Paper Menu Scribbles

the universe is made of douche bags who doodle...

we are just two of them.

these paper menus are the gateway from our minds to yours

our interpretations, our thoughts, our inaudible screams for truth

dissatisfication, discontentment with the way things are. yet celebrating and commemorating the things in life that strike the very chord of our souls with joy and delight

this is our attempt to restore our lives to a supernatural ideal of the omnipresent divine

gain insight into the inner workings of the real world through paper menu scribbles

sweat it out

relax...     love always wins

relax...     people who lived two hundred years ago 

didn't use toilet paper

relax...     it's just mexican

relax...     there's more deoderant in the bottom drawer

relax...     it wasn't your only pair of pants

relax...    not everyone has an iphone

relax...     life is never without purpose

relax...     that last text went to the right person

relax...     sometimes you don't get your way 

because you're not supposed to

relax...     it's ok to love someone who doesn't love you back...

they'll come around

relax...     i mean...we ARE facebook friends

relax...     30% of chinese adults also live with their parents 

relax...     we all have our own 'scents'

relax...     there are always new ways to do the ordinary

relax...     you can die from just about anything these days

relax...     pain never lasts forever

relax...     tomorrow is a fresh start

understanding

what
it
means 
to be
alive


taking the mundane, ordinary, average
events of life and
allowing
them
to become
extraordinary

Circle or Square?
Simple Questions
Simple Life


Let IT Be
and it will be


Pursue it with Passion
and it will LIVE





because

ultimately 
you never know
where it will take you




it might be
someplace 
you least

expected




but never
someplace
you don't
want
to
be





You can choose your state of brain
You really can


It it is a matter of will power
Do you have it in you?


To live with passion
To get out of your slump
To put down the remote
To stop reading this blog
and just LOVE what you do?







life spam:
those things in life that keep you
unfocused on what really matters


those things that you don't ask for
but seem to rob you of passion


those things that lead to 
mediocrity and complacency


while you
begin to 
accept 
that
as
normal


passion is a reclamation
of what
matters
most



because you have
only
one 
life
to
live...


...but if you live it right,
once
is
enough






by the way, j was passionate as he devoured those 
sweet, sweet flapjacks.




enjoy passion, enjoy life




sweat it out
-j & j

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j is in la la land
(or los angeles if you prefer)...

the other j is in haiti...

so rather than a paper menu scribble,
we had an earlier project.

nooma style...

enjoy your reflection, enjoy life

sweat it out
-j&j

freedom

completely overused

to the point where

we

miss

it

but how can we miss it
when
it
is
blood
red

staring us in the face

exodus

 leaving one way of life

in lieu

of

another

not the decision to leave

but the participation

in the journey

actively leaving behind

guilt

addictions

stress

slavery

chains

hurts

darkness

anger

confusion

shame

discontentment
lust

brokenness

breaking through the gates of darkness

choosing to enter the land of light

 peace

so much more than just being free from conflict

the ancients had a word


shalome


being in utter
harmony
with God

in every aspect of our lives






seek it

a shout out for captain larry....

enjoy shalome, enjoy life

sweat it out

doodle be free

let the most simplistic thought be the start of the most beautiful idea

 simplicity is what it is

but it isn't

it's

complex

which sucks

because it then becomes a battle of wills

"do I have the desire to own the essence of complexity?"

simplicty never equals laziness

simplicity is not a cop out

"paper menu: be something you are not meant