You do not enter into paradise tomorrow or the day after or in ten years; you enter it today when you are poor and crucified. —Leon Bloy

Each time I sign in and check back with Zaadz, I am newly inspired to keep pushing forward with my own growth and awareness. It's easy to get bogged down in one's daily story of what I like to call "small-self" and if you don't re-connect with community and get out of that small-self you can forget, for a moment, your "big-self", the one that's already enlightened and trying to guide you to higher and higher levels of awareness. . . . So thank goodness for Zaadz for being here and helping us all re-connect! I continue to grow ever more excited about this community and what it suggests is possible when a (large) few of us humans get together with shared vision and awareness. What a marvelous development! As my friend, Heather (who told me about Zaadz) says, "ciao fer now", -Zack ============================ "the bee's knees" (Phrase Origins) A bee's "corbiculae", or pollen-baskets, are located on its tibiae (midsegments of its legs). The phrase "the bee's knees", meaning "the height of excellence", became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, along with "the cat's whiskers" (possibly from the use of these in radio crystal sets), "the cat's pajamas" (pyjamas were still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases which made less sense and didn't endure: "the eel's ankle", "the elephant's instep", "the snake's hip". Stories in circulation about the phrase's origin include: "b's and e's", short for "be-alls and end-alls"; and a corruption of "business". Source: [Mark Israel, 'Phrase Origins: "the bee's knees"', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 4407), (29 Sept 1997)]

standing like never and in between and the stable of thrashing wild beasts is raging to be cut free. tasting a moment in time, it lights on the tongue with a furious flavor and suffuses the body stardust with glee and power. and is gone. if you chase it. Zack December, 2005