Tag: Life

If your heart is bleeding, make the best of it. There is heat in freezing, be a testament.

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I first watched this video 2 weeks ago.  I found it a bit weird. (OK, maybe a lot wierd.)  A bit quirky.  Yet, I couldn’t shake it from my mind.  I went back once.  Then twice.  On to 4, 5, 6 times.  Perhaps it was the cadence of her voice.  Perhaps it was her accent.  (Purely Canadian.)  Should I share?  Hmmmm.  I’ll be the weird-non-manly man sharing his bizarre poetry video.  I checked the number of views: 4.2 million and counting. (Wow!)  So, I’m not alone.  Runway is clear.  OK for me to share.  Tanya Davis – BRAVO!

Tanya Davis
If you are at first lonely, be patient.

If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren’t okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find it’s fine to be alone once you’re embracing it.

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In the end, it’s all a question of balance…

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“The nectar that nurtured me turned me to poison.”

“Then what did you do?”

“What can one do in such circumstances?  Accept it and go on.  Please always remember that the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt.  To quote: ‘All things fall and are built again, and those that build them are gay.’”

“Yeats?” guessed Maneck.

The proofreader nodded, “You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them.  Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success.  You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.”  He paused, considered what he had just said.  “Yes,” he repeated.  “In the end, it’s all a question of balance.”

~ Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

Today, a day of unlocked potential…

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“Today is an ephemeral ghost. A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not exist. In mundane terms, it marks a leap in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up. But this day holds another secret – it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razors edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability. A day of unlocked potential.”

– Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

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Thank You Whiskey River and Ashes & Snow

Wednesday for Women: Who are you calling a Mama’s Boy?

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Eric (son) turns 18 in less than a week.  Eric is a Mama’s Boy.  And Mama and Son are hand-in-glove.  They are cut from a similar cloth – both peaceful – both warm and gentle – both kind hearted – both intelligent and humble.  And, they share a deep emotional bond.

Meanwhile, there’s Dad circling on the outside looking in.

Mom’s the Nurturer.  The Protector.

Dad, on the other hand, is The Beast.

It all started with absentee Dad hearing that Mama was teaching her Son the proper way to use the toilet.  (I’ll spare you the details.  I still cringe.)  That was enough.  Ever since Eric was a youngster (after the bathroom incident), Dad has been relentless – – he’s been on the “Man-Up” bus. Tirade after tirade…

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Nothing is small or petty in this life…

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The Last Load, 1966, by Dale Nichols (Thank you Mme Scherzo)

“No man can be happy, efficient, creative at his work when he is unhappy with his situation and lives for another day.  All of us are too prone to postpone our living until some nebulous time when “our ship will come in.”  Nothing is so apt to inject dissatisfaction into our lives as this wasteful attitude toward the most perishable of all things we know – time.  Today, this very day, is the most important time of all, for what we do today determines what we will be tomorrow.   Therefore turn all your attention to your labors of the moment, absorb yourself, take your satisfactions from each thing you do, however humble in your mind.  Nothing is small or petty in this life.  The massive door of a vault swings on the apex of a tiny jewel, and men have become great through learning how to do well the lowliest of jobs.

– U.S. Anderson, Three Magic Words
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