“When I first met him, I knew in a moment I would have to spend the next few days re-arranging my mind so there’d be room for him to stay.” ~Brian Andreas, Story People

Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars.

THE EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS.

ROLL OUT THOSE LAZY, HAZY, CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER.

“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.”

GOOD FRIENDS, GOOD BOOKS AND A SLEEPY CONSCIENCE: THIS IS THE IDEAL LIFE.

"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water." 

"But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to...nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"

"I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead." 

"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you." 

"Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, 

I honor the divinity that resides within me."

SOMETHING I OFTEN STRUGGLE WITH...

"Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss." 

"I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises." 

“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”

A smile at the right moment

can act like sunlight

on a closed up flower.

It may be the turning point

for a struggling life.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the

stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is

clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you perceive him to

be, and whatever your aspirations in the noisy confusion of

life, keep peace with your soul.

With all of it's sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

It is the summer of my smiles.

THE SPOON

Some days I think I need nothing

more in life than a spoon.

With a spoon I can eat oatmeal

Or take the medicine doctors prescribe

I can swat a fly sleeping on the sill 

or pound the table to get attention.

I can point accusingly at God 

or stab the empty air repeatedly.

Looking into the spoon’s mirror,

I can study my face in its shiny bowl,

or cover one eye to make half the world

disappear. With a spoon

I can dig a tunnel to freedom

spoonful by spoonful of dirt,

or waste life catching moonlight

and flinging it into the blackest night.

-- Richard Jones

I'm sorry I let you down,

but you have to know this

the part of me that you have

means more than all the parts they have

and if you still want me,

I'm all yours.

BE WEIRD.

The fish said: "I can't see my tears because I'm in the water." 

The water said: "I can feel your tears because you're in my heart"

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

PEACH

If a little mushroom guy

told me you were in

another castle

...I'd go to another castle

and another

and another

until I found you.

You are a smiling star

that makes me feel

invincible,

and in any other poem

a sentiment like that

could choke an ox,

but in this one,

it's just awesome.

When I'm standing

next to you

you could tell me

the bushes and the clouds

are the same,

and I wouldn't bat an eye.

When I kiss you

I feel like I just picked up

one of those feathers

that turns into a cape

that lets me fly

way up into the sky

but if I get too far away

just shoot me down

a little bit

gently

not with one of those

angry bullet guys

but maybe with

a playful teasing jest

at my stature

or my mustache

and I'll come right back down.

You're the flag

at the top of my flagpole.

I guess what I'm saying is this:

if you got kidnapped

by some insane

fire-breathing turtle

dragon king,

he better watch his back,

cuz it's-a me, Mario,

and you're my peach,

princess.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

Dr. Seuss
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”

I SPEAK TWO LANGUAGES, BODY AND LANGUAGE.

“Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can't refuse it. What to be, got to be."

Hephzibah:
in ancient hebrew characters means "my delight is in her", from Isaiah 62:4

HER KISSES LEFT SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED -- THE REST OF HER.

LITTLES AND LOVE.

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.” Billy – age 4

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.” Karl – age 5

“When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.” Rebecca- age 8

“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” Bobby – age 7 (Wow!)

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.” Karen - age 7

I like to see you move with the rhythm; I Like to see when you're dancing' from within. -B. Marley

JUS' A LITTLE GUY. FLOATIN'.

"HERE THE SOUND OF THE FACES IN THE CROWD."

CRAVING SUNSHINE.

australia: may 25, 2011

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.  A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.  ~Ada Louise Huxtable

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating…and you finish off as an orgasm.” –George Carlin

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....

Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape

Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

IF FRIENDS WERE FLOWERS, I'D PICK YOU.

“Even though we’ve changed and we’re all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we’ll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing with ever change so much to the point where we’re not all still friends.” 

ET, AT, JF.

TO EASE ANOTHER'S HEARTACHE IS TO FORGET ONE'S OWN.