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Perfect Woman

SHE was a phantom of delight

When first she gleam'd upon my sight;

A lovely apparition, sent

To be a moment's ornament;

Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;

Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair;

But all things else about her drawn

From May-time and the cheerful dawn;

A dancing shape, an image…

     Here I go

                  Jumping off my plateau

into

the cold

blue

soothing waters

below

     There I go

                     It isn't easy you know

                                          But once I hit the water and splashed I knew I just had to go

Can you follow the laughing splashing

simply smashing…

On Thursday, I was driving into town and spotted a Raven in the middle of the highway. As I got closer, I could see that it was hit by a car. The bird was in the middle of the lane and about three miles from home. Knowing Ravens well from living alongside a family for twenty years, I suspected it was one of the pair that lives in the…

God is present in everything around us

Clicia Pavan

The secrets of life

in seed germination

the movements of the Earth

spinning endlessly.

the dew on the grass

in nature that charms,

smell coming from the earth

and the sun rising

flowers that bloom

perfuming the air,

the new leaves…

Sinfonia para Gaia!Mãe da Natureza

Entre as árvores e nuvens altas serenas

Você surge sorrindo Gaia

Com a brisa da manhã, me vendo acordar

Eu acordo sorrindo também

Para este sonho acordado que me chama

Vejo a natureza despertando como beijos de amor

Na flor desabrochando,no canto dos passarinhos

Eu sinto toda a…

Here's how she describes listening to #Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" over the radio, Helen Keller wrote the following letter to the New York Symphony Orchestra in March 1924.

Dear Friends:



I have the joy of being able to tell you that, though deaf and blind, I spent a glorious hour last night listening over…

"I shall live beyond death,

and I shall sing in your ears

Even after the vast sea-wave

carries me back

To the vast sea-depth.

I shall sit at your board though

without a body,

And I shall go with you to your

fields, a spirit invisible.

I shall come to you at your

fireside, a…

A ti entrego meu coração

Clicia Pavan

Tenho você nos meus pensamentos

Mesmo sem olhar, te vejo

Pois nosso amor é algo

Mais do que corpo é alma

Te procuro em cada estrela

Te encontro nas minhas lembranças

Te encontro na saudades dos teus beijos

Não estás comigo mas estás em mim

Ès o farol que me guia

Na…

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace

there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender

be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly

and clearly;

and listen to others,

even the dull and the ignorant;

they too have their…

Love

Look into an animal's eyes and, for a while, switch places with it. Her life becomes as precious as yours and you become as vulnerable as she is.

Now smile if you believe that all animals deserve our respect and our protection, because at some point they are with us and they are. "

Francis of Assisi, the monk enlightened by…

God when the darkness of the night arrive

I will not be afraid

For lighting up my darkness

Stars will be there



At this point

I feel a strange…

You should know that life is lonely. You come out alone and you go out alone. If you know that, it will get better. Some people will love you and some won't. That's life. If you know that, it's a pretty good life.

Yoko Ono

IMAGINE PEACE

You can sweep up the dust of a thousand ruined civilizations in this breath. You can gather the ashes of your ancestors in this breath. Whisk the DNA from all the microbes that ever swarmed the gut or swam the blood of rodent, honeybee, or leprous medieval peasant in this breath. You can…

"THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER”

The girl in the photo is Anne de Gaulle; the third daughter of Yvonne Vendroux and General de Gaulle. She was born on New Year's Day in 1928. Her features, as you can appreciate, are characteristic of what we now call Down syndrome, and in Anne's case it was severe, so much so that she could barely walk…

i won't be on here all that much for a while. i'm in an assistant living shelter using a computer lab. unfortunately the situation with my father and stepmother who i was staying with did not work out they became too strict even though i was doing the best i can do during my time with them they still caused problems. to add on top of that they did not have patience to wait til July after my estranged bf comes home from his trip out west when he makes his decision if our separation is…