A momentous day, full of joy in the heart, unexpected peace, and exactly what I needed.
I started off with yoga in the morning and did some housecleaning.
Then I drove down to Lomita, CA to hang out with my friend Jeannette. She lives down there with her hubby Rocky who is a former bartender, pro beach volleyball player and youth pastor of pubescent jr. highers at a mega church.
J. and I ate junk food, walked around Hermosa Beach, slurped frozen yogurt by the ounce, shopped, went to Redondo Beach, ordered big juicy burgers, ran to the car screaming, turned on the heater, drank stellar margaritas made by Rocky, played with her weird loopy cats (we swear one of them was a crack kitty), watched an intense CIA movie, and laughed a lot.
I spent the night there and slept in, eating chips and dip, watching some more Korean dramas, and then going to the beach to walk around, listen to God, and enjoy the sand.
What a lovely lovely day. It was exactly what I needed.
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Corita Kent's Rules & Hints for Students & Teachers
from Learning by Heart by Corita Kent & Steward, Allworth Press 2008
RULE 1 Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
RULE 2 General Duties of a student: Pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything out of your fellow students.
RULE 3 General Duties of a teacher: Pull everything out of your students.
RULE 4 Consider everything an experiment
RULE 5 Be Self Disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
RULE 6 Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.
RULE 7 The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
RULE 8 Don't try to create and analyse at the same time. They're different processes.
RULE 9 Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
RULE 10 "We're breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities." - John Cage
HELPFUL HINTS: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything- It might come in handy later. There should be new rules next week.
RULE 1 Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
RULE 2 General Duties of a student: Pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything out of your fellow students.
RULE 3 General Duties of a teacher: Pull everything out of your students.
RULE 4 Consider everything an experiment
RULE 5 Be Self Disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
RULE 6 Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.
RULE 7 The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
RULE 8 Don't try to create and analyse at the same time. They're different processes.
RULE 9 Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
RULE 10 "We're breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities." - John Cage
HELPFUL HINTS: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything- It might come in handy later. There should be new rules next week.
1 comment:
i'm glad you had such a good day. i thought about you off and on and prayed for you. love ya hanna
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