It all wears out.
I keep telling myself this,
but I can never believe me…
~ John Ashbery, “Down by the Station, Early in the Morning,” A Wave: Poems
Notes:
- Poem Source: the distance between two doors.
- Art: Lui Liu with Isolation vs. Illusion, Oil on Canvas (via Mennyfox55)
- Related Posts: “It’s Been a Long Day“
Live & Learn 
If you don’t believe in yourself, who will?
Longer, sunnier, fun-filled days are just around the corner.
This too, I believe.
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And there is TRUTH.
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Reminds me to get back to Game of Thrones reruns…. The visuals are powerful!
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Mama said there’d be days like this…
Listen to Mama.
She be right.
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Smiling. She BE right.
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all stretched out –
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My immediate thought was I believe in me, and I do – until I don’t. ❤
Diana xo
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That is so me too!
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If I can’t believe me, no one else can either! Is that what you look like after no sleep Mr K? 😉
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Much worse Karen. Much worse.
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Ha!
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The image made me so sad and weary, I couldn’t focus on the words. But yes, there are days, and yes it all wears out and yes, I would choose to hope that life itself? Goes on forever.
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I know that
hope is the hardest
love we carry.
– Jane Hirshfield, from “Hope and Love,” The Lives of the Heart (Harper Perennial, 1997)
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And one load I would never put down..
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Yes
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I can only laugh!
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One can only laugh after repeating it over and over 🙂
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I can’t get myself to hit ‘like’
😦
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Yes, me…most of the week and then today all of sudden there it is…optimism!
Yay for new days and shifts in the mood!
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Yay for that!
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