Metonym

met·o·nym

ˈmedəˌnim/

noun

a word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated. For example, Washington is a metonym for the federal government of the US.

" The house in the novel's title sits on Detroit's Yarrow Street, and we are introduced to it long before the city attains its current status as a metonym for urban decay." - http://www.vox.com/2015/11/18/9753832/national-book-award-2015-nominee-reviews

Karma

" Don’t get mad. Don’t get even. Do better.  Rise above. Become so engulfed in your own success that you forget it ever happened.” – Donald Driver

We Cannot Trample Upon the Humanity of Others

“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: “He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.” - Chinua Achebe

The Oldest Boy

Today I had two theater events. After 'As You Like It' I went to the Lyceum Theater in Horton Plaza for 'The Oldest Boy'. The ticket was complimentary offered to Mama's Kitchen volunteers. The play is based on the true story of the 3 year old son of an American woman and a Tibetan man, living in the states, who is the reincarnation of an important Tibetan Buddhist teacher. The boy was portrayed by a puppet with 3 puppeteers. The play included lots of Tibetan music and dance and was really great.

As You Like It

Ushered 'As You Like It' in the White Theater at the Old Globe tonight. It was their MFA program. All of the cast where their graduate students. I ushered row 4 and got to watch the play from the second row in section 5. It was a very good, fun production and I enjoyed it a lot.

This was also the first time I put on my new black jacket and black tie. Amazingly my tie went on right the first time. So I took a quick selfie in the restroom before we had to take our positions. 

Peace

Rumi

Socrates

Your Journey

Fulminate

ful·mi·nate
verb
: to complain loudly or angrily
:to utter or send out with denunciation
:to send forth censures or invectives

"I have friends who fulminate and bark and explode in frustration because people do not know the references, do not know what is being pointed at, have forgotten authors and stories and worlds." - Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning

Fall Colors

Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle.

Love after Love

LOVE AFTER LOVE

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

∼Derek Walcott

You are Allowed

Take the First Step

The Art of Peace

1.
The essence of The Art of Peace is to cleanse yourself of maliciousness, to get in tune with your environment, and to clear your path of all obstacles and barriers.

2.
If you have not
Linked yourself
To true emptiness,
You will never understand
The Art of Peace

3.
All things are bound together harmoniously; this is the real law of gravity that keeps the universe intact.

4.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the highest peak, and the deepest ocean, empty of all limiting thoughts.

5.
As soon as you concern yourself with the “good” and “bad” of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

6.
Never fear another challenger, no matter how large;
Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.

7.
If your opponent strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing, Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.

8.
All of life is a circle, endlessly revol;ving, and that is the center point of the Art of Peace. The Art of Peace is a seamless, inexhaustible sphere that encompasses all things.

9.
When your eyes engage those of another person, greet him or her with a smile and they will smile back. This is one of the essential techniques of The Way of Peace.

10:
A true warrior is always armed with three things: the radiant sword of pacification; the mirror of bravery, wisdom, and friendship; and the precious jewel of enlightenment.

From The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens. © 2002 by John Stevens.

Eat Pray Love

“Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true.”

Success

" To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life Lessons from Maria Shriver

http://mariashriver.com/blog/2015/11/60-life-lessons-on-my-birthday-maria-shriver/

Grant Me The Strength

Where the San Diego River, Mission Bay, and the Pacific Ocean Meet