July 2011
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ...
tomorrow passes into tomorrow into tomorrow
each one ticks away the days of a clock counting down
an alarm set in memory of what has past
because only that can be known
the surprise of tomorrow is just that
and all we can do is work and dream and wish and hope
“It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won’t be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.” -Bette Midler “We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a...
I think I understand now why these islands touch me as they do. Isolated. Cut off from the world. People touch this land and find peace and joy for a time. And then they go home. This breathing land could have been so much but instead it slowly slips away, becoming less and less itself in the hope of keeping these visitors with it, until it is only a shell of what it once was. But if only those...
Perhaps it doesn’t matter what I do. Maybe finding a calling isn’t what it is all about if the things we do aren’t important. Maybe if the people in our life is what has meaning, then it only matters that we are doing something…anything. Flip a coin. Roll the dice. And play the cards you are dealt to stay at the table with those who really want to play with us. Ante...
