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Late Spring ~ W.S. Merwin
Coming into the high room
again after years
after oceans and
shadows of hills
and the sounds of lies
after losses and feet on stairs
after looking and mistakes
and forgetting
turning there thinking to find
no one except those I knew
finally I saw you
sitting in white
already waiting
you of whom I had heard
with my own ears
since the beginning
for whom more than once
I had opened the door
believing you were not far
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Josh Groban - You Are Loved
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A perfectly healthy sentence,
it is true, is extremely rare.
For the most part
we miss the hue
and fragrance of the thought;
as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors,
or the heavens
without their azure.â€
~Henry David Thoreau
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April 2008 Spring Flowers, Nassau County Museum of Art
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~ Ode to Lady Slippers ~
Cutting through the dawn mist,
Entering darkened forest vast,
Wandering in the quietude.
Solitude so divine,
Time stood still,
and dared not pass.
Wandering through
bramble and thorn,
Clothing snagged,
But heart untorn.
I come upon a clearing
where sunbeams are born.
And miracle to
my eye did appear,
A place the wood nymphs
did surely play.
In my quiet tramplings,
I did certainly
frighten them away.
but vision of visions,
behind their Slippers did lay!
~ dEj(C) 02.06.2008
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Most folks are about
as happy as they make
up their minds to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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CURRENT MOON moon phases
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Love All!,
Trust Few,
Harm None
~ dEj(c)
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In every life should come the recognition,
That in order to truly live,
One must trust more in the unknown
Than in the known. After all,
The most beautiful experiences in life,
Have evolved from the formerly unknown.
~ dEj 11.03.07
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We all wear our masques for different reasons at different times, but we all wear masques.
dEj
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Summer 2007 vacation photos
MUSIC VIDEO FOR HOPE! – Marina V
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The Road Not Taken ~ Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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So much to be Thankful for ~ Josh Groban
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we had planned, so as to have the life that is waiting.
~ Joseph Campbell
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We are never truly nurtured by neglect, indifference,
nor feigned appreciation, but rather by the reflections of love of life
we experience in and through each other.
~ dEj(c)
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To laugh often and much;
to win respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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IN MEMORY OF MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER - A TRUE HERO ~1981-2007~************************
THE ROSE STILL
GROWS BEYOND THE WALL
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Near a shady wall a rose once grew,
Budded and blossomed in God's free light,
Watered and fed by morning dew,
Shedding its sweetness day and night.
As it grew and blossomed fair and tall,
Slowly rising to loftier height,
It came to a crevice in the wall,
Through which there shone a beam of light.Onward it crept with added strength,
With never a thought of fear or pride,
It followed the light through the crevice's length,
And unfolded itself on the other side.The light, the dew, the broadening view
Were found the same as they were before;
And it lost itself in beauties new,
Breathing its fragrance more and more.Shall claim of death cause us to grieve,
And make our courage faint or fail?
Nay! Let us faith and hope receive:
The rose still grows beyond the wall.Scattering fragrance far and wide,
Just as it did in days of yore,
Just as it did on the other side,
Just as it will for evermore.
~ A. L. Frink
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Josh Groban on Dancing With the Stars sings "So She Dances"
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I am full of love today
Come look into my eyes, and lets go off
Sailing, my dear, on a long ocean ride.
This world will not touch you
I will keep you snug upon my seat.
Let’s plot this evening to make the moon jealous
With a radiance leaping from your cheek.
I will be full of love this night
Come look into these ancient eyes!
And let’s go off sailing, my dear,
With our spirits intertwined.
Your body is just an old sandbar
In a speeding hourglass of time.
Love will turn the moth of sorrow
Right side up.
Let your heart commence its destined
Laughing chime!
Come look into the playful eyes of my verse
They are eternally branded
Branded with the Sun.
~ Hafiz
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Sarah McLachlan - In The Arms Of The Angel
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Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of earth. The light shines down, and a bud breaks, branches give way before us, a book's leaves open, and our eyes look, look again. We are a grove, companions spared to be on earth at the same time. The trees - though not our kind - are kin, elder relatives standing to greet us.
~ Kim Stafford
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