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"Say Something Positive"

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14:38 / 01.04.06

and and.........

18:09 / 01.04.06

and and... Sorry, I've been away for a little while.

Brazilians in space!.
(Although, I'm really sorry, but I'm sure there's a hairstyling joke somewhere there. I just won't make it.)

Jill Carroll.

Brazilian Rainforest.

You realise I'm only doing this because I like the fact that I now have the most basic of HTML nous?

This came in today which may raise a smile; April Fools! - may be a little predictable, but, still.

Also slightly silly, but still; "She's the American vice-president" simply for "With her track record of achievement she could be running out at Ewood Park next season" - it's an image. Really.

I'm sure that you'll all get tired of hearing this, but thank you all again.

I'd like to open this up to suggestions for the next direction to take, however - I have ideas, tiny ideas, but I would really like to hear other people's thoughts on the next step, if, indeed, there is one.

...So?

12:42 / 03.04.06

I realise that this is gross self-pimpage, but can I point anyone still reading this at something I tried to do over in conversation?

Slap me if this is bad grace, but I was trying to enunciate my feelings on Barbelith at the moment and I worry that it all came out wrong...

As always, I appreciate thoughts, opinions, and cash in brown-paper bags.

20:49 / 03.04.06

i'm new to Barbelith and just received a nice message from a fellow member welcoming me to this community. that was very nice and made me feel good! i love random acts of kindness!!

22:27 / 03.04.06

I like this thread as free-for-all of beauty.
assignments welcome!

I GOT THE BUSINESS LOAN!

next stop:
bodylogic
massage accupuncture skincare

16:40 / 05.04.06

i'm brand new to barbelith, and jeez-- i love this thread.

this is just a tiny story of feeling good from last spring when i still lived in new york... i was coming home from a night out with friends, a little silly tipsy, a little verging on drunk. as any other new yorkers know, you try to avoid looking at people on the subway at all costs, but as we barrelled into brooklyn there was this beautiful couple sitting across from me. they were so giddy and the woman in particular was just the most elegant person. i thought about how only nasty old men come up to us girls on the subway and how that really doesn't do wonders for your self-confidence and how hard it can be to feel pretty in new york... so as the train pulled up to my stop, i just went up to her and told her she looked really beautiful. it was such an easy thing to do and she was so delighted...

i just remember getting off the subway, high from being out with great friends, high from loving the moments the city can give you, and just feeling great that i had made someone's night in such a simple way.

19:14 / 05.04.06

Well, thank you, Nimue! I aim to please, and I'm glad you like this thread. I like Xytar's discription, though, of a "free-for-all of beauty". That's touching.

Assignment one, Positivity in the Media, can now be considered closed in the loosest sense. News stories are still welcome, but Assignment two's aim is to move things to a more personal level, as inspired by the last three posts.

Mainly;

What's the most positive thing that happened to you yesterday?
What's the most positive thing that could happen to you today?
And, well, you probably guessed it, what's your hope for tomorrow?

For instance, yesterday I was invited to a meeting in London - (brief bitterness in that we have a recruitment freeze on but we can still hire a consultancy company just down the road from Buckingham palace - but - moving on!) where I was the youngest (no pride) and lowest paid (oh, pride) but was still made to feel welcome and asked for my opinions. I even managed to convince them of a useful tool for the future, electronic-system wise. That, and it finished early, so I was home by five. Always a bonus.

However, today will soon be tomorrow, so my hope for today is that I will bring more organisation to my workload, which will hopefully decrease my stress levels. A co-worker has agreed to help me out, so this should go well.

As for tomorrow - well, I'll have a think about that, and come back.

Thanks again for keeping this going, and please keep coming back.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:20 / 05.04.06

What's the most positive thing that happened to you yesterday?

Bought concert tickets!

What's the most positive thing that could happen to you today?

Today was a bit odd, because I was sick in bed. But I downloaded some runic stuff and an invisible animal was licking my foot earlier, so that was pretty cool.

And, well, you probably guessed it, what's your hope for tomorrow?

A prospective student could call me back. I might hear from one of the guys in my magic group. I might sit in the park and eat icecream and write a big old chunk of writing. Any or all of the above would do me fine.

