Sleep well. A gland in the command center releases its yellow hornet to tell you you're missing the point, the point being that getting smacked by a board, gored by umbrellas, tongue- lashed by cardiologists, bush-wacked by push-up bras is a learning experience. Sure, you're about learned up. Weren't we promised the thieves would be punished? Promised jet-packs and fleshy gardenias and wine to get the dust out of our mouths? And endless forgiveness? A floral rot comes out of the closet, the old teacher's voice comes out of the ravine, red-wings in rushes never forget their rusty-hinged song. Moon-song, dread-song, hardly-a-song at all song. Let's ignore that call, let someone else stop Mary from herself for the 80th time. It's never really dark anyway, not even inside the skull. Take my hand, fellow figment. Every spring we'll meet, definite as swarms of stars, insects over glazed puddles, your eyes green even though your driver's license says otherwise. And yes, mortal knells in sleepless hours, hollow knocks of empty boats against a dock but still the mind is a meadow, the heart an ocean even though it burns. As long as there's a sky, someone will be falling from it. After molting, eat your own shucked skin for strength, keep changing the subject in hopes that the subject will change you.
There's still room on the trip scheduled for May 2012. This may be the last time Mykl leads this trip, and he has been doing it for a decade now, so he has it wired. This trip is for advanced whitewater kayakers and their non-boating companions. The trip of a lifetime!
The most living moment comes when those who love each other meet each other's eyes and in what flows between them. To see your face in a crowd of others, or alone on a frightening street, I weep for that. Our tears improve the earth. The time you scolded me, your gratitude, your laughing, always your qualities increase the soul. Seeing you is a wine that does not muddle or numb. We sit inside the cypress shadow where amazement and clear thought twine their slow growth into us. --Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks) ( a little about RumiCollapse )
Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they sometimes take the apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy.
The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right person to come along, the one who is brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.
Now Men.... Men are like a fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to us women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable enough to have dinner with.
I felt some loneliness the first week I was here. But now, no. I have enough acquaintances to not feel lonely. The landlady, Marie, speaks English and her bf is American. And her niece, Emma, also…
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