mickobizzle.bsky.social
Urban romantic. Maker of moments and meaning. Tenor, pianist, AI tinkerer. Obsessed with form, memory, and the magic of place—from Ravel to Renoir, street grids to sacred music. Always exploring, occasionally snarky, mostly becoming.
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Of course, it is also amazing what needed to change in those thirty days. Some people can change their Universe with a five item list. Some people do well with fifteen. Experiment with your gratitude! See how many items you can come up with!
And then, see how wonderful your world truly is.
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It is a simple but incredibly spiritual practice to write a gratitude list every day, no matter what. The length of this list is, of course, up to you, but I had a teacher who suggested that I do a fifty item list every night for thirty days. It is amazing what changed in those thirty days.
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Gratitude is one of the most powerful forces in the Universe. Gratitude will actually bring gifts into your life, as well as help you to appreciate the ones that are already there. Gratitude will bring you strength and confidence. Gratitude can move mountains.
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But not as annoyed as when the server asks “are We ready to order?” Or the recent trend of “welcome in” yelled from 30 feet as I open the front door. RIP George Carlin! We miss you!
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I am so very deeply moved that Craig sat down with you, got nerdy, and celebrated this release with you. Thanks for carrying the torch. Bravo!
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Energy follows focus, so the more you focus on your spiritual health, the more you feed your spiritual health.
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Even taking five minutes every morning to ground and center yourself can create the space to allow guidance to flow, to allow your higher functions to move you in the right direction, to give yourself the space to switch from reacting to responding.
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$8 to the franchise? Oof! I discovered a way, few years ago, to halt the seemingly incessant growth to my shoe closet: when I see a must-have pair in the window, take a picture! Have saved thousands since.
Still it’d be quite the choice at a summer pool party!
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Try this: pick three people every day to really pay attention to. Listen when they talk. Ask them clarifying questions so you understand them better. If you see a need that you can provide for, follow through. Treat them with the same consideration you want for yourself. Do this without expectation.
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Sometimes merely the act of paying attention is a kindness. So many people are so wrapped up in their own little world that they forget to pay attention to the people around them. Sometimes, that is all somebody needs, to be paid attention to.
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Acts of kindness are simply demonstrations of equality. Living kindly means that everyone’s needs are equal. You are not putting someone else’s needs before your own, but merely on equal footing.
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If you pay attention, you will know when someone is floundering, and you can step in and help (most people are terrible at asking for help when they actually need it). If you pay attention, you will know when someone is feeling down, and you can lend a kind ear or shoulder.
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Living kindly means, more than anything else, paying attention. If you pay attention, you know what someone’s hot buttons are, and you can avoid stepping on them for no good reason.
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Sigh. So true. But I’d love to see a collab with A24. 🤨🤯🤬😭😫
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Now imagine that same handle auto-joins local topic OFFICIAL channel feeds like # phoenix # vietnamesefood. Discoverable. Trusted. Decentralized.
It’s a new architecture of identity—neutral, federated, fair.
Apple could offer this to all networks, not just Bluesky. A standard others follow.
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Ok I’m a fan. This podcast is legit and stays on task. AND there’s a quote that I simply must document: “but of course, you’re not allowed to say it’s [the price increase of iPhones] [because of] the tariffs, because the president will _get real mad at you_.” 🤯
THIS is America today! FOCK!!
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thank you SO MUCH for posting about this. I had no idea.
Apple Music app is so complex! (Different UX on each device!) Finding the Focus station again was such an effort, a year ago I asked to be able to save stations/playlist as homescreen icons, and they did one better: control center buttons!
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Found me a cool podcast, “Upgrade”. Myke goes way beyond the typical punditry whiney-and-snipey “complain complain” bratty banter of others and preaches quite coherently about the cracks in Apple’s foundation.
Gosh, these are tough times. Thanks, Myke. My heart hurts, and you sang our reverie.
