2.28.2004
What I Want From My Life
To laugh often
To sing and dance, and celebrate life with true friends and family
To use my talents to make a difference in the world
To have inner peace and gratitude
To share my life, make love and grow old with a good man
To be One with God
To laugh often
To sing and dance, and celebrate life with true friends and family
To use my talents to make a difference in the world
To have inner peace and gratitude
To share my life, make love and grow old with a good man
To be One with God
2.26.2004
This is a picture from an article called "The Rescuing Hug."
The article details the first week of life of a set of twins.
Apparently, each were in their own respective incubators,
and one was not expected to live.
A hospital nurse fought against hospital rules
and placed the babies in one incubator.
When they were together, the healthier of the two babies
threw an arm over her sister in an endearing embrace.
The smaller baby's heart rate stabilized and her
temperature rose to normal.
Let us not forget to embrace those whom we love
and never underestimate the power of a hug.
Hug someone today!
Share this "hug" with someone . . .
click here.
2.25.2004
"...fear is the self-imposed block to the awareness of love's presence. When fear is released, love is revealed" from Emissary of Love by James Twyman
I know this, and yet still I have fear. Why? Why can't I just let it go. Why am I afraid of loving and not being loved in return? I know that love is it's own reward. So is it my ego that wants to know that I am loved by another? How do I get past this oh-so-human trait of wanting to hear those words "I love you" from another one so loved? And why is it so hard for me to say those words, when they are felt so deeply? Is it fear that keeps my mouth closed, and the words stifled? I'm certain that my eyes must betray my heart, because I cannot look upon him without feeling love.
I know this, and yet still I have fear. Why? Why can't I just let it go. Why am I afraid of loving and not being loved in return? I know that love is it's own reward. So is it my ego that wants to know that I am loved by another? How do I get past this oh-so-human trait of wanting to hear those words "I love you" from another one so loved? And why is it so hard for me to say those words, when they are felt so deeply? Is it fear that keeps my mouth closed, and the words stifled? I'm certain that my eyes must betray my heart, because I cannot look upon him without feeling love.
2.21.2004
Yesterday I met with a friend who's gonna produce a script based on the true story of a 12th century German nun who wrote music and poetry. I got a chill when he told me. Is that just a major coincidence? Could it possibly be? There must have been tons of 12th century German nuns who wrote music and poetry, right? Couldn't be. How strange would that be? But if it is, should I audition for the lead? Do you think anyone would cast me as a 12th century German nun? Nahhhh!
I think it's really strange that I have been both a nun and a prostitute in my past lives. That is bound to have had an impact on my current personality, right? That would explain why my ex-boyfriend used to call me a Perverted Prude. Perhaps I encompass a bit of both extremes? Maybe I had to come back as a prostitute because I was too uptight as a nun? Or maybe I was just trying to make up for lost time!?!?! Perhaps I was a prudish prostitute? Okay, now I'm getting ridiculous.
I think it's really strange that I have been both a nun and a prostitute in my past lives. That is bound to have had an impact on my current personality, right? That would explain why my ex-boyfriend used to call me a Perverted Prude. Perhaps I encompass a bit of both extremes? Maybe I had to come back as a prostitute because I was too uptight as a nun? Or maybe I was just trying to make up for lost time!?!?! Perhaps I was a prudish prostitute? Okay, now I'm getting ridiculous.
Interesting Billboard from Allhatnocattle.net
So how does this work, you offer your date a glass of liquid panty remover? Yeahhh.... that works.
So how does this work, you offer your date a glass of liquid panty remover? Yeahhh.... that works.
2.20.2004
LOVE THIS! SURFING DOLPHINS!
I think I'll come back as a dolphin in my next life.
I think I'll come back as a dolphin in my next life.
2.18.2004
Today was interesting. I actually auditioned for a role today for the first time in a year and a half. It was fun. I was a bit rusty. But that's to be expected. Not likely that I got the role, but that's okay. It was still fun. I should do it more often.
