Free Your Mind & Your Ass Will Follow! Welcome to the blog of ArtofTodd.com…Funky Art Central!
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.” - Oprah Winfrey
Welcome to my blog y’all – STARDATE 200808.27 (no I’m not a Trekkie, but thought this was kinda’ tight). What could be better than a few select words from Oprah, that beacon of positivity, to kick it off!
George "Dr. Funkenstein" Clinton of P-Funk - Free Your MIND!
I was working out with my trainer (Tony) yesterday and he showed me this new exercise called an ab dip crunch. I’m athletic (at least i think so!), but was struggling to find my center of gravity – so I kept shaking as I dipped.
I performed three of these shaky dips before I paused,focused on the body part that would stop my shakin’ like an old Dodge trying to push 160mph, and then performed 15 dip crunches sans shakes.
Ol' piss yellow Dodge
Afterwards, I told Tony I talked to my body and told it what to do so I could perform successfully. Tony said this is a very spiritual & Buddhist approach to working out – don’t fight the flow, just realign your mind.
…so back to Oprah – this workout in the most basic way illustrated a challenge that forced me to focus and find a new center of gravity…”a different way to stand”.
Maybe one day Oprah will get down with ArtofTodd.com! Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream...
On a broader playing field, in this life journey, I think the trick is to continue finding new centers of gravity because staying the same just ain’t an option as new challenges are thrust upon us.
So I gots to keep groovin’ Black Folk Art detailing the universal experience, changing with the wind.!
Peace and blessings -
p.s. – Thanks to the iGoogle Motivational Quote of the Day!! Thanks to George “Dr. Funkenstein” Clinton, Eddie Hazel & Ray Davis of P-Funk for this post title! And, thanks to Rick James for the blog subtitle.
Thanks so much for mentioning Paulis’ great book! It was introduced to me many years ago by an African American friend. I still regard it as one of my favorites, and have the Spanish version as well (ESPERANZA PARA LAS FLORES.) Were my friend still living, she’d have made as well the mental link I felt this morning to the Obama win and “HOPE FOR ALL THE FLOWERS — a tale–partly about life partly about revolution and lots about hope for adults and others (including caterpillars who can read.”