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"We are people who need to love, because
Love is the soul's life,
Love is simply creation's greatest joy."
Hafiz

These Heroics by Leonard Cohen
 

If I had a shining head
and people turned to stare at me
in the streetcars;
and I could stretch my body
through the bright water
and keep abreast of fish and water snakes;
if I could ruin my feathers
in flight before the sun;
do you think that I would remain in this room,
reciting poems to you,
and making outrageous dreams
with the smallest movements of your mouth?

" I am a forgiver not a collector of hurts." -Unknown

“You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.” ― Julia Spencer-Fleming


“I don't enter into a relationship, hoping to change someone. I want my partner to be consistent. That they won't make impromptu impossible demands or baffle me with sudden-onset hysterical behavior.”
― Valerie Frankel

Blood red and dangerous. Yet, desirable.
 

Acceptance is the key to everything...

It is? .............

True love doesn’t have a happy ending because true love never ends.

Diving Into The Wreck
-- Adrienne Rich (1972)


First having read the book of myths,
and loaded the camera,
and checked the edge of the knife-blade,
I put on
the body-armor of black rubber
the absurd flippers
the grave and awkward mask.
I am having to do this
not like Costeau with his
assiduous team
aboard the sun-flooded schooner
but here alone.

There is a ladder,
The ladder is always there
hanging innocently
close to the side of the schooner.
We know what it is for,
we who have used it.
Otherwise,
it is a piece of maritime floss
some sundry equipment.

I go down,
Rung after rung and still
the oxygen immerses me
the blue light
the clear atoms
of our human air.
I go down,
My flippers cripple me,
I crawl like an insect down the ladder
and there is no one
to tell me where the ocean
will begin.

First the air is blue and then
it is bluer and then green and then
black I am blacking out and yet
my mask is powerful
it pumps my blood with power
the sea is another story
the sea is not the question of power
I have to learn alone
to trust my body without force
in the deep element.

And now: it is easy to forget
what I came for
among so many who have always
lived here
swaying their crenellated fans
between the reefs
and besides
you breathe differently down here.

I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail.
I stroke the beam of my lamp
slowly along the flank
of something more permanent
than fish or weed.

The thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
the drowned faced staring
toward the sun
the evidence of damage
worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty
the ribs of disaster
curving their assertion
among the tentative haunters.

This is the place.
And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair
streams black, the merman in his armored body.
We circle silently
about the wreck
we dive into the hold.
I am she: I am he
whose drowned face sleeps with open eyes
whose breasts still bear the stress
whose silver, copper, vermei cargo lies
obscurely inside the barrels
half-wedged and let to rot
we are the half-destroyed instruments
that once held to a course
the water-beaten log
the fouled compass

We are, I am, you are
by cowardice or courage
the one who find our way
back to this scene
carrying a knife, a camera
a book of myths
in which
our name do not appear.

Quotes
 

1) Take risks;if you win youll be happy,if you lose youll be wise. 2)One day your life will flash before your eyes.Make sure its worth watching. 3)You change your life by changing your heart. 4)The key to change is letting go of fear.

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"Fear...is life's only true opponent. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always....disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt....So you must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you."
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear” ― Jon Bon Jovi



Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
― Ally Condie


“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
― Paulo Coelho

"Chance is the fool's name for Fate."
~Fred Astaire

"Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen."
~Marcia Weider

___steps in quietly___