02:53 / 07.04.06

Yesterday:
lots of paperwork negotiated

Today:
I recieved $5000 and put it in an account.

Tomorrow:
I will make the right desicion on which office space to move into

04:12 / 07.04.06

Yesterday I picked up most of the fish that a friend of mine left behind with her brother (my sortof-ex-SO) when she moved. At the moment Green Tea, a friendly, intelligent beta, is safely ensconced nearby, where he can keep an eye on the action, while six naughty little zebra danios are learning to live with four rather peckish black phantom tetras after having been forcibly evicted from the planted tank for picking on my lone, scrawny swordtail.

I love fish! Green Tea in particular is incredibly companionable. When living alone it is very nice to have intelligent pets to share one's space with; fish are quite undemanding and clean, compared to cats or dogs, and my plants do love the water.

Today I had a lovely time with a bit of weight training and a nice bike ride outside. It's been rainy for the past few days, so when the clouds started to move beyond the horizon, leaving blue sky in their wake, I bolted right out. It was nice, very nice, and the perfect temperature too.

All in all, a beautiful few springtime days, and with the jazz festival and the library book sale going on this weekend, it can only get better!

13:39 / 07.04.06

Yesterday my dog decided he isn't sick anymore and is back to his old self again. Also, I have gotten a raise at work, and my garden is sprouting in a lovely way, with tomatoes and peppers and herbs and beans and greens of all sorts. And strawberries.

15:35 / 09.04.06

Earlier: getting some yoga done. running!
Nowish: loads of time woth kids
Soon: DMZ hits Sheffield

19:59 / 09.04.06

today is a perfect day to sit by your bike on the grass and read.

nyarlathotep's shoe horn

05:55 / 10.04.06

I fell into the most amazing story, and have been wondering around within it for days.

=)

-nj

07:11 / 10.04.06

Before
I made some art that I was very pleased with.

Now
I'm enjoying this lovely thread for the first time. And I learnt that Feverfew is not only a cool name, but also a useful herb. And listening to funky tunes while i do it.

Later
I hope to continue to listen to funky tunes and continue to be in an inspired frame of mind as I get more magical.

01:09 / 12.04.06

Yesterday
I remembered to say I AM!

Today
I got in a horrible email dicussion with a troll, in front of many friends. I didn't get all hurt and angry, I reasoned it out.

Tomorrow
I will remember to say I AM!

05:57 / 12.04.06

Fifty posts makes me a happy bunny, this morning.

Anyway. The next iteration / rotation that I'd like to run through is a "... But ..." form. It goes something like this;

I may have a cold that is like an unwanted houseguest trying to surreptitiously steal the silver while it's being told to leave; my workload may be too heavy and be like unto meeting a mountain with a chisel; my creative energy may be at a strange low and prone to distractions and diversions and keep me from finishing what I want to finish;

But!

Today, HR are visiting my office regarding some background issue(s) and I should be able to sort some stuff that's been bothering me out; the herbs on my windowsill are growing very quickly, especially the lemon balm, which smells great in the mornings and gets rid of the staleness of the office air; and I am resolved to, if not stay positive, then at least channel the positive into a few of my actions today, and retain a degree of serenity.

I am determined, in the face of stress and overwork, to introduce and retain a degree of grace into anything I do.

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So, the idea is to either use any slight background negativity as a sort of gravitational slingshot towards providing positivity for anything you're doing at the moment, or to get anything off your chest about life at the moment - jettison it - and remind yourself of things that maybe should matter more than that which occupies your time.

Thoughts?

15:33 / 14.04.06

Actually, looking back on the last fifty (woo!) posts, I think I could do this idea a lot more service by discontinuing any official 'project' status. I look back at my last post, and I think I was channelling something very random and over-analysed; it sounds, I believe, like a cross between a radio feature and an article from an issue of the Reader's Digest (with dodgy New Scientist overtones, but hey).

Thank you all again for previous contributions - in many ways they've not only cheered me (and, hopefully, other people) up but on a purely personal level they've proved to me that applying for membership here was the right choice.

