tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-02:2700338INTERESTING TIMESare better than no times at all.liveonearth2019-06-17T21:39:52Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-02:2700338:1405691QotD: Life Will Break You2019-06-17T21:36:53Z2019-06-17T21:39:52Zpublic0 <em><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.</span><br style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></em><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">~ Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum</span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=liveonearth&ditemid=1405691" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-02:2700338:1404909QotD: Dickey on the River2019-03-29T15:25:48Z2019-03-29T15:26:14Zpublic0<em>The river and everything I remembered<br />about it became a possession to me,<br />a personal, private possession, as nothing<br />else in my life ever had. Now it ran<br />nowhere but in my head, but there<br />it ran as though immortally....<br />In me it still is, and will be until I die,<br />green, rocky, deep, fast, slow, and<br />beautiful beyond reality.</em><br />--James Dickey in <u>Deliverance</u> <br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=liveonearth&ditemid=1404909" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-02:2700338:1400126QotD: A Crack in Everything2018-11-11T16:09:19Z2018-11-11T16:09:19Zpublic0 <p class="p1"> </p><p class="p1"><em><span style="font-size: larger;"><span class="s1">Ring the bells that still can ring</span></span></em></p><p class="p2"><em><span style="font-size: larger;"><span class="s1">Forget your perfect offering<br />There is a crack, a crack in everything<br />That's how the light gets in. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></em><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /><br /></span>---Leonard Cohen (Anthem)</span></p><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=liveonearth&ditemid=1400126" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-02:2700338:1390345QotD: Lakota Namaste2018-02-20T05:44:49Z2018-02-20T05:44:49Zpublic0"<span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Upon suffering beyond suffering; the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will will gather under the sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become one circle again. In that day there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things, and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be as one." <br />--Crazy Horse</span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=liveonearth&ditemid=1390345" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-02:2700338:1388946QotD: Gratitude Unlocks Fullness2018-02-04T02:16:41Z2018-02-04T02:16:41Zpublic0<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: larger;"><span class="s1">Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. <br />It turns what we have into enough, and more. <br />It turns denial into acceptance, <br />chaos to order, confusion to clarity. <br />It can turn a meal into a feast, <br />a house into a home, <br />a stranger into a friend.<br /></span></span><span class="s1"><br />-- Melody Beattie</span></p><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=liveonearth&ditemid=1388946" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-02:2700338:1387418QotD: Act2018-01-12T19:36:17Z2018-01-12T19:36:17Zpublic0<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><span style="font-size: large;">"Do not wait<br />for leaders;<br />do it alone, <br />person to person."</span><br />--Mother Teresa</span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=liveonearth&ditemid=1387418" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-02:2700338:1383142Poem: Why I Wake Early2017-11-08T19:49:00Z2017-11-08T19:49:00Zpublic0<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Hello, sun in my face.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Hello, you who make the morning</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">and spread it over the fields</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">and into the faces of the tulips</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">and the nodding morning glories,</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">and into the windows of, even, the</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">miserable and crotchety–</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">best preacher that ever was,</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">dear star, that just happens</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">to be where you are in the universe</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">to keep us from ever-darkness,</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">to ease us with warm touching,</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">to hold us in the great hands of light–</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">good morning, good morning, good morning.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Watch, now, how I start the day</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in happiness, in kindness.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><br /></span></p><br /><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"> - Mary Oliver</span><div><br /> </div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=liveonearth&ditemid=1383142" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-02:2700338:1380217Poem OTD: Tiny Frightening Requests2017-08-23T17:14:38Z2017-08-23T17:14:38Zpublic0 <span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">SOMETIMES</span><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14px;">Sometimes<br />if you move carefully<br />through the forest,</p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-size: 14px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: inherit;">breathing<br />like the ones<br />in the old stories,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">who could cross<br />a shimmering bed of leaves<br />without a sound,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">you come<br />to a place<br />whose only task</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">is to trouble you<br />with tiny<br />but frightening requests,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">conceived out of nowhere<br />but in this place<br />beginning to lead everywhere.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">Requests<br />to stop what<br />you are doing<br />right now,<br />and</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">to stop what you<br />are becoming<br />while you do it,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">questions<br />that can make<br />or unmake<br />a life,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">questions<br />that have patiently<br />waited for you,</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">questions<br />that have no right<br />to go away.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: inherit;">~ David Whyte</p></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=liveonearth&ditemid=1380217" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2017-01-02:2700338:1376973QotD: Because There Was Light Before2017-07-13T19:45:49Z2017-07-13T19:45:49Zpublic0It's so much darker <br />when a light goes out <br />than it would have been <br />if it had never shone. <br />--John Steinbeck<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=liveonearth&ditemid=1376973" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments