tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-275062 2008-08-04T02:01:14-07:00 .:Astride the whipcrack of the oscillating wave:. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-53719876 2008-08-04T02:01:14-07:00 2008-08-04T02:01:14-07:00

My karma bank is overflowing, and it feels like heavy wool clouds are sodden and bursting with magnetic return blessing goodness. In all endeavors I am walking forward with faith, allowing the gracious benevolence to receive my footfall. Radio silence...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/08/bursting-with-soul-capital.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52079700 2008-06-30T11:24:49-07:00 2008-06-30T11:24:49-07:00

The Purpose of Emotion ( Rumi ) A certain Sufi tore his robe in grief, and the tearing brought such relief he have the robe the name faraji, which means ripped open, or happiness, or one who brings the joy...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/06/the-purpose-of-emotion.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-51591348 2008-06-19T12:47:16-07:00 2008-06-19T12:47:17-07:00

pasta with fruit and chocolate Originally uploaded by mollykielySo my Filckr friend Molly posted this arresting photo of "Pasta with fruit and chocolate." I've been quietly obsessing about how this would taste. I hacked my own version. I would highly...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/06/deadly-yummies---pasta-with-chocolate-recipe.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50910100 2008-06-05T22:45:43-07:00 2008-06-05T22:45:43-07:00

"Empathy may be painful to oneself: seeing the pain of others, especially as broadcasted by mass media, can cause one temporary or permanent clinical depression; a phenomenon which is sometimes called weltschmerz. One must be careful not to confuse empathy...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/06/empathy-vs-sympathy-vs-telepathy.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50909518 2008-06-05T22:28:20-07:00 2008-06-05T22:28:20-07:00

Six months into this year. Almost 12 full months since I gave birth to Phoenix. Worlds of professional projects and logistical movements and now I find myself in the middle of yet another Mercury Retrograde and I tell you, life...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/06/revolution-june-2008---cdj-updates.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50517682 2008-05-28T09:39:46-07:00 2008-05-28T09:39:46-07:00

I had a mirror moment today, the kind that activates and sends you directly into the council of your Meta Self godhead - where you know you're looking directly at your most intimate, authentic, and infinite self. I thought about...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/05/hair-brushing-satori.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-49751078 2008-05-12T11:53:32-07:00 2008-05-12T12:01:52-07:00

For anyone who has ever had to part ways with a loved one, an open letter shared, but meant for one. --- We are both experts in recapitulation and crafting the optimal story to express our understanding of a situation....

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/05/striving-for-gr.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-48510580 2008-04-15T19:05:09-07:00 2008-04-15T19:06:24-07:00

It's been 5 years since my father passed away. It was 2003 and I was living in San Francisco in the Richmond District. My own grief has finally transformed - into strength, compassion, and refined selective memories of his better...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/04/april-15th-deat.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-47875080 2008-04-02T11:23:56-07:00 2008-04-02T11:24:13-07:00

The single most articulated value in the work of Machiavelli is virtú (Latin virtus), which is related to our word, "virtue." Machiavelli means it more in its Latin sense of "manly," but individuals with virtú are primarily marked by their...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/04/a-virtu-ous-wom.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-47163900 2008-03-17T14:54:56-07:00 2008-03-17T14:55:07-07:00

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carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/03/now-this-is-bra.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-45566562 2008-02-13T10:12:21-08:00 2008-02-13T10:12:32-08:00

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/02/my-33rd-bday--.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-44701676 2008-01-26T13:28:12-08:00 2008-01-26T13:28:23-08:00

"Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/01/i-enjoy-being-m.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-44660718 2008-01-25T10:56:27-08:00 2008-01-25T10:56:37-08:00

"If you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/01/mindmapping-the.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-44327996 2008-01-18T01:03:55-08:00 2008-01-18T01:04:08-08:00

Link: Amasszone.com: Not Getting Things Done: Books: David McAllen.

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/01/not-gtd-and-the.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-43638424 2008-01-03T14:52:18-08:00 2008-01-03T14:52:31-08:00

"When we talk about motivation, it goes back to this concept we have of intention. A motivated person is generally thought of as someone who has goals and objectives and is trying to get someplace else, and has an inner...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/01/motivation-vers.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-43635070 2008-01-02T01:25:00-08:00 2008-01-03T13:26:06-08:00

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plan - that the moment...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/01/goethe-reminder.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-43577918 2008-01-01T00:11:00-08:00 2008-01-02T12:12:16-08:00

Thoreau to kick off the year - "If you advance confidently in the direction of your own dreams and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” I am...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2008/01/onward-into-200.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-40273246 2007-10-16T02:38:23-07:00 2007-10-23T16:05:55-07:00

Feeling the strain and the pressure of multiple responsibilities. Make me a diamond, pressure. Just now, as I was awake at 1.30am-ish, I began to break down - the tears flowing out of the cracks in my tightly bound shell....

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2007/10/post-midnight-l.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-39563086 2007-09-29T21:41:05-07:00 2007-10-16T02:38:40-07:00

Sometimes, the wanderlust surges to be unbearable. To travel, to get lost, to assimilate and wander, to sidestep this current life trajectory and be another me. I am envious of travelers. I feel a loss of mobility. Home is where...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2007/09/feeling-yoursel.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-38825817 2007-09-13T01:11:09-07:00 2007-09-29T21:41:25-07:00

From reading his books, and attending his Roadmap seminar, David Allen's whole point of putting things in the GTD system is to give oneself as much time as possible to relax, goof off, and space out. That's what "stress-free productivity"...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2007/09/productivity-sp.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-38595095 2007-09-07T05:26:29-07:00 2007-09-13T01:11:31-07:00

It's 5.30 am and I have been awake, Pod-tending, for the past 3 hours. Phoenix sleeps most of the day, which makes him active at night. Like a vampire. Instead of sucking blood, he's after all my energy. Not much...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2007/09/wee-hour-madnes.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-37950015 2007-08-21T23:57:34-07:00 2007-09-07T05:30:16-07:00

Today I broke down. It is painful to my ego to admit that I might be suffering from some kind of post-partum depression. But I have been a self-diagnosed "dopamine junkie" since 1999 - and I just realized that I...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2007/08/breaking-down-a.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-37611536 2007-08-12T22:21:24-07:00 2007-09-03T15:46:56-07:00

As I begin my lunar ritual tonight, I have a lot to reflect/meditate on, as usual. But the excerpts below are particularly apt. . . sigh. . . must. check. self. before. wreck. self. New Moon Message from Astrowisdom.com If...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2007/08/new-moon-in-leo.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-37599106 2007-08-12T14:44:34-07:00 2007-09-03T15:46:57-07:00

Recently I've had a challenging time with someone who has been a best friend of mine for many years. In short, I had expectations of his behavior, based on the tenure/nature of our relationship, which not met during the last...

carmenleilani http://carmenleilani.blogs.com/transmutation/2007/08/95-bulletproof.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-37285366 2007-08-03T13:14:35-07:00 2007-09-03T15:46:57-07:00

Some people think it's insane that I was updating my Twitter stream throughout my childbirth/labor experience - as in during my contractions, from the hospital bed, through my water breaking, my epidural, and immediately after pushing out the Pod. It's...

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