nice guys
 

nice guys don't finish last, they are just never finished......

I love seeing a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

-Maya Angelou

“Not only do physically disabled people have experiences which are not available to the able-bodied, they are in a better position to transcend cultural mythologies about the body, because they cannot do things the able-bodied feel they must do in order to be happy, ‘normal,’ and sane….If disabled people were truly heard, an explosion of knowledge of the human body and psyche would take place.” – Susan Wendell

Lead me not into Temptation... i know a short cut follow me.

I could drink a case of you darling
and I’d still be on my feet.

~Joni Mitchell

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.(f)

Rhonda Britten
Founder, Fearless Living Institute

Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both

parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old howard

Humanity i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
you're flush pride keeps

you from the pawn shops and
because you are continually committing
nuisances but more
especially in your own house

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you

ee cummings

When I die if you need to weep
Cry for your brother or sister
Walking the street beside you:
And when you need me put your arms around anyone
And give them what you need to give me.

I want to leave you something -
Something better than words or sounds.

Look for me in the people I've known or loved
And if you cannot give me away
At least let me live in your eyes and not on your mind.

You can love me most by letting hands touch hands;
By letting bodies touch bodies;
And by letting go of children that need to be free.

Love doesn't die; people do.
So when all that's left of me is love,
Give me away.

-Merritt Malloy

"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip." -Jonathan Carroll

being to timelessness as it's to time,
 

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.
Muriel Rukeyser

"she held her grief behind her eyes like an ocean & when she leaned forward into the day it spilled onto the floor & she wiped at it quickly with her foot & pretended no one had seen." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

Two of My very favorites by her.