A somewhat random collection of musings about education, relationships, and human potential.Tumblr (3.0; @cyclingbum)http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WPkByAkAdZs?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://suicabear.tumblr.com/post/52943761692/old-spock-battles-new-spock-in-the-greatest-car" target="_blank">suicabear</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h1 class="headline"><strong><a href="http://io9.com/old-spock-battles-new-spock-in-the-greatest-car-commerc-493836696" target="_blank">Old Spock battles New Spock in the greatest car commercial ever</a></strong></h1> <p>This is seriously the best commercial ever.</p> </blockquote> <p>Hilarious!</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/53243248287http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/53243248287Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:00:19 -0400humorstar trekspock<p>Way to explode all over my tumblr feed! I read all your posts until it made my eyes bleed, then I had to stop.</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/53242310858http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/53242310858Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:47:21 -0400humor<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ed4e3dac99e0167210a5d2028806942c/tumblr_mok9pqC4st1qcqb1do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I believe that I am where I am today in large part because I wasn’t afraid of developing my emotional intelligence along the way. I am grateful to the many teachers and mentors I’ve had along the way and hope that I’m able to pay it forward with dividends to others.</p> <p>Empathy is my life. </p> <p> (via <a href="http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/the-4-fundamental-pillars-of-emotional-intelligence/" target="_blank">The 4 Fundamental Pillars of Emotional Intelligence - Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement</a>)</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/53233387830http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/53233387830Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:39:26 -0400Empathyemotionsintelligence<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d9b1b6a4e50ea87c0f5077e323a3fd99/tumblr_mok8xsyuC01qcqb1do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>“Oprah has said that after talking to almost 30,000 people on her show, she’s found that everyone has the same desire—to know they are seen, they are heard, and that what they say matters.”</i></p> <p>Being present in the moment something that I’ve been working on deliberately recently. I’ve been especially conscious of this effort on Mondays as I start my week. I have found that something as simple as elevating my awareness while walking down the hallway can have a profound impact on how I feel by the end of the day.</p> <p>What is one activity you will do today where you can be more present in the moment?</p> <p> (via <a href="http://tinybuddha.com/blog/slow-down-and-fully-enjoy-this-moment/" target="_blank">Slow Down and Fully Enjoy This Moment - Tiny Buddha</a>)</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/53232234503http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/53232234503Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:22:00 -0400Awarenesspresencejoy<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7jbww2gCH1qbrjfso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The perfect place to read. I would never leave this spot.</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/53230889192http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/53230889192Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:03:09 -0400dream home<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/63347356a1f6afcde9544b6a030bbbc3/tumblr_moduy5rOC91qcqb1do1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/63dca505c1735477832b1d50d70c46e5/tumblr_moduy5rOC91qcqb1do2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Good times at Thursday TSM at Matthew’s 1600.</p> <p>I was trying to explain how pirates invented bowling, but RW wasn’t getting it.</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52942738987http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52942738987Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:34:53 -0400TSMhumor<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3ce6b589853dd82d9898496d2680f3f3/tumblr_moduvdW46u1qcqb1do1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/82d0f016437eaac7ca47fb076bd829a1/tumblr_moduvdW46u1qcqb1do2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Dinner Club at @Outback. Looks like Sean’s about to make out with that Bloomin’ Onion.  </p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52942678168http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52942678168Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:33:13 -0400Dinner Clubhumor<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f11cbe8d35c0c8cfc9340f4aa87d2659/tumblr_mobzwrVQ5a1qcqb1do1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This article presents an interesting angle on the importance of balance.  I like how it acknowledges that while positive affirmations can be a useful tool in our lives, it doesn’t protect us from that natural ups and downs that surround this experience we call life.</p> <p>Finding a healthy balance by drawing one’s awareness to the attitude they bring to moments of both success and failure, joy and sadness, optimism and defeat, is good place to look for peace and a wonderful place to practice patience and presence.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://tinybuddha.com/blog/life-is-practiced-rather-than-perfected-balance-is-good-enough/" target="_blank">Life Is Practiced Rather Than Perfected: Balance Is Good Enough</a>)</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52863607230http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52863607230Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:26:50 -0400balancereflection“Life cannot be lived as one giant positive affirmation.”<br/><br/> - <em>Kathy Kruger</em>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52863304785http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52863304785Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:18:17 -0400quotes<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3dfc41c683c4a88810af73454ee92f07/tumblr_mo9yw8MuqE1s6ugjwo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://yogaholics.tumblr.com/post/52798022251" target="_blank">yogaholics</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/follow/yogaholics" target="_blank">Click here for daily yoga images!</a></p> </blockquote> <p>I love, Dr. Dyer.  Such brilliance.