Lang Leav

Ever since I discovered this gem, I've been so greedy, not to mention selfish with her work. I realized how childish it is of me for not sharing this incredible poet, artist and astonishing talent of our generation with everyone and anyone.

So, here you go, I hope you take from her what I have in the short amount of time I've had stalking her work.

 not a single one she cared about, she'd chew them up and spit them out.

please be my future daughter

please

My Painful Joy

I'm always intrigued by questions that I know I'll never have answers to. Odd, you think? Yes. Why, you ask? I don't wish to know, remember I'm intrigued by questions I know I'll never have answers to.

Where am I going with this ... one word & one person: Haifiz

 

My favorites, pick up The Gift for more brain food

 

 

 



Keepin' It Fresh

. sparkling lights .

. tic' tock .

. sisters .

. soaring high .

. spring love .

. text literature .

Kindergarten Guidelines

What do you do when you desperately want assurance? Assurance that everything will be alright, assurance that every question has an answer and that there's still time left. What do you do when you live in constant fear that time is running out, that one day you'll hear a loud bang and you'll realize it's too late? What do you do when you're too late? 

STOP.DROP.AND.ROLL

you put out the fire

When it rains in Los Angeles ...

We are reminded that we are far worse drivers than we realize and far more blessed with the sight of the sun than we appreciate.

Here's some uplift for a down shift in the weather*

*rest assured the weather man promises clear skies and highs of 70 tommorrow

Most importantly .. feel free to replace "GOD" with any other spiritual being, or none at all for that matter. Just give yourself the ability to find some form of humbleness where you are allowed to thank someone other than yourself for all that is beautiful around you. Thank Buddha, Allah, Jesus or Mother Nature, or a table lamp for all that it matters. Just know that something, somewhere in some realm of time was responsible for 99% of the beauty in life that you (probably) neglect 99% of the time.

Relationship Weight

They say it's because I'm happy; I'm ready to be less happy and more fit.

For many more reasons, visit http://reasonstobefit.tumblr.com/

The do's are easy the do not's .. NOT so much!

10 Things You Do Not Need To Be Doing

10. Do not try to buy happiness: we live in America, the land of the GREED, do not give power to a piece of cloth, leather or metal, it may be cliche, but it couldn't be more true when they say "the best things in life are free." Once you separate out the type of emotion you feel from buying something expensive to the type you feel from receiving something free, you'll realize all the money in the world couldn't buy happiness (NO MATTER WHERE YOU'RE SHOPPING). Do not allow money to substitute for dignity because if you do then you'll find that you can only afford a piece of gum.

9. Do not lie to yourself: you may have the entire world fooled as complete fools, but you can not escape your own mind. Self-progress only starts once we are willing to be honest with ourselves.

8. Do not try to be a superhero (to everyone): we all want to save the ones we care about, but you may have to accept that trying to do so may only end up with a burnt out you and result with only a partial success rate. Narrow your focus, you can't be everything to everyone.

7. Do not forget to count your blessings: today may be good, tomorrow may be bad and vice versa for the rest of your life, but the mere fact that "the rest of your life" is a thought to be had, is enough to be grateful for all you have. Someone out there is waking up and fighting with imaginary skills to be able to envision a day where they can go back to thinking they have the "rest of their lives."

6. Do not allow other's gravitational pull to lower you: just because someone refuses to advance in their own life does not mean that you have to lower your standards to accommodate their lack of enthusiasm for a better life. Keep floating upward and remember there are foot prints on the moon.

5. Do not convince yourself that you are not ready: you will never wake up with the feeling that you are a hundred and ten percent ready for something. Self-growth comes from being put in situations that force you to get ready. Engineers never woke up one day and said they were ready to formulate high rises, somewhere along the path they were forced to take pre-algebra that lead to algebra that lead to geometry and so on and so forth. Get out of that comfort zone and note, you are far more ready that you realize. Remember, will-power is like a muscle the more you use it the stronger it gets.

