thistle

wind among the trees.

Or is it trees among the wind?

The branches that dance and sing, once, twice, then

interim.

My mind yearns for long-lost places, 

my eyes full of long-lost faces that shimmer, 

spangled and mangled with sorrow,

with salt,

with butterflies' fins - cleaving and flashing in the air, silver & red in despair..

but if you look closely there,

the holes left like sunshine puddled in midair - what will you find when you look inside?

Who will you find?

When you look inside, who do you find?

love #1

what does it mean to be half of a whole

one of two, or two for one?

peanut butter and jelly love

me as me, you as you

life is so delicious together.

ching

WAITING is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal. Such certainty alone gives that light which leads to success. This leads to the perseverance that brings good fortune and bestows power to cross the great water. One is faced with a danger that has to be overcome. Weakness and impatience can do nothing. Only a strong man can stand up to his fate, for his inner security enables him to endure to the end. This strength shows itself in uncompromising truthfulness [with himself]. It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any sort of self- deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognised. This recognition must be followed by resolute and persevering action. For only the man who goes to meet his fate resolutely is equipped to deal with it adequately. Then he will be able to cross the great water - that is to say, he will be capable of making the necessary decision and of surmounting the danger.