NYC Pride 1982
When I was a twenty-something, I didn’t understand why it was called “Pride.”
I didn’t March back then.
Today I understand
Today I feel it
Today I March
Because We are All One.
What happens to one of us happens to All of Us.
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PRIDE
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on June 26, 2015
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/06/26/pride/
Commencement
My Partner and I have Seven Young Graduates in our Lives this Year — GodChildren, Nieces, Friends… Graduating Different Levels of Schooling,
Beginning a New Phase of their Life Adventures.
This piece is for them.
And for All of Us who would like to Commence a New Life Adventure… a New Phase of an Old Project… a Way to Begin or Begin Again… A Fresh Start,
Today…
“Commencement”
The Word means “Beginning!”
This is the MOST EXCITING TIME OF YOUR LIFE!
You can Do Anything!
Now is the Time
Before Marriage
Before Mortgages
Before things to pay for, fix , and feed…
You are Free!
BackPack through Europe.
Try an OutDoor Adventure — IceLand, The Artic, The Dakotas…
Experience Africa and Asia and the Galapagos Islands…
Intern with a Favorite Theater Company or Art Project or Doctors Without Borders
Dance!
Dream Big. (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on June 14, 2015
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/06/14/commencement/
Memorial Day
It’s nice to have a Monday Holiday.
I remember the Initial Television Campaign in the 1960’s:
“Celebrate America on the Monday Holidays!”
I Was a Kid.
I didn’t understand how you could move a Calendar around like that,
But that was only the beginning of the many Monumental Changes in Life I would have to learn to Understand…
And So Memorial Day went from May 30th to the last Monday in May.
It had been previously known as Decoration Day
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Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on May 25, 2015
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/05/25/memorial-day/
De Nada
De Nada.
It’s a Spanish Expression for “You’re Welcome”
It is politely and colloquially used as a response to “Gracias” (i.e.: “Thank You.”)
Literally, it means “Of Nothing,” as to say “Truly, it’s Nothing at All.”
Mother’s Day. 2015.
MOM only wanted one thing.
EggPlant Parmesan.
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on May 10, 2015
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/05/10/de-nada/
TipToe Through the Tulips
Tulip Festival Skagit Valley, WA
Tulips
Everywhere
Fields of them
Ephemeral
Apparently there is an annual Tulip Festival in the Skagit Valley
Of Washington State
Up near Bellingham.
Who knew?
So off we went to see the Tulips
I am playing Tiny Tim singing “Tip Toe Through the Tulips”
on Repeat in the car
We park and head into a field.
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on April 11, 2015
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/04/11/tulip-festival/
MESSY MARCH EXTENDED!!!
YES!
For those of us who Celebrate Creative Freedom
Who Believe that there are No Mistakes
Who Delight in Opening to New Ideas
And Shun Conformity
For Whom there is Never Enough Time to Give Over to Reckless Artistic Abandon
Who Celebrate Whym
and Gut Reactions
And Those Who Still Follow Them…
Good News!
MESSY MARCH has been Extended! (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on April 1, 2015
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/04/01/messy-march-extended/
MESSY MARCH 2015
RICK and his Friends Celebrating MESSY MARCH in BERLIN, 2012
WHAT A MESS!
And if you’re not making one, then you’re not trying hard enough!
This is MARCH.
MESSY MARCH!
Time to take Creative Risks
Make Mistakes
Try Anything you Want
You have Permission to Fail!
This is the Ideal time to mess up.
And if you try something you don’t really know how to do
And it ends up a total Mess,
then you did Good!
You are Celebrating MESSY MARCH!
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Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on March 17, 2015
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/03/17/messy-march-2015/
Dormant
Dormant — /dôrˈ mənt/adj. 1. In a state resembling sleep. 2. Latent. 3. Temporarily inactive — a dormant volcano. 4. Biol. In a condition of suspended growth or development. [Latin dormire, to sleep] dormancy n.
(of an animal) having normal physical functions suspended or slowed down for a period of time. “dormant butterflies”
syn. asleep, sleeping, resting, inactive, passive, inert, latent, quiescent
“the tubers lie dormant in the soil until spring”
(of a plant or bud) alive but not actively growing
(of a volcano) temporarily inactive.— The American Heritage & Oxford Dictionaries [combined]
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on March 13, 2015
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/03/13/dormant/
Christmas Card 2014
Well, it’s Valentine’s Day Weekend, and we know what that means.
It’s time for my Christmas Card! For those who may not know, I have always celebrated Christmas with a Greeting of Words. I have always believed in the power of Words, and for years, I sent out cards with the words of others, celebrating the Joys of the Season. Now, in this Second Half of Life, I am finding my own Voice, and adding to the Words and Stories of our culture which Celebrate this most Wonderful Holiday. It takes me awhile to find just the right words, so my Christmas Card is offered traditionally sometime between the Twelve Days of Christmas and the First Day of Spring.
Nowadays, My Christmas Story is posted here electronically, at Live The Questions Now. Please feel free to “Like,” “Follow,” “Subscribe,” “Share,” Tell Your Friends, or just sit back with a mug of your favorite Hot Beverage and Enjoy a few minutes of Bonus ChristmasTime… I hope you enjoy this year’s Offering…
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Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on February 13, 2015
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/02/13/christmas-card-2014/
SNOW HOLIDAY
In Honor of this Winter Snow Holiday and the New Year, last night I put out my new Crystal Bead Boughs — Just for how they catch the Light
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I know. I know.
Most people were done with that greeting in the first week of January.
But the Year is still New.
And New Year’s Day always seemed to me a Terrible Day to Launch Something.
Firstly, it’s a Federal Holiday in the USA, and a Holiday that most people Celebrate throughout the World
(Twenty-Four times, really — over a course of 24 hours, throughout all the different Time Zones!)
It’s a Time for Festivity.
It is Still Only the Seventh Day of Christmas and many of us are concentrating on that.
So to begin with Resolutions and Plans and Projections at that time seems premature.
Today is a Much Better Day for that! (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on January 27, 2015
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/01/27/snow-holiday/
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