Scream Queens
Wallace University is rocked by a string of murders. Kappa House, the most sought-after sorority for pledges, is ruled with an iron fist (in a pink glove) by its Queen Bitch, Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts). But when anti-Kappa Dean Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) decrees that sorority pledging must be open to all students, and not just the school's silver-spooned elite, all hell is about to break loose, as a devil-clad killer begins wreaking havoc, claiming one victim, one episode at a time. Part black comedy, part slasher flick, SCREAM QUEENS is a modern take on the classic whodunit, in which every character has a motive for murder... Or could easily be the next blood-soaked casualty. Written by Fox
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Everyone needs at least one cozy spot. I have been blessed with many this is the newest corner of our bedroom that I turned into a cozy spot. See that little blue blanket that's for my little dog sleep on. And if you can see on the bottom shelf there are three drawers full of pens and pencils and markers. There's a small library. Lots of journals and sketchbooks. A DVD player. This is where I come on the weekends to watch movies. To as they say nowadays, Netflix and chill.
I find is important to have different cozy places for different times in the week. Opposite from this small couch, which folds out by the way into a single bed, I have a desk where I like to start and end my day. I call it the little black desk. It is where I like to write and sketch during the week in the mornings and like I said at night. During the day I go across the hall into the guest bedroom/office. Actually where I am now when I blog. We call this room the tower in honor of Michael Montag needs retreat. In the tower behind the desk is a high back leather recliner. Perfect for meditating and maps and reading. A cozy space.
This is when I represent… My two favorite teams
Support your local craft beer pubs.
Really?
Psych it's just me!
Is better to have it and not need it into needed and not have it
If only I knew how to drive a forklift?
This was my summer hat, summer is over, into the trash with you. Parting is such sweet sorrow.
CONCLUSION Wonderland Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again . — ANAÏS NIN
Quite
me...finished this book this morning. Can’t for get to do a review in Goodreads. I really enjoyed the book because it defined a lot of the introvert=ish characteristics I have. I saw it as all being fairly common and fitting nicely into a category. As an introvert, I can use my powers for good or evil, I’ll choose good. Mainly because the evil us introvert’s cause is to ourselves
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Stay home on New Year’s Eve if that’s what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you’ll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.
Quite
So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.
Quite
me…’deploying the powers of quite’. I like the way that sounds. I”ll have to remember that phrase because it says so much about me.
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Back to my new role model. It is Jessica Fletcher, the lead character on ‘Murder she Wrote’. Never having watched the series while it originally aired, it is totally new to me. She caught me with the opening credits. She is so active! Jogging, at her age. Gardening. Active in the community. And writing mystery novels. Watch long enough and you’ll see she might have some kind of retirement but it isn’t important once she starts selling her books. She must be rolling in it. But it doesn’t change her. She still makes sure all the dishes are done before she goes to bed and she meets her writing goals without fail. Watch long enough and you see she is recovering from losing her husband. The love of her life. She is moving on in an admirable way. Me too! I want to inspire others through my resiliency, tenacity, and by staying steady and positive. Ii actually have someone very much like Jessica in my life...my mom. She works her way through things. Literally, through good time and bad she stays the course. I have to thank her for that part of me, the part I see in the TV character, and for loving mysteries, cozy mysteries, the way i do.
“Live as many lives as you can.”
― Sanober Khan
― Sanober Khan
me...I consider imagining Jessica one of my lives.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrased, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers--perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
I'm telling you, because most people are distracted by making money and other shallow pursuits, they are totally spiritually unaware of subtle changes cosmically affecting this planet. It's like intuition is a scarce resource these days. And I'm happy to say, that is one thing I'm rich in. But, the longer I live in this world, the more corrupt I become, my spirit is infected with the vice of coveting material wealth. It's sick. I got a taste of it, on a much smaller scale, what it's like when all you think about is making money, 24-7. And I'm not just talking survival mode, but continually thinking about making a profit. I can tell you from first hand experience, that when a person is always thinking about money, there is little room for anything else, and they are as far away as possible from spirituality, as far away as possible from the truth of the heart, reality, clarity, compassion, and enlightenment, those things which money cannot buy.
Effortless flow website
So, we flow. We detach. We let things flow around us like we are a stone in a river. We stand detached. We remain calm. We train ourselves not to engage. Then when the worst happens we can deal with it with determined calm. Our minds are clear. Fear does not turn our bowels to water and our knees to brittle twigs. We stand like the stone. We deal with the problem and then, having done so, we let it go again.
