PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): ndescribable happiness is now available if you'll melt down your ego in service to love. The object of your adoration may be a special person, a beloved animal or place, or anything that stirs you to lose yourself in life's sweetest mysteries. For best results, heed these words from David Deida: "Give yourself to love itself, without a shred of you remaining. Die completely into loving. When you return, when your sense of self is recollected, you will be refreshed through and through, washed awake by the innocence lying wide on the other side of surrender."

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I invite you to try an exercise in creative pretending. Ready? In all the ways you can imagine, stop thinking that you're outside, and instead visualize yourself as inside. In other words, suppress your tendency to fantasize that the good stuff is out of reach and hard to get. Picture yourself as being right in the midst of it. End your sense of exile and come all the way in to the heart of every matter. If you do this meditation ten minutes a day for the next seven days, by this time next week the world will already be changing to match the vision you've been building.

Take my license plate challenge before it's too late.

Oh my god. That whole post had me rolling.

Perhaps the buyer of the vanilla latte took the lid off to let it cool or share a sip with someone who had coodies and then tripped. And then perhaps some of the latte sloshed out onto the ground a became the vanilla latte tree. We can only hope. I know that I, personally, will hang on to that thread of potential latteness forever. I may even pluck one of my eyelashes and wish on it for the tree's inception.

I totally believe you are a squirrel. I mean, look at those nuts.

Oh, the Snape.

[Edited on May 25, 2005 11:38PM]

But maybe, the latte drinker got full part way through. And now the latte is sitting in a trashcan somewhere, or in a cupholder, or in a parking lot outside the car door. Hope is not lost.

Bugger about not being a squirrel. That was really the only reason I decided to talk to you.

Well, from what I gather, you're not creepy or stupid like many of the new members who put themselves out there, so I thought I'd drop by.