Peaceful Warrior Lesson#2

Tame Your Mind

You perceive the world

through an obscure window

of beliefs, interpretations, and associations.

The world is therefore

a reflection of your mind.

As your mind clears,

you perceive reality

simply as it is.

What does your experience of life

reveal about your filters of perception?

~Dan Millman

Blue Monday

Can you believe that someone took the time out to come up with mathematical figures, charts & graphs, in order to show us all how depressed we are going to become on any given day? According to CNN Headline News a mathematician summarized that "Today is the Most Depressing Day of the Year". Due to taxes, the end of the Christmas Season, rainy whether, and so on, we are more likely to be at our bottom on this particular day, January 24. Not to mention that this day is on a Monday, CNN news so poignantly pointed on. It's a full moon tonight too! I don't know if I can finish this post I'm feeling so blue. The tears are blurring my vision! Maybe it's laughter tears at such a preposterous assumption about the human condition. What's even more scary is it may all be true. Maybe people do let the weather rule their emotions. Maybe people do freak out about their financial situations and let that kill their day. Well shame on you world. There are friends to call, people to hang out with, letters to write, blogs to blog, and pets to pet. Plenty to keep us busy, instead of worrying about ourselves and the things we have no control of in the first place. So sit at home and sulk, that's what I'm doing because somebody said that this is my day to do so. Better watch out because I see a brand new nation holiday coming! I love it already. This could be the perfect three day holiday. Come on people feel blue. Don't you feel it? I know I do. Blue! :(

I Don't Know

I don't know what to write... So I am just writing. Putting down what ever words come to me, through my arms, into my fingers, onto the keyboard, through the keyboard wires, into my computer, and god knows where from there. I'm just glad that I don't have to worry about that part. It's only taken me all day to tweak out my blog, if I had to know how a computer functioned I'd be in big trouble. So here I am, having had all day to post something, yet I failed to come up with anything. So I ramble. I hear I may come up with something to say if I just write... About nothing. It has not helped so far... I must be doomed to a lack of my imagination again. A pattern I have been in for some time. I guess that's why it all comes out at work. I have to express my creativity somehow. Surging through my hands I kneed out peoples knots. Not always so glamorous yet I find it fascinating. I have been able to manipulate muscle like no other you'll ever meet. My hands are to knots as metal detectors are to a needle in a hay stack. I have been told that I can find knots that no one else has ever found. So why do I feel cursed at times. I massage people day in and day out, never breaking for hours at times. I enjoy myself most of the time. Yet still there is this curse. I am destined to live out my day with it. I am sure of it. What is so crazy is my curse is love. I love all, serve all. If you are in need and my heart is completely full I will find some way to widen it to let you in. I can't turn away when a friend is in need. Sometimes I feel pulled in 30 different directions and yet I manage to stay in one piece. I manage to give "the best massage I ever had" and I come home filled. Filled with a sense of accomplishment. I was able to help someone let go of years of repressed emotions. Whether it was sadness from a loss of a family pet, laughter in a stressful moment, or fear over the cancer that they just took out of your body. It's not always an easy task. Depending on the person and their mood it can be like night and day. The same person may be completely open and willing one day and the next not so. Well enough venting... The curse is not such a curse really.

Peaceful Warrior Lesson#1

Pain, whether in body, mind or emotions, is a fire storm that purifies all in its path, clearing old karmas and teaching new lessons. Don't seek pain, but when it comes, the path out of the fire reveals hard-earned wisdom. Giving birth involves labor pains, even when we are the one being reborn.

~Dan Millman

The Classic IQ Test

What's Your IQ?



Congratulations, Jeff! Your IQ score is 122

This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others. Your Intellectual Type is Inventive Inquisitor. You have the unusual distinction of being equally good at math and verbal skills. This means you are a creative thinker and are uniquely good at teaching others through experiences. You are also a great improviser and very good at handling change.

Ok, maybe not the best score in the world... Yet for me, I am happy with it. I have never scored high on any standardized test and can't remember the last time I even took a test with math questions on it!

Take this test at http://web.tickle.com

Ink Blot Test

Jeff, your subconscious mind is driven most by Peace

You are driven by a higher purpose than most people. You have a deeply-rooted desire to facilitate peacefulness in the world. Whether through subtle interactions with love ones, or through getting involved in social causes, it is important to you to influence the world.You are driven by a desire to encourage others to think about the positive side of things instead of focusing on the negative. The reason your unconscious is consumed by this might stem from an innate fear of war and turmoil. Thus, to avoid that uncomfortable place for you, your unconscious seeks out the peace in your environment. Usually, the thing that underlies this unconscious drive is a deep respect for humankind. You care about the future of the world, even beyond your own involvement in it. As a result, your personal integrity acts as a surrogate for your deeper drive toward peace and guides you in daily life towards decisions that are respectful toward yourself and others.
Though your unconscious mind is driven most strongly by Peace, there is much more to who you are at your core.