But the spirit of the depths stepped up to me and said: "What
you speak is. The greatness is, the intoxication is, the undignified,
sick, paltry dailiness is. It runs in all the streets, lives in all the
houses, and rules the day of all humanity. Even the eternal stars
are commonplace. It is the great mistress and the one essence of
God. One laughs about it, and laughter, too, is. Do you believe,
man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is
your measure, false measurer?13 The sum of life decides in laughter
and in worship, not your judgment."
you speak is. The greatness is, the intoxication is, the undignified,
sick, paltry dailiness is. It runs in all the streets, lives in all the
houses, and rules the day of all humanity. Even the eternal stars
are commonplace. It is the great mistress and the one essence of
God. One laughs about it, and laughter, too, is. Do you believe,
man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is
your measure, false measurer?13 The sum of life decides in laughter
and in worship, not your judgment."
Jung's red book
During the years Jung engaged with his "nocturnal work" on Liber Novus, he continued to function in his daytime activities without any evident impairment.[10] He maintained a busy professional practice, seeing on average five patients a day. He lectured, wrote, and remained active in professional associations.[11] Throughout this period he also serviced as an officer in the Swiss army and was on active duty over several extended periods between 1914 and 1918, the years of World War I in which Jung was composing Liber Novus.[12] Jung was not "psychotic" by any accepted clinical criteria during the period he created Liber Novus. Nonetheless, what he was doing during these years defies facile categorization.
I believe that’s what makes someone really good at selling or consulting—the number-one thing is they’ve got to really listen well. When I look at the top salespeople in my organization, none of those extroverted qualities are the key to their success.”
-Quite
a story about a Bengali cobra that liked to bite passing villagers. One day a swami—a man who has achieved self-
mastery—convinces the snake that biting is wrong. The cobra vows to stop immediately, and does. Before long, the village boys grow unafraid of the snake and start to abuse him. Battered and bloodied, the snake complains to the swami that this is what came of keeping his promise. “I told you not to bite,” said the swami, “but I did not tell you not to hiss.”
-Quite
me...this topic in the book is relevant because Head and I are spending time together doing her job and I have to take not only an active interest, but a subservient role while participating. It is hard for me to not jump right in. And of course, we have our ways of doing things I want to develop a way to talk things out and not argue. Or is argue we must, to argue constructively. That's on me. I’m paying attention and trying to figure it out.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
― Rainer Maria Rilke
me...I had to stop with just the first wo of the Rainer quotes that spoke to me. The first, right off the bat, reminded me of the piece I was working on , writing about the couple last night. It conveyed the feeling I thought the female character would have. The second spoke to my current situation. To appreciate everything as it unfolded. To be patient. To be persistent, nonetheless.
I'm beginning to think that the majority of news is bought, nothing more than a paid infomercial pretending to be news.
me...it think this would be a great jumping off place for a story some day.
Here's how it works… At least in Texas… When you have a new truck all you notice are all the cool old trucks out there. And when you have an old truck… All you notice are all the really cool new trucks there are.
My advice is to get an old truck and stick with. Something like this step side.
There's something so European about a man who uses a cane.
Where's Waldo?
Wheat buys breakfast
Found these in one of the rental properties. Someone is having one hell of a party
Having spent so much time navigating my own career transition and counseling others through theirs, I have found that there are three key steps to identifying your own core personal projects. First, think back to what you loved to do when you were a child. How did you answer the question of what you wanted to be when you grew up?
Second, pay attention to the work you gravitate to.
Finally, pay attention to what you envy. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
-Quite…
Life really begins when you have discovered that you can do anything you want.”
BY MARIA POPOVA
Life really begins when you have discovered that you can do anything you want.”
BY MARIA POPOVA
In every business, art, trade or profession, there are four major jobs to be done:
Creative — inventing, discovering, or developing new ideas
Administrative — making plans and policies for the conduct and supervision of the entire business or project
Executive — directing the work of others in actually carrying out plans and policies in one or more departments or sections
Line — performing some individual routine task involving no responsibility for the work of others
Creative — inventing, discovering, or developing new ideas
Administrative — making plans and policies for the conduct and supervision of the entire business or project
Executive — directing the work of others in actually carrying out plans and policies in one or more departments or sections
Line — performing some individual routine task involving no responsibility for the work of others
If you are a thoughtful person, slow to act, who enjoys analyzing, interpreting, and patiently summarizing the results of the activities of others; if you’re the kind of person who likes to pry into every single phase of an operation and to view a business as a whole; if you get a big kick out of cautiously defining long-range plans and policies; if you’re strong on logic, you have the most important earmarks of an able administrator.
