R.E.M.embering

“All things are strange which are worth knowing.” ~ Catherynne M. Valente from In the Cities of Coin and Spice

Dive Into the Emptiness

When the world ends 

collect your things you're 

coming with me. 

~ Favorite DMB Lyrics. 

Ever. 

Worthy of Repeating*

No journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.
~ Lillian Smith

*93 Million Times

He will “give us gladness in proportion to our former misery ” and “replace the ego* years with good”. ~ Psalm 90:15

*Evil. 
Yes. I'm notorious for my own translation of the Bible. 

Faith's Fate

"AUTISM Means I Won't Lead An Ordinary Life.... I Can Lead An Extraordinary Life!" ~ An Unknown Hero

Two Funny

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” ~ Charles Lamb

The Telling of Things

SADE - By Your Side


Memory is a child walking along a seashore.  You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.  ~Pierce Harris

Hymn

If trouble hearing angels' song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart. ~ Terri Guillemets

Every Day is Yours to Win

Every day is new again. Every day is yours to win.
And that's how heroes are made. ~ R.E.M.

She's Way Out There

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~ Virginia Burden

Where You'll Find Me

There's no shame in being crazy...

Blue Skies

”It’s not what you are that holds you back. It’s what you think
you’re not.” Denis Waitley

Free to Be a Tree

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.





So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.” ~ Hermann Hesse

Under His Direction

Your conclusion that there isn't enough of something—whether it is enough land, or money, or clarity—stems from you learning, without meaning to, a vibration that holds you apart from what you want. There is no limitation. If you identify a desire for it, Source recognizes your desire, and immediately begins to deliver it to you. And it will manifest in the variety, in the fullness, and in the way that you, and only you, learn to (joyfully) allow it. ~ Abraham

Home

For those of you who are open and willing to accept this evolutionary process, there will be less chaos and confusion in your lives. By not viewing this new existence as being in conflict with your present reality, you can emerge unscathed from this dynamic and transitional period. Be unattached to the old paradigms in your life and be open to the new ones emerging, and you will sail the seas of consciousness easily into the port of a new reality. During this period of time, every obstacle you encounter has an answer. Each challenge you face can be overcome. You are realigning your lives to a new compass, heading towards a “new world” yet to be seen. ~ Ships of Song, The Frontier of a New Reality

Free Bird

"It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living." ~ Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992

Say Goodnight, Gracie

Gracie: Don't give up, Blanche. Women don't do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington -- they didn't give up. Look at Nina Jones.


Blanche: Nina Jones?


Gracie: I've never heard of her either, because she gave up!

Solemn Solstice

“Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.” 

 ~ David Foster Wallace

"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit."  ~Emmanuel

“A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.” ~ C. JoyBell C.

From 3M To 4D

Humanity needs a new story, 

like a mythic tale 

about how people woke up one day 

and realized 

magic was all around them. 

~ Marianne Williamson

Back Words

"Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big."

~ Kate Greenaway

Robin Hugh Gibb (December 22, 1949 – May 20, 2012)

Write A Song

Don't push yourself to try to be right in everything cause sometimes being wrong make you a better person. ~ Anon

Four Letter Words

LOVE

HOPE

"I am not my brother's keeper. I Am my brother."
~ Iyanla Vanzant

HOLY

Solid Ground

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." ~ Victor Hugo

Just For the Record

The meaning of Good Friday: every pain you've ever experienced. The meaning of Easter: the way love has healed your heart, and always will. ~ Marianne Williamson



Eggbert the Easter Egg
Was a teeny little Easter Egg.
Cutest thing you ever saw
In the window of a big department store.
All day the children came.
Noses pressed against the window pane.
Spoke to Eggbert but Alas,
Eggbert cried because he couldn't answer back
But all at once the clouds rolled by
To let the sun shine through
Believe it or not!!!
It got so hot that Eggbert split it TWO
Out popped a baby chick.
A teeny weeny little baby chick.
And the children heard him say
"Eggbert wishes you a Happy Easter Day!"

Got To Hat It To Him

I always thought this song was The Bomb.

Human Watching

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The Biggest of the Little Things

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive!

~ Eleonora Duse

Stillness

No journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.
~ Lillian Smith

Shine On Girl! Haha...

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men* are afraid of the light.” ~ Plato

*or women or recovering ninjas. :)

Wordless Narratives

"Find new shapes within shapes that were found."
~ Art Student

Life As Its Own Art

“I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.” ~ Salvador Dali

Ding!

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe. ~ Albert Schweitzer

Fox's Den~drology

"I've grown a handsome tall tree, mother. And I want to bear a fruit for you.

And I've carried your fears and your hopes, father. I will conquer them for me and you."

~ Niki & The Dove

She Believes In Miracles

"A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous...full of beauty and forever beautiful...loving and caring and truly amazing." ~ Deanna Beisser

John Mayer - Daughters (Official Music Video).

A Song for the Real Me

“Follow your dream no matter how absurd, farfetched, wild or crazy you might think it to be. For in reality, (wo)man has no limitations. In the pursuit of your dream, you get to meet the real you.” ~ Anon

You Are The Poem

"So the dream can be the beginning of a poem." ~ Anais Nin
A Woman Speaks

Her Inner Voice

Wherever There Is Beauty

Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. ~ Tolle

Reading Voices

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ~ Gilbert Highet

The Art of Perceiving

Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art. — Ezra Pound