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Remembrance

Your hands easy weight, teasing the bees hived in my hair, your smile at the slope of my cheek. On the occasion, you press above me, glowing, spouting readiness, mystery rapes my reason When you have withdrawn your self and the magic, when only the smell of your love lingers between my breasts, then, only then, can I greedily consume your presence.

Maya Angelou

The Invitation

Oriah Mountain Dreamer Canadian Teacher and Author

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dreams for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful be realistic to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself.

If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes." It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

Amen!!!

The sexiness that is heels.

It's Here

First week of Feb 2012. My birthday month seems like a thing of the past. Well, it is.

Jan 9th I turned 26. The dreaded birthday finally arrived. I had a mini quarter life crisis when I approached 25, so you can only imagine what I was going through, as 26 was standing, knocking on the door step. I even googled mid-twenties, just to make sure that I was not over the hill and thank God I just made the cut! LOL.

I felt so old (past tense because my view has changed in the past few weeks). Felt like my youth was over, much to the dismay of my older girlfriends. I got so bogged down by all the things that I had assumed I would have achieved/done by 26.

But in retrospect, as much as things have not turned out the way I had envisaged, I have done well for myself.

You're as old as you feel and right now I'm feeling 21. I sure make look 26 look good!

I feel different. Feel like a woman. I honestly feel like this is the year I come into my own.

So watch out there now!

We had lunch with one of the senior guys at work, a while back. Naturally, the conversation led to life and how to deal with life issues. he made a profound statement of how, we, as human beings walk around "carrying too many boulders in our back-packs". These are imaginery back-packs of course, but we carry such heavy loads. "Everytime the load gets too heavy, stop on the side of the road and empty out the back-pack." So let it go. It's okay.

(Picture taken off Iyanla Vanzant's twitter timeline.)

Happiness Is...

My love for cupcakes is inexplicable. I think they are just one way of God showing us that he loves us *licks lips and goes back to happy place*

Live AND Learn.

Canary Wharfing cont... (last one I promise)

Canary Wharfing cont...

Canary Wharfing.

You are probably wondering why CanaryWharfing (if you weren't, then start :-))...

I was lucky enough to spend 2months in Canary Wharf, London. Canary Wharf is the "banking area/neighbourhood". Modern and fast paced during the week, dead on weekends. Black suits, serious faces, all rushing to make that deal, get that trade... This is one of the experiences that have changed my life. We'll 2011 has been a year of change and this was one of the biggies.

Hated the weather initially, but oddly enough you start getting used to it. I always get weird looks and raised eyebrows when I say that I would go live in London. With all the fashion and beautiful architecture and amazing transport system, who wouldn't though? This place a lil spot in my heart.

Thought I would just share my favourite moments/places.

LOVE...

The forehead kisses...

The call goodnight...

The smile on their face, when you walk into a room...

Holding hands...

The inside jokes...

The loving hugs...

The comforting hugs...

The passionate fights...

The making up...

The tears, laughter, smiles...

The butterflies...

Your heart skipping a beat...

I came across this picture last month and for me it captures what love is about. That awesome moment when noone, but the two lovebirds exist. I love love. I love the feeling of being inlove. I think this aging thing is making me soft. LOL!#ChooseHappiness.

"Cause if you let me, Here's what I'll do, I'll take care of you, I've loved and I've lost...."

(Drake ft Rihanna - Take Care).

Don't expect them to save you.

Nothing like a man in a fitted suit. Added bonus? Them smelling good in that suit. I'm lucky that I am in Investment banking because i am spoilt in this regard.

John Mayer - I fell in love with the man and his music in 2009, when a friend introduced me to his stuff. don't get me wrong, I had heard Waiting On The World To Change (from Continuum), the song, but hadn't heard his other works. I find him intriguing and he is one of my favourite artists. Soulful music. just thought I would share "Life According to John Mayer":

” I wish that when I was younger I could have met my current self. We would have sat down at a coffee shop so that I could explain life to young me in terms that only we would understand. It would have saved me a lot of hardship.

You can listen to all the sage wisdom you want, but things only make sense when you can explain them to yourself in your own words. For instance, I’ve been told for three years that Breaking Bad is the best show on television, but only after I watched it was I able to tell myself exactly why everyone was right. Other truths I know now that I can explain them: that I’m not missing any crucial information and that poker really isn’t all that fun; that heartbreaks do fade but they take about a year longer than you expect and by the time they do you really don’t care about it enough to notice; and above all else, life is simpler than you think.

I used to think that life was an intricate series of levers and pulleys, buttons and switches, Mexican standoffs and hostage negotiations. As I get older I realize that life is more Netherlands minimalist than Jackson Pollock. The problems don’t get fewer, and in fact they grow in number, but the way I index them in the database is different. More problems get filed under fewer category headers.

Things are getting simpler, and it’s making life better. Here’s the cheat sheet:

People want to be liked. We all crave attention and affection and we all reject shame. When we get embarrassed we send a thug version of ourselves to the forefront to do our fighting for us. We’re at the top of the food chain just under fear. We don’t want to be in a relationship to hear the words “I love you,” we want to be in a relationship to say the words “I love you.” We want to feel needed, and exceptional and we hate feeling insignificant. We want to ace a hearing test. We are binary creatures; if we’re the plaintiff, we want to win every dollar. If we’re the defendant, we want guard every penny. We want to make more money than last year. We don’t want to get cancer or die in our cars and we want the same for our loved ones. We go out on weekends to try and have sex while trying not to get punched in the face. We drink so we can be ourselves and not mind it so much. We’re desperate to be understood. We want to know someone else has felt it, too. We hate being judged unfairly. We want to make the person we heard wasn’t all that into us change their minds and admit they had us wrong. We want sunny skies with a chance of killer tornadoes, just to keep music sounding good. We take hours upon hours to admit to self consciousness. We don’t know exactly how to pleasure each other. We just want love. In any and every form.

See? It’s simple. :)

John Mayer

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