Thank You...

"Twist your head off and remove your brain for the next 2 hrs please."

...for the most sagacious advice!

Horses, Horses,Horses,Horses,

It was a cozy couch night, we have a real working TeeVee here that my Uncle Bill was gracious enough to bring, with a built in VCR. Mom and I had tea and popcorn, and Herr's Corn Curls (the GOOD kind...) and so I finally watched the notorious movie "Sleepless In Seattle". It really IS a touching flick, I don't ever expect filmmakers to get things like that. It was a pleasant surprise. I'm still not sure why Ron Wulff calls me Annie though.

Warm

I have enjoyed very much all of the visitors who have come to call. There are not many things better than breaking bread with wonderful, special people. I look forward to hearing the stories and adventures, and sharing the memories. I can't wait till the next time!


...a kiss is but a kiss...a sigh is but a sigh...

Kayakage

Couldn't bring mine, but they have rentals. But you're not allowed to take them where I want to go (always the way...which is why I need mine here...) hmm. Rowboats don't like rocks and branches. So I guess my only real option is to come back here with it. Next question: Will it fit on a Fatboy? (;

The End

T S Eliot

What we call a beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.


NewsFlash: In the future! When a girlfriend says "I don't think this guy is good for me, I don't like the way he is treating me," ... Believe her ! Don't talk her out of dumping the guy because you "understand" him! SHE is the one going out with him, if she feels like something's off, she is probably spot on. Support don't oppose. Now after holding on when she knew to let go, she's in much more pain than she would've been.


Oh, and~ if he is not messaging you, it means you are not on his mind... Why don't you just call the other one back? He is totally real, and not stuck up, very accomplished, funny, fun, witty, talented, and d d gorgeous~ oh right because you want the guy who ignores you and thinks he is better than you... The one who doesn't call or invite you anywhere, and who is obviously seeing at least one other woman, if not three- the attention whore who disses you, yes that's the one you should wait for! Wait until he's all healed from his pain and then he'll call you, hehehe... Remember when you did the very same thing to that sweet guy with the Cliffwalk house? This might be your payback, ouch.Maybe you should call HIM, see if you can make amends... ;) Wealthy men aren't all bad, you know. Some of them are very sweet.

St. Augustine

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"He that is not jealous is not in love."

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Phenomenon

Everything is on its way somewhere.
-George O'Malley




Hey, would you, uhh, love me for the rest of my life?
-George O'Malley

No. I'm gonna love you for the rest of mine.
-Lace Pennamin



Every woman has her chair, something she needs to put herself into, Banes. You ever figure out what Lisa's chairs were and buy 'em? 
-Doc

Future

"Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that."

~Rumi

Prayer For Companionship

Prayer For Companionship

Please God,
Guide me to new companions who are beneficial to my life,
Who treat me with kindness, humor, tolerance and respect;
Who see my inner self more clearly than my outer appearance;
Who see me as I really am;
Who are supportive of my endeavors;
Who respect me as an individual with unique experiences, talents and trials;
Who appreciate me as a human being who is as valid and real as any other who has ever lived on this earth;
Who find joy in companionship;
Who find joy in sharing common activities and adventures, discovery
and conversation;
Who listen to me when I share my thoughts and experiences;
Who acknowledge my past, appreciate my present, and believe in my future;
Who take account for their own actions;
Who treat my other companions and family with courtesy and respect;
Who miss my absence;
Who have my back;
Who stand beside me against injustice.
Who treasure my company.


Guide me to be this kind of companion to them as well.



Please guide me away from replacing old, unhealthy people with newer models of the same, and protect me from those:
Who extol a price for their presence;
Who use me as a toy when there is no one else around, and then shelve me when another comes to call;
Who do not apologize and can not accept that they have hurt me or that they have done something wrong;
Who find no error in causing me pain;
Who see themselves and certain others  as superior;
Who punish me for not staying within their control or their expectations;
Who try to control whom I speak to or who I am friends with, or where I go;
Who try to poison my name to turn others against me in order to gain attention and diminish me in other people's eyes;
Who take inventory of my "flaws" and hold them against me;
Who bestow unsolicited advice and criticism;
Who practice tit for tat;
Who take my material possessions;
Who do not stand up for me against injustice;
Who ignore my boundaries and minimize my opinions, talents, capability and experiences.

Please guide me to avoid doing any of these things to anyone, no matter what they have done to me.

Please guide me to simply let go of and remove from me those who are not beneficial, without drama and pain, and guide me to embrace those who are healthy, friendly, trustworthy companions.
Thank you God,

Amen





~M.Black        

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Beauty

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent.
  

-Rumi

Openness

"Open people are continually growng people..through their openess they can establish and maintain intimate relationships far more effectively than closed people..~Scott Peck~

-contributed by Rich S

Broken Bells - The High Road

Black Water

Well, I built me a raft and she's ready for floatin'
Ol' Mississippi she's callin my name
Catfish are jumpin
That paddle wheel thumpin
Black water keeps rollin on past just the same

Maresy Dotes

And Doesy Dotes,
And Little Lambsy Divy!
A Kiddly Divy Too,
Wouldn't You?

Magical

There are places on the Earth that one can go to clear one's soul. Everyone has their own sacred places, and if they are shared with another they are all the more beautiful. I am in such a place here, now, and sharing it with gentle, honest, happy ones. The woods here are endless, the lakes deep, the people kind. Floating with the current I can't help but notice that I feel so much lighter here. All the cares of years of worry and pain simply melt away. I am ever grateful to have such wonderful hearts to share this magical place with. This morning I will go out on the lake and watch the sunrise, there are no visibly higher mountains here so the first glimpse of the sun is when its rays touch your face. I will paddle out to get a better look at the eagles in their nest, such majestic creatures, there is nothing like seeing one soaring right above your head. Bear spotting in the afternoon, when I get off of the water. After that will be a visiting trip. Tomorrow Off to visit my lifelong friend who owns a fishing guide boat a couple of lakes down the road, go and catch a Musky or three. It is said that the lake has places where the depth has never been established. I may post this Sacred place and I may not, some things are best kept secret.

Closer To The Heart ~ Friend


Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

Excerpt from the Messages from God Through Yaël Powell, Circle of Light November 24, 2002

 I came across this while looking up kinds of trees. Don't ask me how that led to this, but I found it interesting and it seems important, although I am not sure why. Any thoughts about it are welcome, I believe a book is being referred to~

“The impediments before your heart, any one of you, unravel like a skein of wool when the Love hits it, and unraveling, they do ‘replay’ themselves. They engage the projector, pull down the screen and play a movie in your mind. For, of course, this is what life in the ego really is – billions of unraveling ‘movies’ playing out the mind’s beliefs, over and over, as the light of My Love seeks entry.
“Yet you can know, you who now begin to come to the central point consciously, that the more you stay ‘out of your mind,’ the fewer ‘new movies’ you create, and soon (sooner than you think), there won’t be any ‘movie reels’ left to play.
“When you say, ‘Yes,’ to Love, you are saying that you are willing to dissolve those impediments. To let the light of My Love into the movie theatre. Thus, for you who see your lives becoming beauty, the reflection of your heart -- you can know that if suddenly you are ‘in the play’ again, it IS the clearing out of those things cluttering up the heart space, those things that ‘push the pendulum’ so that it swings away from the center point. Especially if you are choosing to accept the tools given [the above Meditation], then you can positively know this is the case, and that it won’t take long and you will be able to remain in the stillness of My Love, allowing Me to live every moment through you.”

My Hearth Is Clear

DDHLFMOTDID
DDHLFMOTDSMIB

William Blake



I give you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall.
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