November 2010
1 post
October 2010
8 posts
Stand your ground.
Vous n’avez pas des os en verre, vous pouvez vous cogner a la vie. You don’t have bones of glass, you can take life’s knocks.
The sounds of silence.
The human heart has hidden treasures. In secret kept, in silence sealed. The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures whose charm were broken if revealed.
- J. E.
Pursuit.
Am I running from you? You are a mystery to me, but every time I try to give you up, you pursue me in my thoughts, stronger each time.
September 2010
2 posts
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want...
– A.H.
Inhale.
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”
-SP.
August 2010
5 posts
Thou mayest.
Thou mayest!
Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.
This is a ladder to climb to the stars. You can never lose that. It cuts the feet from under weakness and cowardliness and laziness.
I have a new love for that...
And she's gone.
“You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she’ll come back, or you can open your eyes and see all she’s left.
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her, or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of...
July 2010
4 posts
It's only ever what it seems.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
-J.S.