by niya christine

Fortune Cookie Medicine

#231/365 Paintings

Some people go to a movie, take prozac or take a nap when they are blue or worried. But I get a large back of fortune cookies and hide them all over the house. Imagine my surprise when under the toothpaste bowl is cookie fortune that says: “You will inherit a large sum of money.” Awesome! And, hidden behind the rabbit bed, “You are admired for your adventurous ways.” Really? Gee, thank you. I needed that today. I picked a few of my favorites from last week when I was extremely worried in Portland about my rabbit’s survival. “You have a flair for adding a fanciful dimension to any story.” Oh good, because a story about hiding fortune cookies from myself is pretty pathetic, so I’m glad I have that.

Thank you fortune cookies, you did me a solid!

in August | Wild {card} / Project 365

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WM Rine August 30, 2013

About a dozen years ago I had an app on my desktop that was called ‘Affirmation.’ The icon was a clean-cut guy’s face and when you clicked on him he’d say things like “Way to go!” and “You did it again!” and “You rock, man!” in a very friendly and commanding voice. This seems nicer. It’s certainly prettier. More than the fortunes I’d like to have those colorful guys bringing me news.

Monthly Inspirational Quotes

January: Coffee & Tea "Coffee. Creative lighter fluid." ~ Floyd Maxwell

February: Love & Character "Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition."
~ Alan Alda

March: Fabric & Flowers "Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." ~ Georgia O'Keefe

April: Cows & Canaries "Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.”
~ Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

May: Bunnies & Bicycles" "Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.” ~ Cherise Sinclair, Breaking Free

"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.” ~ Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit"

June: Food & Wine “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.” ~ Paulo Coelho, "Brida"

July: Wild Horses & Adobe Houses “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.”
~ Georgia O'Keeffe

August: WILD{card} “A healthy woman is much like a wolf, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, intuitive and loyal. Yet separation from her wildish nature causes a woman to become meager, anxious, and fearful. The wild nature carries the medicine for all things. She carries stories, dreams, words and songs." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, "Women Who Run with Wolves.”

September: Quirks & Curiosities “In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day.” ~ Woody Allen

October: Dogs & Doors “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” ― Tom Stoppard

“Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.” ~ Gene Hill

November: Fish Fabulous “…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” ~ Mark Nepo

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