Take this test at http://web.tickle.com

When you just don't get it?!

Have you ever had that moment in time where something happens or someone tells you something and you just don't get it? You may even have them repeat it to you and still it makes no sense. Further you probe trying to obtain a grasp on things and the more aggitated the person gets at you for not understanding. It's as if there is one piece missing, yet it's there the whole time, you just can't see it. Frustrating isn't it. I guess that's why most of the time you just don't probe... you shrug your shoulders instead or laugh half heartedly as to not make an issue out of you not understanding.

10 Things We Learned About Blogs

For those of you who don't read blogger news:


Radio had its golden age in the 1930s. In the 1950s, it was television's turn. Historians may well date the golden age of the blog from 2004—when Merriam-Webster.com's most searched-for definition was blog. How long can it last? Who knows? Here's what we discovered about the new medium this year
By CHRIS TAYLOR

Posted Sunday, December 19, 2004
Blogging Can Get You Fired
When Delta flight attendant Ellen Simonetti, 30—a leggy blond and self-styled "queen of the sky"—began her blog, she thought it would be fun to post pinup snapshots of herself in uniform. Delta wasn't amused and promptly fired her. Undaunted, Simonetti retitled the blog Diary of a Fired Flight Attendant and detailed her legal battle to get her job back.
GO TO: queenofsky.journalspace.com

Bloggers Get Scoops Too
After book editor Russ Kick read that the U.S. military was clamping down on press photos of coffins coming back from Iraq, he didn't just pen an angry rant on his blog, the Memory Hole. He filed a Freedom of Information Act request—and embarrassingly for the Pentagon, was mailed a CD from the Air Force with 361 coffin snaps, which he promptly posted. The national press, which hadn't thought to ask whether the military had pictures, beat a path to Kick's door.
GO TO: thememoryhole.org

Bloggers Keep News Alive
So your blog hasn't succeeded in getting national attention for your pet issue? Don't lose heart. Just blog, link and repeat. It worked for conservative bloggers like Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, who trumpeted the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's claims this summer, as well as for liberal blogs like Daily Kos, which investigated evidence that President Bush wore a wire in his first debate. Some of the issues had questionable merit, but persistent bloggers made the subjects tough to ignore. Say it enough times online, and someone is bound to hear you.
GO TO: Instapundit.com, dailykos.com

Bloggers Can Be Titillating
In May a blog graphically detailing the sex life of an anonymous Capitol Hill staff member prompted D.C.'s most intriguing game of guess-the-author since Primary Colors. Jessica Cutler, a.k.a. Washingtonienne, was later outed and fired by her boss, Ohio Republican Mike DeWine, for "inappropriate use of Senate computers." (Her site is not for kids.) In another sign of the times, her first postfiring interview was with Wonkette, another Washington blogger.
GO TO: washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com, wonkette.com

Bloggers Can Be Fakers
Plain Layne, a highly personal blog supposedly belonging to a Minnesota lesbian named Layne Johnson that drew thousands of fans over 3 1/2 years before mysteriously disappearing, was revealed to be a hoax. Hundreds of fans helped track down the real author, Odin Soli, 35, a male entrepreneur from Woodbury, Minn. Later in the year, fake Bill Clinton and Andy Kaufman blogs became hits.
GO TO: plainlayne.dreamhost.com, billclintondailydiary.blogspot.com

Bloggers Make MoneyEarn a living in your pajamas!
Online ads (along with Google's automated ad server) allow popular bloggers to go pro. Joshua Micah Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com, a political blog, says he makes $5,000 a month from banner ads—enough to hire a research assistant.
GO TO: talkingpointsmemo.com

Most Bloggers Are Women
Men may have taken the lead in the early (read: geeky) days of blogging, but that's not the case now. According to a survey of more than 4 million blogs by Perseus Development, 56% were created by women. More bad news for the boys: men are more likely than women to abandon their blog once it's created. Call blogging a 21st century room of one's own.
GO TO: blogsisters.blogspot.com

Candidates Love Blogs
O.K., so Howard Dean never wrote his blog. But his campaign workers posted a surprisingly intimate online diary of life on the road, and Dean had collected $20 million in contributions via the Internet alone by the end of January 2004. It didn't take long for other politicos to catch on. When New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer announced that he was running for Governor this month, he did so on his blog.
GO TO: blog.deanforamerica.com, spitzer2006.com

Pets Have Blogs Too
It started as an in-joke among feline-friendly bloggers: why not post pictures of their cats every Friday afternoon? Friday catblogging became a hit, and soon even NASA was playing along by posting pictures of the Cat's Eye nebula.
GO TO: carnivalofthecats.com

Anyone Can Do ItBlogs wouldn't be such a democratic medium if they weren't so easy to set up. The most popular service, Blogger, owned by Google, boasts features like push-button photoblogging. Microsoft has launched a trial version of its own blogging service.

