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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:31:12 -0700

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:16:28 -0700

"When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and you must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen to you--either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly."

~ Patrick Overton

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:53:38 -0700

"to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again"

~ Ellen Bass

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:52:16 -0700

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:09:39 -0700

'If'

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

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Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:43:08 -0700

When the storm is raining on your dreams
and the whole world has left your team
I will offer you a warm sunbeam
to make you feel my love

When darkest twilight has come and gone
And your friendships have all withdrawn
I will hold you through the early dawn
just so you'll feel my love

I know the tides of life go in and out
and the meadowlark has sung his song
but I know that there really is no doubt
It's here in my arms where you belong

I'd go searching, I'd go blind for you
There's no storm that I won't go through
No, there's nowhere that I wouldn't go
Just to seek your love

<<<--------:::-------->>>

The tempest rages upon the sea
And time has caused us to forget
That hearts like ours, it's destiny
To find the night we met

No, there's nothing that I wouldn't do
I'd sift the heavens above for you
I'd count each grain of sand for you
Just to find your love

Just to feel your love

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Mon, 18 May 2009 07:49:29 -0700

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Sun, 10 May 2009 03:45:42 -0700

This was in my head when I woke up this morning: "Only he who discovers passion in mystery will find truth in same." Apparently, I make up quotes in my sleep!

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Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:39:27 -0700

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Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:34:04 -0800

Do you suppose it's religion combined with the lack of higher educational opportunities that are at the root of America's socioeconomic ills?

Here's the number of colleges:
Number of colleges in America

Here's the number of churches:
Number of churches in America