Toss around the question.
Answer the question.
Question the answer.
Story. Repeat. Story.

Who writes this story?
Who repeats this story?
Who writes this story?

Last night I finished reading “The Chris Farley Show”, a biography about the famed comedian and his descent into drugs and alcohol which ended up killing him.

“The Chris Farley Show is an evocative and harrowing portrait of a family trapped by addiction, a father forced to bury a son, and a gifted and kindhearted man ultimately torn apart by the demons inside him”.

Throughout the book, there are so many examples of Chris’ kindness towards fans, friends and strangers and his equanimity towards those who weren’t part of his tribe of band of comedians

Check out the Chris Farley Foundation if you are interested in helping the charity which was established to help teach kids about the potential dangers drug use in a humourous way.

Seeing Steidle’s commitment to helping to share the stories of the absolute terror and suffering experienced by the citizens of Darfur is as inspiring as it is heart wrenching. He has delivered in his promise to the displaced villagers to ensure that their voices are heard.

This “film allows us to witness Steidles transformation from soldier to observer to witness and, finally, to passionate activist and moral hero”.

Please visit the Save Darfur website to find out how you can help.

In particular, one night we shared when we sat on the bleachers at the corner of the schoolyard where many a soccer game was played. The tough kids smoked pot, tobacco, pot + tobacco, scraps of the school yearbook, blades of grass, dogshit, their own hair, ANYTHING smokable and buzzable… all while looking all Spicoli-like.

I was an outsider wearing pink lace hightops and blue glitter in my hair and you lived for Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran even though your brother thought that Nick looked like someone more suited to be a someone’s girlfriend rather than that he-man from the videos prowling around jungles, pouncing on nubile Brazilian models or that jaunty Brit-boy tip tapping on synth keys while Jose Eber hairspray-laden gazelles walked the platform around him to the bass heavy, showtune ‘Girls on Film’.

You guys had the same name. I always loved that it made you smile having that connection. It made you goofy and human. Like me.

We sat aimlessly looking at the sky, thinking of what we’d end up doing with our lives. Where we’d end up. Who we’d be with. Nick Rhodes?

I kept it to myself that I hoped things would get better for me. That I’d be taken care of and I could finally find escape from being a scarred, scared kid.

You were always smiling and laughing and it made me laugh to make you laugh even when I felt like I had no home and no reason to laugh. The sky seemed so big and so did the world it covered. Not a scary big, but a big that would protect and support me as I discovered it ,
myself
and myself + it.

I knew you’d turn out well Nick and even though the school councilors weren’t so sure about me, I had the feeling that I would too.

This one by Katy Finch called “Scarface and 40’s” really rocked my word.. Hope it is the perfect punk rock soundscape for you.

Kind of making me want to create a new Muxtape right now…

I (heart) Pema and think she is just delightful.

Integral Options Cafe: Pema Chodron “Troublemakers”

Examples:
#1 – I like to sniff glasses before I drink out of them
#2- I’m not fussy when it comes to eating utensils and once ate ice cream off of a square shaped pewter collectors spoon.
#3- I love the smell of my dogs ears and the top of his head
#4- The thought of blood, veins or wrist cutting makes me freak out. Like jump around style freakout
#5- I own about 14 black dresses, some of which have no distinguishing features that set them apart
#6- I travel with food due to my allergies and carry massive amounts of sweet potatoes cross Canada

i am neurotic.

but that’s cool

From The Shambhala News Service::::

At the Sakyong’s request, Venerable Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche will be teaching at nine Shambhala Centres throughout North America in July. Some of the topics he will be teaching on will be: Gesar of Ling, Eco-dharma and Socially Engaged Buddhism (see You Tube links below.) Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche is dharma heir to His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rinpoche and brother of Khandro Tseyang. Jigme Rinpoche is known for his fluency in English and his lively, direct, fluid, humorous and down to earth teaching style. His clear and fresh outlook very quickly cuts through cultural and personal misperceptions about the Buddhadharma.

Please contact those centres directly for registration information as it becomes available. Those listed with live links have current information on these programs.
July 4-6 Halifax Shambhala Centre
July 8-9 Washington DC Shambhala Center
July 10 Baltimore Shambhala Center (details pending)
July 11-13 Atlanta Shambhala Center (details pending)
July 15-16 Chicago Shambhala Center (details pending)
July 17 Milwaukee Shambhala Center (details pending)
July 18-20 Berkeley Shambhala Center (details pending)
July 22-23 Vancouver Shambhala Centre
July 25-27 Boulder Shambhala Center

Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche was born in India in October, 1968. He is the son of the renowned Terton, His Eminence Namkha Drimed Rabjam Rinpoche, holder of the Ripa lineage. Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche is the holder of two spiritual lineages, including both the Nyingma Ripa Lineage, a dungjud or hereditary line, into which he was born, and which he will hold in future as heir, as well as head of the Pema Lingpa lineage of Gyeling Orgyan Mindrolling monastery in the hidden land of Pemako, which he carries forward from his previous life, as tulku.

In addition to fulfilling his role as a spiritual teacher, Jigme Rinpoche began, in September 1993 in Orissa, to fulfill his humanitarian role as a socially engaged Buddhist, a term he is happy to known by, and which has become a central part of his life’s work. Born in India, Jigme Rinpoche, has firsthand experience of the plight of Tibetan refugees and local villagers alike in finding and retrieving potable water. This inspired him to found the Pure Water Project, for which he received great admiration and a citation from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile.

I really really really can’t wait for this documentary to come out.

Such amazing beauty is able to grow from the muddy spackle and paste..