Just Sitting Back To Breathe

Many people seem to live their life at the beck and call and demands of others.

The children, the partner that insists...

Our ability to say 'no' to such demands, affected by our sense of self and what we "should" do in response, rather than what we would prefer to do.

What is it that sometimes leads us to work on life as though the choices of others are more important than the choices we would make for how we spend our time? 

To Just Make Things Better

I've started this blog to be a place for a mix of topics but all of them around the idea of 'A Better Life' - so I was pleased to find this quote from Leonard Cohen - who anyone who knows me will know I hold in the highest regard. 

His personal logo is two interlocking hearts. That's an interesting idea in itself. (Think on that some). Here's the story of them. 

“These two interlocking hearts, I designed for the cover of Book of Mercy,” his 1984 poetry collection, he says, moving along as he describes another chop. “I established this Order of the Unified Heart, that is a kind of dream of an order. There is no organization. There’s no hierarchy. There’s just a pin [for] people of a very broadly designated similar intent.”

“And yours is?”

He thinks for a minute. “To just make things better on a very personal level,” he says. “You’re just not scattered all over the place. There is a tiny moment when you might gather around some decent intention.”  

- Leonard Cohen in an interview from 2007 with Sarah Hampson