Sometimes I think I am too focused, work too hard, play too little, take life too seriously. I get so caught up in the every day life of writing, raising kids, the suffering in the world, and the quest for truth that I forget to be present now. Sometimes you just gotta lighten up and live in the moment. It's just that there are so many things that I want to accomplish, and it feels like there isn't enough time. I haven't been on a vacation in so long that I can't remember when (Christmas Day & Thanksgiving Day don't count). That's kind of sad. What I need is to rent a house in Rosarito Beach for a week, go out dancing every night. Crash on the beach every day. Not think about anything-- kids, films, screenplays, peace journals, pain of the world, unrequited love...leave it all behind, and just live in the moment for a whole week. Now if I can just find someone who wants to spend a week in paradise with me...
Sometimes I think I am too focused, work too hard, play too little, take life too seriously. I get so caught up in the every day life of writing, raising kids, the suffering in the world, and the quest for truth that I forget to be present now. Sometimes you just gotta lighten up and live in the moment. It's just that there are so many things that I want to accomplish, and it feels like there isn't enough time. I haven't been on a vacation in so long that I can't remember when (Christmas Day & Thanksgiving Day don't count). That's kind of sad. What I need is to rent a house in Rosarito Beach for a week, go out dancing every night. Crash on the beach every day. Not think about anything-- kids, films, screenplays, peace journals, pain of the world, unrequited love...leave it all behind, and just live in the moment for a whole week. Now if I can just find someone who wants to spend a week in paradise with me...
2.15.2004
Today I seem to be picking up on all the pain in the world. And it is overwhelming. Today I learned more about enslaved children in West Africa. Did you know that 43% of the world's cocoa beans comes from West Africa, known to enslave children in the harvest of cocoa beans. Companies like M&M/Mars, and Hersheys are buying these cocoa beans, and we are supporting the whole thing by buying their products. Did you know that there are millions of women and children sold into sex slavery every year.
Some 200,000 Nepali girls, many younger than 14, work as sexual slaves in India.
-The island nation of Sri Lanka has an estimated 10,000 children between the ages of 6 and 14 working in forced prostitution.
-About 10,000 women from the former Soviet Union were forced into prostitution in Israel.
-As many as 50,000 victims a year are trafficked into the United States.
-The number of women and children trafficked worldwide each year, according to estimates by the CIA, could be as high as 2 million.
Child forced into sexual slavery
There are women suffering in sweatshops making as little as 16 cents an hour, working 16 hours a day seven days a week for companies like Nike and Gap, and Disney. Sometimes they die from exhaustion. Our own American soldiers are suffering in Iraq, and the people of Iraq are suffering at the hands of our own American soldiers. And closer to home, our inner city children are suffering from poverty, neglect and lack of a decent education, further enforced because Bush's new budget has cut the few programs that were geared to help educate inner city kids. Our environment and endangered species are at risk because of budget cuts and policies being created by the Bush administration, and the corporations that he represents. I feel overwhelmed by it all, and I find it hard to smile at the clients that sit in front of me today. I find it hard to pretend that everything is all right, and I wonder how we all manage to function in our picture perfect lives when there is so much suffering elsewhere. And I feel so impotent to make a difference. Yes, I sign petitions, and make calls, send faxes, and write letters. But where are the results? It seems like a tiny drop of good in a bucket of evil.
Drissa is a boy in West Africa, forced into slavery by cocoa bean farmers
But I am well aware that there is good in the world too. There are people fighting to raise the consciousness of the world. There are the Psychic Children who pose the question, "What would you do if you knew that you were an emissary of love? Begin now." Indeed, what would we do? If we knew that we are already enlightened, and that we are already perfect, wouldn't we begin acting as enlightened beings? And wouldn't our acting as enlightened beings have a huge impact on the rest of the world? Perhaps it is just that simple. We must drop the veil of separation. Wake up from the dream. Realize who we really are and that we truly are all one. By realizing this, we can realize our potential to truly make a difference in the world. I believe this with all my heart and soul.
The Amazing Book by James Twyman on The Psychic Children
Some 200,000 Nepali girls, many younger than 14, work as sexual slaves in India.