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Some examples of core values are: freedom, love, service (helping others), compassion, teaching, creativity, balance, learning, relationships, spiritual understanding, and peace.
#MorningThoughts #DailyInspiration #SpiritualGrowth #InnerWork #SelfReflection #ValueBasedLiving #SoulRooted
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It is important to know what they are, so that you can measure what you do against them. They help you to prioritize your to do list, and to weed out those things in your life that do not further you along your path.
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What are your principles, your core values? What are those guidelines that, when you live your life by them, you feel at peace, fulfilled, strengthened? These are your ties to the Divine and to your very essence.
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--Ayamanatara.com
You are what you do — and how you do it.
even the smallest task, done with presence, shapes the path ahead.
Show up fully.
Focus deeply.
Become through the doing.
An old EDM anthem once whispered to me:
DO WHAT YOU WANT TO BE
#everydaymagic #intentionalbeing #EDMwisdom
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When you put your full focus into a task, when you bring your fighting game, as it were, you are likely to find the greatest sense of fulfillment. If you are finding yourself unfulfilled by your work, perhaps you are not really giving it your all. Every task is worthy of being done with greatness."
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They enhance you, allow you to grow and blossom and flourish. People are defined and remembered by what they have done. Where do you focus your efforts? What do you put the most energy into in your life? What is deserving of your full attention? What does this say about who you are?
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"You are shaped more by the things that you do and the choices you make than by what is done to you. When you take tasks to heart, do them with full attention and maximum diligence, these things will make you into more than who you were to begin with.
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Paramount has given hair to Gargamel for this summer's Smurfs movie -- the resemblance without it is uncanny.
(Also of note, smurfs hats are based on Phrygian hats which denote FREEDOM.)
I hope Paramount follows Disney's lead and draws parallels to Cheeto-in-chief's regime.
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my money is on alterhq.com
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building momentum requires patience and dedication. sometimes it's holding an eager learner with both hands to show them how to show others how. but then suddenly you see creations you never would have imagined, fruit of yours.
@caseynewton.bsky.social are you showing others how to use bsky?
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the tomatoes LOOK heavenly! do they taste like tomatoes? or monsanto gmo-d for weight?
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Cheeto-in-chief deserves first position under "malignant narcissist" examples. Attention is the _ONLY_ interest. The CiC is _NOTHING_ but hot air. Until you've sat in a room with him to witness it -- and i have -- you can't quite understand it.
Don't be distracted. Keep CREATING. Keep WONDERING.
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Let it move through your senses. Be fascinated. Be delighted.
Learn with your whole heart, without needing the answers.
And tonight?
Look back and ask:
How did this shift your day? Your relationships? Your spirit?
Would you do it again?
#Wonder #ReikiWisdom #Ayamanatara #DailyPractice
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When was the last time you had a conversation with someone you found fascinating?
Do you remember that feeling? Can you conjure it up, feel it again?
Do you think you could go through an entire day in that feeling?
Today, let yourself feel wonder.
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and generally feeling more peaceful. Truth is like that, you just need to find it.”
Oof how badly I needed this today. The temptation writ large (why is that phrase so popular now?) to go postal and start yelling is very very alluring indeed.
Find more at Ayamanatara.com
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or that the ego is bringing this up now to distract you from your growth and progress.
It’s going to require practice. It’s incredibly rare that anyone ever does this perfectly, especially the first time. But, over time, you will find yourself taking fewer things personally, being offended less,
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Now bring your attention into your heart center, in your chest, and ask yourself, “What is the truth here?” The truth is likely to be that the person is going through their own process, or that it had nothing to actually do with you,
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take the thought that is niggling at you and bothering you, you know, the one that’s telling you to be offended or hurt, and put it outside of yourself. Envision it in front of you, marching by like a circus parade.
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I have yet to find a way to shut it up, but I sure can keep it from having control of my life.
The next time something bothers you, whether it’s an offhand comment by a loved one, how someone looks at you, or the political situation, try this: