"To get ahead in life, you have to learn to saddle your own horse."

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

~Edmund Burke~

I Crave Your Mouth - Pablo Neruda




I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent, starving I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disquiets me,
I search the liquid sound of your steps all day.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
For your hands the color of the wild grain,
I hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your loveliness,
The nose, sovereign of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

And I walk hungry, smelling the twilight
Looking for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barren wilderness.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. ~Stephen R. Covey

THE SHEPHERD
 

ENDURANCE
"Can thy heart endure?
Ezek. 22:14

At times when you are not secure...
Determine that you will endure...
When Hate and Persecution make...
Your lot seem worse than you can take...
Don't panic or curse back or quit...
Be patient, calm, and stick with it...
Right will prevail, have Faith and Hope...
And with God's help endure and cope...
With bitter and false accusation...
And overcome Hate's condemnation.
Julien C. Hyer

“Courage is not living without fear. Courage is being scared to death, but doing the right thing anyway. -Unknown”

First Snow, (Excerpted from American Primitive), Mary Oliver

The snow
began here
this morning and all day
continued, its white
rhetoric everywhere
calling us back to why, how,
whence such beauty and what
the meaning; such
an oracular fever! flowing
past windows, an energy it seemed
would never ebb, never settle
less than lovely! and only now,
deep into night,
it has finally ended.
The silence
is immense,
and the heavens still hold
a million candles, nowhere
the familiar things:
stars, the moon,
the darkness we expect
and nightly turn from. Trees
glitter like castles
of ribbons, the broad fields
smolder with light, a passing
creek bed lies
heaped with shining hills;
and though the questions
that have assailed us all day
remain — not a single
answer has been found –
walking out now
into the silence and the light
under the trees,
and through the fields,
feels like one.

In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

Rob Brezsny

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click—you’re comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything. ~ Alexandra Adornetto

Mistakes are proof that you are trying. ~Anonymous

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ~Chuck Palahniuk

It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. ~ Lillian Hellman

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. ~ Stephen Hawking

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. --Antisthenes

"Never turn your back on something you love."- Unknown


“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”
― Marilyn Vos Savant


“Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my father would have done. If I can't be with him, the least I can do is act like him sometimes.” - Unknown

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb

COMPARISON is the thief of joy -Theodor Roosevelt