“You’re born naked and the rest is drag.” — RuPaul

RuPaul, drag queen extraordinaire, life artist

What does this mean to me?  You *have* choices. You get to choose what you make of your life, how you use your energy in this world, who you spend your time with, what environment you hang out in, how you express yourself.

What are your favorite choices you’ve made? The drapes in your living room, going to see your best friend, a fabulous new “do”, taking dancing lessons….. what’s one thing you’ve done that really makes you happier than you expected?  Tell us in the comments!

RuPaul is a sort of shape-shifter, a type of shaman who changes his appearance drastically and in doing so temporarily changes his more ephemeral characteristics, too.  Man?  Woman?  He’s like Merlin and Jesus!  They both would change their appearance and do what they wanted to do.  People who knew them wouldn’t recognize them until they wanted them to.  Useful for getting in and out of dangerous situations, for seeing others’ true natures.  It’s funny how artifice can make us re-think not only reality around us but also our inner reality.

With the on-going issue of gay rights and marriage, cross-dressers and drag queens offer us the opportunity to re-examine what we consider to be feminine and masculine.

Are we feminine because we look like a Barbie doll?  Or because of something inside us? Or are the

I secretly want to know, how does he get that cleavage?

attributes of breasts and hips and delicate facial features the real deal?  I love the Dove marketing campaign, the one that focuses on all of us being special in our own way, uniquely beautiful.  And that that unique beauty is an important gift in and for the world, that we should revel in our own beauty and not try to be someone else’s version.

I’d like to add that it doesn’t matter whether you’re male or female or a combination of both (did you know that 1 in 1000 people is mixed?  And I don’t mean racially.)

Your beauty matters in this world, in your life, in our lives.

So be it, express it, mix it up and experiment.

Have fun, find what makes you truly you, truly happy, and find people who appreciate that true you.

It’s your core essence that matters.

It’s why RuPaul’s momma chose Ru as the first part of his name: Ru stands for roux, the starter for most Cajun dishes, the place from which you begin and move out from to make all sorts of yummy dishes.

• “Every second we choose to nourish ourselves in a way that supports or depletes our lives, and to think and speak about other people in a way that is honoring or dishonoring.
  
  What choices are you going to make today?”
  —Greg Braden, The Divine Matrix

• “Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So Love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.”
  —diTesco, http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/diTesco

• “The best place to seek God is in a garden; you can dig for him there.”
  —George Bernard Shaw
• “It is illogical to face the present only as an object of enjoyment or tolerance, neglecting to use it as the opportunity to create the future.”
  —Muso Kokushi
• “Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.”
  —Mark Twain
• “The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.”
  —Arthur C. Clark
• “We cannot attempt to cure one part of the body without treating the others. We cannot attempt to cure the body if we forget the Soul.”
  —Plato
• “Life is too short to make decisions as a means to an end. Pick the path you will wake up every morning and be grateful that you’re on. Most importantly listen to your heart (Yin)….and really investigate each school and their offerings (Yang.) Good luck!! And Happy Holidays to you too.”
  —Connie, advice on choosing ND vs MD school

• “The capacity to take pleasure in life is no less a virtue than any other.”
  —Susan Griffin, The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

• “Live every day like it was on purpose.”
  —Alex Hitchens, the movie Hitch

• “Music can't be true if some of the notes are silent.”
  —"God" as the piano tuner, Joan of Arcadia, the tv show

• “So we do not lose heart ... our inner nature is being renewed day by day.”2 Corinthians 4:16

• “Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
  —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.”
• “Let us thank be what we are, and speak what we think and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth and the sacred professions of friendship.”
  —Longfellow
• “Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”
  —The Talmud
• “There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”
  —Anthony Rapp
• “When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
  —Audre Lorde
• “It takes as much energy to plan as it does to wish.”
  —Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Success is how high you bounce after hitting rock bottom.”
  —General G.S. Patton, Jr.
• “You're born naked and the rest is drag.”
  —RuPaul, The Bonnie Hunt Show

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Sometimes, not infrequently, I’ve been frustrated with myself, feeling like I wasn’t accomplishing enough this year.  This does shift my perspective a bit.  The cherry on the top is that my recalcitrant 101-yr-old grandmother is sitting downstairs with her new hearing-assistive device IN!  Hearing, for the first time in years, how my footsteps coming down the stairs really sound, hearing our conversations and joining in.  She’s so smart, so social, and she’d been atrophying in some ways, so it’s wonderful to see her feeling better.  And I don’t have to shout, except to be heard over the wind.  Hope you all are faring as well or better.

Did you know that there are spirits called elementals?  Winds and breezes can be elementals.  Mother Nature calls upon them to clear out that which is no longer needed or beneficial.  We are being cleaned in a tremendous way here tonight. It’s like energy medicine for the Earth.  And it’s physical, of course, too.

It’s nerve-wracking.  Our trees are falling, the most recent one closer to the house.  This I don’t like.  Ironically, the cats have finally calmed down.  They had both been crying at the doors to be let out, but it was too rainy and then too windy for them to actually want to go out.  But they kept at it for quite a while.  Now, they’re both ostensibly napping.  Our power was restored after several hours with it off, kudos to the power people, but it keeps wavering.  Not surprisingly.  These winds sound and feel like a hurricane, in spite of the internet sites saying they’re around 25 mph.

I don’t know if I can sleep through this, although I am getting droopy eyes.  I have most of a book club book to read, The Help, tonight/tomorrow, so I’ll go read.

Have  a great night!

Table of contents for Lunchtime Laughter

1. Lunchtime Laughs: Ryan and Lauren’s Wedding Video, Part II
2. Lunch Laugh: Ryan and Lauren’s Wedding Video I
3. Eddie Izzard Should Teach Jr. High French
4. English Speakers Unite ;)
5. Lunch Laughs: Old Spice Man

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Table of contents for Lunchtime Laughter

1. Lunchtime Laughs: Ryan and Lauren’s Wedding Video, Part II
2. Lunch Laugh: Ryan and Lauren’s Wedding Video I
3. Eddie Izzard Should Teach Jr. High French
4. English Speakers Unite ;)
5. Lunch Laughs: Old Spice Man

Table of contents for Lunchtime Laughter

1. Lunchtime Laughs: Ryan and Lauren’s Wedding Video, Part II
2. Lunch Laugh: Ryan and Lauren’s Wedding Video I
3. Eddie Izzard Should Teach Jr. High French
4. English Speakers Unite ;)
5. Lunch Laughs: Old Spice Man

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