-The island nation of Sri Lanka has an estimated 10,000 children between the ages of 6 and 14 working in forced prostitution.
-About 10,000 women from the former Soviet Union were forced into prostitution in Israel.
-As many as 50,000 victims a year are trafficked into the United States.
-The number of women and children trafficked worldwide each year, according to estimates by the CIA, could be as high as 2 million.
Child forced into sexual slavery
There are women suffering in sweatshops making as little as 16 cents an hour, working 16 hours a day seven days a week for companies like Nike and Gap, and Disney. Sometimes they die from exhaustion. Our own American soldiers are suffering in Iraq, and the people of Iraq are suffering at the hands of our own American soldiers. And closer to home, our inner city children are suffering from poverty, neglect and lack of a decent education, further enforced because Bush's new budget has cut the few programs that were geared to help educate inner city kids. Our environment and endangered species are at risk because of budget cuts and policies being created by the Bush administration, and the corporations that he represents. I feel overwhelmed by it all, and I find it hard to smile at the clients that sit in front of me today. I find it hard to pretend that everything is all right, and I wonder how we all manage to function in our picture perfect lives when there is so much suffering elsewhere. And I feel so impotent to make a difference. Yes, I sign petitions, and make calls, send faxes, and write letters. But where are the results? It seems like a tiny drop of good in a bucket of evil.
Drissa is a boy in West Africa, forced into slavery by cocoa bean farmers
But I am well aware that there is good in the world too. There are people fighting to raise the consciousness of the world. There are the Psychic Children who pose the question, "What would you do if you knew that you were an emissary of love? Begin now." Indeed, what would we do? If we knew that we are already enlightened, and that we are already perfect, wouldn't we begin acting as enlightened beings? And wouldn't our acting as enlightened beings have a huge impact on the rest of the world? Perhaps it is just that simple. We must drop the veil of separation. Wake up from the dream. Realize who we really are and that we truly are all one. By realizing this, we can realize our potential to truly make a difference in the world. I believe this with all my heart and soul.
The Amazing Book by James Twyman on The Psychic Children
2.14.2004
A VALENTINE TO THOSE I LOVE
What you focus on is what expands in your life. It's true. If you put your focus on the negative, then negativity will flow in abundance. If you put your focus on the positive, then you will be surrounded by positive. Today I choose to focus on love; true love in its purest, most unadulterated form, without ego, without condition. Today, I choose to focus on the love I have for so many people in my life. So knowing the rules of focus and expansion, I expect that love will truly expand in my life today. Imagine what might happen if I were to call all the people I love today, and let each one of them know how much I love them. I think that would be an excellent tradition to start on Valentine's Day. Wouldn't be a bad idea every day.
In honor of Valentine's Day, here are some beautiful poems of love, in all its forms.
LOVE IS RECKLESS
Love is reckless; not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Love comes on strong,
consuming herself, unabashed.
Yet, in the midst of suffering,
Love proceeds like a millstone,
hard surfaced and straightforward.
Having died of self-interest,
she risks everything and asks for nothing.
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.
Without cause God gave us Being;
without cause, give it back again.
--Rumi
Those who don't feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,
...let them sleep.
This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
If you want to improve your mind that way,
...sleep on.
I've given up on my brain.
I've torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away.
If you're not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words
around you,
...and sleep.
--Rumi
A lifetime without Love is of no account
Love is the Water of Life
Drink it down with heart and soul!
--Rumi
The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return
--Eden Ahbez, from Nature Boy
SOME PEOPLE
Some people come into our lives
and leave footprints on our hearts
and we are never ever the same.
Some people come into our
lives to teach us about love...
The love that rests within ourselves.
Let us reach out to others
and feel the bliss of giving
for love is far richer in action
than it ever is in words.
Some people come into our lives
and they move our souls to sing
and make our spirits dance.
They help us to see that everything on earth
is part of the incredibility of life...
and that it is always there
for us to take of its joy.
Some people come into our lives
and leave footprints on our hearts
and we are never ever the same.
