11 thoughts on “Just in case your yesterday was as rough as mine: a prescription”
I love the muppets, especially Kermit the frog. So cute!
Thank you, Harry Nilsson and the muppets!!
Hey Amanda – I’m a Taurus Sun and Sag mix, too (Sag AC) Moon in Aquarius.
I loved it, Amanda! The crew at the end reminded me of all you people who write for PW and us posters, too. What a bunch of characters, as my father (a multi-Pisces man) used to say.
I’m a Taurus, too – May 2. Many years ago, I found come postcards – each one had a cartoon for one of the signs. The one for Taurus showed a women luxuriating in a clawfoot tub full of bubbles. The caption said, “Waiting for only the very best to arrive,” which I totally relate to. Soft blankees, piles of pillows, Primo Yellow Rose incense, the sunlight throwing crystal comets on the wall, the feel and movement of a perfectly weighted skirt and the food, the food! For me yesterday, it was the first fresh asparagus from the garden broiled with fresh rosemary, sea salt and olive oil!
Happy Birthday fellow Taurus (did you know that bulls and cows are one of the earliest Goddess images?) Since everyone has some Taurus somewhere in their chart, my wish for all is to find a field to sit in and smell the flowers – like sweet Ferdinand.
wow michele… hard to say.
my astrological knowledge is still at the beginner level, but i believe i’ve read tauruses tend to have playful/goofy senses of humor, and that’s where my sun is. i think eric once described sagittarius as often having a kind of relentlessness to their humor, kind of like those boxing kangaroos, and my moon is in sagg. beyond that, i don’t really know, though people have remarked more than once that i am “young” in spirit. i guess i do find the silly side pretty naturally; i don’t *think* it’s a defense mechanism. i can definitely be comfortabel with gravitas.
i wouldn’t say i work at maintaining lightness, though there are some days when it takes some work. yesterday was one. as i mentioned in a comment below, it took a flow of several stages to release the pain and anger and whatever else was in the eruption that resulted in me sobbing on the phone after defending myself against an accusation of betrayal, on top on several actions i’d taken that did not go well.
but even then, i didn’t go looking for humor. i’m sure i would have enjoyed the muppet clip no matter when i might have seen it, but i was not open to humor for a good couple hours after the crying jag. it was pretty clear to me i was able to take full delight in the muppet clip mainly because i’d already cried, gone to yoga class, and lost/grounded myself in cooking. even though things all just felt like flow, not any kind of ‘pick-me-up plan’.
yes, sometimes there *is* a time for serious focus, and humor would be mistimed. it’s nice to hear i sometimes get it right, at least on this blog.
and i do understand feeling overwhelmed by all that’s going on. i totally started feeling hopeless and helpless about the futility of trying to eat non-radioactive food when eric sent around the email that became the post with the cow image above. and i started thinking about all the people who don’t have access to the information, or to good food, or to the money to buy special food, or who aren’t open to things like using a pendulum to determine if you food item is safe to eat (hell, it has even taken me a bit of effort to wrap my brain around that one — a cheesy show about witches in SF in the 90s had tainted my receptivity), etcetera.
so, i’m not immune to that…
interestingly, i had read your comment in a message in my inbox before checking this page tonight (i’ve been in a theater performance for a couple hours). and it felt a bit heavy to me to see the atomic bomb article and the photo of the two photographers killed by artillery in libya (even though i had already heard about the latter), on top of the radioactivity piece. so, i can empathize with that sense that things are getting to be a little too much, too heavy. i guess i just haven’t been completely aware of my role in balancing that (though i’m feeling the urge to post something beautiful tonight…).
really, it’s not surprising to me that so many people go into denial about this stuff and more, given how overwhelming it is — even for those of us who care and say we want to be awake.
and, well…. i’ve had the experience of a huge, globally-traumatic event simply not be accessible to me emotionally until it was brought to a more personal level. in fact, i’ve even wondered if the “selfishness” of venus in aries mentioned by len this morning has something to do with that, but i’m not sure.
then again, at my dad’s memorial service two years ago, although i read a very moving mary oliver poem, i also told a story about one of our family’s running jokes — which had evolved from an incident where my dad made an ass of himself at the dinner table. for whatever that is worth…….
anyway… i’ve rambled enough, though i’m not sure if i’ve really answered your question. 🙂 thank you for reinforcing that i fit here — that feels really good, michele.
be well —
BTW Amanda… You made me laugh today. Thank you. So back to astrology… what do you think helps you see the silly side when things turn to shit? Is it a lot of work… Or do you seem to naturally turn in that direction? Just curious. From reading here over the last year or so, you seem to inject that all-important intelligent lightness. An infusion of lightness that so many people forget to remember. You make me giggle even as so many people try to tell me giggling is not appropriate. And still you have that balance of uber-intelligence.
