About

I am a girl from Canada.  I try and live my life as responsibly as I can that means I don’t shop at walmart, I sew things, I shop at independent stores, I try not to over consume (unless it’s beer bada ching). I love the DIY spirit and I love to see people creating and inventing things. I just got married and am living in Fort Sill Oklahoma for as long as the military tells us too. My husband is getting deployed in January.  I am learning about Buddhism and I feel that it’s an important part of my journey to be a better human.

I love music. I love any kind of music that you can dance to and I love to be up on the floor. Music is my life and my soul. I love to go to gigs and hear live music, and I will pretty much go to any show that interests me. I am not stuck in a genre.

I am still figuring alot of things out, and sometimes I feel like I am wise beyond my years, and other times I feel like I dont’ know what the hell I am talking about. I am trying to make my way through this crazy life and thrive not just survive.  I am using this blog to communicate with my family back home and share the experiences I have had.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow
Alice Walker

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. Buddha

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley

Rahula, practice loving kindness to overcome anger. Loving kindness has the capacity to bring happiness to others without demanding anything in return.

Practice compassion to overcome cruelty. Compassion has the capacity to remove the suffering of others without expecting anything in return.

Practice sympathetic joy to overcome hatred. Sympathetic joy arises when one rejoices over the happiness of others and wishes others well-being and success.

Practice non-attachment to overcome prejudice. Non-attachment is the way of looking at all things openly and equally. This is because that is. Myself and others are not separate. Do not reject one thing only to chase after another.

I call these the four immeasurables. Practice them and you will become a refreshing source of vitality and happiness for others.-Buddha

From “Gift From The Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits – islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.