Fuel Up

When the morning broke and the sky fell down
It went black as night and the wind blew round
And stole your directions, you lost your way home
And you felt like a passenger left by the road
But I’ll tell you the reason you couldn’t get home

Cause there’s nowhere you’ve been and it’s nowhere you’re going
Home is only a feeling you get in your mind
From the people you love and you travel beside
You may feel like a passenger but now you’re the driver
You’ve got to go traveling, traveling on
Because if you break down, it’s a cold, hard shoulder

So fuel up your mind and fire up your heart
and drive on…

One New York Ago

I always come back to Rose Cousins.  She just does it right.  Simple. True. Beautiful.

The 4th! (You know… of July!)

Slight sun burn. Bike parade. Bake off. Straw hat. Booze and buddies. Fireworks. AMERICA!

Is it really only Tuesday?

This I Know.

Come now let’s settle this, once and for all:

I’ve got a love for you that’s burning,

brighter than that relentless ball that’s gonna rise come morning –

I promise, my dear.

inside my head, inside my room.

Tat’s Pretty.

So… I want one.

John Mayer is Not My Guru.

Somehow I got lost on the internet, and stumbled upon John Mayer’s Tumblr. (Side note: I may or may not be transitioning to a tumblr page soonish. Try to contain your anger/excitement/apathy.)

Don’t know much about John Boy, or his music nowadays.  Tawney and I went to his concert in high school.  I remember enjoying it, but mostly being distracted by his facial contortions.  “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” is a really good song. “Bigger Than My Body” or whatever, is not.  I am not one of the 12 bazillion twitter peeps who follow the man’s every, self documented movement.

All of this to say, John Mayer is certainly not my guru.

I did, however, find myself encouraged by his last post:

“What do I do when I’m having an awful day? I time travel. Well, sort of. Here’s how I cheat the math:

Question: Is this problem going to change your life forever or will there come a day this problem will no longer exist?

If you decide the problem won’t exist after a certain period of time, then you can file it under “temporary.” Which brings me to step number two: if the problem is temporary, then you can sort of detach from the “now-ness” of the discomfort. I’m not saying ignore the lessons in the problem. Definitely learn from the problem, work to solve it, but spare yourself the existential grief, because it will get you nowhere. (This coming from an existential grief-master.)

You can’t travel through time, but you can send your thoughts and hopes into the future to camp out and wait for you to arrive there, where you’ll meet up and hug and decide that everything is alright again.”

Here’s “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room”. Not like he needs my help promoting his music.  Pretty sure he’s all set.

PS: Guru/Favorite Musician or not, the man’s got the look.

The Question is..

Should I quit my job, or accept a promotion to another department?

The answer is…

unclear.

Have you seen this girl?  I need her to shed some light on the situation..

I get to call this guy Friend.

Possibility(-ies are endless)