Be Open...

The Path to Success

True, true

To be thought of that way...

 I have never been much of a romantic/sentimental person, but as I find myself going through these changes, stripping off the years of self-protection and giving myself permission to feel without regret, I have discovered that heartfelt does not have to equate to corniness, and wanting to experience the romance does not equate to being needy.

Worth it

Stop overthinking it....

Exactly!

Have to find some friends to do stuff with now.

Need to get some tools.

Not Bitter... Sad

Really now....

 

 

I object to Mary Magdalene still being referred to as a prostitute. She wasn't. It is easy to read up on.... but hard for some people to let go of.

 

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The Power of Poetry

This article is copied from here.

There are those who are born with the gift for crafting words with power as part of their earthly mission providing great inspiration for our minds and our souls. Their works of art come down to us through history and their names are well known. Then there are those of us who, when our paths encounter immense pain, loss, or joy, find no greater comfort than attempting to put our words into verse. Some of these words may become known to a few others, while some remain locked in the pages of our personal journals. Yet they all have the power to heal and help us to grow.

Molly Harrower, author of “The Therapy of Poetry,” wrote, “Poetry is ‘therapy’ and is part and parcel of normal development…. Long before there were therapists there were poets and from time immemorial man has struggled to cope with his inevitable inner turmoil. One way of so coping has been the ballad, the song, the poem. Once crystallized into words, all-engulfing feelings become manageable, and once challenged into explicitness, the burden of the incommunicable becomes less heavy. The very act of creating is a self-sustaining experience, and in the poetic moment the self becomes both the ministering ‘therapist’ and the comforted ‘patient.’”

I wish I knew what passion felt like,
To wake up and feel the passion to be happy and to love.
Passion is the eagerness to wake up with the light.
And passion is what fights the dark every night.
I don’t think I have ever known true passion,
But that wont stop me from seeking it like an impossible mission.
To search for the one that will show me that,
True passion is what life’s really about.

Cristina Richardson

 

I think to live a life with passion, is to truly live life. I want to truly live my life.

I can look back now, and see things with much more clarity than I could in the the middle of the heartache, anger, stress, and anxiety.

"When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to."

Helen Rowland

Be as a bird

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings”
Victor Hugo

Born free

“All good things are wild, and free.” Henry David Thoreau

Winter Solitude

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout

Yeah, that.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot

Slow me down, Lord

"Slow me down, Lord. Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; That there is more to life than increasing it's speed. Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well."

...Oran Crain

Smile anyway

“Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.”

Sometimes things fall apart so something better can fall together. Marilyn Monroe