February 2012
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The slightest turn of her lip at at any effort
would be just enough to recreate that budding bliss.
Thirty four years and counting.
Thirty four years of waiting.
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a poem by the great Stephen Spender
I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great
I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the soul’s history
Through corridors of light where the hours are suns
Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition
Was that their lips, still touched with fire,
Should tell of the Spirit clothed from head to foot in song.
And who hoarded from the Spring...
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“All I ever wanted was a world without maps.”
– The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (via clavicola)
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Year of the Snake
I am the hurricane that passes
through the lightest of clouds.
Not giving a notice of
my ever-changing direction.
I travel through ardently
proudly and boldy.
Always rearranging the anthem
to accommodate my tone.
Uprooting what has been planted
so the birds can sing a new song.
As I say goodbye,
as all weather patterns do,
I make certain to leave nothing behind
other than you.
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“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a...”
– Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (one of my personal favorites)
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”
– Anne-Sophie Swetchine (for that unrequited love that we experience from time to time, my new mantra)
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“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal...”
– Anton Chekhov
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Life will move forward once you stop, take a step back, breathe and
delete…eject…remove
yourself.
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The Shape of Things
Rising with kaleidoscope eyes
Vistas hiding behind ever-changing sounds of color.
Lines blur through shapes
instead of escaping to freedom.
And we’re always looking for a way to stay inside the lines?
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Funny
The post way below is something I wrote very recently…and now time has changed things once again.
Choosing to live boldly, curiously and ardently we realize that some events in life are out of our control. In the hands of others. If we let freedom rule we discover the truth. We learn that love is king; the foundation of anything worthwhile. There’s no point in trying to make...
