Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.
A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.
A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.
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first things first i’ll eat your brains, then ima start rockin gold teeth and fangs
Potato and Onion Garnish for Somali Rice and Chicken Kalankal
1 lg. potato; peeled and sliced
1 onion; sliced
2 Tbsp. dark raisins
2 Tbsp. golden raisins
2 Tbsp. ghee
salt to taste
orange food coloring (I use the powder form.)
1. Put the potato slices in a large bowl; cover with cold water and add just enough food coloring to make the water yellow.
2. Put the onion slices in a bowl or plastic bag; add enough food coloring to the onions to get an
orange color. The longer the onions sit; the darker the color. I sometimes let the onions sit
overnight in the fridge.
3. Rinse the onion slices until the water runs clear and drain the potato slices.
4. Heat the ghee in a pan; add the potato slices and cook until tender.
5. Add the onion slices, raisins, and salt; cook for 2 minutes.
Serve over rice.
Ben Yanok at Ink Factory Tattoos in Hudson, WI just finished up my stomach tattoo for me. Live Young Die Fast is not only the name of the clothing line a friend of mine and I launched in 2010, it’s also a motto by which I try to live. It’s a play on words from the traditional “live fast die young” because I don’t want to die young, but I do try to take life a little less seriously and stay young at heart. The lettering was drawn by my business partner who is our art director, I’m proud to have his artwork on my body and to have had Ben ink it for me. They are two amazing artists.







