Movie Night

What are your top ten favorite movies?

There are movies that are great. Like Shawshank and the Godfather, Good Fellows, Forest Gump etc. I wouldn’t turn one of these off if it came on. I’ve watched them so many times. They are timeless and well done. No one should try to remake a truly great movie.

These do make my favorites list, but I have favorites that are more like memories from days gone by when kids were different ages and we had movie nights.

Here are a few of those:

That Thing You Do

Armageddon

Americas Sweetheart (someone gave us this DVD and we watched it many times, it was light, funny, I don’t know, we also had My Best Friends Wedding and watched it a lot)

Little women (the 8Os version). It was Christmas to us, same with Elf, Its a Wonderful Life and the Muppets Christmas Caroll

Legally Blonde

Johnny Cash

The third Lord of the Rings, Return of the King

Princess Bride

My kids quoted these and many more movies all the time. I miss those old movie nights and those clever funny little kids. I was all about exposing them to culture so we watched a lot of Shakespeare and read a lot of classics, so fun movies were just fun. Charle and the Chocolate factory was a favorite movie night movie. Who doesn’t love Gene Wilder? Even the Johnny Dep version was watchable. We all agreed that the book was better!)

I love movies! I didn’t include animation favorites, but of course there were a few! My one son is the age of the boy in Toy Story. So yeah… next topic

Enjoyment

What do you enjoy most about writing?

I enjoy the whole process. I think I like blogging because every day there is a finished product. It makes me stay aware of editing and being brief. I like a topic. I never knew I would enjoy this. I miss it when I don’t post.

I don’t feel my own self imposed pressure around writing like I do with art, which I find interesting and refreshing.

So yeah

Thanks for reading, that’s a fun bonus also, all of YOU!

Joy hopefully

What positive emotion do you feel most often?

I haven’t always understood that I have the ability to affect my own emotions. I used to think I was at the mercy of my circumstances.

I wish I had been taught this somehow growing up, but at least I know it now.

I think I came wired with a little extra sensitivity, which I can best describe as feeling deeply and strongly. Which didn’t seem like a gift as a child, but I clearly see it as one now.

I easily pick up on emotion. Mine or anyone’s. I know when there is low vibrational energy or high, before any words are spoken, usually a beat before everyone else. It might take me a bit to figure out where or who it’s coming from or what may have caused it. Or not figure it out.

I can always feel or sense the vibe in a room. If it changes, I feel it immediately. This used to be a weird thing, and I’d look around hoping someone else was noticing. Now I just roll with it.

I actually think everyone can feel energy, we just get trained to ignore or question our initial feelings, so our habits are more around what is seen or accepted.

I was oddly untrainable. My poor parents, they tried, but I was too much.

So here I am, all these years later with a better understanding of what I now see as a super power. (Mavel comics? Hello?)

I know enough now to let the feeling (whatever it is) come all the way up, and to then decide. Do I want to keep it going or let it go. I’ve picked up a whole arsenal of tactics over the years to raise my own emotional vibration.

Energy, man, I never underestimate the power of energy. If I’ve learned anything, it’s that.

So, I choose JOY. If it’s available, I like to feel joy. It’s my favorite.

What is a word you feel that too many people use?

A word

That too many people use

Hmm

Anything that isn’t true that causes pain or suffering? Which is never one word…

I can’t think of a single word that I feel too many people use.

Literally? That word was hilarious when Rob Lowe used it on Parks and Rec

Sometimes when I hear someone over use a word it’s funny. Even if they don’t intend to be.

I have nothing. I’m sometimes less a fan of silence. Depends.

Getting health back

I’ve been listening to a guy named Gary Brecka.

Sometimes any motivation is better than none at all. He has had some interesting life experiences.

I’m feeling off my usual routine. No regular yoga for most of the month is a definate void for me.

This interview caught my attention because Gary touched on a few subjects I got interested in years ago and then lost track of. Red or infrared light therapy and hydrogen water. Also circadian rhythm, earthing and first light. He also talked about breathing and vitamin D.

I like doing simple relatively easy things to give my body little health advantages. I’ve never been a fan of jolting myself into health. Even my long distance running was not competitive. I just ran to clear my head and level out my mood. I can’t see myself doing a cold water plunge, for example, though I do believe in the health benefits if you can get yourself to do it. I can’t see it for me. I’m too sensitive to cold and discomfort in general.

What can I say?! I do like his philosophy that if there is something wrong with the leaves of a plant, you should check the soil. He says most of what ails us is due to deficiencies that can easily be supplanted. If only it was that simple, but I do feel better with extra vitamin D and some magnesium and potassium. Biotin and b vitamins, some collagen…

So

I guess I’ll take the motivation. Try out some of his suggestions.

Why not, my mood could use the boost…