About: Bryonie Wise
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Meet Rob Ford, Toronto’s (Allegedly Crack-Smoking) Mayor.by Bryonie Wise on May 18, 2013 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been in office for 900 days; in that time, he has wreaked havoc on this beautiful city that I call home. It’s no secret that he isn’t, ahem, widely cherished and loved, in the City of Toronto, especially amongst anyone that has a heart beat. He’s done a lot of [...] 163 views |
Diary of Sad Cat. {Video}by Bryonie Wise on May 10, 2013 “Dear Diary, I’ve decided to plead with the authorities to rub my belly. I think it will do me good in my current condition. I would like to receive two rubs, exactly. A third one, and I will bite the shit out of them, as per protocol. Wish me luck.” If you have ever owned [...] 2,659 views |
When Did You Choose to be Straight? {Video}by Bryonie Wise on May 10, 2013 “Thought Of equality—as if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself— as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.” ~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Like elephant equal rights for all on Facebook. 294 views |
Patti Smith: Advice for Us All. {images}by Bryonie Wise on Apr 10, 2013 Source: 1.bp.blogspot.com via Javi on Pinterest “Build a good name. Life is like a roller coaster, it is going to have beautiful moments but it is going to be real fucked up, too.” ~ Patti Smith Source: shadesofscarlett.tumblr.com via Candyo on Pinterest Source: images.google.com via John Paul on Pinterest Source: nickdrake.tumblr.com via Ali [...] 994 views |
Toronto, Sunday: Waylon’s debut reading of Eco Boy vs. Yoga Girl at Toronto Yoga Conference.by Bryonie Wise on Mar 18, 2013 Confession: I’m nervous. Like, really nervous. In just three short days, someone I’ve never met will be coming to stay at my house, and we’ll be adventuring together at the Toronto Yoga Conference. Who is this mysterious someone, you may ask? Waylon Lewis, of course. (A little secret: the elephant team is based all over this [...] 541 views |
Be Your Own Warrior of Love.by Bryonie Wise on Mar 13, 2013 “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” ~ Buddha I fall back into this hole, time [...] 3,085 views |
 Camera Love. {Images}by Bryonie Wise on Feb 23, 2013 “For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline [...] 1,028 views |
 The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Human.by Bryonie Wise on Feb 11, 2013 Source: aurorae.tumblr.com via Michele on Pinterest The past few days, the weight of my heavy heart has brought me to my knees. I bring my forehead to touch the ground, with gratitude, with grief, with sorrow, with joy. For all of these emotions are me, in any given moment…in every given moment. Through our practice [...] 3,201 views |
Happy 100th Birthday, Rosa Parks.by Bryonie Wise on Feb 4, 2013 “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free…so other people would be also free.” ~ Rosa Parks Source: Uploaded by user via Laura on Pinterest “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does [...] 175 views |
Reading is Wholesome (& Damn Sexy). {Images}by Bryonie Wise on Feb 1, 2013 “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” ~ James Baldwin I [...] 3,011 views |
 Rest, You Must Rest.by Bryonie Wise on Jan 31, 2013 Sometimes, the universe in all her wisdom sends you a message, through the whispers of the wind. You hear her, in a moment of quiet, say, Rest, you need rest. You will feel the truth of her words settle inside your body, as one by one, each part of you starts to tune in. She will [...] 1,294 views |
 How to Say No (in 25 Bad A** Ways).by Bryonie Wise on Jan 15, 2013 I’ve mastered the fine art of saying yes. I will say yes, for the most part, to anything you ask me to do; I love you, you see and I want you to be happy. And I am bendy and flexible and so I will warp myself into all sorts of shapes and sizes to [...] 3,158 views |
 People Are Beautiful. {images}by Bryonie Wise on Jan 6, 2013 “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” ~ Susan Sontag Source: flickr.com via Anjali on Pinterest Source: flickr.com via Kathy on Pinterest Source: theyroaredvintage.tumblr.com via Alyssa on [...] 1,897 views |
 We Have All Kinds of (elephant) Love for You. {images}by Bryonie Wise on Dec 23, 2012 “But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.” ~ Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer Source: meditationtemptation.tumblr.com [...] 663 views |
Quote of the Day: This is the Truth.by Bryonie Wise on Dec 23, 2012 Source: 29.media.tumblr.com via Brite on Pinterest Like elephant journal on Facebook. 765 views |
 Be Brave.by Bryonie Wise on Dec 19, 2012 “A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.” ~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden Be brave in your [...] 789 views |
Jimmy Fallon, Mariah Carey & The Roots: “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” {Video}by Bryonie Wise on Dec 7, 2012 This has always been one of my favorite Christmas songs (you know, the kind that might start playing when iTunes is on shuffle in the middle of summer…and instead of changing it, you play it again?) This newest version, ala Jimmy Fallon, made my morning: Mariah’s original: Seven year old Rhema Marvanne: [...] 575 views |
 Jada Pinkett-Smith on the War on Men.by Bryonie Wise on Dec 6, 2012 “The war on men through the degradation of woman: How is man to recognize his full self, his full power through the eyes of an incomplete woman? The woman who has been stripped of Goddess recognition and diminished to a big ass and full breast for physical comfort only. The woman who has been silenced [...] 3,057 views |
