Archive for the tag 'Inspiration'

Feb 05

Bibilophilia #1

Art by John.E I LOVE books! I adore reading. I have several on the go at one time! I can’t help myself. I’ve worked in libraries for the greater part of a decade. I’m addicted to the smell of the pages, the feel of the different textured page paper (I also care about GSM! ha!), [...]

Feb 04

Help Your Friends, Help Yourself

Photo by Tod Seelie—Sucka Pants & Every day I Live “If somebody got more successful than me, it was partly my success. My success wasn’t based on how I could push down everyone around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up… And in the process they pushed me up, [...]

Feb 02

Hip Hop Insight #2

MC Zumbi, Zion I by Arian Stevens/Greenwood Images “Spirituality to me is the everyday practice of realising, reaffirming and getting in touch with why we’re on the planet, why we exist and what we’re supposed to do. Prayer, meditation, reflection, being involved with your community and spending time with your family and loved ones—it’s all [...]

Jan 27

How to Fight a Case of the Major Sads

Photo by Jaja “Health is a holistic effect. It’s not just a matter of cutting calories or working out or meditating, but a whole range of factors that contribute to physical, mental and spiritual well-being. I teach my clients to listen to their body, thoughts, and emotions as indicators of overall health and refer them [...]

Jan 26

Hip Hop Insight #1

Art by Anenea Studio ?uestlove on getting his inspiration on: Sometimes I’ll just stare at the wall! If my awards or gold plaques intimidate me I’ll just turn them around and look elsewhere [laughs]. Most of the time I’ll just sit and listen to music—my studio and record library are connected to each other—I’ll just [...]

Jan 21

Love. Music. Hope.

“Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.” ~Viktor E. Frankl Sending out love & light! [comment]

Jan 21

When You Choose A Path With Heart…

DeathSet Dan Deacon Against Me! All photos by Tod Seelie please check out his work… if you think there’s nothing exciting happening in music, Tod’s photos & blog Sucka Pants will make you think otherwise! A lot of all this—I’m not saying it hasn’t come without hard work though—has come quite easily. I think it’s [...]

Jan 20

My Humps, My Humps, My Humps

Photo by Future Shape Hola friends! Happy mid-week! If from reading the title you think this is a post about my lady lumps sorry to disappoint… however If you just groaned at reading ‘happy mid-week’ this post could be for you (ha,ha). It’s the time of the week where we’re half way from last weekend [...]

Jan 19

Choice. Use it!

Photos by Michelle Aziz The Force has a ‘dark side’, which feeds off emotions such as anger, jealousy, fear, and hate, whereas the ‘light side’ Jedi use the Force only for peaceful purposes. Do you choose to embrace your Dark Side in order to seize power? Or do you use the Jedi way of compassion [...]

Jan 18

Secret Squirrels… shhhh! shhhh!

Photo by Meddy Garnet Happiness lies in your own hand / It took me much too long to understand / How it could be / Until you shared your secret with me / My baby’s got a secret – Madonna Secrets, we ALL have them. One of my best friends told me once: A secret [...]

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