned buildings. The thoughts inside people's heads.

I want to make everything beautiful and that is what makes me tick.

The Reflection of Shadows: You Sleep When I Don't

The Reflection of Shadows

A collection of moments

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You Sleep When I Don't
(Written to a tune)

Here I go again,

Emotions overload and then: no sign of hope again-

I’m broken,

I’m broken.

I fake a smile,

It lasts a little while: I’ve fallen in denial-

I’m broken,

I’m broken.

You sleep when I don’t,

When I’m damaged and broken,

Fighting back all the tears-

I’m choking,

I’m choking.

I muffle the cries

In the pillow at my sides,

I suffocate my life in

These moments,

These moments.

You sleep when I don’t-

When I’m damaged and broken,

On my tears I am choking,

I’m broken,

I’m broken.

You sleep when I don’t-

When we’re damaged and broken,

On these fears I am choking,

We’re broken,

We’re broken.

You sleep when I don’t,

When I can’t,

When I won’t.

Monday Mantra: What I Learn Today...

A mantra is a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that is considered capable of "creating transformation".

Every Monday I will post a new thought, idea, or focus for the week. When you need a breather from life, when you need a little inspiration, or when you're about to jump over the conference table and strangle your co-worker, remember the mantra.

Monday Mantra: ...I will enforce tomorrow

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Masanori Toda

I'm baaaaaack! Well, with Monday posts, anyway. I've always been here. *insert evil laugh* Thanks for letting me take some time off to catch up on life!

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Lesson #1: Fairness

"It's not fair" will haunt you, if you let it.

Don't.

Life's not fair. This is a simple fact of living in and of itself.

Your life is yours- all the good and the bad and the weird and the sad. It's yours. It belongs to you. Accept it. Own it.

Own your life.

Realize that all the things you struggle to accept have still shaped who you are and what you do and what you know, whether you like it or not. Own this, all of this. Shape it and shift it and make it work for you. Learn from it, grow from it, become from it- the good and bad and weird and sad. Become something magnificent. Become someone magnificent in spite of the fact that what life has given you may not be fair at all.


Lesson #2: The thoughts we think

I've read many a study about the different impacts on our bodies from how we think about what we've done versus what we've actually done.

Example: When you create a conversation in your head that hasn't actually happened.

Maybe someone ticked you off and you want to approach them. When you start imagining that conversation, how does it go? If it goes South - if there's anger or yelling or rage -  your body will react to your thoughts of that made-up-in-your-head conversation as if it was really, truly happening. Help your body understand the difference between reality and all of your unbridled thoughts.

Understand them. Manage them. Handle them.

Olivia Pope the hell out of your thoughts.


Lesson #3: Be confident

When all else fails, this will not. When your hairdo is weird and your outfit is a disaster and you're awkward (like I am) and there's food in your teeth- remain confident. This will shine through absolutely everything else. It will outshine everything else. It will blind people to your faults in the most magnificent way possible.

When all else fails, confidence will not.

It is your Pick Me Up. It is your fail safe. It is real and powerful and life altering.

It will change your life, if you let it.


Lesson #4: Comprehension

The universe is a big, strange, wonderful, crazy, mysterious place.

There are reasons beyond your comprehension.

That is all you need to know.


Lesson #5: Gratitude

Remember to remain in awe of the world around you. This will keep you humble. This will keep you appreciative. This will keep you grounded.


Lesson #6: How do I know?

You'll know it's right when it's right.

It's that simple.

The Reflection of Shadows: All The Things We Wish We Had

The Reflection of Shadows

A collection of moments

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All The Things We Wish We Had

All the things we wish we had;

Re-wound moments from the past,

Second chances, new beginnings,

Ways to pause the many endings.

Dreams no longer within reach,

Angry words that ran unleashed,

Goals that withered, died, and faded

Every time we tried and failed.

Lovers that do not exist,

Second chances to be kissed,

Options, options, options endless,

All the things we forfeit, senseless.