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Arwen · 06-07-2011, 09:44 AM

“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.” Wayne Dyer

Ms. Meander · 06-07-2011, 10:05 AM

Written by a dear friend, for me, in response to one I sent her (my most recent 9 Words post):

in the evening cloud shadowed meadow
of the brook whose source is unknown
a woman dressed in
tattered thread-web flowing rags
stood swaying with the spires of grasses

most of the passers-by on the road above ...
the one that leads to the city …
saw a beggar and a fool

but the moon, the brook and i
(i, whose heart has been broken
by the kiss of God)
beheld a solitary, a woman of the coven of the wind
a woman who, as is known by the wanderers of the deserts,
is a darvish, a madjub,
a queen in beggars rags,
a soul gifted with the banishment
of those who are by birth forbidden
to walk the road from town to town
and must, therefore, live
in the meadows of the moon
where there is no path to define her way
no sign to distract her view
and only the nourishment of the brook
whose source and destiny is unknowable

Diva · 06-07-2011, 10:21 AM

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! ~Thomas

~William Parsons

gotoseagrl · 06-07-2011, 01:39 PM

"What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be"

Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

gotoseagrl · 06-07-2011, 01:52 PM

"We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups."

Margaret Atwood

gotoseagrl · 06-07-2011, 01:53 PM

"I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?"

Margaret Atwood

CrankyOldGuy · 06-07-2011, 07:38 PM

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny."
- Anonymous

CrankyOldGuy · 06-07-2011, 08:07 PM

"I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think or speak or write with moderation. I am in earnest-- I will not equivocate-- I will not excuse-- I will not retreat a single inch-- AND I WILL BE HEARD!" -William Lloyd Garrison

Tommi · 06-07-2011, 08:58 PM

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

St. Francis of Assisi

FeminineAllure · 06-07-2011, 10:12 PM

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”

Mary Kay Ash

Ms. Meander · 06-08-2011, 03:23 AM

The opening line from one of my favorite films, Off the Map:

"The summer my father was depressed, the face of our lord Jesus Christ appeared on a tortilla at the Taos Junction Cafe."

Ms. Meander · 06-08-2011, 03:40 AM

"We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes."

also:

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."

JakeTulane · 06-08-2011, 05:29 AM

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew." - Saint Francis de Sales

JakeTulane · 06-08-2011, 05:31 AM

"To change one's life:
1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions." - William James

JakeTulane · 06-08-2011, 05:32 AM

"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

The_Lady_Snow · 06-08-2011, 06:47 AM

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

~Paul Newman

Janstevie · 06-08-2011, 06:52 AM

I’m cle’a[ni.ng m'y' ke]yb36oa;rd.

Mr.Nobody · 06-08-2011, 07:11 AM

Never point a finger where you've never lent a hand

theoddz · 06-08-2011, 08:00 AM

"Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul." ~ Unknown

~Theo~

Nat · 06-08-2011, 09:43 AM

"The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees and the earth. Our bodily parts function as a cooperative. When we realize the world is an interdependent cooperative enterprise, that human beings are all mutual friends in the process of old age, suffering and death - then we can build a noble, healthy environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we will all perish." -Buddhadasa

06-07-2011, 09:44 AM	#6681
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,119 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.” Wayne Dyer __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

06-07-2011, 10:05 AM	#6682
Ms. Meander Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Femme Relationship Status: Ethical Nonmonogamist Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Mountains Posts: 1,520 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,706 Thanked 5,214 Times in 1,147 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	In my Inbox this morning Written by a dear friend, for me, in response to one I sent her (my most recent 9 Words post): in the evening cloud shadowed meadow of the brook whose source is unknown a woman dressed in tattered thread-web flowing rags stood swaying with the spires of grasses most of the passers-by on the road above ... the one that leads to the city … saw a beggar and a fool but the moon, the brook and i (i, whose heart has been broken by the kiss of God) beheld a solitary, a woman of the coven of the wind a woman who, as is known by the wanderers of the deserts, is a darvish, a madjub, a queen in beggars rags, a soul gifted with the banishment of those who are by birth forbidden to walk the road from town to town and must, therefore, live in the meadows of the moon where there is no path to define her way no sign to distract her view and only the nourishment of the brook whose source and destiny is unknowable __________________ My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. - Maya Angelou

06-07-2011, 10:21 AM	#6683
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	In memory of PFC Christopher B. Fishbeck, killed yesterday in Iraq On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! ~Thomas ~William Parsons

06-07-2011, 01:39 PM	#6684
gotoseagrl Senior Member How Do You Identify?: old-fashioned queer stone submissive girl Preferred Pronoun?: mermaid, very lucky babygirl Relationship Status: Saltwater mermaid ♡ Join Date: May 2010 Location: CA Posts: 2,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,192 Thanked 6,103 Times in 1,727 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be" Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale) __________________ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence

06-07-2011, 01:52 PM	#6685
gotoseagrl Senior Member How Do You Identify?: old-fashioned queer stone submissive girl Preferred Pronoun?: mermaid, very lucky babygirl Relationship Status: Saltwater mermaid ♡ Join Date: May 2010 Location: CA Posts: 2,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,192 Thanked 6,103 Times in 1,727 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups." Margaret Atwood __________________ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence

