…I’ve never seen anything as strong or as stubborn,” he says.
And I think,
how do you tame a wild tongue,
train it to be quiet,
how do you bridle it and saddle it?
How do you make it lie down?
~ Gloria Anzaldua, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue“, From Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Credits: Photograph of Australian Blue Tongue Lizard: Tammy Puntti. Poem Source: The Chateau of My Heart
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Fantastic quote – the metaphor so fitting. The picture on the other hand? Scared the heck out of me this morning – wow.
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Come on. He’s so handsome.
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I don’t know – there’s something really reptilian about him
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He’s a LIZARD.
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I was making a joke…arguably a bad one, but a joke…
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Now THAT’s Funny.
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Me too! I’m actually still scared…
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Ha!
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scary face to wake up to, but then a wicked tongue is always even scarier.
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and Blue too!
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Methinks, insert a delay switch in the speech centre of the brain, so the tongue doesn’t kick in quite as fast following a negative or angry thought — a sort of speech filter.
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I need THAT Sarah, a surgically implanted delay switch.
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Cute 😉
… hold your tongue!
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Trying, trying.
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If I had a beautiful blue tongue like that, I’d want everyone to know about it!
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Smiling. Good!
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
Awesome!!!!
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It is awesome!
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🙂
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mums thw word.
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What powerful discipline…
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Management 101. How to manage a wild tongue.
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Never took that course. And if I had, it wouldn’t have been pretty.
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the good news: I saw this long after waking up. The bad news: I was just about to start eating my lunch. I may have to postpone that. Great quote though, I will ponder while I wait to eat 🙂
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Eat now, please!
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yes, ps i loved the poem. sent it on to a friend who struggles with a wild tongue. hoping she will give up on taming it.
(still “dealing with” the photo)
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He’s adorable!
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