-Time

Better late than never!

3 names you go by:

1 Jazzy
2 Jefe
3 Jeffrey

3 screen names you have:

1 jazzy74
2 aandj7
3 jeff.d.morgan

3 things you like about yourself:

1 My eyes
2 My sensitivity
3 My connection to the divine

3 things you hate/dislike about yourself:

1 I'm skinny
2 My voice is high pitched
3 I lack motivation

3 parts of your heritage:

1 My psychic powers
2 Kind
3 My delusional states

3 things that scare you:

1 Oversized spiders (like the ones in Harry Poter)
2 Not knowing the truth
3 Dying in extreme pain

3 of your everyday essentials:

1 A hot shower
2 A bottle of water
3 A hug from my wife

3 things you're wearing right now:

1 My Andre sneakers from Paris
2 A long sleeved velour shirt
3 My favorite pair of Jeans

3 of your favorite bands/artists(today):

1 Ambulance LTD
2 The Mars Volta
3 Richard Ashcroft

3 of your favorite songs at present:

1 "Sugar Pill", Ambulance LTD
2 "Life on Mars", Seu Jorge doing David Bowie cover
3 "The Widow", The Mars Volta

3 things you want to try in the next twelve months:

1 Snowboarding again (since I missed last season)
2 Road Trip (not sure where)
3 Surfing again (whenever I can afford a board)

3 things you want(have) in a relationship(love is a given):

1 Patience and understanding
2 Time for each other
3 More massages

2 truths and a lie(in no particular order, to keep you guessing):

1 I was a tweaker
2 I ran naked on the beach in the Canary Islands
3 I love downhill skateboarding

3 physical things about a love interest that appeal:

1 Eyes (because they turn bronze and green)
2 Lips (because they're thick and juicy)
3 Stomach (because it's the most beautiful belly, and she lets me kiss it all the time)

3 things you just can't do:

1 Use a microwave (convenience is selective and subjective)
2 Laundry (my wife always beats me to it, yeah that's the ticket)
3 Sit idly by while someone needs your help

3 favorite hobbies:

1 Body boarding
2 Listening to music
3 Playing Video Games on friday night

3 things you want to do really badly right now:

1 Yoga (sitting at this computer filling out this long ass survey is making me sore!)
2 Go swimming (too bad the ocean is butt cold and dirty :( right now)
3 Receive a massage

3 careers you're considering:

1 Occupational Therapy
2 Stay at home Dad
3 Open my own Wellness Center

3 places you want to go on vacation/holiday:

1 Italy
2 Greece
3 Go back to Hawaii

3 kids names:

1 Lillian
2 Ethan
3 Abigail

3 things you want to do before you die:

1 Skydive
2 Be a "cool" grandpa
3 Put an end to surveys like this!

3 people who have to take this quiz now:

1 Anna
2 Melissa
3 Karinne

Mom

After my Mom's death, ten years ago today, I found it very difficult to have positive memories of her. The only thing my mind kept going over was the sickness. The cancer that had taken over our family. I was sick myself for awhile after she died. My minds eye very rarely saw the good memories of her. As crazy as it sounds, she appeared to me a few times in the flesh. Many explain it away as something that happens to people going through extreme grief, as if it was not real. Yet each time she visited, she was as sick as the day before she died. It was about four years later when she appeared to me the way she was before the cancer. The way she is in this picture. I could now see her through healthy eyes. On that day I was visited by an angel who took me to heaven, we celebrated and they sung happy birthday to me. Ever since then positive memories of my mother have come flooding in and continue to when I least expect it. This is the way I imagine my mom would look if I could see her in front of me right now. Ageless. Beautiful beyond all words. Healthy and happy. The way she truly is. I love you Mom!

Insane in my Brain

It just sucks when you want to do something that is possable and you can't because something went wrong... I'm going insane! How do you take that quiz any how?

THIS F@#KIN' BLOG!

For two months I have not been able to put a picture up for myself because of blogger. Until I figure out a way... I quit using this thing! Too much of a pain in the arse! Maybe I'll find somewhere else to post!

Bye for now!