Paradox, Humor & Change

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Paradox, Humor and Change...

Life's three simple rules,

that keep you from simply going insane


Giving everything you have,

leaves you so exhausted and deflated.


Ripping marijuana plants out of children's homes,

gets you attacked and very hated.


Life is a mystery,

don't waste time trying to figure it out.


A warrior's life is about right action,

and not about appreciation.


Life is change,

know nothing stays the same.


And when the world is an ugly place,

Don't let it come inside and make you crazed.


Instead have a sense of humor,

especially about yourself and your foolish pride.


Then change the world by closing your eyes,

and playing the music you hear on the inside.


Play it so loudly,

until it drowns out the noise on the outside.


And one day,

depending on how long and loud you can play,

you will open your eyes,

to a more beautiful and brand new day.

- Adam Stuart (December 2007)


*Katie and I celebrating her new day, going from an "F" to an "A" on a science test a few weeks back.

It took all my morning, all my patience, all of my love and ability....she was crying in the beginning....but I have to think that giving all of yourself to others can mean something more than just being taken for granted and used, which is what I've experienced so much of in my past.

It can mean creating a better day. And with enough better days.....better lives. And with enough better lives.....a better world.

And that day is the today when we close our eyes and begin to play the beautiful music we hear inside....





DON'T BE AFRAID TO LIVE

YOU'VE GOT THE MUSIC IN YOU!













DON'T GIVE UP

THIS WORLD IS GOING TO PULL THROUGH!








When the night is falling, and you cannot find the light. When you feel your dreams are dying....Hold tight

**My children keep me going. I trust their love. And no, it's not my little gymnasts' home or any of my current students I've gone into to remove drugs. But life has picked me up, shaken me, and thrown me against the wall more than once these past few weeks. To tell you the truth, I want to give up, even in spite of the victories (including the class having the highest science growth again and going from the lowest scoring regular class to the highest).

It's just taken a lot more giving than getting......You can't keep driving the car without gas or oil, or the engine will blow. Giving unconditionally, to honestly give versus get, is the right thing to do, but it means being vulnerable to a world that can be very taking...

This whole world, can fall apart. It'll be OK, follow your heart. You're in harm's way, I'm right behind. Just say you're mine....

.....It's OK though, because I have the dreamer's disease.....and I can't stop dreaming of this world pulling through. Go back and look at the children's faces as you listen to the lyrics of the song, "You Get What You Give". Tell me it's not true, that if we stop dreaming, we start dying....



DON'T GIVE UP

YOU'VE GOT A REASON TO LIVE

ONE DANCE LEFT

WE ONLY GET WHAT WE GIVE

Loyal Truth, Passionate Laughter

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

- Edward Abbey

Yesterday was the first day back for teachers. I've only had one week of "summer" with my masters classes and wasn't looking forward to starting back to "work". I was tired, giving my time during the day to the kids, and staying up until dawn giving time to research and writing. A friend and I took our children to the Nickelodeon Hotel for Bella's birthday and an end-of-summer bash, and I think I slept by the pool for 20 minutes. I was still well-tired from my summer when I left for Monday's morning meeting.

I only packed two things in my car: a framed portrait of Martin Luther King delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech, and the transfer papers for my daughter to attend Kindergarten at my school.

After the meeting I went up to my room. Before I knew it, I was feeling inspired all over again. I was looking at my new portrait resting against the wall in an empty room, and realizing that MLK didn't have a hope, or a really-really-really strong wish. He had a PASSION! And it was a passion for what he felt was the TRUTH for the people he LOVED!

He was also willing to fight his enemies TO THE DEATH in order to make it come true. And he did, both die and make his dream come true. And just as some might say blacks still aren't really equal, I would say Martin Luther King isn't really dead, inspiring new dreamers and leaders to continue the fight and more completely fulfill the dream. I see him in my room, and hear him speak his words. I'd say he's very much alive, at least in me and in room 208 at Sand Lake Elementary.

It's amazing how our lives are led by our vision; what we can "see" and "hear" as possible and real.

As I closed my door at the end of the day, I remember how just one year ago I used to "see" my own passion, truth and love just made me foolish and invaluable in today's world. I used to hear how others doubted and questioned my sincerity. But it was who and what I was and all I knew how to be. And if I was to die a fool, so be it. I would live and die as a Don Quixote, fighting imaginary windmills and believing in the beauty of Dolcineas. Now I realize it is the main reason miracles are produced every year in my classroom.

As I got to the stairs I realized it has also produced miracles in my life. I had an image of Sofia greeting me; seeing her smile and hearing her laughter, as I really will be in just a week. I felt rewarded for never letting the pain of not living with my children be too great to stop me from showing my children the great love I had for them.

And now they'll all be there, and it will be the greatest year of my life.

Be PASSIONATELY LOYAL in the fight for the TRUTH inside of you. And fight as if your life depended on it.....because IT DOES. That is, if you want to really live, and even live forever!

In the Blink of an Eye

In the blink of an eye
The years will fly by

We can't prevent it
We can't redo it

One chance is all we have
To live this life the best we can

This great universal start
Waiting in smiling repose and with great hope

That when we return our bodies to it
We present it with a great spirit

A spirit grateful for having being given life
A spirit infused with all the beauty of life

A life lived courageously and bravely
Happily and gratefully

Opportunities taken advantage of
Inspiration acted upon

A life of loving and learning
Loving to learn and learning to love

Learning higher and higher truths
Loving at higher and higher vibrations

Until we radiate better and better things
And better things to us the universe brings

From small bodies with big hearts
We become bigger bodies with even bigger hearts

Bigger hearts beating to the tune of the universe
Playing the music that we hear in our hearts

Living our lives more and more fully
Playing the music that we hear in our hearts

Unafraid to let the sound come out
Playing the music we hear in our hearts

Knowing that when our time is done
The world will still hear the music that we allowed to play in our hearts

*Dedicated to all those great spirits from the past that played their music so loudly those of us in the present can still hear it and be inspired by it.

To my sister, myself and all of you, that we too may play and dance to the sounds we hear in our hearts so much that those yet to come will hear it and be inspired.

Our lives are made up of our todays. Will today you let the music play?



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All Rights Reserved

That is Brosden and This is My Son

Smiles......







....and Hugs











Laughter.........






.....and Jumps











That is Brosden....




....and this is my son.


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All Rights Reserved

My Son

My Son

I fell in love with you before the day you were born

“I’ll love him forever with my entire soul” to God I had sworn

Every day since then your smiles and laughter have filled me like a sea

My Son, you have become an eternal part of me

You’re just a boy filled with so much that is good and true

I drink from The Fountain of Youth when I play with you

Every day we’re together I am born again

I drop to my knees and once more believe in both God and man

You’re in my life for a very important reason

You have given me reason to keep on believin’

Who you are has kept the hope alive,

That honest and true love is the key to Heaven, and living inside

- For Brosden Stuart, from Adam Stuart, two souls connected as Father and Son

I love you buddy.

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Sleeping Beauty

"What a beautiful sight to see,
this sight I see before me.

No better way to start my day,
than seeing this beauty lying next to me."

- Adam Stuart

Life is made of moments trapped in time,
wrapped in time's loving arms,
ready to be given again and again
in streams of sweet memories,
floating back to us simply by closing our eyes................. and remembering how we felt at the time.

Thank you Sofia for these moments you've given me. I love whispering "Daddy loves you" in your ear at night. I love waking up to your beautiful sight.