I was leaving work and found this boxy guy staring at me as I pulled out of my parking space.
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My car radio was busted for a while. After about a month I finally took the time to get it fixed. Boy oh boy, how I’d been missing N.P.R.. But here’s the funniest thing, I’d gotten so accustomed to the silence in the car that the repaired radio seemed like it was yelling at me. I have always loved the solitude of being in the car. In the silence of that month without the radio, that love of peacefulness had grown. Now that the radio’s fixed, I’m hardly using it. But as the weeks have gone by I am finding that I’ve got the radio on more and more. Now I am making a conscious effort to not allow being bombarded by noise become the norm. I stop and ask myself: Am I interested in listening to this? If the answer is no, I switch it off. I think we have all come to accept/expect to be bombarded by both the auditory and the visual cacophony of modern life. I’m making a new commitment to silence and peace. Smile. Be happy. Ruth P.S.: Here’s a big but. I’m advocating quiet times, but I still hope you listen to the new Smiley song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFVnN2llXn8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/smile-be-happy-the-spontaneous/id436092959 Tons of new Smiley photos!: http://blog.spontaneoussmiley.com/?cat=3 Sorry to have been absent from the blog. I was so focused on getting ready to give my TED Talk that I neglected the blog. www.vimeo.com/26190208 The whole TED adventure was just that, an adventure! Backstage was packed with big shots and heavy hitters. I really was the only goof ball there. Not to worry, I did my best to represent goof balls everywhere. Got nervous right before going on. I’d thought I’d just skip the whole nervous thing but at the last minute, boom, there it was. A couple of tech issues, just as I was about to go on, kind of got me frazzled. Then I’m on stage and the clicker to advance my slides just wasn’t there, I thought to myself, what next? Well, if this were a bad dream, I could look down and realize I was naked. Just thinking that helped me to lighten up. This isn’t a bad dream. No way! This is a dream come true. My 3 minutes went by so fast. The audience was totally with me. I could see them laughing and pointing up to the screen. Got several big laughs, maybe even the biggest laugh of the whole day. Then afterwards at the break so many people came up to me to tell me they loved the presentation. I’ve known for a long time that Spontaneous Smiley really speaks to people. This was just the first time that I’d been somewhere where 800 people all learned about it at the same time (not to mention the 350,000 people logged in worldwide!). It was so gratifying to have so many people “get it” all at the same time. I send out my thanks to every single person who spoke to me through out the day and to everyone who smiled and laughed during my talk. You filled my heart! Smile. Be happy. Ruth Here I am explaining that although I do prefer the truly spontaneous smiles, I don’t disallow the ones that are clearly staged. After all, I gotta figure the Smiley Captain who uploaded the staged Smiley was probably cracking him/herself up. And since smiling is what it’s all about, no harm done.
I was leaving work and found this boxy guy staring at me as I pulled out of my parking space.
Red Curb Paint
I never let good chocolate go to waste, so I cut open the container and began to scrape out the chocolate syrup. There are actually many Smilys here. Mmmmm!
While surfin’ the web for RV’s, I came across this picture. I believe it’s the air conditioning unit
My pot of black-eyed peas boiled over on the glass stove-top. When I grabbed it up off the burner, it splashed a little more – and this is what happened.
Taken in Berkeley, CA.
While waiting for the Novocain to kick in, I was reviewing some images on my camera, when I noticed this guy staring down at me from the arm of the light. ~click~
While waiting for the Novocain to kick in, I was reviewing some images on my camera, when I noticed this guy staring down at me from the arm of the light. ~click~
Spotted this on a telephone pole in Antioch, CA.
This skull-like turret (obviously upside-down) is located — perhaps appropriately — at one of the gates of a cemetery in Colma, CA.
