Another Poet's Thoughts :)

Lose This Day Loitering
Lose this day loitering
'twill be the same storyTo-morrow -
and the next more dilatory;
Each indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days,
Are you in earnest? seize this very minute
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated
Begin it, and then the work will be completed!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Awesomeness

The earth has music for those who listen - William Shakespeare

The inspiration for this is really something that I saw while driving from Louisville to Chicago 2 weeks ago. It was pitch dark and very close to midnight when I (half dead and half asleep) saw this huge windmill field just over an hour from Chicago. Suddenly out of the blue (or well black of the night!)these red lights were flashing in tandem left, right and as far down as I could see. Everytime a windmill made a turn , there it was the bright red flash . It really has to be seen to understand what I mean > when for almost 6 miles this majestic sight lasted. Really made me wonder about all the awesomeness that man creates.
Talking about awesomeness, it is really everywhere if one chooses to see. The beautiful creek in my apartment complex, the pat on the back from an old patient, the excited wag of my dog's tail, getting an experiment right in the lab, my mom in law's text reminders that she loves me and not to forget my husband's most amazing paneer dishes....the list really goes on.
Thank you God for all the awesomeness. I pray I can see this all the time :)

Perseverance

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying

Sometimes moving on seems harder and all walls appear to cave in. Probably the keyword is appear......facts and dreams are always mightier than fears .

-Guess it's time to just keep on keeping on :)

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:)

“Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

Winston Churchill

LOVE

The Best VIew Is The One That I Share With You
....anonymous
No prices for guessing that this is about SSA :)
SO love happens in the strangest of ways ......I had heard about that a lot but when it actually happened to me , the process was just as amazing. I guess this is one instance where clichés do not hold. The experience is just as magical every time :)
Thank you SSA for becoming a part of my life ....for making it beautiful! Thank you for The little things that you do - even when I am blind enough not to appreciate them . Thank you for your patience : )
I LOVE YOU

FACES OF BLISS

This moment I sit back and wonder,
About the many faces of bliss in all its splendor;
What it means to us differs so,
Through the years as we grow;
The melody from the overhead jingle
In a newborn’s cot so often brings on a dimple;
The flying plane, the lovely doll
Make a little bundle’s joy whole;
So simple yet so complete
As bliss adds color to life’s pictures ever neat.

Then as the years go by, desires change,
New feelings bring joy to little saints;
Friends make our families complete,
Companionship fulfills our heart's needs;
The search for our soul’s mate soon begins,
It’s just a matter of time before the bells ring;
Some do early, others take time to meet,
The joy nevertheless touches every heart’s beats.

This moment I feel what bliss means to me,
As I lay in your arms under the canopy of palm trees;
stars are shining at their brightest,
clouds attempting to hide them just the slightest;
A beautiful song fills the background,
and with every note, love resounds;
The soothing caress of the ocean breeze,
In this moment time seems to freeze;
Many more magical moments the morrow will bring,
and with this thought my heart sings;
life will bring joy in many more ways,
as love abounds, happiness is here to stay.

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Kahlil Gibran : On Marriage

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.


Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.


Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.