Bailey the dog has found himself some manna from heaven in the wonderful white stuff that falls from the sky. It's sheer joy to watch him in his joy! Oh if we were all so simply satisfied (and so well equipped to enjoy winter!).
Joy and Peace,
Rima
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
The Global Prayer Project
Hi all. The Global Prayer Project was created by James Redman, author of the Celestine Prophecy books and movie). I enjoyed this short film and thought you might as well.
Peace and Love,
Rima
Peace and Love,
Rima
Friday, February 15, 2008
The Power of Joy
"The achievement of anything that you desire must be considered success, whether it is a trophy or money or relationships, or things. But if you will let your standard of success be your achievement of joy—everything else will fall easily into place. For in the finding of joy, you are finding vibrational alignment with the resources of the Universe."
Excerpted from a workshop in “The Law of Attraction, The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham” on Saturday, July 1st, 2006
I love the Teachings of Abraham in the book "Ask and it is Given."
I especially love how it tells us that our emotions will always let us know when we are in alignment with Universal Flow / the energy of the Divine, and when we have closed ourselves off to it. JOY is the number on indicator that we are aligning ourselves with that flow and experiencing the deepest, richest relationship with the Divine possible.
It's the kind of joy that has absolutely no connection to circumstances of life. It just comes from being in tune to the exquisite hum of life and the majesty and beauty of that experience.
Here's to a day of true JOY!
Excerpted from a workshop in “The Law of Attraction, The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham” on Saturday, July 1st, 2006
I love the Teachings of Abraham in the book "Ask and it is Given." I especially love how it tells us that our emotions will always let us know when we are in alignment with Universal Flow / the energy of the Divine, and when we have closed ourselves off to it. JOY is the number on indicator that we are aligning ourselves with that flow and experiencing the deepest, richest relationship with the Divine possible.
It's the kind of joy that has absolutely no connection to circumstances of life. It just comes from being in tune to the exquisite hum of life and the majesty and beauty of that experience.
Here's to a day of true JOY!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Love Wins! & An Internet Adventure
Today I was sent a link by my friend Ed Sabo who owns Natural Awakenings Magazine, Houston edition. Ed has been talking with me about doing some branding work that will solidify his initial efforts and really allow him to leverage what he has and realize his full vision.
He sent me this link to watch a video about a 17-year-old girl who has built a million dollar business by creating visually appealing backgrounds for teens who want to personalize their My Space page. She started when she was 14. She gives the backgrounds away free and because over 800,000 teens (mostly girls) hit her site daily she gets a seven-figure income from her advertisers.
After watching that 3 minute "news" story on Yahoo's People of the Web (a site I had never heard of) I spent a couple of hours watching more videos and learning about other everyday people who are using the power of the web to communicate with each other.
Two hours?? You may be wondering if I have become a couch potato.
But there is a reason for my fascination. I just finished reading The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, CEO of Wired Magazine. In it, Chris helps to describe what we intuitively know - that the internet is changing everything - in a simple and understandable way. He shows how it is affecting the economy and why our treasured "cultural sameness" has always been a kind of myth and how the web is revealing the true diversity of our interests. More on that in aonther post. The point here is that Yahoo's People of the Web is a perfect illustration of what he was writing about.
It serves as an aggregator and recommender/filter to allow people like me (who don't want to spend excessive hours on the web) to hook into at least some of the better wild-web content being posted at overwhelming rates. And in "reporting" about how these everyday people are using the internet to share their creative ideas Yahoo is multiplying their reach. When describing this to my clients, I use the term exponentiating. Yahoo's People on the Web is an "exponentiator."
So what did I discover at People on the Web? Well I like to dance so when I saw clip entitled "World Wide Dance Off" I clicked.