~by Flavia Weedn~
Unconditional Love
A treasure to be cherished,
A gift from God above;
Is the beauty of a friendship,
Touched by unconditional love.
A love that asks no questions,
Believes in all the best;
Never doubting, ever trusting,
Withstanding any test.
A love that weathers any storm,
And yet that love still stands;
Through the very darkest hour,
It still reaches out a hand.
There in that hand the sweetest gift,
That you can give a friend;
A heart that cares, a love that shares,
That will be there till the end.
A treasure to be cherished,
A gift from God above;
Is what I share with you my friend,
An unconditional love.
~Allison Chambers Coxsey
The Many Faces of Love
What you focus on is what expands in your life. It's true. If you put your focus on the negative, then negativity will flow in abundance. If you put your focus on the positive, then you will be surrounded by positive. Today I choose to focus on love; true love in its purest, most unadulterated form, without ego, without condition. Today, I choose to focus on the love I have for so many people in my life. So knowing the rules of focus and expansion, I expect that love will truly expand in my life today. Imagine what might happen if I were to call all the people I love today, and let each one of them know how much I love them. I think that would be an excellent tradition to start on Valentine's Day. Wouldn't be a bad idea every day.
In honor of Valentine's Day, here are some beautiful poems of love, in all its forms.
LOVE IS RECKLESS
Love is reckless; not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Love comes on strong,
consuming herself, unabashed.
Yet, in the midst of suffering,
Love proceeds like a millstone,
hard surfaced and straightforward.
Having died of self-interest,
she risks everything and asks for nothing.
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.
Without cause God gave us Being;
without cause, give it back again.
--Rumi
Those who don't feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,
...let them sleep.
This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
If you want to improve your mind that way,
...sleep on.
I've given up on my brain.
I've torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away.
If you're not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words
around you,
...and sleep.
--Rumi
A lifetime without Love is of no account
Love is the Water of Life
Drink it down with heart and soul!
--Rumi
The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return
--Eden Ahbez, from Nature Boy
SOME PEOPLE
Some people come into our lives
and leave footprints on our hearts
and we are never ever the same.
Some people come into our
lives to teach us about love...
The love that rests within ourselves.
Let us reach out to others
and feel the bliss of giving
for love is far richer in action
than it ever is in words.
Some people come into our lives
and they move our souls to sing
and make our spirits dance.
They help us to see that everything on earth
is part of the incredibility of life...
and that it is always there
for us to take of its joy.
Some people come into our lives
and leave footprints on our hearts
and we are never ever the same.
~by Flavia Weedn~
Unconditional Love
A treasure to be cherished,
A gift from God above;
Is the beauty of a friendship,
Touched by unconditional love.
A love that asks no questions,
Believes in all the best;
Never doubting, ever trusting,
Withstanding any test.
A love that weathers any storm,
And yet that love still stands;
Through the very darkest hour,
It still reaches out a hand.
There in that hand the sweetest gift,
That you can give a friend;
A heart that cares, a love that shares,
That will be there till the end.
A treasure to be cherished,
A gift from God above;
Is what I share with you my friend,
An unconditional love.
~Allison Chambers Coxsey
The Many Faces of Love
2.11.2004
I found this poem unexpectedly today, and it really moved me. The uncertainty of new love, the excitement, the discovery, the frustration and the fear. Never quite knowing what comes next...
COMMUNION
We've left shore somehow
Become the friends
Of early theory
Close enough to speak
Desire and pain of absence
Of mistakes we'd make
Given the chance.
Each smile returned
Makes harder avoiding
Dreams that see us
Lying in early evening
Curtain shadows, skin
Safe against skin.
Bloom of compassion
Respect for moments
Eyes lock turns
Forever into one more
Veil that falls away.
This after seeing you
Last night, first time
Smelling you with
Permission; Shoulders to
Wonder openly at
As carefully kissed
As those arms
Waited impossibly on.
They've held me now
And your breath
Down my back
Sent away night air
That had me shaking
In the unlit anglican
Doorway.
Are we ruined for
Finding our faces fit
And want to know more
About morning? Is
Friendship cancelled
If we can't call
Each other anymore
In amnesia, invite
Ourselves to last glances
Under suspicious clocks
Telling us when we've
Had enough?
