Blessed be...
 

Like a Phoenix from the Ashes...
 

Here is one that was said to me as a young kid. Not sure of it's origin...perhaps German/Irish/Southern/Mid-western (South Dakota).
Trust me it's weird.

"Darkabus, nightabus norn a light shorum. Boy climabus gatemus, breetemus torum."

Anyone else run into this poem, limerick or whatever it is. Was said to kids at night in lieu or a ghost story so to not scare the child.

Anyone know anything about this???

Happy Birthday Emily Dickinson
 

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."


“Saying nothing sometimes says the most.”


-Emily Dickinson

December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886

We can build castles with the stones that life throws at us.

—Erica Crompton, freelance writer and mental health campaigner from Staffordshire, England

A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.

—Editorial Board, USA Today, December 12, 2017
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...tes/945947001/

Omarosa has left the building...
 

Bye Felisha

— Robin Roberts, showing her disdain and disgust for Omarosa Manigault on today's Good Morning America talk show.

"I am part of the problem ... I paid for peace of mind," he wrote. "I paid for her silence and cooperation. Most of all, I paid so I could remain who I was."

—Morgan Spurlock, 'Super Size Me' filmmaker admitting to sexual misconduct.
https://www.facebook.com/MorganSpurl...95648287234595

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both
cleanse you.

— natural

(Nayyirah Waheed)

if you are to love...
 

attic...
 

magik...
 

“...in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us, we love the flowers, the grass, the waters, and the sky. In the motion of the very leaves of spring, in the blue air, there is then found a secret correspondence with our heart.”

P.B. Shelley, On Love.

Happy Solstice
 

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus


....the light returns, it always does.

“But the Queen Arwen said: 'A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him now when he departs to the Havens; for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so I have chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. But in my stead you shall go, Ring-bearer, when the time comes, and if you then desire it. If your hurts grieve you still and the memory or your burden is heavy, then you may pass into the West, until all your wounds and weariness are healed. But wear this now in memory of Elfstone and Evenstar with whom your life has been woven!'

And she took a white gem like a star that lay upon her breast hanging upon a silver chain, and she set the chain around Frodo's neck. 'When the memory of the fear and the darkness troubles you,' she said, 'this will bring you aid.”

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King (Lord of the Rings book 3)

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves... regret for the past and fear of the future.”

~Fulton Oursler