Release

Half-close my eyes to soften my ambient light;
nimbus around my atomic quietude.
To find the things I wish to see, I must unhinge my sight,
and seek from the stillness underneath my stare.
Harken the echoing barely heard
beyond the boundaries of local murmur.

Leave behind familiar cadence
and turn back toward the way I came
to remember the magic which led me here.

Loosely wrapped lines had tightened into knots
while backs and legs strained to meet the offing,
springing toward the promise of the newest day.

Now is the evening of silent contemplation.
Turn back to the beginning to trace the lines
that have wrapped around the pilings,
that have tangled in our legs.
Turn back to find the knots that tie us to ourselves.

We will run and dance and sing 
like only those who have been bound can do!

Unbind my hands and feet;
relieve my voice;
release my heart.

Let me dance!





~M. Black

Find It

Look Harder!

Just Because You Can't See It 

Doesn't Mean It's Not There

Be A Pepper!!!

David Naughton - Makin' It

Answer

If the Answer is infinite Light, why do we sleep in the dark?

~P. Simon

Namaste

"To acknowledge and respect the views, accomplishments and prerogatives of others, and to accept being wrong shows us the way of humility."


Thank you my friend.  

Voices

Seek the source of the voices that guide you. They are not all benevolent. Love is a sword and a shield, but you must pick it up and use it, not let it rust on the ground, so when it finally falls apart in the elements you can say it was never there to begin with.

Magic

Magic is not the exclusive Domain of those who make a religion out of it. Magic is not dependent on worship~ it exists anyway. Sacrifice to it or don't, make a coven or a cult or a secret society or a church, or don't. Gather together to increase the power of the energy, of the connectivity, it will work whatever you call it; it's physics. The power of belief and collective focus is still physics. It is natural. It just is.

Not all who wander are lost.

You cannot know God until you’ve stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you’ve already heard God. I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours.
--Neale Donald Walsch

Absynthe Minded - Moodswing Baby (lyrics)

Strike Twentythree

Epic Fail

Galactica

Please place your seat in the upright position and step lightly while leaving the ship

Fold wings securely while exiting

Thank you for Trying

Stay Sober

Time

並非巧合

There is always Time

There is always a choice

There is always a way out of the nightmare

Of the Dream

In This Moment

 
"In this moment, I will love rather than judge. 
In this moment, I will build rather than destroy. 
In this moment, I will look to God, rather than to other people, for approval and direction.
In this moment, I will change because I want to, not because I need to.
In this moment, I will realize my power, rather than blame other people for their actions.
In this moment, I will experience the joy of God's plan, rather than the pain of my plan.
In this moment, I will see the possibilities, rather than the difficulties. 
In this moment, I will serve others, rather than serve myself.
In this moment, there is Heaven on Earth." 


 
~by Stevan J. Thayer 
 as given by Angel Ariel.

Example

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
~Andy Garcia

Mozart

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor
imagination nor both together go to the
making of genius. Love, love, love, that is
the soul of genius.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

You Shall Also~

Listen to the words of those who have lived before you;
but do not believe every syllable, for they were not gods;
weigh them on the scale of truth.
Know that life is truly as precious as you believe it is.
Walk with a straight back and solid steps.
Treat every woman with the honesty, honor, respect, kindness and integrity
as you would want shown to your own daughter,
and to your father,
and to yourself.
Give every woman the truth, and only honest women will remain,
and your love will be pure, and your sleep will be peaceful. 
Treat every man with the honesty, honor, respect, kindness and integrity
as you would want shown to your own son,
and to your mother,
and to yourself.
Give every man the truth, and only honest men will remain,
and your love will be pure, and your sleep will be peaceful.
Show every person the respect you show the person you admire most,
not according to your personal assessment of them.
What they do after that is up to them.
Recognize that every person is just as alive and real as you.
Recognize that you are just as alive and real as every other person.
Breathe this precious air, drink this precious water,
taste this precious fruit, walk on this precious Earth,
feel your precious heart in your chest.
Think of the precious heart in those who you care for.
Let your small actions contribute to the betterment of life,
not to degradation.
Laugh loud and often.
Love with gratitude and honor.
Seek humility to find peace.



~M. Black

TRUST

~ To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. ~

  George MacDonald

Faith

"On the last day when you have nothing left and no more hope for life or love, you will still have God."
~J. Carr

Walking Into The Sun

Either I will be filled with exultation or I will be burned to a cinder; either way it is my own. Leave me be unless you are interested in actually being a real friend to me. You think you can know me without even knowing where I have been or what I have seen; you think you can know me by your own judgment; who or what do you think you are? I am vast as the universe. Like you. For you to be able to know me, judge me, you would have to first know every cell of my body, every moment of my life from conception to this moment, every facet of my soul and my destiny~ and then you would have to be able to factor all of it together as a gigantic equation, and an epic saga. The human mind can barely grasp a short novel to make a short report on it for school, how is it that you think that same mind can grasp and summarize a human being?

Advice from a Friend

"Let it go right through you, because they cannot break what is already broken."

~M. R.

Do Men Only Want What They Can't Have?

Miss Attitude runs a pretty cool blog, clean, to the point, makes for easy reading. Click here for her post on this sensitive subject: What Men Want

My thoughts on it are this: both sexes do this, but men do it more. I know women who fixate on one guy who is "emotionally unavailable", and they will ride that horse until it drops. But I know more men who chase more than one woman at a time who are unavailable, and when one of the women finally turns around and says "Okay, okay, you've caught up with me, I'll go out with you~" the boy acts like she was chasing HIM. What is the reason? "Boys will be boys" is not a reason, it's an excuse. I know plenty of men who don't do this, and all of them seem to have one thing in common; women are people to them, just as much as men. They don't have gender prejudices, they don't think of women as a subspecies or vice versa.

can't touch this... dehnehnehneh... :|

If a kid is raised on TV and movies, and people around him are always pointing to women on TV or on posters or albums as unattainable by "regular people", like they are some other kind of human that a man can only catch if he attains a high level of success, then a boy could easily be conditioned to equate success with attaining an unattainable woman, a movie star, a beauty queen. If he can attain her, then she can't be the one he wants, because the one that will indicate success is unattainable. These boys could chase any female superstar on the planet, and as soon as she stopped running and he was able to catch her, he would at first be ecstatic, and then he would start to feel like he has stagnated in his life. He is now with an attainable woman, and that does not indicate success; only the women he must quest after have any value... He honestly doesn't know how to love a real person, or to be loved by a real person.

It is the locked door vs the open door. Some minds believe there is only treasure behind locked doors, and that open doors don't lead to anything really valuable.

Me~ I have held the keys to, and broken into, quite a few locked, bolted, chained doors, scaled electric fences and jumped spikes and barbed wire. I have met, spent time with, been related to, and known intimately people from all over the world, many walks of life, and every economic class. I have never found anything more valuable in those vaulted rooms, or met anyone greater or more beautiful than the souls I was already blessed to know. I am grateful that I am not one of those who seeks only what they can't have, or believes that whoever loves me could not be anyone worth noting. I am quite confident that I already know or have known the greatest souls that have every lived, and each new friend seems to already be a member of that club.