Your steady hands
Cradling my grateful
Skull: were you taking
In my face to
Save an image
You've rarely allowed
Yourself after leaving
That cold alcove?
Am I a photograph
You gaze at in
Moments of weakness?
You ordered me
Off my knees
Into your arms.
Wasn't to beg
That I knelt; only
To see you once
From below.
Tried to say something
That filled my mouth
And longed to rest
In your ear.
Don't dare write
It down for fear it'll
Become words, just
Words.
(1999-2002)
Viggo Mortensen
COMMUNION
We've left shore somehow
Become the friends
Of early theory
Close enough to speak
Desire and pain of absence
Of mistakes we'd make
Given the chance.
Each smile returned
Makes harder avoiding
Dreams that see us
Lying in early evening
Curtain shadows, skin
Safe against skin.
Bloom of compassion
Respect for moments
Eyes lock turns
Forever into one more
Veil that falls away.
This after seeing you
Last night, first time
Smelling you with
Permission; Shoulders to
Wonder openly at
As carefully kissed
As those arms
Waited impossibly on.
They've held me now
And your breath
Down my back
Sent away night air
That had me shaking
In the unlit anglican
Doorway.
Are we ruined for
Finding our faces fit
And want to know more
About morning? Is
Friendship cancelled
If we can't call
Each other anymore
In amnesia, invite
Ourselves to last glances
Under suspicious clocks
Telling us when we've
Had enough?
Your steady hands
Cradling my grateful
Skull: were you taking
In my face to
Save an image
You've rarely allowed
Yourself after leaving
That cold alcove?
Am I a photograph
You gaze at in
Moments of weakness?
You ordered me
Off my knees
Into your arms.
Wasn't to beg
That I knelt; only
To see you once
From below.
Tried to say something
That filled my mouth
And longed to rest
In your ear.
Don't dare write
It down for fear it'll
Become words, just
Words.
(1999-2002)
Viggo Mortensen
THEN COMES CHANGE
There are moments when life is gold, and all things seem possible.
Embraced by love of family, lover & friends, immersed in peace.
Then comes change. Lovers leave. Friends move on.
I silently grieve, for those moments gone.
Then comes change; bringing new friends, new love, new moments.
Then comes change, and again I grieve.
But one thing will never change; the love I carry for those
who remain in my heart... forever
-Erica
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay
-Robert Frost
Gustav Klimt - Danae
There are moments when life is gold, and all things seem possible.
Embraced by love of family, lover & friends, immersed in peace.
Then comes change. Lovers leave. Friends move on.
I silently grieve, for those moments gone.
Then comes change; bringing new friends, new love, new moments.
Then comes change, and again I grieve.
But one thing will never change; the love I carry for those
who remain in my heart... forever
-Erica
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay
-Robert Frost
Gustav Klimt - Danae
2.10.2004
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. I am, apparently, insane.
Me, imprisoned by ego
They also say that you can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it. I guess I better work on changing my mind. But how? How do you change the way that you perceive something? Perhaps the problem lies only in my perception, and not in reality. Perhaps my perception is clouded by ego. Bring light to darkness, and darkness disappears. Bring spirit to ego, and ego disappears. Therein lies the answer. Spirit.
Me, imprisoned by ego
They also say that you can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it. I guess I better work on changing my mind. But how? How do you change the way that you perceive something? Perhaps the problem lies only in my perception, and not in reality. Perhaps my perception is clouded by ego. Bring light to darkness, and darkness disappears. Bring spirit to ego, and ego disappears. Therein lies the answer. Spirit.
2.08.2004
Sometimes With One I Love
Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage
for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
But now I think there is no unreturn'd love,
the pay is certain one way or another,
(I loved a certain person ardently and
my love was not return'd,
Yet out of that I have written these songs.)
-Walt Whitman
Unrequited Love
Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage
for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
But now I think there is no unreturn'd love,
the pay is certain one way or another,
(I loved a certain person ardently and
my love was not return'd,
Yet out of that I have written these songs.)