But if you like plenty of action, if you love to organize and direct other people as they carry out plans and policies, and if you’re perfectly content to confine your activities to one department of a business, you’d probably make a first-rate executive.
But if you like plenty of action, if you love to organize and direct other people as they carry out plans and policies, and if you’re perfectly content to confine your activities to one department of a business, you’d probably make a first-rate executive.
-William J. Reilly penned How To Avoid Work
As an enormous believer in making time, rather than finding time, for what matters, I find his meditation on time, reminiscent of Montaigne’s on death and the art of living, particularly important:
Without Time nothing is possible. Everything requires Time. Time is the only permanent and absolute ruler in the universe. But she is a scrupulously fair ruler. She treats every living person exactly alike every day. No matter how much of the world’s goods you have managed to accumulate, you cannot successfully plead for a single moment more than the pauper receives without ever asking for it. Time is the one great leveler. Everyone has the same amount to spend every day.
The next time you feel that you ‘haven’t the time’ to do what you really want to do, it may be worth-while for you to remember that you have as much time as anyone else — twenty-four hours a day. How you spend that twenty-four hours is really up to you.
Without Time nothing is possible. Everything requires Time. Time is the only permanent and absolute ruler in the universe. But she is a scrupulously fair ruler. She treats every living person exactly alike every day. No matter how much of the world’s goods you have managed to accumulate, you cannot successfully plead for a single moment more than the pauper receives without ever asking for it. Time is the one great leveler. Everyone has the same amount to spend every day.
The next time you feel that you ‘haven’t the time’ to do what you really want to do, it may be worth-while for you to remember that you have as much time as anyone else — twenty-four hours a day. How you spend that twenty-four hours is really up to you.
I think the implication was that there was something I failed to learn in childhood that was holding back my psychological evolution as an adult. There were several other people sitting in their own booths, and different booths were associated with the different psychological and emotional stages of human maturation and development.
“The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life-
Everything has a natural healing
process.”
― Sanober Khan
we are all like poems.
some of us rhyme. some don’t.
some are Pulitzer prizes
some are just scribbles
and yet, we all possess
a special kind of beauty
that can either heal
or cut to the bone
one that can never quite
be fathomed, nor forgotten.”
― Sanober Khan
some of us rhyme. some don’t.
some are Pulitzer prizes
some are just scribbles
and yet, we all possess
a special kind of beauty
that can either heal
or cut to the bone
one that can never quite
be fathomed, nor forgotten.”
― Sanober Khan
most common ingredients for longevity shared by all the centenarians profiled were:
A lifetime of regular low impact physical activity
low calorie, nutrient dense, unprocessed meals, with minimal meat
simple back to the land, low stress, slow paced lifestyle
relatively clean environment, with minimal exposure to industrial pollution, or other man-made environmental toxins
mild weather climate, with an abundance of fresh air and sunshine
a close network of family, friends, and community
a community based on shared spiritual values
happiness and contentedness, frequent smiles and laughter
a strong sense of meaning and purpose to their lives
A lifetime of regular low impact physical activity
low calorie, nutrient dense, unprocessed meals, with minimal meat
simple back to the land, low stress, slow paced lifestyle
relatively clean environment, with minimal exposure to industrial pollution, or other man-made environmental toxins
mild weather climate, with an abundance of fresh air and sunshine
a close network of family, friends, and community
a community based on shared spiritual values
happiness and contentedness, frequent smiles and laughter
a strong sense of meaning and purpose to their lives
So slow down a bit and enjoy the view, because the slower you cruise, the better the view, and the longer it will last.
But the most radical innovation of clock time was the emergence of the new working day. Up until that point, people divided their days not into modular abstract units — after all, what is an hour? — but into a fluid series of activities:
Instead of fifteen minutes, time was described as how long it would take to milk the cow or nail soles to a new pair of shoes. Instead of being paid by the hour, craftsmen were conventionally paid by the piece produced — what was commonly called “taken-work” — and their daily schedules were almost comically unregulated.
Instead of fifteen minutes, time was described as how long it would take to milk the cow or nail soles to a new pair of shoes. Instead of being paid by the hour, craftsmen were conventionally paid by the piece produced — what was commonly called “taken-work” — and their daily schedules were almost comically unregulated.
me...a free flowing but productive routine. A dream come true.
