Love Token 123: The Best Is Yet To Come

via Lovely as a Dream

This by far is the best love token that I have had part in giving myself.

Due end of November 2012

XO
M

Love Token 122: JM

I cannot get the latest John Mayer album out of my head for the last month 

More specifically this song.

Gives me tinglies up my spine.

Have you bought the boy-wonders new alblum yet?

If you are a hater of John Mayer and how he behaves you gotta at least give credit to this musical prodigy where it is due.

In the words of Kanye West recently...

"I am flawed as a human being - but my music is perfect"

I'm an architect

Of days that haven't happened yet

I can't believe a month is all it's been

You know my paper heart

The one I filled with pencil marks

I think I might've gone and inked you in

Little by little, inch by inch

We built a yard with a garden in the middle of it

It ain't much but it's a start

You got me swaying right along to the song in your heart

And a face to call home

A face to call home

You got a face to call home

So good you didn't see

The nervous wreck I used to be

You'd never know a man could feel so small

And you never look at me

Like I'm a liability

I bet you think I've never been at all

Little by little, inch by inch

We built a yard with a garden in the middle of it

And it ain't much, but it's a start

You got me swaying right along to the song in your heart

And a face to call home

A face to call home

You got a face to call home

A face to call home

A face to call home

You got a face to call home

Maybe I could stay a while,

Maybe I could stay a while,

Maybe I could stay a while,

I'm talkin' like all of the time

(Maybe I could stay a while)

Little by little, inch by inch,

(Maybe I could stay a while)

We built a yard with a garden in the middle of it,

(Maybe I could stay a while)

And it ain't much, but it's a start,

(I'm talkin' like all of the time)

You got me swaying right along to the song in your heart

And a face to call home

A face to call home

You got a face to call home

-John Mayer: A Face to Call Home

XO

M



Love Token 121: Smile in the Age of Worry

It is a blessing and a curse.

The information highway, how small our world has become that miles, kilometres are just mere obstacles to communicate and reach out to others. The freedom to explore is now more than ever.

How amazing it is to learn at a pace much faster and way more accessible than ever before.

How incredible it is for everyone to be able to share their experiences and reach out and really affect other people.

However, with the access to all information comes attached the "too much information epidemic", the panic can set in, the horror stories, the worst case scenarios all with one click of your mouse.

The occurance of the few becomes the nightmare of many.

If you are prone to this type of behaviour, please for your own good, stop clicking through the unnecesssary as the worry and stress does no good and while awareness is great, paranoia is not.

I am not prone to this type of behaviour but I have to admit sometimes it is hard to resist.

In our world today, with a multitude of opinions and self-branding and probably one of the most self-catering narcassistic ages of its time (where special is now such an un-special word), it is so easy for people to pass judgement, to diagnose other people's life and to possess a sense of entitlement that lacks the core components of humanity; kindness, generousity, compassion, understanding, empathy, sympathy in its pure form.

All these thoughts ran through my mind today while walking to work.

The sun was shining and there was a song that sparked this thought (where it really has no personal origin, just my brain I suppose... always a hamster running rapidly on the wheel of thought) and I agreed that through the good and the bad you roll with the punches, you deal with things as they approach and until that time comes...

Smile in the age of worry.

Via A life of beauty and grace

"Close your eyes and clone yourself

Build your heart an army

To defend your innocence

While you do everything wrong

Don't be scared to walk alone

Don't be scared to like it

There's no time that you must be home

So sleep where darkness falls

Alive in the age of worry

Smile in the age of worry

Go wild in the age of worry

And say, "Worry, why should I care?"

Know your fight is not with them

Yours is with your time here

Dream your dreams but don't pretend

Make friends with what you are

Give your heart then change your mind

You're allowed to do it

'Cause God knows it's been done to you

And somehow you got through it

Alive in the age of worry

Rage in the age of worry

Sing out in the age of worry

And say, "Worry, why should I care?"

Rage in the age of worry

Act your age in the age of worry

And say, "Worry, get out of here!"

- John Mayer, Age of Worry

 

XO
M