I posted this for someone else, but now I’m reposting it for me … because, sometimes I need the reminder, too:
Life is an endless journey, like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The mind provides a vehicle to travel on that road. The journey consists of constant ups and downs, [...]
TO PURITY
I have heard so much about you
if you claim to be you I will know it’s not true
if you say nothing I will listen as I do with my own old mixed feelings of hope and reservation
hearing through them whatever might be you
the way I see the white [...]
I AM NOT YOURS
I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be [...]
ITHAKA
As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your [...]
“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
— Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, 12 August 1980, Democratic National Convention.
“There is a new wave of change all around us, and if we set our compass true, [...]
THE 88 – COMING HOME
Won’t you be safe Won’t you be true I lie awake just thinking of you I’m all alone Honey, come home
‘Cuz when you’re here I feel like myself And when you’re not I’m somebody else I’ve got it bad Honey, please come back
Because you need a [...]
Sometimes being Big Ring is knowing when NOT to ride in the big ring …
The way my legs feel right now, I’m certainly glad I never used any gear bigger than the 39×14, and even that only briefly; mostly 39×15 or 39×16.
Hopefully, they’ll be less sore and twitchy in the morning so [...]
THE DARKLING THRUSH
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.
The land’s sharp features seemed to be The [...]
A SONG FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE
Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay— Stay till the good old year, So long companion of our way, Shakes hands, and leaves us here. Oh stay, oh stay, One little hour, and then away.
The year, whose hopes were high and strong, [...]
THE THREAD OF LIFE
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The irresponsive silence of the land, The irresponsive sounding of the sea, Speak both one message of one sense to me: — Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof, so stand Thou too aloof bound with the flawless band Of inner solitude; we bind not thee; But who from thy self—chain [...]