</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52806765827http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52806765827Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:07:39 -0400quotes“Again with the quotes. You, sir, are digging yourself a grave with an epitaph reading: “All I ever did was quote 90’s comedies.””<br/><br/> - <em>Ryan “Newb” Williams</em>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52806705213http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52806705213Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:06:44 -0400quoteshumor<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c6257ceac1ade1bf3a6b19852bfb3561/birthday3_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Change The Way You Look At Things … turned 3 today!</p> <p>Woohoo!  Thanks to all of the readers out there. I hope you’re enjoying the blog.</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52791634824http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52791634824Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:57:08 -0400tumblr birthday“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><strong>Gayle Forman</strong><br/><em>Just One Day</em><span> </span> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://anguis218.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">anguis218</a>)</p> <p>… or at least gain a deeper a appreciation of it’s value in it’s absence. What do you take for granted?</p></em>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52705838107http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52705838107Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:24:23 -0400quotesreflection<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VpZmIiIXuZ0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>This short video was used to open the Apple keynote address at the World Wide Developers Conference yesterday. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the message since.</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52699217727http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52699217727Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:13:04 -0400InspiredAppledesignintention<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BRAM8MpqIeA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tumblr.photojojo.com/post/52412365353/artist-erik-johansson-and-adobe-pranked" target="_blank">photojojo</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Artist Erik Johansson and Adobe pranked unsuspecting people waiting for busses, by photographing them from afar and Photoshopping into ads at the very same bus stop they were waiting at!</p> <p>Watch how surprised they are when they see themselves pop up on the screen!</p> <p><a href="http://gizmodo.com/prankster-photoshops-people-into-ads-while-they-wait-fo-511927575" target="_blank"><strong>People Waiting for the Bus Pranked by Being Photoshopped into Ads</strong></a></p> </blockquote> <p>I would to love to spend a day doing this with the creative students we have in @commonvisionx.</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52569025108http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52569025108Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:12:35 -0400CreativeDaycommonvisionUMBC<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c126327ec447f0fa3d950ee2b9caa37b/tumblr_mo2faf7BHI1s6ugjwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://yogaholics.tumblr.com/post/52468039491" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">yogaholics</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/follow/yogaholics" target="_blank">Follow me if you love yoga!</a></p></blockquote>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52552445778http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52552445778Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:20:58 -0400quotes<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/fbe2b603586fb65ebfeae19068219cf4/tumblr_mo2gszfPvg1s6ugjwo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://yogaholics.tumblr.com/post/52532652470" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">yogaholics</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/follow/yogaholics" target="_blank">Follow me if you’re addicted to yoga!</a></p></blockquote>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52552362366http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52552362366Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:19:43 -0400quotes<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/268efca676df2c15c08bd7984727d040/tumblr_mno7i2AV5Y1qjvnc4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://travelingcolors.tumblr.com/post/52545971589/awkward-hill-bibury-england-by-flash-of-light" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">travelingcolors</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flash-of-light/2518180877/" target="_blank"><strong>Awkward Hill, Bibury | England</strong> (by flash of light</a>)</p></blockquote> <p>I think that this would be a cool place to live.</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52552315202http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52552315202Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:19:01 -0400dream home<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/771f9118313f32cbe03a0e5767dac93c/tumblr_mo1ucyRVw11qcqb1do1_500.png"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://flip.it/IDveS" target="_blank">Love Yourself for What You Are Now Without Conditions</a><br/> Tigmonk, <a href="http://flip.it/IDveS" target="_blank">tinybuddha.com</a></p> <p><b>“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh</b>Do I really love them, or am I simply afraid to be without them? Is my love an expression of freedom, or is it merely a mask that hides my insecurities? Thes…</p> </blockquote> <p>Worth reading and reflecting on for yourself.</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52421007784http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52421007784Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:50:57 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/771f9118313f32cbe03a0e5767dac93c/tumblr_mo1ucxKd6h1qcqb1do1_500.png"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://flip.it/K20PM" target="_blank">Love Yourself for What You Are Now Without Conditions</a><br/> Tigmonk, <a href="http://flip.it/K20PM" target="_blank">tinybuddha.com</a></p> <p><b>“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh</b>Do I really love them, or am I simply afraid to be without them? Is my love an expression of freedom, or is it merely a mask that hides my insecurities? Thes…</p> </blockquote> <p>Worth reading and reflecting on for yourself.</p>http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52421008274http://cyclingbum.tumblr.com/post/52421008274Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:50:57 -0400