Hydrogen peroxide does not feel good on the eyeball.
Let me rephrase that.
Hydrogen peroxide makes your eyeball burn like acid. It will make you scream, like you haven’t done since you were two years old. It will have you running around the bathroom and even bring your contractor moseying over to see what the ruckus is all about.
Your eye will hurt like crazy and tear up all day. This will result in a big fat headache and using lots of tissues to blow your nose.
“Do not rinse [contact] lens with Clear Care prior to insertion.” This makes the second time I have over looked that warning label. These are very painful lessons about being more mindful and living in the present.
“Excuse me, Universe. How about a new lesson? I promise I’ve learned this one.”
December 15, 2008
Lisa is three years younger than me. She grew up in Iowa and I grew up a traveling military brat. We saw each other rarely, except for the times she visited us in Alaska and Europe. We did not keep in touch but, as my cousin, she did receive a few of my nice dresses when I grew out of them.
Then one day Lisa moves to Colorado to attend Naropa University. A relative of mine attending a Buddhist university in Boulder? A first cousin? A first cousin from IOWA?
We find out that as adults we have very similar ideas about the world that differ significantly from our grandparents, parents, siblings, and other cousins.
We even both enjoy a good single malt scotch!
Should we credit nature or nurture?
December 1, 2008
At a party tonight, I met a fellow list believer. We high-fived a couple of times in our excitement at the discovery.
I’ve been preaching about the miraculous benefits of “the list” for years and I might have one particular non-believer friend finally convinced. Might.
Most people I’ve met are either enthusiastic believers of “the list” or enthusiastic non-believers. Those who do believe in “the list” know it works. It really, truly works and it has worked for them. I know of several success stories, including my own.
A great place to give the list a try, and where most people start, is the “relationship list”. The idea is to write out everything you want in a partner and the relationship.
The key is to write everything down that you DO want (leave off negative statements). To make them even more powerful, write them in the present tense.
EXAMPLE:
1. I am living with a man/married to a man who enjoys outdoor sports and at least one of the sports I enjoy.
2. I am in a loving relationship with a man who has his own large circle of friends.
A cousin of mine wrote out her list to include 43 items. Shortly after writing the list she started dating the man who would become her husband. He is 42 out of the list of 43 items she wanted.
The list is really about discovering what it is we truly want (everyone is different) and giving ourselves permission to ask for it. I’ve found that the non-believers feel the list will “limit” them and deep down they don’t believe they deserve what they really want.
One time I started writing a list for my perfect career. I caught my self changing the list to meet society’s expectation instead of really asking for what I wanted. Where is that list anyway? Maybe I will write a new one. One that includes making loads of money.
Writing out a list of wants for whatever is pressing in our lives–relationships, career, family, vacations, travel–is a great way to gain clarity. Just remember to put it away to let it percolate and pull it back out to revise it as often as needed. I’ve written tons of relationship lists (after every breakup the list was revised) and now that I’m with the most wonderful man I could ever hope for, my desire and need to write that type of list has vanished.
Do you like “the list”, I say?
Could you would you with a fox?
Could you would you in a box?
Try it, try and you may.
February 3, 2008