I was fascinated by the story of Matt Harding, who decided to quit his job after saving up enough money to travel around the world. While traveling in Viet Nam, Matt's friend suggested they video him doing this little dance he'd done since childhood. It's goofy and kind of amusing to watch him gleefully dancing - very badly. He ended up filming himself dancing at every stop, edited it into a video on his return, posted it to his blog and to You Tube and got famous. He's on his fourth trip around the world now with a sponsor helping him. He has a cool site and has created an awesome brand for himself. Matt has a 2008 version out now that has sparked amazing interest and good will as has been notice now by the MSM (mainstream media) and teh morning talk shows, but also by other thoughtful web observers.
I like art, so I clicked on Art in Real Time. It is truly AMAZING what this guy is doing with art and performance - and then combining them with web video. He connected people and their stories in one piece bringing them together into a self-portrait he filmed and streamed online over 6 days.
After a bit more bouncing around, I found three video stories on a single page about people using the web to allow everyday folks to help other everyday folks around the world. Each effort focuses on a different need - fun/quality of life, health, and economic prosperity - of people in some of the world's poorest regions. And each makes it possible for someone like me to by-pass the slow and wasteful government aid efforts to get into the game of aid provider myself. The title for this post, Love Wins, came from the last of the three videos featured on this page. Definitely worth watching all three!
The point of this post, what I most want to share today, is how Yahoo's site People of the Web was yet another way for me to see the POWER of this medium to allow us to connect with each other, to move each other into action, and to join together with others who are interested in the same things we are. Since my interest lies in finding and implementing ways to make life for the collective human family better, I am inspired by what I see. I am amazed at the creativity and zeal of our youth who really get the power of the web in ways my 40-year-old brain may never.
Yes, there's a lot of junk out there. People on the Web had it's share of time wasting junk. It's also true that much of what people are doing on the web is just for entertainment, novelty. Personally, I think that's great because we need to laugh more and we need creativity. And of course one must admit that blogs and websites are also used to connect people with malicious interests as well as for more productive and helpful endeavors.
But as the words from a sticker screamed out to me in that last video I saw, I believe now more than ever: LOVE WINS!
And the internet, intended or not, is helping that cause.
He sent me this link to watch a video about a 17-year-old girl who has built a million dollar business by creating visually appealing backgrounds for teens who want to personalize their My Space page. She started when she was 14. She gives the backgrounds away free and because over 800,000 teens (mostly girls) hit her site daily she gets a seven-figure income from her advertisers.
After watching that 3 minute "news" story on Yahoo's People of the Web (a site I had never heard of) I spent a couple of hours watching more videos and learning about other everyday people who are using the power of the web to communicate with each other.
Two hours?? You may be wondering if I have become a couch potato.
But there is a reason for my fascination. I just finished reading The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, CEO of Wired Magazine. In it, Chris helps to describe what we intuitively know - that the internet is changing everything - in a simple and understandable way. He shows how it is affecting the economy and why our treasured "cultural sameness" has always been a kind of myth and how the web is revealing the true diversity of our interests. More on that in aonther post. The point here is that Yahoo's People of the Web is a perfect illustration of what he was writing about.
It serves as an aggregator and recommender/filter to allow people like me (who don't want to spend excessive hours on the web) to hook into at least some of the better wild-web content being posted at overwhelming rates. And in "reporting" about how these everyday people are using the internet to share their creative ideas Yahoo is multiplying their reach. When describing this to my clients, I use the term exponentiating. Yahoo's People on the Web is an "exponentiator."
So what did I discover at People on the Web? Well I like to dance so when I saw clip entitled "World Wide Dance Off" I clicked.
I was fascinated by the story of Matt Harding, who decided to quit his job after saving up enough money to travel around the world. While traveling in Viet Nam, Matt's friend suggested they video him doing this little dance he'd done since childhood. It's goofy and kind of amusing to watch him gleefully dancing - very badly. He ended up filming himself dancing at every stop, edited it into a video on his return, posted it to his blog and to You Tube and got famous. He's on his fourth trip around the world now with a sponsor helping him. He has a cool site and has created an awesome brand for himself. Matt has a 2008 version out now that has sparked amazing interest and good will as has been notice now by the MSM (mainstream media) and teh morning talk shows, but also by other thoughtful web observers.
