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it’s a love note.
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X-RA8-ED
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“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” -Deepak Chopra
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I am the diamond in the rough, the girl that’ll take your hand and show you a paradise you never knew existed…I am the black crayon in a colorful box of 24, I am the wind that blows your hair smooth back, I am the sigh you feel deep in your gut, as you stare at each and every sunrise. I am that winning feeling when your favorite team scores. I am the drink that quenches your thirst, then I will make you thirst more. We will dine on philosophy and intellect, and metaphysical, and kink. Can you handle me, I can surely handle you, I think.
I am that, and so much more.
I am not trash, rubbish, garbage nor junk.
Embrace me.. I am the back side of the funk.
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to the old, we welcome the new.. and at 90 years of age, Regina Brett knows how to live.
This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! Make sure you read to the end!!!!!!
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio.
“To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written.
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16.. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ‘In five years, will this matter?’
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come…
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.”
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Still I Rise:
(Maya Angelou)You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise. -
on new years eve several years ago, I peeled five pounds of this delicious fruit. I painstakingly removed almost every veiny-white piece that didn’t belong there. I separated each one carefully and ran my ex-wife a bubble bath littered with the wedges of tangerine…. thanks for the reminder that I used to be sort of cool.
candlelit tangerine bathes are amazing..
Posted on December 8, 2011 via An Exquisite Paradox with 176 notes
Source: silent-musings
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Impeccable eye of ModusVitaeSF The Meeting of Two Binds.
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To lose you as a
love
was painful
To lose you as a
friend
is equally painful.
But lost you are.
The walls are sooo high,
and that finely honed saber
I had when I began storming
your citadelisn’t even
sharp enough to
slash my wrists.
It’s not that I don’t care.
It’s just that I can’t
let myself
care any more.
Melba Colgrove
"A psychotic drowns in the very same stuff a mystic swims in". Pema Chodron
but.. the same sun shines on us all.
