Letting go ~ Won’t you stay? Jackson Browne soothes the road.

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The last time I really, really had a hard time letting go, I took a road trip through the American West. Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona …

Every time I’d see a white Toyota Highlander on the highway (you can’t imagine how many there are, especially in rural California) I’d think of her. That’s what she drove.
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Love Came Calling

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Love Came Calling

A Silent Slipping Away

Love comes calling
To visit a while
 
Warmth and caring
Intimacy and laughter
Passion and expansion
 
A change
External … internal
No matter
 
A rage
A wrenching goodbye
A silent slipping away
 
The loving is gone
Yet love lingers on
 
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Alive in the World ~ Jackson Browne coaxes me out of my shell

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Alive in the World

I want to live in the world, not inside my head
I want to live in the world,
     I want to stand and be counted
With the hopeful and the willing
With the open and the strong
With the voices in the darkness
Fashioning daylight out of song
And the millions of lovers
Alive in the world
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To be, acknowledge you are

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Becoming is not Being

Becoming is not Being


 
 
To be loved, love.
To be forgiven, forgive.

To be happy, choose happiness.
To be wealthy, acknowledge the wealth you possess.
To be successful, measure the love in your life, not its deeds.
To end violence, offer peace.

To receive, give.
To be wise, live.
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Roger Ebert ~ Discovering Kindness

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Roger Ebert ~ Kindness made him happy.

Roger Ebert ~ Kindness made him happy.

Roger Ebert died, yesterday, ‘after an extended battle with cancer’ as they say. Except, as with many who find grace along the journey to life’s end, Ebert appears to have instead taken cancer’s hand and walked with it into the darkness of oblivion he did not fear. That grace is evident in I Do Not Fear Death, an article he penned for Salon well back in 2011, and nowhere is it more evident to me than in this passage from the article:
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The first rule of flying ~ Firefly, Serenity & Love

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MAL
It ain’t all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s’pose you do, since you already know what I’m ’bout to say.
RIVER
I do. But I like to hear you say it.
MAL
Love.
 
You can know all the math in the ‘verse but take a boat in the air that you don’t love? She’ll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds.
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Child of darkness ~ entering the gateway to all understanding

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Yin & Yang :: Child of Darkness - Child of Light

Yin Yang

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Darkness. One of the most compelling forces, and metaphors, we have. Darkness fascinates me. Here are a few snippets from an online conversation I participated in some time ago, beginning with a quote, then Anabele’s response to it, followed by my reply.

In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a “child of darkness” who is equal and complementary to the more obvious “child of light.”
~ Laurens van der Post
Of course, we try to fight the child of darkness all the time….. good against evil so to speak
~ Anabela
I’m not sure van der Post thinks of this “child of darkness” as evil. The way it’s phrased, he sounds like an Eastern mystic, something like a Daoist.
~ Peter



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