How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
-B. Lopez, Arctic Dreams
Once I was a poet
Then I met you.
And you stole the words from under me
With what instrument do I capture you?
Your touch; what does it mean in writing?
The most decorative words aren't enough.
A photograph too superficial.
By what means do I divulge?
The love I breathe.
Your fingers in my hair.
What I become when it's just you and me.
How do I convey?
One million acts of kindness
Or your smile in the dark
And making love for hours and until my body shakes
There must be something that I missed
To promulgate thousands of pieces of feeling
Other than to simply say
"I love you immensely."
What do you always say you will do but never actually get around to doing?
Submitted by Beautifully Broken.
Updating my Vox.
I don't think there has ever been an area in the southern part of that country that I've seen that hasn't been breathtaking.
[I added the clouds and blue sky because the background in the original was completely white. I couldn't manage to balance it, and since this was taken during the Spring I wanted more color.]
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more, and put more money into the economy, instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and getting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade — we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.
Wait. What??
~ breakfasts with the best bread I'll ever have.