I like art, so I clicked on Art in Real Time. It is truly AMAZING what this guy is doing with art and performance - and then combining them with web video. He connected people and their stories in one piece bringing them together into a self-portrait he filmed and streamed online over 6 days.
After a bit more bouncing around, I found three video stories on a single page about people using the web to allow everyday folks to help other everyday folks around the world. Each effort focuses on a different need - fun/quality of life, health, and economic prosperity - of people in some of the world's poorest regions. And each makes it possible for someone like me to by-pass the slow and wasteful government aid efforts to get into the game of aid provider myself. The title for this post, Love Wins, came from the last of the three videos featured on this page. Definitely worth watching all three!
The point of this post, what I most want to share today, is how Yahoo's site People of the Web was yet another way for me to see the POWER of this medium to allow us to connect with each other, to move each other into action, and to join together with others who are interested in the same things we are. Since my interest lies in finding and implementing ways to make life for the collective human family better, I am inspired by what I see. I am amazed at the creativity and zeal of our youth who really get the power of the web in ways my 40-year-old brain may never.
Yes, there's a lot of junk out there. People on the Web had it's share of time wasting junk. It's also true that much of what people are doing on the web is just for entertainment, novelty. Personally, I think that's great because we need to laugh more and we need creativity. And of course one must admit that blogs and websites are also used to connect people with malicious interests as well as for more productive and helpful endeavors.
But as the words from a sticker screamed out to me in that last video I saw, I believe now more than ever: LOVE WINS!
And the internet, intended or not, is helping that cause.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Wal-Mart, Flip Flops, & Stuff: Power to the People!
WARNING - this isn't my usual sort of post...but hopefully it's a provocative one.
There is hope for America, and it resides within its people!
Click here to see what one woman has done to take on Wal-mart after receiving major chemical burns on her feet (taking over 7 months to heal) from wearing cheap flip flops made in China. (Please note these images are ugly and nasty - and please come back to read the rest of my post, even if you get sucked in an spend an hour on her site - there's another great link later in the post you won't want to miss). You can read all about the run around she's been given, the denials, the refusal to take action to keep others out of harm's way, and the hundreds of others she's found who have had the same burns (yes you can see their burned and oozing feet too). This is technology at its finest! Digital photos, email and websites, putting the voice of the people out there - 48 million hits and climbing! People love a train wreck.
I ask myself, would I have been willing to invest the time and energy that Kerry has to rage against the machine? Would I have cared enough to help out so many others who have suffered so they could ease their pain. Perhaps she'll get something for her time from Wal-mart.
Yet, the picture is so much larger than some flip flops and burned feet. Fortunately Kerry and the others affected have shown us clear and undeniable damage by a system out of control. Just maybe it can get through to us all because we get it that maybe it could have been us in agony. I wonder...how rigorously do I check the things I buy and bring into my home for product safety?
This isn't an isolated problem. The amazing site below explains why something like this happens. I planned to post this site anyway, but after the flip flop thing it's a must! Watch The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard and you'll see how the flip flop incident relates to our entire way of life. I have posted the first two minutes of the video below. The site has been getting so much traffic it may be down at times, so you want to you can watch the video in 7 parts right here. The other parts will show up when the intro ends.
If you kept watching you heard an earful about chemicals and it's pretty easy to see that those flip flops are just a seedy symptom of a much bigger illness...I hope you'll watch the rest of Annie's video. It's MUST SEE in my book.
Our willingness to accept the absolute insanity of current day manufacturing and production is mind boggling. The toxins are in everything! Remember Madge and Palmolive? "You're soaking in it."
And the waste! UGH!
Both Kerry and Annie have my attention. I am inspired and I have been called up. If things are going to change, we are going to have to do it. Moms and Dads, everyday people. WE must be the watchdogs, because the Walmarts of the world won't be, nor will the FDA. (That's a whole 'nother post.)
