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Sunday, February 14, 2010

A Valentine for everyone

Love’s Not Always Pink Love’s not always pink-- It’s what you feel and live not what you think. Sometimes it’s what you give or are allowed to take or nothing you can have for someone else’s sake. Love’s not always song-- its voice not always heard or clear and strong. Sometimes it’s just absurd and makes no kind of sense Or it speaks without a word, has neither rhyme nor tense. Love’s not always glee-- It has its moods and swings and doesn’t see. Sometimes imaginings turn into fear and doubt or... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 18, 2010

Sometimes two souls meet...

In the body, they are busy leading lives, learning lessons, experimenting and exploring... and though they live in different worlds, have strongly different attitudes about some things, they have interesting affinities about others. In this life, they are not going to connect in more than passing greeting, brief acknowledgement, perhaps in conscious thought a sigh, if only... and in that momentary encounter, an agreement is made: In another life, we will do this right... The agreement is between... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 5, 2009

"...not Universal love, but to be loved alone."

Once again, Auden's lines run through my head arousing thoughts, connecting me with my feelings, creating new notions... I used the verse as a prompt in the Prompts blog and reprinted the entire poem here, and now revisit it again. In the past week events move me on from Auden's wistful yearning to another: It is the craving of every human soul, as much as to be loved as individual, to have another to whom to equally give love, and be happily, ungrudgingly received from. We enter into our... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 28, 2009

the prompt in its entirety

September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopathic god:... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Crisis Over!

Pleased to report that Blogit Staff have discovered and surgically removed the element in a prior post that caused the malware warning yesterday. It was something embedded in content I had copy/pasted previously--the poem Children Learn What They Live. A suggestion has been made that hereafter such content be intrduced using 'plain text.' Thanks, Jackie! Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

another view of the cosmos: reprise

People are planets that do sometimes collide... We explore those planets when we go inside another person's thought and feeling discover what the silver atmosphere's concealing; different laws of nature may apply to different creatures under different sky... A world may be hostile to our hearts, our breath... May lead us far astray into confusion, even into death... Yet some planets do attract us by the soul; and so connect us, thus between us we are whole: sashaying through the cosmos twirling... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

"I don't have a soul... I am a soul, I have a body."

Wandering freely joy-filled Light crossing universes with a notion Curiosity on wheels, on wings, ever always in merry motion... Wants to see, wants to know, no boundaries where the Light can go! Try it out, try it on, form of solid matter-- Ponderous, preposterous, time-bound hungering hulk of mass senses appalling and imperious... Wants to touch, to feel, to feed an earthbound sack of endless need! Love is shattered from a single One to countless sparks that dance in space to fragments alone... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

We have to learn to play with matches

Continuing the topic of the previous post about Generation Gap... some thoughts crystallized by several eloquent comments to that post That Youth always struggles against the tendency of Age to share what we have come to believe is true about the world, life, people, etc from our life-experience. It isn't that the wisdom isn't of value, but that people of all ages need to and want to learn things for themselves. It isn't enough for a free soul and mind to follow what we are told is true. Some,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Generation Gap: response to Elinjo's post...

...about getting older and younger members of an organization to mix and share their best qualities and skills. The younger people are, the less they have worked omaybeut their adolescent issues with parent figures... and they still don't see that they are bound to be us in a few years. They often don't know how to deal with old age and its accompanying aspects, and have a dread of it, only seeing it as the thing that will demolish their good looks, energy, potentials... By the time we get here,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 1, 2009

retrospective: the Parts Model briefly explained

Parts. Each part of us that helps us process and balance our lives, is, in this model, a fragment of ourselves held in memory until called for. Each Part contains at its center, a belief along with all the evidence that proves the belief, the strategies that protect and support the belief and an alarm system to shove it into the forefront when Reality triggers it--throws us a situation in which this Part's central belief holds a key to our success, maybe even our survival. But wait! There's... Sign in to see full entry.

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I've been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked specifically how to reconcile God with Science. Now and then, I seem to tune in on an answer. All that I write here represents not Truth, but what I believe to be true.I have my reasons, and I like to believe, my reason. ///Everything of my own words and/or pictures that I post on Blogit is copyright by CLRedding 1972-present, all rights reserved.///

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