September 10th, 2017

September 10th, 2017


Affirmation:  I will take the time to honor and express my dreams.

I explore where my creativity and bliss lead me.

I DO make a difference.


Word of the Day: hermetic (adj):

1 : relating to or characterized by occultism or abstruseness : recondite

2 : airtight 

b : impervious to external influence

c : recluse, solitary

extirpate (v):

1. a : to destroy completely : wipe out

b : to pull up by the root

2 : to cut out by surgery

jactitation (v):

1. a tossing to and fro or jerking and twitching of the body

Whatever Gives Pleasure

Whatever gives pleasure

is the fragrance of the Friend.

Whatever makes us wonder

comes from that light.

What is inside the ground

begins to sprout

because you spilled wine there.

What dies in autumn comes up in spring,

because this way of saying no

becomes in spring your praise-song, yes.

Harsh Evidence

What sort of person says that he or she

wants to be polished and pure,

then complains about being handled roughly?

Love is a lawsuit

where harsh evidence must be brought in.

To settle the case,

the judge must hear details.

You have heard that every buried treasure

has a snake guarding it.

Kiss the snake to discover the treasure.

Entering the Shell

Love is alive,

and someone borne along by it is more alive

than lions roaring or men in their fierce courage.

Bandits ambush others on the road.

They get wealth, but they stay in one place.

Lovers keep moving, never the same,

not for a second.

What makes others grieve, they enjoy.

When they look angry, do not believe their faces.

It is like spring lightning, a joke before the rain.

They chew thorns thoughtfully,

along with pasture grass.

Gazelle and lioness having dinner.

Love is invisible except there, in us.

Sometimes I praise love. Sometimes love praises me.

Love, a little shell somewhere

on the ocean floor, opens its mouth.

You and I and we, those imaginary beings,

enter the shell as a single drop of water.

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Once Upon A Time

Talks (or articles or books) often begin in one of two ways: “Research shows…” and “Once upon a time...” Well, research shows that audiences prefer “Once upon a time.” Which is why, no matter how scientific and factual the information you present is, it always helps to have a story. Make it personal.