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and now for something completely different…

There’s a magnet on my fridge - not sure exactly how it got there, but it’s a quote from Thoreau. It says:

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.”

Now ordinarily i tend to sort of gloss over the grandiose inspirational quotes, cause there’s only so much fluff a person can handle in the oft-times harsh reality of life on this marvelous planet we call earth. Nevertheless, today the thing was beautiful to me - i dare say uplifting. I’ve been seeing that quote for ages and not paying much attention, but tonight it popped out at me. So what’s different?

Basically, I’m feeling a bit inspired, feeling like i just released a whole bunch of crap and now i can dance again - feelin’ like goin’ crazy and dancing through life. I’m still a cynical old curmudgeon when it comes to happiness formulas and spiritual mumbo-jumbo, but today is different. There’s a big secret here, though. Something i haven’t fessed up to yet….. Continue reading →

In the continued theme of humor to brighten any day or night (and, yes, at the risk of appearing completely ridiculous and irrelevant) i bring to you “This Frog”, my all-time favorite childhood sesame street tune, via Kermit the number one frog. At the time, of course, I had no clue about the nod to Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” - a correlation which makes it all the more brilliant now. If this doesn’t give you a laugh, i don’t know what will….

THIS FROG

This frog has to go his own way
This frog doesn’t care what the other frogs say
This frog wants to be happy, and this frog has to try
This frog is gonna make it or know the reason why
I’m not gonna sit here like some dumb old bump on a log
That isn’t me!
I’m gonna be this frog!
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Possibly the last remaining true guru,
Puppetji shares the secret to world peace:

In honor and support of the victims and hostages of the terrorist siege of Mumbai, and all victims of extremist violence around the world and here at home…

Celebrated in India for thousands of years, the Dussehra burning ritual closes the ten days of Hindu Navaratri festivals. Navaratri is a time of worship of the ‘Divine Mother’ - somewhat related to the western concept of mother nature. Honoring the legendary victory of King Rama over the ten-headed demon king Ravana who had abducted his beloved wife Sita, Dussehra celebrates the epic ten-day battle between Rama’s army of gods and men - including Vishnu and monkey-god Hanuman - and Ravana’s army of evil spirits and demons. With his hard-won victory, Rama’s beloved Sita is restored to his side and the forces of Love and light reign on earth again.

Symbolic of the triumph of light over darkness…the triumph of Love. Shot in the holy town of Laxman Jhula, India - just outside Rishikesh - where the Ganges River emerges at the foothills of the Himalayas. Halleluiah!

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“Lift up your heart
all is in this moment
all that is the heart
never fades away
that which is always
never turns away…”

- words and music by Marco Mazzella
- video by paxarunachala
- starring the sacred Arunachala Shiva Mountain, Tiruvannamalai, India

This is my friend Dermot Butterly, the Irish Gandhi aka ‘Gandhi Rolling Stone’, as he prepares to walk across the country from Santa Monica, CA to Washington DC. Departing May 17th from Paramahansa Yogananda’s Lake Shrine Self-Realization Fellowship, Pacific Palisades, CA, where Mahatma Gandhi’s Ashes are enshrined. Meet @ Noon! I will be shooting as we walk to Santa Monica for the first leg of the voyage…

www.gandhipeacewalk.org

A message from Rhonda Byrne, of ‘The Secret’:

Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you. Continue reading →

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A word on the context…it’s spring of 2003, year two of the Tribeca Film Festival, just blocks away from ground zero and my studio at the time. The bombs have just recently begun raining on Baghdad in the ill-fated Iraq oil war…

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