Love this quote about education

“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”

- Paulo Friere, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

New original song "Storm""

Storm
written by Julia Nadon July 13th 2014

I shouldn't care what you think
I shouldn't care what you say
Should I bail if we sink
Or go down and pray

I should learn to stand tall
I should leave if you stray
I should roll when I fall
Tomorrow's a new day

And I believe there's a great big world out there
And I believe there'll be someone to care

I should learn to be me
I should sit and smile
Could make a break to be free
Or escape for awhile

Should take care of my mind
Be thankful every day
Maybe I'll find
My own way

And I believe there's a great big world out there
And I believe there'll be someone to care

And I will soldier on through these days of war
And I will hang on tight through this raging storm

I will run
I will fight
I will leap
I will break down these walls
Just watch me now
Just watch me now

I will speak up
I will sound off
I will shout it from on high
Just hear me now
Just hear me now

And I will soldier on through these days of war
And I will hang on tight through this raging storm

Montebello Rockfest 2014

 You know summer has been officially kicked off  when Rockfest rolls into town.

Day 55

The way of mindfulness is to accept ourselves right now, as we are, symptoms or no symptoms, pain or no pain, fear or no fear. Instead of rejecting our experience as undesirable, we ask "What is this symptom saying? What is it telling me about my body and my mind right now?"

We allow ourselves, for a moment at least, to go right into the full-blown feeling of the symptom. This takes a certain amount of courage, especially if the symptom involves pain or a chronic illness, or fear of death.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Day 54

It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Day 53

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

Chögyom Trungpa

Day 52

Healing is not forcing the sun to shine, but letting go of that which blocks the light.

Stephen and Ondrea Levine