"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without
signing them, was often a woman." - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [Stephen]
British Fiction Writer, Critic

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just
because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." -
Jackson Brown (Life's Little Instruction Book)

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness." - Alfred BernhardNobel (1833-1886) Swedish-Russian Chemist

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The world as it is, as it’s been…and even more as it will be; never fails to leave me in awe. I have so many questions, but only partial answers, slips of truth muddled with the emotions of reality. Pieces that stand on their own, that’s what I choose to make my mark with.

Difficulties of understanding and perspective, where does the answer lie? Is it found in a bottle, a prescription label or how about a pipe? Can I wave a wand, chant a few words and have the instantaneous result I so desire? As I age I realize the answer becomes thinner, silkier, and less tangible; the web becomes sticky, tangled and a knotted mess.

Ownership of character…choices of need, want and then there is obligation and inner fulfillment, how does it all balance, compromise and does the end result feel how I feel? Am I standing with my arms wide open only to have my muscles grow tired, weary and drained? Am I left used, neglected and lonely? Or perhaps I have the greatest gift I could ever give myself, I find myself on a scavenger hunt for not only redemption but validation.

Muse

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin

I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

Lonely

Scott shared this song with me...and I couldn't help but think about my Aunt Sheri.


"Lonely Day"
Such a lonely day
And its mine
The most loneliest day of my life
Such a lonely day
Should be banned
It's a day that I can't stand
The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life
Such a lonely day
Shouldn't exist
It's a day that I'll never miss
Such a lonely day
And its mine
The most loneliest day of my life
And if you go, I wanna go with you
And if you die, I wanna die with you
Take your hand and walk away
The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life
Life
Such a lonely day
And its mine
It's a day that I'm glad I survived

Sadly so true

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as
poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of
priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently,
the modern poor are not pitied - but written off as trash. The
twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for
which a beggar is a reminder of nothing." - John Berger (1926~) English
Painter, Teacher, Art Critic

SPRING!

Today is the first day of spring!

I feel alive...like the world is new again, as if I can finally shed some of that baggage I've been carrying around.

I'm ready to just be and breathe,
I'm willing to let go,
be me and get rid of the crap that has a tendency to pull me down.

The new year has settled in nicely for the most part,
and now its just a matter of doing some spring cleaning,
getting things in order and just going for it!

I have no reason to hold myself back...and I'm done with excuses!

Look out universe, I'm getting rid of the shit in my life!