Turn our hearts toward the family of nations:
to understand the ways of others,
to offer friendship,
and to find safety only in the common good of all.


~Catholic Household Blessings & Prayers~

is it safe? -dr christian szell

It's very dangerous, be careful
 

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. "
~ Dorothy Allison

I adore her work! Another wonderful Dorothy Allison quote:

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. -Louis de Berniere, novelist (b. 1954)

a response to "don't take it so personally"
 

What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me. It's *personal* to a lot of people. And what's so wrong with being personal, anyway?

--Kathleen Kelly, from You've Got Mail (one of my mom's fave movies)

From the movie The Holiday
 

"Because you're hoping you're wrong. And everytime she does something that tells you she's no good, you ignore it. And evertime she comes through and suprises you, she wins you over, and you lose that argument with yourself, that she's not for you."

And...

"I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible, and how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you, and it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong, or how you could have misunderstood, and how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new, and you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again, and little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade."

~ both quotes from Iris (played by Kate Winslet)

In a broad valley, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.
Referring to Tom Builder - Pillars of the Earth -Ken Follett

What would change if ...
 

"Right now today, could you make an unconditional relationship with yourself? Just at the height you are, the weight you are, the amount of intelligence that you have, the burden of pain that you have?" ~ Pema Chodron

He who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. / We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. / Love is in the giver, not the gift.

William Sloan Coffin

Sharing a poem of mine...
 

My Love,
You have stirred deep inside of me
A place so oddly familar...
A place where the light in me shone so brightly
Through your boldness at times...
I can see with a clarity so clearly
Your pure intentions...
Like the moon sits upon the backdrop
of an Indigo sky so peacefully.

I comprehend the many volumes you speak in silences
and each meaning conveyed in your need to withdrawl...
From your musings thoughtfully abstacted the truth is always surrendered.

My love,
I stand right before you
though miles from your shore.
And yet my soul knows exactly where to look
and how to decipher
the many truths and secrets you have buried
upon the shoreline
deep within each grain of sand
on so many of your solitary walks
along the beach...
Feeling the breeze
wisping softly against your face.
Know you do not walk alone
For these are kisses from me.

I am strong enough to look into the depths of your soul
I see past just your eyes...
I remember the times i spent deciphering
your blank stares.
For what lies past that is the story of the truth today.

I cherish the memories so foreign to you now.
I long to compliment and complete you.
Like the colour of Manganese
One must risk it's toxicity
to truly be able to see and appreciate it's awe. Like the risk in loving what we can't see
We still share the same moon, sun, stars...
Look no further to also find me.

My love,
Try to remember the promise I made to you
for each time we had to depart from here
from oneanother
I vowed to always return to meet you
at our safe haven.

But only once we learned
How to recogonize
and where to look for and find the truth.
The key lies in being ready to hear the truth.

Hidden somewhere between the twilights gleem
and the early morning dawn
Sparkles so many flickers of light
All vying for your undivided attention.
But only one tiny flicker will endure
Choosing the right one
Finding it...
One must go through many tries first
Many trials. But none were in vain.

Yes, you are bright, bold, and a rareity.
Do you even remember where to look for me?
What to do once you find my slumbering soul?

No matter if you do or not
one thing is certain. No matter how far apart
we are in mere miles physically.
We share the same indigo sky...
Under the same full moon in June
Seek the beauty of it's simplicity in its complexity.

I hear a symphony speak to me in your silences.
Love...
Feel the purity in my burning passion for you
and with nothing more to test...
nothing more to question...
Simply feel my beauty as you trust the
feeling of the gentle breeze running through your
hair, body and being.
For under this Moon and Indigo sky
know that it is I that has kissed your face
Like the wind, like that breeze.
You can't see it...until its a tornado
But you can always feel its stirrings first.