-Walt Whitman
Unrequited Love
2.06.2004
I know that I have lived many lives before. I have memories of four different lifetimes. A vestal virgin in ancient Rome, where I broke my vows, and paid dearly for it. A nun in Germany who wrote music and poetry. The daughter of a cruel plantation owner just before the civil war. A jazz singer/prostitute from New Orleans with an addiction to drugs and alcohol. Though these lives were very diverse, they all had an element of loneliness. I spent a great deal of time in solitude. In not one of those lifetimes, did I have a spouse or family. In the one lifetime where I had a child, I had to give her up. I have much to be thankful for in this lifetime. I am rich with family, and I have three beautiful children. Though I have not yet been lucky in love in this lifetime,(I still have hope), I have never truly been alone either. In this lifetime I have experienced true happiness. And I know that there are lessons to be learned in this lifetime.
1. Never make decisions from a place of fear, only from love.
2. Have no expectations; be unattached to the outcome.
3. Love unconditionally, always.
4. Be patient; everything happens in its own time. Not on my time.
5. Be present in each moment.
6. See the beauty of God in every person.
If I can learn these lessons, I will live a rich life, and leave this earth a better place for having been here.
A vestal virgin
A German Nun
A Southern Belle
A Jazz Singer
1. Never make decisions from a place of fear, only from love.
2. Have no expectations; be unattached to the outcome.
3. Love unconditionally, always.
4. Be patient; everything happens in its own time. Not on my time.
5. Be present in each moment.
6. See the beauty of God in every person.
If I can learn these lessons, I will live a rich life, and leave this earth a better place for having been here.
A vestal virgin
A German Nun
A Southern Belle
A Jazz Singer
2.03.2004
Today I couldn't stop thinking about all the madness in the world. Our own government lying to its citizens in order to create a war for corporations to profit from. Our country destroying another country, killing innocent citizens, terrorizing the citizens that are trying to survive. Our own young men dying needlessly. What has the United States become? Who is the terrorist now? It's obvious who is pulling the puppet strings of the president, isn't it?
Oil companies and weapons manufacturers. What are we as citizens of the US doing? How are we allowing this to happen? It is critical for all of us to take a stand for what is right. To do whatever is our own personal power, get involved, march for peace, sign petitions, support moveon.org, support truemajority.org, support James Twyman's emissaryoflight.com, and anything else that we can do to make a difference. The words of John Lennon's song Imagine kept going through my head today.
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
Written by: John Lennon
© Bag productions inc.
Click here to listen to John Lennon singing Imagine
Oil companies and weapons manufacturers. What are we as citizens of the US doing? How are we allowing this to happen? It is critical for all of us to take a stand for what is right. To do whatever is our own personal power, get involved, march for peace, sign petitions, support moveon.org, support truemajority.org, support James Twyman's emissaryoflight.com, and anything else that we can do to make a difference. The words of John Lennon's song Imagine kept going through my head today.
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
Written by: John Lennon
© Bag productions inc.
Click here to listen to John Lennon singing Imagine
2.01.2004
Tonight I stood on top of the mountain, and cried out to the heavens, "Father, take this pain from my heart." Somewhere in the depths of me, I know that my plight can be reckoned to that of a child crying from a skinned knee, while his parents smile down at him indulgently, knowing that everything is going to be all right, just as my father smiles down at me, indulgently, knowing that everything is going be all right. And even though I know this, my heart, like the skinned knee, is still hurting.
I hiked up to the top of the mountain to watch the sunset, and then hiked back down in the dark, with the lights of the city shining from below. One of my favorite things to do. There's something about being in nature, breathing in the fresh air, the smell of soil, and plants, and wild things that makes me feel more in tune with my soul, and with the entire universe.
I hiked up to the top of the mountain to watch the sunset, and then hiked back down in the dark, with the lights of the city shining from below. One of my favorite things to do. There's something about being in nature, breathing in the fresh air, the smell of soil, and plants, and wild things that makes me feel more in tune with my soul, and with the entire universe.
