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Georgia O'Keeffe
Oriental Poppies
If I could wish for my life to be perfect,
It would be tempting but I would have to decline,
For life would no longer teach me anything.
....by Allyson Jones
| After a While | ||
| After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul and you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't always mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead, with the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child. And you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much, so you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, you really are strong, you really do have worth, and you learn and you learn. With every goodbye, you learn. .....by Veronica Shoffstall This poem is available as a beautiful calligraphy creation by Sherrie Lovler, with the title Comes the Dawn. The poster has had special meaning to me since my husband's death on Oct.9, 1999. So hard to believe I can endure. So hard to want to plant my own garden and decorate my own soul. |
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| Moving On | ||
| Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road back to happiness. Without them we will never be free of our pasts. We deserve to move on. We need not be held hostage to our pasts if we are willing to release and grow beyond them. ....by Tina Dayton |
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| True Freedom |
| To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk being called sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self. To place your ideas and your dreams before a crowd is to risk being called naive. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk dispair, and to try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Chained by things that are certain, he is a slave. He has forefeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free. ....Author Unknown |
| Let Me Fall (from Cirque de Soleil) |
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Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment when fear and dreams must collide Someone I am is waiting for courage. The one I want, the one I will become will catch me. So let me fall if I must fall. I won't heed your warnings. I won't hear them. Let me fall if I fall, Though the phoenix may or may not rise. I will dance so freely, holding on to no one. You can hold me only if you too will fall Away from all these useless fears and chains. Someone I am is waiting for my courage. The one I want, the one I will become will catch me. So let me fall if I must fall I won't heed your warnings. I won't hear. Let me fall if I fall. There's no reason to miss this one chance, This perfect moment. Just let me fall. ....Linda Thompson I have this poem on a CD sung by Josh Groban. BEAUTIFUL!!! The song has encouraged me recently as I struggle to carry on alone. terrified of falling but needing to trust that the one I will become will catch me. |
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