Love’s Lantern
Joyce Kilmer
Because the road was steep and long And through a dark and lonely land, God set upon my lips a song And put a lantern in my hand. Through miles on weary miles of night That stretch relentless in my way My lantern burns serene and white, An unexhausted cup of day. O golden lights and lights like wine, How dim your boasted splendors are. Behold this little lamp of mind: It is more starlike than a star!
The day I stopped trying to fashion others to my way of thinking became the day I discovered happiness.
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
~ Jack Canfield
Change happens. Make it a force for good. Change holds new opportunities we never dreamed possible.
“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Immortal
Mark Van Doren
The last thin acre of stalks that stood
Was never the end of the wheat.
Always something fled to the wood,
As if the field had feet.
In front of the sickle something rose—
Mouse, or weasel, or hare;
We struck and struck, but our worst blows
Dangled in the air.
Nothing could touch the little soul
Of the grain. It ran to cover,
And nobody knew in what warm hole
It slept till the winter was over,
And early seeds lay cold in the ground.
Then—but nobody saw—
It burrowed back with never a sound,
And awoke the thaw.
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Joe: “My girlfriend has a chameleon tattoo.”
Pete: “What do you think of it?”
Joe: “I don’t know. I can’t see it.”
The journey inward is the most difficult journey. Dare to take it and you’ll meet a remarkable person.
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.”
~ Ann Lamott
