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"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Lights such as love require more faith than fuel.
Of all leaps, the most dangerous is into the mind of your lover. Regarding miracles: What is less explicable than Remaining in love through the long icy anguish of anger? All lovers long for freedom only slightly less than they fear it. In the end, love burns not desire but fear. Not one of us would be capable of keeping the fire burning Except for the knowledge that it is the sweetest, best, and most beautiful thing in our lives. Dimitri Shostakovich |
-Voltaire
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh. |
I have a button that says this.
"Everything happens for a reason, and the reason is God needs a good laugh."
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A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
~Lillian Gish |
"If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magicbean buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!" -Shel Silverstein
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"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper." -T.S. Eliot
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"Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself."(f)
Gene Simmons |
Robert Frost Snippet
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. |
"To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth."(f)
Jonathan Frid |
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as “crazy,” we see genius. Because the people who are “crazy” enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." —Jack Kerouac
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Aim for the moon...even if you miss you'll land amongst the stars.
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"Every lover in his heart a madman and in his head a minstrel." -Neil Gaiman Stardust
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from Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (Ivan Coyote & Zena Sharman)
"The butch/femme dynamic is a conscious, loving binary of desire and trust; it's a dance of love and outlawed romance. Butches and femmes share a sense of tribe, extended family, and kinship--no matter what our genders might be." Auntie Kate! (Kate Bornstein)
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Audre Lorde said:
"When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining--I'm broadening the joining."
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My new fave femme... & Ivan Coyote's 'better' half!
"In choosing to look the way I do, I experience a privileged sort of femme invisibility, one that enables me to move through the straight world with relative ease...it seems to me that how femmes experience and respond to this kind of invisibility is as diverse as the range of femme identities. The corollary of femme invisibility is what I think of as strategic visibility, those moments in which we choose to out ourselves. Femmes are chameleons, able to blend in or stand up by standing out. We know when to make our colours burn bright for our chosen mates or as a way to disrupt someone's expectations about what a queer person looks like and when to match the wallpaper." The incredibly fabulous ZENA SHARMAN
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and a poem...by Chrystos
Riding in Your Sidekick I slide my hand along your thighs my fingers thrill to the line of your boxers under your levis Suddenly you're standing beside me near our bed your T-shirt & boxers wet with my cunt juice & your delicious I-got-what-I-wanted grin your hand patting my ass which still shivers |
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." ~Victor Frankl |
"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer." ~Shunryu Suzuki |
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." ~William Blake |
"Like a double edged sword, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or it can destroy everything around you."
Don Miguel Ruiz |
Thank you for leading me to Billy Collins
Candle Hat
In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates: Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming in brushstrokes, Van Gogh stares out of a halo of swirling darkness, Rembrant looks relieved as if he were taking a breather from painting The Blinding of Sampson. But in this one Goya stands well back from the mirror and is seen posed in the clutter of his studio addressing a canvas tilted back on a tall easel. He appears to be smiling out at us as if he knew we would be amused by the extraordinary hat on his head which is fitted around the brim with candle holders, a device that allowed him to work into the night. You can only wonder what it would be like to be wearing such a chandelier on your head as if you were a walking dining room or concert hall. But once you see this hat there is no need to read any biography of Goya or to memorize his dates. To understand Goya you only have to imagine him lighting the candles one by one, then placing the hat on his head, ready for a night of work. Imagine him surprising his wife with his new invention, the laughing like a birthday cake when she saw the glow. Imagine him flickering through the rooms of his house with all the shadows flying across the walls. Imagine a lost traveler knocking on his door one dark night in the hill country of Spain. "Come in, " he would say, "I was just painting myself," as he stood in the doorway holding up the wand of a brush, illuminated in the blaze of his famous candle hat. Billy Collins 2003 |
An arrogant heart knows no humility...nor nobility. ~ DW ~ :coffee: :daywalker: |
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. ~Elbert Hubbard
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- Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is Love, enjoy it! - - Sri Sathya Sai Baba - (RIP, November 23, 1926 – April 24, 2011) |
- No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. - – Buddha - |
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ~Wernher Von Braun |
I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to"— Leonard Peltier
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To all you mommas...with all respect in the world
Sacred Words Of Motherhood
I've carried children within my body. Slept with babies on my chest. I've kissed boo boos & mended broken hearts. I've been puked on, peed on, pooped on & spent sleepless nights in the rocking chair. But I wouldn't have it any other way. My body is far from magazine perfect, but when I look in the mirror I see a MOM, & there is no greater honor or blessing!! Joslynn Lurie-Santa Cruz |
Under der linden
an der heide, dâ unser zweier bette was, dâ mugt ir vinden schône beide gebrochen bluomen unde gras. vor dem wald in einem tal, tandaradei, schône sanc diu nahtegal --Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170–c. 1230) |
- The truth is, we make a mistake when we think that generations can be separated. The truth is you need me so that I have shoulders you can stand on, and we need you because you have shoulders somebody else can stand on. We are one. - - Maya Angelou - |
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief . . . and unspeakable love," ~ Washington Irving |
"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment." - Samuel Alexander |
"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding." -Diane Arbus |
"Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood." - Lionel Trilling |
"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide your madness." Allen Ginsberg
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I have seen the future, and they are us.
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Your Daily Dose of Jack Kerouac
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house 4. Be in love with yr life 5. Something that you feel will find its own form 6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 7. Blow as deep as you want to blow 8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind 9. The unspeakable visions of the individual 10. No time for poetry but exactly what is 11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest 12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you 13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition 14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time 15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog 16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye 17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself 18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea 19. Accept loss forever 20. Believe in the holy contour of life 21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind 22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better 23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning 24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge 25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it 26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form 27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness 28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better 29. You're a Genius all the time 30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven |
If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison |
"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.” ~ Paulo Coelho
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