I think I’ve said it before… But I will repeat… Your infusion to this space is integral to the balance. Your smiles matter far away.
lol again, Amanda! I have been cooking some lately for a Taurus. I (the Pisces) truly looooove to cook, but I am not an eater. I just looooove to have others eat what I have prepared! And I can do the preparation/cooking alllll day – and sometimes do! (I loooooove to throw parties – partly for the party, but partly because I can cook alllllll day first!!!)
But it takes my Taurus friends to really really enjoy consuming it all!
Well, happy risotto to you! and thanks again for lime’n’coconut!
Yeah, me too. Whew.
i guess not, aword!
though i feel i should confess, the muppet video was the third in what turned out to be a three-prong neutralization of yesterday’s hell.
part 1: yoga class
part 2: cooking (and then eating) a risotto made with the first ramps of the season, fresh fava beans, some tricolor quinoa mixed in with the rice, and a veg broth including some digitata kelp for its radiation-releasing/buffering abilities (and pieces of it included in the risotto, too). oh yeah — and i crumbled some locally-raised bacon on top. can’t forget the bacon.
part 3: stumbled upon this muppet video, for the final release of the ‘ick’.
i think maybe my favorite part of those steps was cooking the risotto. i guess when you’re a taurus and the sun finally comes ‘home’, there’s something incredibly grounding about cooking comfort food with awesome, fresh ingredients. yeah… that totally put me in ‘the zone’.
You mean yesterday wasn’t just me?
lol.
Cool mantra. Esp. from Nursatarian in the blue dreads.
I love the muppets, especially Kermit the frog. So cute!
Thank you, Harry Nilsson and the muppets!!
Hey Amanda – I’m a Taurus Sun and Sag mix, too (Sag AC) Moon in Aquarius.
I loved it, Amanda! The crew at the end reminded me of all you people who write for PW and us posters, too. What a bunch of characters, as my father (a multi-Pisces man) used to say.
I’m a Taurus, too – May 2. Many years ago, I found come postcards – each one had a cartoon for one of the signs. The one for Taurus showed a women luxuriating in a clawfoot tub full of bubbles. The caption said, “Waiting for only the very best to arrive,” which I totally relate to. Soft blankees, piles of pillows, Primo Yellow Rose incense, the sunlight throwing crystal comets on the wall, the feel and movement of a perfectly weighted skirt and the food, the food! For me yesterday, it was the first fresh asparagus from the garden broiled with fresh rosemary, sea salt and olive oil!
Happy Birthday fellow Taurus (did you know that bulls and cows are one of the earliest Goddess images?) Since everyone has some Taurus somewhere in their chart, my wish for all is to find a field to sit in and smell the flowers – like sweet Ferdinand.
wow michele… hard to say.
my astrological knowledge is still at the beginner level, but i believe i’ve read tauruses tend to have playful/goofy senses of humor, and that’s where my sun is. i think eric once described sagittarius as often having a kind of relentlessness to their humor, kind of like those boxing kangaroos, and my moon is in sagg. beyond that, i don’t really know, though people have remarked more than once that i am “young” in spirit. i guess i do find the silly side pretty naturally; i don’t *think* it’s a defense mechanism. i can definitely be comfortabel with gravitas.
i wouldn’t say i work at maintaining lightness, though there are some days when it takes some work. yesterday was one. as i mentioned in a comment below, it took a flow of several stages to release the pain and anger and whatever else was in the eruption that resulted in me sobbing on the phone after defending myself against an accusation of betrayal, on top on several actions i’d taken that did not go well.