So, officially, there are no more "tasks", neither is there any more "guidance", nor is there any more "intent".

If there's anything positive that anyone out there would like to add from now on then please, please, do so.

In terms of any further visualisation, it's my very, very humble hope that this thread may become, at it's most useful, a refuge (or sanctary) where anyone can come and bask in as much positivity as is present.

My ultimately over-imaginative view would be that, hopefully, this could become the thread equivalent of a walled garden, with a bench underneath a cherry tree at the end, and the sound of running water not far away - if that's not too prosaic...

14:04 / 19.04.06

The Sun is still doing its thing, beautifully.

17:53 / 20.09.06

I'm mildly apologetic over thread bumping - but it's for a legitimate, albeit personal reason.

I have a great need to be reminded that the world can be and is a positive (sometimes very positive place) via the original brief; simply write something here that has happened to you, in life, recently or long ago, that proves the positivity of the world is not always in doubt.

Secondly, I would selfishly like this thread to be reread and see if anyone else around feels like they could contribute something, because I was so impressed with the original response.

The third reason is purely-self centred; I would like techniques, ranging from finger-snapping simple all the way to presdigititation complex for inducing the positive into life, in balance with whatever else must come. Ways of working with the flow of what Thompson called the Great Magnet (from hazy recollection); how to recognise the magnetic flow, how to go with it, what to do when it's going against you, if this is possible. In (hopefully) short summation;

I) Please tell me the world can still be a positive place, because I'm kind of crumbling

II) Please share techniques for helping positivity flow and dissolve, dissipate or distract negativity.

III) Please excuse my relatively tiny (in the scale of this town, this country, this world, this universe) tale of woe above, but I'm really not happy at the moment.

And thank you for reading; any more for any more?

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

18:24 / 20.09.06

I'd like to say sorry for the Apocalypse Thread and point out that this one is a far nicer proposition all round.

Hurray.

18:28 / 20.09.06

I) Please tell me the world can still be a positive place, because under everything that's going on personally at the moment I'm kind of crumbling

II) Please share techniques for helping positivity flow and dissolve, dissipate or distract negativity.

III) Please excuse my relatively tiny (in the scale of this town, this country, this world, this universe) tale of woe above, but I'm really not happy at the moment.

I) I just got done rereading the emails my spouse and I exchanged over the internet before we (physically) met and it never ceases to amaze me that I found the love of my life simply because I was brave enough to tell a stranger how much I enjoyed reading their blog.

II) Keeping emergency happy thoughts/ routine happy thoughts.
I routinely attach happy memories to scents so that when I need them I can find an item and inhale the lovely memory with the smell. For example there is a common weed here called 'sweet william' and whenever I crush a few bits of it between my fingers I recall the old lady farmer showing me how to make bundles of it.
Whenever the digital clock's digits line up the same I take a minute to remember my best friend.

III) Your discomfort is a valid issue and you don't need to worry about asking for solace. Better I take five minutes to tell you how glad I am to know you than for us to never have the exchange!

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

13:54 / 21.09.06

1. sure, life is great! my (best?) friend and old roommate is in town, is exploring New York for the first time, and seems to be greatly enjoying meeting my friends and etc here. today after work (which can't possibly be over quickly enough) we are going on a kickass road trip to Vermont in a rented car to be groomsmen in our other friend's wedding and meet up with other peoples we haven't seen in years. I'm listening to great music, my health is AT LAST improving due to experimental chemotherapy-like medical treatments, and in general all the nastiness of the last year is, sort of, paying off or getting redressed. Which I expected it would, though that was not so comforting at the time. and, you know, about the bigger picture - don't worry about the world and all; I'll take care of it one of these days.

2. there's plenty of visualizations about letting the good light/vibes/air in and pushing the bad out. find or invent a variant that works for you. this kind of thing is good in the short term...in the long term, accept that (X) knows what you/zhe is doing, and try to relax and wait for shit to work out, assuming you believe in some sort of X. not that you shouldn't take steps to make stuff better, just try not to worry so much about getting it right.

3. what was 3? oh. uh, sure. please excuse my babbling about good things as well.

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