Dark road or perhaps mood
He walks
Stick over shoulder
This is no yes man
Debating passionate
Determined in step
Holding tightfisted
A sign
It’s words – fierce – STOP
Proclaiming injustices.
Watch then the shadows cross
Bold words move out of reach
Not in time not held
By Conviction bound
Light returns to
No green expanse, slips away
returning as dark country lane –
dreams are fickle beings
A man may feel
But a man must hold.
Ever since finding this particular TED talk, I’ve played it repeatedly and happily find myself singing their memorable choruses. It’s been fifteen years since I discovered Natalie and I still love her voice.
and now you can buy her new album with these songs and more!
on a red bookshelf nightstand
a few nights before we were to move into a home with central air
i woke in a humidity daze
and noticed my husband’s pocketknife
resting peacefully beside his USB drive
cecilia: "just omit the meat from your bean meals, like meatless chilli and spaghetti. we love lentils here, lentil soup, lentil curry over rice… I’ll put some more thought into this." (read)
Kalanna: "Amazing, eh?! I’m going to have to read up on what to do with them next. hehe But it is lovely to have a bouquet of lavender on my kitchen table in late November. They kept blooming!" (read)
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." — C.S. Lewis
cecilia
Kalanna
Holli