06-07-2011, 01:53 PM	#6686
gotoseagrl Senior Member How Do You Identify?: old-fashioned queer stone submissive girl Preferred Pronoun?: mermaid, very lucky babygirl Relationship Status: Saltwater mermaid ♡ Join Date: May 2010 Location: CA Posts: 2,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,192 Thanked 6,103 Times in 1,727 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?" Margaret Atwood __________________ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence

06-07-2011, 07:38 PM	#6687
CrankyOldGuy Member How Do You Identify?: Just the right amount of wrong Preferred Pronoun?: [sic] Basturd Relationship Status: She turns my crank Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Between The Lines Posts: 342 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 110 Thanked 392 Times in 163 Posts Rep Power: 2224210	"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny." - Anonymous __________________ "To say nothing, to do nothing, stops nothing" - Roni McCall, Founder, Through Their Eyes, The National Animal Abuse Registry

06-07-2011, 08:07 PM	#6688
CrankyOldGuy Member How Do You Identify?: Just the right amount of wrong Preferred Pronoun?: [sic] Basturd Relationship Status: She turns my crank Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Between The Lines Posts: 342 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 110 Thanked 392 Times in 163 Posts Rep Power: 2224210	"I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think or speak or write with moderation. I am in earnest-- I will not equivocate-- I will not excuse-- I will not retreat a single inch-- AND I WILL BE HEARD!" -William Lloyd Garrison __________________ "To say nothing, to do nothing, stops nothing" - Roni McCall, Founder, Through Their Eyes, The National Animal Abuse Registry

06-07-2011, 08:58 PM	#6689
Tommi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Usually "Hello" Relationship Status: Married and Bound to Tommi's kaijira (Ts_kaijira ) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Suthun.... California that is. Across the ridge from Laguna Beach. Posts: 8,151 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,621 Thanked 21,338 Times in 5,970 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. St. Francis of Assisi

06-07-2011, 10:12 PM	#6690
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.” Mary Kay Ash __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

06-08-2011, 03:23 AM	#6691
Ms. Meander Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Femme Relationship Status: Ethical Nonmonogamist Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Mountains Posts: 1,520 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,706 Thanked 5,214 Times in 1,147 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	The opening line from one of my favorite films, Off the Map: "The summer my father was depressed, the face of our lord Jesus Christ appeared on a tortilla at the Taos Junction Cafe." __________________ My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. - Maya Angelou

06-08-2011, 03:40 AM	#6692
Ms. Meander Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Femme Relationship Status: Ethical Nonmonogamist Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Mountains Posts: 1,520 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,706 Thanked 5,214 Times in 1,147 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Madeleine L'Engle "We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes." also: "When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable." __________________ My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. - Maya Angelou

06-08-2011, 05:29 AM	#6693
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06-08-2011, 05:31 AM	#6694
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions." - William James

06-08-2011, 05:32 AM	#6695
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

06-08-2011, 06:47 AM	#6696
The_Lady_Snow MILLION $$$ PUSSY How Do You Identify?: Kinky, Raw, Perverted, Uber Queer Alpha Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Iconic Ms. Relationship Status: Keeper of 3, only one has the map to my freckles Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: La Reina del Sur Posts: 22,488 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 32,231 Thanked 80,081 Times in 15,669 Posts Rep Power: 21474874	Happy Pride I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. ~Paul Newman __________________ "If you’re going to play these dirty games of ours, then you might as well indulge completely. It’s all about turning back into an animal and that’s the beauty of it. Place your guilt on the sidewalk and take a blow torch to it (guilt is usually worthless anyway). Be perverted, be filthy, do things that mannered people shouldn’t do. If you’re going to be gross then go for it and don’t wimp out."---Master Aiden

06-08-2011, 06:52 AM	#6697
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06-08-2011, 07:11 AM	#6698
Mr.Nobody Member How Do You Identify?: Niizh manidoowag... Preferred Pronoun?: I prefer amature nouns Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 840 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 370 Thanked 1,528 Times in 536 Posts Rep Power: 15623423	Never point a finger where you've never lent a hand __________________ Noblesse oblige...

06-08-2011, 08:00 AM	#6699
theoddz Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Cranky Old Poop Preferred Pronoun?: Mr. Beast Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Central Texas Posts: 3,537 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,111 Thanked 9,926 Times in 2,509 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	*"Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul."* ~ Unknown *~Theo~* __________________ *"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."* -- J. R. R. Tolkien

06-08-2011, 09:43 AM	#6700
Nat Senior Member How Do You Identify?: bigender (DID System) Preferred Pronoun?: he/him or alter-specific Relationship Status: Unavailable Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Central TX Posts: 3,537 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,047 Thanked 13,970 Times in 2,591 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	"The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees and the earth. Our bodily parts function as a cooperative. When we realize the world is an interdependent cooperative enterprise, that human beings are all mutual friends in the process of old age, suffering and death - then we can build a noble, healthy environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we will all perish." -Buddhadasa __________________ I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. - Bjork What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl