This is awesome. Originally seen at Martie’s.

To realize
The value of a sister
Ask someone who doesn’t have one.

To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly divorced couple.

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Powerless by Nelly Furtado.

Incredible.

Lyrics in extended.
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Young girl don’t cry
I’ll be right here when your world starts to fall, ooh
Young girl it’s alright
Your tears will dry, you’ll soon be free to fly, ooh
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From the Poetry Generator

one of my heart. deep inside
only make her today
after your security clearance, which
could help around camp? I
speak freely here. on her website
is a day, of
the world would not really
my Blog! @ never had just
stay here, on fire when it
will all through
this is a MINDFUCK or Paisley This
is my mom apparently considered
taking her life in town,
so angry. From my DOG!« …who thought
she died.

found at j.mo’s which I found at crink’s.
Me luv me some crink. That girl can GET down.

Dulce Et Decorum Est
by Wilfred Owen

I’m putting it in “open me” section so as not to force it on you.

It’s quite haunting.
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My sister sent me these. A competition for a verse with a romantic first line, and UNromantic second. They are fun!

Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss
I only slept with you, because I was pissed.

I thought that I could love no other
Until, that is, I met your brother.

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and
so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the
sugar bowl’s empty and so is your head.

Of loving beauty you float with grace
If only you could hide your face.

Kind, intelligent, loving and hot
This describes everything you are not.

I want to feel your sweet embrace
But don’t take that paper bag off of your face.

I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
Damn, I’m good at telling lies!

My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
Marrying you screwed up my life.

I see your face when I am dreaming
That’s why I always wake up screaming.

My love, you take my breath away
What have you stepped in to smell this way.

My feelings for you no words can tell
Except for maybe “go to hell.”

What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime.

that I would be good even if i did nothing
that I would be good even if i got the thumbs down
that I would be good if i got and stayed sick
that I would be good even if I gained ten pounds

that I would be fine even if I went bankrupt
that I would be good if I lost my hair and my youth
that I would be great if I was no longer Queen
that I would be grand if I was not all knowing

that I would be loved even when I numb myself
that I would be good even when I am overwhelmed
that I would be loved even when i was fuming
that I would be good even if I was clingy

that I would be good even if I lost sanity
that I would be good
whether with or without you

alanis morrissette - that i would be good.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -
Henry David Thoreau

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. - Shakespeare

“Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.” ~ A. J. Cronin ~

If you must keep groaning, please do it in a rhythm I can dance to.

an Asheigh Brilliant Pot Shot

Oh. My. Gosh.

I just saw the video for the song Don’t Stop Dancing by Creed and am blown away by the lyrics.

I needed to hear this.
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“I am not young enough to know everything.” - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

This one makes me giggle. I used to get so indignant when people would say “Youth is wasted on the young". Now I know what they mean.

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anais Nin

Ben Affleck? No way. - me

And I am not the only one. At Salon.com, Sheerly Avni thinks the same!

“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

“Happiness…it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Hey! A new look for the blog.

I was just feeling like I needed something a little less dark.

Enjoy!

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet & unagitated life would have suited me- yet I sometimes long for it.” - Byron 1788-1824

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting igonorance- that principle is: Contempt prior to Investigation.”
-Herbert Spencer

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should. - Max Ehrmann

“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.” Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
- Walter Anderson

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings

“Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them."- Elvis Presley

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. - Anais Nin

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story. — Ashleigh Brilliant

“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.”
- Gloria Leonard

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. - Marianne Williamson

“Come to the edge He said. They said: ‘We are afraid.’ Come to the edge He said. They came. He pushed them, and they flew.” - Guillaume Apollinaire

“Of course I was a dork, but that’s OK. Because all the coolest people I know were dorks.” -Brendan Fraser

“There’s no such thing as a plain woman. Every real woman is pretty. They’re all pretty in a different way, but they’re all pretty.” (Burt Lancaster as Bill Starbuck in THE RAINMAKER-1956)

“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” - Herbert Agar

“It is a golden rule not to judge men by their opinions, but rather by what their opinions make of them". - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Barbie Doll
By Marge Piercy

This girlchild was born as usual
and presented dolls that did pee-pee
and miniature GE stoves and irons
and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.
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My most heartfelt thanks to Cyn for posting the lyrics to Wild Child by Enya on her blog.

I had just purchased every Enya album from the CD club I belong to and I had not heard this. I am going to listen to it every morning and try to live this way.

*Huggles!*
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“I think we’ve been given little windows of time between difficulties, openings that hold out a promise of clarity. We need to acknowledge such grace periods and use them for deeper scrutiny".

from Phantom Limb by janet sternburg

“He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body
should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings.
If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept
by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.”

–Leonardo da Vinci
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“In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

-Martin Niemoeller, German Lutheran Pastor (1892-1984)