for real

Things are feeling hard.....

but there is always hope, right?  RIGHT?  I hope so.

My horoscope for this week, reads as follows:
The sport of ferret legging is an endurance contest. Participants vie to determine who can last longest as a live ferret runs loose inside their pants. The current record is five hours and 26 minutes, held by a retired British miner. But I predict that a Virgo will soon break that mark. Could it be you? APRIL FOOL! I misled you. I don't really think you should put a ferret in your pants, not even to win a contest. It is possible, however, that there will soon be a pleasurable commotion happening in the area below your waist. And I suspect that you will handle it pretty well.

Looks like I better go out this weekend!

A Coal Fire In Winter

Something old and tyrannical burning there.

(Not like a wood fire which is only

The end of a summer, or a life)

But Something of darkness: heat

From the time before there was fire.

And I have come here

To warm that blackness into forms of light,

To set free a captive prince

From the sunken kingdom of father coal.

A warming company of the cold-blooded-

There carbon serpents of bituminous gardens,

These inflammable tunnels of dead song from the black pit,
This sparkling end of the great beasts, these blazing

Stone flowers diamond fire incandescent fruit.

And out of all that death, now, 

At midnight, my love and I are riding

Down the old high roads of inexhaustible light.

-Thomas McGrath

ShAkE WhaT YouR MAma GaVE Ya!

thanks for sharing Melanie!

A not so gentle reminder....

to myself and anyone else who needs it.

Sweet Darkness

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

~ David Whyte ~

The last lines especially!