Comments on: You are what you THINK. http://www.fortracey.org/2008/05/20/you-are-what-you-think/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:56:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: jessie http://www.fortracey.org/2008/05/20/you-are-what-you-think/#comment-311 jessie Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:14:37 +0000 http://www.fortracey.org/2008/05/20/you-are-what-you-think/#comment-311 Tracey! What inspiring quotes. Moms has been giving me very vague updates over the past year. It occured to me to google high altitude and I came upon this site. It is truly awe filling to read your words through this struggle My very best wishes are with you and your family. What a doll Vivian is. I would love to reconnect if you have time. peace and love to you, matt and vivian, jessie jessicakeenan@gmail.com Tracey! What inspiring quotes. Moms has been giving me very vague updates over the past year. It occured to me to google high altitude and I came upon this site. It is truly awe filling to read your words through this struggle
My very best wishes are with you and your family. What a doll Vivian is. I would love to reconnect if you have time.
peace and love to you, matt and vivian,
jessie
jessicakeenan@gmail.com

]]> By: Berle & Rand http://www.fortracey.org/2008/05/20/you-are-what-you-think/#comment-310 Berle & Rand Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:33:11 +0000 http://www.fortracey.org/2008/05/20/you-are-what-you-think/#comment-310 Tracey: Happy one-year birthday! You've been reborn! It's been one year plus. You are amazing! Peace, love and good things to you and yours. Tracey:
Happy one-year birthday! You’ve been reborn! It’s been one year plus. You are amazing! Peace, love and good things to you and yours.

]]> By: greg nicholson http://www.fortracey.org/2008/05/20/you-are-what-you-think/#comment-289 greg nicholson Fri, 23 May 2008 23:51:43 +0000 http://www.fortracey.org/2008/05/20/you-are-what-you-think/#comment-289 Hi Tracey, I miss you and think of you daily. One, two, three, four... You've been prolific here this month, and the pictures are just, Wow. I went to the gallery and viewed them all. Striking images, whoever is taking them. Your daughter is so big, I didn't realize how long it's been since I've seen you until I saw those pictures of her. Adorable. I like that Bucky quote, what a guy. All good thoughts, but the part you quoted from The Secret really grabs me because it seems the twin of one of my favorites from Etienne de la Boetie, circa 1550: "Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces." It's from an obviously political treatise, but it feels to me the same style of restorative thinking you describe. It's the sort of thinking that can keep us moving when the conditions try to stop us or seem at first blush insurmountable. After all, there is more than one way to get things done than by going head-on. When swimming across a fast river, you don't wade in directly across from where you want to land and just brute-force swim against the current and inch your way over, you'd wear yourself out that way. Instead you start upstream and swim straight across and let the current push you right down to where you want to land--takes a lot less energy to drift to the very same place. I live in the metro, so when I hit a red light, I turn right and keep going. That sort of thing. Anyway I'm glad you put those thoughts out there. I can see that you put them up to keep them right there in the forefront of your mind and your approach to all this, but I have to smile when I say that it's not like you aren't already practiced: I think in the 20 years I've known you, you've been the picture of relaxed positivity, and it's what makes you so good to be around. OK, the rain has arrived here, I'm going for a walk. Greg Hi Tracey,

I miss you and think of you daily. One, two, three, four… You’ve been prolific here this month, and the pictures are just, Wow. I went to the gallery and viewed them all. Striking images, whoever is taking them. Your daughter is so big, I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I’ve seen you until I saw those pictures of her. Adorable.

I like that Bucky quote, what a guy. All good thoughts, but the part you quoted from The Secret really grabs me because it seems the twin of one of my favorites from Etienne de la Boetie, circa 1550:

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”

It’s from an obviously political treatise, but it feels to me the same style of restorative thinking you describe. It’s the sort of thinking that can keep us moving when the conditions try to stop us or seem at first blush insurmountable. After all, there is more than one way to get things done than by going head-on. When swimming across a fast river, you don’t wade in directly across from where you want to land and just brute-force swim against the current and inch your way over, you’d wear yourself out that way. Instead you start upstream and swim straight across and let the current push you right down to where you want to land–takes a lot less energy to drift to the very same place. I live in the metro, so when I hit a red light, I turn right and keep going. That sort of thing.

Anyway I’m glad you put those thoughts out there. I can see that you put them up to keep them right there in the forefront of your mind and your approach to all this, but I have to smile when I say that it’s not like you aren’t already practiced: I think in the 20 years I’ve known you, you’ve been the picture of relaxed positivity, and it’s what makes you so good to be around.

OK, the rain has arrived here, I’m going for a walk.

Greg

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