4. Do not get involved in relationships for the wrong reasons: it may take days in coming or even months and years, but do not allow a "time lapse" to be the reason why you enter into a relationship with someone. You are far more better off in the company of just yourself than bad company. Society will have us thinking we need to conform to many expectations of other society members, but the most self-damaging action is to allow this (wrong) reason be the (only) reason you enter into a relationship. Be it a career-related relationship, friendship type or most commonly a romantic one.

3. Do not hold on to the past: no matter how good or how bad, it is only self-sabotage if you do this. The idea of life is to move forward and you can not write the next chapter of your life if you are stuck re-reading the last one.

2. Do not spend time with the wrong people: no matter how blindsided you may be, there is always a tiny person inside of you yelling at you when you are surrounding yourself with people who you shouldn't be. The beauty of life is that we are blessed with making choices. Time flies and the last thing you need is to be spending it with people who don't make you happy or encourage you to be better.

1. Do not run from your problems: no one is saying it's easy, nor is it fun or anything else that would encourage you not to run, but sometimes you have to do what's not fun to end up having some fun. It won't be the time of your life and you won't be able to solve them over night, but the more you look your problems in the eye, the more closer you'll get to having days of fun.



Irony At It's Corniest

It's undeniably ironic that the person who gives you that out-of-this-world feeling (that you swear, if you could bottle and sell you'd be a millionaire) and makes you strong, is in fact your weakness.

So ... be his or her, favorite hello & hardest goodbye

5 Bullets of De-Stressing

• Remove toxins: includes types of foods you consume, types of products you use and most importantly types of people you know
• Sleep: not just any type of sleep: plan to sleep .. take a nice long bath beforehand, light some candles and/or turn on some of your favorite night time tunes
•  Seek friends: a good friend can make the most stressful situation seem like child's play
• Go natural: the purest form of anything and everything comes from nature .. take your self outdoors, wink at the sun and talk to the moon

and most importantly, always, always and I mean ALWAYS ...

• Count your blessings: take a minute to give your mind a break from what is actually making you have to give your mind a break and think about all that you have going for you, for example: "Another Day In Paradise"

Who needs a kitchen?

The most disorganized of girls would still keep her clothes, shoes and accessories organized if given sufficient space for it. This will be mine, even if it means convertting my kitchen into my closet and my coat closet into my kitchen. After all, it only takes a microwave to make a box of mac n' cheese! I pity the lad that marries me.

And of course the most famous closet of all time, Ms. Carrie Bradshaw pre-marriage to Big

if only they would allow it to become a monument and charge us a pair of Manolo Blahnik's to visit and awe for a few thousand minutes .. hey, a girl is entitled to her dreams, ok!

Crummy Advice Can Be So Marvelous

 

Eat donuts. Wave at a stranger while driving. Have a shot before 12 noon. Tell the truth. Light candles and sing in the dark. Look up a word in the dictionary. Give compliments you mean. Don't make wishes, make decisions. Frame pictures. Buy something you've been wanting. Give something away. Throw away someone else's trash. Send a friend a hand written letter. Eat candy. Kiss and tell. Take a drive to nowhere. Plan a trip. Pick a penny and bless it lucky. Give the penny away. Take deep breaths. Predict the future by creating it.  Donate your time to a non-profit organization. Buy a dozen balloons and let them go. Bake something even if you burn it. Tell someone a secret. Don't wonder about answers you don't have. Don't follow your dreams, stalk them, chase them, corner them & have them. Forget any insults you've ever heard. Lay in the sun. Take a completely different route home. Cross your fingers. Whisper through a whole conversation. Pray for someone else. Pick a flower. Kick stress in the balls. Ask someone over 75 to tell you a story. Date someone completely wrong for you. Turn off the television. Read. Forget getting approval from others. Fake it till you feel it. Smile. Fight tears. Enjoy life's struggles. Shock yourself with yourself.

A. Esmaili's "out of order" advice! :)

Viciousness Wears a Thick Mask

It's hard enough to get to know a person's true "colors, shapes, formats, programmings" and so forth without the added bonus of an unveiling of a mask.

Let's get real people, let's get real.

The Way I See It