I may not be what you want me to be. I’m cool with it. I’m going to follow my chosen star and never look back.
Month: April 2021
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Send Fear Running
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “I asked my girlfriend if she minded if let my pet sleep with us.”
Pete: “What did she say?”
Joe: “She was okay with it until morning when she discovered she was lying on my dead gerbil.”
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ A Life in a Love
A Life in a Love
Robert Browning
Escape me?
Never—
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth,
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear—
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed—
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall,
And baffled, get up to begin again,—
So the chase takes up one’s life, that’s all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound,
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope drops to ground
Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark,
I shape me—
Ever
Removed!
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Next Time
Next Time
Mary Oliver
Next time what I’d do is look at
the earth before saying anything. I’d stop
just before going into a house
and be an emperor for a minute
and listen better to the wind
or to the air being still.
When anyone talked to me, whether
blame or praise or just passing time,
I’d watch the face, how the mouth
has to work, and see any strain, any
sign of what lifted the voice.
And for all, I’d know more — the earth
bracing itself and soaring, the air
finding every leaf and feather over
forest and water, and for every person
the body glowing inside the clothes
like a light.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Kindness Really Does Matter
“
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” ~ Henry James
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Fan Your Fire
Don’t let your fire go out. Fan its flames. Let it burn bright. Keep it alive.
🤗 A Better Life ~ Do You Really Have to “Got To” Do It?
If you feel like you “got to” do something, the “got to” has you. You’ll not find peace. Be sure it’s a “got to” before you dive in and find yourself over your head. You’ll feel a lot better.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My girlfriend told me it’s weird to sleep with the bedside lamp on.”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: “I told her the lampshade made a great hat.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Character Drives the Story
Remember that you don’t write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. ~ Flannery O’Connor
