Grey's Anatomy

Meredith: A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say...Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

Another quote :

You know when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales? That fantasy of what your life would be –white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You’d lie in your bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa clause, the tooth fairy, prince charming –they were so close you could taste them. But eventually you grow up and one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they trust. But the thing is, it’s hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely because almost everyone has that smallest bit of faith and hope that one day they would open their eyes and it would all come true. At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realize that the fairy tale is slightly different than your dream. The castle, well it may not be a castle. And it’s not so important that it’s happily ever after –just that it’s happy right now. See, once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you. And once in awhile, people may even take your breath away. –Meredith, Grey’s Anatomy

Thrive

Finally - Here is the new Kaiser Permanente Commercial that I absolutely love!

"We Stand for brocolli .Pilates and Dental Floss. We believe in the treadmill and its siblings the stairmaster and the elliptical .In SPF 30 we trust .We stand for seatbelts and stopping HIV.We believe that fruit makes a wonderful dessert.
We have faith in optimism .In laughter as medicine and penicillin,And we are morally opposed to laziness.We believe in physical therapy , physiotherapy and even music therapy.All hail cold turkey , the gum and the patch.We are anit addiction
pro anti oxidant. And have never met a vegetable we didnt like.We believe there is art to medicine as well as science .And we believe that health isnt an industry ..it is a cause .We are Kaiser Permanente and we stand for health . May you live long and Thrive "

Random Thoughts .....

So its Sunday - 10 days to go .
its been a random weekend ..so heres 10 totally random thoughts ...
in random order ..

1. How much in Denial does one have to be ..to Deny even being in Denial ?

2.whats it about packing that causes us to unpack and unload mentally and get
retrospective about everything
..is it possible to pack emotions and problems away ...
I think if I fixed all my problems ..I'd just go out and find some more :)

3. I think Atlanta;s skyline looks nicest off of 85 South ..exiting onto 75 North
Love it ! ....would you feel small standing besides the ocean ..or at the bottom of
a ton of 100 storied buildings ? ..I think I'd pick the ocean ...because somehow I dont get intimidated by tall buildings because I always seem to remember just in time that afterall it was man that made them .. so it makes me feel bigger in some way ..

4 . I;m going to miss Starbucks peppermint coffee this year ..:( ..i think they only serve it in November ..

5. Theres so much of a difference between Norah Jones 's first album and second ..days change ..people chance ..songs change ...even though the notes somehow remain the same ..what is change ..when you watch movies or read books ..its soo big ..music changes ..pace changes and drama often follows ..in real life though ..its fairly small ..most people dont even pay that much attention to each other to notice ..but you know that you are different ..in that small way ..


6. If you ever go to San Fransisco ..you have to buy Jade Bamboos in China Town

8. sometimes I feel like Santiago in the Alchemist ..before he had the dream .

9. I really like the new Kaiser Permanente commercial ...

10. I wish they sold reality in non perishable tubes along with sun block ..sometimes it seems like people need a good layer/dose of reality to protect them and its so hard to find amongst cluttered thoughts


Good Night . I hope good things happen to you tommorrow .

D Day

Happy Dassera !

I saw this awesome picture in a newspaper I was reading ,of dassera celebrations in Mumbai !
Its so vivid , The effigees on one side reminiscent of a techni color bad dream and bombay's skyline on the other side , stoic , unyielding yet somehow welcoming at the same time .
I just cant wait to go back .

For the ones not familiar : Dassera is celebrated as the day when Lord Ram , after a long battle with a Demon Ravan , finally shot down Ravan with an arrow .
The quitiessential legend ..the triumph of Good over Evil .

I remember as a kid ..when I used to see Ramayana on TV . Sundays ..Not even a passing bird or waylaid car honk would break the silence of the show and for the briefest of times , everything would be still and possible.

Friday's I;m in Love !

"Moanday Tearday Wailday Thumpday Frightday "...naah ..Friday's I;m in Love !

The week is over ..the worst is done with and the weekend reeks with possibility ..Its the Power of Possibility that makes each day different from the one before ...afterall ..its true what they say ...that Today is the Tommorrow that we were all afraid of yesterday ...so Carpe Diem ! Seize the Day .

Saturday are action days ..filled with errands and chores , laundry and phonecalls and trips to the bank .
Sundays are wistful days ..to look back at the fleeting weekend and think about the coming week .
But Friday;s ..are the best ! ..and they are Best Served with a Drink ..maybe two ..close friends to reminisce and look ahead with , some nice Jazz or salsa with a twist at Cafe Intermezzo and if you are lucky ..Atlanta in the fall with rain .

Man on the Moon

I read a story in the news today ..about a man who paid 20 million $
to make a trip to space .
..and so I started thinking ... if someone offered me 20 million $ to go to space would I ? hhmm ...the more I thought about this . I was vexed . My travel plans just didnt include this .
So if I had all the time , place , resources ..where would I go ?
If I had one month ..one year to do it all ..see it all
Paris ..Africa ..Greece ..Bali ..Chile ..HongKong ...Virgin Islands ..Venice ..Egypt ..Pondicherry ..Moscow ...Peru

I would in all probability turn my nose up at a half day trip to the moon and back . I'd be happier painting the Tour D'Effiel in Paris , watching the Sphynx in the moonlight in Egypt , on a beach with some Miller Light in St Croix , bonding with the Incas in Machu Pichu .
And even if I did accidently end up on the moon ...the best part of the trip would be looking back at earth :)

and so I started thinking ...is the World enough for me ?!

Starry Starry Night

One of the biggest ironies of my life is that my Favorite Van Gogh painting "Starry Night " was painted by him in while at the depths of his abject life when he was delusional and severely depressed .
And it is this one painting that changed my life by 360 degrees and brought me so much happiness in painting it and getting to know it they way I now do . Every time I see it ..its one of those moments that just takes my breath away.

Why is it that some of the most awesome and inspiring works of art have been created by people who lived in times far darker than ours , who suffered so greatly but whose thoughts were more free that we can ever aspire to be and these thoughts made liberated souls , artits , authors , poets and van gogh;s out of them .


" I know nothing with certainty - but the sight of stars makes me dream "
Vincent Van Gogh

Wake me up ..when september ends

" Wake up little leaves said the wind one day
Come over the meadows with me and play
Put on your dresses on red and gold
Summers long gone and now the days grow cold "

George Cooper


Its official . Fall is here . I was leaving my yoga class today and I could feel it in the air . There was a cold breeze blowing and something tells me it was the wind of change . And now its time . For the wheels to turn . Just like the autumn leaves ..to let old battles and grudges and disappointments fly away . And to rebuild ..recharge ..realign and restore . And with the winds of change to blow over to a distant land .