Daily Drumbeat 2-15-14

Happy Morning,

Kind of an alarmist article but actually worth a read.  I don't want to be putting all these chemicals in our kids.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/14/health/chemicals-children-brains/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews

As you will see my fine feathered friends, my drumbeats as of now are literally just to get me in the habit of doing it.  My goal is that over time they will begin to take shape that will be more focused in the direction of where we want to go (and help us collectively coalesce our thoughts).

Love you all.

C

From Imran on 2/15
"If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have and my own preconceived, silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen."

- John McLaughlin (Kick-ass guitar player... in case you didn't know)

Afterthought: searching for ways the "music" (however defined) can really use us

Valentine's Day.. and every other day

Daily Drumbeat 2/14/14

Exerpt from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/winifred-m-reilly/what-valentines-day-can-t_b_4763866.html

Let's start calling it "Ordinary Relationship Day!!!.  Here's to the women in our life (Miriam, Kelly..who mean so much more every other day of the year!)

Nowadays, much of life can appear, well, larger than life, more dazzling than life. Looking at Facebook, it can seem as if everyone's gotten a fantastic new job, along with a gargantuan raise, traveled to somewhere exotic, cooked a dinner to die for, and seen THE ABSOLUTELY BEST sunset, bar none. Compared to that, your regular old life can seem dreadfully flat.

Who slaps together a meatloaf sandwich and posts a photo of it on Instagram? Who shares a snapshot of their beautiful new couch and includes the never-ending basket of unfolded laundry that sits on it -- and is even willing to mention the struggles that surround folding it? Why not have a holiday that says "This is what married life is actually like and it's good and satisfying enough, as is?"

My vote is to call it "Ordinary Relationship Day" -- a day when couples acknowledge the un-edited, un-photoshopped truth about life with their partner, including the good, the bad and the ridiculously absurd.

What a relief it would be to see a photo of the beautiful new duvet cover on your friends' unmade bed, the takeout Chinese food dinner that they ate at 9 p.m., straight from the containers, one spouse crashed out with their four year-old who's been having trouble sleeping, the other wondering whether to wake her or just let her sleep.

People often grouse about the everyday annoyances and disappointments, the repetitive frustrations that make marriage a challenge. I say, let's celebrate the whole lot of it: the triumphs, the struggles and the lessons we learn from them.

Real love is messy and complicated, delightful and sweet and worth more than anything we might get, once a year, in a pink, heart-shaped box with a sparkly bow.

Day 2 2/13/14

Kelly and Cully Posts Respectively:

So the big question is, "Well, do I just dump all those unwanted things and try to start fresh?" And we say, no. You just set the Tone, where you are, by looking for things to appreciate. And by setting your Tone in a very clear deliberate way, anything that doesn't match it gravitates out of your experience, and anything that does match it gravitates into your experience. It is so much simpler than most of you are allowing yourself to believe. ---Abraham Excerpted from the workshop: Boston, MA on October 04, 1997 Our Love, Esther (and Abraham and Jerry) Copyright © 2014 Abraham-Hicks Publications You are receiving this e-mail because you opted in to receive Daily Quotes from Abraham-Hicks Publications.  update subscription preferences    forward to a friend    unsubscribe from this list

Cully Lundgren cullylundgren@gmail.com	3:35 PM (10 minutes ago)
to Kelley, Imran, Miriam

Awesome beat, girl, you're getting the hang of it quick!  Thanks for playing along.

My beat of the day:

I thank God today for my wife Miriam.  Who I love.  She had a doubleclose call today.  First she saw a truck catch on fire on the way to work, then she had a scary incident in a snowstorm on the way home.

Love you Mimi

C

The first beat

2/12/14

Hi Guys,

Thanks again all for the call on Monday night.  As always, I get inspired.  My challenge is keeping the momentum.  So, based on the little snidbit I mentioned about the importance of regular and ongoing energy (and of course Jame's Garfield's fabulous quote about shodding feet and wool and gods...), I wanted to start something called "The daily Drumbeat".  The goal of the beat is to ensure continued conversation around our dreams, and to keep eachother updated on our lives. 

My goal is that as long as I have access to email, I will send out 1 email a day.  It may be really short, like a sentence, or maybe longer.  If I miss one, I hope someone else can fill in, or we can all do it as often as we want :)

I'd love to hear things that are on your mind, an inspiring quote you heard, or anything.  or, in the case of Imran and I....an actual actionable idea (or even one that is not actionable).

So, I say, let's start the beat.

Here is a cool article about the challenges and opportunities around Climate change. Dare I say it could be an "idea" to incorporate addressing climate change into our burgeoning initiative?

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026242/the-worlds-horrible-weather-just-means-we-need-to-keep-supporting-a-clean-energy-revolution

Drumbeat 1 down (the next ones are the hardest to keep up.....)

C