Time alone, time still
quiet moments to restore
Wind chills cool fire
poetry
January 30, 2011 – Listening to Someone Who Knows
“If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born—it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, ‘Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.’ That’s one thing I’m learning.” — Dr. Maya Angelou
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Even for those who know, the learning continues.
Thank God.
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Weather warm or cold
infuses spirit in life.
Spoken words break time.
January 14, 2011 – Liberally Not Amused
Liberal does not equal insult.
Claustrophobia can be found inside spaces equal to the size of my brain.
Progress only lasts as long as we let it.
Cold feet are really fucking annoying.
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I made a promise that I would write at least once a day, every day for 8 weeks. It’s only been three days, I think, and I have yet to be able to put more than a few sentences together. None of which are in anyway coherent or the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel to get this colossal UFO off my back.
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Nails on a chalkboard are not always just nails on a chalkboard.
Word counts are only as accurate as the words that count.
Crocodile tears wash away the clouds and drown out the thunder.
Which way to Serenity, please? I need to go off world for a spell, way out into the goram black.
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I thought I was supposed to be getting “older and wiser” – instead I’m getting “older and much-less-able-to-focus-on-any-one-thing-for-longer-than-I-can-hold-my-bladder.” I have an innate sense for life – we all do. That’s why we breathe, curse and love without fail. I seem to have misplaced one of my “n”s and put an “m” in its place, creating an entirely different experience on a day-to-day basis.
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floating above lead
fearful of poisoning falls
a violin weeps