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Quote of the Day

KEEP THE MOTH OUT OF THE FLAME

When you are trying to help someone, you have to have humor, self-existing humor, and you have to hold the moth in your hand, but not let it go into the flame. That’s what helping others means. Ladies and gentlemen, we have so much responsibility. A long [...]

Poetry Friday

AMERICA

America, you ode for reality! Give back the people you took.

Let the sun shine again on the four corners of the world

you thought of first but do not own, or keep like a convenience.

People are your own word, you invented that locus and term.

Here, you said and say, [...]

Sometimes …

I wonder if/when I’ll learn to leave well enough alone; when I can accept that I don’t have all the insights to know how other people should live their lives.

It might actually help me figure out how to live my own.

Revolutionary Thursday

A NATION’S STRENGTH

What makes a nation’s pillars high And it’s foundations strong? What makes it mighty to defy The foes that round it throng?

It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand Go down in battle shock; Its shafts are laid on sinking sand, Not on abiding rock.

Is it the sword? Ask the [...]

Video Poetry (Isolated edition)

SNOW PATROL – ISOLATION (John Lennon Cover)

People say we got it made Don’t they know we’re so afraid? Isolation We’re afraid to be alone Everybody got to have a home Isolation

Just a boy and a little girl Trying to change the whole wide world Isolation The world is just a little [...]

Video Poetry (Suicidal Edition)

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES – INSTITUTIONALIZED

Sometimes I try to do things, and it just doesn’t work out the way I want it to, and I get real frustrated, and like, I try hard to do it, and I like, take my time, but it just doesn’t work out the way I want it to, [...]

Video Poetry (Beautiful)

MARILYN MANSON – THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

And I don’t want you, and I don’t need you Don’t bother to resist, or I’ll beat you It’s not your fault that you’re always wrong The weak ones are there to justify the strong

The beautiful people, the beautiful people It’s all relative to the size [...]

Follow-through

You know you’ve got issues when even your therapist is bugging you about starting to date again …

But it’s like this; I’m scared. I’m scared to death of repeating the same mistakes that I made when I was married. I’m afraid that I will still not be able to open up and share [...]

‘A More Perfect Union’

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Note those [...]

Reality bites …

Had an appointment with the crazy doctor tonight … and I’ve got a lot of thinking to do about some of the things that have been going through my head the past week or so.

Things like:

Beating myself up for stepping out of my comfort zone, and failing. Rather than beating myself up, [...]