 Fifty Faces of Frida Kahlo. {images}by Bryonie Wise on Dec 3, 2012 Source: theparisreview.org via Bint on Pinterest “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world, but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels flawed and bizarre in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine [...] 2,160 views |
 I’m a F*cking Unicorn. (Or 10 Things to Do When You Get Fired for the First Time.)by Bryonie Wise on Dec 1, 2012 For the first time in my 37 years on this planet, I was fired from a job. Sure, I’ve been fired from relationships and I’ve done my share of firing: lovers, friends, jobs, cities (countries even) and I have days where I’d like to fire myself. But being let go, as I’m discovering from this [...] 5,154 views |
 The Roar & Whisper of Courage.by Bryonie Wise on Nov 25, 2012 This morning I woke up, bright and early, (ahem—5:30am), just like I do every Sunday morning. The moment my eyes opened, I had to fight the urge, with every bone in my body, to curl up and go back to sleep. It took superhuman-strength and much willpower to drag myself out of bed, as I [...] 1,149 views |
We Have Enough. {A Thanksgiving Poem}by Bryonie Wise on Nov 21, 2012 Source: gildedmint.blogspot.com via Jennifer on Pinterest This year, give thanks, for everything. Let the tingle of gratitude move into the bones of your body, from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. With each beat of your heart,”Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.” Dance for the joy, for the love, for the freedom, for the food in your belly, for the beating [...] 1,317 views |
 Heart Opener (Thanks, Pema).by Bryonie Wise on Nov 14, 2012 Source: lulztruck.com via Anne on Pinterest ”We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it’s raining or snowing or hailing or calm. We could reconnect with the weather that is ourselves, and we could [...] 1,952 views |
If She Was Human, Would You Help? {Video}by Bryonie Wise on Nov 12, 2012 If you heard a story about a young girl that was kidnapped from her home, kept in captivity and abused, all under the pretense of “healing” her, what would you do? Would you join an uprising and do everything in your power to help her be returned to her family and her home? For [...] 125 views |
 Are You Happy? {Infographic}by Bryonie Wise on Oct 27, 2012 hap·py: [hap-ee] adjective, hap·pi·er, hap·pi·est. 1. delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person. 2. characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy: a happy mood; a happy frame of mind. 3. favored by fortune; fortunate or lucky: a happy, fruitful land. 4. apt or felicitous, as actions, utterances, or ideas. 5. obsessed by or quick to use the item indicated (usually used in combination): a trigger-happy gangster. Everybody is gadget-happy these days. So, are you happy? Ask yourself this: are your days rich and full and most importantly…does what you do, day-to-day, moment-to-moment, feed your soul? Being happy doesn’t mean that we don’t get sad or angry or frustrated—we’re human and we’re made to feel everything—there [...] 908 views |
Honesty is the Best Poetry.by Bryonie Wise on Oct 5, 2012 Truth: I have been trying to write this piece for weeks now. I started it in a blur of inspiration and then other things pulled me away and I saved it in drafts, having returned to it every day, for the past five with an overwhelming feeling of stuck. Just this moment, this very moment, [...] 550 views |
Keep Your F*cking Laws Off of My Body: It’s Time for A Revolution. {Video}by Bryonie Wise on Aug 25, 2012 A few days ago, Waylon Lewis startled my feminism right out of the closet. I didn’t realize that she had locked herself in there…and to be honest, I’m not sure when it was that she retreated. Somehow, over the course of the past several years, she had crammed herself in there, fire, power, intelligence and all. Sure, [...] 1,173 views |
Flash Mob Friday: Kayne’s Dancers in Mid-flight.by Bryonie Wise on Aug 24, 2012 “Flash mob (or flashmob) is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire and artistic expression. Flash mobs are organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails.” ~ Wikipedia “Dance is a type of art that generally involves movement of the body, [...] 219 views |
Everyone Ban Marineland!by Bryonie Wise on Aug 23, 2012 If you are Canadian, you are probably familiar with this jingle; it’s the kind that gets stuck in your head and before you realize it, you are humming or singing along, with images of leaping whales and happy dolphins, dancing through your head. That is, until recently. Earlier this month, it was reported that a top [...] 133 views |
Transforming Tyranny: Pussy Riot, Julian Assange & Humanity. ~ Darren Austin Hallby Bryonie Wise on Aug 17, 2012 In mere days, we’ve witnessed two heinous acts by governments—in the United Kingdom and Russia—that have revealed the true nature of their power. Though Russia is still in the growing pains of appearing democratic, the United Kingdom should know better. Either way, this has been an interesting revelation, seeing that geo-politically, both of these countries [...] 2,537 views |
 I Take My Warrior Heart from My Chest & Crack Her Open, for You. ~ Bryonie Wiseby Bryonie Wise on Aug 13, 2012 “I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one has dared wish for may once again spring clear without my contriving. If this is arrogant, God, forgive me, but this is what I need to say. May what I do flow [...] 982 views |
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Ode to Winston (A Poem About My Dog). ~ Bryonie Wiseby Bryonie Wise on Jun 5, 2012 My feet hit the sidewalk, In time to my heartbeat. The soundtrack to my day is Feist, Her album Metals, Is playing on a loop. Win is matching me step for step, Almost prancing, As I take us through unfamiliar streets, Shaking the dust from our routine. I can feel his confusion and excitement; He [...] 414 views |
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