but even then, i didn’t go looking for humor. i’m sure i would have enjoyed the muppet clip no matter when i might have seen it, but i was not open to humor for a good couple hours after the crying jag. it was pretty clear to me i was able to take full delight in the muppet clip mainly because i’d already cried, gone to yoga class, and lost/grounded myself in cooking. even though things all just felt like flow, not any kind of ‘pick-me-up plan’.
yes, sometimes there *is* a time for serious focus, and humor would be mistimed. it’s nice to hear i sometimes get it right, at least on this blog.
and i do understand feeling overwhelmed by all that’s going on. i totally started feeling hopeless and helpless about the futility of trying to eat non-radioactive food when eric sent around the email that became the post with the cow image above. and i started thinking about all the people who don’t have access to the information, or to good food, or to the money to buy special food, or who aren’t open to things like using a pendulum to determine if you food item is safe to eat (hell, it has even taken me a bit of effort to wrap my brain around that one — a cheesy show about witches in SF in the 90s had tainted my receptivity), etcetera.
so, i’m not immune to that…
interestingly, i had read your comment in a message in my inbox before checking this page tonight (i’ve been in a theater performance for a couple hours). and it felt a bit heavy to me to see the atomic bomb article and the photo of the two photographers killed by artillery in libya (even though i had already heard about the latter), on top of the radioactivity piece. so, i can empathize with that sense that things are getting to be a little too much, too heavy. i guess i just haven’t been completely aware of my role in balancing that (though i’m feeling the urge to post something beautiful tonight…).
really, it’s not surprising to me that so many people go into denial about this stuff and more, given how overwhelming it is — even for those of us who care and say we want to be awake.
and, well…. i’ve had the experience of a huge, globally-traumatic event simply not be accessible to me emotionally until it was brought to a more personal level. in fact, i’ve even wondered if the “selfishness” of venus in aries mentioned by len this morning has something to do with that, but i’m not sure.
then again, at my dad’s memorial service two years ago, although i read a very moving mary oliver poem, i also told a story about one of our family’s running jokes — which had evolved from an incident where my dad made an ass of himself at the dinner table. for whatever that is worth…….
anyway… i’ve rambled enough, though i’m not sure if i’ve really answered your question. 🙂 thank you for reinforcing that i fit here — that feels really good, michele.
be well —
BTW Amanda… You made me laugh today. Thank you. So back to astrology… what do you think helps you see the silly side when things turn to shit? Is it a lot of work… Or do you seem to naturally turn in that direction? Just curious. From reading here over the last year or so, you seem to inject that all-important intelligent lightness. An infusion of lightness that so many people forget to remember. You make me giggle even as so many people try to tell me giggling is not appropriate. And still you have that balance of uber-intelligence.
I think I’ve said it before… But I will repeat… Your infusion to this space is integral to the balance. Your smiles matter far away.
lol again, Amanda! I have been cooking some lately for a Taurus. I (the Pisces) truly looooove to cook, but I am not an eater. I just looooove to have others eat what I have prepared! And I can do the preparation/cooking alllll day – and sometimes do! (I loooooove to throw parties – partly for the party, but partly because I can cook alllllll day first!!!)
But it takes my Taurus friends to really really enjoy consuming it all!
Well, happy risotto to you! and thanks again for lime’n’coconut!
Yeah, me too. Whew.
i guess not, aword!
though i feel i should confess, the muppet video was the third in what turned out to be a three-prong neutralization of yesterday’s hell.
part 1: yoga class
part 2: cooking (and then eating) a risotto made with the first ramps of the season, fresh fava beans, some tricolor quinoa mixed in with the rice, and a veg broth including some digitata kelp for its radiation-releasing/buffering abilities (and pieces of it included in the risotto, too). oh yeah — and i crumbled some locally-raised bacon on top. can’t forget the bacon.
part 3: stumbled upon this muppet video, for the final release of the ‘ick’.
i think maybe my favorite part of those steps was cooking the risotto. i guess when you’re a taurus and the sun finally comes ‘home’, there’s something incredibly grounding about cooking comfort food with awesome, fresh ingredients. yeah… that totally put me in ‘the zone’.
You mean yesterday wasn’t just me?
lol.
Cool mantra. Esp. from Nursatarian in the blue dreads.