Longing, we say, because desire is full
of endless distances.”

21 January 2009



"All respectability, all honor is meaningless if it drives you against your nature. What can you do if you are not a lotus flower, but just a marigold? Enjoy being a marigold."



they begged the boss to let me on the bus and i hung with the crusty mucus-slurping firsters and took a minute to dip into beedle tales and smiled the rest of the day. theyre all pregnant or toting breast pumps or trying. theres a ghost that rattles around inside me, clanging her silver cup against my ribs, dancing with rosy ghost toes on my abandoned uterus. but i come home and throw frisbee with the dog and have some chocolate and hope one day i come to the sudden realization that i havent thought about it in years.

"I swear, without a word of a lie, that the very next time someone tells me that they “wish they had all that free time to knit” I am going to look them dead in the eye and ask them what they watched on TV last night."



Thanks, SB, for taking us on this little jaunt down memory lane, in case we thought Obamas innaug. was too bland:



1. love.
2. we overcame, that much more.
3. gwb is no longer president of the united states.
4. the health i enjoy.
5. brown rice and salsa.
6. making av laugh like that.
7. my bento box
8. playing disc with z. after work.
9. stretching, feeling the stretch.

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Blessed Be.

"And if the question were asked: What is more real, the mundane or the sublime? most would hesitate before they gave an answer. On the one side, details: say, the aftermath of a breakfast, dirty chipped plates in the sink, their rims encrusted with egg yolk. Against this, the unnameable: small aching heart with boasts, what can you know? Outside the cage of everything we ever heard or saw, beyond, outside, above, there lies the real, hiding as long as we shall live, there stretch and trail the millions of names of God burning across the eons. When all through this our end will come before we even know the names of us.

For many the egg yolk prevails." -L.M.

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
-V.V.G.

"The perfection of the Absolute where all Becoming stops and pure Being, immutable, timeless, unchanging, hangs forever like a ripe peach upon the bough." -E.A.

"...and the whole incident was incredibly frazzling and angst-rod and filled almost a whole mead notebook and is here recounted in only its barest psycho-skeletal outline." -D.F.W.

"At the top of the mountain, we are all snow leopards." -H.S.T.

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." -D.T.
"Cometh a voice: My children, hear; From the crowded street and the close-packed mart I call you back with my message clear, back to my lap and my loving heart. Long have ye left me, journeying on by range and river and grassy plain, to the teeming towns where the rest have gone - come back, come back to my arms again. So shall ye lose the foolish needs that gnaw your souls; and my touch shall serve to heal the fretted nerve. Treading the turf that ye once loved well, instead of the stones of the city's street, ye shall hear nor din nor drunken yell, but the wind that croons in the ripening wheat. I that am old have seen long since ruin of palaces made with hands for the soldier-king and the priest and prince whose cities crumble in desert sands. But still the furrow in many a clime yields softly under the ploughman's feet; still there is seeding and harvest time, and the wind still croons in the ripening wheat. The works of man are but little worth; for a time they stand, for a space endure; but turn once more to your mother - Earth, my gifts are gracious, my works are sure. Instead of the strife and pain I give you peace, with its blessing sweet. Come back, come back to my arms again, for the wind still croons in the ripening wheat."
-John Sandes, The Earth-Mother (excerpt, 1918)