As my friend Sandy Arch says, it all boils down to us taking our power back - and he's not talking about voting in the elections. He's talking about voting EVERY DAY with our dollars. He tells me that WE have the real power. Without everyday people, Walmart, Montsanto, McDonald's are nothing. We make them, and we can break them. We can CHOOSE more wisely about where we shop and what we buy. They need our money more than we need them.
I for one am no longer willing to be manipulated by the system and unintentionally support an economy of death. It's time to put my money where my mouth is - even more than I already am. Yes, I already spend more money to buy no VOC paint, eat organic food, use natural deodorant salt sticks, wash with eco-friendly detergents, drive a Toyota Prius, etc., etc., etc.
I have to vote with my dollar for a future for my daughter. I simply must. And today, I am inspired to do more...starting with sharing these two fierce women and their willingness to stand up and speak out with all of you. Maybe you will be inspired too.
Be Joyful. Be safe. SHOP WISELY!
There is hope for America, and it resides within its people!
Click here to see what one woman has done to take on Wal-mart after receiving major chemical burns on her feet (taking over 7 months to heal) from wearing cheap flip flops made in China. (Please note these images are ugly and nasty - and please come back to read the rest of my post, even if you get sucked in an spend an hour on her site - there's another great link later in the post you won't want to miss). You can read all about the run around she's been given, the denials, the refusal to take action to keep others out of harm's way, and the hundreds of others she's found who have had the same burns (yes you can see their burned and oozing feet too). This is technology at its finest! Digital photos, email and websites, putting the voice of the people out there - 48 million hits and climbing! People love a train wreck.
I ask myself, would I have been willing to invest the time and energy that Kerry has to rage against the machine? Would I have cared enough to help out so many others who have suffered so they could ease their pain. Perhaps she'll get something for her time from Wal-mart.
Yet, the picture is so much larger than some flip flops and burned feet. Fortunately Kerry and the others affected have shown us clear and undeniable damage by a system out of control. Just maybe it can get through to us all because we get it that maybe it could have been us in agony. I wonder...how rigorously do I check the things I buy and bring into my home for product safety?
This isn't an isolated problem. The amazing site below explains why something like this happens. I planned to post this site anyway, but after the flip flop thing it's a must! Watch The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard and you'll see how the flip flop incident relates to our entire way of life. I have posted the first two minutes of the video below. The site has been getting so much traffic it may be down at times, so you want to you can watch the video in 7 parts right here. The other parts will show up when the intro ends.
If you kept watching you heard an earful about chemicals and it's pretty easy to see that those flip flops are just a seedy symptom of a much bigger illness...I hope you'll watch the rest of Annie's video. It's MUST SEE in my book.
Our willingness to accept the absolute insanity of current day manufacturing and production is mind boggling. The toxins are in everything! Remember Madge and Palmolive? "You're soaking in it."
And the waste! UGH!
Both Kerry and Annie have my attention. I am inspired and I have been called up. If things are going to change, we are going to have to do it. Moms and Dads, everyday people. WE must be the watchdogs, because the Walmarts of the world won't be, nor will the FDA. (That's a whole 'nother post.)
As my friend Sandy Arch says, it all boils down to us taking our power back - and he's not talking about voting in the elections. He's talking about voting EVERY DAY with our dollars. He tells me that WE have the real power. Without everyday people, Walmart, Montsanto, McDonald's are nothing. We make them, and we can break them. We can CHOOSE more wisely about where we shop and what we buy. They need our money more than we need them.
I for one am no longer willing to be manipulated by the system and unintentionally support an economy of death. It's time to put my money where my mouth is - even more than I already am. Yes, I already spend more money to buy no VOC paint, eat organic food, use natural deodorant salt sticks, wash with eco-friendly detergents, drive a Toyota Prius, etc., etc., etc.
I have to vote with my dollar for a future for my daughter. I simply must. And today, I am inspired to do more...starting with sharing these two fierce women and their willingness to stand up and speak out with all of you. Maybe you will be inspired too.
Be Joyful. Be safe. SHOP WISELY!
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